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  • Troublemaker by Kayley Loring

    Troublemaker by Kayley Loring

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    TO: Alex VegaFROM: Emilia StilesSUBJECT: HelloDear Mr. Vega,I felt it necessary to follow up on today’s meeting, since we weren’t able to speak candidly in front of your son.I was shocked to discover that you are Ryder’s dad...
  • The Auction by Tiffany Reisz

    The Auction by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You're invited to New York City's hottest dating event: Kingsley Edge's annual King's Trust Charity Auction.New on the auction block this year is Daniel, a wealthy widower and Dominant. However, he happens to have his eyes on another first-timer in the club's auction: Anya, a strikingly beautiful virgin submissive from his native Canada.Too bad Anya hates him on sight...
  • Something Nice by Tiffany Reisz

    Something Nice by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's July, a couple months after Nora returns to Søren at the end of THE SIREN, and while in bed, Søren makes a trade with Nora. He'll do something nice for her and she'll do something nice for him. Of course Nora picks something sexual. But Søren surprises her with his "something nice" request. Read the excerpt below to find out what it is.This story if for mailing list subscribers only...
  • Friend Zoned by Evelyn Sola

    Friend Zoned by Evelyn Sola

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They say the best things come when you least expect it.Burned by her ex-husband and a messy divorce, Jeannie Dubois isn’t looking for anything more than a good friend. Besides, she’s still dealing with the ex who can’t seem to let her go.Insert NBA coach, Aiden Walsh...
  • Hollywood Prince by Natasha Madison

    Hollywood Prince by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Behind the "lights, camera, action" of Hollywood lies a world of deception, love, and seduction. Are you ready for Hollywood Royalty? Carter A blonde, a brunette, a redhead…he can have his pick of them all on any given night and he knows it. They wait, hoping he looks up and gives them his signature smirk, choosing them over the others because that’s his game...
  • The Red Zone by Amie Knight

    The Red Zone by Amie Knight

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They say the red zone is the hardest place to score. But for me, those last twenty yards were my sweet spot. They didn't call me Lukas "Last Minute Lucy" Callihan for nothing. I was at the top of my game...until life sacked me harder than any linebacker ever could. Losing my mom was devastating and left me as the sole person responsible for my little sister...
  • Triplets For The Mountain Man by K.C. Crowne

    Triplets For The Mountain Man by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • Masked by Ivy Nelson

    Masked by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reva Calhoun met Noah Jasper five years ago on the night he found out his longtime girlfriend had been murdered.She was dating his sonNow she's faced with turning to him for help when Parker Jasper dumps her and kicks her out.She doesn't know it, but Noah needs her help just as much as she needs his...
  • Crashing into Love by Nicole Pyland

    Crashing into Love by Nicole Pyland

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sports Series Book #7. This series is related by a sports theme, not by characters.Drew Oakes had her first chance to take home an Olympic gold medal taken away from her when another rider crashed into her in the first race of the competition.Four years later, she is determined to get on that podium, and preferably, at the top of it...
  • Limerence: A MM Rivals to Lovers Ballet Romance by Scarlett Drake

    Limerence: A MM Rivals to Lovers Ballet Romance by Scarlett Drake

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FelixDancing is everything to me. It’s the mother I lost, the father who never sees me. It’s the fiery love of my life, and I’ll defend it to my last breath—that’s what it means to be the lead principal at one of the best ballet companies in the world. Just when I thought I was on top, my greatest rival—my eternal nemesis—waltzes back into my Nicoló Savini...
  • Fearless King by Maya Hughes

    Fearless King by Maya Hughes

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    My first crush. My first heartbreak. My brother’s best friend. The butterflies in my stomach turned into full blown eagles the second our lips touched. A kiss under the stars that changed our relationship forever. After a lifetime of wishing, I stared up into Ford’s eyes with his fingers caressing my cheek and my heart racing. The evening ended with my heart bleeding on the ballroom floor...
  • Strike a Chord by J.B. Salsbury

    Strike a Chord by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Taylor Marsten looks like a guy.How was I supposed to know there was a woman hiding beneath her baseball hat and baggy clothes? I piss off the stubborn roadie one time, and she starts a prank war. Back and forth we go using public humiliation as a weapon. Our situation turns complicated when I find myself searching her out. I want to piss her off just to receive retaliation...
  • Trust by Deborah Bladon

    Trust by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My older brother’s best friend crashed my twenty-first birthday party.Then he took me home with him. Harrison Keene is the type of man women chase.So they can yell at him. He’s as arrogant as they come.Sinfully handsome and annoying blunt, he was born with a diamond-encrusted silver spoon in his mouth.Harrison is the heir to the Keene family fortune...
  • No Chance by Lisa Suzanne

    No Chance by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The screaming fans in the crowd are proof the world loves Brett Pitzer, but I hate him. Those women lusting after him as he bangs on his drums have this fantasy of one night with him. He granted that dream to my sister, except he left her with a baby to raise on her own.She couldn’t tell him about their boy, but with her life on the line the same night he’s back in town, I have no choice...
  • Shopping for a Highlander by Julia Kent

    Shopping for a Highlander by Julia Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m a professional chickenblocker.Except “chicken” is a euphemism.I get paid to follow a womanizing troglodyte who thinks rules are for other people and that my pants are the next pair he’s getting into.Dream on.Bet your first professional job didn’t involve babysitting an extremely hot, muscle-bound Scottish Highlander with an ego the size of a kilt and a libido bigger than his…well…Chicken...
  • Out of Love by Ruth Cardello

    Out of Love by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Laughter and sparks set the stage for a fun romance from New York Times bestselling author Ruth Cardello about a farmer who switches places with his business-savvy twin brother and falls in love with the daughter of his brother’s biggest client.I just found out I have an identical twin...
  • Dirty Laundry by Lauren Landish

    Dirty Laundry by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I’m a reporter, and I’ve got the best assignment in the world–get dirt on the hottest country star on the charts, Keith Perkins. The sexy beast who rocks those tight jeans like nobody’s business. I’m supposed to learn all of his Dirty Laundry, his deepest and darkest secrets. Without sleeping with him. Easy enough, right? Wrong...
  • Hate the Player by Max Monroe

    Hate the Player by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Roses are red, violets are blue, stay away from Andrew Watson’s *ahem* because no other women ever do.”That’s quite the way to start a conversation at a casual lunch, huh? Grilled chicken, French fries, and pelvic-fatigue, oh my!And that’s not even the worst of it.My friend Raquel didn’t pull any punches when she warned me about my brand-new costar and his notoriously player-esque ways...
  • 2 Fights by Nikki Castle

    2 Fights by Nikki Castle

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A toxic ex.A girl who lost herself.A childhood friend helping her find the way back.When Hailey finally ends her relationship with her narcissistic ex-boyfriend, she thinks all her troubles have ended. But what she doesn’t realize is that the wounds he inflicted aren’t on her skin, but in the way she sees herself. And the only person capable of helping her heal has been in her corner all her life...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  multi-pov  slow-burn  sports  steamy  adult  book
  • Off Limits by Chelle Sloan

    Off Limits by Chelle Sloan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Professional football has an actual rulebook, but it’s the unwritten rules that come with the harshest consequences.The biggest one of all: don’t date your teammate’s sister. And if you do, don’t you dare fall in love with her.I never meant to fall, but when it comes to Brenna Donald, I never stood a chance. She’s everything I’m not--a light-hearted wild child who shines brighter than the sun...
  • Collection by C.D. Reiss

    Collection by C.D. Reiss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bonus ContentFor serious fans of Jonathan and Monica Drazen - a compilation of off-the-charts hot little stories you've never seen before!NEVER BEFORE RELEASED - CountA Love LetterQuarantine CouplesNOW UNAVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSERachelFirst MorningA ValentineTwitter ChatBeatAlso includes the novella - Breathe!These shorts are chock full of stories about life in the Drazen house, both before and...
  • Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Tripp by Alex Wolf, Sloane Howell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tripp Patton is not the guy you take home to meet your mom.He is the number one sports agent in the world, and he didn’t get there by playing nice.On the verge of signing the biggest player of his career, someone gets in his way.Lennon Edwards, a younger agent trying to make a name for herself. She’s hungry for success, relentless, and drop-dead gorgeous...
  • Strong and Wild by Sloane St. James

    Strong and Wild by Sloane St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    MickyI’m new to this city, but things are looking up. My bestie’s husband hooked me up with a great apartment above the hockey bar where I currently work, and I’ve got a great side gig bringing in plenty of cash to help fund my dream of opening my own cocktail lounge, Sugar & Ice. Life is sweet. My new neighbor, on the other hand, is not.When he reveals his true self, I hate what I discover...
  • The Billionaire's Big Bold Wonder by Nichole Rose

    The Billionaire's Big Bold Wonder by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ...
  • The Winning Bid by Michelle Windsor

    The Winning Bid by Michelle Windsor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Desperate to gain the funds needed to start a new life, Hannah decides to work as a submissive, agreeing to be auctioned off to the highest bidding dominant at Baton Timide, an exclusive members only club. The winning bidder owns the submissive for a weekend of whatever they command. It's her first auction and she's prepared herself for whatever may come...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  billionaire  steamy  adult  bdsm  book  contemporary
  • Face the Music by J.B. Salsbury

    Face the Music by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pastor Ben Langley is irresistible. His wife died giving birth to their daughter five years ago. His tragic past doesn’t keep me from wanting to unravel him, strip away his buttoned-up goodness, and discover what kind of man lies beneath. If that makes me evil, so be it. I’m far beyond redemption anyway. Ashleigh Kendrick is freedom personified, an unpredictable wind I want to grasp hold of...
  • Intrigued Out of the Office by Nicole Edwards

    Intrigued Out of the Office by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Having spent the last two and a half months with my bosses, the thought of spending the holidays alone isn’t ideal. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I feared I would be doing. Or so I thought. I probably should’ve learned long ago not to underestimate the men I work for. They do have a way of surprising me when I least expect it...
  • The Billionaire's Big Bold Woman by Nichole Rose

    The Billionaire's Big Bold Woman by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two years ago, my ex-wife tried to frame me for embezzlement. My life crumbled, leaving me the single father of two little girls. I swore I'd never trust a woman again… Until Jenna Kirby waltzes into my life and turns it upside down. She's like no one I've ever met. Her bright eyes and big personality hide a heart of gold. I've never felt like this about anyone. Neither have my girls...
  • Dirty Bad Boy by Mira Lyn Kelly

    Dirty Bad Boy by Mira Lyn Kelly

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm not a total dick… Most days, I'm a damned decent guy. Just not around my buddy's sister. She's sexy as sin, sharp as hell, and she's also the lush little harpy who's been rubbing me wrong since we were kids...
  • Unveil by Elodie Hart

    Unveil by Elodie Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    GenI’ve made my fortune from liberation, but I’m far more comfortable with discretion.I’ve built the pre-eminent sex club in London, but I don’t play there.Not publicly, anyway. Not beyond its darkest corners.I talk the talk, but I don’t walk the walk. Not like my male co-founders do.Because I’m the immaculate one...
  • Cherry Popper by Victoria Quinn

    Cherry Popper by Victoria Quinn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They call me the Cherry Popper. Because there's only one kind of woman I like to screw. Virgins. I pay top dollar for the experience. And sometimes women don't want me to pay at all. I get off to their tightness, their tears. I get off to the drops of blood on the sheets. All men have fantasies...I just happen to be rich enough to fund mine...
  • The Veteran by Olivia T. Turner

    The Veteran by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Five years ago, I had the night of my life with Harris Sutton.Out of all the people in the bar, the famous hockey player chose me.He was in town for a game and when he left, he took my virginity with him.And he unknowingly left me with a souvenir.Five years later, my souvenir is my whole world.A five-year-old boy that I never told him about.Lucas.We’re happy and comfortable in our little life...
  • Splendor by Janet Nissenson

    Splendor by Janet Nissenson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    British hotelier Ian Gregson had it all – wealth, good looks, power, and a share in his family’s worldwide, multi-billion dollar luxury hotel chain. His very name was synonymous with sophistication and elegance, and any woman he wanted could be his with just a look. But the only woman he truly desired was strictly forbidden to him for too many reasons to count...
  • Close by Laurelin Paige, Kayti McGee

    Close by Laurelin Paige, Kayti McGee

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everyone wants to get close to a rock star. The bright lights. The music. Those talented fingers strumming… a guitar. Everyone wants to bang a rock star. So why do I keep running from the one who wants me? I’m America’s Sweetheart. I have a reputation. He’s a boy-band icon turned rock god. I’m vanilla. He’s every flavor of bad. And he’s much, much too young for me...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  celebrity  multi-pov  steamy  adult  audiobook  book
  • Dare Me Tonight by Carly Phillips

    Dare Me Tonight by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What happens when a Knight Seduces a Dare? New York Times Bestselling author Carly Phillips returns to her fan favorite Dare family with an all new steamy Dare/Knight crossover standalone, DARE ME TONIGHT. Sparks fly when a Knight seduces a Dare. Sienna Dare is forbidden. She's too young and she has an overprotective brother whose business Ethan Knight can’t risk losing...
  • The Billionaire's Big Bold Wish by Nichole Rose

    The Billionaire's Big Bold Wish by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This billionaire just broke every rule in the book.JusticePeople say I'm cold. Autocratic. Merciless.They're half right.There's only one woman in the world who gets my blood heated...my niece's best friend, Milan.She's been taunting me for years, pushing every single one of my buttons just because she can.Now, it's my turn.She thinks she knows me...
  • Eraser Platinum by Megan Keith

    Eraser Platinum by Megan Keith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life He believes his life begins and ends with her. Truth She believes in staying true to herself. Together they have overcome so many obstacles, yet happiness still eludes them. Their lives may be heading in different directions … And that truth will cause them pain...
  • The Billionaire Cinderella Test by Elle James, Myla Jackson

    The Billionaire Cinderella Test by Elle James, Myla Jackson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Billionaire Online Dating Service. Let us find your perfect match! Desperate to find a date to his own charity ball, billionaire Gage Tate agrees to give his friend's online dating system a try. Tired of gold-diggers and society debutantes, he wants a woman who isn't after his money, and won't become a bridezilla-wanna-be when exposed to his high-society world and the trappings of wealth...
  • His Sweet Pea  (The May Flowers Series) by Vivian Ward, Flirt Club

    His Sweet Pea (The May Flowers Series) by Vivian Ward, Flirt Club

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Pretending to be my enemy’s girlfriend is a recipe for disaster...but he made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Danny was my first love but he sabotaged me when we were competing for one of the most lucrative art scholarships. That’s when he became my number one enemy and I kissed his sweet ass good-bye. That was nearly a decade ago. And all these years later, I still hate him...
  • Forever: a standalone, interracial romance by Tiffany Patterson

    Forever: a standalone, interracial romance by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The last we saw from Landon Rogers and Melody James, in Love in Paradise, the couple was newly engaged and looking forward to a lifetime of forever. Unfortunately, forever comes with some bumps in the road. Not everyone is celebrating the couple’s engagement. In fact, one person in particular is dead set on seeing the couple’s happily ever after destroyed...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  multi-pov  sports  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Game by Anna Bloom

    The Game by Anna Bloom

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Alyssa Rivers accepts the coveted trainer's position with England’s top cricket team, The Red Cats, she knows it's going to be nothing short of hard work. A woman in a man’s world, Lyssa not only has to prove she is the right person for the job, but she must earn the respect of cricket’s most elite players, including the surly team captain, Jase Willis...
  • Wicked Player by Stacey Lynn

    Wicked Player by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gage Bryant has the best hands and the quickest feet of any wide receiver in football. He also has a secret—one he’ll do anything to protect. He’s a member of The Velvet Club. With airtight non disclosure agreements, playing at Velvet gives him the freedom to assert his dominance and control in a way that not only serves him on the football field, but the way he craves in the bedroom...
  • Alphas Confess All by Shayla Black, Lexi Blake

    Alphas Confess All by Shayla Black, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, all sin needs is a little confession. And sometimes, those who need it the most have the highest walls, the darkest secrets…the dirtiest desires.You’re obsessed with what he’ll do to you. How he’ll possess you in every way possible. Every naughty, forbidden way…These heroes, created by ten of romance’s leading stars, are ready to step out of their shadows and confess all…to you...
  • Be My Dirty Billionaire by L. Nicole

    Be My Dirty Billionaire by L. Nicole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Her Forbidden Billionaire by Liz Fox

    Her Forbidden Billionaire by Liz Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Curvy Woman Romance She works to support her art. He’s a known playboy… and he’s her boss. Will they overcome their differences to find love?Forbidden Billionaire is a steamy, short romance with a curvy woman and a handsome hero. It is the first book in the Bad Boy Billionaires series.NoraI'm an artist at heart...
  • Willow's Daddy by Paige Michaels

    Willow's Daddy by Paige Michaels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Littleworld is an amazing vacation spot on an island reserved strictly for age play. Visitors can indulge in deeper regression without fear of being judged. In fact, it’s mandatory and addictive. Some guests find themselves unwilling to leave the island…Intent on making sure her friend is safe and happy, Willow consents to moving in with a sponsor on Regression Island...
  • His to Cherish by Sierra Cartwright

    His to Cherish by Sierra Cartwright

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Only her innocence could save him… Jaded financier Philip Dettmer vowed never to love again—until a chance encounter with the beautifully innocent Emma Monroe tempts him beyond reason. Emma blushes furiously when the billionaire catches her in an elevator holding a copy of the scandalous novel taking the world by storm...
  • Playing with Fire by Tory Baker

    Playing with Fire by Tory Baker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wife. Happily ever after. That was never in the cards for me, not with a past like mine.Everything changed when Millie entered my life. The no labels I demanded on our heated encounters became meaningless when she threatened to walk away. There’s only one thing a man can do when he realizes the woman he loves is going to leave forever.I have to fix not only myself, but our relationship...
  • Cap by Elise Faber

    Cap by Elise Faber

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s the one he wants.And he’s not going to give her up without a fight.As the newly named captain of the San Francisco Gold, Josh is used to pressure and hard work.What he’s not used to?Women despising him.Jess, however, has taken an instant dislike to him, and no matter what he tries to do, he can’t seem to get beyond her prickly exterior...
  • Stay With Me by Alisha Williams

    Stay With Me by Alisha Williams

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s my best friends dad. But he wants me to call him Daddy.I just spent the last four years studying to become a nurse.Now I’m sitting on a mountain debt.Rather than spend the rest of my life paying it off, I find a second job where the money is too good to turn down.The plan is, become a high end escort, get a few wealthy clients and quit as soon as I make enough to pay off my student loans...
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