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To Serve and Protect


Rain Harlow - 2018
     Ben is everything I could want in a man. But I locked up my heart and threw away the key a long time ago. Now, he’s assigned to guard me during my prosecution of a violent criminal. Will his disarming charm and intense blue eyes finally force me to go after what I never thought I could want again? Ben She held me at arm’s length, but something in her eyes drew me closer. Was it possible that she understood my pain? When the man she was prosecuting threatened her, My instincts went into overdrive. No one messes with what’s mine. And that’s what Liz is. Mine.

What the Heart Wants


Marion Myles - 2016
    He’s a slick city lawyer. Who’d have thought they’d be perfect for one another? With another crushing breakup behind her, Elle Roberts is done with love. These days all her energy is devoted to her equestrian business. That is until Nicholas Sterling arrives with his horse, Leo. After one ride, she’s convinced she can help the troubled animal. But what about the man? Sure he’s rich and charming and ridiculously handsome, but Elle assures herself she’s not interested. Turns out that’s a big fat lie. Nicholas knows he’s damaged. And damaged people don’t deserve love. But something extraordinary happens when he’s with Elle. For the first time in his life, he’s able to trust. In her. And in them. The future stretches before him, filled with glorious possibilities. And he’s happy. Incredibly, unbelievably happy. But no sooner are they settled into their relationship than a tragic event triggers Nicholas’s deepest insecurities. Can Elle find a way to heal his heart or will this ultimately tear them apart? ***** If you yearn for romance with deep emotional connections between the characters - this is the story you’ve been waiting for. What the Heart Wants is the first novel in the Heart Series. Each book follows the story of one woman all the way to her happily-ever-after. The Heart Series continues on with Drawing from the Heart and Feeding the Heart.

Never Moore: The Player ( The Game of Their Love, #1)


Cindee Bartholomew - 2017
    My passion is pleasing princesses, but I don’t tap the same woman twice. Keeping the play simple keeps me single. Doing the deed like other dudes is not the way I roll. I keep score. I’m a numbers man. So when I jet to Vegas, I don't expect to be beaten at my own game. But I learn quickly that ‘good girls go to heaven, and bad girls go to Vegas,' and this ONE bad girl changes the way I play the game of love forever. If flirty, dirty, romantic comedies with sizzling, hot chemistry are the kind of reading games you like to play, then you will enjoy The Game of Their Love, a winning bestselling romance book series.Download and begin winning in the game of their love today!

The Hunter & The Hunted I: A Friends to Lovers Second Chance Mafia Romance (The Ivankov Mafia Bratva, Series 2 - Book I)


Amber Adams
    A fire extinguisher or a cold shower - keep them at the ready! Maxim is the Underboss for the Ivankov bratva. While being prepared for the unexpected is his job he was not prepared for HER to land smack in the middle of his life again. Her. Liz. The woman who a few years ago broke down his defenses, won over his heart, and then abruptly ran away leaving him devastated and full of questions. Well, she’s just innocently re-appeared, right in the midst of a highly volatile and dangerous uprising among the ranks of the bratva. Never having forgotten the object of his desire, seeing Liz again brings back to the surface Maxim’s pain, his unquenching desire for her and his need to protect her. Now that she is within his reach once more he is driven to finally make her his own. Maxim was already on the hunt to reveal and wipe out the vermin responsible for the bratva uprising. Now, this skilled and determined Hunter is after Liz’s heart as well.Liz is an E.R.doctor and co-owner of a revolutionary medical clinic virtual platform. Embarking on a trip to spearhead its expansion into Europe, she unwittingly finds herself confronted by a truth she’s been running from and has tried to forget.His name is Maxim. Overwhelmed by the relentless nature of being Hunted by her past Liz finds herself unexpectedly thrust out into the open with no place left to hide.Maxim is the only one who can save her. Will she let him before it’s too late?

Going Pro Box Set


Ashlyn Hope - 2018
    Especially relationships. Yes, she was a superstar as a kid, but as a woman by herself in the big city, Pro doesn't always feel like she's living up to her nickname. These days she can't get a win. One day she'll be struggling to pay for rent. The next she'll be dealing with the downfalls of internet dating. She's all alone in the big city and fighting to keep her business afloat while trying to find love, and none of these things are going her way. When Pro finally lands her dream client she takes herself out to bask in her small success, but her celebration gets sacked when she catches her new guy out on the town with another girl! Hurt, upset, and a hot mess, Pro abandons her night of celebration in tears, running out of a champagne lounge and accidentally slamming into the chest of a man on the street–David. Kind, considerate, and absolutely massive, David plays for a local professional football team. Nicknamed "Meat Mountain," he's huge everywhere and has rich brown eyes, a chiseled face, and a heart of gold. Eventually Pro starts living up to her superstar nickname. She’s got it all going on! But if it’s not one thing, it’s another. From a dangerously jealous coworker to mixed messages to a media frenzy, lots of things seem to be trying to stand between Pro and her happily ever after. Will somebody end up with a ring at the end of these season? Read the steamy, yet sweet, Going Pro series to find out.

Shadows, A Love Ever After Series Book 1


Amber Lacie - 2015
    In her twenty-six years of life, nothing exciting has ever happened to her. Everything is going perfectly for her. Little does she know, one summer at the beach could change her life forever. . .Theron is the son of a cutthroat multi-billionaire business tycoon. He thought he left behind the world his father created, but things change. His only hope at overcoming his past, is finding the one person he lost so very long ago. . .When Eve bumps into Theron, their worlds collide. Nothing can prepare them for the instant fireworks and roller coaster ride waiting for them.When evil starts to surround them, intent on destroying them, Eve runs into trouble…Can Theron and Eve find Light among the Shadows? Or will evil win?

Whiskey and Women


Amelia C. Adams - 2016
    Well, she quit, actually, but same thing. When her good friend Kate wins a trip to Nashville, all expenses paid, to see her favorite country music singer, Meg figures she might as well go along for the ride and shake off the cobwebs.Quinn Dawson grew up poor but hit it big time with his first album. Now he's been around the block a few times and has several million tucked away, part of which he's using to care for his parents. Offering a trip to Nashville in a fundraising raffle seems like a great way to bring attention to the cause, and when he sees who won the prize, he feels like a winner too.There's just one slight problem - Quinn's an alcoholic, and Meg has made herself a promise never to get involved with someone who drinks. From the bestselling author of the Kansas Crossroads series comes the story of two broken people coming together and creating a whole.

A Girl Worth Waiting For


S.M. Smith - 2014
    James had a plan. She was set to marry her longtime boyfriend, move into their house, get a dog and start building their family. That was until she found him in bed with another woman two weeks before they were supposed to get married. Now determined to start over and move on, Jessie reluctantly re-enters the dating scene, but moving on is hard when the pain of betrayal is still so fresh. Nevertheless, when Caleb Mathis finds her, he's determined to be up for the challenge. Caleb’s world pulls Jessie well outside of her comfort zone though, and when her childhood best friend Stephen Cahill shows her just how important to him she really is, she has a choice to make. Jessie’s plans and God’s plans start to clash and true intentions of the men in her life are revealed. Which makes Jessie wonder, will she ever find someone who thinks she's A Girl Worth Waiting For?

Big Daddy Sinatra: Bringing Down the Hammer (Big Daddy Sinatra Series Book 7)


Mallory Monroe - 2018
     But when Amelia Sinatra, his sister and the former leader of a drug cartel, goes missing, and when her boyfriend, the former head of the CIA Hammer Reese, won’t cooperate, Big Daddy knows he has to take charge. With the help of his kid brother, vicious mobster Mick Sinatra, and with his wife Jenay by his side, they join forces unlike they ever had before and will stop at nothing to bring Amelia home. Even if it means bringing down the entire federal government, and government man Hammer Reese, in the process. In the explosive new addition to the Big Daddy Sinatra interracial romantic suspense thriller, Charles and Mick Sinatra fight hard, love hard, and nearly die hard to protect all they hold dear.

The Inmate's Obsession


A. Riley - 2021
    Visiting him at the prison is all she has left, but when a fight breaks out and she’s the target, she doesn’t expect to be rescued by another inmate. Kai Tupuola has learned to go without while in prison. But one look at the pretty brunette and he won’t be denied. How much would it cost to have the guards turn their back? Claiming her in a cell isn’t ideal, but he’ll do whatever it takes to get what he wants.

No Weddings


Kat Bastion - 2014
     I think I have my act together as a successful bar owner, my master’s degree within reach, and a list of no-strings-attached women warming my bed. Turns out, I don’t. Hannah believes she has safeguarded her wounded heart by shunning men and focusing on her new baking business. The thing is, she hasn’t. When my three sisters and I start a new event-planning business with Hannah as our baker, I have no idea how my life is about to change. As Hannah and I work closely together, the attraction between us becomes irresistible. And complicated. I’ve promised my sisters I wouldn’t mix business with pleasure. But I’ve never been one to follow the rules. *** The No Weddings Series Release Dates *** No Weddings ~ Sep 8th One Funeral ~ Sep 29th Two Bar Mitzvahs ~ Oct 20th Three Christmases ~ Nov 17th

Red Says I Love You


Raeann Blake - 2012
    Then she paid her own way through after he was done...with college and with her, when he walked out the day after he got his degree. But now she was finished and enjoying a graduation present to herself in the form of one month in a mountain cabin between Bozeman and West Yellowstone. Things were definitely changing for Cass Wright. The vacation turned into a job opportunity at a local brewery. And she was intrigued by one of Bozeman's talented sculptors and spent money she didn't really have to buy one of his creations that she swore emitted invisible sex waves. It didn't take long to figure out that it wasn't the sculpture emitting those waves, but the sculptor himself.Josh's sculptures were not what most people would consider conventional. They each depicted a couple at one point or another in that journey where interest turned to desire, desire turned to hunger, and hunger turned to satisfaction. They weren’t pornographic or even exotic but more sensual or suggestive. He never used models, so it shocked him when he realized his latest sculpture was in the image of a woman he had seen the night before at a benefit for the Battered Women's Shelter. A woman with alluring green eyes, who was now standing on the outside of the ropes that cordoned off the area where he was working. The woman who just bought that same sculpture. Little did he know that in the coming days he would find life imitating art and then art imitating life...until she got that new job. Then he found himself way over a line that he hadn't even known was there.

HUGE (Ten Book Romance Box Set)


Hannah Ford - 2018
    That’s what I am. My virginity auctioned off to gorgeous billionaire Connor Kenyon. His demands are simple. Do exactly what he wants, when he wants. No questions asked. I have no idea why he’s chosen someone like me —an everyday, average girl next door—when he’s famous for dating gorgeous sexual goddesses. He carries himself with an authority that goes beyond his twenty-six years, and his eyes are so blue they pierce me. He’s an American prince from a family with political connections, a golden boy who went to prep schools and Harvard, an entrepreneur who created an astoundingly successful business because of his brains and admirable drive—not because he was handed everything on a silver platter. The first time I meet him, his gaze is intense with a hunger that leaves me breathless. I flush with arousal at that first look, my most private place beating for him. But a man who would buy a woman’s innocence can’t be as perfect as Connor Kenyon seems. No, a man who would do something like that is bruised and broken beyond repair. And with every touch, every kiss, every demand, I’m realizing that he has the power to break me too… Because He Owns Me by Hannah Ford Recent college grad Adriana O’Connor came to New York City to focus on starting her publishing career—not to fall in love. Even if she were looking for her soul mate, Callum Wilder would be the last person she would choose. The sexy and demanding billionaire is completely unattainable – not to mention his penchant for whips, chains, and punishment. Falling for Callum can only guarantee one thing – devastating heartbreak. Callum Wilder lives his life by one unbreakable rule – never surrender control. But when a chance encounter with Adriana leads to one hot and sexy night, the hold she has on him threatens to break his will. But Callum’s need for control is there for a reason, a devastating reason he’s vowed never to reveal to anyone, ever. And just one slip up could cost him everything… HUGE contains these stories and more…ten romances from today’s top romance authors!!

Lost in Us


Layla Hagen - 2014
    But when her boyfriend of six years abruptly leaves her, she’s catapulted back into pain, nursing a broken heart. When indulging in mountains of chocolate doesn’t work, Serena decides the best way to deal with her shattered heart is to indulge in something else. A rebound... The night she swaps her usual Sprite for tequila, she meets James. The encounter is breathtaking.Electrifying.And best not repeated. James is a successful entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. A man who has amassed a fortune by taking risks. A man who has shunned commitment completely, and still does. He’s the exact opposite of Serena. But sometimes opposites attract. Sometimes they give in to burning passion. Sometimes opposites are perfect for each other. James is everything her damaged soul could want. His kisses are intoxicating, his touch out of this world. He makes her forget. He grants her peace from her pain. But as they grow closer, Serena discovers she isn’t the only one with a past. James carries the scars of a past much darker than hers. One that has left him damaged, hurt, and wary of love. A past that gives him the power to shatter her. Now James and Serena must find a way to mend one another. Or risk losing each other forever.

The Christmas Gamble


Sienna Ciles - 2017
    Winner take all. My prize... Him. Being stranded at the airport was the last thing I wanted. Flights cancelled. Rooms booked. The only thing I had was a suitcase, the bar and the hot stranger sitting next to me. Dean Pearson was hot, confident with a side of cockiness and filthy rich. The perfect cocktail to forget my woes and also celebrate delaying a trip to see my family. A few drinks later and the stakes were higher than I could ever imagine. Would I be willing to bet it all at the chance for a prize of a lifetime at Christmas? The Christmas Gamble is hotter than a yule log and guaranteed to melt snow and bring a heat to your holiday like never before.