Recommendations based on "Holding Her Close"

FIRST TIME AVAILABLE If you’re planning on falling in love… When it comes to the confident, charismatic Caleb Parker, Sadie Lane feels the spark—the kind that comes from rubbing each other the wrong way. She’s yoga pants, he’s a suit. She’s a tattoo artist, he’s a straight-laced mogul. But after they accidentally co-rescue an abandoned dog from a storm, Sadie sees a vulnerable side to the seemingly invincible hottie. you’d better be sure… Caleb doesn’t do emotions. Growing up the underdog, he’s learned the hard way to build up an impenetrable wall. Perfect for business. Disastrous for relationships. He’s never worried about it before—not until he finally gets behind Sadie’s armor and begins to fall. … someone is there to catch you. Both guarded and vulnerable, Sadie and Caleb are complete opposites. Or are they? Shocked at their undeniable connection, can they ever admit to wanting more? That all depends on what they’re each willing to risk.

He’s the last single Dare sibling standing.She’s his lost love who disappeared.Now she’s back, bringing secrets and danger.Hadley Stevens is on the run with her younger sister—again—but this time, she’s in control. Zach Dare might hate her, but she knows he’d never turn away someone in need. He’s the only man she trusts. The man she’s never gotten over. Even if she left him without a word.Zach never expected the girl he once loved to walk into his bar. The last time he saw her, he’d dropped her off after school and promised to pick her up for prom. Except she disappeared.Now, she’s back with a new name, but the same doe eyes and pouty lips, and she’s asking for the help he would have gladly given her all those years ago.Zach agrees to protect them, but he refuses to fall for Hadley again. But late nights working side by side give them a tempting glimpse at the life they could have had…and all the reasons he loved her come flooding back.He’ll have to keep her safe.Before he can convince her to stay.

The first book in the sexy, suspenseful Secret Life of Amy Bensen series—now a streaming series on Passionflix—from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. I shouldn’t trust him. I shouldn’t tell him my secrets. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need. At the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loved to start a new life. Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten—even if she cannot forget. But just when she lets her guard down, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run. On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing billionaire recluse, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. And what he wants is Amy. Refusing to take “no” as an answer, he sweeps her into a passionate affair, pushing her to her erotic limits. He wants to possess her. He makes her want to be possessed. Liam demands everything from her, accepting nothing less. But what if she is too devastated by tragedy to know when he wants more than she should give?

Never fall for your best friend.That's the rule. The code.Claire Harlow always follows rules-except this one.However, when an attack leaves both of their worlds shaken, she decides to walk away from what could have been and hide within her own shadows. Kingston Montgomery is the man who saves the day.At least that's what he's always told himself-until one day he was too late.Now he's trying to find his purpose while also ignoring the heat between him and Claire.When a chance blizzard changes their plans, one night turns to two...and then there's no going back. Only the two must overcome what they thought their relationship should be and realize what it could become. Because if they don't figure it out quickly, the spark that ignites them could burn them both.

The last time I saw Lexington Montgomery, he held my sister in his arms as my fiancé left me at the altar.Neither one of us knew it would be two years until we saw each other again. Or that it would be the last time my sister was part of our core group.Grieving, I’m back in Colorado trying to start over. I have no family and have no intention of dating ever again.Only fate has other plans because Lexington Montgomery is my new neighbor.I want to stay away from him, but there’s no chance of that now. Especially when his ex shows up to rub her new husband—and the chance at his dream job—in his face.I didn’t mean to do it, but now I’m Lex’s fake girlfriend over the holidays and there’s nothing fake about the attraction between us.Except once we finally give in, it turns out the past I ran from wasn’t so far away after all. And the dangers we never saw coming might end what we have—fake or not—before we even have a chance.**Last Chance Seduction is a fake relationship, forced proximity, holiday romance in the Montgomery Ink Legacy series featuring Lexington and Mercy. Each book can be read as a complete standalone. An HEA is guaranteed!**Lexington Montgomery is Beckett and Eliza’s son from Inked Obsession. 

He's a special agent who never loses his cool. She's the heat-seeking missle headed straight for his heart. Keeping cool under pressure is the credo C. Smith Rydell lives by. That’s why he was handpicked by the Special Defense Forces for a mission few men survive. So why has the ex-DEA superstar been reassigned to Panama City, playing bodyguard to a blond in a black string bikini? Except Honey York isn’t your average pampered socialite. She’s the woman Rydell caught smuggling cash into El Salvador four months ago. And now she wants him to take her back. All Honey has to do is find the guerrilla camp, deliver the goods, and get the hell out of the jungle—all in forty-eight hours. Only one man is up for the job. But sharing an unforgettable one-night stand was nothing next to being stranded with Rydell on some third world mountaintop. And with bullets flying and all hell breaking loose, now is not the time for passion. As if these two could possibly resist it….

Trying to get his bearings on an unfamiliar street and not paying attention, Jeremy slams his brakes to avoid hitting the most beautiful bride he has ever seen. When Danielle climbs in his truck, he assumes she's in a hurry to get to her wedding; he didn't realize she was escaping one. He agrees to let her return to his apartment so she can call for help, only she refuses to leave.As the days pass, Jeremy finds it harder to fight off her passes and claims of falling in love with him. Besides having almost ten years on her, Jeremy discovers the family secret she had been trying to hide. How could the daughter of a billionaire settle for a plumber living paycheck to paycheck?Despite every tactic her father throws at her and an ex-fianc� who refuses to let her go, Dani stakes her claim to the only thing she has ever truly wanted in her life and fights to make Jeremy hers.

Hailey knows what it's like to want something, well someone you can never have. She's had a crush on her brother's best friend since the day she met him. Over time that crush has intensified and has become so much more. She knows it goes against the bro code, but that doesn't stop her from wishing that Aiden would see her as more than his best friend's little sister.Aiden is lusting after his best friend's little sister. With the blink of an eye, she's all grown up, and suddenly everything he never knew he wanted. No amount of football or distraction can keep him from thinking about her. Over the last year, she's become an essential part of his life. He wants her, even though he knows he shouldn't.As they spend more time together, Hailey and Aiden battle their heart's desire. Both fighting against what they want, but think they can't have.Can they win the fight and open their hearts for more?

"That inked bad boy who's been flirting hard with me since he rode into town? Turns out he's my new housemate, which is one hell of a problem since our chemistry is so hot it should be illegal. I have a fantastic family, great best friends, a job I love ... and now I'm up for a promotion to police sergeant. I need total focus--not a flirty, dirty, irresistible, tattooed hottie riding into my town on his motorcycle. Can I arrest him for being too good-looking? When he kisses me senseless in the back of a waffle truck, it's criminal, the things he makes me think about hot syrup and melted butter. One order of hot, fluffy hookup to go, please. But the next time I see him, it's not for our date with benefits. He's the guy who just rented the room above my garage. I need the rent to pay my bills, not a man like Derek, who I soon discover to be strong, caring, generous, good with kids, and kind to puppies ... If I'm not careful, he'll be moving into my heart as well as my house. *** A no-strings-attached fling with the fiery redhead who revs my engine? Why, yes, that does sound like a delicious perk of my new job in this new town, thank you very much. I'm coming off a bad relationship, and I have zero interest in anything serious. I've got all the serious I need helping my sister take care of her three little kids while her husband is deployed. Except, surprise! Perri isn't just my future fling. Turns out she's my sexy, sassy landlord. A lease definitely counts as "strings attached," and as much as I'd like to get tangled in her sheets, I can't let myself get tangled up in a relationship. But as soon as we put the cuffs on our escapades, I learn over late-night conversations in the kitchen, that my landlord is so much more than the sexiest woman I've ever met- she has a quick mind and the biggest heart. Once I'm in, I'm all in. And to convince her that we should see where this goes, I plan on turning up the heat--and not just in the kitchen."--Back cover

I can't believe it's come to this...It was your classic case of opposites. I was the football star; he was the class clown that put itching powder in my jockstrap. I'm laid back; he's in-your-face loud. I've told everyone for years that I hate him... but hate has an opposite, too.His name is Tripp. He's a social media star. And he's so damn vibrant he makes my teeth ache. And I need to ask him for a favor. My parents are coming to town. The same social climbing idiots who disowned me when I refused to go into something 'prestigious', like medicine or law. The same parents that made my grandmother so upset when they called the other day that she bragged about my new celebrity boyfriend.I don't have a boyfriend, celebrity or otherwise. Now my parents are coming back to town, intent on meeting my nonexistent partner. I just want to get through this visit, appease their pride, and watch them go away again. If Tripp will play pretend for me, maybe we can make it through this visit without bloodshed. And if my inner wolf will settle down, maybe I won't have to wonder whether he's my fated mate or not...Welcome to Blackwater, Montana - a small town with a big personality, where shifters and humans coexist. Claimed By My Pretend Boyfriend is a dual point of view shifter novel with mentions of mpreg and a guaranteed happy ending. The sixth and final in this series, this book can also be read as a standalone.