contemporary romance
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Crushed (A New Adult Romance) by Julie Reign
Broken by a cruel world and a devastating secret, sometimes it takes help to pick up the pieces…
One fateful night and Jessica Benton shattered. Unable to face her own tragedy her secret stayed locked inside, a ball of barbed wire inside her chest. Love is off the table—a look, a touch, is all it takes to break the fragile peace she’s worked so hard for. Now, in college and on her own for the first time, the ghost of her past won’t let go until it’s ground her to dust.
On the run from a nightmare, sparks fly.
Heir to a fortune, Tristan Blackwell weaves music in a coffee shop on the edge of campus. His scars are the remnants of the life he ran away from and the father he could never please. As long as he hides, he’s free. It doesn’t stop his terror that he’ll have to go back to the life that almost killed him, after he fled into the night with nothing more than his guitar and the clothes on his back.
When chance and spilled drinks bring them smashing together, things get explosive. As secrets come to the surface and tension builds, they may not be able to mend themselves… But together, they’re almost whole.
Tides of Hope by Dawn Tomasko
For Sara Shepard, no place is dearer to her heart than Nantucket Island. Having visited every summer for years, it’s the one place she truly feels at home. To escape a toxic childhood, she ran straight into marriage with a high school friend. She discovers safety isn’t enough to sustain a marriage. With her estranged husband medically discharged from the Marines suffering from PTSD, life once again becomes unsafe. Now with a loveless marriage over, and her relationship with her teenaged daughter in shambles, she returns to Nantucket. Determined to rebuild her life, Sara begins a journey in search of peace, self-discovery and a way to follow her passion.
When the CEO of a successful investment firm, surrounded by money, women, and prestige, twice on the cover of Forbes, walks away from it all, one could expect backlash. Who does that? Gabriel Donovan, for one. Now living on Nantucket, he’s more than content working as a historic restoration specialist. Finally, he’s doing work that brings real satisfaction. He considers being far away from the drama tearing his family apart a bonus.
When Gabriel is hired to restore the beach cottage Sara is renting, they’re blindsided by the fierce attraction they feel. Both burned in the past, forever is not in the equation. But they will consider a hot summer fling. Neither suspects they have stumbled into the arms of the one person who can make all the difference.
Maliciously Obedient by Julia Kent
Lydia’s new boss stole the job she wanted and he thinks he owns the place already on Day One. Turns out — he actually does. She can’t control her attraction to Matt, the man with stormy eyes and a penchant for kissing her in the supply closet, the elevator, and in her increasingly intense dreams. But Matt has a secret — he’s really Michael Bournham, playboy extraordinaire and the CEO of the company, and he’s doing a reality television stunt. For six weeks he’s pretending to be a middle manager while producers video tape everything. Everything. Including the moment he and Lydia give in and break every rule. And, perhaps, their hearts.
Lovers at Heart (Love in Bloom: The Bradens) by Melissa Foster
Voted BEST BOOK SERIES by Supportive Business Moms, UK
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LOVERS AT HEART is a SILVER MEDAL WINNER in the Readers’ Favorite Awards – Contemporary Romance Category
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“Foster’s tale of stubborn yet persistent love takes us on a heartbreaking and soul-searing journey.” – Readers’ Favorite
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“You can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that’s fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won’t want to stop reading. Every book’s a winner!” New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak
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In LOVERS AT HEART…
Handsome, wealthy resort owner Treat Braden is used to getting what he wants. When Max Armstrong walked into his life six months earlier, he saw right through the efficient and capable façade she wore like a shield, to the sweet, sensual woman who lay beneath. She sparked an unfamiliar desire in him for more than a one-night stand, leaving his heart reeling and his blood boiling. But one mistake caused her to turn away, and now, after six months of longing for the one woman he cannot have, he’s going home to try to forget her all together.
Max Armstrong has a successful career, a comfortable lifestyle, and she’s never needed a man to help her find her way–until Treat Braden caught her attention at a wedding in Nassau, causing a surge of emotions too reminiscent of the painful past she’d spent years trying to forget. Max will do anything to avoid reliving that pain–including forgoing her toe-curling, heart-pounding desire for Treat.
When a chance encounter turns into a night of intense passion, Treat realizes that the mistake he made six months earlier may cause him to lose Max completely. He will do everything within his power to win her heart forever–and Max is forced to face her hurtful past head on for the man she cannot help but love.
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**BONUS** Includes the first chapter of Destined to Love, The Bradens, Book Two.
Reasonable Doubts by Evie Adams
“If f—-g was an Olympic Sport, I’d have more gold than Michael Phelps.”
Attorney Jacob Hughes has a perfect life winning multi-million dollar cases by day and seducing the most beautiful women in the city by night.
Everything is perfect until he has to work on a case with Laura Miller and the two worst things that can happen to a man happen to him.
Reasonable Doubts is a sexy standalone Contemporary Romance with a HEA, and a long, hard road to get there.
For a limited time it includes MARCUS : A Mafia Bad Boy Romance
Secret: A Military Stepbrother Romance by Aubrey Irons
Hunter Ryan is a monumental d*ck.
Bad boy, womanizer, soldier, pr*ck. Oh, and he thinks he’s God’s gift to women – mostly because of his… endowments.
My mother just became the first female President of the United States, and now she’s about to marry her Secretary of State – Hunter’s father.
Which means besides being my new security detail, that arrogant, insufferable man is my new stepbrother
Oh, right, and it’s worth mentioning that I already slept with him.
Forget John and Marilyn. Forget Watergate. Forget Monica.
I’ve got a scandal that could rock the entire world. Dirty, illicit, forbidden; my secret, my stepbrother.
This is about to be a true state of emergency; a national catastrophe.
Sisters in White (Love in Bloom: Snow Sisters) by Melissa Foster
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“Like Nora Roberts, Melissa Foster has captivated me with her fantastic, sexy, romantic stories.” Kimberly Winning, avid reader
In SISTERS IN WHITE…
Danica and Kaylie Snow are about to celebrate the biggest day of their lives–their double wedding–on an island in the Bahamas. But no wedding is complete without a little family drama. The two sisters aren’t ready to face the father they haven’t seen since he divorced their mother and moved away to marry his mistress, and live with Lacy, the half sister they’ve never met.
While Danica has exchanged letters and phone calls with Lacy, Kaylie has fervently tried to pretend she doesn’t exist. Lacy is sweet, fun, and nearly a mirror image of Kaylie. To make matters worse, not only is Lacy looking forward to meeting her sisters, but she idolizes them, too. As the countdown to the wedding date ticks on, their parents are playing a devious game of revenge, and there’s a storm brewing over the island, threatening to cancel their perfect wedding. The sisters are about to find out if the bond of sisterhood really trumps all.
SISTERS IN WHITE is part of the Love in Bloom series. While SISTERS IN WHITE can be read as a stand-alone novel, for even more reading enjoyment you may want to read the entire Love in Bloom series in series order.
Owned by the Hitman by Alexis Abbott
“You will be my woman for a year, servant to my whims and desires. I will not hurt you, unless you want me to.”
I'm in deep to the Mafia. My father was the one who made the deal, and when I inherited his club, I also inherited his troubles.
Ivan wants to save me, or so he says. More like he wants me to be his slave for a year. After the one-night stand I had with him, though, would that be so bad? With his impossibly hard body, and the way he always makes me scream…
But he's still a monster. He's a criminal, and something so much worse.
And yet I can't stop the tingling in my body every time I think of how he touched me, and those dark but delicious words rolling off his tongue, tinged with his Russian accent.
He knows what I'll say, even before I do. “I'll take your offer.”
A full length Romantic Suspense novel. On sale & contains Criminal by Alexis Abbott for a limited time. Owned by the Hitman ends at approximately the 53% mark.
LoneWolff: an Online Romance by Fran Seen
My name is Ellie Faye.
I am a deceiver of internet strangers.
Caught between the shadows of functioning as my high school’s social pariah and the illumination of my computer screen, I assumed countless online personas. My one rule: like Cinderella, my fairytale identities abided by a strict curfew.
My fallacies began and ended within the same day, until I accepted a chat request from LoneWolff. He was a collection of secrets the two of us could only whisper through keystrokes. The fabrications I wove into our connection tangled and twisted for two years, for I treasured LoneWolff the way forbidden things were always treasured: in secret and with unbridled greed.
The fateful day arrived, when LoneWolff unravelled my prickliest lie, and in a torrent of written curses, assured me our relationship was over.
But our story was far from concluded.
And neither of us can hide behind our computer screens anymore.
Fans of MTV’s Catfish will adore this hilarious online romance.
Never Let Me Go by Jennifer Haymore
Sometimes following your ambitions means losing your heart.
When Celeste McMillan graduated from college, she hit the ground running, prepared to overcome every challenge and climb the corporate ladder at record-breaking speed. But then a client assaults her, and her boss forces her to take a ten-day “vacation” in Hawaii.
Kanoe Anakalea is intrigued when he meets the pale-skinned, redheaded haole on his favorite surfing beach. Celeste is intelligent and adventurous, sexy and sweet. Even though sun, sand and sexy surfers are as foreign to Celeste as the L.A. corporate world is to Kanoe, their sexual chemistry sizzles.
As they spend sun-warmed days and plumeria-scented nights in each other’s arms, they find themselves falling hard. Yet love is out of the question. Kanoe is rooted in his island home, and Celeste’s future beckons in L.A. As the clock ticks down, Celeste realizes that letting go might be the greatest challenge she’s ever had to face.
