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Keegan: The Murphy Family
Savannah Rylan - 2019
And I plan to do everything to make her mine. Fallon and I grew up together. My father ran the mob, while her father helped us cook the books. When her father was killed by a rival family, I helped her run. I never thought I would see her again. Until she shows back up in town. And I'm not the only one that knows she's back.
Room To Love
Erika Reed - 2018
She doesn’t know how to continue living without the love of her life by her side. Thankfully her best friends since college, Gavin Hudson and Nathan Roberts, are there to help guide her through these hard times and help pick up the pieces in her time of need. She learns the hard way that you don’t have to stop living. Gavin and Nathan have always had special feelings toward their friend’s wife, Lily. Every since they met in college, both men had been afraid to admit their true feelings for her…or for one another, for that matter. Emotions from all sides are revealed when Lily comes to live with them, along with the secrets they have carried for so long. Even though her heart will always remain true to Grayson, Nathan and Gavin are the ones who will show her what it feels like to love again. Together they will discover that love has no boundaries. Warning: Room To Love was previously published under the title “Her Second Chance At Love”. It has since been revised and re-edited with a new content and of course plenty of steamy bisexual sex scenes that will for sure melt the panties right off of you.
Twisted Hearts
Stacey Lynn - 2021
The obedient daughter. I’ve done what‘s expected of me my entire life – Until the day I flee everything I know five minutes before I’m supposed to walk down the aisle.In my defense, the man my parents want me to marry is the devil incarnate. I run to save myself. Now, I think I’m in really big trouble, and a chance run in with a man who works security, whose career is based on protecting and serving and saving, changes everything.I’m running from a man I despise, afraid for my life when Shawn swoops in and promises me everything will be okay. Somehow, I trust him. I lean on him. I might have run from one man in order to save my life, but the longer I’m around Shawn, I realize I’m at risk of losing something else ---My heart. PRE-ORDER TODAY. Releasing August 17th, 2021Available on all retailers
Anarchy (Deathstalkers MC Book 10)
Alexis Noelle - 2018
Naive. And completely clueless. Mary is everything I shouldn't want. I like them fun, crazy, ready & willing. She’s pure, innocent, and fears us all. But there's something there, Something brewing... We all know the truth, A secret that could destroy her, A fact that she's got a damn right to know. But when she does, The sweet little thing just might be ready for a crazy ride, A ride with me, on the wild side a life, A ride that will damn near start an all-out war, Anarchy all over again.
Flirting with Forever (Flirting with the Finest, #1)
Kaye Kennedy - 2021
And he definitely wasn’t supposed to fall for her. But it did. And he did. Now, he’ll do anything to protect her. Even if it costs him everything.
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When I’d caught the garter at a friend’s wedding, I hadn’t anticipated having sparks with the woman who’d caught the bouquet because that was a bad cliché, right? Things in Lauren’s life were...complicated. As for me, being a detective on the NYPD’s Special Investigations Task Force made having a relationship nearly impossible, so I’d decided we were better off as friends.Fast forward a year...Lauren stumbled into my undercover investigation of the Vosstaniye Bratva so, in an effort to keep my cover from being blown, I blurted out that she was my girlfriend.Huge.Epic.Mistake.Now, she’s been sucked into my investigation and I’ve fallen for her. Complicated or not, I have to convince Lauren that our fake relationship is anything but because we just might have a forever kind of love. But first, I have to keep her safe from the Russian mafia. No big deal, right? Wish me luck.Fall in love alongside Detective Hunter Albanese and Lauren Powers in this debut of a new series following members of the Special Investigations Task Force in New York City as they fight crime and fall in love.You'll recognize Lauren as Zoe's sister in Burning for Her, and Hunter plays a role in Burning for Love and Burning for Trouble. While this novel can certainly be read as a standalone, you'll get the most out of it having read the preceding series, Burning for the Bravest, which features NYC firefighters who love hard and make love harder.
The Successor
Alina Jacobs - 2018
As the executive assistant to a billionaire, Kate prides herself on achieving the impossible. She even manages to locate her boss's long-lost heir after a Holbrook family tragedy.But Grant Holbrook, newly crowned heir to a multi-billion dollar fortune and America's most eligible bachelor, may be the one problem Kate won't be able to solve.The first time she lays eyes on Grant, he's in jail with a bruise on his perfect jaw.The second time she sees him, he makes it clear he doesn't just want her for her exceptional organizational skills and impeccable taste in fashion. The third time…well that's when Kate realizes she may be in over her head.Kate will lose her job and ruin her reputation when people in her posh New England hometown find out she's sleeping with her billionaire boss's heir. She wants to call it off—she has to call it off—but when secrets from her past start to resurface, Grant Holbrook's strong arms may be the only thing that can keep her safe.The Successor is book 1 in the Holbrook Cousins Saga, but can be read as a standalone novel. This 80,000 word steamy romance novel has no cliffhangers but has a happily ever after.
Shameless
M. Malone - 2017
I am a liar, a protector...a killer... I am Noah Blake. There is only one light in my darkness, one bright ray in the storm of my life. Lucia DeMarco. And I’ll do anything for her. Anything except show her who I really am...an assassin. Well, former assassin. I don’t really do that anymore...usually. It would be easier if she didn’t call me names. Asshole, control freak … shameless. It would also be easier if she didn’t look at me with those trusting gray eyes. If I didn’t dream about the perfect curve of her — never mind all that. The point is she’s digging into my world, my secrets, and it’s going to get her killed. But first, we have another more immediate concern. Lucia is going on a date—With someone else... And I’m not allowed to kill this one. Noah’s Cliffhanger Warning: Ladies, I know you want to see the full package. But I have to tease you first. So I’m just going to open a few buttons so you can take a peek. And while you’re at it, hold onto your panties because I like it dirty. (The Shameless series unfolds over the course of three books)
The Brave Line
Kate Stewart - 2017
With a fresh perspective on life, she trades her tragic past in California for the coastal waters of Charleston. Fueled by a new career as a dispatcher, she’s determined not to let her scars weigh her down. She apologizes for nothing, especially her insatiable need for a certain police officer.Rowdy is a newly minted sergeant dedicated to his job, but the life of a Charleston police officer has never been more dangerous. With his need to take order of a city spiraling out of control, the last thing he wants is an entanglement with a mouthy dispatcher. But, there’s just one problem. He can’t get enough of her.As the heat rises between the unlikely pair, so does the tension.Three months of summer was all it took to shake their foundations, rattle their walls, and bring them crashing down.It was lust.It was love.It was real.And it would have been perfect . . . if it wasn't already over.Note to reader:This book has several elements and explores topics that some may consider triggers. For mature audiences only. Explicit sex, violence and language. (less)
Love on the Clock: The Complete Short Office Romance Series
Nichole Rose - 2021
Butterfly Bayou
Lexi Blake - 2020
Life in Dallas took a tragic turn for nurse practitioner Lila Daley. In need of a fresh start, she retreats to Papillon, Louisiana, a tiny town on the bayou. Sure she's greeted by a gator, finds herself in the middle of golf cart wars, and unwittingly adopts a scruffy dog, but Lila remains undaunted. She's focused on running the town's medical clinic, but fitting into the quirky community is harder than she imagined.As a single dad, Sheriff Armie LaVigne embraces routine. But there is nothing routine about the town's newest resident. Lila is a gorgeous fish out of water and he’s ready to catch her. In fact, in no time at all, Armie knows Lila is the woman for him and he plans to win her heart. But when the past threatens their happiness, Armie will have to decide if he has the courage to trust Lila enough to find a true happily ever after.
Single Dad at Mountain Creek Ranch
Lana Dash - 2020
But after a chance meeting with my old friend’s older brother, I find myself in a new position of nanny to his two little girls. Soon the job I took turns into something else the more time I spend with Nash. Will the return of someone from his past ruin our chance of a future?NASHSince my wife left over a year ago, I’ve been struggling to balance my life between running my family’s ranch and raising my two daughters on my own. Eden walks back into my life just when I need her, and I’m quick to realize she’s so much more than I could’ve imagined. Is it possible for my family to get a second chance to be whole again?MOUNTAIN CREEK RANCH is a series of short, sweet, and steamy romances about curvy women and the cowboys that fall head over horse for them. Read SINGLE DAD AT MOUNTAIN CREEK RANCH if you like cowboys, curvy women, and best friend’s brother romance with a happily ever after. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Kinda Don't Care
Lani Lynn Vale - 2018
A veil covers her beautiful eyes, and she smiles directly at him. Janie is everything Rafe’s ever imagined she would be on her wedding day. Breathtaking. Gorgeous. Perfect. The moment he sees her walking down the aisle towards him, he knows that she’s the one. Then she passes him, making her way to the man she’s to marry. A man that wasn’t him. A man that he knows with one hundred percent certainty isn’t good enough for her. It seems that her father isn’t the only one who’s having a hard time giving her away. Rafe only wishes he knew why. Everything about Janie sparks protective instincts he doesn’t feel for anyone, not even his own fiancé. What he feels for the bride, however, isn’t merely a simple attraction. He knows that something is there just beneath the surface…if only he could reach it. It has to be something huge, too, otherwise he wouldn’t be drinking whiskey straight from the flask in a church pew and wondering how many years he would do in prison if he shot the groom in front of about a hundred witnesses—half of those being cops. He was good…but not that good. A near-death experience cost Rafe almost six months of his memory, but right now he can’t help but feel like a huge mistake is being made on both of their parts. One that’s going to cost him everything. Then she says I do.
Beautifully Broken Pieces
Catherine Cowles - 2019
Taylor is looking for peace and quiet away from the memories of all she’s lost. A small mountain town where no one knows her seems like the perfect escape.A man battling the ghosts of his past. Walker loves his life just the way it is. His town, his family, his brothers in blue. Everything simple and easy—until a chance encounter changes it all. When Taylor’s solitude is interrupted by the rugged cop, they find that the very thing they were avoiding might be just what they both need. As their iron wills clash and passion flares…a killer lurks. And you never know who might be caught in the crosshairs.
Legacy of Succession
Anna Edwards - 2018
But before all that, let me introduce you to my son, Nicholas. To one of you, he'll be a future husband. To the rest, a nightmare who will haunt your dreams for whatever time you have left." Victoria, born into a life of luxury, is about to discover that this will cost her a chance of freedom. She’s been hidden away to protect her virtue. Will the sheltered life leave her struggling in upcoming trials? Nicholas is the son of a Duke. He’ll inherit the title on his thirtieth birthday. He's been prepared for this moment all his life, but he didn't count on falling for one of the girls he has to torture to choose a bride. The 'Legacy of Succession' is a dark romantic suspense novel set in a corrupted aristocratic family. Nicholas is arrogant and driven; Victoria is the chaste rich girl. Together, can they free themselves of a society intent on corruption and inflicting pain that’ll destroy more than just their lives? Let's build a better world together rather than just extinguish the fires of hate.