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Get Inked Bad Boys Bundle


Hope Ford - 2018
    I look at bodies every day. But there is something about Lexi that just does it for me. She’s perfect for me. Plump, primed and innocent. Lexi just cancelled her wedding when she found out her fiancé is cheating on her and he thinks she is too big. Obviously, this is my lucky day. I found heaven in the arms of Lexi and I don’t plan on letting her go. As a matter of fact, I’m making it my own personal mission to make her bigger (with my baby in her belly). When her ex fiancé shows up wanting her back; I protect what’s mine. Because let’s face it; she was made for me. A short story romance with an alpha older male, a younger bbw, and HEA. EYES ON ME Gavin I’m thirty-five and can’t stop fantasizing about my twenty-three-year-old roommate. She came to live with me when she was eighteen. She had just started working with me at the “Get Inked” Tattoo Shop. I fight the urge on a daily basis. The urge to kiss her, to touch her, to taste her. It’s getting harder and harder, literally, to be in the same room as her. When one night we give in to our lust for each other, I know it can only be one night. She deserves better than me. Until I’m faced with losing her, and I decide to become the man she needs… and wants. A short story romance with an alpha older male, a younger bbw, and HEA. ALL OF ME TOMMY I’m a tattoo artist. I have been ready to settle down for a while now. I want a woman and a baby. I want a family. However, it’s hard finding a good woman that wants to settle down. Almost every woman I meet at the shop is still sowing her wild oats, so to speak. I used to be able to hang right with them, but now, they are all the same. Like tonight, I could have had my choice of three different women to take home with me, or to the back room, but I wasn’t interested. I haven’t been in a long time. Then I meet Jamie. She’s a beautiful thick thighed down on her luck waitress living in a shelter. It’s instalove for me and I will do anything to have her, protect her, and love her… I will do anything to give her all of me. A short story romance with an alpha older male, a younger bbw, and HEA. Hope Ford writes short, steamy, sweet romances. There is almost always an alpha male (because who doesn’t love an alpha male) and a woman he makes his queen.

Pumpkin King


Abby Knox - 2020
    When he impulsively complicates everything by offering a job to cute single mom Jane, he realizes he's got a lot more work to do: both on the farm, and on his finessing his new employee.Jane has moved back to her hometown to start over, hoping a change of scenery and proximity to her best friend, Rocket, will provide the stability she wants for her daughter and for herself. The last thing she needs is a man, least of all one who’s her boss. If only he’d stop being so attractive in that sweaty shirt … and smelling so good … and looking at her like that, she might be able to concentrate on her work.Come along for some good old-fashioned autumn fun with Henry and Jane, and stay for the not-so-wholesome pumpkin patch shenanigans! Don’t worry. Henry’s gourds are extremely sturdy.This book is intended for readers 18 and over due to graphic sexual content.

Protecting Rayne


Emily Bishop - 2018
    My girl. I protect what’s mine. This mountain is my refuge. And Rayne is my release. I ran to these mountains to escape people like her. This beautiful socialite reminds me of my greatest mistake. One that nearly cost me billions. We’re alone on this snow-covered mountain. Both battling our pasts. Warming each other with our future. She was followed out here. Her worst fears come true. I’ll protect her from him. Who will protect her from me? This steamy, contemporary, romantic suspense will keep you company tonight, tomorrow, and the day after. No cheating and a satisfying happily ever after!

Be Mine, King


Chelsea McDonald - 2020
    But after his passing, demons of his past come to the surface to seek me out. Nikolai King doesn’t care about what I think is right and wrong. Unfair, fair it’s all the same in his book. With only a few words, he’s taken away my everything and shaken it until all that floats around me are fiery ruins. I loathe him. And I won’t be afraid to show it. While his sinister smirk may charm everyone else, I’m determined to hold my resolve. I see the way his eyes linger on me, like a lion licking his lips, that’ll be his downfall. I will use his greatest desires against him until he crumbles. He will not break me down. He will not take away my fight. By the time he’s through with me, I’ll have him begging for my forgiveness. I will not show weakness. I will stand tall. I will not show mercy.

Libby Lane


C.E. Johnson - 2019
    I’ve lived here my entire life. So I couldn’t have been more excited when we bought the fixer upper on Libby Lane. That was until “we” became “I”. After I cried out every ounce of my heartbreak with a hammer in my hand, I learned how to be happy alone. Now, all I need is a porch swing, the warm country breeze and a glass of sweet tea. But when I run into Wyatt, the new cop that just moved into town, my time in solitude begins to fade. I just hope trusting him won’t be one of the biggest mistakes I make.This is not the type of place I would have pictured myself living. Jasper Creek is a far cry from the city streets I grew up on. But this town does have one advantage. Cora. Every minute I spend with her on that porch swing, breaks down a little piece of the wall I built inside of me. So when someone targets her and my instincts point to things getting dangerous, you may as well have taken a sledgehammer to that wall. Now my fear of leaving someone behind is replaced by an even greater fear. Losing her.

The Savage


Jenika Snow - 2021
    

See Me


H.L. Muller - 2021
    The king of one night stands. That’s all they see me as. And to be fair, I’m not exactly a saint, but no one sees through the reputation to the real me.No one until Cecilia.Suddenly the only one I want is her, and she has me in knots. One problem: She has no idea who I am, and I’m afraid that telling her will ruin everything.CeciliaMy vision impairment has defined my entire life. I’ve been mistreated and underestimated, and I cope by surrounding myself with music. Studying to become a producer, I was content with my life until Maverick comes crashing into it. Literally.Maverick sees me for me, treats me like an equal, and shows me the one thing my life was missing—romance. I’m terrified he’ll leave like everyone else because I’m starting to fall for him for real.**See Me is a sweet and steamy 40K romance, filled with 18+ content, great music, and first experiences on their way to a HEA. This is the first book in the Fly By Boys series, the series will be in chronological order but can be read as a stand alone novels.

His to Hold


S.L. Sterling - 2019
    But that was about to change. Getting dumped at the start of my much overdue vacation was not how I planned to spend my time off. Neither was running into someone from my past. It was the last thing I expected.... but just what I needed.My brother’s best friend was headed home when our paths collided at the airport during a massive storm. Twenty years of chemistry crackles around us like lightning, and we give in to what’s been a long time coming. From stranded old friends to insatiable lovers, spending a week together at his lake house, I'm reminded what it’s like to live in the moment. When I realize I didn’t really know him at all, I can’t help but think... I might have been his to hold, but could I be his to keep? Bryce I guess there are worse things than being forced into taking a vacation. I can think of a few. But being fresh out of a bad relationship, and in the middle of a huge merger, is not the ideal time to be jetting off for two weeks. One week in, I decide to cut my trip short, only to end up stranded at the airport. Just my luck. Everything changes when I run into my best friend’s little sister. Twenty years later, she’s all grown up and very much available. One thing leads to another, and we find ourselves back at my place riding out the storm and reconnecting in ways I never imagined. Feelings that had been delayed are finally able to take flight. The girl who held my attention all those years ago is now the woman holding my heart. I’m falling fast, but when we end up face to face in the boardroom, will our vacation romance go from pleasure to business?

More than Friends


Tarrah Anders - 2016
    Dane Crawford is head over heels in love with his best friend. Dare.A kiss. Sterling Cranefield is in lust with her boyfriend, until he abruptly breaks her heart.When Sterling tries to withdraw from her friends following the breakup, Dane won’t allow it. Now is his chance and he isn’t going to let it, or her, slip through his fingers.A simple game of Truth or Dare, changes everything.Dane and Sterling’s lives take a different direction than either of them thought possibleWill they cross the lines of the just friend zone?And if they do, can they find the kind of relationship that lasts forever?

A New Resolution: A Modern Match-Maker Romance


Rocklyn Ryder - 2019
    Watching my bad boy baby brother propose to his girlfriend at our family Christmas dinner is the final straw. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but this is the last holiday season I do alone. My first resolution for the new year? Find a husband! Blake: Spending holidays with my family and seeing everyone else married and having kids is killing me. It's not fair, I've been looking for something real of my own too. I want a family, a good woman to give my mom and dad some more grandkids to spoil. Someone I can share my life with and grow old with and spoil grandkids of our own with someday. I'm making my first new year resolution right now-- I'm getting married. When Blake and Courtney both find themselves suffering through another year of family holidays alone while they watch their married relatives living happily ever after around them, they each resolve to be married by the end of the new year. Once their search for the right person leads them to modern match-maker, Raven Swann, it's only a matter of time till they meet each other but will they manage to fulfill their new year's resolutions before the calendar runs out?

Steady


Danica Avet - 2016
    I went from Shaun Decker, NFL star, to being forced to retire and finding out my wife’s having an affair. Coaching for the Sauvage Spartans' football program will be perfect for getting my life back on track. Then a delicious woman named Katie literally falls into my lap and then, after the best sex of my life, disappears. I’m Katherine Frost, band nerd turned band director and, oh, apparently a magnet for married men. Discovering I’m the other woman already had me rethinking my life, then my one-night stand turns out to be married too. Gah! I want nothing to do with men ever again. Especially tall, handsome, bearded men named Shaun. I thought taking up a teaching position at Sauvage State was a strategic exit, stage left, but it’s looking more like going from the frying pan into the fire. Hey, Shaun again. Don't let her kid you. Fate puts people in the right place at the right time because they're meant for each other. Football and marching bands go together, just like me and Katie. I just need to convince her of that.

My Billionaire Protector


R.S. Lively - 2018
    Ten years ago, I gave Carter my innocence.

Make Me Wet


Adele Hart - 2017
    She’s the plus one on her sister’s working vacation—a vacation that is sure to turn into drunken debauchery for everyone but Libby. Instead, she plans to spend the entire cruise in the eighth-floor library where she can edit stories she can only dream of living. But she’s about to learn that even the best of plans can change when one of the world’s sexiest, most eligible bachelors sets her sails aflutter. Asa Cross has spent his life building a shipping empire. Like a pirate, he sails the seas and gathers limitless treasures. Asa has everything a man wants—or so he thinks. That is until he meets Libby Ferall. Her eyes are like rare Sapphires. Her body is like an unexplored island. Asa immediately knows that Libby is the next bounty he’ll collect and he won’t be satisfied until he’s made her his treasure.Caution: Adele Hart specializes in quickies with a heart-on. All insta-love, all HEA’s, all the time. The dirtier the better. Think of this as your afternoon delight… your guilty pleasure… bonbons for your brain. You get the idea. Now if you’re in the mood for something to tickle your lady bits, click here!

Stupid Cupid


Pixie Chica - 2020
    At 35, I’m the oldest bachelor in the cupid clan so my meddling mother has concocted a plan to get me engaged by my sister’s wedding. Acting on desperation, I accept a date-for-hire with a woman named Chels. It was supposed to be a temporary fix, but once my eyes land on her, there’s no way I’ll let her go – Even if she thinks I’m just a Stupid Cupid. Looks like I’ll be granting my mom’s wish after all. Chelsea “Chels” McQueen Spinster, cat lady, freak…Yeah I knew the names everyone called me. That's why I needed to get out of the North Pole, and quick. Short on cash, and out of options, I accept the job of girlfriend for a week. How bad could it be for a thousand bucks? I was expecting an awkward and shy man who was being tormented about being single. What I didn’t bargain for was the handsome giant I get instead. He may think he can be boss me like the Neanderthal he is, but I’ll show him. Just as soon as I stop getting lost in those troubled emerald eyes. This Valentine’s Day, the reluctant Cupid has met his match. He’ll have to pull out all the stops, and then some.

The Yeah Baby Series: Volume 3


Fiona Davenport - 2017
     Play With Me, Baby: Guy Rule: It's only stalking if you get caught. Safe With Me, Baby: Guy Rule: No sleeping with your employee. Devour Me, Baby: Guy Rule: Don't steal from the company pantry. This steamy box set full of insta-love and oops babies contains three novellas from the Yeah, Baby Series.