Something in the way

It was a hot summer day when I met him on the construction site next to my parents’ house. Under the sweat and dirt, Manning Sutter was as handsome as the sun was bright. He was older, darker, experienced. I wore a smiley-face t-shirt and had never even been kissed. Yet we saw something in each other that would link us in ways that couldn’t be broken...no matter how hard we tried.

I loved Manning before I knew the meaning of the word. I was too young, he said. I would wait. Through all the carefully-chosen words hiding what we knew to be true, through his struggle to keep me innocent, and through infinitely-starry nights—I would wait. But I’d learn that life isn’t always fair. That no matter how much you achieve, none of it matters if you suffer the heartbreak that comes with falling for someone you can never have. Because even though I saw Manning first, that didn’t matter. My older sister saw him next.

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The description just sounded like heat break! Lake was a very studious and focused girl who always stayed on the straight and narrow. When she meets Manning something stirred in her. Manning's feelings for Lake were unclear at the beginning. He however, is a good man and would never cross any lines with Lake but her sister now I'm not so sure. Tiffany was beautiful and seemed to be a bit out of control and that made Manning want to help her. Things are a hot mess with these three. When Manning gets caught up in something that doesn't have anything to do with him his only choice is to take the hits. The ending was a heartbreaking cliffhanger.

Giving it Up

Jolene "Jo" Miller has been panting over her crush for years. He's everything she wants: a gentle giant with kick-ass ambition and a rock-hard body that she's dying to ride. The problem is, she's stuck in his friend zone due to one embarrassing reason - she's a virgin.

Jo's crush has no interest in popping her cherry. She'll need to take some drastic measures to get her crush's attention, and Jo has the perfect candidate to punch her v-card.

Kevin Harris is an unapologetic manwhore. With his panty-melting smile and chiseled body, he has his choice of tits and ass. His motto: hit 'em hard and leave them aching for more. Relationships aren't his thing, and they never crossed his mind until he met Jo. She's everything Kevin doesn't know he wants. She makes him tingle, and not just below the belt. But Jo's not into it, she's the only girl who doesn't want to ride the Harris express. They're just friends until Jo asks him to help her with some sexual education.

One kiss, one taste, he's hooked. Now Kevin has to convince Jo that he's the perfect man for her. He craves being a permanent fixture not only in her bed, but in her life. Will she give him the chance?

Warning: This novel contains a fed-up virgin who thinks she knows what she wants, and a reformed bad boy guiding her down a kinky path. No cheating, a guaranteed HEA, and lots and lots of steamy sex. 

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Jo is the college unicorn- she's a virgin. She hasn't really had options to loose her v-card but now it's holding her back from dating her dreamboat. She decides to enlist her super hot friend to do the deed but after the first kiss, they both know they won't be walking away unscathed. Just as things turn around for these two Kevin's past blasts back in messing his mind up. He ends up pushing Jo away but soon realizes his mistake hopefully she will forgive him. A lot of hot steamy sex scenes. Fantastic ending.

Everything

Ella Stone hasn’t had it easy. Abandoned by her parents when she was an infant, she was lucky to be raised by her grandparents on their vast ranch in Wyoming. But when they both pass away within a year of each other, Ella is forced to think about the future for the first time in her life.
Deciding that her new beginning lies in Detroit with her two best friends, Ella makes the big move. There she meets Hunter, a man whose passion for art immediately fascinates her. Their steamy relationship comes to an abrupt end, however, when she catches him in bed with another woman.
Despite Hunter’s seeming inability to take “it’s over” at face value, Ella struggles to move on. While exploring the city, her coincidental run-ins with a man named Chance St. John seem comical at first. That is, until one night when Chance rescues Ella from a brutal attack—then it seems like fate.
Ella and Chance embark on a whirlwind romance, becoming closer with each passing day. Their passionate exploits both in and out of bed give way to a deeper connection that Ella has never before experienced. But despite his obvious feelings for her, Chance remains tight-lipped about certain areas of his life. His frequent nightmares and inexplicable explosions indicate to Ella that he’s hiding something from his past.
The situation only gets stranger as Ella falls victim to a string of bizarre attacks; it appears as though someone is out to get her.
Danger seems to close in around Ella—little does she know that it is only beginning as Everything builds to an explosive climax. When Chance’s dark past is finally revealed, will it destroy them both? 


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I choose this book because I love reading books based in my home state. I wasn't wholeheartedly invested in the characters but I had to find out what Chance was holding back. It was instant love with a lot of sex scenes. Some stalkers were thrown in the mix and a douchebag ex-boyfriend. With a pretty good ending.

Bad Judgment

He’s arrogant.

She’s self-righteous.

I hate him.

I want her.

I’ve been turning him down for two years straight.

Every shut-down makes me work harder.

I’m not a one-night stand kind of girl.

She doesn’t realize I won’t settle for only one night.

He’s a distraction I don’t need. 

She’ll say yes eventually because I’m not giving up. 

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Justine is driven & Focused that's why she has turned down Rykers advances for two years now. However, one stolen kiss has her rethinking things but he lets her down. Now that she has a life blowing event she has to take the charity of others to make it through. She likes to do everything on her own so it's a tough pill to swallow when she can't do it alone. The deal she made quickly becomes one she can't live with so she has to come up with a new plan. She's falling for Ryker even know she has fought tooth and nail against it. Things start coming out that they both have kept secret and they will have to decide if they can move forward together after the dust settles. Some hot steamy sex scenes. Fantastic ending.

Silent Waters

Moments.

Our lives are a collection of moments. Some utterly painful and full of yesterday's hurts. Some beautifully hopeful and full of tomorrow's promises.

I’ve had many moments in my lifetime, moments that changed me, challenged me. Moments that scared me and engulfed me. However, the biggest ones—the most heartbreaking and breathtaking ones—all included him.

I was ten years old when I lost my voice. A piece of me was stolen away, and the only person who could truly hear my silence was Brooks Griffin. He was the light during my dark days, the promise of tomorrow, until tragedy found him. Tragedy that eventually drowned him in a sea of memories.

This is the story of a boy and girl who loved each other, but didn’t love themselves. A story of life and death. Of love and broken promises.

Of moments.


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Maggie May had finally gotten her family & she was planning her wedding to her neighbor Brooks. She is quite a bit to take in but she ends up convincing Brooks to go along with her plans. However, tragedy struck and changes everyone's lives - Maggie May's most of all. Brooks & Maggie grow close over the years - he's the only one who sees her. It's a beautiful love but Maggie has to let him go to follow his dreams. The years go by and they stay connected but for Brooks, no one would ever come before Maggie. When she needs him he comes home and yet again tragedy strikes again but this time is Maggie that needs to step up. Things get messy but when it all settles she will finally be free. Some sex scenes but nothing graphic or raunchy. Amazing ending.

Perfect Spiral

~ Quinton Dunn ~ 

I had the perfect life. 
Getting paid millions to play the sport I love and spending most of my nights with all the adoring female fans, what more could I possibly want? 
I sure as hell didn’t want the baby boy someone dropped on me before running, leaving behind a note saying he’s mine. 
If that’s true, then I don’t have a freakin’ clue who his mother could be. 
Until I get the paternity test results, though, the kid’s my responsibility. 
The sleepless nights with a crying baby have me crashing and burning on the football field, putting my superstar career in jeopardy. 
And suddenly, the only woman I want hates me with a fiery passion. I knew Callie wasn’t going to be easy to win over. Not when she blames me for her sister’s death. 
Oh, and if this baby turns out to be my son, Callie’s determined to take him away from me. 
Somehow I’ll have to find a way to prove to her that there’s more to me than my perfect spiral. 

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This situation is one hot mess.
Quinton is a god on the football field and off but lately, these women are grating on his nerves. When his world gets turned upside down he never thought it would bring the one woman he has been searching for with it. Callie admits Quinton is devastatingly handsome but she wants nothing to do with him until he wears her down that is. When he agrees to give Callie what she wants he takes it as his duty to provide it. They get into a comfortable route but Callie has trust issues & Quinton's hot status isn't helping things. Quinton is determined to make things work with Callie and he will do what he has up to prove his love to her. Some hot steamy juicy sex scenes. Fantastic ending.

Mister Money Bags

 

I met Bianca in an elevator.

She was on her way to interview me when we got stuck.

The beautiful, raven-haired reporter assumed I was a delivery guy because of the way I was dressed.

She had no clue I was really Dex Truitt, the wealthy, successful businessman she’d dubbed “Mister Moneybags”—her afternoon appointment.

Bianca told me how much she hated Dex’s type—snobby, over-educated, silver- spooned men who didn't appreciate the simple things in life.

So, after the elevator finally started moving again, I canceled the interview and let her believe I was someone I wasn’t—a bike messenger named Jay. I loved the way she looked at the fake me and didn't want it to end.

I began dating her as “Jay”—all the while letting her interview the real me over email.

I didn’t expect that our chemistry online would be just as hot.

I didn’t expect the mess I’d gotten myself into.

I didn’t expect that Jay and Dex would fall in love with her.

And she was falling for two men.

Only, both men were me.

And when she found out, we were both going to lose her.

Nothing could have prepared me for that day. And I certainly wasn't prepared for what came after.

All good things must come to an end, right? Except our ending was one I didn't see coming.

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Oh man, you can see the blow up coming right from the start and your just waiting for it to if ignite. Bianca is beautiful and is totally smitten with Jay but as she gets to know Dex her mind is consumed by him. Dex just keeps digging his hole deeper and knows he going to have to fight to get out of it. He is having to defend himself before he was ready but he was never really going to be ready. Just as they start on the right track land mind after land mind explodes and when the smokes finally clears its then when they will know if they have a future. Some great sexual tension with a hot steamy build up to the sex scene. Fantastic ending.




 

Vi Keeland is a #1 New York Times Bestselling author. With more than a million books sold, her titles have appeared in over fifty Bestseller lists and are currently translated in twelve languages. She resides in New York with her husband and their three children where she is living out her own happily ever after with the boy she met at age six.  
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From New York Times bestselling author Kylie Scott comes the second sizzling stand-alone novel in the Dive Bar series! When his younger brother loses interest in online dating, hot bearded bartender Joe Collins only intends to log into his account and shut it down. Until he reads about her. Alex Parks is funny, fascinating, and pretty much everything he's been looking for in a woman—except that she lives across the country. Soon they're emailing up a storm and telling each other their deepest, darkest secrets...except the one that really matters. When Alex pays Joe a surprise visit, however, they both discover that when it comes to love, it's always better with a twist. 

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Alex has some issues but she digs deep and sets out to meet the man she has been emailing for months. However, as you can imagine it all goes to crap and things weren't what she thought. When she gets ill and is forced to stick around she ends up having to trust the person who betrayed her. As the days go by she realizes that Joe is an amazingly hot, kind, selfless man. Before long their friendship becomes more but tragedy strikes causing havoc. She sticks it out for Joe but when it looks like the troops are rallying it's time for her to bail. Realizing her mistake she's going back and make things right. Some hot, steamy sex scenes. Fantastic ending.

    

     

Kylie is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author. She was voted Australian Romance Writer of the year, 2013 & 2014, by the Australian Romance Writer’s Association and her books have been translated into eleven different languages. She is a long time fan of romance, rock music, and B-grade horror films. Based in Queensland, Australia with her two children and husband, she reads, writes and never dithers around on the internet. You can learn more about Kylie from http://www.kylie-scott.com/   FACEBOOK | TWITTER | FACEBOOK FAN GROUP | INSTAGRAM | GOODREADS