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The Rancher's Surprise New Family


Holly Rayner - 2022
    And she’d be lying if she said she wasn’t nervous about it…Help arrives sooner than expected—and he couldn’t be more different to the man he’s replacing. Dan Zark is the brooding, gorgeous ranch hand with an unexpected surprise in tow: his adorable five-year-old son, Jake.It quickly becomes apparent that Dan is the perfect man for the job—even if calling him “strong and silent” would be an understatement!As the weeks pass, Caitlin grows ever keener to reconcile the loving, warm-hearted man Dan is around his son with the gruff, monosyllabic outdoorsman he is the rest of the time. What’s eating at him?To find out, she’s going to have to cross a line, or several.And further adorable surprises may yet be in store!

To Be Desired (The Fateful Encounter #1)


Krissy Hawthorne - 2020
     I'm an ex-marine turned lawyer whos looking to settle down. One day I decide to make a routine trip to the local bookshop which turns out to be anything but routine. It turns out that while I am out there looking to find a gift for my assistant, my eyes happen to gaze upon the curvy, young show owner. She has a figure that is straight out of a dream. I want her. Badly. And I will do whatever it takes to make sure she belongs to me. She needs to know. She is to be desired. People call me Ari. I am a young and determined shop owner who runs my store day in and day out with great tenacity. Also, people who know me say that I am somewhat of a curvy girl. Yeah no kidding, I am like 10 sizes too big and all the guys know it. In fact, I am still a virgin and I owe all that to the fact that the gods have endowed me with extra curves in all the wrong places. Then one day out of nowhere, in walks the most handsome looking man on the face of the planet. And he has arms the size of cannons. When he walks in and asks me out on a date, I am shaken to my core. Is he the one I am missing in my life? His lascivious glare and coy smile would have me believe so. This is book 1 of the Fateful Encounter Series. This book is short but oh so sweet. Great for you if you love romance stories with curvy girls, strong alpha males, and a happy ending. Steamy scenes included!

C is for Carter: A Secret Baby Mountain Man Romance (Men of ALPHAbet Mountain)


Natasha L. Black - 2022
    

Hometown Lover


Annabelle Love - 2019
    So, how did I end up in my best friend's bed? Well, he did rescue me from my broken down car. Plus, he’s grown into a complete hunk of a man and is hardly the beanstalk that I recall growing up with. It just... happened. I mean, if you call being trapped inside due to a snowstorm and then finding yourself being ravished in bed 'just happening'. A fling… that’s what we agreed. We know this can’t last, I’m only back in my hometown for a couple of weeks. My life is in Vegas with the job I love. And his is here with his ranch. We physically can't be together… So, why don’t I want to leave? ***Hometown Lover is a stand-alone read with toe-curling romantic scenes. There's no cheating, no cliffhangers, no escaping the steamy nights (and days), and a guaranteed HEA***

The English Billionaire (The Billionaire Princes Book 3)


Serenity Woods - 2021
    

Mangled (Ridgewood Rogue Wolves Saga, #1)


Mazzy J. March - 2022
    If she’s even still alive. My dad, well, I don’t know who he is or where he is which is why this group home has been my home off and on since I was three.A girl with anger issues and only one leg isn’t really first in line to get adopted by the shiny, goodhearted people who stroll in here looking for a dream kid. In fact, sometimes they don’t even bother bringing me out for show. There’s no point, even though Mom signed off her rights to me. Like selling a used car, or giving one away.So, now that I’ve turn eighteen, they treat me as all children are who have grown out of the foster system. They put me out on my own with fifty bucks in my pocket and disappointment written on my forehead. Oh and a few months of rent in an apartment building that looks like a crime scene documentary location shoot.Survival is my only plan for life. Get a job. Rent a place to lay my head where no one can hit me and no creepy foster dad can try to sneak into my bedroom in the middle of the night. Eat. Sleep. Rinse. Repeat.I’m not a dreamer. Never have been. A shifter female with only one leg has no choice: survive and stay under the radar.Mangled is the first in the brand new Ridgewood Rogue Wolf Saga series featuring a heroine with greater physical challenges than most and a background that no young adult should be saddled with, a pack of misfits, three of the hottest possible wolves who may be her fated mates, and maybe just enough determination to make a better life. Or even a great one. It is a why choose, slow-burn romance and, of course, Mazzie guarantees a happily ever after. Eventually.

EveryDayLove!


Lucy McConnell - 2018
     Daisy Covington has dreamed of having her own line of cosmetics since she was a fourteen-year-old girl with a beauty channel. Her channel has grown over the years to be one of the top two beauty channels on the MyHeartChannel site and her dream is within reach. She just needs a segment that will put her over the top. When Beckett Kingsly, Daisy's older brother’s best friend and career humanitarian, crashes on her couch for a couple days, she comes up with a plan. She’ll do a fundraiser for the charity Beckett works for in exchange for the chance to give him a makeover on her show. His worn-out cargo shorts, unruly beard, and man bun are all on the chopping block. After some pressure from his boss—FreeWater could use the exposure to Daisy’s eleven million subscribers—Beckett reluctantly agrees. But as Daisy works to transform Beckett, she realizes that her crush from long ago hasn’t faded. She’s falling for him even though he’s waiting for orders to leave town. Though Beckett seems like the perfect guy, Daisy wants to settle down with a man who will actually be in the same country for more than a couple weeks. If She can’t find a way to make it work, she'll miss her chance at a truly beautiful life.

The Boss's New Plaything (Bought By The Boss #3)


Layla Valentine - 2017
    And now it’s my turn. Her: He may be older than me, And five billion dollars richer But that ain’t gonna stop him. He’s the boss. And he’s gonna make me his plaything. Him It’s a bad habit, I know I’ve had every intern that’s ever set stiletto’d foot into my office I told myself I wouldn’t go there again, But damn, this new girl’s gonna break me. She wants it, I can tell, Biting her lip every time she thinks I’m not looking. She thinks she’s playing me, and boy, is she about to be surprised. She wants to work for me? She can work under me, alright. This is a full-length romance, with steamy love scenes, a beautiful HEA and utterly no cliffhangers.

Love Thy Roommate


H.S. Volfson - 2013
    She's fresh out of a relationship that ended badly, and all she wants to do now is find a new place to live, finish college, and move on with her life.Jake is a surly bar manager and student who lives with his closest friends and doesn't particularly like change. A new female roommate definitely counts as "change." Fink, Damian, and Libby don't have much in common - except for their friends, Miriam and Jake.Set in and around Denton, Texas, Love Thy Roommate is a tale of five unlikely friends coming together to create an unconventional family unit over time. What does the post-graduate future hold for these individuals? Read Love Thy Roommate to find out.

Harder Than Stone


Jacey Ward - 2019
    Jameson – he is such a conceited a$$. Now I'm fighting for my life, with him as my partner, in the damn south American jungle. I should have stayed locked up in the compound my parents wanted to keep me prisoner in… Except… I mean, there’s no arguing that he is hot, With a capital H, And yeah, he knows how to keep us alive, But daaamn, it’s getting harder and harder to ignore his… Eyes. Then he finds out about my “abilities”, my secret powers. The reason we’re being hunted by Oculus in the first place. He’s doing everything to keep me safe, But he doesn’t understand who’s after us. The smartest thing I can do is take off on my own – he might be an ass, but I don't want him dead because of me. But it turns out that he has special “powers” too. Looks like I’m not the only one who’s being hunted…

Playboy Ever After


Chance Carter - 2017
    So I'm all fun and games, right? Not where Emma, my tempting, teasing new assistant is concerned. Of course, she's too innocent to even realize the effect she has on me. But I'll corrupt her soon enough. I take her on a business trip and we get closer and closer every step of the way. So close I can smell the perfume on her perfectly delectable neck. So close she can see the massive bulge in my suit pants. And then my business associate makes a proposition. "Let me have a night with your assistant," he says. That's it! Lights out! I never threw away a business deal for a woman before. But Emma is so worth it. And I'm going to show her how much I value her with every inch of my rock hard body. I'll make her mine if it's the last thing I do. I'll make her mine no matter how much she protests. Because this feeling is real. No one thinks we should be together except me. Good thing I'm used to proving the world wrong!

Spring Break Surprise (A Spring Breakers Short Story)


Fiona Starr - 2019
    I am at loose ends for various reasons and nothing sounds better than a month in Cancún during Spring Break. Nothing, that is, until Bridget Blaze--who looks like a goddess come to life—wanders into my bar. She’s here to work… just like me, but the attraction between us is so hot we find ourselves throwing off our obligations almost as fast as we throw off our clothes. It doesn’t take long to realize she’s way out of my league. She’s got it all together, a plan, a career, and no room for a guy who’s still figuring things out. She’s got it all, where do I fit in? * * * * * Is it getting hot in here? We sure hope so! It’s Spring Break season, and your favorite Flirt Club authors have put together some steamy, short stories about sexy times in the sun! So grab a piña colada and take a break while we heat things up for you. We promise you will get hot and bothered with our hunky heroes! Sun, sin, and string bikinis… everything’s going down.

Twin Tempt


Jess Bentley - 2018
    Enter Mona, my best friend. She knows how I can make some easy money. The only problem? I have to risk everything. It looks like easy gig at a sketchy roadhouse just out of Army bounds. She says nobody will know me. And if I'm honest, this virgin is more than tempted -- I'm excited. I just never thought that it would be this dangerous... Until the two most handsome soldiers I've ever seen step in to protect me. And I never want to let them go. Will and Cass So we're twins, and are obviously military - we can’t hide our identities from a girl who has been surrounded by soldiers since birth. We won't blow the cover of the Colonel's daughter. And when the club owner wants Libby to do more than just dance and drags her to the back room to negotiate new terms, we aren’t having it. But now we're charged with protecting her. We can’t risk releasing her, and once we are in such close quarters, We can't resist her innocent body... No matter what the cost. Jess is not about cheating, cliffhangers, annoying heroines and alphaholes. You won't find any of that in Twin Tempt. Just a satisfying and delicious military men and virgin MFM full-length romance novel of 50k+ words. Enjoy!

Sold to Him


Cassandra Dee - 2018
    But at the Billionaires Club, I never thought that would happen! Hey Readers -- We're back at the Billionaires Club for another wild, over the top ride. As always, put your seatbelts on tight and bring a cold drink because you're gonna need it! Love, Cassie and Penny

The Prince


S.A. Gordon - 2014
    Little does she know that she's about to meet the most extraordinary person of all ...Prince David is enjoying his years of freedom while his father, King James, reigns and his older sister, Alexandra, performs her duties as heir to the throne. Temporarily relocated to Manhattan, David spends his time dating a succession of attractive young women, none of whom are suitable to be his wife.But soon the day will come when the Prince has to settle on a purpose, and find a woman who can help him fulfil it. David has no idea where he'll find her—he only knows that he must.When Caitlin and David meet by chance, their attraction to each other is obvious. But royal life is not as glamorous as it seems, and Caitlin will have to decide what she values more: her love or control over her own destiny.The Prince may lose his princess before he even knows he has her ...