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  • The Merger by Adriana Locke

    The Merger by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Crushes are harmless—unless they involve your best friend’s grumpy, off-limits brother.Gannon Brewer is the epitome of my type. He’s at least ten years older than me, emotionally unavailable, and highly disagreeable—a walking red flag in a tailored suit. But do I listen to that? No...
  • Takedown by Nikki Ash

    Takedown by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mila Pregnant and married at the young age of eighteen, I settled into my life not knowing there could ever be more. Until Mason, with his sexy smirk and magnetic baby blue eyes. With a single look and a few words, he made me feel sexy and alive. But as quickly as he came into my life, he was gone, leaving me wanting more...
  • Owen North by Nina Levine

    Owen North by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A steamy forbidden office romance from USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nina Levine.My one-night stand is my new boss.I met him at the society wedding of the year.The man every woman in New York wants.He's rich.Devastatingly good looking.Charming.Mr. I-Could-Blow-Your-Mind.And yes, he did blow my mind.It was just supposed to be one night.I told him I don't date...
  • Parentmoon by L.B. Dunbar

    Parentmoon by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the divorced mother of the groom goes head-to-head with the single father of the bride, they might be the next couple experiencing a heart-to-heart.When my son asked me to take his ticket for the honeymoon that didn’t happen, I balked...
  • Tight Hold by Lisa Suzanne

    Tight Hold by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The pro football player I’m faking a relationship with has the perfect solution to my career woes. He’s encouraging me to lean into the pseudo-celebrity life I was born into instead of trying to outrun it, and for the first time in my life, someone sees me for me.I feel like he’s falling for me, too.And then my ex shows up...
  • Dickslip by Gwyn McNamee

    Dickslip by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One wardrobe malfunction. Two lives forever changed. Playing in a star-studded charity basketball game should be fun, and it is, until I literally go balls out to show up my arch nemesis. When I dive for the basketball and my junk slips out of my gym shorts, I know my life and career are over...
  • Parts of Us by Cara Dee

    Parts of Us by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Game Series, #14 • Doll Parts Sequel • MMMM • M/s • DD/lb • Hurt/Comfort • Found Family • Angst • HEAGrab your favorite stuffie and join Cam, Lucian, KC, and Noa as they jump over life’s hurdles together with their kinky friends as support. Brat shenanigans are to be expected, starting with an Easter Egg Hunt—that has a twist—and continue until they’re off on their Caribbean cruise...
    Categorized as:
    humor  age-gap  steamy  found-family  family  romance  mlm  polyamory
  • Curveball by Lisa Suzanne

    Curveball by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She has no idea who I am. I immediately like that about her. The gorgeous woman who sat down at the blackjack table beside me and asked me to teach her to play doesn’t recognize me as the third baseman who played pro baseball for seven years...
  • Recklessly, Wildly Yours by Nina Levine

    Recklessly, Wildly Yours by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He thinks I’m a runaway bride.What he doesn’t know is that I’m also a runaway celebrity.Two hours before I'm supposed to say "I do," I run.Right into the arms of Ethan Black.He finds me in a cloud of white lace and sheer panic, stranded in the middle of a Manhattan traffic jam.My savior in a suit.He doesn't care about my last name, my fame, or the scandal brewing in my wake.All he sees is me...
  • Forever With The CEO by Layla Hagen

    Forever With The CEO by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It began as a fake marriage. It became so much more. I’m Nick Whitley, CEO of Whitley Sports Industries. I’m a bonafide bachelor, and never intended to settle down. But I’m also a dependable kind of guy and do what’s right when I can.So when my best friend and his wife pass away, leaving behind their twins, I do everything possible to help out their aunt—Allison...
  • Hard to Love by K. Bromberg

    Hard to Love by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author, K. Bromberg, is back with a heartfelt, enemies to lovers romance and a hero who redeems himself to steal your heart . . .He was the one-night stand that didn’t exactly go as planned. Now he’s standing before me as if he’s never seen me naked, telling my manager he’ll take the job. Reluctantly.Finn Sanderson.Sports agent extraordinaire. Handsome as hell...
  • Tackled by Lisa Suzanne

    Tackled by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • A Major Puck Up by Brittanee Nicole

    A Major Puck Up by Brittanee Nicole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There are only a few rules I live enjoy life, smile as often as possible, and don’t ever let a woman come between friends. Oh and hockey is life.For the past forty years I’ve done an excellent job at every single one of them.Until Millie Hall. To be fair, I had no idea who she was that first night. Can’t say the same about the second...
  • If You Need Me by Helena Hunting

    If You Need Me by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A standalone enemies to lovers, fake engagement, hockey romance. I’ve been secretly in love with Wilhelmina Reddi-Grinst since the third grade.I should be the one taking her to our small-town high school reunion. The prom king finally gets his chance with the valedictorian.Except she hates me.To the world, I’m a pro hockey player with a million dollar smile...
  • Maxed Steel by M.J. Fields

    Maxed Steel by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    MilaThe six-foot-three, two hundred pounds of lean muscle, disgustingly defined by his white tee hugging … all that, with a backpack slung over his bulging broad shoulder is far from innocent.He’s Max Steel.He’s all sorts of grown up.And he’s my enemy … even though he doesn’t know it yet...
  • Tight Spot by Lisa Suzanne

    Tight Spot by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I don’t date football players.I’m not interested in the ones who are a decade older than me. I want nothing to do with the ones who play on the same team as my brothers, and I certainly avoid the ones who spend more time in strip clubs than kids’ clubs...
  • The Path to Loving Him by Meghan Quinn

    The Path to Loving Him by Meghan Quinn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a new forced proximity, single dad romantic comedy. This steamy, laugh out loud, enemies-to-lovers, small town standalone romance delivers the perfect happily ever after. What does one do when they completely blow an interview?If you're me, you pick up a one-night stand with the most gorgeous man you've ever seen.
  • Only One Regret by Natasha Madison, Connor Crais

    Only One Regret by Natasha Madison, Connor Crais

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Listening Length 7 hours and 4 minutesCooper My name came with big skates to fill. At the top of my game, I had everything I wanted - or so I thought. Being traded to Dallas was not what I was expecting, but neither were the divorce papers I was served. Now I’m a single dad in a city that isn’t my home. Erika Handed my biggest client when I was 22 made my dreams come true...
  • Leave Me Breathless: A small town brother's best friend romance by Carrie Elks

    Leave Me Breathless: A small town brother's best friend romance by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s his best friend’s little sister. Completely off-limits. And now she’s moving in with him…When Gabe Winter’s best friend calls with an unusual request – give his broken-hearted little sister a roof over her head for a few months – he readily accepts.But he doesn’t expect Nicole to be quite so enticing. Or for her to bring out all the feelings in him...
  • Manster: A Rockstar Romantic Comedy by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Manster: A Rockstar Romantic Comedy by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m a rockstar on the run from the memories of my past. And pussies in palaces.   Record scratch. Rewind.   My name is Hudson Wyatt, and I raced cars until an injury ended my career. Now I pound the skins in Hammered, a successful rock band. But I still enjoy living recklessly, hooking up and partying all night...
  • Defeat by Evelyn Sola

    Defeat by Evelyn Sola

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A self-proclaimed bachelor, content on his own. A runaway bride, searching for her freedom.They may seem like they’ve got nothing in common, but the tiniest sparks make the biggest flames.Delaney Lewis is desperate for her freedom. From her controlling mother and the man she left standing at the altar...
  • Chase Lovett Wants Me by Helena Hunting

    Chase Lovett Wants Me by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brand new standalone, opposites attract, college hockey romance. Chase Lovett. Star of my (unrequited) fantasies. Hottest guy on campus. Hockey god. Too bad he has no idea who I am. Literally, I’m so invisible to him that he once sat on me in class.No thanks to a fire in the dorms, he just became my accidental roommate...
  • The Dealmaker by Jessica Peterson

    The Dealmaker by Jessica Peterson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hating and dating: I didn’t realize they’re two sides of the same coin until I meet him. Theo Morgan.One of Wall Street’s highest-paid traders, he may be hot as sin in his five-thousand-dollar custom-made suit and six-figure SUV. But Theo is the bane of my existence. He’s arrogant, rude, and as brash as they come.As our bank’s newest star hire, he’s also after the same promotion I am...
  • Xavier's Kitten by Nichole Rose

    Xavier's Kitten by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You've met his twin, Tate Grimes, now get ready to meet Xavier in Xavier's Kitten! Welcome to Silver Spoon Falls, TX. The men here are known for having it all. Except there's a shortage of eligible ladies in town to share it with. These determined men won't let that slow them down...
  • Wild Card by Maggie Rawdon

    Wild Card by Maggie Rawdon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The infamous playboy and star wide receiver for the Seattle Phantom is the last person on earth I would ever expect to come to my rescue. Tobias Westfield and I can’t see eye-to-eye on anything. But when my date goes to hell and I end up stranded in the pouring rain on my birthday, he’s there—holding my hand and playing the adoring boyfriend. I might have had him all wrong...
  • Baby For The Off Limits Boss Daddy by Callie Stevens

    Baby For The Off Limits Boss Daddy by Callie Stevens

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I never thought I'd break the bro code and HR rules in one fell swoop.Rowan Headley tops the list of people I never wanted to see again.She shattered my best friend's heart, turning him into a shell of his former self.I hate her for what she did.But guess who my company's new hire is?Yep, the last person I expected - Rowan Headley.It’s awkward, it’s tense, but we have to put up with each other...
  • California Dreaming by Bella Andre, Nicky Arden

    California Dreaming by Bella Andre, Nicky Arden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Meet the Davenport family! Six brothers and sisters who call picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea home. Successful, brilliant, and passionate, the only thing they all still need is the perfect partner in love and life. 

 Hotshot movie star Archer Davenport has never met a stunt he couldn’t ace, a challenge he couldn’t overcome, or a woman he couldn’t have...
  • Runaway Bride's Guide to Love by Chelle Sloan

    Runaway Bride's Guide to Love by Chelle Sloan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A swoony, age gap, brother’s best friend, runaway bride romance from bestselling author, Chelle Sloan...
  • Traded by Lisa Suzanne

    Traded by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first time I met pro football’s hottest quarterback, we ended up horizontal just before the most embarrassing moment of my life.The second time, I unleashed all my pent-up anger on him.The third time was when the owner of the Vegas Aces introduced him as the newly traded player I’d be coaching for the next year. No…I’m not a football coach. I’ve been hired as his full-time behavior coach...
  • The Flirt by Layla Hagen

    The Flirt by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Being a single dad while managing one of the biggest businesses in New Orleans keeps me very busy. Any free time I have I spend with my daughter, Bella — reading to her, styling her hair, or choosing nail polishes appropriate for an eight-year-old. But I’m okay with that because she is my whole world. After my divorce, I made myself a promise: I wouldn’t date until Bella was older...
  • Behind the Camera by Chelsea Curto

    Behind the Camera by Chelsea Curto

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Maven Wood is ready for a fresh start. After an injury on the soccer field leads to her dropping out of college, she needs a change. When her godfather–the coach of the hottest team in the NFL–tells her about an open position as a sports photographer, she jumps at the chance to apply. The pay is good, but it doesn’t cover her rent after her roommate moves out...
  • Coach Sully by Sloane St. James

    Coach Sully by Sloane St. James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kendra Ames is a driven young producer in need of a bachelor for her reality show. When she meets Lee Sullivan, the retired captain of Lakes hockey team, they have an instant connection. After listening to Kendra’s pitch, Sully decides he would rather pursue her instead. However, when the show’s network makes him an offer for his dream job with a unique stipulation, he can’t refuse...
  • Off Camera by Chelsea Curto

    Off Camera by Chelsea Curto

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

    Now's the Time by Harlow James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Let me experience all of you tonight, Penelope…since this is all that we get.”That was the agreement between me and Maddox Taylor, the NFL’s most notorious playboy and mega-talented quarterback who happened to be out in California for one night—one night in which I broke all of my rules and gave in to the undeniable attraction I felt for the man...
  • My Unexpected Family by Harlow James

    My Unexpected Family by Harlow James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d walk into my living room to see a woman dancing to old-school hip-hop music while six months pregnant and I’d actually enjoy the sight of it.But then again, I never thought I’d get a woman pregnant and have her living in my house either.That’s what’s happened though...
  • Steele by Kelly Gendron

    Steele by Kelly Gendron

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She dared me to take her on, and that’s exactly what I plan to do I'm no stranger to daring things However, there are a few stunts even I'm smart enough not to try Jaylyn Rigsby is one of them But when the raven-haired beauty The insurance company sent to oversee my stunts Dared me to take her on, well, now.
  • Playoff Passion by London Casey

    Playoff Passion by London Casey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m pregnant. By a hockey player.My father is the head coach of the team.There’s literally no way I can tell anyone who got me pregnant… right?* * *Don’t ask me ‘how did this happen?’ because I don’t have time to talk about the birds and bees and what goes on between the sheets.The fact of the matter is this - I’m pregnant by the goalie of the Inci Warriors...
    Categorized as:
    sports  steamy  humor  contemporary  romance  fiction  book  adult
  • So Flocked by Sarah Estep

    So Flocked by Sarah Estep

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After the wedding, they’ll go their separate ways and no one will ever know what happened in the lighthouse.Jordy Taylor is a disaster. Over the hill by professional football standards, the veteran quarterback isn’t ready to hang up his pads just yet, but his team might have other plans...
  • Hot Shot by Kat Baxter

    Hot Shot by Kat Baxter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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  • Into the Tide by Laura Pavlov

    Into the Tide by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’s my best friend’s little sister. Completely off-limits. But every man has his breaking point. Lila James is my best friend’s little sister and I’ve always looked out for her.She's five years younger than me, and when she left for college, she was just a kid.But now she’s home for the summer—and she’s definitely not a kid anymore.She’s beautiful and smart and everything I didn’t know I needed...
  • Something like Lust by Piper Rayne, Aiden Snow

    Something like Lust by Piper Rayne, Aiden Snow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Do it.Don’t do it.Never in my life did I think I’d wager in my head whether to sleep with Chicago Grizzlies wide receiver, Damon Siska.He’s the perfect package—hot body, killer smile, and flirts like he earned a doctorate in it. But anyone who reads gossip blogs knows he is looking for one amazing night and nothing more.I’m not the usual type of woman he beds...
  • Virgin Skin by K.M. Neuhold

    Virgin Skin by K.M. Neuhold

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I know I have to keep my hands off of my best friend’s son, but it’s hard… really, really hard…I didn’t know the guy I picked up in the bar last night was Hero’s son. To be fair, he didn’t even know he had a son until today. I guess we’re all just scrambling to put on our poker faces.Keeping my hands off of Milo is hard enough thanks to his lickable dimple, flirty smiles, and virgin skin...
  • Marked by Rebecca Barber

    Marked by Rebecca Barber

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Logan-freaking-Oliver. Sure the million-dollar pretty boy can play football. At least that’s what the papers lead us to believe. Me though, I’m not so convinced. Sure he's got a backside you could bounce quarters off, arms you want wrapped around you, dimples you’d drown in and hair you’d sell your mother to pull... but is he a nice guy or has he let fame go to his head...
  • Meet Me at Midnight by Max Monroe

    Meet Me at Midnight by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    How good are you at keeping a secret? Because I, Juniper Perry, have been keeping a big one. For over a decade, I’ve been crushing on the guy with the easy smile, warm brown eyes, and charismatic charm. He’s all the perfect things that, when you add them up, spell out Man of my dreams. I know that doesn’t sound bad at all, but there’s more to this story...We work together...
  • If You Love Me by Helena Hunting

    If You Love Me by Helena Hunting

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two nights with her ruined me for all other women, but I never got the chance to make her mine. I’m the pinnacle of control. I protect the net, my team, and my daughter.It’s my final season and I can’t afford any distractions. Except our new assistant coach just walked in. And I would know her face anywhere.She’s the one I dream about...
  • Snow by Brittanee Nicole

    Snow by Brittanee Nicole

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Camden Snow finally gets his book...
  • Mike & Jonah by Jayda Marx

    Mike & Jonah by Jayda Marx

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mike - I trust my police partner Sam Miller with my life. Not only have we been friends for fifteen years, he’s a great cop and I know I can trust him to watch my back. So I’m less than thrilled when I hear that he’ll be on sick leave for six weeks due to a minor surgery...
  • Boss to the Rescue by Janie Grey

    Boss to the Rescue by Janie Grey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    That time you need to make a brilliant first impression for a competitive internship, but accidentally arrive late and with an armful of soggy kittens…only to find that your new boss, Ed Malden - who needs to adore the crap out of you if you’re to secure your dream job - is not only one of New Zealand’s hottest billionaire heartthrobs, but he is *majorly* allergic to cats.The sneezing begins...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  family  humor  steamy  workplace  adult  billionaire  book
  • Baller Boss by Lila Monroe

    Baller Boss by Lila Monroe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fake date. Real trouble. Fall for a new trope-tactic, fake dating rom-com series from USA Today bestselling author, Lila Monroe! Ex-pro athlete Austin Banks is cocky, charming, and the ultimate player… at least, that’s what I think when he makes me an offer I can’t refuse for my dream job. Except, it’s not technically me he’s offering it to...Other Jennifer Walker is the bane of my existence...
  • Author Next Door by Nicole Casey

    Author Next Door by Nicole Casey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lara “Is that him? The Charles Hill?” Yes, you guys. That’s exactly The Charles Hill. Single Dad. Best-Selling Author. Hot-as-Sin. And probably twice my age. He couldn’t possibly be interested in me – an ordinary small-town girl. But he makes my toes curl whenever he glances my way. We're at work, and I know it's wrong. But my body is telling me yes. Ok. Just one kiss. I told myself...
    Categorized as:
    workplace  age-gap  family  humor  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
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