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Q and Sade
Jade Jones - 2017
She's sweet as brown sugar with candied yams... Honey-coated complexion... Music camay... Let's hear it for the girl... She's from around the way... Sade is not your typical around the way California girl. Coming from a good family, in the rough part of Compton, the senseless murder of her mother at a young age leaves her family in shambles, and Sade forging a way as a woman without the gentle guidance that only a mother can provide. With her razor sharp tongue, and free spirit, Sade is trying hard to blaze her own trail, despite the wishes of her controlling father and bougie ex boyfriend. Q is the Robin Hood of Tree Top Piru. Under the hardened, heartless exterior that he puts up, is a man longing for the stable love he’s been missing from his baby mama Camari. With enemies lurking around every corner, and treacherous women always trying to claim his heart, a chance encounter on a doomed night sets him on the path to finding the sense of calm that he’s been longing for in his chaotic life. Is Q even capable of loving someone that needs to be loved? Or has his heart been entirely shut off from love because of the ways of the women in his past? Will shared experiences create unbreakable bonds between Q and Sade? Or will secrets, lies, and jealousy rip them apart before their love affair even begins? Get into the story of Q and Sade, two star crossed lovers from Compton. Romeo and Juliet ain’t got nothing on this real hood love story!
Sweetest Seductions (Contemporary Romance Box Set)
Mandy M. Roth - 2013
RothCrazy for You by Kennedy KovitSimmering Seductions by Mandy M. RothExecutive Decision by Mandy M. RothThe bright lights of the big city called to Liz Rogers. Her best friend and almost roommate, Dale, helped her make the transition from small town girl to big time ad executive. They work together and nearly live together. For eight years he's been her rock, her sounding board. As Liz starts breaking off one workplace relationship, another one--that has been brewing since the first day she arrived in New York, blossoms--leaving her confused and concerned. She'd been burned once by love and isn't willing to risk her heart again, especially not to a man who was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth.Dale Corbins has been in love with Liz from the moment he laid eyes on her. He knows time is running out, that one of these days she's going to come home and tell him she's fallen for someone else. When he finds out she's been sleeping with their boss, he decides it's time to take matters into his own hands. Unfortunately, winning Liz's heart isn't an easy game to play. It will take more than romantic gestures and sweet nothings to get the woman he loves. Thankfully, he's a very persistent man. But is this a game even he can't win?Crazy for You by Kennedy KovitMeredith is home again, ready to settle down in her small town and open the antique shop she's always dreamed of owning. She's had enough of powerful men trying to use her and wants to simply fade away from the dating scene and enjoy life. When she runs into the diner's new owner, she quickly realizes her master plan might have been premature.Landry left life in the fast lane for life on Main Street. He's sworn off women for a while. They're nothing but trouble. Meredith is no exception. In fact, he's pretty sure she's not quite right in the head, but for some reason he gets her offbeat, whimsical behavior and craves being around it, not to mention she's smokin' hot and oozes sex appeal. It's hard to fight nature's pull even while chanting, "I've sworn off women."Simmering Seductions by Mandy M. RothSometimes, it's possible to forgive but never forget. Can true love conquer all?Devan Seward is in the process of starting over--moving to the big city and doing her best to move on from an ugly past. When she waylays "Mr. Right" in the stairwell of her new apartment building, she feels an instant connection to him. There is something about the tall, dark and handsome man that leaves her feeling as if she's known him all her life. Devan no longer trusts blindly, a hard lesson learned but can't seem to stop herself from confessing things better left behind.Chef Kurt Holland is like a rock god in the culinary world. Cooking is his passion. His restaurant, E&E, caters only to the rich and famous. When a sexy blast from the past literally falls into his lap, he refuses to retreat like he did last time. No. Seizing the moment and Devan's heart becomes his ultimate passion.Sometimes, it's possible to forgive but never forget and the web of hurt reaches out further than most realize.
Trapped with the Vampire
Zara Novak - 2019
Everything was going great for Cassie. She had a good job, a good fiancé, money in the bank and a great life ahead of her. In an instant it’s all ripped away, and her head is left spinning as she tries to put the pieces of her life back together. Things go from bad to worse when she’s caught in a full-on vampire war during an ordinary night out. With the help of a friend Cassie manages to sneak into Club Black, an exclusive vampire watering hole which is a stomping ground for the beautiful and culturally elite. In a world of shadows, supermodels, and millionaires, she feels completely out of her depth, and things only get weirder when she’s forced to fight and run for her life. That’s when she discovers her strange power. Using her newfound ability, she makes a break for it, fleeing for her life as the world breaks all around her. Before she can escape, she’s stopped by a sexy alpha vampire, the leader of the very coven under attack. He seems to think Cassie has something to do with it. Suddenly Cassie and the powerful alpha vampire are forced into running for their life, and her captor leaves the danger of his territory behind to find a hideout where they can lay low together. They soon discover their hideout isn’t much safer, and now they’re trapped together, surrounded by a completely different kind of trouble. Can the alpha keep Cassie and her unusual power safe? Can she reconcile the new secrets living inside of her? If they don’t, they might just die. Hot, action-packed, romantic. This paranormal romance goes to crazy places and doesn’t back down.
Landing the Billionaire
Macie St. James - 2021
Her task is to clean it out and prepare it to sell, since she has no interest in living in the oversized space. But the billionaire living next door keeps distracting her from getting her work done.Grayston Young isn’t just Fiona’s neighbor. He owns the very building where her father lived. But he’s also the man who plans to take away the thing that matters most to her: her small bookstore. One of his top projects involves buying up the entire strip mall and turning it into a medical center.In their battle, they both start to realize there’s more to life than work. But one of them has to give in if they can ever be together, which means choosing love over business.The Music City Billionaire series is a sweet, clean contemporary billionaire series filled with swoon-worthy heroes and plenty of romantic moments.
When A Thug Has Feelings
Senoj - 2017
When her parents found out, they decided to uproot them to another city. After losing contact with Dreon, she experienced her first heartbreak and decided to shift her focus back on her education. Now twenty-three, Niya is in her final year of law school, but over the years she continued to experience the short end of any relationship she was in, including the relationship with her parents. She finally accepts that her heart has never fully healed, but that all changes once she sees Dreon again. She doesn’t know how he will feel about the secret she’s been keeping from him. Dreon Carter was known for the havoc he wreaked growing up. But after being abandoned by his mother on his grandmother’s steps, he was angry and released that anger on other kids. Sometimes, even letting Niya tag along. Barely graduating high school, due to poor attendance, he went into the streets full time and was now known by the street name Menace. He ended up serving some time in prison, but now at twenty-five, he is the king of the dope game in Cleveland, running the streets with his right-hand man, Renzo. He has a two-year-old daughter by a crazy baby mama who’s set on being a pain in his ass and causing friction between him and Niya. Along with running the streets, he’s trying to run his home, but with the streets and his home life trying to cross, he runs into problems. The bond of Menace and Niya is undeniably unbreakable, but is Niya strong enough to be the woman of a thug, going against everything she’s about, and dealing with the drama that comes along? Can Menace avoid the pressures of the street life and be the man Niya wants him to be, while also not giving up his streets, or will it all be too much?
THE PLAYBOY'S VIRGIN (Complete Set of Six Books)
Mia Carson - 2017
Great! Greyson Taylor: I’m a self-made billionaire which entitles me to many things. Arrogant? Perhaps, but the world belongs to people like me. So does that spitfire new intern! Her fate is sealed the second she barges into my office and talks down to me. There was only one way out of that mess – get her in my bed and fast, and make her get on her knees and beg me for more… Belle Hall: I’ve put myself through college and landed the intern job of my dreams. Nothing, not even my arrogant jackass billionaire boss can stop me from getting ahead. From the second I meet him, I know every single inch of him spelled disaster. But I’ve not gotten this far on an easy ride, and I’ll give him just what needs…when I figure out what that is.
The Playboy's Virgin complete set contains:
The Playboy's Virgin - Book 1 The Playboy's Virgin - Book 2 The Playboy's Virgin - Book 3 The Playboy's Virgin - Book 4 The Playboy's Virgin - Book 5 The Playboy's Virgin - Book 6
Enjoy this popular hot series. Over 125,000 words of pure billionaire and virgin love and lust!
Girl Meets World: Follow Your Heart (Disney Junior Novel (ebook))
Walt Disney Company - 2015
When Riley is forced to give up her cell phone and talk face-to-face with her crush Lucas, will she connect or will she shut down? Then, when another girl tries to get Lucas's attention, can Maya help her best friend win back her guy?