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  • Junjo Romantica, Volume 07 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica, Volume 07 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Miyagi finally gets over his obsession with his late high school teacher by confessing his love for Shinobu in front of her grave. When it comes time for Shinobu to choose which college to go to, his feelings seem to be swaying his decisions too strongly - even for Miyagi's liking...
  • Junjo Romantica, Volume 06 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica, Volume 06 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It's the day of the award ceremony for Usami, but Usami's older brother, Haruhiko, can't keep his hands off Misaki. First an endless shipment of strawberries, then a "kidnapping" as Haruhiko drags Misaki off to his rich estate and locks him up! Meanwhile, a dramatic misunderstanding spooks Shinobu into leaving for Australia...
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  • Maybe We Won't by Melissa Foster

    Maybe We Won't by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A sexy and soul-stirring novel about love, family, and rediscovering what matters most by Melissa Foster, the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe We Will.When workaholic Boston attorney Deirdra de Messiéres is passed over for a well-deserved promotion, she takes a two-month hiatus to show her boss just how much he needs her and heads home to Silver Island...
  • Good Vibrations by Kayley Loring

    Good Vibrations by Kayley Loring

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    A former model, a grumpy lawyer, and a single dad walk into an audition for a children's musical… They’re all Miles Brodie. It’s only cute if you aren’t the director who’s being bribed to cast his daughter. DEAR MS. CROSS,Re: Our discussion1. True. Casting my daughter as the lead in your musical could be considered bribery if people find out I’m investing in it, but no one needs to know.2...
  • Junjo Romantica 03 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica 03 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Misaki wohnt beim Bestsellerautor Usami und kann seine Gefühle für ihn nicht länger leugnen. Eines Nachts rutscht ihm sogar der Satz "Ich glaube, ich liebe dich!" heraus...
  • Gideon by Lily Morton

    Gideon by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 22 ratings
    Gideon Ramsay is so far in the closet he should be a talking faun. A talented, mercurial, and often selfish man, Gideon has everything he should want in life. Fame, money, acting awards – he has it all. Everything but honesty. At the advice of his agent, Gideon has concealed his sexuality for years...
  • Hauling Ashe by L.B. Dunbar

    Hauling Ashe by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Life might be a highway but the last thing this grumpy silver fox expected was a cross-country road trip with a ray of sunshine."My sister is driving to California. She could give you a ride.""What?" Tucker Ashe and I say in unison.Mae FoxSurely, my older sister has lost her mind. There is no way I'm driving her insufferable – albeit sexy silver fox – boss two thousand miles...
  • Drinker of Ink by Shannon Castleton

    Drinker of Ink by Shannon Castleton

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    California, 1991“I only ever talk to this journal. Is there an alternate universe? Another planet? Please could you beam me up, Holy Father?”Paris-born Vivienne Lebrun longs for a different life. One where she doesn’t attend college three thousand miles away from her family in New York City...
  • Making Whoopie by Erin Nicholas

    Making Whoopie by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This marriage of convenience is about to get sticky. Getting hitched for the health insurance is not Jocelyn Asher’s idea of romance.But the hospital quote has really frosted her cookies, and suddenly, “I’m rich. We should just get married,” sounds a whole lot more swoony.Especially when the man proposing is this gorgeous. And takes her to parties featuring champagne and petit fours...
  • Raging Barons MC - Book Seven - BS by J.E. Daelman

    Raging Barons MC - Book Seven - BS by J.E. Daelman

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Life is hard, then gets harder still. That’s how BS feels when out of the blue his wife turns up wanting them to try again, to make the marriage work.After leaving his cheating wife 18-yrs earlier, the last thing he expected was Lilac to turn up on the clubhouse doorstep, throwing a huge spanner in the works for his intention to claim Kya...
  • The Five Minute Mistake by Hannah Shield

    The Five Minute Mistake by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's my instructor. He's off limits.And he's the twist I never saw coming.On paper, Nash Jennings is intimidating as hell. Former Navy SEAL, notorious loner, and the grumpiest sniper on the West Oaks SWAT team. But I don't buy it. I think he's actually a nice guy under that armor he wears, and I'm determined to draw him out. Make him my friend. Perhaps even make him smile...
  • Ripped & Shipped by Savannah Scott

    Ripped & Shipped by Savannah Scott

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you had asked me if I'd ever be dating Chris St. James, well, let's just say it's more likely Jimmy Choo would name a shoe after me.Which, Jimmy, if you're out there, the "Ella Mae" would definitely be a big seller. Call me, Mkay?But, back to Chris. Sure, he's handsome...
  • Vow Maker by Lily Morton

    Vow Maker by Lily Morton

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Dylan Mitchell wants to get married.However, after seven years of being engaged, that’s looking slightly doubtful. After going through ten wedding planners, they’re gaining a reputation somewhat akin to Henry the Eighth on the wedding circuit.Gabe has vetoed symbolic dove releases, forests of flowers, fire-eating performers, and puce as a wedding colour...
  • Wishing on a Star by Mandy Baggot

    Wishing on a Star by Mandy Baggot

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A single mum. A superstar athlete. A Christmas like no other.Anna Heath is divorced, a single mum and trying desperately to keep her life in order. Despite her friends' best efforts, Anna has stopped looking for love and is determined to give her daughter, Ruthie, a Christmas to remember.Sam Jackman has just been dealt with life-altering news, and all he could think to do was run...
  • A Greene Family Christmas by Piper Rayne

    A Greene Family Christmas by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Preparing a Christmas to remember is no small feat with a family the size of the Greenes. Especially, when the woman who has always been the planner down to every minute detail falls ill, only five days before the holiday.The family has no choice but to scramble to ensure that nothing is amiss. Cookies need to be decorated, gingerbread houses assembled and decorations to be hung...
  • Charity Case: The Complete Series by Piper Rayne

    Charity Case: The Complete Series by Piper Rayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    These three women are the toughest juries they’ll ever have to plead their case to.THIS BOX SET INCLUDES…Clean Slate (Charity Case #0.5)Moving two thousand miles away wasn’t my plan, but when family needs you, you come. Before I can head back to my hometown of Chicago though, I have two men to say good-bye to. Neither one of them will be happy to hear the news...
  • Pinot & Pineapple Lumps by Jay Hogan

    Pinot & Pineapple Lumps by Jay Hogan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Penn from Adelaide. That’s all I knew. We shared a single kiss over a year ago, and I can still remember every toe-curling second of it. He thought I was too young for him. I thought he was running scared. But that kiss was the first time I’d felt alive in a long time, and I’ve been chasing the feeling ever since—doing my research, a lot of research, a lot of men...
  • Reformation by Chelle Sloan, Salvation Society

    Reformation by Chelle Sloan, Salvation Society

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Garrett DixonI have it all, or so it seems. A thriving medical practice, money in the bank and a standing invitation to every social event in Virginia. It doesn’t matter that my marriage is a trainwreck and my friend circle is limited to my business partner and my brother. You don’t need things like love and friends when you’re at the top of your field. That’s what I thought, until I met Paige...
  • Beach Please by Melanie Summers

    Beach Please by Melanie Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A hilarious and heartwarming story that’ll have you snort-laughing, swooning, and sighing with happiness…Lola Gordon's dreams of a thriving surf shop were shattered when her ex vanished with all the money in their business account, leaving her on the brink of losing everything...
  • Beach Please by Melanie Summers

    Beach Please by Melanie Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A hilarious and heartwarming story that’ll have you snort-laughing, swooning, and sighing with happiness… Lola Gordon's dreams of a thriving surf shop were shattered when her ex vanished with all the money in their business account, leaving her on the brink of losing everything...
  • Junjo Romantica, Volume 03 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica, Volume 03 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Misaki begins to seriously question the structure of his relationship with Usami, but a high-class date with Usami makes it come to life. In the next Junjou Egoist story, Hiro goes to the extreme to nurse his lover, Nowaki, back to health...
  • Scrooge and the Girls Next Door: A Holiday Rom Com by Melanie Jacobson

    Scrooge and the Girls Next Door: A Holiday Rom Com by Melanie Jacobson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When the sunniest woman in Creekville buys the house next to the grumpiest man on the street, sparks fly . . . and not just because she keep blowing his fuses...Paige Redmond has done everything the hard way, from her wild child past to being a single mother raising her own delightful wild child now. But since landing in Creekville, she's turned it all around...
  • The Wild Card by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    The Wild Card by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was supposed to be harmless. One fake date with a football player.Except Harry Westbrook is the exact opposite of harmless. My first mistake? Underestimating that boyish smile, those playful eyes, the charming words on those perfect lips. He claims to have a crush on me. But, as hot as he is, I'd bet he's scheduling booty calls like a dentist booking teeth cleanings...
  • Collide by Piper Lawson

    Collide by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My hot professor’s past tore us apart. But he won’t give up on our future.I thought I knew who Sawyer Redmond was. I was wrong.But he’s fiercely determined to keep me, and I can’t avoid him. He’s everywhere—in class, at events, in my head.He forces me to discover a side of myself I never knew. One that terrifies me almost as much as it excites me.He says our secrets can bring us closer...
  • Miles Ever After by T.L. Swan

    Miles Ever After by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 41 ratings
    Miles Ever After...
  • Bishop by L. Ann

    Bishop by L. Ann

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She wanted a new life. She ended up with a fake husband. Eden Marshall All I wanted was to escape my abusive ex boyfriend. A fresh start somewhere safe. I was tired of running. I needed to disappear. Just when I was ready to give up, my search for freedom leads me to the one man who can help me. All I need to do is convince him to do it. Bishop Chambers I have a special set of skills...
  • Fighting Mr. Knight by Rosa Lucas

    Fighting Mr. Knight by Rosa Lucas

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    Billionaire property tycoon Jack Knight, is propping up the UK rich list and keeping the national tabloids ablaze with his scandalous love life. And making my life as an architect hell. It’s the largest property development project London has seen in ten years and every architect’s wet dream. One of the most exciting projects of my career if my firm wins the bid...
  • Euro Dreams by Kate Stewart

    Euro Dreams by Kate Stewart

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From the international and USA Today best-selling author of The Plight Before Christmas and The Ravenhood Trilogy comes a laugh-out-loud, romantic dramedy full of spice, swoon, and ALL OF THE FEELS.I don’t remember booking a first-class ticket to hell… An all-expense paid trip to Europe...
  • Muscle Cub by Slade James

    Muscle Cub by Slade James

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    He’s a little too young and way too hot for me.Austin Fox is a twentysomething beefcake living his best life working at a clothing-optional campground. He’s the reigning Best Cub of Bear Mountain Lodge. With a twinkle in his eye and a mischievous smile, he radiates body positivity and self-esteem.He could have anyone he wants...
  • Junjo Romantica, Volume 12 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Junjo Romantica, Volume 12 by Shungiku Nakamura

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the end of Misaki's college years approach, he's faced with a difficult choice: living with the ever-popular boys love novelist Akihiko can be ever-so challenging..
  • Empire State Enemies: A Billionaire Romance by Rosa Lucas

    Empire State Enemies: A Billionaire Romance by Rosa Lucas

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Karma’s coming for me. I never meant to screw over New York’s most notorious billionaire playboy. I’m just your average good girl, really. I play by the rules. But when push comes to shove, and my back is against the wall, I make questionable choices.I thought I’d never lay eyes on him again after that night.Boy, was I wrong. Fate has a sick sense of humor...
  • Changing Roles by Melanie Moreland

    Changing Roles by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Lights! Camera! Clueless! Liam Wright is Hollywood’s golden boy and at the top of the A-list. But what he doesn’t know about life… Well, it could fill his very large Hollywood mansion. Thankfully, he’s got Shelby Carter in his world to keep him—and his house—camera-ready. Part confidante, part master chef, Shelby is his best friend and the only one who knows the real Liam...
  • John by Jenna Myles

    John by Jenna Myles

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    I never planned on getting out of prison. I did what I did to keep my brother safe, and I could live with that.But now I'm out, and I don't know what the hell I'm doing. Everything is too loud, too busy, too overwhelming. And for a man who's used to every decision being made for him...well, let's just say I'm on the verge of doing something stupid to get sent back.Until she walks in, that is...
  • Husband by Remy Blake

    Husband by Remy Blake

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He was my father’s oldest friend; a man I expected to loathe and never expected to love. But Brock Marshall imbedded himself under my skin, until I had no desire to get him out. Almost two years later, and we’ve defeated the odds, falling in love and getting engaged. We should be happier than ever but instead we're at a stalemate. One that might not see us make it down the aisle...
  • Doctorshipped by Savannah Scott

    Doctorshipped by Savannah Scott

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    I’m the absolute last remaining single woman in the entire town of Bordeaux.Okay, maybe not the very last.Just the last one with all her teeth, natural hair color, and the ability to remember where I set my keys.I decided years ago that I’m going to remain single until my dying day.I’ll infuse a new, hip meaning into the term “old cat lady.”I don’t need a man...
  • Lost In Him by Carrie Elks

    Lost In Him by Carrie Elks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s a single dad. She’s the nanny he shouldn’t want…Chris Vaughn doesn’t want to be seen as Hollywood’s sexiest bad boy anymore.He wants to make the movie he’s dreamed of ever since he was a child.And the pretty beach town of Angel Sands is the perfect place to do it.There’s one small problem. He needs a nanny for his six-year-old daughter. And fast.Enter Chelsea Kennedy...
  • Bayou Tonight by Erin Nicholas

    Bayou Tonight by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A prequel to Gotta Be Bayou, book one in the Badges of the Bayou series She’s so not his type. But he’s been thinking about her for almost a year now.He needs to figure out a way to get over her.Though kissing her at their friends’ wedding probably isn’t it…FBI agent Spencer Landry is looking for a sweet, bubbly sunshine at home to balance out all the darkness he sees in his work...
  • Cougar From Hell by Marika Ray

    Cougar From Hell by Marika Ray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I have my fresh start in a new town, this time a widow with a preteen daughter who rolls her eyes enough to make them stay that way. Too bad my past mistake is also here to greet me.Daxon Hellman. Town a-hole. Hot young contractor hired to build my house in the woods.It’s only when I’m face-to-face with him for the first time that I realize he’s the mystery man from two years ago...
    Categorized as:
    age difference  humor  contemporary
  • Two Wrongs Made Right by Ali Parker

    Two Wrongs Made Right by Ali Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Just because my brother found love doesn’t mean I have to.I’d rather focus on other things.Like money.It never gives you sleepless nights that drive you insane.But the single mom I hooked up with at my brother’s wedding?She’s got me sweating.I can’t get her out of my head.Those curves.That smart mouth.She’s the right kind of trouble.But I’m the wrong kind of guy.Or not.She’s been wronged before...
  • A Fish Out of Water by Savannah Scott

    A Fish Out of Water by Savannah Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I knew trying to make a fresh start on Marbella Island would mean reinventing myself.I'm only here while I work my way up to my dream role in a major motion picture in Hollywood.Which explains why I took a role playing a mermaid in the island production of In So Deep . What I didn't count on?Ben. The charmer who just took a job as a water sports instructor.Everyone loves Ben.Everyone but me...
  • Saving Zane by Kaci Rose

    Saving Zane by Kaci Rose

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He's fighting the silence; she's painting his world with color again.ZaneBattled, broken, and branded by war, I came to Oakside seeking refuge, not redemption.The blast took my hearing and tossed my world into silence.Now I’m a grizzled former Navy SEAL battling with my demons and the silence of my world, until I stumble upon Carlee...
  • By Design: The Beginning by J.A. Armstrong

    By Design: The Beginning by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Building bridges has a very different meaning for Jameson Reid than it does for Candace Fletcher. J.D. Reid spends her days designing some of the most elegant and majestic buildings and homes in North America. U.S. Senator Candace Fletcher has spent her life working to build bridges between people. J.D. Reid is not who Candace Fletcher was expecting to arrive on her doorstep...
    Categorized as:
    age difference  humor  queer  f-f  contemporary
  • Rockaway Bride by Pippa Grant

    Rockaway Bride by Pippa Grant

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    A Rock Star Kidnaps a Runaway Bride… Kidnapping the bride seemed like a good idea at the time. Her fiancé stole my fortune, so I stole his woman. Tit for tat. Or tat for tit. However you want to look at it. The one thing I didn’t expect? Willow Honeycutt, preschool teacher, boy band super fan, is completely crazy. And somehow she’s turned the tables on me...
  • Solid Foundation by J.A. Armstrong

    Solid Foundation by J.A. Armstrong

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life is never simple in the world of politics. The pressure is on Senator Candace Fletcher to make a run for the governorship of New York State. Everyone seems convinced it's the right move for the affable senator. Everyone that is, except Candace. Life took an unexpected turn for the senator when she met and fell in love with Jameson Reid...
  • Kind of a Sexy Jerk by Lili Valente

    Kind of a Sexy Jerk by Lili Valente

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    So let me get this straight... For the next few days I’ve got myself a grumpy fake husband who’s also kind of my...bodyguard?I guess that’s a better way to spend the weekend than binge-watching reality television, especially since it’s kind of my fault we’re on the run from the mob and I need a protector.Oops...
  • Captured In Ink by Donna McDonald

    Captured In Ink by Donna McDonald

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    At 27 yrs old, graphic novelist Shane Larson believes in trusting the greater plan of the universe and doing good to the best of his ability. To him this is a matter of practicality as much as a spiritual belief about how to live right which is why the road Shane chooses to follow in his life is leading him to use his doctorate in clinical psychology to help people...
  • Matchmaking Mischief by A.R. Casella, Denise Grover Swank

    Matchmaking Mischief by A.R. Casella, Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a hopeless romantic...for everyone but herself. Can the least romantic man alive convince her love isn’t just for other people?WillowThere are certain expectations when you’re born into a multigenerational family of matchmakers, which is why I fled my hometown and tried to build a life of my own...
    Categorized as:
    grumpy sunshine  contemporary  humor
  • The Wild One by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    The Wild One by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jasper Westbrook. Code name: Swoon Machine.My best friend's older brother.Melter of ovaries. Destroyer of panties.And suddenly...a single dad.Guys like Jasper—I bet you know the type? The chiseled arms. The wavy hair. The melt-your-brain-cells smile.Good thing I'm a smart girl—Honey Hill's former child prodigy, to be precise—I should know better than to fall for this playboy's charm...
  • The Love Interest by Kayley Loring

    The Love Interest by Kayley Loring

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Dear Fiona,I hope this letter finds you well—and by well, I mean significantly less infuriated than you were yesterday. I’ve wanted to continue our conversation from the night we met, but there are so many things I can’t say or do, now that I’m your professor.As an anonymous letter writer, I can give you some idea of what I have planned for us, once the year is over...
  • Wilder With You by Serena Bell

    Wilder With You by Serena Bell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 9 ratings
    Who knew pretending could be so hot?Clark: It started as a joke. After all, I’d never pretend to date a woman just to get my mom and sister off my back.I would, however, pretend to date her to get her ex-husband off hers.Now the two of us, the wilderness warrior and the wedding planner, are stuck sharing a very small tent...
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