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Midsummer Fling
Abby Knox - 2020
When she discovers who snatched her single-bed cabin, it seems that fate has stepped in and booked her a one-way trip to a happily-ever-after. Josh wants nothing more than to spend two weeks fishing, ship watching and gazing at campfires. To his chagrin, the resort owners double booked his reservation with that of an oddly familiar woman he refuses to leave out in the rough waters without a raft. When destiny -- and the age-old problem of two people/one bed -- takes the wheel, Josh quickly realizes it's time to reach for his dreams with his fated-forever shipmate.
Obediently Ever After
Measha Stone - 2019
Something to relax me. Maybe I’d find a girl, maybe I wouldn’t. I had very little expectations.Until Angelica walked into the room looking like she stepped out of a 1952’s Home and Garden Magazine. It wasn’t just the sexy domestic style that caught my eye, it was more. I was drawn to her. One night. A little fun. A little roleplay. But it wasn’t enough. I don’t think I could ever get enough of her. But my pretty girl lied. She hides something from me, and I won’t accept that. She’ll learn. And when it’s all over. When I’ve saved her from the demons chasing her, I’ll truly make her mine. And she’ll live obediently ever after.
Never Say Never
Taylor Holloway - 2018
Never hesitate. Never get emotionally involved.Words I've lived by. Until her.I'm a fixer.I fix bad, embarrassing, illegal problems, for the right price.My clients are rich, famous, powerful, and very dangerous.Now I’ve got a problem of my very own: Eva Martin. She just happens to be both my best friend’s little sister, and at the center of the most explosive problem I’ve ever faced. As the body count rises around us, I’m falling for the one woman that’s totally out of bounds. Her wide innocent eyes, perfect curves, and sexy, smoky voice—she’s a liability and a weakness, but I'm unable to resist.Eva’s a risky distraction for a man like me. I'm going to make her mine, and I'll use everything in my arsenal to keep her safe.Even if it means everyone else—including me—becomes collateral damage.
Her Alpha Dog
Katana Collins - 2020
Josh is demanding, intense, grumpy… and also the sexiest man I’ve ever seen.And once that sexy scowl of his is directed at me, I see so much more to it simmering below the surface. I see the intense heat, desire, and even… tenderness.Tenderness? That can’t be right. Alpha-holes aren’t tender… are they?
Forbidden Crush
Cassie Cole - 2019
Charlotte Hawk had perfect blue eyes, a rock-hard chest, and tattoos covering his bulging arms. He was the bad-boy biker I'd been dreaming of. Yet when I woke, he was gone. I thought I’d never see him again. But thanks to a power-hungry sheriff, now I’m stuck in this town. Stuck with my new crush for three weeks of community service. Plus three weeks of teasing, flirting, and increasingly scandalous text messages. But there’s a darkness in his eyes holding him back. Something keeping him from taking me the way he wants. And before I leave this town? I’m going to find out what it is. Hawk Charlotte rolled into my life like a thunderstorm. Smoldering eyes and a body I wanted to crush against mine. I had the irrepressible need to possess her. To drink from those pouty lips. But the last time I cared about a woman, my life was destroyed. The Copperhead biker gang took everything from me. I vowed I would never let it happen again. But she makes me want to risk it all. She makes me want to start over. Because for the first time since I can remember? I have something to live for.
FORBIDDEN CRUSH
is a standalone MC romance with humor, action, suspense, and off-the-chart heat levels guaranteed to melt your kindle! HEA guaranteed.
One Night
K.L. Humphreys - 2018
I didn’t expect to walk in on my boyfriend cheating on me. I shouldn’t have slept with my brother’s best friend. I shouldn’t have ran once it was over. But I did, and now I’m back with a secret that will change all of our lives. I want a happily ever after… But that may not happen. Jaxon: One night and she’s ruined me. I slept with my best friends little sister, the one girl I’ve wanted for a long time. It was the best night of my life. She’s back with a bang and the whole town's talking. I need her in my life, but the people trying to sabotage us are making it hard for me to get her. She’s all I want and I won’t stop until I get her.
My Brother's Girl
Ali Parker - 2020
But she was mine first. High school. Youth. Innocence. I can still taste her on my lips if I close my eyes. And here she is, back in my life, dating my brother. A brother that doesn’t know my past because I’m a private sort of guy.No way in hell I’m hurting him by giving into the overwhelming desire to take back what’s mine—with force. That sounds like a great plan until he tries to hire her to run our New York investment firm beside us. Having her near leaves my heart racing and my caveman tendencies flaring. I left that life beside her behind and have regretted it since the day I did it. Now my past is catching up to me, and I’m faced with the most jacked-up decision ever. Follow my heart and give my girl the life and love she wants… Or leave her with my brother as arm candy and watch from the sidelines as she lives in his shadow. Loyalty or love? And is there a way to have both?
Broken Beast
Crystal Kaswell - 2021
Until I offer her a lifeline: A million dollars to play my wife.Danielle Bellamy is mine.For the next year, the curvy photographer is staying in my secluded mansion, wearing my ring.A ruse, to exact revenge against the man who destroyed me.Only every time I gaze into her dark eyes, I forget we're pretending.Her kiss is intoxicating.Her touch is addicting.And when we finally fall into bed--It's not enough.I need more than her body.I need her everything.
His for the Taking
Samantha Madisen - 2019
I came to take someone, whether she wants to come with me or not. A girl who belongs to me, even though she doesn't know it yet.Natalie Paulson is mine, every single inch of her, and I don't share what's mine. It's time she learned what happens to bad little girls who put my property on display without permission, and when I'm done it won't be just her cute little bottom that is well-punished, well-used, and sore.Publisher's Note: His for the Taking includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book.
Jack Off
K.B. Cinder - 2020
Prepare for inappropriate humor, dad jokes, and maybe a woodland creature or two.
Taken by the Bratva (Bratva Brotherhood)
Bianca Cole - 2022
The man I’ve secretly craved since he was assigned to me. The man who won’t tell me why he has kidnapped me. There’s a darkness in his eyes I’ve never seen in them before. I fear him as much as I long for him. Now I'm alone with him, feelings I’ve tried to ignore return.He has my heart in the palm of his hand, but will he crush it or claim it? Taken by the Bratva is the fifth and final book in the Bratva Brotherhood Series. It's a safe story with no cliffhangers, a HEA and no cheating. This story has hot scenes, some dark themes, and bad language. Like most of the books by Bianca Cole it features an over the top possessive alpha male.
Hidden Truths
K. Webster - 2019
Light.Until I got wrapped up with the wrong people.Nothing but a piece of property to pay for the sins of my father.I’m to be married off to a handsome monster.I see his truths every day, and it’s hard not to fall for the enemy.He won’t let me escape, but I’m not sure I want to.I wanted to marry for love, but it looks like love is a lie.*Hidden Truths is book one in the Truths and Lies Duet*
Dishonorable
Natasha Knight - 2017
My grandfather knew him well, though, and he quickly conceded. That restitution? Me.Six months later, on my eighteenth birthday, Raphael came to claim me. He stole me from my home, taking me to his Tuscan estate, where from the crumbling chapel to the destroyed vineyard to that dark cellar, the past stalked him like a shadow. Even the walls held secrets here and I’d need to uncover them all to survive.Because taking me was only the beginning of his plan. RaphaelSofia was the sacrifice to pay for her grandfather’s sins. She accused me of being the devil. And she’s right. But the truth was, he betrayed her. And when the time came to promise to love, cherish, and obey she spoke the words that would seal her fate.I do.We have a common enemy, though, my unwilling bride and I. But even the devil protects what’s his. And she’s mine.She just doesn’t yet know how much protecting she needs.
Mr. All Wrong
R.C. Stephens - 2017
I actually hadn’t met her, just saw her. It was more like she hated everything I stood for and showed me her opinion with an airborne cream pie. Yes, she smacked me front and center on my face. The second time I saw Evie, I didn’t realize she was the cream-pie-throwing bandit, and she took my breath away in a flowing red gown at a gala. Of course I couldn’t resist her looks, so I asked her to dance. She called me a schmuck and stalked off. My own Cinderella ran away from me. I shouldn’t have chased her down. We were all wrong for each other. But her fire red hair and feisty personality reeled me in, and I was hooked. Chicago’s most renowned playboy was finally falling head over loafers. At least it felt that way because she was like no other woman I’d met before... Evie was special...Problem was I had trust issues when it came to women. Freud would’ve probably said it was my mother’s doing. Somehow Evie made me believe in her... trust her...Big damn mistake!One I hope I won’t live to regret...But then again how could someone so wrong for me turn out to be so damn perfect?
Marcello
Alexa Hart - 2019
He’s nothing but a filthy rich, mafia bad boy… (or so I’ve heard) So why can’t I get him off my mind?... He’s mind-numbingly gorgeous, with off-the-charts sex appeal. I feel something for Marcello that I’ve never felt before. What is this…lust? No, it can’t be. I wouldn’t lust after a criminal… would I? His lifestyle may be putting his precious daughter (my favorite student) in danger and I can’t just stand by and watch. I couldn’t live with myself if anything ever happened to Gia. But when I come face to face with Marcello Morano, my whole world gets flipped upside down. Now, suddenly none of the rumors about his mafia involvement matter anymore. It doesn’t matter that his dark past scares the hell out of me and his current reality may scare me even more. It doesn’t even matter that I could be risking everything to be with him. All that matters now is him. Just him and the secret I’m carrying as a memento from a passionate night in his arms. But is Marcello’s dangerous lifestyle more than I can handle?
From contemporary romance author Alexa Hart – a standalone romance complete with a protective, bad boy, single dad that will make you HOT! And of course, a Happily Ever After ending!