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Make Me Wild (
Gabrielle Snow - 2021
And I’ve always secretly wanted my big brother’s best friend, Ren.He’s ambitious and sexy. Kind and thoughtful. A talented football player the whole town loves. Destined to make it big.Basically, Ren is the man of my dreams.But he’s the only person who is seriously off-limits.Gabe would kill us if anything was to happen between us.And I should have known better than to play with fire.I wasn’t supposed to flirt with him.He wasn’t supposed to flirt back.And he definitely wasn’t supposed to kiss me until my head was spinning . . .Because after that, there’s no turning back.Ren is the kind of guy who will do the right thing no matter what.The only problem is that he’s my big brother’s best friend.And being with me is the wrong thing...but it makes us both wild.MAKE ME WILD is the first book in the (IN LOVE WITH) MY BIG BROTHER'S BEST FRIEND series. This series must be read in order.
Tortured
N.M. Catalano - 2018
The four of us, that’s what we do.They say I have no emotions.I wish. I feel everything, maybe more than you.They said I shouldn’t fall in love with a married woman.They’re right about that, too. It wasn’t part of the assignment.But I did. Now they want her.My demons are going to destroy them.There once was a girl who believed in fairytales.They all came true.With contracts and lies and deceit.There is a woman who cries herself to sleep.Who lives a lie behind a beautiful mask.There is a woman who almost gave up.Almost.But then her prince charming came.He is everything she needs.Mysterious, dark, dangerous, who makes her do things, things that would shock you.Everything that she needs.There is a woman who belongs to someone else, who can never leave.There is a woman who is imprisoned by deals and money and power.There is a woman who loves a man she cannot have. There is a man and a woman who will be destroyed. **Intended for adult audiences, 18+, strong language, strong sexual content, MFM, BDSM, ends in a cliffhanger.**
Big Jock
Vanessa Kinney - 2017
Casey Boone David Cooper is just like every other jock. Cocky, full of himself, and a player. He cares more about football and parties than passing his classes. And that's why I'm stuck with him. Forced to tutor someone I despise. Someone that reminds me of who I used to be. David Cooper I'm the biggest thing to happen to this school. Because of that I get whatever I want. Endorsements, Parties, and any girl that I could want. Yet I don't want any of that since I met her. Cassey Boone is strong willed, smart-as-hell, drop dead gorgeous, and she doesn't care who I am. And that makes me want her even more. I won't stop until I make her mine. Big Jock is a scorching standalone Bad Boy Sports Romance with no cheating and a happy ending. Recommended for readers 18+ due to extreme scenes of panty-dropping hotness. Big Jock ends at around 55% percent. For a limited a copy of King: MC Romance is also included at the end of the story.
Manic Monday
Piper Rayne - 2018
Great, right? Too bad he was the best man at my wedding.I didn't swear off all men after my divorce, but I sure as hell swore off anyone remotely like my ex. On the top of that list? Attorneys. Everyone knows they can't be trusted.Been there.Done that.Burned the T-shirt.Now that I've moved back into my childhood home in Chicago, my focus is my daughter, my mom and me. I haven't given up on finding my happily-ever-after; it's just on hold-indefinitely. Yup, life is in a real upswing.Then I see Reed Warner again, and I'm reminded of all my past mistakes. I push him away, but somehow, he weasels his way into every part of my life, not willing to take no for an answer.In spite of my better judgment I can't stop thinking about the way his designer suits fit his muscular frame, or the way his blue eyes seem to eat me up with every glance. Reed is like the equivalent of a chocolate éclair and my willpower is fading fast. I never was good at depriving myself of life's guilty pleasures.
Heard It in a Love Song
Tracey Garvis Graves - 2021
Struggling to break free from the past—her glory days as the lead singer in a band and a ten-year marriage to a man who never put her first—Layla’s newly found independence feels a lot like loneliness.Then there’s Josh, the single dad whose daughter attends the elementary school where Layla teaches music. Recently separated, he’s still processing the end of his twenty-year marriage to his high school sweetheart. He chats with Layla every morning at school and finds himself thinking about her more and more.Equally cautious and confused about dating in a world that favors apps over meeting organically, Layla and Josh decide to be friends with the potential for something more. Sounds sensible and way too simple—but when two people are on the rebound, is it heartbreak or happiness that’s a love song away?From the bestselling author of The Girl He Used to Know comes a love song of a story about starting over and second chances.
Her Persistent Mountain Man (Strong Mountain Men of Burly Creek Book 2)
Flora Madison - 2021
Grumpy Single Dad
Melinda Minx - 2021
The mustard-stained apron never suited her anyway. She looks a lot better in stockings and a pencil skirt.She's given me a list. “Smile.” “Tell people ‘good job.’” “No growling!” She doesn’t seem to understand that running a Fortune 500 company isn’t the same thing as selling sandwiches.She’s determined though, and determination is exactly what I’m looking for in my new assistant. So I’ll humor her and follow her little list, just long enough that she thinks she’s got me under control.But once I get her in bed, I’ll growl all I want.WENDYI’m going to tame the big bad Mr. Wolfe, and if I can’t break his iron fist, I’ll at least put a cute little mitten over it so he doesn’t hit his employees so hard.
Falling in Fate
Melanie Shawn - 2021
When she woke up, she expected to walk down the aisle and say, “I do.” Instead, she ended up at a diner commiserating with her sisters as she inhaled a carb heavy breakfast and ate her feelings. With her entire future in limbo, Ava was plotting her next move when she overheard a deep, sexy, blast-from-the-past voice ask for a table for two. She tried to place where she'd heard the baritone vibrato before but it was sort of hard to concentrate with the tiny hairs on the back of her neck standing up, goosebumps lifting on her bare skin, and her lady parts throwing a rave.After nearly twenty years on the force Asher Ford thought he could handle anything, but becoming a single dad to a rebellious teenage girl overnight was proving to be more difficult than he’d expected. In a hail Mary move, he decided to quit his job as a homicide detective in New York City and move his daughter across the country to a simpler life in a small town. Things were going as planned until his fresh start was threatened after running into a breathtakingly beautiful woman whose smile made him feel like a teenager again and he also happened to share a complicated history with.Sometimes it's best to leave the past in the past...spoiler alert: this isn't one of those times.
The Pieces of You and Me
Rachel Burton - 2019
Rachel writes with such emotional honesty, it leaves me lost for words.’ Sarah Bennett She’d turned her back on love. But fate had other ideas. A powerful and uplifting second chance love story to make you laugh and cry, perfect for fans of Katie Marsh, Sheila O’Flanagan, and Amanda Prowse.When Jess and Rupert parted ways, it was the end of a great love story that might have been. Now ten years later, the very different paths they have taken in life will bring them back together for a chance meeting.But with so much left unsaid about the break up neither ever recovered from and with each keeping their own devastating secrets, will they finally be able to make the fractured pieces of their love for one another whole again? ‘Once again Rachel Burton has blown me away with a poignant romance entwined in the battles of the real world.The Pieces of You and Me is an enthralling love story that asks the question – can true love stand not just the test of time but the challenges we face along the way? Jess and Rupert are both fabulous and flawed and their story feels as real to me as the people I see every day. A down to earth and wonderfully uplifting story of love and second chances.’ Lauren North
Mr. Surprise Daddy (Love, Accidentally)
Annabelle Love - 2021
Football Super-Star, you’re gonna be a daddy,But we can’t talk about this until next week.I will not steal the thunder from my sister’s wedding.Especially when I’m the one organizing it.But the eye-candy linebacker won’t stay out of my way,And this island is far too small.I don’t care that he turns on the charm and offers to help.He can stick his rock-hard abs and good intentions somewhere else.Preferably somewhere that doesn’t complicate, or create, anything.But when this island wedding sends me up a creek without a paddle…he’s there.Saving my behind. Stealing my senses once again.And every time his big blue eyes meet mine, I turn into a walking bundle of hormones.I thought seeing those two pink lines was the scariest thing ever…Until I realized that I could be falling for my baby’s father.This surprise pregnancy romance will sweep you off your feet and make you fall head-over-heels. Get ready to swoon your way to the HEA! No cheating or cliffhanger. This is Book 3 in the Love, Accidentally series, but each book is a stand-alone and can be read in any order.
Jock Blocked
Shae Sullivan - 2020
Finish my senior year, then my PhD, and then it’s on to teaching just like my grandmother.There isn’t a single roadblock in my way… until he shows up at my tutoring center.Carter Jenkins.Football star. Arrogant Jock. All around brutal bastard.He may be everyone else’s favorite quarterback—but to me, he’s just the dick that ruined a naïve girl’s first days in college.And now here is he, with his smug face and penetrating eyes, demanding my help.Yeah right.I’ve heard the stories. He’s going all the way to the NFL, so long as he’s not put on academic probation for failing classes. Which is where I’m supposed to come in. And if it wasn’t for my boss/secret crush pleading with me to take Carter on, I’d drop him like a bad habit.So reluctantly, I agree.I’ll do this favor and help the guy I really can’t stand, for the guy I really want to be with.It should be no sweat…because I hate football players.And no matter how much time Carter and I spend together, or how different he may seem, there’s no way in hell I’d ever fall for one…From Bestselling author Shae Sullivan comes a new, deliciously tension filled enemies to lovers sports romance about the quarterback who has it all and the girl who refuses to fall for him. Standalone romance. HEA.
Hold Me (Hart of Stone Family Book 2)
Tory Baker - 2022
That was what Alana was supposed to be, what she became was so much more.Keller is more than what meets the eyes, a single father, completely devoted to his son, Jace. Who also happens to be a student in my classroom, my eyes were wide open when Keller and I started our quote-unquote relationship. Too bad my heart didn’t get the memo.When a man screws up, he knows it, and that’s what I did with Alana. I thought I was doing the right thing, trying to shield my boy’s heart and my own. Too bad that plan blew up in my face and I was left feeling more than I ever have before.This book is sure to make you feel all the emotions with this guaranteed happily ever after, hot romance, and a Hero that is sure to make you swoon! Don’t forget each book in this series can be read as a complete stand alone.
What Happens in the Castle (What Happens series, #3)
Kelsey McKnight - 2020
Now that she’s kicked her cheating ex to the curb, she’s transforming her long-forgotten dream into a thriving business. Amid her new patients, she manages to travel to Scotland to be a bridesmaid in her college friend’s wedding only to meet the cousin of the groom, a tall shot of whisky in a tartan glass.Rhys Mackinnon has grown restless and is eager to find his next role in life, whatever that may be. When he meets Savannah, he’s all too happy to make that role her personal tour guide. He ends up playing boyfriend too after her ex shows up unannounced.When the fictional relationship begins to feel real, Savannah’s torn between the fire she feels for Rhys and the passion she has for her career. No matter what she decides, someone will end up hurt, because what happens in the castle doesn’t always stay there.