After a one night stand with an irresistible Marine who's seen your sins & knows your secrets.. Now he's on your doorstep.. You should have known you couldn't hide from the hunter forever.. ... Kirby Carter has always had one priority above all others.. Keeping her sister safe.. Not as easy as it sounds when she's living a double life on the run, especially when her new home has been compromised and she and her sister are looking down the barrel of relocating, yet again.. At least that's the plan.. Until one night of pure passion with a perfect stranger turns into a far more dangerous game than the one she signed up for.. Can she outrun her terrible past or will Kirby finally be caught in the Hunter's snare... Title four of The Specter Series.

Mateo Sanchez is a wounded warrior. He's 22 years old and on the mend from the injuries he received in a battle that took his fellow Marine's life. He's angry and unsettled, trying to get back to the man he used to be. Ashlyn West has always been a rescuer. She works at the hospital helping wounded vets get stronger. She's seen the way an injury can annihilate the life of the men who have been brave enough to sacrifice for their country. She's a fighter...and a lover, but she hasn't met her toughest patient yet. When Ashlyn gets assigned to Mateo's shift, the two of them are forced to spend time together everyday. Mateo quickly learns that his physical therapy isn't only going to be torture on his leg, watching her with bend and move is going to be torture on his libido. The two quickly find that his limb isn't the only thing needing mending. Will he fight leaning on her or will the two of them find a hotter way to build his physical endurance? Lean On Me will be the third book in the Dear Bailey Series. It can be read as a stand-alone novel. If you like your stories hot and your leading male hotter....then this is the one for you.

Book two of the Ironclad Series- don't have to read it in order but some parts may make more sense with character development Ace has spent years keeping his heart locked down, always finding happiness in solitude. He's good at what he does, and he leads the ironclad security team with tight orders. It's how he has kept them all safe and alive for years. Toni is a single mom. Solitude isn't in her vocabulary when she has a preteen son who doubles as her best friend. She has survived the worst of her past, or so she thought. Everything she has done has always been to protect her son. Ace knew from the moment he saw her that there was something there. Something that this feisty funny women does to him. Both of them have a lifetime of walls built up, and neither of them have a habit of letting people in. But when the past she thought she had run from comes back to bite, can she face the truth? Can she let herself believe that maybe she can love and trust someone else? Some battles break you Some battles save you And some battles lead you to a future you never dared to dream.

I thought knights in shining armour were for fairytales... until one hockey player made me believe otherwise. • • • She was promised to someone else. He promised himself he'd never cross the line. Madden knows better than to want the coach's daughter - especially when she's engaged to another man, polished and charming, the kind everyone admires. But he also knows when something isn't right. And he sees what she can't: the subtle control, the quiet manipulations, the too tight smile. So he becomes her safe place. Her anchor. No demands. No expectations. Just quiet, steady devotion. Selena never expected freedom to feel this gentle... or love to feel this patient. She thought she had to survive alone. She thought desire always came with risk. But with Madden, safety and passion aren't opposites - they're inseparable. But devotion has a way of becoming something sacred - especially when it's built on trust, not temptation.

Perfect appearances, perfect grades, perfect manners. Anything less for Adelina Torres and her family kicks her to the streets until she can keep up with the family name. She never had a life of her own. Always studying, always going to business dinners with her parents, always seen as a failure to her family. Despite her bubbly personality, she has always struggled to make friends. What happens when she meets Aaron Hendrix, the leader of the most powerful mafia in the country? A moment to thank you beautiful readers for giving me these rankings among thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions of other stories with similar tags :) #1 in mafia #1 in protective #1 in abused #1 in sunshine #1 in grumpy #2 in innocent #2 in cold #2 in goodgirl #3 in cute #9 in badboy #42 in family #54 in love

BEING PUBLISHED BY W BY WATTPAD FREE STORY. PAID BONUS CHAPTERS. Two complete opposites. One assignment. After making it through her freshman year at the University of Southern California. Avalon Miller planned to get through sophomore year and every year after that by doing the same thing. Fitting in. What more could she possibly want? Apparently, a confident and sexy football player who has every girl falling at his feet. Everyone except Avalon, anyway. Her plan for staying under the radar vanishes into oblivion when she must spend the entire semester with the football players, including the senior heartthrob and star quarterback Noah Jackson. When Avalon crashes into his life and doesn't fall to his feet like every other girl, it's a breath of fresh air. One he can't get enough of. He introduces her to the life of a football player, but never expected to take an interest in her along the way. Something no one, not even him, expected as he doesn't date. Both of them are holding back from loving again due to their past relationships but love is something he didn't even know he was looking for until she walked into his life and something, she didn't know she was missing until she falls in love with him along the way. A journalism major and a football player...what could possibly go wrong? [The Jackson Family Series Book 1]

"He'd pay me two grand a month to sleep with me?" "No. He'd pay you two grand a 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬." ... Maggie is a college student working as a stripper in Las Vegas when a close friend approaches her with a proposition. High-end escorting. Desperate to gain independence and pay off a variety of debts, the offer seems more than tempting. Cut off from her family and their illegally-gained wealth, she decides to make money with the only thing that is truly hers: her body. As she pursues a profession in sex work as a way to regain control of her life, her dark past comes back to haunt her, throwing quite a wrench into her plans. Maggie tries to mask her previous losses with love in its various forms. But what is the reality of finding true love when your job is getting paid to sleep with other people? ... *Frequent explicit sexual content, intended for 18+ audiences ONLY. This story is stand alone. You DO NOT need to read the first story to understand this one, but there will be a major spoiler in the second half. Please remember to vote and comment!

"Forever was a simple promise before it became a difficult task" Your first love is always the hardest to let go of, which is why Delilah and Mason had promised each other that after college they'd make it work. Unfortunately for them both, their forever had an expiration date. Now it's four years later and they're strangers again. But these strangers have a past, and that past is determined to find its way back to them. When a weekend home causes their paths to cross for the first time in years, they're reminded of just how much they've missed out on. So when a tragedy strikes that forces Mason back to their hometown at the same time Delilah is doing her clinical hours for PA school, their lives are once again intertwined. Will they make it through this time? Or will the past pressure be too much of a reminder that they couldn't make it work? ~~~ A second chance, small town, sports romance that is: I WISH YOU THE BEST. Wattpad Editor's Choice / August 2023

Willow Creek, First Responders Series Book 2 Willow Creek loves three things: community festivals, gossip, and watching Fire Captain Kai Hart and EMT Violet Sinclair try (and fail) not to flirt. They're rivals with matching egos, professional respect, and a standing bet that turns every training into foreplay and every prank into a declaration of war. One disastrous "Station Games" tie, one trophy room door, and one grainy video later, the rumor mill crowns a new champion. Now the town wants answers, Kai wants Violet out of his head and into his bed (again), and Violet wants to keep her career intact while pretending the firefighter who drives her insane isn't also the safest place she's ever landed. From water-balloon wars to accidental sexts, from shower steam to ladder-truck shadows, their not-a-relationship keeps igniting-until a call goes sideways and the sirens won't drown out how much they matter. He says he's not jealous. She says it was just stress relief. Willow Creek says: pull up a chair. Enemies to lovers, first responders, filthy banter, found family, and a town that never misses a beat. Fully Involved is a laugh-out-loud, scorch-the-pages rom-com featuring a mouthy medic, a bossy fire captain, inappropriate wagers, locker-room meddling, and enough heat to melt turnout gear.

He trashes my ice. I ruin his game plan. Lacy Carter runs Lakeside Rink with a clipboard, a perfect three-turn, and a zero-tolerance policy for cocky hockey captains. Enter Beckett "Beck" Rourke-a walking penalty who leaves slush, rule violations, and smug grins in his wake. When the city threatens to cut funding unless they cohost a winter fundraiser, the rink manager and the team's golden boy are forced onto the same sheet of ice. Their truce lasts exactly one practice. Beckett needs help with his edges; Lacy needs his team to stop treating her rink like a demolition derby. Midnight lessons turn into breath-stealing proximity. A fake date for donors becomes a real problem for self-control. One hotel room, one very loud goal horn, and one viral hallway kiss later, the town ships them harder than a Zamboni after overtime. But saving the rink means playing by the rules Lacy swore she'd never break again, and Beck's career can't survive a scandal. When the cameras catch fire and sponsors get skittish, he'll have to decide if he's protecting his image-or the woman who makes every inch of ice feel like home. Enemies on the surface. Partners under pressure. And when they finally stop fighting the pull? Let's just say the boards aren't the only things getting rocked. A filthy-sweet, enemies-to-lovers rom-com with a molten slow burn, explosive payoff, and a guaranteed HEA.