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  • Come anima mai by Rossana Soldano

    Come anima mai by Rossana Soldano

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “Come anima mai” è una storia ambientata nell'Inghilterra del secolo scorso, negli anni tra 1936 e il 1945. Lewis Ellsworth, futuro duca di Buccleuch e l’eccentrico Will Chase si incontrano all’università di Cambridge e si innamorano...
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    lgbtq  mlm  adult  book  fiction  historical  romance
  • Rail Detective by R.O. Lane

    Rail Detective by R.O. Lane

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Callum Devlin gets the assignment to accompany a rail car with $500,000 in gold double eagles from the San Francisco Mint to Kansas City. A gang attacks the train and dynamites the car with the gold and Devlin inside. The resulting fight is furious and deadly. Devlin decides to go to San Francisco and get revenge on the gang. On the trip, he unexpectedly meets a woman and falls in love...
  • Molly's Man by Laylah Roberts

    Molly's Man by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s ticking things off her bucket list. Number one, find a sexy man to tie her up and spank her… Molly knows she’s not going to live a long life. Both her mother and grandmother died young. She’s determined to fit as much fun in as she can. Starting with quitting her job and moving to Haven where the men are sexy, protective, and dominant...
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    dark  industrial-era  steamy  suspense  western  adult  book  fiction
  • Precious Jules by C.J. Bishop

    Precious Jules by C.J. Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Gangster Cowboy Novella They will bring him home...by any means necessary. When Adrian's 4 y/o nephew, Jules, is abducted by Adrian's brother Tazz - leader of a motorcycle gang - it is up to Clint and the boys to get him back, by any means necessary...
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    industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  western  adult  animals  book
  • The Lies That Bind by Marshall Thornton

    The Lies That Bind by Marshall Thornton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The eighth book of the best-selling Boystown Mystery Series begins with a phone call in the middle of the night. Private investigator Nick Nowak is pulled into the troubled world of freelance journalist, and all around pain-in-the-ass, Christian Baylor. When Christian can’t stop lying about the corpse in his bathroom things slip slowly out of control...
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    dark  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction
  • McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller

    McKettricks Bundle by Linda Lael Miller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can't get enough cowboys? Hooked on the McKettrick Men? Now get three McKettricks --Jesse, Rance, and Keegan --for one low price with the McKettricks Bundle! Bundle includes McKettrick's Heart, McKettrick's Pride, and McKettrick's Luck...
  • Wanted Hearts by CJ Bishop

    Wanted Hearts by CJ Bishop

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you fight a demon from the past...hell-bent on destroying all that you love? Shattered by Clint’s final cold declaration — I don’t miss you. I don’t want you. I don’t love you — Axel struggles to make it from one day to the next beneath the crushing weight of his broken heart, knowing he must move on and let the cowboy go...
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    dark  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  western  abuse  adult
  • Josh Lanyon Collected Novellas #1 by Josh Lanyon

    Josh Lanyon Collected Novellas #1 by Josh Lanyon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In Dangerous Ground a casino robbery finds government agents Taylor and Will playing a game of cat-and-mouse with remorseless killers in the wilderness of California's High Sierras. Snowball in Hell introduces police detective Lt. Matthew Spain and reporter Nathan Doyle, men thrown together by murder. But, in post-WWII Los Angeles consequences of their attraction are serious, even for good guys...
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    lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense  adult  anthologies  audiobook  fiction
  • Godsend by Sable Hunter

    Godsend by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Godsend is the first novel in the Hell Yeah! Heritage series. If you ever wondered where those McCoy men came from…these historical novels will take you to their beginnings. Deeply sensual stories of romance and adventure, they will capture your imagination and your heart. History is definitely worth repeating...
  • Heart Sings: Heart Series Book 2 by Luci Dreamer

    Heart Sings: Heart Series Book 2 by Luci Dreamer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happens when someone from Thomas' past threatens her and her family's future?When the Millers begin a new chapter in their lives, not even a year in the harsh environment of the Klondike could have prepared them for the types of obstacles they’ll face. Thomas and Rachel will need to rely on their bond like never before to overcome the threat neither saw coming...
  • A Narrow Road by Amelia C. Adams

    A Narrow Road by Amelia C. Adams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With her checkered past, Margaret Smith doesn’t expect that she’ll ever fall in love again. She’s happy as she is, surrounded by good friends, but she still sometimes wonders if there isn’t something more...
  • Prairie Desire by Tessa Layne

    Prairie Desire by Tessa Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What’s a guy to do when the girl of his dreams makes a pass at him?Saying no to Hope Hansen was the hardest thing Ben Sinclaire has ever done. Despite their age difference and a family feud, he's loved her since grade school, but a romance between them was always forbidden. Now she’s back and the girl he loved has become all woman...
  • Going In Blind: Brotherhood Protectors World by Kris Norris

    Going In Blind: Brotherhood Protectors World by Kris Norris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s spent his life preparing for every form of warfare—except the one against his heart. When in doubt, blow it up, has been Kent “Rigs” Walker’s motto—words he’s used to carve out a life. Until an encounter with an IED takes more than just his military career...
  • Playing With Fire by Elle James

    Playing With Fire by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What started as a way to teach a young firefighter a lesson on what an older woman has to offer, widow and designer shoe store owner Lola Engel’s hot little class on love has taken a turn for the worse. Her best and only student, Daniel Flannigan, drops out of school and avoids her altogether. Not that she intended on making her teaching career a full time job...
  • Just a Little Christmas by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Christmas by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘Tis the season to catch up with some of your favorite couples from The Brotherhood series!Life is good in the safe and sheltered neighborhood of Darlington Gardens, where several members of The Brotherhood have made their home. Niall Cristofori and Blake Williamson are building a new life there with Blake’s daughters...
  • The Ranch by Michael Robert

    The Ranch by Michael Robert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Erotic Gay Romance Josh West left the family ranch at eighteen, swearing to never return to Cody, Wyoming again. After the untimely death of his parents ten years later, he leaves the mess of his soon-to-be-ex behind in Seattle and returns to the ranch as the now fourth-generation owner to handle the sale of the land...
  • Southern Desire by Danielle Jamie

    Southern Desire by Danielle Jamie

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Point of View of Kayden Knox We fell in love with Kayden Knox in Irresistible Desire, Inescapable Desire, Indestructible Desire and Infinite Desire. After seeing bits and pieces through Kayden’s point of view throughout the Savannah Series readers begged for more. Y'all asked so I delivered...
  • Eli's Little Easter by Dakota Trace

    Eli's Little Easter by Dakota Trace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The youngest son of the Atheron family, Elias has been a huge disappointment to his overbearing parents, particularly his mother. He’s done everything right, including relocating to another state to head up the office in the newest addition to the family party business, but it still never seems enough. She now wants him to come home for Easter, to reunite with an old flame, which he refuses to do...
  • Markham Hall Series Bundle by Sierra Simone

    Markham Hall Series Bundle by Sierra Simone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Yorkshire, 1879 I am alone. When Ivy Leavold is left destitute by her brother’s death, she is taken in by her cousin’s brooding, tortured widower--Julian Markham. Handsome and possessive, it’s not long before Ivy falls for him. But Mr. Markham has dark secrets, secrets that may put Ivy in danger... I am afraid...
  • Needing Nicky  (SANCTUM) by Pepper North

    Needing Nicky (SANCTUM) by Pepper North

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When dreams come true, will desire make them hotter than Nicky ever imagined?   Aspiring bull rider, Nick Allen has dreamed of meeting and training with Lance Woodson for years. Taking the proverbial bull by the horns, he dares to approach the bull riding veteran in person.  When Nick discovers his idol is a Daddy, desire and longing meld with his professional aspirations...
  • Forsaken by B.J. Daniels

    Forsaken by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Danger runs high and passions burn hot in Montana's wild country Big-city detective Bentley Jamison is a long way from home in the Beartooth wilderness when one of local rancher Maddie Conner's ranch hands goes missing. Towering mountains and a small, tight community are as unfamiliar to Jamison as herding sheep, but he's never shied away from a challenge...
  • Sweet Mountain Magic by Rosanne Bittner

    Sweet Mountain Magic by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The bestselling author of Tame the Wild Wind delivers a western historical romance of a lonely trapper and a woman with a deep and wounded past.   When Sage McKenzie comes across a wild-eyed beauty in obvious distress, his first instinct is to turn and flee like the native tribes who fear this “crazy woman.” As a man of the mountain, affairs of the heart are low priority...
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    dark  industrial-era  steamy  suspense  western  abuse  adult  amnesia
  • Hawks Prize by Elaine Barbieri

    Hawks Prize by Elaine Barbieri

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Theirs was a tale of tragedy and triumph... Four children abandoned in an orphanage. Two missing parents. One man whose hatred had divided a family, whose duplicity ended in murder, inextricably weaving their lives together in a web of lies that only time could untangle. Drew He was the last of the four to return to Galveston, the first to admit he was in over his head...
  • Love's Greatest Gift by Montana Ross

    Love's Greatest Gift by Montana Ross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Seized by the Lawman by Rhonda Lee Carver

    Seized by the Lawman by Rhonda Lee Carver

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Special Agent Nixon Cade wasn’t looking for anything long term when he met Melissia, but it turned out she left a lasting impression. When he landed a special assignment, a favor for the boss to help his daughter, Nix found out it was the very woman who had haunted his every waking hour. There are lines a man wouldn’t—shouldn’t—cross. He never messed with the boss’s daughter...
  • Burning Season by Rachel Ember

    Burning Season by Rachel Ember

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The year is 1972. Dylan Chase is nineteen, and most days he’s lucky enough to ride a tough bronc, have a beer with his friends, and maybe even sleep under the stars on his family’s third-generation cattle ranch. Dylan’s life would be perfect if it weren’t for his forbidden itch. An itch he’s only scratched once… with Bo, a hitchhiker he never thought he’d see again...
  • Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker

    Cowboys and Kisses by Karin Kallmaker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A one-way stage ticket to the frontier leaves a young woman penniless and alone in Long Grass, Wyoming. With no other hope than to survive another day, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, and her first taste of pleasure - and happiness...
  • Dusk's Devotion by V.L. Locey

    Dusk's Devotion by V.L. Locey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can love warm the hearts of two enemies facing the wrath of a Wyoming winter storm?Kyle Abbott is slowly discovering that being midway through his thirties and being married to your job isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. There has to be more to life than random hookups, horses, and cattle...
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    mlm  western  lgbtq  suspense  steamy  industrial-era  romance  crime
  • Rake I'd Like to F... by Sierra Simone, Joanna Shupe

    Rake I'd Like to F... by Sierra Simone, Joanna Shupe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He's a legend in the raking . . .The Last Crimes of Peregrine Hind - Sierra SimonePeregrine Hind, known to all as the bloodiest highwayman ever to bedevil the road, seeks only one thing—revenge against the Dartham family...
  • Love Under Two Lawmen by Cara Covington

    Love Under Two Lawmen by Cara Covington

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the illegitimate daughter of a kept woman, Amanda Dupree is considered unmarriageable. So she sets her sights on building a career as a private investigator. But when a disgraced businessman threatens to get even, she decides it s a good time leave town. She even has a destination in mind: Waco Texas, the cousin she s never met and a quest for lost Confederate gold...
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    industrial-era  mlm  steamy  western  adult  alpha-mc  book  family
  • Lessons in Power by Charlie Cochrane

    Lessons in Power by Charlie Cochrane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The ghosts of the past will shape your future. Unless you fight them. Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 4 Cambridge, 1907 After settling in their new home, Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart are looking forward to nothing more exciting than teaching their students and playing rugby...
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    industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  adult  book  crime  edwardian
  • Deeper by Tory Baker

    Deeper by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    industrial-era  steamy  western  adult  alpha-mc  book  family  fiction
  • The Ranger's Wife by Eveline Hart, Natalie Dean

    The Ranger's Wife by Eveline Hart, Natalie Dean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Black Hands” Jack Walker spends his time as a US Marshal catching criminals and protecting innocent people, like he always dreamed of as a child. Having moved to the American Frontier to escape his life as a political pawn for his family, he is content. Everything changes when he receives a letter from his father explaining that he is to marry one Elizabeth “Piper” Renwick...
  • Restored by Joanna Chambers

    Restored by Joanna Chambers

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eighteen years ago, Henry Asquith, Duke of Avesbury had to leave his kept lover, Kit Redford, in order to devote himself to raising his young family. Now, a lifetime later, his children are moving on and for the first time in years, Henry is alone...
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    industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  adult  angst  book  family
  • The Doctor's Widow by Susannah Calloway

    The Doctor's Widow by Susannah Calloway

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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  • Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry

    Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay by Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain" is being hailed as equally masterful, with performances that are "the stuff of Hollywood history" "(The New York Times)...
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    industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  western  adult  book  classics  drama
  • Cowboy Billionaires by J.P. Comeau

    Cowboy Billionaires by J.P. Comeau

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Are you ready to binge-read six stories that will keep you up all night long? Follow the twists and turns combined with billion-dollar scandals… all for your reading pleasure. If you love sexy cowboys and enjoy forbidden relationships, secret babies, and second chances, then you have come to the right place...
  • The Ballad of Crow & Sparrow by V.L. Locey

    The Ballad of Crow & Sparrow by V.L. Locey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes a man’s biggest blunder can turn into his greatest triumph.Orphaned at fourteen, Crow Poulin now has to hunt and trap the White Mountains of Arizona, as his father had taught him, all alone. It’s a lonely existence, until one morning, while checking his trap line, Crow finds more than a rabbit in a snare. He stumbles across the outlaw Jack Wittington lying half dead in the wilds...
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    dark  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  suspense  western  adult  book
  • Just a Little Temptation by Merry Farmer

    Just a Little Temptation by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As the owner of an orphanage in a poor neighborhood of London, Stephen Siddel has the weight of the world, not to mention the care of tender souls, on his shoulders. He is a devoted father to dozens of children and an upstanding member of the community, in spite of his rivalry with the local nuns...
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    dark  industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  abuse  adult  book
  • The Prize by Beth Williamson

    The Prize by Beth Williamson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you do when love gives you a second chance at life? Jack Malloy is haunted. Haunted by memories, he tries to escape the dreams that have stolen his sleep for six months by agreeing to help out his sister Nicky. Unfortunately, time at her ranch offers him no escape when he's confronted by Rebecca Connor's beautiful gray eyes...
  • A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    A Taste for Poison by Aleksandr Voinov

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even a king gets stung when he reaches for a scorpion.After barely surviving an assassination attempt, King Adrastes is a changed man—one who mistrusts even his allies and friends. He readies his Empire for war against an enigmatic enemy, the Elder of Vededrin, but not everyone approves...
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    dark  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book
  • A Prescription for Love by Callie Hutton

    A Prescription for Love by Callie Hutton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1903. Betrayed by his fiancee's infidelity eight years ago, pharmacist Michael Henderson vowed he'd never risk his heart again. But he doesn't anticipate the tug of attraction he shares with his new employee. Heidi Lester flees her home, determined to prove to her overprotective parents she can conquer her debilitating asthma, to make a life of her own...
  • Wind of Promise by Dorothy Garlock

    Wind of Promise by Dorothy Garlock

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vanessa is determined to cross the prairies, ford the mighty rivers and climb the Rockies to reach Colorado. But her resolve weakens when a tall, lean stranger as wild as the western wind takes her in his arms. Will surrender to this restless roamer bring her happiness - or will it break her heart forever...
  • The Treasure by Beth Williamson

    The Treasure by Beth Williamson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a clumsy governess from New York meets a lonely, bitter rancher, more than her heart will fall. Book 4 of the Malloy family series. Ray Malloy is a single father in an age when every child has two parents. Abandoned by his shallow wife, he struggles to find the balance between being a father and being a successful rancher...
  • The Reward by Beth Williamson

    The Reward by Beth Williamson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His family thought him dead. Returning home to confront his past, the bastard bandito, Hermano, finds a future he never dared to hope for. Book 3 of the Malloy family series. Hermano is more than the bandito you met in The Bounty. He's Malcolm Ross y Zarza half-Spanish, half-Scottish bastard son of a Texas hacienda owner who has hidden in the guise of a Mexican bandito for half his life...
  • Leah and the Bounty Hunter by Elaine Levine

    Leah and the Bounty Hunter by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He won't rest until he claims his prize... They are brash, they are brave, and when they see a chance to be a hero, they take it. They are the Men of Defiance, and they are not easily tamed... To Leah Morgan's mind, the last thing her hometown of Defiance needs is another gunman stalking its dusty streets—especially one as sweet-talking and fine-looking as Jace Gage...
  • Lessons in Seduction by Charlie Cochrane

    Lessons in Seduction by Charlie Cochrane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This time, one touch could destroy everything... Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, Book 6 The suspected murder of the king's ex-mistress is Cambridge dons Orlando Coppersmith and Jonty Stewart's most prestigious case yet. And the most challenging, since clues are as hard to come by as the killer's possible motive...
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    industrial-era  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense  adult  book  crime
  • Lessons in Trust by Charlie Cochrane

    Lessons in Trust by Charlie Cochrane

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He thought he knew who he was. Now he’s a stranger to himself. When Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith witness the suspicious death of a young man at the White City exhibition in London, they're keen to investigate--especially after the cause of death proves to be murder. But Police Inspector Redknapp refuses to let them help, even after they stumble onto clues to the dead man's identity...
  • Mr Warren's Profession (Aubrey & Lindsey) by Sebastian Nothwell

    Mr Warren's Profession (Aubrey & Lindsey) by Sebastian Nothwell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lindsey Althorp, the only son of a wealthy baronet, has never worked a day in his life. Aubrey Warren was born in a workhouse and hasn’t stopped working since.When Lindsey wins a textile mill in a game of cards, he falls at first sight for the assistant clerk, Aubrey. Lindsey is certain that Aubrey is the Achilles to his Patroclus, the David to his Jonathan...
  • Straight for the Heart by Marsha Canham

    Straight for the Heart by Marsha Canham

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "The game is called Cutthroat, gentlemen. Quick and vicious...just the way I like it sometimes." She risked everything to play a man's game in a man's world. As the elusive, mysterious Montana Rose, she was known as the queen of the Mississippi riverboats, a sensual and dangerous Southern beauty who was willing to gamble everything, even her life, on each cut of the cards...
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