A Heart of a Duke Collection: Volume Two
Christi Caldwell - 2017
You'll be enchanted by the glittering world of Regency England, where dukes, rogues, and dashing gentlemen will do anything to win the hearts of their ladies! To Trust a Rogue Marcus, the Viscount Wessex has carefully crafted the image of rogue. Under that façade, however, dwells a man whose dreams were shattered almost eight years earlier by Eleanor Collins. Now, that same woman who captured his heart and broke it has returned... The Lure of a Rake Lady Genevieve Farendale has a scandalous past. Jilted at the altar years earlier and exiled by her family, she’s now returned to London to prove she can be a proper lady. Even though she’s not given up on the hope of marrying for love, she’s wary of trusting again. Then she meets Cedric Falcot, the Marquess of St. Albans whose seductive ways set her heart aflutter. To Woo a Widow Years ago, Miles Brookfield, the Marquess of Guilford, made a frivolous vow he never thought would come to fruition--he promised to marry his mother's goddaughter if he was unwed by the age of thirty. Now, to his dismay, he's faced with honoring that pledge. But when he encounters the beautiful and intriguing Lady Philippa, Miles knows his true path in life. To Redeem a Rake Society's most infamous scoundrel, Daniel Winterbourne, the Earl of Montfort, has been promised a small fortune if he can relinquish his wayward, carousing lifestyle. But then he's reunited with his childhood friend Miss Daphne Smith and he must resist his desire for a woman tarnished by scandal... One Winter with a Baron Content with her spinster lifestyle, Miss Sybil Cunning wants to prove that a future as an unmarried woman is the only life for her. As a bluestocking who values hard, empirical data, Sybil needs help with her research. Nolan Pratt, Baron Webb, one of society's most scandalous rakes, is the perfect gentleman to help her. To Enchant a Wicked Duke From the moment Justina Barrett makes her Come Out, she is labeled a Diamond. Her ruthless father is determined to sell her off to the highest bidder but Justina never gives up on her hope for a good, honorable gentleman who values her wit more than her looks...and then she meets Nick Tallings, the Duke of Huntly, a scoundrel with plans for her... Beguiled by a Baron Bridget Hamilton is content with her life, even if she’s been cast out of her family. But her peaceful existence—expanding her mind with her study of rare books—is threatened with an ultimatum from her evil brother—steal a valuable book from Vail Basingstoke, Baron Chilton, the infamous book seller--or give up her son. The last thing she expects is to fall in love with the man she's set to betray... To Tempt a Scoundrel When Lord Rhys Brookfield and Lady Alice Winterbourne enter into a pretend courtship meant to spite Alice’s former betrothed and prevent any matchmaking attempts toward Rhys, either expect that a pretense can become so much more. Or that a burning passion can heal… and hurt.
Mistletoe Kisses
Macie St. James - 2020
But that's exactly what she finds when she returns from being out of town. Worse, the bear has been deliberately trapped by the shop's owner, Will Parker.Will is starting a new life in the town of Reindeer Ridge. His shop, The Big Bear, sells novelty items while also providing guests the chance to see a live bear kept humanely upstairs. Unfortunately, the shop owner across the way seems to be determined to have his shop closed down.But Annaliese soon begins to realize that Will isn’t the bad guy she wants to make him out to be. As their feelings for each other start to grow, they both begin to realize the importance of compromise.This book was previously included in the December 2020 anthology, Small-Town Christmas. The rest of the series was not part of that anthology.The Reindeer Ridge series is a sweet, clean contemporary Christmas series filled with swoon-worthy heroes and a small-town setting.
Holiday in Fool's Gold: Only Us: A Fool's Gold Holiday\Yours for Christmas
Susan Mallery - 2018
She’s fell for veterinarian Cameron McKenzie’s good looks, caring nature and especially his devotion to his young daughter. For months Cameron’s pushed away all thoughts of taking Rina in his arms and kissing her, unwilling to risk their friendship. But when a kiss under the mistletoe unlocks the simmering passion between them, Rina and Cameron may just find love for the holidays after all...YOURS FOR CHRISTMASFamous former NFL stars don’t date single working moms like Bailey Voss. She’ll allow herself to daydream about Kenny Scott’s muscles and killer smile, but wanting more would lead to post-holiday regret. Then Kenny volunteers to run a toy drive with Bailey, and she learns that he’s not just hot…he’s also generous, funny, nice. And as festive spirit spreads, Kenny gets wrapped up in Bailey’s kisses — and decides to make this the first of many Christmases together…Previously published.
Falling For A Cowboy
Anne Carrole - 2012
Feeling like he’s been bucked off before the eight second buzzer, Clay’s betting he can score if she’ll give him a second chance. But qualifying may call for more than he’s prepared to give. Dusty Morgan is determined not to fall for the cowboy staking out her station. She’s vowed never to get tangled up with someone who makes their living through rodeo, and she’s not interested in a hit and run. Though he may be what she desires, Dusty knows from experience he isn’t what she needs—or is he?This novella was previously published as Re-ride at the Rodeo.
Ace (The Jacksons Book 1)
Brenda Barrett - 2020
Ace Jackson Jr. resembled the Wileys and not his father, Ace Jackson Sr. His mother, Celia Jackson, told him to ignore the whispers and the innuendos, he was Ace Sr.’s son and not the son of their former gardener, Micky Wiley. For thirty-six years Ace Jr. managed to do just that. He ignored the speculation because he didn’t want to upset the status quo. However, a part of him was curious as to what was the truth of the situation, but he would honor his mother’s wishes. And then he met and developed feelings for Kiya Brady, the rumored love child of Micky Wiley, and then he realized that maybe he shouldn’t be honoring his mother’s wishes after all…
The Beachside Cafe (Saltwater Secrets Book 4)
Sage Parker - 2021
The Exceptional S. Beaufont Boxed Set #2: The Complete Magitech Collection
Sarah Noffke - 2020
Beaufont Series Books 4-6 in one GIANT eBook, just waiting for you to enjoy!The New Elite:The dragonriders have been given a second chance.But that only draws more attention to them.Many powerful people want a dragon egg.And they will kill for them.The Gullington has never been more unsafe.Harboring dragon eggs is dangerous business. Sophia Beaufont feels the pressure to protect and also defend like never before.Being a mama to eggs isn’t easy.And yet, S. Beaufont would have it no other way.Will the dragon eggs survive the greed seeking to steal them for selfish gains?Justice Unhatched:The Dragon Elite are growing more powerful.But so are their enemies. Dragon eggs have been stolen, but Sophia isn’t deterred.She will get them back and make the thieves suffer.Once she figures out where to look for them…The stakes are higher than ever as Sophia is sent on mission after mission to help the Dragon Elite, do Subner’s bidding and also save those at the Gullington who are still cursed.Quiet might be better, but the housekeeper for the Castle is still sick.Sophia won’t stop until she finds a cure for Ainsley.But to save the eggs, the housekeeper and her friends it’s going to take harnessing the strongest power in the world. And the most elusive.Can love save everyone?Rectify Injustice:Who can turn an enemy into an ally?Sophia Beaufont hopes that she can.She just has to track down the steampunk cyborg.The problem is, Trin Currante thinks the Dragon Elite want her dead. And she’s excellent at avoiding death—as her history to survive and prevail over adversity has proven.Meanwhile, Hiker still struggles to hone his powers…Regardless of his strength, Ainsley doesn’t show signs of softening toward the leader of the Dragon Elite. If anything, he should fear the housekeeper might poison his next meal.While dragon eggs continue to hatch, magicians are going missing worldwide.The House of Fourteen is losing credibility with governments. Chaos is spreading around the planet. And Sophia suspects that the Saverus Corporation is behind everything.Can she uncover the truth before it’s too late?
If you love dragons, and the special people who ride them, then you'll LOVE this action-packed dragon rider series!
The Haunted Groom
Karly Stratford - 2018
His Christmas plans include starting a foundation to help kids get out of his old neighborhood. However, quarterback Will Kent throws a wrench in Evan's plans with a bet. A bet for Evan to contact his first love, Anna Jordan, and try to win her back. To his surprise, Anna—now the hottest actress in Hollywood—agrees to help him with his foundation. Anna brings her feisty, ninja-like bodyguard along, and suddenly Evan has a problem. The beautiful and tough, Henley Keaton only wants a drama-free Christmas. When Evan Cook calls Henley's employer, to Milwaukee to help with some foundation, she's overjoyed. She can avoid the yearly family fight and eat deep-fried-cheese-curds and relax for Christmas. But when Anna gets sick and forces Henley to go on a date with Evan Cook in her place, Henley’s plan begins to crumble. When Henley and Evan engage in a spirited duel of Shakespeare quotes, things get...complicated. After tragedy strikes, and it looks like Evan's haunted past is going to catch up with him, he must decide if he's willing to walk away or let Christmas miracles come true.
Daddy Bikers Box Set
Sadie Savage - 2017
I almost lost my kids that time. I can’t let it happen again. But now that the Boss Man’s daughter is helping me raise them, I’m in a world of trouble. I want to take her bad! Book Two: Daddy Protector As VP of the Pythons MC, Blade is in a world of trouble when he has to protect is best friend's daughter from her abusive cop husband. Book Three: Daddy Danger He betrayed his MC. He betrayed his family. How do you know he won't betray you? Book Four: Ace I want my revenge. Walker and his scumbags from Queens are responsible for her death, and I will not rest. And now that I can get my hands all over his virginal sister, revenge will be mine…. 18+ Only. Includes Bonus Stories.
Tempting Secrets (Tempting Nights Romance #1)
Michelle Windsor - 2018
Or at least, it’s the name my clients call me. I work for the elite escort agency, Temptations, and for a price, I’ll be whatever you want and need me to be. I have the body, I have the looks, and I have a smile that makes any woman swoon. But It’s just a job. A necessary evil to help fund my dreams of becoming a doctor. I’m simply a robot, performing my required tasks. Until the night I’m hired to seduce Charlotte Harvey and remind her how good a man can make her feel. I didn’t expect her beauty to spark a desire in me long buried. I didn’t expect her smile to turn that spark into a flame. And I definitely didn’t expect her passion to ignite that flame into an inferno. I should have walked away without looking back, but she started a fire in me that I can’t seem to tame. Tempting Nights is the first book in the Tempted Nights Romance Series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone and features a happily ever after.
Twelve Miles
Robin Edwards - 2017
I ran away because I couldn't face the embarrassment of what took place at the party. Now he's back in the picture and I don't think I can face him. Will he remember who I am? SAM Sam Ellis was not your average Sutton Hill resident. The quaint, coastal town known for its sunshine, crystal clear water, and waspy, upper-class residents. No one was more unfitting than Sam. Sam used to live a fast life: the exotic cars, big house, women that threw themselves at him but when asked to take over his father's estate all he wanted to do was be left alone. JAMIE A little rough around the edges, Jamie never had the best luck. After years of playing venues with her bandmates, she met Sam, entrepreneur and high-profile member of the Sutton Hill Country Club. After crossing paths, Jamie could not get Sam out of her head. Would Jamie be enough for the hot billionaire who already had everything? AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is an HEA story with no cliffhangers! For mature audiences only, must be over 18 years of age! Please also note this is a rerelease and rebranding on an improved newer edition. This book is an extended version with more content, new cover, and a preview of Book #2 in the Serendipity series: Twelve Weeks
Underground
J.L. Hyde - 2021
The only catch? It requires them to move to Oklahoma City. After relocating, Lindy spends more and more of her newfound free time with her online group of true-crime enthusiasts and even makes a real-life friend from the group, who happens to live in Oklahoma. The women quickly become close as they meet weekly to drink coffee and discuss their lives and the latest headlines. The peace is short-lived when they find themselves in the middle of their own true crime nightmare after a terrifying encounter connects them to the case of a local missing woman. Just how far will they go to find answers?
Taken to Have Their Baby: 3 Book Collection
Chloe Kent - 2021
But twenty-one-year-old Saffron Sinclair feels she has no choice but to take the place of her beautiful and timid sister and present herself to the lumberjack instead. Her hope is that he’ll find her undesirable on sight – with her tattoos and the red streaks in her black hair – and send her back home. She’d cite the no refund clause and everything would be fine.But, when Saffron arrives at the mansion in the forest, she discovers there’s not only one but three dangerously gorgeous lumberjacks. Worse, they have no plans to return her, and walking away would mean giving them their money back.Prepared to see this through for her family’s sake, Saffron stays and is determined to remain unscathed. Except their shameless examinations and their bold and intimate methods of discipline shatter her boundaries, leaving her curiously aroused and desperately craving more…A Baby for the Mountain MenShe was promised to the mysterious mountain men in order to have their baby. Now they’re ready to collect their reward.Twenty-one-year-old Soraya has lived almost her whole life under the shadow of being promised to the mysterious men in the mountain – a deal struck in return for saving her father’s life. Now the time to present herself at their door has arrived.For Soraya, this means going from the sheltered, friendless, cruel and unloving care of her grandmother to an equally daunting and strange situation in the eerie mansion hidden deep in the dark mountain. There are rumored to be hideous monsters gracing the dilapidated castle-like house, but nothing prepares Soraya for when she meets the three men determined to extract their repayment in full.For the sake of her father, she’ll pay the debt, then she’ll start living the life she was meant to live…A Baby for the BratvaThe Bychkov Bratva need an heir. Now.They wanted a woman quickly, so they chose a home where no one would ask questions. Instead, they got twenty-one-year-old American, Starla Anderson. When the Russian Mafia invades the orphanage where she lives, in the middle of the night, throwing the nuns who raised her into a petrified frenzy, it’s Starla who is chosen as the only one who could possibly survive the Bratva and their demands.In spite of her own fear of the three massive, glowering and scary men, Starla has to think and act fast. With her heart thundering in her chest, her body on fire at their mere presence, she sees an opportunity, something that might help the other girls at the impoverished home get a chance of a better life. She lays out her only condition: her body for a fee…Except… No one says no to the Bratva.
The Trade
Emma Tharp - 2019
She needs surgery and doesn’t even have enough money in her bank account to cover car repairs, much less a mound of medical bills.Garrett Monroe is Camille’s boss. A shrewd businessman. A billionaire who’s just signed his divorce papers. His brother thinks he needs to get his groove back by sleeping with a woman.When Garrett finds out about Camille’s problem, he offers her the unthinkable. One hundred thousand dollars in exchange for a weekend alone together.
Could Camille do it? Trade her body for money? She’s attracted to him and it’d only be meaningless sex. It’d also solve all of her problems. Or will it create more?
This book is intended for a mature audience. 18+
Other titles by USA Today Bestselling Author Emma Tharp:1. What About Her (The Bluff Harbor Series Book One)2. What About Us (The Bluff Harbor Series Book Two)3. Drawn to Dark4. Keeping It Casual5. Moving On (McLoughlin Brothers Series Book One)6. All In (McLoughlin Brothers Series Book Two)7. Alive Again (McLoughlin Brother Series Book Three)8. Crashing Christmas: A Billionaire Office Romance9. Always Just Us (Just Us Book One)10. Forever Just Us (Just Us Book Two)11. Scoring Chance (Rules of the Game Book One)12. Defending Your Heart (Rules of the Game Book Two)13. Goal on the Rebound (Rules of the Game Book Three)14. Unsportsmanlike Conduct (Rules of the Game Book Four)15. Playing Dirty (Rules of the Game Book Five)16. A New Season (Rules of the Game Six)17. Winter Wonderland (A Second Chance Holiday Romance)
The Lumberjack's Match: A Sweet Fake Relationship Romance (Pretendr Dating App Series)
Blake Andrews - 2018
Rhett’s already been planning to build himself a beautiful new home on it, but the seller has several stipulations about how said land can be purchased. Chiefest among them: the buyer must build a family home on the acreage, establishing genuine roots in their small town of Leavenworth. Rhett hasn’t devoted much thought to dating, let alone marriage, but he’ll do anything to acquire this land—even if it means pretending to have a bride. Lacey Macuzzi’s family is constantly pressuring her to settle down, wanting nothing more than to throw her a huge, expensive wedding. You’d never know by her massive social media presence, but Lacey’s actually shy and socially-awkward. She’s given up on the chance of ever meeting anyone, but wants to please her parents. Frustrated, she longs to find a man willing to pose as her groom for the big day, just to get them off her back. But how? Enter Pretendr, the app that pairs people looking for fake relationships. Being matched through the app seems like the perfect solution, but once Rhett and Lacey have solved their problems, another one emerges… They both seem to have fallen for each other. The Lumberjack's Match is a 30,000 word standalone novella, perfect to curl up with if you're looking for a sweet, fun, quick read on the go.