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Waking Up in Vegas


Stevie Kisner - 2014
    It doesn’t matter, and I won’t remember it, anyway.I’m Tack Morgan, and I’m Las Vegas Magazine’s Sexiest Man. I’m the host of the most listened-to morning drive-time show on Vegas’s FM dial. I’m also in therapy for sexual harassment.My therapist is the one making me write this. The doc says it’ll help me put things into perspective.To be clear, I don’t have sexual harassment issues. I have sexual frustration issues.And it’s totally not my fault.That responsibility rests squarely with the person I’m being accused of harassing. I see her each and every weekday morning at the ungodly hour of 6 a.m.Funny. I used to think that was the best time of the whole day. I lived for starting my mornings so early, not seeing my bed until many, many hours later.Unless it was for recreation.At the risk of sounding cocky, I recreated a lot.Sex is my sport of choice. Or at least it was, until Jen waltzed through the station door and announced she was my new morning-show co-host.I swear, she’s developed some sort of pheromone-canceling ESP that follows me around everywhere and cockblocks me at every turn. I haven’t gotten laid in… too long.Honestly, I haven’t been keeping track. Actually, yes, I have. It’s been two months. Coincidentally, that’s exactly how long Jensen MacKenzie has been my co-host.I don’t think my balls can get any bluer.

Break Me


Harper James - 2014
    She’s been left with a bitter taste in her mouth after her father left her mother while she was still pregnant, for another woman, and started a whole new perfect family. Gemma doesn’t feel like she belongs with her father’s family—with her family—and has done everything she can to push them all away. One summer, her last summer stuck with these people, is about to change all of that. Abe North, the hunky night guard she meets by chance, breaks down Gemma’s carefully built cinderblock walls, and shows her what she’s been missing out on. He helps her to reconnect with the brother and sister she has kept at a safe distance all these years. In the end, maybe, just maybe, Abe can show Gemma that all men aren’t bad and that he’ll be the one who’ll be there for her. But is Gemma ready to accept love? Or is she too broken?

Love Lift Me


Synthia St. Claire - 2014
    Claire"I couldn't put my finger on it until I saw you sitting on the end of that pier, Kat. It was like..." He pressed his body against mine and his explorations grew more intense. I felt his hot breath tickle at the thin skin behind my ear before his lips closed together and kissed me there. "...like I'd lost someone that made me feel something amazing. Something real...and then I found her all over again. And now, here you are. With me."---Katherine Atwater was about to start her new life, but instead she's headed back. Back home. Back to her cancer-stricken mother. Back to a lover who lied and tore her heart to pieces.Attorney Shane Logan is going the same way, on the same bus, and preparing to try the biggest case of his career. He didn't expect to find a woman like Kat on this trip. He never imagined he'd be saving her life.After barely surviving the accident, Kat wonders if she'll ever again see Shane, the handsome man with soulful amber eyes who rescued her. A hero was just what she needed. The sound of his voice stirred up the most wonderful, longing ache inside of her she'd ever felt. Somehow, with him, all of her troubles seemed to lift away.To Kat's surprise, Shane finds his way to her small town. He's come to risk it all righting the wrongs of a greedy billionaire and his gorgeous, deceitful daughter, but will Shane risk taking a chance with the girl he saved?Full Length New Adult Contemporary RomanceRecommended Reading Age 18+

Right in Front of You


Lacey Silks
    Life was perfect… until piece by piece, it all fell apart, and I lost my will to live. Molly Fowler, my best friend from grade school, has saved my life countless times. She helped me heal and move on. She guided me to be a better man, while she herself held pain I failed to see. I was too blind to see her deep scars. I was too blind to see that we needed each other. I was too blind to see what was right in front of me. Molly Fowler I left Hope Bay the moment I could, but a force by the name of Carter Clark kept pulling me back home. I fought and resisted, but I was too blind to see what was right in front of me. I was too weak to trust our friendship. Above all, I was too blind to see the danger ahead — a man I’d never thought I’d see again, waiting for my return in disguise. Read about Carter and Molly’s nail biting romance in Right in Front of You. Note: Right in Front of You is a standalone novel. It follows Carter and Molly’s story from Yours and Mine. Contains spoilers to Yours and Mine. Intended for mature audience only.

Between Here and the Horizon


Callie Hart - 2016
    You think you want to know me. But trust me, Miss Lang. Pursuing me will be the worst mistake you ever make. I’m broken beyond repair......and I take great pleasure in breaking everyone else around me.”Ophelia Lang needs money, and she needs it bad. Her parent’s restaurant is going under, and ever since she lost her job teaching third grade elementary, scraping enough cash together to pay the bills has proven almost impossible. Her parents are on the brink of losing their home. The vultures are circling overhead. So when Ophelia is offered an interview for a well-paid private tutoring gig in New York, how can she possibly say no? Ronan Fletcher is far from the overweight, balding businessman Ophelia expected him to be. He’s young, handsome, and wealthy beyond all reason. He’s also perhaps the coldest, rudest person she’s ever met, and has a mean streak in him a mile and a half wide. A hundred grand is a lot of money, however, and if tolerating his frosty temperament, his erratic mood swings and whatever else he throws at her means she’ll get paid, then that is what Ophelia will do. Her new boss is keeping secrets, though. Awful, terrible secrets. The ghosts of Ronan Fletcher’s past are about to turn Ophelia’s future upside down, and she can’t even see it coming. Note: Between Here and The Horizon is a brand new standalone contemporary romance novel from USA Today bestselling author, Callie Hart. Between Here and the Horizon does contain some scenes of violence and sexual content, and so is directed at audience 18+.

Don't Breathe a Word


Holly Cupala - 2012
    She can take his cruel words, his tender words . . . until the night they go too far.To escape, Joy sacrifices her suburban life to find the one who offered his help, a homeless boy called Creed. He introduces her to a world of fierce loyalty, to its rules of survival, and to love—a world she won’t easily let go.Set against the backdrop of the streets of Seattle, Holly Cupala’s power­ful new novel explores the subtleties of abuse, the secrets we keep, and the ways to redemption. But above all, it is an unflinching story about the extraordinary lengths one girl will go to discover her own strength.

Fair Play


Tracy A. Ward - 2013
    And it certainly wasn't supposed to force her into constant contact with the very guy she's avoided since her teenage crush-gone-bad days. Noah Blake. He's Ashlyn's enemy, for good reason. As her older brother's best friend, he seems hell-bent on interfering with nearly every aspect of her life. So how then does he also seem to be her muse? When Ashlyn reluctantly agrees to act out scenes with Noah from the play she's writing in order to trigger her creativity, the spark of passion she'd felt for him as a teenager flares up again. But there's more at stake than just her future as a playwright or the inheritance she never cared about in the first place. Finding out the theater she loves is in danger of closing puts everything she thought she knew and felt about Phair...and Noah...to the test. Will there be a standing ovation for Ashlyn Carter, playwright, or will the curtain drop on her heart and fade to black? Only by facing their biggest fears together will Ashlyn and Noah learn to trust in themselves and each other.