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Christmas in the little Irish village  by Michelle Vernal

Christmas in the little Irish village

Michelle Vernal

"Welcome to the little Irish village where Christmas celebrations are in full swing! Twinkling lights, cosy fires and big mugs of hot chocolate are in abundance as Shannon Kelly returns home to the Shamrock Inn. Will this be the year she finds the man of her...

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Weave me a rope  by Jude Knight

Weave me a rope

Jude Knight

"He is imprisoned. She is cast out. But neither will give up on their love. When the Earl of Spenhurst declares his love for a merchant's niece, he is locked away in a tower. Spen won't get out, the marquess his father says, until he agrees to an arranged...

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The do-over  by Phoebe MacLeod

The do-over

Phoebe MacLeod

"Thea Rogers has dedicated her life to her career in corporate law. Apart from her colleague and long-time friend-with-benefits Alasdair, shes forgone friendships and relationships, and now shes on track to become her firms youngest ever female partner. She...

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Brooding vet for the wallflower  by Sue (Susan) MacKay

Brooding vet for the wallflower

Sue (Susan) MacKay

Brooding vet for the wallflower: Beautiful vet Kate has feared rejection since a tragic incident left her scarred. Only when she meets brooding Finn at a party they share a spontaneous, passionate kiss that leaves her reeling. Which makes his equally sudden...

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Almost dead  by Lisa Jackson

Almost dead

Lisa Jackson

"Cissy Cahill's world is unravelling fast. One by one, her family are dying. Cissy's right to be afraid, but not for the reasons she thinks. The truth is much more terrifying. Hidden in the shadows of the Cahill family's twisted past is a shocking secret - a...

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Whiskey chaser  by Lucy Score

Whiskey chaser

Lucy Score

"Raised by her three overbearing brothers, Scarlett is a hell-raising tomboy with a tool belt. A tornado stirring up trouble everywhere she goes. Her favorite pastimes? Drinking any man under the table and two-stepping. But she has zero interest in love....

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Sidecar crush  by Claire Kingsley

Sidecar crush

Claire Kingsley

"Model turned disgraced reality TV starlet, Leah Mae Larkin, crash lands in her hometown of Bootleg Springs to lay low while a scandal threatens her career. She can't shake the feeling that her agent--and supposed fiancé--manipulated her into the role of...

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Highball rush  by Claire Kingsley

Highball rush

Claire Kingsley

"Gravel-voiced Gibson Bodine takes his lone wolf image seriously. The tough guy. The bad boy. He lives alone. Works alone. His one love-besides starting a good brawl-is sitting on a rinky-dink stage in a backwoods bar playing guitar and singing about things...

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Bourbon bliss  by Claire Kingsley

Bourbon bliss

Claire Kingsley

"June Tucker doesn't understand people. Numbers, data, and statistics? Those make sense. People? Not so much. In a town of Friday night fighters and moonshine-swilling line dancers, she's the odd duck. And that suits her just fine. But her sister and friends...

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Gin fling  by Lucy Score

Gin fling

Lucy Score

"Personal trainer Jonah Bodine discovers more than he bargained for with the half-siblings he didn't know he had in small-town West Virginia. Not only is his dead father a person of interest in a cold case disappearance, but the entire town seems way too...

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Moonshine kiss  by Lucy Score

Moonshine kiss

Lucy Score

"Small town deputy Cassidy Tucker's dating life is a train wreck on repeat. All she ever wanted was a solid partner. A man to share pajamas with. The handsome, big-hearted Bowie Bodine. Wait. Scratch that. Mr. You're-Like-a-Sister-to-Me is not welcome in her...

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Temptation trails  by Claire Kingsley

Temptation trails

Claire Kingsley

"Single dad Garrett Haven doesn't have time for dating. With a teenage son and a high-stakes job in law enforcement, he has enough on his plate. Besides, he risked his heart once. He has no intention of doing it again. Until he meets her. Harper Tilburn...

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Tempting the duchess  by Sara Bennett

Tempting the duchess

Sara Bennett

"Widowed Ellis Mallory is running for her life when she finds shelter at the home of artist Owen, Lord Lyndhurst. She agrees to sit for him. During the five years of her sham marriage, Ellis longed for a lover to teach her the pleasures of passion. But Owen...

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Heartwaves  by Anita (Romance author) Kelly

Heartwaves

Anita (Romance author) Kelly

"Mae Kellerman is content. After forty years of ups and downs, she has a meaningful job at a queer community center in Portland, Oregon. She has an apartment full of plants, a ride-or-die group of friends. Until the day her best friend actually does up and...

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Seducing the duchess  by Sara Bennett

Seducing the duchess

Sara Bennett

"Sebastian is seducing the duchess...or is she seducing him? Catherine, Dowager Duchess of Wellesley, is on her way home to her bleak castle in the North of England, when she becomes trapped in a snowbound inn. The lonely widow of an old husband, her hopes of...

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Storms and secrets  by Claire Kingsley

Storms and secrets

Claire Kingsley

"He's always loved her. Now he'll fight to save her. Zachary Haven is living a lie. He's stuck in a rut, pretending to hate the woman he's always loved. He didn't mean for things to turn out that way. But sometimes life gets out of control, especially when...

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Flirting with forever  by Claire Kingsley

Flirting with forever

Claire Kingsley

"He'll break all her rules. Nora Lakes is sophisticated, successful, and happily single. Career problems aside, her life is fine the way it is, thank you very much. Sure, her best friends are all moving into a new season of life-full of husbands and babies and...

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Marrying Mr. Wrong  by Claire Kingsley

Marrying Mr. Wrong

Claire Kingsley

"I never should have gone commando in that dress. I'm almost positive the rest of it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been dangling off a hotel balcony with my lady parts in the breeze. And of course the one person to witness my mortification had to be HIM....

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Falling for my enemy  by Claire Kingsley

Falling for my enemy

Claire Kingsley

"Corban Nash is a self-proclaimed data nerd with a sexy half smile and a set of abs that leave girls drooling. He developed a theory he claims will make two people fall in love. And after numerous tests on friends and family, it's been successful for everyone...

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Faking Ms. Right  by Claire Kingsley

Faking Ms. Right

Claire Kingsley

"Everly Dalton is a walking, talking, martini-drinking dating disaster. Forget kissing frogs. She can't even get past the first date. But at work, she's a badass--the longest-running assistant billionaire Shepherd Calloway has ever had. Her coworkers wonder...

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Drawn to death  by Kat Shehata

Drawn to death

Kat Shehata

"After a near-death experience, Evelyn comes back to life with a dangerous gift-she can communicate with the dead. Haunted by the secrets of the recently deceased, she becomes a reluctant medium who channels their desperate pleas for justice. That's when she...

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Protecting you  by Claire Kingsley

Protecting you

Claire Kingsley

"Grace Miles misses her easy friendship with Asher, but growing up means growing apart. And really, how could he fall for her when they spent their childhood getting muddy in the creek and splitting sticks of gum? But this summer, something feels different. If...

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Fighting for us  by Claire Kingsley

Fighting for us

Claire Kingsley

"The Asher Bailey who comes home to his quirky small town isn't the same man who put a ring on Grace's finger. He's bigger, harder, haunted. Forced to give up Grace and everything else that was good in his life for a prison sentence he barely survived. Now...

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Unraveling him  by Claire Kingsley

Unraveling him

Claire Kingsley

"She's the sunshine to his storm cloud. Stoic, growly Evan Bailey has enough on his plate. A growing business, a pack of brothers who drive him crazy, a gossip-loving small town, and a rivalry that runs deeper than any family feud. Love? That's a hard pass. He...

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Rushing in ; by Claire Kingsley

Rushing in ;

Claire Kingsley

"She's the one girl he can't have. With his dimpled grin and devilish charm, firefighter Gavin Bailey is hot as a five-alarm fire and twice as dangerous. The youngest of five brothers, he's the daredevil of the family. Until the unexpected strikes and he finds...

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Chasing her fire  by Claire Kingsley

Chasing her fire

Claire Kingsley

"Sexy firefighter Logan Bailey is an expert at putting the wet stuff on the hot stuff--on and off duty. But he just did the unthinkable, and it wasn't trading in his tube socks. He slept with his nemesis. His mortal enemy. The crazy redhead he loves to hate....

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Heart of obsidian  by Nalini Singh

Heart of obsidian

Nalini Singh

"A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained bloodred. A woman whose very existence has been erased.A love story so dark it may shatter the world itself.A deadly price that must be paid.The day of reckoning is here.From 'the alpha author of paranormal romance'...

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Nocticadia  by Keri Lake

Nocticadia

Keri Lake

"A dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love. Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the...

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Infernium  by Keri Lake

Infernium

Keri Lake

"Even the most powerful love can't save a condemned soul. Pain is an abyss. How naive of me to think I'd already reached the very depths of it when fate shook my world with a crushing blow. It turns out, there are fathomless levels of pain, like a winding...

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The trials of Alaric  by Jude Knight

The trials of Alaric

Jude Knight

"To wed her, he'd do anything. Even lose his heart! When Alaric Redhaven is shipwrecked on the Isle of Claddach in the Irish Sea, he finds himself attending a most unusual house party. The Earl of Claddach is holding a set of trials to discover a worthy man to...

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The duke's perfect wife  by Jennifer Ashley

The duke's perfect wife

Jennifer Ashley

"When Lady Eleanor Ramsay, his former fiancee, arrives at his doorstep with scandalous nude pictures of him taken long ago, Hart Mackenie, who has sacrificed everything to keep his brothers safe, wonders if she has come to ruin him - or save him."--Provided by...

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Don't you want me baby?  by Rachel Dove

Don't you want me baby?

Rachel Dove

"Amber Fitzpatrick is about to hit thirty and has achieved none of the things she hoped to have done by now. Her dreams of owning her own business seem out of reach. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and now her biological clock is clanging in her head. But...

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To save a king  by Rachel Hauck

To save a king

Rachel Hauck

"After growing up in small-town Hearts Bend, Tennessee, Gemma Stone set off to Hollywood to make her mark in the world. But her ambition turned into a journey of a 'thousand' bad decisions and after twelve years of seeking fame and fortune, Gemma returns home...

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Orange Blossom Way  by Jan Moran

Orange Blossom Way

Jan Moran

"After losing her job in Seattle, Maileah Raines moves in with her sister Junie on Crown Island for a fresh start. Now in her thirties, she wonders if she will ever find the future she dreams of, but has been afraid to embrace. Could Crown Island hold the...

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Careful what you witch for  by Emma (Fantasy fiction writer) Jackson

Careful what you witch for

Emma (Fantasy fiction writer) Jacks...

"Becca Ashworth's family is in trouble and with their magical legacy under threat, it puts their small village of Biddicote at risk too. So going against the witching tenets to summon an ancestor for help seems like a small price to pay to fix the problem......

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The mid-life trials of Annabeth Hope  by Alice May

The mid-life trials of Annabeth Hope

Alice May

"Feisty country girl Annabeth Hope has sworn off men since her ex abandoned her. Juggling three resentful step-teens, a hyperactive toddler, a smallholding, and a herd of rescued llamas, she has her hands full. With the roof about to collapse on her crumbling...

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Rainwater  by Sandra Brown

Rainwater

Sandra Brown

"Ella Baron runs her Texas boarding house with the efficiency of a ship's captain and the grace of a gentlewoman. She cooks, cleans, launders, and cares for her ten-year-old son, Solly, a sweet but challenging child whose busy behaviour and failure to speak...

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Forgotten desires  by Corinne Michaels

Forgotten desires

Corinne Michaels

"Ten years ago Carson Knight was my one great love, but he abandoned me without a trace. Now he's a billionaire single-dad in need of a temporary wife. Marry him, so he's more likely to win full custody of his daughter, keeping her safe from her unstable...

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Tempting promises  by Corinne Michaels

Tempting promises

Corinne Michaels

"What's the worst thing you could do when you're stranded in the woods with your rival? Sleep with him. That's what. Not only is Rowan Whitlock my sister's ex, but we're both vying for the contract that would save my family farm. So why did it have to be Rowan...

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Broken dreams  by Corinne Michaels

Broken dreams

Corinne Michaels

"What could possibly go wrong fake dating the gorgeous single dad in a small town? The answer, you fall for him. It started out perfect. Grady Whitlock needed a plus one for his business meetings, and I needed a date for a wedding. We had a plan. It was a good...

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Forbidden hearts  by Corinne Michaels

Forbidden hearts

Corinne Michaels

"First rule of being a nanny? Don't fall for the single dad, even if he is smoking hot. But that's exactly what happens when grumpy small-town sheriff Asher Whitlock reluctantly hires me to take care of his daughter for the summer. Neither of us is thrilled...

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Say it's forever  by A. L. Jackson

Say it's forever

A. L. Jackson

"Jud Lawson found me stranded in the rain. Broken down on the side of the road in a deserted neighborhood with my piece of crap car. I wasn't looking for a hero, and definitely not one who looks like him. An obscenely hot, mountain-of-a-man who screams danger....

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Unfurl  by Elodie Hart

Unfurl

Elodie Hart

"When you've been told your whole life that something is sinful, you have two options. Avoid it like the plague. Like it has the power to destroy all that is good and pure. Or become as fixated upon it as Eve was upon that apple. I'm sick of the push-pull of...

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Sweet vengeance  by Viano Oniomoh

Sweet vengeance

Viano Oniomoh

"Joy needs a deal with a demon to bring an end to the man who'd ruined her life. Malachi needs a deal with a human so he can remain in the mortal realm, far from the sentries looking to drag him back to his sect in hell. It's a match seemingly made in heaven....

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Second chances at Hollyhock Farm  by Georgina Troy

Second chances at Hollyhock Farm

Georgina Troy

"Since his sister Lettie took over their parents' farm on the beautiful island of Jersey at the start of the year, Zac Torel's life has changed completely. Zac loves Hollyhock Farm, and he's determined to help Lettie succeed, but when their insurance company...

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One last rainy day  by Kate (Romance author) Stewart

One last rainy day

Kate (Romance author) Stewart

"Dominic King doesn't want or need anything . . . except his freedom. The key to his cage is tucked in the suit pocket of his overbearing, overprotective, older brother, Tobias--the leader of a secret vigilante group Dominic helps govern. Their mission?...

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Friends with benefits  by Lisa Swift

Friends with benefits

Lisa Swift

"Can Lexie Whittle figure out a way to balance her failing marriage, her job, parenthood, and a new romance? Find out in this heartwarming read. Lexie Whittle thought she had life all sewn up with a gorgeous husband, a beautiful home, and a delightful teenage...

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One final target  by Janice Cantore

One final target

Janice Cantore

"A warrant service in the San Bernardino Mountains goes horribly wrong when an IED blast kills four police officers. Devastated by the loss of her team, the lone survivor, Long Beach sergeant Jodie King, struggles with her guilt and grief, especially as the...

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The school of starting over  by Lisa Swift

The school of starting over

Lisa Swift

"Reception class teacher Nell Shackleton has a plan. At least, she had until she arrived at her new home of Humblebee Farm, a dilapidated farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But so what if the roof's full of holes, the back door's hanging off and there's a sheep...

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Cornered

Cornered

"In three short romantic suspense stories, an accountant, a teacher, and a chef find themselves trapped in the unexpected webs of deceptive criminals who are willing to do whatever it takes for their evil plots to succeed."--

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The mistletoe mix-up  by Codi Hall

The mistletoe mix-up

Codi Hall

"Sam Griffin's nephew meant well when he brought his uncle to the attention of a relationship-advice radio show in Mistletoe, Idaho. But now, Sam is getting publicly roasted for his love life. Faced with the harsh reality of his dating history, he wants to be...

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Overdrive  by Esha Patel

Overdrive

Esha Patel

"Shantal knows one thing in life: that success means everything. So when she gets the call to move from London to Brazil, to test out her racing simulator on high performance Formula One racing drivers, she leaves her life behind, and goes. Because she'll do...

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An honorable deception  by Roseanna M. White

An honorable deception

Roseanna M. White

"Lord Yates Fairfax, leader of the secretive Imposters, is pulled into a mysterious case by the beautiful Lady Alethia. Joined by one of his oldest friends, Lady Lavinia, their investigations reveal society's darkest secrets, forcing them to confront the...

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The typo  by Emily Kerr

The typo

Emily Kerr

"Amy and Cameron have never met. But when Amy receives an email meant for Cameron, their lives entwine in ways they could never have imagined. Cameron lives a life of adventure as he navigates an expedition around Antarctica whilst Amy's life is firmly on...

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Offtrack  by Esha Patel

Offtrack

Esha Patel

"Diana Zahrani is Formula One's first female racing driver this century. All the other drivers are told to race carefully around her, and leave her to her real job: being a pretty face and good advertising for a hypermasculine sport. But Diana's not worked...

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