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  • End Zone Love by Love Belvin

    End Zone Love by Love Belvin

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After losing an improbable opportunity at the Super Bowl, Trent Bailey still has something to prove. He’s come out, not only as America’s favorite redemption story, but also a married man; a marriage not yet known to the public. He’s trusting more, finding his home more comfortable and befitting a Connecticut King. Jade’s a new woman now. Her insecurities are under control at Trent’s side...
  • Nantucket Threads by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nantucket Threads by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Izzy's life is about to change soon in the biggest way possible. She is excited and nervous and torn about whether or not to give her ex, Rick Savage another chance. Rick has tried to be a better man. He's gone through anger management classes and really seems to be making an effort...
  • Just One Look by Rosalind James

    Just One Look by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Luka Darkovic has some tackling skills. He hadn’t planned on using them to bring down a runaway dog the size of a Shetland pony, though, especially not when his neck is already buggered. At 33, a rugby forward protects his vertebrae.. He’s even less happy when the dog’s incompetent owner turns up in his hospital cubicle the next day with a plan to fix those vertebrae...
  • All The Way From Texas by Carolyn Brown

    All The Way From Texas by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Molly Baker, a first-rate reporter, and Carson Rhodes, an excellent photojournalist are two of the most talented students in their graduating class. So, who else would their professor pick but these two young, adventurous graduate students to go on a journalism excursion? But newly engaged Molly has reservations about the trip...
  • Off Track: A surprise baby, football romance by Chelle Sloan

    Off Track: A surprise baby, football romance by Chelle Sloan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby carriage. I have wished for that saying to come true every day of my life. But that’s not my reality.Here is my version: First comes the blind date with an incredibly sexy football coach. Then comes the friends with benefits that you know is so wrong but you don’t care because it feels so right. Then comes the unexpected baby carriage...
  • Just Another Love Song by Kerry Winfrey

    Just Another Love Song by Kerry Winfrey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two high school sweethearts get a second chance at their perfect ending in this charming new romance by Kerry Winfrey, author of Very Sincerely Yours.Once upon a time, Sandy Macintosh thought she would have her happily ever after with her high school sweetheart, Hank Tillman...
  • Becoming Us by Robin Jones Gunn

    Becoming Us by Robin Jones Gunn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the author of the best-selling Christy Miller and SisterChicks series comes a new book of community, friendship, and tackling the hard things of life with God and loved ones around a table.Five young moms, including beloved Gunn character Christy Miller, gather to share meals and soon become unlikely best friends...
  • The Bridge to a Better Life by Ava Miles

    The Bridge to a Better Life by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Ava Miles of the #1 National Bestseller NORA ROBERTS LAND comes a humorous and emotional romance about the power of love and second chances—perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber and Susan Mallery. "Ava's story is witty and charming...
  • Nine Lives by Danielle Steel

    Nine Lives by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting in this moving novel from New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together...
  • Blessing in Disguise by Danielle Steel

    Blessing in Disguise by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In Danielle Steel’s remarkable new novel, one of her most memorable characters comes to terms with unfinished business and long-buried truths as the mother of three very different daughters with three singular fathers.   As a young intern at an art gallery in Paris, Isabelle McAvoy meets Putnam Armstrong, wealthy, gentle, older, and secluded from the world...
  • Hopeless by Cheryl Douglas

    Hopeless by Cheryl Douglas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Jay Cooper has to hire a new black belt instructor for his karate studio, he doesn’t expect the most promising applicant to come with a huge chip on her shoulder. He knows there must be a story behind those tortured brown eyes, if only she would let him get close enough to find out why she seems so determined to keep her past a secret. Victoria Pierce grew up in the foster care system...
  • The Day After Forever by Erin Skiffington

    The Day After Forever by Erin Skiffington

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Day After Forever is an emotional story centering around four teenagers who discover and demostrate the true meaning of friendship. It illustrates the agony surroundingf horrific events and how friendship will always stand strong against the circumstances. Jeff has leukemia...
  • The Four Seasons Box Set: The Four Seasons Books 1-4 by Serenity Woods

    The Four Seasons Box Set: The Four Seasons Books 1-4 by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bodyguard Gene is used to putting himself in the line of fire, but this time the target is the one who's aiming at his heart...Rowan escapes into the mountains with her gorgeous best friend, Hitch, only to discover there's only one cabin and one bed...Rhett fell in love with Neve a long time ago and was foolish enough to lose her. He's not going to make the same mistake again..
  • Appaloosa Summer by Tudor Robins

    Appaloosa Summer by Tudor Robins

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in the show ring. Jared Strickland has been living with loss ever since his father died in a tragic farming accident. Meg escapes from her grief by changing everything about her life; moving away from home to spend her summer living on an island in the St...
  • A Wedding on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

    A Wedding on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Bridget, Cici and Lindsay left behind their safe suburban lives for a stately old mansion in the Shenandoah Valley, they redefined the concept of family. The friends, like the house, have faced many challenges and undergone major changes over the years. But the one thing they never imagined was that one day they would be expanding their house of women to make room for a husband...
  • Love at Last Sight by Jordan Lynde

    Love at Last Sight by Jordan Lynde

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Rose, I’m sorry, but your eyesight will be gone by the end of this year.” Who knew one simple sentence could change a life so drastically? Rose is a normal seventeen year old girl with a normal life, normal friends, and what she thought to be normal vision. When she receives the news her vision is slowly deteriorating, she doesn't know what to think. Her life is over...
  • Not Until You Part I: Not Until You Dare by Roni Loren

    Not Until You Part I: Not Until You Dare by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the author of the Loving on the Edge novels comes a story of a good girl who discovers that once you dare to cross some lines, it’s hard to turn back… On the night of her graduation, innocent veterinary student Cela decides to play a game of Never Have I Ever with the two hot neighbors she’s been quietly crushing on for the last year...
  • Echoes by Robin Jones Gunn

    Echoes by Robin Jones Gunn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this dramatic contemporary romance by bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn, Lauren Phillips enters the wild, uncharted territory of the Internet on her home computer and "connects" with a man known only as "K.C." As she struggles to recover from a broken engagement, Lauren keeps busy by working full time and striving to finish her college degree. But her correspondence with K.C...
  • Clouds by Robin Jones Gunn

    Clouds by Robin Jones Gunn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This bestselling former Palisades release is book five in the new Glenbrooke series by award-winning author Robin Jones Gunn. Shelly Graham has moved home to Glenbrooke, where she's flooded with memories of her high school sweetheart, who took off for Europe after they broke up. But when Shelly travels to Germany, she suddenly runs into the former boyfriend who has filled her thoughts...
  • Wednesday Riders by Tudor Robins

    Wednesday Riders by Tudor Robins

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The island. Meg can’t wait to get back. She’s excited to see her new mare kick up her heels in Salem’s old paddock. She’s impatient to run on country roads between breeze-blown hayfields.Mostly, Meg longs to be back with Jared again.It’s going to be the perfect summer...
  • The Hidden Life by Adina Senft

    The Hidden Life by Adina Senft

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emma Stolzfus has never been courted or kissed, and now that she's 30, it has become her place as the unmarried daughter to look after her elderly mother. But in the dark hours when her mother is asleep, Emma writes letters and essays to Amish periodicals, short stories, and even a novel she's been working on for the last five years...
  • Stepbrother With Benefits 18 by Mia Clark

    Stepbrother With Benefits 18 by Mia Clark

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Things escalated. That's what I'm going to say happened with our stepbrother with benefits relationship. It escalated. Rule #18 – We have to be open with one another. We have to tell each other how we really feel. I'm not sure you can fully grasp the gravity of the situation I'm in right now. I think I've unleashed a monster inside myself. I also think I kind of love it...
  • Love Child by Ashley Farley

    Love Child by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Small-town romantic suspense from USA Today bestselling author, Ashley Farley Casey Hobbs has never met her father. She doesn’t know his identity or where he lives or whether he has children. She’s spent the past three years at her mother’s sickbed, watching cancer eat away her organs and their bank account...
  • The Careless Boyfriend by Erika Kelly

    The Careless Boyfriend by Erika Kelly

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gray Bowie broke the bro code: he fell in love with his best friend’s girlfriend. For years, he hid his feelings…until one terrible night, it all came to a head. Since her life blew up in high school, Knox Holliday has spent her time honing her skills as a couture wedding dress designer. But, just weeks before her debut, a freak accident wipes out her collection...
  • Had to Be You: an Oyster Bay novel by Olivia Miles

    Had to Be You: an Oyster Bay novel by Olivia Miles

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of Feels Like Home and Christmas at the Cottage, comes the next installment in the Oyster Bay series. Wedding planner Chloe Larson is perfectly content helping other women find their happy endings. Love is the last thing on her mind, especially when she has a business to grow...
  • A Second Chance in Bent Creek by Catie Cahill

    A Second Chance in Bent Creek by Catie Cahill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He broke her heart. Now he's back in town. Bent Creek will never be the same . . . Larkin: Nick Harker left me without a word eleven years ago when his family fell apart. And now he's back. He says he's here to help his brother buy back the ranch their family lost when his dad went to prison. But I know what he really wants. He wants the one thing he can never have--a second chance with me...
  • Caught Looking by Tara Wyatt

    Caught Looking by Tara Wyatt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abby Gossman is unstoppable. An Olympic champion, she’s now blazing a trail for women in baseball as the first ever female coach for an MLB team. All of her dreams are coming true, even if one of them has to stay in the shadows. Because if anyone found out she was dating Jake Landon, an All-Star catcher from another team, it would ruin her reputation...
  • Unstrung by Laura Spinella

    Unstrung by Laura Spinella

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Even as a violin prodigy, Olivia Klein courted trouble. But when her marriage to high-stakes investor Rob Van Doren takes another wrong turn, Olivia acts out once too often. A night of bad behavior results in community service hours. Time is to be served with Theo McAdams, an inner-city teacher whose passion for music eclipses Olivia’s...
  • The Bridal Squad by Samantha Chase

    The Bridal Squad by Samantha Chase

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Friday Night Brides are back! And this time, it's their first season running the business! It was one thing to just model in a weekly fashion show, it's quite another to be the ones calling the shots and making future brides' dreams come true. Their first client has them wondering if they're really prepared for their new roles! The Bride: Julianne is big on fitness, small on patience...
  • The Boy Who Steals Hearts by Emily Lowry

    The Boy Who Steals Hearts by Emily Lowry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every girl at Hallisburg Prep has a crush on Arie Jensen.But no one has a bigger crush than me.I’ve been hopelessly head-over-heels for the star basketball player since freshman year.Too bad he barely even notices I exist.Until a midnight run-in reveals his biggest secret… and I’m the only one who knows.Suddenly, the school’s biggest flirt is showing up at my window after curfew...
  • The Golf Widows' Club by Emily Harvale

    The Golf Widows' Club by Emily Harvale

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love doesn’t play by the rules. Jenna Baker needs a job but work isn’t easy to find in the small seaside town of Claremont so when she’s offered a position at the prestigious, Green Miles Golf Club, Jenna should be thrilled but she isn’t – until she discovers she’ll be working for thirty-four year old, Robert Miles...
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  • Finishing Touches by Patricia Scanlan

    Finishing Touches by Patricia Scanlan

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cassie, Laura, and Aileen were schoolmates and best friends, sharing the passions, problems, and aspirations of young women coming into their own. Cassie put her life on hold to attend to her family's needs while Laura and Aileen soared in their careers. Now they were together again as Cassie dared to start her own business and make her impossible dream come true...
  • Ambition by Natalie Keller Reinert

    Ambition by Natalie Keller Reinert

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The first book in Natalie Keller Reinert’s beloved Eventing Series, set in the high-stakes world of three-day eventing, now reimagined and repackaged!Jules Thornton didn’t come to Florida horse country to make friends. With her beloved horse Dynamo and her ruthless ambition, she is intent on becoming a world-class rider and trainer...
  • Not Until You by Roni Loren

    Not Until You by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cela knows how to be good. She’s had a lifetime of practice. But on the night of her college graduation, she decides she’s earned one wild night before she has to move back home to her overprotective family. So when the hot neighbor she’s been quietly fantasizing about for a year suggests a game of Never Have I Ever, she’s ready. But what starts out as a simple game takes an unexpected turn...
  • Sunrise Kisses by Krista Lakes

    Sunrise Kisses by Krista Lakes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ava Fairchild needed to get away. After walking in on her cheating ex-boyfriend, she was delighted when her appraisal company was given a job in the Caribbean. A once-in-a-lifetime trip to appraise Sebastian Belrose's billion-dollar estate seemed to be exactly what she needed to relax and enjoy herself...
  • Borrowed & Blue by Emily Giffin

    Borrowed & Blue by Emily Giffin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A beautifully repackaged bind-up of two of Emily Giffin's beloved bestselling novelsSomething Borrowed: A novel for every woman who has ever had a complicated love-hate friendship...
  • Reach for Tomorrow by Lurlene McDaniel

    Reach for Tomorrow by Lurlene McDaniel

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Katie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them. But thanks to Richard Holloway's efforts, Katie and her longtime friends Lacey and Chelsea will work as counselors once again...
  • Vintage Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

    Vintage Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome back to Ladybug Farm, the place for everyone who ever had a friend... or a dream...
  • A Time for Friends by Patricia Scanlan

    A Time for Friends by Patricia Scanlan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the #1 internationally bestselling author comes her next heartwarming and comforting Irish-set novel about the complexities of lifelong friendship, perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy and Cathy Kelly...
  • Divided Loyalties by Patricia Scanlan

    Divided Loyalties by Patricia Scanlan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From internationally bestselling author Patricia Scanlan comes a delightful story about the struggles and victories of marriage, and the true meaning of family.One explosive family reunion! Shauna and Greg’s marriage is under pressure. She wants another baby but he doesn’t. She also has to endure her obnoxious in-laws, The Freeloaders: Della, Eddie, and their spoiled kids...
  • Willowleaf Lane by RaeAnne Thayne

    Willowleaf Lane by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes going back is the best way to start over  Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation.To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she's passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn't come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope's Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst...
  • What You Do to Me by Barbara Longley

    What You Do to Me by Barbara Longley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Whether it’s repairing a home or taking care of clients’ other needs, Twin Cities handyman Sam Haney is in demand from his mostly female clientele. Despite Sam’s lothario reputation, love isn’t part of his portfolio. He’s built a lot of walls in his time, but the one that’s surrounded his heart ever since the death of his parents is his most solid yet...
  • Dangerous Play by Emma Kress

    Dangerous Play by Emma Kress

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fierce team of girls takes back the night in this propulsive, electrifying, and high-stakes YA debut from Emma KressZoe Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York. She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of dedicated girls who will work hard and play by the rules...
  • End Zone by Cheryl Douglas

    End Zone by Cheryl Douglas

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    High Rollers marketing director, Matt Hudson, has had a thing for Kristen Beck for as long as he can remember. She was the untouchable prom queen who was out of his league back in high school, but the tables have turned. Since Matt was named one of cities most eligible bachelors, he can have his pick of beautiful women...
    Categorized as:
    friendship  sports  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Kiss And Make Up by Serenity Woods

    Kiss And Make Up by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    By the bestselling author of the Three Wise Men Box Set (USA Today bestsellers list November 2016) – a series of individual sexy contemporary romances. Read in any order and enjoy! Book 1: Kiss & Make Up Previous published by Entangled Publishing. Lights, camera… Action! It's been a year since makeup artist Tabby Rogers's life was turned upside-down. Now she's back on track...
  • Catch My Fall by Rebekka Weiler

    Catch My Fall by Rebekka Weiler

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **Funken auf dem Eis** Toni staunt nicht schlecht, als der Coach ihrer Eishockeymannschaft seinen neuen Assistenztrainer vorstellt: Nolan Thayer ist nicht nur ehemaliger NHL-Spieler, der nach einer Verletzung ans College zurückkehren musste, sondern außerdem verdammt attraktiv. Die Freude darüber, von ihm trainiert zu werden, währt allerdings nur kurz...
  • No Way to Treat a Lady by Serenity Woods

    No Way to Treat a Lady by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hayley’s not brave enough to expose her stretch marks to a complete stranger. Then she meets Jed Williams... This sexy short novella is meant to be a “taster” for the Treats to Tempt You series of contemporary romances set in the sub-tropical Northland of New Zealand. Adults only...
  • Sweet Magnolia by Debbie White

    Sweet Magnolia by Debbie White

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Exhausted after the grand wedding, Jack and Annie set off to California for their honeymoon only to be called back early because of fire to the bakery. The fire is extensive and they aren’t sure if Sweet Indulgence can be saved. But the Powell’s don’t give up. As Jack and Annie rebuild Sweet Indulgence together, life throws them another much more pleasant surprise. One due in nine months...
  • Then She Danced by Janice Godin

    Then She Danced by Janice Godin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone in Kathleen's life thinks she's crazy when she decides to spend her well-earned summer working in a tiny, dusty attic sorting through old church papers, but the peace and quiet of working alone is exactly what she wants. She's back home again and happy, or as happy as anyone who's left behind a troubled past can be...
  • Fake Me a Match by Lauren Barnholdt

    Fake Me a Match by Lauren Barnholdt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Avery LaDuke is in the market for a new best friend. Her former BFF, Sophie Burns, dumped her to hang out with the popular crowd at school. But the good news Avery's getting a new sister who's bound to be her new BFF too! Blake is her age and she's from New York. How cool is that? But things don't go quite as smoothly as Avery hoped...
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