Romance Contemporary

Two best friends. Two fresh starts. Will old regrets sabotage their second chance? Janna’s heart is heavy with grief and broken by betrayal. But as she leaves the big city for a quaint midwestern town, the future feels less frightening with her best friend, Shelby, by her side. After landing a job in the local fresh market and the attentions of a handsome architect, she may yet learn to heal ol ...

Sara Michaels is single again. And she’s celebrating her thirtieth birthday with a head-to-toe makeover at La Bella Vita Day Spa and a day of boutique shopping with her two best friends. After a ten-month battle for freedom, a long weekend in Nashville, Tennessee is just what she needs to erase the memories of a broken heart. Jack Tanner is the soon-to-be new partner at Chester & Dorsey Develop ...

Ash Dixon is a talented chef who works for Jake Rousseau, the grumpiest restaurant owner and head chef this side of creation. She’d love a promotion but, having just had one of “those” dreams about her boss, she’s struggling even more with what to say to the man. One late night after work, Ash and Jake find out just how well they get along without the day-to-day pressures of running a fast-moving, ...

First Impressions can be deceptive. Aidan Blake needs a plumber. Fast. His boiler is dead, his creaky old house crumbling around him. When his elderly neighbour recommends a local trader, George Mahon, Aidan jumps at the prospect of hot water and warm radiators. But George, short for Georgina, is not exactly what he had in mind. He was expecting something else entirely. A man for one thing, ...

Gabriella Gill-Martin – Gigi to her friends – ditches her privileged life in London’s fast lane, to live on an island, ...

She left for the military thinking she would have it all. The career, the man she loved, a family of her own. Then her fiancé issued an ultimatum: come home and marry him, or lose him forever. Eight years later, Lieutenant Lynn Johnston returns to her small Kentucky hometown with a secret to keep and a desire to find peace. Her planned lifelong career had been cut short by events beyond her cont ...

Dakota Taylor is a freelance photographer in Los Angeles who has just found out that her estranged father has bequeathed his house to her. After breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, she decides to head to Alabama to see the house and decide what she wants to do with it. Arriving in Liberty, she is shocked to find out that her father was the town drunk and the house she inherited is a ramshackl ...

An offer that’s impossible to accept… Maggie Sinclair has tried everything to save her family’s business, including mortgaging their beloved beach house on the Jersey shore. But now, she’s out of options. The Sinclair and Pierce families have been neighbors and enemies for almost thirty years. That hasn’t stopped Owen Pierce from crushing on Maggie, and he’s determined to invest in her success. No ...

The last thing the man who has it all needs is to become the custodian of a ten-year-old girl. But Brad Wilde has, and he doesn't know how to handle this new role. Because his plans never included revealing his secret. The prom queen has fallen off her throne and returns to Candlewood Falls with her tail between her legs. When Lyra Ryan starts a cleaning business because she doesn't want to be a t ...

Silver Screen Kisses is a collection of stories inspired by movies from everyone’s favorite list. Written by award-winning and bestselling authors, these contemporary romances take the reader back to Echo Ridge in the spring, when the promise of new love is budding just like the tulips around the Emerald Inn Bed & ...

One stormy night turned this grumpy billionaire into an accidental daddy. Now I’m engaged to my sister’s BFF. I’m stranded from a downpour with a fiery hottie. Which sparked a night of intense passion. As the rain crashed, our bodies tangled between those cabin sheets. And we lost ourselves in reckless desire we never saw coming. Then, that temptress slipped away. And I figured her a one-ni ...

Enter billionaire Hudson Morelli, a dangerously electric blend of cutthroat business, decadent arrogance, and a bad boy just trying to do good. Hudson couldn’t help the mob family he was born into, but being a part of that family sure had its benefits. Enter foxy Angelica Swan, the gatekeeper of the Swan family dynasty. The game plan? Simple. Play Angelica’s heart to get to the Swan fortune. After ...

Independent and outspoken, Grace Burgess is everything her conservative parents think she shouldn’t be. To their way of thinking, she should be settling down, not dreaming of adventure. But Grace wants to visit new places and see new things, without having to worry about her parents or being tied down to a man. Then she meets Ray. Ray Bedford isn’t looking to meet 'the one'. He’s perfectly content ...

Going back might be her dumbest decision. Ever. Emily Potter’s life takes an unexpected U-turn when she returns to the job that caused all her problems and heartache. She’ll have to confront the bad habits that almost broke her and face the man she walked out on, her onetime crush, the hotel chain’s handsome, off-limits CEO… Jackson Wyatt hasn’t been enthusiastic about anything since Emily q ...

My fake wedding date with my brother's best friend left me pregnant. Linc is the billionaire groomsman and eye candy I shouldn't crave. But I do. I’ve had a crush on him forever. But Mr. Tall, Dark, and Brooding barely know I exist. Until we are forced to pose as lovers. Before I know it, his talented hands coax screams of ecstasy from my lips. Our pretend romance feels all too real. I reveal my d ...

It’s the night before her wedding and the last thing Joy Delaney expects to find is her fiancé and his ex-girlfriend—his very tall, very thin, very beautiful ex-girlfriend—in a cozy tête-à-tête. Lugging a lifetime’s worth of baggage filled with insecurities about her very short, very curvy, very average self, Joy bails on the wedding. She heads to the one place no one would think to look for her—t ...

What if the man you’ve always wanted is the one you left behind? Out of work, out of money, out of options. Just when advertising executive, Delaney McBride is about to hit bottom, she learns she’s been left an inheritance – with a catch. She has to return to her hometown and take over her late aunt’s wedding planning business.
Seriously? Not only does Delaney think true love is a myt ...

He's my new boss, my best friend’s father… and now, he's my baby's daddy. I secretly ran away from my family to start a new life. I traveled to the last place anyone would look for me, to live and work with my best friend’s father, Alexander. He's a heartthrob, who has a better body than men half his age. It's hard not to be attracted to him. Working as his personal secretary, I tried t ...

He’s off-limits. My best friend's brother. My teenage crush. I'm rocking my life as a single mom when a wedding invitation catches me off guard. Four days at a tropical wedding with my sorority sisters. As a divorcee. Going alone is NOT an option because those girls will focus on fixing my non-existent love life. What I need is a fake husband. And my best friend saves the day; her big brother is b ...

A Wounded Hero

As a firefighter, Jaxson Anderson is well acquainted with danger. He’s charged into burning buildings to rescue men and women, young and old. He’s scaled ladders that towered over blistering infernos, and defied blazes that terrified lesser men.

Fire? He understands. Women? Not so much. Now there’s some real danger. He should know. He’s been b ...

A Mafia conspiracy. A female undercover cop. A honed and fit suspect - international boxer, Freddie La Salle.

Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional turmoil as she fights to keep her professional cool in her latest assignment. When the charismatic Freddie turns on his charm and seduces her, passion takes control. The action flies fr ...

Alone and betrayed, American professor, Bonny Bryant longs for a haven of peace. She accepts a position at a small Christian college in Fort William, Scotland, craving escape from her painful past. The passionate love which develops when she meets fellow professor and sheep farmer, Kieran MacDonell, is something she never anticipated. Kieran harbors a deep anger toward God in the face of his own d ...

His heart is hers. Eight years earlier, Matt Hamilton gave away his heart only to have that love snatched away. When called in to protect Caitlyn Robinson, the damaged woman from his past, he’s prepared to risk everything to make sure she’s kept safe. By the time his team is in place, Matt discovers Caitlyn hasn’t truly recovered from the event that previously destroyed them. He’s determined to be ...

Last year took me by surprise. I never expected to fall so hard for Kat. I was the athlete. She was the older woman…and my teammate’s mom. So many reasons why we shouldn’t be together. In spite of everything, I wanted her. Until I said it was for the best if I stayed away. That was a lie. The result: She was broken-hearted. I felt like an ass. Throughout the months that followed, we remained civil ...

Billionaire Nicholas Adrien Rousseau works seven days a week. He lives on a schedule, doesn’t like surprises, plans his days, and outlines his goals. Until an irresistible blonde slides into the backseat of his Mercedes, mistaking him for the driver of the car service provided by his company, Bridal Bliss. Bella Rose is late for the airport. The opportunity to turn Creative Couture into an Interna ...

NASA engineer Dr. Jackie Darling Lee is a genius about many things... the male species is not one of them (despite the many cowboy romances she reads). Then a little friendly blackmail from a co-worker has Jackie walking into a Texas saloon ready to initiate Operation Social Life. After making friends with her waitress and helping a drunk country beauty get home safely, she thinks she’s off to a g ...

Harley meets heartthrob in this fast-paced Hollywood romance!

All she needs is an open road…

Hollywood movie director and single mom Gina Devereaux isn’t about to let her past defeat her. It’s hard work but she’s firmly on the path to making her dreams come true. Her daughters, her career, her beloved baby-blue Harley Softail, and the other motorcycle-loving women of the Iron Zebra Bar ...

When Tampa Suns star David Martin welcomes his younger sister to Tampa to attend grad school, he doesn’t know she left behind a messy breakup with a manipulative ex. Relieved to be thousands of miles away, Kim seeks to find herself again by completing a challenging one-year degree program. And swearing off relationships. Haunted by making the final out in college baseball’s National Championshi ...

Mia Andarakis just landed her dream job at a luxury magazine. And even better, her boss is the handsome and enigmatic Nicholas Aristedis, a man she has crushed on from afar. But Nicholas isn’t who she imagined. Irascible and mercurial, his instant dislike for Mia makes it almost impossible for her to work with him. Nicholas has faced many losses and heartaches in his thirty-two years. Determined t ...

Beneath his playboy façade, young NASCAR driver Luke Brandt yearns for a family. Rachel Tate, an inventive, purity-ring-wearing mechanical engineer, is determined to prove herself in a male-dominated industry. When Luke outbids Rachel on the only two muscle cars she could use to test her new vapor-fueled engine, she wants nothing to do with him. But Luke’s gentle ways and down home co ...

Best Friends. A simple plan. Except nothing will be the same... Jake needs a wife. Or at least a pretend one. A stable, serious relationship will show the judge he's the perfect parent to be given custody of his daughter. Except, he doesn't really do relationships. He's more of a one-and-done kind of guy. Which is why his best friend, Claire, is the perfect person to play house with—it’s the pe ...

A young woman who learns to become strong in the face of impossible circumstances, and a man who finds light in the midst of overwhelming darkness. Prepare yourself for the first book in a haunting new series...Loveletting. Fleeing from her home after escaping the murder of her mother, inexperienced and petrified by reality with her horse as her only companion - Charlotte is met by the most notori ...

She’s twenty years younger than him. And his best friend’s baby sister. He had no right claiming her as his. Author note: Romeo is an age-gap romance with steamy heat in and out of the bedroom for mature readers.

Happily ever after is not in her plans... Always a bridesmaid… And that’s exactly how professional bridesmaid Lauren Bennett wants it. All she'll allow herself to indulge in is a quick occasional fling or a one night stand. She won’t risk falling for someone and ending up trapped in a loveless marriage like her parents. She knows all too well that love and marriage equal misery ...

With the shadowy organization still eluding capture, GQ and the team head to London where the next attacks are expected to occur. The SEALs, CIA and MI6 team up to discover the targets. GQ is still working at handling his mom’s death and the information that he has to the possible whereabouts of his father whom he thought was dead. He’s not sure he wants to confirm his mother’s bitter rantings imp ...

Caught between conspiracies and desire, one move could change everything. Brad Hamilton joins the family business after leaving the Secret Service in disgrace. When he fails to clear his name, anger resides in his world. But given a second chance to exonerate himself doesn’t hold meaning until Madison Maxwell is at his side. Madison had been Brad’s fantasy for many years. When they finally connect ...

Master Chief Christopher “Iceman” Snow and his team are tasked with gathering intel on a terrorist group that is targeting American citizens overseas. They have hit a tour bus and a private residence so far. It’s a routine mission until he comes face-to-face with the tantalizing woman who has been heavy on his mind. He wonders how he can keep his hands off her to focus on the job at hand. CIA O ...

1.Figuring out what makes this icy hot fire chief tick seems like the best challenge. It’s that first kiss from the tattooed cranky pants that still has my heart skipping a beat. And, the magic in his pants makes me blush. Every. Single. Time. Nobody can find out about us or we both risk losing our jobs Will Ronan stick around to become a family after all? 2. Garett is my brother’s best friend, a ...

Marrying my best friend was like a dream come true, even if it was fake. Aiden was the last person I thought I would run into on the streets of Seattle. He’s no longer the boy I remember, but a tall muscle-oozing gorgeous man. When my past comes back to haunt me, he’s the only one who can save me. While hiding out from my ex-fiance, we quickly move from friends to lovers. And now we can’t ...

When Laney Mitchell was fifteen, she babysat the cute four-year old who lived next door. His family moved away when he was five. Twenty-six years later, he’s all grown up, but he still wants to cuddle with his babysitter! Laney’s daughter has other plans for him, while a hunky friend of a friend and Laney’s ex-husband both have other plans for her. By avoiding romance in the three years since her ...

Sometimes the only way to take control is to surrender... Krystina Cole is flawed and damaged from a traumatic experience. A relationship with Alexander Stone will never work. She knows that her capacity for love is limited, and that only she alone can repair the pieces of her shattered heart. But Alexander is everywhere she turns. In her mind. In her heart. And in her soul. She cannot deny him. H ...

Vesper Malik, full-time cynic, part-time waitress, is having a terrible day at work. As if it isn't bad enough she has a drink thrown at her by the Kardashian clone, she almost gets fired thanks to an argument with Tristan Winthrop. Rich, smug, arrogant and insolent, he’s a jackass who swaggers in designer suits while she's busting her butt just to pay rent. His insufferable attitude is no surpris ...

Jen Talty is an award-winning and bestselling author of romantic suspense.

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Christmas at Caynham Castle A Collection of 7 Holiday-Themed Novellas A seasonal ball, A charming town on the Welsh border, And an ancient castle with adventure, mystery, ghosts and romance in every corner. Celebrate the Christmas season with seven authors, each telling the story of the holiday at Caynham Castle in her own spectacular style. Her Heart in His Pocket ~ Donna MacMeans A surprise reun ...

A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from Wall Street Journal & USA TODAY Best-Selling Author, Amy Vansant---for fans of Bridget Jones, Jennifer Crusie and Sophie Kinsella.

Before Emily and Sebastian can celebrate their new relationship, they’re recruited to star in a local reality competition... Where Sebastian’s hungry ex, Greta, plans to ...

Love needs only one chance to shine . . . He followed in his family’s footsteps and just graduated Marine boot camp. Now Mason Cutler’s personal mission is to get plenty of sun, surf, and no-strings romance in his favorite laid-back Florida beach town before shipping out. But a chance encounter with reserved Kiran Shenoy becomes a golden day of conversation, connection—and an int ...