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You Make Me
Erin McCarthy - 2014
Then he left without a word. The betrayal devastated Caitlyn and made her vow to forget the compelling bad boy. But forgetting his sensual touch and their deep all-consuming friendship is easier said than done. Isn’t the guy she needs… Determined to move on, in college Caitlyn has risen above her small town impoverished roots and has joined a sorority, reinvented her appearance, and landed the right boyfriend. Pre-law major and frat president, Ethan, is thoughtful and always laughing, and he makes her feel happy, calm. He also gives her the social acceptance she craves. But the perfect world she tried so hard to attain is ripped apart when Heath appears one night out of nowhere. Caitlyn remembers all the reasons why she loves him, even if they don’t make sense to anyone but her. Out of the military, Heath is as brooding and intense as ever, and he is determined not only to win her back, but to exact revenge on everyone who kept him from her… And when one love allows her to breathe, but the other feels as essential to her life as air, how does she choose between them?
Take Me
A. Lonergan - 2021
The worst of the worst. The ones your parents warned you about. You know the ones I’m talking about. The ones that pushed other kids down and laughed at them, smoked cigarettes in middle school, and drank in the parking lot in high school. The ones that didn’t care about rules or limitations. The ones that would be voted most likely to spend their days in a jail cell. Yeah, there was something about that wicked gleam in their eye that got me every time.Some unknown need that revved up inside of me at the sight of it. I knew I could never escape it;I craved it like it was my own personal drug. Little did I know, it would turn me into a monster.
Closer
Kylie Scott - 2019
Enter former military man turned executive protection officer Ziggy Thayer. Having spent years guarding billionaires, royalty, and rock n roll greats, he’s seen it all. From lavish parties through to every kind of excess. There’s no reason some Instagram stylista should throw him off his game. Even if she does have the most dangerous curves he’s ever seen... **Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do.**
Beauty & the Beast
Skye Warren - 2013
Morris's house twice a week, soaking up every moment with the reclusive ex-soldier she secretly loves.Blake Morris knows he's scarred both inside and out and is no good for the beautiful young woman who cleans his house to pay for college. But when Erin walks in on Blake touching himself and moaning her name, all bets are off.BENEATH THE BEAUTYWhen Blake receives an offer to return to his alma mater as an associate professor, he knows this is his chance to reenter the world--and to be worthy of the woman he loves. Erin wants this chance for him to heal...even if it means leaving her behind.And when they enter the classroom on the first day, both of them are in for a shock.BROKEN BEAUTYA troubling revelation puts Blake's newfound career in jeopardy and Erin's impending graduation at risk. The couple forge ahead, determined that love conquers all. They find a new depth to their respect for one another and new heights for their sensual play, but secrets and shadows lay in wait along the path.BEAUTY BECOMES YOUWith the end of semester approaching, Erin and Blake decide to lay low. After all, they have all the time in the world after that. Except Blake's future at the university is up in the air and trouble is brewing back in Erin's hometown. When the couple is tested, they will have to trust each other to forge their own sexy ending.This omnibus edition contains the original Beauty series, including:1. Beauty Touched the Beast2. Beneath the Beauty3. Broken Beauty4. Beauty Becomes You
Going Down
Elise Sax - 2014
Truly. Honestly. All right... maybe she does want to get nailed, but that's just because her hottie landlord and local diner owner Mack Ryan is confusing her with his mouth. Can friends become lovers? Especially friends who might not even be friends in the first place?Going Down is the sexy and hilarious first novella in the five-part Wish Upon A Stud series. Each novella is roughly 100 pages with no cliffhanger.Wish Upon A Stud... A happy ending is just a coin toss away.An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.
Uncharted
Tracey Garvis Graves - 2013
- return in this companion novella to the New York Times bestseller On the Island.When twenty-three-year-old dot-com millionaire Owen Sparks walked away from his charmed life, he had one goal in mind: get as far away as possible from the people who resented his success, or had their hand out for a piece of it. A remote uncharted island halfway around the world seemed like a perfectly logical place to get away from it all. Calia Reed wasn't part of Owen's plans. The beautiful British girl - on holiday in the Maldives with her brother, James - made Owen wonder if getting away from it all might be a lot more enjoyable with a carefree girl who didn't know anything about the life he left behind. But Owen had no idea how much his carefully detailed plans would go awry. Nor did he realize that a decision he made would have such a catastrophic effect on two passengers who boarded a plane in Chicago. And when Owen shows up at Anna and T.J.'s door with an incredible story to tell, everyone involved will learn just how much their lives are intertwined. Uncharted includes an early look at Covet, coming September 2013.
Seduced
Victoria Villeneuve - 2013
Little did she know her life would be turned upside down when she ran into Mark Selzer in the elevator.Expecting their one night of passion to be only that, Caroline is shocked when Mark shows up at her door two weeks later. Will she be able to open up enough to let him into her life? And how will she react when she finds out he's the heir to the largest resort company in the country?This 15,000 word story is the first instalment in The Billionaire's Command trilogy.
Curvy Attraction: Aiden & Cecelia
Christa Wick - 2019
A seemingly perfect solution after my car breaks down.So why am I so nervous about this? Sure, I've harbored the biggest crush on him for over a decade. But one road trip isn't going to clue him in on that well-kept secret.I can't put my finger on what's making this ride feel like a big deal. That is, until he pulls me close and revs the hard rumbling engine of his bike.Okay, things are definitely different.And the ride hasn't even begun yet.The Untouchable Curves CollectionCurvy Attraction (Aiden & Cecelia)Curvy Seduction (Owen & Gemma)Curvy Perfection (Cayce & Ashley)This collection of steamy friends-to-lovers standalones contains hot & dirty alphas just wanting to give their sweet curvy girls the HEAs they deserve.
Previously published as Riding Curves (c) 2012 with revisions throughout, newly added content, and an extended ending.
His Forever Love
Lucy Darling - 2021
Until I met her. Willow is just the distraction I don’t need when I’m trying to restart my career from NFL player to the college coach.What’s worse? She’s a freshman.
I may be the youngest NCAA head coach in history, but I’m still too old for her. Too big too, I played in the league as an offensive lineman. She’s tiny compared to me. Innocent, naïve, and completely off-limits—Willow tempts me even when she isn’t trying to.
I should walk away from her. But I can’t. She calls me her bear, and I’ve never wanted anyone the way I do her. If I have to fight off half my team to keep her to myself, I will. For her, I’ll risk my career and my reputation. Because winning her is the only game I can’t afford to lose.
Plastic Hearts
Lisa De Jong - 2013
I like it that way. I grew up in a fake society where plastic hearts rule. If our hearts are made of plastic, they can never be broken. My parents have expectations and I do everything I can to meet them, even if it means giving up on my own dreams. Now, all I want is to be free to make my own choices.Dane Wright is everything I have been warned to stay away from. We met one night while I was with my perfect, parent-approved boyfriend and I haven’t stopped thinking about him. I don’t want to like him. I am doing everything I can to ignore his pull, but my heart seems to want what it cannot have, what it has never had.Can he measure up? He may think I am too good for him, but maybe he is too good for me. Life is a series of choices and I have never been able to make my own. Until one day, when my heart decides to make a choice for me.Recommended for mature readers due to sexual content and language
The End Zone
L.J. Shen - 2017
She knows that her best friend, Sage Poirier, is a bad idea. He’s a walking, talking cliché. The Adonis quarterback with the bulging biceps and harem of fangirls trailing behind him on campus like a stench you can’t get rid of. Sadly, that’s also the reason she can’t stay away from him. Well, that and the fact that they’re roommates. Jolie is already straddling the line between friendship and more when Sage comes to her with an offer she cannot refuse: be his fake girlfriend and live for free for the rest of the semester. She tells herself that she can handle it. He’s just the boy she saved ten years ago, right? Wrong. So very wrong. He is a man now, and she is his captive Heart, body, and soul…
Tangled
Krista LakesTerry Towers - 2014
Winning an island vacation, Emma meets Mr. Right but bids him a bittersweet good-bye after a make-believe marriage. Shock follows when their picture hits the paper and she learns the man of her dreams is Jack Saunders, the world's most eligible billionaire. Fight For You - Adriana Hunter (NYT/USAT). Born into a life of privilege, Angela is the girl least likely to capture street fighter and hustler Liam Cross's heart. Yet a chance encounter sparks an uncontrollable passion, until his past threatens to tear them apart and they must face their true nature and needs. Sexting Curves - Christa Wick (NYT/USAT). When a cell phone skirmish with her best friend exposes Lillian's intense and very naughty crush on Major Jones, will the misdirected text turn fantasy to reality? Skin Deep - Dez Burke (NYT/USAT). Hired to ease racing champion Shane Davis back into society after a crash left him disfigured, Angela is shocked by the hard want his simmering glances produce. Will the no-strings-attached affair convince them that both beauty and scars are only skin deep? This Crazy Little Thing - Tamryn Ward. When a wish has the original plain Jane waking in her coworker's size 2 body, she learns life for the perfectly proportioned isn't a fairytale-come-true - until she meets Jason Foxx, the billionaire ex-boyfriend to Jane's new body. Tough to Love: Saving Avery - Ava Catori (NYT/USAT). Pro footballer Steel Brickman could be the white knight Avery needs to escape her troubled past, but her walls are tall and thick and the man is fierce. Will they find love or remain tangled in pain and desire? Letting You In - Nora Flite. Leah wants to run from her past and every potential happily-ever-after. Instead, she runs straight into southerner Deacon Day. He talks like his mouth is full of syrup and smiles like every second is meant for laughter. Can he help Leah heal, or will she drag him down with her? Mysterious Desire - Aphrodite Hunt (NYT/USAT). Working as a hotel maid to pay for college, Liz is seduced by a stranger at work. She doesn't expect to see him again, especially when she learns he is Crown Prince Alexander Vassar. Despite being engaged to another woman, Alex professes to desire only Liz. Is this true love or does Alex have an ulterior motive? Stella & Dane - Deanna Roy. Stella wants to ditch her honky-tonk town when a brutally handsome stranger rides in on a motorcycle and their explosive love affair ignites disapproving locals. When a bar fight turns tragic, will the couple learn their love runs deeper than their reputations? A World Away - Lila Lacroix. Sophie is getting over her ex with a semester abroad. But life and love in Paris are complicated. With her heart in danger of falling into the wrong hands again, will she choose local photographer Jacques or Philippe, the darkly attractive grad student with a turbulent past. The Game Of Love - Terry Towers (NYT/USAT). Facing eviction, Janelle signs up for a reality TV show. To claim the cash prize, she must fall in love - or at least convince the audience. Dedicated cop Mason Compton reluctantly agrees to appear on the same show. Can they find real love in a house of scandal, lies and sexy singles? Unwillingly Yours - Marian Tee (NYT/USAT).
Boy Toy Chronicles
Jay McLean - 2015
*28,500 standalone NOVELLA* "So…I came up with a plan. I sat the brothers down and gave them my speech; we’d become male escorts. The house was split. The single dudes thought it was great. The guys with the steady girlfriends told the single dudes they were insane. I promised them all we could make it work without hurting anybody. But we had to be smart about it. We had to keep it off campus. We had to keep it a secret. And in order to do so, we had to target those who wanted it kept a secret as much as we did. Our target: Filthy rich, unsatisfied, horny housewives. Keep it high class, so to speak. And thus began BTC, or Boy Toy Corporation.Crazy, right?Crazy genius.”-Tyler West.
Crazy Stupid Love
Melissa Toppen - 2020
But even as I stand in the path of his force I can’t turn away. While he may be the very thing that breaks me, he’s also the only thing that has ever made me feel alive.Crazy Stupid Love is the first of three standalone novels in the Crazy Love series.
Beautiful Disaster
Francette Phal - 2012
They call it the “bet” and new girl Ellie Holbrook is their latest target. Ellie is not the kind of girl Nicholas dates, but she is pretty enough to be his next conquest and so he sets out to seduce her and claim a nice little prize at the end. But her seduction proves difficult when she openly rejects his advances. In his dogged pursuit of her he slowly finds himself in her small circle of trusted friends and meets her two year old daughter, Sophie.Life takes a startling turn for Nicholas when he realizes his happiness now lies with the young mother and her daughter. Falling in love with Ellie isn’t something Nicholas ever thought could happen to him and he’s completely frightened at how fiercely she makes him feel. But before he can further examine those emotions and clearly process them, enemies from Nicholas’s personal circle of friends conspire to tear them apart and he must now decide whether their love is worth saving or allow his friends to take away the greatest thing that’s ever happened to him.