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  • Mafia Madman: A Dark Mafia Romance by Mila Finelli

    Mafia Madman: A Dark Mafia Romance by Mila Finelli

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s no angel . . . and he’s the very devil. GIAI may be a mafia princess, but I have bigger plans than to stay in this sheltered world.I’m in Milan to pursue my dreams as a fashion designer. Having an affair is the last thing on my mind, except he’s handsome and charming and Italian. In other words, he’s irresistible...
  • Long Gone by Denise Grover Swank

    Long Gone by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to Lone County, Arkansas, where every corner holds a secret, and the past is never really buried.Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father's law firm, a move as dull as the small town she's returned to. But things take a turn when a local woman wants to declare her missing husband dead, five years after his mysterious disappearance...
  • Edge Of Reality by Freya Barker

    Edge Of Reality by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Horsepower and green thumbs meets justice and flip-flops.I’m a late bloomer.A geek, an introvert, an enigma, and a watchdog. My name is Paco.I’m determined enough to bide my time, yet too clever to pass up on opportunity. I’m a steadfast rebel.An outcast, a defender, a hothead, and an eccentric.My name is Mel.I’m resolute enough to carve my own way, but not too blind to see a better path...
  • Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Forever Mine by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An old friend. A bad smell. A body stuffed into a wall. You'll never escape. After she left her abusive husband thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele became a fighter. Over the years, she picked up martial arts and street fighting tactics, and now that she works for the Parker Investigative Agency, she can handle a weapon. But the battle with her inner demons? Not so easy...
  • Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Thin Ice by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Take what matters most to her," said the voice. And he knew he would. He had to. Thirteen years ago, Miranda Steele’s abusive husband stole her baby and gave it up for adoption. Then he kicked Miranda out of his house. So she remade herself. Thirteen years later, the feisty, stubborn skeptic came to Atlanta hoping to find her daughter...
  • In Plain Sight by Rebecca Deel

    In Plain Sight by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On the heels of a life-changing diagnosis, concert pianist Darcy St. Claire is on a quest to reinvent herself. While renovating a Victorian house and opening a restaurant, she becomes the target of a killer. As the attempts on her life intensify, Darcy grows more determined. No murderer is going to chase her from her home and destroy her new dreams...
  • Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A honeymoon in Maui. A luxury beachfront resort. A handsome wealthy new husband. A vicious murder. After all, this is PI Miranda Steele we're talking about. And where Miranda goes, trouble follows. That lovely honeymoon gets hijacked when she finds the body of a popular fire dancer on the beach. Of course, she has to investigate...
  • Bound for Life by Alexis Abbott

    Bound for Life by Alexis Abbott

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bruno: I sacrificed everything for her. When I saved her from the mafia, I traded my freedom for hers. I’ve never regretted it. Never looked back. I cut her out of my life to keep her safe. She never even knew what I traded for her. I did everything I could to protect her from the retribution of the Italian Mafia, but it wasn’t enough...
  • Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her sister was a world-class jewel thief. But she crossed the wrong person and now Sophie's baby may pay the price. Sophie Valero has spent her life living down her last name. In a family of murderers, thieves, and con artists, she's the black sheep...
  • Payback by Rebecca Deel

    Payback by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A mission from his past threatens his future. A stalker has his sights set on art history teacher Ivy Monroe. Still recovering from a relationship with an abusive former boyfriend, she's determined to win this fight over fear and intimidation. No one has the right to cage her again. When Ivy is nearly killed, she takes refuge in the arms of the one man she trusts...
  • Venom's Prize by E.C. Land

    Venom's Prize by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    VenomVenom runs through my veins the same way ice freezes to the midst of winter. I’m not a man to be crossed, nor one to be played with.Danger comes swirling around the club and I do what it takes to keep the targets off my brother’s backs. I’ve killed in war and I have no problem doing it again, whenever the day might come...
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    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy
  • Reveal Me, Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Reveal Me, Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All she wanted was a quiet life… Ria is a magnet for trouble. She’s on the run, living a secret life. She’s being blackmailed by an asshole. And she’s pretty certain the newest Dom at Club Indulgence is a thief, a private investigator or a cop. She’s not sure which is worse. And that is exactly why she should stay away from him...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor  steamy
  • The Missing Piece by Sharon Sala

    The Missing Piece by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Solving the puzzle could be the last thing he does…PI Charlie Dodge knows what it’s like to have something important disappear. His wife, Annie, suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s, causing her to remember little of the life she shared with her husband. Charlie has devoted his career to saving what he can—missing people, threatened lives...
  • Lost in the Wind by Calle J. Brookes

    Lost in the Wind by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She had survived. She could survive. She would survive again. After a brutal assault and cancer as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre wouldn’t let herself be called a victim. Nikkie Jean wasn’t a victim. She was a survivor. Now a pediatric surgical resident at the best teaching hospital in Texas, Nikkie Jean knows there’s nothing she can’t make it through if she just keeps going...
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    crime  suspense  contemporary  mystery  fiction  book  adult  romance
  • Delicious Torment by Linsey Lanier

    Delicious Torment by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when your old flame turns out to be a killer? A ritzy steeplechase. A terrible commotion in one of the stalls. A beautiful young horse breeder found dead. Newbie private investigator Miranda Steele knows she shouldn't get involved. But when the dead woman's sister begs her to take the case, Miranda can't resist the powerful need to set things right...
  • The Coast Road Home by Vickie McKeehan

    The Coast Road Home by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three years ago, it was a beautiful March Saturday in New Glarus, Wisconsin. The sun was out. The day, a chilly prelude to spring. Divorced mom, Marley Lennox, wanted nothing more than to spend time with her two kids at the family farm, a peaceful setting outside town. They’d all been looking forward to helping tend to the newborn calf and spending a quiet weekend in the countryside...
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    suspense  crime  romance  contemporary  fiction  female-mc  book  adult
  • Water of Life by Jennifer Bramseth

    Water of Life by Jennifer Bramseth

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Widowed judge and single parent Cara Forrest lives a grief-filled existence, sustained by the light of her life, her young son. She has no time or inclination to lose her heart again—especially to the likes of Drake Mercer, the rakish attorney who appears in her court on a weekly basis...
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    suspense  legal  romance  humor  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Face the Music by Velvet Vaughn

    Face the Music by Velvet Vaughn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    You can’t silence the truth.Ever since their chance encounter on the crowded streets of New York City, COBRA Securities Co-Founder Luke Colton can't erase Layla Brooks from his thoughts. It wasn't just her beauty that captivated him, but the look of stark terror on her face. Angry with himself for not following her, knowing she must be in danger, he's shocked when she ends up on his doorstep...
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    crime  suspense  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • Marry a King by Stella Andrews

    Marry a King by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The graduation ball sealed her fate.The unmasking ceremony chained her to my side.The most beautiful woman in Andromeda.Cassiopeia Brookes-Stanley, a vision wrapped in sin.Aquamarine eyes that steal my breath and capture my soul.Soft curves that beg for my attention with an innocence she will surrender only to me...
  • Black Lace by Beverly Jenkins

    Black Lace by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble—and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has "danger" written all over him . . . especially when "His Fineness" accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresistible magnetism, and unwavering determination to make amends, she's thinking it might be smart to play it safe and keep her distance . . . if only his lips weren't so inviting...
  • Retribution by Rebecca Deel

    Retribution by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a childhood trauma, Heidi Thompson is tired of looking over her shoulder and continually leaving her life behind. Reinventing herself one more time, she's hired to train search and rescue teams for Fortress Security. But an unknown enemy obsessed with revenge follows her to Otter Creek. Even though the danger escalates and the police view her with suspicion, Heidi refuses to run this time...
  • Malevolent by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Malevolent by E.C. Land, Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I was on the brink of death and an angel pulled me from its clutches.RatiAt a club barbeque we were shot up by enemies. I was with our VP's daughter and covered her body to shield her from the gunfire. Thankfully, she was spared from the bullets, but I wasn't as lucky.I could barely breathe and blood was effortlessly flowing out of my body...
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    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  medical
  • Head First by Hannah Shield

    Head First by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's protecting his former flame... But can he resist falling for her?Lana is about to begin the most important trial of her career. But her sexy star witness, keeps catching her eye. Even worse? They share a history. Years ago, they spent three incredible nights that she still can't get out of her head.Max Bennett hasn't been able to forget about Lana, either...
  • Quarter to Midnight by Karen Rose

    Quarter to Midnight by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There are good cops. And there are bad cops. The question is...who wins?After completing her tours with the Marines in Iraq, Molly Sutton knew she could take down any bad guy she met...
  • Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . .   Loyalty is a way of life for the Sisterhood and their significant others...
  • Macarons and Mayhem by Agatha Frost

    Macarons and Mayhem by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Excitement blossoms through Peridale when a prestigious gardening magazine picks the village as the spotlight for their next issue, but that joy quickly turns to dread when members of the local gardening society, The Peridale Green Fingers, start dying one by one after their obituaries are sent to The Peridale Post the day before their murders...
  • Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose

    Death is Not Enough by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The past comes back to haunt a high-profile defense attorney in the newest book in the Baltimore series from the New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Darkness and Monster in the Closet.In his work as a defense attorney in Baltimore, Thorne has always been noble to a fault--specializing in helping young people in trouble just as someone did for him when he was younger...
  • Deja Vu by Fern Michaels

    Deja Vu by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Thanks to a presidential pardon, the Sisterhood can put their fugitive days behind them and resume their lives in peace. Still, all the women admit that lately things are a little too calm and peaceful. Meeting up for the first time in months to celebrate Kathryn’s birthday — in the City of Sin, no less — seems like the perfect antidote...
  • A Perfect Escape by Maddie James

    A Perfect Escape by Maddie James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A changed identity. A secluded beach. A sniper. Megan Thomas is running for her life. From Chicago, from the mob, from her husband. She runs to the only place she feels safe-a secluded cottage on an east coast barrier island. Smyth Parker is running from life. From work, from society, from a jealous ex-wife-his only consolation the solitude of Newport Island...
  • Monster by Erin Trejo

    Monster by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I  transferred from another chapter to Miami.  I needed a change and this was it. I fell into line with the rest of the guys here. The day I get shot is the day my life changes. Left at a local doctor's office to heal, I met her. She was different. She wasn't your normal type of girl. I could be myself with her...in the dark. In the light I was the monster I was named after...
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    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • School of Fish by Amy Lane

    School of Fish by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he’s itching to get back to work. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn’t commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Nothing is ever that easy...
  • Triton: Soulless Bastards MC Daytona Chapter by Erin Trejo

    Triton: Soulless Bastards MC Daytona Chapter by Erin Trejo

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Triton: I took care of my sister the best I could after our parents died. I wasn’t the best big brother. I had my club to think about and dealing with a teenager wasn’t high on my list of things to do. Neither was that little surfer girl. She was mouthy and full of passion, something I wanted. But with all good things, it had to come to an end...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Brick by S. Nelson

    Brick by S. Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    LoyaltyHonorTwo traits I prided myself on. I’d take a bullet for any single one of my Knights Corruption brothers. In fact, I had—two to be exact. I believed in codes, following them without question. But everything shifted the first time I saw her, a gorgeous and classy redhead who was out of my league.She also happened to be the daughter of a fellow member, therefore completely off-limits...
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    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Ghost by Kasey Krane, Savannah Rylan

    Ghost by Kasey Krane, Savannah Rylan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's not like other girls.Mercy is smart, sophisticated, and out of my f*cking league.She was a nurse once, But money was tight and stripping was easier.Now that asshole, Eagle, wants her back with the Silver Knights.Oh hell no.I'm not letting go of Mercy.Not now.Not ever.Sure, we're opposites.But opposites attract.And I'll do anything to protect her...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy
  • Desire's Addiction by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Desire's Addiction by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She spent months as a captive...until they set her free.Talya is smart and stubborn…and that’s why she’s spent two months as a prisoner to the mafia. They’ll let her go if she gives them what they want, but Talya would rather die than risk dangerous biochemical information falling into the wrong hands. And she probably will die–after all no one is coming to save her...
  • Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson and Ellery face their toughest case yet—against the criminal justice system itself.Jackson Rivers and Ellery Cramer have worked difficult jobs before, but usually it’s getting the facts that’s the problem. For their newest client, the trouble isn’t finding the truth—it’s corruption at the highest levels of the justice system...
  • Fallen Angel, Part II by Tracie Podger

    Fallen Angel, Part II by Tracie Podger

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Part II of the Fallen Angel series When Brooke Stiles had said, “It was in a small room in an office block in Washington, DC, that my life changed, forever,” she had no idea of the enormity of that statement. Just a few short months ago, Brooke, had lived a quiet suburban life in the UK...
  • Reclaimed by Elizabeth Knox

    Reclaimed by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s always belonged to me, even when she wasn’t with me. We didn’t work well in past, but that doesn’t mean we can’t work well now. She understands every broken part of me, moreso then my own flesh and blood. I didn’t do a good job being her man when we were kids and now’s the time to make up for that...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Stone by Linzi Basset

    Stone by Linzi Basset

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Castle Sin is a dark BDSM suspense series Seven Masters Seven Dungeons Seven Times the Kink “I should warn you, Master Eagle, I bite and have been known to scratch.” Peyton Jackson was a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, the best in her field, but in Castle Sin, she was known only as Sub PJ...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  crime  steamy  fiction  contemporary  book  adult  romance
  • Destroy a King by Stella Andrews

    Destroy a King by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The King of Media Corp is Dexter PrincePossessive. Dominant. Broken.A monster in an Armani suit.I worked under him and was so low on his radar I barely registered.Then it all changed with one foolish lapse of judgment. I stepped into his world with killer heels and an attitude that rubbed him up the wrong way...
  • Biker Saviour by Ellie R. Hunter

    Biker Saviour by Ellie R. Hunter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 5 in The Lost Souls MC Series. Thomas ‘Pope’ Flynn has been a Lost Souls brother for thirty years, regarding the club as his family. He’s loyal to each and every man who wears the same patch as he does. Pope has gone to lengths most wouldn’t when protecting the ones he cares about...
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    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Cuffed by Measha Stone

    Cuffed by Measha Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Do you think you're the only woman in this room that loves the pain?" Sydney isn’t one to go around directing the doms she plays with. If they don’t know how hard and how long to go, she walks.  Voicing her desires isn’t even an option. As an assistant DA she’s used to asking questions, not answering them...
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    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dark  fiction  steamy
  • Axel's Promise by E.C. Land

    Axel's Promise by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    AxelPromises are meant to be broken, all except one. The one that binds two people as one. Too bad that’s the one I broke when I screwed up.I lost her because of what I did. She left and in so doing she took something she shouldn’t have. Not without telling me.Now she’s back with fear in her eyes and not alone...
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    crime  suspense  adult  biker  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy
  • 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...
  • Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everyone made mistakes, but some were far more dangerous than others… Fin McLaughlin wanted nothing more than to make a difference in his work with the FBI. Headhunted by the deputy director of the Bureau to head up a new division located in St. Louis, Fin was determined to make amends for the mistakes he’d made six years earlier that had almost cost him his career—and his life...
  • Cut and Run by Allison Brennan

    Cut and Run by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three years ago, authorities assumed that the Albright family fled the country to avoid prosecution for embezzlement. But when their remains are discovered after a recent storm, the FBI is called in to investigate — and find the youngest child, whose body wasn't found with the others...
  • The Murder Game by Beverly Barton

    The Murder Game by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New Game The game is simple--he is the Hunter. They are the Prey. He gives them a chance to escape. To run. To hide. To outsmart him. But eventually, he catches them. And that's when the game gets really terrifying... New RulesPrivate investigator Griffin Powell and FBI agent Nicole Baxter know a lot about serial killers--they took one down together...
  • Cabin 1 by Amanda McKinney

    Cabin 1 by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From bestselling and multi-award-winning romantic suspense author Amanda McKinney comes the first book in the steamy, edge-of-your-seat, three-part series, Steele Shadows Security… Hidden deep in the remote mountains of Berry Springs is a private security firm where some go to escape, and others find exactly what they’ve been looking for...
  • Playing With Fire by Anna Blakely

    Playing With Fire by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    His instincts drew him to her before they ever met. She’s terrified, desperate, and running out of time. Together, they must fight both sides of good and evil to uncover the truth…before it’s too late.For former Navy SEAL Archer Nash—now an operative for Eagle’ Nest Securities—life takes an unexpected turn when the sexy blonde the media has dubbed The Black Widow Lawyer comes to his firm for help...
  • Obliterate by Autumn Grey

    Obliterate by Autumn Grey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I knew the moment I gave in to pursuing Selene that trouble would follow me. It always does. I should have resisted." Remington St. Germain is at a crossroads. He can either go after the one person who makes him feel as if he matters—the only person to ever calm the demons that roam his mind—or forget about her. The latter is not an option, even though there is a chance she might reject him...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction  romance
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