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  • Ethic 4 by Ashley Antoinette

    Ethic 4 by Ashley Antoinette

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    After facing his biggest sin, Ethic finds forgiveness within the love of his life. Alani is the woman he’s been searching for his entire existence but loving her comes with a price…his soul…she wants his soul…When Alani tells Ethic she can’t be with a man who doesn’t believe in God, Ethic must face his only fear, trusting something he can’t see...
  • Fractured by Riley Edwards

    Fractured by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Loving Echo Kent was painful. Not the falling in love part, that was easy. One look at the tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed narcotics detective and I knew I wanted him. A few months later I knew I couldn’t live without him. But my Echo, he had demons and secrets and a mountain of guilt. His love was selfish and one-sided—he could love but he refused to allow others to love him...
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  • Maverick by Lisa Helen Gray

    Maverick by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    MAVERICK I'm the eldest of five brothers. Brothers I fought to protect. Brothers I failed. They don't know the truth. I've kept secrets. Told them lies. And now everything I've worked so hard to keep hidden is about to explode and everyone I wanted to protect will be caught in the crossfire. TEAGAN Meeting him was fate. Him being a part of my past was a coincidence...
  • Prospect: The Kings of Retribution MC by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Prospect: The Kings of Retribution MC by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Family isn't always by blood. Family is who you are willing to bleed for. Refusing to yield to his father's will and expectations to one day take the reins of the family business, Sam McGregor leaves his home in Texas. Fate leads him to the small town of Polson Montana, home to the Kings of Retribution MC, where he starts over and meets Sofia Torres...
  • Fall On Me by Chloe Walsh

    Fall On Me by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    "Kyle Carter knew every inch of my body. Every fraction of my soul. He was the first man I'd ever been with intimately. The first to break my heart. The first to put it back together again. He was my first, my last and my everything that came in between." In the aftermath of Rachel's vicious attack, Lee and Kyle must once again pick up the pieces of their broken world and move forward...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  alpha male  new adult  contemporary
  • Bound by Desire  (Ravage MC Bound Series) by Ryan Michele

    Bound by Desire (Ravage MC Bound Series) by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Have you ever wanted something so badly it consumes you? There is a fine line between needs and wants. Deke Gavelson has wanted his Ravage cut for as long as he can remember. He’s earned it. He was born to be in this club. He’s not afraid to fight for his place, either. Then she barreled into his world, and Deke suddenly desires something more than his rag and winning the next round...
  • Collecting the Pieces by L.A. Fiore

    Collecting the Pieces by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    At fifteen I fell in love. His name was Jake Stephens and he took the abandoned, lonely girl I had been and made me whole. His love was a pure and unconditional love that made every day better than the last…a fairy tale of my very own. But this story isn’t about Jake. It’s about Abel Madden; the man I meet after the fairy tale goes to hell...
  • Say I Do by Cynthia Eden

    Say I Do by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    She hates him.Dexter Ryan is smug. Arrogant. Manipulative. And he is also…Lacey Amari’s new partner. Well, her partner on one case. A case she doesn’t even want to take, but when Dex—CIA super operative and all around puppet-master—basically blackmails her, she has no choice. Then he asks her the big question…Will you marry me?The proposal isn’t real. It’s just an undercover assignment...
  • Twirled Bond by Emma Hart

    Twirled Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If I thought Holly Woods was crazy before, I was wrong. Devin is finally married. Nonna's on the wedding warpath. Drake might be getting ideas. His mom just dropped a bombshell, and Bek is caught between a hot as hell FBI agent and my super-sweet little brother. And I still don't have the shoe closet Drake promised me when he moved in six months ago...
  • Derek by LeAnn Ashers

    Derek by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BrittanyHe watched me from afar for over a year.Everywhere I went, he was there. His eyes on me.Little by little, he got closer. He stalked his prey…and that prey was me.But I wanted to be caught.I wanted to be his.I wanted him just as much as he wanted me.So I gave into him.I was his.DerekShe was mine.She had been from the second her eyes connected with mine from across the room.I waited...
  • Dirty Secret by Chelle Bliss, Brenda Rothert

    Dirty Secret by Chelle Bliss, Brenda Rothert

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Agent: Kennedy BarnesTarget: Phoenix AshCrimes: Computer Hacker, Money Launderer, HeartbreakerMission: Get close and surviveAfter living her life in the shadows as the daughter of a congressman’s secret affair , Kennedy Barnes joins ‘Project Greenlight’ - a clandestine intelligence organization. She’s out to prove she’s more than her father’s dirty secret.One of her first assignments is simple...
  • The Billionaire's Promise by Ivy Layne

    The Billionaire's Promise by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    For two years I held Vance Winters off… Right up until the day my fiancé dumped me for his mistress and Vance kissed me senseless. Vance Winters was six feet of dangerously beautiful mayhem. Wicked blue eyes, tousled blond hair, and golden skin covered in tattoos. Trouble. I should have taken one look and run in the other direction...
  • Fallen King: A Fallen Men Short Story by Giana Darling

    Fallen King: A Fallen Men Short Story by Giana Darling

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When King Kyle Garro plunged off the cliff'a Back Bay Road and was lost to us forever, part'a me and my club died right along with' I'm. He was the heir, but he was also the heart and soul'a our club and our family. Celebratin' his first birthday without 'im was gonna be damn near impossible to survive...
  • Code Name: Ares by Heather Slade

    Code Name: Ares by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A man of honor.A man of war.Ares will battle for his country and for those he loves. They don’t call me “Ares” for nothing. I fight like hell for what I believe in, and I believe in fighting for what’s right. I will take down any enemy who threatens the good of our country—or any country. Human lives need to be protected and I’ll be damned if I sit by and watch anyone hurt another...
  • Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Our Unscripted Story by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Greyson Ratcliffe. I met him at sixteen, the hot new guy sitting on my jetty, an aspiring artist just passing through. He was my first kiss and my first love. I wanted forever with him. I didn’t even get a year. Five years later, I’m a budding writer who scripts stories of love and struggle, the good and the bad and the ups and the downs...
  • Tethered Bond by Emma Hart

    Tethered Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Detective Drake Nash: hot, alpha, bossy, and… mine. Now, if someone could tell his ex that... I don’t care if the summer fair is coming to Holly Woods and she’s on the planning committee. What I do care about is sugar-filled food, bright lights, late nights… and danger. The type that won’t come in the form of Nonna’s new cantankerous British parrot, Gio...
  • Hunter by Rebecca Sharp

    Hunter by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From bestselling romantic suspense author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a friends-to-lovers bodyguard romance...Zoey Roberts is on the run—that’s what happens when someone is stalking you.Winding up in Wyoming was her latest move and last resort, but giving up everything was the only way to protect herself. New state. New apartment. New life...
  • One Good Reason by Julie Johnson

    One Good Reason by Julie Johnson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Zoe Bloom has her life figured out. After a childhood spent begging for scraps on Boston street corners, she’s clawed her way to a successful career and a safe place to call home. She knows exactly what she needs to survive — a bit of money in the bank, a roof over her head, food on the table. Friends and family are a luxury she can’t afford. And forget about frivolous romantic entanglements...
  • Storm Damage by C.P. Smith

    Storm Damage by C.P. Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Logan Storm, an ex-Delta Force sniper, with scars on the inside, is drifting through life on his way to nowhere. While trying to make peace with his past, Logan encounters a young bar owner and her brothers, with trouble brewing the size of Montana.Skylar James is worn out...
  • All That I Am by Rachel Brookes

    All That I Am by Rachel Brookes

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A kickass home décor boutique – tick A sassy mouth and absolutely no filter – tick A wall so strong no man could ever tear it down - tick, tick, tick! Or so I thought. Until I meet Detective Ben Hunt, the owner of exquisite blue eyes, a god-like physique and a seductive smirk that makes me weak at the knees. He charges into my life like a force of nature...
  • Royal Creed by T.K. Leigh

    Royal Creed by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His princess. Her secret. Their forbidden love.All my life, every decision has been made for me. What to say. How to dress. And now, who I'm to marry. When you're second in line to the throne, it's just how things are. I've always gone along with it.Until now.I may not have a say in who I marry, but I refuse to let someone dictate who I give my v-card to...
  • Longtime Crush by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Longtime Crush by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When my best friend and I fell for the same guy in middle school, I stepped back.I'd always expected to dance at their wedding.Not sit in the back pew of her funeral.I left town for my own reasons, but now that I'm back, it’s clear Sebastian Montgomery isn't the same man I left.He's hard. Broken.And a single father to an adorable little girl...
  • Remembering Passion by Aleatha Romig

    Remembering Passion by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Damien Sinclair is a force of nature—the beauty of a sunset over the ocean yet capable of devastating hurricane-strength winds. At one time, he’d held my heart in his hands. That was, until the day I walked away. I didn’t leave him because I didn’t love him. It was that loving him was too much, an all-encompassing affair. In his presence, I ceased to exist...
  • Remembering Passion: Sinclair Duet by Aleatha Romig

    Remembering Passion: Sinclair Duet by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Damien Sinclair is a force of nature, the beauty of a sunset over the ocean while capable of devastating hurricane-strength winds. At one time, he’d held my heart in his hands. That was until the day I walked away.I didn’t leave him because I didn’t love him. It was that loving him was too much, an all-encompassing affair. In his presence, I failed to exist...
  • Born to It by Chelsea Camaron

    Born to It by Chelsea Camaron

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Enemies to lovers, this is one passion-fueled ride.BWThird generation Hellion. My patches are earned, never given.I’m the son of Talon “Tripp” Crews and namesake to Blaine “Roundman” Reklinger.I was born to wear this cut, to take this ride.I am Blaine “BW” Crews.I deal in motorcycles, money, and mayhem.KarsciI wasn’t born a killer. I was made into one...
  • Deeper by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Deeper by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I fell in love with the boogey man. For ten years I have plotted and planned my revenge against the man who was all shadow and death. He took the most important thing in my life away from me and I meant to return the favor. Except, I was wrong... Now, because of my mistakes, there are men intent on hurting him. But I will not run from this...
  • Dangerous Stranger by E.L. Todd

    Dangerous Stranger by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Standalone. No cliffhanger. HEA. Other books in the series can be read in any order.Jett takes his job as an escort seriously. He's not just playing a part, and he tries to help people as much as he can. When a guy asks him to pose as his boyfriend, Jett doesn't hesitate. Following the rules has always been easy, but with a dude, it will be a walk in the park...
  • Defending Hayden by L.P. Dover

    Defending Hayden by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Carolina Cougars keep fighting for love as the Second Chances series from bestselling author L. P. Dover continues! In Defending Hayden, a damaged football star teams up with the only woman who can take the pain away.   No one’s tougher than Carolina Cougars linebacker Derek McLaughlin...
  • In Her Space by Amie Knight

    In Her Space by Amie Knight

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I was reunited with Livingston Montgomery in the broad sunshine of a Carolina morning, right where she belonged; in the light.    It’d been too long since I’d seen her face. She had changed, but so had I.   I was Adam Nova, reformed bad boy.  Now, successful business man.   I had it all, except for the one person I’d always wanted, and now I was back to claim her...
  • Heart of Stone: Special Holiday Edition by Dakota Willink

    Heart of Stone: Special Holiday Edition by Dakota Willink

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION!What's new?Limited edition covers and custom interior formatting. Bound by need. Entwined in secrets…KrystinaI had dreams and aspirations, none of which included a man by my side. Been there, done that. Then I forgot my cellphone, and all of my carefully laid plans went to hell.He wasn't supposed to be there when I fell...
  • The Vigilante's Lover II by Annie Winters, Tony West

    The Vigilante's Lover II by Annie Winters, Tony West

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If this is what it’s like to be a captive, Mia wants to be a prisoner forever. The second volume of the addictive romantic suspense series from the desk of USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy / JJ Knight Jax may have kidnapped her. But now Mia wants to stay. The man is skilled. Intelligent. And gorgeous. His life is dangerous and wild...
  • Travis by LeAnn Ashers

    Travis by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Bailey Being the single mom of a beautiful five-year-old was hard. I’d struggled since the day I gave birth to my daughter when I was eighteen. So when we got the opportunity of a lifetime—to start over somewhere new—it was a no-brainer. We had to go. What I never expected was to find him. With one look, our whole world changed. Travis became everything to us...
  • Hollywood Princess by Natasha Madison

    Hollywood Princess by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Behind the "lights, camera, action" of Hollywood lies a world of deception, love, and seduction. Are you ready for Hollywood Royalty? Kellie An Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy, a Grammy—she has them all. She's the most sought-after woman in Hollywood. Even if her rise to fame was a fluke, you can't deny the camera loves her...
  • Otis by Scott Hildreth

    Otis by Scott Hildreth

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    SAMANTHA (SAM) The only man I've ever loved stepped aside and let me go 15 years ago because I wanted to start a family. Now, a tragedy brings me back home. Seeing him and not acting on my feelings would be impossible, so my plan is to slip into town, take care of my deceased mother's affairs, and slip out unnoticed. One drink should settle my nerves..
  • Mobster's Angel by Amy Rachiele

    Mobster's Angel by Amy Rachiele

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Vito and Erin's story. Coming December 2013. Vito has grown up in the underworld of the mob. He has recently reached age eighteen. His family has been involved since the thirties. In 2014, the rules haven’t changed much. What worked then, works now; power, violence, and loyalty. Love isn’t something you can control. As much as Vito, mobster enforcer, wish he could, he can’t...
  • Hard Corps by Scott Hildreth

    Hard Corps by Scott Hildreth

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After fighting in the war for 12 years, Alec "A-Train" Jacob returns to the United States to find out while he was away, things changed drastically at home. In an effort to find peace of mind - and hopefully a new beginning - he rides his motorcycle from Wichita, Kansas to Austin, Texas...
  • Illegal Fortunes by Sabrina Stark

    Illegal Fortunes by Sabrina Stark

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Only Thing More Dangerous than the Bad Boy You Left Behind is the Man He's Become… NEW from USA TODAY Bestselling Author Sabrina Stark: If she was such a good fortune-teller, she should've seen it coming. But part-time Tarot-reader Selena Moon is as surprised as anyone when Jim Bishop, the bad boy she left behind, returns from who-knows-where to reclaim the one girl he could never forget...
  • Faster Longer by Colleen Masters

    Faster Longer by Colleen Masters

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two star crossed lovers racing together at breakneck speeds, barreling along at 200 miles per hour willing to destroy everything and everyone in their path. Siena can't escape. She's trapped now. How did she fall so helplessly, recklessly in love with the one man who could single handedly turn her life upside down? Harrison has her wrapped up in his strong, muscular, tattooed arms...
  • Then and Now by Bella Jewel

    Then and Now by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Dear Fate, Here I am, finally writing to you again. Things haven’t changed, fate. Time hasn’t healed anything. As always, nothing makes sense. Things aren’t coming together as they should. Time has changed us very little. It has only made everything that much more confusing. Nothing is fixed. Nobody is happy. We still live with a dark cloud over our heads...
  • Bad Boy Brody by Tijan

    Bad Boy Brody by Tijan

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One punch took him from Hollywood’s Golden Boy to Bad Boy Brody. The media didn’t care he was grieving his brother’s death. They descended on him, but to change his reputation, his manager got him a deal. Act in an indie film, one that already had Oscar buzz, and he’d get the movie roles he needed to secure his future. He took the deal...
  • The Billionaire's Secret Love by Ivy Layne, Jacqueline Sweet

    The Billionaire's Secret Love by Ivy Layne, Jacqueline Sweet

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Emily I tried to say no . I did more than try, I flat out turned him down. Repeatedly. But Tate Winters doesn't take no for an answer. He's smart, hot, and he knows how to get to me. Before I can stop myself, I'm falling for him. But Tate doesn't know my secrets. He doesn't understand that we can't be together, no matter how much we both want it...
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    new adult  suspense  alpha male  humor  contemporary  m-f
  • Stone Walls by A.M. Madden

    Stone Walls by A.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Benjamin Stone has an unrealistic determination to rid the streets of New York from any and all drug dealing scum. That determination quickly moves him and his partner, Rob Withers, up the ranks to Senior Narcotics Agents within their precinct. A new case assisting the FBI has Ben facing the ghosts of his past. Those same ghosts are the very reason he moved to New York to become a cop...
  • Stone Walls: A True Heroes Novel by A. M. Madden

    Stone Walls: A True Heroes Novel by A. M. Madden

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What happens when a supposedly perfect match is so wrong it’s right? In this roller-coaster novel of destiny and desire from A. M. Madden, a red-hot cop and a broken beauty are linked by painful pasts . . . and one tempting future.   As an NYPD officer, Benjamin Stone is married to his job, determined to clean up the drug-infested streets...
  • David by Glenna Sinclair

    David by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    David My life ended the night my father won a place in the US Congress. Not because he won the election, but because he died when I lost control of the car he, my mother, and I were riding in. My parents both died and I was left paralyzed from the upper thighs down. There’s an operation that could fix my legs, but maybe I don’t deserve a second chance. After all, my parents didn’t get one...
  • Faster Deeper by Colleen Masters

    Faster Deeper by Colleen Masters

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fast Cars. Beautiful Women. Sexy Drivers. Pain, Lies, Deceit, Tears, Violence, Anger, Blackmail, Passion, Love, Lust... Sex. Siena wants Harrison, needs him, more than anything in the world, but she's falling in love with a man she can't have--Not without losing everything and everyone she's ever loved...
  • Neil by Sybil Bartel

    Neil by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Ex-Danish Military Special Forces, built like a legend, and uncompromising in every way—Neil Christensen didn’t walk into my life. The Viking-sized warrior crashed it like a hurricane. The moment he showed up at my strip club, my life fell to shit. South Florida's most ruthless motorcycle gang, the cops, the Feds—they all want something I don’t have, something the Viking took from me...
  • Hard Stick by L.P. Dover

    Hard Stick by L.P. Dover

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    He carries a big stick. And he’s not afraid to use it. On the ice, I’m Kellan Carter, powerhouse enforcer for the Charlotte Strikers. Off the ice, I’m just a regular guy. The last thing I want is to get mobbed by a bunch of groupies who are only after me for my fame and money. My ideal woman knows how to enjoy a little good, clean fun—and maybe some not-so-clean fun too...
  • Fleeting Moments by Bella Jewel

    Fleeting Moments by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **New Standalone Romance** One single moment changes everything In one breath, you can have it all A split-second later, it can all disappear Vanished forever That was me I had it all Then in a cruel twist of fate, it was taken from me A beautiful life gone in a flash But he was there He was there to pick me up when I fell To protect me My savior. My rock...
  • Breaking Brandon by Elizabeth Reyes

    Breaking Brandon by Elizabeth Reyes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He ruled out attachments years ago. Then one day he crosses paths with a beautiful but pampered daddy's little princess. History has taught him one thing about women like her—steer clear. She was starting over. She moved back to her home town, took a new job assignment, and left her past behind...
  • Kirkland by Glenna Sinclair

    Kirkland by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kirkland It should have been easy. When I was told to protect a client who owns an adult website, I imagined a woman who was impossibly tall with legs all the way to her chin. I saw curves that were subtle but perfect for holding onto. I saw a face that was symmetrical, everything proportioned as it should be. I saw a beautiful, sophisticated woman, the kind I loved to welcome into my bed...
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