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  • A Gift of Time by Beth Flynn

    A Gift of Time by Beth Flynn

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A Gift of Time is the third installment in the Nine Minutes Trilogy. It is not intended to be a stand-alone novel, but could be read as one. Still, I highly recommend that you read my first two novels, Nine Minutes and Out of Time, to be able to understand the background stories of the main characters. There are many twists and turns in both books that can best be connected if read consecutively...
  • Heart So Reckless by K.C. Mills

    Heart So Reckless by K.C. Mills

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 17 ratings
    --A COMPLETE STANDALONE - INCLUDES HEART SO RECKLESS VALENTINES DAY NOVELLA—Redmon Stokes is a man about his money. Raised by the streets, he’s a natural born hustler who plans to secure every dollar that he can get his hands on. That doesn’t leave room for much else, except the streets.Peyson Cross is the epitome of a strong, successful black woman...
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  • Skirt by K.L. Savage

    Skirt by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    There are few things people know about me.I'm Scottish.I really hate pants.And Poodle is me best friend.But.There are always buts.There is one thing people don't know.Me love for fightin'.I come from a long line of fighters.I live it.I breathe it.Flesh.BloodAnd brass knuckles.It's me way of life.So I fight, legally. No one knows.I wanted to keep it a secret, but MC life exposes everyone's secrets...
  • Glass by Ellen Hopkins

    Glass by Ellen Hopkins

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one deciding when and how much, the one calling the shots. But the monster is too strong, and before she knows it, Kristina is back in its grips...
    Categorized as:
    pregnancy  contemporary  dark  abuse  length-epic
  • Ends Here by M. Robinson

    Ends Here by M. Robinson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. And all that fucking shit. I had killed. I had sacrificed. The innocent and the corrupt. I knew blood and I knew violence. Never imagining I could know love too. Mia Ryder was a woman to love. To cherish. To fucking claim. Now, forever, and every day in between. If there was anyone I’d go to Hell and back for, it was her...
  • Reforming Kent by Siobhan Davis

    Reforming Kent by Siobhan Davis

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An enemies-to-lovers new adult romance from USA Today bestseller Siobhan Davis. Standalone with HEA and no cliffhanger. Kent Rogue. Troublemaker. Bad Boy. Delinquent. Everyone thinks they know who I am, but they know nothing. And that’s how I prefer it. Keeping my demons under lock and key is my only survival tactic. Until she enters my life, turning it upside down. She thinks she can fix me...
  • El Pecador by M. Robinson

    El Pecador by M. Robinson

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    So here you are… Turning the pages, opening the next chapters of my life—wanting to know the next truths of my sins. As if the first half of my life wasn’t enough. You. Need. More. You want my redemption. My heart. My soul. Your happily ever after… You. Want. Answers. And I will grant you the very first one you’re dying to know. Why did I leave her? So go ahead...
  • But I Need You by W. Winters

    But I Need You by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some love stories are a slow burn. Others are quick to ignite, scorching and branding your very soul before you’ve taken that first breath. You’re never given a chance to run from it. That’s how I’d describe what happened to us.Everything around me blurred and all that existed were his lips, his touch… The chase and the heat between us became addictive...
  • Manic by J.A. Huss

    Manic by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    TRAGIC is over and Rook is ready for the future—Spencer Shrike and the STURGIS contract! It’s three months of body art modeling! That means three months of Spencer Shrike’s paintbrush all over her body, three months in front of Antoine’s camera, and three months of twenty-four hour filming for Spencer’s Biker Channel reality show...
  • Deceiving Lies by Molly McAdams

    Deceiving Lies by Molly McAdams

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The irresistible, blazing-hot sequel to New York Times bestselling author Molly McAdams's Forgiving Lies Rachel is supposed to be planning her wedding to Kash, the love of her life. After the crazy year they've had, she's ready to settle down and live a completely normal life. Well, as normal as it can be. But there's something else waiting—something threatening to tear them apart...
  • Fractured Angel by L. Ann

    Fractured Angel by L. Ann

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    She’s a disgraced pop star. He’s the frontman of Black Rosary.Their worlds are about to collide and nothing will ever be the same again.Ten years ago, I fell in loveThe pop princess and the rock star.On paper, we should never have worked. In public she was a sweet girl-next-door bubble-gum pop singer.But when we were together, her passion matched mine...
  • A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Can you love two men at once? Is there any future in that?Brant loves me fiercely.A brilliant billionaire who has owned my heart for four years, he keeps proposing, and I keep turning him down.I can’t marry him, not with all of the secrets between us.Lee uses me wildly.As grouchy as he is cocky, he's interested in getting me into his bed and little more...
  • 17 Black and 29 Red by Richard Rider

    17 Black and 29 Red by Richard Rider

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Second part in the Stockholm Syndrome trilogy:Some mistakes are too enormous and some people are too stubborn for anything to work except running away, but the world is never as big as you need it to be and eventually you can't help circling back to where you started...
  • When Darkness Ends by Marni Mann

    When Darkness Ends by Marni Mann

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An all new angsty, dark, stand-alone Contemporary Romance in the Moments in Boston Series ...You never forget your first love … even when he becomes a memory.There was before.When we were together, when we were happy.When we had nothing but dreams.When not a single bad thing could ever happen because we were young and in love.And there was after...
  • Don't Be Afraid by C.A. Harms

    Don't Be Afraid by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Beautiful, Breathtaking An Epic Love Story! Have you ever looked at someone and just knew, knew that they were put in your life for a reason? The one person that would be not only your best friend, but would be your absolute everything? That’s how I felt the first time I saw him. That one day when a few little words changed our entire lives forever… Don’t be Afraid, he said...
  • Beautifully Broken by Portia Moore

    Beautifully Broken by Portia Moore

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The conclusion to the If I Break Series.Cal’s back and his arrival changes everything.Lauren knew it was coming but what she didn’t think he’d bring with him was an ultimatum.A choice.One that Lauren feels trapped under. A choice she’s unsure will make a difference but could possibly change everything.The ultimatum isn’t the only thing Cal’s got with him but answers...
  • Worthy of Redemption by L.D. Davis

    Worthy of Redemption by L.D. Davis

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    After his devastating actions in Accidentally On Purpose, Kyle Sterling is trying to move on. He has lost the love of his life and he does not believe he is worthy of ever being loved again. Lily Whitman has been devastated by the ultimate betrayal and later tragedy hits her heart full force. She doubts she will ever be able to give her heart to anyone again...
  • Rock's Redemption by Chiah Wilder

    Rock's Redemption by Chiah Wilder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Rock is the ripped, handsome Sergeant-At-Arms for the Insurgents MC. Being one of the club’s officers, women clamor to share his bed. The biker’s more than willing to oblige as long as it’s a short-time hookup; long-term relationship is not part of his vocabulary. He’s only been in love once—a long time ago—and the end result was shattering. He learned his lesson: keep his heart encased in steel...
  • Serving The Maestro by M. S. Parker

    Serving The Maestro by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jazz Moors––a successful New York business woman––wants a baby, but not a husband. As her window of opportunity closes, she meets Trent Dixon, a very handsome Hollywood composer who's only in town for a short while. Preferring natural conception, she finds him suitable, so she asks him to be her donor.Trent is on board, but with a twist...
    Categorized as:
    pregnancy  contemporary  dark  abuse  length-medium
  • Ghost : The Perished Riders MC - Book 4 by Nicola Jane

    Ghost : The Perished Riders MC - Book 4 by Nicola Jane

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    NellyIt started as a favour. I needed him to pretend to be my boyfriend for a few family dates. Despite having worked the bar at The Perished Riders MC for a couple of years, I’d hardly ever spoken with Ghost, so he was less than pleased when the club’s President forced him into helping me.But he shows up for me, something I’m not used to when it comes to relying on men...
  • Destructive by Jay McLean

    Destructive by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some villains are made.  Some villains are born.  And some villains aren’t villains at all.  
 Nate DeLuca was born into a life he didn’t want. Forced to walk a path that was already chosen for him.  Grandson to a mob boss, he’s forever torn between his duty, his honor, his legacy, and the truth.  But the truth is never simple, and it’s not at all what it seems...
  • Elect by Rachel Van Dyken

    Elect by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Would you die for the one you love? Nixon Abandonato made his choice. And now he has to pay the price. Tracey is the love of his life, but being with him has made her a target of his family's enemies. The only way to keep Trace alive is convince the world she means nothing to him...
  • Chasing Him by Kat T. Masen

    Chasing Him by Kat T. Masen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Our vows were exchanged.We had our whole lives planned out.And even brought our son into this world.Until hours later… when everything stopped, and you were suddenly gone.Life was perfect, until the day the only man she had ever been with, the man who had stolen her heart at the tender age of seventeen, was taken away before his time...
  • A Tragic Wreck by T.K. Leigh

    A Tragic Wreck by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    How can you continue living when you’re living a lie? How can you convince your body to stop feeling, your soul to stop caring, and your heart to stop beating? Haunted by her past, Olivia Adler flees Boston for a beach in Florida, leaving everyone behind, trying to shut the world out...
  • Ruining You by Nicole Reed

    Ruining You by Nicole Reed

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For a girl who dared to tempt death, living is the only promise that matters now. Jay’s life almost came to a forced end when her darkest secrets were revealed and the one who she chose to give her future to was ripped away. Now, everything she kept hidden is the topic of everyone’s conversation, and not all are sympathetic...
  • Kade's Turn by Tiffany Snow

    Kade's Turn by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It only takes a second, a fraction of a second, to forever change your life. That moment happened to me years ago. I did something you can’t take back, and I’d do it again. It’s a secret I’ll take to my grave—which is probably sooner rather than later—and that’s okay. I live with my choices...
  • Sapphire Scars by Nicole Fox

    Sapphire Scars by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    He’s my ex’s brother.A terrifying mob boss with a past too dark to share.And when he finds out I’m pregnant, he becomes something else, too:The husband I never asked for.Kolya Uvarov crashed into my life at a funeral and saved me from a mega-creep.Classic meet-cute, right?Not exactly—because it was his brother we were burying.A.k.a., my ex-boyfriend.A.k.a...
  • Arsen: A Broken Love Story by Mia Asher, MacKenzie Cartwright

    Arsen: A Broken Love Story by Mia Asher, MacKenzie Cartwright

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One glance was all it took . . . I'm a cheater. I'm a liar. My whole life is a mess. I love a man. No, I love two men . . . I think. One makes love to me. The other sets me on fire. One is my rock. The other is my kryptonite. I'm broken, lost, and disgusted with myself. But I can't stop. This is my story. My broken love story. Contains mature themes...
  • Dear Tabitha by Trudy Stiles

    Dear Tabitha by Trudy Stiles

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You know me. You know who I am. What I am. Damaged. Confused. Alone. You feel sorry for me. You pity me. You know what I’ve done. What I’ve given up. Who I’ve given up. You try to understand what I’ve been through and how I can possibly go on with my life. But you can’t possibly understand. I’ve lost too much. Sacrificed too much. Given up everything so that I can find myself...
  • Dirt by Cassia Leo

    Dirt by Cassia Leo

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ***99¢ RELEASE WEEK SPECIAL!*** When tragedy strikes, Laurel finds her life at a crossroads. Does she try to piece together the remnants of her once-perfect marriage to Jack? Or does she take a chance on creating something new and beautiful with ex-soldier Isaac? A hard-hitting, emotional new series from USA Today bestselling author Cassia Leo. Jack and I had everything...
  • Heartbreak Lover by C.R. Jane

    Heartbreak Lover by C.R. Jane

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "I'll ruin us," Jackson whispered to me in the dark. Monsters exist. I'd seen that firsthand. Beautiful faces could hide the most tainted souls, that much I knew for sure. I'd said goodbye to Jackson Parker, desperate to save myself once and for all, but old habits die hard. Every kiss, every touch, every word he'd given me felt imprinted on my skin...
  • Harrison by V.R. Tennent

    Harrison by V.R. Tennent

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Violet Chase has always been off limits. The girl I wanted...but could never have.In my teens, her father warned me to keep my hands to myself. Boys like me, don’t get girls like her. His family saved me, and I owed them. Her brothers, my best friends, made it clear where I stood - below them.We had one stolen moment of passion, then I ran...
  • Pretty Little Psycho by R.E. Bond

    Pretty Little Psycho by R.E. Bond

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Growing up in a big family means things slip through the cracks.My parents have never made me feel unwanted or unloved, but we aren’t always honest.After all, they run the most notorious street crews in Ashburn Valley.When their enemies took my brother’s life, everything changed.We all coped differently, and no one would understand my need for taunting death...
  • Life of the Party by Christine Anderson

    Life of the Party by Christine Anderson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This novel contains mature themes and graphic content. Seventeen-year-old Mackenzie Taylor can't wait to be free; free from high school, the shadow of her perfect older sister, and her disapproving parents. The rebellious party girl has a perfect accomplice in best friend Riley, a boy from the wrong side of the tracks who scores them drugs, booze and under-age entry into the only club in town...
  • Amore, Part 1 by Bella Jewel

    Amore, Part 1 by Bella Jewel

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “It is not love that defines us, Julietta. It is love that destroys us.”I’m just a normal girl. Or so you would think. I’ve never thought of myself as anything different. Until I met him.He doesn’t think I’m normal. He thinks I’m special. Special enough to be in his life. Special enough to enter his world. Special enough for his bed. Rafael Lencioni. Dangerous. Beautiful. Terrifying...
  • In the Stillness by Andrea Randall

    In the Stillness by Andrea Randall

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Natalie is a wife. Natalie is a mother. Natalie is a cutter. Clawing at walls built by resentment, regret, and guilt, Natalie cuts as an escape from a life she never planned. Staying present is only possible when you let go of the past...
  • Regrets by Nicole Dykes

    Regrets by Nicole Dykes

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Healing after a tragedy is hard enough. Doing it when you’re haunted by past betrayal and so many things left unsaid?Feels nearly hopeless...
  • Beautiful Ink by Nicole Reed

    Beautiful Ink by Nicole Reed

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Family. I have tattooed that single word on more skin than I care to count. It elicits powerful thoughts and emotions for most people. Loving. Caring. Supportive. Togetherness. Forever. But not for me. The word family means so much more. Vicious. Harmful. Dangerous. Corrupt. Deadly. You can’t run forever from the ones who love you...
  • The Way Home by A.C. Bextor

    The Way Home by A.C. Bextor

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Where do you begin to piece back the fragments of a shattered heart? “I’m letting you go today, it’s time.” Finally, Sadey is ready to say goodbye to the only man she’s ever loved. With the help of Shame and Mace she’s learning to breathe on her own again; one day at a time. Her hopes are high and her world is finally coming into focus...
  • Slave to the Rhythm by Jane Harvey-Berrick

    Slave to the Rhythm by Jane Harvey-Berrick

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    DANCE. Guns. MUSIC. Bullets. RHYTHM. Pain. Music in my head, dance in my body, the rhythm of my heart. How far can you fall in just one month? How quickly can the human spirit be broken? Where does evil hide in plain sight? Ash wants to dance. Needs it. To leave behind a life of expectation and duty, to set his soul free. But life is never that simple...
  • Scare Crow by Julie Hockley

    Scare Crow by Julie Hockley

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Nineteen-year-old Emily Sheppard is losing her sanity. Ever since her mob king boyfriend, Cameron Hillard, abandoned her for her own good, Emmy has been attempting to move on with her charmed college student life as if nothing happened. Now rejected from the underworld and left grieving over Cameron’s alleged death, Emmy realizes she belongs nowhere...
  • The Tango by Angelica Chase

    The Tango by Angelica Chase

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Weeks passed without hearing from Rhys; then I received a text that shook me to my core.The Barracks. One hour. REDI lied, he’s angry, and I’m about to pay for my lie with a pound of flesh. RED.I wasn’t supposed to fall for him. He blurred the lines and I stepped right over. Now I was facing his wrath, and my undeniable feelings for him. I had to find a way to make things right.RED...
  • The Wilde One by Claire Contreras

    The Wilde One by Claire Contreras

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    I'm a loyal guy.  Loyal to my family, my craft, my friends. And then Brooklyn happens. I try to blame the sparks between us on jet lag, lack of caffeine, anything I can cling onto and use as an excuse. Falling for her would be wrong.  She's my best friend's ex. Whatever this is between us can't happen.  I know this.  She knows this. And then we kiss . .
  • Brutal Arrangement by Laurelin Paige

    Brutal Arrangement by Laurelin Paige

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 14 ratings
    He can have any woman he wants.He wants his brother’s.Alex Sebastian is the billionaire who knows exactly how to re-launch the pop career I walked away from to raise my little sister.He knows everything, apparently, about what’s good for me. For my image. Even for my lingerie. Everywhere I turn, he’s there, smirking. I cannot stand him...
  • Rose of Thorne by Mia Michelle

    Rose of Thorne by Mia Michelle

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a drunk driver tragically orphans Skylar Rose at the age of sixteen, she leaves her dreams behind and takes on the daunting task of helping her elderly grandmother raise her young sister. While other girls her age were living a typical carefree life, she was picking up double shifts at a local café and struggling to pay the bills...
  • Dark Passion by Bec Botefuhr

    Dark Passion by Bec Botefuhr

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    THIS BOOK IS NOW CALLED DARK POISON ON AMAZON. This book contains adult content 18+ It's not your typical happily ever after kind of book, it's dark, beautiful, dangerous and heart wrenching but who can resist a dark, hot, dangerous man? Consider yourself warned!! Willow didn’t have an easy life. Her Mother’s in a mental institution and her Father’s dead...
  • Jahleel by S. Ann Cole

    Jahleel by S. Ann Cole

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here and here ******This book is about OBSESSION. The heroine is a tad loco. PLEASE read the sample before purchasing to determine if this book is for you.*********** A TRUE-ly fabricated story about Love & Obsession... I’m an idiot. I’m too stupid to be human. Too stupid to live. I lack common sense...
  • Broken by Lies by Rebecca Shea

    Broken by Lies by Rebecca Shea

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    I had no idea how much I would love Alex the day he walked into my life. He changed everything. The way I breathed. The way I thought. The way I loved. He brought me back to life. He gave me strength and a safe place to land. And then he broke me. Finding Emilia was a chance to do something good for once in my life. I wanted to change. She believed I was her savior...
  • Lost in the Affair by E.K. Blair

    Lost in the Affair by E.K. Blair

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    *An intoxicatingly risque stand-alone book. She's an author. She's a mother. She's a wife. She's a liar, a woman marked and bound by her own deceit. This is the astounding tale of how one woman battled through a year of scandals and betrayals, how her world fell from its axis with a single choice, and how she lost herself between reality and fantasy...
  • Vindictively Vicious by Erin Mc Luckie Moya

    Vindictively Vicious by Erin Mc Luckie Moya

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He is a man with a checkered past. When he went off the grid before officially joining the club, he did things that no man could ever be proud of. And now? Now he's the Sergeant in Arms of the Hell Hounds MC - a position he has been honed for. He wasn’t made to lead, but to protect his club? Now that he could do...
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