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The Beard Made Me Do It by Lani Lynn Vale
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...Categorized as:
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Hail Mary by Lani Lynn Vale
Mary Persephone Hail Mary—well-wished-for child. Persephone—destruction. Hail—well that speaks for itself. Her name is painful to think about. Mary, his newfound daughter, isn’t a wished-for child. Persephone, though? Yeah, destruction is a fitting description. And Hail? Yeah, that’s just the final f-you... -
Maybe Don't Wanna by Lani Lynn Vale
Peter Parker Penn. Unlike the superhero his mother named him after, Parker is no good guy. In fact, if there’s a picture in the dictionary under anti-hero, it’s his. Parker’s spent his life trying to get back on the right side of the tracks, but each step he takes forward, he takes two more steps back. To save one, he hurts others. To make this good, he turns that bad...Categorized as:
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One Chance, Fancy by Lani Lynn Vale
Benson Bayou Beauregard is the president of the Bear Bottom Guardians MC, and the grandson of the Sergeant at Arms for the Dixie Wardens MC. He’s a mountain of a man and the warden of a prison, and there’s only one thing that can scare him—being told that he’s the father of a three-year-old little girl. A three-year-old little girl that has no clue who he is...Categorized as:
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I'm Only Here for the Beard by Lani Lynn Vale
Sean is a man with needs—needs that a lot of women were ready and willing to fulfill. Yet, the only woman that he wants to fulfill them dumped him for another man. A man who’s a member of his MC and is someone he has to see every single day and twice on Sundays. He’s bitter and angry. He’s definitely not in the right frame of mind when it comes to dealing with women...Categorized as:
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Beard Up by Lani Lynn Vale
Ghost [gohst] noun: the soul of a dead person, a disembodied, vague, shadowy spirit wandering among or haunting living persons; a mere shadow or semblance; a trace. That noun sums up Ghost and what his life has become with painful precision. He is barely living, merely existing but never thriving. There wasn’t much that could pull him from the darkness he willingly inhabits…except one thing...Categorized as:
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The Final Fight by J.B. Salsbury
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen life brings you the perfect person at the worst possible time… On a weekend visit to Las Vegas to visit his brother, Marine Braeden Daniels meets a woman who challenges him in ways he can’t deny. The best part is she wants what he wants. No strings. No feelings. Just fun. AJ is a Las Vegas performer who is finally living her dream. Growing up poor, she’s determined to succeed at any cost... -
For the Love of Beard by Lani Lynn Vale
Tobias knows that women are a lot of trouble, and one in particular is more trouble than most. Yet even with the knowledge that she’s a pain in the ass, he doesn’t stop himself from doing the one thing he knows that he shouldn’t do—fall in love with her. It’s supposed to be simple. Get in, get the girl, and get out... -
Face-Off by Kathleen Brooks
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStone Townsend is the center for the pro-hockey team in Charleston. There are just a few things he’s concerned with: bringing his large family together again, leading his new team to a championship, and doing a lot of scoring–on and off the ice. Which is why it was the worst time to get an injury under new team management and a new coach... -
Bishop by Marie James
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSynopsis coming...Categorized as:
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The Legend by Shey Stahl
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn a lifestyle of speed, adrenaline and desire, one racer has sacrificed everything for the sport he loved. In turn, he will fight for his name, his family and now his life to be the legend he’s been portrayed to be. You can be everything you set out to be if you want it bad enough. You can be that record breaker you said you’d be. You can be that hero you always thought you would be... -
Lord Have Mercy by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsPoor judgment: knowing better yet doing it anyway. Flint Stone is a professional in every way. He’s a police officer with the K-9 unit and works at Gun Barrel High as the school resource officer. In his spare time, he’s working his heart out to create a successful gym from the ground up... -
Inferno by Chelle Bliss
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsStone Gallo has lived life like every day is a party. No attachments, no responsibilities, and absolutely no falling in love. He spent his days at Inked and his nights wherever he pleased. But when Stone rescues a beautiful woman in need, his entire world gets turned upside down, and he’ll never be the same.Opal hasn’t had much luck in life. No family, no friends, and absolutely no love... -
Safe Haven by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTyler Madden is a mystery, a sentinel passing through town and sticking to the shadows.He’s unforgettable to those who want to know him, but he prefers the darkness, and regularly seeks anonymity.It’s how he keeps his younger siblings safe and off the radar of those who may come looking.Kaia and Louie are not his by law... -
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Another One Bites the Dust by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAlternate cover edition for ASIN: B00HDT3T4K Her I wanted him, but couldn't find the courage to have him. You know that feeling, the one where you’re too scared to go to sleep, too scared to go out, and too scared to do anything? Ever since my assault, I've been functioning, but not living... -
Crazy, Wicked Love by Melissa Foster
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScorching heat, laugh-out-loud humor, and swoon-worthy moments abound in this sexy new standalone romance by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melissa Foster.What happens when the player gets played?Sidney Carver has a big problem, and he goes by the name of Dwayne “Gunner” Wicked: six-plus feet of muscular, motorcycle-riding, animal-loving deliciousness...Categorized as:
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Inmate of the Month by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA porn video changed his life.One second, he has an ex with an ax to grind, and the next, he’s internet famous—and definitely not in a good way. In an, it’ll ruin your career, kind of way.Only, Laric didn’t know that he was internet famous... -
Bad Apple by Lani Lynn Vale
The road to hell is paved with good intentions… Apple “Core” Drew needs The Uncertain Saints MC like he needs air. He is barely making it through the day, and each one that goes by takes him closer and closer to hell. Literally, not figuratively. He’s a half breath away from killing himself—maybe not by taking his own life, but he’s not against making someone else do it for him... -
Hiding Out by Lila Rose
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhat do you do when someone you trust threatens to sell you into slavery? Find the perfect place to hide out. Destitute and apathetic from the loss of her parents, Willow Demora is forced to accept any help thrown her way. Unfortunately, the only person willing to help is her cousin, a cousin who doesn't have a good bone in his body, and would do anything to stay out of the trouble he's in... -
Officially Over It by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGoing from a professional baseball player to a SWAT officer should’ve been seamless. Should have been. But it wasn’t. All it took was one single calendar shoot for word to spread that Nathan Cox was not only no longer playing professional baseball, but he was also the man behind saving the life of Reggie Morton, the City of Kilgore’s princess...Categorized as:
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Celebrating Love by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSaints Protection & Investigation A private investigation business, pulling together men from the CIA, FBI, ATF, DEA, Border Patrol, SEALs, and police, devoted to the missions that no one else wanted or could solve. Nick Stone - a stoic, dedicated FBI agent. His life was neat and orderly, just the way he liked it... -
Sinners are Winners by Lani Lynn Vale
He saw her from across a crowded ballpark and knew she was about to change his life. Yes, he realizes just how cliché that really is, but the moment his eyes locked on her, he knew that she was the one. At least, the one that royally screwed him over... -
Shakedown by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWanted: someone to hand feed me Doritos so my hands don’t get orange. No weirdos.Belle Pena was an editor. Not a writer.When her brothers challenge her to create a dating profile, she makes up the most random biography she can think of. She never, not ever, thought she’d find anybody to respond. But she was sorely mistaken...Categorized as:
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Get Tragic by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUsually when you find out you have a stalker, you don’t fall in love with him. But Banger Olivia Crest isn’t your normal, run of the mill, everyday girl. Banger is a truck driver who just so happens to know how to sling drinks in her spare time. She’s had a bad hand dealt to her time after time, and the last thing that she wants is to go all in... -
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Scarlett and the Big Bad Billionaire by Tru Taylor
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn my expert opinion, every woman who’s been left at the altar should follow up that singularly humiliating experience by spending a week in paradise with a totally inappropriate—and totally sexy—stranger.Even better if you meet him at the bar of the resort hotel where your destination wedding and honeymoon were supposed to take place...Categorized as:
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Pure Chemistry by Emilia Finn
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI’ve never wished for a knight in shining armor before, but today might be the day I let go of that pigheadedness and accept a little help.I’m a biochemist with a dream to cure cancer, but in my quest to save lives, I may be the reason thousands die... -
Frost: A Hell's Handlers MC Florida Chapter Novella by Lilly Atlas
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRachel has spent her life without family and watching others from the sidelines due to a series of unfortunate and traumatic events. She longs for the unbreakable connection only blood can bring. When she learns she has a half-brother living halfway across the country, she wants nothing more than to meet him. Even if he is the president of a motorcycle club... -
Embrace the Suck by Giulia Lagomarsino
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEmbrace The Suck is book 8 in the OPS Protector Romance series and should be read in order.I should have just stayed home. I thought I could get away and relax. But that was scrapped the first day when Dash and FNG followed me on vacation. It was supposed to be a trip to reset my brain... -
Dare by Chelle Bliss
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAustin Moore found his purpose in the military, but there was always something missing. He wanted what everyone in his family had…someone to call his own. But his life didn’t make it easy to find a soul mate, someone to be his forever.Sage Hill enlisted to follow in the footsteps of her father, but never wanted to be in his shadow...Categorized as:
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Kinda Don't Care by Lani Lynn Vale
She’s in a white dress that dances around her ankles, and her hair tumbles in a long sheet of curls down her back. A veil covers her beautiful eyes, and she smiles directly at him. Janie is everything Rafe’s ever imagined she would be on her wedding day. Breathtaking. Gorgeous. Perfect. The moment he sees her walking down the aisle towards him, he knows that she’s the one... -
Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe exciting and thrilling conclusion to Cash and Eva’s story, and the second book in the OPS series! The military defines a Nuclear Option as a drastic step or last resort, and I’m about to take it. Cash I am an expert marksman, engaging the enemy from afar. You’ll never see me coming because I’m that good. Even a sniper can be drawn out of hiding... -
Endurance by Amy Daws
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsHe rejected her. She loathes him. Now they have to fool everyone and pretend they actually like each other. Tanner Harris has been busy shagging his way through the ladies of east London, but getting caught by the paparazzi buck-naked with his trouser snake in his hands means he's sowed his last wild oat. Dr...Categorized as:
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Gen Pop by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHangry: adjective—feeling irritable or irrationally angry as a result of being hungry.Sometimes, Crockett felt that in her soul.And, of course, the one time that she’s being ‘irrationally angry’ would be the time that the hottest guy on the continent walked into her place of business dressed in prison orange.She should’ve been afraid.She should’ve taken one look at him and walked the other way... -
Jokes on You by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBooth Pena definitely didn’t make the smartest of decisions when he was a teenager.At eighteen, he knocked a girl up and signed up for the military all in the same day—signing his life away in more ways than one... -
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Wrath: Satan's Fury MC: SG by L. Wilder
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWall Street Journal and USA Today Best Seller L. Wilder brings you a new addition to the Satan’s Fury MC series.Stitch was stepping down.And he was preparing me to take his place.He’d seen the darkness in me.He knew I could use my demons the way he’d used his.And he was right.I used them, and I used them well.They’d helped me keep everyone at a distance— including her... -
Not a Role Model by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou better watch out for people that bounce back from everything that’s meant to destroy them.Those were the words that Coreline King learned to live by when it came to dealing with Tide ‘Rook’ Crow, member of the Battle Crows MC, general surgeon, and all-around jerk who lived to make her life a living hell...Categorized as:
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Got Your Six: An OPS Protector Romance Novel by Giulia Lagomarsino
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGot Your Six is book 6 in the OPS Protector Romance series and should be read in order.Action, Adventure, and a good woman—that’s all I crave. A chance to prove my love for a woman by risking my life for her.Everyone else gets to do it, so why not me?Except, I never imagined she would vanish without a trace.I thought she had been taken by a gang or a serial killer... -
Embrace The Suck: An OPS Protector Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino, Reggie Deanching
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmbrace The Suck is book 8 in the OPS Protector Romance series and should be read in order.I should have just stayed home. I thought I could get away and relax. But that was scrapped the first day when Dash and FNG followed me on vacation. It was supposed to be a trip to reset my brain... -
Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone by Giulia Lagomarsino
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSelf-Licking Ice Cream Cone is book 12 in the OPS series and should be read in order.I never should have grown out my hair. That’s where this whole thing started. I was too rigid. Too organized. And nobody failed to point that out to me.So, I grew my hair out to prove them wrong.Now I had a fake career as a model, all in the name of keeping a woman named Juliette safe... -
Bones:: Satan's Fury MC-SG by L. Wilder
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWall Street Journal and USA Today Best Seller L. Wilder brings you Wyatt’s book. He was only eight years old when Stitch found him at a local diner and took him under his wing. Now, he’s all grown up, and he has his own story to tell.We played a game of hide and seek.I tried to keep her at a distance.But no matter how high I built my walls, she was always there to seek me out.She saw me... -
The Bodyguard (Silver Spoon MC) by Nichole Rose
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEven giants fall…and the last brother standing will fall like a ton of bricks when he meets the feisty curvy girl meant to complete him.Cormac "Giant" CarmichaelFor the last year and a half, I've watched my MC brothers drop like flies.I almost gave up on finding my one.And then my dad called in a favor for a friend of a friend.His daughter is in trouble and needs my help...Categorized as:
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Inflame by Tessa Teevan
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEasy going soldier Kale Montgomery, a self-proclaimed ladies man, has no plans of settling down, especially not with his best friend- the sexy, sassy schoolteacher Lucy Dawson. Their relationship, though unconventional, is mutually beneficial, and they wouldn't have it any other way... -
Kat, Knight Watch by Danielle Norman
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI never believed in love at first sight...Until the ATM ate my debit card, And Jackson Boudreaux stepped in to save the day. All business, in his nine to five banker suit--I couldn’t help but wonder what he was hiding under that perfect form. I was leather and handcuffs. He was ties and cuff-links, But it didn't matter that we were from two different worlds... -
Incredible You: A Sexy Flirty Dirty Standalone by Lili Valente
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom the USA Today Bestselling author of Magnificent Bastard comes a sexy, flirty, dirty standalone…on ice. They say Jake “The Dragon” Falcone earned his nickname by setting fire to the ice his first season in the NHL. But just between us ladies, I’m pretty sure he earned it for the dragon in his pants. From my first hug as his fake girlfriend, it’s clear he’s packing below the belt... -
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I'd Rather Not by Lani Lynn Vale
Oakley Spurlock is dying. She only has weeks to live thanks to a freak infection that totally and completely destroyed her kidneys. Despite her family’s desperation, not a single one of them is a match. In a last-ditch attempt, Oakley’s father takes to social media to beg for help to save his daughter’s life. *** Pace Vineyard is lost... -
Zane's Rebel: A Curvy Girl Instalove Romance by Loni Nichole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor once in his life, this strait-laced attorney is ready to throw caution to the wind. Too bad his sassy, rebellious soulmate refuses to take the risk.ZaneI take on the sassy-mouthed heiress’s case because she needs a good defense. She’s being sued by her father’s former business partner, who wants to destroy her. The odds in this small-town are stacked against her... -
An Outlaw Monster by London Casey, Karolyn James
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe was going to kill one of my brothers... so I was sent to stop her - by any means necessary. This is the story of how she ended up my old lady, wearing my ink, and wearing a damn engagement ring. ☠☠ Someone's taken out a hit on one of our members. As the club's enforcer, it's my job to stop the killer and I'm ready to do whatever it takes...until I come face to face with the assassin... -
Always Someone's Monster by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA few years ago, when his sister went missing, Haggard Crow turned into something he never wanted to be. A killer.Even after his sister is rescued a year after she was kidnapped and sold, Haggard ‘Thief’ Crow doesn’t have any plans on changing. He sort of likes the zero fucks given guy that he is now...Categorized as:
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When You Least Expect It by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe last thing Stella Ryan had time for was a man. With her family in trouble and looking to her to fix everything, romance and commitment were the furthest things from her mind. Until she ran into a man with a jawline that could cut granite and arms she wanted to lick like an ice cream cone. A man who made her forget the things that really mattered... -
Pitch Please by Lani Lynn Vale
Baseball is life, the rest is just details. Everyone who’s played the game has heard those words a time or two. But Hancock has heard them his entire life from his parents. His family has lived and breathed baseball even before he started little league...Categorized as:
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