Demo: The Flower City Series, Book One by Holly Crocco (13 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

Sometimes redemption comes from the place you least expect... Life is made of moments. Big, life-changing moments, and small, seemingly insignificant ones. Moments we shine, and ones we wish we could take back. Add up all those moments, and you're left with the bed you've made. Or maybe it was made for you. Either way, you can't have a redo. Or can you? Lizzie hates Knox. He's a liar, a cheat and an addict. He's also her husband. When Lizzie learns she may have made a huge mistake at work, she begins retracing the steps that could have caused her blunder. While digging into the story, she learns Knox's past indiscretions may be tangled up in it - and the more she finds out, the less she wants to know. Knox will do anything to regain Lizzie's trust, and heart, but fears she will never be able to forgive him for his wrongdoings. As they are forced to address the events that happened as a result of one night of bad decisions, both Knox and Lizzie are caught between memories of the past and how they fell in love, and the course they're on - which is headed straight for demolition. When the truth comes out, can these lovers-turned-enemies rebuild their life together, or do they walk away for good?

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

A Second Chance (Age Gap Romance) by i.s.a. bella (15 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

Tragedy tore us apart. Scarlett My entire world changed in an instant. The biggest betrayal led my brother to his death, shattering my soul in the process. He was my lifeline, the light to my darkness, and my best friend. I don't think I can survive without him until Maverick walks back into my life. Maverick abandoned me when I needed him the most. He chose my sister over me. Can I trust him to keep my heart beating, or will he destroy it for the last time? Tragedy brought us back together. Maverick My best friend is gone. The same day I lost Scarlett. My Tinkerbelle. My best friend's little sister. The girl I ever loved became the girl I could never have. Our age difference kept us in the friend zone, but she's all grown up now. I've waited long enough to make her mine. She needs me now more than ever. I just need to convince my Tinkerbelle I will never fail her again. Tropes: • Small town romance • Brother's best friend • Age gap • Small town boy to Hollywood Actor • Single mother • Tragedy • Wicked half-sister Please be aware this story contains content that might be troubling to some readers. Difficult topics are discussed in this story including mental health. Mature content, adult language, and disturbing matters that may trigger an emotional response.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Spring in the Pretty Beach Hills: A gorgeous sweet romance. by Polly Babbington (886 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

Welcome to Pretty Beach - a complete set of heartwarming feel-good, small town stories with romance, community and friendship set in a to-die -or British seaside town perched just off the English south coast. Sweet, small-town romantic women's fiction you'll adore. A beautiful spring day. A chance meeting. A love story in the Pretty Beach Hills. ? Pip Toppleton is plodding along with her life in the Pretty Beach Hills. When one morning in her orchard a shirtless trespasser whisper-hisses at her, her life takes an unexpected turn. As the man becomes more and more involved in her life and helps her with her terrarium-making business, A Little Jar of Delight, Pip begins to fall... very deep and very hard. A love story that will not only take you on a journey in the Pretty Beach Hills, but it will have you swooning every which way you turn. Jam-packed with all Polly's much-loved unique trademarks - a divine coastal setting, gorgeous female characters you'd just love to chat with and liberally sprinkled with a healthy dose of Polly's special blend of escapism by the sea. 'Polly really is like my secret best friend in a book. I knew I was a goner by the end of the first page.' ? Romcom readers on sweet romance author Polly Babbington: 'Lovely book ticks all the boxes, great location, great realistic characters, situations that are sometimes all too familiar. A great read for anyone who wants to feel uplifted from all the misery of the daily grind and depressing news. Thank you Polly as always you've nailed it! 5***** as I am not allowed to give it 6******' Jason, Amazon Review 'Whisks you away! The series is a really excellent adult read with the comfort of childhood series like the Famous Five!' Amazon Review 'Polly amazes me how she can transport you to a place with her writing.' Katie H, Amazon Review 'These books are addictive! The Babbington Chronicles have me hooked & I find me and my kindle hiding away and reading into the night... love the ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Neon Blacktop by T/James Reagan (RiverVerse Entertainment) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

In this neon-noir, Gabe, a quiet twenty-something, works at a small independent movie theater called The Waldorf. The pay is bad and the showings are never more than half full, but Gabe doesn't care, because The Waldorf is the only place where he can experience the neon blue smoke- a wintergreen pleasure that rolls off the film screen like the sweetest drug. Gabe's life is thrown into disarray when The Waldorf is closed, and he can no longer get his fix of smoke. Choosing to leave his one true love behind, Gabe sets out to find another theater that can conjure a sensation that he's become addicted to. During Gabe's road trip, his motorcycle breaks down, so he checks into The Dorchester Motor Inn until it can be fixed. While staying at the motel, Gabe meets Becky, who was instructed by a bizarre entity to meet with him. Together, the couple realizes that they might both be experiencing the same high strangeness, and this begins a search for answers. Neon Blacktop confronts such topics as the death of cinema culture, the rise in conspiracy theories, and the struggle of how to find the truth in a world overflowing with disinformation. Neon Blacktop is written in the tradition of the films of Richard Kelly, so lovers of Donnie Darko and The Box will find their craving for deeply emotional sci-fi satisfied in this story that is both intimate and sprawling.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Thick Thighs Save Lives: A Curvy Woman Romance (Blue Collar Boys Book 3) by C.L. Cruz (Amazon Digital Services) (573 Reviews)    Price verified 27 minutes ago

She's a single mom with the world on her shoulders. He's a mechanic who wants to help. Will they slam the brakes on their love or find their way down the road to happiness? Ivy I used to have it all figured out -- marriage plus baby equals happily ever after. And then my husband leaves me just when I need him the most. It seems like things can't get any worse... until my car breaks down, leaving me stranded. Thankfully, Kent Sellers comes to my rescue. He's sexy, dependable, and I want him to give me a full service. But is a bachelor like Kent ready for a family, or will he leave me wrecked? Kent As a mechanic, I haven't met a machine I couldn't understand. Unfortunately, women aren't so easy. That doesn't stop me from playing the hero when I get a call from Ivy Goulding. She's curvy, caring, and knows how to crank my shaft. Her ex broke her heart. Now I just have to prove to her that I have what it takes to fix it. Thick Thighs Save Lives is a short, sweet, steamy story featuring a strong, independent, curvy heroine and the blue-collar man who wins her heart. It is the third in the Blue Collar Boys series but can be read as a standalone with no cliffhangers and a HEA! Don't miss the rest of the series: Dangerous Curves Ahead Big Girls Do It Better Thick Thighs Save Lives On the Plus Side ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* "I love love love a BBW story! When the sweet curvy girl gets the strong alpha guy? It's enough to make a girl cry." 5-Star Review "Everything you need to keep you turning pages -- hot, sexy men; steamy scenes; and some conflict thrown in. I cannot wait for what this author writes next." 5-Star Review "Just when you think C.L. Cruz has given you the best she could... she blows our minds out of the park with a new book." 5-Star Review

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Midlife Dawn (Druid Heir Book 1) by N. Z. Nasser (Hanora Sky Press) (317 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Shivers of excitement shot up my spine. It was time to draw a line under the past and find a new me. By forty, I thought I'd be living my best life. When my idiot husband gambles away our savings, I divorce him and try not to kick him in the nuts when he fights me for custody of my cat. I throw myself into teaching English and survival skills to anyone unlucky enough to land in my night class in godforsaken London. That is, until my mum dies in a car crash and I suspect foul play. That's when it really gets weird. Mum's barely cold in the ground when my cat goes missing. To top it all, the Metropolitan Police don't seem to have heard of the detective investigating the accident. My first instinct is to have a nap and hope it all goes away, but I'm my mother's daughter. Secrets set me off like a bloodhound. When a mysterious man tells me I'm the last of an ancient magical druid lineage, I laugh in his face, but I'm intrigued. I want to believe there's more to life than a messy divorce and a dead-end career. It doesn't seem crazy to follow him into the undergrowth in Crystal Palace Park. Not even when I hear my cat telling me to stop. To avenge my mum and survive a new magical world, I just need to pull on my control pants and hold on for the ride. If you're a fan of Paranormal Women's Fiction and magic-wielding heroines over forty, get your hands on Druid Heir Book 1 today. The Druid Heir series (7 novels) is now complete. Praise for Midlife Dawn: "Midlife Dawn is a breath of fresh mage-blown air. The worldbuilding is vibrant, the characters' connection and relationships sing, and through it all is my favourite part of the genre: telling human stories through a superhuman lens. Brilliant." - Emmie Mears, author of the Stonebreak series and the Ayala Storme series. "Smart, sassy fiction with a charmingly relatable heroine and a beautifully rendered cultural homage." - Louisa West, author of the Midlife in Mosswood series. Reader Reviews: "Feel good humor ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Barely Married (Wedding Season Novel) by Nicole Fribourg Price verified 8 hours ago

Nudist resort?! Wait... what? Uptight and professional hotel event specialist Erin Campbell has her perfectly curated life turned upside down by a fiancé who hasn't exactly asked her to marry him yet. After getting dumped and totaling her car -- on the same phone call -- things go from bad to worse when she finds out he's cleared out their luxury Seattle apartment, giving her only a few weeks to find a new place to live. She doesn't do herself any favors when she gets blackout drunk and sends a revenge-fueled email to the wrong people, suddenly finding herself out of a job too. On the ropes, she starts applying for any hotel job she can find. Slim pickings when she's banned from working for any hotel under the umbrella of the massive Healy Hotel Group. Forced to make some desperate career choices, Erin finds herself waitressing at a strip club to keep the wolf from the door. When Sun Eden Naturist Resort finds her too-good-to-be-true resumé, they want her as their new office manager. Only catch? Sun Eden is in Palm Springs. Erin is ready to ditch the Pacific Northwest. She needs a change and Sun Eden sounds perfect. Scraping together the last of her money, Erin gets on a bus to California and doesn't look back. When she arrives at Sun Eden, she discovers Palm Springs isn't the only catch. This place is a nudist resort! Not just that, they're hemorrhaging money and losing employees like rats off a sinking ship. Not to mention being protested for indecency. Just what kind of boutique hotel has she signed on to work for? Interim manager, Tyler Finley, isn't a hotelier by trade, he's only filling in while his aunt travels the world attempting to find herself. After making a terrible first impression on his new office manager, can he convince her to stay? And... oh yeah... plan all of the weddings that'll keep the flagging business afloat this year? CONTENT ADVISORY: Intended for a mature audience. Contains coarse language, alcohol use, and explicit sexual ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Found - The Andersen Saga: Claire wants peace and quiet and to be alone...then her brother shows up. A heartwarming story about family. (The ... by Jacie Middlemann (21 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Patrick knew from the moment he climbed out of his car and heard the music blasting from the back of the cabin what he would find... his sister was painting. And considering her choice of music, there was every possibility that what filled her canvas wasn't meant to soothe the soul. Claire Andersen Slavik was exactly where she needed to be. The last couple of years had been good ones even if at times filled with difficult moments. She had moved in with her mother when it was obvious she was needed. And never had a single regret for doing so. There had been days filled with joy and others with heartbreak. Now her mother was gone and the world she'd known had once again shifted out of balance. Claire was determined to take this time like a stolen moment to come to grips with the change in her life that the loss of her mother had made. It didn't matter that her kids called almost every day. She understood. But she needed this time away. The quiet and the peace that this little heaven on earth allowed her... and at the same time forced her to face this new void in her life honestly. Little did she know that her peace and tranquility was about to be disrupted. Her solitude on the brink of collapse. Patrick Andersen had a lot to think about as he drove through the mountains of Arkansas. There was even more floating around in his mind that he wanted to say to his sister Claire now that he and his brother knew where she was. But just as important was everything he wanted to find out from her. He believed she had the answers to many if not most of the questions that had surfaced in the weeks since their mother's death. Not for the first time he wondered grimly if some of those answers were the reason why she'd taken off so suddenly as she had. Will the youngest of Livia Andersen's grown children find the tranquility she seeks in the mountains of Arkansas? Can she make her brother understand the reasons for the choices she's made and the secrets she'd kept? Will the ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Roam (Coming of Age stand-alone Thrillers Book 2) by Erik Therme (Thecker Books) (1,546 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

When car trouble lands Sarah in the middle of nowhere, her path intersects with two seemingly well-intentioned strangers. But as they find lodging for the night, the trio will face dangers and revelations they couldn't have expected... What readers are saying about Roam: "Some authors are just gifted with the ability to keep you turning pages... Erik Therme is definitely one of them."--DT Chantel "Roam can be read on many levels... it deserves five stars on all of them."--Barb Taub "Finished it wanting to read it again immediately."--Haunted Reading Room "A page turner until the end."--Michelle's Book Ends

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Need You Now by Ali Parker (BrixBaxter Publishing) (400 Reviews)    Price verified 7 minutes ago

The most beautiful girl in the world, and she's fiery mad at me. It's not really my fault. I'm a reporter. Digging up stories is my job. Never in a million years did I expect my latest piece to create an enemy out of the one woman I'd give anything to date. She's tough, beautiful, and tied to my past in a way I didn't imagine possible. The world should know that she's also generous, the center of a big story on a large donation to the town festival in her dad's name. But she's not interested in the limelight or attention. She wants to take care of the animals in her care and give back any chance she can. I, on the other hand, want a chance at love. And there's not much I won't do to make that happen. She might be appeasing me to keep her story safe, but I'm on the hunt for far more than a headline. I need her now. Today. Tomorrow. Forever.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Happy Now? by S M Mala (27 Reviews)    Price verified 12 minutes ago

Flora fancies Ed, the best looking boy at school. Ed fancies Flora, a girl he's got the hots for. She's sixteen and he's fifteen but social circles mean that their paths rarely cross. And when they do, it's always brief. One day, they cross in a big way, and they fall in love. But something unexpected happens and the young lovers never get together. Twenty five years later, older and wiser, their paths cross again. Too many things have changed and they've both been hit by loss and tragedy, one way or another. A funny, uplifting tale about young love and whether time can rekindle teenage memories for two forty something adults who have been battered and bruised by time.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Everything We Are (Heart Of The Canyon Book 2) by Jacie Middlemann (38 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

Jake wants to see for himself whether his mother is having a mid-life crisis or a later-in-life adventure. He's betting on the second. Mallie's oldest son checked up on her not long after she returned to the canyon and the home she grew up in... the home where she raised her children until a tragedy forced her to make the difficult decision to leave. Now her youngest son is on his way... Jake Westin is returning to the canyon where he grew up. It's been ten years since the last time he was there. He can still vividly remember the circumstances that led to his family's departure all those years ago. It wasn't something he thought of often. Who would want to? Just as much as he wanted to see how his mother was doing since her return to the canyon he was also looking forward to seeing Lizzie. When he was a child the two of them had gone on all kinds of quests together for lizards and anything else that moved, searched for the buried treasure Lizzie swore was to be found somewhere in the canyon, and spent hours staring at the stars and picking out those that made up constellations of their own making. He was also curious about his mother's other neighbor in their small corner of the canyon. Unlike Lizzie who had walked away from the glitter and fame of the city that was spread out below the canyon, Clay Tobin was just beginning to make his mark there according to both of his sisters. And he wanted to talk to his mother... he needed to hear her reasons for coming back after all these years instead of taking his brother and sister's assumptions as gospel. More importantly... he wanted to understand. Years ago Mallie Westin left her home because she felt she had no choice. Now years later, the choice is hers. The Heart of the Canyon series is about the strength of family, the endurance of friendship, and the unwavering and unconditional longing for home... and all it means. Everything We Are is the second in the series... can be read alone but the series is best ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

The Flaw in His Character by I. C. Talbot (Icy Road Publishing) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Estelle Dean was swept off her feet by wealthy businessman Jack Rutledge, who she married just a few weeks, then moved into his lovely house. But when Jack is away on business, Estelle needs something to do, so she and her friend Connie Johnson look for a class to take. The class Estelle chooses makes is the difference between life and death.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Police Brutality by Phil Nova (Five Borough Publishing) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

In this fast-paced, suspenseful, vigilante justice thriller for adults, an army ranger returns home to find that his pregnant wife has become a victim of police brutality. WARNING: This book contains adult language and/or situations.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Choosing Hope Book Two Moss Bluff Series by Kelley Lyon (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

"One man's 'I'm not ready' is another's 'I knew the moment I saw you.'" When Quinn Eldren gave birth to Hope, she believed she was better off alone. Her family had other plans. Moving her to Moss Bluff, Quinn's move quickly became more complicated by Leo Tucker who is immediately infatuated with her and her daughter. When Fitz Fitzgibbons, her ex, comes to town, he is determined to get his piece of the Bradford pie, that includes their daughter. Obsessed with money and the fame he lost, Fitz makes sure that piece by piece, Quinn's world falls apart. As Fitz does the unthinkable, a life hangs in the balance and Hope is lost leaving Quinn uncertain about who to turn to. Knowing that Quinn needs him, Leo's top priority is Choosing Hope.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Electric Fame by Joseph McDonald Jr. (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Rock and Roll can be a vicious business. For one band, it is a long way to the top. From college auditoriums to stadiums, and everything in between, follow the members of the band 'You R', as they traverse the roads to music stardom. The journey is long and hard, filled with triumphs and tragedies, comradery and betrayal, love and death. Before the final curtain comes down, this group, along with their family, friends and fans, will be changed in more ways than they could ever imagine. Follow the journey with them as they experience what "Electric Fame" truly means in the music world.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction