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Forever Hidden by Kathleen Brooks
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSome things weren't meant to stay hidden... Sydney Davies is used to being in the spotlight. But the former model turned fashion designer isn't used to family secrets. Sydney is sent to dig up the past. What she finds instead is Deacon and a case of a missing girl with a link back to her life in the fashion industry. Deacon McKnight is hardly ever surprised due to his work as an investigator... -
A Secret Service by Joy Jenkins
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCarter Owens, daughter of a Secret Service agent, is trained to disassemble any weapon, any situation, and anyone. Her biting sarcasm and razor-sharp mind make her impossible to beat in a word fight and when talking doesn’t work, she uses her fists. She attends Hamilton Prep, Washington D.C.’s most prestigious high school, where everyone is related to someone in power, except her...Categorized as:
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Hazards in the Hidden City by Auburn Tempest, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYe screw with this lass, ye get put on yer ass.A wedding on an enchanted island of magic. A guest list of gods, immortals, shifters, dragons, and druids. And a sentient city waking after centuries…What could go wrong?When Fiona’s magnet for mayhem weighs in on her special day, there’s no escaping the fallout…or the island...Categorized as:
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The Reunion: A Novel by Dan Walsh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAaron Miller knows a thing or two about loss. He’s lost love. Dignity. Second, and even third, chances. Once honored for his heroism, he now lives in near obscurity, working as a handyman in a humble trailer park. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Unbeknownst to Aaron, someone is searching for him...Categorized as:
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The Original Crowd by Tijan
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is the original version of A Whole New Crowd. It has only gone through one round of edits so it is rough. I make no apology for this. The edited version was released as A Whole New Crowd. This is being published at readers' requests. They want to own the original version as well so here it is in all its gritty and monstrously long glory. There is lots of sex so the reader is forewarned... -
Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsMichael and his friends try to recruit Hatch’s Electric Youth to their side as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!Michael and the Electroclan are about to embark on their deadliest mission yet. Some of them may not make it back... -
The Price of Valor by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFormer Navy SEAL Hamilton Jones thought that the love of his life was dead. But when a girl claiming to be his daughter shows up with a dire message from his wife, Ham knows he will stop at nothing to find her and bring her home...Categorized as:
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Leave No Trace by Sara Driscoll, Jen J. Danna
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFBI handler Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue K-9 partner are heading south where it’s hunting season. But this time the prey is human. One arrow through the heart could be a tragic hunting accident. A second one, within days, looks more like a crime. That’s when Meg Jennings and Brian Foster of the FBI’s Forensic Canine Unit head to Georgia to investigate... -
The Last Exchange by Charles Martin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.”When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue...Categorized as:
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Heirs of Falcon Point by Traci Hunter Abramson, Sian Ann Bessey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the early days of World War II, the Lang family lost everything. Eighty years later, it’s time to take it back.The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and wealthy widower Leopold Lang faces a difficult decision: join the ranks of the foreign power that has taken over his homeland or flee with his children to safety. Leopold makes his choice—but too late...Categorized as:
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Jim and Katherine by Traci Hunter Abramson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJim Whitmore has lofty dreams of a bright political career. So when a well-connected friend invites him home for the weekend, the promise of rubbing shoulders with her congressman father and his professional associates is thrilling. What he doesn’t anticipate is meeting his friend’s sister, Katherine, an intriguing woman who immediately steals his heart...Categorized as:
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True Honor by Dee Henderson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCIA officer Darcy St. James is after a man who knew September 11 would happen--a man who chose to profit from the knowledge. Navy SEAL Sam "Cougar" Houston is busy: The intelligence Darcy is generating has his team deploying around the world. Under the pressure of war, their romance flourishes...Categorized as:
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Sexy/Dangerous by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWearing her shades, a black Stetson, and snakeskin cowboy boots, security agent Maxine "Max" Blake is the baddest thing walking. Ex-marine, ex-cop, and a whole lotta 'tude, Max doesn't have time for anything but her job. Her latest assignment: to protect Dr. Adam Gary. Her problem: he doesn't want her there. Adam wants to focus on his work, not to be distracted by this tall, sexy woman... -
Hometown Girl at Heart by Kirsten Fullmer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTara has always been too engrossed in her work - refurbishing the historical homes in Smithville. She keeps a tight rein on her jobs and her emotions buried, but she’s losing control of both since that ridiculous city boy investor showed up. New in town, Justin is confident that his ultra modern resorts will bring Smithville into the twenty-first century... -
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Obsession by Florencia Bonelli, Rosemary Peele
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Eliah Al-Saud and Matilde Martinez meet on a flight to Paris, they have little in common. Eliah is the rich and powerful son of a Saudi prince, and the owner of a French security company—actually a front for mercenary and espionage services—while Matilde is a pediatric surgeon from Argentina, whose only dream is to work in Africa helping children in need...Categorized as:
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Daylighters by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhile Morganville, Texas, is often a troubled town, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to coming home. But the Morganville they return to isn’t the one they know; it’s become a different place—a deadly one…Something drastic has happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away... -
Echo Moon by Laura Spinella
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA past life, a past war, and a past love. Peter St John can’t foresee a future until he confronts his past sins.When photojournalist Peter St John returns home after a two-year absence, the life he’s been running from catches up. For years his mother’s presence, coupled with Pete’s own psychic gift, has triggered visits to 1917...Categorized as:
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Lonestar Secrets by Colleen Coble
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCan a secret be kept forever? Five years ago, Shannon Astor left the beautiful high-mountain country of West Texas as a single mother. She was desperate for a fresh start...and a way to keep the secrets of her past buried. It almost worked. Until a chance to make a better life for her daughter leads her right back home. To the very place of the past betrayals...Categorized as:
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Broken Promises (Past Imperfect Mystery Book 1) by Anne Willow
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJulia needed a new start. The unexpected death of her favorite aunt sends Julia to the artist town of Grand Marais. There she starts to weave tattered threads into a new tapestry while rediscovering her love of sketching and running the antique shop, Past Imperfect. Everything is just starting to go right when a mysterious package arrives bearing an antique letter opener arrives... -
A Gallagher Wedding by Ally Carter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings...Categorized as:
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No Brainer by A.J. Lape
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo weeks before junior year, Darcy hops a plane to Orlando for a little R&R with her best friend Dylan and his family. Fresh off the heels of solving three murders in Valley, she is ready to sit back and enjoy the vacation capital of the world…maybe if you're a noun. Darcy Walker, however, is nothing but verb... -
Liam by Stephanie St. Klaire
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou met them in the McKenzie Ridge Series, get to know them in Brother's Keeper...This broody bunch of Irish Alpha's with heart are the brother's you want on your side when things go wrong... This edge of your seat series will make you laugh just before it takes you through twists and turns you won't see coming and will give you all the feels along the way..Categorized as:
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Chances by Jackie Collins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe book that made Jackie Collins one of America’s favorite authors sweeps you from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas. It plunges you into the reckless, dangerous world of the Santangelo crime family. It introduces you to Gino Santangelo, the street kid who makes it all the way to the top... -
The Lighthouse Keeper by Cynthia Ellingsen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDawn Conners’s parents are famous for finding historic treasures, but she has a knack for losing things—her job, her boyfriend, and now, her reputation. Thanks to a mud-slinging exposé, Dawn’s late great-grandfather is assumed guilty of stealing silver from a century-old shipwreck... -
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Fall of Night by Rachel Caine
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTHANKS TO ITS UNIQUE COMBINATION OF HUMAN AND VAMPIRE RESIDENTS, MORGANVILLE, TEXAS, IS A SMALL COLLEGE TOWN WITH BIG-TIME PROBLEMS. WHEN STUDENT CLAIRE DANVERS GETS THE CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE LIFE ON THE OUTSIDE, SHE TAKES IT. BUT MORGANVILLE ISN'T THE ONLY TOWN WITH VAMPIRE TROUBLE.. -
A Highland Werewolf Wedding by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsElaine Hawthorn is a gray American werewolf, currently out of work, and on a mission to share in a family treasure. When she arrives in Scotland, she nearly has a head-on collision with one hot, kilt-garbed Highlander, and runs him off the road...Categorized as:
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Lonestar Homecoming by Colleen Coble
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor most, it's the safest place on earth. For Gracie, it's the last place she wants to be...and the one place she must return. With nothing but five dollars and the wedding dress she's wearing, Gracie Lister flees with her daughter by train to West Texas, to the town she ran away from so long ago...Categorized as:
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Order of Seven by Beth Teliho
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEighteen-year-old Devi Bennett is surrounded by mysteries: her unknown heritage, a recurring dream about an African tribal ceremony, an inexplicable attachment to a certain tree and a psychic ability she’ll never understand—unless she finds her biological parents...Categorized as:
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Broken Circle by Amy McKinley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife with Alex is simple and secure - everything she's ever wanted. Or so she thought...Upper East Side artist, Olivia Wrightwood is ready for a change. Marrying Alex Mudarra, a dedicated and up-and-coming NYPD detective, is exactly what she needs to escape the clutches and scrutiny of her family's political dynasty...Categorized as:
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Proof of Innocence by Lenora Worth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsINNOCENT FUGITIVE Erin Eagleton has been on the run for months after her ex-boyfriend was killed in front of her. She escaped from the killer once, but the police consider her a prime suspect. She is determined to prove her innocence and bring down the real criminal…before he finishes the job... -
A Dazzle of Diamonds (Georgia Coast Romance) by Liz Johnson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBest friends Penelope and Tucker have faced their share of challenges. But finding a lost treasure in time to clear his family's name and win him an election may uncover something they never expected...Categorized as:
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Security Breach by Margaret Daley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen White House tour director Selena Barrow is attacked in her office, the Capitol K-9 Unit goes on high alert. Selena's cousin is a person of interest in a congressman's shooting, and Selena has been collecting evidence to exonerate her. Could this be the break they're looking for? Officer Nicholas Cole and his dog, Max, step in to safeguard Selena - and to keep an eye on the evidence...Categorized as:
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Rookie K-9 Unit Christmas: Surviving Christmas\Holiday High Alert by Valerie Hansen, Lenora Worth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsK-9 HOLIDAY RESCUE Surviving Christmas by Valerie Hansen When single dad Sean Murray returns from a war zone and discovers someone is following him, he turns to his old friend K-9 officer Zoe Trent for help...Categorized as:
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Mai Tai Marriage by Chris Keniston
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMai Tai Marriage (book three in the contemporary romance Aloha series) What happens when just pretend becomes all too real? Lexie Hale is happily single and loving her life in Hawaii as a dive instructor and manager of the Big Island Dive shop. Lt. Commander James Borden thinks he's found the perfect navy wife for a man like him. That is, until his prospective bride goes AWOL... -
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Kiss Me in the Moonlight: Europe (Destined for Love) by Lindzee Armstrong
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKissing her way through Europe wasn’t in the job description… All Paige wants is to be a professor. Instead, she’s chaperoning hormonal teenagers through Europe as she works on her PhD. All in all, it wouldn’t be too bad a job. Except she has to work with Nick, her obnoxious ex-boyfriend who is more of a child than the high schoolers they’re supposed to take care of... -
The Black Madonna by Stella Riley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAuthor revised and extended edition of this epic saga of love and revenge, set against the dramatic backdrop of the English Civil War. By July 1639, unpopular taxes, religious differences and no Parliament in a decade have turned England into a simmering cauldron of discontent. Less concerned by this than by his ailing finances, King Charles seeks ways of filling his empty treasury...Categorized as:
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Notice Me by Emem Uko
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMusic DJ? Sure. Being the frontman of a popular band in a foreign country? Never in his wildest dreams. Anders finds himself living a cool life but at a price of projecting an effeminate image to the public. His fans love it. They’ve only known him since his makeover after his debut as a singer. They don’t know the manly Anders. But the girl he wants to notice him thinks he’s not her type... -
The Night Blossoms by Leylah Attar
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Leylah Attar returns with a page-turning romantic suspense/thriller that careens down an emotional highway toward a chilling finale. Dark, thrilling, and ingeniously unpredictable...Categorized as:
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Dancing to Freedom by Traci Hunter Abramson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCanada, 1960Ballet is Katerina Petrova’s world. But when the stage lights go dim and the curtain closes, she is simply a young woman who is trapped. On tour with the Soviet Kirov Ballet in Canada, Katerina is watched day and night by her chaperones and ballet security. But no one realizes that her hotel balcony adjoins that of handsome Canadian hockey player Robert Marcell... -
The Darkness Dwellers by Kirsten Miller
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon’t miss Strike three!First they ventured deep under New York to save the city itself.Then things got personal as the Irregulars ventured into a haunted mansion in Chinatown to uncover an evil twin... -
Tallchief by Dinah McCall
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Dream...Or A Nightmare?Ever since the night Morgan Tallchief lost the only woman he would ever love, he has struggled to seal away the past. But now Kathleen Ryder is back in his life--still pursued by the deadly secrets that forced her to flee before. And even though Morgan swears to protect her, he is helpless against his own rekindled passion...Categorized as:
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The Nanny Song by Misty Mount
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMallory Riscoe is no stranger to dysfunction. Despite her tumultuous childhood, at twenty-two, she has established herself as a fully functional, self-made woman. However the safe, mundane life she has created for herself is quickly turned upside-down when she's falsely accused of theft and promptly fired. Meanwhile, a dismal pall hangs over the Colt residence... -
Imperfect Justice by Cara C. Putman
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“This is the way legal thrillers are meant to be—compelling, intelligent, and deeply satisfying.” —Randy Singer, author of Rule of Law THE POLICE SAY THE WOMAN WAS A MURDERER. EMILIE WESLEY KNOWS THEY CAN’T BE TALKING ABOUT HER CLIENT . . . CAN THEY? To the world it seems obvious: Kaylene Adams killed her daughter and then was shot by police...Categorized as:
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Jayhawk by Dorothy M. Keddington
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTimeless best selling JAYHAWK now available by award winning author Dorothy Keddington.To Angela Stewart, a summer on a Wyoming ranch with her college roommate's family seemed like an ideal vacation. For Jay Bradford,his return to the Triple J Ranch involves a potentially dangerous quest and the search for an answer to a 26-year old mystery...Categorized as:
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A Howl for a Highlander by Terry Spear
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBook 2 in Terry Spear's Highland Wolf SeriesA Highland Wolf on a Mission...Meets a Dangerous DistractionDuncan MacNeill is hell-bent on catching the thief who's stolen the clan's fortune and run off to Grand Cayman Island. Duncan has rarely left his homeland and he couldn't care less about an island paradise...Categorized as:
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Shades of Doon by Carey Corp, Lorie Langdon
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter cheating death, Veronica Welling is determined to savor every moment in her idyllic kingdom with both her true love and best friend by her side at last. At the same time, Mackenna Reid is enthusiastically building her new life and a theater with her prince...Categorized as:
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The Angel of Death by Alane Ferguson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs assistant to her father, the county coroner of Silverton, Colorado, Cameryn Mahoney has seen more gore than the average seventeen-yearold. But even Cameryn is shocked when Kyle O'Neil, the most popular guy in school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered in his own bed... -
Kalahari by Jessica Khoury
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDeep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret…But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide... -
Texas Rich by Fern Michaels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe extraordinary novel that introduces the unforgettable Coleman family—and the brilliant heroine who began a powerful American dynasty Young Billie Ames naively fell for the exciting pilot Moss Coleman at the Philadelphia Navy Yard during World War II. Within a few months she was pregnant, married, and traveling across the country to Austin . . -
True to You by Becky Wade
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter a devastating heartbreak three years ago, genealogist and historical village owner Nora Bradford decided that burying her nose in her work and her books is far safer than romance in the here and now.Unlike Nora, former Navy SEAL John Lawson is a modern-day man, usually 100 percent focused on the present...Categorized as:
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