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  • The Beard Made Me Do It by Lani Lynn Vale

    The Beard Made Me Do It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    He’s only a friend. Those words had haunted him from the moment Jessie James had heard them muttered from the one girl, above all others, that he thought had his back. Sixteen years later, he still feels those words like a brand on his soul...
  • Rico: The Four Families: Romano by Cee Bowerman

    Rico: The Four Families: Romano by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
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  • Hook by Chelle Bliss

    Hook by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Falling in love is supposed to be the easy part. But nothing prepared me for losing my wife. I promised her that I’d love again. Find someone to mend my broken heart. And that seems impossible, until the day that I walk into Tilly Carter’s cupcake shop. I’ve never met a woman like her—sassy, dirty-mouthed, and smells like vanilla and sin. Someone that makes me want to sweep her off her feet...
  • Hammer: Time Served MC, Book 12 by Cee Bowerman

    Hammer: Time Served MC, Book 12 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After a rough childhood, Hammer settled down to live the good life. He had a wife he adored, children he doted on, and even the house in the suburbs with the white picket fence. But most of all, he finally had the stability he longed for growing up.When he made a decision to help a woman in need, that bliss was short-lived. What he thought was a horrible accident changed his life forever...
  • Charmed by Her Curves: A Curvy Woman Holiday Romance by C.L. Cruz

    Charmed by Her Curves: A Curvy Woman Holiday Romance by C.L. Cruz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Charmed by Her Curves is a short, sweet, and steamy romance book featuring a curvy heroine and a sexy alpha hero. It is the third in the Holly Street Holidays series but can be read as a standalone with a HEA and no cliffhangers!Tiegan‘Tis the season to be jolly.Unless, like me, you're homeless and jobless just in time for the holidays...
    Categorized as:
    single-father  m-f  contemporary
  • Dr. NEURO by Max Monroe

    Dr. NEURO by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    From the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of TAPPING THE BILLIONAIRE comes a new three book series of Romantic Comedy standalones. I’m Dr. Nick Raines. Brain surgeon and notorious over-thinker, I take the analytical approach with everything , until I can determine the best, carefully calculated plan of action...
  • Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She’s running for her life……His mission: protect her.Ex-Delta Force Operator Ridge Hansen has a thing for artist Harper Katz.So does his tactical K9, Zeus……But Harper is on the run.Someone is aiming to kill her.Ridge wants two things…Convince Harper to move their relationship from friends to lovers,And find out who she really is...
  • Blood & Bones: Judge by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Judge by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 17 ratings
    Some risks are more dangerous than others... Judd “Judge” Scott lives a simple life running a successful business with his cousin, Deacon. As a bail bondsman and bounty hunter, he’s good at what he does. He never expected Trip to come home and resurrect the Blood Fury MC, reopening old wounds...
  • Second Chance Love by Hope Ford

    Second Chance Love by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I was his wife… but he left me.He broke my heart once, and if given the chance, he’d probably do it again.Which is why I’ve tried to get over him.I’ve dated, I’ve tried to let loose, but no matter how hard I try, my thoughts always return to Nash.Every guy I meet I compare to him.He was always overprotective and possessive...
  • The Life We Wanted by Kelsey Kingsley

    The Life We Wanted by Kelsey Kingsley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "You have too many rules.""And you don't have enough." Sebastian Moore thought he had it all. A drumming gig with one of the world’s biggest up-and-coming stars. The looks and charm to get him any woman he laid his eyes on. All the friends he could ever ask for. But something was always missing...
  • Craving Rose by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Craving Rose by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I, Rose Hawthorne, have crap taste in men. But, who could blame me, really? When the stories of how your dad and uncles raised hell before settling down are legendary, it was all too easy to see Prince Charming everywhere, believing that if a man loved me enough, he’d change. What a load of garbage...
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    single-father  m-f  new adult  contemporary  bikers
  • Forever Mine by Hope Ford

    Forever Mine by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A billionaire married man that guards his heart.A wife with one foot out the door.Together, in a second chance romance. I’m completely in love with my husband. And he takes care of my needs...as long as they’re financial or physical. Anything more is too much to ask. I know that while I might have his name, I don’t have his heart.It’s almost like he keeps me in a very specific WIFE...
  • Aiden by Lisa Helen Gray

    Aiden by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the second book in A Next Generation Carter Brother Novel; a spin-off from The Carter Brothers. I wasn’t looking for love. I was Aiden Carter; I didn’t do the whole fuzzy, lovey, romantic crap. I loved to party. I loved sex. I loved women. If I wanted it, I got it. It was the way my world worked and I made no qualms about it...
    Categorized as:
    single-father  m-f  humor  contemporary  alpha male  abuse
  • Without You by Lacey Black

    Without You by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TuckerI spend my days brewing beer for the popular Brew Crüe Beer Company and my nights devoted to being a dad. Raising a young child with special needs can be tough and stressful, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. He’s everything to me, and the reason I keep going. It’s him and me against the world, and I have no intention of changing that.Then, Kinsley McGregor walks back into my life...
  • Rafe by Sawyer Bennett

    Rafe by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I was living my dream until one phone call changed everything. As the second line center for the Arizona Vengeance, my mind has been on one thing—helping my team bring home a championship. But that all changed when I found out my dad had cancer and only months to live. In that moment, nothing mattered more than getting home to North Carolina to be by his side...
  • Home to You by Kaylee Ryan, Lacey Black

    Home to You by Kaylee Ryan, Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SebastianYou always remember your first love. You also never forget the day she left.Moving on from losing Haven was hard, but I was young, with my whole life ahead of me. A life that saw a marriage, the birth of my daughter, and then a divorce...
  • Wish I May by Lexi Ryan

    Wish I May by Lexi Ryan

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New adult romance from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Unbreak Me . Due to sexual content and heavy subject matter, this book is intended for mature readers. ~ ~ ~ Nothing about her says cute. Everything about her says sex. And mine. I never thought I'd see her again. Didn't think I wanted to...
  • Layover Lover by Jeannine Colette, Lauren Runow

    Layover Lover by Jeannine Colette, Lauren Runow

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Flying the friendly skies has been more than just a job to me. It’s my home.Ten years ago I ran away from everything I’ve known and vowed never to return. That is until my flight is canceled due to weather, and I’m stuck in San Francisco. Fate is not on my side when I end up in an Uber rideshare with the one man I thought I’d never see again...
  • Redemption by T.K. Leigh

    Redemption by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Everyone deserves a second chance, but not for the same mistake. At least according to Brooklyn Tanner. Over the course of their long, complicated friendship, she's given Andrew Brinks more than enough chances. What has she received in return? Heartache. Pain. Agony.But also love, as cruel and beautiful as it's always been between them...
  • On the Surface by Nikki Ash

    On the Surface by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    People see what they want to see. They only view what’s on the surface, and they’re easy to fool. I let them see on the outside that I’m a successful businesswoman. My clothes are designer, my makeup flawless, and I live in a high-rise condo in Lennox Hills. They see perfection, not what lies beneath the surface...
  • After All: A Romancing Manhattan Novel by Kristen Proby

    After All: A Romancing Manhattan Novel by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last sizzling novel in Kristen Proby's Romancing Manhattan series finds a widower falling deeply in love again with a woman who has scars of her own. When Carter Shaw’s wife died five years ago, he was left to pick up the pieces not only of his own broken heart but also that of his devastated eight-year-old daughter, Gabby—leaving him with no time for anything else, let alone dating...
  • Christmas at Valentine Inn by Jennifer Peel

    Christmas at Valentine Inn by Jennifer Peel

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With a name like Isabelle Valentine, one would think I was destined to find true love and believe in the ridiculous notion of soul mates. Don’t get me wrong: I’m all about love. I even own an inn with my sister where each room is named after our favorite romantic couples. But soul mates? It seems highly implausible there is that one person, your person, meant only for you...
  • Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    All her life, Grace Ryan was the “fat girl.” Taunted and teased and ignored by her peers, she tried every diet ever invented to no avail. Desperate to change her life as her twenties slipped away, she decided it was time for drastic measures and had lap-band surgery. More than a year later, she's lost 130 pounds and is venturing into the dating world for the first time...
  • Trouble with the Guy Next Door by Holly Renee

    Trouble with the Guy Next Door by Holly Renee

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    From the moment I met him, I knew he was trouble. He was reckless, cocky, and everything I shouldn't want. I had a life all figured out, and Tucker Moore was not a part of the plan. But somehow I slipped. One moment I had it all under control. The next I was spiraling around him, begging him for whatever he would give me. But as quickly as I fell for him, it all crumbled around us...
  • A Lush Reunion by Selena Laurence

    A Lush Reunion by Selena Laurence

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ten years ago Lush bassist Colin Douglas met the love of his life. Then she broke his heart. Now, in a small Texas town, in the midst of the breakup of his band, Colin has found Marsha, and he has no idea what to do with her. Marsha O’Neill hasn’t had it easy. Since losing Colin nothing's gone right for this east Texas waitress—except for Sean, her six-year-old son...
  • The Genius and the Muse by Elizabeth Hunter

    The Genius and the Muse by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Kate Mitchell decided to research the mysterious portrait in the student gallery, she had no idea how her life would change. She thought she knew what she wanted in life. She had a great boyfriend, a promising career, and a clear path. How could one simple portrait change all that? A photograph. A sculpture. A painting...
    Categorized as:
    second chances  m-f  contemporary
  • Wild Steamy Hook-Up by Piper Rayne

    Wild Steamy Hook-Up by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    He’s the quiet brooding guy who’s owned my heart since I was sixteen but has refused to claim it. I’m the naïve woman who believes that someday our time will come.I just didn’t realize that someday would include waking up in Vegas with a raging hangover and a ring on my finger...
  • Beard in Waiting by Penny Reid

    Beard in Waiting by Penny Reid

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    A Long scene/short story featuring two unlikely characters from the Winston Brothers series...
    Categorized as:
    second chances  m-f  contemporary  open-door
  • The One for You by Roni Loren

    The One for You by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The highly-anticipated fourth book in Roni Loren's unforgettable The Ones Who Got Away series.She got a second chance at life.Will she take a second chance at love? Kincaid Breslin wasn't supposed to survive that fateful night at Long Acre when so many died, including her boyfriend—but survive she did...
  • Recovery by L.B. Simmons

    Recovery by L.B. Simmons

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I have the perfect life. I’ve finally found my happy ending. I fought through the loss of one husband, lucky enough to be given a second chance at a lifetime of happiness. Settling into our new lives, however, may not be as easy as it seems...
    Categorized as:
    second chances  m-f  contemporary  pregnancy
  • Inflame by Laramie Briscoe

    Inflame by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From a USA Today Bestseller comes a new series about single parents! Single-Dad Firefighter Since my divorce five years ago, these are the two labels I've identified with. Now, I'm ready for more. Ready to give dating a shot, even with an eight-year-old daughter and twenty-four hour shifts needing my attention...
  • Nanny Tempts the Beast by MINK

    Nanny Tempts the Beast by MINK

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Finding a nanny for my niece and nephew isn’t something I ever thought I’d be doing. But now I’m all the family they have left. I can’t let them down, and I won’t.All I have to do is hire a nanny. I interview plenty, but I know the moment Charlotte walks in the room—she’s the one. Innocent and young, something about her pulls me in until I want to know every last detail about her...
  • Code Name: Heist by Sawyer Bennett

    Code Name: Heist by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I am a world-class thief. Or I was, before I got pinched and landed in prison. After I served my time, I decided to get on the right side of the law, or as much as my job at Jameson Force Security allows. The lines sometimes blur, which suits me just fine. My name might be Saint, but I’m a devil to most...
  • Everything I Never Wanted by K. Street

    Everything I Never Wanted by K. Street

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    This wasn’t supposed to be my life. One phone call was all it took to bring me back to the small town I had grown up in. Everything had changed, and staying away was no longer an option. Four and a half years later, I was a widowed single father still here, still trying to pick up the pieces. We were doing just fine on our own, my little girl and me...
    Categorized as:
    single-father  m-f  christian  contemporary
  • Ready for Love by Marie Force

    Ready for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    For four of the best summers of his young life, Luke Harris was in love with Sydney Donovan, a wealthy seasonal visitor to Gansett Island. Then Sydney went off to college and never came back. She married another man and had two children while Luke remained on the island, working at McCarthy's Gansett Marina and wondering what had gone wrong between him and the only woman he ever loved...
    Categorized as:
    second chances  m-f  contemporary
  • Wrong For You by Harloe Rae

    Wrong For You by Harloe Rae

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Being right is overrated...I used to believe Jacob Evans could be mine.That was before he delivered unforgivable news rather than sweeping me off my feet.Not that I can fault his choice.He got the sweetest little girl out of the deal.I took the heartbreak as a learning experience and moved on for the better.Jake did the opposite—allowing bitterness to fill the void...
  • My (Mostly) Temporary Nanny: A Grumpy Boss Romantic Comedy by Penelope Bloom

    My (Mostly) Temporary Nanny: A Grumpy Boss Romantic Comedy by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I will not think inappropriate thoughts about the nanny.She’s just temporary. A momentary blip in my life.Although I have to admit she’s quite attractive, as far as blips go.She’s also the first person my son has ever actually liked, which has to count for something.New plan: I will not… let myself get too attached to the nanny.I’ve always been the kind of man to keep my plans flexible...
  • Navigating Noah by Jaclyn Quinn

    Navigating Noah by Jaclyn Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Noah HathawayThe saying 'livin' the dream' is usually said with sarcasm, but I truly am living my dream in Coral Pointe Inlet with my four best friends. Still, as I watch three of them fall in love, my heart aches a little with longing. It doesn't help when Hunter, a man I spent an incredible weekend with, comes back to Coral Pointe--not alone, I might add...
  • Stumbling Into Him by Molly O'Hare

    Stumbling Into Him by Molly O'Hare

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A story that will have you laughing through every page... Holly has spent her whole life as a walking disaster, from running into walls, tripping over invisible objects, and always being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When a seemingly normal outing taking her overly opinionated Corgi for a walk resulted in an object to the face, she didn’t think her day could get any worse...
  • Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***Enjoy all three of the Rock Stars Do It stories in one volume!*** Rock Stars Do It Harder Chase Delany is a rock star. Rock stars are expected to rock hard onstage and party even harder offstage. Chase is living up to those expectations, and then some. He leaves everything he's got onstage, and drowns the ache in his soul at the bottom of a tequila bottle. And then there are the girls..
  • Nanny I Want to Mate: A Single Dad Romance by Mia Kayla

    Nanny I Want to Mate: A Single Dad Romance by Mia Kayla

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Single dad.Two words that force me out of bed every morning.Because two little girls depend on me.Because my family’s company depends on me.As CEO, I have to show up, lead, be present.As Dad, there’s no room for error, not when it comes to raising my girls.I’m no longer the same man, just a shell of a person I once was, going through the motions every day. Not seeing, barely breathing...
  • Clean Sweep by Evie Mitchell

    Clean Sweep by Evie Mitchell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Erik: Nappies, poop and so many sleepless nights I was pretty sure in some countries this would be considered torture and my kids could be tried for war crimes. Yep, I was now a dad. A dad who had no clue what he was doing. A dad who somehow ended up with two kids who weren't his but I fuc- er, I mean - gosh-darn I loved them. Only... I needed help. A LOT of help...
  • Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Buried secrets never stay hidden in the South. Emily I fell in love with him when I was fourteen. Under the stars, he told me he loved me, and under the stars we promised to love each other always. But under the stars, he broke my heart by walking away.He left me without a second glance. I was just an afterthought.Now he's back, but this time, I'm not falling for his Southern charm.Maybe...
  • Never Too Hot by Bella Andre

    Never Too Hot by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A TOUCH IGNITES. A FIRE BURNS. AND THE HEAT HAS JUST BEGUN. Deep in the cool green mountains of the Adirondacks, wounded firefighter Connor MacKenzie has come to rebuild the 100-year-old MacKenzie family cabin - and to be alone...
  • Using the Biker by Sam Crescent

    Using the Biker by Sam Crescent

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After finally getting a divorce from her cheating ex, Jo is not ready to start a relationship, so when her best friend introduces her to the president of the MC club in town, she’s not interested in anything serious. But there’s no denying the attraction she feels toward him. Doc uses women. He has no reason to have them in his life other than to fuck them...
  • Melting into You by Tracey Alvarez

    Melting into You by Tracey Alvarez

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN13 9780473285937. Love small-town romance with an unforgettable cast of characters? The Due South series will transport you to an unspoilt, wild island off the coast of New Zealand. Meet Kezia and Ben... Big, sexy men who don’t relate well to kids need not apply… Kezia Murphy plays her widow card well...
  • Angel's Halo by Terri Anne Browning

    Angel's Halo by Terri Anne Browning

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Creswell Springs was a small little town in Trinity Count, California. Population 1,500—maybe. It’s a quiet town, with small town values. Its greatest income is the University just outside of the town limits… and the revenue the local Motorcycle Club brings in. Being part of the MC that was Angel’s Halo was exactly like being part of a family. A scary, powerful, crazy family...
  • How the Light Gets In by L.H. Cosway

    How the Light Gets In by L.H. Cosway

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He came back to me 16 minutes and 59 seconds into Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7. We parted amid tragedy, so it seemed poetic. Dylan O’Dea, my childhood sweetheart, had once meant everything to me. Now we were strangers, and honestly, after eleven years I never thought I’d see him again. I lived in the world of the average, of getting paid by the hour and budgeting to make ends meet...
  • Paws Up for the Dad Bod: Dad Bod Series - Men Built for Comfort Kindle Edition by Elsie James

    Paws Up for the Dad Bod: Dad Bod Series - Men Built for Comfort Kindle Edition by Elsie James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    SuriI always thought I’d be a mom, it would’ve been a natural fit for me. So when I found out that I can’t have children, I was shocked. When my husband left me because of it, I was devastated. It’s been five years since then and I’ve worked hard to start a new life. I went back to school and landed my dream job as a veterinarian. The animals are my babies now...
    Categorized as:
    single-father  m-f  contemporary  curvy-hero
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