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  • Rocked by Love: Jillian Braden by Melissa Foster

    Rocked by Love: Jillian Braden by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What happens when a rock star with no plans of settling down finds out he has a teenage daughter, his manager is embezzling from him, and the woman he’s hired to design his tour wardrobe is breathing fire? Come along for the snarky, emotional, and insanely sexy ride as Jillian and Johnny get caught up in a storm that just might be bigger than both of them...
  • Hook by Chelle Bliss

    Hook by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Falling in love is supposed to be the easy part. But nothing prepared me for losing my wife. I promised her that I’d love again. Find someone to mend my broken heart. And that seems impossible, until the day that I walk into Tilly Carter’s cupcake shop. I’ve never met a woman like her—sassy, dirty-mouthed, and smells like vanilla and sin. Someone that makes me want to sweep her off her feet...
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  • Hadley by Addison Jane

    Hadley by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    People change, it's a fact of life. Hadley found that out the hard way after her husband came home one day with darkness in his eyes that she'd never seen before. Realizing that she couldn't allow him to drag her into the shadows, she watched him walk away, thinking she’d be free to move on with her life. But now she was on the run, seeking safety from a man she once vowed to love forever...
  • Finally by R.L. Mathewson

    Finally by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 28 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author R.L. Mathewson comes the next installment in the Neighbor from Hell series… For readers who enjoy touching stories that make them smile, laugh, and fall in love. Sometimes life doesn’t go the way that we expected. That’s what happened to Devin Bradford when he received the news that turned his life upside down seven years ago...
  • Gravity by C.M. Seabrook

    Gravity by C.M. Seabrook

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s only one girl in the world for me. She’s three feet of boundless energy and blonde pigtails. But when Sophie walks into my bar, I know my life is about to change. Beautiful though damaged, she needs my help. And I can’t say no. She was there for me during my darkest hour. The warm comfort that got me through to the light of day. But when morning came she was gone...
  • Flirt With Me by Kristen Proby

    Flirt With Me by Kristen Proby

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From New York Times Bestselling Author Kristen Proby comes an all new novel in her beloved With Me In Seattle Series!There are two things Maeve O’Callaghan values more than anything else: her family and her career...
  • Your Forever Love by Layla Hagen

    Your Forever Love by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    (unedited blurb. subject to change) Eric Callahan is a powerful man, and his sharp business sense has earned him the nickname Shark. Yet under the strict façade is a man who loves his daughter and would do anything for her. When he and his daughter move to San Francisco for three months, he has one thing in mind: expanding his business on the West Coast...
    Categorized as:
    single-father  contemporary  humor
  • Always Us by Scarlett Avery

    Always Us by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Jace Halsey…It seems I’m the only sane woman in LA who’s immune to that self-important man.Even my big sister swoons all over him. It makes me sick. Truth be told, I want nothing more than to annihilate him because he’s always in the way. Never mind he has no clue of my existence, he’s still the thorn in my side...
  • Always Forever by Scarlett Avery

    Always Forever by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He’s a new client, so how did we go from hello to Fifty Shades of Grey in a New York minute?The first time I met him, his arresting blue eyes were enough to make me lose my head. But of course, I kept it together.I’m a professional and fooling around with a client is a recipe for disaster.Holt Christensen is off limits...
  • Craving Rose by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Craving Rose by Nicole Jacquelyn

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I, Rose Hawthorne, have crap taste in men. But, who could blame me, really? When the stories of how your dad and uncles raised hell before settling down are legendary, it was all too easy to see Prince Charming everywhere, believing that if a man loved me enough, he’d change. What a load of garbage...
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    single-father  new adult  contemporary  bikers  m-f
  • Sealed by Laura Pavlov

    Sealed by Laura Pavlov

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A sexy-as-sin single dad. A sassy, hotheaded diva. Two players. One game. What could possibly go wrong?Roman Amato is perfect on paper.Sexy and broody and arrogant.He’s a divorced single father, so he’s completely off-limits.I’m not looking for anything other than a hot date to take to my sister’s wedding.I have something he needs, and he has something I need...
  • Blood & Bones: Cage by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Cage by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    When life takes a turn least expected, you better hang on tight... When an unexpected delivery lands on Cage’s doorstep, the Blood Fury MC’s Road Captain realizes his future’s about to change. Forever.He’s not ready to deal with the responsibility life just handed him and isn’t afraid to admit he needs help. Desperately...
  • A Mother for Christmas by Jackie Weger

    A Mother for Christmas by Jackie Weger

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Decker Davenport is on a deadline. He has thirty days — Christmas Eve, to be exact — to remodel a St. Augustine Victorian house or the owner will put it back on the market. Not a good time for Decker’s decorator to take off on a honeymoon, leaving him with Annalise Owens, a stand-in with a malaise he isn’t privy to...
  • The Hero I Need by Nicole Snow

    The Hero I Need by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow returns with a hilariously intense small-town love story where two star-crossed hearts and one snarly tiger ignite a romance up-roar.He knew I was trouble the instant I showed up with a stolen Bengal tiger.But Grady McKnight didn't flinch like a sane person—he took us in.Bruce the tiger found shelter. I met a hero grump. And Grady got a hot mess...
  • The Summer of No Attachments: A Novel by Lori Foster

    The Summer of No Attachments: A Novel by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Summer flings with no strings mean nobody gets hurt.At least, that was the plan…After putting the brakes on her dead-end relationship, local veterinarian Ivey Anders is ready to soak up this summer on her own terms. The way she sees it, no dating means no disappointment...
  • Play You by Tracy Lorraine

    Play You by Tracy Lorraine

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I hated to play her...But she left me no choice with her betrayal.Star-crossed lovers doesn’t even begin to describe what happened seventeen years ago when I fell for the one girl I shouldn’t have.The forbidden. Our Rival. My enemy.Piper Collins.She was perfect, despite her family name. Too good to be true... too bad she was a snitch.Planted to infiltrate our club...
  • Perfect Embrace by Kaylee Ryan

    Perfect Embrace by Kaylee Ryan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The day he walks into my bookstore with his adorable twin daughters, I know my life is going to change forever. The chemistry is tangible, the tragedy his truth, and my schoolgirl crush, even after all of these years, is still alive...
    Categorized as:
    single-father  contemporary  new adult
  • Keeping Her by Jordan Marie, LJ Anderson

    Keeping Her by Jordan Marie, LJ Anderson

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One kiss from those cherry lips and I knew she was meant to be mine.I’m claiming her and I won’t be letting her go.Luke “Grunt” Stafford had one job.He didn’t like it, but when your President gives you an order you usually follow it.He didn’t plan on the feisty redhead that showed up and rocked his world.Jasmine Blake knows how her family and friends see her...
  • The Reinvention of the Rose by Christina C. Jones

    The Reinvention of the Rose by Christina C. Jones

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Desperation.Not a phenomenon Tempest could typically claim, but certainly the catalyst for where she’s landed. Not in peril, or pain, but in dire need of the very normalcy she’s often emulated, but never been able to obtain.Now... there’s nothing in her way, except all those years of being everything except what she now has to become.Herself.As soon as she figures out who that is...
  • Always Love by Scarlett Avery

    Always Love by Scarlett Avery

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Lusting after my father’s protégé and friend is plain stupid considering I’m invisible to him…Jagger Halsey…He’s sinful, much older and talented beyond words.My father thinks the world of him.So do I.And I’ve tried to tell him in not-so-subtle ways. Even after my numerous, persistent attempts to catch his attention, he ignores me.Exasperated and heartbroken, I give up...
  • Engulfing Emma by Samantha Christy

    Engulfing Emma by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Single dad.Firefighter.Hero. On the heels of divorce, Lt. Brett Cash never expected to meet the woman of his dreams. Especially not during a robbery gone bad. But just because she's the woman of his dreams does not mean he's the man of hers . Emma is a child of a 9/11 hero taken far too soon. And she's not about to let her own daughter go through the same hell she did...
  • Strays by Cora Brent

    Strays by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    STRAYS (An Anti-Hero Romance)Before age sixteen I was kicked to the streets, condemned for a crime I didn’t commit.Since then I’ve done nothing to be proud of.Which is why a man like me isn’t cut out to be a dad.And if this kid had another option I wouldn’t try to be one now.But for once I’m going to step up.I’ll right the worst of old wrongs...
  • Something Old, Something New by Beverly Jenkins

    Something Old, Something New by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    The citizens of Henry Adams are starting to take bets—will Lily Fontaine and Trent July finally tie the knot? All they want is a nice, simple wedding, but their well-meaning neighbors are turning the no-fuss affair into the event of the decade...
  • Falling For The CEO by Layla Hagen

    Falling For The CEO by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A single dad romance from USA Today Bestselling author Layla Hagen.I’m Spencer Whitley, the CEO of a billion-dollar company.But behind closed doors, I’m a clueless, single dad…Between reading parenting books and trying to get the little dude to sleep during the night, I can barely think about anything else.But when I meet my neighbor, my mind begins to wander...
  • When Hope Ends: life begins by Freya Barker

    When Hope Ends: life begins by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s the best day of his life—the worst of hers.She left her soul behind in the dead silence of a hospital room.He is bright with hope after being so close to losing faith. One moment in time leaves their paths unavoidably entwined.An invisible connection held by one heart beating between them...
  • Heartbreak & Cupcakes by Shawna Renae

    Heartbreak & Cupcakes by Shawna Renae

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alex VaughnThe last thing I wanted was to be named San Francisco’s Most Eligible Bachelor. The title alone was misleading. I wasn’t a bachelor. I was a widower and single father. One who wasn’t available or interested.Well... there was one person who might have piqued my interest. Cupcake Girl. But interest and intent are two very different things...
  • Heartsick & Lipsticks by Shawna Renae

    Heartsick & Lipsticks by Shawna Renae

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nick LockeMy life was exactly how I'd planned it. Growing up, I wanted to rule the world, and being CEO of Locke Media Group fulfilled that dream. I'd started with nothing and built a billion-dollar empire one brick at a time. My motto was work hard, play harder...
  • Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay

    Magdalene Nox by Milena McKay

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Magdalene Nox doesn't cast wishes upon stars... She simply makes them happen. But for this particular wish, she had waited for thirty years. Her retribution against those who discarded her three decades ago should be swift and simple.Except a chance encounter and an unforgettable night turn her entire life upside down. Torn between vengeance and lust, Magdalene is forced to re-evaluate everything...
  • Love in the Storm by Mandi Blake

    Love in the Storm by Mandi Blake

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a snowstorm sneaks up, she gets stranded with the handsome man who once arrested her. Will he be able to forgive her when the truth comes out?Lyric Woods has been sober for years now, but nothing about picking herself up from rock bottom has been easy. She’s behind on bills and on the verge of getting evicted, still paying for the mistakes of her past...
  • FINAL TRUTH: a clean romantic suspense by Roxanne Rustand

    FINAL TRUTH: a clean romantic suspense by Roxanne Rustand

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dr. Jolie Maxwell had never planned to move back home. She knew her sisters wouldn’t welcome her with open arms. But her family needs her. Her brother is in serious trouble with the law, and her dad’s health is failing.The town needs her, too. It hasn’t had a local doctor in years.Yet many of the locals aren’t happy about having another Maxwell in their midst...
  • Watch Me Unravel: A Rock Star Romance by Julia Wolf

    Watch Me Unravel: A Rock Star Romance by Julia Wolf

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A sexy and emotional second chance romance... David Wiesel lives for making music, partying, and women. He has a wicked sense of humor and a body made for sinning. He's the kind of guy every mama warns her daughter about. Sylvia Price lives for her daughter, theater, and teaching. She's living the responsible life and left her wild ways in the past...
  • On the Surface by Nikki Ash

    On the Surface by Nikki Ash

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    People see what they want to see. They only view what’s on the surface, and they’re easy to fool. I let them see on the outside that I’m a successful businesswoman. My clothes are designer, my makeup flawless, and I live in a high-rise condo in Lennox Hills. They see perfection, not what lies beneath the surface...
  • Keeping Secrets by Weston Parker

    Keeping Secrets by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s no secret that me and love don’t mix. Not after it schemed to rip my heart out and leave me a single father.The biggest question I have is what to do with forever now that my wife is gone.As much as I hate it, it’s time for a break from my famous life.A year off to spend time with my little girl is what the doctor ordered.Giggles, smiles, and tons of ice cream for the two of us...
  • Give Me Forever by Weston Parker

    Give Me Forever by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was lust at first sight.Her curves turned my head, but it wasn’t until she became my assistant that I knew I needed far more than her body.She needs me too.Well, really, she needs my money—bad enough to agree to become my fake fiancée.Her family business is going under, and I’m all-in on being the knight in shining armor...
  • Bad Boy Bachelor Thanksgiving by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Bad Boy Bachelor Thanksgiving by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There’s only one thing I want spread out on my Thanksgiving table this year, and it’s not a turkey. It’s my new hire.My assistants keep quitting, and apparently I’m the problem. Surely not.I just haven’t found the right one. Until her.And of all places to find her—a pumpkin farm.There’s no way she’s cut out to work in my world, but I find myself offering her the job anyway...
  • Chosen by the Mountain Man by Sadie King

    Chosen by the Mountain Man by Sadie King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s the nanny, half my age and off-limits. But my heart has chosen her, even if it breaks me…My military career ended when I became a widower.My daughter needed me, so I came back to Wild Heart Mountain determined to be a good father.Except I’m not. I’m too grumpy, too bitter, too broken.Until Caitlin walks through the door...
  • Without You by Lacey Black

    Without You by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    TuckerI spend my days brewing beer for the popular Brew Crüe Beer Company and my nights devoted to being a dad. Raising a young child with special needs can be tough and stressful, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. He’s everything to me, and the reason I keep going. It’s him and me against the world, and I have no intention of changing that.Then, Kinsley McGregor walks back into my life...
  • Promise Me This by Hannah Bird

    Promise Me This by Hannah Bird

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Forever wasn’t supposed to look like this.When Leona Granger studied abroad in Ireland, she spent a lot more time falling in love with Callum Walsh than she did in the classroom. On the eve of her return to the States, she promised to come back for him when she finished college. They said goodbye under the stars, sealing their promise with more than just a kiss...
  • How Much I Care by Marie Force

    How Much I Care by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Force comes a steamy new contemporary romance about two strangers who find love in the most unexpected way—by saving a life.Austin Sitting at the top of my game, pitching for Baltimore and a single daddy to the most adorable little girl in the world, I’m living the dream. Until I get the dreaded call that Everly is sick...
    Categorized as:
    single-father  contemporary  sports
  • Colson by Jessica Gadziala

    Colson by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The club has known peace for so long.Too long, it seemed. And now the president is missing,the supply chain is drying up,and there are threats from within and out.Colson should have had nothing else on his mind.But then there she was.The new neighbor.A woman with her hands full of her own problems should have sent him running, but he just couldn't seem to stay away...
  • The Set Up by Ainsley St. Claire

    The Set Up by Ainsley St. Claire

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He's a single dad, billionaire CEO, and father to twin terrors. She's desperate to support her daughter. Falling in love with the nanny is complicated.Scarlett:I have less than $2,000 in my checking account and I need a job.My ex took off with his assistant and millions of dollars that he stole in a Ponzi scheme...
  • Saved by Love by Kelly Elliott, Ellie Grace

    Saved by Love by Kelly Elliott, Ellie Grace

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My momma used to say, “Out of every tragedy, a miracle of love would come." The last ten years of my life have been nothing but tears and pain. I lost hope and wanted to give up on waiting for my miracle to come.Finally, a light is shining at the end of the tunnel. After leaving Texas and my past behind, I've started a new life journey in Estes Park, Colorado...
  • The Last Love Note by Emma Grey

    The Last Love Note by Emma Grey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again.Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she’s grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the ball—and yet clinging to her sense of humor...
  • Stand by A.L. Jackson

    Stand by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    "6 Devastatingly Beautiful and Brilliant Bleeding Stars but Worth the Whole Constellation. I felt every burn...every blaze...every beautiful and brilliant word...I FELT IT ALL." - Karen McVino, Bookalicious Babes Blog From NYT & USA Today Bestselling Author A.L...
  • Can't Fight It by Kaylee Ryan, Lacey Black

    Can't Fight It by Kaylee Ryan, Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ColtonFrom the moment she showed up on my doorstep, I knew our lives would never be the same. I felt it deep in my soul that she was going to change us forever. I didn’t know how, but I knew she was important. I tried to maintain the distance between us, but it was too strong to fight.With each passing day, I saw a future I never planned flash before my eyes—one with a fairytale ending...
  • Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's a single dad who moves to a small mountain town and becomes obsessed with a potential client—a beautiful woman haunted by her tragic past.For years, tales of the Firefly Man were nothing more than elaborate rumors spread by residents of the Appalachian Mountains.Until the night Evelyn Vaughn stumbled upon a dead body in the woods.Fear gripped her, and silence stole her voice...
  • Outplayed by Lila Rose

    Outplayed by Lila Rose

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Violet Marcus’s life is settled. She has it all: a place of her own, a business where her temper has its uses, and great people who work for her. But something is missing. The problem is, her stubbornness refuses to admit how lonely she actually is...
  • Fated Love by Radclyffe

    Fated Love by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    What do you do when your carefully planned life takes a wrong turn into hell? When Quinn Maguire, a dashing young trauma surgeon, unaccountably accepts a position as an ER physician, her new boss, Honor Blake, suspects that Quinn is hiding a dark secret. While the two declare an uneasy truce in an effort to work together, both struggle with mutual, and unexpected, attraction...
  • Brogan by Samantha Whiskey

    Brogan by Samantha Whiskey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    They call me Demon for a reason—I’m the most ruthless Reaper on the ice.I’m not the person who finds a baby on their doorstep.Except, after a morning run, I am.And the note accompanying the little bundle says she’s mine.Looks like I'm the newest single dad in the NHL.I was nothing but a burden on my aunt and uncle after my parents died, and I’d decided I’d never have children...
  • Hot Stuff by Max Monroe

    Hot Stuff by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Have you ever seen a fireman who’s so insanely sexy you’d actually consider DIY-ing a little at-home arson just so he’d show up at your front door?Dramatic, I know, but hear me out...
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