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Secret Desire: A Billionaire Boss Hot Romance
Jessie Jocelyne - 2022
I am a titan on Wall Street. I don’t beg, I demand. I don’t say please, I bark out orders. And I never mix business with pleasure...But I'm about to break all my rules. Will she be my ruin? Or my salvation?Laura: They say my new boss is an alphahole.But what I see is a protector and a hunk-a-hotness who fills my mind with delicious naughty thoughts. But I am not in the market for love. Or lust. This internship is my only chance for success and I will not risk it for anyone.But one day he comes up behind me and stands sinfully close, whispering, "Meet me in my office, Laura." His breath teases my skin, sending shivers on hyperdrive all over my body.I want him...But what if we get caught?Curl up with this STANDALONE bra-melting sexy romance about a grumpy powerful billionaire boss and the spunky curvy intern who melts his heart.Scorching Hot Boss Alert! Read now if you love secret forbidden workplace romances with lots of sizzle.* This is an expanded and edited version of Christmas with the Boss.
The Philistine Heart Saga
Jean Evergreen - 2018
But he has a secret... Bridget Delaney has had a year of failures. With a defunct business and a five-year relationship gone stale, the last thing she expected was for another man to catch her eye. Especially someone like Jason. He’s arrogant, insanely handsome, and he’s her new boss. Despite her greatest efforts, she can’t stop thinking about him. What’s worse, she doesn’t want to. When she’s with him, she feels alive in ways she never thought possible. But after she finds out about his troubled past, she realizes that looks can be deceiving and the heart can tell the greatest lie of all. When the chips are down, will she be able to look beyond the sins of his past or will it be her undoing? The Dilemma - Book 2 Lies, betrayal and an obsession gone too far. When it comes to love, anything goes. Jason’s back, and this time he's not taking no for an answer. With Blake in the picture, Bridget is more confused than ever. Both are prepared to give her everything her heart desires. But with her head and heart at odds, will she wind up making a decision she'll regret for the rest of her life? Please be advised: This series is intended for mature audiences. It contains violence, graphic scenes and explicit language. If you enjoy dark romances, you'll love The Philistine Heart saga.
More Than Puppy Love (Watchdog Security #3)
Olivia Michaels - 2021
Where my dog goes, I go.” Even straight into a pre-Christmas blizzard, and the only woman strong enough to face down his old demons.Kyle McGuire manages the canine training unit of Watchdog Security. He's put in to adopt the military dog Camo, who served beside him on their SEAL team. Too bad the dog went to a complete stranger instead. Braving a blizzard at night, Kyle heads to a remote Colorado ranch where he finds Camo along with a beautiful woman—and her shotgun, pointed straight at him.Arden Volker is settling in after a long day of single-handedly managing her animal therapy ranch when the banging at her door sends her new dog into a frenzy. Now she has no choice but to shelter the steaming hot SEAL who wants to take Camo away from her. While he has a legitimate claim, he has no idea what the dog means to her, and she's not ready to tell.When an unscrupulous land developer stirs up trouble of a deadly nature, Kyle, Arden, and Camo must work together to save a life. But will their Christmas dreams come true, or will all be lost in the storm?
UnWanted (West Family #3)
M. Piper - 2018
They were my best friends, but they made my dating life difficult. I probably didn’t help it either, only picking the losers that broke my heart more times than I’d like to admit. So I pulled the trigger two years ago and left home for a bigger and better life where I wasn’t being shadowed by all my past mistakes. I thought that I’d get out and do something with my life. Living in the Windy City is easy, right? Wrong. All I got in that city was a handful of mistakes to add to the list. That is, until I was handed off to Nico. Nico, the nephew of my sleazeball boss and absolutely the last thing I was looking for. He saved me that night, and as the infatuation grew between us, so did my realization that Chicago isn’t where I belong. So when I move back home, without the one person that I’ve grown pretty addicted to, things are rough to say the least. And yet again, my relationship abilities are put to the test when a long distance relationship becomes too much for me to handle. I want to blame it all on someone else, but the reality is I’M JUST NOT CUT OUT FOR THIS SHIT. This is a standalone from M. Piper. This book is part of the West Family series but does not have to be read in order.
Soulless Knight
Violet Paige - 2020
There’s a price for power and I’ve paid it.No matter the cost.We were young when we met.I thought I could protect her from the world.Shield her innocence from darkness and evil.I believed what I felt for her could take down anything in our path.Even our fathers.But I was wrong.I learned my lesson.We’re not kids any more.Now I have an empire to run and there’s only one thing standing in my way.Kennedy.She’s not the girl she used to be.The woman is more gorgeous than ever and has a tongue laced with vengeance.The ruthless world has opened her eyes.She sees me as the threat I’ve become—her enemy.She calls me the devil.She’s right.But she’ll give the devil his due.Because I always get what I want, and I never stopped wanting her.**Soulless Knight is the first in the Mafia Billionaire Second-chance Enemies to Lovers Trilogy.**
Dakota Peace
Megan Kinney - 2020
Her peace is short lived when a flat tire strands her on the other side of South Dakota with nothing but her high heels and a speeding ticket. State Trooper Travis Wilkins offers to keep her company while she waits for a new tire, but the quick fix turns into an overnight stay which turns into an extended stay. She soon finds herself in the middle of a foster child’s kidnapping case helping the handsome law man. His presence doesn’t quite settle her anxious heart. With the support of her new friends and her blossoming relationship, Natalia starts to believe she could finally experience a peaceful life … until an armed madman threatens it all.
Christmas At First Sight
Trevor McCall - 2019
The self-made author, and podcaster, accepts a bet from the mayor of a tiny town in New Hampshire to see if she can resist its Christmas charm. She never expected the owner of the local bed and breakfast, Eli Ryder, and his eleven-year-old daughter, Lucy, to be the charms she wouldn’t be able to resist. Unfortunately for Eli, Paige isn’t ready to fall in love with him, or Christmas, at first sight.
Easy Does It
Brooke St. James - 2020
It had been my dream since I was a little girl. I longed to experience the sand and sea. My heart's desire was to become a famous artist who painted scenes with palm trees and blue waters.Finally, I was moving to a coastal town. It was only three hours from where I grew up, but it might as well have been paradise with how excited I was. My sister was coming with me, except she didn't care about painting palm trees and beach scenes. She was only in it for the shirtless guys.Abigail and I packed our bags and headed south to Galveston Island where we'd stay for the summer. In the fall she would return to college, but if I liked Galveston enough I would stay.From the moment I got off the ferry I was sure this island would be my new home. I knew I had finally found my muse. What I didn't know was that I would also find my soulmate.
Georgia Peaches: 5-Books RomCom Bundle
Kira Graham - 2020
They will seduce. They will play dirty. And above all else, they will prove to five alpha men that girls know exactly how to have fun.JULESThe man is infuriating!I can only love once. That’s the family legend and in my case it happens to be true. When Jesse left me, breaking my heart and walking away without a backward glance, I thought I’d live the rest of my life alone, broken and always longing for something that wasn’t meant to be. That’s why it shocks the hell out of me when Jesse comes to me with a deal I can’t refuse. I have to pretend we’re an item for a short time and help him keep his dad occupied while his cousin searches for something I have nothing to do with.I can do that. I can do that all day long. I just hope Jesse knows that this marriage he’s waving under my nose isn’t going to be fake because I have plans…NATALIEHe’s looking for trouble and I’m going to give it to him.He’s a heartbreaker and I hate him. I’ve loved Jett Grey about as much as I’ve hated him. Problem is, I love him a little more sometimes and hate him a little less more and more. In fact, I think I may just want him back, which is ludicrous because the man has no sense, no heart and absolutely no idea how to back down from a challenge. I don’t want him to see me as a challenge though. I want love. Family. All that stuff he promised me three years ago when he made me believe he loved me. And I will get those things. I’m a lawyer. I know how to argue, cheat, and connive.He’s looking for trouble and he’s found me again. I hope he’s ready.MISSYWhat the hell just happened?I’m a lady. I’ve lived half my life being as perfect as I possibly could be and the other half trying to be as invisible and dowdy as I could be, all to avoid love. Love scares me senseless. The thought of falling in love and victim to a family curse that says we only love once…I can’t let that happen. I just can’t. I shouldn’t let Sam Grey push my buttons. I should ignore him and keep going as I have been. But I’ve gone and played with fire and gotten myself trapped and falling. In love. With a wild mountain man. What am I going to do and how will I get over it if it turns out that Sam doesn’t love me?SUNNYI was married. He divorced me. I hate him. I love him.I’ve felt every emotion a woman can feel when Jacob Harper left me high and dry, divorcing me without a reason, without a warning and without the chance to fix a wrong I didn’t know existed. I can’t love another. My family is cursed that way. We love once. We love hard. We love forever. When I’m pregnant, alone and just starting to get back on my feet and I’m determined to move on, he comes back. He wants me back. He wants me to love him but the reality is, I can’t let myself. Jacob broke my heart once before and I am not aiming to give him another chance. Trouble is, my heart and my head aren’t always in agreement.ROSIEI don’t remember a thing.I woke up from a coma and nothing makes sense to me. I don’t know my name, I don’t recognise my crazy family and I have no idea who I am, who I was or who I want to be. All I know is that I feel a connection with Jagger Grey and that for whatever reason, I need him. He doesn’t want me. He’s told me that straight to my face, and yet here I am, kidnapped by a wild mountain man who’s pretending to be civilized while he tries to get me to remember and uses me to break a case that will make his career. I hate being used. I may not know myself anymore but I know that and when I realise Jagger is seducing me with the intention of walking away, I run first.I guess he’s going to have to come catch me…
In Love with the Rogue: Historical Regency Romance
Lisa Campell - 2021
Secret Acquisitions
Raleigh Davis - 2019
Fast.When I stumble onto a tech giant's plot to spy on everyone's phones, I know my security company is only one who can stop them. But my little start up needs money. Lots of it.Enter Mark Taylor, the hottest venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. And the only billionaire I know on a personal level. And the guy I reluctantly turned down in college.I'm in his office and ready to beg... but he's not the forgive and forget type.Mark: I never hear the word no. Not since I remade myself from a skinny nerd into the deal making playboy of Bastard Capital.January was the last woman to tell me no--and the one woman I can't forget. She's as enticing as ever, so I offer her a deal: I say yes to her in the boardroom and she says yes to me in the bedroom. A quick, scorching affair is exactly what I need to get her out of my system.But when a shadowy conspiracy threatens her company--and the privacy of everybody--all my protective instincts flare to life. And this quick affair is suddenly much deeper than we'd ever expected...
Enter the world of Bastard Capital: Unrivaled men. Unimaginable wealth. Unlimited power.
Books in the Bastard Capital SeriesSecret Acquisitions (Book One, Mark's story)Unfinished Seductions (Book Two, Logan's story)Competitive Instincts (Book Three, Finn's story)Intimate Mergers (Book Four, Paul's story)Hostile Attractions (Book Five, Elliot's story)Private Disclosures (Book Six, Dev's story)
Do Bad Things
Ella Jade - 2017
Wrong become Mr. Right? My mother is dying. Without the experimental trial she’ll succumb to her cancer. Our bills are out of control and I’m desperate. Desperate enough to accept a mysterious, sexy stranger’s inappropriate proposal. The terms... My body is his to do as he pleases. He doesn’t care about my pleasure.I say yes and I get paid.Deny him one time and it all ends. I should stop what I started, but it didn’t take long to become addicted to his forbidden touch. Now all I want is for him to do bad things...***Jameson Clark spiraled out of control years ago. Drugs and alcohol nearly ruined his life but somehow he managed to get himself back on track. His career as a political consultant is at an all time high but his personal life is lacking. Old habits die hard but the addictions that almost killed him must stay buried. He needs an outlet. Something to take the edge off. Sex. Unattached, no commitment sex. He’s found the perfect candidate for what he has in mind.Struggling legal intern Cecilia Keller’s world is crumbling around her. College debts and her mother’s medical bills are more than she can handle. Working hard seems to be getting her nowhere. No matter what she does she can’t manage to get ahead until an intriguing stranger with a tormented soul makes her an improper offer. Straight up sex. When he wants it and how he wants it. Nothing else. No small talk, no dating, and definitely no intimacy. No one has to know he’s paying her.As the unlikely pair move forward neither expect for their arrangement to turn into anything more than what it is. When Cecilia becomes infatuated with Jameson she knows he can never be the one she can turn to. What happens when she breaks one of the terms of their deal? Can Jameson walk away without looking back? Just who needs who?
Worth the Wait
Sophia Sinclair - 2019
Molly Miller is an overworked and underpaid librarian struggling to raise her three kids herself. The only romances she has time for are the novels she returns to the shelves. Then one day, David Conrad walks into the Fairview Public Library. He looks just like the sexy pirate on the cover of a romance novel her best friend, Lori, has been reading, so they secretly refer to him as The Pirate Man. But the truth is even stranger. His appearance means old secrets are about to be revealed, and not everyone in town will be happy about that. Who is David Conrad? David immediately rubs Molly the wrong way. But she somehow keeps getting entangled with him in ways she can't seem to avoid. He claims to be descended from a prominent Fairview family that was brutally murdered in the 1950s. The Conrad murders were never solved, and now that a Conrad is back in town and asking questions, the people of Fairview are in for some surprises. So is Molly. Who'd have thought an irritating Pirate Man could capture her heart? Review of Worth the Wait: I cannot say enough about this book! I love the whole librarian single mom angle and meeting up with “The Pirate”??!! So much YES! Sophia Sinclair creates this small town feel with real characters that have so much depth that you can’t help but fall in love with. Molly not only tackles being a single parent, but also issues with her beloved library and her crazy awful landlord! It’s real and I absolutely loved that it was such a big part of the story. Then, she meets this mysterious stranger who is new in this small town (we all know how that goes) and he shakes things up in her already chaotic life. They have this love/hate relationship that they have to struggle through.
Undercover Bachelor
Maria Geraci - 2020
Embarrassing? Hell, yeah. Then something even worse happens. The Twittersphere erupts with outrage, and single women everywhere suddenly want to date him. Maybe being hounded by hotties is a dream for most guys, but the attention has Sam fleeing his overzealous fans.Annie Esposito thinks love at first sight only happens in the movies. She’s been humiliated in love before, thanks to the Unfortunate Incident, as everyone in her small town still calls it. Even so, when her book club friends cancel their meeting in favor of watching a reality TV dating show, Annie can’t help but be drawn to the self-deprecating and charmingly witty Sam. On a whim, Annie writes Sam a letter pouring out all her pent-up feelings, never dreaming that he’ll actually read it.As the publicity surrounding the show becomes too much to handle, Sam goes to Annie’s hometown on a double mission: hide out from the press and meet the woman who wrote him the smart and quirky letter he can’t stop thinking about. Sam and Annie have a less than auspicious first meeting, but their instant chemistry makes Annie wonder if maybe happily-ever-after really does exist. Still, reality TV and reality are two very different things, and her scarred soul and Sam’s family obligations stand in the way of a Hollywood ending. Can she put aside her painful past—and can he learn to follow his heart—so they can create a real-life fairy tale together?
Sky High Love
Bree Kraemer - 2020
Sky High LoveSloan Hayes loves her job as a pilot. But lately all the travel, the never seeing her family or friends, was getting to her. Thanks to her two best friends, Camilla and Hazel, she knows she needs to make a change if she ever wants to get out of her funk. She wasn't expecting Asher Rickman to be her change.Asher was Camilla's older brother who moved away to live in London when he was in college. She hasn't seen him in years until one night, out of the blue, she runs into him while in London. He's funny, smart and so sexy it makes her eyes hurt just looking at him. But nothing can happen. He's her best friend's brother.Asher hasn't seen Sloan Hayes in who knows how long, but she's no longer the lanky, pre-teen girl he remembered from his own teen years.She was all woman.And he wanted her.There's just one problem. She's his sister's best friend. And there is no way he can have her.But he can't stop thinking about her no matter how hard he tries.Could he somehow convince her that it didn't matter? That love could be worth it?