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Finding Monica by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYears of abuse at the hands of her father has taught Monica Collins she can’t trust anyone—especially military men. Since escaping her home, she’s built a successful career as a nanny, showing other kids the love she was denied as a child. But when her employer’s ambassadorial home becomes fair game for intruders during a riot, she’s forced to rely on two SEALs to get her to safety... -
My Heart's Home by Kris Michaels
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsForty years old and starting over. And not sure where home was going to be.Chief Master Sergeant Cameron Freeland had a few job prospects but nothing that sparked much interest. And now… his flight was grounded, and he was stranded in an airport. At least, he could kill time in the USO... -
SEALs of Honor: Books 4-6 Swede, Shadow and Cooper by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsArianna struggles to deal with the foreign world she’s been plunged into. Kidnappings, beatings, threats. SEALs. The only good thing is the darkest, most dangerous-looking saviour she’s ever met. And he doesn’t know what to do with her. Well, she has a good idea, but will they get that chance? Not if the kidnappers have anything to say about it... -
Аз още броя дните by Георги Бърдаров
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsХитовият първи роман на Георги Бърдаров „Аз още броя дните” в ново и допълнено издание с твърди корици, 2021 г. Разтърсваща любовна история на босненските Ромео и Жулиета на фона на драматичните събития по време на Босненската война и блокадата на Сараево... -
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Her Captivated Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWHEN IS THE PRICE FOR LOVE TOO HIGH? The fate of thousands comes down to one woman. A critical mission in the Middle East demands more than just the skills of the Black Dawn Navy SEAL team, it requires a scientist who can crack the code on a deadly virus. Navy SEAL, Lieutenant Gray Tyler is fiercely protective of those he loves... -
Her Loving Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWyatt has hidden his pain for years, does he have it in him to trust again?Can two broken souls save one another?AT LAST! Book 8 in the Black Dawn Navy SEAL Series is... -
Tank by Zoe Dawson
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUS Navy SEAL Thorn "Tank" Hunt has been there done that, but when he loses his best friend and military working dog Echo, he’s heartbroken, but he has to pick up the pieces and get another partner. He met tough as nails and way too confident for her britches, Army Reserve veterinarian, Dr. Alyssa St. James through his baby brother and her fundraising efforts on behalf of MWDs... -
See You at the Bar by David Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Mediterranean, early 1940s. Lieutenant Harry Gilmour, captain of the S-Class submarine HMS Scourge, has been tasked with patrolling the Mediterranean and supporting operations for the Allied forces. Someone, however, is on his tail: Captain Charles ‘the Bonny Boy’ Bonalleck VC, who cannot forget Lt Gilmour calling him out on his conduct during an operation early in the war... -
The Promise by Ruth Saberton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo matter what promises you make, some dark secrets refuse to stay buried... When Nell Summers stumbles across a photograph in her late father’s belongings, the faded image of a young soldier leads her to question everything she knows...Categorized as:
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HIRO: REAPER-Patriots: Book Twenty-Four by Mary Kennedy
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWarning: This book contains explicit physical and sexual abuse and incest, which some readers may find disturbing.Hirohito Tanaka has tried to keep his Grandfather’s teachings and heritage alive his entire life. He’s a silent warrior, his humility something others aspire to. The arrival of Winter Cole makes Hiro want to protect the woman he doesn’t even know... -
FROST by Jaime Lewis
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFollowing the death of her military husband, Autumn Kauffman and her son, Cody, are seeking a fresh start in a new town. Between her full-time job as a physical therapist and keeping up with her active ten-year-old son, the last thing on her mind was dating. But when a new patient lands on her rotation schedule, she is knocked for a loop at their first meeting... -
Hollywood by Zoe Dawson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJude “Hollywood” Lock loved the ladies, but commitment, not so much. Getting burned at love was been there, done that enough for him. But when his Hollywood looks gets him tasked by the brass to pose for an artist as part of the Warrior Angel charity project, he has no choice but to follow orders... -
SEAL at Sunrise by Caitlyn O'Leary
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis Time, More Than Their Love Is On The Line Former Navy SEAL Commander, Liam McAllister, was neck deep in the Mexican jungle on a contract assignment for a highly classified sub-set of Department of Homeland Security. When Liam discovers a conspiracy that goes deep and spans decades it makes him sick... -
SEAL's Revenge by Makenna Jameison
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA hostage rescue gone wrong. A woman in fear of her life. And a Navy SEAL who’ll stop at nothing to save her.Navy SEAL Ethan “Everglades” Flannigan feels an instant draw toward the woman his team is tasked with rescuing from the mountains of Afghanistan. Kidnapped and held by a terror cell, her condition is unknown... -
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STRIKE: A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Craig DiLouie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a lifelong dream of flight takes him into military service, Ensign Harry Hartmann reports for duty at Pearl Harbor. He’s a “nugget,” a dive bomber pilot about to start his first deployment aboard the USS Enterprise.Hell rains from the skies as the Japanese launch a devastating surprise attack that forces America into a bloody, global war... -
Maybe it's Fate by Weston Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReckless is my middle name.Guess that’s why I got a medical discharge from the military.A fighter pilot with no plane to fly is a very unhappy boy. So commercial airlines, here I come.Thanks to a bit of serendipity, I end up in Fiji with a hot as hell, broken-hearted woman.Poor thing got stood up at the altar and decided to go on her honeymoon anyway.The man who did it must be an idiot... -
Romancing Rayne by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGhost and Rayne are back. Their story began two years ago and left fans begging for more. In this all new adventure we catch up with some of Susan Stoker’s most beloved characters. Keane “Ghost” Bryson met the feisty flight attendant Rayne Jackson while on a layover in London. A chance meeting that proved to be life-changing... -
Blood Wings by Phil Ward
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTrilogy set with Raiding Forces framework.n this sequel to Dead Eagles, U.S. Major John Randal, commander of Strategic Raiding Forces, returns in Blood Wings, the first book in a trilogy within the Raiding Forces Series about the Abyssinian Campaign. Major Randal parachutes into the middle of Italian East Africa with orders to raise a guerrilla army. Everything that can go wrong does...Categorized as:
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Pitbull by Zoe Dawson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsErrol "Pitbull" Ballentine is tasked to work with an NCIS agent who is on the trail of one of their own missing agents. He and the team meet up with NCIS and Pitbull discovers it's special agent Makayla Littlestar who looks like a delicate flower. He soon discovers that her looks are the only soft thing about this driven woman... -
Arctic Fire by Maddie Wade
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman who stands alone! As the leader of Zenobi, a deadly group of female assassins, Roz Maklavoi is feared and revered in equal measure. Hiding behind her impenetrable wall of ice is a young girl who was tortured and beaten, sold to evil by the one man she should have been able to trust. Now the man responsible for her torture has struck again, targeting her loved ones... -
Catalyst by J.M. Madden
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRaine Walters loves her nursing position at the Elton building. Though she hasn’t been on the job long, she’s seen and done some amazing things. Because the men at the Elton building are not your average military men. They’re elite soldiers that have been tortured and experimented upon with an incredibly dangerous drug... -
SEAL's Command by Makenna Jameison
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCommander Slate Hutchinson's book... -
Hot SEAL, Cold Beer by Cynthia D'Alba
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn ex-Navy SEAL agrees to play fake lover for the Maid of Honor at a destination wedding only to discover that what happens on a Caribbean Island can sometimes follow you home. Nicholas Falcone, aka Nikko, aka Falcon, is five months out from active SEAL duty, putting his pre-service accounting degree to use while going to law school at night... -
Justice for Gwen (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by KaLyn Cooper
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s not what she seems. Neither is he. But the terrorist threat is real. So is the desire that smolders between them. Gwen Shaw overhears refugee teenagers discussing a plot to rival 9/11, but her Arabic is rusty...Categorized as:
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Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Two by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFifteenth-century Europe. Tom Swan is not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to...Categorized as:
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Carrhae: 4 by Peter Darman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘Carrhae’ is the fourth and final instalment in the Parthian Chronicles, the adventures of King Pacorus of Dura, and follows on from ‘Parthian Vengeance’.The great Parthian Civil War is over, leaving behind an empire exhausted by years of bloodshed. But no sooner have hostilities ended than Armenia, the client state of Rome, declares war on the empire and unleashes its army against Parthia... -
Stone by Kathy Coopmans, Hilary Storm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat happens to a person when they're literally brought to their knees? Captain Beau Harris' entire world came crumbling down. His own guilt consumed him to the point he was confined to the tortures of his own mind and faced with the reality of his own fate. Until her. The one woman he should run from... -
Revenge River by Lindsay Cross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMerc: His name is Merc. He has no past. No future. Only a thirst for revenge against the traitor who betrayed his team and his country – Agent Jack Mankel... -
Spring UnVeiled by KaLyn Cooper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIs a bittersweet tragedy enough to bring exes back together?Navy Captain Evan Hubbard returns to the West Coast to take command of Group 1 Navy SEALs at Coronado. His mission to clean up the team’s tarnished reputation. When a sex trafficking ring involving SEALs comes to light, Evan must decide who he can trust to help him clean house and restore honor and pride... -
Submerged by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKeep your friends close.Harper Sorenson’s husband died during a security contracting job in Syria more than a year ago. The official report said he was killed in an enemy ambush, but she doesn’t buy it. And until she knows the truth, she can’t move on. When someone tries to silence her, she knows she’s on the right track... -
Hot SEAL, Single Malt by Kris Michaels, Paradise Authors
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sense of duty drove Gunner Kincade’s twenty years of service as a Navy SEAL and after his Pops had a stroke, that same sense of duty drove him back to Half Moon Bay to help his old man run his bar, The Wayward Walrus. He meant to surprise Pops with the news he’d retired and was home to stay. It didn’t exactly work to plan. Pops had hired a tiny fireball by the name of A.J. Erickson... -
STITCH by Jaime Lewis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStitch would never act on his feelings for Mia. But with her life in danger, he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her safe.As a Navy Seal, Evan ‘Stitch’ Watson has faced danger in all forms. He’s not afraid of much. Except maybe his team leader’s reaction when he finds out he’s got it bad for his sister Mia Chambers... -
Civil War by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the second book of the critically acclaimed Marching With Caesar series, Titus Pullus and his friends in the 10th Legion are called on to serve as the agents of change as their general, Gaius Julius Caesar singlehandedly changes the Roman Republic to Empire... -
Shadow by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGiven a life that's been little more than an uphill battle, it's no wonder Shadow is so damn good at dealing with whatever's the hardest, the most hazardous and hellish.The life of a SEAL is the one place where Shadow is most comfortable existing. He's certain of what he's capable of achieving, knows when to act and exactly how to do what needs to be done... -
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Adam by Roxanne St. Claire
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings7 Brides for 7 Soldiers Fall in love with seven sexy and irresistible soldiers who find their courage and heart tested like never before in the battle for love! This multi-author collaborative series of contemporary romance novels is brought to you by bestselling authors Barbara Freethy, Roxanne St. Claire, Christie Ridgway, Lynn Raye Harris, Julia London, Cristin Harber and Samantha Chase... -
Ford: 7 Brides for 7 Soldiers Book 7 by Samantha Chase
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFall in love with seven sexy and irresistible soldiers who find their courage and heart tested like never before in the battle for love! This multi-author collaborative series of contemporary romance novels is brought to you by bestselling authors Barbara Freethy, Roxanne St. Claire, Christie Ridgway, Lynn Raye Harris, Julia London, Cristin Harber and Samantha Chase... -
Coalition's End by Karen Traviss
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUnderstand what a world had to do to survive. When the Locust Horde burst from the ground fifteen years ago to slaughter the human population of Sera, mankind began a desperate war against extinction... -
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Four by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century... -
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.Available exclusively in eBook... -
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Three by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century... -
Mamelukes by Jerry Pournelle, David Weber
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE FINAL NOVEL BY LEGENDARY AUTHOR JERRY POURNELLE, WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND AUTHOR'S SON PHILLIP POURNELLENO REST FOR THE WEARYRick Galloway's still not sure what inspired him to volunteer to fight Cubans in Angola, and he certainly never expected to end his African adventure shanghaied by a flying saucer when his CIA superiors cut him and his... -
Stuck In Magic: A Schooled In Magic spinoff by Christopher G. Nuttall, Barb Caffrey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElliot Richardson thought he’d lost everything.He’d come home from deployment to find his wife cheating on him, his sons strangers and his life in tatters... -
Standing Alone by Christopher G. Nuttall
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFive years ago, the human race became independent as the Alphan Empire conceded it could no longer sustain its grip on Earth and withdrew, casting an unprepared humanity adrift on an interstellar sea of troubles. Since then, humanity has struggled mightily to secure its position in a galaxy full of hungry predators, many of whom see Earth as nothing more than a prize to be won... -
Walking on Water by Rymond Hunter Pyle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the rivers, canals, and streams of the Mekong Delta the brown water Navy carried the men of the 2nd brigade, 9th Infantry Division to battle along narrow canals and rivers to landings deep in the delta. The sailors came from all over the Navy to do a dangerous job in horrible conditions. Their small boats were heavily armed and armored, but the Viet Cong leaned their weaknesses... -
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The Fire Dream by Franklin Allen Leib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn epic military novel of soldier's combat in Vietnam This is a sweeping, gut-wrenching portrait of soldiers at war from a man who fought, and saw friends die, in Vietnam. It is a saga of men from all walks of life, thrown together by the arbitrary nature of unrelenting combat of Vietnam, each man in the team is put to the ultimate test-combat... -
The Great Cause by Griff Hosker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn thirteenth-century Britain, Gerald Warbow, legendary archer to the king, prepares to pass on the torch … once he’s dealt with William Wallace …Having fought valiantly for Lord – now King – Edward, Gerald Warbow has settled into the life of a country gentleman. He has a comfortable life with a wife he loves and three growing – if occasionally irritating – children... -
Star Fox: Book One by Rob Buckman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a future not far from our own, Christopher Knight, a sergeant in the Royal Marines is transported to an alien world where the technology is so far advanced from his own it seems like magic. Chris tries to find a way home, but the beautiful alien woman responsible for dragging him into this situation, and the dreaded Tal-Shial agents chasing her make it impossible... -
Mayhem's King by Lindsay Cross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey call him the quiet one. But they don’t know him. They only know him as the King of mayhem. The elite of the elite. The man his team relied on to save the unsaveable. Kingston Kenrich could save anyone…except those who he’d loved most. King thought he’d survived the worst, until his own teammate’s betrayal left him blind in one eye. Before, he lived for pain, now he lives for revenge... -
Protecting Teagan (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Elle Boon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings**Protecting Teagan is a crossover novella of SEAL of Protection Series from Susan Stoker and SEAL Team Phantom of Elle Boon** Protecting Teagan Blurb Dallas “Boomer” Holt and his fellow SEAL team members have been in many situations that required them to put their lives on the line, but their latest mission included two other SEAL teams... -
Black as Night: Black Star Security by Cynthia Rayne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBlack Soul Nox is an ex-Army Ranger sniper who’s only good at one thing. Killing. It never bothered him. He was willing to do whatever it takes for the greater good. But what does get under his skin is women. And that’s why Nox keeps them at arm’s length, preferring to play kinky sex games rather than date anyone, and let them get to know the real him. Until he meets Maeve...
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