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The Summer Escape by Hannah Ellis
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCould it be more than just a holiday romance?Single-mother Beth desperately needs a break.Grieving the loss of her mother, she sets off to the Isles of Scilly with her five-year-old daughter, Ellie.Their holiday cottage is utterly charming, but it’s meeting Trystan – the owner of the cottage – that makes Beth’s stay so perfect... -
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Finding Love by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs Regan Sullivan continues to work with her sisters, Sheena and Darcy, to meet their Uncle Gavin’s challenge to make the Salty Key Inn a success, she wonders why she can never find the man of her dreams. Her sisters are happily settled with men they love... -
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Finding Family by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSheena Sullivan Morelli and her sisters, Darcy and Regan, work to complete their Uncle Gavin’s challenge of turning his rundown hotel into a profitable operation within one year. Winning means earning a share in their uncle’s sizable estate. More than that, it determines how they’ll spend the rest of their lives. Sheena wants to stay on at the hotel, overseeing the hotel operation... -
![In the End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga]()
In the End, It Was All About Love by Musa Okwonga
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only to discover that the problems which have long haunted him have arrived there too, and are more present than ever...Categorized as:
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![Paradise Lane by Ruth Hamilton]()
Paradise Lane by Ruth Hamilton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA novel, set in the north-west of England, by the author of Billy London's Girls and Spinning Jenny. Young Sally leads a ragged and lonely existence in the shadow of Paradise Mill, whose corrupt, evil and greedy owner destroys his own family and then turns his venom on Sally and her friends... -
![Rainbow Sprinkles by Pepper North, Paige Michaels]()
Rainbow Sprinkles by Pepper North, Paige Michaels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Little Cakes, the bakery that plays Daddy matchmaker!Ellie Wilmoth has dreamed of owning her own cupcake bakery. Now that Little Cakes is about to open, nothing can distract her. Okay, maybe one thing. While crafting her first featured cupcake, she's interrupted by her handsome new landlord, and his commanding presence is impossible to ignore... -
![Whisling Island Miracles by Julia Clemens]()
Whisling Island Miracles by Julia Clemens
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes all we need is a bit of a miracle. Join the women of Whisling as they find theirs... -
![A Part of Me and You: An empowering and incredibly moving novel that will make you laugh and cry by Emma Heatherington]()
A Part of Me and You: An empowering and incredibly moving novel that will make you laugh and cry by Emma Heatherington
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYou always think you have more time… Juliette always thought she’d have more time. But as her fortieth birthday approaches she is dealt the deadliest of blows – she has just weeks to live. As the terrible news sinks in, Juliette’s only concern is for her fifteen-year-old daughter, Rosie... -
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The Hop by Diana Clarke
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the author of Thin Girls, a page-turning feminist novel that tells the story of how a poor girl coming of age in rural New Zealand grows to be a sex icon, the face of a movement, and a mother, all at the same time.Kate Burns grows up wanting attention from her Ma, but her Ma wants only money and Kate learns how to get both...Categorized as:
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A Good Life by Virginie Grimaldi, Hildegarde Serle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLaughter, tears, the transformative power of love, unexpected revelations, and striking natural these are the ingredients that combine to make best-selling author Virginie Grimaldi’s English debut the feel-good read of 2024. Grimaldi is among France’s top ten contemporary authors and her uplifting, unputdownable literary novels have quickly garnered her millions of adoring fans...Categorized as:
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![The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde]()
The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Pay It Forward comes a story of the heartbreak and healing power of family. New to a small town, Jackie and Paula envision a quiet life for their kids: a young adopted son and two teenage foster children, including the troubled Star... -
![Escalation Clause by Liz Crowe]()
Escalation Clause by Liz Crowe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYoung love burns hot and bright. Soul mates are found, then lost in the blink of an eye. When young widow Maureen Gordon Taylor meets her daughter's sexy soccer coach, her body and heart slowly unthaw. But will holding tight to the past cost her a future? A devastating blow shatters a family's fragile happiness... -
![All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan]()
All The Colours In Between by Eva Jordan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEva Jordan's much-anticipated follow up to the bestselling 183 Times a Year It's not a life, it's an adventure! Lizzie is fast approaching 50. Her once angst ridden teenage daughters, now grown and in their twenties, have flown the nest, Cassie to London and Maisy to Australia... -
![The Delay by Danielle Allen]()
The Delay by Danielle Allen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCatching last minute flights is a part of the job when you’re hired to photograph events all over the country. Usually everything goes according to plan.But when I was hired to document the Juneteenth celebration in Galveston, Texas, I had no idea my plans were going to be derailed.The woman who scuffed my sneakers and didn’t apologize ended up having the seat next to me...Categorized as:
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![Always My Forever by Erica Lee]()
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![Beyond Any Experience by Anne E. Terpstra]()
Beyond Any Experience by Anne E. Terpstra
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOlivia Northman’s world shattered the day she lost her wife to a drunk driver. Three years later, she still struggles with grief and the demands of being a single parent to their autistic son, Ben. After her first attempt at a new relationship crumbles, she retreats to the simple, the predictable. It’s what’s best for her son, and her heart.Ellie Vasquez isn’t simple or predictable... -
![The Other Son by Nick Alexander, Imogen Church]()
The Other Son by Nick Alexander, Imogen Church
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the outside, Alice’s marriage looks successful. It’s true that Ken was never her first choice, but four decades in, she’s learned to tolerate him. Their two sons have chosen their own paths, Tim as a successful banker and Matt a carefree globetrotter she can’t keep up with... -
![Going Up by A.E. Radley]()
Going Up by A.E. Radley
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA ruthless executive. A destitute woman. Both on the way up. Selina Hale is on her way to the top. She's been working towards a boardroom position on the thirteenth floor for her entire career. And no one is going to get in her way. Not her clueless boss, her soon to be ex-wife, and most certainly not the homeless person who has moved into the car park at work... -
![Rri po te mundesh. Shko nese duhet. by Helga Flatland]()
Rri po te mundesh. Shko nese duhet. by Helga Flatland
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRomanen tar utgangspunkt i tre unge barndomsvenner - Tarjei, Trygve og Kristian - og deres beslutning om å verve seg til de norske styrkene i Afghanistan. Ingen av de tre kommer tilbake... -
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Frankie by Graham Norton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture - and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story - a story that takes us into a progressive, daring world of New York artists on the brink of fame, aspiring writers and larger-than-life characters...Categorized as:
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![Conditional Offer by Liz Crowe]()
Conditional Offer by Liz Crowe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCraig Robinson and Suzanne Baxter had no reason to meet, no real excuse to be friends. But when heart calls to heart...blood to blood.. -
![Texas Rich / Texas Heat by Fern Michaels]()
Texas Rich / Texas Heat by Fern Michaels
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow in one irresistible volume, here are the first two novels of Fern Michaels’s bestselling Texas series, which follows the illustrious Coleman family–four generations of a powerful American dynasty. TEXAS RICH At the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II, young Billie Ames falls head over heels for the daredevil pilot Moss Coleman... -
![A Family Affair - A Free Preview of the First 7 Chapters by ReShonda Tate Billingsley]()
A Family Affair - A Free Preview of the First 7 Chapters by ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction "tackles some of life’s toughest situations" ( The Florida Times-Union ), unravels the secrets in a mother’s past that turn her daughter’s life upside down—by revealing the family she never knew existed... -
![Baby Talk by Judith S. Keim]()
Baby Talk by Judith S. Keim
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReaders of the Hartwell Women Series asked for more. I listened. Baby Talk is Book 4. When Marissa Crawford and her husband Brad decide to start a family, Marissa has serious doubts about her ability to be a good mother--she was raised by one of the worst... -
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![Straight Talk by Judith Keim]()
Straight Talk by Judith Keim
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStraight Talk - Book Three in the Hartwell Women Trilogy Samantha Hartwell’s life changes completely when she’s attacked by a client’s boyfriend. She leaves Boston and Straight Talk, her consulting business, and escapes to California wine country to heal and to help her sister and brother-in-law with their vineyard’s growth... -
![Love Child by Ashley Farley]()
Love Child by Ashley Farley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSmall-town romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author, Ashley Farley Casey Hobbs has never met her father. She doesn’t know his identity or where he lives or whether he has children. She’s spent the past three years at her mother’s sickbed, watching cancer eat away her organs and their bank account... -
![Tyler Tied Up by Joey W. Hill]()
Tyler Tied Up by Joey W. Hill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTyler's Birthday present from Marguerite... -
![Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky]()
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.No one blames Margaret... -
![The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue]()
The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere would I start, and how would it even make sense? How could you understand the year in Shandon Street unless you were there, with us, living it?Rachel Murray is twenty-one years old, platonically infatuated with her housemate James, and less-than-platonically infatuated with her enigmatic, married English professor Dr Byrne... -
![Rhoda: A Life in Stories by Ellen Gilchrist]()
Rhoda: A Life in Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOver the past ten years, Gilchrist fans have enjoyed glimpses of headstrong, redheaded Rhoda in five previous collections. Here, for the first time, are the collected Rhoda stories - including two new ones - offering a full-blown portrait of a woman worth waiting for: one of contemporary literature's most enchanting characters, in all her wicked glory... -
![Undescribable Box Set by Shantel Tessier]()
Undescribable Box Set by Shantel Tessier
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings**ON SALE FOR .99 CENTS UNTIL JAN 19TH. REGULAR PRICE WILL BE 5.99** The Undescribable Box Set is three books in one. Undescribable, Unbearable and Uncontrollable. Burned by her past, Samantha begins to build a new life for herself. Focusing on her new friends and rebuilding her broken life, Samantha is content...Categorized as:
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Lesson Plans by J.A. Armstrong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLesson Plans is a spin-off of the series By Design and would fall somewhere between books 2 and 3 of that series.Life in the Fletcher-Reid family is always interesting. For Michelle Fletcher, it's about to take an unexpected turn when a feisty redheaded architect named Melanie McKenna captures her heart. Love is the last thing that Michelle was looking for... -
![The Celebrants by Steven Rowley]()
The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises--especially to ourselves--by the bestselling and beloved author of The Guncle. It's been a minute--or five years--since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began... -
![I Love You, Lola Bloom by Rosy Dee]()
I Love You, Lola Bloom by Rosy Dee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome love stories write themselves.After a series of disastrous relationships, designer Maddison Appleby is fed up with everything love has had to offer, and can’t help but feel she’s destined to be alone forever. That is, until a chance encounter at a local book club sparks an unexpected connection with the beautiful Ruby Wilson - aka renowned lesfic author, Lola Bloom... -
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![Paper Is White by Hilary Zaid]()
Paper Is White by Hilary Zaid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen oral historian Ellen Margolis and her girlfriend decide to get married, Ellen realizes that she can't go through with a wedding until she tells her grandmother. There's only one problem: her grandmother is dead...Categorized as:
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![Controlled by the Billionaire by S.K. Lee, S.K. Lee]()
Controlled by the Billionaire by S.K. Lee, S.K. Lee
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSara never had a normal life. And probably never will. She’s a talented singer and dreams to live her passion. But between her job as a bartender to pay the rent and her sister who’s an addict, Sara has another responsibility: Matt, her 5 year old nephew who’s desperately seeking his mother’s love and attention. Despite all these obstacles, Sara never gave up... -
![My Boyfriend's Doctor Daddy by Lena Little]()
My Boyfriend's Doctor Daddy by Lena Little
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the chaos of the emergency room, our eyes lock, my heart slamming in my ribcage at the sight of her. Haley Lyons—a woman who hits me like a lightning strike and who I instantly know is mine. Except, she’s not just any other patient. She's my son's ex-girlfriend. And he’s right there, sitting next to my little girl , watching me look over every inch of her. I should resist her...Categorized as:
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![Last Things by Betta Ferrendelli]()
Last Things by Betta Ferrendelli
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBridgette Connor is a woman on the edge. Her career is in tatters, her relationship is doomed, and after an ill-fated pregnancy and subsequent abortion, she does the one thing she’s always done best. She runs. Her car careens off the road leaving her battered, bruised and beaten. It is then that she meets the woman who will change her life. Alexis Parker is a woman in control...Categorized as:
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![A Good Time by Shannyn Schroeder]()
A Good Time by Shannyn Schroeder
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA passionate free spirit and a sweet-talking playboy sound like a match made in heaven—until life gets in the way of all the fun and games… Indy Adams values her freedom above all else. She works hard to support herself, moonlighting as a waitress while she fights for her first big sale in the Chicago real estate market... -
![The Orchard by Peter Heller]()
The Orchard by Peter Heller
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The River, the story of a young girl coming of age among the streams and mountains of southern Vermont—an unforgettable tale of love, friendship, loss, and the enduring power of nature.Hayley and her seven-year-old daughter, Frith, live in a rustic cabin with no electricity in the foothills of Vermont’s Green Mountains...Categorized as:
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![From the Streets to the Sheets: Urban Erotic Quickies by Noire]()
From the Streets to the Sheets: Urban Erotic Quickies by Noire
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this bold collection of hard-hitting urban erotic quickies, Noire, the undisputed Queen of Urban Erotica, brings you eleven authors who explore, without apology or restraint, street sagas of sexual pleasure... -
![The Love We Left Behind by Katherine Slee]()
The Love We Left Behind by Katherine Slee
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA heartbreaking, heartwarming story of two best friends—and the choices that could tear them apart.London, 2012. With her adoring fiancé, financial independence and a close-knit group of friends, Erika should have life all figured out—but she can’t shake the feeling that there’s something missing... -
![The Butterfly Garden by Mary Campisi]()
The Butterfly Garden by Mary Campisi
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s all about that second chance… The Butterfly Garden is Book Six of That Second Chance Series. (These are stand-alone stories tied together by a common theme— belief in the beauty of that second chance.) Sometimes love happens when you least expect it… Jenny Romano has never been a white-picket-fence, happily-ever-after girl...Categorized as:
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![Дни нашей жизни by Mikita Franko, Микита Франко]()
Дни нашей жизни by Mikita Franko, Микита Франко
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsВ детстве маленького Мики было всё, как у обычных детей: любимые герои, каши по утрам, дни рождения, скучные линейки в школе и сочинения на заданные темы. В юности взрослеющего Мики было всё, как у обычных подростков: первая драка, первое разочарование, первая любовь и первая нелюбовь. Но у Мики была одна тайна: его семья, которую никому нельзя показывать. Книга содержит нецензурную брань... -
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![Misophonia by Dana Vowinckel]()
Misophonia by Dana Vowinckel
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPart coming-of-age tale, part family saga, an extraordinary debut novel set between Berlin, Chicago, and Jerusalem “about being Jewish and German, and all the awkwardness that entails” (The Guardian).It’s the hottest of summers in Chicago, and fifteen-year-old Margarita is spending her vacation as usual, under the not-so-watchful eyes of her aging maternal grandparents... -
![Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina]()
Steppe by Oksana Vasyakina
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA visceral, stirring novel following a queer literature student traveling across Russia with her estranged father, a long haul truck driver secretly dying of AIDS, from the acclaimed author of WoundA decade after her father walks out on her family, the narrator of Steppe, now a literature student, decides to spend some time with him on the road as he makes deliveries across the vast plains of... -
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milktooth by Jaime Burnet
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSorcha is over the hook-ups and gay haunts of her twenties. At thirty-one what she wants, more than anything, is to have a baby. Then she meets Chris― with her buttoned-up plaid, 90s heartthrob hair, and grand romantic gestures― and things get serious. Fast. Though Sorcha's friends find her new partner problematic, Sorcha has an explanation for everything... -
![We Could Be Rats by Emily R. Austin]()
We Could Be Rats by Emily R. Austin
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsA moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space... -
![Three Nights in Italy by Olivia Beirne]()
Three Nights in Italy by Olivia Beirne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFOUR WOMEN. ONE WEEKEND. A JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME.Zoe has always known that her grandmother's wedding ring would be hers one day. She just never expected that day would come so soon. She may not be ready, but Zoe knows the importance of goodbye - and how much it hurts when left unsaid... -
![Full English by Rachel Spangler]()
Full English by Rachel Spangler
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAfter a publicly humiliating divorce, best-selling author Emma Volant runs away to hide in the seaside English village of Amberwick, where she doesn’t know another living soul. She wants nothing more than to surrender to her broken heart in private...
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