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Trolling Nights: Interludes
Savannah J. Frierson - 2010
"Always Sweet" Bevin Moore's act of charity unsettles her in delicious ways. "Welcome Home" Tim's return to an empty house from a three-month mission overseas wasn't exactly what he'd had in mind.
The Billionaire's Craving
Mia Caldwell - 2016
Billionaire Colin Morgan lost his fiancee in a tragic car accident, and he blames a longtime enemy for her death. Years later, Colin has a plan to make his enemy pay. His revenge hinges on an innocent pawn … Sabela Vaughn hasn’t had it easy. She's been working double shifts as a waitress to pay for her family’s medical bills while serving as caregiver to her disabled brother. She dreams of a better life as a fashion designer, but her mounting debts keep her aspirations out of reach. When a mysterious benefactor suddenly pays off those debts, it seems too good to be true. It is. Colin has plans for Sabela, and the first step is getting her alone in his Swiss mountaintop chalet. The second is to seduce her, making her fall in love with him while keeping his own heart safe and sound. But when he meets beautiful and kind Sabela, his careful plans are thrown to the icy Alps winds. Nothing goes as planned, and in the final reckoning, long-hidden secrets might destroy everyone. This is a standalone romantic suspense with a touch of steam and HEA.
Come To Me
LaVerne Thompson - 2009
But what about love at first sound? It wasn't until he heard Jasmine Sandler's voice that he realized his life was missing something. Jasmine didn't know what to make of the man who haunted her days and invaded her nights. She knew the sound of his voice as intimately as she knew her own. But...they've never actually met. Dare she take the risk of a lifetime?
Extraction
Xyla Turner - 2016
The problem is the small town he chooses has the potential to prevent that from happening. Who knew his downfall would lead to the carefree neighbor, Phoebe, interrupting his drowning flow in an attempt to rescue Goliath from himself. Despite being angry, Goliath is intrigued by this woman who has set her sights on helping him despite the numerous attempts to get rid of her. Neither knows the other’s secret….Will things change once they are revealed? Take the journey to read about Goliath and Phoebe … #Hints about Apollo & Lori from the Legion of Guardian MC Series
Beauty and the Barracuda
Nikki Winter - 2014
When you spent the majority of your time staring at a woman and wondering if you could get away with bending her over your desk without being slapped ugly, there wasn't much else you could use to characterize your feelings. But when Nyssa slips up on the night of her birthday, giving Sansone a taste of the sweetest mouth he’s ever know after one too many, he finds himself questioning if his silent adoration is truly as unreciprocated as he thought. A man recognized for his voracious predatory instincts in their profession, he can’t very well let this slide through his fingers can he? After all, he is called the barracuda…
Their Ex's Redrock Part One
Shirl Anders - 2012
She runs toward the hotel in a thunderstorm seeing a couple in a clench on an outside balcony. Tess opens her mouth to scream at them when a man grabs her, shutting off her scream.She finds the tall, dark, and powerful man is, Vincent Whitehorse the spouse of the woman cheating with Tess' husband.They have an amazing, instantaneous connection. When Tess falls into bed with Vincent they ignite like nothing Tess has felt before. However both their spouses are crazy. Her husband has unwittingly hooked up with the mob and Vincent's wife thinks she's the next Cher.
Unexpected Mr. Right
Kelley Nyrae - 2008
Instead, she keeps ending up with a broken heart. When she meets the handsome and available Nico Valenti, she doesn't want to waste her time on another broken heart. Tabby's a new woman and the wrong man is no longer for her.Nico can't get Tabby out of his mind. He's loved and left a lot of women, but Tabby is different. He wants to spend time with her even if her rules say their relationship will be a 'no sex' one.How does a one-night-stand kind of man fall in love with a woman determined to change herself? Nico and Tabby search for a way to meet in the middle and give their new found love a chance.
The Dare
Marilyn Lee - 2008
Lonely and horny months after her lover returns to his ex, she begins a sexually exciting cyber relationship with the lusty Jake, while wondering why she and hunky friend and coworker, Nick Hart aren't friends--with benefits. When Jake dares her to meet him for a night of real passion, she appeals to Nick to help her to resist. Tall, sexy, green-eyed Nick Hart is between lovers--while he waits for a sign that the luscious Kassidy has finally recovered from her unexpected break-up and is ready to take on a new lover. Him. The only problem is, Kassidy thinks of him as a friend--minus the benefits he'd love to share with her. When she admits to uncertainly about spending the night with her cyber lover, Nick bites the bullet and urges her to spend the night with Jake. When she hesitates, he dares her. Unable to resist the double dare, Kassidy decides to accept one last dare with surprising results for her: Nick. And Jake. Publisher's Note: This book is a re-edited work of the same title previously released by another publisher and contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, voyeurism.
The Price of Passion
Stephanie Morris - 2011
After a night of passion, she was now expecting a very special Christmas delivery. But if Sierra gives in to the formidable dad-to-be marriage proposal of convenience, she knows she'll only be getting herself back into a position she vowed never to be in again.Kaden Stasso won't concede to anything less than marrying the woman who carries his child, for it is deeply engrained in his culture to take care of his own. But this marriage was to be in name only. Yet, neither he nor Sierra could refute the strong connection between them. No matter how much he or Sierra wants to deny it, they both start to realize that the price of passion might be higher than either of them expected.
His Stand In
Rebecca K. Watts - 2014
Even with a net worth in the billions he couldn’t buy a peace of mind. What he needed was a filler—someone to pretend to be his other half and put a halt to all the gold diggers vying for his time. One look at the exotic features on the brown beauty and Christian knew she held the answers to all his problems. Egypt James was so broke she was merely days away from being evicted. It was a broke she’d gladly accept as long as it rid her of her cheating ex-husband. A fresh start is all she needed. The offer she received from her white dripping hot employer was something she never bargained for. Passion’s fly when Christian moves this enticing unknown woman into his home with the proposition of marriage. Though it was supposed to be for a short while, he starts to realize he can’t be without her.
Marriage Of Convenience
Cher Etan - 2015
A number 1 best seller in the African American Romance category.A complete story with no cliff hanger, brought to you by best selling author Cher Etan.Jonathon is facing losing it all.His grandfather has given him an ultimatum:Marry and be in a stable relationship by the time you're 30, or lose out on your inheritance.There's just one problem; the women Jonathon has so far associated himself with are less than marriage material, and would probably cause more issues in the long run than they're worth.So when he 'bumps into' Leila on the way to a benefit she's organizing, he soon decides she's the perfect woman for the deal.Smart, caring and attractive, and not the kind of woman who would get greedy and take him for all he's worth.But how will Leila, a woman who's been heartbroken in the past, feel about marrying for convenience?And when Jonathon's granddad realizes his grandson's marrying a woman of color on an average salary, how will he react?Find out in this touching romance story by best selling romance author Cher Etan.Suitable for over 18s only due to sexual scenes so hot you'll need an ice shower.
Romancing the Bulldog
Mallory Monroe - 2011
To her shock, the man in the limo, Jason Rascone, is the same man she spent a tumultuous, sex-charged night with nearly a decade ago. Not only is he still that gorgeous, Alpha-Male hunk they called Bulldog Rascone, but he is also the mayor of their Florida city and a man many women would love to hold. Liz has had too many disappointments in her life to want to go down yet another dead end street with yet another bad news player, but she can’t stop thinking about him. . .Jason Rascone has many issues on his plate, not least of which is an upcoming re-election campaign. But when he sees Liz Morgan again, the woman whose virginity he stole years before, he knows he has to have her again. Not just for the hot sex he just knew she could provide, but because deep within him she has been able to penetrate a wall no other woman has been able to scale. And he has to have her in the worse way . . .Romancing the Bulldog is an interracial romance about two people who decides to cling to each other when so many forces conspire against them. In Jason and Liz we find two very different people who cannot get enough of each other sexually. But they quickly discover that their attraction is far more than a physical thing, but is a love thing, and when it matters the most they hold on for dear life and become even more determined to ride every tide that seeks to wash their newfound, yet profoundly heartfelt, love away.
Love Intertwined Vol.1
Pepper Pace - 2011
Someone to Love"God, I'm happy she's gone," one of Jill's friends said. "Yeah, looking at her face makes me sick to my stomach." Words like those have followed Raina every since she was a child and half of her face was destroyed by a tragic fire. Once upon a time, she was one of the ‘beautiful ones’ with her hazel eyes, light brown skin and long flowing hair. But now, Raina only watches the world around her. Too ashamed of her looks to actually interact, she finds joy in following Bill with her eyes. With her head down and her hair obscuring her scars she manages to get by.Bill doesn’t like anyone and has little patience for Jill’s flirtations. He has been described as looking like Brad Pitt on crack—and it’s not very far from the truth. The only thing that matters is getting through the work day so that he can get high. But one day he literally crashes into Raina and for the first time in either of their lives they allow themselves to actually be ‘seen’.The Way HomeJamie thinks too hard, reads too much and doesn’t much care for her looks. At fourteen, she knows that she’s never had a real childhood. When her mother died she was the one that had to step up to the plate and run the household—and for the most part she doesn’t mind at all. And then one day she sees a white boy coming from the woods who was dirty, hungry and obviously uncared for but with eyes so lost that despite her normal shyness she offers to help him. As they come to terms with the fact that their lives transcends the ‘norm’, Kenny and Jamie’s relationship reaches heights that they could have never imagined, and lows that their love may not survive.Baby Girl and the Mean BossNicole wasn’t sure why she had gotten the nick name Baby Girl when she was not-by far-the youngest employee of The Down Home Calabash. Her much younger co-worker complained, gossiped or talked about how attractive their boss was. But Nicole didn’t have the luxury of a fantasy existence. She was on a mission to make money and to get her degree and her plans most definitely did not include Marty. Besides he was mean and he yelled at her!But once she experiences a tragic accident, Nicole sees a different side of her sexy, boss. But each has their own secrets and if they can’t express their heartfelt emotions their relationship might be doomed even before it begins.
Broken Politics
Janae Keyes - 2016
I wasn't a fan of his. I despised his administration and everything it stood for, but yet I wanted him in the worst way." Kayla is stuck in a rut writing puff pieces for a magazine that she doesn’t even like and is far from being a political reporter for a publication with actual substance. Until then she writes a political blog that blasts the current administration and their policies. She can feel her big break coming soon when she gets the chance to do a piece on the President. President Matthew Von Hansen is the youngest president to date and the first single president in the last 130 years. He’s found himself in the seat of power, but with no real power. He wants to make a difference, but that can be hard when being forced to stay within party lines. Matthew is everything that Kayla despises about Washington or so she originally thinks. Sparks fly and love is on the horizon, but can these two find their way around broken politics?
A Maine Christmas...or Two - A Duet: The Billionaire's Angel & A Mermaid Isle Christmas
J.S. Scott - 2013
Scott and Cali MacKay.Although these stories are connected to both authors’ current series, they are easily stand-alone reads with no cliff hangers. The Billionaire’s Angel by J.S. Scott - Considered an eccentric beast by most of the residents in Amesport, Maine, Billionaire Grady Sinclair stays isolated on his private peninsula in a grand mansion most people are afraid to approach. The arrangement suits Grady just fine, until a fearless angel lands on his doorstep, making him painfully aware of how lonely he really is, and how much he wants to keep the fiery blonde cherub for his very own. But will he have to become the monster the townspeople believe him to be in order to get his Christmas wish?Emily Ashworth needs money, and plenty of it. As director of the Youth Center of Amesport, she either finds the funds she needs to supply Christmas presents and other items she needs to purchase to give the kids of Amesport a Christmas, or they won’t have one at all. Desperate, she ventures to the Amesport Peninsula to ask the wealthiest person in the area to provide a Christmas for her misplaced, abused, or troubled kids, and to help keep the doors of the much-needed refuge open. Emily is shocked when she meets Grady, and surprisingly more attracted to him than she has ever been to any man. He might have seemed like a barbarian in the beginning, but Emily quickly learns that Grady is nothing like she’d imagined. Was the monster of Amesport truly the very devil, or just a lonely man who needs the gift of love for Christmas? A Mermaid Isle Christmas by Cali MacKay – Once Aidan Nordson made his fortune, he was finally able to leave behind the world that left him broken and scarred. Escaping to Mermaid Isle, all he wants is to be left alone to live his life and deal with his demons, but when a blizzard hits and strands Chloe Madison at his door, the gorgeous and feisty brunette stirs feelings in him he’d rather push away. Forced together by fate and circumstance, can Aidan let go of the past that haunts him so he can learn to love again or will the storm in his heart swallow him in its darkness?Note: These are steamy romances and suitable for readers 18+ due to graphic language and sexual content.