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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...
  • Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger investigate the mysterious disappearance of a true-crime writer.When true-crime writer Olivia Cruz disappears with no signs of foul play, her new boyfriend, Lincoln Sharp, suspects the worst. He knows she didn’t leave willingly and turns to attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger to find her before it’s too late...
  • Called to Protect by Lynette Eason

    Called to Protect by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For the past year, Chloe St. John has been working as a K-9 cop with her German shepherd partner, Hank. After being dumped by her fiance for another woman, Chloe has decided that Hank is just about the only male she likes. She's over the whole romance thing and focuses her attention on doing her job...
  • Love Under Siege: A Limited Edition Military Romantic Suspense Collection by Samantha A. Cole, Maryann Jordan

    Love Under Siege: A Limited Edition Military Romantic Suspense Collection by Samantha A. Cole, Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eight Sizzling Full-Length Novels featuring Military Heroes by acclaimed authors who know how to bring the Heat, Action and Suspense! Tuff Enough by Samantha A. Cole While security operative Jason “Tuff” Tanner lives for dangerous assignments, he likes his downtime in his quiet neighborhood too...
  • Black Velvet by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Velvet by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She doesn’t believe in heroes anymore. He’ll prove her wrong. Mercenary Dax Freed would rather stride into the desert naked and covered in honey than pretend to be a reclusive romance novelist’s fake boyfriend, but nobody gave him the option. Roberta Sharpe writes about heroes for a living, but she already knows they don’t exist in real life...
  • Claiming Felicity by Susan Stoker

    Claiming Felicity by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Falling in love could expose a woman in hiding, in the fourth Ace Security novel from New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker. Former mercenary Ryder Sinclair’s stunning discovery that he has three half brothers in Castle Rock, Colorado, is giving them all the chance to color in the spaces of their tragic pasts...
  • Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s been hurt too many times… Single mom Tiana Fitzgerald has sworn off all romantic relationships to protect herself and her daughter. Her track record is disastrous and she’s done getting hurt. But a certain sexy Scotsman in Crimson Point has other ideas, and somehow manages to sneak past her defenses at every turn...
  • The Hero She Deserves by Anna Hackett

    The Hero She Deserves by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When he goes to investigate a blaring smoke alarm, the last thing he expects to find is Hollywood’s hottest actress…naked.Deputy Sheriff Sawyer Lane likes the pace of life on Maui. After years as a Navy SEAL and in Ghost Ops, he likes that no one shoots at him. Coming to the island saved him. He still can’t sleep, but he’ll take the sun, sand, and solitude...
  • Legend by Marie James

    Legend by Marie James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I wouldn’t call it love at first sight, but my body definitely reacted when I saw her.Getting Faith Robbins under me became my obsession.I knew I wanted fast and done.It’s how I always did things.Looking for anything more with a woman was never in the cards.I wasn’t like the other guys in the Cerberus MC. I didn’t want more.It was physical, sating a desire...
  • Lean Into It by Winter Travers

    Lean Into It by Winter Travers

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For years the only place I called home was the open road.Until the Kings of Vengeance became family.Setting down roots and building a life sounds so good I can almost taste it. But evil and trouble are brewing, threatening to take the life and woman I’ve claimed.I’ll lean into the devil himself and spit in his face before I let that happen.Vengeance will be mine...
  • My Wounded Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    My Wounded Billionaire by Serenity Woods

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Never fall in love with a wounded hero… Since I turned thirty, all I can think about is having a baby. Someone of my own I can love. Someone who won’t break my heart. But I don’t want another relationship ever again. I thought about going to a clinic. But I like the idea of knowing the identity of the father of my child, even if we’re not an item. So I pick Marc...
  • Denying the Devil by Calle J. Brookes

    Denying the Devil by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Persephone Tyler was the last holdout. Just because her sisters had gone nuts over the rugged, good-looking, perfect cowboy Masterson brothers didn’t mean Perci was going to meekly fall in line—especially not with the last Masterson brother. Dr. Nate Masterson had been the biggest thorn in her side since Perci first started working at the tiny Masterson County Hospital...
  • Sybil’s Protector by Ellie Masters

    Sybil’s Protector by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SYBIL Falling for my Protector might cost me my life. I was abducted and shipped out, meant to be sold. My freedom stolen. My body no longer mine. My life…over. Or so I thought. The Guardians swooped in. They saved me from a living Hell, but my life is still in danger. The men who took me want me back. They’re out there, hunting me. Once again, the Guardians step up...
  • Taking a Risk: Part Two by Anna Blakely

    Taking a Risk: Part Two by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    R.I.S.C. (Rescue, Intel, Security, & Capture): An elite, private security team who will stop at nothing to protect the ones they love. The highly anticipated romantic suspense series by debut author, Anna Blakely. >HE LIED TO PROTECT HER It’s been two months since Jake McQueen walked away from the woman he loves. With the other members of R.I.S.C...
  • Intentional Risk by Anna Blakely

    Intentional Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He thought he’d lost his chance to be with her. Now, he'll move Heaven and Earth to keep her safe. As a former SEAL and now Alpha Team’s technical analyst, Derek West is all about the numbers. But, when this Texas native unexpectedly bumps into the one that got away, he’s determined to beat the odds...
  • Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FOR YEARS, HE’S KEPT HIMSELF CLOSELY GUARDEDFormer SEAL Grant Hill believes love brings nothing but pain. Having suffered more loss than any one person ever should, the gruff R.I.S.C. operative has mastered the art of avoidance…especially when it comes to women.But with his newest bodyguard assignment, Grant’s unwavering determination is put to the ultimate test...
  • Forgiving Keven: A Stand-Alone Second Chance Romance by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Forgiving Keven: A Stand-Alone Second Chance Romance by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s the one who got away. He’s the boy she can’t forget… Cheryl They say you never forget your first love, but I’m determined to prove Keven Kennedy is just a random boy from my past. It’s not like I still think about him after all this time. Or daydream about how hot his kisses were and what it felt like to have his hands on my skin. Nope, that’s not me...
  • The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.” Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods...
  • Carson's Choice by Dale Mayer

    Carson's Choice by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carson is pleasantly surprised by the job Levi assigns him, until Carson hears all the details. An elderly friend of Ice’s believes someone is out to kill her. But she has no proof, no suspects, no motives. The police think she’s imagining things and won’t look into the case any further. However, after meeting this lady … and her granddaughter, Carson has his own suspicions...
  • Savage Risk by Anna Blakely

    Savage Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HER SAVAGE NEED FOR JUSTICE MAY END UP COSTING HER EVERYTHINGWhen the serial killer who has taunted Detective Riley York for years suddenly reemerges in her new city, she vows to take him down for good. With her partner by her side, Riley will risk everything for one final chance to see justice served.Until now, Eric West has kept his burgeoning feelings for his partner close to the vest...
  • Saving Skye: The Pilot Firefighter's Surprise Baby  (Eden Mountain Firefighters) by Jenna Gunn

    Saving Skye: The Pilot Firefighter's Surprise Baby (Eden Mountain Firefighters) by Jenna Gunn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous. Smart. Armed with a secret weapon. The young ATF agent was supposed to be a one night thing. But then she woke up the alpha protector in me. Little did I know that her mission would strike me square in my cold, dead heart. And for the first time in ten years I wanted something more. But the complications are as big as the firefighting helicopter that I fly...
  • Knox by Susan May Warren

    Knox by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    His voice threaded through her, as if it might be made of rawhide, designed not to break, to weather time and elements, as sturdy as the land he probably worked. Because yes, he wore cowboy like a second skin, the no-nonsense aura of hard work and get ’er done. About KNOX: He's not looking for trouble... Montana rancher Knox Marshall's danger years are behind him...
  • Rescuing Sadie by Susan Stoker, Lexi Blake

    Rescuing Sadie by Susan Stoker, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Sadie Jennings was used to being protected. As the niece of Sean Taggart, and the receptionist at McKay-Taggart Group, she was constantly surrounded by Alpha men more than capable, and willing, to lay down their life for her. But when she learns about a friend in trouble, she doesn't hesitate to leave town without a word to her uncle to help...
  • Knight Rider by Danielle Norman

    Knight Rider by Danielle Norman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book previously published under the title: Piper, Unlikely OutlawAt one time, Liam Kane was the sweet guy in love with Piper, the girl next door.Then his life fell apart, and he fell with it.Now he’s a member of the Heretics MC, a club dedicated to chaos and death.When the cops roll up at a break-in, he can’t take his eyes off the gorgeous deputy...
  • Brewer by Jessica Ames

    Brewer by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BrewerAs the money man of the Manchester chapter of the Untamed Sons Motorcycle Club, my job is simple: make the illegal income legal and don’t get caught. I have a good life in the Sons, an easy one. I don’t have time for women or drama. But when my former cellmate calls and tells me his daughter is in trouble, I have no choice but to respond...
  • Seduced by Sunday by Catherine Bybee

    Seduced by Sunday by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She swore off love forever…but he just might change her mind. The sixth sweet, thrilling book in the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Weekday Brides series from Catherine Bybee.Meg Rosenthal: Matchmaker by day, realist by night, Meg is not about to get swept away by a charming, darkly handsome businessman in a designer suit...
  • Inked Obsession by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Inked Obsession by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Montgomery Ink saga from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continues with a second chance romance sure to tug at your heartstrings.When men in uniform showed up on Eliza Wilder-Strong’s doorstep, she knew her life would be irrevocably altered. She not only lost her husband, but the future she’d carefully planned...
  • Saving Eric by Jane Blythe

    Saving Eric by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will guilt and bad choices prevent these two friends from falling in love?
Lavender Vaile barely survived a madman, and the ordeal became the catalyst for re-evaluating her entire life. While working for an aid organization in Afghanistan her worst nightmare comes true when she is taken hostage by insurgents...
  • Saving Blu by Nicola Jane

    Saving Blu by Nicola Jane

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BluAll I really wanna do is keep my head down and be the Enforcer for the Kings Reapers MC. The downside is they’re heavily involved with the mafia, and fuck, I hate the mafia. Vinn Romano is an arrogant ass but it’s his sister, Gianna, that really grates on me. Walking around like some entitled mafia princess and expecting men to fall at her feet just because of her bloodline...
  • Beautiful Risk by Anna Blakely

    Beautiful Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can he forgive himself in time to save the woman he loves? Former Delta Force operator, Trevor Matthews, has spent years trying to move on from the sins of his past. Nearly a decade later, he’s still haunted by the deaths of his teammates and the woman he cared deeply for. Then, he meets Lexi—the beautiful waitress with an angelic smile—and almost instantly, his soul sparks back to life...
  • Through the Storm by Diane Greenwood Muir

    Through the Storm by Diane Greenwood Muir

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once things start falling apart around Polly Giller, chaos takes over and all she can do is hold on for the ride. Sylvie Donovan has finished school and things are supposed to be rainbows and unicorns. Not in Bellingwood. Her oldest son, Jason, has just started high school and isn't handling the transition well...
  • All Fired Up by Lori Foster

    All Fired Up by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The last thing Charlotte Parrish needs in her life is a bad boy. She wants someone responsible and settled ... until she meets Mitch Crews. Mitch is everything she knows she should avoid but everything she can't seem to resist. Mitch is starting over. Now that his mother is gone, he's determined to finally meet the half brothers he's heard about his entire life...
  • Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rucker Sloan thinks all he’s good for is a fighting, killing machine. Long-term relationships are out of the question. Until he meets a nurse who’d risk her life for someone she doesn’t know…After her mother died of a broken heart, nurse Nora Michaels joined the Army to do something to help others and to escape her sad memories...
  • Loving Nicole by Jordan Marie

    Loving Nicole by Jordan Marie

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    NICOLE I'm marrying my soulmate. We're having a baby. Life is perfect. But having it all, means you have everything to lose. In the blink of an eye, all my dreams slip through my fingers like grains of sand. DRAGON I have it all. My woman has my ring on her finger, my baby in her belly and my club is healing. Then everything goes to hell. Nicole thinks we're done. We are not. She's mine...
  • Thin Ice by Irene Hannon

    Thin Ice by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After losing her parents in a car accident and her sister to a house fire, Christy Reed has been mired in grief. Life is finally starting to feel normal again when an envelope arrives in the mail--addressed in her sister's handwriting. And the note inside claims she is still alive...
  • Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield

    Paper Butterflies by Lisa Heathfield

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    June's life at home with her stepmother and stepsister is a dark one—and a secret one. She is trapped like a butterfly in a net. But then June meets Blister, a boy in the woods. In him she recognises the tiniest glimmer of hope that perhaps she can find a way to fly far, far away from her home and be free. Because every creature in this world deserves their freedom..
  • Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins

    Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lucky Santangelo is back—with a vengance! Dangerously sensual, breathtakingly beautiful, and utterly unforgettable, she is Lucky Santangelo, the sizzling star of Chances, Lucky, and Lady Boss. With Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge, Jackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, betrayal, drugs, intrigue, and murder...
  • The Family Gathering by Robyn Carr

    The Family Gathering by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the Bestselling Author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River!An exceptional storyteller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr beautifully captures the emotionally charged, complex dynamics that come with being part of any family. Readers will laugh and shed a few tears as they discover what it means to be loved, supported and accepted by the people who mean the most...
  • Falling for the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Falling for the Single Dad by Whitley Cox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a blast from the past could blow up the future.Welcome to Seattle, the Emerald City and home to The Single Dads of Seattle. Ten sexy single fathers who play poker every Saturday night, have each other's backs, love their children without quarter, and hope to one day find love again.This is Liam's story ...Single Dad of Seattle, Liam Dixon has a kick-*ss life...
  • Saving Imogene by Nicole Flockton

    Saving Imogene by Nicole Flockton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For two years, Navy SEAL Leighton “Bird” Nelder has drowned himself in work in an attempt to forget the woman who walked out on him. Fate gives him another shot at happiness when he stumbles across his runaway wife in the last place he expects. What’s even more shocking is the secret she’s kept from him. Imogene Nelder has always had abandonment issues...
  • Taken by the Bratva: A Dark Mafia Romance by Bianca Cole

    Taken by the Bratva: A Dark Mafia Romance by Bianca Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s supposed to protect me, but he does the opposite.The morning of my arranged marriage, I’m snatched by my bodyguard.The man who has spent the past year protecting me. The man I’ve secretly craved since he was assigned to me. The man who won’t tell me why he has kidnapped me. There’s a darkness in his eyes I’ve never seen in them before. I fear him as much as I long for him...
  • Luring Light by K.E. Osborn

    Luring Light by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What if the life you had was a lie? That the virtuous person you tried to convince yourself you were, isn't anything like the woman you are deep inside...
  • Undeniable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Undeniable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Homeland Agent Jason Ryker lives for his job, often blurring the lines between right and wrong for the greater good. But when the only woman to ever steal his focus--and his heart--becomes the target of a ruthless killer, there are no more lines. There's only her...
  • Heart Broken by Manda Mellett

    Heart Broken by Manda Mellett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heart Crystal, my wife, old lady and soulmate is dead. There’s no way to survive, nothing for me to live for. All I want to do is to join her. I don’t want to take my own life, but if someone does it for me, so much the better. She shouldn’t have died, she shouldn’t have left me. My love for her fuelling such an uncontrollable rage it won’t be long before I upset the wrong person...
  • Edge of Defiance by Trish Loye

    Edge of Defiance by Trish Loye

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    E.D.G.E. Security is a cover for a covert international organization that handles jobs most governments won’t. The operators are the elite of the elite, soldiers and spies, chosen for their skills and secrecy, and their ability to go beyond the edge. Secrets attract Cassie Kwon and as a reporter, it’s her job to expose them, no matter who disapproves or disagrees...
  • Guarding Amberley by Nicole Flockton, Operation Alpha

    Guarding Amberley by Nicole Flockton, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Former Hollywood child prodigy Amberley Price is determined to forge a new career in screenwriting, but her A-list actor parents want her to get back into acting and marry a fellow A-lister herself. When she receives a big break to write the script for a major movie, she’s beyond excited. Even better, it leads her to reconnect with her best friend’s brother, who agrees to help with her research...
  • Shelter for Tory by Nicole Flockton

    Shelter for Tory by Nicole Flockton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tory Chapman wants what every girl dreams of: the love of a man who would walk through fire for her. Unfortunately, her shyness, as well as being a total brainiac are not the winning formula to find Mr. Right. But she does have a knack for locating Mr. Wrong, and this time he turns out to be a cocky firefighter with a killer Australian accent...
  • His Redemption by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell

    His Redemption by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Survival is key.I returned to civilian life, thinking that I would be fine.But the truth is…I’m not.Not when I see Sadie, my best friend’s widow, struggling.Not when my last promise to Adam was to take care of her—no matter the cost.When she unknowingly moves into my garage apartment—she enters my world.I didn’t understand how hard it would be to be near her...
  • Her Hero by Jane Henry, Maisy Archer

    Her Hero by Jane Henry, Maisy Archer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Donnie Nolan learned early that the secret to life is control. Born into a world of blood and violence, he broke free from the chains of his past with the help of Master Blake and his crew at The Club, and vowed that nothing would drag him back… until a knock at the door reminds him that there are some chains that can never be broken...
  • Edge by Anna Brooks

    Edge by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was supposed to be a normal job. Another tour with another superficial singer. But the first time I put my hand on her lower back, it was over. Leave it to a five foot nothing, blonde haired, blue eyed pop princess to knock me on my ass. I'm not the only one who wants her though. But in the end, I'll be the only one who gets all of her...
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