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  • The Midnight Hour by Brenda Jackson

    The Midnight Hour by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Sexy, dangerous, unforgettable. . .the Madaris family and their unlikely band of friends captured readers’ hearts and souls. Now, in The Midnight Hour, bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings us another breathtaking novel featuring the Madaris family and friends. One, CIA agent Sir Drake Warren gave his heart to a woman—a fellow Marine whose death in an explosion left him aching for justice...
  • Brothers Black 7: Johnathan the Fixer by Blue Saffire, Covers by Combs

    Brothers Black 7: Johnathan the Fixer by Blue Saffire, Covers by Combs

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    RoniI don't know my past, I've lost control of my future, but I have a bullet for my present. Nough said.JohnathanThat’s Roni, and that’s about as much as you will get from her. When you get to know her, you understand why. From the moment our eyes connected, I knew I’d be the one to fix what was broken. It didn’t matter that we were never supposed to see each other again...
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  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 44 ratings
    From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun , a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race centered around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they come to call home. As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love...
  • La Sposa by Sienna Mynx

    La Sposa by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Don Giovanni Battaglia and Mira Ellison.... The year is 1991. Two years after discovering love and losing it Mira Ellison has finally accepted her destiny. She will become Donna Mirabella Battaglia, the wife of one of the most notorious crime bosses in Southern Italy...
  • Whispered Promises by Brenda Jackson

    Whispered Promises by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Even a once-in-a-lifetime love… When Halston Parker calls his daughter Caitlin to his deathbed, she's shocked to discover that her ex-husband, Dex Madaris, has been summoned as well. It's been four years since Caitlin felt the heat of Dex's touch, the urgency of his kisses and the promise of an everlasting love that never was...
  • Put That On Everything by K.C. Mills

    Put That On Everything by K.C. Mills

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trevor HoltonHe’s every woman’s dream. Thanks to his humble beginnings, he’s edgy, outspoken and determined to win. Holt is also the highest paid wide receiver in the league and well worth the money he’s paid. Not only is he worth millions but he’s also physical perfection. That alone has every women willing to do any and everything he asks. Well…every woman except one, Sutton Kelly...
  • Quiet Chaos : The Chaos Series- Book #2 by Keta Kendric

    Quiet Chaos : The Chaos Series- Book #2 by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    Mecca: Family. Being a member of the Evans family was a blessing and a curse. By the time I was sixteen, I had committed four murders and had been beaten to within an inch of my life. Yet, I had turned out to be the fighter, the one that had been strong enough to survive in a world of chaos...
  • Thorn's Challenge by Brenda Jackson

    Thorn's Challenge by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Thorn Westmoreland was not enough to convince Tara Matthews to risk her heart in love again...or was it? The beautiful pediatrician and the hard-riding motorcycle tycoon mixed like oil and water. Why, then, couldn't Tara burn the sexy racer from her head or the memory of his passionate caresses from her body? Thorn had wanted Tara since the day they'd met...
  • Stranger In My Arms by Rochelle Alers

    Stranger In My Arms by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Orphaned at birth and shuttled between foster homes, CIA agent Merrick Grayslake has made a practice of not letting anyone get close to him. But he finds that his emotions are at risk when he is introduced to Alexandra Cole. It has been all work and not enough play for Alex. And what little social life she's had has been on hold for a year while she completes her graduate degree...
  • Beautiful Chaos by Keta Kendric

    Beautiful Chaos by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Desiree:Family. Being a member of the Evans family had never been easy. By the time I was sixteen, I’d been snatched twice, shot at, and knifed in the back. Yet, I’d turned out to be the tame one, the one that had been smart enough to stay away from my family business…until my father dragged me back in...
  • Seduction, Westmoreland Style by Brenda Jackson

    Seduction, Westmoreland Style by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Montana horse breeder McKinnon Quinn savored his "no women on my ranch" rule. So when Casey Westmoreland asked for a job training horses, he turned her down flat. For despite her innocent looks, she tempted him beyond reason. Casey had vowed to get McKinnon to hire her and make him her first--her only--lover. Yet after every steamy encounter, the infuriating man dodged her...
  • Missing Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Missing Hearts by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TWO BRILLIANT AGENTS TRACK ONE CUNNING PSYCHO. FBI Agent Alexander King has a special gift for catching vicious predators. He gets inside the twisted minds of psychopaths and hunts them down. However, this case in a small Georgia town is challenging his skills. A serial killer named The Angel Maker has kidnapped and killed six little black girls...
  • Taming Clint Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    Taming Clint Westmoreland by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In name only? The moment ex-Texas Ranger Clint Westmoreland learned he was still married, he set the limits for his wife's stay at his luxurious horse ranch. But when she arrived, Clint's boundaries began to blur. He and Alyssa Barkley had thirty days to untangle the legal knot that had bound them together during an undercover assignment years before...
  • Tonight & Forever by Brenda Jackson

    Tonight & Forever by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    After her marriage ends in bitter divorce, all Lorren Jacobs wants is to leave California behind. Returning to her roots in Texas seems to be just what the doctor ordered...until she meets real-life physician Justin Madaris. Lorren has vowed never to give her heart to another man, but she can't stop herself from responding to the handsome widower's sensuous whispers of love..
  • An Affair in Munthill by Takerra Allen

    An Affair in Munthill by Takerra Allen

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gloria met Rich, and the most organic romance began to write itself.On the heels of the animated V2, Takerra travels to a more serene place to bring you a story of two people finding one another in the most enthralling of ways – when they don’t want to. The key ingredients of intrigue are here – he’s self-aware, dominant, with a dangerous yet captivating edge...
  • Delaney's Desert Sheikh by Brenda Jackson

    Delaney's Desert Sheikh by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Delaney Westmoreland refused to let a mix-up in her vacation plans postpone the R and R she craved. But when she reluctantly agreed to share a secluded cabin with an arrogant sheikh bent on seduction, she found herself enrolled in a crash course in human sexuality. Unfortunately, commitment and love were misplaced pages in her darkly handsome mentor's manual...
  • Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After a bestselling doubleheader in 2007 with Sleeping with Strangers and Waking with Enemies (both reaching #9 on the New York Times bestseller list), Eric Jerome Dickey is back with the final installment in his thrilling trilogy— Dying for Revenge...
  • Waking with Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Waking with Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A sequel to Sleeping with Strangers finds powerful hit man Gideon struggling to outmaneuver a fellow assassin when his past misdeeds catch up with him, an effort that forces him to realize that he can no longer trust anyone. 250,000 first printing...
  • The Chase Is On by Brenda Jackson

    The Chase Is On by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    WHAT CHASE WESTMORELAND WANTED... Something sure looked tempting, and Chase knew it wasn't on his restaurant's menu. His new neighbor Jessica Claiborne was as deliciously enticing as the confections she created--so enticing, Chase was finding it difficult to concentrate on anything but the curve of her lips...
  • Big Girls Do Cry (Big Girls) by Carl Weber

    Big Girls Do Cry (Big Girls) by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to the Big Girls Book Club‚ where only one rule applies: Members must be at least a size 14. Sisters Isis and Egypt have left New York for Richmond‚ where Isis is happily married and living in the lap of luxury...
  • A Silken Thread by Brenda Jackson

    A Silken Thread by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    For Erica Sanders, finding a soul mate was the easy part. Brian Lawson is the man she wants, and everyone agrees they're the ideal couple. Almost everyone. The one exception is Erica's mother, Karen, who prefers her daughter marry another man...
  • Riding The Storm by Brenda Jackson

    Riding The Storm by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Women called him the perfect storm because he could sweet-talk any woman into his bed, and regularly did so. Firefighter Storm Westmoreland used lovemaking the way other men used a long, hot shower-to blow off steam. Until a torrid weekend with a too-hot-to-handle virgin left a certain legendary player craving something other than mere physical gratification...
  • Mick Sinatra: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Bad boy Mick Sinatra feels the heat from the Feds from without, and disloyal men from within. He has no time for love. But when a woman comes along so unlike the dull socialites and supermodels of his past, he wonders if fate is playing a cruel trick on him...
  • Locked in Temptation by Brenda Jackson

    Locked in Temptation by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    His job is to protect her…no matter the cost Police detective Joy Ingram's connection to elite security expert Stonewall Courson is instant. Undeniable. Electric. But her commitment to protect and serve has always come first. Everything else is secondary—especially when she uncovers an underground surrogate baby-making ring...
  • The Real Thing by Brenda Jackson

    The Real Thing by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens when a pretend boyfriend wants more than make-believe? Find out in this Westmoreland novel from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson!   No red-blooded man turns down the chance to escort gorgeous Trinity Matthews�and Adrian Westmoreland is definitely red-blooded. For her, he'll pretend to be her man. But keeping his hands to himself? That is impossible...
  • Taken By Storm by Rochelle Alers

    Taken By Storm by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When tall, ruggedly handsome U.S. marshall Raphael Madison tells spirited five-foot-three floral designer Simone Whitfield that he's her live-in bodyguard for the duration of a high-profile court case, the notion that opposites attract definitely applies...
  • For Your Love by Beverly Jenkins

    For Your Love by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    NAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to Henry Adams, Kansas—an unforgettable place that anyone would want to call home—with a story of family, friends, and the powerful forces from our past that can irrevocably shape our future...
  • Queen of Barrakesch by Delaney Diamond

    Queen of Barrakesch by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    They had no idea how much their lives would change…forever.Imani Karunzika is fiercely independent and refuses to be forced into a loveless marriage with the domineering man her parents want for her. When her friend Crown Prince Wasim al-Hassan of Barrakesch learns he’ll be passed over for the throne because he has no wife, she suggests a plan where they enter into a fake engagement...
  • Stepping to a New Day by Beverly Jenkins

    Stepping to a New Day by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the town of Henry Adams with a story of family, friendship, love, and second chances.In Henry Adams, Kansas, you can’t start over without stirring things up . . .Many a good woman has had to leave a no-good man, but how many of them took a back-seat to his 600-lb...
  • Grand Opening 2: A Family Business Novel by Carl Weber, La Jill Hunt

    Grand Opening 2: A Family Business Novel by Carl Weber, La Jill Hunt

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the minds of New York Times bestselling author Carl Weber and Essence bestseller La Jill Hunt comes the newest entry into the game-changing Family Business saga. The year is 1978, the Duncan brothers and their tough-as-nails women have vanquished their rivals and taken their place as the leaders of Waycross, Georgia’s criminal enterprises...
  • Stone Cold Surrender by Brenda Jackson

    Stone Cold Surrender by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Two classic Westmoreland novels from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Brenda JacksonStone Cold SurrenderBestselling thriller writer Stone Westmoreland can think of plenty of ways to describe the stranger he meets on a flight to Montana. Tantalizing. Whip-smart. And completely unaware of how good it feels to give in to your wilder impulses...
  • Resurrecting Midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Resurrecting Midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    International assassin Gideon spilled blood for the first time when he was seven years old, with a single shot to the head of a man who was attempting to kill the woman Gideon had known as his mother. The victim was none other than his own father, a man of unspeakable evil...
  • Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden

    Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Strong and folksy storytelling...think Zora Neale Hurston...Sugar speaks of what is real." --The Dallas Morning NewsFrom an exciting new voice in African-American contemporary fiction comes a novel Ebony praised for its "unforgettable images, unique characters, and moving story that keeps the pages turning until the end." The Chicago Defender calls Sugar "a literary explosion..
  • Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman’s bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn’t belong. Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister―until her father suddenly dies...
  • A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson

    A Brother's Honor by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Granger brothers left behind their family's Virginia estate-and the bad memories it holds-years ago. But their dying grandfather's request brings them home:to a failing business, a legacy of secrets and a deathbed promise to make things right. As the eldest brother, attorney Jace Granger is determined to take responsibility for Granger Aeronautics, his family's failing business...
  • Secret Love by Brenda Jackson

    Secret Love by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Celebrity actress Diamond Swain needs a peaceful place to hide out from the news-hungry paparazzi—a place like Whispering Pines. And yet from the moment she arrives at the remote Texas ranch, Diamond finds herself at odds with its rugged owner, Jake Madaris—a man who challenges her to care about more than making it to the top. Jake doesn't have time to babysit some Hollywood star...
  • Heart of Gold by Beverly Jenkins

    Heart of Gold by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to the charming town of Henry Adams, Kansas—a place that always feels like home—in this heartwarming story of family, friendship, and the surprises hidden in our lives. Henry Adams has had its fair share of drama ever since Bernadine Brown bought the town with her divorce settlement...
  • The Edge of Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

    The Edge of Midnight by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sarita Grayson is desperate. That's the only explanation for her late night rendezvous with a bag of stolen diamonds. But then a handsome stranger stands between her and a clean getaway. In the struggle for freedom, she accidentally shoots him.Mykal Chandler, head of a covert government agency NIA, can't believe he's been shot...
  • The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

    The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    A new novel inspired by historical events: a story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its connection to her own students' lives...
  • This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden

    This Bitter Earth by Bernice L. McFadden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the past. With her worn leopard-print suitcase and her head held high, she walks past the prying eyes of its small-minded, cruel-hearted townsfolk, praying for the strength to keep going. She doesn’t stop until she arrives at her childhood home in Short Junction...
  • Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect. Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor. And Richard, a shy English writer, is in thrall to Olanna's enigmatic twin sister...
  • Pleasured by a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Pleasured by a Donovan by A.C. Arthur

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A dangerous Donovan. Benjamin Donovan is one of Las Vegas’s top defense attorneys, his dynamic and debonair personality winning kudos in the courtroom, while breaking hearts in the process. But Ben draws the line at going against his ethics, except when those ethics lead a line of murder directly to his door. And the woman that steals his heart...
  • Long Time Coming (Whitfield Brides) by Rochelle Alers

    Long Time Coming (Whitfield Brides) by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’s beloved Whitfield Brides series begins with this endearing contemporary romanceBrooklyn assistant district attorney Micah Sanborn walks into wedding planner Tessa Whitfield’s town house and winds up stranded there all night in a citywide blackout… alongside the most intriguing woman he’s ever met...
  • The World in Reverse by Latrivia S. Nelson

    The World in Reverse by Latrivia S. Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Italian heartthrob Nicola Agosto was Memphis’ most eligible bad boy seven years ago, but after falling in love with local college beauty queen, Ivy Winters, he settled down and started a beautiful family. Now as a father of four and a loving husband, he has ascended up the ranks of the Memphis Police Department and positioned himself as a dependable and trustworthy top cop...
  • Best Laid Plans by Brenda Jackson

    Best Laid Plans by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love wasn't supposed to be a part of the deal... Even a famed matchmaker like Nolan Madaris's great-grandmother can't get it right every time. Nolan, the notorious fun-loving ladies' man, could never connect with someone as straitlaced as tech whiz Ivy Chapman. Yet the scheme Ivy proposes is tempting--they can pretend to be a couple, just long enough to satisfy their families...
  • Black Love White Lies 3 by Genesis Woods

    Black Love White Lies 3 by Genesis Woods

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Audrielle and Cairo are back for one last ride...
  • Cato's Heart: a Standalone Novella by Phoenix Daniels

    Cato's Heart: a Standalone Novella by Phoenix Daniels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Previously published in the Crossroads boxed set. How do you live when you know you're going to die? Rebecca King had a broken heart, literally. Congenital Heart Disease has given her less than a year to live. Hopefully, that'll be enough time to complete every task on her bucket list. However difficult, she finally comes to terms with her imminent demise...
  • Rapture 4 (the finale): A BWWM Alpha Male Romance by Perri Forrest

    Rapture 4 (the finale): A BWWM Alpha Male Romance by Perri Forrest

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alika Cambridge is the wife of Rush, mother to an adorable set of twins and stepmother to a beautiful preteen. But she is also someone's daughter. A someone that Alika has absolutely no connection to. Enter Davina Bianchi. Having abandoned Alika as an infant, Davina has been desperately seeking out the daughter she walked away from...
  • A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A man's word is his bond. His family is his strength. His heart is his own. Superstar musician Caden Granger has spent years running from love, commitment and family. Yet despite his fame and fortune, he knows the kind of respect and adoration he needs can only come from one person—the very woman who wants nothing to do with him...
  • A Hood White Boy Finessed My Heart by J. Charnise

    A Hood White Boy Finessed My Heart by J. Charnise

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With her life in shambles, Ava Gray goes in for an interview that just may help get her life back on track. Taking care of a special needs child and dealing with an abusive husband, the weight of the world seems to be on her shoulders.That’s until she’s offered a job at a billion-dollar banking company.Ethan Whitmore was already living his best life. A boss by nature...
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