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  • Taking Liberty by Riley Edwards

    Taking Liberty by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Army trained Lieutenant Liberty McCoy to be the best—an elite Special Forces soldier, just like her father and uncles. But nothing prepared her for the bossy, good-looking Navy SEAL who rescues her after a mission goes horribly wrong. Navy SEAL Drake Hayes thinks his team is being sent out on a special purpose extraction. He’s had enough experience to expect the unexpected...
  • Finding Forever: Book 3 of the Rollin On Series by Emilia Finn

    Finding Forever: Book 3 of the Rollin On Series by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jimmy and Izzy are up! Izzy Hart was his from the beginning of time... despite the fact her brothers would kill him for even looking at her. Best friends since birth, Jim and Iz grew up together and knew where their futures were heading; they just didn't tell anyone else their plans, least of all each other. Now Iz is having a baby with another man...
  • Love and Let Die by Lexi Blake

    Love and Let Die by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ian Taggart and the whole McKay-Taggart Security team return in Love and Let Die.   A Tragic Love Story   Charlotte Dennis’s mission was clear: distract and misdirect CIA operative Ian Taggart by any means necessary. If she failed, she would never see her sister again...
  • Fighting with Honor (Men of Honor) by K.C. Lynn

    Fighting with Honor (Men of Honor) by K.C. Lynn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Once a man pledges his honor to his country, that sacrifice is embedded in his soul forever. For years he’s trained to fight, kill, and do whatever necessary to protect his country and its freedom, even if it means giving his own life. He becomes more of a machine than human—one that’s built to destroy the enemy. When it’s time to turn in his weapons, he never forgets the skills he learned...
  • Adoring Delaney by Riley Edwards

    Adoring Delaney by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Carter Lenox has two regrets—hesitating on a mission in Afghanistan with disastrous consequences and pushing away Delaney Walker. When he gets word the love of his life is in trouble and she needs him more than ever, the decision to go home is an easy one.Delaney Walker has loved Carter since they were children...
  • An Act of Obsession by K.C. Lynn

    An Act of Obsession by K.C. Lynn

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She’s beautiful yet scarred beyond repair. He’s powerful and lethal, in and out of the ring. One act of kindness brought Sophie Parish far more danger than she could have ever imagined. Now she’s on the run, leaving behind her family and the only dream she’s ever had. Retired EFC fighter Kolan Slade’s life has been one endless battle after another...
  • Hard to Lose by K. Bromberg

    Hard to Lose by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An all new series of standalone books by New York Times Bestselling author, K, Bromberg. Four sisters set out to try to save their family business. Book 4, Hard to Lose: More info coming soon...
  • A Dead Man's Pulse by Samantha A. Cole

    A Dead Man's Pulse by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marine First Sergeant Logan “Cowboy” Reese was rescued hours before he would’ve met the same fate as his five murdered teammates in Afghanistan. Returning to the US and civilian life hadn’t been part of his plans at this stage of his career, but dealing with PTSD forced his hand...
  • Chasing Shadows by Brittney Sahin

    Chasing Shadows by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From the hunters . . . to the hunted.When former CIA officer, Harper Brooks, joined an elite unit of special operators, her mission was to serve and protect, not to fall in love. But Roman Riviera was like no one she’d ever met.Echo Four was the quiet one. A broody genius. And that intense and gorgeous Navy SEAL stole her heart...
  • Rider's Revenge by Jamie Begley

    Rider's Revenge by Jamie Begley

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Revenge is a seven-letter word that isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s a word for those who have been wronged. Jo Turner has been waiting five, long years to finally turn revenge into vengeance. Using Rider, the pretty-faced manwhore, is simply the price she is willing to pay to satiate her desire for revenge...
  • Charge To My Line by Lani Lynn Vale

    Charge To My Line by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You’re the Charge… Bad Boy. Screw-up. Good for nothing. Hero. Angel. These were all words Grayson ‘Torren’ Trammel had heard whispered behind his back over his lifetime. What he hadn't heard was ‘quitter,’ and he’d be damned if some little rehab chick, with her beautiful blonde hair, and hot, sassy little mouth was going to label him as such. To My… Tru knows Grayson’s not for her...
  • Fighting to Forgive by J.B. Salsbury

    Fighting to Forgive by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What do you do when everything you avoid, turns out to be exactly what you need?Easy and predictable, just the way he likes it, Blake Daniels flies through life the way he burns through women: on his terms, no regrets.With his fighting career in full swing, he's on the threshold of title contention. But when his training is compromised by injury, the stakes grow impossibly higher...
  • Conviction by Corinne Michaels

    Conviction by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    I fell in love with Liam only to be left shattered into a million pieces. Again. The idea of being without him cripples me but the reality is, he’s gone. He doesn’t understand and I can’t make him. If only he’d see the conviction behind my words—then Liam would still be here...
  • An Act of Redemption by K.C. Lynn

    An Act of Redemption by K.C. Lynn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    She saw in him what no one else could see. He found in her what he could never find. One moment changed everything but, even with a break in time, their connection could never be severed. In the beginning he may have been her salvation, but in the end she will be his redemption. *** This is Book One in the Acts Of Honor series, the spin-off series to Men Of Honor...
  • Finding Victory: Book 2 of the Rollin On Series by Emilia Finn

    Finding Victory: Book 2 of the Rollin On Series by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Are you ready for more Kit and Bobby? After an attack that almost claimed her life, Kit wakes to find her boyfriend standing at her back, exactly where he said he'd always be. He'll protect her forever, just like he promised, but there is such thing as too much love. His coddling threatens to smother her...
  • Infinite by Corinne Michaels

    Infinite by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Book 2 of 2 in Indefinite DuetI was right. I never should've fallen back in love with Quinn. I always knew we wouldn't make it. And to make matters worse, not only did I lose my soulmate--I lost myself as well. Everything was stripped away, leaving me bare and unable to breathe. No one told me it could hurt this much. I was unprepared for this level of agony from the horrible weight of grief...
  • Indefinite by Corinne Michaels

    Indefinite by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller, Corinne Michaels, comes a second chance love story. The day he said he’d never love me is when I vowed Quinn Miller would never break my heart again. I wanted a family—but he wouldn’t give me that. As one of the top embryologists in the country, I’ve spent years creating babies in the lab for other people as my own dreams of motherhood fade. I’m done waiting...
  • Whiskey Tribute by Samantha A. Cole

    Whiskey Tribute by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Curt Bannerman never thought he’d have to follow through with a promise to ensure his best friend’s wife and children were taken care of, in the event of Eric’s death, after the two men retired from the Navy SEALs. But an assassin made the promise a reality...
  • An Act of Salvation by K.C. Lynn

    An Act of Salvation by K.C. Lynn

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sometimes two broken pieces make a whole. He’s the one she’s always loved. She’s the one he could never have. A forbidden night of passion resulted in years of heartbreak when he walked away. Now she’s in danger and needs his help. Trust doesn’t come easy for FBI Agent Nick Stone, especially when it comes to love, but he’ll risk it all for Katelyn Slade. Including his heart...
  • Sweet Haven by K.C. Lynn

    Sweet Haven by K.C. Lynn

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    RECIPE: Two cups of an arrogant, dirty talkin’ firefighter who has an obsession with peaches and the forbidden girl who smells like them. One tablespoon of a sweet schoolteacher trying to find her place in the world while attempting to resist her brother’s sworn enemy. A slice of fate that has their hearts questioning the past and the consuming need they have for one another...
  • Reap by Tillie Cole

    Reap by Tillie Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Raised as a prototype for the Georgian Bratva's obedience drug, 221 fails to think, act or live for himself; his master's perfectly-crafted killing puppet. Standing at six foot six, weighing two-hundred and fifty pounds, and unrivaled in to-the-death combat, 221 successfully secures business for, the Georgian Mafiya Boss of NYC, in the dark world of the criminal underground...
  • Fighting Solitude by Aly Martinez

    Fighting Solitude by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I was born a fighter. Abandoned by my parents, I spent my life forging my own path—one guided by my fists and paved with pain.Untouchable in the ring, I destroyed everyone who faced me, but that’s where my victories ended. Outside the ropes, I repeatedly failed the few people who loved me. Including my best friend, Liv James—the one person I’d die to protect...
  • The Cornerstone by Kate Canterbary

    The Cornerstone by Kate Canterbary

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A tough-as-nails businesswoman. An arrogant Navy SEAL. A power struggle with no end in sight.Some people hook-up at weddings. Others break a hotel room bed (and a table, and a desk, and some complimentary bathrobe belts) and discover they've been surviving on bargain basement orgasms their entire lives.The last one? Yeah. That's all me.She's driven and demanding...I wasn't always a bitch...
  • Beyond What is Given by Rebecca Yarros

    Beyond What is Given by Rebecca Yarros

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Be careful what you wish for...Lt. Grayson Masters is focused on graduating the Apache helicopter course, and the last thing he needs is his gorgeous new roommate Samantha Fitzgerald distracting him. While her smart mouth and free spirit are irresistibly irritating, he can't deny their off-the-charts chemistry, no matter how hard he tries...
  • Legend by Katy Evans

    Legend by Katy Evans

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Maverick “The Avenger” Cage wants to rise to the top and become a legend in the ring. Though he keeps his identity well guarded, he’s known on the fighting circuit as the new kid with a chip on his shoulder and a tattoo on his back that marks him as trouble. He’s got a personal score to settle with the Underground’s one and only Remington “Riptide” Tate...
  • Eyes Turned Skyward by Rebecca Yarros

    Eyes Turned Skyward by Rebecca Yarros

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Since her sister's death, twenty-year-old Paisley Donovan, who shares her sister’s heart condition, is treated like delicate glass by her parents. But nothing will stop her from completing her Bucket List—even if it kills her. And it almost does, until Jagger Bateman pulls her from the ocean and breathes more than air into her lungs—he sets her soul on fire...
  • Nobody Knows by Lani Lynn Vale

    Nobody Knows by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All he ever wanted was to matter to someone.What he didn’t know was that he did matter to someone.Someone that worried about him every single day that he was gone.Malachi Gabriel Gnocchi was missing for two years. Thanks to a mission gone wrong, not only had he been captured, but his best friend along with his fellow teammates had been taken, too...
  • Dangerous Games by J.T. Geissinger

    Dangerous Games by J.T. Geissinger

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the thrilling Dangerous Beauty series. The game isn’t over until somebody dies. Eva knows what it’s like to be imprisoned by a man’s twisted obsessions. But after running, hiding, and finding refuge in a rescuer’s arms, she’s suddenly pulled back into the black hole of her past...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  dark  female-mc  multi-pov  revenge  sad  steamy
  • Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s learning to live with her demons. Victoria Gomez had a successful career as an investigative journalist, until a cartel boss she exposed destroyed her entire world in retaliation. She lost everything, including her family and her freedom...
  • Maybe Swearing Will Help by Lani Lynn Vale

    Maybe Swearing Will Help by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ford Spurlock has known Ashe Trammel since they were babies.He’s also done his level best to stay away from her because every time he gets to within five feet of her, they’re fighting like cats and dogs.Ashe is the apple of her father’s eye. The motorcycle club princess that was never to be harmed in any way—or touched for that matter...
  • Cooper by Harper Sloan

    Cooper by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Do you take me seriously? Because I don't. I use my jokes and easygoing personality to hide the pain I've felt since he took his last breath. I'm adrift without my partner in crime, my best friend...my brother. I can taste the vengeance just within my grasp. Until she barges into my life. Promising me happiness and a peace I've been craving for years...
  • Finally Mine by Lucy Score

    Finally Mine by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Who is he if not a hero? Aldo Moretta has always been the hero. The strongest, the fastest, the bravest. He fought for his country and built a thriving business in his hometown. With friends and family never more than a few blocks away, there was just one thing he was missing. The right girl. She’d fallen for the wrong guy. The bad guy...
  • Vodka on the Rocks by Lani Lynn Vale

    Vodka on the Rocks by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There are rules to life that one just obeys in order in her attempt to stay on the right path. For example: 1. You don’t wear dirty panties out of the house. You just never know who’s going to see them. 2. A lady must always have chocolate at the ready—just in case the world as she knows it comes to an end. 3. You don’t egg on a drunk woman who’s pissed off at life...
  • Arm Candy Warrior by E.M. Moore

    Arm Candy Warrior by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I don’t belong in the Heights.Truth be told, no one does. It’s dirty, grimy. Riddled with crime, the destitute, and the desperate. Where the family unit doesn’t always mean a mom, a dad, and two-point-five kids. It’s whoever gives you the time of day.That’s how the Heights Crew came about. The only relationship that counts in the Heights is if you’re a part of the Crew...
  • Dream Keeper by Kristen Ashley

    Dream Keeper by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Spinning off from the bestselling Dream Man and Rock Chick series, this is the emotional and steamy contemporary romance fans of the Dream Team series have been waiting for!Pepper Hannigan is determined to keep any romance off the table—and out of her bedroom—while her daughter Juno is still young...
  • More Than Enough by Jay McLean

    More Than Enough by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    There’s no emotion greater than fear. No ache greater than grief. No sound greater than silence. I’m grateful he showed up on my doorstep, pissed off and angry at the world. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t be here. And I don’t just mean here on this journey with him. I mean here, in this world...
  • Liam by LeAnn Ashers

    Liam by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Paisley I met Liam when I was sixteen years old. There was something about him that tempted me to break all the rules. I was enthralled by his bad boy ways, but I knew there was so much more to him—a side of Liam that he didn’t allow people to see. Little did I know, he’d save me on what could’ve been the worst day of my life. At that point, there was no going back. He was my everything...
  • The Final Fight by J.B. Salsbury

    The Final Fight by J.B. Salsbury

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When life brings you the perfect person at the worst possible time… On a weekend visit to Las Vegas to visit his brother, Marine Braeden Daniels meets a woman who challenges him in ways he can’t deny. The best part is she wants what he wants. No strings. No feelings. Just fun. AJ is a Las Vegas performer who is finally living her dream. Growing up poor, she’s determined to succeed at any cost...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  angst  fighter  humor  multi-pov  second-chances  sports  war
  • Waiting For Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Waiting For Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Sexy Six-Pack returns with more teamwork, more suspense, and, most of all, more hot and steamy romance! Twelve years ago, eighteen-year-old Ben 'Boomer' Michaelson's world had fallen apart. Not only had his best friend, Alex Maier, been killed, but Alex's family had perished as well, including his seventeen-year-old sister, Katerina...
  • 27 Lies: Luke's story by M.J. Fields

    27 Lies: Luke's story by M.J. Fields

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A long time ago... I was young and naive. I thought I could save the world. I thought that protecting those around me from hurt and pain was what I was born to do. She made me feel that way. Ava Links, the little girl who was too fucking stubborn for her own good. The little girl who absorbed the hurt and pain of everyone around her and tried to bring sunshine to them all...
  • Silver Brewer (The Silver Foxes of Blue Ridge) by L.B. Dunbar

    Silver Brewer (The Silver Foxes of Blue Ridge) by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    L.B. Dunbar pitches her tent and stakes her claim as the queen of second chance, sexy silver fox romances, and this story is no different. - Goodreads. Olivet Pierson needs his land. Name your price, Mr. Harrington. She has her reasons, and this muscular mountain of masculinity isn’t going to get in her way...
  • At Your Service by Lexi Blake

    At Your Service by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Juliana O’Neil’s promising future was burned away in the heat of battle. She had been an officer with a bright future in the military, but now she is struggling to survive. Her husband gone and her career in shambles, she finds a job at Top as a hostess and tries to put together the pieces of her life...
  • Chute Yeah by Lani Lynn Vale

    Chute Yeah by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Candy Ray Sunshine--Yes, that is my real name, thank you very much, Mom and Dad--knew two things. One, she was going to work her butt off and open her very own coffee shop, even if she had to die doing it. Two, Banks Valentine was the world’s worst ex-boyfriend in the history of ex-boyfriends. Even if they were only boyfriend and girlfriend for one evening...
  • Sweetest Sorrow by J.M. Darhower

    Sweetest Sorrow by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dante Galante has evaded death a few times in his life, but held captive in a sweltering basement, he's certain that death has finally caught up to him. Bloody and barely breathing, he tries to stay strong, but there's only so much a man can endure before darkness takes over. As a critical care nurse, Gabriella Russo witnesses suffering often...
  • Hot Rebel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot Rebel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A rebel on the run… Victoria Royal is a traitor. Or so the U.S. government believes. Victoria was once a promising sniper in the Army, but now she’s gone rogue—worse, she’s just landed in the middle of a Hostile Operations Team mission in the desert and blasted it all to hell. Nick “Brandy” Brandon doesn’t expect to run into Victoria when he’s bugging out from a mission gone wrong...
  • Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Southern Sunrise by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Buried secrets never stay hidden in the South. Emily I fell in love with him when I was fourteen. Under the stars, he told me he loved me, and under the stars we promised to love each other always. But under the stars, he broke my heart by walking away.He left me without a second glance. I was just an afterthought.Now he's back, but this time, I'm not falling for his Southern charm.Maybe...
  • Hot Shot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot Shot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **AVAILABLE TODAY!!** Cool under pressure… Until now. Hostile Operations Team sniper Jack “Hawk” Hunter is cool, methodical, and utterly lethal. Nothing rattles Jack’s calm. But that was before he learned he fathered a child three years ago—a child who has just been kidnapped. Gina Domenico is a superstar, a pop sensation with a string of hit records...
  • Checkmate: This is Beautiful by Kennedy Fox

    Checkmate: This is Beautiful by Kennedy Fox

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **Will release September 12th** The anticipated conclusion of the Logan & Kayla saga in the Checkmate Duet Series from a secret duo under the USA Today bestselling author pseudonym, Kennedy Fox!This second-chance romance will have you gasping and cheering this two on from the first to the last page! Are you ready to play the final game?  ***  Kayla Sinclair is a saint and...
  • Kane by L.A. Casey

    Kane by L.A. Casey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Aideen Collins is a free spirit. She is outspoken and tough as nails, but she has to be after growing up in a house full of men. Family means everything to Aideen. Her family consists of her four brothers, her father, and her group of wild friends. Aideen is protective of her family, there is not a lot she wouldn’t do to keep them safe. Kane Slater is a tortured soul. Literally...
  • Great And Precious Things by Rebecca Yarros

    Great And Precious Things by Rebecca Yarros

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    How do you define yourself when others have already decided who you are? Six years ago, when Camden Daniels came back from war without his younger brother, no one in the small town of Alba, Colorado, would forgive him—especially his father. He left, swearing never to return.But a desperate message from his father brings it all back. The betrayal. The pain. And the need to go home again...
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