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  • Forever Freed by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Freed by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jackson Parker has seen evil first hand as a Tier 1 government asset with the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. After months of black ops work overseas, he’s finally coming home for a break. But with Keeneston’s wedding of the century, a stowaway on the run, and a plot that could kill thousands of civilians, Jackson gets anything but rest and relaxation...
  • Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return...
  • Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer...
  • Puck Performance by Alley Ciz

    Puck Performance by Alley Ciz

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All's fair in love and potatoes. Melody Brightly Broadway Star. Pink hair. A smile that hits me harder than a slap shot. Terrible taste in hockey teams. Full of secrets. The one woman I fail to defend my heart against. Jase Donnelly Defenseman.Charming. Sexy as puck. Makes my hormones give a standing ovation. The one guy I can never be with, but can't stay away from...
  • Mourning Wood by Heather M. Orgeron

    Mourning Wood by Heather M. Orgeron

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s hard up.He’s just hard…After an ill-fated one-night stand, Wyatt Landry was the last person I ever expected to see again.By design, mind you, as I spent the last two years avoiding him.He was only ever meant to be a good time—a really good time—and now, thanks to one teensy little mistake, he’s back in my life and wielding an entirely different set of tools...
  • Cocked and Loaded by Jordan Marie

    Cocked and Loaded by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When I slap the handcuffs on her
 I’ll be taking her to bed, not jail. 

Getting involved with the wrong woman can destroy your life. 
I had to move back home and lose my position as Detective to get away from one. 
The last thing I need is to repeat my mistake. 
I finally have what I want. 
 Deputy in my home town, surrounded by family and friends— 
Life is good...
  • Hitched by Pippa Grant, Lili Valente

    Hitched by Pippa Grant, Lili Valente

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She’s the last woman on earth I’d marry….again. Yet here I am. Saying my vows. Again. To save an alpaca. At least, that’s my story. But the truth might be a little more complicated. I didn’t want to let her go the first time. But now I have a second chance to win over my wife. We’re older. Wiser. And hornier. This time, I won’t fail...
  • Dead Heat by Kathleen Brooks

    Dead Heat by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Paige Davies finds her world turned upside down as she becomes involved in her best friends' nightmare. The strong-willed Paige doesn't know which is worse: someone trying to kill her, or losing her dog to the man she loves to hate. FBI Agent Cole Parker can't decide whether he should strangle or kiss this infuriating woman of his dreams...
  • Master Baker by Pippa Grant

    Master Baker by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    They call me the sugar whisperer. Anything your tongue desires, I can bake it. Scones? Child’s play. Cupcakes? I’ll frost them so good you won’t know what hit you. Donuts? Please. You’re talking to a master baker. But there’s one egg I’ve never been able to crack. My best friend. Correction: My former best friend. She’s the apple in my pie. The whip in my cream...
  • Boomerangers by Heather M. Orgeron

    Boomerangers by Heather M. Orgeron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Boomerangers [boo-muh-rang-ers] noun, informal: an adult that moves back home to live with a parent after a period of independence. Spencer I love sex. I love the power, the intimacy, the euphoria it brings. Too bad I’m not having any . . . You’d think as New Orleans’ most renowned sex therapist that I’d be swimming in single men. In a way, I am . .
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    drama  humor  adult  audiobook  book  children  comedy  contemporary
  • My Brother's Forbidden Friend by Piper Rayne

    My Brother's Forbidden Friend by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve gone from crushing on my brother’s best friend to wanting to crush him. Cameron Baker and I have a few things in common. The first being that we were both born and raised in our small Alaskan town. Second, is that we hide our feelings and keep our hearts closed off from anyone who could break them.But hiding my feelings is harder to do with Cam than most...
  • Playing Pretend by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Playing Pretend by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Firing my sassy, smart-mouthed assistant should have solved all my problems. Right?Wrong. Turns out we'll need a fake marriage for that. Oh boy!I should have fired Eliza Jenkins the night she overstepped her qualifications in a high-profile client meeting.Or the time she called me stuffy, uptight and grumpy to my face...
  • The Price Of Scandal by Lucy Score

    The Price Of Scandal by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “I’m the fixer your board hired to clean up your mess.” “So you show up here, break into my house, and take a bath?” Emily Stanton’s perfect life just became a disaster. She has a trust fund brother looking for a handout, a father who is more board member than dad, and a mother who thinks she should give up on this whole billionaire CEO thing and meet a man with a pre-nup and a yacht...
  • Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton

    Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two old friends, one hot summer, a whole load of confusion. Poppy Jenkins makes everyone smile. She’s the heart of Wells, a beautiful village in mid-Wales, leaving light and laughter in her wake. She has a doting family, an errant dog and a little sister with a nose for mischief...
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    enemies-to-lovers  humor  lgbtq  wlw  adult  angst  book  comedy
  • Kiss Me Tonight by Maria Luis

    Kiss Me Tonight by Maria Luis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I had it all. The Super Bowl rings. The hot shot TV gig. Then I got fired. Now I’m living in middle-of-nowhere Maine, playing assistant coach to the woman of my nightmares. Did I mention that she and her son are my new neighbors? If you talk to the locals, they’ll tell you Aspen Levi is the queen of high school football...
  • Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Landon Davies had worked hard to start his own restaurant. It was a very different path than most of his family had taken. He was one of the few family members that were not military or law enforcement. But his hard work had given him a restaurant that was beginning to take off when a woman’s scream in the alley outside his kitchen changed everything...
  • The Worst Wedding Date by Pippa Grant

    The Worst Wedding Date by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn’t know bridesmaid was code for babysitter for the bride’s brother, but if that’s what my best friend needs of me for her dream wedding to go off without a hitch, that’s what I’ll do.Even if Theo Monroe has been a pain in my rear since third grade.Even if he should be responsible enough to not wreak havoc at his sister’s destination wedding...
  • Scent for Love by Sophia Knightly

    Scent for Love by Sophia Knightly

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s hotter than a habanero. She’s icy champagne. Together they will combust… 
All Gabe Falcon wants is to open a successful and trendy restaurant on the posh side of Naples, Florida.  But what he gets is a glamorous and feisty neighbor who keeps him on his toes--and challenges him at every turn.  
  
Upscale perfumer Lily Marlowe creates custom fragrances for Naples' elite...
  • Cowboy in a Kilt by Kait Nolan

    Cowboy in a Kilt by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A cowboy without a homeRobbed of the family ranch that should have been his legacy, Raleigh Beaumont is a man with no roots and no purpose. When a friend drags him to Vegas, he figures he’s got nothing to lose. But after a hell of a lot of whiskey and a high stakes poker game with a beautiful stranger, he finds himself the alleged owner of a barony in Scotland...
  • Doppelbanger by Heather M. Orgeron

    Doppelbanger by Heather M. Orgeron

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Doppelbanger; A person who bangs someone solely because they look similar to another person they want to bang. At thirty-five, Gina Bourque is still playing the field. If he's single, in his early twenties with dark hair and brooding eyes, there's a damn good chance you'll find him in her little black book...
  • Duke-ing it Out by Jami Albright

    Duke-ing it Out by Jami Albright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s game, set, and match when this pro football player turned trainer squares off against a gorgeous tennis player with an attitude as big as Texas. Duke Wayne returns to his hometown for one reason and one reason only—reckless pro tennis star Sienna Ramsey has lost her ever-lovin’ mind. His feisty client is ready to throw her career away in favor of a simple life...
  • 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...
  • Taming Teddy by Lucy Lennox

    Taming Teddy by Lucy Lennox

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    alternate cover edition of ASIN B01N2T0IRWTeddy: If there’s one thing I don’t do, it’s commitment. You don’t become an award-winning photographer by staying in one place. I’m always on the road, looking for the next shot, the next award, the next hot body. Which is how I end up on Dr. James Marian’s front porch in the middle-of-nowhere Alaska...
  • Borrowing Blue by Lucy Lennox

    Borrowing Blue by Lucy Lennox

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Blue: When my ex walks into the resort bar with his new husband on his arm, I want nothing more than to prove to him that I’ve moved on. Thankfully, the sexy stranger sitting next to me is more than willing to share a few kisses in the name of revenge. It gets even better when those scorching kisses turn into a night of fiery passion...
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    drama  humor  lgbtq  adult  audiobook  bisexuality  book  comedy
  • Mister Baller by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Mister Baller by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My college rival. My ex-husband's best friend.My new roommate? Oh, boy.The last thing I want is to rent my spare bedroom to my ex-husband's best friend.His six-foot-three, dimple-faced, alphahole best friend.His injured-professional-football-player best friend.But desperate times, desperate measures, y'know?I can't afford to hold grudges. These heaping bills of mine won't pay themselves...
  • Getting to the Church On Time by Erin Nicholas

    Getting to the Church On Time by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WARNING: If you’re new to the series, this is *not* the story to start with :) Everyone in the series is mentioned and interact and, well, it’s crazy fun for fans of the series but will be pretty confusing to newcomers...
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    humor  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  holidays  small-town
  • Stud Unleashed: Will by Kylie Gilmore

    Stud Unleashed: Will by Kylie Gilmore

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Each book in the Clover Park STUDS Series can be read as a stand-alone novel, or for more fun read them in order. Characters you’ve loved from past books frequently pop up in other books...
  • Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A heartwarming contemporary romance set in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.   Seraphina Guidry loves Butterfly Bayou. A young, single mom, she’s trying to find a place for herself in the town she cherishes, but past mistakes have made her wary. She adores her son but has sworn off men...
    Categorized as:
    drama  humor  action-adventure  adult  animals  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Beach Read by Emily Henry

    Beach Read by Emily Henry

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.They`re polar opposites...
  • Mister Billions by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Mister Billions by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bossy. Infuriating. Sexy as sin... I can't stand the man.And he's waiting for me at the altar.I'm up to my eyeballs in unpaid rent. So is half this town.Cannon Kingston is the devilish, arrogant billionaire with the power to save us all. But he wants something in return...My hand in marriage.The terms of our twisted contract are simple...
  • That Fine Line by Cindy Steel

    That Fine Line by Cindy Steel

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All I wanted was a quiet summer on my family’s ranch in Idaho…I didn’t think that was too much to ask. With my fiancé in California, I was back home for three months to plan my wedding. I had colors to pick, cows to milk, and a wedding dress to squeeze into.Which was why I didn’t need anybody messing with me.Especially not the guy who had dedicated his whole life to making mine a joke...
  • Running From the Law by Jami Albright, Jennifer Grace

    Running From the Law by Jami Albright, Jennifer Grace

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One night of passion. Two second chances. Three little texts . . .Former child star Charlie Klein is in a world of trouble. She’s broke, jobless, and no longer famous—except with the IRS. She’s ready to run, so an emergency call from Texas is all the excuse she needs to get out of Hollywood. But she doesn’t expect to crash into the sheriff of her hometown, the boy she loved and lost...
  • It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey, Charlotte North

    It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey, Charlotte North

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLERTessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who’s cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong...
  • Lily's White Lace by Carolyn Brown

    Lily's White Lace by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Just moments before she heads down the aisle, Lily discovers her husband-to-be, Dylan, has been cheating. Knowing she can't marry a man she can't trust, Lily leaves Dylan at the altar and heads to Oklahoma to clear her head and mend her wounded heart.She resolves never to trust a man again. Not even Jesse, her best friend Marcy's brother...
  • Delectable by R.L. Mathewson

    Delectable by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Reese Bradford is a typical Bradford, he enjoys his food, is easy on the eyes, and has a killer smile, but there's one thing about him that he doesn't want anyone to know about, which of course is the first thing that his ex-fiance makes sure that everyone finds out about after she leaves him for his best friend...
  • Caught Up with the Captain by Kait Nolan

    Caught Up with the Captain by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a retired naval commander and the love he left behind overcome a 34-year-old secret to find their way to a second chance?Captain Mitchell Greyson is a man who believes in duty. A bigger purpose and a thirst to prove himself took him away from his tiny Tennessee hometown--and the girl he loved--more than thirty years ago...
  • Wingmen Babypalooza by Daisy Prescott

    Wingmen Babypalooza by Daisy Prescott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once upon a time there was a wingman named Tom who had the reputation of being catnip for women. Now the Tom Cat’s been domesticated and about to become a dad for the first time. If he can survive Hailey’s pregnancy, Baby 101 classes, and the holidays with his family. Let’s hope the stork has his own wingmen, because Tom’s not the only one of the guys to catch baby fever...
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    humor  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  small-town  romance
  • Sweet Right Here: A Sweet Romantic Comedy by Jenny B. Jones

    Sweet Right Here: A Sweet Romantic Comedy by Jenny B. Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Twice jilted, I’ve sworn off love forever.But Miller James might be the one man to change my mind.Newly un-engaged, I’ve returned to Sugar Creek to the welcoming arms of my family to make a fresh start. While I have a reputation for being unlucky in love, I’ve just scored the career coup of a lifetime—to work at Hope Farms, a therapy ranch for military veterans...
  • Set My Heart Bonfire by Marika Ray

    Set My Heart Bonfire by Marika Ray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He's a dashing millionaire who thinks everything in life is one big joke, probably because he bathes in piles of money each morning. He’s also my new neighbor, and after a humiliating experience in the cemetery that is my backyard, he becomes my shadow, showing up everywhere just to annoy me.I’m not a fan of happy people...
  • The Tenacious Act by Marion De Ré

    The Tenacious Act by Marion De Ré

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Our contractor declared bankruptcy and we now have to leave our bookstore opening into the hands of a professional hockey team.Thankfully, the guys are also skilled off the ice and dedicated to help us make our dream come true.Particularly, Maxime, my friend’s brother who’s a relentless flirt with a goofy personality.And as hot as he might be, I don’t do boyfriends...
  • Perfection by R.L. Mathewson

    Perfection by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Zoe is used to taking care of herself and has long ago accepted that if anything bad was going to happen, it was going to happen to her. So when she loses her job over something most bosses would probably be happy with and her life starts going down hill from there she doesn't expect it to get any better...
  • Playing Rough by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Playing Rough by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ExcerptMinka's lips tremble on a shaky exhale. "You and me are bad for each other, Deck.""And since when have either of us ever settled for what's 'good for us'?" I slide my fingers into her hair. "I'm done playing these games, Minx. If you love me, just let me know..."Blurb to come..
  • Our Star-Crossed Kiss by Piper Rayne

    Our Star-Crossed Kiss by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s got two strikes against her.Her name is Erickson and her parents own The Bagel Place.It wasn’t always that way. When we were nine, we were best friends. But then a feud between our dads ripped their successful business apart—and my best friend was ripped away too.Our paths were bound to cross again. Now, both our families are vying for the same spot on a Food Channel’s reality show...
  • A Greene Family Vacation by Piper Rayne

    A Greene Family Vacation by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Greene Family Vacation Itinerary… Ticket holders:17 adults. 5 children.Departs from Anchorage, AlaskaArrives in Maui, HawaiiReports of arguing with the TSA’s at the airport, three drunk grandmas, siblings fighting, a tooth fairy, two celebrities, one sunburned redhead, a wild blonde running the halls and one unexpected layover in San Francisco...
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    humor  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Getting His Way by Erin Nicholas

    Getting His Way by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sapphire Falls, book sevenBryan Murray always knew that he wanted to come home to Sapphire Falls and settle down with Tessa Sheridan. After all, Tessa's sweet and kind and beautiful and planning to live in Sapphire Falls forever. Best of all, she's loved him since kindergarten. She's the perfect forever girl for him. He just didn't expect it to all happen quite like this...
    Categorized as:
    humor  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  friendship  medical
  • Anger Banger by S.M. Shade

    Anger Banger by S.M. Shade

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The residents of Happy Haven Trailer park have been waiting for this for a long time. The slumlord who abandoned this place and let our homes deteriorate has been court ordered to live here while making repairs. Imagine our surprise when the guy who shows up to move in to the dilapidated trailer across the street isn't the sixty year old man we expected, but his son...
  • Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

    Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—by debut author Ashley Herring Blake.Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily...
  • Will & Patrick's Happy Ending by Leta Blake, Alice Griffiths

    Will & Patrick's Happy Ending by Leta Blake, Alice Griffiths

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Follow Will & Patrick in this final installment of the romantic-comedy serial, Wake Up Married, by best-selling author Leta Blake and newcomer Alice Griffiths! Sure, Will and Patrick are in love now, but they weren’t when they got married in Vegas. For Patrick, that’s no problem, but Will can’t shake his doubts that a relationship started through coercion can ever become the real deal...
    Categorized as:
    drama  enemies-to-lovers  humor  lgbtq  abuse  adult  age-gap  alabama
  • Christmas Cliche by Tara Sivec

    Christmas Cliche by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through L.A., Allie Parker’s famous twin sisters were driving her cray. She fled to the mountains with a hostage in tow, hoping to sleep through the holidays, which were a sh*t-show. A crash in a blizzard, and a hot mountain man, definitely wasn’t part of her evacuation plan...
  • Grumpy As Hell by Marika Ray

    Grumpy As Hell by Marika Ray

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The town’s hottest firefighter just put out the fire in my pants. Literally.Ace Hellman. Star quarterback. Grumpy-as-hell firefighter. Chief pain in my ass.He’s beyond arrogant, inducing women to fake emergencies just to see his sexy swagger as he comes to save them. Not me though. That fire was a total accident. I swear...
Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan, Salem West
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