No Way Back by Elle Chandler (153 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

CAROL lives with her handsome husband CHRIS, and their four children in a beautiful house in a picturesque village, on the outskirts of London. She constantly reflects on how fortunate she is, with all the comfort and prosperity she enjoys. Her life at that time significantly exceeds anything she could have imagined for herself, and is convinced she is living her dream. A chance meeting with an eminent surgeon completely shatters Carol's way of thinking, making her realise that her life is not the dream she believed it to be. This is the story of a woman's agonising journey, from the depths of despair, with everything she believed in destroyed, and the road she travels through deception, and disappointments. Eventually, experiencing a depth of love and emotions she had never known existed. This leads to a new way of thinking, and a new way of living, as she slowly reaches her potential, in a way she could never have imagined. If you enjoy a good romance, with an unpredictable ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

A Good Boy (The Dying Church Series Book 1) by Anthony Andre (146 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Three years after losing the love of his life, Wesley starts a new career as a minister; but when a teenager commits suicide, dividing the church, Wesley must look deep within for the strength to save his church - and himself.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

A Bear on Trial by Jiannina Camillo (4 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Book Description While hiking in the mountains, Roberto and his son come across a bear with cubs. A poacher fires and the bear charges causing father and son to plummet over a steep drop-off triggering a search and rescue effort and stirring up existing anti-bear sentiments. Zita, a single mother and mayor of the Alpine town of Pianalto, sees her life disrupted when the town rebels demanding the killing of the bear. The pressure builds as the leader of her own political party warns her to support the wishes of citizens or she will lose his support in the forthcoming elections. Zita wishes to protect the animals, but how is she to frame a plan in their defence without exposing herself? While the town discusses her fate, the bear is on the run with her three cubs in the nearby peaks. Book Reviews "The novel explores many important themes, including wildlife conservation, politics and relationships, not only human, but in the wild as well... a well-plotted compelling story with a tone ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Loving Lana by A.B. Marie (404 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

My name is Lana White. Living in this miniscule, nowhere town is all I know now... But it wasn't always like this. I was happy, we were happy. We lived in a beautiful house in LA and I had a father that loved me. But according to my mother, it was all a facade and he doesn't want me, he doesn't want us. So we had to run away. Over the years, I start to really see my mother for who she is now. Washed-up, druggy, and drunk - all rolled into one psychopath. I get excited about going to college, I finally have a savings that my mother hasn't yet found... And then my neglectful, strung out mother moves us across the country to get married to some psycho that found her online dating site... and now we're fucked. Loving Lana is a 134k word standalone novel. This is a reverse harem, meaning the main character has more than three love interests and doesn't have to choose. Why choose, anyway? This book is intended for readers over the age of 18. There may be triggers for sensitive ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Perhaps a Little Madness by C J Martin (Independently published) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Three men, two very different sisters, and not enough jobs. After the death of their father, Helen and Julia Andris find themselves with no income and university studies to finish in subjects that have little use in the modern world. Their family is a jigsaw of highly contrasting and frequently clashing personalities. And the men they fall in love with have work and family problems of their own. C J Martin reinterprets Jane Austen's beloved Sense and Sensibility for the twenty-first century. With evocative settings in urban and country Australia, careful crafting of plot and an empathetic conception of character, this is an insightful tale of family, love, and the conflicting force of ambition. Love can make us all a little mad.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Southwind Lesson: When You Want To Further Your Education by Mel Schanz (4 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Brenda Washington has put her son and mother first in her life for the past thirteen years. With everyone getting older and needing less and less of her attention, it's time to focus on herself. Waitressing might be her current gig, but teaching is where her heart lies. Going back to school at her age is no easy feat, but she sets out to accomplish the goals she had years before, letting nothing, including her hot professor, get in the way. Education is the key to success. Those words have been Bentley Rodgers motto for years and he has passed them on to his students with pride. He has taught at the elementary, secondary, and collegiate level, but wonders what else there is for him out there. Is this the top? He can't help but think he should reach for something more. When Miss Washington walks into his classroom on the first day of the semester, he's doomed. Not only is she beautiful, but smart too. Only... He can't act on his feelings. Finding ways around the rules becomes his ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

The Pretty Beach Thing: A small town gorgeous escapism romance. by Polly Babbington (1,701 Review)    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 for British seaside town perched just off the English south coast. ? Come and make acquaintance with total bookworm Lotta Button and her fake dating escapades. You'll fall head over heels for her - she's going to be the new best friend you didn't know you needed. ? Arriving at what she has calculated as more or less the middle of her life, things for bookworm Lotta Button, her nose always stuck in a book, are not going at all the way she planned. With that thing they call life throwing all the hurdles it can her way as a new year rolls around, she hits rock bottom and wonders how she's ever going to crawl her way back up. When she finds herself at yet another family wedding in the lobby of a country house, she bumps into a man, and little does she know, he is going to become quite the feature in her world. He needs a partner for a business ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Becky's Blessing: A Christian Romance (City of Edison Book 4) by Diane Lil Adams (29 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

If you are sensitive about the subject of incest, you might not enjoy this book. Matt Jacobs left St. Louis in disgrace when he was seventeen, after pulling one too many pranks at his uncle's church. Becky Alexander was fourteen and had a serious crush on Matt. Ten years later, she remembers that he could be such a nice guy... or such a bully. Deborah Boofer had a crush on him too and now that he's back, serving as interim pastor, she's determined to have him. An old church in danger of being razed, jobs in jeopardy, cats and dogs and horses needing a home... Sometimes God has a better plan!

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Cobra Ink: A contemporary dark MC biker romance (The Crowmoore Reapers MC Series Book 2) by Hayley Lane (49 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

What if the only person who can save you is the one who will destroy you? He asks me to trust him and says he'll protect me, but how can I trust him when telling the truth about my past could kill my family and me? Him I'm a professional assassin who never misses a target. I stalk my prey with patience and precision, then strike fast and hard. But someone got to my mark before me and killed my friend. True to my nature, I swore to avenge him, and nothing will stop me. Until her. Eyes haunted by secrets draw me in and trigger my protective instinct, but she refuses to let me in. I'm not looking for love, but she makes me feel things I never felt before, things I never thought I wanted. Now I have to choose between loving her and avenging my friend. Time is ticking, disaster is looming, and I'm about to lose the only thing that matters. Her After years in a relationship that left me scarred and traumatized, I thought I'd found freedom, but the past is not done with me yet. My ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Petty Cash by Kimberly Vargas (1,079 Review)    Price verified one minute ago

This is the romantic office comedy that human resources warned you about. What if the smartest guy and the most beautiful girl at the office formed an alliance to help each other get promoted? Florida resident Rebecca Blake works as an assistant to a group of psychologists. She is strikingly beautiful and athletic. People see her as a nice, likable girl who is fine in her role but who could never really aspire to more at the company. Rebecca is told in her performance review that in order to get promoted, she is going to have to work on her credibility. As part of her career development plan, she is sent to a behavioral training course (nicknamed 'Club Detention') at company headquarters in Virginia. In error, she is partnered with Foster Diamond, who has the highest intelligence scores in the company. Even though he is a genius, Foster has his own issues around interpersonal skills, attitude and his perception overall. Rebecca and Foster have nothing in common, but between his ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Divine Tales of Doomed Outcasts by D J McNulty (2 Reviews)    Price verified 50 minutes ago

A beautifully crafted epic filled with graphic action, dark humor, and brutal savagery. This grim fantasy tale reads fast and leaves you turning pages even faster! Salyanth is a violent land where elemental deities bestow boons to their worshippers. When a vile evil silences them, chaos ensues across multiple planes. One man pursued for a crime he did not commit finds himself thrust into the role of stopping it all. Begrudgingly accepting his calling, he will soon find that his life - his very reality - is on the brink of destruction. All that he thought possible is about to change. When he learns the source of the evil to be from a different reality, can he put an end to it? His former associates would like him dead and pursue him relentlessly all the while. Will he find the means to prevent his world from becoming an icy tomb not only for himself, but everyone in it?

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

The Dark Crown: The Souls' Abyss - Book One by SC Gowland (12 Reviews)    Price verified 50 minutes ago

Reviews "Well written, engaging characters and I was definitely left wanting to read the next book." "The Souls' Abyss follows a conflicted father across a vast and dangerous world as he attempts to unravel a dark mystery and rebuild his broken family. You progressive-ly learn more on each front as the story develops, with an ending that will leave you clambering to find out what happens next." Semi-Finalist award winner of SPFBO6 (Self Published Fantasy Blog Off) and the international selling start of an epic new fantasy series. A classic fantasy story perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones. The Dark Crown is about blood ties, the bonds of friendship, secrets and be-trayal, and magic. 'No more souls today,' he whispered. The fate of the world hangs in the balance, both in the land of Thura and Kaoldan's life. As a member of the magical Order of Walkers, Kaoldan is desperate to keep the peace as the world tries to tear itself apart. But his life is about ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

The Finish Line: Out of Time #1 by Michelle Sutton (Healing Hearts books) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 15 hours ago

Bree Le Fleur desires to remain pure for her future husband. When she moves to Arizona, she meets her new neighbor, Donato Garafalo Jr., race car driver and model. Despite his charisma and charm, she's not impressed. After Bree gets to know Donny, she decides he's not such a bad guy. She reluctantly agrees to pose as his fiancée to help Donny convince his father that he's a reformed man. While participating in the ruse, she is attracted to him in ways she never anticipated. At the same time, she can't help wondering why a man with a playboy reputation would be interested in a girl with no experience. Fed up with his son's reckless ways, Donny's father threatens to sell their family's business to a stranger unless Donny settles down and commits to one woman. Now Donny needs to find a good girl, and he's not sure where to look. Bree, his neighbor, appears to be the perfect girl for his ruse, and Donny always gets what Donny wants. But Bree is different from the other women he's dated. ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Take It Down A Notch by Weston Parker (BrixBaxter Publishing) (2,432 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

I read this book twice. That first chapter sealed the deal for me, I knew this was going to be a kind of story that I was going to throw my day plans right in the trash for. -- Amazon Reviewer If only men were for sale this time of the year. Then I could buy one, use him as a companion for my son who needs a male figure in his life, and then return him once we were all good again. But it doesn't work that way. A friend mentions a Big Brother Program, and I'm all in. My little one gets what he needs, and I don't have to sacrifice my freedom and worry about love loss again. The handsome guy they assign my son isn't at all what I expected. Nor are the warm fuzzies I get when I see him. Come to find out, he's not there for the best reasons. But me and my kiddo have fallen in love with this unruly, aggressive alpha male. There's no way to work out the desires bubbling up inside of me and keep my morals in check. And for the first time in my life, I want to make the wrong decision. ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Explicit Instruction: Enemies to lovers: Held Captive by a Dirty Talking Alpha. by Scarlett Finn (Moriona Press) (535 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Enemies to lovers: Held captive by a dirty-talking alpha. "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Lost, Flick walks into a nightmare. More terrifying than the evil that captured her, a looming silhouette offers a reprieve. The epitome of danger, Rushe is abrupt, crude, domineering... and her only hope for survival. Unlike anyone she's ever known, he tells her what he wants, in such hot and filthy ways that her only choice is to submit. Her life is not the only thing on the line. Her heart and body have given themselves to him, death may be her only liberation. Warning: Contains explicit language and imagery. Suitable only for ages 18 and over.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Beautiful Secret: A Secret Hollywood Romance (Dirty Hollywood Series Book 1) by Claire Raye (130 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Awarded the Readers Favorite 5 Star Read! A romance starring a famous but down-to-earth actress who falls in love with a quiet production assistant, only to have their affair threatened by a sleazy co-star. Hollywood is dirty and no one knows that better than Julia Harris. Sitting atop the ever-changing throne, she's currently Tinseltown's golden girl. And she's just signed on to play the biggest role of her life. Meeting celebrities is par for the course in Aiden Morrissey's job. As a production assistant he's met his fair share, but it's this latest encounter that steals his heart. And he's not ready for what's to come. But fame has a price tag and anonymity no longer exists. Outed by her co-star, Julia and Aiden's relationship is thrust into the spotlight long before they're ready, and what was once a secret is now Hollywood's biggest tabloid story. Beautiful Secret is the first book in the Dirty Hollywood contemporary romance series. While each book can be read as a standalone, ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Everything We Haven't Said: Rory & Grant (Bliss Cove Book 3) by Nina Lindsey (Snow Queen Publishing) (26 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Computer genius Rory Prescott is ready to move out of Bliss Cove for good. No real shock there since coming home to help her family a few years ago was supposed to be temporary. The one hiccup before Rory can start her new software job back in the city, however, is the fact that she doesn't have a place to stay her last few weeks in town. But what she does have is a Grant. As in her grumpy, tech-averse buddy Grant Taylor, owner of the local tavern and a spare cottage... Setting small town roots far from his wealthy family's reach was how Grant built himself a new life. But with his brother's wedding coming up, Grant anticipates a major mother ambush -- most likely entailing a frenzy of single socialites. Hence his deal to let Rory stay with him in exchange for a few weeks of pretend girlfriend duties. A fake relationship with real sparks in close quarters between two people who couldn't be more opposite. What's the worst that could happen? *This book was previously published under ...

Genre: Contemporary Fiction