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Taken for His Pleasure
Mae Doyle - 2020
Innocent.I touch everything I destroy.I can't keep my hands off of her.I'm going to ruin her if she's not careful.Eva is everything good in this city.But loving her is more dangerous than I could imagine.When she sees something she shouldn't, I don't have a choice.There's nothing I won't do to to protect my family.She's in my heart and in my bed.Now that I've had a taste, I don't think I can let her go.
Trusting the Dragon
Rinelle Grey - 2018
He certainly doesn’t expect to be woken by a human. In order to regain his energy and shift into his dragon form, he needs to bond with someone, but a human could never understand what he requires. Single mother Rylee has enough on her plate. When her eleven-year-old son, Rowan brings home a strange man he found asleep in a canyon, she’s determined to keep her distance. She’s just escaped one controlling relationship, she certainly doesn’t need another. But the pull she feels for him is not only unmistakable, it could be deadly. For both of them. Trusting the Dragon is Part 1 in the Dragon Shores serial.
A Dashing Duke for Emily
Hanna Hamilton - 2018
She is surprised when Mark Linfield, the handsome and powerful Duke of Edgerton, and his Uncle Silas invite her and her sisters to supper together. Both Mark and his uncle are smitten with the elegant, statuesque Emily, and the Duke, a patron of the arts, suggests he would like to help launch her career as a solo pianist throughout Europe. Silas wants to help Emily too, but only if she will agree to accept his advances toward her. And not only must she contend with Silas, but there are forces within her own family that want to prevent her from achieving her dream. Despite these difficulties Mark and Emily, are becoming intensely attracted to each other. But Emily has a beau, and Mark's family wants him to marry a woman of his social class. Neither one is certain how to deal with these challenges by themselves. But might they succeed together, or will they be overpowered by the forces working against them? *A Dashing Duke for Emily is a historical Regency romance of 90,000 words (around 450 pages). No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a sweet happily ever after. Get this book for free with Kindle Unlimited!
A Duke's Promise
Joyce Alec - 2018
Miss Sophia Weston is left destitute after her father dies. Her brother and sister-in-law, Lord and Lady Brookridge, refuse to support her, even though it is their duty.When Sophia is forced to seek employment, she accepts a position as a governess for the widowed Duke of Harrogate. The duke’s only daughter, Sarah, brings an immense amount of joy to Sophia. Soon enough, Sophia learns to accept her new situation and loves her daily interactions with her only pupil. However, Sophia also discovers that her feelings are growing for the duke, even though she knows the duke could never marry her. When Lord and Lady Brookridge learn about Sophia’s whereabouts and her newfound happiness, they once again try to ruin her life with a scandal and take her away from everything she has grown to love. When the Duke of Harrogate learns about the plan, he must choose between the governess and his own reputation. If you love clean and wholesome, Regency romances with a strong woman heroine and an inspirational romantic story, you will love A Duke’s Promise. Authors Note: This is a clean, stand-alone romance with no cliffhangers.
Goldie Locks: A Steamy Standalone Instalove Romance (A Man Who Knows What He Wants Book 243)
Flora Ferrari - 2021
Ashes to New
Ellie Masters - 2016
It's about enduring. Surviving. And never giving up. Elsbeth and Forest are two teenagers trapped within an abusive foster home. They endure tragedy, but find there is light in the darkest places. With hope is as limitless as the summer sky, all they need is the love of one another to survive."You're beautifully broken. My summer sky. My light in the darkness."Elsbeth and Forrest are seventeen-year-old foster children. They met at the age of twelve when they were given into the care of a deranged monster who hides behind the mask of a well respected, philanthropic lawyer.Trained in total submission, they face unspeakable abuse and cling to one another as their only source of hope. As if things aren't bad enough, their foster father has several friends who avail themselves of the children as well.Through it all, Elsbeth clings to a single ray of hope; at eighteen, both she and Forest will no longer be in the foster care system and will be free of their foster father and his vile friends. Keeping hope alive, they struggle to survive and free themselves from degradation and abuse; that is, until "Master John" comes to visit....***This book is graphic with triggers; it's not for the faint of heart***
Boss Me
Claire Adams - 2018
They hated each other’s guts growing up and stayed away from one another as they grew older. Stella was too stuck up for Christian, and Christian was too lazy for Stella. But, when the death of their parents forces them to come together for the reading of the will, their relationship gets even more tense. Stella’s father leaves the family company to Christian, and her world begins to fall apart. But, what happens when Christian admits he needs help? What happens when this man stands up to run the company? What happens when Stella Harte slowly lets in the one person she’s pushed away all her life?
The Perfect Couple
Lexi Landsman - 2017
There are secrets in every marriage . . . and some are more dangerous than others.Sarah and Marco Moretti are the perfect couple. Together they have travelled the globe building high-profile careers as archaeologists. Now, at a dig in Florence, they are on the brink of the discovery of a lifetime.However their marriage is not what it seems.On the very evening that Sarah uncovers the San Gennaro necklace – a long-lost antiquity that will bring them worldwide fame - she witnesses Marco kissing another woman. Blinded by tears, she drives home alone in the dead of night . . .When Sarah wakes up in hospital, she has no memory of the car accident that brought her there - or the 48 hours preceding it.Gone is the knowledge of her husband’s infidelity. But gone too is all recollection of finding the precious necklace.And the loss of those two crucial memories will have devastating repercussions…"Memory can be the difference between love and hate, survival and death, forgiveness and revenge."
Little Woodford
Catherine Jones - 2018
A peaceful, unexciting place, the very heart of middle England.In Little Woodford no one has fingers in more pies than Olivia Laithwaite, parish councillor, chair of the local WI, wife, mother and all round queen bee. So of course it's Olivia who is first to spot that The Beeches has been sold at last.Soon rumours begin to swirl around the young widow who has bought this lovely house. Why exactly did she leave London with her beautiful stepdaughter and young sons? Are they running from someone? Hiding something? Though if they are, they won't be the only ones. Sometimes the arrival of newcomers in a community is all it takes to light a fuse...Perfect for fans of Rebecca Shaw, Jill Mansell and Emma Burstall.
The Memory Thief
D.J. Donaldson - 2004
Marti Segerson's appointment to the staff of the isolated and rural Tennessee Gibson State Mental Hospital was no accident. Years ago, Marti watched a mad man, serial killer Vernon Odessa, murder her sister. Marti never forgot the horror. Never gave up on revenge.Gibson State may finally hold the key to justice. Odessa is incarcerated within the gloomy, medieval-walled asylum. He's within her reach, but her carefully planned retribution may get her killed. Only days after her arrival, her memory is suddenly riddled with holes. Someone's carefully orchestrated mind games are blurring the line between illusion and reality.Soon, she's not certain whether she'll get justice for her sister or become the next victim.
Brayden
Susan Fisher-Davis - 2017
Leaving Texas to return to Montana is step one, opening a rescue sanctuary for horses in honor of his late wife is step two, and doing whatever he can to protect his heart from the pain of falling in love again is step three. Melissa Conroy has been in love with her best friend’s husband since the first moment she met him…so when he calls her out of the blue to offer her a job, she leaps at the chance. She knows how much he loved his wife but even if it only means being close to him, she is willing to risk the heartache of rejection until she becomes the other woman. Terrified of losing someone he loves again and being left alone, Brayden pushes Melissa away even as he can’t help but seek her out, until he pushes her away one too many times and she says enough. Now he’s at risk of losing her forever and his greatest fear has come true. Is it possible to have two great loves in one lifetime—and love both at the same time?
Lucky Soldier: A Memorial Day Brother's Best Friend Fake Fiance Romance
Eva Luxe - 2018
But I can't. Can I?Then Sommer's grandfather gets sick.So we invent a little white lie to cheer him up.Sommer won't be alone, we tell him, because we're engaged.The longer the charade goes on, the more I find myself believing it's real.But we're not really getting married this Memorial Day. Are we?Lucky Soldier is a full length standalone steamy romance with no cheating, no cliffhangers and a very happy ever after. It contains bonus books for your continued reading enjoyment, including the never before published novel Dangerous: An Inked Bad Boy Romance.
Thorne Bay
Jeanine Croft - 2020
To follow wherever the finger of destiny points. Even if that means heading to some obscure Alaskan town she's never heard of. A place where the primal beauty of the backwoods is rivaled only by a certain pair of steely green eyes. But Thorne Bay has a dark side. It's not just rumors and wary gazes that shadow the darkly alluring Tristan and his reclusive family. Her search for self, as it turns out, leads to a discovery of werewolves and a fight for survival. Alaska might just leave an indelible mark. Love and Death will leave her changed forever.
Elle's Scars
Kylar Wilde - 2020
She keeps to herself and there isn’t much known about her around the hospital except that she is good at what she does. She is a beautiful woman with brunette hair and alluring gunmetal grey eyes but beneath those eyes are darkness and multiple scars on her body. Elle joined the army as a nurse on her eighteenth birthday with the hope of helping people. She spent almost five years in an active war zone patching up civilians and soldiers. Her stint in the army has left her scared both physically and mentally.Derek Hawkins has been at Tampa Medical Hospital his whole medical career and is renowned in the cardiovascular world. People come from all over the East Coast to see him. He has also made a name for himself in the bedroom department. With his short dirty-blond hair and blue eyes that make any woman swoon, he is a ladies’ man famous for no-commitment relationships with various doctors and nurses. He enjoys the finer things in life and he is not interested in settling down just yet.Many women clamor to sleep with him regardless of him not looking for anything more than just some fun. Derek has his eyes on Elle but his intellectual and physical charm have no effect on Elle at all. When Elle is placed on Derek’s service for a week, she is in for a whole new ride.