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Room Five: Finding Their Good Girl: Club Sin


Ines Michelle - 2021
    One gave me my first kiss, the other took my virginity and the last one initiated me to naughty pleasures. Tonight, they're ready to please me beyond my wildest dreams...Fantasies are meant to come true and the men of Club Sin will see to your every kinky desire. This November, 22 of your favorite steamy romance authors take you inside Club Sin, a forbidden place where you’ll find love and pleasure with multiple hot men in these Reverse Harem novellas. Can you handle the heat?22 rooms, 22 fantasies…Which door will you step through?Grab your Kindles and pre-order the series for only #99cents while you can. Price goes up on release day for each title. Or read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited on release day.

What Comes Next


Desni Dantone - 2016
    Her search for the truth leads Ana home to where it all started. What Ana doesn’t know is that an unexpected surprise is waiting for her—one that will make her doubt the choices she made, and force her to reconsider her future.Experience the rush of young love as Ana and Ben relive the best and worst years of their lives while they ponder the question, what comes next?From #1 Bestselling Author of The Ignited Series, Desni Dantone, comes this contemporary romance standalone that will make anyone believe that second chances are always possible.

The Baby Gift (Blooming)


Billy London - 2013
    Well a funeral, an artificially inseminated pregnancy, a gay husband, his gold digging lover, paparazzi and millions of dollars. Tais Nørgaard knows firsthand what it’s like to be at the edge of death. After chemo therapy for a cancer that has gone into remission pretty much demolishes any chance that he has of reproducing, he finds himself thoroughly intrigued by the lovely Delilah Bancroft. Much like the legendary woman of her namesake, she has the power to bring him to his knees...even if she's the beard of an entitled prick who won't open his eyes long enough to see that he's being used. Now how exactly does he go about convincing her that she'd be much happier in his warm bed with a ring on her finger and her unborn child potentially calling him Daddy? Tais has come back from worse. He's damn sure he can figure this out.

Avalanche


Sade Rena - 2020
    there's no way this will ever work.Hiking, cold weather, and cabins in the woods are not my thing. But when my two best friends beg me to join them for a trip to the mountains, I cave.“It’ll be fun,” they said.“You need to get out more,” they said.Everything was fine until I realized it’s all a setup. A weekend-long blind date orchestrated with the help of their boyfriends. To say I’m annoyed is an understatement. But then he shows up, looking like a lot more than a tall glass of milk. And soon, I begin to feel that maybe this isn’t a bad idea after all.There’s only one problem. He doesn’t seem to know he’s here to meet me. Which would be cool if I could just move on and forget I nearly made a fool of myself. Mother nature has other plans and sends a bad storm our way, locking us all in a potentially uncomfortable situation.AVALANCHE is a BWWM blind date gone wrong novella. Previously released in the Emerging Temptation boxed set and now with a BONUS chapter and epilogue.

Ahmose


L.B. Keen - 2018
    Kemet, an ancient group of warrior who've lived on our planet for ions. Ahmose has been asleep for a century since his beloved wife died in his arms. As a Kehmet warrior, his only choice was to hold a blade within his heart and be laid to rest in the catacombs beneath his home. When he awakens in a metal box disoriented and lost, he escapes into the dark midnight sea. Lacking Mana, he calls out only to find himself staring into the dark-brown eyes of a young woman. Rachael had one desire when she planned a trip after her last semester of graduate school, and that was to go Sardinia, Italy and enjoy a romantic getaway with her boyfriend. When he sends her a text stating that they should take a break, she spends her first night drinking at a bar while she cries her disappointment into glasses of expensive wine. Rachael doesn't know the first thing about the stranger that she finds in her bed, only that he's an unneeded distraction on her "man-hate” vacation, and that there are some dangerous people after him. Will they survive the evil force that's chasing them? Or will they be captured before they can explore the intense passion between them? ***If you've read CURSE OF THE GODS SERIES by Jaymine Eve and Jane Washington or the CHILDREN OF THE GODS PARANORMAL ROMANCE SERIES by I.T. Lucas, get ready to fall in love with AHMOSE! ****

The Truth Behind The Lies


Lolah Lace - 2015
    She’s getting older and desperately wants a lasting commitment. A chance meeting with charismatic Sebastian Vandervol takes her by surprise. He offers something fun, new and uncomplicated. He awakens desires Nina had long forgotten she craved. Sebastian is perfect by all accounts. That is until he reveals he had lied to her. Nina wonders what other lies may live beneath the surface. Is the tall, handsome, sexy German too good to be true? If Nina digs deep enough maybe she will uncover the truth behind the lies. **CLIFFHANGER ALERT** This is book one of two. This novel is a BWWM Interracial Romance. It is 72K plus words long.

Sensual Secrets


Destiny Davis - 2015
    While she manages to rapidly rise to the top of one of the best marketing companies in New York, she’s secretly hoping that someone will sweep her off her feet and break the walls she’d so meticulously carved around her. Heck, she’s never even been with a man before. Tall, with thick bronze hair and a devastating smile that can reduce any woman to a puddle, the dashing billionaire Jared Paul is called by the company to act as a consultant. But the last thing he expected was for someone to finally win his fiercely-guarded heart. An embarrassing wardrobe malfunction, coupled with some devious scheming from a drunk friend, leads to a intensely passionate whirlwind affair that sweeps both Mia and Jared off their feet. That is, until Mia discovers the terrible truth that would send everything crashing down! Is their love strong enough to handle the explosive secrets? And as two fiery personalities clash, will they somehow manage to find their way back to each other again? *Sensual Secrets is a full standalone novel with a happy-ever-after and NO CLIFFHANGER*!

The Whisperer (Russian Nights Book 1)


Renee Williams - 2021
    I couldn't explain the allure. Maybe, it was the way they walked. They stepped into a room, and everybody felt their presence. Hell, it could have been the way they knew how to handle my body. They knew which strings to pluck to make me come undone. Or, it could have been the way they whispered to me. They knew what to say and how to say it. Whatever it was, they had a hold on me.It took me years of mental and physical abuse to realize that I needed to reform. I needed to realize that just because they were good to my body didn't mean they were good for my body. Fast forward a few years, I was a changed woman. I had sworn off bad men until my ex, Roshaun, pushed my hand. That was the thing about bad men. They refused to let you go until they were ready. I was ready. He wasn’t a believer, so I needed a man to make him understand.They say the best way to get rid of one bad man was to find a badder man. I found mine. Sasha, head of the Valliev family, knew just the right words to whisper to Roshaun to make him disappear. Permanently.

A Holiday Seduction


Tiffany Patterson - 2020
    The timing wasn’t right. Desiree is still mourning the sister she lost. The same sister I tried to help save in my own way but failed. Yet, when I see her the morning of the three year anniversary of her sister’s death, I can’t hold back anymore. She belongs with me, and this holiday season I’ll prove it to her, myself, her family and anyone else that dares to get in the way of the sweetest seduction I’ve ever known.

Going Down


Cassie Cross - 2014
    So when I walked into his office one night offering him a business proposition I was sure he couldn’t refuse, I was surprised when he offered me one: Paige’s freedom in exchange for a date. Dinner was the easy part; it was an elevator ride that had us both falling… Going Down is book one of the Quickies Series: short, sexy stories you can read in one sitting!

Full Throttle


LaShawn Vasser - 2020
    She wanted out and at the first opportunity, left it all behind. She needed to put as much distance as possible between that life and the pain it caused. But, after years of running, her father needs her. It was time to come home and well past time to lay old ghosts to rest.Billionaire businessman Liam Lockwood does not like the unknown and usually has two or three plans for everything. He also hates being out of his element, which is where he found himself after being thrust into the chaotic world of stock-car racing.Events place Liam and Colby on a surefire collision course. Find out what happens in this sexy, high-octane romance-Full Throttle.

Smitten with the Girl Dad


Carly Keene - 2021
    I need a sensible relationship.But I can’t get the neighbor lady across the street off my mind.She’s attractive and fun. Warm, generous, kind, and a little bit wild.She gives me feelings that are anything but “sensible.”

Falling For The Rugged Cop (Small Town Big Curves Book 8)


Flora Madison - 2021
    

The Story of Us


Myss Shan - 2018
    Ready to conquer the world, Celeste had dreams of long and exciting hospital nights while completing her residency to become a pediatrician—but one call changes it all. Hearing that her father has died in a car crash, has forced Ce-Ce to move back home in the small town of Ennis, Texas—the one place she so desperately had hoped to escape. Now having to run her family’s practice CeCe has lost all hope for the dream life she worked so hard to create for herself—that is until she runs into the bad boy Duran Mitchell. Duran isn't anything what CeCe ever thought for herself, but opposites seem to always attract. Duran and CeCe quickly fall in love, breaking down any obstacle that got in their way. Their story isn’t perfect, but it is for them and no one else. Its the Story of Us—Duran and CeCe

The Billionaire's Shaman


Mia Caldwell - 2016
    But the slick stranger who seduced her into letting a movie be made about her experience has turned abusive, and she’s on the run to Canada, never suspecting that the handsome, grieving billionaire she’s about to meet will change everything. Harcourt Raymondson has spent a year mourning the loss of his wife and son. Fighting a plot to force him out of the company he built from the ground up, he almost cancels his interview with a young artist about a project on his property ... but her beauty sparks to life feelings he’d thought were gone forever. From the moment they meet, forces too strong to resist wrap Sabrina and Harcourt in a web of passion, cruelty, and deception. With a psychopath on their trail, the billionaire and his reluctant shaman must rely on their unexpected bond to survive, and she must access her mysterious gifts ... to uncover the truths haunting them both and to save precious lives.