Thick Thighs Save Lives: A Curvy Woman Romance (Blue Collar Boys Book 3) by C.L. Cruz (Amazon Digital Services) (573 Reviews)    Price verified one hour 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 8 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 11 hours 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

And So We Dream: A Novel by Linda Mahkovec (121 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

"A lucidly described coming-of-age tale" with "a mysterious, almost mythic feminine glamour" -- Kirkus "A brilliantly engaging, entertaining, and at times poignant coming-of-age story, And So We Dream is a compelling read by author Linda Mahkovec showcasing her genuine flair as a novelist for the kind of literary experience that will linger in the mind and memory of the reader long after the book is finished and set back upon the shelf." -- Midwest Book Review From the author of the best-sellingChristmastime series, comes And So We Dream, a coming-of-age story set in 1970. Twelve-year-old Joey Roland is sent away to family friends while his parents try to work things out. He's eager to leave sadness and secrets behind in Chicago and head downstate to the small town of Greenberry, where the Vitale family awaits him. He thinks of their town as boyland -- a world of bike riding, fishing, and going barefoot. Though initially shy of the beautiful teenage daughters -- Anne, Vita, and Beth -- they welcome him into their lives of adventure, beauty, and dreams. Joey especially bonds with the middle sister, Vita, and her all-or-nothing pursuit of an acting career. Joey's "there must be more" merges with Vita's "I must make it happen" resulting in a magical summer where the town of Greenberrry becomes the crucible for two desperate dreamers.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Happy Now? by S M Mala (27 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours 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 14 hours 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 15 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 7 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 14 hours 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 15 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