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  • Alannah by L.A. Casey

    Alannah by L.A. Casey

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Alannah Ryan is plagued by an old face haunting her dreams, turning her waking hours into a mess of worry. Talking it out with the person she loves the most isn’t a possibility, not when the same face haunts him, too. To protect the love of her life from another burden, she keeps her fear to herself, even as that fear begins to consume her...
  • 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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  • Rason & Eliza by Cee Bowerman

    Rason & Eliza by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Rason Harper is all about family and tradition. Raised by two loving parents, he’s not willing to sacrifice his future for the wrong woman. After a dating catastrophe makes him decide to give up on love, his mind is changed in an instant when a quick conversation with his favorite bookworm gives him the chance to get to know her better...
  • Stay Wild by Kaylee Ryan

    Stay Wild by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What happens when your wandering heart is captured by your friend with benefits?ScarlettArcher Kincaid is supposed to be all the fun and none of the strings, but the longer I stay in Willow River, the more I feel roots pulling me to settle down.I plan to complete a one-year photography contract with Captured Moments, then move on to travel the world...
  • Mourning Wood by Heather M. Orgeron

    Mourning Wood by Heather M. Orgeron

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    She’s hard up.He’s just hard…After an ill-fated one-night stand, Wyatt Landry was the last person I ever expected to see again.By design, mind you, as I spent the last two years avoiding him.He was only ever meant to be a good time—a really good time—and now, thanks to one teensy little mistake, he’s back in my life and wielding an entirely different set of tools...
  • 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...
  • Hearts in Motion by Kelly Elliott

    Hearts in Motion by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Brighton Rogers thought her life was as normal as normal could be, even better than normal. She has a thriving career as a lawyer in Boston. Friends and family back in her hometown of Boggy Creek love and adore her. And her boyfriend, Luke Morrison, showers her with love and attention, making her life finally feel complete...
  • Touch by Touch by Kaylee Ryan

    Touch by Touch by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    AspenI’ve watched my sister struggle to find the happily ever after that she deserves. I know love doesn’t happen overnight, but a man like Conrad Riggins almost makes me believe in forever.The hottie Riggins brother has always been a shameless flirt, but the way his gaze slowly travels over my towel-clad body heats things up a few degrees.I tell myself that we’re just caught up in the moment...
  • Riptide by Kathryn Nolan

    Riptide by Kathryn Nolan

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Avery Dacosta never expected to find a protester in front of her office.Especially not now, when she’s this close to achieving a professional milestone years in the making: building a luxury hotel on Playa Vieja, San Diego’s untouched beach paradise.Finn Travis, local surfer and all-around nice guy, never expected to find himself the leader of Playa Vieja’s resistance...
  • Brazen Steele by Ali Dean

    Brazen Steele by Ali Dean

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beckett Steele knows what he wants and he’s finally going after it. But there’s one thing that might complicate his mission. It was easy to sign the legally-binding contract prohibiting a public relationship when he had no intention of falling in love...
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    new adult  dual-pov  m-f  sports  contemporary
  • Stay Together by Kaylee Ryan

    Stay Together by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    RushtonFrom the moment I see her, I’m hooked. There’s just something about Crosby that has me eager to know her. One thing’s for sure, I can’t stay away from the new kindergarten teacher with the kind smile and secrets in her brown eyes.There’s no hiding in a small town, and she’s suddenly everywhere...
  • Recovered by Jay Crownover

    Recovered by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    It was hate at first sight... Affton I hated Cable James McCaffrey. He was entitled, spoiled, a user…and an addict. He was out of control and didn’t bother trying to hide it. He had everything anyone could want but still seemed miserable and lost. Every move he made, every mistake he stumbled his way through, rubbed me the wrong way...
  • She Loves Me by Melissa Foster

    She Loves Me by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    What are two besties willing to risk for something more? The New York Times bestselling author of This Is Love has the answer in this fun, sexy, and emotional romance about friendship, family, and giving love a chance. Something is off in Piper Dalton’s life, and she has a feeling it might just be her. All her siblings are blissfully settled with their forever loves...
  • Trouble by Adriana Locke

    Trouble by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She wants something real. He wants something now. Together they’re trouble in USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke’s sexy and funny twice-in-a-lifetime love story. With his shameless grin and let’s-play swagger, carpenter Penn Etling leaves women wanting in Dogwood Lane. What do they get? Avery Perry knows: a one-night stand. She’s been there...
  • One by Jewel E. Ann

    One by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Lake Jones is a cover girl for cutting-edge prosthetic legs, a binge-watcher of Netflix, known to spy on her neighbor through her door’s peephole, and fond of laser games with her hairless cat. She’s also a bit sexually-frustrated. Until … God bestows a breath of mercy upon her in the form of Minnesota’s NFL starting quarterback. But this gift is no stranger...
  • 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...
  • Give Me Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    Give Me Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Forever My Girl: The Motion Picture, Heidi McLaughlin delivers an emotional second chance romance about life, love, and what it means to truly be happy!Elle James has it all: a loving fiancé in Ben, a promising career as a music manager, and a supportive family. She couldn’t be happier with her life...
  • 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...
  • Kissing The CEO by Layla Hagen

    Kissing The CEO by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What’s that they say about the best laid plans? They are easily derailed. Especially when my high school crush is the CEO of the competition, and his matchmaking grandmother is plotting to bring us together. After getting the promotion of my dreams, I’m determined to prove to my boss that I’m the right person for the job...
  • Kissing My Brother's Bride by Molly McLain

    Kissing My Brother's Bride by Molly McLain

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    My brother’s fiancée should have been mine. Now, I know what you’re thinking, and it’s not quite as bad as it sounds. Linc was running late for their first date and he begged me to stand in until he could get there.I only went to tell the girl to run. To warn her about my brother’s selfish ways and promise she wanted no part of it.But then I saw her...
  • Tangle by Adriana Locke

    Tangle by Adriana Locke

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sparks fly between a die-hard romantic and a sexy cynic in this fresh, funny romance from USA Today bestselling author Adriana Locke. That cream-filled, caramel-topped doughnut should have been hers. Still, Haley Raynor can’t deny that the pastry thief with the dreamy blue eyes looks even more delicious...
  • Stay Present by Kaylee Ryan

    Stay Present by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Ryder Two years of silence and no goodbye—she slipped away and through my fingers, leaving me with nothing but questions… and a heavy heart from missing her. I know what we had was real, that our love was once in a lifetime. Now she’s back from her Parisian fashion internship, and I'm ready for answers, desperate to understand why she couldn't just stay...
  • Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Entangled by S.E. Hall

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Things heat up, and not just the Georgia summertime, when Dane and Laney go head to head over plans for her new duplex. But Laney's got his number, and knows just how to coerce her bossy, domineering man. Spend the summer with the gang and find out...just how many is a crowd? The members of the Evolve Crew are getting older; so is the content. Mature audiences recommended...
    Categorized as:
    bad boys  dual-pov  m-f  contemporary  college
  • Part of Me by Kelly Elliott

    Part of Me by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Fishing for the TruthSeasiders,News on the docks is Sutton Bradley may be adding new stock to her little boutique store, Coastal Chic, on the square. Now, I can neither confirm nor deny that it is sexy lingerie, but seeing as Ms. Bradley has been seen on more than one occasion in the company of Brody Wilson, who, let me remind you, was voted as the catch of the season...
  • Pink Bits: An Awkward Girl RomCom by J.B. Heller

    Pink Bits: An Awkward Girl RomCom by J.B. Heller

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    Did you know the medical term for a butt crack is intergluteal cleft? My name is Reagan, and spouting random facts like this one at inopportune moments is my affliction. I’m chronically awkward, socially inept and completely lack a filter. Believe it or not, men do not find these attractive traits...
  • Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts

    Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 53 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts cordially invites you to meet childhood friends Parker, Emma, Laurel, and Mac—the founders of Vows, one of Connecticut's premier wedding planning companies. Parker Brown turned the quartet's childhood game of Wedding Day into their dream jobs...
  • 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...
  • Avery by Kat Savage

    Avery by Kat Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Avery Fletcher makes a better friend than a lover—at least he thinks so. Well, him and every woman he’s ever dated. Now his encounters are brief and satisfying. There’s really no need to complicate things.Though, when he sits alone on his porch listening to the cicadas, he has a brief lapse in judgment and yearns for someone to talk to.Helena Davenport doesn’t need a man—nor does she want one...
  • Fearless at Heart by Zoe York

    Fearless at Heart by Zoe York

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For twenty years, Seth Kincaid has kept his visits to his home town brief. He’s not avoiding January Hill, exactly—he’s giving his high school girlfriend space. But that distance evaporates when she takes over her family’s marina for the summer...
  • The Daddy Dilemma by Angel Devlin, Tracy Lorraine

    The Daddy Dilemma by Angel Devlin, Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s my brother’s best friend. It was hate at first sight. Brandon I’ve been hiding away at home, focusing on work and not much else, certainly not myself. But my best friend’s about to tie the knot and forces a makeover on me. Suddenly women are falling at my feet, including my worst nightmare, his sister, after too many drinks. Now I can’t get her out of my mind. My dilemma...
  • Cheap Trick by Emily Goodwin

    Cheap Trick by Emily Goodwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Danielle Cross has spent her whole life running from breakups and troubles. She’s never stayed in the same place for long…until now.The moment she walks through the doors of Logan Dawson’s bar, there’s an attraction between them neither can deny. And when Danielle needs a date to her sister’s wedding, Logan is the man for the job...
  • Kissing A Stranger by Lacey Black

    Kissing A Stranger by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    DeckerIf you ask my family, I’m wasting my life. If you ask me, I’m living it to the fullest. Am I capable of doing more? Absolutely. However, slinging drinks at the resort makes me happy. At least for now. Not that my family would understand.It’s just another night behind the bar, until it isn’t. She’s everything I never knew I wanted wrapped up in one breathtaking package...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Brutal Boy by Selena .

    Brutal Boy by Selena .

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    My name is Harper Apple, and people say I’m rotten to the core. I’m not the only one. The Dolce boys aren’t just dangerous, privileged, rich alphaholes. They’re a gang of three psychopaths backed by a pack of enablers and worshipped by their fangirls. And I want in...
  • 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...
  • Hard Fall by Sara Ney, Alexander Cendese

    Hard Fall by Sara Ney, Alexander Cendese

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "Hard Fall"That's what my mom is always saying: "The bigger you are, the harder you fall." She's talking about love—I've never been in it myself, but that doesn't stop me from secretly matchmaking for my friends. Who would suspect me, a world class athlete, of meddling in other people's love lives? I love Love, especially when it’s not me who’s doing the falling…"No Thanks...
  • Finn by Ahren Sanders

    Finn by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I thought I knew what love was, but I didn’t have a f*%king clue. Now, I’m in the fight of my life to win over the woman who owns my soul. ~ Finn Black The face of an angel… The heart of a saint… One look, one smile, and I didn’t stand a chance. The instant my eyes landed on Presley Chambers, I was a goner. She was a force of nature that turned my world upside down...
  • Dash by Shantel Tessier

    Dash by Shantel Tessier

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I've never been one to follow the rules...or the law, for that matter. But when you find yourself behind bars and being offered the opportunity of a lifetime, you take it. I agreed to race motorcycles for Johnny Knight. A very powerful man who wanted me on his team, even knowing I was a liability...
  • Here with You by Kate Perry

    Here with You by Kate Perry

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Laurel Heights Novel, Book 8 Nicole James knew it was not better to have love and lost. She never expected that love to swagger back into her life. Sure, she pined after Griffin Chase all through childhood, but that was a lifetime ago. Now she sells romantic dreams in a small lingerie shop, and he lives big dreams as a world-famous rockstar...
  • Mountain Man Fixated by Olivia T. Turner

    Mountain Man Fixated by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m a city girl.I don’t do nature.It sucks.Bugs, bears, poison ivy.You name it, I hate it.So, when my niece asks me to accompany her on a camping trip, I’m horrified.But I’m a good aunt, so I say yes.Well, that was a huge mistake.One of many.Forgetting the bug spray. That was a mistake.So was thinking I could control a canoe.Spoiler alert: I can’t...
  • Hard Fall by Sara Ney

    Hard Fall by Sara Ney

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    "Hard Fall"That's what my mom is always saying: "The bigger you are, the harder you fall." She's talking about love—I've never been in it myself, but that doesn't stop me from secretly matchmaking for my friends. Who would suspect me, a world class athlete, of meddling in other people's love lives? I love Love, especially when it’s not me who’s doing the falling…"No Thanks...
  • Worth Fighting For by Kirsty Moseley

    Worth Fighting For by Kirsty Moseley

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Kirsty Moseley brings us the sequel to Fighting to be Free. Sometimes in life you have to walk away . . .Leaving Jamie Cole was the hardest thing Ellie Pearce ever had to do. Somehow, she moved on. She made a new life in a new city with a new man. So when a family tragedy calls Ellie back home, she believes all her old feelings for Jamie-the hunger, the heat, the heartbreak-are safely behind her...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  bad boys  m-f  contemporary
  • Riot Kings: A Dark Reverse Harem Romance by Ruby Vincent

    Riot Kings: A Dark Reverse Harem Romance by Ruby Vincent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Riot Kings description will be published closer to the release date to prevent spoilers. Here is Ruckus Royale's description:The town of Bedlam was born of rioters, revolt, pain, and murder.Over a hundred years later, nothing has changed.A shadow clings to our lives. Stalking, watching, waiting, taunting, and killing. And when it struck, I wasn’t ready.I have to play their game now...
  • A Groom By Christmas by K.L. Fast, M.K. Moore

    A Groom By Christmas by K.L. Fast, M.K. Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Delilah Armstrong I had been so focused on others finding their happily ever after that I neglected myself. Until he walks into my office. Suddenly, it's all I can think about. Kyle Rothschild I never gave the future much thought, never gave women much thought either until I walked into her office. Now, I can see the future and it stars her...
  • Loving Callie: A Lucky Strike Lovers Novel by Julia Jarrett

    Loving Callie: A Lucky Strike Lovers Novel by Julia Jarrett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A doctor walks into a bar…Doctor Callie Scott kept it professional when handsome pub owner, Jake Evans, ended up in her ER. But when she sees him again at the Lucky Strike pub, sparks fly a second time, igniting a powerful chemistry between them. This new relationship could be a love greater than she has ever dreamed of...
  • The Tides Between Us by Cali Melle

    The Tides Between Us by Cali Melle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The tides were shifting and he was lost in the ocean of her... Giana Cirone's life had been far from easy. After losing her hearing as a child, she had to adjust to a world of silence. To a world of misunderstanding, where she found herself constantly having to accommodate others. But the ocean was the one place where she never felt misunderstood...
  • Wayward Son by Jay Crownover

    Wayward Son by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s the only girl he’s ever loved.Zowen Archer has been in love with Aston Wheeler for as long as he can remember.She’s perfect, except for the glaring fact that she fell in love with his best friend instead of him. For years, he loved her from afar with zero expectation. He told himself that as long as Aston was happy, his feelings for her didn’t matter...
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