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  • Under the Influence by Kimberly Brown

    Under the Influence by Kimberly Brown

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alanis Kapri is living the American Dream. As the star quarterback of the Carolina Hurricanes, life is luxury. Unfortunately for Alanis, he’s considered the NFL’s problem child. One too many negative press runs have landed his head on the chopping block. He’s been given an clean up his act or be cut from the team. Reluctantly, Alanis agrees to the terms...
  • Hank: Texas Kings MC, Book 11 by Cee Bowerman

    Hank: Texas Kings MC, Book 11 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hank has worked hard to become the man he is today. He's a loyal friend and brother to the men in his club, a tough but caring employer, and a helpful neighbor to the older woman next door. He had one night of passion with a woman that ghosted him and she’s left a hole in his life that he just can't fill...
  • No Coming Back: Cross Creek Ranch by Janice Whiteaker

    No Coming Back: Cross Creek Ranch by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Don’t have a one-night stand in a small town.Not unless you’re real comfortable facing down your bad decisions in the daylight.It’s a lesson Amelie Gable learned the hard way.Which was turning out to be a recurring theme in her life since it was a string of hard lessons that led to her falling into bed with the first blue-eyed cowboy that said, yes ma’am to her...
  • One More Kiss by AshleyNicole

    One More Kiss by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah Samuels and Stewart Mitchel have been sworn enemies all of their lives. One night of pleasure, however, takes them to a place where neither would have ever thought they’d end up: Lovers. Sarah is ready for love, but Stewart isn’t so sure. She’s everything he would want in a mate, but he’s not exactly looking for one...
  • Grip Trilogy Box Set by Kennedy Ryan

    Grip Trilogy Box Set by Kennedy Ryan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Grip Trilogy charts the course of rising star Marlon "Grip" James and his manager Bristol Gray. From the beginning, attraction ignites between the struggling musician and his best friend's ambitious sister. It starts with a kiss at the top of a Ferris wheel when they're young, combusts into a tumultuous love affair, and matures into an epic love that defies each odd and defeats every obstacle...
  • Down To You by Jayne Frost

    Down To You by Jayne Frost

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She started from perfect. A star who shone brighter than the rest. But then fate took it all away. Now she's broken. A beautiful song with a fractured beat. But I'm still on the rise. Chasing a dream that she's already left behind. If I'm lucky, I can find my redemption in the spotlight. Destiny brought us together. Put her in my path. It started with a road trip...
  • One More Touch: One More Series by AshleyNicole

    One More Touch: One More Series by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lose weight. Get Proposal. Make Ronnie Love me. Storee Leòne’s lifelong struggle to lose weight is causing problems in her relationship. Her boyfriend won’t propose until she’s at a weight he deems fit. Storee’s more than willing to lose the weight to get the proposal and make him happy, at least until she meets ex boxing pro Joseph Mitchel. Joseph is a tough trainer with a good heart...
  • Untaken Twin by Samantha Christy

    Untaken Twin by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A forbidden romance.There’s only one thing worse than your fiancé dying . . .It's having to look into his face every single day.Or should I say - the face of his twin.So I left.I never knew promises were made. Then broken.And I surely never expected those promises to be about me.When I return to my hometown and see his face, the heartache I’ve been running from is front and center...
  • Adjacent: A Building 402 Novella by Alexandra Warren

    Adjacent: A Building 402 Novella by Alexandra Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the last guy she should be checking for. Arrogant. Sexy. A Certified F*ckboy. She’s the only girl he can’t seem to get off of his mind. Ambitious. Attractive. Adjacent. The proximity of them being neighbors certainly doesn’t help either of their causes...
  • James—Uncontrollable by Felice Stevens

    James—Uncontrollable by Felice Stevens

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's time to travel with James and Malcolm through their twenty year history as they battle each other and struggle to hold on to a lifetime of secrets. James Never good enough. Not the real son. I will prove him wrong—prove everyone wrong. I am someone. I will succeed. I don’t need my brother to help me. I don't need anyone. My enemy holds my secret. He teases me. Taunts me...
  • Last Chance To Love by B. Love

    Last Chance To Love by B. Love

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Millionaire hair and skincare mogul Morgan Carter has everything in her life except deep connections with those who aren’t of her bloodline. She’s spent the past ten years of her life devoted to making her brand a household name in the African American community. A year before her thirty-fifth birthday, Morgan realizes it’s time for her to focus on gaining friends and starting her family...
  • Loathing a Landon by Ruth Cardello

    Loathing a Landon by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cooper Landon knows what it’s like to be left behind, lied to, and betrayed. At sixteen, angry and broke, he tried to rob a small-town hardware store. Instead of money, what he got was a good beating and a second chance. Pete Glenford took him in, taught him he wasn’t worthless, welcomed him into his family, and gave him a purpose...
  • Something Special by Tiffany Patterson

    Something Special by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gabriella I can’t stand him. Jamal Holmes. My best friend’s cousin. So what he may be able to help me finally make the move to get my business off the ground. He’s a pompous jerk and judgmental to boot. At least, those are the very excuses I tell myself to avoid his help at all costs. Now, if I could just get my silly body to stop reacting every time he’s near...
  • Attachment Theory by Kayley Loring

    Attachment Theory by Kayley Loring

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dear Mr. Brodie,I hope this email finds you well. Your well-being and personal growth are of the utmost importance to me, as a therapist. As such, I have decided it is in your best interest to continue individual therapy with another practitioner. This is due to the potential for boundaries being crossed between us.Attached is a list of colleagues I would recommend for you...
    Categorized as:
    angst  asian-mc  poc-mc  slow-burn  adult  age-gap  audiobook  book
  • Play Dirty by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Play Dirty by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Run, he whispered in my ear. While you still can. I walked into a club called Ruin and found it—and him—when he bent me over the piano he was playing. I did as he said, but not until after he’d decimated me in the filthiest way possible. I loved every second. That one, and the ones that came years later...
  • Después de diciembre by Joana Marcús

    Después de diciembre by Joana Marcús

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    El tiempo es algo relativo. Para algunos pasa más rápido; para otros, no tanto. A Jenna Brown el último año se le ha hecho eterno.Cuando superas una ruptura el tiempo se rige por otras leyes físicas, y estar un año sin Jack Ross ha sido uno de los retos más difíciles de su vida...
  • The Bravest Hero by Twyla Turner

    The Bravest Hero by Twyla Turner

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's a hero who needs saving... Royal King is the motorcycle-riding rocker chick of the Curvy Girls Club, who stopped caring about what other people think long ago. McKennon 'The Mack' Carter is a firefighter and fitness model, whose life revolves around trying to be perfect for everyone. One night on a dark freeway, their lives collide...
    Categorized as:
    poc-mc  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • How The Heart Breaks by Stacey Marie Brown

    How The Heart Breaks by Stacey Marie Brown

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was her secret, her sin, the heart she couldn’t love.Emery Robert’s life is everything she wanted. Married to the love of her life, with a good job, and plans for a family in the future. But when Emery’s husband dies tragically, she is the one who stops living.Three years later, at the age of 30, she’s still struggling to move on...
    Categorized as:
    angst  slow-burn  steamy  adult  age-gap  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Revive Me: Part Two: The Affair by J.L. Seegars

    Revive Me: Part Two: The Affair by J.L. Seegars

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MalloryThe day Christopher Johnson decided to kill me, I already knew what it was like to die. I had already experienced it once. Having the life leeched from my body, blood stolen from my veins, oxygen pulled from my lungs.When he decided to walk back into my life, I was in the middle of my third resurrection, healing from the loss of my brother when I was still raw from losing him...
  • Cooper by Lulu Moore

    Cooper by Lulu Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Thirteen years ago I fell for the wrong person and swore I’d never let another woman into my heart. Ever since, I’ve lived on a diet of bunnies and casual sex. That was until Francesca Danvers walked into my life. The sister of my team Captain’s fiancée, her Maid of Honor to my Best Man. She’s my match in every stubborn way. Boiling my blood during the day, lighting me on fire at night...
  • Revive Me: Part Three by J.L. Seegars

    Revive Me: Part Three by J.L. Seegars

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mallory Hope is a dangerous thing. It holds you close like a lover, whispering promises it never intends to keep, and just as soon as you relax into its arms, it lets you go. Sending you spinning into an abyss of nothingness. When I sent him away four years ago, he promised he would come back to me, and even as I asked him not to, I hoped that he would. Hope...
  • Off Camera by Chelsea Curto

    Off Camera by Chelsea Curto

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Avery Sinclair is good at her job as the social media manager for the Baltimore Thunderhawks. She’s one of the best in the NFL, in fact. The only thing stopping her from being the account of the year? The DC Titans, run by the mystery man she’s been feuding with for years.Reid Duncan isn’t the world’s biggest sports fan, but he loves his job...
  • Want You Bad by Julia Wolf

    Want You Bad by Julia Wolf

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m a mess disguised in a pristine package. Routine and order are the only things keeping me sane these days. That is, until Charlie Hamada shows up in my small town and blasts my orderly (boring) life to bits.Charming, spontaneous, and quirky Charlie has decided his mission is to turn me into a rebel...and I like being just a little bit bad more than I ever thought I would...
  • Fire and Rain by Tiana Laveen

    Fire and Rain by Tiana Laveen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This book contains adult content. Readers be advised.Aries ‘Flame’ Creed is not the kind of man you want to cross. He’s rough around the edges, revenge-seeking, shrewd and nobody’s pushover. After living through a checkered past and a nasty divorce, single fatherhood and a successful motorcycle sales and repair shop in Atlanta, GA keep him on his toes...
    Categorized as:
    poc-mc  slow-burn  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  family
  • Be My Valentine by Blue Saffire

    Be My Valentine by Blue Saffire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Award winning Author Blue Saffire presents Be My Valentine Can love survive when the past changes everything? I do what I have to do. I’ve been this way all of my life. I’ve walked up to one of the most powerful men I’ve ever known and told him I could offer him more power, and I have. In return, I wanted a piece of that power to call my own. That man has also become a dear friend and… my husband...
    Categorized as:
    poc-mc  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Come Play: An Erotica Charity Anthology by Quin, Sara Dobie Bauer

    Come Play: An Erotica Charity Anthology by Quin, Sara Dobie Bauer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Watch and Learn if the Coach’s Little Kitten can be Tamed. Follow the Doctor’s Orders and read all about Brotherly Love. Understand Abstract Love and then take a peek at A Kink Chronicles Short. It’s all about Pretty Boys, The Kiss, and Particular Tastes bundled up in this must-have erotic anthology. Come, play with us...
  • Logan by Megyn Ward

    Logan by Megyn Ward

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    My name hasn’t always been Logan and I haven’t always been a Bright.Once upon a time, my name was Matthew Collins and my father is The Family Man, one of the most brutal and notorious serial killer this country has ever known. When I was nine years old, he killed my mother… and then he just kept on killing.Who I am has always been a secret...
  • Taming Trouble by Jiffy Kate

    Taming Trouble by Jiffy Kate

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The day Tucker Benoit left his father's farm in French Settlement to pursue his love of music was the best day of his life. Or so he thought... After years of booze, girls, drugs, and gigs, Tucker finds himself back where he started. Only this time, he finds solace on the farm that once isolated him from the world...
  • Montana Mine by Vanessa Vale

    Montana Mine by Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Daphne Lane leads an uncomplicated life as a travel journalist. After spending a week visiting her crazy Aunt Velma in Montana, she's more than ready to escape to her next assignment. But Fate has other plans in the form of JT McCade, a sexy detective with a sensitive trigger finger. Pulling over a car for speeding should've been quick and easy for JT...
  • Clutch & Shift by Brittany Ann

    Clutch & Shift by Brittany Ann

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AmaraI’m the daughter of a well-respected St. Louis detective.Everyone saw me as just his kid, and when he died, I was pitied.I left St. Louis to heal from the pain the city brought me, but two years ago, I came back and joined the SLPD as a detective, my father’s shadow looming over me.On my first night back in town, I made a lust-filled mistake, one that would haunt me forever...
  • Getaway by bazookah

    Getaway by bazookah

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    𝐈𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟.. . . . . . . . . .We've all heard the tales of good and bad, the tales of innocent deceit and her hero, the tales that despite their nature, show us the beauty in contrast. But it's the tales of pure evil that get swept under the rug...
  • Cruel North by J.B. Salsbury

    Cruel North by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cruel North is an angsty second-chance, enemies to lovers romance where the most hated man in the North Brothers world finally gets brought to his knees.A teenage girl with my eyes and a familiar glare, strolls into my life and she’s calling me Dad. Vanessa was my high school girlfriend and the smartest person I knew. She had a plan, a future, and she swore nothing would get in the way...
  • Controlled Chaos by Christina C. Jones

    Controlled Chaos by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andre Clarke is painfully accustomed to being in control.He’s the problem solver, the “responsible” brother, the one who keeps everything around him in order.Until Drew Dawson steps in to turn him upside down.Andre may be used to doling out commands, but Drew isn’t one to take them.Two very different people, with a shared goal… if only they can play their roles...
  • Make Me Beg by Honesty Price

    Make Me Beg by Honesty Price

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Griffin hates Vonique and the feeling is mutual. It turns out their disdain for one another is the key ingredient in her search for a partner who can bring her to her knees and blow her mind -- in that order. She wants adventure and Griffin is more than happy to oblige...
  • The Long Hot Summer by Rochelle Alers

    The Long Hot Summer by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After his wife walked out on him and his son, veternarian Ryan Blackstone swore never to love again. He'd tried to dislike beautiful Kelly Andrews-the teacher hired to run Blackstone Farms Day School-on general principle, but failed. And it wasn't long before the sultry widow had ignited a firestorm of emotion that was burning a sensuous trail..
    Categorized as:
    poc-mc  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Something About Us by Riley Hart

    Something About Us by Riley Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Falling in love was the easy part.   Lucky and Saint are head-over-heels for each other. It doesn’t matter that they met only a few months ago. It also doesn’t matter that this is Saint’s first real relationship and Lucky’s first with a man. They’re infatuated, happy, and excited to start their life together in LA.   It isn’t as easy as they thought...
  • Taming the Tease by Golden Angel

    Taming the Tease by Golden Angel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Come into the hottest BDSM club around and meet the Stronghold Doms...Rick Winter is tired of playing empty scenes with submissives, only to return home alone. He wants what he sees his friends getting - a real relationship with submissives who love them...
  • Last Comes Fate by Nicole French

    Last Comes Fate by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    No one expects a surprise pregnancy from a one-month fling.Just like no one expects to make the same mistake twice.Five years after we first met and I had his baby, Xavier Parker’s knocked me up again.And this time I won’t be keeping it a secret.My ex-boyfriend is perfectly aware we’ve got a baby on the way.Only problem?He has no interest in being an ex...
  • Whiskey Sour by Addison Beck

    Whiskey Sour by Addison Beck

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    KnoxWhat do you do when the love of your life chooses someone else?Easy, you find a nice rebound. If it just so happens to be his hot, dumb hunk of a brother, even better.Elton Hill is everything wrong with people. He’s loud, annoying, way too intense, and pushes too hard. But he’s available and our secret friends-with-benefits relationship turns out to be exactly what I need...
  • Tristan by Karla Sorensen

    Tristan by Karla Sorensen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    There's one thing you should know about Tristan Whitfield: he’s been in love with Anna for years. There are two problems with that: she has no idea, and she's married. Or at least, she was. Anna Callahan knows three things about her brother’s friend, Tristan: he's quiet, incredibly handsome, and has a smolder that could set the room on fire...
  • Thursdays in Savannah (Slivers of Love) by Olivia Gaines

    Thursdays in Savannah (Slivers of Love) by Olivia Gaines

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jesse Orison knew he was on borrowed time, but he had a plan. Savannah was set to marry another guy in year. Experience had taught him that a man could make a lot of things happen in 12 months. His first priority starting next week, was to make her fall in love with him. He would begin his methodical plan by paying her a visit on Thursday...
    Categorized as:
    poc-mc  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Tomboy by C.L. Cruz

    Tomboy by C.L. Cruz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tomboy is a short, sweet, steamy story. It is the first in the Juniper Creek series but can be read as a standalone. It features a strong, curvy heroine and the man who wins her heart.ChelyWhen my grandmother and I started the Tacontento Grill, it was just a small, hole-in-the-wall taco joint with delicious food...
  • SIR by R.J. Lewis

    SIR by R.J. Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    angst  slow-burn  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  amnesia  book  contemporary
  • Bryce by Alex Wolf

    Bryce by Alex Wolf

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
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  • Grand Theft N.Y.E. by Katrina Jackson

    Grand Theft N.Y.E. by Katrina Jackson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cleo Wright is just a happy scammer on a mission to rob a rich man before his ex-wife or the federal government seize all of his money and possessions. She's not expecting to meet another rich man who makes her want to use her nimble fingers for other, not thieving, things. But Robert Shimizu is just that man...
  • Rivals by Piper Lawson

    Rivals by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the biggest rockstar in the world invited me into his home, there was one rule:Don’t touch his daughter.For a kid from the wrong side of the tracks with no future, the offer should have been a dream come true.Classy new digs.A fancy prep school.Someone who cares what happens to me.Except for that rule.The rich pricks at my new school worship me. I couldn’t care less...
  • Claimed by Kora Knight

    Claimed by Kora Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Breck wants him more than any championship title, but to win him, he’s got to slam dunk the greatest basket of his life.With college behind him and the NBA in sight, draft shoo-in Breck Harland should be riding cloud nine with visions of grandeur and glory.Should be. He’s striven for this his entire life...
  • The Hotshot vs The Reporter by Nicole Dykes

    The Hotshot vs The Reporter by Nicole Dykes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    RoyalI’m the hotshot—both on and off the track. I know how to work the crowd and show off. And I’m good at it.I’ve had to become very effective at putting on a show.But my agent is not a fan of my over-the-top antics. So she did something I still can’t believe . . .She called in the press—the media. Specifically, the reporter who hates everything I stand for...
  • Never Forever by Hailey Shore

    Never Forever by Hailey Shore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Whoops! I’m pregnant with my enemy’s baby….Matt Sullivan isn't just the grumpiest ferry boat captain in Calico Cove, with sun-kissed hair and broad shoulders - he's also my sworn enemy. In high school, I thought we were endgame but then he broke my heart in the worst possible way. I swore that someday I'd make him regret every cruel word he said to me that night...
  • Love...It's Wild by Jeannine Colette

    Love...It's Wild by Jeannine Colette

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Falling in love has never been this wild… I’m a woman who knows my own worth. And more than anything, I deserve love. Wild, passionate, all-consuming love. What I did not deserve was being forced to hang around my small town to watch the jerk who left me at the alter fawn over his new wife. Instead, I ran. Right into him. Robert Bronson is my friend’s grumpy brother-in-law...
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