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Martinis After Dark
Gina Drayer - 2016
When she tries to rent an apartment under an assumed name, she learns it comes with a job -- and a boss she can’t afford to fall for.Tattooed, sexy bar owner Dylon Knightly has a big heart but no head for business. He knows the curvy, redheaded Irish beauty with the dry wit is in some kind of trouble, but he won’t turn her away … and can’t help wanting more.The heat between them burns through their efforts to keep a professional distance. When Lee’s trouble comes looking for her, everything she holds most dear is threatened -- including the life of the charming bartender who captured her heart. But even if they survive, will they be able to overcome the secrets between them?
Irresistible
Kara Hart - 2017
But Helena Rollins is in a league of her own. She thinks I’m damaged. Broken. She thinks I’m trouble. Well, maybe she’s right, but she’s wrong about one thing… She’s mine forever, and I’m going to make sure of it this time. Addison War is Hell. That’s what they say, anyway. But Helena Rollins has fought me harder than any enemy I’ve ever faced. The only difference lies right in the center of my heart. She’s got me backed into a damn corner. She’s making me prove myself over and over again. The way her eyes flickered with fire the first time we met told me this would be trouble, but she’s worth every damn second I spend on her. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that women hold the real glory. You don’t have to look real hard to get it. Those strawberry lips, the sinful looks she gives me, and the body of a goddess pulls me in within seconds. Now, I just have to prove I’m worth the trouble. The days of war may be over for me, but I’m not just a small town guy with small dreams. At night, I dream of her. And though she thinks I’m a prick, I’ve made a vow to give her my world. I’ll see to it that she becomes my queen. Helena When I moved to Illinois, it was to be the best teacher I could to those kids. Of course, when I ran into Addison Williams, I knew my life would be thrown into chaos. He’s a golden boy, a one-of-a-kind war hero. And he’s got his eyes set on me. At the County Fair, he stares at me like I’m his trophy. With a ripped chest, bulging arms, and eyes like steel, what girl wouldn’t be flustered by his touch? But he’s done and seen things no man can ever come back from. There’s no way in hell I’m letting him near me. One drink leads to another and, well, you get the picture. My toes curl, my mouth waters, and my legs tremble. He’s proving to me that he’s the small town guy every girl dreams of. He’s telling me I deserve everything and more. I just hope to God he’s telling me the truth. **IRRESISTIBLE is a standalone, full length bad boy novel with a HEA and absolutely NO CLIFFHANGERS!**
Nineteen
E.S. Carter - 2015
Can she keep focused on the light when life keeps surrounding her in darkness?Polar opposites, will love be the thread that binds them or will circumstances beyond their control, tear them apart?*Suitable for readers Age 18+ due to some disturbing scenes and sexual content*
Trouble with the Guy Next Door
Holly Renee - 2017
From the author of Where Good Girls Go to Die, comes a fun, passionate friends-to-lovers romance that readers say "took all of my insecurities, wants, thoughts, fantasies, and needs and brought them to life." -Beauty and the BooksGuys like Tucker Moore don't date girls like me.His boring ol' washboard abs look like they were sculpted by the gods, and I have more curves than a backroad in a country song.He can charm the panties off anyone, but I am better off hiding behind my camera lens.He's my next-door neighbor and the definition of a bad idea.I have no business thinking about him, and I should have pushed him out of my dreams the moment he showed up.I'd have been better off not tempting him into anything more when I should have been walking straight into the friend-zone.Which I do, faster than he can say "Just friends."It doesn't matter that he spends more time in my apartment than his or that he smiles at me in a way that makes my stomach flip.That's just Tucker.Before I know it, he's my best friend.And completely off-limits.A weekend away is our downfall, and I pack my bag so full, I can't fit my logic.Because Tucker would be fine.But I'd end up in Trouble with the Guy Next Door.
Quiet Angel
Prescott Lane - 2015
When he was 18, he took one look at the chocolate-haired bookworm with porcelain skin and knew his life would never be the same. But it all came crashing down when Layla suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from St. Simons Island -- leaving him with nothing but her angel wing pendent around his neck. For 12 long years, Gage couldn’t shake what happened, if he’s the one to blame, wondering where Layla might be. When their paths finally cross, he’s determined to get the answers he’s spent his life searching for -- and to get the girl, too. Quiet Angel is a story of hope, survival, and lost love made new again.“I missed you, too, but you were never far.” Gage touched his shirt with the wings inside. “You were always there.”
Charming
Jennifer Miller - 2016
And I won't. Not ever.Call it crazy.Call it a whirlwind romance.Call it whatever you want. I certainly never expected to meet anyone, let alone fall for, actor Asher Charming, On my honeymoon, The one I planned with someone else.But sometimes fate, or fairy godmothers, step in, and things change.For one week, I found love in a man I never saw coming.I'm Ella and this is my story...Available for .99 preorder NOW http://amzn.to/2bQe49m
Frenemies
Emma Hart - 2020
Like your hot as hell college booty call moving in next door with his adorable daughter. The only time we’ve ever gotten along is under the sheets. Old habits die hard because two minutes on my front porch is how long it takes us to bicker. Not that a little fact like that bothers my healthy, eighty-year-old grandmother and roommate who’s determined to see me married before she bites the dust. Unfortunately for me, she’s got her eye set on Cameron Black. She’s barking up the wrong tree. He’s not The One, no matter how much I swoon when I see him with his daughter. I have no intentions of rekindling anything with him—until a rubber spider in my mailbox starts off the mother of all neighborhood prank wars, just like the ones we had in college, and throws me right into his path. One that leads right to his bedroom…
Clutch Endgame: A Baseball Romance
Tarrah Anders - 2019
Done or accomplished in a critical situation, dependable in crucial situations. The Ultimate Fan Experience, I won it. Would I say that I am? No, I just got lucky at an event and now I get to spend the day with one of the San Diego Hornets players, Gunnar “The Gun” Reynolds. The overly gorgeous catcher for the team! The known playboy and all-American good guy. I’ll act indifferent. I’m not really that huge of a baseball fan after all. Who am I kidding, I’m a sucker and he ducked me right in. However, the media is spreading lies and Gunnar seems to care less – or does he? When rumors leak out about a trade, Gunnar and Sawyer must make some heavy decisions. Will they stay together or go their separate ways? Can they overcome what the tabloids say? You met Gunnar and Sawyer in the short story in Rounding Third, A Baseball Anthology. The story that you may have previously read is new and improved and come find out what happens between Gunnar and Sawyer four years later.
Par for the Course
Jenna Bayley-Burke - 2008
He’s felt this magnetic pull only once before, for a bespectacled brunette back in college. That woman was nothing like this platinum blonde from New York—confident, poised…and hitting on him like crazy. Is she really interested in him, or merely seeking fodder for her Dating Diva column? Just one wrong move from Ben, one more disappointment, and Jillian will finally be able to stop obsessing about her college crush, leave town, and get on with her life. Except the more rope she gives him to hang himself, the more he ties her up in knots. Every move he makes is the right one, both in bed and out of it. Shaken to her college-nerd core, Jillian begins to wonder if giving him a taste of love-’em-and-leave-’em is what she wants after all.
Rule Breaker By Accident
Ali Parker - 2019
One rule. Easy enough, or so I thought. Until this hot surgeon that I’ve been dating off and on becomes a client. It was a casual fling, a fun summer love affair. Until it wasn’t. My heart wasn’t ready to fall so hard for this bad boy in scrubs. The secrets he has hidden in his past stop me dead in my tracks. But he isn’t giving up on us. Not for anything. And I have to decide where I stand. Break the rules or walk away from the best thing I’ve ever had.
Just a Kiss
Kate Kisset - 2015
(It didn't help when Sarah caught them in the act on top of her cherished pastry table.) Oh, and they've been robbing her blind, so she's broke now, too. When Sarah's offered a fresh start, and a place to stay, she high tails it out of San Francisco and moves to rural wine country. Finally settled into her new, small town-sleepy life, with a cafe of her own, the last thing Sarah needsis drama. So, when notoriously sexy actor Jamie Santino, swaggers into her newbusiness looking for baking lessons, and help with his new movie role, Sarah's blindsided. Jamie, one of six wealthy Santino Brothers, of Napa Valley Winery fame, has a feeling Sarah might be the off-screen leading lady he's been looking forforever. Wine flows and their passion has all the ingredients for everlasting love until a femme fatale from Jamie's past enters the scene.How can Sarah believe Jamie isn't acting, when everything he says sounds too good to be true? Love at Last (previously published as Just a Kiss) is now the first novel in a large contemporary romance series! If you like small town romances, a full cast of friends, steamy scenes, laughter, and sexy book boyfriends, you'll love book one of Kate Kisset's Love in the Vineyards series. (Happily-ever-afters & love that lasts forever guaranteed) ***LOVE IN THE VINEYARDS Love at Last *Jamie SantinoLove's Home Run *Luca SantinoAnd I Love You *Juliet St. John (Coming April 12 2018)Love is a Wildfire *Michael Santino (Coming July 2018)Say You Love Me *Leo Santino (Summer 2018) Road to Love *Nico Santino (Fall 2018)It Must Be Love TBDBest of My Love TBDMy One and Only LoveCompanion Stories:*Kissing Mr. Mistletoe: Christmas in Napa*Kissing Luca: Short story. (Micro Prequel: Danica & Luca when they were teenagers) ***
The Barter System
Shayne McClendon - 2012
She sets out on a journey that will take her all over the country...and deep into her own desires.*Thirteen thousand applications.*Eight chosen men.*One woman's heart.They provide information and ensure she reaches her next destination safely. In return, Riya gives them what they want - and helps them discover what they didn't realize they need.*Meet the subjects.*Push your inhibitions.*Experience the passion.Sean (37) Internet Entrepreneur - FloridaVictor (31) Fisherman - GeorgiaJoshua (22) College Student - TexasLucas (42) Rancher - MontanaRicardo (32) Police Officer - CaliforniaBobby (27) Musician - MassachusettsMicah & Max (34) Financiers - New YorkStep inside Riya's world right now.A contemporary erotic novel by Always the Good Girl, Shayne McClendon.NOTE: This story contains explicit sexual scenes and language (including D/s, menage, and same-sex) and is intended for mature audiences only. Do not read this novel if explicit sexual content offends you.
Love & Other Chaos
Jackie Walker - 2020
Brody’s my friend - just a friend. He’s also my autistic son’s favorite teacher.He’s as off limits as they come, no matter how drop dead gorgeous he is. Falling for him would be wrong. Resisting him though, is becoming pure torture. After being burned by men who can’t handle dating a single-mom of a special-needs child, I refuse to date anymore. Not until my son is grown. My plan is working fine until my trouble-making bestie presents me with a dare that I can’t resist. I’m a sucker for a good dare - especially when margaritas have been consumed. And she’s just dared me to plant a surprise kiss on Brody’s sexy lips, while she records it for a trending TikTok challenge video. But if I do this, it could change everything. My life is already pure chaos and maybe now is not the best time to shake things up even more. Is it worth risking our friendship and his important role in my son’s life for one kiss? What if he wants more? What if I do? Love & Other Chaos is a hilarious, steamy, friends-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring a drop dead gorgeous and seriously buff teacher with the hots for a single-mom of an autistic pre-teen son... who happens to be one of his students. This story also includes wise-cracking grandparents with zero respect for personal boundaries, swoon-worthy beach scenes, a jerky boss with no concept of personal space, nosey siblings and a foul-mouthed best friend who loves to instigate trouble. If you don't like sarcasm, steam, sexy-times, heroines who drink copious amounts of margaritas and laugh-a-minute dialogue, then this might not be the book for you. It’s a stand-alone novel with a happy ending, because cliffhangers will kill your margarita buzz.
Pulled
Amy Lichtenhan - 2011
In an attempt to escape the pain of her past, Melanie finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage, while Daniel loses himself in a career that means nothing without Melanie by his side. Now, when their lives intersect, neither can deny the connection they felt so long ago. But will the power that drew them together be enough to heal the wounds from their past, and do they have the courage to overcome the insecurities and fears that threaten to keep them apart? Pulled is a story of attraction and separation, of destiny and duty, of a love so strong it refuses to give up even when all others have.
Perfect Love Story
Natasha Madison - 2018
That the vows you made to each other were simply empty promises.You pick up and move to the country to start fresh. When life hands you limes, you make sure you have tequila because your life is about to get stirred up.JensenMarried to my high school sweetheart, the best thing she gave me was my baby girl. But we weren't enough for her. I wasn't enough for her. The last thing I expected on my birthday was a Dear John letter, but that’s what I got when she upped and left. Now, it's just me and my girl against the world till the new girl moves in next door. Is there such a thing as a perfect love story?