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  • Letters to Molly by Devney Perry

    Letters to Molly by Devney Perry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Molly and Finn Alcott had the picture-perfect marriage. With two gorgeous children, a lovely home and their own business, they were the couple others aspired to be. But when news of their divorce spreads through town like wildfire, it sends their beautiful image up in flames. Molly spends years mending her broken heart. She finds joy in a life centered around her kids and career...
  • Could Have Been Us by Corinne Michaels

    Could Have Been Us by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    New York Times Bestselling author Corinne Michaels returns to the Willow Creek Valley Series in this stunning friends-to-lovers romance STANDALONE. Stella Parkerson has hidden her feelings for Jack since she was sixteen. He’s older, broken, and unwilling to see her as anything but his best friend’s little sister...
  • Going Wild by C.M. Owens

    Going Wild by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Wild Ones Tip #109 We’re the reason the gene pool needs a lifeguard. People often ask me what in the hell convinced me to move to Tomahawk, Washington, where the four corners of crazy are known as the Wild Ones...
  • Leo - A Preston Brothers Novel  : A More Than Series Spin-off by Jay McLean

    Leo - A Preston Brothers Novel : A More Than Series Spin-off by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One single summer changed them forever, and one moment of devastating silence destroyed it all.Growing up with six siblings, Leo Preston has always struggled to find his voice.While his brothers are loud, greedy, and somewhat obnoxious, Leo is forever the quiet one.The thinker.The listener.He watches his life pass by as an outsider in his own world, absent and alone.Lost. Until he finds her...
  • Logan by Jay McLean

    Logan by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    As a kid, Logan Preston was a brat. Through his teens, he became the bad boy. Now, at nineteen, no one knows what the hell to expect.High school dropout, Logan Preston is a good-for-nothing stoner. A black sheep. A disappointment. The worst Preston Punk of the lot.At least that’s how everyone in his small town makes him feel. But Logan Preston has secrets...
  • Broken Love Story by Natasha Madison

    Broken Love Story by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When one man’s death exposes a complex web of lies, three couples discover the true meaning of love, loss and redemption.Samantha I had the perfect life; a husband who loved me, and two kids who were my world. Until someone else answered his phone and my perfect life shattered. When he died, I was left with answers he couldn't give me and a box full of lies. He left me broken...
  • My Kinda Forever by Lacey Black

    My Kinda Forever by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alone. Everything changed for Meghan Summer that fateful February night. All she had, all she saw in her future, was stripped away in the blink of an eye. Even though she finds herself surrounded by her growing family, at the end of the day, there’s nothing but a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Or so she thinks… Her. Nick Adams shouldn’t want her...
  • Triple Dare by C.M. Owens

    Triple Dare by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    RUBY KROSS Who is Corbin Sterling to me? That's what people always want to know. He was my first friend. He was the love of my life. And he was my only heartbreak. The problem is that I love the big jerk, and I've refused to give up our friendship, even if it does mean it'll eventually ruin me. So, to answer the question... Corbin Fucking Sterling is the Bane of my existence; that's what he is...
  • My Kinda Mess by Lacey Black, Sara Eirew

    My Kinda Mess by Lacey Black, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All her life, Lexi Summer has dreamed of one thing: to become a mother. As the youngest of six, she’s accustomed to the chaos and camaraderie that comes with a big family, which is why she has been anxious to get a jump on this next phase in her life. She thought she had it all: the perfect house, husband, and future. Until one secret rips it all apart...
  • The Fisherman Series: Special Edition by Jewel E. Ann

    The Fisherman Series: Special Edition by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FEATURED IN THIS EDITION:• Special Edition Cover• A foreward from the author• The Naked Fisherman• The Lost Fisherman• Bonus content: select chapters from Fisher's point of viewUSA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Jewel E...
  • Soaring by Kristen Ashley

    Soaring by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    American heiress Amelia Hathaway needs to start anew. Her husband cheated on her, and when everything she wanted in life slipped through her fingers, she fell apart. When she did, she took another heart wrenching hit as she lost the respect of her children. When her ex took her family from California to live in the small town of Magdalene in Maine, Amelia decided it was time to sort herself out...
  • One More Chance by Abbi Glines

    One More Chance by Abbi Glines

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Grant Carter did everything in his power to convince Harlow Manning that he was a good guy. More than a smooth-talker and someone she could trust. He had to overcome his reputation as a playboy, and his history with Harlow's half-sister, Nan, a woman with a reputation of her own.Harlow had taken the chance, falling hard and fast for the guy who thrilled her with his all-consuming desire...
  • Cruise by Laramie Briscoe

    Cruise by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The kid is now a man, and he’s got something to prove….. Caleb “Cruise” Harrison “A Dad is a son’s first hero……” All my life I’ve looked up to my Dad, there’s nothing I ever wanted to do more than be a member of the Moonshine Task Force right next to him. I said no to playing football professionally to stay in Laurel Springs and fulfill my dream...
  • Suppression by Laramie Briscoe

    Suppression by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author, the second book in the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Series If you don't love, you can't get hurt... Nick Kepler One thing my childhood taught me was never show my emotions. Don’t make memories. Don’t count on other people. Don’t hope for the best. All that changed when I was adopted by Ryan and Whitney Kepler...
  • Sterling Streak by L.B. Dunbar

    Sterling Streak by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love was a losing battle for this country music darling and a single dad, baseball star until one night brings them together and one small town sets the playing field for a possible winning streak.They call me Lady Boss. Maneater. Queen. But beneath the makeup, blond wig, and glitzy costumes, I’m just a country girl who likes to sing. I don’t hate men, I’m just struggling to find a good one...
  • Blind Love by Kelly Elliott

    Blind Love by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Harley and I had our whole lives planned out, until her plans changed, and those plans didn’t include me. After years spent trying to get the love of my life out of my head and repair my too-damaged heart, I thought I was finally moving on…but life sure has a funny way of letting you know when those best-laid plans are about to be turned upside down...
  • My Kinda Song by Lacey Black

    My Kinda Song by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Abby Summer has been in love with one man most of her life, but he doesn’t know she exists. For years, Abby has watched him go home with woman after woman, not even noticing the one who stands loyally beside him. That’s why a dating site is the perfect solution to Abby’s problems: get over Levi and move on to someone else...
    Categorized as:
    angst  cheating  domestic-drama  family  multi-pov  sad  adult  book
  • Hey, Whiskey by Kaylee Ryan

    Hey, Whiskey by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New standalone from NYT Bestselling Author Kaylee Ryan I’m over this year, and I’m over relationships. I’ve learned that the only person you can count on in life is yourself. Moving forward, I’m living for me. Working toward standing on my own two feet, that’s my goal. Funny how meeting him changed my path...
  • In Dark Woods by Susan Fanetti

    In Dark Woods by Susan Fanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ride or die. An act of treachery has weakened Isaac Lunden, President of the Night Horde MC. His life, and his family’s, is changed fundamentally. Lilli, his old lady, is at his side, exhorting him to fight. But he isn’t sure that what’s left to him is enough to fight for. This is the story of Isaac and Lilli’s journey through those dark woods...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  family  multi-pov  sad  adult  biker
  • Escape With Me: A With Me In Seattle Novel by Kristen Proby

    Escape With Me: A With Me In Seattle Novel by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes ESCAPE WITH ME, an all-new stand-alone novel in her beloved WITH ME IN SEATTLE SERIES!Keegan O’Callaghan has been told he’s married to his pub. It’s true. He’s happiest when he’s pulling taps and filling drink orders, so long as he can keep an eye on his family and ensure that all is well...
  • Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes you have to talk to work things out. Luckily that works best without clothes. Petal I’ve loved Luka Fields my entire life.  He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first time, and my first heartbreak.  Love isn’t like in the movies, or the books you read.  It’s hard. Sometimes you give up… And regret it your entire life...
  • June First by Jennifer Hartmann

    June First by Jennifer Hartmann

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Want to know what happens to a man who barely claws his way out of a tragedy, only to fall right into the arms of the one girl in the world he can never have?Another tragedy, that’s what.When I was six years old, my father made a choice that altered the course of my entire life. Because of what he did, the only girl I ever loved became the only girl I couldn’t have...
  • Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Drunk on You by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It was supposed to be fun. A mutual use of each other's bodies. To be a ruse to the world around us. I wanted to be free from my ex, and he wanted to escape his. One drunken night turned a joke into a life-changing moment. He warned me not to fall for him, and I should've listened. He intoxicated me. He made me crave him. He ruined me. In the end, I'll never be the same...
  • She Was Mine First by M. Robinson

    She Was Mine First by M. Robinson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s a determined billionaire used to getting what he wants, and she’s prepared to marry the wrong man to prove to them she’s moved on. But neither of them is ready to let go of the past…A small-town, friends to lovers, second chance romance from Wall Street Journal & USA Bestselling Author M...
  • Eleven Eleven by Micalea Smeltzer

    Eleven Eleven by Micalea Smeltzer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After my divorce, I decide to move across the country away from family and friends for a new start.What I don’t expect is him.He’s only supposed to be a one-night stand, but fate has other plans.The next time I see him it’s because I’m on a date with his dad...
  • Ryder by T.L. Drake

    Ryder by T.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    MiaI’ve been in love with Ryder since I was fourteen years old, admiring the older man from afar, knowing I can never have him. My grandfather didn’t want this life for me, so he put a do not touch order on me with his club, keeping me at arm’s length for more than half my life. I’ve made it known, painfully, that I wanted him. But Ryder had never shown a hint of interest in me...
  • Black Swan Affair by K.L. Kreig

    Black Swan Affair by K.L. Kreig

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I’ve loved him as long as I can remember. The gangly boy with big brown eyes and unruly hair who grew up into an intoxicating man. He wears scruff like he invented it and ambles with a swagger that makes panties drop. Killian Shepard. Shep. We grew up together. We played Ghost in the Graveyard. Had our own rock band. It didn’t matter that he was five years older than me...
  • Pieces of Me by Jay McLean

    Pieces of Me by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I loved you then,I love you now,and I’ve loved you every single day in between.” Jameson Taylor is a nomad. A drifter. A memory collector.Or, at least, that’s what’s become of her life ever since she was forced to leave pieces of her fractured heart behind. “This is the fault in our fate, our one undoing:All he’s ever wanted is my happiness,even when it costs him his own...
  • Virgin Cowboy by Kat Baxter

    Virgin Cowboy by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can this runaway mail order bride find forever with the husky cowboy who saves her?JosieWhat kind of woman answers an ad for a mail-order bride and then backs out of the deal?A desperate one. Like me.My dad just died, leaving me alone in the world. I'm penniless and orphaned, trying to find the twin I never knew I had...
  • The Wrong Kind of Love by Lexi Ryan, Summer Roberts

    The Wrong Kind of Love by Lexi Ryan, Summer Roberts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Listening length: 9 hours, 40 minutes.From New York Times bestseller Lexi Ryan comes a sexy new romance novel about a runaway bride, a single dad who’s sworn off love, and the kind of family secrets that can threaten to break even the deepest bonds.You never forget your wedding day. Or the moment your twin sister pukes on your bouquet and confesses she’s pregnant . . . with your fiancé’s baby...
  • Crazy Beautiful by Jessica Prince

    Crazy Beautiful by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Their marriage was nothing more than a business transaction. Or at least that was what they told themselves.Poppy Weston had been burned enough times by undeserving men to know her heart was best left under lock and key. She was content with her life, even with the lack of romance. Then Jase Hyland walked into Redbud Inn and offered her something she couldn't refuse...
  • Doughn't Let Me Go by Teagan Hunter

    Doughn't Let Me Go by Teagan Hunter

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It was just supposed to be one night. No kissing. No feelings. A wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am tangle in the sheets and we go our own ways. Only it’s a small town, and I was bound to run into the irresistible Porter Jones again. I just didn’t expect it to be at my job interview…which he’s conducting...
  • All My Life by Prescott Lane

    All My Life by Prescott Lane

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "Prescott Lane breathes new life into single-dad romances with the young and devastatingly sexy Garrett." - USA Today The beginning of any love story starts with the meet. I’ve known Garrett Hollis since before I can remember, and I’ve loved him just as long. I loved him while he loved someone else. I loved him when he had a baby with her. I loved him when she left him...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  family  multi-pov  sad  second-chances  adult
  • Blue Wide Sky by Inglath Cooper

    Blue Wide Sky by Inglath Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    First love. . . forever love. Sixteen-year old Gabby Hayden wasn’t the kind of girl who gave a hoot about boys. She had a few real loves. Water-skiing, going out on Smith Mountain Lake with her dad and her dog. Anything else ranked a distant second. Until the summer she met smart, caring, gorgeous Sam Tatum and gave him her heart...
  • Man Splain by Vanessa Vale

    Man Splain by Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's literally my job to make sure everything goes to plan. I'm really f-ing good at it. But when the beautiful coffee shop owner refuses a corporate loan to keep her business afloat solely because we had a slightly-drunk quickie, it makes me crazy. Insane. Frustrated. Turned on. Especially when I discover the stubborn woman chooses instead to be a cam girl to pay her bills...
  • Big Bossy Cowboy by Mia Brody

    Big Bossy Cowboy by Mia Brody

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This over the top cowboy is bossy and big…and every inch is just for her. EvieThe persistent cowboy is everywhere I look. He's at my work. He's at my apartment. He's even in my bathtub.He says we're soulmates.He says we're inevitable.I say he's wrong.GreerThe curvy little spitfire is everywhere I go. At her workplace. At her apartment. In her bathtub...
  • Starts With a Bang by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Starts With a Bang by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The best way to get over a cheating jerk is to get under someone new. Dominic isn’t looking for love or salvation at the Thirsty Cowboy. He needs a temporary escape from the drudgery his life has become, and the universe provides him with the sexiest distraction he’s ever seen. Sven is a sucker for sad eyes, thick thighs, and a Royal Cosmopolitan...
  • Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Feels Like Home by Jennifer Van Wyk

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andy Simpson never expected to be raising his teenage twin sons alone. Then again, he also never expected to walk into his house and see his wife with another man. In their bed. Or that it wasn’t her first time. Bitterness threatened to wrap around his heart, darkening every part of his life. But a brightness he wasn’t even looking for entered their lives and wouldn’t let it take hold...
  • Sweet Regrets by Jennifer Peel

    Sweet Regrets by Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Melanie Dixon never thought she would find herself divorced, pregnant, and living back with her parents in Indigo Bay. Not one to let misfortune get the best of her, she picks up the broken pieces of her life and bit by bit puts them back together. She’s determined to go it alone, but her loving and equally determined family and friends have another idea...
  • It Should Have Been You by Laura Ashley Gallagher

    It Should Have Been You by Laura Ashley Gallagher

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A decade of distance, a lifetime of secrets, and an attraction that refuses to fade…Beth was only looking for one last night of adventure when she met Logan, just before her departure for an internship in London. The attraction between them was undeniable, and a wild ride on the back of his Harley was a temptation she couldn't resist...
  • Loud Unspoken Memories by Samantha Christy

    Loud Unspoken Memories by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After losing his wife and infant son, Dallas Montana has been living a secluded life in a remote cabin away from, well… everything.He never anticipated having guests.After all, the cabin only has one bed.Everything changes during the snowstorm.Everything changes when he meets Naomi. Even though it makes him face his deepest darkest fears, his protective nature will not leave her out in the cold...
  • No Romeo by Stevie J. Cole, L.P. Lovell

    No Romeo by Stevie J. Cole, L.P. Lovell

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To everyone in Dayton, Hendrix Hunt was the tattooed bad boy, the bully, the player. Guys hated and feared him. Girls wanted to tame him. And I just wished I could forget him.Two years ago, Hendrix was my world. Then the taint of Dayton ruined everything, breaking us both with secrets and lies. I destroyed him and now he wants to destroy me..
  • Noah's Journey by C.A. Harms

    Noah's Journey by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The years that were taken can never be repaid. The memories stolen can never be returned. But I had to move forward…for him, my son. Noah had spent years wondering what he could have done differently. Wondering what he’d done wrong to make Stacey leave. The heartache from her absence and the what-ifs of their past eventually turned to anger—and then disgust...
  • Guilty Pleasure by Jessica Prince

    Guilty Pleasure by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The only thing worse than living in a town where everyone hates you is having to work for the man who broke your heart.Redemption, Tennessee held nothing but painful memories that Lark Ashton had no desire to rehash. After the only man she's ever loved crush her soul and spirit, and all her friends turned their backs on her, she swore to herself she'd never go back...
  • Made for You by Kelly Elliott

    Made for You by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    One decision. Two lives ripped apart. For Holden Warner and Emylie Sanchez, the road back to each other has been long and jagged. Each of them hiding from the truth, but unwilling to move on from the love they share. When life no longer allows them to run from their past, they soon realize they’re two souls who will never fit anywhere except … with each other...
  • Freed by Carly Phillips

    Freed by Carly Phillips

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fall for the missing Ward sister… Juliette Collins is privileged and isolated from the world by her over-protective father. She thinks she knows the truth about her history until a file on her father’s computer reveals she has sisters she never knew about. A family she’s never met...
    Categorized as:
    angst  billionaire  drama  family  multi-pov  adult  audiobook  book
  • Only You by Samantha Young

    Only You by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once upon a time, Monroe Sinclair was Brodan Adair’s best friend, but now he’s a stranger and one of Hollywood’s leading men…It took Monroe Sinclair eighteen years to return home to Ardnoch after a fateful night that devastated her friendship with Brodan Adair. She fled her unrequited love for him, as well as her difficult family life, and tried not to look behind her...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  drama  family  multi-pov  sad  second-chances  adult
  • Wedding at the Riverview Inn by Molly O'Keefe

    Wedding at the Riverview Inn by Molly O'Keefe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An emotional tale of a magical inn, a wedding gone terribly wrong and a woman searching for a second chance.Alice has hit rock bottom. Once a Michelin-starred chef, she is now drowning in debt, working the line at a chain restaurant and drinking too much. The last person she ever expected to come knocking with a job offer and a fresh start is her ex-husband, Gabe...
  • Roommate Arrangement by Saxon James

    Roommate Arrangement by Saxon James

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Payne:In search of: room to rent.Must ignore the patheticness of a forty-year-old roommate.Preferably dirt cheap as funds are tight (nonexistent).There’s nothing sadder than moving back to my hometown newly divorced, homeless, and lost for what my next move is.When my little brother’s best friend offers me a place to stay in exchange for menial duties, I swallow my pride and jump at the offer...
  • Just One Night by Charity Ferrell

    Just One Night by Charity Ferrell

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “What the f*ck have I done?” aren’t the first words you want to hear after a one-night stand. Yet that’s what he gave me. Dallas Barnes is tall, dark, and handsome. He’s also scarred, rough, and broken down by burdens. A single dad. A widower. A lost soul. We found each other in the back of a dark pub. He brought the whiskey. I brought the bad decisions. He called it a mistake...
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