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  • Sassy Little Thing by Bella Jewel

    Sassy Little Thing by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    IRON FURY MC BOOK 4!!! People, in my opinion, don’t take happiness seriously enough. They go through life, constantly trying to please other people. I do, however, take my happiness seriously. Very seriously. But, when things in my life, go suddenly south, I am left with more than one choice...
  • Sex. Love. Marriage. by Shey Stahl

    Sex. Love. Marriage. by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Relationships are broken down into categories. I’ll start with the first one. 1. Sex. For Kelly and me, that part was easy. Shhh. Don’t tell her dad. He’s always hated me. No need to give him further evidence. 2. Love. I knew the moment Kelly punched me in the ear for stealing her car that I loved her. Which also leads back to her dad hating me, but whatever...
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  • Zach: The Four Families: Campana by Cee Bowerman

    Zach: The Four Families: Campana by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With the help of his friends in the Four Families, Zach Campana has been working hard to rectify his father and grandfather’s mistakes, but a decision made not long before his father’s sudden death could change Zach’s future and rip away everything he’s worked so hard to build. After watching the senior Campanas hurt everyone around them, Zach made a vow that he would never be like either of them...
  • Forever Mine by Hope Ford

    Forever Mine by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A billionaire married man that guards his heart.A wife with one foot out the door.Together, in a second chance romance. I’m completely in love with my husband. And he takes care of my needs...as long as they’re financial or physical. Anything more is too much to ask. I know that while I might have his name, I don’t have his heart.It’s almost like he keeps me in a very specific WIFE...
  • Sunsets & Second Chances by Rachel Hanna

    Sunsets & Second Chances by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    He’s standing in front of her… … after ten long years. No one knows why Dixie’s son is standing there, on Christmas Day, no less. And he doesn’t look happy.Dixie is keeping a big secret that will shake up everyone around her.Julie’s daughter, Colleen, is coming home for a visit, but she’s not alone. Janine makes a new friend, but nobody is thrilled about it...
    Categorized as:
    betrayal  m-f  contemporary  length-medium
  • Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Happy Trail by Jordan Marie, Robin Harper

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes you have to talk to work things out. Luckily that works best without clothes. Petal I’ve loved Luka Fields my entire life.  He was my first crush, my first kiss, my first time, and my first heartbreak.  Love isn’t like in the movies, or the books you read.  It’s hard. Sometimes you give up… And regret it your entire life...
  • Jax by E.M. Moore

    Jax by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I had real love once. The all-consuming, toe-curling kind of love.Fate had other plans for the two of us though.Ruled by a world of dangerous men, I did something reprehensible. I did what I needed to survive. I betrayed Jax—the only man who ever truly cared whether I lived or died.Years later, I remain a brokenhearted plaything. A puppet to maneuver around a chess board...
  • Only Her by Allie Everhart

    Only Her by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Final book in the series! The dramatic conclusion to the story of Pearce and Rachel. After a tragic loss, Pearce has been forced to go on with his life but he's done so without success. He's consumed with work and is neglecting Garret, the only remaining piece of Rachel he has left...
  • The Best of Me by Jessica Prince

    The Best of Me by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It wasn’t hard for Nona Fanning to fall for Trick. He was strong, kind-hearted, loyal, and unbelievably handsome. He was the man of her dreams, and all it took was one night to give her a taste of the beauty he had to offer. But while she’d been opening her heart to him, he’d kept his under lock and key...
  • Bear's Beloved by Ciara St James

    Bear's Beloved by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bear has lived more than half his life for his club. He’ll gladly do it again. He has never regretted starting this club with Bull and a few others years ago. However, seeing his brothers finding love and settling down to have families when he knows he’ll never have that is taking its toll on him. He takes off to get his head straight...
  • Zane's Rebel by Loni Nichole

    Zane's Rebel by Loni Nichole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For 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...
  • The Second Time Around by Jessica Prince

    The Second Time Around by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tessa Day had clung to the notion of a once-in-a-lifetime love for as long as she could remember. Then one chance encounter led her to the man of her dreams. After a whirlwind romance that could only be described as something out of a fairytale, she gave her heart to her other half, only to have him throw it back like it meant nothing...
  • Whiskey Burning by Bella Jewel

    Whiskey Burning by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Brand new MC Series from USA Today Bestselling Author Bella Jewel!! In the darkness is where I first met him. Alone at a water fountain, tears rolling down my cheeks. Ready to give up. From the shadows, his voice came to me. Soothing. Comforting. Rough as the blackest night. I didn’t see him. I didn’t even know his name. All I knew was he saved me that night...
  • Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Torn apart by lies and a hail of bullets… Georgia Randall is a government-trained killer with nothing left to live for except the burning need for revenge. She’s lost everything she cared about, including the only man she ever loved, and now her past has caught up with her. Shadowy enemies are on the move, determined to silence her before she can kill her remaining targets...
  • 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 [?] · 55 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...
  • Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Hoping for Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    All her life, Grace Ryan was the “fat girl.” Taunted and teased and ignored by her peers, she tried every diet ever invented to no avail. Desperate to change her life as her twenties slipped away, she decided it was time for drastic measures and had lap-band surgery. More than a year later, she's lost 130 pounds and is venturing into the dating world for the first time...
  • Ryker's Reward by Loni Nichole

    Ryker's Reward by Loni Nichole

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Keeping his curvy spitfire in line will be this grumpy CIA agent's hardest mission yet.RykerWhen I requested a secure room at the Silver Spoon Falls Inn, I didn't realize it came with sassy commentary from the desk clerk. Nor did I think I'd enjoy the thought of spanking that attitude right out of her. But here we are anyway. Sight unseen, I'm already hooked on Francesca...
  • Kendric: King's Descendants MC #4 (King's Descendant's) by Bella Jewel

    Kendric: King's Descendants MC #4 (King's Descendant's) by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m a cop.Sworn to protect, to keep people safe.I’m supposed to abide by the rules, to always do right.That’s what the rule book says, doesn’t it?I take my job seriously, even if sometimes my job doesn’t take me seriously…I fight for what’s right, I fight for justice...
  • Come Back Home Again by Jessica Prince

    Come Back Home Again by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Temperance Levine had her entire world ripped away from her at eighteen. What had once been a life full of light and happiness was torn to shreds in the blink of an eye. With nothing left but a broken heart and painful memories, she ran away from the only home she’d ever had and tried to start over somewhere else...
    Categorized as:
    betrayal  m-f  contemporary  alpha male
  • Dearly Betrayed: A Fake Marriage Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Dearly Betrayed: A Fake Marriage Mafia Romance by B. B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I want to ruin my fake husband.Right up until I sleep in his bed for the first time.I have to marry the man that killed my father.He’s Jayson Costa, mafia prince, obscenely wealthy, emotionally distant, and sinfully attractive.I don’t care how good that control freak looks in a Jayson’s everything I despise...
  • Finding Cyn by Winter Travers

    Finding Cyn by Winter Travers

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
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  • Trouble with the Guy Next Door by Holly Renee

    Trouble with the Guy Next Door by Holly Renee

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 21 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...
  • Devil by Jordan Marie

    Devil by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He is my biggest temptation… Logan is a complication I didn’t count on. I need to stay away—too many lives depend on it. One wrong move and everything around me will crumble. But his graveled voice calls to me. His wicked smile takes my breath. His whiskey colored eyes intoxicate me. His heated touch seduces me...
  • UNLoved by Jaxson Kidman

    UNLoved by Jaxson Kidman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I was the dirty, poor girl … … now I don’t have a care in the world.   The ‘new girl’ vibe is wearing off, finally. I’m settling into BFH and what I have over ‘the Rulz’ is going to make them look stupid. I agree on a date with each of them. One by one. Barr first. Then Kip. Finally, Pres...
  • Jace : PREQUEL by Addy Archer

    Jace : PREQUEL by Addy Archer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One day. One moment. That’s all it takes for your life to shake on its foundations. When Daniele catches her boyfriend cheating, it jumpstarts a turmoil of events. A straight forward biker ups her standards when he steps in and gives her what she needs to move on. Jace didn’t expect a woman to slip underneath his skin until he meets a feisty doctor...
  • Forever My Babygirl by Shanna Handel, Jane Henry

    Forever My Babygirl by Shanna Handel, Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A playboy billionaire, a desperate escort, and a one night stand...There are crickets in my bank account,An echo in my fridge,And if I don't pay my rent,I'm out on the street.I need a quick fix.He makes me call him daddy,Makes me obey...Makes me crave so much more.But my debts are paid,And our time is dwindling...But I want to stay... forever...
  • The Ex by Amelia Shea

    The Ex by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A failing business, a shady deal, and the ultimate betrayal of her ex-boyfriend has Everleigh Fay doubting everything she knows or trusts. One night out to break free and forget her responsibilities puts her right in the path of a man who is sure to be her next big mistake. Any biker associated with her two-timing ex is the last man she should get involved with...
  • Dirty Liar by Teddy Hamilton, Summer Roberts

    Dirty Liar by Teddy Hamilton, Summer Roberts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    𝐃𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.His impossibly improbable act set off a chain of events I couldn’t make up if I tried, each one stealing a little more from me.My relationship. My business.𝑀𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.But even bad times have to come to an end. I thought that was the case when Valerie slid onto the bar stool next to mine and asked me to buy her a drink...
  • Stumbling Into Him by Molly O'Hare

    Stumbling Into Him by Molly O'Hare

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A story that will have you laughing through every page... Holly has spent her whole life as a walking disaster, from running into walls, tripping over invisible objects, and always being in the wrong place at the wrong time. When a seemingly normal outing taking her overly opinionated Corgi for a walk resulted in an object to the face, she didn’t think her day could get any worse...
  • Defiant by Sara Cate

    Defiant by Sara Cate

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    An enemies-to-lovers standaloneRafeHate is easy.A hell of a lot easier than the alternative.It’s my job to keep Wicked safe, which means getting my hands a little dirty sometimes. After I lost my best friend, I’m not pulling my punches anymore. So it’s hate that helps me win every fight and close every case.But now the past is coming back to haunt me, and I refuse to be cornered...
  • Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rock Stars Do It by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***Enjoy all three of the Rock Stars Do It stories in one volume!*** Rock Stars Do It Harder Chase Delany is a rock star. Rock stars are expected to rock hard onstage and party even harder offstage. Chase is living up to those expectations, and then some. He leaves everything he's got onstage, and drowns the ache in his soul at the bottom of a tequila bottle. And then there are the girls..
  • Ignite by Drew Elyse

    Ignite by Drew Elyse

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once a Disciple, forever a Disciple. Ace has been keeping secrets, and not just from his club brothers. Secrets have a way of coming back to haunt you. All of his are about to be revealed, whether he’s ready to face them or not. A Disciple will fight like a savage—even against his past. When Quinn waltzes into the Disciples' clubhouse, she's only after one thing—and it isn't Ace...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  betrayal  contemporary  bikers  length-short
  • Over the Limit by K. Bromberg

    Over the Limit by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A forbidden, Formula 1 romance from New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg. You don’t mess around with a teammate’s ex. Ever. But that’s easier said than done when it comes to Blair Carmichael. She’s sexy, intelligent, gorgeous, and one hundred percent off-limits. And I’ve never fallen harder. But I can’t touch (when I most definitely want to)...
  • Red Flags by Skye Warren

    Red Flags by Skye Warren

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Skye Warren comes a sexy romance about a young woman who runs away with the circus and finds love, seduction, and danger...Sienna Cole wants to escape the small town of Forrester. Logan Whitmere, the handsome owner of Cirque des Miroirs, offers her a way out...
  • The Playboy's Fugitive Bride - Book Three by Ana E. Ross

    The Playboy's Fugitive Bride - Book Three by Ana E. Ross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Ana E Ross, presents The Playboy's Fugitive Bride, Book Three in the Billionaire Brides of Granite Falls series: Does he have what it takes to tame this wildcat? Deadly threats from a loan shark to pay back a debt her late father incurred sends Nia Sylk on a desperate search for Massimo Andretti, the man she blames for her predicament and her...
  • Never Too Hot by Bella Andre

    Never Too Hot by Bella Andre

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A TOUCH IGNITES. A FIRE BURNS. AND THE HEAT HAS JUST BEGUN. Deep in the cool green mountains of the Adirondacks, wounded firefighter Connor MacKenzie has come to rebuild the 100-year-old MacKenzie family cabin - and to be alone...
  • Face-Off at the Altar by Toni Aleo

    Face-Off at the Altar by Toni Aleo

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Markus Reeves is sucking. Big-time. Toiling away on a minor-league hockey team hundreds of miles away from home, he's watching his dreams of an NHL career fade away. Add in the lingering guilt he has over the dramatic demise of his relationship with college girlfriend, Mekena, and he's a mess on and off the ice. But the family of his heart, the Sinclairs, won't let Markus suffer any longer...
  • Ruthless Knight by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Ruthless Knight by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    My villain. My monster. My Ruthless Knight… Knight Grayson isn't just one of New York's elite billionaires. He's the embodiment of Hades in a tailored suit and a beautiful devil waiting to destroy. He always gets what he wants, no matter the cost. Including me. One harmless, sexy encounter places him in my path and before I know it, I'm caught in his strategic trap...
  • Surrender My Love by Lisa Eugene

    Surrender My Love by Lisa Eugene

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Librarian note: alternate-cover edition of B00G82TUM8. Patients are dying at Washington Memorial Hospital and no one knows why…. Shy, sweet Chloe Bennett is a dedicated healer whose job means everything to her. So when she finds herself in the middle of yet another Code Blue, she questions the unexplained deaths...
  • Redemption Weather by Christine Michelle, Christine M. Butler

    Redemption Weather by Christine Michelle, Christine M. Butler

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When I married Walker Smithson it was the happiest day of my life. My family was there, we had a bright future ahead of us, and the world was ours for the taking. Then the storms started coming. First, there was the one that took my family. Then, there was the one that took my husband...
  • Torch: A BBW Instalove Romance by Kate Hunt

    Torch: A BBW Instalove Romance by Kate Hunt

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A BBW Instalove RomanceMadeline When I run into my old high school crush, Alex, I can’t believe my eyes. The former bad boy is now a noble firefighter—and buff as sin. The mutual desire we never acted on back in the day is quickly rekindled. It also rapidly becomes clear that this is way more than just some five-alarm fling...
  • His Curvy Temptation by Jenna Cook

    His Curvy Temptation by Jenna Cook

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She's off limits.But for her, I'm ready to break all the rules.Reckless. Rough. Ruled by my impulses.That's the man I used to be.I've spent the last ten years rebuilding myself.Becoming a man who follows the law.Obeys the rules. Respects the limits.But then she walks into my office.Soaking wet, wide-eyed, and afraid.Temptation on a silver platter.Putty in my hands...
  • Love Me? by K.E. Osborn

    Love Me? by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the first book of The Trust Me? Trilogy, Jeni Taylor finds the love of her life, but as the second book begins, she finds herself lost without Aiden O’Connell, who’s been wrongly convicted of embezzlement charges and incarcerated. She must find the strength within to help prove he’s innocent while dealing with other issues...
  • To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    To Touch a Sheikh by Olivia Gates

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sheikh's SurrenderNo one gets past Prince Amjad Aal Shalaan's defenses. No one. But when Princess Maram shows up at Amjad's gala in her father's place, destroying Amjad's plans to reclaim what was stolen from his family, Amjad sees red... and uses a freak sandstorm to make her his prisoner of passion...
  • The Beach House by Rachel Hanna

    The Beach House by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Julie's husband of twenty-one years was living a secret life, which ended her marriage and forced her to start over alone at forty-three years old.Faced with a new reality, she decides to rebuild her life on an island off the coast of South Carolina and learn to make it on her own...
    Categorized as:
    betrayal  m-f  contemporary  length-short
  • Making It Last by Ruthie Knox

    Making It Last by Ruthie Knox

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    RITA finalist Ruthie Knox returns with a brand-new eBook original novella, the finale of her delightfully sexy Camelot series! A hotel bar. A sexy stranger. A night of passion. There’s a part of Amber Mazzara that wants those things, wants to have a moment — just one — where life isn’t a complicated tangle of house and husband and kids and careers...
  • The Chronicles of Moxie by Z.B. Heller

    The Chronicles of Moxie by Z.B. Heller

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Moxie Summers is a curvy, twenty-six year-old teacher who has not had the best track record with relationships. In a drunken stupor at a bar, she meets Miles who turns out to be her sparing equal, until she vomits all over his shoes. Just when she thinks things couldn’t get worse, her dream man turns out to be the single father of the newest student in her class...
  • Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins

    Always the Last to Know by Kristan Higgins

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 20 ratings
    Sometimes you have to break a family to fix it. From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity. The Frosts are a typical American family. Barb and John, married almost fifty years, are testy and bored with each other..
  • Apples Should Be Red by Penny Watson

    Apples Should Be Red by Penny Watson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Recipe for Thanksgiving Dinner: Start with sixty-two year old politically incorrect, chain-smoking, hard-cussing curmudgeon. Add fifty-nine year old sexually-repressed know-it-all in pearls. Throw in a beer can-turkey, a battle for horticultural supremacy, and nudist next-door neighbor. Serve on paper plates, garnished with garden gnome. Tastes like happily ever after...
  • Mine Until Dawn by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Mine Until Dawn by E.B. Walters, Ednah Walters

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A man searching for salvation. A woman who can deliver it. Will he recognize the priceless gift she gives him? Vince is like a category five hurricane. He takes no prisoners. Now he is focusing all his energy on one woman. Sexy and arrogant investigative reporter Vince Knight lives dangerously. In fact, he craves danger and trouble always finds him...
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