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Her Country Star Cowboy
Taylor Hart - 2020
She wants to keep her secrets. Will true love take them both off track?Aspiring country music star, Shay Summerville, only wants to be writing and singing his music, so when his boss at the auto body shop—aka—his father, tells him it’s his turn to pick up the snobby, Harvard stranded princess who needs a tow, he does everything he can to get out of it.Spending her summer at her family’s lake house wasn’t on Jaycee McCade’s happy list. Frankly, not much had been on that happy list since her mother passed away three months before. When a tow truck spirals out of control and nearly hits her, she never imagined she’d be kissing the guy driving the truck. And she really never imagined liking it.When summer love captures both of their hearts, they have to make a choice—give up on their dreams or create a new one together.
Flirting with Forever (Flirting with the Finest, #1)
Kaye Kennedy - 2021
And he definitely wasn’t supposed to fall for her. But it did. And he did. Now, he’ll do anything to protect her. Even if it costs him everything.
Hunter
When I’d caught the garter at a friend’s wedding, I hadn’t anticipated having sparks with the woman who’d caught the bouquet because that was a bad cliché, right? Things in Lauren’s life were...complicated. As for me, being a detective on the NYPD’s Special Investigations Task Force made having a relationship nearly impossible, so I’d decided we were better off as friends.Fast forward a year...Lauren stumbled into my undercover investigation of the Vosstaniye Bratva so, in an effort to keep my cover from being blown, I blurted out that she was my girlfriend.Huge.Epic.Mistake.Now, she’s been sucked into my investigation and I’ve fallen for her. Complicated or not, I have to convince Lauren that our fake relationship is anything but because we just might have a forever kind of love. But first, I have to keep her safe from the Russian mafia. No big deal, right? Wish me luck.Fall in love alongside Detective Hunter Albanese and Lauren Powers in this debut of a new series following members of the Special Investigations Task Force in New York City as they fight crime and fall in love.You'll recognize Lauren as Zoe's sister in Burning for Her, and Hunter plays a role in Burning for Love and Burning for Trouble. While this novel can certainly be read as a standalone, you'll get the most out of it having read the preceding series, Burning for the Bravest, which features NYC firefighters who love hard and make love harder.
Justice for Lauren
Laine Vess - 2020
He’s determined to complete his primary mission but not so sure about the secondary one: leaving the Rangers to join the Fantasy Pier Police Department.Lauren Jessop ended up working at Fantasy Pier General Hospital after a family situation threw her out of her last job. Now her sister has shown up, and Lauren’s worried trouble won’t be far behind.A blackmail scheme brings Dean and Lauren together, and they’re racing against time to find the fugitive, save Lauren’s career, and free Lauren’s sister. But will their attraction to each other end up being something serious? Only if these two damaged people can learn to let themselves love.
Trust
Mignon Mykel - 2020
Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes Worlds project.Trust. Verb. To rely upon someone or something.Six weeks ago, Crew Dawson lost the partner who he knew without a doubt would always have his back. Losing K9 Ammo was the hardest day of his police career, and finding a new K9 partner isn’t working out too well for him. He’s ready to give up his role in the K9 unit when Sunnyville Police Department teams up with a high-risk dog shelter. Instead of finding a K9 that the department is looking for, though, he chooses rescues that unlikeliest of dogs.Trust. Verb. To have confidence; hope.The last fifteen years haven’t been too kind to Shawn Ypma. A teenaged mother, she fought hard to land on her own two feet. While she had the support of her parents, she stopped believing in love and happily ever after. Why should she trust a man when they’ve all failed her time and again? Her first and only priority right now is getting her daughter Austin through school, and hope Austin doesn’t make the same mistakes she did.When Career Day comes to Sunnyville Middle School, Shawn doesn’t know how to take the smiles and kind words from the new School Resource Officer. Little does she know, he and that massive dog of his are about to teach her a lesson in trust...
Twisted Love
Brenda Ford - 2019
None of them have a straight forward love life…even the ones that think they do. However, Brad’s 35th birthday sparks a change for all of them. Unraveling everything that they thought they knew. Angelo wants his brother to find love, ignoring his own issues. Alex is addicted to the girl he can’t have. Oliver is hopelessly in love with the girl next door, while Nelson eyes her mother. And Wesley… well, his mess is a permanent one. There’s no escaping now!
Paxton: Return to Myre Falls
Anastasia Chase - 2018
She always had.That's why she opened the only no-kill shelter in town, and she was damn proud of that fact. They currently had one vacant position, left by her alcoholic ex-boyfriend. After him, she promised herself she wouldn't get involved with co-workers ever again. But when she saw him, the words lodged in her throat, right along with her heartbeat.Holy cover model, Batman. This guy was gorgeous.He was tall, lean, and corded with muscle. He looked like a serious athlete, though something told her that he was one of those fortunate few that never had to work out to get good muscle tone. She felt an intense desire to strip him of that shirt and taste every inch of his yummy-looking torso, from happy trail to clavicle.But he had his own secrets.Maybe she wouldn't freak out if he ever showed her his wolf form? And then again, maybe she'd run screaming in the opposite direction. Not every human had the temperament to deal with the life they lived. But none of that mattered because he knew it for a fact.He could feel it in his bones. She was his fated mate.
Ashes
Gail Haris - 2021
Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes Worlds project. Featuring Collins from Combust. All that remains are ashes…Fighting fires is in his blood. It’s more than a job—it’s part of who Carter Collins is. Everything was going according to plan until one fateful night. With only his brothers at the Sunnyville Fire Department and his grandmother to answer to, Collins is content with life the way it is. His heart of ash isn’t capable of being in a relationship—but then she comes along. Natalia Vasquez took a position at the Sunnyville Hospital to leave her old life behind with hopes to escape the permeant ache in her chest. When a fire her destroys her apartment, a strikingly handsome firefighter comes to her rescue.With no choice but to move again, Natalia isn’t thrilled to find that the heroic ass is her new neighbor.She is determined to find herself. He longs for peace from his inner demons.Will the tension burning between them be enough to rekindle the ashes that smolder inside of them?
Unreal
Riley Moreno - 2014
The day before they depart, the girls are given a party by Julie’s mother, Sharon, and her stepfather, Greg. Sharon seems nervous at the prospect of the girls taking off for parts unknown, but Greg sees no harm in the adventure. The girls set off and after driving through the morning, they stop at a small town diner for a bite to eat...and you can never imagine what happens next.
Unbroken Part One
Riley Edwards - 2017
Now it’s your turn to sit back and immerse yourself in this incredible series. Each episode weaves the characters and storylines of ten standalone novels together to give you an epic crossover series. We’ve left you breadcrumbs, tidbits of information intertwined throughout our stories. Can you find them? Can you collect the clues we’ve left and become part of The Collective and solve the case?Season OneNo one is safe as a killer goes on a killing spree. Will The Collective stop him in time? Will you? Featured authors in order of appearance- Riley Edwards, Erin Trejo, Ellie Masters, Elias Raven, Chris Genovese, and Carver PikeUnbroken - A second chance at love story - Episode 1Five years after my husband’s brutal murder, I am still trying to piece my life back together.A series of disastrous events sends, not only my life but my son’s life into peril. With everything spiraling out of control, and our safety on the line, I have no choice but to ask my longtime friend, Reid for help.I realize my mistake too late. Reid is all in, and is taking over my life completely. He looks at me like a woman, not a widow or a mother. He makes we wish for things I know I shouldn’t have.Just when he opens my eyes to the world around me, and I see the man that has been standing right in front of me all these years - it’s too late. One kiss is all I am allowed before my life takes another painful twist and all thoughts of happiness are torn from my reach.*This book ends in a CLIFFHANGER.
Snow & Mistletoe
Rie Anders - 2019
Taking solace in the fact that she has a ski trip planned with her boyfriend of two years, she comes home to find that not only did he leave without her, he has broken up with her. A night on the town triggers a series of events that lead to Cat spending the holidays at a friends cabin on Lopez Island. Unfortunately, the cabin is already occupied by the dark and devilishly handsome Kirin Anderson. Kirin has his own reasons for spending Christmas alone and Cat has put a major wrinkle in his plans for solitude. As Kirin tries to navigate his instant attraction to Cat, he must balance her request to be alone, and his need to keep a secret. His care for Cat, and encouragement of her new life direction pulls Cat in, and she finds her heart at a much greater risk of breaking.
Handled
Heather Slade - 2020
Bromberg’s Everyday Heroes World.
A Maid for the Grieving Highlander
NOT A BOOK - 2018
Called into service at Caisteal Tioram by the recently widowed Eoin MacDonald, heir to the powerful Clanranald, she finds herself cast into an alien world against a backdrop of family trauma and larger political intrigue, at a time when her own destiny has become uncertain.Facing persecution over their forbidden love, can Catriona and Eoin overcome the obstacles?Will Eoin keep his birthright and stay at Castle Tioram or forsake his own family?
Trapped
Brook Wilder - 2019
I was supposed to be his undoing. Instead, he became mine. He broke my defenses, made me scream and beg. I thought once would be enough… But that was before I found out he left his baby inside me. I was caught between two motorcycle clubs on the verge of war. When one side made me an offer to keep myself safe, I took it. If I only knew what the cost would be. I was supposed to get close to the President of the Grizzly MC. More than that, I was supposed to find out all of his secrets: All the things that his enemies could use to ruin him. I never thought he’d turn it all on me. I never thought he’d break all my defenses. From the moment he pinned me against his bed. From the moment he made me beg. From the moment he made me scream. I thought it would be a one-time thing. But that was before he left his baby growing inside of me. Trapped is a full-length standalone enemies to lovers romance with a secret baby between a bad boy biker and a waitress looking to keep herself safe between two rival motorcycle clubs on the verge of war. Warning: contains violence, language, dark themes, and STEAMY intimate moments.
Mountain Calling (Secrets of Mountain Men Book 1)
Janice M. Whiteaker - 2021
Mr. Bossy (Part One)
Kaylee Quinn - 2018
Without question. That’s the bargain I made in order to keep my job after ruthless billionaire Colt Jarrett took over the company where I work. But when I made that pledge to him, I never in my wildest dreams imagined what he might command me to do… His magnetic green eyes sear into me, a lethal wildcat stalking its prey. When he grows angry, his chest heaves, pulling his suit jacket over a taut, muscled frame. I squirm when he gazes at me with that lethal stare. My white silk panties get damp from the slightest glance from him, the merest whisper from his perfect lips. There were no boys at my upper crust all-girl university, but then again, this is no boy. He is all man. And he is about to ruin everything I hold dear. COLT I have a dirty job to do. Taking over my departed father’s flailing company is bad enough, but now I have to deal with the firings and recriminations from those who didn’t work hard enough to save themselves… And worse yet, there is a distraction here in the form of a pure, innocent little vixen with pouty red lips and big, scared eyes. I try not to focus on the girl, Skye Fallon. From the moment I saw her, I couldn’t stop imagining my mouth all over her, ravishing her pale, supple skin. Freeing those curves so I can see everything, licking her and savoring those ripe juices. The girl screams for it with every startled glance she gives me, and the blush that creeps up her chest and neck whenever I am close. But I’m not here to start a workplace affair no matter how hard Miss Fallon makes me. And no matter how much she tries to knock me off balance, I will not let this woman break down my iron walls. She’ll just have to learn the hard way that I am the boss.