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SEAL Baby Daddy (The Baby Daddy - Book #2)


Claire Adams - 2018
    I didn’t know he was back from Kuwait. When I came home from my position as an overseas correspondent, I’d expected I’d never see him again. And that was the way I’d wanted things to be. After all, I couldn’t let him know about my daughter. Our daughter. I couldn’t help my feelings for him, though. I’d always been drawn to him. But he had never wanted children. I had to respect that. But he wasn’t the same man I’d met in Kuwait, and I wasn’t the same woman either. I knew sooner or later he would find out my secret and sh*t would hit the fan.

Concealed Desire


Eden Summers - 2013
    Although he’s an unrepentant player, there’s an unmistakable connection between them, and she knows he feels it too. But she’s not about to risk her career for any man, especially one with an office right down the hall whom she works with every day.Dean Sutherland doesn’t do love, but he does do women. And he hasn’t felt more than sexual attraction for any woman until Beth. Entirely feminine, smart, and with a natural beauty beyond compare, she makes him think about all kinds of uncomfortable things—like a future and happiness—things he knows from experience are pure fiction.When his father, the “Sutherland” in Sutherland & Son, propositions Beth to be more than just an employee, Dean can’t keep her at arm’s length any longer. But he doesn’t expect the scorching kiss they share, or the idea that forms when he holds her in his arms. Can he stop his father’s manipulating game by making the first move on Beth? Or will his reputation as a womanizer make him just one more Sutherland she wants to ignore?

Second Time Around: Small Town Second Chance Romance


Alandra Knight - 2019
    He’s lived them. Four years earlier, he and his brother lost their wives. Since then, they’ve been left to raise their children all alone.His world is everything mine can never be.It doesn’t matter that our chemistry is off the charts. It doesn’t matter that Jaxson’s arms are the only ones I feel safe in.He and I are like oil and water – and while opposites clearly attract, I can’t believe there’d ever be a place for a girl like me in Jaxson’s world of foam dart battles and bedtime stories.Or, at least, that’s what I thought until we both dared open our hearts – and began wondering if, just maybe, we deserved a shot at love the second time around.Second Time Around is the first in Alandra Knight's Finding Our Forever series - emotionally intense tales of true love, featuring beautifully crafted characters overcoming the darkest odds to earn their happily-ever-after.

Love Us Both (A Calendar of Love Novel Book 5)


Lexy Parker - 2019
    Start over. Easy words for everyone else, but not me. My wife died on my operating table, and moving on just isn’t going to happen. Not until I decided to go back to the small town where I grew up. My boy and I needed different scenery to try to reboot life. And we did. Until one day, a beautiful woman walked into my office and everything changed. She was from one of the oldest families in Tennessee and needed my help. With the way she made me and my son feel, I was more than happy to offer it. Love wasn’t supposed to show up again, and certainly not this soon. But it did. It has. I just hope she knows that she has to love us both. Forever.

Where I Belong


J. Daniels - 2014
    One person that she’d do anything to avoid.Benjamin Kelly. World’s biggest dickhead.Mia hates him with a fury and has no desire to ever see him again. When she decides to start her summer off with a bang and finally give away her v-card, she unknowingly hands it over to the one guy that excelled at making her life miserable, learning a valuable lesson in the process.Always get the name of the guy you’re going home with.Ben can’t get the girl he spent one night with out of his head. When she leaves him the next morning, he thinks he’ll never see her again. Until he sees her lounging by the pool with his sister.Mia is determined to hate Ben, even though she can’t forget him.Ben is determined to prove he’s not the same guy he used to be.What happens when the one person you wish never existed becomes the one person you can’t imagine being without?

Stay with Me


K.L. Grayson - 2019
    Her happiness and well-being mean more to me than anything else, which is why when the opportunity of a lifetime presented itself, I had to take it. Three months was such a short amount of time to be apart to provide the financial stability we needed to start our lives. It wasn’t supposed to catapult my band to stardom, and it sure as hell wasn’t supposed to set off the chain of events that pushed my relationship with Allie to the brink. Our hearts were shattered, our love tested, and when everything fell apart she begged me to leave. Eight years ago, tragedy broke us. Now we’re back in the same little town where we once dreamed of building our future.She’s a divorced, single mom.I’m a damaged country music star.There are a hundred reasons for us to stay apart.But all it takes is one look, one touch, one kiss to know our story isn’t over. Now I have to convince her to let me stay.

All My Life


Prescott Lane - 2018
    I loved him while he loved someone else. I loved him when he had a baby with her. I loved him when she left him.The greatest of love stories is that between a dad and his daughter. I should know. I’ve had a front row seat. First steps, first words, all the big moments. Garrett was just a teenager when Mia was born. I’ve watched him braid his daughter’s hair, hold her hand crossing the street, seen her asleep on his chest. I’m the best friend, the one they can count on for everything from dance lessons to motherly advice, anything they need. I’m their go-to girl.The best part of any love story is the happily ever after.But what if the happily ever after doesn’t include you?All my life, that’s how long I’ve loved him.Of course, he’s clueless.

Slade: A Stepbrother Romance


Sienna Valentine - 2015
     Slade Jarvis. My stepbrother and an arrogant prick. Also hot, ripped, and tattooed. Still, even at eighteen, I should have known better than to let him seduce me. I was taken in by his charm, even though I knew he really only cared about one thing: himself. He taught me everything I know about sex, but then he screwed me in another way before disappearing from my life. Fuck him. But now my real brother is in trouble and Slade is the only one who can help. My parents want nothing to do with Slade. They don't want to see him again. They won't go and find him, even to help Kellan. That leaves it up to me. But I don't ever want to see Slade again, either... do I? Slade I know I can be a jerk, but fuck it. I don't care. I'm the best doctor around, so why the hell should I pretend to give a damn? Who needs a girlfriend when I can screw every hot and tight young thing that crosses my path. No one can resist a doctor. No one can resist me. I've fucked up in the past. I know that. Seven years ago, I made the biggest mistake of my life - I let someone get too close. Iris Walker got hurt, and left me with regrets that I've spent a lot of time trying to forget. No one gets close to Slade Jarvis now. I won't make that mistake again. That's the past, and I'm not looking back. Not unless it comes to find me, first. Note: This is a stand-alone romance novel with an HEA ending. It contains sex and mature themes, and is intended for adults only.

Resist: Anya


Tami Lund - 2016
     I’m Anya, and I hate vampires. They killed my aunt. And now they’ve stolen my sister. I can’t let her die, so I head to Chicago to track her down. Before I can find her, I’m assaulted by two human thugs, and of all the luck, a vampire comes to my rescue. Cam is sexy as sin with an accent that melts panties, and he hasn’t eaten in far too long. And now he's offering to help track down my sister… no strings attached. Yeah, right. The Blood Courtesans Series, where vampires are real, rich, powerful--and hungry. Blood is bought and sold like fine wine, and the best blood goes to the highest bidder. It's not supposed to be about love ... until it is. If you haven't checked out the rest of the Blood Courtesan series, you should. Starting with REBORN, Myra's story. The full list of books can be found here: http://www.bloodcourtesans.com.

The Red Zone


Amie Knight - 2019
    But for me, those last twenty yards were my sweet spot. They didn't call me Lukas "Last Minute Lucy" Callihan for nothing. I was at the top of my game...until life sacked me harder than any linebacker ever could. Losing my mom was devastating and left me as the sole person responsible for my little sister. Taking care of Ella and juggling my career was like playing the hardest game of my life.  My only saving grace was Scarlett Knox, Ella's sexy, red-headed, no-nonsense teacher.  She loved Ella. She hated me.  She thought I sucked at this parenting thing, and she wasn’t wrong.  But whenever she was around I got the same earth-shattering, heart-stopping feeling I did when I was only twenty yards from the goal line. She made me feel like I was back in the red zone, a place I’d never fumbled. Until now.

Daddy, ASAP!


Holly Rayner - 2022
    But then my ex from fifteen years ago steps up to my front door, ready to give me a piece of her mind, and suddenly everything starts to fall into place…Nikki:I thought I’d be happy never seeing Evan’s face again. But when I saw his twin nephews running riot, I knew I couldn’t say no to him.It’s complicated, for sure. I’m his ex, his nanny… it would be foolish to even think about picking up where we left off.I tell myself I’ll keep my guard up, but the cozy domesticity we’ve fallen into just feels so right. And even as we try to think rationally, it’s not long before things get out of hand.Weeks on, I’m pregnant with his baby.He left once before because he was afraid of commitment,Will he commit to our giant new family?

Caveman


Jo Raven - 2017
    Hot single daddy. Arrogant. Rude. Older. My boss. Totally off limits... right? Matthew Hansen is the kind of handsome that has grown women whispering behind their hands and giggling like schoolgirls. Dark, tall and mysterious, he’s a newcomer to our little town. He’s a gritty, grease-covered mechanic, and a single daddy. Sweet, right? Plus, he’s looking for a nanny – and I am desperately looking for a job. Sounds like the perfect deal. Only he’s a jerk. An uncivilized, hulking brute. Zero manners. Zero interest in making me feel welcome in his home. Downright rude. But oh, so sexy. And I need the job. I can do this. One thing is for sure: I can’t fall for the Caveman. No matter how sexy he is. How mysterious. How tortured. That’s the only rule – and one I’m about to break. ***This is a standalone, full-length romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger or cheating. For a limited time, I have included ZANE, a standalone novel, and MICAH, a standalone long novella, as bonus. ***(Librarian Note: This story is loosely connected (as a sort of sequel) to Zane (Inked Brotherhood, #3).)

Sunny Days for Sam


Jennifer Shirk - 2012
    With the recent debt she’s acquired, the hope of something magical happening in her life is the only thing keeping her going. She needs a job fast. So when Sunny learns the sexy new vacationer in town is looking for a nanny, she starts to believe she just may have a fairy godmother after all! Internet guru Sam Calloway is only in town for the summer and needs a nanny for his two small children. However, the beautiful and inexperienced Sunny is not exactly the kind of caregiver Sam has in mind. It doesn’t take long for Sunny’s tenderhearted and bubble-blowing ways to soon have the children—and Sam—enamored with her. She’s a dream come true. But after what Sam’s been through, he’s stopped believing in fairy tales long ago. Sunny manages to work her way into Sam’s closed-off heart, but at the end of the summer, will the workaholic dad go back to his life in New York City, or will he decide his days are much sunnier here with Sunny?

The Life We Wanted


Kelsey Kingsley - 2019
    The looks and charm to get him any woman he laid his eyes on. All the friends he could ever ask for.But something was always missing.That is, until he receives a letter, telling him that he’s a father to a fifteen-year-old boy.Now, with the addition of his son, a love interest he never expected, and a whole new set of responsibilities, Sebastian finds himself happier than he’s ever been.But old habits die hard, and when life finally gives him everything he wanted, he’ll have to find a way to keep his past from ruining the present.

Hayden's Timbre


Thia Finn - 2017
    My dad needs a date. He’s around 30, single, a musician, and hot (at least the women in the audience think so, eww). He’s a great dad. He’s fun, the best friend everyone loves, and can keep up with an awesome twelve-year-old guy like myself. You’d be getting a keeper with him. Swipe left and give him a try. What kind of kid sets his dad up on online dating? How desperate can his dad be? He can’t be in a place worse than the hopeless situation I’m in. Some jerk cost me my job and my life dominoed in a down-hill slide from there. The calamities begin from the moment Hayden and Timbre meet. Are the complications in their lives too much to make a relationship last? Hayden Devillier fell into the good life when the mega rock band Assured Distraction made him part of their family. His family planning didn't include becoming a father at eighteen but through the trickery of an unwanted roommate, who happens to be his cousin's girlfriend, he finds himself raising his son alone. Hard choices involving his career for the sake of his child, did have to be planned. Now Hayden feels his own life slipping by, but getting into the dating scene with a twelve-year-old active kid, proved to be harder than he realized. Then he met a woman standing on a corner, and his life is covered in more than he bargained for. A wall of water raining down on Timbre Simon changed her life before the drops reached the pavement. All she wanted to do was open he own counseling practice in Austin but instead she finds herself jobless, homeless, and friendless which started with the rain. Timber's plan does not include a man because she's headstrong and refuses to change her dream, especially for a man. The hot guy who started all of her problems seems determined to be in her life, wanted or not. When Timbre and Hayden's lives kept crossing paths, it seemed like other forces pushed them in the same direction. Can he let his guard down with a women and trust her with his son? Will she let hers down and allow him to disrupt her plan? All of this could be for nothing though, when old friends and enemies resurface to derail their lives.Read the companion book to the Amazon best-selling Assured Distraction rock star romance series where it's fun days, rocking concerts, and sizzling nights.