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  • Train's Clash by Jamie Begley

    Train's Clash by Jamie Begley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Beware of what you wish for; it might just come true. Train swore never to let a woman get under his skin unless it meant forever, and forever only meant belonging to The Last Riders. He had believed his one brief sexual encounter with Killyama was a hit it and quit it. Instead, her green eyes haunted his memories...
  • The Keeneston Roses by Kathleen Brooks

    The Keeneston Roses by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Bluegrass book everyone has been asking for is finally here. The Rose sisters have survived the lows and enjoyed the highs throughout their lives. See what events shaped Keeneston's most beloved siblings. Lily Rae Rose has been headstrong since she was a child. She was the oldest, after all. Maybe that’s why she fell for the bad boy next door...
  • Crazy, Wicked Love by Melissa Foster

    Crazy, Wicked Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scorching heat, laugh-out-loud humor, and swoon-worthy moments abound in this sexy new standalone romance by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melissa Foster.What happens when the player gets played?Sidney Carver has a big problem, and he goes by the name of Dwayne “Gunner” Wicked: six-plus feet of muscular, motorcycle-riding, animal-loving deliciousness...
  • Slow Burn by J.H. Croix

    Slow Burn by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I put out fires for a living. I can take some heat. But Maisie drives me crazy. She’s smart-mouthed, sarcastic and argumentative. This town’s too small for both of us. But she works for me. Unfortunately. It’s a big no-no for me to f*ck her. Every time I lay eyes on her, I want to throw her over my shoulder and find the closest place to get my hands all over her curvy body...
  • Sebastian: A Mystery Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Sebastian: A Mystery Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sebastian is a mystery romance and the fifth book in the series, For The Love Of A Good Woman. Sebastian is a standalone, but the characters from the series appear throughout all the books. A large, metal crash sounded behind me and my gaze swiveled to the fence where Maggie had just crashed through the gate. The SUV swerved wildly in front of me, acting as a barrier for the incoming bullets...
  • Jump by Emilia Finn

    Jump by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was a smokejumper for the majority of my career.Flinging out of planes at 15,000 feet and hoping to land with my bones in tact and a plan to slay wildfire quickly, safely, and with my crew all in one piece.Ainsley was a regular firefighter.You know, the kind who lives in town, rides in a truck, and wields a hose to save houses and hotels.We were a match made in adrenaline junky heaven...
  • Leader of the Pack by Roxanne St. Claire

    Leader of the Pack by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Dogfather is a brand new contemporary romance series from New York Times bestselling author Roxanne St. Claire celebrating what she loves most: hot guys, great dogs, big families...and true love...
  • Drifter by Kristy Marie

    Drifter by Kristy Marie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tit for tat. These are the rules I live by. But don’t think this is some kind of cutesy story of a boy and a girl with a simple misunderstanding. This a story of a girl who hates and a boy who loves. This is a story about how weakness became my strength. This is our story. Drifter is a stand-alone in the Commander in Briefs Series. The series has crossover characters from each novel...
  • I'll Just Date Myself by Lani Lynn Vale

    I'll Just Date Myself by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Normally when you say, “I have a stalker,” you think bad thoughts. That wasn’t the kind ofstalker Folsom was when it came to Kobe Sano. Folsom liked to call herself a “guardian angel indisguise.”The first time he catches her attention, he’s been assigned to hunt her down and throw away thekey. All she did was steal someone else’s child. Well, embryo, that is...
  • Deacon by Kristen Ashley

    Deacon by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Deacon has an ugly history, a history that broke him, leaving him a ghost of a man. Out of necessity, he left the normal world to descend into the criminal world and found he fit. So he stayed. Cold as ice and living off the grid, Deacon has no intention to connect, not with anyone. Then he returns to some remote cabins in the Colorado Mountains and finds they have new owners...
  • The Wedding Pearls by Carolyn Brown

    The Wedding Pearls by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Tessa Wilson’s life is all over the map. She may be clumsy, but this time she’s stumbled into a pickle by choice, not by accident. She’s agreed to take a month-long trip around Texas jammed into a ’59 Cadillac with a drama-loving teenager, two elderly spitfires, and—oh, yes—her biological mama who gave her away at birth...
  • Becoming a Vincent by C.M. Owens

    Becoming a Vincent by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition of ASIN B072YXCNK1When you live in a place where “turbo speed” internet is a slight step above dial-up, men carry on nine-year beard-growing challenges out of stubborn pride, and your brothers do things like nail all your panties to the outside of your cabin just for funsies, you tend to be a little crazy. You can call it a "locational" hazard, if you will...
  • Always Someone's Monster by Lani Lynn Vale

    Always Someone's Monster by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A few years ago, when his sister went missing, Haggard Crow turned into something he never wanted to be. A killer.Even after his sister is rescued a year after she was kidnapped and sold, Haggard ‘Thief’ Crow doesn’t have any plans on changing. He sort of likes the zero fucks given guy that he is now...
  • The Secret in Sandcastles by Rachael Bloome

    The Secret in Sandcastles by Rachael Bloome

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two childhood enemies. One adventure-filled summer. And an unexpected romance they're trying hard to resist...Penny Heart likes to play it safe... in life and in love. When she’s asked to brave her town's most thrilling adventures to revamp their outdated guidebook, things quickly go from bad to worse. The person assigned to help? None other than her childhood nemesis...
  • Out of the Darkness by Jessica Prince

    Out of the Darkness by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The light had been snuffed out of Xander Caine’s world a long time ago, leaving him to suffer in darkness. After a tremendous loss, he closed himself off from anyone and everyone, content to live alone in the shadows. Then a woman blew into town with the force of a hurricane and shook everything up. Sage Winthrop was looking to start over...
  • Broken Dreams by Corinne Michaels

    Broken Dreams by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What could possibly go wrong fake dating the gorgeous single dad in a small town? The answer, you fall for him. It started out perfect. Grady Whitlock needed a plus one for his business meetings, and I needed a date for a wedding.We had a plan. It was a good one.Until it wasn’t.I was not supposed to have feelings for him...
  • Driving Whiskey Wild by Melissa Foster

    Driving Whiskey Wild by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    DRIVING WHISKEY WILD is a USA Today BestsellerSpecial Forces veteran and Dark Knights Motorcycle Club member Bullet Whiskey lives to protect his family, their bar, and the residents of his small hometown. He’s rough, unapologetic, and haunted by a secret, painful past...
  • Dotted Lines by Devney Perry

    Dotted Lines by Devney Perry

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Clara Saint-James is completing a journey started by an old friend. She’ll return a Cadillac to California, a place she’s avoided for more than a decade. But it’s time for closure and to put old ghosts to rest. And it’s time to find out if the feelings she’s cherished for the boy from her past are just fanciful memories—or if there’s a chance they are real...
  • Finally Mine by Lucy Score

    Finally Mine by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Who is he if not a hero? Aldo Moretta has always been the hero. The strongest, the fastest, the bravest. He fought for his country and built a thriving business in his hometown. With friends and family never more than a few blocks away, there was just one thing he was missing. The right girl. She’d fallen for the wrong guy. The bad guy...
  • My Forever by Tiffany Patterson

    My Forever by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SavannahI was only eighteen years old when I thought I had found my happily ever after.After the tragic death of my mother, I married the love of my life, Ace Townsend.Yes, we were young and idealistic, but we had it all figured out. He was going to be a fighter pilot in the Air Force. I would go to medical school to become a doctor for people who couldn’t afford healthcare. People like my mother...
  • Kiwi Rules by Rosalind James

    Kiwi Rules by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Need an escape? Coming soon: The brand-new, snarky, steamy, Kiwi-centric series by the bestselling author of Escape to New Zealand.  Afghanistan hadn't quite killed me. Karen Sinclair just might.You don't find many too-pretty rich boys in the New Zealand Defense Force. Turns out there's a reason for that. Fortunately, you can find your true self in the oddest places...
  • Bayou Sweetheart by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Sweetheart by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sparks fly in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou when a Hollywood starlet falls for a local deputy in a small-town contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake. After leaving the military, Major Blanchard moved to Papillon, Louisiana, to be with his aging father, where he's taken a deputy position with the sheriff’s department...
  • Ruff Around the Edges by Roxanne St. Claire

    Ruff Around the Edges by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    U.S. Army Night Stalker Major Aidan Kilcannon leaves Afghanistan after his best friend, Charlie, is killed in action. Aidan's only consolation is the knowledge that he's now solely responsible for Charlie's dog, Ruff, a rambunctious boxer they found in a bombed-out hospital in Kabul. With the help of Aidan's father, the Dogfather himself, they transport Ruff back to the states...
  • Home Sweet Home by Lacey Black

    Home Sweet Home by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LeoEveryone has a past they’re trying to outrun, myself included. My time in the military left me with scars, both physically and emotionally, which is why I keep to myself. Since returning home to Stewart Grove, I work a lot so I have little time to think. To remember. I’m just content to make it through the day.Then I meet Kallie Carpenter...
  • The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

    The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Beckett,If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have.I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride.My little sister Ella’s raising the twins alone...
  • Running Wild: A Novel by K.A. Tucker

    Running Wild: A Novel by K.A. Tucker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the internationally bestselling author of The Simple Wild comes the story of a woman at a crossroads in her life, struggling between the safe route and the one that will only lead to more heartbreak.Veterinarian Marie Lehr knows unrequited love all too well after pining for her best friend, only to watch him marry another woman...
  • Good Trouble by Lani Lynn Vale

    Good Trouble by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bain met Diana, a.k.a. Luce, the night before he was set to deploy to Afghanistan.It’s not every day that you take your brother’s girlfriend to prom because he refuses to put out the effort.That night was one of the best nights of his life and the next day, he leaves and doesn’t see her again.But there are letters. Not many, but enough for them to form a connection...
  • Impact by Danielle Norman

    Impact by Danielle Norman

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They always say that two wrongs don’t make a right... Well, she was wrong for breaking into a house that didn’t belong to her; even if she and her daughter had nowhere else to go. And, I was wrong for watching her on the surveillance camera as she moved through the house and climbed into bed. So I offered her a job and a home. Her smile... Her curves... Wrong has never felt so right...
  • Mixed Up with a Marine by Kait Nolan

    Mixed Up with a Marine by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can a Marine turned baker and a jaded contractor find their way to a second chance?Braxton Whitmore needs a change. After leaving the Marines, he’s free to build a new life. But is he gonna be a baker? Really? When his buddy inherits a decrepit bar and proposes they partner up to turn it into a bakery, Brax figures why not? Until his ex comes walking in...
  • That Forever Girl by Meghan Quinn

    That Forever Girl by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn’s second book in the Getting Lucky series brings heart, humor, and heat back to Port Snow. There are two little words every small-town man dreads: She’s back. Harper Sanders, the girl who was supposed to be my forever, has returned to Port Snow, Maine, for good—and she’s bringing back memories of our shared past...
  • Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Buried secrets never stay hidden in the South. Emily I fell in love with him when I was fourteen. Under the stars, he told me he loved me, and under the stars we promised to love each other always. But under the stars, he broke my heart by walking away.He left me without a second glance. I was just an afterthought.Now he's back, but this time, I'm not falling for his Southern charm.Maybe...
  • Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of edge of your seat romance and readers of B.J. Daniels, Lindsay McKenna, and Diana Palmer won’t want to miss this electrifying and genuine new page-turner from the bestselling romance legend. When Val Champion returns to the family ranch, she’s ready to put her past behind her. Her dreams of a Hollywood acting career have become a nightmare of fear...
  • Annoyed At First Sight by Lani Lynn Vale

    Annoyed At First Sight by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first time Cassius Ulysses Costas met Alice Paradis, she was in a string bikini and filling up a long line of boats that were there just to see her. She was eighteen and every man’s wet dream.Even his.For the longest time, he went out of his way to stay as far away from her as he could get without actually taking his eyes off of her. For years, he was the better person...
  • Bounty by Kristen Ashley

    Bounty by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Justice Lonesome has enjoyed a life of bounty. Even so, she’s inherited the curse of the Lonesome. A poet’s soul. Which means she’s still searching for something. Searching for peace. Searching for the less…that’s more. And when the foundation of her life is pulled out from under her, grieving, she goes to the mountains to find her oasis. She hits Carnal, Colorado and decides to stay...
  • Loving the Entertainer by Cami Checketts

    Loving the Entertainer by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A famous hotshot and the woman who broke his heart.Being famous isn’t enough for Sawyer, he has to make everyone around him famous. When the woman who told him he’d never be enough comes back into town it’s time to show her all she’s missing out on...
  • The Road to Solace by Samantha A. Cole

    The Road to Solace by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adam Westfield is an ex-friar just released from prison. Unsure of his destiny, he roams America, hoping to find a purpose . . . and forgiveness. A widowed mother of two, Sage Hammond is struggling to keep her horse ranch afloat. Unable to find a ranch hand willing to work for meager wages, she’s close to giving up. Then, an answer to her prayers appears—a quiet, handsome stranger...
  • Perfect by Judith McNaught

    Perfect by Judith McNaught

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    A rootless foster child, Julie Mathison had blossomed under the love showered upon her by her adoptive family. Now a lovely and vivacious young woman, she was a respected teacher in her small Texas town, and she passionately lived her ideals. Julie was determined to give back all the kindness she'd received; nothing and no one would ever shatter the perfect life she had fashioned...
  • Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Any Witch Way by Lindsay Buroker

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Thanks to her grandmother’s legacy, Morgen Keller has spent the summer learning about her witch heritage. She’s also spent the summer falling for the sexy werewolf next door.As an unemployed divorcée, she never expected to find love again, but the gruff Amar has been her protector since she arrived in Bellrock. He’s fierce, loyal, strong, and he hardly ever rolls his eyes at her vegetarian ways...
  • Two Wedding Crashers by Meghan Quinn

    Two Wedding Crashers by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I don’t know what love is anymore.Well, that’s not entirely true, but I’m going to tell you a little secret: I’ve lost the spark. You know the kind of spark I’m talking about? Where butterflies take flight in your stomach from two hands innocently colliding. Or catching your breath when you first meet someone attractive. Yeah, that spark...
  • Tangled Up In You by Barbara Freethy

    Tangled Up In You by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Detective Adam Cole has been a loner for as long as he can remember. He's very good at protecting people. He's great at being a friend, but relationships that go beyond that—not so much. A darkness in his past prevents him from making himself open and vulnerable...
  • The End of Summer by Makeandoffer

    The End of Summer by Makeandoffer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Summer Jacobs knew full well about her town’s tradition. Every year at the end of the summer, a party would be held on school grounds without the knowledge of the parents or the teachers. It had been happening since before Summer was born and never once was anyone the wiser. This year however, everyone was going to find out...
  • Scarlett and the Big Bad Billionaire by Tru Taylor

    Scarlett and the Big Bad Billionaire by Tru Taylor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In my expert opinion, every woman who’s been left at the altar should follow up that singularly humiliating experience by spending a week in paradise with a totally inappropriate—and totally sexy—stranger.Even better if you meet him at the bar of the resort hotel where your destination wedding and honeymoon were supposed to take place...
  • Living with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Living with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A pain so powerful can only be eased by a love even stronger. Welcome to Seattle, the Emerald City and home to The Single Dads of Seattle. Ten sexy single fathers who play poker every Saturday night, have each other's backs, love their children without quarter, and hope to one day find love again.This is Aaron's story ... Single Dad of Seattle, Aaron Steele isn't a single dad at all...
  • Dare Me Again by Shelly Alexander

    Dare Me Again by Shelly Alexander

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Making dreams come true is a red-hot challenge for two stubborn hearts risking it all on a second chance… Hot-wired and restless, financial wizard Elliott Remington doesn’t turn down a dare. This time it’s to coordinate a service-dog boot camp for veterans at his family’s resort. Success means a one-way ticket to the West Coast to pursue his dream career...
  • Bayou Beauty by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Beauty by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love returns to Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou in a new small-town contemporary romance sure to charm hearts, from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.Sylvie Martine was prepared to take Washington D.C. by storm, but she put that dream on hold when her beloved hometown of Papillon, Louisiana, needed her most. Now Sylvie's the mayor of the tiny town on the bayou that holds her heart...
  • One Hundred Lifetimes by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Lifetimes by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kelly Collins invites you back to Aspen Cove, the charming mountain town where dreams never die and love lives on forever... Poppy Dawson has spent her entire life wanting what she can’t have—namely Mark Bancroft, Aspen Cove’s deputy sheriff. Growing up the daughter of a cattle rancher, there was no time for silly things such as love...
  • Tempting as Sin by Rosalind James

    Tempting as Sin by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Once bitten, twice shy. Rafe Blackstone may play the sexiest werewolf superhero to ever melt women's . . . hearts . . . on the big screen, but Lily Hollander has already been bitten by an actor, and once was enough. So when Australia's favorite son walks into Sinful Desires, Lily’s lingerie store, she's not impressed...
  • Off Key (Whispering Key) by May Archer

    Off Key (Whispering Key) by May Archer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m about to sing you the saddest song in the universe, and it’s called “The Man of My Dreams Married My Sister.” It’s kinda my theme song. And trust me when I tell you, it’s heavy on the violins.Because the man in question? He’s not just any guy, he’s Rafe freakin’ Goodman. My former best friend. The boy who made my summers on Whispering Key magical...
  • The Sheriff's Woman by Jackie Weger

    The Sheriff's Woman by Jackie Weger

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He had his eye on her for years. But she was married. Now she’s not. He’s all in. Rachel Cameron prefers to lick her wounds and protect her children from gossip and shame in isolation on a small homestead in the Ozark Mountains. But life-long bachelor and ex-Marine Sheriff Garrett Stark has other ideas...
  • Tank by Laramie Briscoe

    Tank by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Life isn’t promised, love isn’t easy, and relationships aren’t always clean, but everyone has their soulmate who is willing to forgive when it would be better to forget. Trevor “Tank” Trumbolt I never thought in the blink of an eye my life could change, but it did...
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