Book picks similar to
Where Love Lives (Maplewood Falls #2) by K. Street
second-chance
fiction
surprise-pregnancy
age-gap
The Hardest Route
A.S. Teague - 2019
I couldn’t handle a baby. I was Griffin Rockwell, the best wide receiver the league had ever seen. But what choice did I have? My baby girl was coming whether I was ready for her or not.Brooke turned out to be an amazing woman and mother. For seven years, we were the MVP of co-parenting—and even better friends.That all changed when tragedy struck our makeshift family and I was faced with the terrifying possibility of losing the one woman I was quickly realizing I couldn’t live without.I was at the height of my career and on the path to becoming the greatest of all time.But keeping my family together, with Brooke by my side, might prove to be the hardest route of all.
Cheat Codes
Emily Goodwin - 2018
Since the moment he saw her, he’s been denying his feelings for her, ignoring the void in his heart he knows only she can fill. Everything about them was wrong, the kind of wrong that felt so right. But none of it mattered. Not the terrible timing. And definitely not the mess it would create if Archer made a move on his best friend’s baby sister.It was supposed to be one night, but one night is all it takes to make everything more complicated, and they only have nine short months to sort it all out.No, none of it mattered. Until it did.
When the Night is Over
Lily Foster - 2020
She wants more for Simon than the ties that bind him to their dead end town. He has one shot at a better life, and she’ll stand aside so he can take it.Nearly four years later Charlotte is still nowhere to be found, and it’s not as if Simon hasn’t been looking. How can he forget the girl who still haunts his dreams?When the Night is Over is the first book in Lily Foster's new Blackbird series. Gripping and emotional, this second chance romance contains mature language and sexual content.
Unbreak My Heart
Nicole Jacquelyn - 2016
The fact that Shane's in the military and away for long periods helps—but when tragedy strikes, everything changes.After Rachel, pregnant with her fourth child, dies in a car accident and the baby miraculously survives, Kate upends her entire life to share parenting duties. Then on the first anniversary of Rachel's death, Kate and Shane take comfort in each other in a night that they both soon regret.Shane's been angry for a year, and now he feels guilty too—for sleeping with his wife's best friend and liking it... liking her. Kate's ability to read him like a book may have once sent Shane running, but their lives are forever entwined and they are growing closer.Now with Shane deployed for seven months, Kate is on her own and struggling with being a single parent. Shane is loving and supportive from thousands of miles away, but his homecoming brings a betrayal Kate never saw coming. So Kate's only choice is to fight for the future she deserves—with or without Shane...
Accidentally Hired : An Enemies-to-Lovers Romance
Amanda Horton - 2020
Mark Acorsi had to ruin it all. He had piercing blue eyes and a jawline to die for. He was romantic and adventurous. He was sweet and daring. He was everything I ever wanted. He had the confidence and strength of someone who ruled the world. Turned out, that was because he did. Rich, powerful Mark Acorsi didn’t need me, so he used me and left me in the dust. As much as I hated this man, I couldn’t seem to avoid him. Six years later, I was offered my dream job—then found out he owned the company. If that weren’t bad enough, he was already trying to get me fired. I wouldn’t quit just because my worst nightmare was in charge. I was going to show him that he couldn’t ruin my life again. But he’d do his best to make it hell for me. He’d do his best to make it impossible for me to resist him. ***Accidentally Hired is a standalone, 55K word romance novel, with plenty of steam, a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhanger ***
Bluebird
Stella James - 2017
With a ferocity that was well beyond my seventeen years. He held my heart carefully in his hands...until he let go. LoganShe was everything when I had nothing. She gave me her heart and I gave her mine. We belonged to each other. We belonged together...until I ruined everything. I had to set her free.Prairie Bennett and Logan Mackenzie fell hard and fast. Their future looked bright with possibility until one night when everything changed.Five years apart. Five years since she told him she loved him. Five years since she felt his arms wrapped around her. Fate brings Logan and Prairie together again, giving them a second chance they never thought possible. Scars run deep, the past can cloud the present...Can your first love really be your last love? 18+ due to content.WARNING - this novel contains elements that may trigger emotional distress for some as well as violence and strong language. Discretion is advised.
Invisible Love Letter
Callie Anderson - 2015
Weston Carter was all kinds of wrong for a girl like me. He was musician, a womanizer, and a first class heartbreaker.I didn't know a love like this could exist. Our love was epic, the kind people wrote stories about. We fell into it hard, unable to control our feelings.I set myself up for a shattered heart.A broken life.A fucked up love story.
Our Finest Hour
Jennifer Millikin - 2017
Sometimes they need music. Other times, only a night with a stranger will soothe the pain. On the night Isaac and I met, we tried all three. When it was over, we went our separate ways. We planned to never see each other again, but I should really know by now that plans don’t work out the way they're supposed to. It has been four years since that night, and it’s a bizarre twist of fate that lands me in need of help only Isaac can give. I don’t want to be attracted to him, but I am. I don’t want my heart to skip a beat when it sees him, but it does. And I really don’t want him to look at me that way, but he won’t stop. Because things aren't like they were four years ago. And this time? We don’t have the option of parting ways when the sun comes up.
Mine
Marie York - 2015
Imperfect Chaos is available now. The only thing Nixon Bennett ever excelled at is fighting. No one ever understood him, especially his parents and sister. Then Brooklyn Davis walks into his gym, and his world shifts. Brooklyn is just like him in so many ways, and yet so fragile in others. Can she fix this broken boy even though she's broken herself?
Back to Delaware
Andrea Hopkins - 2020
A coward. A complete a**hole. Six-time Grammy winner. Four-time rehab attempter. In recovery. Trying my hardest to find my way back to myself. Back to her. Zoey. The girl who had my heart before I even realized it. She was my first fan. My best friend. My future. My heart and soul. Until I made her believe that she wasn’t. It’s be six years since I’ve been home. Now I’m back. Humbled, healthy, and ready to make up for my dumb*** mistakes. To make her remember. I’m hers. I’ve always been hers. And no one will stand in my way. Not even my brother. ZOEY Delaware King was my first real friend. My first kiss. My first love. My first everything. He was my person. Until he broke my heart when there wasn’t much left to break. He walked—no, he ran far away from me when I needed him the most. When we needed each other. I should hate him. No one would blame me if I did. But I don’t. And now he’s back home and no matter what he says, I know he’s for me. But I’m not the same young girl he left behind. It’s been six years. I have secrets of my own. A life that went on without him. I don’t need him anymore. And I certainly don’t want him. I don’t. I definitely don’t. Ugh, that’s such bull****. Even I can’t believe the words spewing from my mouth. I’m totally freaking screwed.
Rookie Mistake
Alice Ward - 2016
I thought I'd achieved everything I ever wanted. Then I lost her... Standing on the pitcher’s mound for a professional baseball team has been my dream since I was a small boy. Now I’m here, pitching for the newest team in the league — the New York Beasts — with the woman I’ve loved since high school by my side. Calvin and Whitney forever! Wow, we made it. But there’s a downside to instant fame and fortune, a trap that unleashes self-control and morals. A gilded cage that separates us from the real world. This is the big city, the major leagues — the big time. And temptation is around every corner. People change. We changed. Neither for the better. I don't even recognize us anymore. Calvin and Whitney forever? I used to think so, but the beasts that had been hibernating in both of us have taken control, and now I’m not so sure. The dream has become a nightmare. Can we wake and find our way back to each other? NOTE: Although this is the first book in the series, it has an emotionally charged HEA you won’t soon forget, and No Cliffhanger. *** For a limited time only, to celebrate the new release week, this copy also includes The Billionaire Prisoner - The Complete Series Box Set as a FREE BONUS + More Exclusive FREE BONUSES ***
The Best Thing
Mariana Zapata - 2019
Other things… not so much. Lenny DeMaio made herself a promise: she was done. Done thinking about him. Done worrying about him. Done reaching out to a man who clearly didn’t want to be found. Too bad no one gave Jonah Collins the memo.
Ex-Lover New Boss
Summer Brooks - 2018
Reason #2: He'd already broken my heart once. Reason #3: He was my brother's best friend.Reason #4: He was now my new boss. And most importantly...Reason #5: He was arguably the most hated man in the city.The best thing about him was his adorable little daughter. Well, that and his perfect basketball body. And his chiseled jaw. His eyes weren't so bad either. DAMMIT. You get the point. The devil had me under his spell. It was his office and his rules.Lucky for me, I had a few rules of my own. Rule #1: Never to fall in love with him again.
A Lie for a Lie
Helena Hunting - 2019
I just want to be a normal guy for a few weeks. So when I leave Chicago for some peace and quiet, the last thing I expect is for a gorgeous woman to literally fall into my lap on a flight to Alaska. Even better, she has absolutely no idea who I am.Lainey is the perfect escape from my life. My plan for seclusion becomes a monthlong sex fest punctuated with domestic bliss. But it ends just as abruptly as it began. When I’m called away on a family emergency, I realize too late that I have no way to contact Lainey.A year later, a chance encounter throws Lainey and me together again. But I still have a lie hanging over my head, and Lainey’s keeping secrets of her own. With more than lust at stake, the truth may be our game changer.
Yard Sale
Charleigh Rose - 2018
A one-night stand with an arrogant stranger was just what I needed. I didn’t know that he was a famous snowboarder, or that he’d give me the best sex of my life.I wasn’t ever supposed to see him again.Fate had other plans. Cam I was young and rich with the whole world at my fingertips.I was in my prime.A one-night stand with a hot little tourist on the rebound was the perfect way to spend my weekend.I didn’t know she’d leave in the middle of the night, or that I’d wake up wanting more. I never thought I’d see her again. Now she’s back.She’s been keeping a secret.One that will change everything.*Yard Sale is a quick, fun, dirty novella previously released in the Team Player anthology, now containing new content and a sneak peek into Rewrite the Stars, coming this fall.