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Smartass


Tarin Lex - 2020
    I was so good at holding myself together. Until ten years, two kids, and one ugly divorce later, and I fell apart.Now I’m putting the pieces back together. I need to take care of myself and my kids. And find a way to give my cooled-off journalism career a hot boost.An interview with research scientist Jonathan Wells? Ugh.If only my boss would stop assigning me fluff pieces…JonathanI was pictured next to the hottest girl in school as “Most Likely to Succeed,” but that’s the extent of the attention I got in high school.Now I’m working my dream job exploring potential cancer vaccines. Getting paid well for it too.And the women…well, I no longer struggle in that department.I might’ve done anything for a chance with Kristin Max in high school. But that was years ago. She didn’t even know who I was back then.She still has no idea.***SMARTASS is a short, steamy, happily-ever-after romance. No cliffhangers, no cheating! This is a standalone insta-love story with high heat and All The Feels.***

The Best Man, Claiming Abigail


Vanessa James - 2020
     Working as a freelance photographer, she sets out across Europe looking for a place to call home where she can discover who she really is, and stand on her own two feet. After a passionate encounter with the handsome Alejandro that ends sourly, she settles in Edinburgh, putting thoughts of the arrogant Spaniard out of her head and focusing on her new exciting life. Then her world is turned upside down when her brother calls her to come home for his shotgun wedding, pulling her back to the world she swore she’d left behind her and the influence of her notorious father. And on top of that, the best man is a familiar, sexy man that she would rather forget as opposed to standing with him at a wedding. Find out if this rich girl finally surrenders to the bad boy when meeting him again.

Codename: Diesel: Soldiers for Christmas


Khloe Summers - 2021
    Can this hero veteran save a woman in need before Christmas?DieselI'm coming home with a mission.To get my best friend's sister out of trouble before it's too late.Trouble is, I didn't expect her to be quite so grown.And I certainly didn't expect to be bringing her home for Christmas.Now, the tables have turned and I have feelings I didn't see coming.Is she feeling it too?

Forever Blue (The Weight of the Badge, #2)


Kaylee Rose - 2021
    In her, he sees someone who understands his law enforcement career and is strong enough to accept all that comes with it. But the universe has other ideas and throws the good and bad when least expected, turning Lance’s world upside down. Kellie Bryant always believed in the happily-ever-after. All that changed the day Lance Malloy left town, taking her hopes and dreams with him. Falling in love with a man she barely knew wasn’t planned but ruled by her heart, she gambled her future, and that of her niece, Rory.With her world spun on its axis, Kellie can’t afford to hold on to a man who isn't able to love her back.**Forever Blue is the second book in The Weight of the Badge series and is meant to be read in order.

Maria Before Us


Ellie Messe - 2019
     Seven nights I’ve held my nephew as he relives the crash he survived. Six casseroles sit on the kitchen counter from neighbors who don’t actually care. Five fingers drum against the wooden grain to my right. Four bodies try to ignore the growing tension in the room. Three years since I’ve seen the man who’s almost here. Two car doors shut. One doorknob twists. This was me Before Us. **PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A NOVELLA** NOVELLA 1/6 Due to adult content this novella is 18+

Captured by Moonlight


Carly Keene - 2020
    I was hoping a little self-care would help me find the courage to be a new Cass, a better Cass. I want some confidence and control over my life, beginning New Cass's experiences with an early-spring hike in the beautiful mountain country of Moonlight Ridge.But now I’m lost. My cell phone has no signal, it’s getting dark, and it’s begun snowing. Can this vacation go any more wrong?Weston:I grew up in these mountains: self-reliant, strong, living on my family’s land. My job as a forest ranger keeps me near my family, here in the mountains I love, but sometimes I get lonely on my own.When my dog Max starts howling outside my cabin in the middle of a snowstorm, I dash outside with my rifle, practically knocking over the most beautiful, voluptuous, almost-frozen girl I’ve ever met.Now I’ll do anything I can to hold on to her and show her my mountains, my way of life, and my heart. Will Cassie find the courage to give me hers?Short sweet steamy alpha male-curvy girl instalove romance. No cheating, no cliffhanger, always an HEA.

Her Firecracker


Laney Powell - 2019
    Join the authors of Flirt Club in The Fireworks Series of stories that celebrate summertime, BBQs, and all things that end with a bang! Where will you be when the fireworks go off? Serena Nothing like being the only one standing at the altar to make you want to move somewhere new and start all over. That also means no more men - I'm going to be all business, all the time. The perfect opportunity comes to me via a friend - I love my Spar Island girls - and I end up going for a dream and buying my own bakery in Milltown, Colorado, just in time for the town's big fireworks celebration. And everything is great until he walks in. Nate I thought the fireworks show and the various fires were the hottest things I had to deal with after coming home to Milltown. That is until I met Serena, who just bought the bakery that's right down the street from the firehouse where I'm working. Calling her a distraction is an understatement. And her buttercream frosting isn't the only thing that melts in my mouth. It won't take much to light this fuse. #flirtclub #fireworksseries #Bighotbang #toohottohandle #HEA

Dirty St. Nick


Erin Trejo - 2019
    Well, you get the point. What's that mean? Enter the hot and sexy boss of my best friend. I don't usually go for the suit and tie types. It's not my thing but what's beneath the suit? I think we should find out, don't you? I wasn't looking for love but I think Dirty St. Nick might be throwing me a curveball.

Spring Break Navy SEAL


Sierra Hill - 2019
    Queue up a side of awkward, because the hot SEAL she slept with just happens to be the best man in the wedding. Abbie’s only goal was to have a no-strings-attached hookup, and instead she finds a soldier whose only mission is to keep the flames burning a little while longer.Can he convince Abbie that there’s more between them before they say goodbye to paradise?

Xavier: The Contract


Miranda P. Charles - 2018
    Now, Xavier not only needs to watch his back--he also has to watch his heart.When Xavier Stirling's father suddenly confesses to fraud, Xavier suspects he's being coerced by a notorious criminal. Then Xavier finds himself the target of false accusations that threaten to ruin his own business. With the police suspecting him of wrongdoing, he desperately looks elsewhere for help. Enter the Indie Rebels--a secret group unsanctioned by law enforcement agencies. But to get their help, Xavier has to become an Indie Rebel himself. His first assignment is to keep journalist Eve Marrin safe--without Eve knowing she's being protected. He's surprised by the strength of his attraction for her. Now Xavier not only needs to watch his back--he also has to watch his heart.For Eve Marrin, her new job as co-lead reporter for a popular public affairs program is a dream come true. She loves nothing more than to uncover scams, unfair business practices and other matters that the public has the right to know about. When she's given a tip to investigate the fitness training business of Xavier Stirling, she soon realizes she needs to build a wall around her heart in order to do her work.***Xavier: The Contract can be enjoyed as a standalone novel in the Indie Rebels series, where steamy, heart-melting romance meets danger, mystery and suspense.

Devil's Due: Death Heads MC


Claire St. Rose - 2017
    I marked her like an animal—took my claim and ruined her for any other man. I thought I had her leashed. I never expected her to run. But that was before I found her again—and the baby she kept from me. When I first saw Callie in that den of animals, I acted purely on instinct. I saved her from them, but I had no intentions of letting her go. I don’t play by the rules, and I know better than to believe in love. I made her my property, a plaything at my beck and call. Her unforgettable curves. Her big innocent eyes. I devoured every inch of her and marked her for myself and no-one else. She had her own demons and her own share of secrets. Those demons drove her to run, and made her hide everything from me. Even our baby. If Callie thought she could get away, she thought wrong. Because when I get my hands on them, I’m never letting go. Devil's Due is a full-length, standalone romance novel with steamy hot sex, NO CHEATING, strong language, a happily every after ending and NO CLIFFHANGERS. Contains dark and disturbing themes, and over the top sexiness that may be uncomfortable for some readers.

Hot for the Firefighter (Hot for Heroes, #2)


Autumn Summers - 2020
    Firefighter Zach Lowe saved Willow’s life, in more ways than one.WillowIt was so unexpected, my whole life just came crumbling down. I lost my home, all my possessions, my job...basically everything that made me, me. But what I gained from that loss, is priceless. ZachI’ve saved dozens of people from burning buildings, but this one is different.When I first saw her in the fire-filled room, a chill came over me.There’s was something special about this girl, but she’s lost everything including a piece of her soul.I’m willing to do anything to make her whole again and make her mine. Hot for the Firefighter is a sweet and steamy Insta Love Romance with a happily-ever-after featuring an alpha man and the curvy woman he loves. NO cliffhangers. NO cheating.

Sex, Lies & Champagne (Sex and Lies Book 8)


Kris Calvert - 2018
    Undercover for the last eighteen months, his assignment has been handed down personally from the Director of National Intelligence. Meeting with his contacts in the darkness of a global and elite, members-only sex club, Tristan spends his time not chasing women, but the origins of a dangerous Shadow Broker—a double agent selling U.S. weapon security codes to Russian intelligence. When Champagne magnate, Renè Lebleu reaches out to him, Tristan puts his duties on hold for two days, flying to his birthplace in France to meet a man he’s never seen—a father he’s never known. Upon arrival Tristan is filled with suspicion, but his animosity, forged by years of abandonment and lies, is quickly put on notice by his father’s trusted confidant and bold personal assistant, Henriette—Henry—Tribolet. Meeting his match in the gorgeous and intelligent Henry, Tristan finds it hard to keep up his typical and indifferent air. But Henry Tribolet sees straight through Tristan’s steely indifference to the heart of the real man—a man with an enormous capacity to forgive. A would-be Champagne heir discovering true love for the first time. Caught in a web of lies, Tristan must defend his innocence from a malicious ploy crafted by enemies and insiders while chasing the threats of foreign adversaries across the globe. When Tristan discovers the true nature of the family he never knew, he’ll fall deeper into the perilous world of International espionage than ever before—taking Henry with him. What begins with Champagne and trust, will end in deceit and murder.

Fall of the Trident (Season SEALs Book 3)


KaLyn Cooper - 2021
    His work hadn’t changed so it had become his life. He went from one command to another, wherever the Navy sent him.His world was focused on the SEALs he commanded…until the day in his exuberance over a highly complicated operation, he hugged his administrative assistant.Marta Merkel had been a force to be reckoned in the SEAL world. For over twenty-five years, since her SEAL husband had been killed on active duty, she could make or break a career.Even though they were single adults past fifty, she worked directly outside his office, controlling his work life.With years of baggage, could they make this work?

Anguish


Elizabeth Knox - 2019
    Anguish is a mafia romance box set containing the first five books in the romantic suspense series, The Clans. Promised Mariana has been a prisoner for years, but Ion is determined to find the queen of the clans and make her his forever. Only, Mariana is not so easily tamed. The Trade Natasha thinks she has found a man to stimulate her mind and her body, but then she watches Anton kill her uncle. Will she ever be able to see him as anything but an enemy? Cherished Willow ran away from her mafia heritage to another country only to be dragged back by a sexy and cocky American she thought was just an ordinary guy. Now, she is tasked with taking over her father’s clan and marrying a Romanian man, but her defiance may lead to another choice entirely. Deceit Aria is broken, betrayed by her own father and now seen as useless. Salvatore thinks he can swoop in and be the monster she needs to solve all her problems. Love Is War Rhys screwed up, and he is ready to finally go to the Ukraine where he intends to fix it by winning the country back for the Romanians. Only, he finds opposition in the form of a powerful criminal mastermind, a woman that he hopes is willing to marry the enemy to solidify both their agendas. Be prepared for the lust, torture, and heartbreak that faces the men and women in the Romanian mafia clans.