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  • Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score

    Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Can these opposites turn up the heat… without burning down the house?House-flipping sensation and YouTube star Maggie Nichols can’t wait to dig into her next challenge. Arriving in tiny Kinship, Idaho, with only a cot and a coffeemaker, Maggie is prepared to restore a crumbling Victorian mansion in four months or less. She has her to-do lists, her blueprints, and her team...
  • Forever Bold by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Bold by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ariana Ali Rahman is a princess who is always up for fun, but then one night changed everything for her. That one night showed her what good she could do and set her on a dangerous path speaking up for those who had no voice. Determined to bring justice to the unheard, Ariana heads to New York City only to become a target for her charitable work...
  • Endless Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Endless Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ryker Faulkner has built his empire by being ruthless. No one knows the full extent Ryker has gone to in order to build himself up from nothing to one of the most powerful men in the country. So when someone comes after him, everyone knows the last thing Ryker will do is sit back and watch it burn.Kenzie Carys was used to being in the shadows. She was a nurse on night shift...
  • Beard Science by Penny Reid

    Beard Science by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Make a deal with the devil and you might get what you want, but will it be what you need? Jennifer Sylvester wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee’s reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual good girl and obedient daughter, Jennifer is buckling under the weight of her social media celebrity, her mother’s ambitions, and her father’s puritanical mandates...
  • Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire by Pippa Grant

    Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The lies will come back to bite you every time...Never borrow pants from your brother. Especially if he’s a size smaller than you are, because all that pressure in the junk will short-circuit your brain.And you’ll lie to a woman in a club about your real name.Leave her unsatisfied after making out in a bathroom.Then find out that she’s the one thing standing in the way of your dreams...
  • Forever Protected by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Protected by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Parker Davies, former rodeo star turned U.S. Marshal, wants something he can’t have—Tilly Bradford. He had met the equestrian, fell for her, and then saw her name on a case that came across his desk. Suddenly he had to step back from the one woman he had wanted...
  • Beauty and the Bayou by Erin Nicholas

    Beauty and the Bayou by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A sexy small town, opposites attract rom com! Sawyer Landry knows he's been beastly to be around for the past few months. But he can't seem to remember how to be fun-loving and friendly. Until he sees Juliet Dawson on his boat dock... and realizes that hip waders are, apparently, one of his turn-ons...
    Categorized as:
    humor  slow-burn  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • Wilder by C.M. Owens

    Wilder by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Wild Ones Tip #349 If you don’t understand what’s going on, it’s because you haven’t been in Tomahawk long enough. My sister and I decided to go to Tomahawk to learn more about our estranged grandmother and spend some time together doing something other than networking. What we expected was some quiet town, a peaceful escape, and a little downtime. What we got? Two sexy mountain men...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  friendship  humor  slow-burn  adult  alpha-mc  book  comedy
  • A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a sleepy beach town in Coastal Carolina, two lost souls learn the destructive nature of secrets and the healing power of love. Captain Aidan O’Brien is a decorated officer of the Royal Irish Regiment. While on a personal mission with his brother to retrieve Michael’s would-be mate, Aidan visits an old friend on the local Marine Corps base...
  • Grumpy Cowboy by Max Monroe

    Grumpy Cowboy by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    ATTENTION: If you have been a victim of false advertising, you may be entitled to compensation...
  • Sunshine and Sammy by Melanie Moreland

    Sunshine and Sammy by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Luke Adler lives for his ranch. It’s the only reason he agreed to get on board with his sister’s grand plan for guests staying on the property.Nothing prepares him for the force of nature that is Samantha Morrison. When she arrives on his ranch to help construct this new part of his business, what he expects and what he gets are two entirely different things.He expects a no-nonsense businessman...
  • Puck Performance by Alley Ciz

    Puck Performance by Alley Ciz

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All's fair in love and potatoes. Melody Brightly Broadway Star. Pink hair. A smile that hits me harder than a slap shot. Terrible taste in hockey teams. Full of secrets. The one woman I fail to defend my heart against. Jase Donnelly Defenseman.Charming. Sexy as puck. Makes my hormones give a standing ovation. The one guy I can never be with, but can't stay away from...
  • Twisted Twosome by Meghan Quinn

    Twisted Twosome by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Racer McKay is a broody bastard. From the moment I met him, he’s been rude, irritable, and unbearable. And worse? He's broke. A contractor working to remodel my parents pool house for extra cash, he stomps around in those clunky construction boots with his tool belt wrapped around his narrow waist, and a chip on his shoulder. Racer McKay is also infuriatingly . . . sexy as hell...
  • The Christmas Wedding Guest: A Novel by Susan Mallery

    The Christmas Wedding Guest: A Novel by Susan Mallery

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “This two-in-one romance starts a new series that Mallery’s many fans will devour like a Christmas cookie.”—Booklist Susan Mallery, author of the Fool’s Gold romances, cheerfully invites you to Wishing Tree, where Christmas comes to life… The Somerville sisters believe in love, but they’ve lost faith it will happen for them...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  friendship  humor  adult  animals  audiobook  book  comedy
  • Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy Score

    Rock Bottom Girl by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    “You may be faking the relationship, but you’re not faking the orgasms.” Downsized, broke, and dumped, 38-year-old Marley sneaks home to her childhood bedroom in the town she couldn’t wait to escape twenty years ago. Not much has changed in Culpepper. The cool kids are still cool. Now they just own car dealerships and live in McMansions next door...
  • Becoming a Vincent by C.M. Owens

    Becoming a Vincent by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Alternative Cover Edition of ASIN B072YXCNK1When you live in a place where “turbo speed” internet is a slight step above dial-up, men carry on nine-year beard-growing challenges out of stubborn pride, and your brothers do things like nail all your panties to the outside of your cabin just for funsies, you tend to be a little crazy. You can call it a "locational" hazard, if you will...
  • America's Geekheart by Pippa Grant

    America's Geekheart by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Remember that time you accidentally sexted your in-laws?Yeah. I just did that. Except worse. Now my million social media followers are reading and sharing the rude, smartass message I meant to send privately to my little sister...and I’m officially public enemy number one.I’m Beck Ryder. Former boy bander. Underwear model. Fashion mogul...
  • Kiwi Sin by Rosalind James

    Kiwi Sin by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If it’s better to marry than to burn, I was in trouble. When you walk out of a cult with a driving license and the clothes on your back, you can face some challenges...
  • Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec

    Futures and Frosting by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 1478314605 Carter, Claire and Gavin have formed the perfect little family. Their friends are getting married and everyone is growing up, maturing and ready to face the future...
  • Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy by Max Monroe

    Taming Hollywood's Baddest Boy by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Do people say they hate someone’s guts so that they can still fall stupidly, head-over-heels in love with the other parts? Asking for a friend. Okay, fine. I’m not asking for a friend. I’m asking for me—and I’m begging you to tell me that the practice of falling in love with your should-be-enemy is common...
  • I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

    I Saw Her Standing There by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There’s a budding romance on Butler Mountain, but in the hornets’ nest known as the Abbott family, keeping a secret is no easy feat… Colton Abbott and Lucy Mulvaney have a secret...
  • Spare Me by Tara Sivec

    Spare Me by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryan Hutton has spent his entire life being the shy, nerdy, rule-following nice guy on Summersweet Island. He’s the high school bowling coach and algebra teacher, who’s always predictable, and he’s always been fine with that. At least until a sexy nutjob gives him the best kiss of his life in his favorite pizza place. Suddenly, he doesn’t like being the quiet, obedient nice guy anymore...
  • My Brother's Forbidden Friend by Piper Rayne

    My Brother's Forbidden Friend by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve gone from crushing on my brother’s best friend to wanting to crush him. Cameron Baker and I have a few things in common. The first being that we were both born and raised in our small Alaskan town. Second, is that we hide our feelings and keep our hearts closed off from anyone who could break them.But hiding my feelings is harder to do with Cam than most...
  • Sugared by Jamie Farrell

    Sugared by Jamie Farrell

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I literally laughed out loud while reading. Kimmie is just hilarious, even when she's not trying to be.” - Books, Beauty, and Beyond When Chicago’s Hottest Snack Cake Heir… Josh Kincaid went from rags to riches when he was adopted by the family who owns the Sweet Dreams Snack Cakes empire...
  • Kiss Me Tonight by Maria Luis

    Kiss Me Tonight by Maria Luis

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I had it all. The Super Bowl rings. The hot shot TV gig. Then I got fired. Now I’m living in middle-of-nowhere Maine, playing assistant coach to the woman of my nightmares. Did I mention that she and her son are my new neighbors? If you talk to the locals, they’ll tell you Aspen Levi is the queen of high school football...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  slow-burn  adult  alpha-mc  athlete  book  celebrity
  • Beard Necessities by Penny Reid

    Beard Necessities by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Billy Winston’s family is going to see him happy and in love if it’s the last thing they do.No one deserves a happily-ever-after quite as much as the second oldest Winston brother and his lady love, Claire McClure (aka Scarlet St. Claire). Cruelty and circumstance tore them apart almost twenty years ago. Secrecy and bitterness kept them separated...
  • The Worst Wedding Date by Pippa Grant

    The Worst Wedding Date by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn’t know bridesmaid was code for babysitter for the bride’s brother, but if that’s what my best friend needs of me for her dream wedding to go off without a hitch, that’s what I’ll do.Even if Theo Monroe has been a pain in my rear since third grade.Even if he should be responsible enough to not wreak havoc at his sister’s destination wedding...
  • Blazing Summer by Denise Grover Swank

    Blazing Summer by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Summer Butler is killing it in the ratings—and all of America is tuning in as New York Times bestselling author Denise Grover Swank greenlights a new season of TV’s hottest sleuth… Summer Butler had no idea that Darling Investigations would be such a smash. But ratings don’t lie—fans love watching the former star solve real-life crimes in her hometown...
  • Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws, Erin Mallon

    Nine Month Contract by Amy Daws, Erin Mallon

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A brand new spicy small town romance by Amazon #1 Bestselling author, Amy Daws. This book is the start of a mountain man spinoff series based on the three Fletcher brothers featured in her previous release, Last on the List.Coming April 11Help Wanted: Grumpy Mountain Man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only...
  • Stop Ghosting Me by Tara Sivec

    Stop Ghosting Me by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Harvest Grove News:Another Halloween season is upon us! As usual, please be mindful of the movie fans traveling from Vine Street to Cinnamon Way. Favorite bar owner, Ford Prescott, is back in town for his yearly stay, making this his sixth October in Harvest Grove! Be sure to welcome him warmly when you see him at the Wicked Pub and Grub...
  • Bayou Beauty by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Beauty by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Love returns to Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou in a new small-town contemporary romance sure to charm hearts, from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.Sylvie Martine was prepared to take Washington D.C. by storm, but she put that dream on hold when her beloved hometown of Papillon, Louisiana, needed her most. Now Sylvie's the mayor of the tiny town on the bayou that holds her heart...
  • Mister Baller by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Mister Baller by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My college rival. My ex-husband's best friend.My new roommate? Oh, boy.The last thing I want is to rent my spare bedroom to my ex-husband's best friend.His six-foot-three, dimple-faced, alphahole best friend.His injured-professional-football-player best friend.But desperate times, desperate measures, y'know?I can't afford to hold grudges. These heaping bills of mine won't pay themselves...
  • Mister Baby Daddy by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Mister Baby Daddy by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All my life, I've been in love with my best friend. All my life I've waited for him to notice.I'm done waiting. I'm moving on with my life...I'm having a baby.I really need to get over Walker Kingston.My lifelong infatuation with my best friend is sort of embarrassing. The tall, broody hunk of farmer has always been my fierce protector, my constant hero, my knight in flanneled armor...
  • Stud Unleashed: Will by Kylie Gilmore

    Stud Unleashed: Will by Kylie Gilmore

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Each book in the Clover Park STUDS Series can be read as a stand-alone novel, or for more fun read them in order. Characters you’ve loved from past books frequently pop up in other books...
  • Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

    Bayou Baby by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A heartwarming contemporary romance set in Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake.   Seraphina Guidry loves Butterfly Bayou. A young, single mom, she’s trying to find a place for herself in the town she cherishes, but past mistakes have made her wary. She adores her son but has sworn off men...
  • The Wild One by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    The Wild One by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jasper Westbrook. Code name: Swoon Machine.My best friend's older brother.Melter of ovaries. Destroyer of panties.And suddenly...a single dad.Guys like Jasper—I bet you know the type? The chiseled arms. The wavy hair. The melt-your-brain-cells smile.Good thing I'm a smart girl—Honey Hill's former child prodigy, to be precise—I should know better than to fall for this playboy's charm...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  age-gap  alpha-mc  book  comedy  contemporary
  • Townshipped by Savannah Scott

    Townshipped by Savannah Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everyone said it wasn’t as though a woman was going to land on my doorstep and fall in love with me. Never say never.Now, this woman literally crashes into my life, but she doesn’t remember a thing about what happened before she got here.She’s beautiful and a little sassy.The longer she’s here, the more I feel like she’s the missing piece of a puzzle I didn’t even know I was trying to solve...
  • Beach Read by Emily Henry

    Beach Read by Emily Henry

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 56 ratings
    A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.They`re polar opposites...
  • Beauty and the Mustache by Penny Reid, Joy Nash

    Beauty and the Mustache by Penny Reid, Joy Nash

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    This is a previously-published edition - ASIN: B00QFPSE1QThere are three things you need to know about Ashley Winston: 1) She has six brothers and they all have beards, 2) She is a reader, and 3) She knows how to knit. Former beauty queen, Ashley Winston’s preferred coping strategy is escapism. She escaped her Tennessee small town, loathsome father, and six brothers eight years ago...
  • Mister Billions by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Mister Billions by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bossy. Infuriating. Sexy as sin... I can't stand the man.And he's waiting for me at the altar.I'm up to my eyeballs in unpaid rent. So is half this town.Cannon Kingston is the devilish, arrogant billionaire with the power to save us all. But he wants something in return...My hand in marriage.The terms of our twisted contract are simple...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  university  adult  age-gap  billionaire  book  comedy
  • A Pizza My Heart by Teagan Hunter

    A Pizza My Heart by Teagan Hunter

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Most people would probably be embarrassed to land themselves back in their hometown and working at a pizzeria after an ugly divorce. Not me. It’s home, and I have one last shot to make Wren Daniels see me as more than just her brother’s best friend...
  • Lily's White Lace by Carolyn Brown

    Lily's White Lace by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Just moments before she heads down the aisle, Lily discovers her husband-to-be, Dylan, has been cheating. Knowing she can't marry a man she can't trust, Lily leaves Dylan at the altar and heads to Oklahoma to clear her head and mend her wounded heart.She resolves never to trust a man again. Not even Jesse, her best friend Marcy's brother...
  • Musical Games by Evie Alexander

    Musical Games by Evie Alexander

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s never been kissed, and she’s about to rock his world… Bubbly actress Sam is on the brink of the bigtime — all she needs is one lucky break. But when she drops everything for the chance to meet Hollywood’s biggest star, she blows it by blurting out a lie.Now, she’s got ten days to write an album with a man who wants nothing to do with her...
  • The Great Escape by Charlotte Fallowfield, Book Cover by Design

    The Great Escape by Charlotte Fallowfield, Book Cover by Design

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Great Escape - A laugh-out-loud novel from Charlotte Fallowfield, Amazon U.K. #1 bestselling contemporary romance author of Until We Collide. A tropical beach paradise in Mexico was the last place Georgie Basset expected her decimated heart to be jump-started again, not after she’d been jilted the year before by her fiancé, leading to said breakage...
  • The Perfect Dress by Carolyn Brown

    The Perfect Dress by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A plus-size Texas gal has designs on an old crush in New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Brown’s exuberant, bighearted romance. In the small town of Celeste, Texas, Mitzi Taylor has never quite fit inside the lines...
  • That Second Chance by Meghan Quinn

    That Second Chance by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    It was supposed to be an innocent night, celebrating my brother’s birthday. Nothing was supposed to go wrong. We’d vowed to be on our best behavior after all . . .But it only took one rowdy night with my brothers to flip my world upside down. One unlucky encounter saddled us with a family curse and the promise of doomed relationships. I laughed it off immediately. “Yeah, right,” I thought...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  grief  humor  slow-burn  adult  angst  audiobook  book
  • Getting His Way by Erin Nicholas

    Getting His Way by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sapphire Falls, book sevenBryan Murray always knew that he wanted to come home to Sapphire Falls and settle down with Tessa Sheridan. After all, Tessa's sweet and kind and beautiful and planning to live in Sapphire Falls forever. Best of all, she's loved him since kindergarten. She's the perfect forever girl for him. He just didn't expect it to all happen quite like this...
    Categorized as:
    friendship  humor  medical  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  fiction
  • The F Word by Misti Murphy

    The F Word by Misti Murphy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Falling for my donor daddy isn’t part of the plan. It must be the hormones!Jane.I’ve dreamed of being a mother forever.But then my ex left me for his perfect new girlfriend and their matching corgis.And my health robbed me of time.So I’m taking matters into my own hands.I’m going to have a baby alone.Well, except for one tiny detail. The donation I need to get the ball rolling...
    Categorized as:
    friendship  humor  adult  book  comedy  contemporary  family  fiction
  • When You Kiss Me by Bella Andre

    When You Kiss Me by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lola Sullivan has been stared at by men since she was thirteen years old, but no one has ever seen the real her. Not until venture capitalist Duncan Lyman walks into her textile design studio and they’re drawn to each other on every level. When deep passion sparks between them, along with an amazingly powerful emotional connection, they stay up all night together...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  comedy  contemporary  family
  • Blue Beaver: A Llama Farmer RomCom by J.B. Heller

    Blue Beaver: A Llama Farmer RomCom by J.B. Heller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Did you know that flannel can be deceivingly sexy? I’m Charlotte, and if blogging and devoting my life to fashion has taught me anything, it’s that flannel was never a good choice. Turns out, I was wrong. So very wrong. The first time I met Elijah he told me I was insane and I called him a lunatic. Good times...
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