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  • Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Echo Team has a new addition—a K-9, and he’s in need of training . . .Eight-plus years as Echo Three and Chris Hunter is still as mission-focused as ever, continuing to fight for his country as part of a secretive team of operatives serving the President.When Chris decides to rescue a dog for the team, he soon discovers he and the guys are far from K-9 whisperers, and they need help...
  • Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My code name is Aries.The stars say I’m aggressive, dominant, first in line to lead.The stars aren’t wrong.Zodiac Tactical is my company. It’s run by those I’ve chosen for their skills and ability to outmaneuver adversaries. We guard, protect, rescue…assist on the side of the angels.We eliminate the threat when nobody else can...
  • Claiming Tuesday by Riley Edwards

    Claiming Tuesday by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    official blurb coming soon...
  • Finding Her Chance by Brittney Sahin

    Finding Her Chance by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Bravo Team is back in book 4 of the Stealth Ops SEAL Series, starring Liam Evans and Emily Summers. **Blurb to come** The Stealth Ops Team - Navy SEALS who handle covert ops for the president in the U.S. and around the world - under the guise of an alias, Scott & Scott Securities...
  • Salvaging His Soul by Samantha A. Cole

    Salvaging His Soul by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Think you know everything about the Sexy Six-Pack? Think again! This is the story fans will never see coming! Jaws will drop and hearts will pound because everything is not as it seems! Jase Atwood is a man with a forgotten past and an unsure future...
  • Finding Justice by Brittney Sahin

    Finding Justice by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    They say the truth will set you free--if it doesn't bury you first. As a Navy SEAL for a covert special ops team, Owen York has no time for relationships. But when he's forced to go on vacation, he finds himself falling for a sexy stranger, a woman who turns out to be linked not only to his latest assignment but to his past...
  • 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...
  • Adam by Kris Michaels

    Adam by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr. Adam Cassidy knew two things: life isn’t easy and fate’s a bitch. Adam's last mission cost him an eye, his memory, and any chance of staying with his military brothers-in-arms on Guardian's Alpha Team. After two years he'd scraped together the remnants of his life. He’d refined, rebuilt and pushed on alone...
  • Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I left here a man but came back a beast CHANCE A shoulder-fired missile broke my body. But betrayal obliterated my heart. For months I lingered in and out of hell until my body healed. Now I’m back in town with my club brothers. But I am still fighting a war of darkness in my head and I can’t see a way out...
  • Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Discovering your ex is a serial-killing religious zealot would put anyone off dating for a good long while. That’s where Hudson “Taco” Vines’s head is at when he meets Koren, a woman who looks a little too much like his ex for comfort. But he can’t deny their attraction, and the more he gets to know her, the more Taco realizes how different Koren is from his ex, in all the best ways...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  in-uniform  military  stalking  suspense  war
  • Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t get noticed. Zoey “Zero D” Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA’s data farm compiling security briefings and Intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive. Now she’s “one of them.” She’s not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore...
  • Rescuing Emily by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Emily by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Renting out the apartment over his garage shouldn’t be a life-changing decision, but when Delta soldier Cormac “Fletch” Fletcher meets Emily Grant, he feels an instant connection. He can’t stand the thought of Emily and her young daughter living anywhere unsafe. Offering cheap rent is a small price to pay for their safety…and Fletch’s peace of mind...
  • Halligan to My Axe by Lani Lynn Vale

    Halligan to My Axe by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You’re the Halligan... Kettle had it all. Until he didn't. He lost it all in a moment. One heart stopping, soul shattering moment, and there wasn't a single thing he could do about it. From that day forward, he stayed away from relationships. Then he responded to a possible fire and there she was, rocking his world when he didn't want it to be rocked. To My..
  • Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Tortured Hero with a Heart of Gold Growing up on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Javier Almeida has only his older sister to protect him. When she’s sold to a human-trafficker, he vows to hunt down those responsible. Years later, Titan Group’s Delta team finds him, tattooed and brawling, a vigilante protector with information they want...
  • Watching from the Shadows by Samantha A. Cole

    Watching from the Shadows by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Sexy Six-Pack is back! Retired Navy SEAL, Marco DeAngelis, is now an operative at Trident Security. He’s also a Dominant in the BDSM lifestyle. After a poor childhood, he is determined to stay single and childless for the rest of his life. But unbeknownst to him, one night of shared grief and comfort with his deceased sister’s best friend changes that forever...
  • Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Protect by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Outstanding!! Mystery, intrigue, action and an edge of your seat nail biter." "Holy Moly Mine to Protect was exciting, and suspenseful and oh so sexy." A standalone, romantic thriller novel where obsession is the name of the game. Recruited to the FBI Cas Mathews has one focus - catch the killer...
  • The Best of Me by Jessica Prince

    The Best of Me by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It wasn’t hard for Nona Fanning to fall for Trick. He was strong, kind-hearted, loyal, and unbelievably handsome. He was the man of her dreams, and all it took was one night to give her a taste of the beauty he had to offer. But while she’d been opening her heart to him, he’d kept his under lock and key...
  • FREE - A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    FREE - A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He was my first love… I wanted him to follow his dreams. I wanted him to escape the life he hated. I thought I was doing the right thing by not telling him how I truly felt. Until it was too late, and my silence turned into my biggest regret. Twelve years ago, Shane Owings died, taking my heart with him. I was left devastated and broken hearted...
  • To the Xtreme by Em Petrova

    To the Xtreme by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    n the Alaskan wilderness, meeting their match takes on more than one meaning.Special Operative and second-in-command for the Xtreme Ops team, Harris Lipton, aka Lip, finds himself sidelined after an accident. While laid up, locating a loony in the national forest won’t be easy, especially by shooting off text messages instead of bullets...
  • Tied Up in Knots by Mary Calmes

    Tied Up in Knots by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Miro Jones is living the life: he’s got his exciting, fulfilling job as a US deputy marshal, his gorgeous Greystone in suburban Chicago, his beloved adopted family, and most importantly, the man who captured his heart, Ian Doyle. Problem is, Ian isn’t just his partner at work—Ian’s a soldier through and through...
  • Twisted and Tied by Mary Calmes

    Twisted and Tied by Mary Calmes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Deputy US Marshal Miro Jones finally has everything he ever wanted. He’s head-over-heels in love and married to the man of his dreams, his partner Ian Doyle, he’s doing well at work, and all his friends are in good places as well. Things are all tied up nicely… until they’re not...
  • Justice for Corrie by Susan Stoker

    Justice for Corrie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Blind since birth, Corrie Madison relies on her other sharpened senses in her job as a chiropractor. Never did she imagine she’d have to depend on them to identify a killer. But when a man enters her practice, murdering everyone in his path, Corrie is the only witness—putting her directly in the killer’s crosshairs...
  • Defending Allye by Susan Stoker

    Defending Allye by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Love is a life-and-death risk for the Mountain Mercenaries in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s explosive series of alpha heroes, hot action, and hard passion… Ever since his rescue op off the Pacific Coast, Mountain Mercenary Gray Rogers hasn’t been able to forget his latest “job”—Allye Martin...
  • Hard to Let Go by Laura Kaye

    Hard to Let Go by Laura Kaye

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Five dishonored soldiers.Former Special Forces.One last mission.These are the men of Hard Ink.Beckett Murda hates to dwell on the past. But his investigation into the ambush that killed half his Special Forces team and ended his Army career gives him little choice...
  • Bang Switch by Lani Lynn Vale

    Bang Switch by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lachlan Downy was a lover, not a fighter. Okay, he wouldn't lie, he was a fighter, too. But nobody had to know that. Especially not Memphis Tennessee Conner and her stuffy attitude when it came to cops and ‘men like him.’ Memphis knew cops. Her daddy was a cop. He was also the president of a motorcycle club...
  • Highway Don't Care by Lani Lynn Vale

    Highway Don't Care by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her Snark. Jokes. Attitude. These were all things I used to disguise the hole in my heart. I'm not a happy person. I don't live life. I just exist. That is until that beautiful man rides in on his Harley Fat Boy and burns rubber on the way into my heart. Him My life's been no hayride either. Everyone I've ever loved in life has died or betrayed me. So I stay back and watch...
  • 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...
  • Protecting Cheyenne by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Cheyenne by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Living in Southern California, Cheyenne was used to seeing hot military men as she went about her daily business. An anonymous encounter at the grocery store cemented her crush on one such man. He was big, built, and incredibly easy on the eyes, but it wasn't as if he would ever really notice her. Always in control of any situation, Faulkner “Dude” Cooper knows explosives...
  • 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...
  • Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kason “Benny” Sawyer was the last single man on his Navy SEAL team. He loved his teammates like brothers and respected each and every one of their women. They’d all been through hell and they deserved their current happiness. But seeing the love between his friends and their women made it tough to be the odd man out all the time. Jessyka Allen had a good life, until it wasn’t anymore...
  • Leather & Lace / His Angel / Waiting for Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Leather & Lace / His Angel / Waiting for Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "No one does Alpha heroes like Samantha A. Cole!"—New York Times, USA Today, #1 Amazon Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan StokerLeather & Lace:How does a “vanilla” woman write a BDSM novel? With hands-on research!Kristen needs inspiration and personal experience for a sequel to her unexpected and kinky bestseller...
  • Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A military widow reluctant to risk her heart again. After losing her soldier husband in combat, DEA agent Tess Dubrovksi swore never to fall for another man in uniform. The last thing she anticipates is for a sexy FAST agent single father and his young daughter to steal their way into her heart...
  • Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve spent the last several years building my company, having zero time for a social life. I preferred it that way. After the mess my ex-wife left me with, I have no interest in anything remotely close to a relationship. Until I meet my daughter’s new next-door neighbor. Harley is kind, beautiful, and she’s also an erotic romance writer. To any man, she’s the perfect package...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Nothing Special VI (S.W.A.T Edition): His Hart's Command by A.E. Via

    Nothing Special VI (S.W.A.T Edition): His Hart's Command by A.E. Via

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    S.W.A.T Edition. Lennox Freeman (Free) is one of the best hackers in the world which has caused him to spend most of his life on the run. Never able to put down roots, he couldn’t trust anyone not to take advantage of him, even his own family...
  • 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...
  • His Angel by Samantha A. Cole

    His Angel by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 'Sexy Six-Pack' is back! The men of Trident Security are ex- Navy SEALs, hardened warriors with hearts of gold. Angelina 'Angie' Beckett has been waiting a long time for Mister Right. Unfortunately, all her boyfriends have turned out to be Mr. Wrong. None of them have been able to hold her interest for long and give her what she craves in a relationship...
  • Link'd Up by Harley Stone

    Link'd Up by Harley Stone

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    President Tyler “Link” Lincoln of the Dead Presidents MC, runs a club dedicated to helping military vets readjust to society. When his sergeant at arms is arrested for the attempted murder of a prominent Seattle figure, Link’s search for a lawyer brave enough to fight for justice leads him to an alluring defense attorney with a bleeding heart and a steel backbone...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  female-mc  military  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  war
  • Forged in Steele by Maya Banks

    Forged in Steele by Maya Banks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Kelly Group International (KGI): A super-elite, top secret, family-run business.Qualifications: High intelligence, rock-hard body, military background.Mission: Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the U.S. government can’t…Steele, a KGI team leader, is an enigma not even his team mates understand...
  • Nothing Special V by A.E. Via

    Nothing Special V by A.E. Via

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The boys are back and fiercer than ever!"We were a unit tonight, moving as one. Even apart, we are deadly, but when combined – we are f**kin’ unstoppable." ~~ God ~~Atlanta's notorious narcotics task force is at it again. They are stronger, bigger, and better than ever...
  • Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The final "powerfully intense" (Romantic Times) Black Ops, Inc. novel from New York Times bestseller Cindy Gerard, featuring a covert private security team and electrifying romantic suspense. Black Ops, Inc. operative Joe Green is determined to bring to justice the man responsible for former team member Bryan Tompkins's death...
  • Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE MASTER OF EVERYTHING HAS FOUND HIS MATCH Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That’s why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible. And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it...
  • Hot SEAL by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot SEAL by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sex with the ex… It shouldn’t be this good the second time around. Navy SEAL Dane “Viking” Erikson has sworn off women—or at least he’s sworn off one woman: DEA Agent Ivy McGill. His ex-wife. But when they’re forced to work together on a critical military mission, Dane can’t help but notice how the one woman he shouldn’t want is the only one he can’t stop thinking about...
  • Nauti Intentions by Lora Leigh

    Nauti Intentions by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fourth in the New York Times bestselling series known for "blistering sexuality and eroticism."(Romance Reviews Today) Since he saw Janey Mackay taking a dip in her bikini, Major Alex Jansen has had to quell the fire she ignites in him. Even touching her would mean death at the hands of the Mackay men...
  • Hidden Agendas by Lora Leigh

    Hidden Agendas by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    SAVING LIVES IS HIS MISSION . Tough-as-nails Navy SEAL Kell Kreiger is the best there is at searching, rescuing, and taking no prisoners…yet even the rush of ever-more dangerous missions isn't enough to satisfy him. Haunted by a tortured past, Kell seeks distraction in a secret world of dark intimacies...
  • North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In what circumstance wouldn’t a knight want to rescue a damsel in distress? A former SEAL working for Legendary Securities, North Dockter has found the very circumstance that challenges even his stalwart, chivalrous ways. Nikki Beckwith is a firecracker who butts heads with him at every turn, refusing to follow orders or listen to his experience unless doing so suits her...
  • Savor the Danger by Lori Foster

    Savor the Danger by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The one woman he couldn't have was the only woman he desired…She may be aloof, and more pretty than gorgeous, but Alani Rivers is the kind of woman a hot-blooded mercenary can't forget, no matter how hard he tries. So when Jackson Savor wakes up next to the naked, sleeping beauty—with no memory of what happened—he knows he's been drugged… even if Alani doesn't...
  • Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds; while she battles her own emotional damage. Blaming himself for his best friend’s suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken, retreated from life...
  • 367 Days by Jessica Gadziala

    367 Days by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m not crazy. It’s not amnesia. But I somehow lost a year of my life. When the cops and doctors think you’re out of your mind, but you still need answers, where else is there to turn but a private investigator? Sawyer is nothing you’d want in a friend- a little detached, cool, sarcastic, cocksure...
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