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Tangled Lies (Web of Secrets Book 1)


Reana Malori - 2019
    Under the tutelage of his favorite uncle, he entered a world of violence, death, power, and loyalty to family above anything else. Now a man to be reckoned with, no one dared get in his way without paying the price.Camille Sperry could never be described as an average woman. Hellbent on creating her own path in the world, she didn't apologize for who she was, or how she lived her life. Often misunderstood and underestimated, her no-holds-barred approach allowed her to create a life well-lived. She was happy and fulfilled. Or so she thought.From the outside looking in, Tristan and Camille didn't belong together. They didn't fit, and their lives were too different. The challenges involved in trying to make a relationship work would be too difficult. Then again, Tristan and Camille have never played by the rules.*Contemporary Romance | BWWM Interracial | Italian Mafia | Novella | HEA*

The Cost of Hope


G.S. Carr - 2013
    Or even a happy one for that matter. The only thing she wants is safety for her daughter. But when even that seems impossible she takes matters into her own hands. Only life has a different plan, sending her into the arms of a handsome plantation owner. The strangest part is, he claims to already love her.Alexander Cummings had long ago accepted that love was lost to him. After picking up the pieces of his broken heart, he threw himself into the duties of owning one of the largest plantations in Elba, Alabama. But life shows him mercy when the woman he thought he lost appears back in his life as if conjured from his deepest desires. Only she returns far from the same and with secrets he never imagined.As society threatens, and lives could be lost, only together can they both get what they want. But neither will come out unscathed and they must ask themselves, is the cost of love to high?

The Only One for Me


Toni Jackson - 2015
    From the time he was a child, the importance of keeping his father's legacy in the family was drilled into him. His dream was to expand the company until Davenport Corporation was a household name.The one thing Sean Davenport wants - needs - is a child of his own blood to carry on the legacy his father left behind. A child of his own that he could groom and train to take over the company when the time came. For a man of his means, it should have been simple.But money can't buy everything.And this is the one thing he begins to believe he will never have.At least until he meets Danielle Knox, a rising star in the art world and the one person in the world who doesn't appear to be impressed by his wealth. To achieve his goal, he has to make her fall in love with him.But first he has to keep her alive....

An Alpha's Heart: Monique and Pearson


Kasey Martin - 2019
    She’s about her business, and nothing can stand in her way. That is until she meets Pearson Grant, a tall, green-eyed handsome megalomaniac that makes no apologies for his atrocious behavior. When the two meet under extenuating circumstances, their fire and chemistry are combustible. They need each other for business, but when business turns into personal and needs turn into wants, how will they survive?

Cree


LaShawn Vasser - 2015
    Her entire world centered around Cameron Jacobs. What happens when his world no longer revolves around her? Distance has kept them apart for so long that they’ve become virtual strangers. Feeling lost and alone Cree realized his goals were her goals. His dreams were her dreams until tragic events forced a path of self-discovery. Sometimes you have to stop, regroup, and find your center. Will that center lead back to love?

Falling For A Monster


Delilah Hunt - 2017
    Chase accepts his lot and path in life by keeping to himself, knowing he can depend on and trust in no one but himself. Until his path crosses with Larke. The one person who has every reason in the world to despise him, but instead treats him like a man who is worthy of her compassion, trust and so much more. Larke Taylor has never forgotten her harrowing encounter with the boy who’d threatened her harm at the tender age of nine. Thirteen years later, she is shocked and heartbroken to see the man Chase has become, after rejecting her innocent offer of friendship. His very presence frightens and intrigues her like nothing else. But beneath the hate-inspired tattoos telling her everything she needs to know about him, Larke finds it hard to deny all the other signs that speak to her heart. The ones telling her that Chase is much more than a monster. He is a man deserving of love and way more than the life he leads, even if he doesn’t realize it. As their relationship deepens, both are defenseless to defy their desire and all-consuming need for the other. Larke knows while Chase is the only man who captivates and holds her heart, he is also the one person who has the power to shatter and burn it to ashes, if he refuses to put her above his legacy of hate. *This book contains racial slurs and graphic sexual language. If the theme of this book and any of these warnings offend you, please ignore and move along.

Plucking the Pearl


Afton Locke - 2012
    The successful widower is the “oyster king” of the island, but his intense desire for his forbidden new employee, a woman of color, threatens everything he’s built.What begins as a private sexual liaison flowers into strong feelings that don't fit the social mores of the island. When their secret is discovered, they risk losing everything. They dared to pluck the pearl, but will their love be strong enough to keep it forever?

Beautiful Skin


Shara Azod - 2014
    But it isn’t enough. The company’s going under, and Johari sees no way out of her current predicament than to sell the company to Schöne Haut, the beauty juggernaut owned by the Vollmer family. Rald Vollmer wants nothing more than to be rid of his wife, Helga. On paper, she looks like the perfect foil for his up-and-coming business persona, but in reality she’s nothing short of psychotic. Sparkling Gem, and the woman who created it, presents him with the perfect chance to break free of his family’s influence. It’s just a business arrangement, he tells himself, carefully calculated to give him what he wants. But the better he gets to know Johari, the less he’s able to stay emotionally aloof, and what began as a calculated plan rapidly turns into something much, much more personal.

Forced To Marry Her Billionaire Boss 2


Cynthia Shaw - 2020
    She had not expected Neo to attack her son or that he had been responsible for cash being robbed.With disappointment and anger coursing through her veins, Veeona blurted out the one thing she hadn’t wanted to say just yet, that she’s pregnant.That wasn’t the worst part of it all. The worst part was Nickolas asking her if the baby is even his. Being blackmailed into being Nickolas’ wife was one thing, but what’s going to happen now that she’s pregnant for him?What is a woman to do when she gets pregnant for a man she never should have slept with to begin with?Find out in the finale of this sizzling hot BWWM billionaire boss romance by Cynthia Shaw of BWWM Love.

Dagger's Dilemma: Not Lady Like series


K. Carter - 2019
    She lives for the thrill of being the deadliest hitwoman walking the streets, as she gets to work side by side with her two best friends. Plus, working for the most dangerous and powerful woman in the city has its perks...as long as you follow the rules, and Dagger does just that... Until Luca. When Luca steps into Dag’s life, everything is turned upside down. Life, as she's always known it, is abruptly disrupted and has her questioning everything. The once untouchable assassin finds herself vulnerable, in the worst way. Meanwhile, in the streets around her, a powerful danger lurks and threatens to rip apart the town she fights to protect it. Suddenly, the deadliest woman in the city has more to fear, and so much more to lose.

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.

Bad Boss


Lolah Lace - 2019
     Robin MacDowell’s luck changes for the better when she lands a comfortable new job making more money. Getting to know her new boss proves to be challenging when his handsome good looks start to distract her from doing her job. Even if Robin can keep it strictly professional can her boss follow suit? Bad Boss is a BWWM office romance novella.

What the Earl Desires


Aliyah Burke - 2011
    Yet, fate being fickle, introduces a mysterious woman into his life. Societal dictates say he has no business wanting her...he does. Najja's in England for one thing, however, meeting Colin changes everything. After he unexpectedly becomes Earl of Clifton, Najja withdraws. Her excuse? His title. Her vow.Colin doesn't care, but wanting and /having/ Najja are two different things. For Najja can never truly be his so long as another controls her. Obstacles are meaningless when a love that spans the continents is...What the Earl Desires

Stanton: A Cowboy's Fight For Love


Sonja B. - 2021
    Well, no more. I’m getting my wife back whether she likes it or not!Gabby and my son are my world, the Rodeo circuit is second. I want to go home but I messed up big time and hurt the only woman I have ever loved. I’m no quitter. I may have been thrown around enough in the saddle to have my brain jarred, but it won’t stop me from fighting to get her back!One night cost Stanton Willington to lose everything he held dear to his heart. Coming off a path of destruction, he’s ready to put the pieces back together again. Sit back and take a ride with this Cowboy as he puts up one hell of fight to get his family reunited again.

Cutting To The Chase


Stephanie Morris - 2009
    She moves back to San Angelo, TX to be closer to her family and friends. She has made enough money to live comfortably for a little while until she decides what she wants to do. Unfortunately things don’t go as she planned. Upon stopping by the hospital where she started out in physical therapy, she runs into her old mentor. While there her help is enlisted for a patient who needs her expertise. When she finds out the new patient is Christopher Morgan, her world is sent into a tailspin. She and Chris have a history. They have been friends since the age of five and she had kept a secret from him. It is a secret that could rock the foundation of their friendship. She is in love with him. Christopher Morgan feels like he is having the worst luck in the world lately. His mother is an awful meddlesome matchmaker distracting him from being able to find the woman of his dreams on his own. It only gets worse when his horse training session goes awry and he ends up in the hospital. To top it all off he is told his new physical therapist is Ashley Bennett, his childhood friend and woman he has secretly been in love with for years. He had no idea she was back in town but now that he does he doesn't plan to let her go.