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Three Wishes
Seressia Glass - 2002
Years of trying destroyed her marriage and left Maya unwilling to give her heart to another man. Taylor Whitfield has a wish: to have a mother. The seven-year-old never knew her mother and longs for someone to love her and her father. Nic Whitfield also has a wish: to make his daughter happy. He knows that she desperately longs for a mother, but he doesn't want to put his heart on the line again. A chance encounter turns neighbours into friends, and friends into lovers. When love makes wishes on the verge of becoming true, will the trial of prejudice and past secrets create a family? Or will it destroy their hopes of happiness?
Something Unexpected
Tressie Lockwood - 2010
But when she had been trying to get over finding her cheating ex-boyfriend in bed with her best friend, Keary seemed to be just what she needed to exercise her demons and satisfy a sexual void she never knew she had. Keary O'Connor didn't care what Zacari's motives were the night she wouldn't take no for an answer. What red-blooded man could turn down a seductress with smooth tawny-colored skin and a body he couldn't get out of his head? He had to have her, and he wanted her again. His only problem now was in convincing her that he would not be like her ex, and what he wanted went beyond the physical and would last a lifetime.
Beauty and the Beast
Deatri King-Bey - 2006
Rarely did the beast leave his safe haven, for he'd given up on the outside world years ago. When the woman he has always loved is violently attacked, the beast must return to save her. Many see Bruce Maxwell as a beast, but to Nefertiti Townes, he is Prince Charming. After she is released from the hospital, she goes to the one place she feels safe-Maxwell Manor. Being under the protection of the man she loves should be a dream come true for Nefertiti, but their personal demons strive for a nightmare. As Nefertiti and Bruce fight their attraction for each other, they discover there was nothing random about the attack on Nefertiti.
GianMarco
Eve Vaughn - 2005
A six-hundred-year-old vampire, he’s tortured by his past and jaded by immortality. Once a promising artist, a personal tragedy had turned him to a life of bitter solitude, avoiding anything and anyone who reminds him of the life he used to have. Fed up with GianMarco’s habit of sleeping with the administrative assistants in their agency, GianMarco’s business partner hires someone he thinks GianMarco will have no interest in: Maggie Williams. Maggie’s trying to put the pieces of her life back together after her husband of twenty-three years left her for another woman. Determined to start her new job with pride, she’s dismayed to meet her arrogant, super-sexy boss. As passion threatens their hearts, a powerful enemy from GianMarco’s past threatens their very lives. Warning: Graphic Sex Strong Language, Multiple Partners. This book is an expanded and rewritten version of previously titled GianMarco's Muse.
Mobster's Secret Baby (IR Love's Greatest Hits, #1)
Violet Jackson - 2016
***A Complete Story With NO CLIFFHANGER*** Tonjia Here I was, a curvy, highly successful real estate agent, looking at myself in the mirror, wondering how it all happened. I always took the straight and narrow path, but could never resist a bad boy. When Alexander came to my first showing, the magnetism was off the charts. I knew something was different about him, but with that thick Russian accent, who could deny his charms. I know life has it’s twists and turns, but I never thought I’d become pregnant with a mobster’s baby… Alexander I just needed someone to clean my cash, not some heartfelt love story. But when I saw her, I knew I had to have her. I thought I wasn’t a romantic, but she brought something out inside of me. Something I thought was long dead. After all, only the strong survive in my business. But now that I know she has my baby, I’ll protect her by any means necessary, even if it costs me everything… Read this complete standalone romance to the end by scrolling up and clicking "Buy Now With 1 Click" Check the "Look Inside" feature and find out how you can get 3 NEW (2018) EXCLUSIVE 40,000 Word Standalone BWWM Romances, absolutely FREE, sent to you in minutes!
Again for the First Time
Raven St. Pierre - 2015
Then again, Lissette never dreamed she’d actually say “yes”. But she did… The odds are against them from the start of their less than conventional marriage, but the couple quickly realizes that their newfound love is absolutely worth the risk.
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?
Breathless: In Love With An Alpha Billionaire
Shani Greene-Dowdell - 2012
Jacob is proof that there’s love after divorce, and that charm and chivalry aren’t dead. But there’s someone one problem looming over them. Justine. She’s his ex, and she’s not letting go. Jacob had it all… except her. When Destiny makes a surprise visit to Miami to visit him, their love affair is turned on its head by a stronghold from his past that’s fighting to keep him from the future love of his life. Getting Destiny to understand she's the only one he loves proves to be a quest that the billionaire has the means and heart to take. Will Destiny survive the love of the rich, white tycoon who took her breath away, or will his past be the death of her? Breathless has been re-edited and re-released. This book is part one of a three-part series filled with hot alpha male sex, power players, rekindled love, and BWWM romance. Books 2 & 3 are complete, and the series ends with a happily ever after.
Being Mrs. Blakemore
Olivia Gaines - 2013
Nearly kidnapped by human traffickers, she was saved by Saxton Blakemore, only to find herself in a bigger pickle; handcuffed and married to him. This created an even bigger problem since her husband was a mule for a drug cartel.Saxton Blakemore wasn’t happy with the turn of events either. His attempts to help the young woman was not turning out as he had hoped. He promised to get her home in one piece, but each moment spent in her presence, only intensified his attraction to his pretend wife.In order for them to get out of Mexico alive, they both understood, she would need to be very convincing at being Mrs. Blakemore.
The Arrangement
Delaney Diamond - 2010
Now she’s in his office asking for a business loan to help her brother. Instead of a loan, he’s willing to give her the money, but only if she resumes her role as his wife for the next two months. She reluctantly agrees, and she soon finds herself wishing their arrangement was permanent. But when she finds out about Leonardo’s betrayal, there may be no way for them to mend their broken marriage.
His Arranged Baby
Katie Dowe - 2016
She loves fashion, and loves shopping, so what could be better than being a personal shopper? One of her clients, billionaire Lionel Robertson, is a cynical businessman. He’s been burned by love in the past, and swears never to open his heart again. But his father’s dying wish is to have a grandchild, and Lionel feels he can’t say no. So her approaches Arianna with the proposition. Arianna, keen to start a family, agrees, and she falls pregnant on their first try. But when Lionel starts to catch feelings, their arrangement gets complicated. Will everything fall apart and end in heartbreak? Or can Arianna and Lionel both work together to build the loving family they’ve always wanted? Find out in this thrilling and emotional romance by Katie Dowe of BWWM Club. Suitable for over 18s only due to sex scenes so hot, you’ll be on the hunt for your very own billionaire.
Yes, Chef
Linda Verji - 2017
When she breaks up with her longtime boyfriend for what has to be the millionth time, he decides that this is finally his chance to show her that he’s the one who truly knows the way to her heart. It’s about to get hot in the kitchen. *This sexy, bwwm romance is a standalone novel with a happily-ever-after ending and no cliff-hangers.
Crimson Bird
L.B. Keen - 2017
One: A Vampires word is law Two: Their food, the third sex are known as Damphirs Three: Love is for those who can afford to buy it. And Bird wishes to be free of all three. Bird, a Damphir bought once she completed training, lives her life with the Wellings Noble family never completely accepted, and never fully rejected. Living a half existence, thinking that every Damphir is living the same existence as she. She endures, and takes each day one by one. A game of cards at a midnight ball changes everything... Finding herself the prize at a card game, Bird is dragged into a world far more decadent world then she ever thought possible. Desired for her looks, she will be offered a chance of freedom, for a small price...she must seduce the First Prince and dash his heart against the cold stones of the palace. A game of Hearts... First Prince, Talon Ellison does not desire the crown, but he going to do his duty of securing the throne from his conniving brothers. Yet, a Damphir gifted to him by his devious brother, causes him to begin doubting his desire to fulfill his duty, and live up to the expectations of his father. Talon is determined to torture Bird, to make her break, but with each taste, with each touch, Talon finds himself losing this dangerous game.
Black Pearl
Tiffany Patterson - 2015
Black Pearl, Book 1 of the Black Burlesque Series Monday through Friday, Devyn Williams is executive assistant to the CFO of one of the top finance firms in the country. But Devyn has a secret. At night she becomes Black Pearl, a rising performer on the Atlanta burlesque scene. Devyn's good at keeping these two aspects of her life separate, even from her company's CEO, Nikola. Nikola Collins, is CEO of Excel Financial Services, the company his father started more than thirty years ago. After graduating from West Point and serving in the military, Nikola assumed the role he'd been groomed for since he was a child, upon his father's untimely death. With his brother, Andre as CFO, Nikola has helped Excel exceed even his father's expectations. But, Nikola has a secret of his own. For the three years Andre's executive assistant, Devyn, has worked at Excel, he's been harboring a crush. Opting to not cross any professional boundaries, Nikola has kept his distance. All that changes when Nikola and Devyn are tasked with working closely with one another. The pair's attraction for one another finally boils over. Nikola finding out Devyn's little secret is not all she has to worry about. When an unwelcomed intruder from Devyn's past returns, the new couple's happiness is threatened.