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  • Dem Boyz From Da Bottom by Diamond D. Johnson

    Dem Boyz From Da Bottom by Diamond D. Johnson

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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    dark  drama  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  sports
  • Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Kayla's Trick by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
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    drama  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Last Bitch Standing by Deja King

    Last Bitch Standing by Deja King

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the final installment of the Bitch Series, Precious Cummings only has one agenda and that is to destroy her most conniving enemy yet, Maya. Precious has no doubt that she can shut it down, the only problem is locating her nemesis who has disappeared with her husband, Supreme and daughter, Aaliyah...
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    drama  adult  book  fiction  urban
  • A Father's Objection: Reclaiming A Black Mafia Enforcer by B. Love

    A Father's Objection: Reclaiming A Black Mafia Enforcer by B. Love

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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    dark  drama  adult  alpha-mc  book  crime  domestic-drama  fiction
  • Stackin' Paper by Deja King

    Stackin' Paper by Deja King

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In Stackin Paper 2, Genesis is out for blood and redemption. He s on a mission to get retribution on the person responsible for murdering his best friend and to make it back to the love he left behind, Talisa. But as he closes in on his enemy the Feds begin closing in on him. While CoCo sits alone in her jail cell, her regret turns to rage...
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    drama  contemporary  fiction  urban
  • Torn by Keisha Ervin

    Torn by Keisha Ervin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Her female intuition told her he was a dog but yet and still she lent him her soul, gave him her heart and allowed herself to fall in love...
  • Le Jardin de Gethsémani : roman by Ivan Bahrianyi

    Le Jardin de Gethsémani : roman by Ivan Bahrianyi

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    У творі талановитого українського письменника Івана Багряного зображено потужну сталінську машину свавілля і беззаконь, яка нищила людину морально і фізично. В центрі роману образ інженера Андрія Чумака, який в роки терору потрапляє до в`язниці. Могутній дух і воля не дають зламатися йому навіть у нелюдських умовах...
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    drama  audiobook  classics  fiction
  • FALLING FOR HIS SAVAGE WAYS by M. Monique

    FALLING FOR HIS SAVAGE WAYS by M. Monique

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    drama  poc-mc  fiction  book  adult  romance
  • আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

    আদর্শ হিন্দু হোটেল by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ইংরেজ সময়ের পটভূমিতে এ উপন্যাসে লেখক তৎকালীন ব্রাহ্মণ সমাজের একজন 'রাঁধুনী বামুণ', হাজারী দেবশর্মার জীবনকথা সুনিপুণভাবে তুলে...
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    drama  audiobook  classics  fiction
  • Laike by Grey Huffington

    Laike by Grey Huffington

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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    drama  adult  book  fiction  poc-mc
  • The Carter Boys by Desiree M. Granger

    The Carter Boys by Desiree M. Granger

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    So what happens when a slick mouth educated girl from Brooklyn NY. decides to go off to college in the capital of the south, Atlanta Ga?? She quickly gets introduced to the Atlanta life style where Bruh is said every other word. Dreaded fro’s are a must. Hot lemon pepper wings are law. West side accents are always thicker than the east side. Nobody says ATL unless they’re from out of town...
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    drama  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  poc-mc
  • Famished: Part One by Ellie Messe

    Famished: Part One by Ellie Messe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Moms a junkie, Dad’s not dead. After lying to me for the past twenty-one years, Mom got in too deep with her debt and had to call not-dead dad to bail her out. But wait, there’s more; not-dead dad is a biker who thinks he knows what’s best for the daughter he's never met. Agreeing to bail dear mom out for the low, low price of one grown ass adult...
  • Revenge by Meredith Wild

    Revenge by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No one else can stop them… I’ve never loved Tristan more. I’ve never trusted him less. Is it murder in his eyes or just jealousy when he insists we’ll find answers in Boston, headquarters of one of our greatest enemies and home to the man I left back in Rio? I haven’t forgotten Kolt’s betrayal nor the blood that’s already been spilled between our families...
  • Mafia Princess by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Mafia Princess by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The story of a Goon and his Daughter Semaj Richardson was raised by the streets, and her ambition was to own them. Changing foreign whips as she hustles one major drug dealer after another is just a day in the life with her treacherous father as her #1 partner in crime. The devious duo s schemes lead to murder plots and countless setups...
  • Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad

    Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Twin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the story—witnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation. Carried aloft by poetic language, the inquiry pursued by Jeanne and Simon unfolds in a dreamlike atmosphere...
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    drama  classics  contemporary  fiction  university  war
  • The Last Good Night by Tiffany Reisz

    The Last Good Night by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Last Good Knight: An Original Sinners novella told in five parts.Part V: The Last Good NightNow that the perpetrator has been apprehended, Nora sadly acknowledges she doesn't need a bodyguard anymore...
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    dark  drama  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy
  • The Games Destiny Plays by Tiffany Reisz

    The Games Destiny Plays by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Last Good Knight: An Original Sinners novella told in five parts. Part III: The Games Destiny Plays Shocked to see Nora's bruises, Lance is furious that she put herself in danger and demands to know where she got them. As Nora confesses her true nature, she's equally shocked to learn that Lance has some secrets of his own, drawing them together despite Kingsley's orders…...
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    dark  drama  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Still Hood by K'wan

    Still Hood by K'wan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Only the strong survie on the streets of Brooklyn. And while Dena Jones definitely has what it takes not only to survive but to succeed, she wants out. And she's determined to make it out of Crooklyn. She's determined to make it out of Crooklyn by any means necessary and doesn't have a problem manipulating men to get what she wants. Just ask her boyfriend Lance, or his girlfriend Michelle...
  • Getting Rowdy  (A Club Irons Novel) by Drew Sera

    Getting Rowdy (A Club Irons Novel) by Drew Sera

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Blake Eriksson has it all. Money, power, sex appeal and control. Yeah. He has control in spades. But not in a bad way. He’s a nurturer, a protector, a mentor – all good qualities for a Daddy Dom. Kelsie has natural submissive tendencies with a fun lean toward bratty. She’s not disrespectful, but she likes to be a bit of a challenge. She likes to be…rowdy...
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    dark  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy
  • Still the Baddest Bitch by Deja King

    Still the Baddest Bitch by Deja King

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aaliyah Mills Carter has to step up and watch the throne, to prove she has what it takes to be the Baddest Bitch. Chaos has always surrounded her family but now death may have hit too close to home. There are so many questions but not enough answers...
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    drama  black-mc  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  urban
  • A Dangerous Love by J. Peach

    A Dangerous Love by J. Peach

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Young, smart and independent twenty-four-year old Peaches Johnson is trying to enjoy life to its fullest. But her overprotective and controlling brother, King, always stand in the way of everything that she wants, freedom. That is until she meets Blaze. Blaze, a friend of King's, had been warned that Peaches is off limits. But Blaze like can’t help the attraction he feels for her...
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    drama  adult  book  fiction  steamy  urban
  • Kade by Elizabeth Knox

    Kade by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kade I've never been the type of man to seek my father's approval, especially when it comes to women. Now though, all I want for him is to accept her into our family - into our club. Ivy has a jaded past, even moreso now than before. She may be his arch nemesis' daughter, but she's my girl and he needs to remember that. This isn't any Romeo or Juliet bullshit...
  • Every Last Drop by Sarah Robinson

    Every Last Drop by Sarah Robinson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Now a 2021 RWA's Vivian Award Finalist in Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance. The first contemporary women's fiction novel by bestselling romance author Sarah Robinson sure to break your heart and test your limits as the characters dive into taboo topics that make you reconsider everything you once knew. Marry the love of my life.Become a mother.Write a book.Number one was complete...
  • Mafia Princess Part 2 by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Mafia Princess Part 2 by Deja King, Michelle Monay

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this world you come in on your feet but you leave out in a coffin.The Milano Family is known to be notorious, and Semaj has witnessed it firsthand, but when someone blows up the family car, leaving two close relatives dead, Semaj s world falls apart and she discovers the downside of a life of crime...
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    drama  urban  black-mc  fiction  female-mc
  • Murder on the Naval Base by Behcet Kaya

    Murder on the Naval Base by Behcet Kaya

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Murder on the Naval Base begins with a blurry account of a cold-blooded shooting of a couple, singled out while having dinner at an Officer's Club. The prime suspect is apprehended hours later while apparently attempting to flee the state...
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    drama  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
  • Todos los días son nuestros by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta

    Todos los días son nuestros by Catalina Aguilar Mastretta

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    El debut novelístico del año.Veníamos de una fiesta de disfraces, cosa ideal, dado que andábamos en el esfuerzo de parecer puras cosas que no éramos… para empezar: felices. Emiliano se había vestido de Darth Vader, yo me había embutido en un traje de Gatúbela… Habíamos decidido ir vestidos de dos entes negros y cabrones...
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    drama  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Niebo ze stali. Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza by Robert M. Wegner

    Niebo ze stali. Opowieści z meekhańskiego pogranicza by Robert M. Wegner

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wozy wygnanych niegdyś koczowników stanęły u stóp gór, które oddzielają ich od upragnionej wolności. Losy Szóstej Kompanii Górskiej Straży, dziewczyn z wolnego czaardanu i małej dziewczynki z rodu Verdanno zaczynają się splatać… Zanim na niebie o barwie stali wzejdzie słońce, wyżyna spłynie krwią.„Niebo ze stali...
  • Scarred - The Complete Series by Kylie Walker

    Scarred - The Complete Series by Kylie Walker

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scarred boxset contains the full series with a HEA & NO CLIFFHANGER! Pain...Fear...Uncertainty... That pretty much sums up Kelly Ward's life in a nutshell. Surviving a childhood filled with horrific abuse and then at the hand of the one man that saved her... her first love that she trusted only to discover he was really a monster...
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    dark  drama  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  revenge
  • Fearless Part IV: Follow You Home by Lauren Gilley

    Fearless Part IV: Follow You Home by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Part IV of IV of the first novel of the Dartmoor Series. In the swamps of New Orleans, Ava will finally meet the demons Mercy has carried within him the past fourteen years. An old enemy stalks them through the gator-infested waters of Mercy’s home, and their only protection lies in the love and trust of one another...
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    dark  drama  adult  alpha-mc  anti-hero  biker  book  contemporary
  • Arising Son: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine

    Arising Son: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryan is successful working independently as a doctor's assistant until his world comes crashing down on him: protecting the woman he's falling for, he discovers he has strength unlike a normal human and a great thirst...for blood.He confronts his mother, Cassandra, on who he really is...
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    dark  drama  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  low-fantasy
  • The Empty Hearth by Kitty Neale

    The Empty Hearth by Kitty Neale

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Battersea in the 50s and 60s. The Pratchett family have to contend with Alfie Pratchett's obsessive jealousy. Although Alfie is a bully, his two teenage children, John and Millie, have learned to dodge him and his moods. Their main concern is to protect their mum...
  • Le Bruit de tes pas by Valentina D'Urbano

    Le Bruit de tes pas by Valentina D'Urbano

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Son désir pour Alfredo est un poison. Parce qu'elle l'aime trop, Bea se laisse déborder par la violence de ses sentiments. Dans la banlieue de poussière et de béton où ils ont grandi, personne ne lui a appris à être tendre...
  • Don't Let Me Go by Susan Lewis

    Don't Let Me Go by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Charlotte Nicholls has a secret that haunts her.She and three-year-old Chloe have left their home and friends, and are now building a new life for themselves in New Zealand.All Charlotte wants to do is to forget the past, to blot out what went before, and to look only to the future.At last she and Chloe feel safe...
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    dark  drama  book  contemporary  family  fiction  kidnapping  mystery
  • Ramonst by A.F. Knott

    Ramonst by A.F. Knott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hidden in the mountains of East Tennessee, an eleven-year old goes about the business of being a boy during the summer of 1970. Within a balance of terror and innocence, he bears silent witness to ghosts of the dead and the cruelties of a teenage killer while local justice plays out in a community carved from legacies of coal mining and religion...
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    dark  drama  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  horror
  • Fearless Part II: Crossing Lines by Lauren Gilley

    Fearless Part II: Crossing Lines by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of the Walker Series comes a family drama like no other, a sprawling character epic, a forbidden love story full of angst, adventure, heartbreak, and second chances. Welcome to the mother chapter of the Lean Dogs Motorcycle Club; meet the girl raised by outlaws, and the fearsome man who will always hold her heart...
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    dark  drama  adult  alpha-mc  anti-hero  biker  book  contemporary
  • Why Me? by Aleta L. Williams

    Why Me? by Aleta L. Williams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE HOT NEW NOVELLA FROM THE AUTHOR OF 'SALTY'!!!Popsicle is a whore from Cali who doesn't give a damn about her only child Monica. She blames her for the lost of the only person she's ever loved; her pimp Cobra. Popsicle feels that Monica owes her her happiness and her body. Monica respects Popsicle's hustle, but there is no way that she'd willingly sell her body for a living...
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    dark  drama  abuse  adult  black-mc  book  female-mc  fiction
  • Filthy by H.J. Bellus

    Filthy by H.J. Bellus

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the USA Today and AMAZON best seller of The Reckless Series, HJ Bellus, comes a sexy romance: FILTHY.It was just a summer fling.He taught me his bad boy ways.And now I'm beyond being saved.At first it was fun, but now it's an addiction my skin craves.All sense of reality disappears and there's no boundaries holding me in.My name is Darby and this is FILTHY...
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    dark  drama  adult  angst  book  contemporary  fiction  new-adult
  • Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez

    Bomarzo by Manuel Mujica Lainez

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As sumptuous, dazzling, corrupt and gorgeous as the 16th-century Italian Renaissance in which it is set, Bomarzo is the story of Pier Francesco Orsini, the hunchbacked, ruthless, but vulnerable Duke of Bomarzo, ancient fortress in the mountains outside Rome...
  • Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Virtue and Vice by Ninya Tippett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "If I'm going down, I might as well pick my poison. I pick you." *** A Cobalt Bay Billionaires story. *** She couldn’t be sure whether he was her predator or protector... but she was doomed to love him either way. *** It was a summer they will never forget...
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    dark  drama  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Insincerity by Richard Godwin

    Insincerity by Richard Godwin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ex-military PI, Tammy Wayne, tracks serial killers for a living. With the help of her colleague Arlene she locates a killer known as The Pimp, who killed her sister Holly. The Pimp has Tammy under surveillance, coming and going to her house as he wants, sending her Holly’s body parts. The Beekeeper, a killer that abducts women and coats them in latex before killing them, enters the story...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  mystery  new-adult
  • Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс

    Старуха = The Old Woman by Daniil Kharms, Даниил Хармс

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Edition in Russian and English...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  adult  book  classics  comedy  fiction  humor
  • Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine

    Mourning Grey: Part One: The Guardians Of The Temple Saga by Marie Montine

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cassandra Wynstrom auditions for a play at the Queen's Theatre that depicts the last war between the Humans and Empians, thus between Light and Dark.When she is pursued by the last Empian named Lharkin, she learns he has created vampires out of desperation; to continue his bloodline. When she sees visions of an ancient temple that defy the story told in the play, she is confronted with choices:...
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    dark  drama  adult  book  fiction  horror  low-fantasy  magical-realism
  • Love & War by Jackie Chanel

    Love & War by Jackie Chanel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Born and raised in Miami, Florida, Caprice was on the fast track to becoming a young CEO. Raised by her former supermodel mother, Caprice was supposed to follow the path that her mother’s stilettos left. Until a letter from her father, mafia don; Domani Bonatelli, changed the course of her life...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  organized-crime
  • Mason by Erin Trejo

    Mason by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She called me Satan the first time we met.  When I found out she worked at the local bar we had dealings with, I became more interested in her. I made a deal with her boss to take her off his hands for a weekend.  She agreed.  Something happened that weekend, something that pushed her away.  I wasn't ready to let her go.  So I didn't. Her past causes drama for my club...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  abuse  adult  biker  book  contemporary  crime
  • My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach

    My Graphic Bipolar Fantasies: & Other Short Stories by R.B. Le`Deach

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book is the product of a sick mind; a product of the "Southern Madman." There are 104 Fantasies inside that are not based in reality, interspersed with 70 Short Stories of somewhat sane thought of heavy opinion. The theme of the Fantasies is Law and Order and the author and the good guys always win. In a few places, it is quite tame...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  adult  book  fiction  horror
  • Empire of Lies by Kylie Kent

    Empire of Lies by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirty years ago, I left Italy. I left him behind to marry another man. I thought I was leaving alone; I didn’t know I was carrying a piece of him with me...
  • Nico by J.B. Hartnett

    Nico by J.B. Hartnett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When I was a boy, I met a girl. She didn’t know it then, but… She changed me. Now…..I am a man. A man who is broken by the stories of the women who come to me. They are my birds with broken wings. I help them heal, help them to make them strong, so they can fly free. Lark changed me. Loved Me. Made Me Strong. With her, I am free. I write… To the girl of the past...
    Categorized as:
    dark  drama  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  new-adult
  • Buried Secrets by S.K.

    Buried Secrets by S.K.

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Las Vegas. Sin City. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… Or does it? When you, by chance, meet that person who you think just might be “the one”, do you listen to your head and play it safe - or open up your heart and hold on tight for the ride of a lifetime...? Three years ago, Aleesha met Dr. Marcus Bennett at a conference in Las Vegas...
  • Night Fever Complete Series by Jessica Hawkins

    Night Fever Complete Series by Jessica Hawkins

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Start the series reviewers are calling "edgy" and "the ride of your life." The Night Fever Series box set bundles books 1-4 and includes Midnight , a bonus short story. Night Fever A sordid proposition. A chance at a better life. A seduction that walks the line between comfort and humiliation, desire and resistance. He will own her—for one night. She will be his—for a price...
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