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  • Whisper of Love by Melissa Foster

    Whisper of Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Bradens are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series. Tempest Braden adores her family and her small hometown, but sometimes too much of a good thing can be confining...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  billionaire  book  contemporary  epic
  • Wild Island Love by Melissa Foster

    Wild Island Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sparks fly between a PR rep and an A-list actor who want nothing to do with each other. Leni Steele might be looking for love, but she’s definitely not looking to be someone’s fake date. Especially not one of the most infuriatingly handsome and annoyingly cocky actors on the planet, Duncan Raz...
  • Perfectly Toxic by C.M. Owens

    Perfectly Toxic by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    BELLA New life. New job. New home. New goals... I vowed to make drastic changes and to never fall back into old habits. But then Ethan Noles showed up and blew all my good intentions to hell. I should have stayed away. I shouldn't have played his game. But I did. Now I just hope I don't regret it. ETHAN Bella is the type of girl you can't help but chase, because she doesn't want to be caught...
  • Crushing on Love by Melissa Foster

    Crushing on Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Bradens are a series of stand-alone romances that may also be enjoyed as part of the larger Love in Bloom series. . In CRUSHING ON LOVE... Steve Johnson is living his life's passion watching over the Colorado Mountains as a ranger and wildlife consultant...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  billionaire  book  contemporary  epic
  • Trails of Love by Melissa Foster

    Trails of Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fall in love with Graham Braden and Morgyn Montgomery in TRAILS OF LOVE. When Graham Braden travels to Oak Falls, Virginia to attend the wedding of his buddy Reed Cross to Grace Montgomery, he sticks around to help with renovations to Reed’s new theater. The last thing he expects is to be asked to assess and possibly invest in Grace’s sister Morgan’s business endeavor...
  • Desire After Dark by Marie Force

    Desire After Dark by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tobias “Slim” Jackson has the perfect life as a pilot on Gansett Island in the summer and in Florida in the winter. He’s happiest when he’s in the air, or at least that was the case before last summer when he met Erin Barton, Gansett Island’s newest lighthouse keeper. Now he can’t seem to find his usual enthusiasm for flying, winter in the sunny South or anything that doesn’t include her...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic
  • Love and Lingerie by Lacey Black

    Love and Lingerie by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everything is coming together for Harper Grayson. She has a family she adores, a quaint little house that’s all hers, and a puppy to keep her warm at night. Plus, her lingerie shop, Kiss Me Goodnight, is successful. With her eyes now set on an expansion the moment the empty building next door finally becomes available, things are finally aligning perfectly for Harper...
  • Just For This Moment by Kait Nolan

    Just For This Moment by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A madcap modern marriage of convenience tale sure to leave fans begging for more Maybe there hasn't been actual blood, other than a few paper cuts, but Myles has put plenty of sweat into his independent, local newspaper, and he's even willing to admit to a few manly tears...
  • The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown

    The Lucky Shamrock by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s bighearted novel about family, secrets, small-town Texas romance, and—with a little bit of luck—starting over. Family doesn’t mean everyone has to like each other. That’s the case when cousins Taryn, Anna Rose, and Jorja return to Shamrock, Texas, to help manage their grandmother’s flower shop, the Lucky Shamrock...
  • River of Love by Melissa Foster

    River of Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    River rafting and adventure company owner Sam Braden works hard and plays harder. He's fast, focused, and determined--and never at a loss for a willing woman to share his time with. The trouble is, the only woman he wants refuses him at every turn. Physician assistant Faith Hayes escaped her painful past and built a safe, happy life in Peaceful Harbor...
  • The Town Square by Ava Miles

    The Town Square by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    1960 is ushering in a new decade of change, and journalist Arthur Hale is determined to be on the forefront of it. A successful New York City journalist, he returns to his hometown of Dare Valley, Colorado to start a new newspaper that will channel the voice of the West, joining the ranks of prestigious papers like The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • 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...
  • The Banty House by Carolyn Brown

    The Banty House by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the fading town of Rooster, Texas, all that’s really left is a service station, a church…and the Banty House, a long-ago Depression-era brothel. For more than seventy-five years, Betsy, Connie, and Kate Carson have called their mama’s house a home...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The New Doctor at Peony Practice by Christie Barlow

    The New Doctor at Peony Practice by Christie Barlow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Preorder the next book in the heartwarming and bestselling Love Heart Lane seriesLove Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter whatAll’s fair in love and…medicine?Dr Katie O’Neil has only been in Heartcross a few hours when she finds herself already ruffling feathers – not least with medical school nemesis and new colleague Ben Sanders...
  • Home Sweet Love by Ava Miles

    Home Sweet Love by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Millions of readers have fallen in love with Ava's bestselling books...come join the family. International Bestselling Author Ava Miles shares a powerful tale about the sweetness of home and falling in love for the first time. Chase Parker doesn’t believe in all that gushy home sweet love stuff. Moira Hale sure as heck does...
  • Bayside Romance by Melissa Foster

    Bayside Romance by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fall in love at Bayside, where sandy beaches, good friends, and true love come together in the sweet small towns of Cape Cod. Bayside Summers is a series of standalone steamy romance novels featuring alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women. They're fun, flirty, flawed, deeply emotional, always passionate, and easy to relate to...
  • A Change of Heart by Hannah Ellis

    A Change of Heart by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was never meant to fall for her best friend’s brother...Seren has had a soft spot for her best friend’s brother for as long as she can remember. But when she starts to see Kit as more than just a friend, she knows she’s on dangerous ground.Avoiding him is probably her best course of action, but that’s easier said than done when you live on a tiny island...
  • Tristan by Cora Brent

    Tristan by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I'm ruined in the best way..." TRISTAN This is a tough town. A sheltered college girl like Cadence Gentry doesn't belong here. She's got a job teaching at the high school and I can tell she has all these hopeful fantasies about being the bright light everyone in Emblem has been waiting for. She hasn't yet figured out that she'll get eaten alive...
  • Can't Fight the Moonlight by Barbara Freethy

    Can't Fight the Moonlight by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Justin Blackwood can't remember a time when he believed in the magic of anything, least of all love. A cynical businessman, who grew up in a broken home, he guards his heart with every breath he takes. His job has taken him all over the world and roots are the last thing he wants...until he meets a beautiful innkeeper in Whisper Lake...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • 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...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  book  children  contemporary  fiction
  • Dirty Little Midlife Mess: A Fake Relationship Romantic Comedy by Lilian Monroe

    Dirty Little Midlife Mess: A Fake Relationship Romantic Comedy by Lilian Monroe

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Laugh-out-loud funny, with cover-to-cover banter and red-hot heat. Dirty Little Midlife Mess is not your typical fake relationship romance. It’s better.Simone owes handsome, broody Wesley Byron a favor, and he’s calling it in.He needs a maid.Yes, like the type that cleans a house. Black and white uniform not included (she asked)...
  • Anything for Love by Melissa Foster

    Anything for Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Anything For Love is a USA Today BestsellerAfter Charlotte Sterling loses her last family member, she moves to Sterling House, her family’s Colorado mountain inn, to live a solitary life. As an erotic romance writer, her days and nights are filled with passion and intrigue—even if only fictional...
  • The Perfect Ingredient by Ava Miles

    The Perfect Ingredient by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Elizabeth Saunders is a woman of secrets, a rarity in small town Dare Valley. Her life hasn’t turned out like she expected after a tragedy forced her to flee her old life and hide her identity. Now she’s unmasked, hoping to put the past behind her—until the only man who ever captured her heart reappears. Terrance Waters may look like a sexy Alpha Navy Seal, but he’s actually a celebrity chef...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Comfort of Secrets by Christine Nolfi

    The Comfort of Secrets by Christine Nolfi

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Cat Mendoza needs a win. After a business failure and years of dating the wrong men, she’s ready to turn things around.First she must convince the residents of Sweet Lake, Ohio, that she’s taking her responsibilities seriously. As the events director of the newly restored Wayfair Inn, she has the support of her best friends, Linnie and Jada...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • There Goes My Heart by Bella Andre

    There Goes My Heart by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rory Sullivan, a renowned artisan woodworker, has no plans to fall in love anytime soon. Especially not with Zara Mirren, who shares a converted warehouse space with him in Bar Harbor, Maine. While she is a brilliant maker—the eyeglass frames she designs are practically works of art—everything else about her drives him bonkers. The way she’s always whistling cheesy pop songs off-key...
  • The Flower Farm by Rachael Lucas

    The Flower Farm by Rachael Lucas

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beth Fraser is a single mum of twins with a blooming flower farm business. The last thing she needs is Jack MacDonald landing with a crash in the middle of her precious baby plants - so it’s no surprise that they get off to a rocky start.Beth’s spent the last few years growing her business, turning the overgrown walled garden of Applemore House into a beautiful and productive flower farm...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays
  • Finding Forever by Christine Gael

    Finding Forever by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Come spend some time with the Sullivan sisters and their families in Bluebird Bay...Max Burrows thought she'd finally found "the one". But when Tyler gets the opportunity of a lifetime and leaves Bluebird Bay for Paris, she can't bring herself to join him. She worked like a dog to make her own dream come true by opening the bookstore, and she won't give that up. Not for Tyler.Not for anyone...
  • Ex Best Thing by Marika Ray

    Ex Best Thing by Marika Ray

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    First rule in the sister’s handbook: don’t date your sister’s ex-boyfriend.Oops.If there was one man on the planet I shouldn’t be looking at twice, it’s Daire Beneventi. Sure, he’s my sister’s ex, but he’s also the leather jacket to my quilt tote bag...
  • Wild Love by Melissa Schroeder

    Wild Love by Melissa Schroeder

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'm not the kind of girl who expects happily ever after. In fact, I prefer my partners don't get too clingy. Don't get me wrong. I like a good night of loving, but beyond that, I’m happy to see them leave inthe morning, without my number.Then I met him. Quinn is a big bear of a man, with massive hands and amazing...staying power. Like all night long and the next morning kind of staying power...
  • Scent for Love by Sophia Knightly

    Scent for Love by Sophia Knightly

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s hotter than a habanero. She’s icy champagne. Together they will combust… 
All Gabe Falcon wants is to open a successful and trendy restaurant on the posh side of Naples, Florida.  But what he gets is a glamorous and feisty neighbor who keeps him on his toes--and challenges him at every turn.  
  
Upscale perfumer Lily Marlowe creates custom fragrances for Naples' elite...
  • Ain't She Sweet by Marie Force

    Ain't She Sweet by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The latest Green Mountain Romance from the The New York Times bestselling author of It’s Only Love.Charlotte “Charley” Abbott has gone out with every guy under thirty-five in Butler, Vermont—except for one. Tyler Westcott’s attempts to date her may be determined, and frequent, but Charley can’t stand how he acts like he knows her better than she knows herself...
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    family  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  epic
  • Destined for Love by Melissa Foster

    Destined for Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    You met Rex Braden in Lovers at Heart, Book One of the The Bradens (Love in Bloom Series). Jade Johnson is about to turn his comfortable rancher's life upside down. Don't miss this powerful love story. DESTINED FOR LOVE is a hot contemporary romance with alpha male heroes and sexy, empowered women...
  • All You Need is Love by Marie Force

    All You Need is Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The family-run Green Mountain Country Store is cherished by locals as a reminder of simpler times. The Abbott children are determined to keep it that way - but their father has different plans? When Cameron Murphy heads to Vermont to build a website for a new client, she imagines a more relaxing trip than she gets...
  • Wild Irish Rose by Ava Miles

    Wild Irish Rose by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Trevor Merriam doesn’t like being ordered around by his older brother, much less to a sleepy Irish village to complete a business deal for their family company.Worse: the owner of the land he needs to buy doesn’t want him there. In fact, Becca O’Neill loathes him so much that she won’t even serve him the award-winning scones her famed Wild Irish Rose Bed and Breakfast is known for...
  • One Hundred Choices by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Choices by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kelly Collins welcomes you back to Aspen Cove where acceptance is found in the eyes of a stranger, and love is found in his heart... Horse trainer Trinity Mosier never looks for trouble, but it finds her at every turn. After losing her job, she packs up and moves to Aspen Cove, hoping her brother will take her in...
  • Flirting with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Flirting with the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When first impressions happen twice. Welcome to Seattle, the Emerald City and home to The Single Dads of Seattle. Ten sexy single fathers who play poker every Saturday night, have each other's backs, love their children without quarter, and hope to one day find love again. This is Atlas’s story … Single Dad of Seattle, Atlas Stark is in over his head...
  • 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...
  • One Hundred Mistakes: An Aspen Cove Romance Book 16 by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Mistakes: An Aspen Cove Romance Book 16 by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, where love finds you, even when you’re looking the wrong way…As the personal assistant to popstar legend, Indigo, Deanna Archer moved to Aspen Cove for work (and maybe a certain sexy guitar player)...
  • Matchmaking a Single Dad by Angela Denise, Angela Casella

    Matchmaking a Single Dad by Angela Denise, Angela Casella

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’re all wrong for each other…but sometimes two wrongs do make a right.ColeThe only woman I need in my life is my eight-year-old daughter, Jane. As a widowed brewery owner, I don’t have the time or inclination for anything more serious than a one night stand...
  • On Thin Ice (Bedroom Games) by Piper Rayne

    On Thin Ice (Bedroom Games) by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Winter Games have begun… I’m the life of the party. A little loud and some buzz kills might say obnoxious, but if you’re around me I guarantee you’ll have a good time. Unless your name is Demi Harrison. If that’s the case, you’d act like I’m the devil incarnate and go out of your way to avoid me. Which makes zero sense because at the last Olympic Games I rocked her world...
  • Rescue Me by Kelly Collins

    Rescue Me by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her company is failing. His plan could save it. Will their partnership move from business to pleasure?Carla “Carl” Stevenson takes a special joy in running the local timber mill. But when the economy takes a downturn, selling the family business may be her only heartbreaking option...
  • Fix Me Not by Carey Heywood

    Fix Me Not by Carey Heywood

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Continue your love affair with the Thompson family in this hot and hilarious new romantic comedy from New York Times Bestselling author Carey Heywood! Paige Sullivan's life is a train wreck. In a matter of months she lost her business, her swanky apartment, and her big city life. Now she's stuck in Nowhere, New Hampshire, sleeping on her mom's couch...
  • The Key to the Last House Before the Sea by Liz Eeles

    The Key to the Last House Before the Sea by Liz Eeles

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tears trickling down her cheeks, she recognises her grandmother’s writing scrawled across the manila envelope. Inside is an engraved key that sits heavy in her hand. Will the tumbledown cottage be the start of a new life – or will it tear her life apart?With her back to the sparkling sea, single mum Nessa stands in the doorway of the stone cottage her grandmother left behind...
  • 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...
  • Big Bad Cowboy by Carly Bloom

    Big Bad Cowboy by Carly Bloom

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the New York Times tradition of Lori Wilde and Carolyn Brown comes the first book in a new western romance series from Forever debut author Carly Bloom about a no-strings cowboy fling with a fairy tale twist. Who's afraid of the big, bad cowboy? After one too many heartbreaks, Travis Blake hung up his cowboy hat and put Big Verde, Texas, behind him...
  • One Hundred Ways by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Ways by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Welcome back to Aspen Cove, the tiny mountain town filled with fresh starts and happily ever afters… After the death of her father, sculptor Riley Black leaves Butte, Montana for Aspen Cove in search of the family she’s never known. There, she will bend steel to her artistic vision… and maybe, just maybe find a place to belong...
  • One Hundred Wishes by Kelly Collins

    One Hundred Wishes by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling author Kelly Collins welcomes you back to Aspen Cove, the tiny Colorado town where anything can happen if you just open your heart and mind. Pop Star Samantha White walks off the stage and disappears into the crowd of cheering fans. After ten years as music sensation Indigo, she needs to figure out who she really is...
  • The Weekend Getaway by Hannah Ellis

    The Weekend Getaway by Hannah Ellis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A weekend break changes everything…The chemistry between Keira and Noah is instant. It only takes one date for Keira to realise there’s something special between them.When Noah invites her to a family party in his hometown, she eagerly agrees, and by the end of their weekend away she’s absolutely head over heels. Not only for Noah, but for his close-knit family and the stunning Isles of Scilly...
  • Stud Unleashed: Will by Kylie Gilmore

    Stud Unleashed: Will by Kylie Gilmore

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Each book in the Clover Park STUDS Series can be read as a stand-alone novel, or for more fun read them in order. Characters you’ve loved from past books frequently pop up in other books...
  • Not Without Your Love by Lexi Ryan

    Not Without Your Love by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Return to Jackson Harbor for the story of two people who never thought to hope for their own happily ever after.Colton McKinley has turned his life around—no more booze, no more drugs, no more self-sabotage. With a new business to run and old promises to keep, the last thing he needs is wild, impulsive Veronica Maddox disrupting his world...
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