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The Baby Claim


Catherine Mann - 2018
    But an abandoned baby forces him back into his ex-lover’s world. He needs Glenna. For the child, for himself…for untangling the ties that bind their families. For discovering who the baby’s father really is. But will their passion survive the truth?

Needing Forever Volume #1


Terri Anne Browning - 2019
     Kenzie The lead singer for Alchemy was my first crush…and my first kiss. But when I overheard a phone call after that mind-blowing embrace, I knew I was just a game to him. It was time to get back to reality. But I never expected Bishop to show up at my job. Linc All my adult life, my parents’ condemnation followed me, reminding me I’m not worth loving. When I fell for Rhett Tomlinson, their hateful vow that I would never find someone to love the real me only echoed louder. Time after time, I pushed him out of my life, until he finally gave up and walked away for good. Yet the pain my parents’ words once caused me was nothing compared to the agony of being without Rhett. I just prayed to all of Emmie’s gods that he was willing to take one more chance on me. Mieke Dear Michelle, So, I met a guy… But you probably already knew that. He saved my life, after all. You are my guardian angel, so I’m sure you’ve got my back. Because when I needed help the most, you dropped Kaden Carmichael straight into my world. But the real thing I want to tell you is…. I think I love him. Only my heart isn’t my own, so I can’t give it to him. This is your heart that beats inside my chest, the one part of you that still remains now that you can’t be beside me. Please, Michelle. Let me give it to him. Your eternal best friend, Mieke

Say You'll Stay


Sarah J. Brooks - 2020
    I’ve missed you for the past ten years. Haven’t you missed me?”The man who broke my heart ten years ago is back in our small town.Adam Ducate. My best friend since birth.His gorgeous blue eyes made him the object of every girl’s fantasy in our entire school.But it wasn’t just his perfect looks.He read biographies on the US presidents for fun.He could count to 100 in seven different languages.He liked George Romero movies and could recite all the dialogue from Day of the Dead.In short, Adam was everything every other boy in our grade wasn’t.So I took the risk and confessed my feelings to him.Of course, it all crashed and burned in extraordinary fashion.It crushed my heart when he left my life without a word and married Chelsea instead.The biggest b*tch ever.But now he’s back.And as much as I want to ignore the butterflies in my stomach, I can’t.They say second chances don’t come around often. But can I trust that Adam will stay with me this time – or will our past keep me running?

Mine, Baby


Aubrie Lee - 2019
    But I have to stay away. We are not meant to be, because we already had our chance, and he doesn’t remember it. “Do you believe in fate? Because it wasn't meant to be.” I never thought I would see her and my life would never be the same. Everything is too complicated right now. But all I can think about is her body underneath mine. She is mine and no one else can touch her. And now, she’s carrying my child.

Kismet


April Canavan - 2017
    No longer meek and gentle, she’s forced to live her life in a world that has repeatedly tried to tear her down. Faced with her new reality, Maya learns to fight for the life she wants, with the man who still sees beneath her scars.Makes you stronger…Brian will never forgive himself for the pain Maya went through when he wasn’t there to protect her. His choices, his life, everything he believes in are all called into question when her attacker escapes justice. He finds himself struggling to prove that he deserves her forgiveness… and that he’ll never let her go.Unless something worse than death finds you.

In Love (The Knights of Mayhem #5)


Brook Greene - 2017
    But he couldn’t say no when Avery Delany asks him for a favor, resulting in him meeting the one woman who could more than throw a wrench into his perfect life. Making him think seriously about reforming his playboy ways. Tessa Kelly was trying her best to take back her life and keep a low profile. By no means does she want a man bulldozing his way in. But when there is a knock at her door and she opens it to the charming stranger, all her plans go up in smoke. What follows is a whirlwind romance leaving them both breathless and wanting more. But will the dangerous circumstances she’s running from and the secret life he is leading make it impossible for the two to be together? Or can they find a way to make it the most epic love of a lifetime?

The Sun and Her Star


Dylan Allen - 2018
    Once upon a time, that star shone only for me. Now, I have to share him with the rest of the world. For a while, I thought I could do it. Because, beneath the hypnotic smile, gorgeous body and God-given charm that made him famous, I still caught glimpses of my best friend.Of the boy who called me sunshine and loved me. I wore that love like a crown . . . until he placed it on another’s head. Losing him was agony, distance felt like the only cure. When tragedy reunites us after years apart, it only takes one touch to erase the past. Just like that, I'm back in his arms. He promises this time will be different. But I’m afraid to believe him. Because behind his star’s blinding brilliance is a darkness that doesn’t want to let him go. I know a star that bright can’t belong to just one person, but my jealous heart doesn’t want to share him.I want all of him . . . even if wanting what doesn't belong to me leads me to ruin.

A Christmas Night to Remember


Helen Brooks - 2011
    The injuries that ended her dancing career—and her marriage—may have healed, but her heart is still shattered.Tycoon Zeke fought to be the best, clawing his way from nothing to the very best, and he's going to fight for Melody. He sweeps her off to a stunning London penthouse suite, intent on seduction. All the man who has everything wants for Christmas is his wife—back in his bed!

Made for You


Kelly Elliott - 2016
    Two lives ripped apart. For Holden Warner and Emylie Sanchez, the road back to each other has been long and jagged. Each of them hiding from the truth, but unwilling to move on from the love they share.When life no longer allows them to run from their past, they soon realize they’re two souls who will never fit anywhere except … with each other. MADE FOR YOU is a stand-alone novel.

You Keep Breaking Us


Carrie Aarons - 2022
    We were the golden couple of our high school. The king and queen of prom, the sweethearts voted most likely to get married and have babies, and the absolute idiots who decided to attend the same college.Because that’s when it all fell apart. The naïve, puppy love versions of ourselves couldn’t see the obvious cracks we’d had back in our hometown. But they sure revealed themselves when we started living in an off-campus house together with four of our other friends.Within a semester, blow-out fights, jealousy, every-other-week breakups, and my abandonment issues had him bowing out. Not just on me, but on the house, too. Until our senior year, when his parents refuse to keep paying rent on two places.So he moves back in, and I’m forced to live with my ex. The one who has ruined all other men for me. The one I still cry myself to sleep at night thinking about. The one who confesses, during a run-in in a dark hallway, that he hates how much he still loves me.And when he starts dating again, he might as well plunge a knife straight through my heart. Despite our breakup, I’m on the verge of losing him for real this time, and possibly forever. The only option is to seek help for my deep-seated trauma, the thing that Callum always encouraged me to see someone about. The thing that eventually pushed him away.Put two of the most driven, headstrong, and passionate people in any relationship and it’s bound to combust. We’ve always had that twin flame kind of love.So, together we might burn. But we also might heal.

Prelude


Auden Dar - 2017
    Beautiful. Staggering. Drop-dead. Gorgeous. Man.This is more than a fleeting attraction. I’ve spent too many sleepless nights obsessing over him while my fiancé sleeps next to me.Then Julian makes a proposal I can’t ignore.One night.That’s all he’s offering.If I say yes, will I finally have it all? Or will it be a prelude to disaster?Note:Prelude is Book One in The Interlude Duet. There is no cheating and due to graphic sexual content, it is intended for mature audiences only.

Unspoken


Sandi Lynn - 2021
    I was speechless the moment she looked at me and her beautiful emerald eyes met mine. It felt like time had stopped and suddenly all was right in my disheveled life.We lived in different worlds. Mine was a world of hearing, and hers was a world of silence. Despite her being deaf, the chemistry between us was undeniable.But I faced two problems: the secret I held and my family. I was born a Walker and came from a family of wealth and status. My parents would never approve or accept her, and my mother would stop at nothing to keep us apart.They threatened my career and my future. What they didn’t understand was that I would give up everything to be with her.Then everything went to hell the day my ex-fiancée showed up with some news that threatened to tear us apart.My life was finally right, and I wasn’t going to let anyone, or anything destroy it. I would protect what was mine.18+

27: Dropping the Gloves


Mignon Mykel - 2017
    Not fighting harder to be in his daughter’s life was one, but the other was thinking that life would be somehow better without his best friend in it. However, as badly as he’d like Marlo back in his life, the last five years showed him a side of her he never imagined possible.At twenty-two, Marlo Byrd unexpectedly finds herself divorced and raising an infant on her own. Jordan had been her everything—her family and her protector—until one day he decided he wanted out. No calls. No letters. Nothing. She managed to find solace in the team that was once his…until five years later, when Jordan’s traded back. Back in the Enforcers locker room, Jordan is quickly put in his place—he may have a spot on the team, but his ex has a spot in the “family.” Everyone has an opinion on what happened between Jordan and Marlo. Did Jordan leave Marlo, and never look back, wearing the ‘deadbeat dad’ label?Or did Marlo hold back on Jordan, wanting to hurt him the way he hurt her?Gloves will be dropped. Fights will commence.But who will come out the victor?

Love, Hate & Us


S.P. West - 2017
     K-I-S-S-I-N-G… We grew up thinking that our future was set in stone. We were wrong. Turns out there is a thin line between love and hate. Then there is us. Brooke never imagined a life away from Emmerton. She never pictured a life without her childhood sweetheart, Brody. But when Brody does the unthinkable Brooke’s world is turned upside down. Unable to watch as Brody moves on with his life, she decides to start afresh. Unfortunately, leaving her past behind is not a easy as she thought, especially when her past wants her back. This novel contains adult situations and some swearing.

Rough and Rowdy


Hayley Faiman - 2016
     Pierce "Fury" Duhart is an outlaw by nature, born and bred to ride with the Notorious Devils. When a chance encounter brings them face to face, Kentlee knows that getting involved with the president of the town's notorious MC is not a wise choice. But Fury knows what he wants, and Kentlee is the little bit of sugar he craves on the side. Daring to be bold for just one night, Kentlee surrenders to Fury's advances—but one taste of the rough and rowdy man is all it takes to turn her world upside down. *** Recommended for 18+ due to Sexual Content, Adult Language, and Violence