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  • Call Back by Denise Grover Swank

    Call Back by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Third book in the USA Today bestselling Magnolia Steele Mystery series.When Magnolia Steele started digging into her father's disappearance, she had no idea she'd find so much dirt. The secrets she unearthed have changed the official story of what happened to him...
  • The Quinn Brothers Trilogy by Nora Roberts

    The Quinn Brothers Trilogy by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    SEA SWEPT A champion boat racer, Cameron Quinn traveled the world spending his winnings on champagne and women. But when his dying father calls him home to care for Seth, a troubled young boy not unlike Cameron once was, his life changes overnight. . . In the end, a social worker, as tough as she is beautiful, will decide Seth's fate...
  • Gray Wolf Security: Back Home by Glenna Sinclair

    Gray Wolf Security: Back Home by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Kindle Unlimited Bundle... Enjoy the complete 4th Volume of Gray Wolf Security. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 5 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) AUDRA I’d never worked undercover. But I danced in the strip clubs before I joined the Army and I knew that world...
  • Sins of the Father by Denise Grover Swank

    Sins of the Father by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the fallout from J.R. Simmons’ death begins to settle, some of the victims are still dealing with the results of that deadly night. Rose mourns the changes in her life and struggles to move on. Neely Kate is devastated when Joe leaves Henryetta two weeks after his father’s death and refuses to speak to her...
  • Kyron by Dale Mayer

    Kyron by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kyron swore he wouldn’t work with dogs anymore, but, when Badger asks him to go home to Aspen and to track a missing War Dog, who is missing her left leg—as he is—Kyron can’t refuse. Even if it means seeing his brother and his wife again. Not that he had anything against them. Kyron just couldn’t deal with his parents...
  • Gage's Goal by Dale Mayer

    Gage's Goal by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gage hadn’t told the rest of his team, but he’d planned to meet up with Lorelei after their team disbanded. A little one-on-one time was needed to see if all the sparks they’d felt over the last few years were the real thing. He’d deliberately avoided getting involved with anyone he worked with, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity...
  • The Wedding Plan by Kathi Daley

    The Wedding Plan by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this mystery series set in the small town of White Eagle Montana. In book 10 in the series, Tess and Tony plan a secret wedding ceremony, Nona plans a visit, and Tess and Mike plan a face to face meeting with their father. Of course you know what they say about the best laid plans...
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    animals  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  dogs  family
  • Gray Wolf Security: Wyoming by Glenna Sinclair

    Gray Wolf Security: Wyoming by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Free with Kindle Unlimited... Enjoy the complete Volume 3 of the Gray Wolf Security series. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 5 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) HANK I’m a cowhand...
  • Mercy & Mayhem by Lindsay Cross

    Mercy & Mayhem by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He wanted nothing but revenge… until her. Mack Grey wants one thing in his life: vengeance for the ex-CIA operative who betrayed his team, Jack Mankel. And he’s finally got the traitor within grasp, all he has to do is catch a hop across the Congo and capture his enemy. He had no idea the depths to which Mankel’s evil could reach. She never thought she could love again… until him...
  • Danger Close by Fiona Quinn

    Danger Close by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Too close for comfort…Alone in the wilds of mountainous Asia, Jett undertakes an undercover military operation. With threats all around her, alone is the last thing she should be. So, when help arrives, she’s ready to get off the cliff’s edge and back to civilization.But when her teammate’s K9 partner shows up carrying a plea for help, nothing will stop Jett from racing to the rescue...
  • Alaskan Rescue by Terri Reed

    Alaskan Rescue by Terri Reed

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A mountain search-and-rescue missionturns into a fight for their lives.Sent to find a wedding party that disappeared during a hike, Alaskan state trooper Hunter McCord and his K-9 partner, Juneau, discover bridesmaid Ariel Potter hanging from a cliff. But this was no accident—she was pushed—and her hiking companions are missing...
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    animals  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  dogs  fiction
  • Betrayed: Book Two - The Road to Redemption by Nicky Charles

    Betrayed: Book Two - The Road to Redemption by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How do you love again when your heart is dead? How do you know when it’s time to let go?Damien’s kicked about the country these past three years. No pack. No purpose. No reason to keep on living. When an old friend, Kane Sinclair, asks for his help, he agrees and heads to Chicago. After all, what does he have to lose?Sam’s grown up on the streets...
  • Another Man's Treasure by S.W. Hubbard

    Another Man's Treasure by S.W. Hubbard

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On a snowy Christmas Eve, a beautiful young mother goes out to buy a few last minute gifts and never returns…. ….thirty years later, her daughter picks up her trail. As the owner of an estate sale business, Audrey Nealon knows a lot about art, antiques, and the unlikely places old people hide their treasures...
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    animals  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Justice by Jodi Burnett

    Justice by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A US Marshal K9 ThrillerUS Deputy Marshal Caitlyn Reed, and her K9 partner, Renegade, are tasked with guarding a federal judge in an obscure court in north-western Wyoming. What should be a boring assignment soon explodes into an all-out catastrophe when a killer makes several attempts on the judge’s life...
    Categorized as:
    animals  suspense  cats  mystery  romance  dogs  fiction  crime
  • Explosive Situation by Terri Reed

    Explosive Situation by Terri Reed

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Coming soon! Explosive Situation by Terri Reed will be available Jul 01, 2020...
    Categorized as:
    animals  cats  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  dogs
  • Wade's War by Dale Mayer

    Wade's War by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sophia met Wade a few years back, and the last she heard from him was he’d be back to take her out to dinner—and never saw him again. Having spent several years in the meantime working with Merk and his team in Texas, when Terk called for her help, Sophia jumped at the opportunity to go. Even if Wade didn’t get it, she knew a connection worth trying for when she felt it...
  • Storm by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Storm by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    StormI had one job, get Jessica "Rabbit" Finley to sell her property to Reed Security. I could do that. I was Army Strong. Hell, I took down bad guys for a living. I could handle this sexy vixen. No problem. Except, she's a little crazy. She thinks that there are ghosts on her property, and she has the men at Reed Security believing her too...
  • A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    A Humbug Holiday by London Lovett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's holiday time in Firefly Junction but not everything is sweet sugarplums and glittery tinsel.Sunni Taylor has been too busy to get into the holiday spirit, even with her mom coming to town for a visit. Her festive spirit gets a spark when Detective Brady Jackson asks her to attend the town's production of A Christmas Carol...
  • Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Savage Nature by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When Saria Boudreaux finds a dead body in the Louisiana bayou near her home, her first instinct is to go to the police. But there's a problem: it looks like the victim may have been killed by a big cat - and her brothers are all shape-shifting leopards...
  • The Hitwoman and the Poisoned Apple by J.B. Lynn

    The Hitwoman and the Poisoned Apple by J.B. Lynn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    How do you solve a murder when the victim is still alive? Maggie Lee’s murder mentor (and almost lover) Patrick Mulligan wants her to find out who poisoned him before it’s too late. Keeping the man she loves alive would be hard enough if all she had to worry about was not getting caught, but nothing’s ever that simple...
  • Count Catula by Kathi Daley

    Count Catula by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cait and the gang set out to find a killer when novelist Amanda Lowman is found dead just an hour after speaking to the Mystery Lovers Book Club about her true crime novel: The Vampire Murders. As Cait delves into Amanda's death she finds a spider web of lies and half truths that could very well be tied to a series of murders that took place fifteen years prior...
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    animals  cats  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  culinary
  • Treasure and Protect by Lori Ryan

    Treasure and Protect by Lori Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's finished waiting. Cora Walker is tired of waiting for Justin Kensington to open his eyes and see that they could be great together. No worries. She's got a Man Plan, More specifically, a Get-Over-The-Man Plan. Or maybe she'll call it the Move-on Method. Whatever. It involves online dating and sorting through the losers to find her winner...
  • Two Down, Bun to Go by H.Y. Hanna

    Two Down, Bun to Go by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A sinister phone call in the middle of the night throws tearoom owner, Gemma Rose, straight into the heart of a new murder mystery—this time with her friend, Seth, arrested as the key suspect! The grisly killing in the cloisters of an old Oxford college points to a bitter feud within the University—but Gemma finds unexpected clues popping up in her tiny Cotswolds village...
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    animals  cats  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Till Death Do Us Tart by H.Y. Hanna

    Till Death Do Us Tart by H.Y. Hanna

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Oxfordshire tearoom owner, Gemma Rose, enters her little tabby, Muesli, in the cat show at the local village fair, the last thing she expects is to stumble across a murder. And when her meddling mother and the nosy Old Biddies decide to start their own investigation, Gemma has no choice but to join in the sleuthing...
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    animals  cats  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Into the Deep by Colleen Coble

    Into the Deep by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A local scientist misses his son's birthday party and turns up dead in Lake Superior. A radical environmental group blames a mysterious lab for the dead fish found in a remote stream. Then an Alzheimer's patient goes missing and his home is ransacked. Into the Deep is third in the acclaimed romantic suspense series from best-selling author Colleen Coble...
  • Finding You by T.M. Cromer

    Finding You by T.M. Cromer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finding You is a heart-wrenching, suspenseful story about one woman and her faith in true love. Due to adult themes, this book is not recommended for anyone under the age of 18.Heat level: 3.5Tissue consumption level: 1 boxShe didn’t see this one coming.Samantha Holt had the perfect relationship—until one day, she didn’t...
  • Circumstantial Evidence by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Circumstantial Evidence by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Selected as a Best of 2015 by All About Romance Book Blog As Chief of Police in Sweetwater, South Carolina, Will Hawbaker has seen more than his share of violent crime. But none of it has prepared him for the aftereffects of a young boy dead at the hand of his mother’s boyfriend. And when the suspected killer turns up dead himself, it raises more questions...
  • Descend to Darkness by Heather Graham

    Descend to Darkness by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham comes a new story in her Krewe of Hunters series…Angela Hawkins Crow awakens to find herself in total darkness. Despite her years as a Krewe agent, she is first seized with panic, but her life and her training kick in...
  • Watching Willow by Ann Omasta

    Watching Willow by Ann Omasta

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the verge of losing her job, local television star Willow Winks desperately seeks the one thing she believes can save her fledgling career--a golden retriever sidekick.Willow thought being told she was getting too old for television was the most frightening thing a celebrity diva could hear--until she and her furry best friend, Buddy, receive a threatening letter...
  • Chancing Hope by Lisa Slater

    Chancing Hope by Lisa Slater

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In "Chancing Hope," readers are introduced to Kerwyn Bartel, a skilled young horse trainer with an uncanny ability to recognize a horse's potential and help them overcome their fears. However, applying these same instincts to his own life proves to be much more challenging...
  • Shattered by Dale Mayer

    Shattered by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some events are life shattering… Caught in a gilded cage for most of her life, Hannah keeps trying to escape. There’s something wrong with her the doctors can’t diagnose, but she’d rather be free and die than stay trapped… forever. When she's caught once again, Trevor offers her a unique way out...
  • She Shall Have Music by ReGina Welling

    She Shall Have Music by ReGina Welling

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aura reader, Amethyst sees everyone around her through a lens of shifting colors and emotions.When the one person she never expects to see again turns up after three years, she will have to decide if their relationship deserves a second chance. Reid Grayson knows it is time to walk away from the family business. What he doesn’t know is what to do next...
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    animals  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Mayhem's Hero by Lindsay Cross

    Mayhem's Hero by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He needs someone to tell him he’s worth saving. Diggs never mattered— not in his family. Project Mayhem left him with nothing but questions about who he is and confirmation that he can’t contribute to the team. He’s tired of being overshadowed by his brothers; Diggs needs something more… someone more. She’s about to fall for the man who could hurt her more than anyone...
  • Dead Even by Patti Larsen

    Dead Even by Patti Larsen

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Retired Guild Artemis Inquisitor Georgia Drake has left the paranormal world behind after the death of her partner in the line of duty. Along with her job investigating crime and murder. With her Hades Guardian mastiff, Benjamin, and raven pair for company, she moves her entire life across the continent to escape not only the loss but her oppressive and powerful family...
  • The Mad Catter by Kathi Daley

    The Mad Catter by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Whales and Tails cozy mystery series is set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry...
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    animals  cats  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Fatal Truth by Misty Evans

    Fatal Truth by Misty Evans

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **First in a thrilling, new romantic suspense series by USA TODAY bestselling author Misty Evans! **Other books in the series include FATAL HONOR and FATAL COURAGE. She’s an investigative reporter who lives to uncover the truth. Feisty television host Savanna Bunkett exposes government cover-ups on her award-winning show, The Bunk Stops Here...
  • Hallow Be the Haunt by Heather Graham

    Hallow Be the Haunt by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Years ago, Jake Mallory fell in love all over again with Ashley Donegal—while he and the Krewe were investigating a murder that replicated a horrible Civil War death at her family’s Donegal Plantation. Now, Ashley and Jake are back—planning for their wedding, which will take place the following month at Donegal Plantation, her beautiful old antebellum home...
  • All Too Familiar by Belinda White

    All Too Familiar by Belinda White

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A familiar is a life-long companion. Choose wisely.It's hard being the youngest in a family of witches known for their power. It's even harder when that magical power has all but passed you by.Still, I was doing okay for myself. I like to think I was proving to the rest of my family that magic wasn't a requirement to living.Then Aunt Opal was accused of murder...
  • Bitter Reckoning by Heather Graham

    Bitter Reckoning by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All of their extraordinary adventures makes an ordinary vacation very appealing Danni Cafferty and Michael Quinn are happy to accept an invitation to a new couples resort from a friend of Danni’s...
  • Lightning Lingers by Barbara Freethy

    Lightning Lingers by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the second book in a new romantic suspense trilogy: Lightning Strikes. In these connected novels, lightning leads to love, danger, and the unraveling of long-buried secrets that will change not only the past but also the future… Katherine Barrett, a dedicated young doctor, receives a terrified phone call from her brother, TJ...
  • Summer Rain by Barbara Freethy

    Summer Rain by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From #1 NYT Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes the third and final book in the Lightning Strikes Romantic Suspense Trilogy. Action, suspense, romance and family secrets lead to an explosive conclusion! Danielle Monroe is determined to use her new job in DC as a stepping-stone to a high-powered political career...
  • Mystic Falls by Vickie McKeehan

    Mystic Falls by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emotionally reeling after the death of her grandmother, Gemma Channing is settling into Coyote Wells, the hometown where she grew up, after a ten-year absence. While trying to come to terms with the loss of her Gram, disturbing things begin to happen. Women are disappearing...
  • Beyond a Doubt by Colleen Coble

    Beyond a Doubt by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing seems beyond a doubt when Bree opens a cold-case file with clues too close for comfort. Arson. Theft. Murder. When Bree Nichols discovers a corpse in her own basement, a whirlwind investigation ushers an unbidden danger to all she holds dear...
  • Stop Me by Brenda Novak

    Stop Me by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Who was the real killer? Romain Fornier lost his reason for living when his daughter was kidnapped and murdered. He used a cop's gun to mete out his own justice and spent the next few years in prison. Once he was freed, he returned to his Cajun roots in small-town Louisiana. But now he learns that he might have killed the wrong man...
  • Chicken Scratch by Becki Willis

    Chicken Scratch by Becki Willis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Named 2016 Best Mystery Series by Texas Association of Authors. When Madison Reynolds finds herself widowed and penniless before forty, she does the only thing she knows to do – she packs up her teenage twins and moves back home with her eighty-year-old grandmother...
  • Beowolf by Fiona Quinn

    Beowolf by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They weren’t looking for love. But fate—and a dog named Beowolf—had other plans…Retired military pilot Thaddeus (Nutsbe) Crushed deserves peace and quiet. If his work in tactical operations for Iniquus’s Panther Force hadn’t earned him that right, the fact that he lost his legs in the service of his country should’ve...
  • Savage Sanctuary: A Dire Wolves Mission by Ellis Leigh

    Savage Sanctuary: A Dire Wolves Mission by Ellis Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's no escaping a Dire Wolf on the hunt... Even as the playboy of the Dire Wolves, Levi isn't exactly a soft touch. He likes his liquor, his women, and his photographs...but he also has an affinity for sharp knives and claws...
  • Peaceful Slumber by Nikki Lynn Barrett

    Peaceful Slumber by Nikki Lynn Barrett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Scott I was somewhat normal once. Until I died. It was only for a few minutes, but ever since then, I can see ghosts. The first time I see her is in the cemetery, wearing a blood stained wedding dress. No one else knows she exists. I have no idea how to help her or why I chose to, but she's here now...
  • No Going Back: Soft Focus / After Dark by Jayne Ann Krentz, Jayne Castle

    No Going Back: Soft Focus / After Dark by Jayne Ann Krentz, Jayne Castle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two exciting novels by the New York Times bestselling author, collected for the first time in one volume...
  • Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Charlie Modine didn’t find any justice in life. And the afterlife hasn’t been much better. Still, Modine’s ghost is more determined than ever to find the cold-blooded murderer who ran his wife down on the streets of New York City. Tortured and tormented, Modine asks for help from the only person who will listen. The only one who knows he’s there. Abby Craig...
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