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  • Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon

    Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 67 ratings
    It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous revolutions that have to be accommodated...
  • An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

    An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    A new Outlander novel — the seventh — from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander saga — a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre’s most popular and beloved authors...
  • Archangel's War by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's War by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Wings of silver. Wings of blue. Mortal heart. Broken dreams. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter. A sundering. A grave. I see the end. I see. . .The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphael’s power, Elena and her archangel are irrevocably changed. .
  • Smoke & Mirrors by Charlie Cochet

    Smoke & Mirrors by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Life for Dexter J. Daley has never been easy, but he’s always found a way to pick himself back up with a smile on his face. Taken from his home, and the arms of his boyfriend and THIRDS partner, Sloane Brodie, Dex finds himself in a situation as mysterious and lethal as the Therian interrogating him. Dex learns what he’s secretly believed all along: his parents’ death wasn’t an accident...
  • Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Justice by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a dangerous redhead invades his office and his base, and warns that his team is in danger, Director Jonah Grayson doesn’t know if she’s friend or foe.Former elite Army aviator Jonah Grayson was forced to give up flying, but now serves as director of the covert black ops team, Team 52. He takes care of the brass in Washington D.C...
  • Tried & True by Charlie Cochet

    Tried & True by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When THIRDS agent Dexter J. Daley met Team Leader Sloane Brodie, he couldn’t have imagined how slamming into his new partner—literally—would shake both their worlds. Now four years later, they’ve faced dangers, fought battles both personal and professional… and fallen deeply in love. Now their big moment is finally in sight, and they’re ready to stand up together and make it official...
  • Jack Be Quick by Fiona Quinn

    Jack Be Quick by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Strike Force: An Iniquus Romantic Suspense Mystery Thriller The prayer on her lips is JACK Be Quick. It’s been months since ex-Navy SEAL Jack McCullen last saw his fiancée, Suz Molloy. He was on the other side of the world involved in a grueling black ops mission for Iniquus Corporation at the behest of the US government...
  • Undetected by Anna Hackett

    Undetected by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Darcy Ward has sold her soul to the devil. Okay, not quite the devil, but she did agree to work with Agent Arrogant and Annoying—aka Special Agent Alastair Burke of the FBI’s Art Crime Team to lay a trap for infamous black-market antiquities ring, Silk Road. Darcy loves shoes, computers, caffeine, and working at her family business, Treasure Hunter Security...
  • Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Babysitter Bear by Zoe Chant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He takes care of other people's kids ... but he craves a family of his own.Enter a single mom waitress with a broken heart and a whole lot of trouble behind her.Army vet Dan is still figuring out how to deal with being a three-legged bear, but it turns out kids don’t care how many limbs he has as long as he’s willing to be a climbing frame...
  • Rack & Ruin by Charlie Cochet

    Rack & Ruin by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Action. Comedy. Romance. And that one weird guy. New York City’s streets are more dangerous than ever with the leaderless Order of Adrasteia and the Ikelos Coalition, a newly immerged Therian group, at war...
  • Rise & Fall by Charlie Cochet

    Rise & Fall by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    After an attack by the Coalition leaves THIRDS Team Leader Sloane Brodie critically injured, agent Dexter J. Daley swears to make Beck Hogan pay for what he's done. But Dex's plans for retribution are short-lived. With Ash still on leave with his own injuries, Sloane in the hospital, and Destructive Delta in the Coalition's crosshairs, Lieutenant Sparks isn't taking any chances...
  • Shadows Strike by Dianne Duvall

    Shadows Strike by Dianne Duvall

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The Immortal Guardians protect the innocent in secret. Sometimes the secret gets out...U.S. law enforcement agent Heather Lane can read minds. But not the future. The dream of battle and blood that recurs every night must be a fluke, some obscure terror from her own mind...
  • Overtaken by K.F. Breene

    Overtaken by K.F. Breene

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Reunited with her people, Shanti knows that she must make a move in order to finally put her duty to rest. But as always, Xandre is one step ahead of her.For one brief moment when she lets down her guard, Shanti falls into enemy hands. But if Xandre thought she would be a docile prisoner, he was sadly mistaken...
  • Lethal Game by Christine Feehan

    Lethal Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The sparks of unexpected passion ignite in this electrifying GhostWalker novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan.When Malichai Fortunes attacks a problem, he does it full force--a habit that earns the GhostWalker a painful injury and a forced vacation in San Diego, California. With nothing but physical therapy on the horizon, Malichai is starting to get restless..
  • Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh

    Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Nalini Singh, the New York Times bestselling “alpha author of paranormal romance” (Booklist) returns to an immortal world of violent passion and lethal power…on the brink of a deadly archangelic war.Angels are falling from the sky in New York, struck down by a vicious, unknown force.Vampires are dying impossibly of disease...
  • Mission: Her Defense by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Defense by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One former special forces Marine. One tall, handsome police detective who pushes all her buttons. One dangerous investigation that forces them to work together. Blair Mason is badass to the bone. She’s no stranger to loss and barely survived the mission that ended her military career...
  • Power Game by Christine Feehan

    Power Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better and run faster than the enemy, disappear when necessary and hunt along any terrain...
  • Conspiracy Game by Christine Feehan

    Conspiracy Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Jack Norton is a GhostWalker, a genetically enhanced sniper with a merciless sense of justice, a phantom welcomed by the anonymity of the night. But a mission to rescue his brother in the jungle has left him vulnerable to rebel forces. His only salvation is his power of telepathy. Then he meets Briony, an unusual beauty on a mission of her own. But they share more than the sweltering heat ..
  • The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon, Janos Farkas

    The Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon, Janos Farkas

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge...
  • Whispers in the Dark by Maya Banks

    Whispers in the Dark by Maya Banks

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She came to him when he needed her the mostShe came to him at his lowest point. The voice of an angel, a whisper in the dark. She’s the only thing that gets Nathan Kelly through his captivity, the endless days of torture and the fear that he’ll never return to his family. With her help, he’s able to escape...
  • Crown of Crystal Flame by C.L. Wilson

    Crown of Crystal Flame by C.L. Wilson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A Song of Love won her heart.A Song of Darkness haunted her soul.A Song in the Dance would seal her fate.Seers had long foreseen an extraordinary destiny for Ellysetta Baristani. Already she had won the heart of the Fey King—the magnificent Rain, ever her ally, eternally her love. She had saved the offspring of the magical tairen and fought beside her legendary mate against the armies of Eld...
  • Missing Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Missing Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With her mentor on his way in from overseas, Lexi is ready to join the team to take down Hydra. Kidnapped and taken to a Honduran prison. Lexi must risk everything to stay alive...
  • Chain Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Chain Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Found in the debris of the plane wreck barely alive, Lexi Sobado is finally home. But home does not mean safe. Someone powerful, connected, and willing to kill is after her. Lexi Sobado, the young Iniquus puzzling prodigy, puts her expertise to the test as she faces a dark enemy, threatening not only her and Iniquus, but American defense and safety...
  • Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    More of this is true than you would believe.In her most thrilling novel yet, USA Today bestselling author Fiona Quinn exposes the dark forces threatening America. The Hydra, a monstrous group that includes a secret society that will do anything for power, is ready to strike, and only Lexi stands a chance to stop them.It’s a mind-bending plot of control and destruction...
  • Murder Game by Christine Feehan

    Murder Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Return to the world of the GhostWalkers with “the queen of paranormal romance” (USA Today) as she raises the stakes in the ultimate game of love and death… Games should be fun, but for two expert teams across the country, they’re murder – because the winning team is the one that gets the most kills. The participants in this violent challenge rumored to be GhostWalkers...
  • Blood & Thunder by Charlie Cochet

    Blood & Thunder by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When a series of bombs goes off in a Therian youth center, injuring members of THIRDS Team Destructive Delta and causing a rift between agents Dexter J. Daley and Sloane Brodie, peace seems unattainable. Especially when a new and frightening group, the Order of Adrasteia, appears to always be a step ahead...
  • Untraveled by Anna Hackett

    Untraveled by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Finding undiscovered treasures is always daring, dangerous, and deadly. Perfect for the men and women of Treasure Hunter Security.After a mission gone terribly wrong, former Navy SEAL Hale Carter has made a good career for himself at Treasure Hunter Security...
  • Unmapped by Anna Hackett

    Unmapped by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Finding undiscovered treasures is always daring, dangerous, and deadly. Perfect for the men and women of Treasure Hunter Security.Former Navy SEAL and CIA agent Ronin Cooper is used to living his life in the darkness. A loner by nature, he enjoys his work at Treasure Hunter Security, stays busy on the road, and never lets anyone too close...
  • The Lord John Series by Diana Gabaldon

    The Lord John Series by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series, delivers captivating tales of history, intrigue, and suspense that feature one of her most popular characters: Lord John Grey. This thrilling eBook collection—featuring three novels and one collection of novellas—follows Lord John as he defends his country, ferrets out spies, and unravels a haunting family mystery...
  • Toxic Game by Christine Feehan

    Toxic Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible—or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He won’t risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory...
  • Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Passion Unleashed by Larissa Ione

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    FORBIDDEN TEMPTATIONS Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent...
  • Deadly Game by Christine Feehan

    Deadly Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    It begins as a mission to protect a politician from an assassination threat. But the operation takes an unexpected turn when Mari, a mysteriously beautiful GhostWalker, is taken hostage. At the same time, Ken Norton, expert assassin and himself a GhostWalker warrior, is on a mission of his own—one that reaches into Mari’s own past...
  • Covert Game by Christine Feehan

    Covert Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Rescuing an industrial spy from the hands of a criminal mastermind is a suicide mission for the GhostWalkers. And there's no one more up to the task than Gino Mazza. He's the perfect killing machine--a man driven by demons so dark and destructive that his blighted soul has given up trying to find solace. But his laser-sharp focus on his target has transformed into something nearing desire...
  • Predatory Game by Christine Feehan

    Predatory Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The new Ghostwalker novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Saber Wynter is running from her past when she meets ex-Navy SEAL and Ghostwalker Jess Calhoun. But the riddles of both their pasts are about to collide, shattering the promise of their future with the ultimate betrayal...
  • Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward

    Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The legacy of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continues in a spin-off series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author…Paradise, blooded daughter of the king’s First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself…be herself...
  • Night Game by Christine Feehan

    Night Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Gator Fontenot of the Special Forces paranormal squad must reel in the elusive Iris "Flame" Johnson, a victim of the same horrific experiments that warped Gator--and a red-haired weapon of unimaginable destructive powers bent on revenge in the sultry bayous of New Orleans...
  • Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Forbidden Nights with a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The Best Things in Life Are Always ForbiddenVanda Barkowski is in trouble. As the owner of a hot nightclub, she's more unconventional than most of her fellow vampires, and if some think her a little out of control, then so be it. But after three former employees filed a complaint about her temper, Vanda is sentenced to an anger management class. Worse, Phil Jones agreed to be her sponsor...
  • The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore

    The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The Garde have suffered an unbearable loss. Number Five has betrayed them. Eight is gone forever. Ella has been kidnapped. The others are now scattered.In Chicago, John makes the unlikeliest of allies: Adam, a Mogadorian who turned his back on his people. He has invaluable information about Mog technology, battle strategies, and weaknesses...
  • Catch a Tiger by the Tail by Charlie Cochet

    Catch a Tiger by the Tail by Charlie Cochet

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Calvin Summers and Ethan Hobbs have been best friends since childhood, but somewhere along the line, their friendship evolved into something more. With the Therian Youth Center bombing, Calvin realizes just how short life can be and no longer keeps his feelings for his best friend a secret...
  • Stolen Dreams by Maddie Wade

    Stolen Dreams by Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A page-turner that is thrilling, steamy, teary and wonderful! Nate Jones is unlucky in love. He’s watched his parents love story play out his entire life and wants that for himself. His whole world was rocked when he walks into a hospital room and falls head over heels in love with Skye and Noah. Skye Mitchell is a single mother to an exceptional young boy...
  • Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol

    Traitor Born by Amy A. Bartol

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In the Fates Republic, Firstborns reign supreme. Secondborns kneel in servitude. Thirdborns face death. And Census shadows them all.Secondborn Roselle St. Sismode was pressed into military service to battle the rebel uprising threatening the society that enslaves her...
  • Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta

    Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    There's a babe in my belly that whispers the valley, Froi. I follow the whispers and come to the road . . .Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi must travel through Charyn to search for Quintana, the mother of Charyn's unborn king, and protect her against those who will do anything to gain power...
  • Total Surrender by Rebecca Zanetti

    Total Surrender by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    A fight he must win...Piper Oliver knows she can't trust him. They warned her that the tall, dark, and sexy black-ops soldier Jory Dean would try to win her over with his steel-gray eyes and deadly charm, but she won't be conned by this man they call a traitor. All she has to do is figure out the science necessary to save his life, and she's done...
  • Instigator by Fiona Quinn

    Instigator by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In This USA Today Bestselling Novel, A Deadly Game Gambles American LivesA hardened war hero, Gator Aid Rochambeau is on a collision course with fate. Retired Marine Raider, Gator Aid Rochambeau is now an Iniquus elite security operative. He's been assigned to the Davidson mission. As the job gets underway, he is unprepared for the psychic confusion that swirls through his system...
  • Relentless by D.B. Reynolds

    Relentless by D.B. Reynolds

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    TREACHERY . . . Something the powerful Vampire Lord Raphael has seen far too much of lately. RAGE . . . An emotion that, left unchecked, can burn like the fires of hell. REVENGE . . . A dish that philosophers claim is best served cold.It’s been months since the powerful French vampire Mathilde used Raphael’s arrogance against him and nearly succeeded in taking his life...
  • A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows by Diana Gabaldon

    A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Available for the first time as an exclusive eBook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story...
  • Alpha's Revenge by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Alpha's Revenge by Renee Rose, Lee Savino

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    This is insane. This human-beautiful though she may be-can't be my mate. I learned the hard way what it's like to lose people you love.As an alpha, I vowed never to let that happen again.That means keeping my focus. Never letting my guard down.And, most of all, staying away from civilians - i.e. humans.But the feisty chocolatier has me breaking my own rules.The beautiful female tests my patience...
  • Into the Lyons Den by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Into the Lyons Den by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Devin Lyons and Russian mob boss/FBI ally Andrei Panchenko have been at each others' throats for years. Literally. They've had their hands around the other's throat lots of times. When Andrei barely escapes a bold attempt on his life, government big shot James Jacobs decides to put Devin in charge of Andrei's safety...
  • Dirty Ross by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Dirty Ross by Sandrine Gasq-Dion

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cole Ryker has been a man on a mission since the second he laid eyes on tall, dark and dirty-talking Ross Collins. That mission? To get the macho Delta Force soldier into his bed and out of his head, putting an end to his obsession. When Ross finally agrees to a date, Cole is overjoyed - and, frankly, rather surprised. Ross is like no man he's ever met...
  • Deadly Games by Jaycee Clark

    Deadly Games by Jaycee Clark

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The stakes are higher ... the risks are steeper ... the chances more fatal.... Rori Maitland has lived her life the way she's wanted it. After retiring from MI6, she's her own woman, few friends, no husband and that is the way she bloody well prefers it. After all, her job is hardly normal. Ian Kinncaid, master of disguise, has been estranged from his family for well over a decade...
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