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A Girl by Any Other Name


M.K. Schiller - 2013
    But at twelve, they become friends when he teaches her how to hook a fishing line and she shows him the value of a selfless act. At fourteen, he falls in love with her.At sixteen, she dies.Or so he’s told. But Cal never believes it. Sylvie has become part of his soul. He knows her like the steady beating of his own heart. He’d know if she was dead. Cal looks for her, prays for her and finally he just waits for her.Nine years later, she walks into the community college English class Cal is teaching. Only this girl claims her name is Sophie Becker and she doesn’t know him. Cal knows better. He’s determined to get the girl he loves back—and protect her from the danger that took her away all those years ago.

Her Hot Number


Talia Hunter - 2014
    It's bad enough that her luggage was lost en route to her conference, but when she arrives at the Australian resort and learns that she's also lost her reservation, Caylee’s ready to break down. Then things get even worse. The resort is owned by Blake Sampson―the bad boy who once took everything from her...Blake thought he’d left his troubled past far behind him. Then the sexy-but-proper math guru he’s never been able to forget walks into his lobby. Hoping to show Caylee he’s changed, he offers to share his suite. Except the attraction between them only grows in such close quarters―exponentially. Even though Blake’s incredibly successful—and hot—Caylee’s not sure she can risk her heart again. Not after the way he destroyed her trust when he disappeared years ago. But if she's wrong in her calculations, she could lose everything...

For the Love of Skating


Madeline Fay - 2020
    I'm nobody's princess, especially not Granger's. He's a hot, assholey, grumpy, god who stomps around campus like he owns the place, just because he's the captain of the hockey team.Women fall to their knees before him. I won't be one of them.The only thing we have in common is the ice.I have a plan.Finish college. Leave home. Figure skate my heart out and live my life without someone bossing me around.I just need to keep my distance from the one man who makes my heart race... either with desire or anger. I'm going with anger. Granger isn't getting to this woman. Nope. Not happening. Maybe.

No Choice


C.M. Steele - 2015
    —Cameron James is a hot, hardworking, and wealthy businessman. Their lives crossed paths purely by chance. Visiting his sister in school, Cam sees Nat and instantly realizes that she's the one. Natalie on the other hand is very interested but skeptical. Time and distance tear apart their relationship, just as she believed it would, but she didn't realize that Cam wouldn't give up. Excerpt: "It still galled me that she was with someone else. I wondered if they’d been together before the party and were just coming out again as a couple. Either way, it really didn’t matter—she was mine. Nobody was going to take her from me. Tonight, she’d have the ring to prove it. I’d just picked it up that afternoon of the accident. It was a four-carat solitaire diamond with a platinum band. When you looked at the ring, it looked like a normal huge rock, but it was the inscription that mattered: No choice, you’re stuck with me."

Talania: A Trip down Memory Lane


Crystal Spears - 2013
    She lost five years of her life because of brain cancer. Now she is a 20 years old survivor and enrolled in college, determined to reclaim her life. There she meets Tristan Monroe, but it isn't the first time they’ve met. In fact, Tristan and Evelyn were once in love. It was a love so strong that it shattered him when, after the three years they had spent together, she never came back to Laguna.Evelyn wants nothing more than to have her memories back. With the help of Tristan and his brother Drake, they take Evelyn on an emotional journey filled with videos, photos, and memorabilia...a walk down memory lane. While they stroll down memory lane, Evelyn must learn to deal with Tristan's rock star fame and the ever-present groupies. She struggles to find herself and to learn to love again.Is their love strong enough to overcome the memory loss? Is it strong enough to survive whatever comes their way? Will all the proof Tristan shares with her be enough to show her how deeply they loved each other? Will love find Evelyn once again?

I Saw You


Elena M. Reyes - 2016
    He gorged on the perks for more than a decade until life became dull, and the taste of a woman became bland on his tongue. Nothing excited him. Nothing, until the day life literally crashed into him.Arianna Garcia is tough, fiery, and doesn’t back down or fall sway to his charms. She isn’t a groupie, making the hunt so much harder and the rewards so much sweeter. His money and fame mean nothing to her.All he wanted was to relax and release some pent up tension.Now all he wants is her.The chase is on.

Rocked Senseless: A Stand-Alone Rock Star Romance


Alyson Hale - 2019
    When he opened his deep, dark eyes, I felt something I’ve never felt for any man before.Too bad I didn’t realize the beautiful, brooding man was Logan Young, my drummer and best friend.Not only could my feelings destroy a fifteen-year friendship, but his girlfriend’s father holds our fate as musicians in his hands. One false move, and our careers are over.Is that a risk we’re both willing to take? Or will the duet of our love song remain a solo?NOTE: This full-length stand-alone rock star romance contains a sassy rock chick and a dirty-talking drummer boy. The road to their HEA is a bumpy ride. Certain events in this book may trigger some readers. Proceed with caution (and maybe a box of tissues).

Fear of Love


Carole Mortimer - 1980
    Fear Of Love by Carole Mortimer released on Jun 24, 1980 is available now for purchase.

Never Say Never


Kelly Mooney - 2011
    Her mother’s sudden departure forces her father to move Kat to the suburbs of Chicago.Trading in her flip-flops for snow boots, and wanting the next six months to blow right by so she can go off to college in the sunny state of Arizona, she makes a plan. She does her best to stick to it, but Cameron Tate seems to pulling her further away from them.Cameron Tate is on every girls list of who they’d want to date. When he sees Kat, he’s instantly drawn to her, but she wants nothing to do with him. He refuses to give into her ice queen act, even after the upfront rejections.She can only avoid him and her now growing feelings for him for so long before she falls. But after her mother left she’s afraid of being hurt, and doesn’t want to lose anyone she loves ever again. With college around the corner how could this relationship possibly work?Kat must come to a decision in the road, take a chance on Cameron or just go their separate ways?

Fix You


Beck Anderson - 2013
    But can she handle life in the limelight?When Kelly Reynolds’s husband died two years ago, he left her to raise their two young boys. She’s barely pieced herself back together and takes refuge in her routine, running her kids around town and running the trails near their Idaho home.A chance encounter on a trail run brings famous actor Andy Pettigrew into her life. He’s clearly interested in her, but Kelly hates risk, and a love affair with Andrew is certainly tempting fate. She doesn’t fit into his Hollywood world. She doesn’t own a pair of Louboutins, and she couldn’t walk five steps in them if she did. Andrew oozes cool. She reeks of dork.Despite this, they click. But Andrew struggles with the pressures of his fame, and Kelly’s hold on a so-called normal life is already tenuous. So as much as she wants to indulge the fantasy, she doesn’t know how either of them is supposed to cope with stalkerazzi and tweet-happy fans with camera phones. Especially when she and Andrew both have secrets that seem impossible to keep…

Found by You


Victoria H. Smith - 2014
    I swear to God I’ve already seen him in a Nike ad, and he’s one of the top picks when he goes pro following our spring graduation.His life is on display for the world. Both his accomplishments and demons there for judgment.I’m a girl who likes to play roller derby from, of all places, Wisconsin. My own demons better concealed. And one day…He notices me.Found by You is a new adult contemporary romance.

Nowhere


Marysue G. Hobika - 2013
    After the sudden death of her father, she finds herself starting a new life in the Podunk town her mother grew up in, a month before her senior year begins. Mike goes to a party with her cousins to meet their friends, but she spends the whole night wishing she’d stayed home. That changes when a handsome cowboy unexpectedly shows up.Dooner has been working hard every day at football practice to secure a scholarship to get out of this small town once and for all. Looking for a night out, he crashes a party, and suddenly it’s the new girl, Mikayla, who’s got his attention. She’s like a breath of fresh air compared to the girls he’s known all his life. When Mike and Dooner meet they are attracted to each other, but will their encounter turn into something real or will it lead nowhere?

More Than Exes


Elizabeth Briggs - 2014
    She wants to win him back.Keyboardist Kyle Cross may look like a bad boy with his tattoos and piercings, but he’s really the good guy who’s always stuck fixing his band’s problems and never gets the girl. His band is competing in a Battle of the Bands, but when their bassist doesn't show, Kyle must track her down with the help of the person he least expects: his ex-girlfriend Alexis Monroe. Kyle hasn’t seen Alexis since she dumped him in high school, and she’s dropped her preppy image for fiery red hair and a bold new attitude to match. With only hours before his band goes on stage, Kyle has to be a little bad if he wants to win both the Battle and the girl he's never gotten over. But when their old problems resurface, the good guy might just get his heart broken all over again.A stand-alone prequel novella that launches the Chasing The Dream series.

Beyond the Horizon


Kristen Kehoe - 2013
    Three years ago, her brother left her family, choosing a girl over the Evans name. Watching her mother cry and her father shut the rest of them out, Mia made a promise to herself that she would be the one to bring them back together again. Yet, despite her acceptance to Stanford, her perfect academic record, and a flawless resume`, Mia finds her family getting further and further apart.Enter Ryan Murphy, the boy next door. Ryan has loved Mia Evans since the day he saw her sitting on her front porch weeping into her knees. Fifteen then, Ryan had been unsure of what to do, so he'd sat at his window and watched over her, and in that time, a piece of him became hers.Now, three years later, Ryan hasn't told Mia how he feels, but he gets the chance when he's forced to beg her to tutor him and save him from his mother. As their relationship progresses, Ryan realizes that Mia is more than he could have ever dreamed of, and that his feelings go a lot deeper than he ever imagined possible. And still, can they work?Mia didn't want to want Ryan Murphy. Just the opposite, actually. She agreed to tutor him because that's her job, but she doesn't have to like it, or the fact that she can't seem to stop noticing how gorgeous he is.Against all of her better judgment, Mia finds herself falling for Ryan, and falling hard. When the time comes for Mia to make the same decision that broke her family three years ago, she's torn: follow her heart, and lose her family, or follow her family and lose the only person whose ever really loved her.

Sacrifice for Love


Vicki Green - 2015
    For he loves her like no other and she him but they are told that their love can never be. Brock and Taren’s love was as innocent as their childhoods but as they grew so did it. Their families were far from friends. Brock from the ‘Blue Collar’ side of the track. Taren grew up in wealth and privilege. But that didn’t matter to them as they were oblivious to anything but their friendship.Brock’s determination causes him to devise a plan to have what is his, what was always meant to be but, will it be the end for him and Taren? Will his sacrifice cost too much?A Modern day ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with a twist.*This contains graphic sex and adult language and is intended for 18+ readers.