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Be Brave With Me


J.B. Havens - 2019
    Havens and CA Miconi. The first book, Be Brave with Me, is set in the small southern town of Green Springs, Mississippi, where the days are hot and the nights are hotter! Meg Meg thought she was strong until tragedy struck--twice. Now she's alone in the world. For six months, she's been running from her demons, never staying in one place for long. Until she lands in Green Springs, Mississippi. Drew Drew was the golden boy of Lee County, destined for football greatness. It all went to hell in an instant, forever changing his life. He clawed out of his pit of despair and is settled into a comfortable, but lonely life, when Meg comes roaring into town. Immediately, he recognizes Meg’s pain hiding behind her brash exterior. Drew wants to help her heal; Meg wants to flee to continue searching for peace. Is she brave enough to stay? Is he brave enough to let her go?

Rock F*ck Club


Michelle Mankin - 2017
    On my knees. Against the wall. On my titsI don't care. As long as I get the evidence to prove it. Why? Because I caught my former prick of a boyfriend from Heavy Metal Enthusiasts doing a groupie doggie style backstage on the night we were supposed to be celebrating our 1 year anniversary.He told me I was too uptight. Too vanilla. Too boring. So I got drunk with my bestie, Marsha West, the aspiring videographer. I ranted. I raved. I came up with a crazy idea. What I didn't know was that my best friend recorded me. Marsha put the video up on YouTube. It went viral with 10 million hits. Now I've got fans and sponsors offering me big bucks.Rockstars are volunteering to be my f*ck buddy.Hollywood is calling.I get to choose which rockstars I want.The stakes are high.This sh*t just got real.What could go wrong?

Loving Sydnee Jones


A.C. Taylor - 2020
     He’s been hooked on her since he caught her singing in her garage. She felt their souls intertwine the moment they touched. But their love goes deeper than a chance encounter. Just how far will one of them have to go to prove it?

Finding Home: Livie and Jake


Allie Juliette Mousseau - 2014
    True North" The North brothers were hell on wheels-adrenaline-junky bad boys. You’d think they had a death wish – every one of them – but they didn’t really, they just got off on the thrill of pushing every limit, that gravity or any other force told them they couldn’t conquer. What they weren't prepared for were the women that would steal their hearts. Book 1 True North Finding Home Livie and Jake Livie Morrisey is dreading seeing Jake after his heroic homecoming from Afghanistan. She's been in love with Jake North since she was a little girl, but he was three-and-a-half years older than her and her big brother’s best friend. She was always nothing but the off-limits little sister – until the night before Jake left for the Army, when he'd given her her first kiss. They'd kept in touch for a year, but once Jake was deployed to Afghanistan, he'd cut off contact suddenly and she'd never heard from him again. For the past three years Livie has kept herself distracted with homework and her university studies, but now Jake's going to be up close and personal. And Livie can’t decide if tonight's finally the night to prove to Jake she’s all grown up or the night she should let him go forever.

Cut and Run


Amy Elizabeth - 2013
    So when her unscrupulous boyfriend turns up without a pulse, she knows she needs to get out of Southie. Fast. She seeks refuge in the last place anyone would think to look for her – the picturesque town of Jackson, Wyoming. The locals in this small community live by a different set of standards, as Rebecca discovers when she finds work on a horse ranch. For once, she’s surrounded by people she can take at face value, with one exception – her snarky new boss, Alec Westin, who appears hell-bent on making her employment term as short as possible. With his self-righteous attitude, she’d gladly grant him his wish, if she wasn’t so desperate for the job – and if he wasn’t so easy on the eyes. But after a chance encounter with his crippled father, Rebecca learns the truth behind Alec’s callous façade. Suddenly he is no longer a tyrant, but a diligent man risking his entire livelihood to provide for his family. Moved by Alec's fortitude and his father's warmth, Rebecca finds herself increasingly drawn into their personal affairs – and to Alec. Just when she thinks her murky past is behind her, a series of sinister threats confirms her greatest fear – she’s being hunted. It’s only a matter of time before her stalker finds her. And when he does, she’ll discover just how much her friends are willing to risk – and sacrifice – to protect her.

Bent


H.B. Heinzer - 2013
    Newly divorced, Julia returns to the small hometown she swore she?d left forever. She plans on enjoying the cheap rental a friend offers and staying there just long enough to figure out her next steps in life. But before long, Julia realizes she's made a big mistake. A decade ago, Micah Anderson promised Julia forever but broke her heart right before she left for college. Now, Julia's back in town, and he's going to have to tell her the truth about why he left her ? it's impossible to hide a twelve-year-old child when you live in such a small town. Can Julia forgive Micah and start anew? Should she try to make a relationship work if Micah's past becomes a threat to her safety? Should she follow her dreams if it means giving up on a second chance with her first love?

Rewind


Sandi Lynn - 2019
     Do you believe in fate? Do you believe in soulmates? Do you believe in second chances? Quinn Since the car accident, I felt like my life was a giant puzzle and I was missing the vital piece that would complete me. Little did I know I would find my missing piece in New York City. He was handsome, kind, and I felt something the moment I met him that I never felt before. For the first time in twelve years, I was happy, and I was convinced that nothing could destroy that feeling. Noah The day I saw her in the art gallery was the day I felt like life had been breathed into me again. She was beautiful and she didn’t know who I was. She felt something. I could see from her eyes and the way she smiled at me that she felt the same connection I felt. She fell in love with me, but I had a secret. A secret that could possibly destroy us. Was it worth taking the risk? What I wouldn’t give just to be able to rewind time. 18+

The Risk: A Two Story Compilation


Mia Ford - 2018
    I slept with my best friend’s brother. This has to stop. Now. Except I’m hooked. I wanted a fresh start for college. New town, new people. Right? My new best friend made me part of her family. I’ve never felt so welcome. Then I met Logan. Her brother. Playboy reputation. Star player. Gorgeous everything. His sky blue eyes locked on mine and shot a love-struck bullet right into me. I was so totally screwed. If my best friend finds out, I’ll be on her naughty list for good. So she can’t find out. Except now I’m pregnant. Time to run. I never thought I’d see Logan again, But there he is on the city street. I know I should tell him the truth, but I just can’t. It’s too late for us. We missed our chance. Do we really deserve a second one? The Risk is 2 Story Compilation comprising of Part 1: A Best Friend’s Brother Romance and Part 2: A Brother’s Best Friend Romance

The Vintner's Vixen


Rebecca Norinne - 2018
    She’s got plans and power tools ready, but an inconvenient attraction to her grumpy new neighbor is not on the agenda. Neither is kissing him practically all over town.Vintner Noah Blackstone’s main goal in life is to win awards for his wine. Everything is going according to plan too, until construction on the B&B bordering his property threatens his prize-winning vines. When Noah storms next door to demand an explanation, he doesn’t expect to meet the sexiest woman he’s ever seen. Everything about Angelica is both infuriating and exhilarating—from her pink tool belt to her quick retorts. And even though she drives him absolutely insane, he can’t help wanting her. Somehow, between long hikes through the forest and lovely picnics on the bay, Angelica and Noah manage to resolve their differences. But when Noah’s secrets are revealed and Angelica gets another shot at stardom, they’re forced to ask themselves some very hard questions. Can their love survive the truth? Better yet ... can they survive each other?

The Long Way Home


Jasinda Wilder - 2017
    For you. For touch. For a kiss. For the scrape of your hand down my stomach. For the slide of your lips across my hipbone. The sweep of your thigh against mine in the dulcet, drowning darkness. For the warm huff of your breath on my skin and the wet suck of your mouth around me and the building pressure of need reaching release...I am mad with need.Wild with it.I cannot have you. I have lost you, as I have lost myself. And so I go in search. Of myself, and thus the man who might return to you, and take you in his arms.I loathe each of the thousands of miles between us, but I cannot wish them away, for I hope at the end of my journey I shall find you. Or rather, find myself, and thus…you. Myself, and thus us. I am taking the long way home, Ava. ***Christian,I’m losing my mind, and I don’t know how to stop it. I shouldn’t be writing to you, but I am. I’m friendless, loveless, and lifeless. You’re out there somewhere, and still you’re all I really have. I hate my reliance and dependence on you, emotionally and otherwise, and that reliance is something I’m coming to recognize. I hate that I can’t hate you as much as I want to. I hate that I still love you so much. I hate that there’s no clear solution to our conundrum. Even if we could forgive each other, what then? I hate you, Christian. I really do.But most of all, I don’t. It’s complicated. Complicatedly (still) yours,AvaTHE LONG WAY HOME is the story of a married couple, Christian and Ava, both writers, as they cope with the loss of their son and the damage that loss causes to their marriage. This moving story, alternately heartbreaking and heartwarming, is the first in a brand-new contemporary romance series by bestselling author Jasinda Wilder.

Excuse Me, First Love (College Daze 1)


Danielle Burton - 2016
    How could she tell her best friend that he'd stolen her heart? Especially when their friendship was coming to an end. Three years ago Jayson Adams lost his best friend. She moved half way across the country, shattering his world. He spent months in a deep depression, cursing the universe for ripping her away from him so cruelly. When their worlds collide again, old wounds are torn open. Gabrielle fights against a one sided love, forced to watch the man she desires in the arms of another.Jayson, on the other hand, is determined to hold onto his friend this time, even if it means denying his heart what it truly wants.

Second Time Around


Alandra Knight - 2019
    He’s lived them. Four years prior, he lost his wife in a tragic accident. Since then, he's been left to raise his daughters alone.His world is everything mine can never be.It doesn’t matter that our chemistry is off the charts. It doesn’t matter that Jaxson’s arms are the only ones I feel safe in.He and I are like oil and water – and while opposites clearly attract, I can’t believe there’d ever be a place for a girl like me in Jaxson’s world of foam dart battles and bedtime stories.Or, at least, that’s what I thought until we both dared open our hearts – and began wondering if, just maybe, we deserved a shot at love the second time around.Second Time Around is the first in Alandra Knight's Finding Our Forever series - emotionally intense tales of true love, featuring beautifully crafted characters overcoming the darkest odds to earn their happily-ever-after.

In the Unlikely Event


L.J. Shen - 2019
    Shen comes a new, star-crossed lovers romance about loss, love, and meeting The One when you are too young to know how to keep them. Sometimes you meet people who are out of this world, so you make them a part of yours. A one-night stand born from vengeance in a foreign land. An explosive chemistry neither of us could deny. We signed a contract on the back of a Boar’s Head Pub napkin that said if we ever met again, we would drop everything and be together. Eight years and thousands of miles later, he’s here. In New York. And he’s America’s music obsession. The intangible Irish poet who brings record executives to their knees. The blizzard in my perfect, unshaken snow globe. Last time we spoke, he was a beggar with no intention of becoming a king. But a king he became, and now I’m his servant. I’m not the same broken princess Malachy Doherty put back together with his callused hands. I have a career I love. A boyfriend I adore. An apartment, a roommate, a life. I changed. He changed, too. But Mal kept the napkin. Question is, will I keep my word?

Baby Fever: The Complete Boxset


Nicole Casey - 2019
     **READ FOR FREE WITH KU** Book 1 - Leaving to Stay As a world-renowned rock star, I have everything: women, fame, money. But the only thing I need now…is her. I never expect to see her again…Yet fate brings us back together. And when she comes back into my life, it’s like no years have passed. I'm addicted again, but this time I'm hooked on her. And she tells me something that turns my world upside down: She has two babies, and I’m their Daddy. Book 2 - Accidental Soulmates I always get what I want. That night at Vegas, I wanted her. So I took her... tasted her delicious lips and devoured every inch of her. But before I could claim her again, she was gone. I didn’t see her again, until I received a document called Marriage Certificate. We were accidentally married. This was only a mistake. But why did I find myself looking for ways to make this mistake a reality? Book 3 - Can’t Get Over You She is the most anti-social, stubborn, nerdy pain in the a** I’ve ever met. But she’s also determined, intelligent, and kinda cute... I mean, really cute. No matter how hard I try, I can’t stop thinking about her. Truth be told … I can’t stop wanting her. We shared a kiss at my sister’s wedding. I took her v*rginity before graduation. And that’s supposed to be the end of the story. A few years later, I became her new boss, and she wouldn’t let me meet her 6- year-old son. And everything finally starts to make sense… Book 4 - Marrying the Wrong Twin I’m totally screwed. I just said “I do” to the hottest man I’ve ever seen. And he’s my future husband’s twin brother. I mean, how could I know he’s the wrong one? They look exactly the same. Now there’s no way out of this, so we’ll just have to keep playing the game. We are married on paper only, for our family businesses to thrive. It’s only business, a partnership kind of deal, and falling for him wasn't part of the arrangement. But why do I keep recalling our first sinful night, when he took me right there in his suite? Why can’t I stop imagining all the tender, passionate kisses, his huge hands all over my body and the rough, hard sex? Oh, screw it! The marriage might be fake, but the baby I’m carrying is 100% real… Book 5 - Deep in the Mountains I came to the Smokey Mountains a broken man. I needed to get away from my past, and that was when I became a ranger here. For two years, my life is dull and in lack of passion. But the first time I laid eyes on Ayla Winter, I knew I was in trouble. She was charming, vulnerable, and utterly irresistible. She was like no other woman I had ever met. How could I have known that one surreal day with her would make me second- guess it all? And how could I have known that I was about to be a father? E

Always You


Stephanie Rose - 2015
     All we had was friendship and my silly hope for more. When he left and took all of that with him, I moved on. Settled. I figured that happiness wasn't in the cards for me. Until, one night of drinks with an old "friend" gives me a hope I never expected, but don't know what to do with. This time, I have the chance I always dreamed about—but I'm not free to take it. *** Ten years ago, Samantha was only a friend, a sweet girl I never wanted to hurt. Now, she's everything I want and nothing I can have. She belongs with me, even if she's not really mine, and I can’t settle for anything less than all of her. Now that I’ve got a second chance, I'm grabbing it with both hands. Why did it take so long to realize that it was Always You?