Book picks similar to
The Teacher and the Beast by Carter Blake


romance
single-parent
contemporary
short-stories-novellas

The Manhattan Men


Jacob Parker - 2022
    The handsome alpha males that run the family that founded the big city.The family law firm needs a public facelift and I'm the guy for the job.The sexy minx they hire to help me act better is a social media influencer.She's also the one that got away.It's a bit of a Cinderella story, but it isn't her shoe she left for me.She's not getting away this time. I'm claiming her for good.NYC’s most eligible bachelor just turned in his claim to fame.This New Years' kiss is my last.

Hungry for Leo (Hungry Hearts, #2)


C.L. Cruz - 2020
    Hungry for Leo is the 2nd in the Hungry Hearts series but can be read as a standalone with a HEA and no cliffhangers!GillianAs the the free-spirited youngest sibling in a huge family, I’ve always been kind of the black sheep.Which is why, when it’s my turn to host the Price Family Thanksgiving, I’m surprised everyone agrees.Unfortunately, I don’t know how to cook, so I enlist the help of local chef, Leo Estrada.He’s sexy, good with his hands, and knows how to stuff my turkey.But will my big family scare him away before things have a chance to get serious?LeoI’m living my dream life as a busy and successful chef.But without any family nearby, I’m usually alone on the holidays.When Gillian, one of my waitresses, asks for help cooking her family dinner, I jump at the chance.She’s bubbly, beautiful, and her curves make me want to go back for seconds.As things heat up in the kitchen, can I convince her that I want a permanent place at her table?Ready for some all-new alphas to take over this Thanksgiving holiday? Check out all nine of the Hungry Hearts series!11/18: Hungry For Kellen by Barbra Campbell11/19: Hungry For Leo by C.L. Cruz11/20: Hungry For Jensen by Brynn Hale11/21: Hungry for Dameon by Tarin Lex11/22: Hungry For Dash by Shaw Hart11/23: Hungry For Hunter by Flora Madison11/24: Hungry For Owen by Cameron Hart11/25: Hungry For Wade by Elisa Leigh11/26: Hungry For Curtis by M.K. Moore

Wrangle Me


Gigi Thorne - 2018
     Alexandra Cooper is desperate to get away from home. A four-month gig as a cook at the Circle B Ranch is exactly what she needs. Except when she gets there, it feels like she jumped out of the pan and straight into the fire. Alexandra is nothing like Colton Booth expected when he hired her. If he’d realized “Alex” was a gorgeous eighteen-year-old girl, he never would have given her the job in the first place. But now that he has her on his ranch, he doesn’t plan to ever let Alexandra go. Wrangle Me is a steamy novella with a sexy cowboy who has a wicked sweet tooth and an innocent virgin who knows how to satisfy it. Written by bestselling author Rochelle Paige.

Stripped Down


Mae Harden - 2020
    Bachelorette parties are not. Surprise strippers even less so. But I'm almost positive this guy isn't really a stripper, and if he is, he's pretty bad at it.On the other hand, he's very, very good at kissing. And maybe I shouldn't have goaded him into doing it, but it's not like I'll ever see him again. At least I'll have something to fantasize about when I'm baking muffins tomorrow morning.BrooksContractor. Loner. Stripper? Not usually, but I'll do anything to get the Bachelorette party in the room next door to settle down. All I wanted was a good night's sleep. I never expected my entire world to shift when she opened the hotel door with her wide green eyes and sweet vanilla scent. Now that I've had a taste, I can't let her go. I just have to find a way to break down her walls.

Until Sadie


Sarah Curtis - 2021
    New connections. New life. That was Dean’s focus.Until Sadie.One look at the fiery pixie with emerald eyes and Dean knew he had to make her his.The timing couldn’t be worse. Things were… complicated.Dean should’ve walked away from her.He didn’t. Couldn’t.But he should have. Because too soon the truth would be revealed. And Dean would be left desperate to prove to Sadie his love for her was real. Even if not everything else was.❤Until Sadie is coming to Aurora Rose Reynolds' Happily Ever Alpha World. If you loved Until Cobi, then add Until Sadie to your TBR list❤

Single Dad's Virgin


Penelope Bloom - 2017
    He wants me to pretend we’re engaged. But I can’t say no, or he’ll lose his daughter and I’ll lose my job. Fine then. I’ll wear his stupid ring. I’ll be the perfect fiancée for one month. There’s only one problem. I don’t want to stop pretending. Housekeeper for a stunningly handsome, male-model billionaire? Yep, that’s my job and it’s as dreamy as it sounds. I get to live in his ridiculously huge mansion, and all I have to do is take care of his mom and daughter, who are practically family. To top it off, the notoriously bossy Mr. King has been away for business since I started. But he came home today. Liam King looks like he stepped out of a GQ magazine, and the way he undresses me with his eyes should be illegal. He ignites my body. Every part of it. But It doesn’t matter how tempting he is. I can’t have him. I can’t risk my job. Even if a guy like him was actually interested in a twenty-two year old virgin like me, I can’t give in. I’ve been in enough relationships to know how they all end: disaster. And if I lose my job, I lose the closest thing to a family I’ve had since my mother passed. But a fake engagement doesn't really count as a relationship… Right? **This is a full-length, standalone fake marriage romance. No cheating or cliffhangers, and as always, Happily Ever After guaranteed. Bonus content included!

Their Christmas Baby


Laylah Roberts - 2015
    She wanted to experience what it was like to be dominated. She wanted to set free the little inside her. She needed to figure out if having a Daddy Dom was truly what she desired. Colt and Brant shared everything. Their house. Their business. Their women. Both dominant, they helped mentor subs so when a friend asked them to take on Jessa, they agreed. Little did they realize how much they would come to need her in their lives. But before they can show her how much she means to them, they will need to put the past behind them…before it truly hurts them and Jessa. Warning: This book contains age play, consensual spanking and some very dominant males. Please don’t buy if any of this offends you. This book has been revised slightly from the original.

Noah


Kate Tilney - 2020
    After being the top salesperson at my athletic-wear company four quarters in a row, I’ve won an all-inclusive two-week stay to an Alaskan resort.Only, all-inclusive means something totally different here. And resort is a fancy word for roughing it in the middle of nowhere. If I don’t end up mauled by a bear or a moose, it’ll be a miracle.Though, I wouldn’t mind being mauled by the super sexy owner of the lodge . . .NoahShe doesn’t belong here. I knew that the second she stepped off of the airplane. Polished and put together, if a bit clumsy, I’d like nothing more than to get her messy.And I’m not just talking about rolling around in the mud.I shouldn’t want her, but I do. And the longer she stays here, the more I never want her to leave.Camp Mountain Man is a series of steamy and short standalone romances about curvy city slickers and the hunky mountain men who protect them in the Alaskan wilderness. Read NOAH if you like adventure and a romance full of heart. No cliffhangers, no cheating!

Snowed Inn (Santa's Coming...)


Sher Dillard - 2018
    With no room at the Inn, she is forced to accept his offer to stay with him. What had looked like a miserable holiday has every chance of becoming a sexy interlude that she will never forget. But when Eric turns out to be so much more. Can she turn a fun fling into something with true meaning?

Her Midnight Mistake


Barbra Campbell - 2020
    Right?How many sparkling ciders would it take to drown my misery? I might have found out if a handsome stranger hadn’t taken the barstool next to me.He didn’t flinch at my choice of drink. Said all the right things. And when I confessed why I was sitting alone at the bar, he pulled out an engagement ring. Too soon? No worries.It wasn’t actually an engagement ring.It was adjustable, and it’s fake diamond made Cubic Zirconia seem like an extravagant option.It was a piece of costume jewelry from a machine at the front of a grocery store. He’d gotten the trinket for his daughter.But the way he looked into my eyes when he slid it onto my finger hit me deeper than anything my ex had ever done.According to nearly everyone, by the time the clock struck midnight and ushered out the horrendous year, the engagement ring they expected to see on my finger would be from my former boyfriend. He was back in town and everyone seemed to know he was going to make amends and pop the question.But he was a former boyfriend for a reason.And the ring sliding on my finger wasn’t from him.Was it wrong to undermine his proposal in such a silly way?Was it wrong to dream of my fake fiancé being something more?And was I foolish to believe my knight in shining armor had shown up that fateful night purely by chance?Is there anything better than falling in love? Finding another HEA? I'll always give you a dirty-sweet story to keep your heart full and your windows steamed!Her Midnight Mistake is part of the Hot for Curves series of New Year's Eve romances. We're ready to move on from 2020 and wanted to bring you some sexy stories to help pass the time while we wait for the stroke of midnight!

Obsessed


Tawny Taylor - 2015
    Desperately.I am so effing dead.Mom just got married, and now I have to live with my new billionaire stepbrother, Kent Payne. I should be happy, right? We aren't surviving on noodles and rice anymore. And at first I am. But things change. Quickly. It's him. Kent Payne. He is exactly what his name implies--a pain in the ass. Sure, he's gorgeous, and rich, and built like a god. But he's also a controlling, irritating, womanizing pain in the butt.Now, thanks to our parents, we're members of one big, happy family. Whoo-to-the-fu**ing-hoo. He's a jerk. And nothing can happen between us anyway.So I shouldn't care about who he's kissing in the kitchen...And I definitely shouldn't be fantasizing about him being my first...Hostile Takeover is a THREE PART SERIAL. If you hate serials, you may want to wait until all three parts are available before buying.Genres: Romance, New Adult/College, Billionaire Stepbrother, Stepbrother Billionaire RomanceBooks in the Hostile Takeover series:Hostile Takeover 1: ObsessedHostile Takeover 2: ConsumedHostile Takeover 3: Addicted

Dr. Fake Fiance


Juliana Conners - 2017
    all the way. I'm not supposed to f*ck my patients.But I've never been good at following rules.And they all fly out the window when Elizabeth Jane walks into my office for a purity exam.I've known her and her strict, religious mom for years as their family practice doctor.But now Little Lizzy is all grown up.Her pigtails and bobby socks have been replaced by seductive curves and sultry eyes.Her mom wants me to find out if Elizabeth still has her virginity.But little does she know Elizabeth wants me to take it from her.Mommy Dearest soon finds out just how lengthy, hard and thorough my exams have been.So Elizabeth and I pretend to be engaged.It's for her reputation; it's for my career.That's what I keep telling myself.But there's one last rule I've already broken- I was never supposed to fall in love.** Dr. Fake Fiance is a standalone older man/ younger woman romance novel with no cliffhanger and no cheating. It's a sizzling hot read with a very high heat level. It features a dominant billionaire alpha male and a feisty BBW virgin who earn their happily ever after. It includes bonus content from the Always, Boss: Bad Boy Boss/ Office Romance, series and The Bradford Brothers: Bad Boy Military Romance, as well as super steamy Deleted Scenes for your continued reading pleasure.

Dirty Little Brat (Dirty Series Book 1)


ChaShiree M. - 2019
    I would have laughed them out of the room. But from the moment I saw my little Lexie, I have been a mess of want and need. When I find out her father has all but sold her to a family of monsters for money, I know I cannot wait any longer. Alexis maybe young. And she maybe a brat. But she is also, MINE!!!! Alexis I have always gotten what I wanted. All I had to do was bat my eyes and pout my lips. When I set my eyes on Saxson for the first time, everything I have ever wanted pales in comparison to how much I want him. Then the doubts set in. Am I too young for him? Will I be enough for him? What do I have to offer him? Then he takes me. And everything I have ever wanted is, MINE!!! What you are about to read is the story of a mob boss and his young obsession. This story is safe, sexy, dirty and full of family, with a bit of violence thrown in. Did I mention it was dirty? Lay back and have fun with Saxson and his dirty little brat.

A Weekend with the Mountain Man


Nicole Casey - 2018
     My cabin in The Black Mountains is where I belong, where I have been my whole life. Until the blonde beauty showed up. Scared. Alone. And f*cking stunning. So I brought her back to my cabin of solitude. She is a goddess that makes my heart race. I can’t resist her innocence, or her luscious lips. I need to taste her, possess her, and feel her under my chest. But someone else wants her forever too. And I’ll be d*mned if I let that b@stard take her from me. Eloise is mine now, and I'll protect her no matter what. ***This is a stand-alone mountain man and virgin romance with no cliffhanger and a lot of steam. HEA guaranteed. Bonus content included after the main story. Enjoy!

Hemi


Brynn Hale - 2019
    Bringing blue-collar bad boys and curvy women together in a hot, quick, & colorful way.  Cece Rollins I can’t be falling for a man who stole my car in high school.  It’s crazy, right?  Plus, with opening a business, my controlling ex, and taking care of my daughter, I can’t deal with more.But when it comes to Dane Drake, my heart does the talking and I have to listen.  Dane “Hemi” Drake  When the past comes walking into a bar wearing red heels and curves that I’d like to ride on forever, I’m a goner. She comes with a past, we all do. I just need to show her that her past isn’t our future. I’m gonna steal her heart this time. Hemi: Graffiti Boys 1  is an instalove, happily-ever-after, STEAMY, single mom romance. NO cliffhangers, NO cheating. This is a standalone story part of the GRAFFITI BOYS series.