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  • The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley

    The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley.To the outside world, Electra d'Apliese seems as though she is the woman who has everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous...
  • Thicker Than Water 3 by Takerra Allen

    Thicker Than Water 3 by Takerra Allen

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brick City's sexiest divas are back, stirring up trouble from Jersey and Atlanta to Jamaica. But wherever they are, they're ready to put loyalty to the ultimate test, push boundaries to the edge, and risk it all for love--if they can survive. .
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  • Countdown by Lynette Eason

    Countdown by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A stalker who wants to finish what he started. A US Marshal who's vowed to protect his charge. And one woman who is determined to put the past to in the past.Flight paramedic Raina Price has been running so long it's hard to stop. To escape a dangerous stalker, she changed her name and disappeared, building a new life with the help of a friend from her time in juvie...
    Categorized as:
    christian  suspense  contemporary  mystery  death  fantasy
  • I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant

    I Pucking Love You by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A hockey/fake date/not-quite-a-virgin very wrong romantic comedyYou know those stories where an adorably misunderstood clumsy girl needs a fake date to a wedding so she asks her brother’s best friend and they accidentally fall in love?I wish that was the kind of life I lead, but it’s not.I don’t need a date to a wedding. I need a date to a funeral...
  • MATTHEW: The Beginning: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Three by Mary Kennedy

    MATTHEW: The Beginning: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Three by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every story has a beginning and the REAPER-Patriots beginning hasn't been told yet. Matthew Robicheaux, the patriarch of the family, has been hiding a secret for years. In fact, he's been hiding dozens of secrets that he wasn't ready to reveal. Prompted by Rachel with one simple question, he sets out to tell the story of the beginning...
    Categorized as:
    military  fantasy  contemporary
  • Dirty Like Zane: A Dirty Rockstar Romance by Jaine Diamond

    Dirty Like Zane: A Dirty Rockstar Romance by Jaine Diamond

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Zane and Maggie have been living a lie… A marriage that’s not really a marriage. A relationship that’s about as f*cked-up as they come. A secret that’s going to kill them both if they don’t sort their sh*t out, stat. And now they’re going on tour with Dirty. As the band’s assistant manager, Maggie knows she has to keep it professional—and keep away from her “husband” on the road...
  • Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

    Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwestern Anatolia in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire. Everyone there speaks Turkish, though they write it in Greek letters...
  • Cold Light of Day by Elizabeth Goddard

    Cold Light of Day by Elizabeth Goddard

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Police Chief Autumn Long is fighting to keep her job in the quiet Alaska town of Shadow Gap when an unexpected string of criminal activity leaves her with a wounded officer, unexplained murders, and even an attack on her own father. Despite her mistrust of outsiders, she turns to Grier Brenner, a newcomer who seems to have the skills and training Autumn needs to face this threat to her community...
    Categorized as:
    christian  mystery  suspense  contemporary  death  fantasy
  • A Royal Christmas Wedding by Rachel Hauck

    A Royal Christmas Wedding by Rachel Hauck

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s been five years since Avery Truitt and Prince Colin of Brighton Kingdom fell in love. But he broke her heart with no explanation. Fast forward to present day, and Colin is Brighton’s most eligible bachelor now that cousin Stephen has married. When Avery’s father dies of a heart attack, she puts her life on hold and returns home to St...
  • Five Years Gone by Marie Force

    Five Years Gone by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    The most brazen terrorist attack in history. A country bent on revenge. A love affair cut short. A heart that never truly heals. I knew on the day of the attack that our lives were changed forever. What I didn’t know then was that I’d never see John again after he deployed. One day he was living with me, sleeping next to me, making plans with me. The next day he was gone...
  • Dirty Like Jude: A Dirty Rockstar Romance by Jaine Diamond

    Dirty Like Jude: A Dirty Rockstar Romance by Jaine Diamond

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He was her first true love… And the worst mistake she ever made. There’s always been a spark between Jude Grayson and Roni “Wild Card” Webber. Unfortunately, whenever it ignites… it explodes . And they both get burned. As head of security for Dirty—his best friend’s rock band—and a member of the West Coast Kings motorcycle club, Jude had a choice to make, long ago. Loyalty or love...
  • Firestorm by Rachel Grant

    Firestorm by Rachel Grant

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    CIA covert operator Savannah James is after intel on a potential coup in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but she needs a partner fluent in Lingala to infiltrate the organization. Sergeant First Class Cassius Callahan is the perfect choice, except he doesn’t like her very much. He doesn’t trust her, either, despite the sparks that flare between them, fierce and hot...
  • Doctor's Duties by K.C. Crowne

    Doctor's Duties by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I'll forget all about my feelings for my professor.Medical school is enough stress as it is.But then mother nature's monthly gift decides to ghost me.Now I'm totally screwed!! The way we met was out of a movie.Then he showed up as my professor the very next day.He's the man with two titles.Dr. Frost. And Professor Mc. Hottie.All that and a panty-dropping New Zealand accent..
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    military  humor  urban  contemporary  suspense  fantasy
  • The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, George Wasziak, convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother, Maribeth VanHilton, is a Spiritualist who regularly offers her services to help others speak to their dearly departed...
  • Saturday by E. L. Todd

    Saturday by E. L. Todd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Francesca left me I didn’t think I could ever recover. But with every passing month it got easier. And when six months had come and gone, I was finally over it. And when a year had passed, I didn’t think about her at all anymore. But I was still missing something. I want what she has with Hawke, that kind of love that still burns even when the novelty wears off...
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    christian  military  fantasy  contemporary
  • Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee comes the much-anticipated, high-speed sequel to The Progeny. Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything—including her memory—to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it...
  • The Ryn by Serena Chase

    The Ryn by Serena Chase

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    DESTINED by prophecy. GUARDED by deception. PURSUED by Love. Centuries ago, an oracle foretold of the young woman who would defeat E’veria’s most ancient enemy, the Cobelds. But after two centuries of relative peace, both the prophecy and the Cobelds have been relegated to lore—and only a few remain watchful for the promised Ryn...
    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  fantasy  pirates
  • Those Christmas Angels by Debbie Macomber

    Those Christmas Angels by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  christmas  fantasy
  • The Fox by Sherwood Smith

    The Fox by Sherwood Smith

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Attending the King's Military Academy had been Inda's greatest dream. But Academy reality is far from what he'd imagined-for by defending the second son of the king, Inda becomes embroiled in a vicious political struggle among the nobility that he has no hope of winning. But these petty squabbles are only a faint shadow of what is to come...
    Categorized as:
    military  contemporary  fantasy  pirates
  • Magdalen Rising: The Beginning by Elizabeth Cunningham

    Magdalen Rising: The Beginning by Elizabeth Cunningham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Magdalen Rising( The Beginning) <> Paperback <> ElizabethCunningham <>...
    Categorized as:
    christian  historical  fantasy  contemporary
  • My Beastly Boss: A Surprise Pregnancy Age Gap Romance  (Forbidden Temptations) by Sofia T Summers

    My Beastly Boss: A Surprise Pregnancy Age Gap Romance (Forbidden Temptations) by Sofia T Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world believes that I’m dating a star quarterback.But the truth is… I’m using that lie to hide another secret. That big secret has a name… Isaac Shepherd.Manager of the NFL team and one of my father’s closest friends.Let me just say that we tried.We tried really hard to ignore the fire that was brewing between us.Isaac is intense.A workaholic, and extremely accomplished...
    Categorized as:
    sports  contemporary  new adult  humor  urban  fantasy
  • American Gauntlet by Allie Lewis

    American Gauntlet by Allie Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two sisters. Seven teams. One grueling competition.One life-changing cash prize.American Gauntlet is the number one reality TV competition in the nation, and when Dani Di Laurentis gets the call that she and her sister, Lana, have been selected as contestants, she knows this is her one opportunity to change her family's life for the better...
  • American Gauntlet by Allie Lewis

    American Gauntlet by Allie Lewis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two sisters. Seven teams. One grueling competition.One life-changing cash prize.American Gauntlet is the number one reality TV competition in the nation, and when Dani Di Laurentis gets the call that she and her sister, Lana, have been selected as contestants, she knows this is her one opportunity to change her family's life for the better...
  • Summer in the Spotlight by Liz Johnson

    Summer in the Spotlight by Liz Johnson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A hurricane may have destroyed her livelihood on Prince Edward Island, but she's determined to save her communityKelsey Ahern has performed at the Victoria Playhouse on Prince Edward Island every summer since she was seven. But when a hurricane destroys the building, it's not just her memories that are in jeopardy. Her future as a teacher and drama coach are too...
    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  fantasy  pregnancy
  • My Next Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks

    My Next Mistake by Sarah J. Brooks

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    My next big mistake has a name: Cole Cumberland. Whoever created him used the following recipe: Dreamy eyes, playful smile, and rock-hard muscles that give you chills. Add a pinch of humor, coupled with quick-witted intelligence and a mysterious aura that will make you feel slightly insecure. When I met him on a winter climbing excursion, I didn’t expect to wake up in his tent the next morning...
  • Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky

    Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Outspoken, loyal, and skilled with the sword, Princess Jaisyn St. Ives of Lytheria is no princess of fairytales. After the unexpected death of her father, Jaisyn takes control of the kingdom, expecting to be called upon to defend her claim to a throne previously held by men...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  contemporary  fantasy
  • Incomplete by L.A. Fiore, Anthony Dwayne

    Incomplete by L.A. Fiore, Anthony Dwayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You go through your day on autopilot. Day after day, the same routine. The days meld together, years bleed into the next, molding the life you live. A life you once dreamt would be epic, but instead you fall into the rut we call life. There are days you sit and wonder is the grass really greener on the other side? Does the sun shine brighter? Do the flowers smell sweeter? Until one day..
  • Tears of the Sea by MaryLu Tyndall, M.L. Tyndall

    Tears of the Sea by MaryLu Tyndall, M.L. Tyndall

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Doomed by the evil warlock Forwin to wander the ancient seas as a mermaid for all eternity, Perdita longs for the release death would bring. Every ten years she has a chance to break the curse when she emerges from the sea fully human for one month. The catch? She must find a man willing to die for her. After 300 years, her failures have left her heartbroken and alone...
    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  fantasy  historical
  • Monday: Teaser by E.L. Todd

    Monday: Teaser by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I don’t believe in destiny. In fate. Or in soul mates. But I believe in Hawke. My life has never been whole since my parents left forever. I have my brother, someone I can barely tolerate most of the time, and I have my best friend, Marie. And I have myself. But when Hawke walks into my life, there’s an immediate connection. Our eyes lock and an unspoken conversation is exchanged...
  • The Christmas Camel by Vered Ehsani

    The Christmas Camel by Vered Ehsani

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All you need is love… and a camel.Mollie Stanton has no intention of ever returning home – until her boyfriend dumps her twelve days before Christmas, and her incorrigible grandmother, Duchess Delilah, calls from jail, asking Mollie to bail her out, along with her two best friends. There’s just one small catch. The judge insists that Mollie be guarantor and guardian...
  • Boundless Sea by Nadia Scrieva

    Boundless Sea by Nadia Scrieva

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An underwater kingdom. A missing queen. A modern man plunged into an ancient war... Trevain Murphy's new wife has been forcibly taken. He must do all he can to search for her without falling apart. His love was the noble Queen Aazuria, ruler of Adlivun, and he has been burdened with all of her responsibilities...
    Categorized as:
    military  contemporary  fantasy
  • Inda by Sherwood Smith

    Inda by Sherwood Smith

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Acclaimed author Sherwood Smith's first adult fantasy novel, set in the bestselling world of Crown Duel. Indevan-Dal is the second son of the Prince and Princess of Choraed Elgaer, destined to become his elder brother Tanrid's Shield Arm-his military champion. Like all second sons, he is to be privately trained at home by Tanrid, the brother whose lands he will one day protect...
    Categorized as:
    military  contemporary  fantasy
  • Home Fires by Luanne Rice

    Home Fires by Luanne Rice

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a tragic accident. Now she has returned to the home on Salt Whistle Raod that has always meant shelter, security, family and love...
  • The Fortune Cafe (A Tangerine Street Romance) by Julie Wright, Melanie Jacobson

    The Fortune Cafe (A Tangerine Street Romance) by Julie Wright, Melanie Jacobson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Tangerine Street Tangerine Street is a must-see tourist stop with a colorful mix of one-of-a-kind boutiques, unique restaurants, eclectic museums, quaint bookstores, and exclusive bed-and-breakfasts...
    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  fantasy  magic  humor
  • Shattered Justice by Karen Ball

    Shattered Justice by Karen Ball

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Deputy’s Sense of Justice Destroyed There’s no way sheriff’s deputy Dan Justice could have prepared for this. He spent a lifetime ensuring his actions and faith live up to the meaning of his name—Avidan: “God is just.” Then injustice invades his world, ripping away what matters most, forever robbing him of the life he once knew...
    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  fantasy  suspense
  • Lionheart: a Beauty & the Beast Retelling by Fran Seen

    Lionheart: a Beauty & the Beast Retelling by Fran Seen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Arab-American soldier and a stargazing woman connect in this high-tech Beauty and the Beast retelling. In an attempt to pay off her family’s debts, Lula answers a Craigslist ad for a job opening at the formerly vacant Bluegrass Manor. A stern and brooding man offers her the job, but there’s a catch—Lula isn’t allowed to look at him. No one in the manor has ever laid eyes on Mr...
  • The Temptation of Snow by Alana Albertson, Lisa London

    The Temptation of Snow by Alana Albertson, Lisa London

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seven sexy Navy SEALs, why should I limit myself to just one? I just wanted to get away from the world and escape my past. 
 So, I chose a place where the weather in the winter drops fifty degrees below zero. A place so close to the North Pole that there are no communication satellites because their orbit is below the horizon...
  • The Spy in 3B by Nana Malone

    The Spy in 3B by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes, romance is (also) hiding in plain sight.It’s hard to fill out a dating profile when everything you write is a lie. But in her line of work, Lyra can’t exactly tell the truth. And she’s determined to get over the man who broke her heart by moving on, so here she is, lying on a dating app. Then again, so is he.Lyra is no marketing consultant, but a plucky undercover operator...
  • Malachi and I by J.J. McAvoy

    Malachi and I by J.J. McAvoy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A Contemporary Mystical Romance What if I told you the greatest love stories ever told—Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Salim and Anarkali, Romeo and Juliet and so many more—are far greater tragedies than anyone has ever realized? What if I told you that you haven’t been reading a new story… just a new chapter in one epic saga? If I told you…all of those lovers…were actually the same two...
  • Crazy in Love by S.L. Scott

    Crazy in Love by S.L. Scott

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One Night Will Never Be Enough💜We made a pact. One night.No strings. No attachments. No numbers exchanged.I caved and gave Harrison Decker my number anyway. He just chose not to use it.Four years later, his job brings him back into my world looking more handsome than ever and now making an effort to befriend me...
  • Hell by Mur Lafferty

    Hell by Mur Lafferty

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kate and Daniel are reunited, but they have to return to their duties in traveling the afterlife. There are stolen souls suffering without cause in Hell, and only they can help. Kate is back in her corporeal body, but keeping memories of her time as pure soul energy, recently touched by the divine...
  • The Goodbye Storm by Danielle Stewart

    The Goodbye Storm by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Autumn Chase is painfully aware grief is a beast that won’t be chased off before it’s ready to leave. When an icy road and a dark night leave her a young widow, she’s forced to trade in her perfectly planned future for the unknown. Like a child hiding from a monster, she pulls her covers up over and head with the intention of sheltering herself forever...
    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  fantasy
  • Something Real by J.J. Murray

    Something Real by J.J. Murray

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thanks to her black mother and her Irish father, Ruth "Penny" Borum is the color of a new penny. Big-boned and notoriously sassy, Ruth is nonetheless the organist and a member in good standing of Antioch, Virginia's most prominent black church--or at least she was until she dragged the popular Reverend Jonas Borum into an ugly divorce...
  • Play Dead by Gemma Halliday

    Play Dead by Gemma Halliday

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Gemma Halliday, comes Play Nice, her most thrilling novel yet!She faked her death to escape life as an assassin. But now her enemies have tracked her down, and this time they want her to stay dead. Anya Danielovich was an assassin in her former life. But that was a long time ago...
  • God on a Harley by Joan Brady

    God on a Harley by Joan Brady

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At thirty-seven, Christine Moore had a world-class case of burnout: frustrating career, a few dead-end romances, and a less-than-perfect figure. Little did she know her life was about to change completely...."Come out of the shadows, Christine. You've spent far too much time hiding in shadows...
  • The Barbed Rose by Gail Dayton

    The Barbed Rose by Gail Dayton

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Demons are coming. One woman has been chosen to face them . . . Demon hordes still threaten the Kingdom while open rebellion has broken out within its cities, separating Kallista from her new family. Assassination attempts, magical attacks -- she's surrounded by devastation unlike anything she's ever known, and her unique magic power no longer works as it should...
    Categorized as:
    military  contemporary  fantasy
  • Unraveled by Julie Daines

    Unraveled by Julie Daines

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the years since the fever that took both her family and her ability to walk, sixteen-year-old Bronwen has been relegated to the lonely status of cripple. But when a fortuitous encounter with a mysterious mountain witch reveals the magical possibility of regaining the use of her legs, Bronwen can’t help but envision the life she never had...
  • The Mercenary's Marriage by Rachel Rossano

    The Mercenary's Marriage by Rachel Rossano

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Trained as a mercenary soldier, Darius Laris was a man of decisive action. He was also a man of compassion. Seeing a young slave woman about to become the spoils of war, he claimed her for his own. Marrying her before God and king, he made her a free and respectable soldier's wife. Brice Ashlyn was born a slave...
  • The Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock

    The Light of Eidon by Karen Hancock

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Abramm has dedicated the last eight years of his life to becoming worthy to touch and tend the Sacred Flames of Eidon, and he expects to be blessed for his devotion and sacrifice...
    Categorized as:
    christian  contemporary  fantasy
  • Prima by Alta Hensley, Maggie Ryan

    Prima by Alta Hensley, Maggie Ryan

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She was an angel when she danced.Too bad she attracted the attention of the devil.She was so innocent and naïve.Not meant for the cruel realities of this world.Certainly not meant for someone unworthy.But every time she floated across the stage, I knew she danced only for me.Watching her wasn't enough...My Prima became the light to the dark. She was mine, and it was time everyone realized it...
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