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  • To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother's wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life for the second time. But on her way out of town, she caused a three car pileup when she dropped her cell phone and tried to retrieve it while traveling ninety miles an hour...
  • Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stand-alone Wishing Well, Texas romance, complete with HEA—and plenty of heat and heart along the way! I had to keep my distance… Sawyer Briggs could admit that she was all he ever thought about, but the tall, sexy alpha knew that if he truly wanted what was best for her, he would stay away… It's now or never… Delilah Turner was ready to go for who she really wanted! The curvaceous...
  • Texas Gift by R.J. Scott

    Texas Gift by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Hayley arrived on the steps of the D, Riley and Jack knew life would never be the same. Told through Riley and Jack’s eyes, this is ten years in the life of their family and watching Hayley grow up, fall in love, and start her own life. Hurricanes, illness, babies, happiness, sadness, work, play, the barn, the office, horses, friends, enemies, and above all love...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  book  children  contemporary  family
  • Wild Ride by Lorelei James, Moira Keith

    Wild Ride by Lorelei James, Moira Keith

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BUCKLING DOWN by Moira Keith Levi McKenna heads to Las Vegas with one simple goal: win the rodeo and cement his place in rodeo history. Then Lady Luck throws a wild card into the deck—Sydney Hart. Time and distance haven’t dulled the sharp edge of their attraction, but thanks to a long-ago promise, she will always be the forbidden fruit dangling just out of reach...
  • Malibu by Moonlight by Brooke St. James

    Malibu by Moonlight by Brooke St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam Kennedy was on a flight to Los Angeles, bound for his cousin's wedding. He was fresh out of a relationship that he had been trying to end for months and was looking forward to having a great trip with his family while relaxing in his reclaimed status as a bachelor...
  • Unbroken by Scott Hildreth

    Unbroken by Scott Hildreth

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shane - I’m a professional boxer. My wife is pregnant, my best friend Ripp’s wife is pregnant, and I’m scheduled to fight for the Heavyweight Championship of the World. Even if I lose I’ll make tens of millions. Most people would think life was perfect if they were me. But they don’t know what I know. Life isn’t perfect. They said my son was going to be born with special needs...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Happiness In Jersey by Jacinta Howard

    Happiness In Jersey by Jacinta Howard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The only thing in Jersey Kincaid’s world that she has time for are keeping her grades up so that she doesn’t lose her scholarship to South Texas University, playing the bass in her band, The Prototype, and satisfying her coffee addiction. Oh, and the occasional random hook-up she indulges in to pass the time. Love? Eh, not so much. Save that crap for a Katherine Heigl or Natalie Portman movie...
  • Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jaxie Parker works for one of the best ad agencies in Atlanta and and thrives in the upscale fast lane. She loves everything about the big city including her power-packed days and party-filled nights. But life as she knows it comes to a screetching halt when the boss puts her in charge of the firm’s annual pro bono project, which is to revitalize a small town...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  secrets
  • Montana Darling by Debra Salonen

    Montana Darling by Debra Salonen

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her marriage. Her job. Her body image. Mia beat cancer and is ready to rebuild her life in her hometown of Marietta, Montana. Literally. Her first order of business is to build a house on the ten-acre parcel she was awarded in her divorce settlement. And she's damned if she'll let some stranger camp on her land and claim squatter's rights. So maybe he's not a squatter...
  • Megan's Hero by Sharon Gillenwater

    Megan's Hero by Sharon Gillenwater

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Six months pregnant, unmarried, broke, and alone, Megan Smith doesn't think things can get much worse--and then they do. Stuck on the road without shelter when a tornado appears, Megan barely escapes with her life. And when Will Callahan comes upon her in the road, her life will never be the same...
  • His Christmas Miracle by Dani Collins

    His Christmas Miracle by Dani Collins

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Quincy Ryan was just handed custody of a son he didn’t know existed. He knows how to be an architect, not a dad, so he looks to his own father for guidance, but that means moving with Pops to Marietta, Montana. Quincy knows he has to get over his shock and give Atlas the Christmas he deserves, but how? He needs a miracle...
  • Nashville Dreams by Pamela M. Kelley

    Nashville Dreams by Pamela M. Kelley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Young love torn apart by amnesia and a scheming billionaire.Laura Scott lives in a trailer park in Charleston, SC, with her alcoholic but very sweet mother. She is a senior in high school when this story begins and is madly in love with her best friend and soul mate Cole Dawson. His father is Dalton Dawson, a real estate billionaire and junior senator with ambitions to be Governor...
  • The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion....Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove—the source of her fondest childhood memories—to pick up the pieces of her life. The solitude of Sea View House is just what she needs...
  • The Simple Soul of Susan by Noel Branham

    The Simple Soul of Susan by Noel Branham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love hopes for the simple things to last forever, even though life itself does not.When Susan Combs discovers a heart-breaking truth from the boy she has loved her entire life, she must make a life-altering choice...
  • Surrender to a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Surrender to a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sean Donovan is a man on a mission—to discover who is behind the popular relationship column that has transformed his family-owned magazine into Miami's hippest glossy. But Tate Dennison isn't the sassy columnist the hardworking bachelor expected. Nor is he prepared for the flash fire of passion the stunning single mother arouses...
  • Secret Vows by Rochelle Alers

    Secret Vows by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Hideaway Wedding WagerTwins Ana and Jason and their cousin Nicholas are successful thirty somethings who are single�and loving it. They have no idea that their relatives are betting on which one of them will get married first...
  • Katie's Choice by Amy Lillard

    Katie's Choice by Amy Lillard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Katie Rose Fisher loved Samuel Beachy with an intensity that shook their Amish district. No one doubted they would one day marry, until Samuel turned his back on the church and joined the world of the English. Alone now in Clover Ridge, Katie Rose dedicates her life to God and the school children she teaches each day...
  • Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vitorino “Click” Coglinaese shouldn’t feel more at home in a war zone than he does in his own backyard. But when you earn yourself a nickname like Click, the only sound the enemy hears before you strike, transitioning back to civilian life is a more insurmountable task than any combat mission...
  • I Am Moore by Celeste Granger

    I Am Moore by Celeste Granger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One family. Eight sisters, tangled in romance. Emery Moore moved away from home after finishing her juris doctorate. She was a successful corporate attorney and had been living in Washington D. C. for the past five years. It wasn’t often that she returned home to Atlanta, but the love of her family drew her back...
  • Texas Wedding by R.J. Scott

    Texas Wedding by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes Riley and Jack have to be the ones to fight other people's battles and stand up for what is right. With the life changing prospect of a yes vote from SCOTUS on the issue of same sex marriage, Riley and Jack realise they have decisions to make...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  family
  • The Crush by Kelly Fox

    The Crush by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Augustus Walker, Jr. is a problem. Every queer person I know has had a tragic crush on a straight person at some point in their lives, and for the last year, Walker has been mine.Not that my crush on him is serious—I'm just appreciating a sweet, sexy guy who happens to be a big fat goose egg on the Kinsey scale. Le sigh and all that...
  • Emily's Chance: Christian Contemporary Western Small-town Romance by Sharon Gillenwater

    Emily's Chance: Christian Contemporary Western Small-town Romance by Sharon Gillenwater

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Emily Rose may be in the tiny West Texas town of Callahan Crossing for the moment, but it's just a rung on her ladder to success. Her work at the Callahan Crossing historical society will look good on her ever-growing resume as she attempts to break into the prestigious world of a big city museum curator...
  • His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucas lives in New York, but he's always loved Marietta. When he gets engaged, he decides Montana is exactly the place to get married. Tanner Ranch brings back happy memories of horseback riding and summer nights under the stars making it the perfect place to hold his wedding...
  • A Kindled Winter by Rachel L. Demeter

    A Kindled Winter by Rachel L. Demeter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spirited Jeseca Reed. Withdrawn Dr. David Drake. Each have known loss. Both have felt heartache. A week before Christmas, Jeseca Reed sets off for rustic Blue River, Oregon—her childhood home and a vault of tender memories. However, fate takes an unexpected turn when she’s left stranded in the mountains’ vast, untamed wilderness...
  • Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Real bad boys can grow up to be real good men. Paige Ryan has lost everything important in her life. Her parents, her lover, her horse, her life on the rodeo tour. Lost about her future, she moves to Whispering Springs, Texas to be near her step-brother...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Two of the Lone Star Cowboys Series and the sequel to Blame it on Texas. Carol and Jake were high school sweethearts, but when she chose college over marriage, it cut Jake to the core. When they finally had a second chance at love, she chose to help her brother win custody of his daughter by moving to Dallas to live with them, leaving Jake once again...
  • Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original...
  • Sweet Dreams by Rochelle Alers

    Sweet Dreams by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chandra Eaton can't believe she left her journals--containing very private, very erotic dreams she's been having for the past two years--in a Philly taxicab. Her embarrassment turns to intrigue when Preston Tucker finds and returns them. The soulful playwright fires up Chandra's body and her mind...
  • All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Disenchanted with the politics of working in an upscale Washington, D.C. restaurant, twenty-seven-year-old chef Lydia Lord resigns from her job and resolves to make it on her own...
  • His Distraction by Thia Finn

    His Distraction by Thia Finn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being on tour is great for the hot new alternative rock band, Assured Distraction, but not for relationships. Guitar player Ryan and girlfriend Krissy quickly realize they have two different visions for their future. She wants the house and two point five kids. He wants the band to be on top. The band is ready to leave leave on their epic tour with Ryder Steel...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Texas Treasure by Sharon Gillenwater

    Texas Treasure by Sharon Gillenwater

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christian Contemporary Romance Buckley, Texas Series -- Book 2 Deeply wounded by the infidelity of his late wife, widower Grant Adams has stuck to his vow to avoid all women. But when bright, bubbly antiques dealer Dawn Carson enters his life, he is unexpectedly touched by her gentle spirit...
  • Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was my first kiss. My first love. And my first heartbreak . Twenty years later, our reunion is not the meet-cute I imagined. Instead, it's a meet-puke when I find Callum Quinn throwing up on my front lawn. We’ve both come a long way since high school. I’m a free spirit single mom, back in town with twin boys and a family farm to save...
  • Embracing You by Daphne Elliot

    Embracing You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She offered me a deal I couldn't refuse.A little summer fling. Casual, no expectations ... and a firm expiration date.Samantha Sullivan and I have been best friends since childhood. Totally platonic. We had never crossed the line, not even once.Until now...
  • Hidden Mercies by Serena B. Miller

    Hidden Mercies by Serena B. Miller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At seventeen, Tobias Miller smashed his cousin’s car into a tree, killing his brother only four hours before he was scheduled to marry Claire Shetler. Unable to live with his father’s bottomless grief and anger, Tobias left the Amish church and ran away to join the Marines. Twenty-seven years later, Tobias, now called Tom, returns to Mt...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  christian  contemporary  fiction  ohio
  • Something of a Storm by Brooke St. James

    Something of a Storm by Brooke St. James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes you need to make a change in life, and Laney Spencer was about to do just that. She was a talented artist and had been encouraged to move to San Francisco to pursue her dreams. Days after her little sister graduated high school the two packed their truck and headed south to California. Laney was ready for a new start and assumed everything would go perfectly...
  • Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 of the Jenkins Family Series Joint heir to the largest construction company in the state of Ohio, master plumber, Toni (TJ) Jenkins has been groomed to behave in a way that is befitting of the respected Jenkins’ family name...
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    north-america  usa  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  fiction  ohio
  • Gibson by Jacki James

    Gibson by Jacki James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tristan Aguilar is keeping a big secret. But there’s one man he can’t hide from any longer… “Thank you, Daddy.” Three little words uttered in a moment of weakness that have the power to undo all the years of progress Tristan has made as the mayor of River Gorge. “Thank you, Daddy.” Three little words Gibson Carr had never dreamed he would hear come from his best friend’s gorgeous mouth...
  • Snowflake Kisses by Jacki James

    Snowflake Kisses by Jacki James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Frankie Taylor is a pastry chef in need of a fresh start, and Cap Roberts is a coffee shop owner in need of a pastry chef. Should be a perfect fit. But the delicious pastries he bakes aren't the only thing about Frankie that makes Cap's mouth water, and as a newly single father, Cap can’t afford to risk not only his heart, but his daughter's as well...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Montana Maverick by Debra Salonen

    Montana Maverick by Debra Salonen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Be careful what you wish for- Meg Zabrinski wants a child. She's a successful scientist, a well-known environmental advocate, and a tenured professor. She doesn't need a man in her life to make this happen. But having a baby alone is a weighty decision, so she retreats to her isolated mountain cabin to write and think...
  • Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a disaster destroyed nearly everything Maddie Brooks owned, Trey Walker offered the petite redhead shelter at 2 Hope Ranch. A veterinarian, Maddie was smart, sexy, and good with animals… Impossible to resist, yet Trey is convinced he is cursed when it comes to women. The temporary arrangement Maddie made with Trey was supposed to be strictly business...
  • Entangled (A Tangle Valley Romance) by Melissa Brayden

    Entangled (A Tangle Valley Romance) by Melissa Brayden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Josephine Wilder’s torrid love affair is with Tangle Valley Vineyard, her family’s legacy. She’s grown up dreaming between the vines. She’s always had secret ideas about how to make the place shine, so when it passes to her, Joey vows to make Tangle Valley everything she knows it can be...
  • Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A single mom on the run and an injured FBI agent find their greatest danger is with each other in this story of secret identity, originally titled Nowhere to Hide and published in 2003! As an on-the-run single mother out to protect her little girls, Lisa Connors needs two things: money, and to keep her identity secret...
  • Taming Alex by Jill Sanders

    Taming Alex by Jill Sanders

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alexis has always been the wild child. She’s the girl everyone always gossips about behind her back. Now that she's engaged to the town’s bad boy, Travis, she finally thinks she's heading in the right direction. Then life throws a tall, dark, and good man her way and causes her whole world to shake. Grant's back in town...
  • Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "She's a temptation he can't afford." Ian Sinclair, the man with no heart, the ultimate Trojan, the untouchable, the unreachable, may just have met his match. As wild as the untamed winds, as innocent as love itself, Courtney's vivacious spirit shines as brilliantly as the brightest star. And he wants nothing more in life than to see the sweet innocence that is so much a part of her survive...
  • Chasing Dreams by Nicole Edwards

    Chasing Dreams by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cooper Krenshaw knows what it’s like to feel the bright lights upon him, the sound of the crowd roaring when he walks on stage; after all, he happens to be one of the biggest names in country music at the moment. And he has knowingly just dropped off the grid. The first decision he has made on his own in quite some time...
  • Chasing Headlines by J. Rose Black

    Chasing Headlines by J. Rose Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    They’re chasing the same dream. Too bad they’re not on the same team...After a heated outburst ruins his major league prospects, Breslin Cooper lands at Texas State Tech with a probation sentence and a bad rep. With obligatory therapy, campus rules, and scouts steering clear, his baseball career is on the thinnest of thin ice–in a West Texas desert...
  • A Courageous Ride by Andrew Grey

    A Courageous Ride by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aspiring orchestra conductor Marshall is exhausted after months of auditions without a single job offer. Marshall’s friend, Terry, recommends a change of scenery and points Marshall in the direction of a dude ranch run by former bull rider Indigo Santana. Marshall is understandably skeptical, but his friend is convincing, and Marshall needs a break, so he agrees to go...
  • Klondike Hero, by Jillian Hart

    Klondike Hero, by Jillian Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A tiny town full of churchgoing, marriage-minded men? For Karenna Digby, freshly abandoned at the altar, Treasure Creek sounds like a dream come true. Until she's stranded at the ranch of the one bachelor "not" looking for love. With his past, search-and-rescue tour guide Gage Parker can barely open his heart to the baby nephew he's caring for, let alone his young and pretty new nanny...
  • Strictly Confidential Attraction by Brenda Jackson

    Strictly Confidential Attraction by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I need you, Alli." -- Mark Hartman, desperate new dad Did Mark mean what Alison Lind hoped? Was her boss declaring his passion for her? Did he really feel the same way she secretly felt for him? Apparently not. Turned out that what Alison wanted and what Mark needed were two different things. Instead of asking her to be his lover, he was asking her to be temporary nanny to his baby niece...
  • Taunting Tony by Marie James

    Taunting Tony by Marie James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rules. They’re a necessity. They make the world go ‘round and help idiots function in society. Most don’t require much thought and are easy to follow— or so I thought… I didn’t realize, however, that the new group of people I became friends with could have so many. No sleeping with group member’s moms? Easy enough. No shirts at the BBQ? I’m all over that...
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