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  • Come Together by Marie Force

    Come Together by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three years after his marriage ended in dramatic fashion, Noah Coleman has one goal—to steer clear of romantic entanglements. In fact, he steers clear of most human interaction, studiously avoiding his large, meddling extended family, working until he’s exhausted and then repeating the pattern day after day...
  • Love On Replay by Monica Walters

    Love On Replay by Monica Walters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A love lost is hard, especially when that loss appears in your face weekly, reminding you of what once was. Anissa Dent is experiencing heartbreak like none she’s ever felt. Her husband of nearly twenty years has fallen victim to crack cocaine after a devastating loss...
  • The Guarded One by Brittney Sahin

    The Guarded One by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He’s a grumpy small-town sheriff. And she’s the off-limits operator capable of bringing him to his knees.Sydney Archer isn’t the typical daughter of a billionaire. A former Army officer, she now works with an elite security team to hunt the worst of the worst . . . all while raising a teenager.To the outside world, Sydney’s an ice queen who’s lethal with a bow...
  • Code Name: Outlaw by Janie Crouch, Josie Jade

    Code Name: Outlaw by Janie Crouch, Josie Jade

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Months trapped in the clutches of a madman made Jenna Franklin a shell of the woman she once was. All she can do now is use her computer genius from inside the safety of closed doors. Even two years later, going outside = blood-freezing panic. She’s made herself a haven in the only place she’s felt safe since her captivity: Oak Creek, Wyoming—home of her Linear Tactical friends...
  • Operation: Healing Angel by Margaret Kay

    Operation: Healing Angel by Margaret Kay

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Colonel Samuel ‘Big Bear’ Shepherd, retired on paper only. A West Point Graduate, he served his entire career in the Special Operations Command where he made the necessary contacts to make his agency, Shepherd Security, a reality...
  • Colder Than Sin by Toni Anderson

    Colder Than Sin by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything—except falling in love. Top FBI negotiator Quentin Savage is hurled into his worst nightmare when a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel propels him from esteemed keynote speaker to powerless captive...
  • Delilah: An Under Your Scars Novella by Ariel N. Anderson

    Delilah: An Under Your Scars Novella by Ariel N. Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Seventeen years after the events in Under Your Scars, Caroline makes her yearly visit to Meridian City and is taken on a heartbreaking and bittersweet journey that gives her something she's been searching for her entire closure.This is a sequel novella to Under Your A Dark Romance Novel, and the series must be read in order...
  • Renegade Path by Autumn Jones Lake

    Renegade Path by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Lost Kings MC World Novel USA Today bestselling author Autumn Jones Lake delivers an unforgettable story of heart-wrenching first love. ROMANFrom the minute I met Juliet, I wanted to shield her from the world’s ugliness. We’d both already suffered more heartache than anyone should experience in a lifetime...
  • Every Last Drop by Sarah Robinson

    Every Last Drop by Sarah Robinson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Now a 2021 RWA's Vivian Award Finalist in Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance. The first contemporary women's fiction novel by bestselling romance author Sarah Robinson sure to break your heart and test your limits as the characters dive into taboo topics that make you reconsider everything you once knew. Marry the love of my life.Become a mother.Write a book.Number one was complete...
  • Tangled Innocence by Nicole Fox

    Tangled Innocence by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “What do you mean, ‘You gave me the wrong sperm sample’?!”But the doctor says he isn’t joking.Instead of being my sister's surrogate...I'm accidentally carrying my boss's baby.A few months ago, I agreed to be my sister's surrogate.Then she died in an unsolved accident.I swore I'd keep her child and raise it on my own.But as it turns out, there was a mix-up at the clinic...
  • Beyond The Roses by Monica James

    Beyond The Roses by Monica James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    To the outside world, my life is perfect.I’m young and rich, and some may even say I’m beautiful. But I would give anything to be somebody else because after being extraordinary all my life, all I wish for is…silence.My name is Lola Van Allen, and there’s no easy way to say it, but…I’m dying...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  medical  adult  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Laugh Like You've Never Cried by S.J. McCoy

    Laugh Like You've Never Cried by S.J. McCoy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Megan Reid doesn't like to be noticed, she just wants to be left alone. She's never felt comfortable around people--her past has taught her that it's safer to avoid them. Her job at the library lets her spend time with the books and children she loves. Between her work and her dog, she has everything she needs...
  • COMEBACK GIRL: part 1 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    COMEBACK GIRL: part 1 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!From the international bestselling author of STOP THE WEDDING! (now a Hallmark Channel movie) and the BODY MOVERS mystery series comes a new story of comedy, suspense, and romance.Home is where the hurt is. In COMEBACK GIRL, a young novelist estranged from her family is forced to return to her small hometown for a family emergency, and deal with the ghosts of her past...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  medical  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  humor
  • The Doctor's Nanny by Rose Fresquez

    The Doctor's Nanny by Rose Fresquez

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s about to propose to the woman of his dreams when he meets the love of his life.As a successful neurosurgeon about to propose to his gorgeous girlfriend, Ryan Harper has the perfect life. When his sister and brother-in-law die in a tragic car accident, he suddenly becomes a single dad to his orphaned niece and nephews...
  • Force of Nature by Brynne Asher

    Force of Nature by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A forced proximity and enemies to lovers romance about a tale of online dating that goes from bad to delicious.My name is Logan Carpino, Senior Vice President of Andopolis Global, and my online dating nightmare from hell just humiliated me in front of my entire company.Joke’s on her.She caught my eye. Little does she know, I live my personal life like I do my professional one...
  • Out of the Red: The Braxton Hunte Story by Arell Rivers

    Out of the Red: The Braxton Hunte Story by Arell Rivers

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One impassioned argument. One dominating kiss. One unexpected moment that turns everything upside down. And that’s only the opening act. Rockstar Braxton Hunte is the type of chaos that makes your soul burn… Brax has been on tour for a decade, and some may say he swallows obstacles for fun...
  • Twice Knightley in my Bed: A friends-to-lovers romance by Serenity Woods

    Twice Knightley in my Bed: A friends-to-lovers romance by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s been zero days since I realized I’m in love with Leander Knight.Lee, or Knightley as everyone calls him, is my brother’s best mate, and he’s always treated me like his kid sister. Okay, so he might not put cockroaches in my lunchbox and lizards down my neck anymore, but even though we work together every day at Hartfield Wildlife Hospital, he’s never seemed interested in me in that way...
  • In Too Deep by Kimberly Kincaid

    In Too Deep by Kimberly Kincaid

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As Station Seventeen’s rookie, Luke Slater knows his fire and EMS training will be both rigorous and risky, but he never imagined having to partner up with the one woman he wants to keep at arm’s length most of all. Quinn Copeland is as wide-open as Luke is reserved. He has no interest in letting the sweet and sexy paramedic rock his hard-earned control...
  • High Note by Heather Long, Blake Blessing

    High Note by Heather Long, Blake Blessing

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Carve up the world… From the moment my sexy death angel strode through that door, I’d been in lust. Or at least that was what I told myself. Beautiful, powerful, and far too dangerous for me, and I was hooked. Utterly, irrevocably hooked. Course, she had her own personal psycho puppy and, man, as much as I’d like to hate him, I didn’t...
  • Reese by Candice M. Wright

    Reese by Candice M. Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to the Candy shop Where poison never tasted so sweet... Being a Candy Girl is more than just a job, it’s who I am.But before I became ReeseI was known as Malice, the street kid who killed a man before disappearing without a trace.Now seven years later a serial killer is using those same streets as his hunting ground...
  • Jeremy by S.M. Shade

    Jeremy by S.M. Shade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the fifth and final book in the In Safe Hands Series. Book one is titled Landon, and is free. Melissa I escaped. For the first time in almost four years, I’m free. My freedom came at a steep cost, leaving me on my own with no family or friends. I have a lot of healing to do, and this beautiful lake house seems like a perfect setting to find myself again. I can do this...
  • Pure Pleasures by M.S. Parker

    Pure Pleasures by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I knew I'd done the right thing by leaving him. He deserved someone who could give him everything he wanted, and that couldn't be me. I'd been broken far too long. When twenty-two year-old Jenna Lang leave the man she loves because she can't give him children, she believes she's making the right choice. As much as it breaks her heart, she wants him to move on and be happy...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard

    Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chaz Jones’ life hasn’t been easy. Meltdown’s newest drummer doesn’t give a damn about anything except for his kit, his sticks and his throne. Music offers him a way out and he takes it, only to discover it isn’t enough. Nothing is ever enough. … Until Olivia Olivia Marshall had her dream job, her dream boyfriend, and her dream life...
  • Inked Persuasion by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Inked Persuasion by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a steamy new series. Years ago, Annabelle Montgomery married not for love but for a promise of hope. When she lost him weeks later, she told herself she never needed those sentiments again...
  • Knocked Up by the New Zealand Doctor by K.C. Crowne

    Knocked Up by the New Zealand Doctor by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the sinfully hot New Zealander becomes my accidental housemate...Sweet relief from ten years of pent-up sexual desire is on both our minds.But then something COMPLETELY unexpected happens. Hayden Frost. Star of my virginal fantasies. The man who ruined all other men for me.Walking Adonis. And my brother's hot best friend.It's the day of my brother's wedding...
  • Heart of a Bachelor by Tessa Layne

    Heart of a Bachelor by Tessa Layne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Playing doctor has never been so sexy...Confirmed bachelor Gunnar Hansen has successfully resisted the matchmaking efforts of Dottie Grace and her posse of granny wannabe’s. There’s no room in his life for love or for starting a family of his own. Not when his hands are full running Hansen Stables and heading up the board of Prairie’s new medical clinic...
  • 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...
  • Rescue Me by Melody Anne

    Rescue Me by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kyle Armistead has the world at his fingertips. He’s a world-renowned plastic surgeon living the dream on the sunny beaches of California, making the world beautiful one person at a time. But one day he wakes up to find his life is empty. He knows it’s time to go home. So he leaves the sunny California shore and heads home to rainy Seattle, Washington...
  • The Sins That Bind Us by Geneva Lee

    The Sins That Bind Us by Geneva Lee

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I wasn’t given a choice. Not when I did my first line of cocaine. Not when I became a single mother. But I changed, and every decision I’ve made was to protect myself and my son from my weaknesses—and my past. Until Jude came along and made me question everything, even my own secrets. The sins I carry with me can never be discovered...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  grief  new-adult
  • Taken by the Bikers by Stephanie Brother

    Taken by the Bikers by Stephanie Brother

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A good girl does her duty. A bad girl does the sexy bikers who kidnap her.To my ambitious politician father, I'm a disappointment. I'm not pretty enough, not thin enough, not radiant enough--not perfect enough to bolster his ambitions.The Screaming Eagles MC is the largest motorcycle club in the city, and as the mayor, my father has declared war...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  forced-proximity  abuse  adult  age-gap  biker  book
  • Into the Blackness by Norma Jeanne Karlsson

    Into the Blackness by Norma Jeanne Karlsson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cease being everything you’re trained to be in order to find who you’re meant to be…with. Nick Cooper is many things in life. He’s a vicious enforcer for a crime family. He’s a monster that tortures with a smirk tattooed on his lips. He’s an olive-skinned god, mysterious and captivating. He’s the best undercover field agent in the Domestic Crime Agency. He’s my partner for the next year...
  • A Natural Transition by Nicole Falls

    A Natural Transition by Nicole Falls

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nyema Landry is an expert on beats, and a pro between the sheets, more interested in her flourishing career as a DJ than settling down with anyone for longer than it takes to get through a playlist. Langston Goode may be Mr...
  • The Replacement War by Lisa Suzanne

    The Replacement War by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bestselling author Lisa Suzanne's rock star romance has lovers becoming enemies when a weekend fling turns into the competition of their lives. I haven’t even earned the position yet and I’m already living like a rock star. I spend my weekend on someone else’s dime in a swanky Los Angeles hotel with a gorgeous woman. She’s looking for a fling, so I give her what she wants...
  • Black Light: Saved by Raisa Greywood

    Black Light: Saved by Raisa Greywood

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jafari’s little rabbit might try to run, but he’s going to catch her. No matter what.Kacy's past is dark and twisted, and it's coming back to haunt her. But she's not alone this time.Dominant and possessive, Jafari isn't going to let his favorite masochist run away again. He'll keep her tied up and begging for him while he slays her dragons, even if she insists she's no damsel in distress...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  poc-mc
  • The Last Call by R.B. Hilliard

    The Last Call by R.B. Hilliard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to The Last Call. Where Max and Ellie finally get their end game and Gage and Piper reap the benefits from not letting go. Welcome to The Last Call. Where Dillon and Isabella realize what one more time really means and Kurt and Joss are flipped right side up. Welcome to The Last Call. Where Cas and Sarah figure out how to keep it simple and Harry and Polly take a chance on love...
  • Redemption Road by Amanda McKinney

    Redemption Road by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Redemption: The act of being saved from sin, error, or evil.Antiques dealer by day, secret painter by night, Rory Flanagan arrives home to find a man, battered and bruised, sprawled out on her newly upholstered Victorian sofa. The brash, six-foot-four stranger takes an unusual interest in Rory’s vintage gold pendant—given to Rory by her mother the day she was killed...
    Categorized as:
    dark  female-mc  suspense  contemporary  murder  mystery  fiction  book
  • The Secret Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    The Secret Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was only supposed to be a one-night stand…Over the past year, my life has fallen apart. First, my father died. Then I broke up with my boyfriend. My mother and sister have been a constant thorn in my side. And now it looks as if I’m going to have to close my bar.The last thing I need is to complicate matters by falling for a man. Especially one like Jacob Prince...
  • Not Such A Bad Guy by Erin Nicholas

    Not Such A Bad Guy by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A fling, a funeral, and a little falling in love... just another weekend in Bad, Louisiana. Physical therapist Christopher Gilmore is back in Bad, Louisiana, for the reading of the will of his friend and mentor, Patrick Faucheaux. Christopher expects a small memento from the man he considered a father figure...
  • Breathe by N.M. Catalano

    Breathe by N.M. Catalano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Snake Hell is ruled by a queen. She wears stilettos like a boss, fishnets like a porn star, and carries weapons like makeup. She crashed into my life at the absolute worst time, because life’s a bitch like that.  But there’s no way I’m letting her leave. She’s bat-shit crazy, and she’s mine.  Correction, she’s ours.  Because I’m not sure how long I can give her. But she belongs to us now...
  • Tami by Pepper North

    Tami by Pepper North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can a lawn cleaning business introduce an innovative Little to her perfect Daddy?Thinking creatively, animal lover Tami Chamberlin created her own business, Tami’s Canine Poo Service. Cleaning her clients’ lawns of, well, poo, Tami works very hard to earn enough money to support herself...
  • Control by Lasairiona Lewis

    Control by Lasairiona Lewis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thor:Protocol. Routine. Control.Not anymore.My life turned on a dime in the blink of an eye. From making pancakes for the curvy redhead I met at the club, to being the single dad of an autistic, eleven-year-old boy.I need help.She needs a job.I’m usually a one-and-done kind of guy, but she draws me in, holding me hostage with her green eyes and sass.I’m playing with fire...
  • Opal by Freya Barker

    Opal by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    GEM: A PRIVATELY-FUNDED ORGANIZATION OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY IN THE SEARCH FOR—AND THE RESCUE AND RECOVERY OF—MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN. ALTHOUGH, AT TIMES WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT, GEM AIMS TO ENSURE THE VICTIMS RECEIVE JUSTICE…BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY. ____GEM Operator Opal; multifaceted, versatile, a chameleon.She hides in plain sight, adapts, and infiltrates...
  • Snowy Montana Nights by Cynthia D'Alba

    Snowy Montana Nights by Cynthia D'Alba

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sexy new book in the Dallas Debutantes/McCool Family trilogy. All books in the trilogy can be read as standalones. Book ONE in the Grizzly Bitterroot Ranch TrilogyA cowboy who isn’t what he appears must play private host to a spoiled Dallas Debutante who isn’t what she seems...
  • Love Me by W. Winters, Amelia Wilde

    Love Me by W. Winters, Amelia Wilde

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today best-selling authors W Winters and Amelia Wilde comes a sinful romance with a touch of dark and angst that will keep you gripping the edge of your seat … and begging for more.He was mine. My protector, my lover. My second start at life. The man who promised me there was more than this.He gave me hopeUntil my world fell apart again. It was bound to happen. It’s all life has given me...
  • Waiting on Forever by Claudia Connor

    Waiting on Forever by Claudia Connor

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dallas Walker is haunted. He won’t ever forget the horrors he witnessed while working undercover to bust a human trafficking ring, but he has a plan to start a new life. Coming home to his family is step one. Getting to know his alluring new neighbor could be step two. If only she’d give him a chance…Maggie Ellis just wants to be left alone...
  • Brutal Captor 3 by Amber Adams

    Brutal Captor 3 by Amber Adams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Russian mafia don, Valentin Ivankov, has taken, Dr. April Cooker away from everything she's ever known and, much to her shock, he's now announced he'll be taking her as his wife!Although her first attempt fails, escape is still her only thought.But while she attempts to gain his trust she finds herself unable to resist the pulse-rasing effect he has on her...
  • Vengeance by Jane Henry

    Vengeance by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They call him the executioner.Some say monster.He bears the name of the world's first murderer: Cain.Fitting.Dishonorably discharged from the military, he runs a highly secret, clandestine operation, and has everything I need to find the justice I crave.Power players at his disposal.An insatiable hunger for justice.A reckless disregard for the law...
  • The Billionaire Master by Christa Wick

    The Billionaire Master by Christa Wick

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I first became a plus-size model on the Razor Girls fetish site as a means to an end. It was how I escaped my abusive past and got off the streets. Now, it’s become my career, complete with lifestyle blog posts that I have to get pretty creative with seeing as how I’m making it up as I go along...
  • Stitch by J.E. Daelman

    Stitch by J.E. Daelman

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Raging Barons MC–Stitch, from Amazon International Bestseller J.E Daelman.StitchStitch is the medic for the club, and getting restless with the lack of things to do now that the club is at peace. He’s not one to sit around and stick band-aids on fingers. He’s involving himself in any club business that he can...
    Categorized as:
    medical  female-mc  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Bed of Nails by Nola Marie

    Bed of Nails by Nola Marie

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **Amazon top 50 seller**Author's note:This book heavily features physical and emotional abuse.  Please, before you start reading, understand you may not approve or even understand the heroine's choices.  While this is a work of fiction, unfortunately, her choices and the motivation behind them are experienced every day by abused women...
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