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Man of the Moment


Thea Dawson - 2018
    is here to serve.Tired of being the "cute one" in a family of glamorous people, Annabelle Winter decides to hire a gorgeous man from the Gentlemen, Inc. Agency to be her date at a big family event. Just once, she wants to be the envy of every woman in the room.And with Archer Carleson at her side, she is.Archer, a struggling actor in Los Angeles, doesn't mind making a wallflower like Annabelle look good for an evening—he's getting paid, after all, and it's a chance to further hone his acting skills. But when he realizes that Annabelle's family could hold the key to his career, he decides to take their professional relationship to a personal level.His attempts to boost his career by charming Annabelle backfire, however, when he begins to fall for her. Archer will have to decide which means more to him: Annabelle—or a shot at stardom.

Mr. Hollywood


Lacey Weatherford - 2015
    . . he's at the top of my list for new book boyfriends!” – Belinda Boring, Bestselling Author of The Mystic Wolves "You don't want to miss this beautiful and steamy love story!” – Vonnie Hudson, Book Cafe "Lacey Weatherford has done it yet again! . . . Bravo for another awesome book!” – Lisa Markson, The Paranormal Bookworm ". . . A rollercoaster you never want to get off. This is one of my favorite books of hers ever!” – Julie Engle, Book Café Overview: Women want him. Men want to be him. But sometimes things aren't always what they seem. Blurb: Hollywood’s brightest star has it all; fame, women, and more money than he could possibly know what to do with. Unfortunately for the actor known as Z. McCartney, that’s also his recipe for failure. The problem with being “on top,” is there is a long way to go when you fall. He didn’t mean to get addicted to drugs. It all started out harmlessly enough. But now faced with rehab, he knows he’s in a world of hurt. Thankfully, Z is ready for change. He is ready to commit. However, it’s not his newfound sobriety he’s ready to commit to, but his nurse, and former high school sweetheart, Aubrey. Everyone knows relationships are a strict no-no for a recovering addict. Z doesn’t care though. This is his Aubrey, the one who got away, and he’s more than happy to try and persuade her to his way of thinking. Only one problem…Aubrey is a stickler for rules, not to mention she’s already been burned by Z and won’t give him the time of day. But that’s okay. There’s a reason Z is the #1 actor in all of Hollywood, and he plans to pull out all the stops to get this girl. *Note: Recommended for 18+ due to mature themes and subject matter. **A Celebrity Novel: This book is a standalone novel, but will have future companion stories that follow. All books can be read apart from each other.

A Me and You Thing


Taylor Dean - 2018
    A match in every way, their happiness is evident to all who spend time with them. The arrival of twin baby girls completes their picture-perfect family.When Quinn has the opportunity to help others on a two-week volunteer trip, she reluctantly leaves her family, knowing a short break from the demands of motherhood will be good for her.She doesn’t expect the trip to change her life forever. But it does. It changes everything.Struggling from day to day, the young family moves forward, finding happiness . . . and love. But fate isn’t done mixing things up in their lives. When an unexpected event leaves them all reeling, the unspoken question rings loudly and can’t be ignored: “What happens now?”A Me and You Thing is a novel that explores the strength of enduring love and friendship.

The Only Best Place


Carolyne Aarsen - 2006
    Her five year plan had never included being a farmer's wife but now she's helping move cows, feed chickens and trying to find her way through the VandeKeere family interactions where she doesn't feel she fits in. The fact that the move was only temporary helped her go along with this detour in their life. That and the fact that their marriage was on shaky ground. Leslie hopes taking a break from their previous life will help her and her husband rekindle their marriage. But when her husband hints that the move might be permanent, she has to decide what to do. As she faces questions about her marriage and her faith in a God she didn't know much of before, Leslie has to struggle to find the only best place for her heart.

Empathy


Ker Dukey - 2014
    They say some people are born with decreased activity in the front central lobe causing them a deficiency in empathy. Maybe that’s true about me but whether I was born this way or created in a moment of evil, empathy was something I didn’t possess until her green eyes met mine in the mirror and I couldn’t take her life. I didn’t want to feel, didn’t want this woman in my life complicating how I lived but she was there at every turn. Sent to haunt me for my sins. Her light so bright she provoked a shadow from everyone she touched. When a job turns bad quickly altering my life forever I’m forced to feel. When nothing is making sense I’m forced to face truths I never would recover from. When life drowns you in its cruelty you don’t know which way the current will drag you or who you’ll become once you re-surface. Melody:I was a daughter I was a studentI was a victimDid I have his love? Did I make him feel?Did I have his empathy?When the actions of a soulless killer forces sorrow into my veins I never dreamed the man healing my wounds would be the one to leave the worst scar. His love would scar my soul. Scars are permanent; I will never feel the relief from them. Will I learn to live with them, remember why I have them and learn never to let him close enough to inflict more? Will I eventually cover them… like tattoos coating them with new memories, new love and new starts? I didn’t know these answers because the pain was too suffocating, the only thing I knew was they will always be under the surface lingering. He had scars too, from his sins. There is nothing that can cover them, they were too deep, too ugly, too dark and they marked us both forever.Warning: This book will mess with your mind. It is a very dark, sexy, twisted romance novel. 18+ only.

Beyond the Pale


Jennifer Millikin - 2019
    The three of us were inseparable, but growing up with two boys as your best friends comes with it’s own certain type of growing pains. As a child, Finn was wild and free, and grew up to be a devilishly handsome man with a smirk that frustrated me as much as it did other things to me. Brady was brave and loyal, and the kind of man he grew into didn't surprise me a bit: devoted and gallant, with a handsome, trustworthy face that made my heart beat faster. We went our separate ways for college, but now it’s eight years later and a pact we made back then has brought us back to our hometown. Back to the complicated situation we ran from. Back to the love triangle we never really escaped. I love them both, and it’s time for me to make a choice. I’ve always known one of them would be my forever, I just never knew which one. And I still don’t.

Disorderly


Hazel Grace - 2018
    To save my siblings, I did the unspeakable, and it cost me the ultimate price.Now, I’m going to war with the monster who took it upon themselves to rip my life apart. Before I can even hit the ground running, I’m literally struck by a woman with blush colored lips and a body that makes me fall into a haze of lust and desire. Two things I can’t deal with, especially when I know it could bring the battle right into her backyard. In the end, it does, because I’m certain she’s seducing me for another reason, other than just being with me.𝒩𝑜𝓋𝒶 I like normal, plain and simple. So when I arrive in a new town looking to conquer the townspeople’s taste buds with my bakery, it’s a dream come true as I watch it to fruition. It feels normal. Until this rugged man I ran into by chance keeps running into me time and time again. Muscles, tattoos and eyes that could devour me whole, I’m starting to think normal may be just a little too simple for me. because when his hands are on me, all I want to do is close my eyes and relish the way he sets me on fire. But as quickly as it starts, it all comes crashing down.He ripped not only my heart out, but my whole soul too.**𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. **

The Cruelest Stranger


Winter Renshaw - 2020
    I was there to drown my sorrows after a trying day, he was there to escape the storm. After a brief yet incredibly cruel exchange, the handsome stranger bolted before I had a chance to tell him off. Incensed and two cocktails deep, I followed him out the door, determined to give the audacious Adonis a piece of my mind. 

 Tearing after him in heels and barely able to keep up in the freezing rain, I ended my chase when I realized where he was going.

 They say never to judge someone unless you know their story. 

 I never could have anticipated his... And I never could have anticipated the way our paths would cross again—or that I would one day find myself falling for a man with a hollow cavity where his heart should be, a man as callous as he was beautiful, as complicated as he was mesmeric. They say never to judge someone unless you know their story. This one’s ours.

El Diablo


M. Robinson - 2016
    ROBINSONI was ruthless. I was feared. I had sacrificed. Myself. Her. Everything... Living in a world where I was worth more dead than alive was a choice. I was a bad man, never claimed to be anything else. I’ve done things I’m not proud of. Seen things that can’t be unseen. I’ve caused pain that I can’t undo. It was all my choice. Every decision. Every order. Right and wrong never mattered. Until her. She was under my protection, until she became my obsession. But who was going to save her... From. Me. The devil himself. Fate brought us together. Destiny destroyed us. STANDALONE: Romance Suspense full-length novel.

The Truth in My Lies


Ivy Smoak - 2018
    But what my husband doesn't know won't kill him. I break his rules every morning on my runs. It's always been best when I have a routine. So every day I wake up, run, clean the house, wish for a better life, repeat. And every day is exactly the same. Except for Thursdays. I live and breathe for Thursdays. It's when he comes. I watch him from a distance. I can't help myself. But I was never supposed to talk to him. I know what you're thinking. But you don't know my story. You don't know the kind of monster my husband is. And trust me, you have no idea who I am.

Full Court Press


J. Akridge - 2021
    To her, it’s a painful reminder of her past relationship mistakes. But after losing a bet to her sister, she finds herself at an Atlanta Hawks game, hating life. There, she meets basketball star Landon Prince and treats herself to one steamy night with him. Landon sees Kelsi as the kind of girl he could fall for, but it takes a bit of convincing for her to give them a chance. When she finally relents, Landon fully believes he can protect her from the trappings of his fame. He was wrong. One reporter was all it took to catch a picture of them in a compromising position, that could cost Kelsi her teaching job. But when Kelsi’s ex sees the picture, he formulates a plan to exploit the situation in a vicious custody battle. Can Landon and Kelsi work together to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and begin a full court press to their happily ever after? Or will the price of his fame tear them apart?

Secret Smiles


Laura John - 2019
    He was a small hope, a tiny bit of joy in another life. One that I pretend isn’t part of me, of who I am today. But now he’s just a reminder of the pain I once felt. I’ll never go back.MIKEYI have everything a man could ever want: fame, money, women, power. At least I thought I did --until she came into my life. Tia is my manager, she’s off limits. But the moment I see her, something feels familiar. A missing part of me comes home and I can’t stop myself. I need her.She’s the one I want the most but the only one to ever tell me no.*Trigger Warning* This book discusses some tougher subjects that might bother some readers.

Cole


Brynn Hale - 2019
    Owner Cole Reeves. The guy I crushed on all through high school. The guy my best friend married to hurt me… and divorced to hurt him.I think I’m over him, until I’m under him, and all those feelings rush back.Cole, I don’t think I can get over you a second time… ColeLittle Elodie Roberts isn’t little anymore. She’s got curves for days, and an attitude that’s thrown me for a curve, too. She loved me? But she doesn’t anymore? I’m confused. Then the past comes rushing back.The party, the kiss… Ellie, you're mine and you won't have to get over me ever again. Cole: Peacock Ridge Cowboys #1 is an instalove, happily-ever-after, STEAMY, alpha and curvy woman short story romance. NO cliffhangers, NO cheating. This is a standalone story part of the Peacock Ridge Cowboys series.

Mine


Courtney Cole - 2019
    Lindsey was the storm she didn’t see coming.When Tessa Taylor unlocked her husband Ethan’s iPad to discover nude photos from a twenty-six-year-old bombshell named Lindsey, her seemingly perfect life came to a screeching halt.With a hurricane barreling toward Florida and Ethan stuck on a business trip, Tessa finds herself imprisoned in her own home with a choice to make: Does she ride out the storm until she can confront Ethan in person, or does she take matters into her own hands?Increasingly restless and desperate for revenge, Tessa resolves to act. And when she lures Lindsey over a few hours later, there’s no turning back.What ensues is a battle of wills between two well-matched opponents, blinded by love for the same man but driven by demons of their own. Like storm-ravaged Florida, neither woman will be the same when the skies clear.

Reclaimed Love


Alina Lane - 2021
    I can’t help but ask myself…Are you going to break my heart again?Or the even bigger question...Am I going to let you?Sincerely,KateReclaimed Love is the first book in Alina Lane's debut contemporary romance series. If you like hunky hero's headstrong heroines and happily every after's then you'll love the first installment in the Heartfelt Series.Grab Reclaimed Love and fall head over heels for Kate, Arik and Felt Idaho.