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Tell Me Something
Aubrey Bondurant - 2015
I was his assistant. It was only supposed to be a temporary office romance. Until he changed the rules...Haylee Holloway has experienced more grief than a twenty-two year old should have to endure. When she moves to LA for a fresh start and takes a job as an assistant for an advertising company the last thing she expects is to have to step in as the model during a photo shoot. Especially with a multi-million dollar campaign hanging in the balance.Josh Singer, the owner of Gamble Advertising is private, intense, and hard to read. But when he shows up to take charge of the debacle, he's surprised to be drawn to the nervous woman filling in. Once he learns of Haylee’s goal to save money for law school, he makes her a short-term offer she can’t refuse: Move to New York City and work for him directly as his assistant. As things heat up between them, blurring both their professional and personal lives, can they keep things temporary as planned or will they both realize some things aren't meant to end?Full Length Standalone book with no cliffhanger. First book of the “Something Series”***Tell Me Something is for mature audiences due to steamy bedroom scenes that are in no way contained to just the bedroom.***
Stolen Time
Elizabeth Lennox - 2017
Always one to play by the rules, Jane isn’t sure how to handle Detective Tony’s brazen interest. Between being in her friend’s wedding together and investigating the murder – plus the allure of opposites attracting – the ending was inevitable.
Arranged
Vanessa Waltz - 2019
She had him first. Alessio Salvatore. Charming, gorgeous, and completely off-limits. I watched him propose and counted myself lucky when my sister said "yes" to the notorious gangster. I have plans for my life. None of them involve sleeping with the enemy, even if it's to broker peace between our families. But when my sister mysteriously dies, my life turns upside-down. I'm now the heir of my father's assets, and without an arranged marriage, our families are on the brink of war. Until my father gives Alessio an offer he can't refuse. Me. -------- ALESSIO I need Mia to understand three things: 1. We are getting married in a month. 2. I demand loyalty. 3. I want kids. Now. I was meant to walk her sister down the aisle. A relationship with Mia would've been unforgivable. She was persona-non-grata forever until her old man gave me her hand in marriage. How could I say no? But wrangling the boss' daughter is more trouble than I thought. When she's not fighting her feelings, she's fighting me. Never mind that we have more fireworks than dynamite. Or that we're perfect together. Or that we're marrying in a few weeks. She hates me. Too bad. She'll have to get used to me. Author's note: This is a dark, mafia arranged marriage, standalone romance. A young woman desperate to leave a life of crime and violence fights her arranged marriage to her late sister's fiancé, a ruthless mob boss who demands three things from her: marriage, loyalty, and a baby. As their wedding date approaches, Mia struggles with a decision that once seemed easy--escape his control or surrender to her heart?
My 3 Rockstar Bosses
Sarah May - 2018
We only come in one size: 3X KING.Ladies love us.Guys want to be us.Because we're rockstars soaring at the top of the charts.But it's not our music that gets us into gossip magazines.Not our fame.Not our money.Not even our bad boy ways.It's something else that makes the tabloids go crazy.A certain secret that makes women shiver with anticipation and delight.In fact, make that THREE secrets: All of them KING SIZE.And fortunately, we're not afraid to use the magic on sweet Katy.Oh yeah, our beautiful assistant needs to know her clients inside out.The only question is ...
Which one will she like best when there's so MUCH to LOVE?
Saving Liberty
Sarah O'Rourke - 2018
Somehow.Even when fate decides to throw her a wicked curve ball.Delta Force Operative Paxton Graham was a warrior.He fought for his country.He fought for his Delta Force brothers.And now he’ll fight for the family he never knew he wanted.When Pax and Truly's worlds collide, two guarded hearts will learn that sometimes life's greatest gifts are also a completely unforeseen surprise.
Buying the Bride
Penny Wylder - 2017
I need the money he's willing to pay. It's a perfect fit. All I have to do is smile and pretend that I could ever fall in love with a cold, calculating man like him. Everything was going as planned... until he walked in on me while I was trying on my wedding dress. That was the moment he looked at me with something different in his eyes. Something that said I was more than just a way for him to get his inheritance. He shouldn't have kissed me. I shouldn't have kissed him back. Definitely should NOT have slept with him. Now, I can try to lie to his family... but I can't lie to myself. The wedding is fake. But my feelings for him aren't. This is a standalone novella with a HEA and NO cheating! Penny Wylder writes just that-- wild romances. Happily Ever Afters are always better when they're a little dirty, so if you're looking for a page turner that will make you feel naughty in all the right places, jump right in and leave your panties at the door!
Rock Hard Bodyguard
Alexis Abbott - 2017
She’s bigger than life, and she acts every bit the diva.Underneath her bratty facade, something secret lays dormant.I can sense it, because I’ve got secrets too. But when I’m hired as her bodyguard, I almost refuse. I don’t want to tempt the demons in me. With her sinful good looks, and that laugh that drives me wild, I know I’m in for a hell of a ride.But I can’t let her in. I won’t. No matter how determined she is, no matter how much she teases me. Until suddenly, her hotel room is under lockdown.It’s just her, and me.For hours.On Christmas.I’m falling for her. But can her light finally chase away the darkness that guards my heart?
Make or Break at the Lighthouse B&B
Portia MacIntosh - 2020
Can Will help mend Lola’s broken heart as well as her leg? Can she help Dean find love? As a wise man once said, sometimes the one for you is right under your nose, all along…
Constant Craving
Tamara Lush - 2017
Justine's passion is running her father's company, and she wants to save her family's legacy. With the business on the edge of collapse, she begs a private equity group for help. But she didn't realize her rich ex-boyfriend Rafael was the one in charge, and she never expected his 30-day indecent proposal... Forced to do anything her handsome former lover wants, Justine's taken by surprise when their passion reignites in a fiery blaze. Unsure if Rafael wants romance or revenge, she can't stop herself from wanting to give their relationship a sizzling second chance. Will Justine's deal backfire or lead to a lifetime of lust? Constant Craving: Book One is the first installment in the Craving contemporary romance trilogy. If you like smoking-hot chemistry, smart-sexy characters, and second-chance love, then you'll adore Tamara Lush's steamy novel. There is a cliffhanger.
Ruthless
Lexi Blake - 2016
Riley, Drew, Brandon, and Mia believe the CEO of StratCast orchestrated their parents’ murder twenty years ago to steal their father’s software program. And there’s only one way Riley can find some solid evidence... Heir to the StratCast legacy, Ellie Stratton hires a new attorney to handle a delicate business matter—and she’s shocked by her attraction to him. Over the course of a few weeks, Riley becomes her lover, her friend, her everything. But when her life is threatened, Ellie discovers that Riley is more obsessed with settling an old score than in the love she thought they were building. And Riley must choose between a revenge he’s prepared for all his life and the woman he’s sure he can’t live without...
DASH: A Secret Billionaire Romance
Lucy Lambert - 2016
Seven months ago when his mother died, he left behind his company, the board room, and all of his responsibilities. He hopped onto his bike and disappeared into the back roads of America. All he wanted was to feel the thrum of a motorcycle between his legs and forget that his past ever existed. But sometimes the past has a habit of coming back to remind you of what you've lost... Ellie Granger has been stuck in Pleasant, Kansas her whole life. Now that her parents are both gone, there's nothing keeping her there but a crushing sense of despair that things could ever get better. When a strange biker arrives in town and saves her from her abusive ex boyfriend, she can't help but feel the stirrings of something deeper. It's not only her fiercely burning attraction to the handsome stranger, though. Something about him isn't what it appears to be. Something about him seems familiar. But Dash isn't going to give up his secrets to anyone, and Ellie isn't going to run away from home with a stranger, no matter how searingly attractive he is. But when the memory of a first kiss comes screaming back, she must make the most agonizing decision of her life - and choose whether to give up everything she's known for a chance at true love.
Ruined
Tracy Wolff - 2014
He’s the last man Chloe Girard should love . . . but the first she ever could. Ethan Frost is a visionary, a genius, every woman’s deepest, darkest fantasy—even mine. And, somehow, I am his. He stole into my life like a dream. Turned my reality upside down and made my every desire come true—especially those I never knew I had. He demanded everything I had to give and gave me everything of himself in return. But dreams don’t last forever, and ours is no exception. Because my nightmares are darker, and my wounds deeper, than I could ever reveal. And as much as Ethan wants to protect me, the secrets we share will only tear us apart. Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from other Loveswept titles.
The Summer We Ran Away
Jenny Oliver - 2019
As the founder of the Cedar Terrace Whatsapp group, she’s constantly chivvying the neighbours to action, as well as dealing with a kitchen extension, leaning-in at work, and dealing with Imposter Syndrome and her family…But when she accidentally Whatsapps her neighbours a secret letter to an agony aunt she inadvertently confesses to a secret crush. While she loves her husband, Adam, she spends most of her time fantasising about the married father-of-two who lives opposite, timing her evening runs to coincide with his dog walks, finding reasons to pop over and chat and sometimes she catches him looking in a way that suggests he might quite like her too.Julia is horror-struck as the little blue ticks appear on the Whatsapp message. Then left dangling as it’s met with widespread silence and a couple of embarrassed emojis.When the neighbours know exactly what you’re thinking, there’s only one thing to do. Run away.
It’s a summer that she’ll never forget… Another gorgeous escapist read from the bestselling Jenny Oliver.
BREAKING THE LAW: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance (MAFIA Series Book 2)
Chloe Fischer - 2018
They need her help to collar mafia kingpin Marco Sardelli; her missing cousin’s ex-boyfriend - and there's nothing Andrea would like better than to nail this criminal. Andrea has every intention of putting him behind bars and throwing away the key – until the mafia bad boy rescues her from an attempted assault. After working her way into his world and seeing another side of the bad boy, Andrea's torn - is he evil, or not? Just when she hardens her resolve and makes a vow to her missing cousin to bring him in, the chemistry between the pair explodes, and what started out as a takedown, is in danger of becoming a ‘take-me-down…please’. Can Andrea go against everything she believes in and fall in love with this criminal? Or will Marco show her another side to himself – one that’s both dangerous… and right? BREAKING THE LAW is a standalone, HEA, rocking-hot romance. Enjoy!
The Accidental Harem
J.J. Knight - 2018
I CAN call you girlfriend, right? Where I come from, girlfriends are the ones who know about that time you used rolled up toilet paper as a tampon. And how you once wired your bra closed with a binder clip at work when the hook broke and your boobs made a run for the border. And ALL about that walk of shame when your panties fell out of your purse in the Uber ride. So come on now, plunk your cute little booty in a chair. (Do you do Pilates for that booty? I tried Pilates and sprained my girl parts.) Get that drink in your hand and listen up. Because I met four hot men and somehow ended up on a cruise with all of them. Girlfriends, I have a STORY to tell. ________ Full-length standalone HEA reverse harem comedy. Love without limits. #whychoose