Tag: Contemporary

Lucky Beach (Escape to Maui Book 2) by JoAnn Bassett

What would you do with $45 Million…?Monica Gomez of Rio Blanco, Arizona, is one lucky twenty-nine-year-old. She’s smart, pretty, and single. Oh, and a year ago she won forty-five million dollars in a magazine sweepstakes. But, as luck would have it, hitting the jackpot triggered an avalanche of misery. Her former boss claims the money is his and he’s spent the past year dragging Monica to court and feeding lurid stories to the tabloid press. Former friends and newly-discovered “family members” pester her day and night demanding cash for their illnesses, their business schemes, or for just being “kin.” Sick of hassling over her newfound riches, Monica abruptly moves to Maui, Hawaii. She’s looking for a new start, a blank slate. Soon after arriving she’s accosted at a Honokowai grocery store by a brawny, and wickedly handsome, local guy who hits her up for a donation to the Maui Food Bank. Will it never end? She meets Derek Chambers, a good-looking single guy in her classy Kapalua neighborhood whose wealth far surpasses her own. Finally, a guy who “gets” her. But who is he, really? And how much will it cost her to find out? Her fortune, her self-esteem—maybe even her life?

Author: JoAnn Bassett

Rating: Rating: 4.20 / 5
4 reviews

Rustler’s Heart (The Kinnison Legacy Book 2) by Amanda McIntyre

MEET THE RUGGED MEN OF THE KINNISON LEGACY AND THE WOMEN WHO WILL TAME THEM!Haunted by a tragic past Rein pours himself into creating his Uncle’s altruistic goal of making the Last Hope Ranch a haven for the hurt and lost. But a beautiful stranger in the form of a half-sister to the men he calls his brothers arrives and turns his world upside down, bringing with her unseen dangers, not only to his heart, but to the ranch and his family!Liberty’s presence is a surprise to the family she’s never met and while she yearns to belong, she knows her presence is a reminder of their painful past. Fearless, she dives in, losing her heart to the ranch, to the community and to an unexpected summer fling that turns to love, only to find that her dangerous past is about to catch up to her and threaten everyone and everything she has come to love.

Author: Amanda McIntyre

Rating: Rating: 4.30 / 5
4 reviews

Gemstone Billionaires Series Box Set: Two Sexy New Zealand Romances: Italian Billionaire Brides: The Italian Billionaire’s Scandalous Marriage, The Italian Billionaire’s Christmas Bride by Mollie Mathews

“You’re the one” –  tender love in exotic locations grab these sweet & sensual escapist reads today. Lose yourself in these beautiful stories of broken hearts and second chances.The Gemstone Billionaires Boxed Set contains the first two books of AMAZON BEST-SELLING author Mollie Mathew’s romantic series set in the captivatingly beautiful landscape of New Zealand. If you adore beautifully written stories and true heartwarming sweet romances which sparkle with humor you’ll love travelling along the road to love with these changing and evolving men and women as they open their heart’s again and find true love. The first two Gemstone Billionaire books (over 500 pages) included in this bundle are: The Italian Billionaire’s Christmas Bride What if the person who is so, so, so wrong for you is really so, so, so right, but you’re too afraid to give love a chance? Last Christmas, art therapist Issy Riley was jilted by her fiancé. This Christmas she’s running away. A week with a client on his private Fijian island promises to save her from cheating men and the London festive season. But when the client turns out to be a gorgeous and magnetic Italian billionaire, he threatens her resolve to never again trust her heart to the wrong man. Milan fashion house leader and avowed bachelor Massimiliano Balforni has no intention of taking a vacation, despite his sister’s insistence that he subject himself to an art therapy retreat following a minor heart attack. With an important collection due, he intends to fire his therapist and work, instead. But the determined and striking Issy gives his heart palpitations of a far more dangerous kind. The one thing Max and Issy agree on: they are as wrong for each other as wrong gets. He’s a workaholic playboy who believes emotion is a weakness. She’s a romantic who yearns for a happily ever after. As the tropical heat soars, they discover that in this battle between work and play, resistance only fuels attraction—and sometimes two wrongs make a very passionate right. Set in two beautiful paradises—Milano, Italy and the tropical Pacific islands of Fiji. The Italian Billionaire’s Scandalous Marriage What if everything you believed was a lie? When a lonely young American woman inherits a painting she discovers her whole life was a lie. Desperate for the truth, she goes in search of her true identity. The painting is her only clue. But everyone is determined to keep its secret past repressed, including Vitaliano Rossi, the Italian gold tycoon, unnaturally suspicious of her motives, who wants the painting vanquished. How can she discover who she really is and convince him that his love means more to her than gold? Three women. Three lives. And the lies that bind them. Why is everyone afraid of the truth? Praise for The Gemstone Billionaires series!“What a blinking good read—more please. I was hooked from page one.””Mollie is just such a good writer with enormous appeal in her story – an excellent read on a rainy day.””An enthralling read. Keeps me captivated from start to finish and leaves me wanting more.”Escape into romance with this beautiful box set. The Gemstone Billionaires Box Set is a fun read with healthy doses of escapism Pick up your copy today by clicking the BUY NOW button

Author: Mollie Mathews

Rating: Rating: 5.00 / 5
5 reviews

Love Dances: Clean and Wholesome Country Romance by Margery Watkins

An old-fashioned love story about a sweet girl from the country. She’s too shy to go to the town dance. But life was about to change forever for Margaux. This is a pure, sweet love story reminding us of what love is all about.

Author: Margery Watkins

Rating: Rating: 5.00 / 5
5 reviews

Romantic Rain: Short and sweet, peaceful read by Terry Atkinson

They sat quietly, listening to the rhythm of the rain and watching the sky pour its emotion down onto the foliage outside their window. It was such a peaceful time, just before dawn and before the birds even got an idea that the new day was imminent. Mike put his giant hand around hers and they lost themselves in this moment of romantic rain. This short story is for the romantic in all of us. If you dream of and believe in love and romance, you are part way there to making your dreams come true. This is pure, sweet romance! It’s a treat.

Author: Terry Atkinson

Rating: Rating: 5.00 / 5
5 reviews

Tales Of The Babysitter Volume 4 (Older man younger woman, babysitter, short romance) by Claudia Chapman

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Keith Simms was the type of person people gravitated towards. Perhaps it was his chosen profession of advertising sales that caused him to be so outgoing and friendly. He had prided himself on being an honest, hard-working man whose integrity was more important then making sales. He believed in the goodness of people and it reflected in his face, his expressions, his body language and even in his voice.

The change to him was sudden, shocking, but not unexpected.

Tamara Simms made a stop at a convenience store on her way home from work. The weather was clear, the wind was cool on her skin, and the sun had just set. She needed to top off her tank, pick up a roll of paper towels, and get home in time to bake some Stromboli and get Keith and Ricky (their little boy) ready for the road trip they had scheduled for the next day.

The first shot rang out and hit her clavicle with enough force to spin her around. The items she was carrying strewn about, the second shot struck her at the base of her neck, disconnecting her spinal cord from her brain.

She was dead before she hit the floor.

The robber was a rookie, a 19 year-old kid trying to feed a heroin addiction. He was so wired, when she walked around the corner of the aisle, she startled him and he reacted on impulse. The result was the death of Keith Simms’ beautiful wife.

The killer had taken his eyes off of the clerk and by the time he fired his shot from the .44 Magnum hidden under the counter, it was just too late. It became too late for the killer as well. The clerk shot and his his mark, the left temporal lobe. Instantly dead.

Keith’s mourning had turned into full blown alcoholism and a lack of concern for anyone or anything, except for his sorrowful moments concerning his son, Ricky.
It had been difficult and almost killed him, leaving Ricky without a mother and in reality without a father too.

At the lowest point in his life, in stepped someone new, an angel. She despised Keith at first, but would she have the strength and patience to save him and his son from a fate worse than death? Would her love and adoration for a small innocent boy withstand the shrapnel from his self-destructive father? Will he wake up long enough to see the value of the gift he had been given?

She would either be his redemption, or his destruction…

*Warning* This book contains explicit contains intended for adults.

Author: Claudia Chapman

Rating: Rating: 5.00 / 5
5 reviews

The Dweller on Mountain White: An Accidental Love Story by R.J. Kenzie

An Accidental Love Story.

Beth Porter’s intent to relax and get her life in order on a personal ski trip is shattered when she makes a wrong turn, gets lost, and careened her car into a snow-filled ditch on Mountain White. Delirious, and half-unconscious, she is plucked from the brink of death by a mountain monster, or so she thought.
The mountain monster had a name, and it was Tyler Skov, a quiet mountain dweller who prefers books to television and walkie-talkies to cellphones. Accustomed to the silence and living alone, he is forced to adjust to Beth’s non-stop chatter and New York state of mind.
Learning to coexist, they discover that they have more in common than they realized and that an accidental car crash created more than a friendship, it created a bond that could not be broken, or forgotten.

Author: R.J. Kenzie

Rating: Rating: 5.00 / 5
5 reviews

Tides of Hope: Second Chance Romance (A Nantucket Island Romance Book 1) by Dawn Tomasko

Sara Shepard is determined to rebuild her life on Nantucket Island. Finding her true self and starting her dream business is just the beginning.

Sara doesn’t want to fall for the sexy carpenter hired to remodel her beach cottage, but he’s hard to resist. Gabriel makes her laugh, undresses her with his eyes and stirs up feelings she thought long dead.

Gabriel Donovan is instantly attracted to Sara, but it’s more than her beautiful face and curvy body that pulls at him. While he admires her fiercely guarded independence, it’s the spunky, funny, kind woman under it all that makes him want to tear down the walls around her heart.

Once they give in to their explosive chemistry, a dangerous ex-husband, a dirty secret from Gabriel’s past and a horrific accident threaten to destroy what Sara and Gabriel have found together.

Author: Dawn Tomasko

Rating: Rating: 4.90 / 5
5 reviews