Pretend You’re Mine: A Small Town Love Story by Lucy Score leads the Self-Published Bestsellers List this week.
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Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of November 12, 2015
1. Pretend You’re Mine: A Small Town Love Story by Lucy Score: “Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. Strong, sweet, and sexy, he doesn’t have a girlfriend and doesn’t want one. When the wildly beautiful Harper stumbles into his life, though, he realizes that she’s the perfect decoy. A fake girlfriend to keep his family off his back until he’s out on another mission.”
2. Mechanic by Alexa Riley: “Everything was fine until that innocent little rich girl walked into my garage. Since the second I laid my eyes on her, all I’ve wanted to do is get my dirty hands on her pure body. There’s one minor obstacle standing in my way, but I’ve got a plan. All I’ve got to do is claim her, and she’ll be mine forever.”
3. Roommates by Erin Leigh: “Life is full of expectations. For Brady Coldwell it’s always been about the game. Hockey is and always will be, his life. His family sacrificed everything to get him here and he won’t let them down. He knows what’s expected of him.”
4. Arrogant Playboy by Winter Renshaw: “PLAYBOY. Noun. A moneyed man who spends his time enjoying himself, especially one who acts irresponsibly or is sexually promiscuous. Synonyms: ladies man, philanderer, womanizer. See Also: Beckham King.”
5. Prince Albert by Sabrina Paige: “He’s the most famous one on the planet – wealthy, gorgeous, and a notorious playboy. He’s also the most conceited, insufferable, arrogant man I’ve ever met. Did I mention he’s a freaking prince? An actual, real life Prince Not-So-Charming.”
6. Call Me Killer: A Bad Boy Romance by Linda Barlow: “She doesn’t know they call me Killer. Used to be I could get any woman I wanted… I had the Harley, the tats, the ripped bod, the badass attitude. No ties, no commitments, no limits, no worries. Until a girl I was seeing vanished.”
7. Kian by Tijan: “As the heir to a billion dollar empire, his future was promising until the day he saved my life. Everything changed for both of us, and there was one more word that could be used to describe him—dangerous.”
8. Kellan: A Bad Boy Military MMA Romance by Sienna Valentine: “They call me Killer. Killer Kellan. It’s a name I earned in Afghanistan, before I ever set foot in a ring. I’ve been a screw-up my entire life, but joining the Marines was supposed to straighten me out. Instead, all it did was make me dangerous.”
9. Gentry Boys (Books 1-4) by Cora Brent: “They called us ‘those white trash Gentry boys’ until we believed that’s what we were. Our people squatted at the edge of a hellhole prison town for generations. The childhood we endured was the stuff of nightmares. I’d learned early on that my brothers, Chase and Creed, were the only people on earth worth my time.”
10. Undercover Love: A Billionaire Romance by Lucy Score: “Despite being smart, sassy, and driven, Ashley finds herself left out in the cold thanks to her fiancé Steve’s career. During a disastrous cocktail party, Ashley’s finds herself all alone after being ignored by Steve and humiliated by his ice queen colleague Victoria.”
Smashwords Self-Published Bestsellers for the Week of November 12, 2015
1. Methods of Pulse Differentiation and Assessment 辨脉平脉法 Biàn Mài Píng Mài Fǎ by Stephen Bonzak & Tzu-Ying Chiang
2. Negotiating for Success: Essential Strategies and Skills by George J. Siedel
3. Private Practice Preparedness – The Health Care Professional’s Guide to Closing a Practice Due to Retirement, Death, or Disability by Rob Reinhardt, LPCS, M.Ed., NCC & Anne M. “Nancy” Wheeler
4. A Guidebook to Inks,Paints And Functional Inks by Robert Murray-Smith
5. Prodigals Do Come Home by Bob Steinkamp
6. Naturally Flawless: A holistic approach to clear skin by Andisheh Farahmand
7. Supercapacitors 101 – A home Inventors Handbook by Robert Murray-Smith
8. Where Is My Child? The Lost Families of Vietnam Veterans by Bonita J Caracciolo