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Ruinous love trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, Lachlan knows he'll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first. And they can't stand each...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the This Man series comes a "brave, cutting-edge romance" (Library Journal) that begs the question: what would you do if you fell in love with someone you can't have?
Annie has never experienced the "spark" with a guy — the kind of instant chemistry that steals your breath and blindsides you completely. Until a night out with friends brings her face to face with the wickedly...
Annie has never experienced the "spark" with a guy — the kind of instant chemistry that steals your breath and blindsides you completely. Until a night out with friends brings her face to face with the wickedly...
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Series
Marked men novels volume 6
Language
English
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"Description Asa Cross is a man with a second chance. An opportunity to right a lifetime of wrongs. Every single day is a struggle between who he should be and the man he knows he really is and always was. With a new life in Denver and a whole new circleof friends and family it's a tightrope walk to keep from falling back into old patterns. Asa doesn't want to hurt the people in his life who have come to love him and rely on him but sometimes when...
5) Not in love
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Killgore and his business...
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Series
Copper Ridge novels volume 6
Language
English
Description
"The man who ruined Rebecca Bear's life just strolled back into it with one heck of an offer. Years ago, Gage West's recklessness left Rebecca scarred inside and out. Now he wants to make amends by gifting her the building that houses her souvenir store. Rebecca won't take Gage's charity, but she's willing to make a deal with the sexy, reclusive cowboy. Yet keeping her enemy close is growing dangerously appealing...He's the wild West brother, the...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Izzy White knows of the darkness in this world. After all, she escaped it long ago. Determined not to let her past beat her, Izzy has a secure, stable life with a job she loves in nursing. But one act of kindness will completely upend everything she's so carefully built-putting her right back in the crosshairs of danger she's been so desperate to avoid. When Theo Kane shows up like a knight in shining armor, Izzy can't help thinking she's been saved...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Penny spends her afternoons sitting outside a sandwich shop, surrounded by ghosts. Fourteen years ago, this shop was her childhood dance studio--and she was a dancer on the rise. Now she's a suburban housewife, dreading the moment her son departs for MIT, leaving her with an impeccably decorated McMansion and a failing marriage. She had her chance at wild, stars-in-her-eyes happiness, but that was a lifetime ago. After The Kiss. Before The Decision....
Author
Series
Need you series volume 1
Language
English
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When his brothers drag him to a night club where he encounters the conservative blonde from his office who has starred in his fantasies for months, CFO of Lund Industries and confirmed workaholic Brady Lund discovers that there is much more to Lennox Greene than he could have ever imagined.
10) The only thing
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Series
The Donnigans volume 3
Language
English
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What do you do when a "fake" relationship is so much better than the real thing? Hope Donnigan is finlly getting her life together. She's working a job she likes, has some amazing friends, and is steering clear of Mr. Wrong. Now if only she could get her mother to understand that. Maybe a hot tattoo artist from the other side town is just the ticket to teach her mom a lesson. J.T. Webster fell for Hope months ago at his sister's wedding. So when she...
11) Hold me, cowboy
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English
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"Oil and water have nothing on Sam McCormack and Madison West. The wealthy rancher has never met a haughtier--or more appealing--woman in his life. And when they're snowed in, he's forced to admit this ice queen can scorch him with one touch... Madison had plans for the weekend! Instead she's stranded with a man who drives her wild. A night of no-strings fun leaves both of them wanting more when they return to Copper Ridge. His proposal: twelve days...
12) The fake mate
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail-she hasn't had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother's obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she's met someone. That is, until she blurts out...
14) Wild ride cowboy
Author
Series
Copper Ridge novels volume 9
Language
English
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"Putting down roots in Copper Ridge was never Alex Donnelly's intention. But if there's one thing the ex-military man knows, it's that life rarely unfolds as expected. If it did, his best friend and brother-in-arms would still be alive. And Alex wouldn't have inherited a ranch or responsibility for his late comrade's sister--a woman who, despite her inexperience, can bring tough-as-iron Alex to his knees. Clara Campbell didn't ask for a hero to ride...
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Series
Pure sin (Kyra Davis) volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Fueled by revenge, Bell, determined to take down the family that framed her mother for murder, seduces her way into the life and bed of Lander Gable to destroy them all, but her plans become complicated when their sexual chemistry turns into something more.
17) Emilia
Author
Series
Emden volume 2
Publisher
Luna Bear
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the riveting final installment, Emilia's shattered heart won't allow her to stray from the ghost of Aiden. The whisper of his existence surrounds, torments, and drives her. Locked away in a safe house, she discovers truths that will change her world. Under the fierce protection of a new bodyguard she embarks on a daring journey to save the one she loves. The question lingers: Is there anyone left for her to save?"-- provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Carina Press
Language
English
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"April French doesn't do relationships and she never asks for more. A long-standing regular at kink club Frankie's, she's kind of seen it all. As a trans woman, she's used to being the scenic rest stop for others on their way to a happily-ever-after. She knows how desire works, and she keeps hers carefully boxed up to take out on weekends only. After all, you can't be let down if you never ask. Then Dennis Martin walks into Frankie's, fresh from Seattle...
Author
Series
Billionaire bad boys volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dog sitting by day and bartending at night, Rachel Foster finds her life taking a crazy turn when she decides to have a no-strings fling with billionaire player Tag Crane, who needs her help in devising a new business strategy for his luxury hotel empire.
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Series
League of extraordinary women novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics...
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