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Taken By Moonlight
Violette Dubrinsky - 2012
After almost dying under the snapping jaws of a rabid wolf—go figure—Vivienne is saved by a gorgeous, dark-haired man, who may just belong to a cult. Her attraction to Conall is strong, and she’s unable to control it, especially when he’s touching her….Conall Athelwulf is no man. He’s a werewolf, the leader of the largest pack in New York, and he knows better than anyone that relationships between weres and humans are strictly forbidden. So why is he unable to get beautiful, but very human, Vivienne Bordeaux out of his system? Amidst fears he’ll hurt her, Conall soon realizes that laws be damned, he’s unwilling to let her go. Instinct tells him Vivienne is his in every sense of the word, and a smart wolf heeds his instincts. When others threaten his claim, Conall is determined to teach them the hard way: fists or claws. But Vivienne isn’t as she seems, and both parties soon find themselves at the center of an epic war, where Vivienne may be key to the salvation of an entire race.
Shock Jock
A.M. Madden - 2017
You might have heard of my rock star cousin, Jack.I’m on the radio for entirely different reasons.My voice may not cause women to swoon through music and lyrics…it’s the content of my syndicated radio show that has them desperate to talk to me.I’m a sex therapist who doles out great advice.My doctorate gives me license to hold nothing back.My listeners have crowned me the King of Romance.I change relationships for the better. I'm the SEXpertThe erotic shock jock.The man with a plan. Until one call on the air turns the tables on me.A stranger suddenly has me questioning everything I thought I knew about myself. And then an unexpected turn of events between my best friend and me only worsens my confusion.I have all the answers, except when it comes to my own damn love life.This man no longer has a plan.This man is now the one needing advice.This book is a contemporary stand alone novel from the male pov meant for mature readers who are 18+. It contains explicit language and graphic sexual content.
Wait for Me
Samantha Chase - 2013
Tired of waiting for the time to be right, she takes advantage of her boss’s generous offer for a little weekend getaway to thank her for helping out with a difficult business deal.Former NFL superstar Lucas Montgomery is still suffering from a career-ending injury. His self-imposed exile from life is exactly what he wants; a sanctuary where there’s no chance for disappointment or distractions and that’s exactly the way he likes it. While his family has been patiently waiting for Lucas to come around and embrace life once again, they don’t realize that it wasn’t just his career that was lost, but his sense of identity.Lucas thought everything was fine until sweet, sexy and completely off-limits Emma Taylor comes crashing into his carefully constructed world one snowy weekend and turns his entire life upside down.Montgomery Brothers Series: Wait for Me (Book 1) Trust in Me (Book 2) Stay with Me (Book 3) Return to You (Book 4) Meant for You (Book 5)
Dirty Tactics
Emma Salah - 2020
He can’t risk losing them, no matter how much he wants Reagan. She’s too important to him; he can’t let things get weird.But Reagan has known they’re meant to be since forever. She’s not about to back down now. If she has to play dirty to bring him around?No problem.This book is approximately 70,000 wordsOne-click with confidence. This title is part of the
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Redemption
Stephanie James - 2015
After three long, painful years of healing, he's finally back. I loved Lucio De Campo with all of my heart, but his secret lifestyle destroyed any possible chance of us reconciling. For eight years, I loved him unconditionally and wanted nothing more than to start a family with him, until the night that all hell broke loose. Not only did I discover who he truly was, but the gruesome lifestyle that he led had put me in danger. When he left, I was broken beyond repair and was just now finding myself again. I couldn't let him back in. No matter how bad my heart was yearning for him. Lucio: I'm free! After years of living my life under my father's rule, I am finally free. It took losing the love of my life and freedom for the past three years, but I have finally found my way. I'm a new man, determined to right my wrongs for the woman that I love. Who I am will never change, but I will never allow anyone to hurt her ever again. She's mine. Always has been and always will be. Fiancé or not; we will be together again. Frankie: Outcast. Disappointment. Failure. Those are the words that I have been branded with since the day Lucio walked into my father's restaurant. I went from being next in line to some low level thug within my father's operation. For three years, I plotted against the family that forced away my father's love. They took everything from me, and I was determined to do same. One night destroyed the lives' of three people and entangled them for years to come. Love, pain, and revenge started it all, but will it also end it?
Chained
Elise Marion - 2014
Determined to free himself and his men, and clear his besmirched name, Caden does not count on the willful nature of his captor, Lady Gwendolyn Toustain, the daughter of the man who was once his father’s mortal enemy. After several attempts at escape, the lady orders him bound and chained to a wall in her chambers—where he will remain under her personal guard at all times and kept from conspiring with his men. While the lady's high-handedness infuriates him, Caden cannot deny that everything else about her drives him to distraction. Forced into close proximity with her, Caden soon finds it hard to remember his mission of escape. When Lady Gwendolyn of House Toustain first lays eyes on her prisoner, one thing about him is abundantly clear: Sir Caden of Daleraia is a dangerous man. Yet, she must show him no fear. The captured band of knights from Daleraia are her only clue in the mystery surrounding the disappearance of House Toustain’s sons, and it falls to Lady Gwen to seek justice. Is this kidnapping merely the ploy of mercenaries out for a ransom? Or has Sir Caden acted on the order of the High Lord of Daleraia and broken the peace? As she searches for the answers, she never expects the surge of passion that ignites between herself and her prisoner. The longer he remains in her clutches, the more Gwen realizes that though she has him chained, she is the one who has been captured. Book 1 in the Chained Trilogy
Very Wicked Beginnings
Ilsa Madden-Mills - 2014
Meet Cuba Hudson, the heartbreaker of Briarwood Academy:I'm the tattooed bad boy girls think they can change.I have it all: a football career, a stellar GPA, and a family that owns half of Dallas, Texas. Everyone wants to be me, but all I want is to forget...Then she shows up.Dovey Beckham arrives at Briarwood Academy and looks right through me, unconcerned that I rule the school. I wasn't part of her precious plan, and it drove me insane...so I made it my mission to claim her, to put her notch on my bedpost.She would be mine and her heart would be broken.I didn't plan on falling for her, and I sure as hell didn't plan on losing her...Welcome to Briarwood Academy...where sometimes, the best things in life are Very Wicked Beginnings.
Holding Onto Forever
Heidi McLaughlin - 2017
Making sure he worked hard to deserve the opportunities provided to him, Noah is where he's dreamed of being - starting QB for Portland Pioneers. Together, with his model girlfriend by his side, life can't get much better. Except that standing in his path is Peyton Powell-James, his life-long friend and the one woman he can never have. Peyton Powell-James always knew her future would be in football and dreams of having a successful sports journalism career once she graduates college. After being given the assignment to cover a professional game from the sidelines, Peyton believes that everything is going to plan. Until one fateful night changes her life. Harsh reality sets in for Noah and Peyton. One could lose everything, while the other struggles to keep the families together.
Blame It On Paradise
Crystal Hubbard - 2008
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Him & Her: A Game Served Spicy
Shelby Mitchell - 2015
When a hot, sexy gamer geek obsessed with winning meets his match in a sassy, take no crap ‘cook’, sparks fly and a game served spicy begins. Micah James is tall, excessively handsome, a brilliant success as a top video game programmer and a jerk of the first order. Used to flashing a smile and a wink to get whatever he wants, Micah knows what he wants right now and it’s for the local supermarket deli ‘cook’ to be his personal chef. What he’s not ready for is the battle of wills he’ll soon engage in when he meets his match in Nori Blackmon. Nori Blackmon is sassy, curvy and determined to make a success of her life, not matter the cost or sacrifice. She has little time for the spoiled, good looking frat boy demanding she drop everything to come work for him as his personal chef. His arrogance knows no bounds and his inability to take no for an answer rubs her the absolute wrong way. When their worlds collide, neither is ready for the perfect and powerful chemistry that exists between them or that a love like this can form between two people with such different lives and dreams. Him & Her is a contemporary love story between a man and woman moving in different directions until fate intervenes to offer them a new one—with each other. Note: This book has a continuation to the next book (cliff hanger). If you do not like reading series of this nature, this book and storyline may not be for you. For real. This sexy, fun, witty novel by Shelby Mitchell is a BWWM (Black Woman White Man) Interracial romance that contains adult subject matter, descriptive and explicit sex, adult language and mature topics including sex between a billionaire and a curvy, voluptuous black woman. For adults only—Not suitable for readers under 18.
Concrete Evidence
Rachel Grant - 2013
Now she wants revenge…Accused of stealing artifacts from a five hundred year-old shipwreck, underwater archaeologist Erica Kesling is determined to clear her name. She’s concealed her past and taken a job certain to give her access to the buyer of the missing antiquities. She's finally closing in on her goal, when she's distracted by a sexy, charismatic intern who makes her want something other than revenge.But Lee Scott is no intern. He's looking for the lead conspirator in an international artifact smuggling scheme, and Erica is his prime suspect. He’ll do whatever it takes to win her trust and get her to reveal her secrets, even seduce her.As Erica and Lee struggle to conceal their real agendas, the one thing they can’t hide is the attraction that burns hot between them. When Erica’s quest puts her life in jeopardy, Lee must choose between old loyalties and a woman he never expected to fall for.
Rescued
Arlene Lam - 2012
Try as they might they could not douse the flames. Amelia was lost from the moment she laid eyes on Jordan Bradford. Besides the fact she was just the maid, there were far too many reason besides the obvious that they could not be together. Still she found herself throwing caution to the wind and knew she would pay whatever the cost for the chance at one more kiss. Forbidden fruit was always sweeter. The saying rang true for Jordan and a flame long thought extinguished was awakened inside him whenever Amelia was near. Time and again he sought her out against his better judgment and his hardened hearts wishes. Denying his desire for her was no longer becoming and option.
Love Through Pain
Ancelli - 2013
As a Navy Chief, he’s seen a lot, overseas and at home. But, nothing could prepare him for what he found the night of his birthday. Jazmine O’Neal was a vibrant woman, living her life to the fullest. While away on business she enjoys an evening out, but on her way back to her hotel, she walks into the worst nightmare of her life. Her cries for help are unheard until an unknown, tall, handsome Hispanic man steps in. He saved her in more ways than she could ever comprehend. But he never imagined finding the woman of his dreams, or considered how he would find her. Can Javier and Jazmine—both of them hurt and damaged—learn to depend on each other? Fighting through pain and anger, they seek unconditional love. Blindsided by life, can they let go enough to let love overcome their pain? This book contains explicit sexual content.
By Love Released: Book One
Cate Thorne - 2014
It’s worth it though. She’s determined Jamie won’t end up like their deadbeat, druggie mother, or worse. Each month, she earns a few extra dollars posing nude for a SoMa art studio. A proud and stunningly beautiful African American woman, she doesn't like exposing herself to strangers like that. But it's legitimate work and she’d do anything for her kid brother. Rafe Adams has it made. A former marketing executive, he’s a handsome white male who cashed out early and will never have to work another day in his life. It’s all about the finer things in life now, with plenty of money and time to pursue what he loves, including his passion for art. There's only one thing missing, and money can't buy it. When she disrobes in Rafe's class that first time, Shawna's grace and mystery grabs him and shakes him to the core. He has to have her, has to know her. He doesn’t know why. He just does. She's overcome, too, by her own attraction to this striking man, but suspicious. What's his true motivation? Will he be just one more jerk who thinks she’s a toy to possess, to play with until he’s bored then tosses it away? Or… could he be the one? Their worlds are as different as her black is to his white. Is it possible for such differences to come together and make something beautiful? Should she stay proud and independent, or take a risk on love and reach for her dreams? Of course, choices are never that easy.
Rock Star
Roslyn Hardy Holcomb - 2006
This multi-award winning bestseller makes frequent appearances on Favorites lists and continues to stand the test of time. Callie Lawson is a small-town business owner with few plans that don’t involve a spreadsheet, a clipboard and a PowerPoint presentation. When Bryan Spencer, renegade rock star leader of the legendary band Storm Crow shows up in her store those plans are rapidly derailed. Bryan, reeling from the drug overdose death of his best friend and band mate has been exiled to the Alabama town before he succumbs to guilt and his self-destructive tendencies. LA sin and southern comfort collide in an explosive conflagration that neither is prepared for but are unable to resist. A passion this intense will not be denied, even when Bryan’s own personal Gollum steals away his newfound love. He’s prepared to do what it takes to get her back, even if it means taking on their worst enemy: the one within.