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Something Nice by Tiffany Reisz
It's July, a couple months after Nora returns to Søren at the end of THE SIREN, and while in bed, Søren makes a trade with Nora. He'll do something nice for her and she'll do something nice for him. Of course Nora picks something sexual. But Søren surprises her with his "something nice" request. Read the excerpt below to find out what it is.This story if for mailing list subscribers only... -
Being Mrs. Cane by Shanora Williams
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThey say there is happiness at the end of every love story, but they never truly mention the hardships it takes to get there. With Cane, I’d been through hell and back, and now, I was going to be walking up the alter, promising my life to a man that I’d gambled everything for. Some would call me dumb. Some would deem me insane. Others would say I was a fool in love... -
Mollify by Xavier Neal
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDean "Mr. O" Kellar has been following closely in the footsteps of his famous adopted father for years, but when Megan Davis pops back into his life suddenly he starts following him in a new light. She was the girl who saved Dean when they were children and the girl he needs to save now... -
Hunter by Rebecca Sharp
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom 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... -
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Collide by Piper Lawson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMy hot professor’s past tore us apart. But he won’t give up on our future.I thought I knew who Sawyer Redmond was. I was wrong.But he’s fiercely determined to keep me, and I can’t avoid him. He’s everywhere—in class, at events, in my head.He forces me to discover a side of myself I never knew. One that terrifies me almost as much as it excites me.He says our secrets can bring us closer... -
Devoured by Ivy Smoak
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThere’s a fine line between love and obsession. And I’ve crossed it.I told myself that if I had one taste, I’d be able to move on. But I’m more addicted to her than ever.I tried to be a good man. I tried to stay away. I really did.But I kept watching her through the cameras I installed. Replaying the footage in my head late at night.I’m sick in the head. I know I’m a monster...Categorized as:
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Somebody Else's Sky by Jessica Hawkins
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIf I closed my eyes, I could still see them—all blonde sunshine, ocean-blue eyes, and long limbs. The glint of Lake’s gold bracelet. Pink cotton candy on Tiffany’s tongue. My scenery may have changed from heaven to hell, but some things never would: my struggle to do right by both sisters. To let Lake soar. To lift Tiffany up. The sacrifices I made for them, I made willingly...Categorized as:
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My Saving Grace by Melanie Moreland
It's time for the next generation of Vested Interest to find their Happily Ever Afters.Grace VanRyan has her life mapped out. Law school, a career with ABC, and a bright future ahead of her. Until Jaxson Richards steps into the picture. He’s everything she hasn't planned for. Older, sexy, off-limits. And her new boss...Categorized as:
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Loving Mr. Cane by Shanora Williams
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsKANDY When I was a little girl, Mr. Cane was my whole world. He was perfect and handsome and the best thing to have ever happened to my family. As I grew up, those feelings changed. I wanted him in every possible way, and I got what I’d been craving. Then I learned things about him…dangerous things... -
Dear Huxley: Heart of a Wounded Hero by Layne Daniels
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThis summer, my older brother and I both came home. Me, toting a college degree and a job with the city attorney. Him, with a decade of service to our country and a brotherhood of guys who followed him home.Eavesdropping like the nosy little sister I’ll always be, I overheard them talking about the only one in their team who reenlisted. I’m intrigued... -
Law and Disorder by Golden Angel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe's a wild child. He's assigned to be her Watch Dom. It's youth and mischief vs age and experience.Iris is new to the lifestyle and when her inexperience and troublemaking disrupt everyone's pleasure at Marquis, someone has to lay down the law. Unfortunately for Iris, that someone is Master Law... -
Chasing Temptation by Tracy Lorraine
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNot all lessons can be learned in a classroom. I went back to school to make something of myself—it was all about me. Until her... My teacher. One look in those sad eyes and every other reason for being in that classroom is erased. She’s lost. That much is obvious. Damn if I didn’t want to be the one to find her, to hell with rules. I wasn’t expecting to fall so hard and fast... -
Inked By My Sister's Ex by Flora Ferrari
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy sister is all I’ve got.Kelly basically raised me after we lost our parents in a plane crash. When a douche made a joke about it, when life went bad, and when I needed her…She was there. Always.But I can’t stop crushing on her ex-boyfriend.Jamie Jensen is six and a half feet of pure muscle, his arms tattooed and strong, his hair silver…his aura brooding. Aura sounds so cheesy, but he has one... -
With Kol by K.L. Donn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKol Daniels has spent years raising his sister after their parents passed away. Finally gaining the freedom to live his own life, he meets a girl… Who runs away. Thea Andrews only wants to be normal. She wants to drop the scars of her past and move forward. After finding a friendship with a woman who didn’t demand to know all her secrets, Thea feels comfort in her surroundings... -
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Unwritten Rules by Pamela O'Rourke
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTall, dark and handsome as sin.With a smile that speaks to my soul.Nathaniel Hawthorne is the epitome of the perfect man.But 12 years older and worlds wiser, my brother’s best friend doesn’t long for me the way I crave him.He made that crystal clear when I kissed him last year, spurring him to leave London.To leave me... -
Texas by Lila Rose
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrowing up around the Hawks Motorcycle Club, Maya and Texas have been in each other’s lives seemingly forever. Maya’s crush on her brother’s best friend has lasted almost as long.Older and somewhat wiser, she knows the man who’s always had her heart will never see her as anything other than his friend’s sister. But try as she might, she can’t escape him... -
Nanny Tempts the Beast by MINK
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFinding 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... -
The Sins We Hide by Scarlett Cole
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today best selling author Scarlett Cole, writing as S. Cole, comes an elecrtrifying MC, friends to enemies to lovers romance.GwenThe boy I once loved is now the fearless Vice President of the Iron Outlaws MC.And he hates me.Because of something that happened years ago. It's not my fault his father ended up inside for life because of that night...Categorized as:
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Craving Lily by Nicole Jacquelyn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI grew up hearing about my parents’ love story. How he’d fought for her when she’d refused to fight for herself. The way she’d fought for him when she’d feared that all was lost. I wanted that. But for some reason, I’d always imagined that my love story would be different. That it would be easy. It wasn’t. No, our story was intense, and convoluted, and frustrating. But it was ours... -
Dirty Plays by Michelle A. Valentine
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsZayn and I have been working hard to keep the relationship between us a secret. If we’re discovered after the Devil’s football organization forbid him to have any romantic relationships, he risks a possible suspension. Zayn’s way of concealing our relationship is passing me off as his niece in order to explain why we’re together all of the time until the season is over... -
Taking Control by Tory Baker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKingston Thomas knows better, he shouldn’t want Tessa Drake. That doesn’t stop him from going after her once she’s home from college.She’s forbidden fruit, off-limits, and un-freaking touchable, she’s also my daughter’s best friend. I walked away the first time years ago. She had her life ahead of her, I wasn’t going to be the one to screw it up... -
Executive Rule by Cameron Hart
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI live my life by a set of rules.It’s how I got to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company at just thirty-two, and how I’ve stayed at the top of my game for the last five years. I follow the same schedule every day, eat the same food, and wear one of a dozen sets of the same ten-thousand dollar suit. And that’s the way I like it... -
TRUST by Deborah Bladon
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMy older brother’s best friend crashed my twenty-first birthday party. Then he took me home with him. Harrison Keene is the type of man women chase.So they can yell at him. He’s as arrogant as they come.Sinfully handsome and annoying blunt, he was born with a diamond-encrusted silver spoon in his mouth.Harrison is the heir to the Keene family fortune... -
What He Never Knew by Kandi Steiner
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsI never learn my lesson. And I always want what I can’t have. When Sarah Henderson walks into my life, I tell myself she’s off limits. She’s my student, sixteen years younger than me, and my boss’s niece. It doesn’t matter that I see the same pain reflected in her eyes that I have in my own, or that the dead organ better known as my heart kicks to life when she’s around... -
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The Secret by Kristen Proby
From NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kristen Proby comes a forbidden romance. The Secret is the first in the Single in Seattle series!Vaughn is everything I’m supposed to stay away from. Sexy. Cocky. And famous.Ultra-famous.I grew up in a family full of wealthy celebrities. My father, Luke Williams, is the celebrity of them all... -
Fall Semester by Stephanie Fournet
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDespite his stunning good looks, Dr. Malcolm Vashal is perhaps the most detested professor on campus. A floundering career and the aftershocks of a painful divorce have left the 34-year-old with more than a little self-loathing, which only grows when he meets Maren Gardner. The graduate student with the loyal heart and searching eyes is much too good for him... -
Undone by R.E. Hunter
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFive years ago, Embry Jacobs ran... She ran from a past that still hasn’t let her go, but her dream of becoming a lawyer is stronger than her fear of confronting that past. Embry’s sole focus is to get through law school—with the help of her best friend, Morgan—and make something of the broken girl she became...Categorized as:
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Rocky by Nikita Slater, Jem Monday Publishing
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Hell’s Jury MC romance novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater.Jess… I have no place to call home until him.With a father in prison and my brother dead, I’m on my way to Reno to give Dutch’s cut back to his MC. Unfortunately, an unplanned act of kindness sends my life spinning out of control.Now I’m caught between the Hell’s Jury MC and their rivals, and I don’t know who to trust... -
The Long Arm of the Law by Cordelia Kingsbridge
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOriginal WorkAndres Cardona/Riley BlackpooleRiley runs into Andres while he's on duty... -
Healing Little Harmony: A Rawhide Ranch Story by Allie Belle, Rogue London
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsRawhide Ranch might just be the last chance at redemption either of us get... I never thought I'd be at the center of a scandal involving one of my students. Then again, nobody has ever gotten under my skin quite like Harmony Carrington. She's the textbook definition of a brat, which is exactly how I treated her. And it cost me everything... -
Hookup by Cordelia Kingsbridge
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAn anonymous club hookup could be the start of a beautiful friendship – or at least a whole lot of orgasms.Words:4051 (One Shot Complete)Also posted at: http://ckingsbridge.livejournal.com/4.. -
Green Means Go by Cordelia Kingsbridge
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhat's better than negotiating kinks over tapas? The kinky sex that comes afterwards.Words:7809 (One Shot - Complete)Also posted at: http://ckingsbridge.livejournal.com/4.. -
Dirty Rocker by Cassie Mint
I flew around the world to meet my estranged rocker father. But when I get backstage, it’s his bandmate who feels like home. I don’t know what I expected from my rockstar dad. Did I really think he’d make time for me? Well, whatever naive expectations I had, they’re long gone–drowned in whiskey, late nights and wild crowds.And I should move on with my life. Cut my losses and go... -
An Old Standard by Cordelia Kingsbridge
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOriginal WorkRelationship: Andres Cardona/Riley BlackpooleAndres takes Riley in hand... -
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Big Brawny Mechanic by Cassi Hart
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAll my life I’ve come to expect lemons. Lemon foster parents, lemon schools, lemon relationships, and now the car I spent my life savings on is indeed a lemon.I am stranded on the side of the road when my best friend sends someone to save me. He is big, rough, tattooed, and everything I have ever wanted in a man... -
Ear Candy by Cassie Mint
Here’s a secret I’ll never confess: I listen to my boss’s voice in bed every night. No, he’s not with me under the covers. That would be too freaking delicious, and he’d never want me like that.The truth is, it’s a habit. One I started months ago, long before I began working for the famous narrator. I didn’t even realize the job was with him until my first day–and by then, I couldn’t turn back... -
Falling For My Ex's Brother: A Second Chance Romance by Ella Sloane
She’s my brother’s girlfriend, but I met her first. She’d be mine if only I had taken my ring off, the ring that didn’t mean anything. I’ve tried to keep my distance, but I can’t stand it anymore. Watching him with her is driving me crazy, so I steal my moments when I can. Things fall apart and she leaves him. She leaves me too... -
Kissing Kosta by Mia Madison
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"There's the kind of sass that gets you kissed ... and then there's the kind that gets you spanked." Constantine "Kosta" Adamo is all man ... and I shouldn't even be thinking about him. He's too old for me. Too worldly. Too dangerous. It only makes me want him more. Playing with his fire is sure to get me burned ... and it'll be worth every scorching second... -
Revenge Era by Brittanee Nicole
This reputation won’t fix itself. I’m tired of being the girl everyone talks about. The one every man leaves. I know that story all too well. So when I catch my boyfriend of two years cheating with my tour manager, I shake it off and seek revenge—with his dad. Ford Hall is gorgeous so you can’t blame me when I do something bad and convince him to kiss me on New Year's Eve... -
Choosing You by M. Robinson
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA single glance. A fleeting moment. A solitary touch could make everything worth it. This was my breaking point. This was where I lost myself completely. I did the only thing that made sense. The only thing I had left to give. I begged her… To take me with her... -
Tap by Georgia Cates
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of The Beauty Series comes The Lovibond Collection––a series of stand alone novels. Craft beer and the sexy men who brew it. Both, always a good idea. A faceless name. That’s all she was when I agreed to play a part in deceiving her. But then the unplanned happened. We met... -
NUDES: A Hollywood Romance by Sarah Robinson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContemporary romance author Sarah Robinson brings readers a new standalone novel set in the glamorous hills of Hollywood and tackling challenging themes like the intersection of sexuality and female empowerment. Ben Lawson is making a comeback... After a few tabloid headlines, they think they know me. They don't know a damn thing... -
It's Her Love by Tory Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSophia needed a vacation to get away from life and the harsh realities of winter in New York. She never dreamed that a mechanical error with the plane she was on would change the course of her life forever.Vince took one look at Sophia and knew she was meant to be his. He didn’t care how long it took to gain her trust, she was worth the wait... -
Swim Coach by Abby Knox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAdmired, overachieving high school senior Addie has turned 18 and plans to wring out every last drop of her elite private school education. When a school legend returns to coach her swim team, however, her composure waivers under his stern gaze...Categorized as:
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It's Her Love by Tory Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSophia needed a vacation to get away from life and the harsh realities of winter in New York. She never dreamed that a mechanical error with the plane she was on would change the course of her life forever. Vince took one look at Sophia and knew she was meant to be his. He didn’t care how long it took to gain her trust, she was worth the wait... -
Saved by my Dad's Best Friend: age gap romance by Haley Travis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith one simple favor, I fell for the sexiest woman in the world – my best friend's daughter. Lena is gorgeous. Sweet, sensual, fascinating.An angel who should not be staying with a much older, rough man, even if it's at her Dad's request. Protecting Lena for a few days should solve her stalker problem.He'll take one look at my size and back off. If he shows his face, I'll end him...Categorized as:
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Can't Walk Away by Tory Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsJase Masters wasn’t supposed to want Cheyenne. She’s too young and he’s way too old to have the thoughts he had. Plus, her dad was his best friend. It was too complicated and a line he just wouldn’t cross. Fast forward three years later, Cheyenne is back home, this time for good. When they see each other again, the attraction is instant and as powerful as fireworks on a hot July night... -
Not Your Average Morning After by Cordelia Kingsbridge
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsRiley tries to catch Andres off-guard. It doesn't go the way he expected, but he's not complaining... -
Disciplined by Livia Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsShe’s looking for a Sugar Daddy, but he’s a very different kind of Daddy.Rules make Caleb's world make sense, and he needs a submissive willing to obey and take her punishment when she earns it.Finding sweet, young Presley sparks the kind of possessive need Caleb hasn't felt in years. She's naive and vulnerable, utterly addictive, but she's also wild and untamed... -
The Big Bad's Darling by Erin Havoc
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucien Giordano is dangerous, they say.And he wants me. Every part of me.I thought the mafia was something out of stories and movies.But Lucien is a consigliere to the richest mafia family this side of the country.I didn’t know that when I told him he shouldn’t skip the line.I had no idea when we bantered.He’s big, built like a linebacker, and twenty years older...
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