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  • Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Niro by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    * You do not need to read the OG Henchmen to read this new series *Joining the MC had never been a question.Raised by an ex-cage-fighting member, Niro hadn’t seen any future for himself that didn’t involve bikes, guns, violence, and the brotherhood he’d learned to revere above all else. But joining the Henchmen meant he couldn’t have the only other thing in life he wanted.Andi...
  • The Butterfly Project by Emma Scott, Suanne Laqueur

    The Butterfly Project by Emma Scott, Suanne Laqueur

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    "Where you are is home..." At age fourteen, Zelda Rossi witnessed the unthinkable, and has spent the last ten years hardening her heart against the guilt and grief. She channels her pain into her art: a dystopian graphic novel where vigilantes travel back in time to stop heinous crimes—like child abduction—before they happen...
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  • Loved by Liam by Melanie Moreland

    Loved by Liam by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Liam Callaghan is happy with the way things are.He has a successful business, a family he loves, and a life he thinks is fulfilling and complete.Until a favor for his brother brings him to her.She sparks something inside him. Something he had no idea he was missing.One touch and he knows Paige Winters is the woman he wants.She and her daughter become his focus. His world...
  • Lift You Up by Jessica Gadziala

    Lift You Up by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Friends of the family were forbidden fruit. You didn't get to take a bite, no matter how tempting it might be...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  humor  contemporary
  • Code Name: Ghost by Sawyer Bennett

    Code Name: Ghost by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I knew the risks of this job when I signed on with Jameson Force Security. Knew my time as a marine would prepare me for the danger I would face. But no amount of training could have ever prepared me for the helplessness of watching my teammates die, the agonizing mental and physical pain of torture, or the despair of captivity...
  • Love and Lists by Tara Sivec

    Love and Lists by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Love and Lists is the first book in the Chocolate Lovers spinoff - Chocoholics: The foul-mouthed offspring tell their stories. Twenty-five-year-old Gavin Ellis has always had the love and support of his family ever since he was a little boy and couldn't stop talking about his penis. He's also always had their unsolicited advice and uncanny knack of embarrassing him at all costs...
  • Following Maggie by Melanie Moreland, M. Moreland

    Following Maggie by Melanie Moreland, M. Moreland

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Let Love Guide You Home - Coming Home series from Melanie MorelandA snowstorm, an unexpected delay, and a caring stranger are all it takes for Sebastian Ruggers to change the course of his life.Instead of pushing paper and living a life he dreads, he follows his heart and the girl he meets to a new city.A different life.Maggie Andrews is heading back to the only town that ever felt like home...
  • Finding Ivy by Claire Kingsley

    Finding Ivy by Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    After putting her life on hold to care for her dying father, Ivy Nichols feels stuck. Alone and disconnected, she’s struggling to pick up the pieces and move forward. The mysterious William Cole walks into her life, like a beacon of light in a fog. He’s sensual and captivating—awakening Ivy in ways she’s never experienced before...
  • In the Crease by Toni Aleo

    In the Crease by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Jensen Monroe is a unicorn. As handsome as any model, as polite as can be, a goalie of unmatched skill, and the best friend anyone could ask for. But he longs for a particular special someone to make his life complete. He’s been in love with Wren since he was a teenager, but as his best friend’s sister, she’s always been off-limits...
  • Quit Bein' Ugly by Lani Lynn Vale

    Quit Bein' Ugly by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    There’s a crush, and then there are the type of feelings that Croft Cruisie evokes from a person.He’s everything that any straight woman would want: tall, handsome, charismatic, muscular, and sweet...
  • Season for Love by Marie Force

    Season for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    His idea of permanence is the VW van that takes him from one gig to the next. . . Owen Lawry has made a living as a traveling musician and enjoys his footloose and fancy free lifestyle...
  • 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...
  • Love, Honor, and Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Love, Honor, and Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a bonus Montgomery Ink novella, it seems that falling for your best friend isn’t as easy as fiction says and friends of the Montgomerys might finally find their happy ever after.Wedding planner Arianna King had everything planned out down to the last detail until her father’s ultimatum changed everything. Now she’s alone, trying to open her own business, and seemingly failing at every corner...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  contemporary
  • Falling into Forever by Avery Maxwell

    Falling into Forever by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What’s a brokenhearted romance novelist to do when an interview accidentally turns her into the villain? I’ll tell you one thing—the plan definitely wasn’t to turn to the man who taught me that happily ever afters exist only on the page...
  • Game Changer: A Wynn Hockey Novel by Kelly Jamieson

    Game Changer: A Wynn Hockey Novel by Kelly Jamieson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jackson Wynn I don’t want anything to do with my crazy family’s drama, which I’ve been watching unfold from a distance over the last year, but now my grandfather has Alzheimer’s and I feel I need to at least make a quick visit to see him. My hockey season’s over, all I have to do is get through my teammate Steve’s wedding, and then I’m on a plane to Los Angeles to do my family duty...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  contemporary  sports
  • Inked Devotion by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Inked Devotion by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a road trip romance between two friends running from their past.Brenna Garrett watched her best friend fall in love with another woman all the while keeping his darkest secrets from her. Now she’ll have to figure out who she is without him while not letting the rest of the Montgomerys see her break...
  • Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts

    Savor the Moment by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    New love takes the cake in the third novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet.Wedding baker Laurel McBane is surrounded by romance working at Vows wedding planning company with her best friends Parker, Emma, and Mac. But she's too low-key to appreciate all the luxuries that their clients seem to long for...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  contemporary
  • HOLDING by Alexandria House

    HOLDING by Alexandria House

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Childhood neighbors, enemies, best friends, lovers, enemies, Sires lineman Terrence Ford and his ex-wife, Krystle, have meant all these things to each other. Once believing their union was indestructible, they find themselves unhappily apart. Maybe what they see as an ending is really the beginning of a stronger bond and a deeper understanding of what love really is...
  • The Chameleon Effect by Joe Arden

    The Chameleon Effect by Joe Arden

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lights. Camera. Action…I've got everything it takes to make it in Tinseltown: confidence, charisma, and a killer chin. Now all I need is a chance.But Los Angeles is full of hot, young hunks, and talent might not be enough to separate me from the cookie-cutter crowd.Well, you know what they say: fake it till you make it.So I devise a wild scheme to get noticed...
  • Tacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Tacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    I am not okay. Fifteen months ago, my life was turned upside down when the plane I was piloting went down. Injured and trapped in the wreckage, I had to watch my fiancée die a painfully slow death, which is something that can really mess with your head. Since that day, I’ve had little desire to do much of anything. Except play hockey, that is...
  • 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...
  • Epic Love by Trudy Stiles, Erin Noelle

    Epic Love by Trudy Stiles, Erin Noelle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Second chance romance - STANDALONE. HEATH STRICKLAND, the son of a prominent district attorney, lived his life surrounded by violence and crime. He was an unwilling witness to the corrupt lives his father swore to prosecute and keep behind bars. His escape was his music, which eventually led him to replace the iconic singer of the world famous band, Epic Fail...
  • A Gentleman for Christmas by Prescott Lane

    A Gentleman for Christmas by Prescott Lane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some say “chivalry is dead.” I don’t think so. Most women I know like a gentleman. Protective, opens doors, treats women with respect, typically follows the rules. But a gentleman doesn’t fall for his best friend’s woman. Current or ex. And that’s what I’ve done. During the Christmas season of all times — that magical time for decorations, gifts, family . .
  • #1 Love by T. Gephart

    #1 Love by T. Gephart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was easy to fall in love with a Larsson—seriously who could resist any one of those boys? And while each them had taken turns featuring as Maya’s adolescent crush, there was only one of them who had been her best friend. Alex Larsson. She’d loved him the most, convinced they’d be friends forever...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  humor  contemporary
  • Can't Resist Him by Molly McLain, Sommer Stein

    Can't Resist Him by Molly McLain, Sommer Stein

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    *** SPECIAL PRE-ORDER PRICE OF $2.99!*** Sometimes what you want and what you need are two very different things. Always relegated to the "friends with benefits" corner of small town River Bend, Jenny Riley is done giving the milk for free. Falling hard for a bad boy? Not in the plan, either. Sexy, emotionally-wounded Marine Reservist Brody Nelson just needs someone to lend an ear...
  • Whiskey Undone by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Whiskey Undone by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Two best friends follow a dangerous and seductive path in the final standalone novel of the bestselling Whiskey and Lies series from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan. Ainsley Harris has always kept a secret from her best friend. She’s stood by his side, helped him raise his daughter, and tried to keep her distance even though she’s been in love with him for years...
  • 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...
  • Engage by June Gray

    Engage by June Gray

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PART FIVE OF JUNE GRAY'S DISARM SERIES The past has a way of catching up... A long time has passed since Elsie's heart was broken, since the person who always shielded her from pain broke her heart. Just when she begins to rebuild, Henry returns and upends everything all over again...
  • Easton's Claim by Kaylea Cross

    Easton's Claim by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She needs a fresh start somewhere else. Piper Greenlee is desperate to get out of Sugar Hollow. After her ex-husband’s notorious scandal and their subsequent divorce, her life and reputation are in tatters. Not to mention the disturbing feelings she’s started to have for a longtime friend recently. She’s ready to leave all that behind, start over somewhere far away and reinvent herself...
  • Chance of a Lifetime by Marissa Clarke

    Chance of a Lifetime by Marissa Clarke

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Sometimes the biggest risk is playing it safe… Gen Richards is tired of living down to her family’s expectation of the helpless blind girl. Resurrecting her high-school bucket list that begins with “kiss a total stranger” seems just the thing until she finds herself in a panty-melting lip lock with her big brother’s best friend...
  • Say You Won't Let Go: A Return to Me/Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Corinne Michaels, Andi Arndt

    Say You Won't Let Go: A Return to Me/Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Corinne Michaels, Andi Arndt

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emily Young had two goals in her life: 1. Make it big in country music. 2. Get the hell out of Bell Buckle.   She was doing it. She was on her way, until Cooper Townsend landed backstage at her show in Dallas.   This gorgeous, rugged, man of few words was one cowboy she couldn't afford to let distract her. But with his slow smile and rough hands, she just couldn't keep away...
  • The Accidental Text by Becky Monson

    The Accidental Text by Becky Monson

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 24 ratings
    Wrong number. Right guy?Once upon a time, Maggie Cooper lived for adventure. Jumping out of planes was child’s play. Now she can’t even work up the nerve to ask out her coworker...
  • DIRTY REBOUND: A Slayers Hockey Novel by Mira Lyn Kelly

    DIRTY REBOUND: A Slayers Hockey Novel by Mira Lyn Kelly

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I care too much about Cammy Wesley to marry her…Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. But hear me out. Cammy’s my best friend. The one person I can’t live without. The girl with the sunshine smile, the loaded fridge, and the most awesome kid I’ve ever met. She’s also the hot AF single mom I’ve made it my mission to protect from guys like me...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  contemporary  humor  sports
  • Stay With Me by Jessica Prince

    Stay With Me by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rory Hightower had a good life. She had a loving family, great friends, and a job she adored, running Hope Valley’s local watering hole, The Tap Room. But there was just one thing missing. Ever since she was a little girl she knew there was one special guy out there just for her. Her dream man. And when Cord walked into her bar, she knew instantly it was him...
  • Retreat by June Gray

    Retreat by June Gray

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Return to the place where it all began… Elsie surprises Henry in California in the sexiest way possible, and inadvertently reveals the secret of their relationship to their families. But just when she thinks everything is finally falling back into place, a revelation changes everything… ~ RETREAT is a 13,000 word erotic romance novelette. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY PLEASE...
  • P.I.T.A. by Brooke Blaine

    P.I.T.A. by Brooke Blaine

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    As one of the most prestigious wedding coordinators in Los Angeles, Paige Iris Traynor-Ashcroft is known for being classy, elegant, and the orchestrator of many happily-ever-afters. But in the words of Paige herself: “What a crock of shiitake.” Known affectionately (or not) as P.I.T.A. to those closest to her, she’s never been one to buy into the whole monogamy thing for herself...
  • The Henry Sessions by June Gray

    The Henry Sessions by June Gray

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    PART FOUR OF JUNE GRAY'S DISARM SERIESIn eighteen days, a life can change... Henry talks about the past during his therapy sessions but one night puts everything into question, including his relationship with the woman he's loved all his life...
  • The Beat Match (Showmen) by Kelly Siskind

    The Beat Match (Showmen) by Kelly Siskind

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Treat yourself to this friends-to-lovers romance reviewers are calling "heart-melting" and "swoony" and "packed with heat and chemistry."Two DJs. One beat. An off-limits romance neither of them expected.Weston Aldrich is known for his devastating looks and crisp Italian suits. He's been groomed to take over his family business and is on the brink of closing a massive merger...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  contemporary  humor
  • Face of Danger by Roxanne St. Claire

    Face of Danger by Roxanne St. Claire

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Private investigator Vivi Angelino loves living life on the edge, but stepping into the shoes of a movie starlet to bait a serial killer isn't just a thrill . . . it's a ticket to the big time for her fledgling security firm. That is, as long as a certain risk-averse FBI agent stays out of her way-and out of her fantasies...
  • The Boy Friend by Mika Jolie

    The Boy Friend by Mika Jolie

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    According to the law of attraction, women and men can’t be friends. Contrary to this myth, my friendship with Coriander Phillips does not rest on unrequited love or un-actualized lust. We’ve been inseparable since the day I pulled one of her pigtails and she punched me in the gut. She’s hilarious, fun to hang out with...
  • Besiege by June Gray

    Besiege by June Gray

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The continuing story of Elsie and Henry… Elsie has waited six long months for Henry to return from his deployment to Afghanistan...
  • Fool for Love by Marie Force

    Fool for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Joe Cantrell, owner of the Gansett Island Ferry Company, has been in love with Janey McCarthy for as long as he can remember. At the same time, Janey has been dating or engaged to doctor-in-training David Lawrence. When things go horribly wrong between David and Janey, she calls her “fifth brother” Joe, one of the few people in her close circle who lives on the mainland...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  contemporary
  • Spectacular Rascal: A Sexy Flirty Dirty Standalone Romance by Lili Valente

    Spectacular Rascal: A Sexy Flirty Dirty Standalone Romance by Lili Valente

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "... hot, sexy AND funny! " - NYT  Bestseller Lauren Blakely ​" Witty, flirty, and oh so dirty! The chemistry...is red-hot!" -Bestseller Lacey Black When you've been screwed over by Mr. Wrong, let a Spectacular Rascal show you how good it feels to be bad. You know the smooth, successful New York businessman type? Well, I'm the other guy--the one you don't bring home to mama...
  • Trying to Score by Kendall Ryan

    Trying to Score by Kendall Ryan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Teddy King excels at many things. Playing hockey. Check. Scoring on and off the ice. Check. Being stupidly attractive ... Double check. I knew him way back when. Before he was the guy everyone wanted a piece of, he was just a rebellious college co-ed and one of my more energetic study partners...
  • Asking for Trouble by Amy Andrews

    Asking for Trouble by Amy Andrews

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After three years in Credence trying to fade into the background, Della Munroe is sick of being invisible. She’s ready to take back control. To live a little. Hell, she’s ready to see what this dating fuss is all about. And if that means she has to download Tinder and date every guy in Colorado, then she’s up for it...
  • Ugly Sweater Weather by Jessica Gadziala

    Ugly Sweater Weather by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… twelve days to prove to her that we weren’t just best friends, that it was more than our dogs who were madly in love.When her mom bailed on their plans, she found herself stuck in the city with nothing to do.Well, I was going to give her something to do.Fall as in love with me as I was with her..
  • Crossing the Line by Kendall Ryan

    Crossing the Line by Kendall Ryan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Recovering from a pulled groin muscle isn’t exactly how I planned to spend my much-needed summer vacation. But I’ll admit, being nursed back to health by my gorgeous friend Bailey, who’s just graduated from medical school, doesn’t exactly sound like a hardship...
  • The Sweetest Chase by Sharla Lovelace

    The Sweetest Chase by Sharla Lovelace

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Photographer Quinn Parker is getting married in a month, and she’s almost happy about it. Even though her mother is planning the whole wedding. Even though she’s secretly had the hots for Simon Chase forever. But he’s her best friend’s brother and her coworker…off-limits even if she were single. So she’s marrying the man who should be her perfect match—and that’s that...
    Categorized as:
    friends to lovers  m-f  contemporary
  • I'm In It by Tammy Falkner

    I'm In It by Tammy Falkner

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What do you get when you put together one matchmaking doorman, some Reed brothers with good intentions, and five sisters, one of whom is a little lost? Get get Tammy Falkner's newest book, I'M IN IT. Mick fell in love with Wren at the worst possible time. She was in the midst of something wonderful, and then she wasn’t. Her life changed in the blink of an eye...
  • The Pairing by Katie Ashley

    The Pairing by Katie Ashley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A Companion Novel to The Proposition and The Proposal. After her former boyfriend left her pregnant and alone, Megan McKenzie swore off men. She spent the last eighteen months focused solely on her son, Mason, along with finishing nursing school at the top of her class...
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