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Heavy Petting by Erin Nicholas
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’s her best friend.A reformed bad boy turned hot teacher.And after one spur-of-the-moment Vegas wedding... her husband. Jordan Benoit and Fletcher Landry have been best friends since they were six. He’s always been The Guy. When she needed picked up, cheered up, or lifted up — like literally, to see the stage at a concert — Fletcher was the guy... -
Southern Roots by Lise Gold
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHannah Hudson has had a rough start to the year. Returning home to London from her magical holiday in Norway, still on a high after meeting the wonderful Kristine, her newfound happiness is dealt a crushing blow when she discovers that her ex has been stealing from her and she is going to lose her business... -
Bad to the Bone by Roxanne St. Claire
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTrace Bancroft has been in prison for fourteen years, paying for a mistake that cost a man his life. Now released, Trace heads back to Bitter Bark with his mutt, Meatball, and runs into Daniel Kilcannon, who offers to provide some medical care for the dog. Trace knows that would mean seeing Molly Kilcannon, a girl who shared one crazy night with him before his life took a turn for the worst... -
Say Cheese by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA spicy age gap romance where one night of passion could lead to a lifetime of love... -
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Bayou Dreaming by Lexi Blake
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake’s heartfelt contemporary romance set in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou. Roxanne King left the big city looking for a simpler life, but after years of proving herself on a SWAT team in New York City, being deputy in a sleepy Louisiana parish is something of an adjustment... -
Poppy Jenkins by Clare Ashton
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo 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... -
Falling For Who by Erica Lee
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMarjorie Madden has it all. She’s been out since middle school, is the most popular person in her grade, and according to her friends could get any girl she wants (even the straight ones).Marjorie isn’t interested in dating, though. All of her focus is on becoming a starter on the varsity basketball team and leading her team to victory... -
Hunter by Eliza Lentzski
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Winter Jacket prequel It all started with a navy blue dress... In her junior year of college, Hunter Dyson has some big decisions to make about her future. She wants to be a nurse, that much she knows, but everyone from her parents to her academic advisor is nagging her about what kind of nursing she wants to pursue... -
All In by Eliza Lentzski
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook Four and the dénouement of the Winter Jacket Series. Hollywood had been a disaster. Elle Graft—Associate Professor of English and once-budding television screenwriter—could admit that much. Now back in Minnesota and back to her old life, Elle’s determined to get her relationship with Hunter back on track. It all started with a broken classroom heater and a blue winter coat... -
Pinot & Pineapple Lumps by Jay Hogan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPenn from Adelaide. That’s all I knew. We shared a single kiss over a year ago, and I can still remember every toe-curling second of it. He thought I was too young for him. I thought he was running scared. But that kiss was the first time I’d felt alive in a long time, and I’ve been chasing the feeling ever since—doing my research, a lot of research, a lot of men... -
Turning Back by Katia Rose
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNestled in a towering fir forest on British Columbia’s famous Vancouver Island, Three Rivers Campground is calling you to come relax, explore, and maybe even fall in love...Trish Rivers lives a good life. A happy life... -
Red Rock Ranch by Lise Gold, Madeleine Taylor
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCasino lights and desert nights, love takes a wild gamble. Dakota's plan was drive to Las Vegas, start her dream job at a luxury spa, and leave her old life behind. But when her ancient pickup breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert, she's stranded, helpless, and alone.Enter Frankie, a charming cowgirl with a heart of gold and a big ranch to run... -
Second Wind by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSecond wind: a new strength or energy to continue something that is an effort. After an amicable divorce, Lincoln Huxley is ready to embrace the sexuality he repressed for more than two decades. Rush Holden is no longer willing to settle for closeted men or those who don’t share his dreams of marriage and fatherhood. A chance encounter on a lakeside pier is the second wind they both need... -
Sunsets and Shades by Erica Lee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKinsley Scott is a lesbian romance author who doesn’t actually believe in love. While her alter ego, Laurel Lake, loves happy endings and epic love stories, Kinsley has a more cynical view of the world. Grace Harper is a hopeless romantic hanging on every word of the lesbian romance novels she reads... -
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Back in Your Arms by Monica McCallan
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSeventeen years ago, Quinn McKinley left her small town of Kingsford for a shot at a happier life. Now a successful real estate agent in New York City, she’s brought back on behalf of a client, begrudgingly accepting her return home in order to close the deal of a lifetime... -
The School of Starting Over by Lisa Swift
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNell’s going back to school… but now she’s learning lessons of the heartReception class teacher Nell Shackleton has a plan. At least, she had until she arrived at her new home of Humblebee Farm, a dilapidated farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors... -
Girls Who Pray by Evelyn Dar
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Claire Roberts is being sued by the Amish. Yep, those Amish. Claire’s latest release, a tell-all memoir about growing up Amish, reveals startling truths and intimate details about a passionate, secret love affair between herself and another woman... -
Charmed By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe only thing I had to look forward to was getting as far away from my hometown of Arrowbridge, Maine, as possible. That is, until I bump into a single mom and her bug-loving daughter. Ingrid Davidson and I have absolutely nothing in common. She’s older, she has a child, and she’s settled in Arrowbridge for good.Still, I can’t stop finding reasons to spend time with her, and her adorable toddler... -
To Be With You by T.J. O'Shea
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLeah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood should not fall in love.They’re smart enough to know a star-crossed lovers’ situation never works out. Leah’s a loner from the poor side of town, working two jobs, and aching to leave their sleepy hometown in her rear view forever... -
Beguiled By Her by Chelsea M. Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere were only two things I had to look forward finally moving into my own place without an awful roommate, and my Saturday nights at the only lesbian bar in the state of Maine—Sapph. I make it a rule to never kiss the same person twice, but one night I lock lips (and do a little more) with a platinum-blonde, tattooed stunner and I can’t resist having a second taste...Categorized as:
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Covenant by Ann McMan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPresent Day: Jericho, Virginia.Covenant continues the beloved saga of the residents of Jericho, a sleepy town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, where life and love have as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road.Six weeks have passed since the fateful unfolding of events at the town’s Fourth of July celebration... -
Side by Side by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSports Series Book #6. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.As teenagers, Belle Elrod and Chandler Wolfe had been chosen to be part of Team USA figure skating’s elite training program. But when something happened, and Belle left the program, they were both left wondering what might have been... -
Keep Tahoe Blue by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is book #1 in the Tahoe Series. It follows the events in the San Francisco Series Book #1: "Checking the Right Box." Kellan Cobb had to get out of San Francisco. She’d just watched her ex-girlfriend meet the woman of her dreams. Her broken heart needed a break from it all, and Lake Tahoe was calling her name.Reese Lee has a secret... -
Love is Coming to Town by Alexa Rivers, Claire Wilder
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat’s a small town Christmas without a little romance?Fake relationships, second chances, friends to lovers, and sexy brother’s best friends.Mix in some small town gossip, meddling matchmakers, and Christmas magic and you have a perfect holiday escape. Finding His Cheer by Claire WilderHe loved and lost. She’s just lost... -
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Someday, Maybe by Addison Clarke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWalker Forsyth is two years sober and back in her hometown of Moonflower Cove after two years away. She’s made her amends with her sisters and friends and is ready to start a new chapter in her life. More than anything though, she’s hoping to have a second chance with the love of her life.Maddie Carlson has spent two years wondering what it would be like when Walker came back to the Cove... -
Learning to Trust by Kallie Mont
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Parker?”Parker loved that voice and she adored hearing it say her name. But in this moment, it scared the shit out of her.In the sleepy coastal town of Doveport, the pot isn’t just stirred—that bitch is boiling over.Maggie and Parker are new... like, brand-spanking-new. But for all of their flirting and butterflies and romantic intention, the universe has devised one giant beaver-dam... -
The Perfect View by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is book #3 in the Tahoe Series. Adler Williams had been surprised with a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, by her boyfriend; but not in a good way. That was the last place Adler ever wanted to be. She was not a woman who enjoyed camping or the outdoors in any way... -
Shifting Gears by Jazz Forrester
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA spicy, small-town, opposites attract lesbian romance about learning to let go, no matter the cost.Workaholic Eleanor Cromwell blows into rural Canada, laser focused on her real estate development project. Given the locals already hate her father’s company, she plans to hide away in a cabin and conceal her identity to get the job done... -
The Secret Pond by Gerri Hill
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGrieving over the loss of her family and feeling like her life is unraveling, Lindsey McDermott quits her job, gets a puppy and retreats to her grandparents’ home in the Texas Hill Country. She spends her solitary days walking childhood trails and reminiscing, trying to reconcile the conflict within her as she struggles with survivor’s guilt... -
Grinding by Sean Ashcroft
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo childhood best friends. One accidental fake engagement. One Labrador puppy. One week to fall in love.When Harvey runs into his childhood best friend—literally—on the way into Otter Bay for his cousin's wedding, he doesn't plan to end up playing the part of the guy's fiancé...Categorized as:
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Chasing Stars by Katia Rose
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNestled in a towering fir forest on British Columbia’s famous Vancouver Island, Three Rivers Campground is calling you to come relax, explore, and maybe even fall in love...Clover Rivers is completely, totally over her ex.Sure, her first ever relationship with a girl might have ended in a catastrophic breakup people still whisper about, but Clover is done with it... -
One Golden Summer by Clare Lydon, T.B. Markinson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSaffron Oliver is the golden girl. Golden hair. Golden skin. Golden movie career.Only one problem: she hates it.She flees to her sister’s seaside town – where she meets the confident & charming Kirsty McBride.Kirsty is everything Saffron wants to be. Perhaps also, everything she wants.But Saffron can’t have it all... -
Back to the Start by Monica McCallan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Remy’s grandmother dies, it means leaving her life in San Francisco and returning to a town she swore she'd never revisit, forced to confront a world she'd worked hard to put behind her over the last twelve years... -
Meet Me in the Blue by A.M. Johnson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeet me… in the place where the sun kisses the horizon and sinks into blue shades of you and me.Meet me there… where everything was always perfect. You and me and the damp grass at dawn and the gray dirt in the late evening rain.Meet me where we were ourselves and not these two people who can’t even say I love you...Categorized as:
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Atramentum by M.J. Duncan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJoss Perrault left Sky, Colorado after high school with no intention of ever returning, but all that changes when she inherits Atramentum... -
At Seventeen by Gerri Hill
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMadison Lansford and Shannon Fletcher met when they were ten years old. Madison—daughter of wealthy parents and Shannon, daughter of their live-in maid and cook—became fast friends, yet both knew their place in life.There was never a doubt that they would become lovers . . . there was also never a doubt that Madison would marry and maintain her social standing in the community... -
Rocky Mountain Romance by Vivian Arend
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSecond chances are the sweetest—and the hottest. It took a spectacularly embarrassing break-up to knock Steve Moonshine Coleman off his lazy butt. In the ten months since that night, he’s changed his ways, and now that Melody’s back in town, it’s time for this sweet-talking cowboy to convince her to get back in the saddle with him... -
The Flaw in Our Design by Monica McCallan
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOlivia Carver’s life in Lake Cabot, New York is simple. That’s how she likes it, even if she can’t stop the town she loves from being overrun by wealthy tourists each summer. When she’s not working at her family’s paddleboard shop or spending time with her lovable but infuriating brothers, she puts her energy into writing professionally, a dream that has yet to materialize... -
Moving Maverick by Lucy Lennox
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsDo you remember what you promised?” Maverick: I haven't been back to Rabbit Island, South Carolina, since my parents died and my grandmother, Mimi, rejected me. I'm only returning now to attend her funeral and sell an estate I never wanted. But the moment I step foot on the island and fall into Beau’s arms, I realize it might not be so easy to say goodbye after all... -
Letters to Cupid by Miranda MacLeod
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn American celebrity chef and an Italian chocolate maker cook up a magical recipe for true love. In a tiny village in the hills of Tuscany is a statue of Cupid with the power to grant the deepest desires of the heart to all who ask. The village is home to single mother Valentina, who runs a struggling chocolate shop... -
Faking by Sean Ashcroft
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA leaked sex tape. A fake relationship. A return home.Ryder swore he was never going back to Otter Bay after leaving at seventeen, but when his life is set on fire in LA, he finds himself ducking into a cozy café on Main Street with his tail between his legs.Unfortunately, he also finds that his best friend, the first boy he ever had a crush on, grew up hot...Categorized as:
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In Too Deep by Daryl Banner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe plan: hit up the beach with my best friend, get one of those fruity drinks with an umbrella in it, and read my book on the sand with the waves crashing at my feet and the sunshine beaming over me.Not part of the plan: being distracted by all of the gorgeous single men who apparently inhabit this Texas beachside getaway.Definitely not part of the plan: falling for one of them... -
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Holme for the Holidays by Miranda MacLeod
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn American musician with a broken heart meets a local farmer with a hidden past on a holiday house swap in Yorkshire. A charming romantic comedy that will fill your heart with holiday cheer A country cottage is the last place Paige expected to spend the holidays, but a year after her girlfriend dumped her, her life is in shambles... -
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Begin Again by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is book #4 in the Tahoe Series. Chris Florence’s circumstances had never been ideal, but they’d gotten worse after a car accident took the lives of her parents and left her with a kid brother to support... -
Rebel Without A Claus by Bryce Oakley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI’ve finally gotten a handle on my life. Sure, it’s taken into my 30s to get here, but I’ve finally got all my candy canes in a row. A job I love, a house I adore, and a town that still takes my breath away every holiday season.Let’s just forget all of the things that had to go wrong for me to get here. In fact, that’s just what I’m doing when Joy Martin waltzes back into town for the holidays... -
Just One Date by Chelsea M. Cameron
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHollis Carr never expected her city-loving self moving to Castleton, Maine, and living in a converted barn. She’s not totally hating the slower pace of life in Castleton, but one thing she can’t handle is the pressure from her mother and her sister to find a nice person to settle down with. Hollis doesn’t do love, period... -
Oh My Stars by S-Jay Hart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan you ever find something you never knew you’d lost? You can outgrow a place, it’s common knowledge. You can even outgrow people. Honey Rosenberg has spent her entire life in the small town of Verity Vale and it still fits her perfectly. She lives her life in certainties. She goes to work every day with her sisters at their family deli... -
Work In Progress by Olivia Lucas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDear God, Can I please return her?I know I asked for a hot, amazing woman to shake things up, but this is not what I had in mind. Not even close.Sure, she has mesmerizing eyes that hypnotize me, killer legs, wild hair –Ugh.Anyway, Reagan and I are polar opposites.First of all – she is New York, I am small-town Harmon Valley.She is also bossy, career-obsessed, and oh, a royal pain in my ass... -
Just One Kiss by Chelsea M. Cameron
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSasha Klein couldn’t be less happy to be living in Castleton, Maine. If only her sister hadn’t fallen in love with a Castleton guy nicknamed Skippy who got her pregnant and then bailed on her and her little girl and gone to Las Vegas. Sasha plans to get out of the tiny town just as soon as her sister, Lizzie, is back on her feet...
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