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  • Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Bullets and Beads by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Let the good times roll? It’s Mardi Gras time and Fortune is looking forward to seeing the spectacle firsthand, but when a visitor to Sinful is murdered during the celebration there, Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie can’t help but wonder what happened...
  • 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...
  • Framed Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Framed Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tinsley Faulkner loves art more than anything in the world. She’s a painter and owns an art gallery in the small town of Shadows Landing. But suddenly her life is changed when a man walks into the gallery looking to sell some art—art she knows is stolen. What she thinks is just a one-time thing quickly escalates into something so dangerous people have died for decades to protect it...
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    humor  suspense  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Forever Ventured by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Ventured by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wyatt Davies is faced with a hard choice: give up being a veterinarian or give up the family horse racing farm he inherited. He has one chance to save the farm and that chance lies with horse trainer Camila Callahan. Camila was raised by the United Kingdom's greatest horse trainer, and he taught her everything he knew...
  • 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...
  • It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    It's a Matter of Midlife and Death by Robyn Peterman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Midlife is madness—magical, messy and one freaking crisis after another.With a new job I didn’t apply for and an extended family I didn’t know I had—midlife has become somewhat problematic. Gluing ghosts back together is easy compared to my new celestial occupation.The Grim Reaper wants to put a ring on it. Tim wants to be a father...
  • Fortune Hunter by Jana Deleon

    Fortune Hunter by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the eighth book in the Miss Fortune mystery series. Someone has created a fake social media identity and is online romancing the lonely women of Sinful in order to scam them out of money...
  • Hurricane Force by Jana Deleon

    Hurricane Force by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the seventh book in the Miss Fortune series. A force to be reckoned with… During missions as a CIA assassin, Fortune Redding saw and overcame most every obstacle, but Sinful, Louisiana, keeps producing new challenges for her. When a hurricane blows through, it brings a shower of counterfeit money raining down on the tiny bayou town...
  • Going Wild by C.M. Owens

    Going Wild by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Wild Ones Tip #109 We’re the reason the gene pool needs a lifeguard. People often ask me what in the hell convinced me to move to Tomahawk, Washington, where the four corners of crazy are known as the Wild Ones...
  • Swamp Team 3 by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Team 3 by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, a new installment in her bestselling Miss Fortune series. What’s a little arson between friends? Undercover CIA agent Fortune Redding spent her first three weeks in Sinful, Louisiana dodging insults, makeup advice, guard dogs, bullets, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc, both professionally and personally...
  • Gator Bait by Jana Deleon

    Gator Bait by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the fifth book in the hilarious Miss Fortune series. Things are starting to look up for Fortune Redding. Even though her life was at stake, the CIA assassin had balked at taking on a new identity in Sinful, Louisiana...
  • Broken Shadows: Shadows Landing #5 by Kathleen Brooks

    Broken Shadows: Shadows Landing #5 by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trent Faulkner was happy working with his hands to build custom furniture. He had made a name for himself and his design company. Love wasn’t even on his radar. Then one client broke down his barriers, only to make him leave in the morning. Trent made a resolution to forget about her, but that was hard to do when she was everywhere he looked, including in his heart...
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    humor  suspense  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Forever Surprised by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Surprised by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This book is an update of the ongoing Bluegrass, Bluegrass Brothers, and Forever Bluegrass series. If you haven’t read the books in those series, then it is recommended that you start with Bluegrass State of Mind...
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    humor  sports  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary
  • Wilder by C.M. Owens

    Wilder by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wild Ones Tip #349 If you don’t understand what’s going on, it’s because you haven’t been in Tomahawk long enough. My sister and I decided to go to Tomahawk to learn more about our estranged grandmother and spend some time together doing something other than networking. What we expected was some quiet town, a peaceful escape, and a little downtime. What we got? Two sexy mountain men...
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    female-mc  friendship  humor  kind-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  comedy
  • Later Gator by Jana Deleon

    Later Gator by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A poacher is at work in Sinful, Louisiana, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc is hot on the trail of the outlaw, trying to apprehend him before the state gets wind of the crime and sends a game warden to take over his investigation...
  • Soldiers of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Soldiers of Fortune by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the sixth installment in the bestselling Miss Fortune series. When Celia Arceneaux was elected mayor of Sinful, Louisiana, Fortune Redding expected trouble. The woman has an unmatched talent for making the worst of any situation, especially if it means getting revenge on her sworn enemies Ida Belle and Gertie...
  • Swamp Sniper by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Sniper by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the third book in the Miss Fortune Mystery series.When only a crack shot will do…In the two weeks CIA assassin Fortune Redding has been hiding in Sinful, Louisiana, she’s been harassed, poisoned, and shot at…and that was the easy part. But now, she’s about to face her biggest challenge since setting foot in the tiny bayou town...
  • Thirty-One and a Half Regrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Thirty-One and a Half Regrets by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book Four in the USA Today bestselling Rose Gardner Mystery Series! While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister—and business partner—Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work, but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In the meantime, Fenton County assistant D.A...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • The Christmas Wedding Guest: A Novel by Susan Mallery

    The Christmas Wedding Guest: A Novel by Susan Mallery

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “This two-in-one romance starts a new series that Mallery’s many fans will devour like a Christmas cookie.”—Booklist Susan Mallery, author of the Fool’s Gold romances, cheerfully invites you to Wishing Tree, where Christmas comes to life… The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they’ve lost faith it will happen for them...
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    female-mc  friendship  humor  adult  animals  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Magical Midlife Dating by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Dating by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The decision has been made. Jessie has taken the magic, and all the weird that goes with it. Including wings.There's only one problem - she can't figure out how to access them.Through a series of terrible decisions, Jessie realizes she must ask for help. Gargoyle help.But she could've never predicted who answers her call - he's an excellent flier, incredibly patient, and a good trainer...
  • Magical Midlife Invasion by K.F. Breene

    Magical Midlife Invasion by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    Jessie is well on her way to learning her new life and settling in. The tough alpha, Austin, has joined her team, and she has painstakingly learned to fly. At the moment, life couldn’t get any better.But it can get a whole lot…more irritating.Her parents have decided to visit...
  • 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...
  • Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec

    Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 1478314605 Carter, Claire and Gavin have formed the perfect little family. Their friends are getting married and everyone is growing up, maturing and ready to face the future...
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    drama  female-mc  friendship  humor  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

    I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There’s a budding romance on Butler Mountain, but in the hornets’ nest known as the Abbott family, keeping a secret is no easy feat… Colton Abbott and Lucy Mulvaney have a secret...
  • Spare Me by Tara Sivec

    Spare Me by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryan Hutton has spent his entire life being the shy, nerdy, rule-following nice guy on Summersweet Island. He’s the high school bowling coach and algebra teacher, who’s always predictable, and he’s always been fine with that. At least until a sexy nutjob gives him the best kiss of his life in his favorite pizza place. Suddenly, he doesn’t like being the quiet, obedient nice guy anymore...
  • A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones

    A Good Day for Chardonnay by Darynda Jones

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff--and even fuller-time coffee guzzler--Sunshine Vicram, didn't get that memo.All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven)...
  • All Hung Up by Kathleen Brooks

    All Hung Up by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This novella originally appeared in the Three Southern Beaches collection released July of 2014. Taylor Jefferies fled the Hollywood spotlight and found herself helping the citizens of the small town of Keeneston. As luck would have it, the sexy man who caught her eye and found a place in her heart joined her at college that fall...
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    humor  sports  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary
  • Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes you have to talk to work things out. Luckily that works best without clothes. Petal I’ve loved Luka Fields my entire life.  He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first time, and my first heartbreak.  Love isn’t like in the movies, or the books you read.  It’s hard. Sometimes you give up… And regret it your entire life...
  • 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 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The Wild Card by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    The Wild Card by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was supposed to be harmless. One fake date with an off-limits football player I'd never date for real.Plot twist—Harry Westbrook is the exact opposite of harmless.My first mistake? Underestimating that boyish smile, those playful eyes, the charming words on those perfect lips. He claims to have a crush on me...
  • Beauty and the Mustache by Penny Reid, Joy Nash

    Beauty and the Mustache by Penny Reid, Joy Nash

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This is a previously-published edition - ASIN: B00QFPSE1QThere are three things you need to know about Ashley Winston: 1) She has six brothers and they all have beards, 2) She is a reader, and 3) She knows how to knit. Former beauty queen, Ashley Winston’s preferred coping strategy is escapism. She escaped her Tennessee small town, loathsome father, and six brothers eight years ago...
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    drama  female-mc  friendship  humor  realistic  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • 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...
  • And I Love Her by Marie Force

    And I Love Her by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Green Mountain Romance from the New York Times bestselling author of I Saw Her Standing There...
  • Hissy Fit by Lani Lynn Vale

    Hissy Fit by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He is the one that never looks her way.He is handsome and strong.He is rough around the edges and mean.He is everything she’s ever wanted.He doesn’t even know she exists.Her life is a joke.***She doesn’t step on cracks in the sidewalk.She laughs at inappropriate times.She talks when she shouldn’t.She is clumsy and trips on air.She is finally on his radar.God help her now...
  • Raging Heart On: Friends to Lovers Romance by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Raging Heart On: Friends to Lovers Romance by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her biological clock is a ticking time bomb. He’s got the tool it takes to get the job done…And then some. Kayla: Life has never been great. If not for White Lucas and his family, I might have been on the streets. They showed me what family was—what I always wanted. Now I'm nearing thirty, I want my own family. The problem is there’s no man in the picture...
  • 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...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  realistic  alpha-mc  angst  animals  audiobook
  • The Great Escape by Charlotte Fallowfield, Book Cover by Design

    The Great Escape by Charlotte Fallowfield, Book Cover by Design

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Great Escape - A laugh-out-loud novel from Charlotte Fallowfield, Amazon U.K. #1 bestselling contemporary romance author of Until We Collide. A tropical beach paradise in Mexico was the last place Georgie Basset expected her decimated heart to be jump-started again, not after she’d been jilted the year before by her fiancé, leading to said breakage...
  • Forbidden Falls by Robyn Carr

    Forbidden Falls by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    VIRGIN RIVER IS ABUZZ WITH THE NEWS THAT A STRANGER BOUGHT THE TOWN'S ABANDONED CHURCH ON EBAY. THE BUYER, A YOUNG WIDOWED REVEREND, IS A LITTLE LIKE THE BUILDING ITSELF: IN NEED OF SOME TENDER LOVING CARE.Noah Kincaid arrives ready to roll up his sleeves and revitalize his new purchase, but he's going to need some help. An ad in the local paper brings and improbably candidate his way...
  • The Perfect Dress by Carolyn Brown

    The Perfect Dress by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A plus-size Texas gal has designs on an old crush in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s exuberant, bighearted romance. In the small town of Celeste, Texas, Mitzi Taylor has never quite fit inside the lines...
  • Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid

    Grin and Beard It by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    USA TODAY Bestselling Romantic Comedy SeriesSienna Diaz is everyone's favorite "fat" funny lady. The movie studio executives can't explain it, but her films are out-grossing all the fit and trim headliners and Hollywood's most beautiful elite. The simple truth is, everyone loves plus-sized Sienna...
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    drama  female-mc  humor  kind-mc  realistic  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc
  • 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:
    friendship  humor  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction  medical
  • When You Kiss Me by Bella Andre

    When You Kiss Me by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lola Sullivan has been stared at by men since she was thirteen years old, but no one has ever seen the real her. Not until venture capitalist Duncan Lyman walks into her textile design studio and they’re drawn to each other on every level. When deep passion sparks between them, along with an amazingly powerful emotional connection, they stay up all night together...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary  family
  • A Greene Family Summer Bash by Piper Rayne

    A Greene Family Summer Bash by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Catch up with the Greene family during their annual summer party...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary  family
  • Checkmate by R.L. Mathewson

    Checkmate by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    There’s nothing worse than living next door to your childhood nemesis, except maybe being forced to share your dream project with him, being blackmailed into going along with something that was just wrong on so many levels, and having your hot cocoa stolen by the person that drove you to drink it in the first place...
    Categorized as:
    drama  female-mc  humor  realistic  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book
  • Nightingale Way by Emily March

    Nightingale Way by Emily March

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Eternity Springs is a magical place where hearts come to heal--with a little help. As Emily March's beloved series continues, a broken marriage finds new wings to fly. Dark, brooding Jack Davenport hides his secrets well, never telling his wife about the dangers of his job, never sharing his thoughts or worries . . . never sharing himself. After tragedy strikes, their marriage shatters...
    Categorized as:
    drama  female-mc  friendship  humor  adult  audiobook  book  comedy
  • I'll Stand By You by Sharon Sala

    I'll Stand By You by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    No one is aloneDori Grant is no stranger to hardship. As a young single mother in the gossip-fueled town of Blessings, Georgia, she's weathered the storm of small-town disapproval most of her life. But when Dori loses everything within the span of an evening, she realizes she has no choice but to turn to her neighbors...
    Categorized as:
    drama  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  children  comedy
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