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Inked
Tracy Lorraine
I say I’m embarking on the life I’ve always dreamed of. It’s all I have left.LA is everything I hoped it would be—a distraction from the life I’m desperate to escape. Fresh air and a fresh start. A chance to rediscover myself.But before I can do that, I discover her.Harlow Winters. She falls into my lap, and everything changes.The artist in me recognizes her beauty. The broken man relates to the darkness threatening to consume her.Suddenly, the future isn’t quite as daunting.I’m trying to escape my past... but she refuses to let hers go.With the scars of our past inked onto our skin and tattooed on our hearts, can we salvage a future under the weight of our memories, or will they crush us both?
Better With You, Always
Gianna Gabriela - 2019
She’s smart and sassy, and he’s a swoon-worthy alpha.Better With You took us on a journey where Mia & Colton’s love and mutual self-healing was the final destination. But their story isn’t over.When it comes to these two, they’re better together. Always.
Aria
Becca Jameson - 2019
Her blind date was a no-show, but this man… Damn. If he was willing to step in, there was no way she was going to turn him down.Corked and Tapped: Because the best stories never start with someone eating a salad.
Her Prince's Secret Baby: A Forbidden Royal Romance
Ilsa Ames - 2018
I’m a wealthy, powerful heir to a throne. She’s my strictly off limits employee. I want her saying “yes, your highness.” What I get instead is “the baby’s yours”. “Love” left me broken and shattered once. But it also left me with my little girl, Livia. All I need is a nanny to watch her. But what I get with Cara is an obsession - an addiction to the last girl in the world I should have anything to do with. I’m her boss. A prince. Heir to a throne and a kingdom. But temptation is the sweetest sin, and Cara’s gorgeous, soft curves and fiery sass are breaking the last of my willpower. But there’s a secret she’s not telling me – a scandal that could bring my kingdom to its knees. A secret that’s growing between us… Can I risk it all for love? Will I give up my billions and my kingdom for a taste of the forbidden fruit? …What about for the mother of my unborn child? I take it back, there are two rules. And the second rule is don’t fall for the nanny. Whoops. Her Prince’s Secret Baby is a full-length contemporary royal romance. Hot as sin and sweet as sugar, with a dominant alpha hero who’ll stop at nothing to have and protect what’s his. Safe, no cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happy ever after!
You're to Blame
Lindsey Iler - 2018
With my world turned upside down, I find myself leaning into him.We keep secrets.We torture ourselves through our attraction.We blame each other.I don’t know what I'm doing or who I am anymore.All I know is I don't want him to ever stop looking at me like he is right now.You're to Blame is a standalone novel.
Truth or Dare
Amy Brent - 2018
He had everything - dominance, thirst, power, control... It was perfect! Except... That he left me scarred, damaged, flawed (and pregnant). I meet him today, only to discover that he's gotten HOTTER with the years. And that big, rugged body? That's made for sin. Those icy blue eyes scorch me with feelings so intense that make me want to forget my imperfect past. Suddenly, getting lost in the mountains seems like the most beautiful thing ever. And when we play the game of truth or dare, I choose dare. And guess what? He dares me not to fall for him again! Just that he doesn't know my deepest, darkest secret. A secret that could destroy both of us - forever!
SEAL Obsessed (A Navy SEAL Romance) (SEAL Alliance #2)
Ivy Jordan - 2018
When he got word of his father’s passing, he dreaded making the trip from his now home in Miami, Florida, to the island of Molokai, Hawaii. What others would view as a paradise, Elijah viewed as a personal hell, surrounded only by bad memories.When Elijah arrived on the island, much of the place hadn’t changed, with the exception of Taylor Madden. His fallen brother from the SEALS, and childhood best friend’s younger sister had blossomed into a beautiful young woman, one that Elijah immediately sought after to make his time on the island more tolerable.Taylor Grant had the perfect family, a loving father, a protective older brother that she looked up to, but suddenly she found herself pulled from her busy life in New York, and dropped back on the small island in Hawaii where she grew up, in the same house, but without either of the men in her life.The struggle to overcome the guilt of her father’s passing, and the desire to learn details about how her brother had fallen while serving their country overwhelmed her with grief. When a familiar face, Elijah Grant appeared on the island, she thought he could give her the answers she was looking for, but he ended up giving her much more than she ever expected.SEAL Obsessed is an 70,000 word Navy SEAL romance with a HEA and no cheating.
Frenemies with Benefits
Kelly Myers - 2020
I’ve spent my life running away from my past.And for so long, that’s worked.Not anymore.Now my past is out to get me in the form of Zach O’Malley.He was my first crush, but that was then.My name is still Beatrice Dobbs, but everything else has changed. I’m an adult now. I don’t want to go back to my troubled past.Plus Zach is from the wrong side of the tracks. Sure, back when I was in high school, I had a thing for the Bad Boy, but not anymore.And on top of that, he’s trying to get me to reconnect with my mother. I haven’t spoken to her since I was eighteen, and I would rather re-take the SAT’s than see her again.And yet, I can’t seem to push Zach away.He’s no good for me.But maybe – just maybe– my teenage self was onto something.What’s the harm in a little bit of fun?
Force of Nature
Melissa Toppen - 2018
I didn’t remember much about him- except that he pushed me off a swing set when I was four years old and broke my arm. Not the best thing to remember about a person but there it is. He moved away a couple years later and soon became a distant memory. That is until I walked into my parent’s house after being gone for four years to find him sitting at the kitchen table with my family like he’d been there all along. The second his blue eyes found mine it was instant- the attraction, the spark, the zing as some people call it. In that moment my entire world shifted. Every second, every minute that followed became a whirlwind. Thad didn’t just turn my life upside down; he ripped through it-- an unstoppable force of nature that wouldn’t be satisfied until there wasn’t a single facet of my life left unturned. And yet somehow at the end of it all he was still the only thing I wanted. Haunted by a past he can’t escape- the only question that remains is can I find a way to calm the storm that rages inside of him or will I end up just another casualty in his unrelenting path of destruction?Force of Nature is a complete standalone.
One Little Heartbreak
Avery Maxwell - 2021
They’re a family that grows every time a wayward soul crosses their path, and now I’m an honorary member. A former spy, I was married at twenty-two—a father at twenty-six and a widow by thirty. To say my life is in transition would be an understatement. Winding up in small-town Vermont was a curveball I didn’t see coming, but I’m learning that the Westbrooks take their motto of Welcome to the Chaos seriously, and I’m in over my head. Having taken down one of the most notorious crime families of our generation, I thought it prepared me for anything. Then I met Ari, and Ari met the Westbrooks, and their chaos consumed us. My daughter will always come first, but when Ari gets under my skin, will I find the courage to love again? Or will the lure and danger of my old profession prove to be the only commitment I’m able to make?
When He Falls
Michelle Jo Quinn - 2017
WHEN HE FALLS ~Maggie~ I thought I had found the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with – until he ran off with my best friend on our wedding day. I had to get away from it all - my meddling mother, the cheating couple of the year, and the embarrassment of being stood up at the altar. My sister’s house in San Francisco is the perfect escape. I can get lost in a big city where nobody knows who I am, where I can mend my broken heart in silence. But someone crashes my pity party. Zach Faustino was the quiet boy who lived next door ten years ago. He was my first kiss and - if a young heart can be trusted - my first love. That was before he and his mother left without saying goodbye. Ten years have shaped him into an irresistible, charming young man. But the same ten years have also sharpened his edges, his dark past paving the way to a career that could end in a heartbeat. And despite it all, Zach hopes to change my mind about giving love another chance. But is a broken heart a willing heart? And if we’re both broken, is a second chance at love enough to fix us?
Auction House: A Dark Billionaire Romance
Piper Stone - 2022
He took me for himself instead.When I went undercover to investigate a series of murders with links to Steele Franklin's auction house operation, I expected to be sold for the humiliating use of one of his fellow billionaires.But he wanted me for himself.No contract. No terms agreed upon. No say in the matter at all except whether to give in to his shameful demands with or without him stripping me bare and spanking me into submission first.I chose the second option, but as one devastating climax after another is forced from my naked, quivering body, what scares me isn't the thought of him keeping me locked up in a cage forever.It's knowing he won't need to.Publisher's Note:Auction House includes spankings and rough, intense sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book.
Ask Me Later
Lisa Suzanne - 2020
He’s grown from a boy to a man. A hot, lean, sexy rock star of a man.A fierce attraction simmers between us, but my ex took both my dog and my confidence in the break-up.Will this be my night with a rock star?
ReWined: The Complete Series
Kim Karr - 2019
In order to take over my grandfather’s vineyard, I have to…1) Move back to my hometown. 2) Stop partying. 3) Get married. Wait! What?Before I know it, I’m buying a huge-ass diamond ring. Throwing a balls-out engagement party. And making the wedding a quickie before the bride has a chance to change her mind. Marrying me isn’t her first choice. She says this party boy is anything but husband material. That I’m cocky, arrogant, presumptuous, and even manipulative.With both of our failing businesses merging and a contract that states only one winery can survive, we’re spending a lot of time negotiating, and not the kind I prefer. Still, our perfectly unstable marriage is right on track until I go and screw everything up.Now I have to win her back, and short of rewinding time or riding in on a white horse, I’m at a loss of how to do that.Unless…Hey, every girl dreams of a Prince Charming. Right?Well, I can redefine this party boy, and turn him into one.Just wait and see.***Filled with hot and hilarious moments, you won’t want to miss the complete series!***