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  • Lover in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Lover in Lingerie by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I know this has no future.Only heartbreak.Bosco Roth may be the man I've fallen for, but he'll never be the man I marry.He's too dangerous. Too risky.When our three months is over, I'll walk away.At least that's what I keep telling myself..
  • Blood & Bones: Whip by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Whip by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You never know where the road may lead you. Or who you’ll find along the way… When Whip comes across a disabled motorcycle at the foot of the mountain—the one that’s nothing but bad news—he hopes the stranded rider is nothing more than just that. Someone who needs help.And not a trap. Or an undercover fed...
  • White Lies by Autumn Jones Lake

    White Lies by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    USA 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...
  • Let Me Love You by Brittney Sahin

    Let Me Love You by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love is a risk for a woman in danger and a mercenary sworn to protect in a blistering novel of vengeance and redemption by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin. Six years ago, Maria Romano got her birthday wish—a kiss from Enzo Costa. A man she could never take her eyes off, but who seemed as haunted as her favorite book boyfriends and strictly off-limits...
  • Daddy's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Faith Blossom has hit rock bottom.She’s drowning.Broke, demoralised, tired, and alone, she accepts a job that could be the answer to her problems.So long as she can survive a force of nature bent on destroying everything in his path.Reuben Jones.He’s driven, loyal, stern, and unforgiving.Possessive and protective.Grumpy.And he wants to own her. Dominate and control her.Be her Daddy...
  • Bull by Penny Dee

    Bull by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She could be the end of me BULLI lost my wife on a rainy night almost two decades ago. Since then, my heart has been a barren wasteland. It only knows love for family and the club. And for revenge. Then I meet Taylor and I know I’m doomed. Because she’s everything I didn’t know I wanted. Everything I’ve denied myself for years...
  • Under The Greek's Protection by Sonja B.

    Under The Greek's Protection by Sonja B.

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crazy Loves CrazySlowly sitting up, Hailey looks down at Alistair’s handsome face. He seems so normal in his sleep. Just looking at him in this state, no one would ever guess an insane teddy bear hid behind those eyelids. Reaching for the pillow to the side of her, Hailey takes it in her hands, then presses it upon his face, using all of her weight...
  • Rico: The Four Families: Romano by Cee Bowerman

    Rico: The Four Families: Romano by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Federico Romano didn’t just inherit his position as the head of the family, he clawed his way to the top, all while dealing with drama and secrets in his personal life that can never be allowed to see the light of day. The harsh and unforgiving mafia boss persona he presents to the world at large is light-years away from the loving man that his family knows...
  • Doc: a Club Alias novel by K.D. Robichaux, Kayla Robichaux

    Doc: a Club Alias novel by K.D. Robichaux, Kayla Robichaux

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr Neil Walker, MD, MFT, Ph DI’m not your average therapist. As the founder of Imperium Security—the cover for my mercenary team—I’ve dedicated my entire life to helping heal those who’ve had their power unwillingly taken from them and avenging the ones who didn’t survive...
  • Maddox by Kate Oliver

    Maddox by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BrynnRebuilding her life after escaping from the years of neglect and abuse from the one person she should have been able to trust most was definitely a challenge. Working two crappy jobs, living in a run-down apartment, and riding the bus through the worst part of town–this was not what she envisioned for her life...
  • Graveyard by K.L. Savage

    Graveyard by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Helping 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...
  • Cage by Kate Oliver

    Cage by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Age gapDaddy DomJealous/Possessive HOver-the-top protective HDD/lgSeries Troubled and lost.They were once teenage boys with no hope for the future. Now they live a life of danger, doing things no one else in the world can do. All it took was a twist of fate to change their lives forever...
  • Malice's Soul by E.C. Land

    Malice's Soul by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Malice For as long as I can remember, I’ve only felt one thing—hatred. No other emotion has ever lived within the confines of my soul. On many occasions I’ve been told I have no soul. Not that I give a damn. It only means I won’t get burned. Growing up I saw the people closest to me get hurt by those who were important to them. It showed me that feelings were overrated...
  • Controlling Chloe by Kate Oliver

    Controlling Chloe by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Blurb coming soon! This is Bash Gilroy's story...
  • Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s been mine since the second I saw her. It would be easy to say I have no business even looking at a girl like River Finn. She’s too young. Too innocent. Too much my daughter’s best friend. That is, until the gorgeous forbidden fruit becomes my business. A rival bratva kingpin wants her. I want his empire. Kidnapping her as leverage should be an easy, simple business arrangement...
  • Force by Cassandra Robbins

    Force by Cassandra Robbins

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Cassandra Robbins comes an explosive, second- chance, age- gap, standalone love story about the dangerous Disciples enforcer and his fierce, secret obsession.I’ve made two impulsive decisions in my life, and both have involved the notorious enforcer of the Disciples MC.The first, I humiliated myself by spying on him...
  • Chance by K.J. Dahlen

    Chance by K.J. Dahlen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chance Falling in love is something I never did before but now that I have I understand She’s my whole world. Like the air I breathe. I’m determined to have a life with this woman She doesn’t look for trouble. Trouble looks for her. When my woman takes a stand for an innocent, I’ll stand beside her...
  • Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cian O’Sheeran was the second oldest O’Sheeran child. His family was the largest Irish mob family in the US. Well, technically, to the world, they were former mobsters gone straight. The world might speculate and say they still were mobsters, but no one outside the family and their closest people knew the truth. Afterall, it was hard to remove all traces of a hunter from their bloodline...
  • Captured: Red Horsemen #1 by Raven Amor

    Captured: Red Horsemen #1 by Raven Amor

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    RaeFor years I’ve run.When I finally listened to my mother's last words to go to her hometown, I never planned on staying.I hadn’t survived this long by being foolish.I had rules for a reason.Never stay in one place too long.No friends or attachments.Only, I never expected to meet him.Ice, as cold as his name until he looked at me.Those ice blue eyes would burn across my skin.I broke my own rules...
  • Riley's Biker by Misty Walker

    Riley's Biker by Misty Walker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today Best-Selling author, Misty Walker, comes the next book in her standalone RBMC series, Riley's Biker: An Age-Gap, Motorcycle Club Romance.It was supposed to be one night.A quick-release before I went on my way.So I’m not surprised when I wake the next morning to find the girl with the owl eyes gone.But I am surprised to find something else missing.My cut...
  • Veiled Treasure by Measha Stone

    Veiled Treasure by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm his now, and he's not going to be gentle with me.When my brothers tried to arrange a marriage for me back in New York, I ran away to Boston. Making it on my own at eighteen wasn't easy, but for two years I managed to keep my freedom.Until Gregor Romanov came looking for me...
  • Nikolai: The Complete Collection: Books 1 to 4 by Shandi Boyes

    Nikolai: The Complete Collection: Books 1 to 4 by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When opposing sides of the law collide, it isn't just the rules being broken.Justine Walsh dreamed about being an architect when she was a child. However, when her brother was served a life sentence for murder, her plans altered. Now she's a first-year intern at the number one defense firm in the country...
  • Mateo by K.L. Savage

    Mateo by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Even without a memory, the world is a dark and damned place.There are things around us that regular people don’t know about...I know those things.I’ve done those things.It’s the way of this world when you’re on the throne.This temple is rightfully mine.I am the crown.This isn’t just my life.It’s my soul.My empire.My fortress.And her...
  • Owning Victoria by E.C. Land

    Owning Victoria by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BlurbVictoriaI was lucky enough to have escaped a world where I was viewed as nothing but a possession, a toy, a little plaything. Only, two years later I found myself owned by a man who made my heart beat from the very moment I met him. There's just one problem-- he doesn't feel the same way. I'm merely someone he can push around and give orders to.I hoped for so long he'd change, but he didn't...
  • Domesticated Beast by Onley James

    Domesticated Beast by Onley James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    JAVIER DE LA FUENTE is a criminal, an ex-con with a long line of offenses, atoning for his sins by rescuing abused animals and advocating for child victims. But that doesn’t mean he’s a saint. Javier learned years ago that what’s right and what’s legal aren’t always the same thing. BOWIE BAKER is a ballet dancer, a soloist doing his best to get ahead in his LA dance company...
  • Restoration by Tate James

    Restoration by Tate James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s always been about the chase. The prize. The puzzle. The Game. I became the best of the best, Hermes, because no one could catch me. No one could touch me.No one had.Until her.She’s everything I never knew I wanted.She is my life.It’s been one bad call after another in this Game. It’s cost the woman I love more than I ever wanted her to have to pay...
  • Captivated by Him by Measha Stone

    Captivated by Him by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Five years ago, I let Nicole Sawicki disappear from my life without a fight. Now that she's back, I won't be making the same mistake.For her own safety.Her own protection.I will drag her into my life, my family, and my marriage bed kicking and screaming if I have to...
  • Beautiful Devils by Eva Ashwood

    Beautiful Devils by Eva Ashwood

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The thrilling second book in the Filthy Wicked Psychos series!Note: The blurb below contains spoilers for the first book, so I'd recommend not reading it until you've finished book one, Twisted Game. You've been warned!***They claimed my heart… only to break it.After spending years feeling like I never fit in anywhere, I thought I had found a place where I might truly belong...
  • Bratva Boys (Box Set) by T.L. Smith

    Bratva Boys (Box Set) by T.L. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All four Books in one! Distrust. Disbelief. Defiance. Dismissed. Their name has meaning, holds royalty. They aren’t to be trifled with. And if you get too close, prepare to be destroyed—they are the Russian mafia. Gashes and bruises mean nothing to them, blood is what they live by. It’s all they know...
  • Bulldog by Delta James

    Bulldog by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wears the collar because she is his. She is his because her body knew its master.The moment Olivia Miles resorted to fighting dirty in a fencing match, Lord Nigel Pederson decided to teach her a shameful lesson, but as her quivering bottom reddened under his punishing hand the arousal pooling between her thighs made it clear she needs to be mastered completely...
  • Brizio DeLuca: Savage Bloodline Series by Keta Kendric

    Brizio DeLuca: Savage Bloodline Series by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I couldn’t leave well enough alone. My obsession with finding out what happened to my brother landed me in the hands of Brizio DeLuca. His offer to help me came with rules that set me on a path lined with torture, death, and destruction. I was minding my business and working on becoming a better man. And here she comes...
  • Duke by Savannah Rylan

    Duke by Savannah Rylan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her daughter is her world. When Eden and I split eleven years ago I never imagined being a father. Hell, I hardly knew what was happening next week, let alone a decade later. But everything changes with Sierra shows up on my doorstep. With Eden, not far behind. Sierra is mine, I can feel it in my bones. And I'll do anything to make my family whole...
  • Lost Soul by Emma Creed

    Lost Soul by Emma Creed

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ‘Bound not by blood but loyalty. We live, we ride, and we die by our own laws’ I’ve always known where I belong. I was born to wear the Dirty Soul patch. Club life is the only life I’ve ever wanted. The President, Jimmer Carson, raised me like a son, and he trusted me with his family. My loyalty to him and the Souls is unbreakable...
  • Claimed by Raven Amor

    Claimed by Raven Amor

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Rae I handed myself over. Now I’m back in the hands of the devil. In my own personal hell.I’ve escaped before, and I’ll do it again. Princesses need a Prince to save them. I’m no princess, and this isn’t my fairytale. Sometimes the Princess has to save herself.Only, a secret I’m holding is slowly destroying me.I can’t let it go because it will destroy everyone around me...
  • Axel by M. Merin

    Axel by M. Merin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Saw her Claimed her I'll deal with the consequences later 27 MC Authors 26 Royal Bastards Chapters Get ready to ride, starting December 1, 2019...
  • Six by Paulina Ian-Kane

    Six by Paulina Ian-Kane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Oliver “Ollie” TrumanMy purpose in life has always been one: protect my little brother. And the only way to do that is doing what my dirtbag of a father says—easier said than done—save enough money to grab our bag packs and leave those miserable days behind us...
  • Saving Scarlet by Kate Oliver

    Saving Scarlet by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Scarlet JenkinsI've finally learned my lesson.All it took was being abused and kidnapped.I'm done with men.I'm focused on is myself and trying to survive the painful memories of what happened.The only problem is, there's a mafia boss who thinks he's in charge of me, threatening to discipline me if I don't obey his rules.I shouldn't like his threats or him...
  • Savage by Brooke Blaine, Ella Frank

    Savage by Brooke Blaine, Ella Frank

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who are we? Nobody really knows. We’re the seven most powerful heirs to empires, ruling Manhattan from our thrones on Park Avenue. By day, we’re the elite, untouchable, and more connected than you could ever imagine. By night, we revel in the darkness of our secrets, pulling strings that make the city bow to our whims.Ruthless.Dangerous.We’re the Park Avenue Kings...
  • Cormac by Jane Henry

    Cormac by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They promised me as tribute.Youngest of six, I'm untouched. Unblemished.And in the world of the Irish mafia...Wanted.I'm given to a man I've never met.Forced into a union I didn't condone.Owned by a dangerous rival.He may take what's his, but he won't steal my heart.Please note: Cormac: A Dark Irish Mafia Romance contains elements of violence, non-consent, and kink...
  • The Bratva's Captive by Jane Henry

    The Bratva's Captive by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For the Bratva, retribution is the law. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth. A life for a life. But the man who killed my beloved deserves a fate worse than death. He’ll live knowing his only daughter was captured by a monster... That he’s utterly powerless to stop me. Olena Baranov will be my prisoner. My retribution. My undoing. Vengeance will be mine...
  • Touch Her and Die by Jolie Vines

    Touch Her and Die by Jolie Vines

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A grumpy Scottish bodyguard with an iced-over heart, and the sunshine woman who might just melt it.DaisyPhoneless, carless, and trapped by my relatives, I make a daring escape in just my fancy underwear. Right as a grouchy but gorgeous bodyguard arrives to rescue me.Enemies pursue us on our West Coast road trip, so Ben whisks me away to a snowed-in cabin in Scotland...
  • The Kingpin by Piper Stone

    The Kingpin by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Her father is my enemy. She is my property.When I caught her sneaking into my home, I thought Raven was just a girl doing a silly sorority dare, so I set her bare ass on fire with my belt and then taught her a much more shameful lesson.My seed was already dripping down her thighs before I learned she's my enemy's daughter.That's when I decided I would be keeping her...
  • Possessing Paisley by Kate Oliver

    Possessing Paisley by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Paisley McKeeHe’s my best friend’s brother.He’s also overbearing, bossy, and stubborn.Obviously we hate each other.Then something happened.We said it was a one-time thing.The next morning he tells me it’s forever.He’s unhinged.But he makes me feel things I’ve never felt before.Can I believe him when he says I’m his?Kieran RocheShe’s irritating, sassy, and she hates my guts.Not at all my type...
  • One Flight Stand by Kim Linwood

    One Flight Stand by Kim Linwood

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is this heaven? Because his body could tempt a saint.There’s six-foot-yum of sexy man packed into the seat next to me, and nobody’s here to remind me that the heiress to the DiFiero crime family shouldn’t let a stranger convince her to join the mile-high club. Talk about head in the clouds...
  • God Love Her by Lauren Gilley

    God Love Her by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When her parents divorced, Layla Russell went to LA with her mother, and her little brother Johnny stayed behind with their father. In the eighteen years since, she's tried to maintain a relationship with the other half of her family in Georgia, but a real closeness is lacking...and when she gets the call that her dad has been shot and left for dead, the guilt is crushing...
  • Bossy Italian by Flora Ferrari

    Bossy Italian by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m a voracious reader with a wild imagination, and even wilder needs. Although I may be a young woman who’s never experienced her first time, I know I want to feel pain, I just have no idea when and where I’m going to find the right man to give it to me...if ever...
  • The Mortician by Gianni Holmes

    The Mortician by Gianni Holmes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a betrayal destroys Mort's dreams of love and family, he pledges his undying loyalty to the Grimm Reapers. As their newly appointed enforcer, he instills fear and carries out vengeance without mercy. The last thing he needs is the club’s notorious hangaround boy sliding beneath his sheets and messing with his head...
  • Lost and Found in Blue by René Van Dalen

    Lost and Found in Blue by René Van Dalen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    River Five years was a long time to grieve. Her heart still ached with loss every single day. The long lonely nights were the worst, but every morning she faced life and survived another day. The invite to an Iron Dogz MC family braai (barbeque) was unexpected. For the sake of her business she would go, stay for an hour or so then go home. That was the plan at least...
  • Saved by My Stalker by Cassi Hart

    Saved by My Stalker by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    EthanI didn’t have to take on all the work I do. I could have sat in an executive suite instead of getting my hands dirty, but I prefer to take the direct approach in everything I do. Until I see her, that is … I didn’t think I was missing something from my life, and then I saw my little angel through her window and realized just how wrong I was...
  • Vowed To Be Yours by Cassi Hart

    Vowed To Be Yours by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AlexeiI’ve worked hard to keep my organization as legitimate as possible after my father ran it into the ground, racking up debt after debt. It hasn’t been easy keeping things clean and above the table, but I’ve managed to do it while making sure the people underneath me are taken care of and respected, all while paying off what my father owed...
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