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Unexpected Sweetheart


Megan Wade - 2021
    My father was. But now that he’s gone, my finance analyst background needs to work out what to do with Sweetheart Mountain Ranch, a legacy I don’t know how to properly run and can’t afford. This place used to be a refuge for troubled youths, but the books don’t lie. There’s no money here. Only debt. I can’t keep this place going.Not for my father.Not the for town.Not even for the arrogant suit insisting I take his definitely-not-a-teenage daughter off his hands.I’m not equipped to tame a wild woman. Even if she is the prettiest set of curves I’ve ever seen.RoryI am not a teen. Nor am I wayward. But my father is insisting I learn a lesson or two about the ‘real world’ before I’m given any kind of access to the trust my grandfather put aside for when I turn twenty-one. I fail to see how working on a ranch is a window into reality. I mean, how many ranchers does a regular person meet walking down the street? None. That’s how many.This whole thing is ridiculous, and I just want to go home—even if the guy running this place is hot as...I’ll let you fill in the blank.The Sweetheart Mountain Ranch is about to get its final wayward girl, and Rory isn’t going to make anything easy on Ryan. Lucky for Ryan, he learned a thing or two from his father over the years. And lucky for Rory, Ryan isn’t the kind of man to back down when challenged. Things are about to get heated in Sweetheart, Colorado.As always, this Megan Wade book comes with her ‘Sugar Promise’. High heat, low drama, guaranteed.

Killer Crush


Ella Goode - 2020
    The new life is boring. I get up. I go to classes. I avoid people. That last one isn’t a new thing for me, though. I never much-liked people before and now that I’m in college, I’m finding that it’s for good reason. People knock on my door, play their music loudly in public, and ask me invasive questions that I pretend I don’t hear. I shut it out because I need to stay on this new path. Then I saw her and found myself slipping back into bad habits that I thought I packed away with my black gloves, camouflage scope, and special weapons case. But what’s a reformed assassin going to do when he develops a killer crush?

Love Me Always


Michelle Lynn - 2015
    Now, after most of their friends have married, it’s finally their turn to say I do.Sadie and her bridezilla nature have made the Miller/Carson wedding the event of the year. The cake, the caterer, and the flowers are all crossed off her list. But she soon realizes she can’t hide the guilt from her actions years before behind the façade of a big wedding. And if she wants her groom waiting at the end of the aisle, she needs to be honest with him.Brady has always been the patient one. He’s the father figure and sensible one of the group. But the fears of failing at marriage still run deep within him. A week before the girl he lives for takes his name, a surprise shows up on his doorstep, and his neatly organized life is thrown off-kilter.Once again, Sadie and Brady are tested by the ghosts of their pasts. However, this time they must come together if they plan on living happily ever after.

The Princess and the Mercenary


Victoria Paige - 2019
    She is the daughter of rock royalty.He is a scarred, grumpy former Green Beret.She thinks he’s an amoral, uncouth soldier of fortune.He thinks she’s a limelight-grabbing goody-two-shoes.When Yara Emerson embarks on a humanitarian mission to Yemen, her company hires a security team for her protection.Everything is business as usual until she meets Kade Spear.Kade wants nothing to do with daddy’s spoiled princess, but he needs the cover of the humanitarian mission to hunt down a terrorist.Wills clash.Tempers flare. But their unwanted attraction burns hotter than the Yemeni desert. Trust fractures.Friendships break.The aid mission unravels and danger comes after Yara from every corner.Could the man who betrayed her be her only hope for survival?

Roped Into Love


Elisa Leigh - 2018
    She loves baking, even if she has to do it out of her tiny kitchen. Leland Kennison is a rancher addicted to the cinnamon rolls at Hal's diner. He's quiet and doesn't sugarcoat anything. When he finds out who is making those delicious rolls, he's determined to make her his. WARNING: Roped Into Love is a steamy insta love novella with a sexy cowboy ready to make the sweet little baker his. This book has a guaranteed happily ever after and may not be suitable for people under the age of eighteen due to language and sexiness.

Redemption


Tia Lewis - 2017
     Owning Chicago's best MMA gym, the Warrior Zone, doesn't compare to the high I got from being inside the octagon—the lights, the screaming fans, the women. I used to be the top MMA fighter until a near fatal injury forced me to retire and stripped me of that title. I was convinced life would never taste as sweet as it once had. Until her… When feisty and irresistible Hannah Collins, owner of Sweet Treats Bakery, unexpectedly walks into my life, she turns into a distraction I don't need. But something about her forces me to take notice, and I couldn't shake her mesmerizing green eyes and tempting curves from my mind. I'm determined to regain my title as the best cage fighter in the world, and will also convince Hannah that she belongs to me... no matter what it takes. Redemption is a steamy MMA fighter contemporary romance novel. It's only recommended for audiences 18+. Standalone. No cheating. No cliffhangers. HEA.

Honeymoon Angel


Suzanne Halliday - 2017
    Needing closure nearly a decade after their clandestine affair crashed and burned, Angie returns home and sets off a chain of reactions that shakes up Family Justice when the truth finally comes out. Fast-forward one year to a comically packaged happily ever after that’s queued up and raring to go now that they are officially Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan.What better way to start off their new life as a married couple than with a baby-making, naked honeymoon on a lush, private, tropical isle? Parker and Angelina Together at last and up to the hot and steamy antics you’ve come to expect from them!

Score


Juliette Jones - 2017
    Shy and artistic, she’d rather keep to herself. But when she gets talked into attending a school football game by a new friend, the drop-dead gorgeous quarterback can’t take his eyes off her. Will Blake Travis be the one to bring Skye out of her shell?Blake Travis is saving himself. The hottest superstar at UT just isn’t interested in playing any other field except the one with a football on it. A romantic at heart, he’s holding out for the real thing. As soon as he lays eyes on the shy stranger with the smoky green eyes and flaxen hair, he knows he’s found her.SCORE is a super-sweet, safe, scorching-hot story about first love. No love triangles, cliffhangers or cheating.Book #1 in the Travis Brothers series

Night Sins


Lisa Renee Jones - 2016
    It's an inviting, achingly pleasurable alchemy no woman can refuse . . .In the battle between good and evil, Kayla Ward knows vampires are strictly off limits. As a Watcher she is sworn to protect humankind from the nightwalkers. But a series of murders--the victims all women--leaves Kayla with only one choice: to join forces with the dark side. It isn't her fault that Ethan's seductive allure triggers every zone of pleasure in her body . . .

Billy


Sadie King - 2020
    I drive a tow truck. I know I’ve got no business chasing a girl like that, but I can’t keep away. And when we have an amazing first date, I know she’s the one for me. But there’s something she’s not telling me…Then she shuns me. Maybe she is just another girl looking for a rich ticket out of here.HarrietHe was going to tow my car, and agreeing to go on a date was the only way to get out of it. I’ll let him take me out once, and then get on with my life. Until it turns out to be the perfect date, and I realize Billy’s the perfect man.But I’ve been pretending to be someone I’m not, and falling for a bearded, tattooed tow truck driver is definitely not part of the plan.Billy is book one in The Carter Family short romance series, sweet and steamy stories about siblings finding love. Each book is a standalone, and they all end with a happily ever after. No cliffhangers.

Luke


Anna Scott - 2015
    Aurora has been hurt, she's been abandoned by everyone she has ever loved. How can she give in to her need for Luke now? Can she risk her heart and the friendship they've shared for so long? Is their love strong enough to pull them through the pain of loss and see them through to the other side?

Reckless Falls Kiss


Amelia Wilde - 2017
    I’ve got too much fun to have and too much money to spend to waste time in a small town that never forgot what a piece of shit my father is. He destroyed my life with his affair and I’ll never forgive him for it. So it makes sense that he would die and leave me his estate, forcing me to go back and sell it. I didn’t plan on running into Regina Quinn. We were best friends from the moment we met as kids, but now she’s all grown up. How did I ever think of her as plain and simple? She’s got a body that makes me want to throw away the life I’ve made in the city and worship her forever. One drunken kiss, and she’s got me wrapped around her finger I can’t stay here forever, though, no matter how much I want her. Regina Adam Lane ruined my life. He ran away with my heart—and my one chance to get out of Reckless Falls—clutched in his fists, and he never looked back. I’ve spent every moment since then rebuilding my life out of the rubble he left it in. It’s been so long. I tell myself I’m over it. And I’m over him. But when he shows up here for his ten-year reunion, it’s like he never left at all. I still want his eyes on me. I still want his lips on mine. I’m dying to give myself to him. But we both know he’s not staying in Reckless Falls. He’s a billionaire with a business empire to run. He’s only going to leave. I’m not making this mistake again. I will not give in to his kisses, no matter how bruising. It’s my turn to run. If only he’d stop chasing me… Reckless Falls Kiss is a full-length romance with steamy scenes, adult language, and an HEA that will melt your heart.

Catching Whitney


Amy Hale - 2015
    I’m not exaggerating. My relationships don’t just end; they die a horrible, agonizing death.With a nasty break up behind me, and my mind made up to avoid relationships like the plague, I try to enjoy a girls’ night out with my best friend Lindsey. That’s where I meet Aidan. Despite my reservations, I agree to one mind-blowing, amazing, curl your toes night with the hottest guy I’ve barely met, knowing full well that I’ll never see him again. Or so I think…As a teacher with a new school year in full swing, I contact a parent about a new student and end up face to face with Aidan. His son is in my class, and avoiding this widowed dad, and any complicated emotional entanglements falling for him will bring, becomes a test I may very well fail.Should I take the cowardly way out, or give love one more chance?

Murphy: Alpha Force Elite


Mazzy King - 2020
    When his latest assignment sends him to extract a US diplomat from Baghdad, the last thing he plans is to fall for his beautiful, curvy daughter...MURPHY is book 1 in the Alpha Force Elite series. It can be read as a standalone story. Guaranteed HEA, no cheating, no cliffhangers.

No Regrets


H.J. Bellus - 2017
    Period.He’s the king of the turf and is only missing one thing in his life.Shayne PetersonNo regrets. She is his forever.Three seconds on the game clock…game over. I win.