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My Beastly Boss: A Surprise Pregnancy Age Gap Romance (Forbidden Temptations)
Sofia T Summers - 2022
Lucas
Avery North - 2020
After breaking up with reality TV star Nancy Patterson he decides to leave love alone and focus on his business, helped by a suggestion from an old college friend that they become friends with benefits.Everything in Lucas’s life is going great until he meets gorgeous baker and charity founder Sammy Wicker, and his world is turned on its head. Thoughts of her take over his mind, and he embarks on a quest to know this beautiful independent woman better.Things seem to be on track for the two until Lucas is hired to sell the building Sammy’s bakery is located in, promising to make his company a lot of money. However, the new owner is kicking out the existing businesses for their own plans and Sammy is furious that Lucas is part of it, breaking up with him and refusing to see him.Can Lucas find his way back to Sammy’s heart or will their businesses get in the way of their relationship?
A Taste of Peace (Malibu #1)
J.J. Sorel - 2021
Lachlan Peace’s true passion in life is music and surfing. He also can’t take his eyes off his new admin assistant, Miranda Flowers.Miranda can’t believe her luck she’s finally landed a well-paying job working for Peace at his sprawling Malibu estate. Dazzled by the opulence of her new workplace, which boasts a private beach amongst other fine trappings, Miranda thinks she’s won a celestial lottery. One of her more pleasant tasks, missing from the job description, involves accompanying her handsome boss to lavish balls as his pretend date. Miranda soon discovers that her unfriendly and very demanding manager has her sights on Lachlan Peace, with whom the CFO shares a complicated history. When this scheming manager notices that Miranda has caught the eye of the man that she’s determined to marry she hatches a plan to force his hand.Although the obstacles come thick and fast, there’s only one thing Lachlan Peace is certain about: he’s crazy about Miranda. But can Miranda compete with her sly and crafty manager, who has something over Lachlan? And will Miranda and Lachlan’s off-the-charts chemistry survive the SEC, the mob, and the sharp claws of a dangerously ambitious woman?
Wicked Lies
M.V. Kasi
Her new client is the darkly handsome stranger she had met before in a club under scandalous circumstances.Sparks fly and awareness buzzes, but she resists the strong attraction towards the brooding billionaire. And when she finally decides to give in, she shockingly discovers that the man she is falling for has spun a passionate web of wicked lies she is unable to escape...Bhargav Varma is known for his icy control and meticulous planning, especially when it comes to destroying his enemies. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman changes it all.Although his plans to avenge a past family betrayal weren't supposed to include the beautiful architect he deliberately hired, he is determined to claim the woman who vows to hate him and fight him with a burning passion...Wicked Lies is a standalone contemporary romance.
His Fake Fiancee (Fake it For Me, #1)
Fiona Murphy - 2020
He also owns the company I work for. The plan was simple: get his attention to show him I was the one behind all my boss’s awesome proposals that have been making the company hundreds of millions of dollars for the last three years. I’m the one who should be in the big office making a six-figure salary. It worked. I definitely have Ivan’s attention. He’ll put me in the big office with a six-figure salary—once he’s done with me. He needs a personal assistant until he can find a replacement. It won’t be long, he assures me, no more than a few weeks. Close proximity to Ivan Volkov for a few weeks? Sure, I don’t need my dignity. I wasn’t using it anyway. No matter how many times I tell myself to stop staring at him with lust, I can’t. Volkov turns down the offer I never even made; he saw me staring, he’s used to it by now. An unrepentant user of woman, all he wants is for them to satisfy his need, then be on their way. He can get that satisfaction from any woman. The money I make him isn’t worth losing when he’s done with me. Until the moment he needs more: a shield from a woman who won’t take no for an answer. He will do anything to protect his little sister from having her wedding ruined, even faking an engagement with me. Brilliant tactician that he is, he comes up with the answer to both of his problems. For the next three weeks we can satisfy the lust we both feel, while at the same time making it clear he isn’t available. But before long what’s between us feels all too real. Can this lead to forever, or will the billionaire choose money over love?
Bratva Boss' Baby
Winter Sloane - 2021
The moment Ava entered my radar, she became my prey. I didn’t become the Pakhan of the Kotov Bratva by playing nice. I see something I like, I take it for myself. Fate put her in my path and it’s rude to refuse a horse’s gift in the mouth. When I learn she’s carrying something precious, I’ve no choice but to make Ava my bride.Ava: I never imagined one wild night with a random stranger would lead to my downfall. Viktor’s possessive, ruthless and imposing. Desperation pushed me to work for him. That was before I knew who he truly was. Monster. Bratva boss. Father to my unborn baby. My future husband. He’ll ruin me before long, but it is so bad being his?
Legally Yours
Nicole French - 2017
Okay, so maybe she's a little neurotic too. She just can't afford to be distracted these days, especially not by the immature boys that keep asking her out. At the end of her third year at Harvard Law, all Skylar wants is to figure out her next steps: ones that will hopefully include a job, an apartment, and enough money to help her father stop getting into trouble. She simply has no room for romance, especially the kind that might break your heart. But on a dark, snowy night, when she's stranded in the living room of the notorious CEO of Sterling Ventures and one of the best attorneys in Boston, all of those boundaries are about to be knocked down.Brandon Sterling never believed in fate. A man of his own making, he firmly credits his successes to hard work. How else could you explain his rise from the poorest of backgrounds in South Boston to becoming one of the most successful entrepreneurs in Boston? Living in the lap of luxury, it never mattered to him that increasing success meant increased isolation in his big house on Beacon Street. After all, when you have everything, everyone else always wants something. That he walks in to find a gorgeous redhead sitting on his windowsill. Suddenly, the idea of love at first sight seems like the most plausible thing in the world...if only the one person he wants to give his heart to would actually take it.Together, Skylar and Brandon have the kind of passion few hope to find, but things keep getting in their way. Between school, business, her father's gambling troubles and Brandon's history of personal struggle, will their complicated lives prevent them from making it work together? Or, as they both suspect somewhere deep down, have they finally met their match in each other's hearts?
Broken Beauty
Stella Andrews - 2020
Full of heat and no holding back. Fast-paced and thrilling, delving into a world where the shadows claim your soul. One wild ride with a HEA guaranteed. Lock the door and put your feet up - you're going nowhere.
Keep Me Warm
C. Morgan - 2019
My wealth.But a weekend at the Winter Moon Lodge is exactly what I need to clear my head.And the hordes of hunky handsome guys that are coming out of the woodwork are just what the doctor ordered.But one has my attention without effort.Hunter. And this man is on the prowl.I, for one, am happy to get caught up in his net.Unfortunately, my family will never accept him.Wealth hasn’t corrupted me, but they’re a different story.If our love affair could just be a fling, all would be fine, but I can’t settle for anything less than all of him.Love or family? That is the question…
His Baby's Breath: The May Flowers Series
Olivia Hawthorne - 2019
That’s not the kind of headline I’d ever expect to read, especially about my own life. But a chance meeting at a hotel with Noah Forte, America’s favorite super hero, leads to a night of passion. One and done, was how I planned it. Just one crazy night outside of my boring routine and then back to my regular life. But life is more than a headline, after all. And sometimes life takes you in directions you never imagined in your wildest dreams. Twelve of your favourite Flirt Club authors bring you the May Flowers Series. Sexy stories filled with filthy talking heroes and beautiful women with steamy scenes to curl your toes, enjoy the entire bouquet!
Hunter
Kate Tilney - 2020
But now that I’m home to take the helm, I find out my parents have gone and hired some corporate wannabe with a fancy degree to help. I’m determined to send her packing until I get a good look at her.Though she represents everything I hate, I find myself drawn to her. She’s a temptation that’s hard to resist.OliveHelping the family-run apple orchard reach the next level seems like a good stepping stone for bigger and better things. It would go a whole lot better if the owners’ son didn’t question my every decision.And it would be a whole lot easier if he wasn’t so good looking.I’m here to do a job, but maybe it wouldn’t hurt to mix a little pleasure with business.Instalove Fall Festival is a series of standalone short, sweet, and steamy romances filled with the best parts of Autumn and happily ever afters. Read this series if you love strong, protective heroes and confident, curvy heroines who find true love, and maybe some hot apple cider along the way. No cliffhangers! No cheating!
In Too Deep
Elyse Riggs - 2021
It’s not every day a girl gets cheated on the day of her wedding. She’s sworn off men and only plans to stay in town long enough to get her car fixed. Then she has to figure out the rest of her life.Enter grumpy mountain man Tyler Drake. Whatever happens, he knows he can’t fall for the beautiful tourist who walked into his bar. No matter how many sparks fly, she’s forbidden fruit he’s determined not to taste.In Too Deep is a full-length, standalone, enemies to lovers, small-town romance with humor, steam, and lots of HEA.
Hitched
Teagan Kade - 2015
I was ready to forget him... until he put that chivalry into action and went all dream man on me. Now he has a proposal—marry him for thirty days and pocket a million dollars in the process. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement, he says. He needs a wife to keep his company and I need money—bad. No job, a pending eviction and a dependent sister have seen to that. But I promised myself I'd only marry for love, that I wouldn't end up with a cheating ass like my father. I've got trust issues, yes, but they're sure as hell justified. It’s only supposed to be a temporary arrangement, a business transaction, but I’m not so sure. Question is, can a relationship that started as a sham become something more, something... amazing?
Mismatch
Tracie Delaney - 2017
Jayne’s sworn off men. Her lousy, backstabbing, cheating husband saw to that. The last person she wants to defend is too-hot-too-handle, software guru, Rupert Fox-Whittingham—criminal law isn’t even her field of expertise.No woman is immune to his charm, or so Rupe thinks, until he meets frosty, delectable, uber-lawyer Jayne. He wants her. He needs her... Challenge accepted!Except danger has come a-knocking—and it’s deadly. Mismatch is a fast-paced, sexy off-shoot to The Winning Ace series that can be read as a standalone.
Murphy's Love (Murphy's Law #3)
Michelle St. James - 2019
After rescuing Elise Berenger from the trafficking ring run by the shadowy organization called Manifest, Ronan is more determined than ever to destroy them. Ronan knows he wants to make Julia his wife, but there’s no way they can talk about the future until they settle the past. When Elise’s captors are linked to Mark Gordon, a man whose private security firm is responsible for a string of atrocities around the world, Ronan and this brothers head to Monaco. Mark Gordon isn’t at the top of the Manifest food chain, but Ronan will do whatever it takes to make sure Gordon leads them there. Julia’s safety depends on it — and so does their future together. Julia Berenger knows how to survive. Haunted by the ease with which she committed murder to save her sister, Julia keeps her head down and tries not to think about the things she can’t change. But when tragedy strikes close to home, her escalating rage poses a danger not just to the mission of stopping Manifest, but to her own sanity. Then the man at the top of Manifest is finally revealed, and MIS pulls out all the stops to expose him to the world. When he retaliates, Ronan’s business — and his freedom — are in jeopardy and Ronan is left with only one question: is there room for love when vengeance has been your only law?