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State of Shock by Marie Force
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey never saw this coming… This story picks up right where State of the Union left off with another wild ride for the First Couple as they navigate work, family and an all new and extra baffling murder mystery that has Sam pushing the boundaries to get answers before a killer can strike again... -
White Lies by Autumn Jones Lake
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Autumn Jones Lake invites you to the most anticipated wedding of the Lost Kings MC.The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves.MC life is full of lies and half-truths.Our world demands secrecy. Except from each other. Brotherhood requires honor, loyalty, and respect.I owe everything I am to the Lost Kings MC... -
Brie Bows to Her Master by Red Phoenix
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe final week at the Submissive Training Center has arrived! Join Brie as she encounters challenging sessions crafted specifically for her - five extraordinary days of training and pleasure. Her graduation includes interviews with potential Doms, but things get horribly complicated for Brie... -
Beg For It by _himeros_
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsElizabeth Nadir has never had control. All of her life she has been controlled and never the controller. Those who held power over her always did what was best for them and in the end, it almost got her killed. After escaping the hell created by the ones closest to her she vows to never let another man control her again... -
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The Devil's Angels MC: Book 7 - Chubs by Lola Wright
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsChubsTo survive this harsh world, I’ve lived a life of lies and secrets. From a young age, I was taught the dangers of trusting others. When my world imploded, I knew those lessons were warranted. I was forced to flee the only place I’d ever known and the only people I loved.In a desperate situation, with no one to turn to, I met a large biker who insisted on taking in a scared teenage boy... -
Duplicity by Happydays1d
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Smoking is bad you know." The placid voice spoke up from the distant dark corner, nothing seen but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry."It's the least of my problems." I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris fill my throat when I suck delicately... -
Brie Faces Her Master's Fears by Red Phoenix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrie is thrilled by the secret Master reveals. Their D/s relationship and love deepens as he teaches her his preferences and shares another aspect of his past. Tragically, a meeting with her nemesis starts a disastrous chain of events. The aftermath of which leads her Master to make a decision Brie never sees coming... -
Brie Learns Restraint by Red Phoenix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrie Learns Restraint, #5 in the AG series:Brie is given the opportunity to work under the mastery of another Dom - an expert in bondage. During the unique arrangement she discovers truths about herself and several of her past trainers. A new passion is ignited when she participates in an erotic class of Kinbaku. Loyalties are challenged, but a clear winner emerges... -
Viper by Lilly Atlas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI loved you yesterday, I love you today, and I’ll love you tomorrow whether you’re here with me or waiting for me among the stars. Known to the Hell’s Handlers Motorcycle Club as Mama V, Cassie is living a full life she could never have dreamed of growing up in a wealthy, loveless, and miserable household... -
Brie Discerns Master's Heart by Red Phoenix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrie's AG series #6Master has revealed himself in small doses, only hinting about the tragedy in his past. Things are about to shift as Brie comes face to face with Master’s greatest adversary. Huge changes are rushing towards our young submissive. The wolf must be confronted, her documentary is about to discover its fate and Master will bare a part of himself kept hidden until now... -
Missed: Rafael and Lisa by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReturn to the beloved beach town of Cliffside Bay, where USA Today bestseller Tess Thompson spins another emotional, intriguing tale about overcoming adversity and finding strength in love in this standalone story about Lisa and Rafael. After years of struggling as a starving actor, Lisa Perry's dreams are finally coming true... -
The Savage Trilogy: Complete Story by Meghan March
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYou will be ENTRANCED by the words, SEDUCED by the characters and HOLDING your breath for what's to come……….One: Savage Prince - I do what I want and who I want. I don’t follow anyone’s rules—even my own.I knew I shouldn’t touch her, but it didn’t stop me. Didn’t stop me the second time either. Only made me want a third. My lifestyle suits the savage I am, and she doesn’t... -
Scarred Queen by Naomi West
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMy boss got me pregnant.Made me marry him.And now..."What do you mean, 'you're sending me away'?Is this some kind of joke?"But the look on Arsen's face says nothing about this is funny.He means he's sending me and our newborn baby to God knows where for God knows how long.It's "for my safety"?Yeah, I've heard that line before.It's what men say when they're doing something for themselves.But fine... -
Ashes falling for The Sky 2 by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSuite et fin d'Ashes falling for the sky.Après un cliffhanger insoutenable, on retrouve Sky et Ash aux prises avec leurs démons. La réunion de ces deux destins brisés ne se fera pas sans de nouvelles blessures, et révélations sur leurs passés. Nine Gorman et Mathieu Guibé livrent une suite touchante, riche en thématiques fortes, et dont le final ne laissera personne indifférent... -
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Graveyard by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHelping the sick and the defenseless is my calling, it’s why I became a doctor. My club and my duty to them are everything to me. But I never expected her...She walks into my hospital with her sister in tow. She’s a rare beauty, but burdened with problems I can’t imagine.Something tugs at my awareness. There's a familiarity in her wild hair and piercing eyes. I know her but don’t know her... -
Inked Babies: Epilogue to Inked Brotherhood by Jo Raven
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis is the epilogue to the bestselling series Inked Brotherhood. Follow the five boys and their girls as they get married, have babies... and save Zane from his demons. Five brothers in all but blood, five girls who love them, emerging from a past fraught with darkness and danger. There are wedding bells, and baby cries and laughter all around. They have found their happy ending... -
Lost in the Wind by Calle J. Brookes
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe had survived. She could survive. She would survive again. After a brutal assault and cancer as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre wouldn’t let herself be called a victim. Nikkie Jean wasn’t a victim. She was a survivor. Now a pediatric surgical resident at the best teaching hospital in Texas, Nikkie Jean knows there’s nothing she can’t make it through if she just keeps going... -
Seth by Jo Raven
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLife is a bitch. Keeps screwing me over, and I take blow after blow, sucking it up, giving her the finger. Don’t get me wrong: I love women. Especially one woman – Madeline. She’s gorgeous, she’s sexy, she’s goddamn perfect. Plus – minor detail – she has a boyfriend already. Not that she’d want anything to do with the likes of me... -
Atonement: An Interracial Romance by T.K. Leigh
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLondyn Bennett entered my world like a hurricane. One I was grossly unprepared for.But in the short time we've known each other, she's opened my eyes to things I never expected. She taught me about acceptance. Compassion. Love.Because of her, I've also been forced to learn about prejudice. Cruelty. Hate... -
Unraveled by Aubrey Bondurant
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnraveled: To become undone. To take apart. To destroy. I thought I had it all with my well-respected job, Hollywood boyfriend, and glamorous lifestyle. Until the truth revealed a different story. In one day, after a single word, my carefully constructed life was obliterated. But it’s only the beginning of my spiral. There’s much further to fall. Then I meet him... -
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The Coast Road Home by Vickie McKeehan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree years ago, it was a beautiful March Saturday in New Glarus, Wisconsin. The sun was out. The day, a chilly prelude to spring. Divorced mom, Marley Lennox, wanted nothing more than to spend time with her two kids at the family farm, a peaceful setting outside town. They’d all been looking forward to helping tend to the newborn calf and spending a quiet weekend in the countryside... -
Face the Music by Velvet Vaughn
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can’t silence the truth.Ever since their chance encounter on the crowded streets of New York City, COBRA Securities Co-Founder Luke Colton can't erase Layla Brooks from his thoughts. It wasn't just her beauty that captivated him, but the look of stark terror on her face. Angry with himself for not following her, knowing she must be in danger, he's shocked when she ends up on his doorstep... -
Maria's Journey by Karen Clow
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCompelling, Brutal and stretching every boundary of Love and loyalty to its limits; Maria’s Journey will leave you wondering how she ever survived and remained the lady she is.Continuing to chart the turbulent lives of Jimmy, Maria and Mickey, once again it delves into London’s violent, depraved, criminal underworld... -
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Equilibrium: A Marauders Interlude by Lina Andersson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes life throws you a curve ball. Sometimes they’re minor league, a mild irritation. Sometimes they’re game changers, life-altering, knock ‘em out of the park kinda big. Eliza thought she knew what track her life was on, but then life threw her one of those major league style curve balls. Roach isn’t even sure what normal is anymore, he’s been thrown so many curve balls in his life... -
Savage Sacrifice by Kathleen Kelly
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRockstar Princess Kat Saunders is enjoying her world tour with the band, RockPlay a little too much. Captured on camera kissing bad boy rocker, Will Van Ryken, her world is about to get turned upside down. When Dane Reynolds, President of Savage Angels MC tries to confront his wife, another kind of hell descends upon him... -
Rescue by Rachel Schurig
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe fifth book in the bestselling Ransom series! Lennon can’t remember what it feels like to be happy. He might be one of the famous Ransome brothers, the bassist for the hottest rock group in the country, but fame and fortune can’t fix this. There are nightmares he doesn’t understand. Memories he can’t explain. And always, always the unshakable sense that he’s made a terrible mistake... -
Lost & Found by Freya Barker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEven with a degree in psychology and a keen ability to read people, security specialist Bree Graves can’t seem to get a bead on her boss. There was a time she thought she had him figured out but she’d been wrong. Still, she loves her job with PASS and her team has become her family... -
Terror by Jessica Ames
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTerrorAs Sergeant at Arms of the Manchester chapter of the Untamed Sons Motorcycle Club, my job is clear--protect my brothers and uphold the bylaws of my club. I’ve done that from the moment I patched in, risking my life and freedom for men I consider closer than blood.I never thought I’d need anything else until she walked back into my life... -
Enchanted: A Billionaire Romance by Tracie Delaney
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWanted: Companion for reclusive billionaire. Apply online now.It should be so easy. A twelve month contract with a fat bonus at the end—providing I don’t quit.Except when something looks too good to be true, it usually is.Little did I know how interwoven my life is with his.Saving him might cure my own crushing guilt.Or it could break us both... -
Christmas Panther Style by Annabella Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheir world was turned upside down... With booms, kabooms, and bullets flying after a mad dash across continents on a rescue mission in a plane painted like Santa's sleigh. Join some friends old and new as they chase the enemy none of them ever wanted. One of their own... -
Brie's Montana Dreams by Red Phoenix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSubmissive in Love #4 (The Brie series continues!)Hot scenes call to Brie Bennett as she sets out to film The Sanctuary, a secret BDSM commune nestled in the mountains of Montana. All kinds of kinky fun awaits, including the provocative Initiation Ceremony... -
Brie's Christmas Pearls by Red Phoenix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrie’s Christmas Pearls (Submissive in Love, #3) Christmas magic with a little kink… Brie’s Master has kept something from her that threatens to tear them apart. When confronted, dark emotions are awakened but the couple is part of a tight community that won’t let them fail. Brie believes in the magic of Christmas and plans the perfect gift... -
August by trickology
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings•BAD BOY• || Highest ranks: #1 in Love || || #1 in Romance || || #1 Teen Fiction ||Nyctophilia(n.) Love of darkness or night. Finding comfort in darkness.August Villin was a name people feared.Cruel and powerful, his anger was a storm that never went away.He was the monster that lurked in all of your worst nightmares, waiting for you to cross onto his dangerous path... -
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The Nicholas Sparks Holiday Collection by Nicholas Sparks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree of Nicholas Sparks's beloved bestselling novels are now available as a boxed set. TRUE BELIEVER: A skeptical science journalist travels to a small town to investigate ghostly apparitions. When he hopelessly falls in love with a local woman, he must take a giant leap of faith... -
Marry a King by Stella Andrews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe graduation ball sealed her fate.The unmasking ceremony chained her to my side.The most beautiful woman in Andromeda.Cassiopeia Brookes-Stanley, a vision wrapped in sin.Aquamarine eyes that steal my breath and capture my soul.Soft curves that beg for my attention with an innocence she will surrender only to me... -
Saint by J.B. Salsbury
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMilo sold his soul to the devil to save an angel. Now he’s after revenge. There are worse prisons than the lush estate of a notorious drug smuggler in Mexico. Mercy lives out her days alone and hidden from the world, but her sleep is riddled with nightmares of the muti and all the boys and girls just like her who weren’t lucky enough to get away... -
Blood Tears by J.D. Nixon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIs Senior Constable Tess Fuller really as resilient as she thinks? When faced with the tragic consequences of her own stubborn decision – further inflaming her lifelong feud with the large, revengeful, and violent Bycraft family – how will she cope? And can she rebuild her trust and relationship with her newly returned partner, Sergeant Finn Maguire, while they work a puzzling accidental death... -
At Last by Sarah Zolton Arthur
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBroken promises. Broken dreams. Broken heart. All a woman can expect from a man. For Dr. Caitlin Brennan, the small town of Thornbriar, Kentucky seemed the perfect place for her and her little girl to finally set down roots after a year of wandering... -
Ruthless Villain by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMy Knight. My Rebel. My Forbidden Villain …In the dazzling lights of Vegas, I indulged in a passionate one-night stand with a man who looked like a Greek god in the flesh.We no names, no strings attached, just an unforgettable night of fun.The plan was simple—say goodbye and move on.Little did I know fate had other ideas for me.I never expected to run into Mr... -
Ghost by Mary Kennedy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEric "Ghost" Stanton has spent half his life as an elite military man, but when fate steps in forcing him to leave the life he loves, he decides to create a different kind of family with his brothers. Their love of the road, riding, women, and drinking will help them form a new brotherhood. But just because she's a bitch, fate interferes again and drops Grace in his lap... -
Crime Lord's Paradise by Mia Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter Gavin Pyre steps down from his position as crime lord, he and Lyla focus on picking up the pieces of their lives and creating the paradise they deserve. Note: This novella intersects with book 4, Awakened by Sin, so books should be read in sequence... -
Ashes falling for the Sky by Nine Gorman, Mathieu Guibé
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIl n'est qu'une pluie de cendres. Elle s'est noyée dans un ciel trop vaste. Lors de la soirée de pré-rentrée à l'université, Sky décidée à laisser ses démons derrière elle, jette son dévolu sur Ash. Prête à assumer cette aventure d'un soir, elle ignore les avertissements de sa colocataire et se lance dans le jeu de la séduction, mais perd lamentablement la partie... -
Finding Forever by L.L. Collins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLacey Russell has had enough heartbreak and loss for one lifetime. Turning tragedy into motivation, she becomes a veterinarian to honor her mother’s memory. She knows the path her life is on and she decided long ago that falling in love is not part of that plan. She’s seen firsthand that all it does is cause sorrow and pain... -
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Monster by Erin Trejo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI transferred from another chapter to Miami. I needed a change and this was it. I fell into line with the rest of the guys here. The day I get shot is the day my life changes. Left at a local doctor's office to heal, I met her. She was different. She wasn't your normal type of girl. I could be myself with her...in the dark. In the light I was the monster I was named after... -
30 Days: Part Three by Belle Brooks
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Sometimes in death, a life is ensured.”Strong. Courageous. Determined. Abigail has been given a do-over and she’s not about to waste such an opportunity. Does a single red velvet box hold the key to the future she now hopes for? With lost memories restored and a heart that cries Marcus’ name, Abigail has one more piece of her puzzle to claim...finding ‘The Magician.’Lost. Empty. Alone... -
Charming (Devil's Boneyard MC) by Harley Wylde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDakota -- Having a half-brother who’s an infamous assassin isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. At twenty-five, he’s still micromanaging my life. The moment Specter tells me about an arranged marriage to one of his associates I do what any sane woman would… I run. Never counted on meeting a biker I can’t seem to forget, nor did I plan on our two days together to have lasting consequences... -
Miracle by Susan Fanetti
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRELEASE DATE: 6 AUGUST 2016 PREORDER NOW THE CONCLUSION OF THE PAGANO FAMILY SERIES. Joey Pagano was left disabled following a violent moment in his family’s history, a moment he chose to be a part of. During the past ten years of a life he’s only half lived, all of his brothers and sisters have gotten married and made families of their own, but Joey’s had no one... -
Winner by Belle Brooks, Karen Harper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoselette Horton... Miss Prim and Proper. Arm candy for one of the richest men in Hoffman. Fate had her saving my life. Now I'm indebted to repay the favour. Rose has the biggest stick up her arse. It’s surprising she can even put one foot in front of the other. She has no clue what it means to be living, or who she really is... -
Triton: Soulless Bastards MC Daytona Chapter by Erin Trejo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTriton: I took care of my sister the best I could after our parents died. I wasn’t the best big brother. I had my club to think about and dealing with a teenager wasn’t high on my list of things to do. Neither was that little surfer girl. She was mouthy and full of passion, something I wanted. But with all good things, it had to come to an end...
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