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For Pete’s Sake

About For Pete’s Sake

Ethan Webb, Philadelphia’s most notorious and relentless personal injury attorney, cares about exactly three things: his sister, Megan, his newborn nephew, Pete, and his law practice. When Megan’s post-partum depression sends Pete into foster care, Ethan will do anything to gain custody. Even marry a stranger he’d planned to crush in court.

Newly widowed Stephanie Kerrigan also cares about three things: saving her company, winning the lawsuit Ethan Webb has filed against her, and having a baby of her own. Suddenly, Ethan is the only way to accomplish all three.

Can they make it work? For Pete’s sake.

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The Frog Hunter: A Story About the Vietnam War, an Inkblot Test and a Girl by TB Stamper

About The Frog Hunter: A Story About the Vietnam War, an Inkblot Test and a Girl by TB Stamper

The Frog Hunter: A Story about the Vietnam War, an Inkblot Test and a Girl, is a memoir that reads stranger than fiction.

The author takes his readers on a fascinating, often humorous, and emotionally moving journey from deadly Ranger missions in Vietnam, to betrayal by his superior officers at Fort Ord, to the inside of an Army psychiatric ward. With a chaotic mind, trying to make sense of the war, Stamper is in a desperate search for truth. He turns to the hippie culture, attracted by their message of love and enlightenment. Unexpectedly, he meets a beautiful girl; the love of his life. The happiness that life now offers him is threatened by the war that consumes his mind and heart. He wants the girl and he wants a future. But how can he find his way back to normal?

Written in powerful prose, the story reveals how war wounds the soul, but then hope emerges, kindled within the tangled aftermath of trauma and loss.

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Pretty Broken Girl by Jeana E. Mann

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About Featured Book: Pretty Broken Girl by Jeana E. Mann

From USA Today bestselling author Jeana E. Mann comes this unconventional spicy story of star-crossed lovers who love to hate each other and their paths to redemption.

Gorgeous. Ruthless. Filthy rich.

My ex-husband Sam wasn’t always that way. In the beginning, he was just the son of my mom’s boss—strictly off-limits for a trailer park girl like me. I loved him beyond reason from the moment we met. We were way too young to get married, but we did it anyway. Despite his angry, billionaire dad. Despite the lies. Despite the deceptions. That crazy teenaged love drove me to do a terrible thing. I saved Sam but broke my heart in the process.

Ten years later, my workday starts with a corporate takeover. My new boss? Yep, you guessed it. That gorgeous, ruthless, filthy rich ex-husband is bound and determined to dismantle my company. Piece by piece. Job by job. He’s bent on revenge for my betrayal.

The problem? We can’t keep our hands off each other. He thinks he can break me. I think he’s about to learn a lesson.

This is an angsty, enemies-to-lovers, office romance with all the feels.

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Almost Lost by Alice T. Boone

About Almost Lost by Alice T. Boone

𝐖𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄. 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐌𝐄?

𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍
You were my Forever— but then you left.
I spent my entire life trying to enforce the rules. Fairness was the only thing that mattered. I spent a decade playing the scales of justice. Nothing happened in this city without my permission, but your disappearance changed everything. I’ve abandoned my old life, and now, Montreal has fallen apart.
I have nothing left to give. You’ve taken it all.
So how can you show up again, with a child that belongs to my best friend? You can’t ask for my help after you tore out my damn heart. You created this mess, and it’s only fair that you clean it up. I won’t kill him for you. I can’t betray the only friend I have left.
But what other choice do I have?
I won’t let you just walk away. I can’t lose you again, Jo.

𝑱𝒐𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂
I made my choice 8 years ago. When you told me you needed a break, when I found out I was pregnant, I ran. No one in the world knows that my son is yours. I thought no one would ever know— until Connor showed back up.
He’ll take my son, Marshall. And when he finds out I lied, he’ll take my life.
I need your help, and I have nowhere else to go.
You’ve always done the right thing— even when it was hard. You’ve killed one king and now, I need you to kill another. I need you to help me clean this mess up, and before you can discover the truth, I’ll disappear again. It’s the way things have to be because I won’t let you break my heart again. I won’t let you be an Almost in my son’s life.

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Would You Rather Valentine’s Day Edition

About Would You Rather Valentine’s Day Edition

Are you looking for a Single Book which will double your smiles, triple your laughter, and quadruple your precious family time this Valentine’s Day? If so, keep reading…

Quality family time is undoubtedly unique and precious. No monetary value can be attached to it. Be it a family get-together, friends reunion, or nice long drive, there is no better way to spend this quality time than playing “Would You rather…”

“Would You Rather…” is a fun and interactive game for the entire family. It includes silly, hilarious, and thought-provoking questions that tickle the mind and lead to funny conversations. It is a perfect way to educate kids together by having fun. It stimulates their mind, exercises their imagination, and teaches them to defend their choices and think critically.

This Would You Rather – Valentine’s Day Edition book includes…
– Hours of Clean and family-friendly fun and honor: The 200+ unique and silly questions are more than enough to guarantee hours of giggles for the entire family.
– Endless Laughter’s together: The great variety of questions will cause many side effects, such as accidental giggles and Inextinguishable laughter.
– Endless memories: This valentines day will be a memory to cherish for the whole family

The best part of the Would You Rather – Valentine’s Day Edition game is that everyone is a winner. No grumpy losers’.
It is a safe game with loads of fun.

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Dive In Deep

About Dive In Deep

Tall, dark, and gorgeous with cobalt-blue eyes.
It doesn’t hurt that he’s the billionaire owner of the resort we’re staying at.
And all of it is just what I needed for my celebration weekend after graduating with my master’s.
It’s our last girls’ weekend before my friends and I go our separate ways, and it’s going to happen with a bang.
Literally. Hopefully.
It would be a first.
The desire was to keep things casual, but our connection is far too deep for that.
Him being ex-military and me being an Army brat.
The rules we each set up are shattered thanks to the raging passion between us.
But eventually, I have to go home.
What I never expected in a million years was that he might follow me.
Enough swimming in the shallow end of the pool.
We’re diving in deep.

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All the Right Things by Stephanie Renee

About All the Right Things by Stephanie Renee

Sometimes, a tragic ending makes for a beautiful new beginning.

Andi- For ten years, I was married to my best friend. It wasn’t the most exciting of marriages, but it was safe and secure. After growing up in the foster care system, that was essential. After my husband’s sudden death, my world turns upside down as I’m left to deal with all the skeletons in his closet. Desperate for a new beginning, I find myself in small-town Tennessee, on a ranch owned by the sexiest man I’ve ever seen. He instantly makes me feel things I’ve never felt before, and I find myself questioning if everything I thought I knew about love has been a lie. If I thought my world had been jolted before, this man might just be the one to shatter it.

Jonas – Being a cattle rancher has always been what I love about this small-town way of life. I like the routine of it all. So when Andi, the city-slicker from California, moves into my rental, I feel the winds of change. She’s more than just a breath of fresh air. She’s a full-blown hurricane that I find myself being pulled into. Unfortunately, the storm raging inside her has her walls up around her heart. Little does she know that even though my hands might be rough, my heart is soft and ready to show her what real love feels like.

***This is a STEAMY small-town romance. Please note that there are some adult themes/language throughout*

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Unhinged

About Unhinged

Love and hate collide when Greg Rodwell spills his secrets to two women, torching all three worlds.

Yeah, I did it. In pouring out my heart to my married best friend, fate handed me an opening along with my unzipped fly, and I flung it all against a wall before setting it on fire. What I did… I should regret it, but the only lesson I learned was I should’ve done it sooner. Still, I know this will haunt Hadley and me forever.

On the other hand, living with Simone’s betrayal—mocking me and setting me up just like they did to me over a decade ago—I’m a live wire of animosity. My darkness was never supposed to see the light of day, but she gift-wrapped it for the world to tear open. She trashed our friendship. I hope that fact haunts her forever too.

Ditching Richmond, that life-changing night, and both chicks, I try to restart or take a breather—something my sister never had before she died. Unfortunately, and uninvited, I’m not the only passenger on this displeasure cruise. My recent screw-up is a roadblock in every way imaginable until I discover her weakness: guilt. I grab on to that sucker because she wants to make it right with me to ease her conscience. Which she will. To rebuild my life, I need a tour guide to show me the ropes, in a bedroom and with a woman. While I lack the experience, she’s skilled in that department. And before I cut her loose, she’ll make me one too. She owes me. Restraint be damned.

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Omega: The Heart and Soul of a War Criminal

About Omega: The Heart and Soul of a War Criminal

The Young Captain Carter leads Omega Squad, a band of British, Special Forces soldiers who are known to teeter between legal and illegal warfare. Omega Squad come face to face with the eccentric and mad, Tarmo Skenev, an arms dealer who has taken former Omega Squad member, turned undercover operative, Riley, prisoner. Just when they believe their mission is over, Omega realise it is only the beginning. As the fight gets bloodier and enemy ties deepen, each member of Omega must face their own demons, coming face to face with their mental health.

Who should read this book? Fans of gripping action, heroes to back to the very end and villains to despise. Junkies of thriller, who have no clue what to expect next, the twist in this tale is harsh and lethal.

The story is not just another epic action series, it comes with an embedded message of mental health.
One of our heroes from Omega Squad, Reed, is an amazing soldier, his skill eclipses all others, yet he is haunted by his past, a tragic accident is relived over and over.

Shift, another member of the squad, battles his dissociative identity disorder. In the story, we find out how one particular song turns him into an unhinged, animalistic mad man.

Romance is also a key part of this story, a story of love, its trials and tribulations. How even in a world of war and terror, love flourishes and its stubbornness to die. We see both sides of it. A beautiful moment when two souls, destined for one another, finally come face to face, against all odds. Also, the darker side of love. The obsessiveness of it. How an infatuation can blind you and lead you down a path you would not willingly choose to follow.

This story will beg its reader to ask themselves, ‘what would I have done in that situation?’.

Omega: The Heart and Soul of a War Criminal is an epic story that features, thought-provoking dialogue, a promise of realism and shines a light on the delicate nature of mental health.

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I Still Drive Your Truck

About I Still Drive Your Truck

‘One day your prince will come’. Yeah right! He’s no prince and she doesn’t believe in fairy tales.

When Leighton Gray travels to Sierra Leone, the last person she expects to run into is her dead fiancé’s brother. Derek Brennan is trouble with a capital T. He’s devastatingly handsome, conceited, arrogant and a womanizer. And he’s cost her everything.

Yet the forbidden attraction between them is more powerful than ever and as destructive as wildfires.

Leighton is off limits, always had been. She’s beautiful, sad, and broken, and he’s to blame. But Derek can’t stay away. The pull is too strong. And it could be the end of him. Or it could be his redemption.

Can she forgive him? Can she forgive herself?

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Her Untamed Soul (3 in 1)

About Her Untamed Soul (3 in 1)

This book is about the life journey of a free-spirited and intelligent small-town girl who grows up into an empowered woman through various phases of the epic saga.

The first book is about her intriguing and adventurous childhood & adolescence when she romances with her class friend from her engineering college. Latha has grown up in a class-divided and rigid society. But she defies the love laws that bind her. She has to fight for her right to choose her lover as they passionately love each other. All hell breaks loose as the family spies inform her father. Her family house arrests her and stops her education.
All exit points are blocked. The first book asks if the persecuted girl will find her way to reach out to her lover.
The Book2 is about her insane struggle with society and her criminal father, who is politically powerful. On the one hand, the police are on their trail, and the local goons try to find her hideout. Life becomes unbearably complex and challenging when Latha fights out her life’s battle to protect her love and independence. Her father takes appalling revenge, and the world of Latha burns to ashes.
Book 3 is about Latha’s story of rising from the ashes and fighting out a bigger challenge legally. It is a harsh world of crime and intrigues. The trajectory of Latha’s life completely changes as she learns, gradually, to survive and discover her happiness. She rediscovers love in a much more excellent way. Would she find joy and redemption from her existential crisis as a woman?

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The Holiday Plan: An Utterly Charming, Feel-Good Romance by Emma Lynden

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About Featured Book: The Holiday Plan: An Utterly Charming, Feel-Good Romance by Emma Lynden

From one of the freshest new voices in clean and wholesome romantic fiction, The Holiday Plan is the perfect escape for fans of Courtney Walsh, Annie Rains, and Debbie Mason.

Native New Yorker and author Verona Scott is battling heartbreak, both personally and professionally. Coming off a disastrous split with her ex, she’s struggling for inspiration to write her next book. And she’s lost without her favorite Aunt Theoni’s wisdom and guidance.

Hoping for a fresh start and to avoid the holiday completely, she’s planned a Valentine’s detox: a luxurious trip alone to the historic Courtington Castle hotel, near the adorably quaint town of Camelot Creek, tucked into a picturesque valley in the Adirondacks.

But escaping the heart-shaped balloons and red roses isn’t as easy as she thought.

This won’t be the restful retreat she’d imagined. Instead, she’s just walked into one of the biggest matchmaking events of the year. Not to mention, the incredibly attractive single dad and dating coach Troy Turner is heading the whole thing up, and he’s on a mission to include Verona in the festivities.

Troy is in the midst of a professional crisis of his own. After a bit of unfounded bad press, the very last thing he needs is a guest to cast doubt in the minds of his attendees.

Will Troy change Verona’s mind about the most romantic day of the year? Just when sparks begin to fly, an unexpected visitor checks into the castle, stirring up the past. No matter what, for Verona, Valentine’s Day is the day where everything changes.

A heartwarming, sweet romance that will whisk you away to a magical winter wonderland and have you reaching for the hot cocoa and box of chocolates long after the holidays.

This Romance book is available in these Formats: eBook, Print

Secrets & Ruin

About Secrets & Ruin

The only daughter in a very strict family, Winyo’s life has never been her own. Never wanted. Never touched. Never experienced pleasure. Until one day, something changed; stripped her innocence away. The hole inside making space for the darkness to come and play.
The vast savanah cannot shut out the cold eyes and wild rumours of the village. She is not quite sure what she wants for herself, or how to bring an end to this newly awakened darkness. And when Guma, the rumoured witch’s son, enters her life, survival becomes tangled with desire and need. He incites her anger, makes her question everything she believes in, and forces her to push her boundaries. However, some walls are just not strong, and they crumble.
Let the secrets begin…

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Don’t You Dare

About Don’t You Dare

He’s a playboy like no other…
The crown prince of New York City’s real estate industry. A pompous jerk who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a camera in his face.
All of which makes him absolutely perfect.
Not for me, obviously, but for something much more important—to save the online fashion magazine I’m the editor of.
It’s too bad I can’t get within a mile of the guy.
Until I can.
Well, I can’t, but my best friend can and she’s willing to sneak me into her photo shoot so I can take my shot.
Honestly, I don’t have much hope. I’m no makeup artist and he pegs me as an imposter immediately.
As it turns out, however, I’m not the only one who needs something.
I might need a model with clout for the fashion show that could save my job, but hot stuff needs a little help too.
A lot, actually. He needs a fiancée, and he introduces me as her without warning.
As if I had a choice?
However, it’s only one date, and if I don’t do it, the magazine is as good as dead.
So, yes. Yes, of course, I’ll fake it with him for one night.
What could possibly go wrong?

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I Like You, I Love Her

About I Like You, I Love Her

Severin

It feels like I’ve been in love with Bryan Winthrop my entire life.
Before he kissed me in front of the entire school.
As he danced with her the night of our senior prom.
After his younger brother, Ben, made me smile through my tears.

“It’ll never work with him. He will never leave her…”

It’s been more than ten years since I let myself fall
for the boy whose heart wasn’t mine.
And the Prom King’s lips are finally mine to kiss.

“When I came back here I wasn’t expecting to see you,
and when I did, I felt this tumble…”

But he’s still keeping me in the shadows.
As his younger brother breaks me open in the day.

Ben

You shouldn’t covet whom your brother desires.
Our pastor father would say he taught me better than that.
But I knew over ten years ago my brother didn’t deserve her.
And nothing’s changed since she came back into both our lives.

“You think what you felt for my brother back then was love,
but what I felt can’t be the same?”

I’m still the one who makes her laugh—
the one who challenges her.
And he’s still the one treating her like a dirty little secret.

“You really are a watercolor, Severin Thompson. I can read you…”

You shouldn’t covet whom your brother desires.
This summer, I’ll remind him of that.

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The Grump’s Girl Friday by Sofia T Summers

The Grump’s Girl Friday by Sofia T Summers

I needed to be only what he had hired me to be.
His assistant.

Not his savior.
Not his girlfriend.
And definitely not the mother of his child.

And yet… there I was.

Eric was a total nightmare.
Much older than me, rich AF, refused to settle down.
Despite his mother threatening to deny him his inheritance.
He didn’t care about things that didn’t serve him.
And for that, I hated him.
But I pretended to be his perfect employee.
Surely, I could beat him at his own game.

Coffee? He would have it right on time.
A new contract? I would land it for him.
But pregnancy? That was not what I hoped for.

It could backfire everything.
Cost me my job.
My heart.
Basically, my entire life.
But somehow, somewhere…
Mr. Grump made the destruction sound all worth it.

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Caught Up In You (A Caught Up Novel Book 1)

About Caught Up In You (A Caught Up Novel Book 1)

Life has a way of shaping you into what it wants you to be, regardless of how much you fight it.

Brantley Prescott is damaged. Scarred by a past she can’t forget. Hiding secrets, she’s terrified to share. Searching for a future she doesn’t believe she’ll ever find.

Myles Franco is alone. Burdened by mistakes he’ll never live down. Fostering a deep resentment for the opposite sex. Unleashing his wrath on any girl who gets too close.

Brantley has worked behind the bar long enough to recognize Myles for what he is—a douchebag player with nothing on his mind but keeping a steady stream of girls flowing through his bed. With his messy dark hair, sapphire blue eyes, rock-solid body, and endless tattoos he’s impossible to ignore. But that’s exactly what she plans on doing.

After just one run-in with Brantley, Myles is even more determined to stick to the rules he lives by. She’s mouthy, blunt, and doesn’t back down—no matter how hard he pushes her. She could turn out be the one temptation that drags him down the path he’s been trying to avoid. He won’t let that happen.

Both are content living behind the solid walls they’ve built around themselves. Neither is prepared for what happens when their lives collide.

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These Dark Hearts by L A Cotton


About Featured Book: These Dark Hearts by L A Cotton

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Harleigh Wren Maguire has loved Phoenix Wilder for as long as she can remember.

He’s everything she isn’t.

Brave.
Reckless.
One-hundred percent unapologetic.

But it’s Halloween… the perfect excuse to dress up and be someone you’re not. To step out of your comfort zone and do things you wouldn’t usually do.

And Harleigh is determined to make her best friend notice her for once.

There’s only one problem.

Everyone knows monsters come out to play on All Hallows’ Eve…

She just didn’t ever think Nix would become her worst nightmare.

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Triple Threat by K Webster

Triple Threat by K Webster

I’m a prisoner in a prestigious world.

A perfect princess locked in a tower.

Hope comes in the form of a devilishly handsome man with dark eyes and darker secrets.

Except there’s a new side of him every time we meet. A different danger each time we touch. It’s as if three different men want to devour me.

He’s not just one villain. He’s three.

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