Book 4: Take a Chance on Love Featured
When their friendship develops into more, will they find the courage to take a chance on love?
My fairy tale turned into a cautionary one. Inked in tar and sealed in tears. From Wall Street Journal bestsellers L.J. Shen and Parker S. Huntington comes an explosive marriage of inconvenience...between a tarnished Romeo and a reluctant Juliet. It was supposed to be a harmless kiss at a lavish ...
Book 5: Undeveloped Love Featured
She’s tried being polite. He’s digging in his heels. When complete opposites feel the tug of romance, will their holiday become a blizzard of delight? Blake Fisher won’t let anyone destroy the life she’s built. So when a silver-spoon-in-his-mouth snob refuses to listen to her proposed deal, the hard ...
Missing or Dead Featured
What if finding your family means losing yourself in the process?
Haunted by the disappearance of her father and sister, Talia Turner is left grasping for answers in a world that’s quick to forget. Consumed by grief and desperate for closure, Talia turns to ...
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After a one-night tryst shatters my world, I discover I’m pregnant. I flee from my overbearing family with the help of my best friend. Years later, after losing my job, my best friend helps me land a position in her billionaire uncle's company. To my s ...
She Reigns Featured
The fulfillment of the prophecy is at hand. To claim the crown and restore peace, Attina must first defeat the tyrant king. But victory won't come easy. Known to be the most powerful of the Fae, King Henrik would sooner burn his kingdom to the ground than relinquish his throne. More than ever, ...
Falling For The Hot-Blooded Tycoon Featured
Revenge is within reach... until this smart, sassy enemy steals my heart. I’m caught in a modern-day family feud started by our grandfathers, and it’s a bitter wound. She’s the photojournalist who walked into my newsroom and tore my heart wide open. Her poise, her laugh, her predatory smile – everyt ...
Hello, My Love Featured
In this modern-day pastiche of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,. an engaging clash of wits morphs into the raw emotions of deep love for Greg, a rich playboy, and Elise, a law student. They spend a night together. But Greg is engaged to another and his jilted fiancée, gorgeous ambitious Lori, stri ...
The Brickbox Featured
Jude Zander is a shy, inexperienced small-town girl who has disguised herself as a boy and is on the run from an abusive father. She desperately wants to find her mother who left her without warning. Jude has never been in a city before. Soon after she arrives she is confronted by hookers, bikers ...
Breakfast Buddies Featured
We humans are spectacularly bad at understanding our own emotions. A socially conservative Asian young man makes a life-changing decision—he moves to an international metropolis in the very heart of Europe to start his first year as a student at a prestigious academic institution.
During ...
Chasing Headlines Featured
They’re chasing the same dream.
Too bad they’re not on the same team.
After a heated outburst ruins his major league prospects, Breslin Cooper lands at Texas State Tech with a probation sentence and a bad rep. With obligatory therapy, campus rules, and scouts steering clear ...
Katarina's Dark Journey Featured
Katarina's Dark Journey takes readers on a haunting journey through war-torn Ukraine in 1918 with a parallel story set in post-war Munich. When darkness falls, faith prevails. 1918: Southern Ukraine. When the Bolshevik Army sets fire to the German Mennonite villages, seventeen-year-old Katarina and ...
Heroes of Time Legends: The Healer Featured
A butterfly's wing is healed, and destiny unfolds. Follow the healer's path as he walks between shadow and light. Fulgar Geth's life has been one of grief and hardship since childhood. With his strange abilities to heal and wield forces of magnetism, he is often shunned and misunderstood. Unable ...
It’s weird how every woman reacts differently. How each pregnancy differs. Mine is definitely unique. My sense of smell became stronger, picking up the faintest odors, and my stomach was in constant turmoil. Those were the first signs. And then I started eating. And eating. If I don’t, I get a migra ...
Book 1: Grocery Girl Featured
She inhales life with every breath. He’s suffered a world of pain. Can they rise above tragedy to find their happily ever after? Maree Davenport refuses to let a tearful past rule her future. After losing her parents at the age of five, the big-hearted fabric designer is determined to embrace her fe ...
When Tampa Suns star David Martin welcomes his younger sister to Tampa to attend grad school, he doesn’t know she left behind a messy breakup with a manipulative ex. Relieved to be thousands of miles away, Kim seeks to find herself again by completing a challenging one-year degree program. And swear ...
Bestselling Amazon author of THE FROST CHRONICLES, Kate Avery Ellison, delivers a fantasy novel packed with clever betrayals, surprising twists, and many moments of delicious vindication for its scrappy heroine. This is a must-read for fans of Sarah J. Maas’s THRONE OF GLASS, Maria V. Snyder’s POISO ...
Everyone has a fear. Fear of spiders? Arachnophobia. Fear of small spaces? Claustrophobia. And of course, the fear of being tickled by feathers: pteronophobia. Sophie Smart fears drowning. No, her fear isn’t some made up malarkey like exposedflabophobia (acute paranoia when wearing a swimsuit and ba ...
Welcome to Kirk University, a beautiful campus uni in northern England. These slice-of-life, racially diverse romance books each follow a different couple on their quest for personal growth, self-discovery, and of course, love. No bad boys or alpha males here, just down-to-earth, confident, sexy you ...
For over a century, the town of Green Beach has frightened its children with the tragic legend of Joshua Thorne. He’s the reason it not only locks its doors at night but nails its windows shut. Steeped in romance and revenge, his is the kind of story Angela Ironwright lives for. When the specter of ...
Raven Kennedy is a prisoner who never forgave himself for his unspeakable crimes. In a world that has descended into chaos, he becomes a part of the Phoenix Project.
In prisons across the country, inmates fight to the death while the nation cheers them on. Struggling with his guilt, Raven ...
Breslin Cooper worked his whole life for a chance to play in the big leagues. On the fateful day of his Major League Baseball debut, the talented rookie is reunited with the one who got away: Olivia Milline, a woman with big dreams of her own.
Dive into the first installment of this gritty slow burn college romance series about love, loss, and second chances. Introverted Billie Dixon has life planned to a T, and Bradford College is her chance for comfortable solitude. Her best friend lives across the hall, her roommate ignores her, and to ...
When storms appear in our lives we finally open our eyes to see what has been in front of us. Gracelyn Gregg is a 23 years old college graduate awaiting her first teaching job. She has everything she could want, a long time best friend, a college boyfriend and plans for her life. Until her boyfriend ...
Maggies job? Taking care of Xavier's little brother. Xave's mission? Making her quit.
When I took the nanny job for adorable Finn Rockwell, I knew his older brother was trouble. Everyone in Sandy Haven knows Xavier Rockwell—rich, ridiculously good-looking, and about as ea ...
After a traumatic event in his childhood, Dana decides he's going to change his name, move across the country, and start all over. Forgetting the past seems like a good idea until he meets someone. Suddenly he's in love, his past catches up with him, and he's forced to face the truths he struggles t ...
On the night of her brother's murder, Deena Hammond stumbles upon Takumi Tanaka, lost and on the wrong end of a .32. After rescuing him from the certain fate driving through her neighborhood in a Porsche will bring, a sweet kind of friendship begins. A balm for her grief. Maybe, Deena likes to think ...
Bestselling Author Virginia Gray brings you an endearing story, rife with psychotic roommates, questionable fashion choices, and an epic search for the perfect cup of coffee... Twenty-two-year-old Susan Wade's dream of a fabulous, high-powered career is the only thing that's gotten her through the p ...
Laying it all on the line for love... I’m tired of being good. Achieving geek status at college doesn’t equate with fun. So when I head home to my dad’s tennis academy in Santa Monica on spring break, I’m determined to be bad. And hot Aussie tennis star Kye is just the guy to help me do it. However, ...
He stole her lipstick… and her heart. Twenty-year-old Dani Walker can’t believe her luck when she’s paired up with the gorgeous Liam Garrett as her Acting I scene partner—or when he ends up in her bed. Being a Plain Jane with a mouth on her hasn’t exactly served Dani well in the guy departmen ...
Emerson Powers has been so focused on obtaining her science degree that she’s neglected the more social aspects of college life. With the new start of her junior year, she’s determined to fix that with a real hands-on lesson in biology. The assignment is simple enough—teach the rock star’s son how t ...
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He lives in the spotlight. She hides in the shadows. With secrets and a spark between them, can they escape to forever? Max Davenport craves a break from the press. Constantly on the run from paparazzi and over-enthusiastic women, the football star takes to the small town of Green Hills to embra ...
Cassie didn't go to uni looking for love.
But during tutorials with her gorgeous professor Diego Valentine, she finds the chemistry between them hard to ignore.
Can they act on their forbidden feelings?
Megan is a typical university student trying to figure out her place in the world, except she's studying to become a licensed vengeance demon.
Nineteen-year-old Megan Aequitas is the only vengeance demon and trickster hybrid ever born. In a world where vengeance demons are respecte ...
Logan Canino isn’t exactly like your other high school boys. While many would be worrying about new crushes or college applications, he knows that he is about to embark of an endeavor of extreme importance.
Read the award-winning finale in The Colors Trilogy! They are supposed to be there through thick and thin. However, when tragedy strikes, can you depend on your friends? Imani Cabrette, strong and proud, never asks for help. But when an accident changes her world forever, can she overcome her stubbo ...
An erotic romance short story about growing sexual tension between two students. Brian and Eliana, two second year Kirk University students are tired of flings and one-night-stands, so when they start dating, they decide to leave sex out of it. However, they find that resisting their desires proves ...
Kindle Scout Author, brings you Kickoff For Love Ashley (Ash) Hovey has been living with her football coach father for the past five years, so she has been around college and Pro football players most of her life. There isn't much Ash doesn't know about football, yet when she is introduced to Andy a ...
Paul and Flint have been best friends for over a year. Both have girlfriends and have never been attracted to other men, let alone each other. But one drunken kiss causes them to question all of that. What on earth is going on?
Her heart is guarded. His heart is haunted.
I don’t trust boys. Not since an incident two years ago involving my summer crush, his stupid friends, and my stupid gullibility scattered across the dock of my lakeside cottage. But now I’m the Queen Bee of Sandy Haven ...
Jace Sloan has it all. He's smoking hot, a college football star with a storybook family, and he's never met a woman he couldn't charm. He's also never met one who makes him want to be a better man...until he meets Maggie. Now, this self-proclaimed geek with wild red hair and the greenest eyes he's ...
𝑻𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑶𝒍𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒖𝒔, 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒎 He's the descendant of Zeus, who follows the storms and leaves a trail of broken hearts in his wake. She's a small-town librarian, who dreams of adventure. Forced together to save their worlds, sparks ...
John thinks Becca is a raving lunatic.
Becca thinks John is an arrogant, cocky douchebag.
Can these frenemies become friends even lovers?
When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her... CORFU, 1987 On a long holiday with her grandparents, Sofia Aspioti meets Danny Markson, a charming flirt who makes her laugh. Although she tries to keep him at arm's length, worried that village gossip will get back to her strict ...
Rowena’s country is gone, squashed under a tide of tanks, bombs and Pale, immortal soldiers. But when her father returns from the war as a hero, she discovers a new meaning of fear. Join and Die. Give up her human life and become one of them. Take on the gray skin and yellow eyes of the Pale, and li ...
A life for a life. That’s the deal I made with my father to save my best friend from the poisonous magic about to kill him.
With Davian Grymes brought to justice, I thought the memory-warping torture caused by Bliss would finally end. Unlucky for me, this disturbing nightma ...
Mark is concentrating on his sobriety, until Paulo steals his heart. Paulo aches for Mark, body and soul, and he knows Mark feels it too. So why does Mark keep pushing him away? First standalone book in a series of sexy m/m contemporary new adult novellas.
Jade wants to give up on life. Battling the darkness inside her and the expectations of her Malaysian Chinese mother, Jade retreats to her bedroom and talks to a fictional counsellor - Deanna Troi from Star Trek. When Jade meets Rory, a charismatic local musician, their budding new friendship promis ...
Leo and Danais are born into a world where they are not who they thought they were: their friends and family are leading double lives, and nothing is as it seems. Both orphans, they are searching for truth. What they find, however, is much more than they anticipated a ...
“Heartwarming, lyrical, soulful, and with just the right amount of humor: this book sparkles with authentic, layered characters and beautiful, thoughtful prose.” — Jodi Meadows, NYT bestselling co-author of My Lady Jane and My Plain Jane
Two generations, two grea ...
Read the award-winning sequel in The Colors Trilogy! If at first you don't succeed, then try, try again…right? Only two things matter to Lance, protecting his girls and football. After almost losing the girls, Lance is more determined than ever to safeguard them and fulfill his dream to become a pro ...
Lyra wishes she had found love at uni. Meanwhile, her friend Sam has been in a five-year relationship with his girlfriend back in London.
However, his increasing feelings for Lyra have become too strong to ignore.
Will these two pals become lovers, threatening Sam's relations ...
College freshman Estelle Wright has it all: a superpower, a flying horse, and a hunky boyfriend. All is threatened when her old enemy swears revenge, ruthless killers target Atalanta, and Toby is under pressure to dump her. But, Estelle’s knack of finding trouble scuttles his plans. Their live ...
Breakups are hard, but getting dumped is easy.
What do you do when you wake up to find a video of your drunken meltdown blowing up on Reddit?
Or social is filled with your ex-girlfriend living the party life now that she’s finally dumped you?
Ja ...
When Emily Wolff and her family inherit their ancestral farm, they want nothing more than a simple life in the quiet town of Wolffs Haven. But all is not as it seems, and soon the farm’s supernatural occupants threaten to use the Wolffs in their centuries-long battle of good versus evil. Emily may b ...
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I lost my V-card to my brother’s grumpalicious best friend years ago. Now I’m stuck with this hockey heartbreaker as my new roommate…
Aiden freakin Weller is back—hogging the WiFi and leaving his laundry ...
Savannah Santos is on the run. She fled everything she ever knew to follow her career dreams. But she wasn’t expecting her new roommate to be her dream guy. For Cooper Quin, being any girl’s dream man is nothing new, but he’s determined to stay exactly that: a dream. His focus is o ...
"Amazingly graphic, terrifyingly real-life and current time. A parental must read." Terry Keys, USA Today bestselling author of Lie No More and The Missing pens his most captivating book to date. This is the heart-breaking story about a small-town boy who’d taken everything from everyone until he co ...
When scars heal over, they trap the pain under your skin. Nothing bad or interesting ever happens to Elizabeth. She's the rock all of her friends count on and come to for advice - especially her best friend and roommate, Dani. So, when Elizabeth's fiance Alex dumps her and she gets into a horrible c ...
An elephant statue, a long-lost relative, and a charming native add up to a chase through Thailand! When high school senior Gina Campanello wins a trip for two to Thailand, she isn’t very enthusiastic, especially since the only travel partner she can find is her older sister. Once the siblings re ...
Trey is friendly and polite. Wesley is rude and antisocial. Neither much care for or respect one another. Trey certainly doesn’t trust Wesley, and neither does Trey’s boyfriend. But first impressions aren’t always correct…
In the buried archives of the Temple of Dust may lie the secret to defeating the Curse, a creature which seeks to destroy 16-year old Ria for the forbidden gifts she possesses. Begin the epic fantasy adventure described as “fast paced and … a wonderful fantasy trilogy” and “ ...
Kohl Merrifeild is a Fallen Fae: breathtakingly beautiful but of criminal blood – and banished to the human world to entertain women for the rest of his days at the infamous Avalon Club. They clipped his wings and took his magic; ensured there’s no chance of him rebelling or wielding power. But ther ...
A princess and a…grump?
Battle lines are drawn and sparks ignite when sheltered debutante Meridian Daly moves next door to grumpy Marine veteran Callan Brand. But can Callan let go of his pride, and tell Meridian the whole truth of who he is and what he’s done—in the name of honor & coun ...
In a dystopian future where humans have foolishly squandered Earth’s natural resources, the few remaining people are becoming desperate. Crowded in huge underground cities, they’ve finally come to the end of the line and they must decide whether or not they will trade the only valuable r ...
Treat yourself to a heaping dish of ice-cold revenge with the Vengeance Demons Box Set, complete with the first 4 books in the series. Read over 800 pages of the unforgettable series that already has over 300 four and five star reviews—it’s vengeance, supernatural style! VENGEANCE BE MINE (NOVEL) Me ...
Meet Finnegan MacManus, or just Finn as he prefers to be called. His life began when he was 18 years old. He was born 18 years earlier, but he had never truly lived. Since birth he had been different and his parents were indifferent toward him. His mother never bonded with her infant son. He never c ...
Bente cannot escape her Nazi past. This remarkable tale follows her to America where she finds love defies the boundaries of time and tradition. If you like the power of love, and time travel set in one of the worlds most horrifying periods, you'll love Kindred Blood.
Sometimes hurtful remarks are easier to believe than the truth... That's what Annie Holden realizes after her family belittles her weight and the hottest guy in high school--her first big crush--humiliates her in front of the entire senior class. Fast-forward to now, Annie has left that insecure gir ...
The fight to save my city has only just begun. It's time to sharpen the cat claws and unleash the spider fangs because this hybrid shifter is out to catch her prey.
I've already lost a close friend to the toxic memory-warping drug breaking the minds of everyone in the city. To make ...
Diego Valentine has always been a sensible, level-headed man. But when he meets lively and spirited Cassandra Rodriguez, he finds himself unmistakably drawn to her. He has not felt this way in so long. But if he doesn't keep it together, his job will be on the line. If only he knew what to do...
A little white lie. A little white wedding. A pair of roommates in over their heads. Days before she's set to move across the country and start a prestigious graduate program, a con artist leaves Emmy with no where to live and less than zero dollars in her bank account. But her day doesn't seem quit ...
The war was over and there were no winners. Now humans and aliens must find a way to coexist together. This is the galaxy that Drake Rose and the crew of the freighter Trystero are stuck in. Together they traverse the Demilitarized Zone between Terran and Gra’al borders taking on any job they can fi ...
Is he still the boy I fell in love with, or are the rumors true? After all, everyone knows rock stars don't date nice girls. Rock stars *use* nice girls.
She's mending guitars and her life. He's trying to forget the war with music. Will one broken instrument make their love a smash hit? Jenna Olsen isn't sure she'll ever escape her terrible choices in love. Becoming a skilled guitar craftsperson helped with the anxiety, but she dreams of the day when ...
When Jason loops back in time, he thinks he can save his brother’s life – but the past is not so easily rewritten… Haunted by the tragic loss of his brother, Archie, in a fire, Jason is given a miraculous chance to rewrite history. Following a mysterious accident, he wakes to find himself transpo ...
When Pinwheel Plant Shop delivery driver, Amos Finch, who is hard of hearing, accidentally mixes up the cards on two Valentine's Day deliveries, he ends up giving wannabe ASL interpreter Petra Dylan a heartleaf philodendron from a secret admirer who isn't admiring her. Which Amos thinks is a shame, ...
Eff wakes up on a strange planet, her memories fractured and missing. After months of solitary exploration, a chance encounter with a group of colonists changes everything, catapulting Eff into far more mysteries, secrets, and bizarre circumstances than she could have ever bargained for. Can she ...
Everyone has scars. Some people are just better at hiding them. Adam Radcliff is a college freshman on a caffeinated crusade to fend off the evil that has haunted his dreams since childhood. Zoey Peterson is a psych major who uses peculiar strategies—tracking moon phases and club-hopping—to escape h ...
“It was too good to be true: having Estrella and Ellonary as lovers.”
Struck by lightning while in the midst of an audacious jewellery heist, Xander is rescued by a beautiful young alien and taken back to her planet for life-saving treatment. Under the watchful eye of the ...
Angelica was willing to do almost anything for Merrick, until they were caught. Her punishment for breaking Lymerian law is unthinkable, but at least she will live. In fact, she might live forever. This YA Sci-fi novel is the first in a series by debut author Bianca Sierra-Luebke. The Lymerians have ...
Climb aboard the Aerial Express for its London-Constantinople flight!
Loosely based on the Agatha Christie classic, Murder on the Aerial Express follows Lady Isabelle Huxley as she investigates the murder of the airship's owner. Could the killer be the ship's captain or one of the magnate ...
Back in secondary school, Akayzia had an unrequited crush on Darius.
Two years later, they meet again at a Kirk University Games Society meetup.
Although Darius wasn't interested the first time around, he now sees Akayzia in a new light.
Can their hearts be open to each other?
Saskia wakes up one morning and realises she has just slept with her friend's ex-boyfriend. She is determined to forget about it, but Malik isn't letting her go that easily. Will love pull them together or are they better apart?
Mae Lin Zhou has struggled to live up to her father’s expectations all her life. When her dying grandmother chooses her to carry the family’s ability to make luck, she thinks this is her chance. If she can learn to control her new power.
Whisked away to Kismet Academy, Mae Lin finds herse ...
From the author of Plantains and the Seven Plagues, comes the second inspirational, heartwarming book that weaves with eloquence and grace the story of Finn whom we first met in Just Finn about an young autistic man who must navigate the world on his own now that he is an adult and no longer living ...
New York City, 1975: Decent-hearted but spoiled Jewish college kid Ben Steiner is naively possessed by an overwhelming desire to be cool. At a springtime party on the night of his twenty-first birthday, he meets two people: Rebecca Glaser, the longed-for sweet girl of his dreams, and P.T. Deighland, ...
“I had no choice but to turn to the most dangerous man I knew…”
What’s the best way to get over your ex? Get under his frat brother! When Krystal discovers that her ex has posted naked photos of her online, she sets out to confront him. Instead, she comes face to face with his hot-as-sin frat brother, Jace. And fate keeps throwing them together. Krystal ...
When twenty-something Michelle Vermont decided to open Beans Cafe, she'd thought it would be fun, particularly with charming Clive Banks as her business partner. Not only is Clive a professional coffee buyer, he's also drop dead gorgeous. But Clive suddenly vanishes, leaving Michelle with nothing mo ...
Maya knows she's doing the right thing by moving to Alaska with her parents, but that doesn't mean she has to be happy about it. Forced to give up a scholarship to a prestigious art school, she relocates to a Podunk town with one college the size of her high school cafeteria, all to help hold her fa ...
She’s always feared abandonment. Is she about to face it again or find happily ever after? M’Kenzee Davenport knows love doesn’t last. So despite marrying her high school crush on a whim in Vegas, the gritty photojournalist never believed the union was real. But when her husband-in-name-only goe ...
Zach has always felt like a wallflower, now made worse by a recent trauma. Deepak has always been the life of the party, until he loses one his closest loved ones. Can each help the other to claim the light within?
Lucas wants to be a firefighter, just like his hero from second grade, Firefighter Andy Garrett. But Lucas’s teenage years are a battleground, making his future far from certain. Orphaned at a young age, he endures the relentless upheaval of being shuffled from one foster home to another, each ne ...
When a fiery incident forces Aazar Salazar to flee her small-town life for a fresh start, she finds herself making a new home somewhere she never imagined. She's suddenly immersed in a life of affluence, and Aazar realizes how easy it is for her new family to detach themselves from what’s left of th ...
Billionaire Rose West suffers no fools. Growing up abandoned by her parents and left to the socialite wolves at an all-girl boarding school, Rose learned early on how to survive with a smile, a wink, and cleavage full of cash. As an oil baroness, a soon-to-be honors graduate from a prestigious unive ...
Two teenaged girls, generations apart, struggle with different problems, but together are a force of nature. Angela, a biracial American, and Kirsten, an immigrant polygamist, discover their inherited gift. Will Kirsten return to her own time when she falls in love with the guy next door? Angela res ...
In my darkest days, I found solace in the words of rock star god Noah Hart. He saw into my heart. And I saw into his. Even though we'd never met, I felt as if I knew the man behind the music. Then I met him. Noah isn't a wounded poet. He's a jerk. He's abrasive, cutting, and guarded as hell. He says ...
