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  • Legacy by Helen Hardt

    Legacy by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HE'LL KEEP HIS COMMITMENTS NO MATTER WHAT. Brad Steel is in love. Daphne Wade is more than just his wife-to-be and the mother of his unborn child. She's his destiny. Fate brought them together, and he vows to protect her. His determination doesn't waver when he learns a secret about his bride - a secret she herself doesn't know...
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    drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Flare by Helen Hardt

    Flare by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The wildly popular Steel Brothers Saga continues with Flare, which ramps up the suspense as Brock Steel tries to uncover his family’s secrets while Rory Pike does everything in her power to keep her own secrets buried. The Steel family won’t go down on his watch… Rory Pike never imagined she’d fall for a Steel, but she has—Brock Steel, a renowned womanizer, no less...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  friendship
  • Hyde's Absolution by Nina Levine

    Hyde's Absolution by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Possessive biker alert Monroe Lee is a handful. She fights me, challenges me and tries to resist me. Where I’m jagged, she’s smooth. Where I’m dark, she’s pure. Where I’m broken, she’s whole. I am not a good man. I’ve hurt everyone I’ve ever loved. I should walk away before I ruin her too. But fuck, we are fire together. And I’ve been out in the cold too long...
  • Rafe by Maryann Jordan

    Rafe by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The true measure of a man is not in the mistakes he makes…but in how he handles those mistakes. Rafe Walker gained fame while in the Army when he was photographed for a Military Calendar. Afterward, modeling contracts rolled in but he found his life in California lacking and longed for a change...
  • The Honest Affair by Nicole French

    The Honest Affair by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The climactic end to the Rose Gold series...
  • Once You're Mine by Barbara Freethy

    Once You're Mine by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes a page-turning, poignant and thrilling romantic suspense novel about love, courage and risking it all! Firefighter Dylan Callaway is no coward when it comes to running into burning buildings but running into love with a beautiful and seriously annoying brunette is another story...
  • Carson's Choice by Dale Mayer

    Carson's Choice by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carson is pleasantly surprised by the job Levi assigns him, until Carson hears all the details. An elderly friend of Ice’s believes someone is out to kill her. But she has no proof, no suspects, no motives. The police think she’s imagining things and won’t look into the case any further. However, after meeting this lady … and her granddaughter, Carson has his own suspicions...
  • Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the surface, Gaby Parker has it all; however, behind closed doors, is a woman who lives in constant fear of the man who was supposed to love her: her husband, Kyle. Beaten, desperate, and broken, Gaby realizes the only way to escape from her violent husband is to kill herself — on paper...
  • Stanton Unconditional by T.L. Swan

    Stanton Unconditional by T.L. Swan

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The follow up to the gripping first novel by T.L. Swan, Stanton Adore.Unconditional love, does it really exist or is it an urban myth? What does it really mean?Do you love someone because of their flaws?Or in spite of them.And at what point are the conditions more to bear.Than the love is worth.This is what I’m trying to decipherThis is my story.I’ll let you be the judge...
  • Closer To You by Barbara Freethy

    Closer To You by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Renowned scientist Ian Callaway believes in numbers, logic and reason. His life is an equation that always adds up, until his mentor asks him to do him a small favor. This favor sends him out of his lab and smack into Grace O'Malley, a free-spirited, beautiful elementary school teacher, who believes in love and miracles...
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    family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays  mystery
  • The Cleaner by Kiersten Modglin

    The Cleaner by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gunner James is good at death. An expert.His job is to clean up the messes no one else can.But behind that tough exterior, Gunner has a few secrets of his own.Eight years ago, Gunner left his hometown and vowed to never look back. When his past collides with his present in the form of a familiar face, Gunner must return home to take care of one final mess...the woman he left behind...
  • Stealing Chances by Molly McAdams

    Stealing Chances by Molly McAdams

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What would you do if you woke up to a different life?Because that’s what happened to me.Woke up in a hospital bed with my family and friends telling me everything I knew was nothing more than a coma-induced dream.The girl I love. The baby we’re having . . . all of it ripped away.In their place is a house I don’t recognize and a girl I’ve never seen before who’s claiming she’s my fiancée...
  • Save Me by Tiffany Snow

    Save Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this fast-paced romantic suspense, China Mack will make one final choice. Computer genius China Mack may be the former head of Vigilance, the government’s clandestine spy program, but she can still be knocked off balance. And two back-to-back personal blows have thrown her into a tailspin...
  • Find Me by Tiffany Snow

    Find Me by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As the head of the government’s secret Vigilance spy program, computer guru China Mack already has her hands full when her billionaire boyfriend, Jackson Cooper, asks for one of them in marriage.Thrown for a loop by the sudden proposal, China’s usually well-ordered life takes another hit when someone tries to assassinate the president...
  • Labyrinth of Lies by Irene Hannon

    Labyrinth of Lies by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the daughter of a high-profile businessman disappears from an exclusive girls' boarding school, police detective Cate Reilly is tapped for an undercover assignment. It doesn't take her long to realize that beneath the veneer of polish and wealth, things are not as they seem at Ivy Hill Academy. But the biggest surprise of all? The only man she ever loved is also working at the school...
  • Her Ruthless Protector by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Ruthless Protector by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It Only Took a Moment for Him to Know She Was HisNavy SEAL Kane McNamara has his mission. Four potential terrorist targets in Oman. His job is to keep everyone safe and try to figure out where al-Qaeda will strike next. Guarding an International Music Show is on the bottom of Kane’s list until he meets the woman organizing the event, then all bets are off...
  • Rock's Redemption by Chiah Wilder

    Rock's Redemption by Chiah Wilder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rock is the ripped, handsome Sergeant-At-Arms for the Insurgents MC. Being one of the club’s officers, women clamor to share his bed. The biker’s more than willing to oblige as long as it’s a short-time hookup; long-term relationship is not part of his vocabulary. He’s only been in love once—a long time ago—and the end result was shattering. He learned his lesson: keep his heart encased in steel...
  • Addicted by Zane

    Addicted by Zane

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For successful African-American businesswoman Zoe Reynard, finding the pleasure she wants, the way she wants it, is not worth the risk of losing everything she has: marriage to the man she has loved since childhood, a thriving company, three wonderful children. But Zoe feels helpless in the grip of an overpowering addiction...to sex...
    Categorized as:
    cheating  domestic-drama  drama  family  suspense  abuse  adult  angst
  • Beyond the Moonlit Sea by Julianne MacLean

    Beyond the Moonlit Sea by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the bestselling author of These Tangled Vines comes a gripping novel about one woman’s search for answers when her husband vanishes in the night.Olivia Hamilton is married to the love of her life, Dean, a charismatic pilot who flies private jets for the rich and famous. But when he vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, Olivia’s idyllic existence unravels...
  • The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Exciting, emotional, intense. The thrilling follow-up to New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's highly acclaimed The Secret Sister. The things that happen in families are always surprising and sometimes shocking! The rich and powerful Josephine Lazarow, matriarch of Fairham Island, is dead. The police say it's suicide, but Keith, her estranged son, doesn't believe it...
  • Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs with a moving story about rebuilding your life when you've got nothing left to lose  Savanna Gray needs a do-over. Her "perfect" life unraveled when, to her absolute shock, her husband was arrested for attacking three women...
  • Answers For Julie: Book Nine In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Answers For Julie: Book Nine In The Bodyguards Of L.A. County Series by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Julie Keller relishes the simple things: hot chocolate on winter nights, good friends she calls her family, and her laid-back career as a massage therapist and yoga instructor. Julie is content with her life until Chase Rider returns to Bakersfield. Bodyguard Chase Rider isn’t thrilled to be back in the town where he spent his childhood summers...
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    family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • A Done Deal by Jenna Bennett

    A Done Deal by Jenna Bennett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Silver bells, silver bells... It's Christmas time in Nashville, and all Savannah wants to unwrap on Christmas morning is Rafe Collier. Unfortunately, things don't look so good. He's back in town, but not alone: on his arm is a stunning brunette, just the kind of woman Savannah always suspected was his type...
  • Secrets Hidden in the Glass by Cate Beauman

    Secrets Hidden in the Glass by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The secrets of the past are always closer than we think… Stained glass artist Callie Davis is in desperate need of a vacation. Burnt out and on the edge of a nervous breakdown, she’s fleeing the pressures of her career and is taking refuge on Massachusetts’ tiny Carter Island...
  • Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes a romantic and suspenseful new novel in the popular family series, The Callaways. Nicole met Ryan when he was a handsome, cocky teenager with a desire to fly high above the clouds...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Breaking the Story by Ashley Farley

    Breaking the Story by Ashley Farley

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Passion, peril, and a scandal that will rock American politics. Scottie Darden’s life is a disaster. Her marriage has become toxic, and her career as a photojournalist has stalled out. To attract the attention of the main players in the news industry, she needs a standout story with a unique perspective. What she finds is a scandal that could turn the 2016 presidential election upside down...
  • When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair—and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred...
  • CRASH (Daring the Kane Brothers) by Kelly Gendron

    CRASH (Daring the Kane Brothers) by Kelly Gendron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I DARE YOU TO MARRY ME ...Three years ago, I "married" my best friend's sister on a dare and the next day, my best friend died. Maggie Mae is back in town and she wants a divorce. The thing is, we're not really marriedAt least, I didn't think we were..
    Categorized as:
    cheating  domestic-drama  drama  family  adult  alpha-mc  angst  book
  • Breathing Black by Piper Payne

    Breathing Black by Piper Payne

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    GRITTY. INTENSE. EMOTIONALLY HONEST. A stunning debut novel that will leave you breathless. A desolate childhood; a scarred, jaded, damaged girl. Larkin Grant knew she couldn’t end up like her mother … so she ran. All her belongings packed in the back of a rusted, brown Cadillac, her best friend June in the passenger seat as the co-pilot, she fled Aspen and never looked back...
  • Submit to Me by Anya Summers

    Submit to Me by Anya Summers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Veronica McGinnis is a single mom, more concerned with her son's homework than dating. She lives quietly on the Scottish coast, writing articles for the local newspaper and raising her child. When her cousin Declan asks her to attend his huge wedding, she doesn't hesitate to accept the invitation. Veronica needs to escape her humdrum existence, if only for a while...
  • Close To Danger by Suzanne Ferrell

    Close To Danger by Suzanne Ferrell

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Danger stalks her: For weeks, attorney Chloe Roberts senses someone following her. Always in her periphery, she’s been unable to catch them. Then the phone calls and hang-ups start. The only reprieve was when she was in Westen for her sister’s wedding. Now, whoever it was, they’ve progressed to text messages…more and more threatening ones...
  • Lies by C.A. Harms

    Lies by C.A. Harms

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FBI Agent Joshua Phoenix goes undercover…Deep. Thrust into a world of drugs and criminal activity, integrating himself into the Russian Mafia turned out to be much more than Josh bargained for. It’s dark and it’s dangerous. The lives they destroy along the way will never be the same. The things he is forced to do will haunt him forever...
  • Darkest Longings by Susan Lewis

    Darkest Longings by Susan Lewis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Claudine Rafferty is rich, reckless and beautiful. So when she throws herself into an arranged marriage with the eminently eligible but notorious François de Lorvoire, everyone in Paris is amazed. Determined to cope with François's cruelty and indifference, Claudine soon finds herself driven to find love in the arms of Armand St Jacques, one of her husband's vignerons...
  • Raylan by Lindsay Cross, Elle James

    Raylan by Lindsay Cross, Elle James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Raylan Wild lived up to his last name. He spent his youth sowing his oats and living life for the moment. Then he met Amber and after one incredible night, Raylan was ready to give up his wild ways. But then a call from his ex turned his world upside down. Raylan sacrificed his tender new feelings and left town to raise a son he’d never even known existed...
  • Love, Lies & the D.A. by Rebecca Rohman

    Love, Lies & the D.A. by Rebecca Rohman

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jada McLean is about to get married in nine days, when she walks in on her fiancé in a little more than a compromising position. Days later, she’s on a trip that she intends to be relaxing and a prelude to her fresh start, when she runs into the rude, obnoxious, but gorgeous Jonathan Kole.Jonathan Kole is San Francisco’s newest District Attorney...
  • On The Line by Kathryn Shay

    On The Line by Kathryn Shay

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kathryn Shay spent five years riding fire trucks with a large city fire department, eating in their firehouses and interviewing hundreds of America's Bravest. Read the novels that resulted from her intense relationship with firefighters!“Powerhouse author Shay follows up AFTER THE FIRE with another dramatic and dynamic thriller...
  • Life Support by Candace Calvert

    Life Support by Candace Calvert

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nurse Lauren Barclay put her life on hold to keep a watchful eye on her troubled sister. It's why she's back in Houston. But that means confronting the brooding physician assistant who caused painful turmoil in her family--and left Lauren with memories her heart can't forgive...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  fiction
  • Be My Baby by Andrea Smith

    Be My Baby by Andrea Smith

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This book is the third and last installment of the 'Baby Series' trilogy. This book follows the continuation of Trey and Tylar Sinclair's poignant story of love and passion. It has been a sometimes bumpy road thus far, but they have always found the strength they needed in each other. However, they are put to the ultimate test in this book...
  • Beautifully Revealed by Bethany Bazile

    Beautifully Revealed by Bethany Bazile

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the conclusion of the Beautifully series... Isabella Moss has to learn to heal and accept her new life as her past is revealed. But when tragedy strikes will Liam and Ella be able to save their newly blossoming relationship? The ups and downs of their relationship continue as Ella's past threatens her safety, and her sanity...
    Categorized as:
    cheating  domestic-drama  drama  family  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Forgotten by Mariah Stewart

    Forgotten by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • The Passions of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky

    The Passions of Chelsea Kane by Barbara Delinsky

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After the death of her adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old Chelsea Kane is consumed by the need to uncover her biological heritage. Taking a break from her successful architecture career, she arrives in the New Hampshire town where she was born, determined to learn the truth, her only clue a tarnished silver key...
  • No Safe Secret by Fern Michaels

    No Safe Secret by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In her powerful new novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels weaves a story of betrayal, courage, and starting over… From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful--at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage...
  • Forgive Me by Lesley Pearse

    Forgive Me by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cheltenham, 1991 When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: 'Forgive Me'. Until then, Eva always believed her family's life would be comfortable and secure - but Flora's suicide changes everything...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse

    Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Would you cross the street if wickedness lived there? When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc
  • The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    The Guest List by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Guest...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc
  • Home for Winter by Rebecca Boxall

    Home for Winter by Rebecca Boxall

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Serena Meadows and her twin sister, Luna, are identical in appearance—but the similarity ends there. Luna always had a mean streak and, as a teenager, her selfishness culminated in an almighty betrayal from which Serena thought she’d never recover.Years later the twins are reunited by tragedy and Luna is a changed woman...
  • The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin

    The Arrangement by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Ainsley Greenburg is a fixer. It’s what she prides herself on. So, when she realizes her marriage is at its breaking point, she makes a decision to repair it, no matter the cost. Approaching her husband to propose the arrangement is supposed to be the hard part, but Peter agrees to the salacious plan almost immediately.The rules are simple:They will each date someone new once a week...
  • What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

    What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradise, where secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky. A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash...
  • Deadly Beginnings by Jaycee Clark

    Deadly Beginnings by Jaycee Clark

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jaycee Clark is best known for her Deadly books, a series of romantic suspense novels featuring the very sexy Kinncaid brothers. But before Aiden, Ian, Brayden, Gavin, and Quinlan there was Jock Kinncaid, the charismatic patriarch to the Kinncaid family, and Kaitlyn O’Reilly, the woman who captured his heart forever...
    Categorized as:
    drama  family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • SEVEN by Amy Marie, Jacquelyn Ayres

    SEVEN by Amy Marie, Jacquelyn Ayres

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ****Warning: This book is intended for readers 18 and Up. Strong language and explicit sexual scenes**** Innocence. We’re all born with it. Navigating through life as though power, privilege, and money don’t rule the world. I’m guilty of it. I walked around, ignorantly thinking that the PITCREW, the most popular guys in high school, was where you wanted to be or who you wanted to date...
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