Contemporary

  • Faithfully Yours by Alessa Martel

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    When Jenny discovers her high school sweetheart is marrying another woman, will she fight for a second chance at true love?

    Michael and I used to be inseparable, but when I saw him kiss another girl at a high school graduation party, my heart was broken. My first summer break from college means I have to return to our small town and see him again after our emotional breakup, but I’m still bitter over the lost future I always thought we would share.

    When my younger sister reveals that Michael is engaged, I realize I’m not ready to give him up. He’s moved on, with a beautiful fiancée who seems to make him happy, but can I stand by and lose the love of my life forever?

    Faithfully Yours is the heartfelt first book in the Cherish Creek sweet small town romance series. If you like high school sweethearts, true love confessions, and close knit families, you’ll love Alessa Martel’s wholesome second chance romance.

  • Escaping the Friend Zone (Independent Woman in Love, Book 2) by J.C. Boddington

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    Valentina Richards’ sexual escapades are the stuff of legends. As a young woman in her early 20s, who is confident in her sexuality and unafraid of taking risks with her heart, she believes that she’s living life to the fullest, the only way she knows how. Parents would say that she’s a bad girl who their children should steer clear of, but what do they know? Unlike others, Val isn’t sitting around judging people like her who choose to live their lives with passion; she’s too busy taking chances and forming strong connections in the real world.

    When Val takes the biggest risk of all and gives in to her undeniable attraction to Mandy, her best friend, she finds out that there’s more at stake than she anticipated. Mandy is a breath of fresh air, tender-hearted and open-minded. She also happens to be the person that Val adores most in the world.

    By admitting to her attraction for Mandy, Val realises that she’d be putting their friendship on the line. Can she and her best friend come out of it unscathed, closer than ever? Or will there be consequences? There’s also the small matter of Val still being somewhat entangled with Mr Hall, none other than Mandy’s father…

  • The Year of the Tsunami by Derrick Credito

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    A fearless yet reverent story of a young Hebrew scribe’s promises to his late grandparents, who had escaped the Holocaust.

    “A vacation for the mind and soul.”
    ーBrad W. Cox, author of Children of the Program Trilogy

    “A novel of discovery, told from a unique voice at a unique time.”
    ーMichael Chin, author of My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So is Yours

    In 2004, when world-traveling Wes Levine arrives in New Zealand by way of Bangkok, he forms two life changing relationships. First, Wes meets Harry, a gay British heir with ties to a progressive Dutch synagogue that needs a new Torah scroll. Then, along comes mysterious and free-spirited Kayla, who offers Wes room in an Amsterdam canal house she shares with an eccentric painter.

    With Harry as a sponsor, Wes scribes a Torah to commemorate his grandparents, doing so in the same city they’d fled during World War II. After work, Wes navigates Amsterdam’s alluring Red Light District, where sex sells and anything goes. When Wes and Kayla fall in love, they also fall on the radar of a ruthless sex trafficker with a score to settle.

    An ambitious first novel, The Year of the Tsunami is about how far someone is willing to go in order to keep a promise, even in the face of devastating consequences.

  • Long Flight Home by Cassandra Cripps

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    TK
    I live my life by rules – too many fucking rules. But, it’s the only way. I messed up once. I slept with the wrong girl.
    Never again.
    The rules are my life, my guide. Until she walks in, and one by one, they all crumble.
    She doesn’t slowly creep her way in like a worm. No, she soars in, like an eagle, refusing to be ignored and digging her claws into my heart. Leaving me vulnerable, wanting more.
    Wanting her.
    Gracie
    Home. Happiness. The words used to mean something.
    Until that night – over a decade ago. When they were stolen from me and my parents forced us to move.
    Now, I’m back in Alaska, flying bush planes for Homer Air. And, I’ll fight every step I take until they are real again. The only problem is the reclusive fisherman whom I can’t stop thinking about, despite us fighting every time I see him.

  • Broken Cowboy: The Montana Men Series Book 1 by Jamie Schulz

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    *** 2022 RONE Award Finalist & Global Book Gold Award Winner ***
    To fulfill a dream, city-girl Addie Malory purchased a rundown farm. One stress-filled day, she stops to help a wandering stranger in need of a job and a little TLC.
    Dangerous events have life-long cowboy, Cade Brody, wanting to protect and defend the sweet woman who’d taken him in.
    When the violence stalking Addie escalates and the demons of Cade’s painful past return, can their newfound love survive, or will the menacing threat destroy them both?
    Get your copy of this series-starter that’ll have you swooning and keep you guessing until the HEA end!

  • Heart Wreck: A Stranger Vacation Contemporary Romance by Melinda Hazen

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    Two damaged hearts. One tropical vacation. That’s where our story starts…

    Four years ago, a single tragic event left me at rock bottom, and my life has sucked ever since. So, when a guy I’ve been getting to know through social media suggested we meet in Hawaii for our “official” first date, I agreed to go. My life has been mundane overall, so I had nothing to lose. A romantic adventure with breathtaking views and an ocean breeze as the backdrop created the potential for us to fall in love. Until the promise of excitement turned sour…

    Shortly after my arrival in Hawaii, I learned my date was standing me up, leaving me stranded in Lanai for the week. As an apology, he left his credit card on file along with the prepaid room and told me to enjoy the luxurious resort on him. While being a generous offer, it still meant I’d experience paradise… alone. Or would I?

    Somehow, I’ve met someone interesting, and my outlook has quickly changed… Cillian is handsome and mysterious and is also a guest at the resort. Conveniently, we’re both on our own for the week. I’m drawn to him by the precise, thought-provoking questions he asks. Not only are those impressive, but Cillian also listens intently and is determined to learn details about my life. He appears almost too good to be true. While I’m confessing awful secrets—ones I’ve purposely left buried in the past—Cillian’s attempting to heal my wounds. But at the same time, I sense something is keeping him stuck in his past and giving him reservations about me.

    I have six days to figure what’s happening between us. So, let the Hawaiian trip begin…

    *** Heart Wreck is a steamy contemporary romance featuring a beta hero, may contain sensitive subject matter, and has no bad language. Recommended for 18+. ***

  • Naughty and Nice: A Holiday Medical Romance by Ainsley St. Claire

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    Trapped by an avalanche with San Francisco’s most eligible bachelor would seem like a chemistry packed holiday, but I’m a one-date wonder. There’s no way we’ll ever fall for one another.
    Clay McGrath is a doctor, a distinguished veteran, and he saved my life.
    As San Francisco’s most eligible bachelor, woman know no boundaries and the texts, photos, and visits are unrelenting.
    I know why. His rock-hard abs, sapphire blue eyes, and those dimples melt my unmentionables right off.
    He’s saved countless lives, but he’s captured my heart and he may not be there to catch me when I fall.

    Anna Standing is fiercely independent, with a mouth made for sin.
    Her long legs, infectious smile, and she’s smart as a whip intimidates men. After all, she doesn’t need our money, our help, or our bodies.
    She needs me. She just doesn’t know it.
    Her world is imploding and she’s in danger and I’m the only one who’s able to save her.

  • Finding Home Ever After by Stacey Komosinski

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    Returning to her small hometown to help her mom recover from cancer, a scared and lost young woman embarks on a journey of self-renewal. A recently rekindled childhood friendship with a now reformed playboy, complicates her transformation when he professes his undying love for her on one hot and tempting summer day.

    Life isn’t what Gabriella Rodriguez imagined in her mid-twenties. But she’s working on embracing change and building a new life she can be happy living. Back in the small town of Harmony, Texas with her family and friends by her side, Gaby hopes to trump the cards fate has dealt her and stop looking over her shoulder for the other shoe to drop.

    Although she has sworn off men until she can sort out her life, there is one man Gaby might allow to get closer—Bradley Klein. Especially since his towering frame, chiseled features and all-encompassing hugs make her feel something she thought was gone. When Gaby lets her body do the talking, will the prior arrogant, self-absorbed teenage boy who now wants to protect her at all costs let her run free with his heart?

  • Discovery: Part 1 of the Inheritance gay romance novel series by Ryder O. Cox

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    Every family has one. That weird relative that the whole family ignores, doesn’t talk about, doesn’t invite to gatherings, etc. For Theodore Cain, it’s his Uncle Harold. Sure, Uncle Harold took care of Theo when he was younger, babysat him in his mansion when his parents couldn’t find anyone else to do it, but Theo doesn’t really remember that part of his life.

    So when Uncle Harold dies suddenly in a car accident and leaves everything he owns to Theo, he’s more than a bit surprised. But he and his boyfriend, Jun Liu-Chen, need a place to stay, and the mansion is more than spacious enough for the two of them. But when Theo starts hearing odd noises coming from the study after a few months, he starts to think that the place is haunted.

    The truth is much worse.

    In a small hidden room, Theo finds a naked man behind bars…

    Content Warning! This book contains:
    gay male rough sex
    mm gay kinky romance
    gay kidnapping (rescue only in this book)
    gay polyamory menage
    gay forced sex slave kidnapped (rescue only in this book)
    spanking fetish
    gay bdsm play
    dubious consent / dubcon
    mentions of human trafficking

  • Moira by Deepak Agrawal

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    That a woman’s mind is akin to a labyrinth of impossibility, best left on its own, is but a common cliche of the day. Mihika Singh, our kind protagonist, the prodigal but overly sensitive child, grows up to be a woman ruthless in pursuing her ambitions, yet rooted to her moral soil while breathing life to her dreams. However, with a career par excellence, she grapples to hold on to the reins of her love life. We live her story with her as she holds a mirror to her own heart to reflect on her approach to propinquity, commitment and pain, trying to make sense of it all. She isn’t perfect, she makes mistakes & she owns them too, taking lessons out of each one of them. As the seasons of her love life change, she explores different facets of intimacy in love, and each time rediscovers herself in it. In this long, tumultuous journey of moving only but ahead, does she stop for someone finally for what it’s worth? Or does destiny prove too strong a force to conquer? Let us hear it from her…