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Break Free
Bianca Vix - 2018
Jayden Stevens I’m not looking for love. Who needs it? I’m very wealthy, but I want more. More success. More triumphs. It’s not like I’m missing anything. I’m simply driven to be the very best at what I do. I’ve got a great business, and a best friend who’s always there for me. It’s all working just fine. There’s no need to change anything up. Until one afternoon when I’m at my second home, the coffee shop just down from my office. A sexy stranger invites herself over to sit at my table. And changes my entire life. She needs a fake boyfriend. For some reason, I want to play along. Once the act is over, I don’t want to let her go. Rachel Corder I dodged a real bullet with my ex. Since we broke up, I’m spending more time job-hunting than looking for love. Which is fine by me. I don’t need a man. What I need right now is a great job. But when two hot guys suddenly land in my life, I want to open up to the possibility of finding love again. The only problem is that I don’t have a clue how I can choose between them. Matt Dalton Everything’s running smoothly in my life. Almost everything. There’s one big part that’s missing, but I’ve kept that secret for years. Finding love has been on my mind lately. I’ve always been happy, but now that everyone around me is coupling up, I’m starting to believe I should do the same thing. It’s not just that, of course. I’m getting tired of strings of dates that never end up going anywhere. I need something more. I want to settle down. If only I could get over the crush I have on my best friend. He’s the one man who will never love me like I want him to. Break Free is a hot standalone mmf bisexual romance. A great book for fans of sexy bisexual sex scenes, threesome menages and a guaranteed HEA ending. No cliffhangers!
Almost a Duchess, Never a Lady
Emma Linfield - 2021
Growing up without a mother to teach her how to navigate the social scene, Eleanor has isolated herself and is determined to spend the rest of her life caring for her aging father.When his father’s passing forces Hugh Covington to return to England to assume the title of Duke of Steephelm, he wants absolutely nothing to do with it. Until a chance meeting with a lady stirs something inside him. A lady he hasn’t seen in over ten years.After Eleanor’s father announces that she is to be wed, Hugh knows he must act before he loses her to another man. When Eleanor falls victim to a series of seemingly innocuous accidents, he just might lose her to something else first. For bloody is the price you pay for betrayal...
Conspiracy (Maple Valley Book 3)
Rebecca Deel - 2021
To unmask the culprit before he succeeds, Blair accepts the help of a Navy SEAL turned cop with a dark past and deadly skills.Deputy Sheriff Elliot Montgomery has avoided a distracting Blair Hoffman for two years. But when someone places a target on her back, Elliot’s protective instincts override his common sense. After he becomes Blair’s personal bodyguard, the threats escalate. But Elliot never backs down from a fight. With danger looming, he’ll need every ounce of cunning and courage to save himself and the woman who refused to leave him alone in the darkness.
Tropical Skies at the Cornish Confetti Agency: A gorgeously sun-filled and uplifting romantic comedy
Daisy James - 2020
After all, who wouldn’t love to spend a few days in a sun-filled tropical paradise surrounded by golden sands, swaying palm trees, and the gentle waft of jasmine and coconut oil floating on the breeze?With handsome wedding columnist-cum-TV scriptwriter Theo Barker at her side, and quirky florist Jasper Curtis along for the ride, she’s even more determined than ever to deliver the glamorous celebration the bride and groom have been hoping for; no mechanical mice running around the pretty wedding gazebo, no whoopee cushions hidden under the ribbon-bedecked chairs, and no rampant hosepipes providing the unsuspecting guests with an impromptu shower.But this is The Cornish Confetti Agency, and the words ‘plain-sailing’ and ‘hassle-free’ do not feature in the promotional brochure. So, when Lexie discovers the bride’s mother – celebrity chef and owner of the prestigious Mango Tree Cookery School, Brigette Blake – is being targeted by a series of practical jokes, she must once again don her metaphorical deerstalker and unravel the mystery before the wedding dissolves into Caribbean-themed chaos and calamity.A perfect beachside wedding?Is there such a thing for The Cornish Confetti Agency?
Chief Dragon (Dragon Fire Crew Book 1)
Scarlett Grove - 2021
The Mafia is after her.When her old car breaks down and explodes at the foot of Fate's Peak, Daphne's at the end of her rope. With the last of her strength and money, she applies for a job as a nanny.Erik Sorensen hates Christmas. As the dragon chief of the Fate's Peak Fire Crew, he takes pride in his job. That didn't prepare him for the squirming surprise on the doorstep of his firehouse. With one whiff, Erik knows the baby is his. Now he'll do anything to protect him.When Daphne shows up at Erik's door for the nanny job, he begins to believe that fate has something new in store for him this Christmas.Daphne is surprised when Erik tells her she's his mate. She loves taking care of baby Hagen. Erik's son is the sweetest. Eric is sweet with both of them.Erik makes Daphne believe they could have a safe and loving life together. Too bad the truth of her past could ruin everything.Finding love at Christmas is an easy choice. If the past doesn't come back to haunt them.
Winter Fires at Mill Grange: The perfect cosy heartwarming read this Christmas (The Mill Grange Series Book 4)
Jenny Kane - 2021
Sheikh's Forgotten Baby Daughters: A Multiple Baby Romance (Sheikhs and Babies Series)
Sophia Lynn - 2018
Choices aren’t easy.Especially for a man like me.Duty.Responsibility.Protecting my borders.That all had to come first.But that didn’t mean I was without regret.
Riley Stockard.
Her taste for adventure had been infectious.And I fell hard.But the timing was off.I had to pick my country over her.As the months went on, I tried to forget.Foolish, really.Because no matter how I tried to deny it,Riley would always be my weakness.My lost American rose…Until, by chance, I saw her again.Soon after, I got another surprise.Twin girls, less than a year old.Both bearing an uncanny resemblance to me.I get Riley’s reason for keeping my girls from me.But I’m not going anywhere.
She will be my sheikhess…
Note: Sheikh's Forgotten Twin Daughters is 30k of steamy romance between a Sheikh and his lost American love.
Fueled Hate (Fueled, #1)
A.J. Logan - 2021
Cars are a part of my soul.Focus. Drive. Win.Once fueled by passion, I’m now fueled by hate.And I’ve never entered a race I knew I couldn’t win.Until Sadie.She isn’t supposed to cause me to swerve off course, but one look and she does.Now, it’s winner takes all. I either get everything I want or none of it.I arrived with one purpose—to punish those responsible for an unspeakable act.I’m not built to back down.Is there any hope of pulling her out of the wreckage or will we crash and burn together, both going up in flames?Fueled Hate is a dark college bully romance. It contains sensitive topics that some may find triggering and is intended for mature readers. Fueled Hate is Book One in the Fueled series and a complete STAND-ALONE.
Royal Distraction (Destination Billionaire Romance Book 8)
Lucy McConnell - 2017
A private security company has bled the royal treasury dry leaving a bad taste in her mouth for privateers. Fully aware of her innocence, having been raised on a small island in the Emerald Sea, Nyssa is determined to be the means of salvation for her people and her family. Tatum Scott is a retired SEAL turned private security mogul—and, he’s been taken out of the game while he recuperates from a bullet to the shoulder. He wouldn’t mind a contract on a small island where he can semi-retire, but schmoozing royals and dancing at balls is way out of his comfort zone. On her first night in America, Nyssa hosts a ball. Following tradition, she stands at the door to greet her guests. When a handsome stranger mistakes her for the coat-check girl, she doesn’t bother to correct him. When he flirts, his blue eyes spark and she doesn’t want to correct him. Over the course of her visit, Tatum becomes a distraction from her mission, one she cannot afford. She’ll need to find a way to win America’s support and keep her identity a secret or risk the lives of her family, the island she loves, and the man who has captured her heart.
Twin Flames : A Tudor Time Travel Romance with a Mystical Twist (Book 1)
Rachel Henke - 2020
COLD JUSTICE: Thirty-Third in a Series of Jess Williams Westerns (A Jess Williams Western Book 33)
Robert J. Thomas - 2014
He escorts them to a small town in Texas. While there, he runs into a rich and very spoiled woman who is being guarded by four tough guards and riding in a fancy custom coach. Jess starts putting things together and discovers that a bunch of thugs are waiting to ambush the coach and kidnap her, but before he can get to the coach, he’s too late and the rich woman is gone. He ends up receiving a wire from the rich woman’s husband, Tripp Parker, who hires Jess to rescue his wife from Larkin and his bunch and he agrees to allow a former Texas Ranger, Stan Cooke, to ride along with him and take down Pence Larkin and his gang and get Mrs. Parker back safely. Jess is hell bent on serving up some cold justice to Larkin and his bunch, but it proves to be a tougher job than he thought. Jess and Cooke travel from one town to another to find the men who took her and his plan is to deliver nothing short of cold justice at the end of a gun barrel.
Dark Hunter’s Prey (The Children Of The Gods #57)
I.T. Lucas - 2022