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Be with Me by Alexandria House
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFormer career student, Nicole Strickland, is smart, spoiled, loud, irreverent, and flagrantly promiscuous. Her greatest desire is to live a life of leisure, and Attorney Travis McClure is just the man to make her dreams come true. Entrepreneur Damon Davis is Nicole's best friend, has been since they crossed paths in second grade, and has loved her for as long as he’s known her...Categorized as:
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Preservation by Kate Canterbary
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsTwo lonely hearts. Just once, she'd like to be someone's first choice. She's strong-willed and spunky, but she's left picking up the pieces from her ex's lies and manipulations, and daydreaming about taking a scalpel to his scrotum. Flying under the radar is what he does best...Categorized as:
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Sensational by Janet Nissenson
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHEY SAY YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST LOVE… Lauren McKinnon has always prided herself on never backing down from a challenge, living life to its fullest, and refusing to be ruled by her emotions. She is the quintessential wild child who became a bold, fearless woman, she doesn’t believe in regrets or second chances, and thinks that true love only happens in fairy tales... -
One More Night by AshleyNicole
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSuccessful business? Check. Supportive friends? Check. Beautifully planned wedding? Check. Faithful fiancé? No check!Minah Samuels just found out that her boyfriend and soon to be husband has been anything but faithful. The invites have gone out, the seating arrangements have been solidified and the dress is getting the final touches from the seamstress...Categorized as:
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Triple Dare by C.M. Owens
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRUBY KROSS Who is Corbin Sterling to me? That's what people always want to know. He was my first friend. He was the love of my life. And he was my only heartbreak. The problem is that I love the big jerk, and I've refused to give up our friendship, even if it does mean it'll eventually ruin me. So, to answer the question... Corbin Fucking Sterling is the Bane of my existence; that's what he is... -
Next Door Nanny At The Cowboy Billionaire Ranch: A Sweet Clean Cowboy Billionaire Romance by Hanna Hart
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Rebound With Me by Kayley Loring
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI’ve been a Good Girl my whole life. Always did the right thing, always played by the rules. I even got engaged to the principal of the school I teach at. But secretly I’ve been cheering on the rebels. Secretly, I’ve longed to know what it feels like to be just a little bit naughty...Categorized as:
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Champagne Venom by Nicole Fox
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI spent the night with a stranger…Who got me pregnant…And turned out to be my boss…Whoops, sorry, did I say “boss”? I meant a MOB boss.To be fair, I didn’t know he was my boss when I slept with him.I thought he was just the kind stranger offering me a place to stay.But one night in Misha Orlov’s hotel room got me way more than I bargained for.It got me champagne that tasted like starlight... -
Drunk on You by Harper Sloan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt was supposed to be fun. A mutual use of each other's bodies. To be a ruse to the world around us. I wanted to be free from my ex, and he wanted to escape his. One drunken night turned a joke into a life-changing moment. He warned me not to fall for him, and I should've listened. He intoxicated me. He made me crave him. He ruined me. In the end, I'll never be the same...Categorized as:
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Transcending Regrets by Aimee Noalane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSomeone once told me to never live with regrets. I tried. In every piercing look, I saw the truth. In every heartwarming smile, I found a friend. With every kiss, I fell in love. In every heartbreaking lie, I learned forgiveness. In every shattering mistake, I achieved redemption. With every moment of hate, I gained strength. Every moment became a memory I will cherish forever...Categorized as:
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Zane's Rebel by Loni Nichole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor once in his life, this strait-laced attorney is ready to throw caution to the wind. Too bad his sassy, rebellious soulmate refuses to take the risk.ZaneI take on the sassy-mouthed heiress’s case because she needs a good defense. She’s being sued by her father’s former business partner, who wants to destroy her. The odds in this small-town are stacked against her... -
Never Again by Julia Wolf
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey were a perfect storm of bad decisions and tragedy...We thought our forever kind of love would protect us.We thought we were strong enough to withstand any storm.But we were so young then. We couldn't have known what was coming."First loves will mess you up until the end of time if you let them."Older now, we're both stronger than we've ever been... -
Stronger by Janet Nissenson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCara has an admitted problem with hot men, falling so deeply and so quickly under their spell that she loses a little bit of herself with each toxic relationship that always seems to end badly. Every man in her young life thus far has let her down – her high school sweetheart, a college fling, and most of all her self-centered playboy father... -
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Pull You In by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt was always supposed to be her little secret.That she got lonely and desperate enough to call him on his phone sex line.It was wrong, she knew, to keep calling, knowing who he was, but having him in the dark about who he was talking to.She always planned to stop.After the next call.When their boss gets wind of what is going on, she hatches a plan... -
Tense - Volume One by Deborah Bladon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first volume of TENSE, a novel duet by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Deborah Bladon. He's as beautiful as he is brilliant. Nicholas Wolf's mind is a dangerously dark place. He dreams up tales of murder, intrigue, and passion so intense that his detective novels have enthralled readers worldwide... -
The Invisible Thread by Lisa Suzanne
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne decision was all it took for Ethan Fuller’s life to be flipped upside down and for Maci Dane’s twenty-year plan to fall off the rails. Ethan tells Maci about the invisible thread that links two people destined to be together. The road isn’t always smooth, but eventually the two people holding the thread will find their way to each other... -
The Journey Home by Kelly Elliott
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFate has a way of stepping in and righting itself when we least expect it. Maddison Powers has been regretting the biggest mistake of her life when she walked away from the only man who has ever sparked something deep inside her. After comparing every guy she dates to Cale Blackwood, she finally gives up all hope of ever finding him. One dare by Maddison throws Cale back into her life.. -
Forbidden Nights by Lauren Blakely
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA smoldering and sensual standalone romance novel in the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Seductive Nights Series by Lauren Blakely... Sinfully sexy hotel CEO Nate Harper knows exactly how to please a woman. He's equally skilled in keeping his heart safe from the kind of hurt his ex inflicted on him years ago...Categorized as:
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Crazy For Your Love by Lexi Ryan
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA family wedding with a fake boyfriend, meddling parents, and an obsessive ex . . . What could go wrong? The only thing worse than being single at my sister’s wedding is finding out that my ex will be there too. Not just any ex—the guy everyone expected me to marry, the man I came to Jackson Harbor to escape. Now I need a date, and fast...Categorized as:
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Protecting Her Heart by Chance Carter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI'm going to make her beg. Emma asked me to take her all the way. She wants to experience every delicious thing a woman can feel. She wants to be brought to the very edge of ecstasy, and then she wants to leap right off the cliff. I'm a complete playboy, an expert in the ways a man can make a woman beg, so naturally I accept. I love a good challenge...Categorized as:
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Macon by Marie James, TE Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTossing a middle finger to Macon, Georgia as I made my way to Nashville was always the dream. Sing country music, go on tour, top the charts—with my popularity growing every day, I was on my way. But then a gust of wind blew up your skirt, and those white cotton panties had me hooked. I didn’t know your name, and you turned down every attempt I tried to throw your way...Categorized as:
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The Carrero Effect by L.T. Marshall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmma Anderson has everything in her life worked out, the perfect job in a Manhattan empire allowing her to live a quiet organised and safe existence. A necessity to her. That is until a promotion sends her straight into the presence of her young, super hot playboy billionaire boss and stuck as his right-hand man every waking moment of every single day... -
Back to You by Claudia Y. Burgoa
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor the first time in his life, Wes Ahern has encountered something—someone—he can’t fix. Not with his hands, his words, not even with his love. His head tells him Abby had to get out of Colorado to heal from the nightmare that nearly took her from him. To mend her wounded body, piece her broken spirit back together, and find out who she is behind the mask she felt forced to wear...Categorized as:
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Pelvic Flaws by Nikki Ashton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLesley Jones best-selling author of the highly acclaimed Carnage and CowSex – A realistic and hilarious take on starting over when you’re in your 40’s. Toss in a sexy silver fox and you’ve got yourself a great read. Chloe Walsh International best-selling author – Humorous, heartfelt and grippingly original, Pelvic Flaws is up there with Nikki’s best work to date... -
The Collar of Freedom: The Collar Duet, Book 1 by Alexandra Iff
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00KDJNAIW. Amelia Jones knows the truth; she lives and breathes it every day. The endless monotony of a loveless marriage, and years of domestic slavery stretch before her in minutes and hours that are destined to end in a mental breakdown. Then Alexander Reeves walks through the door... -
Commitment by K.M. Golland
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNOTE: Commitment can be read as a stand-alone novel or after Attraction if reading in series order. It is for mature audiences 18+. Sizzling power couple, Bryce and Alexis -- from the Temptation novels -- help bring sexy back to their friend's lacklustre thirteen-year marriage. Natasha Jones loves her life, her husband and their two young sons... -
Changing Spaces by Annie Dyer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe said one night. He said more. She should’ve known better than to argue with a lawyer. Ava Callaghan was never going to be just one night. She was going to be more, much more. She just didn’t know it yet. Hotshot lawyer Elijah Ward can’t be interested in his friends’ and colleagues’ little sister...Categorized as:
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Brown's Sugar by Marlee Rae
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome crushes never go away, instead they intensify…Meet Tonya James, the middle James’ sister. She’s a sugar enthusiast and co-proprietor of the new black woman-owned and sibling-owned SHE-iS spice shoppe in the heart of the city. Tonya enjoys her life but the one permanent thing evading her is love... -
Kip by Jaxson Kidman
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter UNTouched. After UNLoved. After UNTamed. Comes ... the Rulz. Their stories. Their words. This is what happens after the wild ending to UNTamed. Next: KIP... -
Slip Shot by Pippa Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy best buddy from high school is marrying my ex and I'm the best man. Talk about awkward. The silver lining is I'm paired for the wedding with the groom's little sister Chloe. She's always been adorable...also, off limits - because I'm the small-town bad boy, now an NHL star, and she's the pastor's daughter.But weddings make people do crazy things and we end up doing each other... -
Lost, Found, Loved : a bad boy new adult romance novel by London Casey, Karolyn James
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's all supposed to be fake. Until it turns real. Bella: My car broke down. Now I'm getting tattooed by the guy who saved me... and I'm sort of engaged to him. Don't worry, it's all fake. Well, it's supposed to be... Zayne: I've been staring at the wedding invitation for months. She sent it to me as one last jab to my heart. All I want is that one chance to get back at her... -
The Question by Zena Wynn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat would you do for a friend? What sacrifice would you willingly make? This is the issue facing Gail Henderson when her best friend, Crystal Al Jabbar, asks her to be a surrogate for her and her husband Rashid, using Gail's own egg. Complicating the decision is Gail's recent loss of her husband and toddler son in a fatal car accident, two years earlier... -
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Enticing Daphne by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s easy to stop believing in happily ever afters when the man you thought you’d spend the rest of your life with abandons you right before your wedding day. After that disastrous event, I decided that commitment was for suckers. I was young, successful, and in the prime of my life. I didn’t need a man to make me happy...Categorized as:
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Swing For The Fences by Kimberly Readnour, Daqri Combs
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeet bad boy shortstop, Jax Carrigan... Baseball and fast women are my life. What can I say? I’m good-looking and in the best shape of my career. Being a National League MVP contender, I’m even a great athlete. There’s only one thing I’m missing—Jocelyn Kennedy. Ten years have passed since the night we broke each other's hearts... -
Realism by Evan Grace
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOrdinary, typical, conformed, are words never used to describe me. I've never been one to play by the rules. It's my world, my life and I do things my way.I see the way they stare at my body covered in tattoos and my lavender hair, I just don't give a damn. There is only one thing in this world that can get me fired up, that's screwing with my daughter...Categorized as:
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The Unintended Fiance by Miranda P. Charles
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe arranges a fake engagement to win against his business rival. Bradley Mead has one overriding goal: to succeed over his fiercest business enemy. To boost his chances of winning a lucrative contract over his competitor, he must first assure his potential client that he is not after the client's new wife--a woman he used to date and who still loves to flirt with him...Categorized as:
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Falling Star by Terri Osburn
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA country star looking for a comeback has one last shot at fame—and he might just have one last shot at love. Naomi Mallard is a fixer by nature. And as PR manager for Nashville’s Shooting Stars record label, she’s facing her biggest fix: redeeming country music bad boy Chance Colburn. But in Naomi’s eyes, a police record and a stint in rehab are the least of Chance’s sins... -
Trading Paint by Shey Stahl
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA must have companion to Happy Hour that give you an inside look into the characters of the Racing on the Edge series. Step into the magic where the clay met rubber and desire defined greatness. Trading Paint takes you inside the hasty driver’s mind to what led him to a decision that changed the path of two souls...Categorized as:
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Restored Dreams by L.B. Dunbar
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMore romance for the over forty. Brut Paige needs a life break. As caretaker to his brother, his business, and his son, he's used to being the man to get things done. Yet, along the way, he's forgotten how to have fun. Lily Warren deserves a vacation. She's worked hard to establish her bakery, a lifelong dream. She's proud of her accomplishments. But, she knows there's something missing... -
Chaser by Charity Ferrell
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThings I never thought would happen:Meeting my boyfriend’s secret wife.Finding out I’m pregnant with his baby.Pretending my best friend is the father.In public, we fake a relationship.In private, we try not to fall in love.The more we pretend, the more we forget it’s only temporary.If only we had known it would change everything...Categorized as:
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Sweet Sunshine (the Pembrooke series) by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe’s a romantic at heart. Chloe Delaney had three very specific wishes, growing up. She wished to stay settled in the small mountain town of Pembrooke, where she grew up, to one day be her own boss, and to fall in love with a man who would be willing to go to the ends of the earth for her... -
All The Right Moves by Becca Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA must read Romantic Comedy. Being called the worst boyfriend can do a number on a man’s ego. But I handled it the way any full-grown adult male would—by eating copious amounts of carbs and wallowing over whether I was good enough...Categorized as:
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Back Road Chances by Nicole Hart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say nothing ever changes in this little town. But that's not exactly true. One drunken night has the ability to turn your world upside down. Sam Montgomery is a tough, smart mouth country girl who doesn't trust easily and refuses to get close enough to get hurt. Moon Jacobs is a rowdy roughneck who has earned every bit of the wild reputation he possesses... -
Lucky Strike by M. Andrews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the age of five, Ryder Callahan knew without a shadow of doubt that Lucky Flanagan was his Lucky Strike. But for twenty-five years, Lucky kept Ryder at arm’s length, not wanting to destroy the one stable relationship in her otherwise turbulent life. In a moment of weakness, the two acted on their feelings for one another...Categorized as:
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Keep Happy by A.C. Bextor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThose who think they know me would tell you I’m a caring mother, a loyal friend, and a dutiful wife. They’d say the golden path which led me here is the road every little girl dreams of taking. However, the guise of my happy existence has come to be just that—an illusion. A mask of contentment intended for the world to believe... -
Rules of Friendship: Friends-to-Lovers Standalone Romance Novel by C.A. Harms
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFriends-to-Lovers Standalone Romance Novel As a guy, the number one rule to being best friends with a girl should be simple… Never, and I do mean never, fall in love with her. Oh and you should never fantasize about her either. Believe me, that situation can get messy really fast and leave you with nothing but one hell of an awkward mess on your hands—literally... -
The Hot Guy in the Woods by London Casey, Jaxson Kidman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the authors that brought you the worldwide top 100 Kindle ebook (5 Years Later): He hides in the woods, determined to fix a tragedy that stole his heart. Every night he goes looking for her but always comes back to his cabin alone. Until one night he finds someone as lost as he is... She's lost everything, including herself. She decides to walk away... -
One Night With the Sheik by Elizabeth Lennox
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsArianna had to find her father. He’d disappeared in the desert country of Triar – which is where she started her search. Unfortunately, some unfinished business with the Sheik of Triar slowed her search. Rhys Sabad del Isolm, Sheik of Triar discovered that the lovely Arianna Callas was back in his country...
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