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  • The Long and Winding Road by Marie Force

    The Long and Winding Road by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Series Finale...this is the one you’ve been waiting for! Max Abbott takes center stage in the Butler, Vermont Series finale when the timeline jumps forward five years and finds Max staring down his 10-year high school reunion, with no desire whatsoever to attend...
  • Lark by Cee Bowerman

    Lark by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lark Forrester may have been born into the country club set, but she didn’t stay there. From infancy, she was raised around bikers, so it was inevitable that she’d become one herself. Her dream of joining an MC has now come to fruition, and she proudly serves as the Texas Queens MC president with her cousin Rain...
  • Resilience After Dark by Marie Force

    Resilience After Dark by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Second chances show up when you're not looking for them...Cindy Lawry needs a new roommate now that her sister Julia has moved in with her fiancé, Deacon. When she can't find anyone, she puts up a flyer in the window of the Curl Up & Dye salon where she works as a hair stylist and at other places around town...
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    children  family  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic
  • Sheriff's Treasured Teacher by Clara Pines

    Sheriff's Treasured Teacher by Clara Pines

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s sworn to protect his heart, but she’s ready to serve up some holiday cheer.When it comes to happiness, grumpy Sheriff Cal Cassidy is an officer in need of assistance. But he’s not ready for it to come in the form of his son’s pretty new pre-school teacher. Sure, she’s kind and she’s patient and she smells like cinnamon cookies...
  • Till There Was You by Marie Force

    Till There Was You by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Being an adult has its advantages... Lucas Abbott and his identical twin grew up sharing everything—including a reputation for funny, idiotic behavior. But now that Lucas is ready to shed that lovable-idiot image, grow up and have a real, adult relationship, the joke’s on him. He and his twin have fallen for the same woman...
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    children  family  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Marking Time by Marie Force

    Marking Time by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    'Marking Time' continues the story begun in 'Treading Water' as one woman begins a new life while eighteen-year-old Kate Harrington, a talented singer and songwriter sets out to pursue her musical dreams. Her father has agreed to allow Kate to spend a year in Nashville, but what he couldn't have anticipated was Kate falling in love with a much older man...
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    children  family  sad  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  drama
  • Love After Dark by Marie Force

    Love After Dark by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Paul Martinez has been run ragged by the demands of managing the family’s landscaping business and his mother’s battle with dementia. It’s been so long since he had sex, he can’t remember the last time...
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    children  family  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic  female-mc
  • Sugar Pine Trail by RaeAnne Thayne

    Sugar Pine Trail by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An unlikely attraction brings comfort, joy and unforgettable romance this holiday season! Librarian Julia Winston is ready to ditch the quiet existence she's been living. She's made a list of new things to experience, but falling for Jamie Caine, her sexy military pilot neighbor, isn't one of them. Julia's looking to conquer life, not become the heartbreaker's latest conquest...
  • Beau by Nicole Edwards

    Beau by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THEIR LOVE IS UNDENIABLE… Happily married for four and a half years, Beau and Ethan Walker are ready for the next phase in their lives. They want what so many people dream of: A baby. THEIR COMMITMENT IS UNWAVERING… Expanding their family with a tiny bundle of joy isn’t as easy for them as it is for the rest of the Walker clan...
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    children  family  sad  adult  alpha-mc  angst  audiobook  book
  • The Thing About Trouble by Juliana Stone

    The Thing About Trouble by Juliana Stone

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cam Booker learned the hard way that commitment and love aren’t for him. Fresh out of a relationship that nearly saw him go to jail, he’s focused on building a life and building his business. But when he suddenly finds himself responsible for a motherless five-year-old, his world is turned upside down...
  • Sanibel Moonlight by Hope Holloway

    Sanibel Moonlight by Hope Holloway

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Nearly a year has passed since Eliza arrived for a “few days” on Shellseeker Beach. She has overcome grief, forged lifelong relationships, and finally found a place where her heart can sing.Most of all, she’s found a second chance at romance…but must face one last and unexpected challenge or this new love will slip through her fingers like moonlight on the water...
  • Fireflies & Family Ties by Rachel Hanna

    Fireflies & Family Ties by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Meg shows up at her mother's door, she has no idea how to break the news to her. She's come home from France, pregnant. At just nineteen years old, this wasn't where she saw her life going.Now, trying to hide her growing belly and figure out her next decision, she moves in with her mother, sister and aunt on Seabreeze Island...
  • Coming Home by Leeanna Morgan

    Coming Home by Leeanna Morgan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mia Costas is a successful artist, not an event planner. Agreeing to help stage a charity gala is the last thing she needs, but it’s for a good cause and she doesn’t want to let her friends down. When she realizes how important the event is, she knows she’s not the best person for the job—and so will the director of the hospital if he discovers who she is...
  • Noah & Tallie: Rojo, Tx Book 5 by Cee Bowerman

    Noah & Tallie: Rojo, Tx Book 5 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Noah Evans worked hard all of his life. He raised his children after his wife’s death, and now, he’s enjoying watching his kids have children of their own. Early retirement suits him well, but there’s something missing. When he runs into Tallie, he realizes that she’s the last piece of his puzzle. Tallie worked hard to give her son a good life...
  • One Hundred Goodbyes by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Goodbyes by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, the town where a stranger is simply a friend you haven’t met… Eden Webster has always been generous to a fault. The word no isn’t in her vocabulary. That’s how at twenty-eight she finds herself homeless, alone, and pregnant in Aspen Cove...
  • A Seaside Wonder by Melissa Tagg

    A Seaside Wonder by Melissa Tagg

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In one evening, Indi's world falls apart. Enter the shy professor her family mistakes for her fiancé...make that ex-fiancé.Professor Philip West never wanted to return to Maine . . . or his grandfather’s miserable old house. But after his mother’s death, he’s now the guardian of a teenage half sister he barely knows—one who doesn’t want anything to do with him...
  • A Greene Family Christmas by Piper Rayne

    A Greene Family Christmas by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Preparing a Christmas to remember is no small feat with a family the size of the Greenes. Especially, when the woman who has always been the planner down to every minute detail falls ill, only five days before the holiday.The family has no choice but to scramble to ensure that nothing is amiss. Cookies need to be decorated, gingerbread houses assembled and decorations to be hung...
  • Silver Biker by L.B. Dunbar

    Silver Biker by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    James Harrington.That’s my name, my birthright, and my curse. I didn’t always hate being a Harrington. At one time, I took it as a privilege. I used it to my advantage. But a name doesn’t stop you from losing everything, and after six haunting years, that everything is back forcing me to face the past or give up a future.Evie Harrington...
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    children  family  sad  adult  animals  audiobook  betrayal  biker
  • Stone Cold Kiwi by Rosalind James

    Stone Cold Kiwi by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Let's inventory, shall we? State of my professional life: Brilliant, if counted in terms of sales of eight Poppy Cantwell children's books starring my often-confused blue hippo, Hazel; the very substantial proceeds from selling my Kiwi Adventures New Zealand glamping business; and any number of glossy magazine articles about my charmed existence...
  • The Cowboy's Daughter (Three Sisters Ranch) by Jamie K. Schmidt

    The Cowboy's Daughter (Three Sisters Ranch) by Jamie K. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s moved home, but can she move on? One night with professional bull rider Trent Campbell had been everything that Kelly Sullivan had fantasized about. Unfortunately, it cost her everything...
  • The Christmas Cottage by the Cove by Ellen Joy

    The Christmas Cottage by the Cove by Ellen Joy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her fiancé dumped her right before Christmas. Can an old flame help her find more than just holiday cheer? Grab this second chance Christmas romance!Previously published as, "Merrier with You."Kate O'Neil is convinced true love is as real as Santa Claus when her fiancé breaks off their engagement right before the holidays...
  • New Beginnings at Wynter House by Emily Harvale

    New Beginnings at Wynter House by Emily Harvale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The New Year brings unexpected revelations at Wynter House. Neva Grey’s Christmas brought several surprises. Now a shocking secret has life-changing consequences for the Wynters, as the New Year brings revelations ... and relatives to Wynter House. It also brings Hazel Smart and Amelia Goodbody. And it’s not just Adam and Rafe Wynter who are pleased Hazel and Amelia have come to stay...
  • The Calendar of New Beginnings by Ava Miles

    The Calendar of New Beginnings by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last thing international photojournalist Lucy O’Brien expected when she returned to her hometown was for her mother to ask her to shoot photos for a ‘Calendar Girls’-like calendar…Of course, it’s all for a good cause—raising money for breast cancer. Lucy agrees to help—ribald photos and all...
  • A Winter Cabin Christmas by Megan Squires

    A Winter Cabin Christmas by Megan Squires

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lining up the perfect gig for her clients makes talent agent, Samantha Day, giddier than a kid on Christmas morning. When a job comes along requesting the likeness of Mr. and Mrs. Claus, she knows her parents are a shoe-in. But when they arrive in Cedar Crest, along with a dozen other hopefuls, Samantha fears she made her parents a promise she can’t keep...
  • Operation Bailey Babies by Piper Rayne

    Operation Bailey Babies by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BUZZ WHEEL PRESS RELEASE: Don’t drink the Lake Starlight water! Bailey babies are busy growing in their mommies tummies and the Baileys are having a triple baby shower to celebrate. If you want in on the pool on who pops first and when contact me...
  • Kickstart My Heart by Lacey Black

    Kickstart My Heart by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    WalkerThere’s nothing better than a packed house on a Saturday night, and co-owning the hottest restaurant and bar in town with my best friends, isn’t so bad either. We put everything into Burgers and Brew. My job is to keep the alcohol moving and the patrons coming back for more. I won’t let anyone break my focus.That was until I saw her.As much as I try, I can’t fight it...
  • Coming Home to Glendale Hall by Victoria Walters

    Coming Home to Glendale Hall by Victoria Walters

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beth Williams hasn't been home for ten years. When she fell pregnant at just sixteen, knowing that her family would never approve, she ran away from the imposing Scottish estate that had been her home, building a new life for herself and her daughter hundreds of miles away...
  • A Rogue Cowboy's Christmas Surprise by Stephanie Rowe

    A Rogue Cowboy's Christmas Surprise by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Romance bookstore owner Sofia Navarro never forgot the homeless, handsome stranger who risked his life to save hers so long ago.Billionaire cowboy Keegan Hart, aka rescue dog dad, never forgot Sofia's sass, her spirit, her warmth, or the way she opened the heart of the rebellious loner who had lost everything.Neither of them forgot the intense, passionate love affair that ended too soon...
  • Every Little Thing by Marie Force

    Every Little Thing by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Grayson Coleman has just moved home to Butler, Vermont after spending years working for a high-powered law firm in Boston. He’s looking for a simpler, less stressful existence in the sleepy little mountain town where he grew up with his siblings and Abbott cousins. Once the holidays are over, he plans to hang out a shingle and open a new general law practice...
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    children  family  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Worth the Risk by Jamie Beck

    Worth the Risk by Jamie Beck

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Jackson St. James decided that six weeks in Vermont’s Green Mountains would help him get his life together, he didn’t anticipate replacing his craving for whiskey with a craving for his alluring new landlord, Gabby...
  • Leave Me Breathless: A small town brother's best friend romance by Carrie Elks

    Leave Me Breathless: A small town brother's best friend romance by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s his best friend’s little sister. Completely off-limits. And now she’s moving in with him…When Gabe Winter’s best friend calls with an unusual request – give his broken-hearted little sister a roof over her head for a few months – he readily accepts.But he doesn’t expect Nicole to be quite so enticing. Or for her to bring out all the feelings in him...
  • One Hundred Decisions by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Decisions by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, where home and family take on a whole new meaning… Aspen Cove has offered Natalie Keane the peace and quiet she lacked growing up in foster care. While fear of getting too close to anyone has led her to settle on the outskirts of town, she’s found a happy routine, until life throws her a massive curveball in the form of the little brother she never knew existed...
  • One Hundred Lessons by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Lessons by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, where love lives and lessons abound for those willing to learn …Schoolteacher Mercy Meyer had dreams of the good life until her cheating husband stole them away. When the scandal broke, she moved to Aspen Cove to lick her wounds and start over...
  • Maintenance Required: A small town romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Maintenance Required: A small town romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    EricI live my life by a certain standard. There are right and wrong ways to do things, and I always make sure that I'm on the right side. My brothers call me a wet blanket. They say I'm buttoned-up, boring, and that I don't know how to let loose. There's a reason I'm that way, and she just walked through my door. With one wild night, I've thrown all my moral guidelines out the window...
    Categorized as:
    family  sad  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction  grief
  • Know Your Heart by Tracey Alvarez

    Know Your Heart by Tracey Alvarez

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He is the one she couldn’t remember. She is the one he couldn’t forget… After being unexpectedly kicked off a movie set, her part given to a younger actress, Savannah Payne flees to her holiday house in Bounty Bay. There, in her little hideaway managed for her by her older cousin, she’ll be able to lick her wounds privately, and prepare for an audition of a lifetime in L.A...
  • Love and Landscape by Lacey Black

    Love and Landscape by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jensen Grayson has truly loved one woman. Even after a short-lived marriage, the ghost of the girl he once knew has plagued his adulthood. Now, a single father, Jensen’s world revolves around his son, Max, and his landscape business. Until one day, he’s contracted for a job at the house he’s always avoided.Rockland Falls was the only place that felt like home...
    Categorized as:
    children  family  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Third Time's The Charm by Liz Talley

    Third Time's The Charm by Liz Talley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you find someone who has no hope left, give the bracelet to her… Sunshine “Sunny” Voorhees David would rather be dead than back in Morning Glory, Mississippi. But after losing both her husband and a pregnancy, she comes home temporarily to the place she swore she’d never return...
    Categorized as:
    children  family  sad  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cheating
  • Second Wind by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Second Wind by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Second 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...
  • The Place I Belong by Nancy Herkness

    The Place I Belong by Nancy Herkness

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nancy Herkness invites readers back to Sanctuary, West Virginia, in Book Three of the award-winning Whisper Horse series. Fleeing professional scandal and a broken engagement, veterinarian Hannah Linden abandons Chicago for the mountain town of Sanctuary, West Virginia, hoping to put her troubles with men and the media behind her...
  • Worth the Wait by Jessica Prince

    Worth the Wait by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cloverleaf was Mackenzie Webster's escape. It was the place where she'd dreamed of starting over, of creating a new life for her and her children. She had a carefully thought out plan for what this new life would look like, and nowhere in it was there room for a new relationship. But the one thing Kenzie never counted on was meeting Brett Halstead. Brett's life was all about fun and friends...
    Categorized as:
    children  family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  small-town
  • My Kinda Night by Lacey Black

    My Kinda Night by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Payton Summer doesn’t have time for love. Between running her own business in her hometown of Jupiter Bay and her monthly night out with her sisters, Payton has no room for men, dating, or the drama that it entails. Her life is fine just the way it is. Yet, her attraction to the one man she shouldn’t want can’t be ignored. Dean McIntire has one rule: don’t date clients...
    Categorized as:
    children  family  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  multi-pov
  • My Way to You by Catherine Bybee

    My Way to You by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An Amazon Charts bestseller. A woman’s journey through tragedy leads to the discovery of love in a novel about hope and survival by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee. When a wildfire nearly destroys Parker Sinclair’s family home, it’s just one more disaster to add to her mountain of stress...
  • Hearts on Fire by Julia Gabriel

    Hearts on Fire by Julia Gabriel

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Julia Gabriel does an amazing job with this devastatingly, heartbreaking love story." — RT Book Reviews, 4.5 stars, Top PickReturn to the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Julia Gabriel’s new series about love, family, and second chances ... The 300-year-old town of St. Caroline, Maryland, is part fishing village and part summer playground for the wealthy and powerful...
  • Montana Mornings by Kim Law

    Montana Mornings by Kim Law

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Gabe Wilde has never been more ready for a change. Thirty-three and in the midst of a divorce, he’s packed up his second-grade daughter and come home to Birch Bay, Montana. New house, new career, new life. Only, with changes come stress. His daughter is struggling with the transition to their new norm—and Gabe is out of ideas as to how to help. Erica Bird is mired in her own worries...
  • Summer in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Summer in Good Hope by Cindy Kirk

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A widow at twenty-six, Primrose Bloom returns to idyllic Good Hope, Wisconsin, with her two rambunctious young boys, seeking the beauty of the lakeside landscape and the comfort of home. After the loss of her husband and her job, all she’s looking for is peace...
  • Starlight on Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs

    Starlight on Willow Lake by Susan Wiggs

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs sweeps readers away to a sun-drenched summer on the shores of Willow Lake in a stunning tale of the delicate ties that bind a family together… and the secrets that tear them apart… When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted, lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and...
  • Christmas in Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey

    Christmas in Peachtree Bluff by Kristy Woodson Harvey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The newest installment of the New York Times bestselling Peachtree Bluff series follows three generations of Murphy women as they come together to face a hurricane that threatens their hometown—and the holiday season—in this “book equivalent of a warm and fuzzy pair of socks” (E! Online).When the Murphy women are in trouble, they always know they can turn to their mother, Ansley...
  • A Baby Changes Everything by Isabelle Grace

    A Baby Changes Everything by Isabelle Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Drew Blackwood’s seen his fair share of babies born—he just never imagined the next could be his own!Veterinarian Drew is the only one of the four Blackwood brothers to have left Hickory Ridge for greener pastures. Though he adores the gentle, rolling mountains that cradle his family’s sprawling Virginia farm, his plans for the future don’t include a permanent return any time soon...
  • Branded by a Song by L.J. Evans

    Branded by a Song by L.J. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From award-winning author LJ Evans comes an achingly tender, standalone romance between a country-rock legend searching for more and a solemn, single-mom determined to honor her lost husband… “We would be art. We would be paint and chords blended together.” Brady O’Neil tells the world he’s returning to upstate New York to help his sister...
  • Keep Me Close by J.H. Croix

    Keep Me Close by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brand new firefighter series from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!No last names. No phone numbers. Never see each other again.It was supposed to be simple. One night with no strings. I had just gotten the worst news of my life and wanted to forget everything.The broody firefighter was perfect. Our night together was so hot, I forgot everything but the rules...
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