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  • Blaze by Helen Hardt

    Blaze by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Are you missing the Steel Brothers? Are you yearning for more? Welcome to the next generation! Join the grown children of Jonah, Talon, Ryan, and Marjorie for new adventures, mysteries, and heart-pounding passion...
  • The Lady : The Oath Duet by Serena Akeroyd

    The Lady : The Oath Duet by Serena Akeroyd

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’ve spent a lifetime avoiding the various factions of the mafia in NYC, yet somehow I’m in it up to my eyeballs.I should be scared.I should want to run.Yet the city quivers in fear with every designer-clad footstep I take, because the Valentinis have ascended, and I’m the Don’s Lady.It’s intoxicating. However Luciu comes with vendettas and a craving for vengeance that could get him killed...
  • Charmed by Lexi Blake

    Charmed by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake comes a new story in her Masters and Mercenaries series… JT Malone is lucky, and he knows it. He is the heir to a billion-dollar petroleum empire, and he has a loving family. Between his good looks and his charm, he can have almost any woman he wants. The world is his oyster, and he really likes oysters...
  • Tragic / Manic / Panic by J.A. Huss

    Tragic / Manic / Panic by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ALL BOOKS IN THIS SERIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE. This is the COMPLETE ROOK and RONIN TRILOGY in one book. This omnibus edition includes: Tragic , Manic , and Panic . 876 actual paperback pages...
  • More Than Love by Ruth Cardello

    More Than Love by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Grant Barrington is known for being a steadfast financial wizard. He’s an under-celebrated voice of reason, a man who hangs back rather than charges in—until his family needs him to find out what happened to his brother Kent. Then it’s time for this quiet hero to flex his alpha billionaire muscle...
  • Slaying The Dragon by T.K. Leigh

    Slaying The Dragon by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THIS IS THE SECOND BOOK IN A TWO-BOOK DUET. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ CHASING THE DRAGON, PLEASE START THERE. RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 18 & UP DUE TO STRONG LANGUAGE, EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS, AND VIOLENCE. I should have resisted him, but I couldn’t. My addiction to him was all-consuming, the high from his touch unlike any other...
  • Secrets of Desire by L.K. Shaw

    Secrets of Desire by L.K. Shaw

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A NEW ** STANDALONE ** NOVEL When secrets surface… Bridget Carter seems to have the perfect life. She’s happily single and has a career she loves as a fashion designer at a local boutique. She enjoys playing at Club Eden and bounces from one Dominant to another. She’s not looking for love, even though she’s more than intrigued by Connor Black...
  • Twisted Obsession by Keta Kendric

    Twisted Obsession by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ansel: My cousin, Aaron, helped to rescue a damsel in distress from her cartel family, and of all people, he left her under my protection. Regina didn’t know it, but I’d claimed every part of her the day I’d set eyes on her...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  insta-love  steamy  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  biker
  • Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NASH Parker Sawyer fell into my life like a bomb. The first sight of her hit me like an explosion, changing everything. My mind, my heart, my life. The goals I thought I had and the dreams I thought I wanted. Nothing was the same after Parker. The night I fell in love with her, I let her get away. This time, there's no escape. Parker can run but she won't get far. This time I have a plan...
  • Boss Rules by Victoria Quinn

    Boss Rules by Victoria Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I've got skeletons in my closet.So what? Who doesn't?But I find myself wanting to raid her closet.I'm familiar with strong women who rock the business world.But I've never met a woman like this before.I don't want to share her. I don't want her to slip through my fingertips.But if I don't keep her, someone else will...
  • Mine by Ivy Nelson

    Mine by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunter Novak is on a quest to tear everything away from the people who abandoned him and make it his own. His thirst for retribution has landed him at the top of his game. He is a God in Las Vegas and around the world. But it's not enough. There's still one more piece of real estate and power he's after and he gave pop-star Skylar Cameron her career to get it...
  • Until Easton by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Until Easton by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Front man for East of Addiction.A rock God.Easton Evans has everything he ever wanted. To be a part of a world-famous rock band, fame, money, and his choice in women.They’ve been on the road touring for nearly a year, and by all appearances, Easton has a perfect life, but something is missing. He just doesn’t know what that is yet.Like a falling star, Easton is burning out—running on fumes...
  • Reese by Candice M. Wright

    Reese by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to the Candy shop Where poison never tasted so sweet... Being a Candy Girl is more than just a job, it’s who I am.But before I became ReeseI was known as Malice, the street kid who killed a man before disappearing without a trace.Now seven years later a serial killer is using those same streets as his hunting ground...
  • Fearless by Maren Smith

    Fearless by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He was the last thing she thought she needed, but she was everything he wanted. Abused and alone, Kitty had no idea how far she’d have to flee after she finally got the courage to run. She never would have guessed she’d end up halfway around the world, or in the home — much less the arms — of dominant Australian whip-master, Noah Carver...
    Categorized as:
    billionaire  dark  female-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  book  captivity
  • A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can you love two men at once? Is there any future in that?Brant loves me fiercely. A brilliant tech billionaire who has owned my heart for four years, he keeps proposing, and I keep turning him down. I can’t marry him, not with all of the secrets between us.Lee uses me wildly.As grouchy as he is cocky, he's interested in getting me into his bed and little more...
  • Dirty Rich Cinderella Story: Ever After by Lisa Renee Jones

    Dirty Rich Cinderella Story: Ever After by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Continuing where Dirty Rich Cinderella Story left off...Get ready for a steamy honeymoon, and a heart-stopping welcome home for Cole and Lori!The unexpected is about to happen and while Lori has faced the demons of her past, she and Cole will face those of his past now...
  • Predator & Prey: The Phoenix and The Fire by Kate Stewart

    Predator & Prey: The Phoenix and The Fire by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was drawn to darkness, and he was the abyss.Safe.It’s a liar’s word. No one is ever truly safe.Control is how I survived.I lived my life by two principles: order and excellence. My moral compass steered me out of the backwoods of Tennessee and towards the woman I was destined to become, but not without gathering a few skeletons along the way...
  • Black Pearl by Tiffany Patterson

    Black Pearl by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Monday through Friday, Devyn Williams is executive assistant to the CFO of one of the top finance firms in the country. But Devyn has a secret. At night she becomes Black Pearl, a rising performer on the Atlanta burlesque scene. Devyn's good at keeping these two aspects of her life separate, even from her company's CEO, Nikola...
    Categorized as:
    billionaire  dark  female-mc  stalking  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • First by Penelope Sky

    First by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hades retired from the business. Now it’s just me. Look at me now...bitter...angry...depressed. I resent my former friend so much, even hate the guy, but I’ve never been the same since he refused to forgive me. I meet a woman. She’s like all the others...beautiful, interesting, good at the fun stuff, but I don’t feel anything...
  • Wicked Knight by Sawyer Bennett

    Wicked Knight by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He never wanted to be anyone’s hero… Asher Knight is tall, dark, and wickedly handsome. He’s also irrevocably broken. Submerging himself in long hours at work by day and debauchery at The Wicked Horse by night, Asher uses work and play to numb the pain and guilt he feels over the death of his wife. What isn’t satisfied with one will surely be resolved by the other...
  • Chaos by Timberlyn Scott

    Chaos by Timberlyn Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This is the FINAL book in the Unhinged Trilogy, the conclusion to Sebastian and Payton's story. Secrets... The secrets are still there, plaguing me, disrupting my everyday life, only now... the unthinkable has happened. Lies... Payton insists that it is time that I deal with the lies that seem to make up my entire existence, the ones that have produced the chaos in my head...
  • Detained by Luna Mason

    Detained by Luna Mason

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FrankieI don’t have to hide behind a mask anymore.I rule New York, and now all I have to do is finish what I started ten years ago. To destroy the man who took my life from me. No one can get in my way. That is until I am arrested for murder and have my first taste of Detective Zara O’Reilly.The woman hell bent on ruining my plans...
  • Black Ink: Part II by N.M. Catalano

    Black Ink: Part II by N.M. Catalano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alexander Black Ruler of an empire. An enigma. Ruthless and powerful. Someone is setting him up, threatening to destroy everything he's built. He's got one thing on his mind; keeping Gemma safe. Gemma Trudeau A pawn in a game. It's a game she has no way of winning, with players who win only one way. Elimination. Black will not lose. To him, it's no game. It's life and death...
  • TouchStone for giving by Sydney Jamesson

    TouchStone for giving by Sydney Jamesson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elizabeth Parker has been found … Like a falling star she has come down to earth, landing painfully on the debris of a broken dream. What she thought of as love now seems no more than a wish left unfulfilled. Her future lies in the hands of two powerfully possessive men; each desiring her to the point of insanity...
    Categorized as:
    billionaire  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • A Dominant Fallen by Lena Black, Joshua Minette

    A Dominant Fallen by Lena Black, Joshua Minette

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gabrielle Hyde and Damian Hunt were ready to create a life together. But, as determined as they were to build a future, the demons they fought to overcome were just as determined to destroy it...
    Categorized as:
    billionaire  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Definitely Yes by Ella Miles

    Definitely Yes by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One question from an ex-lover. One text message from a complete stranger. The same answer to both...Yes. Scarlett Bell has found a way to move beyond a dark past that threatened to take her best friend, Kinsley, from her. Now ten years later Scarlett has everything. A multi-billion dollar fashion and beauty empire. A fabulous New York apartment filled with everything a girl could need...
  • Vengeance by Jane Henry

    Vengeance by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call him the executioner.Some say monster.He bears the name of the world's first murderer: Cain.Fitting.Dishonorably discharged from the military, he runs a highly secret, clandestine operation, and has everything I need to find the justice I crave.Power players at his disposal.An insatiable hunger for justice.A reckless disregard for the law...
  • Broken Boundaries by T.C. Matson

    Broken Boundaries by T.C. Matson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A new office romance standalone… Two things I love are the company I built from the ground up and women, and not particularly in that order. When I see something I want, I get it, whether it’s a new client or a wild night in the sack. Women flock to my stock, and ladies, that’s not all they enjoy. I’m not labeled as one of Denver’s top playboys for nothing...
  • Naked Truth by Lisa Renee Jones

    Naked Truth by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jax North. He's handsome, brutally so, and wealthy. Our first encounter is intense and sex is my escape. I go with it. I go with him and what a ride it is. And then, I say goodbye. Only you don't say goodbye to a man like Jax if he doesn't want you to. I've challenged him without meaning to. He wants me. I don't want to want him, and yet, I crave him. And he tears me down, my resistance, my walls...
  • Stark After Dark: Take Me, Have Me, Play My Game, Seduce Me by J. Kenner

    Stark After Dark: Take Me, Have Me, Play My Game, Seduce Me by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens after she says “yes”? Together in one riveting eBook, these four novellas—Take Me, Have Me, Play My Game, and Seduce Me—continue the story of billionaire Damien Stark and his fiancée, Nikki Fairchild, from J. Kenner’s Stark Trilogy: Release Me, Claim Me, and Complete Me...
  • Finding Zen by Heather Ashley

    Finding Zen by Heather Ashley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Finding a rock legend on the verge of being kidnapped wasn’t on my list of typical Monday night activities. But it happened. And when it did? Sparks flew. Too bad I didn’t realize who he was. If I hadn’t been so afraid of the world, I might have known what was in store for me. When Zen flashed me his panty-melting smile, I was a goner...
  • 216 Rancher Way by Olivia T. Turner

    216 Rancher Way by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The town of Cherry Falls is a lot of things, but exciting is not one of them.Which makes my job as a reporter for the town paper really freaking hard.The front page of the last issue featured a story about a raccoon who looked like Samuel L. Jackson.Not exactly thrilling.But when I'm forced to cover the new albino calf on the Cherry Blossom Ranch...I find out the meaning of thrilling...
  • Black Obsession by C.J. Thomas

    Black Obsession by C.J. Thomas

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bound by his obsession, Kelly Black had my emotions tied up into a mixture of fear and sadness. Timothy Parker was after Kelly. But with Kelly’s sights set on Nash Brooks for the murder of Maria Greer, he’d convinced me that Alex’s life was also in danger. The similarities between the victim and my best friend were too great to ignore...
  • Long for Me by Stacey Lynn

    Long for Me by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My boss already controls my days; do I want to give him my nights, as well?   Rebecca  I've seen what happens when you give everything to a man. That's not what I want. I won't have my heart crushed in anyone's fist.  Then he changed everything.  Him. Bennett Ashby. My boss...
  • Unforgettable by Aleatha Romig

    Unforgettable by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Marji Working for a therapist who specializes in exploring hidden desires sounds like a dream job. It is if hearing other people’s fantasies and discoveries is your cup of tea. The problem is that I’m tired of hearing about them. I want more. I want to experience them. What harm will it do if I indulge just one time? That’s where Lace and Leather comes in...
  • Tempt: The Complete Collection by Alexis Anne

    Tempt: The Complete Collection by Alexis Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **This is the box set of Volumes 1-5 of the complete TEMPT serial. One heartbeat. That’s all that separates us from the life we’ve known and everything that could change it. One kiss. Was all it took to change mine. Theo was rich and handsome, brilliant and powerful, but he wasn’t a hero or a prince charming. And let’s be honest, I wasn’t exactly a damsel in distress...
  • Black Ink by N.M. Catalano

    Black Ink by N.M. Catalano

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alexander Black Ruthless. Powerful. Dangerous. Intoxicating. Twisted. A prick. There is nothing or no one beyond his reach anywhere in the world. He uses any means to get what he wants. He wants Gemma Trudeau. For two reasons, first, to find out if she helped her husband steal three million dollars from him. The second, he wants to do very bad, very twisted things to her...
  • Fearless by Elizabeth SaFleur

    Fearless by Elizabeth SaFleur

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sarah’s life of discipline and rigid control is nearly shattered by two men—one who wishes to submit to her, the other who might break her.Sarah Marillioux fled back to DC after a weekend of reckless, delicious, impetuous passion in London with another Dominant, Steffan Vidar...
  • My Heart by Flora Ferrari

    My Heart by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When I lost my best friend in a car accident I wasn’t surprised she donated her heart. She always put others first. I just never guessed she would still be looking after me even after she was gone.When a stranger appears at my door saying, “Lisa left a note. She wanted us to take care of you,” I’m shocked...
  • Malachi by Elle Sparrow

    Malachi by Elle Sparrow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Beast and his Little Bird.A loner, more at home in the woods than with people, Malachi Temple wants nothing more than to be left alone on his small farm. The only thing he wants is a good strong drink, and perhaps a willing submissive to stalk and chase to his primal heart’s content.But life has other plans for this gruff, irritable beast...
  • Pure Temptation by Lucy Darling

    Pure Temptation by Lucy Darling

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She thinks I’m a rule follower. Or, maybe more precisely, a rule enforcer. I suppose I do like things by the book. Straight-laced? Sure. Or I had been before I saw the pink-haired beauty tending bar and realized for her I’d break all the rules.She quickly becomes my obsession, and I admit I may take my interest in her a little far. Breaking the same laws I’d enforced on others...
  • FREEFALL by Zara Cox

    FREEFALL by Zara Cox

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Keely Benson: Nineteen. The age I threw my life away. Twenty-Five. The age I decided to try it a second time. Twenty-Five plus one day. The age Benedict Mason Sinclair III walked into my life. Mason Sinclair III: She was a curse. A sex bomb. A perfect reminder that not having a heart was the best choice I ever made...
  • More Pleasures by M. S. Parker

    More Pleasures by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'd sworn to myself that I'd never give my heart away again, that I'd be content with meaningless flings. So why did I feel so empty? Like in His Pleasures, we take another step back into sexy billionaire, Rylan Archer’s past. Still a bachelor at twenty-eight, Rylan is everything a woman could want. Handsome. Intelligent. Rich...
    Categorized as:
    billionaire  dark  steamy  suspense  adult  bdsm  book  contemporary
  • BIG BAD BOY (Big Men Series) by Penny Wylder

    BIG BAD BOY (Big Men Series) by Penny Wylder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    City girls shouldn't kiss rugged mountain men...That's not a saying my mom ever told me, but she should have.Maybe then I wouldn't have turned my work-trip into a fling with the biggest,boldest, most irresistible man I'd ever met.His muscles are hard, his lips are soft. His smirk makes my legs weak.I'm done for...
  • Knocked Up by the C.E.O by Tory Baker

    Knocked Up by the C.E.O by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Another day, another dollar, that’s all I think about when I take over an investment company that’s failing. That’s what I do.I come in and bulldoze my way through each and every employee to see who’s valuable and who isn’t. My latest takeover comes with an enticing little morsel that I just can’t pass up. Dylan Thorne.She’s unlike anyone I’ve ever come in contact with...
  • Reckless Touch by Veronica Larsen

    Reckless Touch by Veronica Larsen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He crowds everything into corners just by stepping into a room. Steely, cold, and focused, he’d do anything to keep me safe. Except there is no safe and there is no us. There’s only stolen moments and reckless touches, secrets and lies. And the stranger who wants me dead. Cast in shadows and biding his time, he pulls on the threads of my life hoping I'll come undone...
  • Indebted Beginnings by Pepper Winters

    Indebted Beginnings by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “It all began with greed and gluttony and ended with diamonds and guillotines. Debts were incurred, contracts were written, and a curse landed on the firstborns from both houses.”William Hawk was born into a family with vengeance rather than blood flowing in his veins. Against all odds, he transformed himself from pauper to Lord of Hawksridge...
  • Eden High: Book 6 by Jordan Silver

    Eden High: Book 6 by Jordan Silver

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With Sian in a coma, Jace is torn between looking for answers and staying by her side. Meanwhile her enemies, unaware as yet that she's been found are celebrating their good fortune. Mandy is sure that the way is now clear for her to get Jace back in her clutches and has all intentions on getting started on that right away...
  • Surprise Gift by R.R. Banks

    Surprise Gift by R.R. Banks

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dear Arrogant Elitist Jerk, I QUIT. My billionaire boss is a type-A control freak. And the thing he wants to control most is me. Cocky and infuriating all wrapped up in one gorgeous package. If only I could forget our one-night fling... Then one day my title changed. From secretary to Henry Clyburne's fiancée. "Just fake it for a night", he said. I played the part...
  • Club Privé: French Connection Vol. III by M.S. Parker

    Club Privé: French Connection Vol. III by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'd given Gavin everything, including my trust, and I'd thought we'd worked past our problems here in Cannes. Then I saw him kissing Alizee… The trip to France that was supposed to bring them closer together keeps tearing Carrie and Gavin apart, this time thanks to Alizee Padovani...
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