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A Black Christmas : Brothers Black Series Bonus


Blue Saffire - 2021
    I wasn't excepting what my father sent me to Ireland for, but I haven’t regretted it either. Not for a single moment. Thirty-five years, seven sons, a growing number of grandchildren later, I’m one of the happiest men on earth and something has become very clear to me. My father was the mastermind of all masterminds.CassieThere has never been one who could tame my mouth. However, the giant Scot my da brings into my life tames everything else about me and hands me the world. My mouth may have gotten me into trouble, but it also got me into the arms of a man I could only dream of. Those eyes, they captivate me from the first time I look up into them.Will the drama someday tear us apart or will it be what makes us stronger? Once you’re a Black you’re a Black for life, or at least that’s what they say.*This a Novella in the Brothers Black Series a spinoff from the bestselling series Legally Bound Series that started it all. While you can read this book as a standalone,it will enhance the read to Blue’s books in the provided book order. Blue Saffire’s books are written to weave, loop, and intertwine with one another. You will find that the series build together for a greater experience.**This book has strong language and sexual content. This Book is for Mature Readers 18+***To keep up with release dates sign up for the mailing list on my Blue Saffire website.

Dad's Cartel Best Friend


Flora Ferrari - 2020
    In return, once they became the most powerful Cartel leaders in Mexico, they repaid the favor a thousand times, giving me the life, the power and protection to run my own successful business, along with my American, Gringo brother, Dan. When he tells me he’s coming to visit with his daughter, I can’t wait. It’s been too long since we all caught up. But once I see the beautiful, curvy young woman his daughter’s all grown up into, I feel myself falling. Hard. What? Dan’s not coming for a few more days? It’s just you and me? It’s Instant love. Like nothing I’ve ever felt before, and I just know that Jade is feeling exactly the same as I do. * * * A college intern exchange takes me to Mexico, Dad’s held up for a day or two. Maybe more, but it’s cool. His best buddy Carlos will look after me, show me a good time, but a safe time. Dad trusts him like a brother, and from what I remember, he’s one hot hunk of a man, that’s for sure. In the flesh, after all those years, Carlos is making me wet just by looking at me. I know what he wants, and now I do too. More need than want. Crazy. Truly. Madly. Deeply. But what about dad? My internship? It all goes south, far across the border and straight into the arms of the manliest man I’ve ever seen. Knowing I’m safe with him and that he’ll put a baby in me. Knowing we’ll make a family together, the one he never had growing up, makes it all worthwhile in the end. Age isn’t just a number, it’s a badge of honor, and Carlos wears his like a man, a real man. The only man who’ll ever claim me, the only man I’ll call my own. *Dad’s Cartel Best Friend is a SHORT insta-everything standalone instalove romance with an HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger.

Monk Paletti: Taming Ashley Sinatra


Mallory Monroe - 2020
    His idea of fun is when nobody’s bothering him. But when he and his best friend, Teddy Sinatra, stop by Teddy’s uncle’s house, Monk finds himself unable to take his eyes off of one of the uncle’sdaughters: the bad one. And soon he finds himself, the eternal bachelor, ready to give his all for the love of a woman he sees as nothing but good and kind and sexy in a way that keeps him up nights.Ashley Sinatra, the adopted daughter of businessman Big Daddy Charles Sinatra and the niece of preeminent crime boss Mick Sinatra, is always looking for love in all the wrong places. But when she meets The Monk, who looks and talks like a gangster straight out of an old movie, she realizes she just met the bad boy of all bad boys. He’s even too bad for her! Until he shows her a kindness and gentleness no man had ever shown her before.Monk Paletti: Taming Ashley Sinatra is the first book in the Monk and Ashley Romantic Suspense Thriller series.

Kissing the Dr: A Small Town Amnesia Romance


Piper Sullivan - 2021
    

The Tycoon's Unexpected Baby (The Abbot Sisters Book 3)


Elizabeth Lennox - 2020
    Despite his attempts to keep his relationship with the lovely, vivacious Pepper Abbot casual, after their first dinner together, he was lost. Pepper Abbot had warned him! She’d told Dimitri Bosalis that they needed to hold off on an intimate relationship. So when the intense heat flared between the two of them, the freakish Abbot fertility struck again. Extravagant Pepper didn’t mind since she was already madly in love with the conservative businessman. The world was rosy and beautiful…until tragedy struck. Could Dimitri bring Pepper back from the dark depths of her sadness? Could they recover from the fluke that had devastated their world?

Fated to the Dragons


Scarlett Ray
    A Steamy, Sexy Stand Alone Dragon Shifter Series!!!A desert, a secret hideaway, THREE ridiculously HOT billionaire dragon shifters...And A SERIOUS LACK OF SELF CONTROL!!!I had a simple plan: Go to the Mojave Desert, find proof of the land’s rights to be protected and preserved, stay at the top of my game…and WIN.I did NOT anticipate the proof to be a TRIO of devastatingly attractive dragon men that rescue me from myself!Titus, Lincoln and Cullen are truly irresistible and have me torn between my dedication to my work and the neglected urges of my heart and body.I have never felt like I belong anywhere…but I know undeniably that I belong with them.If I betray their confidence…tell their secrets, I could save their land.But I could ruin our chance at being together.Me, the mates I am fated to… and our baby.

Eyan (Adorkable Love Book 5)


Brynn Hale - 2020
    It’s been two years since Rayna’s passing. He wonders if he’s someone who can’t move on, until the adorable and loving Tessa Dyce comes into their life as the twins’ next nanny. Tessa can feel something growing between them but remembering how her father was after her mother’s death, she’s cautious. When Rayna’s judgmental mother finds out, will the growing relationship come to an end or will outside forces they never see coming tear them apart?Will Eyan learn to cherish the memories of one woman while making a life with another?Read this alpha geek, curvy virgin woman, happily-ever-after, steamy, boss and employee, short story romance now!

Bells in Boston: An Insta Love Holiday Romance


Ava Pearl - 2021
    

Silent Love: Part 2 (Forbidden Series)


Kenadee Bryant - 2018
     Gage Harper is trouble, and I don’t need complications in my life. So why can’t I seem to stay away from him? It’s not like I’m attracted to him or anything. How could I be? He’s the exact opposite of what I want. Ethan is the one, always has been…which is why I’m crushed when I find out he’s dating my best friend. But I refuse to accept it. I’ve come too far to let him slip through my fingers. I’ll do anything to make Ethan realize I’m the girl for him—even if it means using Gage to stir a little jealousy. But once Gage agrees to play his part in this game of make-believe, lines start to blur, and the one thing I desperately tried to avoid happens… A giant complication.

Undeniable Curves


Julie Scarlet - 2020
    She’s the receptionist at the hotel I stay in.She is curvy, talented, and drop-dead gorgeous.A single look at her, and I’m madly in love.Everything between us is perfect, or so I thought……until my ex-girlfriend walks back into my life.

Finding Your Heart


Bess McBride - 2019
    Partially submerged by a lake and largely buried by mud, weeds, grass and trees, Kascade is lost in time. Until it emerges one summer evening—vibrant, busy, teeming with life. Leigh Peters strolls along the shores of quiet Lake Kascade at sunset as she often does. A check of her watch shows that sunset is only minutes away. Reluctantly, she turns from the lake to head back to her car, but she never reaches the parking lot. Dr. Jeremiah Cook finds a woman who claims she is lost, not in place but in time. He believes her to be mentally unsound, but he wishes to help her, as a doctor must. He simply does not know how. Though Jeremiah cannot imagine what to do with the confused woman who claims she has traveled through time, his heart tells him that he must protect her at all costs.

Wolf's Rejection (Bobon Wolf Shifters, #1)


Jean Stokes - 2022
    It doesn’t take long to make a new friend, but just as soon I learn to trust Georgie, a familiar problem arises.My old pack doesn’t care that what I did was an accident. They want revenge and will stop at nothing to get it. If they find me, I’ll have no future. They’ll make sure of that.While I do everything I can to navigate between the life I want and the growing threats around me, I find myself drawn to Beau, a hotter-than-sin alpha male, who struggles with problems of his own.With so many hurdles to cross and nowhere to run, will Beau and I see past our differences and secure our futures, or will the threats that are closing in on us lead to disaster?⭐New from bestselling romance author Jean Stokes⭐THIS IS BOOK 1 OF THE SERIESWARNING: The Bobon Wolf Shifter Series is addictive! Be prepared to stay up until 3am reading a steamy wolf shifter romance with an independent heroine, a hunky alpha, a dash of humor, and a healthy dose of steamy scenes!Steam & language alert 18+ only: I don't want your angry vigilante mama after me! If you aren’t eighteen then go read Harry Potter, mind your language and eat your broccoli!If you're looking for contemporary steamy romance with military veterans or paranormal alphas, then you've found your new favorite author!

Sheikh's Virgin Mistress: A Sheikh Romance


Sophia Lynn - 2019
    I was a powerful sheikh; she was a delicate rose ready to be plucked. I was always a formidable man.I had an empire.My country’s loyalty.Ambition.Prestige.Treasures.But with great power comes great risk.It was by chance that I met her.Laurel Phillips:Young, pretty, shy, curvy, American.She was the “Angel of Grace” who came to my aid,And for that,She had my gratitude.But that wasn’t all she had…One night was all it took;I made her mine,Over and over again.Little had I known that she was a virgin…Yet that only made my desire for her ripen.I wanted to keep her.So, I did.At my palace, Laurel had everything.It was a sweet deal;Her company for my riches—Until politics got in the way.Now, a rival of mine has kidnapped her to force my governing hand.Well, good luck to the fool,Because no one steals my intended sheikess without paying a brutal price…Note: Sheikh's Virgin Mistress is a steamy romance between a Sheikh and the beautiful American who saves him.

Juan-Carlo's Play


Mona Merlin - 2021
    To me, heaven is like a wet dream, you’ll have to wake up sooner or later and realize it’ll never happen.Love exists only in your dreams.Scrum; A different letter word except this one I understand; I apply not just to the sport I love but to my personal life: Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation. The 3 pillars of upholding every implementation of empirical process control. Basically what helps is to control the unexpected.I don’t expect the unexpected because I control everything.

Pax: A Motorcycle Club Romance (Hellriders MC)


Zoey Parker - 2018
     I just want to do my job: nursing people back to health. So when I find a dying man on the side of the road, my instincts kick in. But I should’ve stayed far, far away. Because as soon as I stop to help, a man shows up. He says his name is Pax, and that I have to come with him to help save this injured soldier. And we have to leave… Right. F**king. Now. It’s hard to say no to a man like Pax. He towers over me, with tattoos inked on his broad chest and rippling biceps. The bulging zipper of his jeans tells me he’s hungry to strip me bare. And the heat between my legs wants him to do exactly that. But right now, time is of the essence. I swore an oath to care for human life. I have no choice but to go along for the ride. We manage to save his MC brother’s life. But now there’s a new life in danger… MINE. The same men who almost killed Peyton’s second-in-command are desperate for more innocent blood. And now, my life is on the line. I fear I’ll never make it home alive. And when everything disintegrates, and I’m taken captive by cold-blooded monsters, my only thought is: I hope I don’t die before I can tell Pax he’s the only man I’ll ever love. PAX is a full-length, standalone, super steamy, bad boy motorcycle club romance novel from bestselling author ZOEY PARKER. This suspenseful, action-packed MC romance is intended for mature audiences, due to violence, strong language, dark themes and elements, and explicit intimate scenes. The romance between the alpha male bad boy and the fiery woman he can't resist ends with a guaranteed happily ever after (HEA) ending, has absolutely NO CHEATING, and does NOT include a cliffhanger of any kind.