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  • Her Shadows, His Secrets by C.C. Monroe

    Her Shadows, His Secrets by C.C. Monroe

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    HannaI hid in the shadows all my life. That was where I felt I belonged the most, because I was ridiculed by the ones I loved, by society’s view of women like me.But now I believe someone is out to hurt me, yet I don’t know who it could be. I didn’t think I had anyone to fear, except for in the shadows, the same ones that used to keep me safe...
  • Seven Card Stud by Emilia Finn

    Seven Card Stud by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jamie Kincaid is a middleweight fighter, born to fighting royalty, and a shoo-in to be the next champion in the world-class Stacked Deck tournament.He’s a flirt. A romantic. A little too loose with his female companions, so when his cousins casually mention he needs to let one go before he hooks another— they’re not kidding...
  • Landon: Small Town Roommate Romance by Cora Brent

    Landon: Small Town Roommate Romance by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    RELEASING APRIL 22nd!!! LANDON My former student. My new roommate. My greatest weakness….Autumn:It’s not that I’m hiding out in this hard luck little town. But I’m twenty-six years old, I’ve had one boyfriend and he ditched me for my sister. So I might be a little cynical. Then again, perhaps a high school math teacher shouldn’t expect romance...
  • Touchdown by Lisa Suzanne

    Touchdown by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As much as I’ve coached the pro football quarterback to believe he always has a choice, this time I’m the one backed into a corner.My biggest fears have come true. I’m an adult living with my parents as I contemplate my future. I’ve given up everything to make the ultimate sacrifice, but at some point I need to put what happened behind me...
  • The Wildcat by Bella Matthews

    The Wildcat by Bella Matthews

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What do you get when you mix a devastatingly handsome hockey player who doesn’t do casual with a blonde bombshell cheerleader who doesn’t do serious?I was supposed to be taking the summer off from dating. . . and flirting. . . and men in general. A cleanse. It sounded great in theory. But theory went out the window when my own personal kryptonite sat on the barstool next to mine...
  • The Sweet Spot by Bella Matthews

    The Sweet Spot by Bella Matthews

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A fake marriage with a single dad wasn't on my dance card but there are worse ways to start the summer.Our story didn’t begin the night I agreed to marry Deacon Kane to help him keep his daughter. It started ten years ago, with a hotshot hockey player I couldn’t wait to see each summer. He was big, broad, and filled out his board shorts so damn nicely...
  • Devil in Disguise by Rosalind James

    Devil in Disguise by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The devil doesn’t come with pointy horns and a tail. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for. When discipline is your life, structure’s a good thing, and Owen Johnson’s got plenty of both. An All-Pro NFL center who’s also a cattle rancher? Yeah, that’s structure. His marriage didn’t work out, but then, he picked the wrong woman. A Wyoming ranch doesn’t look nearly as romantic up close...
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  • Whisper Of Attraction by Melanie Shawn

    Whisper Of Attraction by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Stand-alone Whisper Lake romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way! Single mom Brynn Daniels has her hands full with her teenage son, working full time, and getting ambushed periodically when her mom rents out the backyard garage apartment on Airbnb without letting her know. She doesn't have time for romance...
  • Commanding the Curvy Girl by Nichole Rose

    Commanding the Curvy Girl by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    To save a curvy dispatcher and win her heart, this detective will do whatever it takes. Even if it means answering every outrageous call in Silver Spoon Falls.EastonTaking a bullet was supposed to be as bad as things could get.And then I moved to Silver Spoon Falls.There is nothing easy about life in this crazy small town.Especially when a curvy little dispatcher decides she doesn't like me...
  • Love, Exes, and Ohs by Violet Duke

    Love, Exes, and Ohs by Violet Duke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He may very well be the perfect ex. Isaac McKnight has had enough loss in his life to know never to take anything for granted. So when the perfectly-imperfect-woman-for-him puts an end to their relationship out of the blue, it's Isaac that makes sure they remain friends...
  • Four Good by Stephanie Brother

    Four Good by Stephanie Brother

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My night with three strangers is amazing, until the next morning when their best friend shows up — and he turns out to be my ex.As a bartender in a tourist town, I get hit on a lot. I’ve heard all the lines, and it’s very rare that I take the bait...
  • Along Comes Trouble by Abby Brooks

    Along Comes Trouble by Abby Brooks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the moment we met, Tessa Morgan pegged me as trouble. Why? Your guess is as good as mine. I’m funny. Easy-going. My years as a high school football star worked wonders on my body as well as my reputation. I’m Colton Carmichael. Everyone likes me. Everyone except Tessa. And believe me, the feeling is mutual...
  • More Than I Could by Adriana Locke

    More Than I Could by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This grumpy single dad falls hard for the nanny. Chase Marshall is many things:· An attentive single dad· Jaw-droppingly gorgeous· My employer for the next thirty daysHe’s also the bane of my existence.He swears I’m a never-ending headache—the most infuriating woman he’s ever met...
  • 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...
  • Turnover by Lisa Suzanne

    Turnover by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m in love with a man who is marrying somebody else. At least that’s what was supposed to happen when I was kicked out of the wedding last night by the bride’s father. I find myself without a job, without a home, and without the pro football quarterback I’ve fallen for...
  • Seduced by Hope Ford

    Seduced by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All that’s ever mattered to me is football.Until I meet the woman that makes me question everything.She thinks I care that she’s older than me.She thinks I’ll just give up and forget the one night we had together.But that’s not going to happen.We may have drunk too much.We may have gotten married in a drive-thru wedding chapel,But there’s no way I’m just going to let her run from me...
  • What a Bachelor Needs by Kelly Hunter

    What a Bachelor Needs by Kelly Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Your date with ski champ Jett Casey is an either/or deal. He’ll take you off-piste for the ultimate Montana ski adventure or he’ll put his handyman skills at your disposal for a week. Which one would you choose? Single mom Mardie Griffin has a run-down old house in need of fixing and a memory of Jett Casey as her savior in a time of great need...
  • Dare Me Once by Shelly Alexander

    Dare Me Once by Shelly Alexander

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love is a risk worth taking in this sizzling romance about secrets and second chances… Scarlett Devereaux’s life on the Gulf Coast went from riches to rags so scandalously fast that she barely had time to kiss her Jimmy Choos goodbye...
  • The Wild Card by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    The Wild Card by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was supposed to be harmless. One fake date with an off-limits football player I'd never date for real.Plot twist—Harry Westbrook is the exact opposite of harmless.My first mistake? Underestimating that boyish smile, those playful eyes, the charming words on those perfect lips. He claims to have a crush on me...
  • Devoted by Hope Ford

    Devoted by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s a beautiful model.And she’s from the city.Two big reasons why I shouldn’t want her.I enjoy my life in Whiskey Run.I’m a small-town, blue-collar mechanic.And I know where I stand.Half the women in this town can’t get past the grease under my nails.So I know better than to get mixed up with her.I think I can forget about her.Then I get to know her.Then I start to like her...
  • Always Yours by Hope Ford

    Always Yours by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A billionaire in love with his best friend.A woman pregnant with another man’s baby.Together, in a friends to lovers romance.I’ve been in love with my best friend for what seems like forever. But she wanted the one thing I couldn’t give her.Now, she’s pregnant with another man’s baby. The “donor” wants nothing to do with her... or the child, so I do the one thing I’ve always wanted to do...
  • Charmed by Her Curves: A Curvy Woman Holiday Romance by C.L. Cruz

    Charmed by Her Curves: A Curvy Woman Holiday Romance by C.L. Cruz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Charmed by Her Curves is a short, sweet, and steamy romance book featuring a curvy heroine and a sexy alpha hero. It is the third in the Holly Street Holidays series but can be read as a standalone with a HEA and no cliffhangers!Tiegan‘Tis the season to be jolly.Unless, like me, you're homeless and jobless just in time for the holidays...
  • Take Me Higher: A Colorado High Country Novel by Pamela Clare

    Take Me Higher: A Colorado High Country Novel by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For fans of the Colorado High Country series comes the love story of the couple who started it all! He’s the love of her life…Rock climbing saved Megs Hall. The sport gave her an emotional escape from her abusive stepfather when she was a teen and turned her into a living legend. It also brought her together with the one man who truly understood her...
  • Bound to Fall by Pamela Clare

    Bound to Fall by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Featuring characters from Pamela Clare’s acclaimed I-Team series.She barely survived.Sasha Dillon, a five-time world champion climber, moved to Scarlet Springs to join the Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue Team. She loves the tiny mountain town and its quirky residents and finds happiness using her climbing skills to save lives...
  • In Spades by Maggie C. Gates

    In Spades by Maggie C. Gates

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once upon a time, Kristin Boyd was a college senior about to graduate with a business degree. Then, a single night turned her life upside down and landed her back in Beaufort, North Carolina. With her hopes for the future shattered, she found herself raising four kids on her own, struggling to make ends meet.Five years later, life still hasn’t given her a break...
  • A.D.I.D.A.S.: All Day I Dream About S*x by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    A.D.I.D.A.S.: All Day I Dream About S*x by Frankie Love, C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’ve loved her since we were ten years old, when she almost died in my arms. Dramatic? Not at all. I almost lost Joanne once, it’s not happening again. Thing is, she’s a scared little butterfly, living in a cocoon of her own making. It’s time for her to spread her wings. And her legs. Scandalous? Hell no. She wants it as bad as I do. I’m not the only one dreaming about it all day...
  • Provoke by Rachel Van Dyken

    Provoke by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a new story in her Seaside Pictures series…The music industry called me a savant at age sixteen when I uploaded my first video and gained instant fame. And then Drew Amherst of Adrenaline became my mentor, and my career took off. Everything was great...
  • 427 First Ave. by Hope Ford

    427 First Ave. by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She knows what she wants… and it’s him.Ginger is wild, loves to line dance and is a huge flirt. She goes to the tattoo shop looking for her next big adventure. As soon as she sets her eyes on Ozzie, she knows he’s the one.He asks her what she wants, thinking she’s going to pick a butterfly or a rose.But he’s shocked when she says it’s him she wants...
  • Knox by Kali Hart

    Knox by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MayaI’ve had a crush on the Daisy Hills Fire Chief since the very first time I met him.Never mind that there’s at least fifteen years between us.Or that I’ve been dating a lot of duds lately.The first Wednesday is still my favorite day of the month because he comes by the library for a fire code inspection.But this inspection is one for the books...
  • Mountain Seeking Hero by Marley Michaels

    Mountain Seeking Hero by Marley Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Search and Rescue Coordinator, Max Cooper, has heard the mountain’s call. Now he’s returned to his birthplace to see whether the Moose Mountain legend is true for him, just like it has been for his brothers and cousins. He doesn’t expect it to literally hit him in the back of the head though...
  • Craving In The Mountains by Olivia T. Turner

    Craving In The Mountains by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you do when you’re in a funk that won’t quit?I tried - Sleeping all day (check)- Binge watching Stranger Things all day (check)- Feeling sorry for myself all day (check)But nothing works. My funk gets funkier. Depression looms.So I do something drastic to shake myself out of it.I head to the Greene Mountains to go parachuting with my crazy cousin and his wild friends...
  • Mountain Seeking Pilot by Marley Michaels

    Mountain Seeking Pilot by Marley Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Helicopter Pilot, Rhys Cooper, has spent his life flying to new heights in dangerous and daring rescues. Wanting to slow down, he decides to move to his family's spiritual home to lay some roots just like his doctor brother before him. But first thing's first, knocking down the old house he just bought and building his dream home with a picture-perfect view of Moose Mountain...
  • Tiny Precious Secrets by Samantha Christy

    Tiny Precious Secrets by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Allie and Asher have been in a fun, easy, carefree, long-distance... something, for quite some time. Asher isn't sure his tenacious teenage daughter is prepared for anything more. But when life throws a curveball, both Allie and Asher must make hard decisions that could affect all three—soon to be four—of them. A small town, single dad, accidental pregnancy romance...
  • Promise Me: A Novella by Lacey Black

    Promise Me: A Novella by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Holly Jenkins watched her best friend finally get her happily ever after. While there’s no one more deserving than Avery Jackson, Holly can’t fight the longing and ache that settles in her chest when she thinks about her own solitary life. After kissing so many frogs, Holly starts to wonder if Prince Charming even exists. Jase Bentley is worn out...
  • Curvy Hunger by C.L. Cruz, Liz Fox

    Curvy Hunger by C.L. Cruz, Liz Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s the enforcer of the MC. She’s dedicated her life to healing. When she returns to her hometown, will their differences keep them apart?One click this curvy woman possessive biker romance!TrixieWhen I left Heathcliff, I was a wild child.Now I’m returning as a doctor—Respectable, responsible, and trying to fit in.When I collide with the local MC,My wild days don’t seem that far away...
  • Falling for the Rookie by Trish Williford

    Falling for the Rookie by Trish Williford

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    During the spring and summer months, Melody Carrick lives, eats and sleeps baseball. As a Baltimore Blue Birds season ticket holder, she attends every home game to enjoy the action. What Melody didn’t expect was to become part of the excitement when a foul ball hits her in the face and knocks her out during the season opener...
  • Leia's Playmaker by Nichole Rose

    Leia's Playmaker by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What we professional athletes. What we stick-wielding madmen who look good in blue, play hard, and love harder. It's a good thing this is Silver Spoon Falls because these hunky hockey players fit right in.Welcome the Falcons to the roster! These over-the-top athletes are about to play the most important game of the game of love...
  • Despite It All by Mollie Goins

    Despite It All by Mollie Goins

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wyla My trip to Nashville for my sister’s bachelorette trip was going to be my weekend to let go. I was starting my last year of college and I finally felt like I had a plan for my life. I wanted one weekend of freedom. My plan was to drink some whiskey, sing karaoke, and ride that mechanical bull...
  • Ask Me to Stay by Terri Osburn

    Ask Me to Stay by Terri Osburn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Terri Osburn comes a bittersweet romance about discovering the past, if only to finally let it go. Author Liza Teller’s new book is something of a mystery. She’s been hired to ghostwrite the memoir of Ray Wallis, an elderly stranger eager to share a very personal and surprising life story...
  • Can't Take My Eyes Off of You by Bella Andre

    Can't Take My Eyes Off of You by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sullivan fans met Christie Hayden at Summer Lake in "Now That I've Found You", “Since I Fell For You” and “The Best Is Yet To Come”. Now get ready for Christie’s beautiful love story in CAN’T TAKE MY EYES OFF OF YOU...
  • Rigid by Hope Ford

    Rigid by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Women don’t stay... no matter how much you love them.And I can’t chance it with her... because when she leaves me... I wouldn’t survive it.I’m not a nice guy. I don’t even try to be.I take what I want and then I move on.I never thought about having a wife and kids...Until I met Emily.She makes me want things I know I shouldn’t.So I’m mean to her. I’m not proud of it, but it is what it is...
  • Forbidden Single Dad by Crystal Monroe

    Forbidden Single Dad by Crystal Monroe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Being a single dad is hard enough.Keeping my hands off the nanny is about to kill me.I messed up.I fell for my daughter's nanny.But there was NO WAY I could resist.Ruby's innocent, perky, and hot AF.Especially when she dances in my kitchen with her assets bouncing under a thin cotton dress.But she's also my best friend’s little sister.I can’t betray him...
  • Hero Mine by Janie Crouch

    Hero Mine by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Survival is always the most important thing.”You don’t get far in Oak Creek, Wyoming, home Linear Tactical and its gruff and rugged heroes, without hearing that motto.Free-spirited Joy Davis—opposite of gruff and rugged—heard the slogan her whole life and generally met it with a roll of her eyes.Until the night she was attacked and left for dead.He’s always been her anchor...
  • Dylan: A Mountain Man Curvy Woman Romance by Kali Hart

    Dylan: A Mountain Man Curvy Woman Romance by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Mountain Man Curvy Woman RomanceElyseWhen I found out social media sensation Ryker Harrison was looking for a summertime assistant, I immediately applied for the job.I never in million years thought I’d get it.I’m all the way in Alaska when I find out I didn’t.I got a different job instead.One that pairs me up with his arrogant brother Dylan—as a fishing guide.I don’t know a thing about fish...
  • 518 Hope Ave. by Megan Wade

    518 Hope Ave. by Megan Wade

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ezra is a proud man. After giving up his dreams of college to take care of his siblings, he knows what Struggle Street looks like. But as a resident of Hope Avenue, Cherry Falls, he does his best to cling to the thought that things will get better...one day. If he can manage to hold down two jobs, run a house, replace the washing machine and keep his siblings alive long enough to see that happen.
  • 817 Fireman Ln. by Hope Ford

    817 Fireman Ln. by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He wants to save her… even from himself.Kent is a widower and fights fires like he has nothing to lose.He knows he’ll never find love again and he doesn’t even want to try.But when the new recruit is hired at the fire station, she’s brave, bubbly and beautiful.Kelli is a firewoman with something to prove.She knows she can do this, even though Kent questions her every move...
  • The Surprise Seduction by Amy Alves

    The Surprise Seduction by Amy Alves

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    GARRETTAria is young. Too young. My little sister’s best friend is a shameless flirt—a free-spirited whirlwind of emotions. She shouldn’t appeal to me in the least. I’m looking to settle down with a suitable woman—someone mature, put-together, and not clingy, needy or emotionally dependent. Aria Davenport definitely does not fit this list.Yet the painfully beautiful minx is impossible to ignore...
  • The Rancher's Rose: Ranchers Only Series by Elle Christensen

    The Rancher's Rose: Ranchers Only Series by Elle Christensen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When forbidden sparks ignite, they’ll have to choose whether to burn or snuff out the fire. Rose Locke has loved Garrison Keeler since she was fourteen-years-old. He drove her crazy, treating her like his annoying baby sister, but she was convinced that one day when she was all grown up, everything would change...
  • Soren by Tarin Lex

    Soren by Tarin Lex

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Soren: Wylder Mountain Heroes Book 3An Alpha Mountain Man & Younger Curvy Woman Insta Love RomanceSoren is a dedicated, alpha firefighter ready for love.Hannah is the curvy sweetie who’s searching for healing after a loss.He catches Hannah’s eye before he even knows she exists...
  • Wicked Chemistry by R.L. Kenderson

    Wicked Chemistry by R.L. Kenderson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn’t know I’d risk everything to be with him.I thought he was the assistant football coach.I thought I would protect my teaching career from anything.I thought I could stay away from him.I thought wrong.Wicked Chemistry deals with a student-teacher relationship. All individuals are over eighteen and consenting adults...
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