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  • Breathless by Helen Hardt

    Breathless by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Marjorie Steel, sister of Talon, Jonah, and Ryan, takes center stage in Breathless, the highly anticipated next installment of the Steel Brothers Saga. #1 New York Times, #1 USA Today, and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Helen Hardt has captivated readers with the twists and turns of the Steels, and Marjorie’s story promises to deliver even more heat and surprises...
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  • Risky Ambition by Christy Barritt

    Risky Ambition by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Navy fighter pilot Nate Casper, also known as Ghost, splits his time between flying jet-setting celebrities around the world and volunteering to help with rescues at Vanishing Ranch. When movie star Chesney Blake books a trip with him, Ghost sets aside his attraction to her in order to remain professional...
  • Titus by Christy Barritt

    Titus by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She shattered his heart once. Can he set her betrayal aside for the sake of his country?The last person Titus Armstrong wants to join forces with is the woman who dumped him for his brother, Alex. But Presley Lennox is Blackout’s best chance at infiltrating a dangerous organization known as The System and finding out more about their deadly plans...
  • Her Wild Coast Outlaw: A Small Town Contemporary Romance by Dakota Davies

    Her Wild Coast Outlaw: A Small Town Contemporary Romance by Dakota Davies

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wild attraction. A forbidden passion. Will two kindred hearts surrender to their fiery chemistry?   Hunter:  She should be off-limits to me. Not only is she too sweet, too innocent, her uncle is the boss of this operation. I’m in Storm Harbor to secretly find out why he's stealing from the town’s dock construction project...
  • Symphony by Bea Paige

    Symphony by Bea Paige

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Symphony is made up of four parts… That’s us. Ivan the pained ex-ballet dancer. Anton the unpredictable artist. Erik the damaged violinist. And me, Rose, their Muse. The one. Together they cracked open my heart, they made me feel. Our love story isn’t made up of fairy tales. It’s dark, twisted, but oh so beautiful...
  • Maddox by Christy Barritt

    Maddox by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s on the case . . . and she’s his prime suspect.Classified technology is missing, a delivery driver is dead, and former Navy SEAL Maddox King must find the culprits before a dangerous plan is enacted.To find answers, the Blackout agent must go undercover as a maintenance man at millionaire Seymore Whitlock’s estate...
  • Night Hawk: by Susan Sleeman

    Night Hawk: by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s determined to find her father’s killer…FBI Agent, Toni Long, lost her father a year ago when he was killed in a joint FBI and ICE investigation led by Clay Byrd, a man Toni had found herself infatuated with. Unfortunately, the killer escaped, and if Toni hadn’t been distracted by her attraction to Clay, maybe her father wouldn’t have died...
  • Night Prey by Susan Sleeman

    Night Prey by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She lived for upholding the law…Defense attorney, Malone Rice, doesn’t want to go to her fifteen year class reunion. Attending means running into her former high school flame, now Portland police detective, Ian Blair. But when the committee decides to honor her for her pro-bono work with homeless teens, she knows it would be churlish not to attend. She will have to go and make the best of it...
  • Night Moves by Susan Sleeman

    Night Moves by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you’re in his sights…County social worker, Natalie Dunn discovers a horrible secret about the father of her juvenile clients. The man not only killed one woman, but Natalie suspects he’s killed several others. She plans to go to the authorities, but before she can, the killer turns his sights on her...
  • Dead Silence: by Susan Sleeman

    Dead Silence: by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A child she’ll do anything to keep. After Kelsey Moore’s husband dies, she wants only one thing. To adopt her husband’s son who she has come to call her own. But as she begins the process that her husband had dragged his feet on, she learns a secret so shocking she begins to question everything she knows except for the love she feels for her son...
  • Reckless Thief by Heather Long

    Reckless Thief by Heather Long

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The mentor.The doctor.The Vandal.I grew up on the streets despite my  older sister’s best efforts to keep my nose clean. I thought I knew better. I worked hard. and made money. Who cared if what I did was a little illegal?Then a little boy paid the price for my carelessness. A little boy and his baby sister. It was the wakeup call I needed, even if the cost came too high...
  • Shadow Game by Shawna Coleing

    Shadow Game by Shawna Coleing

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She must put her faith in a God she doesn’t trust in order to save a man she can never have.Morgan Caine spent three years in prison for a crime she didn’t commit before being acquitted, but that doesn’t mean she’s innocent. While trying to rebuild her life, she takes a gamble and hacks into a computer network, stumbling across an assassination plot in the process...
  • The Priest by Tiffany Reisz

    The Priest by Tiffany Reisz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New Orleans, four months after the events of THE QUEEN...Søren has been suspended from the Jesuits for a minimum of one year after confessing to fathering a child. To say he's struggling with his newfound freedom is an understatement.Kingsley is about to be a father again and is convinced something very bad is about to happen...
  • Untamed Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Untamed Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A tragedy in his past shaped the man he was today . . .Hard. Ruthless. Possessive.If you were his, Jacob Reyes would protect you with his dying breath.That’s why he let so few people close.Then there was HER.Soft and strong. Sweet and sassy.A Little in trouble who called to his Daddy instincts to protect her...
  • Last Landing by Edie James

    Last Landing by Edie James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s brash, unpredictable, and seriously over-confident. She’s brilliant, thorough, and way too interested in following the rules.Former SEAL and NCIS investigator Dale Bonham and FBI agent Tamra Bosch have a long history of butting heads, but when a killer from their past resurfaces, they’ll have to figure out how to play nice…or die...
  • Legacy Rejected by Robin Patchen

    Legacy Rejected by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All she wants is a home, but there is no safe haven when mobsters are after you. Realtor Ginny Lamont's family has abandoned her, leaving her with nothing but a warning that she’s in danger. But Ginny's built a home in New Hampshire. After a childhood of nomadic living, she’s not running again, certainly not because of some nameless, baseless threat...
  • Revenge by Nikita Parmenter

    Revenge by Nikita Parmenter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ever’s been taken by Blake, the last thing she saw was three of her men covered in blood lying on the floor.We’re finally going to know why Blake wants her so badly. Will she survive? Will the guys get to her in time? Or will it all be over?With their allies by their sides, it’s time to end this! No one threatens what’s theirs without deadly consequences. This has been going on for too long...
  • Loving Dark Men by J.A. Huss

    Loving Dark Men by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A man lures a woman into the woods.Another ruins the life of his best friend.And yet another strings them along like puppets.Dark men.They are intriguing, and charming, and powerful.They are changing the world.They are changing themselves.They are playing with lust, and love, and fear, and loathing.Addicted to each other, to their secret, to the seduction, to the sex.It’s a crash in the making...
  • Sinful: Prequel by Katherine Hawthorne

    Sinful: Prequel by Katherine Hawthorne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Xander was a dream that would never be. One catastrophic night left me orphaned at the age of seventeen. Hunted by a murderer, Xander saved me from the pits of hell, braving a fire that would have ended my life. Hiding me from a killer, he became my protector, my best friend, but never anything more. Sin was a nightmare waiting to happen...
  • Dead End by Susan Sleeman

    Dead End by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evaluating trace evidence is her job… When Sierra Byrd’s father needs a kidney transplant, despite her parents’ protest claiming they could never ask for her help, Sierra insists on being tested for the transplant. But when results prove it is physically impossible for her father to be her biological father, her family finally confesses their long-held secret...
  • Smoky Mountain Murder by Ashley A. Quinn

    Smoky Mountain Murder by Ashley A. Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He didn't believe in forever... When a serial killer brought FBI Special Agent Ben Davidson deep into the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, he never expected to have his life turned upside down by a chestnut-haired dynamo. He has no desire to enter into a relationship, let alone a permanent one, but just a few days with fiery equestrian therapist Gemma Mabley puts that conviction to the test...
  • Night Fall by Susan Sleeman

    Night Fall by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She faces dangerous situations all the time…Olympic downhill skier, Harper Young, knows what it’s like to look danger in the face. After all, she does it every time she races down a ski slope. She’s fine with that danger and even excels under the pressure, winning Olympic gold. And as a governor’s daughter, she’s familiar with receiving threats from the general public...
  • Altered by Lead by C.M. Stunich, Tate James

    Altered by Lead by C.M. Stunich, Tate James

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My life will never be the same, altered by lead, damaged but not broken.I’m becoming a new me.I won’t run any longer; this time, I’m the hunter instead of the prey.But it takes hard work, skill, and a bit of luck to catch a mob boss.I’m going to need all three to survive this.Especially when I’ve got five gorgeous a**holes for teachers—and occasional bedmates.The Blackbirch Company...
  • Under Fire by Liz Bradford

    Under Fire by Liz Bradford

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Someone wants Jacq Sheppard dead.FBI Special Agent Jacq Sheppard has been fighting for trafficked women since the day her best friend disappeared at the hands of a trafficker thirteen years ago. While searching for a missing young woman, Jacq is convinced she sees her long lost friend, Morgan...
  • Sensuous by Katherine Hawthorne

    Sensuous by Katherine Hawthorne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Xander was an enemy I never saw coming. A devastating betrayal shattered our relationship before it ever began, my attempt to escape going horribly wrong. But telling Xander it’s over proves to be a dangerous mistake, revealing a ruthless side of him I was only beginning to suspect. Surrounding me with bodyguards, he swears he’ll go to any lengths to protect me...
  • Owned by A.K. Rose

    Owned by A.K. Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She's one defiant, forbidden, pain in my as*.One I can't touch.One I can’t train.But Vivienne is mine. Body. Soul…And most importantly, her bloodline.None of them understand how important she is.But I know.My sons and I will protect that information - her - to the death to keep it for ourselves.So, she’ll remain here, under my roof…obeying my rules.Resisting me at every goddamn opportunity...
  • Edge of Retribution by Jacob Chance

    Edge of Retribution by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Landing my dream job has me eagerly looking toward the future. But when I see Nash Garrison after six long years, my world is thrown completely off its axis. He was my only friend and confidant during the worst days of my life, and I fell hopelessly in love with him. No eighteen year old girl could resist his protective nature and charming grin. I was no exception...
  • A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    A Divided Heart by Alessandra Torre

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can you love two men at once? Is there any future in that?Brant loves me fiercely. A brilliant tech billionaire who has owned my heart for four years, he keeps proposing, and I keep turning him down. I can’t marry him, not with all of the secrets between us.Lee uses me wildly.As grouchy as he is cocky, he's interested in getting me into his bed and little more...
  • Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Of all the times to crave a man's touch, now is not it.Between being handcuffed to a bed post for trespassing, and the stare down from the sexy-as-sin bodyguard sent in to find answers, I'm certain my body must be confusing fear with lust.I was on a mission to find my mother's killer, not a man, but my body seems to think now is a good time to pursue its search for Mr. Right.He's not Mr. Right...
  • Reagan's Redemption: Book Eight In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Reagan's Redemption: Book Eight In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Doctor Reagan Rosner loves her fast-paced life of practicing medicine in New York City’s busiest trauma center. Kind and confident, she’s taking her profession by storm—until a young girl’s accidental death leaves her shaken to her core...
  • The Wild Interview by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane

    The Wild Interview by K.A. Knight, Erin O'Kane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I have been working hard my whole life for people to take me seriously. After all, women ‘don’t belong’ in the music industry. However, when an interview goes wrong, I am offered a once in a lifetime opportunity, to manage The Wild Boys, an all-male strip show featuring bad boys with an even worse reputation. It’s now my job to fix it, if I can keep my hands to myself...
  • Touch of Innocence by Robin Patchen

    Touch of Innocence by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From a USA Today bestselling author comes a gripping story of mystery, romance, and pulse-pounding suspense.How can she save the little girl next door from being exploited if nobody believes her?Grace used to try to save people, but that was before she realized how powerless she is. Now, she avoids emotional ties, working from her secluded cabin, content with her aloneness...
  • Deadly Vendetta by Roxanne Rustand

    Deadly Vendetta by Roxanne Rustand

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HE HADN’T KNOWN ABOUT HIS ESTRANGED SISTER’S LITTLE GIRL. NOW HE’S ON THE RUN TO KEEP HER ALIVE.DEA Agent Zach Forrester’s troubled sister refused all contact for years. Now she’s at his door, frantically claiming she and her daughter witnessed a murder. Begging him to keep Katie safe, she shoves the child into his arms and vanishes...
  • Crash Landing by Edie James

    Crash Landing by Edie James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s everything he wants in a woman. Too bad she wants to put him in prison. Former SEAL sniper Christian Murphy has faced more than his share of danger. His abiding faith always got him through. Now a Knight Tactical agent, he’s still working hard to bring down the bad guys and protect the innocent, but the fallout from an old mission gone wrong puts everything he loves at risk...
  • Turn to Me by Becky Wade

    Turn to Me by Becky Wade

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    His promise will cost him far more than he imagined.Guilt has defined Luke Dempsey's life, but it was self-destructiveness that landed him in prison. When his friend and fellow inmate lay dying shortly before Luke's release, the older man revealed he left a string of clues for his daughter, Finley, that will lead her to the treasure he's hidden...
  • Until You: A Brother's Best Friend Standalone (Off-Limits) by Catharina Maura

    Until You: A Brother's Best Friend Standalone (Off-Limits) by Catharina Maura

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Left without a job and evicted from the house she so carefully turned into a home, Aria is offered two choices: move back in with her brother… or take the job her brother’s best friend offers her.Their lives weren’t meant to collide — but everything changes when Grayson realizes that Aria is the mysterious woman behind a wildly popular vigilante platform...
  • Justifiable Means by Terri Blackstock

    Justifiable Means by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And there's abundant evidence to put the suspect behind bars. Just one thing bothers Detective Larry Millsaps. Young and beautiful Melissa Nelson seems to know almost too much about the evidence needed to convict her attacker. The unfolding investigation unearths a brutal track record on the part of the suspect..
  • Leather & Lace by Samantha A. Cole

    Leather & Lace by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kristen Anders is starting her life over again after divorcing her cheating husband. An author of several 'vanilla' romance novels, she spiced up her latest one involving BDSM and it became a best-seller. Now she's researching the subject for her follow-up book and manages to get a tour of the elite, private sex club, The Covenant, and runs into the one person she never expected to see there...
  • Courage in the Shadows by Robin Patchen

    Courage in the Shadows by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When she crosses paths with a killer from her past, can she survive long enough to step into her future?Ever since she and thirteen other models were kidnapped years before, Summer Lake has fought to ensure that she can protect herself...
  • Rising Fury by Edie James

    Rising Fury by Edie James

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Haunted by their pasts, two damaged souls seek redemption, but they’re running out of time. A killer waits in the shadows, ready to stop them dead. Firefighter Dante MacKenzie carries a burden not even his close-knit family could guess. But after years of running, payment is due...
  • Hours to Kill (Homepand Heroes) by Susan Sleeman

    Hours to Kill (Homepand Heroes) by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "When Homeland Security Agent Addison Leigh is attacked and left for dead, her estranged husband, ICE Agent Mack Jordan, discovers that she's in a coma. Full of regret, he promises to find her attacker, but she wakes up forgetting both the incident and her marriage...
  • Fallout by Rebecca Deel

    Fallout by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Waking up with amnesia next to a dead body means big trouble for Willow Knox. Worse, the police believe she's a cold-blooded killer. On the verge of being arrested, Willow asks a black ops warrior for help. But someone wants Willow dead at any cost. If they're not careful, Willow and Max will lose everything, including their lives...
  • The FBI Bride by Kimberley Montpetit

    The FBI Bride by Kimberley Montpetit

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A forbidden FBI romance, a wedding that never happens, and the tragedy that changes them forever. The moment Chloe Romano meets Liam Esposito, sparks flare like lightning between them. But the handsome stranger disappears without so much as asking for her number...
  • Opal by Freya Barker

    Opal by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    GEM: A PRIVATELY-FUNDED ORGANIZATION OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY IN THE SEARCH FOR—AND THE RESCUE AND RECOVERY OF—MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN. ALTHOUGH, AT TIMES WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT, GEM AIMS TO ENSURE THE VICTIMS RECEIVE JUSTICE…BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY. ____GEM Operator Opal; multifaceted, versatile, a chameleon.She hides in plain sight, adapts, and infiltrates...
  • Captured by A.K. Rose

    Captured by A.K. Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was a liar. A deceiver. A seductress. And now Helene King is a Daughter of the Order.Under the guise she was headed for the place where Halestrom Hale held our sister she is forced into a truck.Only that wasn’t where she was headed.A new breed of evil rose. One that told us exactly what Hell waited for her...
  • Hunting Pretty by Sienna Blake

    Hunting Pretty by Sienna Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Watch her. Crave her. Covet her. I’m the monster in the shadows—but she’s addicted to monsters.She looks so pretty when she cries out in her sleep. I’m obsessed by her gasps when she hears me coming for her. I'm hooked on the way she fights me when I pin her down...
  • Into the Flames by Liz Bradford

    Into the Flames by Liz Bradford

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a twelve-year-old girl is snatched from a local mall, the FBI will fight through flames to save her.Over the years as an FBI agent, Dylan Harris has rescued numerous women and girls from the world of trafficking, but when a teenage girl is kidnapped from the mall, he is convinced something else is going on...
  • Four Keeps by Stephanie Brother

    Four Keeps by Stephanie Brother

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirty gorgeous men. One chance to find love…but what if I can't choose?When I’m chosen to star on the nation’s most popular reality dating show, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.Being selected to star on For Keeps is a dream come true. Beautiful clothes, luxurious locations, and men – lots and lots of men. Thirty, to be exact. And it’s my job to narrow thirty down to one...
  • Dark of Night by Colleen Coble

    Dark of Night by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After clearing Jon’s name and stopping the attempts on her life, Annie Pederson would love some time to just process. Jon was her first love, and now—finally—he’s committed to returning to Rock Harbor and to her. But they’ve both changed in the intervening years...
  • Mountain Danger by Vanessa Vale

    Mountain Danger by Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eve Miranski has spent weeks trying to find a killer who's roaming free in Cutthroat. She's also working hard to protect her battered heart from two alpha cowboys who aren't making it easy. Yeah, two. After they meet at a holiday party, Shane Nickel and Finch Anderson have made it clear to Eve they're interested in one thing. Her...
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