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Hungry For Owen (Hungry Hearts Book 7)
Cameron Hart - 2020
I’m one business loan application away from being the sole owner of the bakery. Buying Sweet Perfection is the most important thing in my life, so when the too-handsome, too-charming, too-good-to-be-true Owen starts coming in and asking me out every morning, I have no choice but to turn him down. When I run into an unexpected problem with the bank, I’m forced to go confront my mother. I planned on spending Thanksgiving alone, but it looks like I’ll be staying with family after all. The worst part is, I think I miss seeing Owen’s lopsided grin. Crap.Owen: My very pregnant sister demanded macaroons from her favorite bakery, Sweet Perfection. I was a little annoyed at first, but one look at the gorgeous baker and I know I’ll be thanking my sister for the rest of my days. She inadvertently introduced me to my future wife, and that’s definitely something to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. I’m hoping for a Christmas wedding, but my angel is a little skittish. That’s alright. I’m no stranger to hard work, and Emery is certainly worth all my effort.What to expect from a Cameron Hart book: Lots of heat, plenty of sweet, and just enough drama to keep things interesting. No cheating, safe, guaranteed HEA!
Hungry For Dash
Shaw Hart - 2020
After rumors started swirling at her old job that she was sleeping with a client that she would never touch in a million years, she decided that it was time to move on. She just wants to focus on her future, on getting her new party planning company with her best friend off the ground. Then she gets hired by Dash. Dash Montgomery is a successful software designer who thought he had everything that he needed. Then he sees Gracelyn. One look and he’s sure that he’s found his one. A lifetime of working with computers has left him unsure of how to approach her so he does what he thinks is logical and hires her. Gracelyn keeps telling herself that she can’t be with Dash. She can’t have rumors of her sleeping with her clients plaguing her new business but there’s something about him that Gracelyn can’t get out of her head. Will Dash be able to convince Gracelyn that they’re meant to be?
Trick or Snowstorm (Tiaras & Treats, #14)
Megan Wade - 2020
Something that would only be possible on Halloween, but could also lead to romance when the handsome, Mason steps in to help her out.As always, this Megan Wade book comes with her ‘Sugar Promise’. High heat, low drama, guaranteed.
Holiday With A Scrooge
K.L. Fast - 2020
I had to. Have you seen him?I want what I shouldn't.Pull up a rug and get cozy in front of the fire, KL & M.K. are headed to Northpole, NY!This is a part of the Holiday Honeys series.
Hungry for Dameon
Tarin Lex - 2020
An Older Alpha Hero, Younger Curvy Heroine RomanceAveryThe best and worst thing I ever did was kiss my dad’s best friend.That was over two years ago, right before I left for college.By some crazy stroke of luck, I’m able to make it home for Thanksgiving this year.I wasn’t supposed to come.And he wasn’t supposed to be here.Seeing Dameon again only reaffirms what I already knew:I’m still so in love with him.DameonI messed up when I let Avery kiss me that day.Not because it was wrong on every level.But because I was never able to forget about it.Now that she’s here, I can’t deny my true feelings.The timing might never be right for us, but that won’t stop me anymore.Could my best friend ever understand how much his daughter means to me?Ready for these all-new alphas to take over this Thanksgiving holiday??Check out all 9 of the Hungry Hearts series!
Never Enough of Her: 7 Deadly Sins
Elisa Leigh - 2021
He's surrounded by beautiful women every night at work, yet none of them have caught his attention. One night a group of college girls come into 7 Deadly Sins, the bar he manages. He doesn't give them a second thought until a beautiful straggler walks in behind them looking completely out of place. He's obsessed from the moment he sees her.Ava Mclemore is boring. That's what her friends think of her anyway. According to them, all she does is go to class and stay home and study. Out to prove them wrong, she tags along one night when they go out. She didn't know they'd be going to the hottest nightclub in Nashville or that she'd meet a man that made her think of something other than school.Will Dante teach her things she's never learned before. Will Ava give him the chance he needs to make her his?Claire Ashlynn, Barbra Campbell, Elisa Leigh, M.K. Moore, Rachelle Stevensen, Andi Lynn, & Colbie Kay are pleased to present:7 Deadly Sins. A nightclub where bad deeds are done in the dark... Sloth, Pride, Envy, Lust, Greed, Wrath, and Gluttony never looked so good. Come sin with us...
Nick's Snow Angel (A Forever Safe Christmas #15)
ChaShiree M. - 2019
Annoyed with the lack of focus around the holidays from his employees, he can't wait for it to be over. Deciding to ignore all the jubilance around him, he continues on as always. That is, until he sees...HER! Snow is kind, beautiful, smart and funny. She makes him feel things he never thought he would feel. How is this young girl changing everything about him? It doesn't matter. He has found her and he isn't letting her go. Join Nick and Snow as they find love unexpectedly and learn to open up. This is the 15 book in the A Forever Safe Christmas series and it promises to be quick, full of love, and hot sexy times. Sit back, grab some hot cocoa and enjoy!!! Oh...and Merry Christmas.
Her Midnight Mistake
Barbra Campbell - 2020
Right?How many sparkling ciders would it take to drown my misery? I might have found out if a handsome stranger hadn’t taken the barstool next to me.He didn’t flinch at my choice of drink. Said all the right things. And when I confessed why I was sitting alone at the bar, he pulled out an engagement ring. Too soon? No worries.It wasn’t actually an engagement ring.It was adjustable, and it’s fake diamond made Cubic Zirconia seem like an extravagant option.It was a piece of costume jewelry from a machine at the front of a grocery store. He’d gotten the trinket for his daughter.But the way he looked into my eyes when he slid it onto my finger hit me deeper than anything my ex had ever done.According to nearly everyone, by the time the clock struck midnight and ushered out the horrendous year, the engagement ring they expected to see on my finger would be from my former boyfriend. He was back in town and everyone seemed to know he was going to make amends and pop the question.But he was a former boyfriend for a reason.And the ring sliding on my finger wasn’t from him.Was it wrong to undermine his proposal in such a silly way?Was it wrong to dream of my fake fiancé being something more?And was I foolish to believe my knight in shining armor had shown up that fateful night purely by chance?Is there anything better than falling in love? Finding another HEA? I'll always give you a dirty-sweet story to keep your heart full and your windows steamed!Her Midnight Mistake is part of the Hot for Curves series of New Year's Eve romances. We're ready to move on from 2020 and wanted to bring you some sexy stories to help pass the time while we wait for the stroke of midnight!
Nutcracker
Flora Ferrari - 2019
That’s what they call him, my dad’s best friend and lifelong business partner. He’s one tough boss, but what’s really tough on both of us is when my father tragically passes away a month before Christmas, joining my mom in heaven. He gives me a job to keep my mind occupied, and watch over me. But when I see the way he’s watching me at the office Christmas party, it’s the first time I know this is so much more than a job. And it’s the first time I might have the chance to give him the gift I’ve been saving just for him. It may be cold outside, but things heat up inside the office Christmas party, causing my boss to step in and get bossy, reminding some nut why he’s known as Nutcracker. And letting each and every person know I’m off limits to everyone…but him. *Nutcracker is an insta-everything standalone instalove romance with an HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.
Billionaire on the Beach: A One-Night-Stand/Oops Baby Curvy Girl Romance
Kat Baxter - 2021
And avoiding another dreaded blind date set up by my mother. When I'm off, I just want to relax. Until a hot mess with a head full of curls mistakes my town car for her ride-share.CalliopeSome might call me a trainwreck, and maybe I am. All I know is that I like to color outside the lines. When my distractedness lands me in the car of the sexiest man I’ve ever seen, I’ve never been more thankful that I’m a spontaneous kind of girl.It was only supposed to be that one night. But sometimes consequences can last a lifetime. And, if you're really lucky, they can be exactly what you never knew you always wanted.
Lucky's Charm
Aria Cole - 2020
Paddy’s Day, she’s suddenly found herself just desperate enough to take a stranger up on his offer for a warm bed. She didn’t anticipate weathering the storm at O’Malley’s Bed & Breakfast, and it isn’t just liquid courage shooting through her veins every time Lucky O’Malley’s devilish gaze catches hers across the crowded bar. But after one night together, he’s made up his mind. And his mind is set on her. She’s never found luck in love but fate may have just delivered her forever with a thick brogue and a mouth filthy enough to make an Irishman blush. Lucky’s one hot Irish import that’s determined to keep his precious lucky charm forever.
Zander's Firecracker
Ember Flint - 2020
34-year-old, strait-laced, straight-faced Zander Markos is a lawyer who never cracks a smile if he can help it. As one of the heirs to the ubiquitous and all-powerful Markos Inc’s empire, no one could argue with him if he’d say he has no time to even think of having fun, let alone actually do such a mundane thing. In light of all of this, it remains a mystery why his brother thought it would be a good idea to put him —a no-nonsense, micromanaging, security freak— in charge of overseeing the preparations for the company’s July 4th retreat and beach party at their estate on Lake Tahoe. And yet here he is, neck-deep in organizing funny family-friendly activities within an inch of their lives, until there’s no fun left whatsoever in them.Of course, any Independence Day party worth its name’s got to have a firework display and the Markos must have only the absolute best. And therein lies the problem, because ‘the absolute best’ this time is not what Zander expected.24-year-old Alexandra ‘Alexa’ Tinley may be short compared to most kids, let alone adults, but she’s a tough spitfire through and through. She’s been ‘one of the boys’ all of her life and still has the mouth and scrapping abilities to prove it. She could not tidy a room if her life depended on it because she’s in constant motion and wherever she goes, disorder rules, but when it comes to her art no one could say she’s not the absolute best. A man and a woman can’t get any more different than these two: he’s order, she’s chaos, he’s ice, she’s fire, he’s Scotch neat and she’s… nitroglycerine, and yet they can’t look away. The explosion is inevitable.This little voluptuous nuclear firecracker might have ‘handle-with-care’ written all over her, but she’s still the spark he was missing and he’s the tether she didn’t know she needed. Dear Reader: Man, these two are gonna butt head!But don’t worry: it won’t last much since Zander and Alexa are only safe from each other if they stay away from each other, which they don’t, because… duh: this is one of my books so that’s never gonna happen!This is a quick, fun, steamy novella.Here’s what you get is:NO-cheating NO OW/OM drama A passion that’s gonna set the summer sky on fire with a white-hot display you won’t forget.As always, your sugary shot of guaranteed Happily-Ever-After is included in the kit, but do bring your own safety-goggles! *Please note that ‘Zander’s Firecracker is part of ‘The Holiday Firecrackers’collection of standalone books brought to you by some of your favorite insta-love romance authors out there.
Once Bitten
C.M. Steele - 2020
Unfortunately, his profession as a Marine Biologist and Shark expert forced us apart. I hated the smell of the ocean and it called him out for months at a time.Could I force him to choose me or the sea, or would he make that decision on his own?*This a fast pace romance with a hot happily ever after.
What He Wants
Jenna Rose - 2020
He keeps his eyes on her. Watching. Waiting. She's an angel in the wrong part of town, and he’s going to make sure she’s safe—no matter what.Aurora is struggling, working, saving her money for school, but one night she sees something she shouldn’t have and suddenly, she’s whisked away by a mysterious man who claims to be her protector. But he wants something from Aurora—something she’s never given—and she’s not sure if she can.