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The Strong One by Stella Hunter


romance
romantic-suspense
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3-individual-books

Coming Back


Emma South - 2015
    Learning to live and love again is going to be so much harder.After being abducted and vanishing without a trace, she was presumed dead. But Christie isn’t the kind of girl that goes down without a fight. When she crawls out of the forest almost two years later, bruised and bleeding, she is confronted by a world that seems to have moved on and left her behind.Dean Hawking returned to Warfields after a terrible tragedy on the job shook his faith in humanity. The cop’s transfer home wasn't the cure-all he hoped for until the best thing about it, the girl he loved since high school, Christie Jayne, turns up alive.Their worlds are thrust together again for the first time in years. Though still reeling from her ordeal, in Dean she finds a fathomless love that reminds her there are still beautiful things in the world. In Christie, he sees his chance at redemption…Then Dean uncovers some startling information about Christie’s case, revealing that she might be in imminent danger, and their second chance at love will be put to the test when the full story of her escape is revealed. Can there be any coming back from what she’s had to do?

If I Never Knew You


Aubrey Bailey - 2013
    However, working double shifts at the Wayside Restaurant can barely pay the bills, and having a manipulative boyfriend, Damian, leaves her little time for her to spend with her family.When she meets Andy’s friend, Orion, at work one day, she can’t help but immediately picture this new friend as her knight in shining armor. She soon falls in love with him behind the back of her controlling and abusive boyfriend. Afraid to leave him for another man, Madison is faced with a very important choice that could change her life forever.Can she turn her secret life with Orion into her new life?Will she be able to meet the consequences of betraying Damian?When Madison’s past collides with her present, everything is doomed to fall to pieces. However, with the help of her brother, can she make it out with everything she’s ever wanted…or will she be left with nothing?

A Lucky Second Chance


Nickie Nalley Seidler - 2013
    Emma Dunn certainly didn't. When life with her fiance takes a terrifying turn, she flees to her hometown of Chicago without looking back, and her brother Kevin takes her in. Life is slowly getting better for Emma, thanks in no small part to real-life Prince Charming, Nathan Weber. He sweeps her off her feet, almost literally, and dotes on her from day one. But when the unexpected happens and their pasts catch up with them, can their fairy tale still have a happy ending?

Stirred


Nancy S. Thompson - 2015
    ~Fate screwed Eden MacLaird at the age of twenty-one, stole her first love, then her first child. Twenty years later, she still hasn't found her happily-ever-after. Sure, from the outside, she appears to have it all, including Declan, her gorgeous, rich-as-sin husband. But things aren't what they seem, and catching Declan in bed with her best friend destroys any dreams she harbors for love, much less sexual fulfillment.Then in walks Sean Bennett...Just months away from earning his law degree, Sean's smart, driven, and serious, but an unexpected encounter between them in a bar one night changes everything. His best friend, Trinitee, warns against getting too involved, but the heat between them is beyond intense, and neither of them are willing to walk away.With Eden's marriage in shambles, she's eager to make a go of it with Sean, despite their sixteen-year age difference. But while she relishes her sexual reawakening, she fears giving up the posh life she's grown accustomed to. That life, however, and everything in it, comes crashing down as bodies start piling up around them, and all clues point to Eden and Sean.Secrets, betrayal, and revenge threaten to destroy not just her carefully-crafted reputation, but her very life. With their freedom at stake, Sean and Eden join forces to uncover those plotting against them. But as doubt and evidence mount, she must choose: give in to her suspicions and save herself, or trust their new-found love and save them both.Stirred is a 2016 Kindle Book Awards semi-finalist in Romance!

A Time to Live


Kathryn Loch - 2013
    When Nikki Matthews learns she is dying of lung cancer and has only has six months to live, she abandons Los Angeles and flees to Shadow Mountain, Colorado…a place where she always wanted to live…a place where she can die in peace. Despite her intentions of no friends and no attachments, she meets Michael de Roumare. Half French and half Arapaho, the residents of Shadow Mountain treat Michael with hatred and contempt. Nikki is not sure why and try as she might, she cannot deny her growing attraction to the handsome young man.Michael has known only hell the past year, falsely accused of rape and disfiguring a young woman, the jury found him not guilty but he was tried and convicted in the press – a vicious, backwater half-breed. Then, to his horror, someone starts killing the women in Michael’s life and framing him for their murders. The residents of Shadow Mountain now fear a serial killer walks among them and they are certain the vicious murderer is Michael.Nikki came here to die. She never planned on finding a righteous goal, she never planned on fighting for the truth, but she has found that with Michael and perhaps…just perhaps…she might find something more in the short time she has…as long as the killer doesn’t reach her first.

The Fable of Us


Nicole Williams - 2016
    At least that’s what Clara Abbot finds herself hoping when she runs into Boone Cavanaugh less than an hour after returning to Charleston.As kids, Clara and Boone had been each other’s firsts, and no one or nothing could stand in the way of their forever. But all kids have to grow up sometime. The troubled son of the town drunk winding up with the firstborn daughter of the local royalty was a happy ending even the most imaginative of fairy tales couldn’t make believable.Their fable came to an end as most do: tragically. Boone might have done the leaving, but it was Clara who got away and made a new life for herself in California. But after seven years of dodging her hometown, she’s only back in Charleston for seven days to celebrate her sister’s wedding. She won’t let her overbearing family or her run-in with Boone rattle her—though rattling her is obviously Boone’s primary objective.Boone is her past and her past is behind her, a mere speck in the rearview. So why does she feel it coming back every time she looks at him? Why does she see it every time he looks back?Just when Clara’s life can’t possibly get more complicated, the ground shifts, and she discovers just how far her family was willing to go to keep the wrong boy out of her life. Was it really Boone who left her? Or was it Clara who left him?The truth will be hard to face. Especially when she discovers most of her life has been built on lies.

Rebound


Sabrina York - 2013
    She’s nothing like the women he dates. So when he suggests they play for a kiss over a game of Hearts, Kristi can’t resist. Even if she loses, she wins. Because she’s finally going to taste him. Of course, one kiss can quickly become something altogether steamier, especially when both parties are on the rebound… Fall in Love on Tryst Island… When a group of friends share a vacation house, wild hijinks, unexpected hook-ups and steamy sex ensue.

Angel


D.H. Sidebottom - 2013
    Nathan Carter is her other half, her light, her passion. After three years of being together at university; three years of being joined, of a love so intense, passionate and spirited they thought their future was safe and endless but life always finds a cruel way to interfere and they soon find their relationship can’t withstand destiny’s intrusions and obstacles.Two decades later destiny apologises and brings them back together by sheer chance, re-igniting their intense passion, connection and love but they soon find that twenty years of life, secrets and lies creates difficulties and struggles even their bond might struggle to endure.When an evil from Olivia’s’ past returns to haunt them and rip apart everything they have managed to build back up can the lovers survive with their love and souls still intact…or their lives?This book contains explicit sex scenes, adult language and violence…oh and one hot alpha male! Enjoy!

Delayed Surrender 1


Megan Bright - 2014
    She has learned how to deal with myriad OCD and PTSD issues all on her own, conquering the demons of an abusive childhood. Her job at Sanderson Enterprises as the assistant to Arrick Sanderson Sr., is rewarding and lucrative, and she is content as a single girl with a cat, living alone in the bustling city of New York. Her best friend, Trish, makes her get out once in a while and on one fateful night she is approached by a tall, handsome, smooth talking playboy. He introduces himself as Eric, and before she knows it, she’s spent the night with the big stranger. Her intent was to never see him again, and although her mind won’t let her think of anything else, she continues on with her life. It isn't until a few days later when he appears at her place of work, seemingly oblivious that she was the girl he’d just spent Saturday night with. His arrogant indifference confuses and infuriates her. What’s worst, he is her boss’s son and when she is assigned to “babysit” him, refusing is not an option.

Bang Bang


Rachel Van Dyken - 2014
    Lines are blurred. Choices are never black and white. And the life you thought you knew is... one giant lie.He was dead.And I didn't want his life to be in vain, so I tried to make something of myself. I tried and failed.Now he's back. Alive. And he wants something...Me.Nobody ever said the mafia played fair.Welcome to The Family.

For Her Eyes Only Part 1


Sharon Sala - 2014
    Stumbling in the dark, she hits her head and awakens to a vision of the mayor's murder. Was it just her imagination, or was it real? To learn the truth she'll have to go to the one man who can help her. The one man she wanted to forget when their affair ended—detective Stone Richardson.Stone Richardson deals in facts. He's worried about Jessica. If she's seeing things, she needs a doctor, not a detective. Either that or he has more to investigate with Mayor Olivia Stuart's death than he thought….The story continues in For Her Eyes Only Parts 2 and 3.

The Wedding Bed


Ava Archer Payne - 2014
    Ruthless in business, savage in negotiations, cruel and calculating in his personal affairs. The son of a British peer and an Indian native, he is deemed too large, too powerful, too untamed to be properly assimilated into London society. THE BRIDE Miss Calla Lily Staunton is in desperate financial straits. Desperate enough to offer a bride price for her hand in marriage. When Lord Keating accepts her scandalous offer, she is reluctantly drawn to the dark, mysterious stranger who shares her wedding bed... ATTN READER: If you’re looking for a sweet love story, rather than a spicy romance, this isn’t the book for you. THE WEDDING BED is a sexy, 50,000 word Victorian romance. It contains sensual scenes intended for a mature audience.

Damaged The Complete Collection


Shayne McClendon - 2012
    These stories highlight the strength of the human spirit and what's possible when you take a chance on new beginnings.DIRTY LITTLE SECRET...Kendall Torres isn't a girl who runs in the popular crowd.Jared Stalzer is the epitome of entitlement.She is eternally guarded and aloof.He smiles at the possibilities of his universe.Two people who don't fit together.They have absolutely nothing in common.He thought to use her.She decided to let him.Her life was pain before...He will know pain after...Even in the most seemingly hopeless circumstances...love can find a way.FEEL MY LOVE...Amelia Whitehall doesn't know how much she needs rescuing.Leonardo De La Cruz doesn't feel like much of a valiant knight.From completely different worlds, they find perfection when they're together.A vicious betrayal destroys their idyllic romance.Crushing their dreams of the future.Miles apart, they fight to rebuild their lives.Each separate from the one who completes them.Fate will force their paths to intersect again...Shaking the foundations of their new lives.If given a chance, love will rise like a phoenix from the ashes.COMING HOME...Rowan Foxe has no memory of the first ten years of her life.Growing up in a home for girls, she works harder than most.She leaves behind the orphanage, the town, and the boy she loved...Certain she will never risk her heart in such a way again.A chance encounter leads to a life she never expected...And a love she can't fight even knowing there's tragedy ahead.Take a powerful and emotional journey with Rowan.Her love, her loss, her strength, her grief.RUN TO YOU...Nina Adams has done horrible things to survive.The person she hurts more than any other is herself.Growing up in the home for girls, Rowan Foxe was her best friend.Even she was not safe from Nina's destructive tendencies.She spends her life running, avoiding attachments, and acting.It is her most powerful skill...one she uses to insulate herself.Until the day she meets a powerful male animal...Who makes her own purr even as she trembles in fear of the unknown.These heart-wrenching emotional stories of love and redemption by Always the Good Girl, Shayne McClendon are a must read.

Killing Honor


S.M. Butler - 2014
    BUTLER**Navy SEAL Brody Battles’ last mission ended with him shot twice. He’s made enemies he’d like to forget ever existed all over the world. He’s more than ready to go home to the family he left behind, but when he returns, he faces sleepless nights, a possible security breach and the fear that his family has moved on without him.Marrying her childhood sweetheart sounds like a fairy tale dream come true, but not for Devyn. Thanks to his job, her husband has been off on a secret mission for so long, he’s never even seen his daughters in person. But now he’s back, and the fairy tale life is in sight, but Devyn’s not sure the man that returned is the same man who left.Stitching their broken family back together proves difficult when nightmares and secrets build a wall between them. And while they’re adjusting to being a family again, an enemy waits in the shadows, salivating for the sweet taste of revenge. This New Adult title includes adult situations and may not be suitable for readers under 18 years. Reading order of this series: • Killing Honor, #1 • Wounded Courage, #2 • Dying Commitment, #3

Hand-Me-Down Love


Jennifer Ransom - 2013
    Marla promises her dying sister that she'll look after her husband and help him deal with her death. Months later, Marla begins to question what that means. How far should she go to heal the wounds of her late sister's husband? How can she heal herself?Set against the backdrop of a sparkling blue bay, Jennifer Ransom weaves a tale tinged with sorrow and true love.