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noah and krista have been friends forever. and both of them have been in love with the other one since forever too. of course noah is a commitment-phobe with issues and of course he can't admit that. so instead he freaks out when krista kisses him when she's had too much to drink one night. stolen kisses  spends a bit of time laying the groundwork for how they each believed the other person had completely friend-zoned them, and the back and forth from krista's perspective who is actively pining for noah and wants him so desperately and believes that he does not see her that way at all, to noah's where he totally thinks krista is hot and she's the only girl he wants to be around in his life even if he can't admit it and is afraid that krista is finally ready to move on. the best-friends-to-lovers trope follows some pretty standard plot points. and they get hit here. once krista and noah finally given in to the building sexual tension it's a relief, and th...

  when alex larue first encounters brie bennett he couldn't have made a worse first impression. both of them come away from that encounter with the complete wrong idea about the other person. the truth is that alex and brie have a lot in common.  and that common ground is what brings them into each other's orbits and allows their relationship to grow. they have a lot of baggage and undiagnosed trauma to contend with. but they both have these huge hearts that are begging to be filled with love. because they both have incredible amounts of love to give, and when they open themselves to receiving that love whole-heartedly it has the power to heal the hurts of the past. and then, and only then, is there a real chance of moving forward. for a sports romance game on  is less focused on hockey than it is on the abuses and gaps of the foster care system and how easy it is to slip through the cracks. as alex and brie work together to prevent another child from slipping t...

when sydney ragsdale finds herself moving to her grandparent's vacation home in hope at christmas   in order to get away from atlanta and the memories of her life before divorce she isn't holding out high expectations for her new life. but when she reconnects with the owner of the bookstore she adored visiting every summer, she finds herself feeling stronger and better about her new life in hopewell. she's still adjusting to being a single mom. and her daughter is suffering quite a bit of emotional distress caused by her father and his utter selfishness. for both sydney and rayanne christmas at hopewell will be a challenge. except that with the best santa claus for miles and a town enthusiastic about the spirit of the season it is hard from either of them to stay down in the dumps for long. more women's fiction than straight out romance, there is still a sweet romance with the aforementioned santa claus, also known as coach mac. a single dad who loves christmas wi...

catching the player   continues the hamilton family series with wyatt hamilton's story. he lives and breathes football, so the last thing he expects is to fall for a prank singing telegram performer. but fall for kassidy thomas he does. it just takes him a while to figure this out. because he has always assumed that there would be nothing else in his life other than football. that in order to be the best football player he could be, he needed to eschew romantic entanglements or anything else that would distract from his focus on the game. but without trying he finds himself all tangled up with kass. and she is trying so hard to only take what he is willing to give her. she's so used to planning out every aspect of her life and is sick and tired of feeling bored and uninspired. being with wyatt is anything but boring. and so what if she knows this is only going to end in heartbreak. being with him any way she can get him is worthwhile. or it will be worth her while u...

cole harrington is the world's worst boss. he's inconsiderate and demanding and there are literally so many reasons kiersten abbott has to hate him.  69 million things i hate about you  covers all the tiny ways cole makes kiersten's life impossible. and when one lucky evening she wins 69 million dollars in the lottery, she decides that turnabout is fair play. so she decides that it is her turn to make his life impossible. she figures that with his inability to endure inconvenience the first time she lets her attitude slip he'll fire her. but he doesn't. and as things escalate to more outrageous behavior, cole finds himself enchanted by the feistiness his former perfect assistant is showing. by all accounts he should fire her. but ever the contrarian he knows this is what she wants. and even with the attitude she is still the best assistant he will ever have. he knows this. besides, the more inappropriate kiersten is, the more he wants to spend tim...

when beth caplan starts college she's already lived through significant trauma.   in pieces   is not about her recovery, it's about her showing her strength and maturity in the face of problems that would have broken her in the past. and the one thing she has in her life, that she didn't then, is the support of david march. he is her older brother's rough-around-the-edges best friend. but he has always been her champion. even when she didn't know it. he's loved her for as long as he can remember, and the only thing that keeps him from declaring it is the fact that his best friend doesn't approve of him for his sister. but as circumstances force beth and david into closer proximity, the pull between them is impossible to deny. and eventually they don't want to deny it. because they are the best possible versions of themselves when they are together. and even given everything they have to lose, what they share is immeasurably more precious. this is...

twice as wicked   tells the story of two sets of twins. alice and adelaide were as close as can be, until adelaide fell in love with the wrong man and ended up pregnant and alone in france. and then she died in childbirth and alice felt as if her whole world had been torn apart. her twin sister was the other half of her soul. and when she sees a photograph that might just be of the man who knocked her up, alice decides to take revenge.  when she first meets nathaniel, alice finds herself in the odd position of saving his life. she wishes she could take it back. except there is something about nathaniel that draws her to him and she finds it difficult to plan revenge when she’s so attracted to him. when she learns that he is also a twin, she realizes that it is his brother who is the villain.  her determination to exact revenge keeps alice and nathaniel at cross purposes, and when nicholas enters the mix, the game he plays adds to the mystery. one that remains unclear ev...

sex equals power, maybe? parts  1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 ,  6 ,  7 ,  8 ,  9 ,  10 ,  11 ,  12 ,  13 ,  14 ,  15 ,  16 ,  17 ,  18 ,  19 ,  20 ,  21 ,  22 ,  23 ,  24 ,  25 ,  26 ,  27 ,  28 ,  29 ,  30 ,   31 ,  32 ,  33 ,  34 ,  35 ,  36 ,  37 , 38 , and 39 can be read at the links. read on for part 40...

the men of gold mountain series ends with  make me yours , when single mom claire collins reconnects with ryan thomas, her former love and the father of her daughter maya. when claire left ryan he was in the throes of an addiction to alcohol that took him years to get a handle on. he had no memory of their final days together, no idea that she was carrying his baby, and that she had his baby girl. back then leaving him was the right thing to do. but it doesn't mean that part of her regrets it. she knows she did the right thing for herself and for her daughter, maya. but seeing ryan again is screwing with her head. because it doesn't matter how much time has passed. he is still the one man that does it for her. and when instead of chasing the music, he decides to stay put in gold mountain, it messes with her head even more. because she shouldn't let this man near her daughter, a...

the second military match book,  a seal's strength , finds stephanie mason reconnecting with her old flame gabe donovan. years ago gabe left stephanie behind when his parents were killed. and they lost touch. when they are matched via a military dating service the reunion is slightly awkward, but also welcome. gabe is a widower and during his time in the service he was injured and lost his lower leg (i can't remember if it was his right or left). he's hesitant about meeting new people because that baggage added to the fact that he has a ten-year-old daughter means that he scares prospective partners away well before any serious conversations happen. but with stephanie it's different. she knows him. she loved him once. and as they spend time together they find themselves quickly falling in love again. it's not all smooth-sailing of course, gabe is scared of committing to someone again and stephanie is afraid of losing gabe. getting over him once was hard en...