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Start a War by Elle Thorpe
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratings“Do you want some Goldfish crackers, Bliss?”Those were the last words my brother said to me before he was shot execution style. A childhood code only he and I knew, and one that had a single, clear meaning behind it.Run. I’m not going anywhere. Not when his murderer is still out there... -
Reckless Thief by Heather Long
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe mentor.The doctor.The Vandal.I grew up on the streets despite my older sister’s best efforts to keep my nose clean. I thought I knew better. I worked hard. and made money. Who cared if what I did was a little illegal?Then a little boy paid the price for my carelessness. A little boy and his baby sister. It was the wakeup call I needed, even if the cost came too high... -
These Reckless Hearts: An Enemies-to-Lovers College Romance by E.M. Moore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStone Jacobs must…help me. My life has always been defined by two interconnected things:I’m a Wilder.I’m a treasure hunter.What happens when both of those things are threatened? When who I am gets pulled out from under me and my greatest enemy of all destroys me even further?Lance and his mercenaries aren’t going to stop... -
Saving Graves by Drew Sera
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNeglected. Tortured. Abused. Unloved. I was left for dead at seventeen and learned to protect myself the only way I knew how…by not letting anyone get close to me — not anyone. Discovering Club Irons has been like finding home for the first time in my life. It’s been a beacon of light in my dark life, and it’s where I finally belong . I’m the most sought after Dom at Club Irons... -
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Brutal Fighter by Heather Long
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBRUTAL FIGHTER is a full length mature college/new adult romance with enemies-to-lovers/love-hate themes. The dark romance aspects of this tale continue. Please be aware some situations may be uncomfortable for readers. Trigger warnings can be found in the foreword should you require them. This is a reverse harem novel, meaning the main character has more than one love interest... -
Canvas by N.M. Catalano
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratings4 inked men. 1 is very, very bad. He made me an offer. One I accepted. His friends made me another. One I shouldn’t. I really, really shouldn’t. But I’m not that girl anymore. The one I left behind, the one who does what’s expected, the one who has no choice. The one with secrets. I ran away from that life, and hope it never finds me... -
Pay the Price by Sadie Hunt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI thought they were my enemies.I was right.I invited the infamous Blackwell Beasts to live with me for one reason: find out if they killed my brother five years go.They did the time, but did they really do the crime?I thought I was prepared for anything, but deep down, I didn’t want to believe they did it... -
Altered by Lead by C.M. Stunich, Tate James
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMy life will never be the same, altered by lead, damaged but not broken.I’m becoming a new me.I won’t run any longer; this time, I’m the hunter instead of the prey.But it takes hard work, skill, and a bit of luck to catch a mob boss.I’m going to need all three to survive this.Especially when I’ve got five gorgeous a**holes for teachers—and occasional bedmates.The Blackbirch Company... -
Three Tricks by Elizabeth Knight
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRemember when I said Two Tricks doesn’t work with MC gangs… Well I might have jumped the gun on that.The leaders of the Phantom Saints MC kidnapped me in order to broker a deal with Tricks. Jokes on them when they find out the truth. But that is the least of my worries right now after saving my best friend from getting taken by a rival MC... -
A Ryan Restraint by Sadie Kincaid
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Jessie goes for her regular gym session with Conor and he decides to shake things up with a little boxing, things get way more heated than either of them expected. Who will come out on top?This is a super spicy short story connected to the New York Ruthless series...Categorized as:
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Our Tricks by Elizabeth Knight
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe gauntlet has been thrown, lines have been drawn, and sides have been chosen. Now it’s time to see who will win.Removing Diego from power was the last obstacle to getting to Marco—or so I thought. The deeper we dive into this mess, the clearer it is that Marco has been hunting me for a long time. He’s methodical, calculating, and knows how to use every pawn at his disposal... -
Unwrapped by Them by Eva Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSnowed in with three gorgeous billionaires? I must’ve been a very good girl this year.As the manager of Whispering Pines resort, it’s my job to give the new owner, Cade McAllister, a tour of his latest acquisition. But I wasn’t prepared to show up at the lodge and realize I already know him.Biblically, I mean...Categorized as:
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Four Enemies by Stephanie Brother
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNo one has ever pushed me to my limits like these four men.I’m excited when I’m given a promotion to tour manager at Club Red — until I find out I’ll be crowded into a van with four alpha-hole revue dancers, trying to keep them in line while they travel to other venues...Categorized as:
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A Ryan New Year: A New York Ruthless Novella by Sadie Kincaid
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Tiny Dancer by Heather Rainier
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe day former exotic dancer Camilla O’Neal began working at The Dancing Pony, she told co-owner Ben Lawrence and head bartender Quinten Parks that “work is work and pleasure is pleasure” and she kept the two very separate. Working with their tiny dancer brings Ben and Quinten as much pain as pleasure. After two years of secretly lusting over and loving this blonde temptress, they have a plan... -
The Wild Interview by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI have been working hard my whole life for people to take me seriously. After all, women ‘don’t belong’ in the music industry. However, when an interview goes wrong, I am offered a once in a lifetime opportunity, to manage The Wild Boys, an all-male strip show featuring bad boys with an even worse reputation. It’s now my job to fix it, if I can keep my hands to myself... -
Deadly Truths by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI'm Everly Marrs. Eighteen months ago the Letters took me to force my father's hand and turned my world upside down. A few months after that, a man named Ben took me from them and I went through hell before I saw them again and they turned my heart inside out. In fast moments I'll never get over, I killed my father and walked away from everything--the Alliance, the Letters, my heart... -
Kings of Linwood Academy - The Complete Box Set: A Dark High School Romance Series by Callie Rose
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCOMPLETE REVERSE HAREM SERIESRich boys don’t fraternize with the help.They don't torture the help.They don't crave the help.For as long as I can remember, my mom and I have lived on the edge of ruin, so when she finally gets a decent job offer, she moves us cross-country to take it... -
Corrupt Vow by Eva Ashwood
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe explosive third book in the Filthy Wicked Psychos series...Note: The blurb below contains spoilers for the previous books, so I'd recommend not reading it until you've finished Twisted Game and Beautiful Devils . You've been warned!*** I’ll do anything to protect them… even if it means walking away.The Voronin brothers didn’t just save my life... -
A Ryan Rewind by Sadie Kincaid
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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Caged Royal by Lily Wildhart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe worst part about betrayal, is it never comes from your enemies.I should have known better, I should have seen the signs, but now all I'm left with is heartache and disappointment.They may think they've got the better of me, but I won't go down without a fight. Especially when it comes to the ones I love.Even if I have to protect them from themselves...Categorized as:
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A Ryan Halloween: A New York Ruthless Novella by Sadie Kincaid
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings... -
Taken by the Bikers by Stephanie Brother
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA good girl does her duty. A bad girl does the sexy bikers who kidnap her.To my ambitious politician father, I'm a disappointment. I'm not pretty enough, not thin enough, not radiant enough--not perfect enough to bolster his ambitions.The Screaming Eagles MC is the largest motorcycle club in the city, and as the mayor, my father has declared war... -
Empire of Ruin by Eva Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmpire of Ruin is the heart-pounding final installment in the Dirty Broken Savages series.Note: The blurb below contains spoilers, so I'd highly recommend not reading it until you're caught up on the series, starting with book one, Kings of Chaos. You've been warned!***I was a good girl once, but now I’ve got bloody hands and a broken heart... -
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Drilled by Jayne Rylon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe original Powertools crew is back in a brand new series!Starting over is never easy. Especially when it means leaving your friends and lovers behind.Separation anxiety gives Morgan second thoughts about defecting from Powertools, making things rocky between her and her husband Joe... -
Grind by Jayne Rylon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe original Powertools crew are back in a brand new series! The crew has overcome enormous odds to live and love together, but can it survive being divided? Devon, Neil, and James know where they’re needed most is in Middletown, working on Mike and Joe’s new construction team. Because in addition to their careers, the Powertools’ intimate bond is in jeopardy... -
Disharmony by Holly Bloom
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world’s most prestigious summer music camp can make or break you...A viral video lands me a scholarship to Camp Harmony, but they don’t want the real me. They want Ashley, the pop star. I spend the summer pretending to be someone I’m not, until I sneak out to see my favorite metal band perform... -
Snowed In: Volume One by Kali Noir, Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSnowed in: Why choose holiday anthology is a collection of original, brand-new short stories for this holiday season...Categorized as:
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Hunting Games by Crystal North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is not a love story. I never asked to be drugged again, kidnapped again and held prisoner ‘for my own good’. By the boys who swore they’d never hurt me no less. If everything they do, have ever done, is with my best interests at heart, then they won’t mind helping me exact my plan for revenge on the ones who hurt me most: their own fathers...Categorized as:
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Deadliest Throne by Alisha Williams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI got too comfortable with my life.Distracted by becoming a mom and taking care of the little one growing within me.We were happy, enjoying the little things in life.But when you're in a world like ours, lowering your guard isn't an option.In a blink of an eye, everything changed.He wants me and my baby.Now I'm fighting for our survival...Categorized as:
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Hunting Pretty by Sienna Blake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWatch her. Crave her. Covet her. I’m the monster in the shadows—but she’s addicted to monsters.She looks so pretty when she cries out in her sleep. I’m obsessed by her gasps when she hears me coming for her. I'm hooked on the way she fights me when I pin her down... -
Lucy's Revenge by Heather Rainier
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings[Erotic Cowboy Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, voyeurism, public exhibition, HEA] Lucy Carter is striving to succeed as a self-employed licensed massage therapist and to bolster her flagging self-confidence. The ménage of her fantasies, featuring her best friends, seems to be on the back burner. Single dad Patrick Owen has been refined in the fires of betrayal... -
Maizy The Bear Charmer by Heather Rainier
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsErotic Cowboy Ménage a Quatre Romance, M/F/M/M, light foot fetish, spanking, sex toys, HEA] Maizy Owen is living her dream, working as a kindergarten teacher. Her profession gives her purpose, but her personal life is another story. Recently rejected by her fiancé, Maizy struggles to hide a part of her nature that she longs to freely express... -
Babe: Enemies to Lovers Contemporary Romance: Tidewater Beach by Angel Lawson, Melissa Adams
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“If they get through the summer without getting into trouble, I’ll pay you double.”Those words changed my life forever.I’ve lived on Tidewater my entire life, but not in the picture-perfect, oceanfront, mansions down on The Bend. No, I’m a girl from Backwater, on the other end of the island, where we live working for them; the SUP, or Summer People.We don’t throw lavish parties, we work them... -
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Gavin by Alyssa Clark
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis was supposed to be a casual thing. Exclusive, yes, but only casually seeing one another in a sexual relationship. I wasn’t surprised when I caught feelings after by being involved with Austin, especially with everything that happened. What caught me off guard though, was where I stood with Gavin and Vaughn... -
Angelview Academy: The Complete Trilogy by E.M. Snow
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA complete dark bully romance trilogy! Contains exclusive bonus content! At Angelview Academy, Saint Angelle is considered God.But don't be fooled by his ridiculous name or that pretty face because Saint? He’s as wicked as they come.I should know.I'm the new girl who pissed him off.The nobody who called out his crew of vicious tyrants.The mortal who wouldn't bow then and sure as hell won’t now...Categorized as:
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Four Steps by Stephanie Brother
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTen years ago, my four stepbrothers left without a backward glance. Now they've returned, and they're not looking at me like a little sister anymore.When I was a shy, awkward teen, my stepbrothers were my world. As my protectors and my best friends, they provided an escape from the noisy drama of our parents’ tumultuous marriage... -
Eight Brothers' Fiancée by Nicole Casey
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe haughty twins and their six brothers knew exactly how to get me.I didn’t realize men could change so much.The twins I resented in college, along with their 6 brothers are now here to make my life a misery.The media had shown me their wild side.Now that they’re my bosses, I’m seeing something different.It was supposed to be nothing more than a job to me, a chance for a scoop...Categorized as:
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Savage Kings by L.M. Harrison
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThree beautiful, cruel boys rule Kingsworth Prep. And I'm the girl who almost ruined them...It all started with that video I posted of them—you know, the one that went viral. But that was before I knew who they were. Ezra Covington, Bellamy Thorn, and Dashiell Laurier. Three untouchable royals who were just… well, royally touched...Categorized as:
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All Sinner No Saint by Serena Akeroyd
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsALL SINNERI’m aptly named. I’m Lucifer in the flesh: Lucie to those who love me, B*tch to those who loathe me. I have plenty of enemies, most of them in the clubhouse where I was raised. But I’m tired of being an outsider, tired of being on the outside looking in. I want to go home. And home?Isn’t a place.It’s with four men. Four bikers who own my heart and soul, and have done since I was a kid... -
Poison Flower by Steffanie Holmes
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBeware the wrath of a broken blind girl.Victor. Torsten. Cassius – the jock, the artist, the stepbrother.They made me theirs – body, heart, and soul.They got inside my head.They broke down my defenses and made me trust them… maybe even love them.They betrayed me.They think they’re untouchable,but they forget that I’m one of them... -
Exile by Steph Macca
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFarewell Lilydale Foundation Center… home of our final resting place.We almost had them. But we should have known they wouldn’t play fair. It was a trap, another twisted game to use us.As war continues, we’re left with no option but to fight. We can’t afford to give up now.They fail to realize one thing though. People become dangerous when they have something to lose... -
A Work in Progress by Quinn Arthurs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter recently returning to her hometown, Emily—a thirty-something, divorced, mother-of-three—is determined to find some semblance of normalcy or happiness in her life. She turns her focus on her children and fighting alien invaders in her work as a science fiction author... -
Burn It Down by Drea Denae
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBetrayed. Again.By the one person who promised they were Team Nix. I’m not letting it all go this time though, I’ve felt the fire of revenge and I’m ready to embrace it.Except these guys aren’t getting the message. They’re everywhere.In the halls. In my head. And even though I hate to admit it, in my heart... -
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Sinfully Mastered by Serena Akeroyd
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor little Miss Naughty, the words 'behaving' and 'love' never belonged in the same sentence... * Marina is wicked. Right down to her core. She doesn't care for the rules, is the ultimate rebel without a cause, but when she loves, she loves true. So, when the few people she actually gives a damn about get hurt because of her, the guilt is immense... -
Surrender by Brooklyn Cross
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe glimmer of hope I held was shattered.Happiness was yanked away from me all over again by the same person that broke me at fifteen. Whether he’d done the deed or not didn’t matter. My mind only saw his face lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike.Kaivan McMillan ripped open the scars on my soul and let them bleed...Categorized as:
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Killer by Blake Blessing
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow dirty am I willing to get?Accepting the brothers for who they are is one thing. Understanding that they might always commit terrible crimes, is another.That was as far as I ever expected to be pushed into their world...Categorized as:
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Cruel Lies by Heleva Risque
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey claim to want to protect me. I’m not dumb enough to fall for that twice. Seven years after they shoved me off a bridge to my death, the awkward teenagers I grew up with had grown into sexy yet ruthless killers. But their black souls and our shared past couldn’t keep me from wanting their hands all over my body, even after all these years... -
Shades of Red by Willow Prescott
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"She tastes like she was made just for me."Paris is full of vibrance and flavor, robust and rich. It’s a place where dreams are forged and broken. The city of love has everything to offer, and I want it all.There’s a new restaurant in town offering a unique chance at becoming sous chef if you can prove you’re the best of ten competitors... -
Fracture by RD Baker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s been ten years. I’ve waited for them. They’ve waited for me. And now they’re back.From prison. For protecting me. My knights in shining armor—Dylan and Levi. My boyfriend, and my stepbrother.What they don’t know is how broken I am. How these years have changed me. And how, though I’ve tried to deny it for so long, I want them both.It’s so wrong. No one would understand...
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