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  • Nixon's Promise by Riley Edwards

    Nixon's Promise by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL Nixon Swagger is home. After twelve years of service and twice as many deployments, all Nix wanted was quiet. He’d sought the solace of the land he’d grown up on and found the peace he needed to silence the noise and figure out his next move. Nixon’s stay was supposed to be temporary...
  • Shamrock: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch

    Shamrock: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Every mission has a price.He never meant for her to pay it. Aiden has never left anyone behind. Not a comrade and certainly not an innocent. But when an undercover mission goes wrong, he's forced to abandon a woman trapped in a human trafficking ring. Violet learned brutally that no one is promised a happy ending...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  insta-love  military  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Beautifully Broken Life by Catherine Cowles

    Beautifully Broken Life by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She’s on the run… Tessa has finally found a safe haven in Sutter Lake, hiding in plain sight—just as long as no one asks too many questions. He can’t escape… Liam knows better than anyone how one wrong word, a single whisper can ruin a life. After seeing the darker side of fame, he's desperate to retreat and find his voice again...
  • Bray by Maryann Jordan

    Bray by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    His mission? A leisurely, first-class train ride through the Canadian Rockies escorting a doctor who was afraid of flying.Easy. Relaxing. And if the doctor is a beautiful, funny, kind-hearted woman that makes him wish for a future he thought had been buried with his last Special Forces mission, what can go wrong?Plenty.Illegal weapons smuggler. Nefarious businessmen...
  • Sight Lines by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Sight Lines by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They took her best friend. Now she’s taking them down. Viviana “Quillery” Chambers has one mission: find the people behind Hive’s betrayal and take them down. She and her best friend are the most sought after back office operatives around. She’ll stop at nothing to keep her new team and family at The Arsenal safe...
  • Redwood by Janie Crouch

    Redwood by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Gavin Zimmerman. Military codename: REDWOOD. This former Special Forces soldier will protect Oak Creek from any threat. Even one that comes in the form of a delicate blonde with haunted eyes.A tiny town in Wyoming and the fake ID in her pocket are Lexi Johnson's last chance. She's used her all her resources to escape the danger that hounds her...
  • Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The mysterious Cy Davies is coming home. He’s not coming alone either. Having rescued Gemma Perry, a sassy investigative reporter for a gossip magazine, he takes her to the one place he knows he can keep her safe. Keeneston. Gemma Perry was having a bad week. Now she was in a small town where gossip was a currency...
  • Shielding Kinley by Susan Stoker

    Shielding Kinley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Kinley Taylor witnesses what was possibly the last few minutes of a young girl’s life while in Paris, she realizes exactly how alone she is in the world. The only person she has to turn to for help is the one man who she feels is completely out of her league. Gage “Lefty” Haskins liked the personal assistant the first time he met her...
  • Until Susan by C.P. Smith

    Until Susan by C.P. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the world of NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Aurora Rose Reynolds. See how the Mayson clan began. You've read their sons' stories, now it's James and Susan's turn. Experience the boom all over again in this action-packed novella of insta-love and suspense from Author CP Smith...
  • Veils: A Killers Novel Book 4  (The Killers) by Brynne Asher

    Veils: A Killers Novel Book 4 (The Killers) by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “Give me a memory, Noah.” That’s what she said … the woman who rendered me stupid in the shadows at a wedding reception. I did everything I could to figure her out. She wore more veils of armor than I’ve seen in a lifetime. On the outside, she was strong and self-assured. But within those beautiful, guarded blues? She was laced with vulnerability and grief. We had one night...
  • Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas

    Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tasha Volkov has been on the run for three years from a brutal cartel who want her dead. her family.She already paid a heavy price for crossing them, and has the scars to prove it. Her only choice is to keep running, even if the tiny town of Pine Valley feels more like home to her than anywhere else she's ever been...
  • Axle's Brand by C.M. Owens

    Axle's Brand by C.M. Owens

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fate is just a made-up word used to give us hope or absolution. We find hope when we believe bad things happen to us for a reason. We find absolution when we feel as though the wrongs of our past were just fate’s twisted design to bring us to our present, and all of it was out of our hands. Of course, I sort of change my mind after meeting Axle. The man with scars and haunted, cold eyes...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  kidnapping  multi-pov  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Kevlar To My Vest by Lani Lynn Vale

    Kevlar To My Vest by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You’re the Kevlar…Behind the badge and the pretty face was a heart. A heart that bled just like the rest. A heart that was so in love with Viddy Sheffield that it was humiliating. Trance had been burned before by a woman that couldn’t handle the fact that he risked his life each and every time he went on shift. She was too vulnerable; somehow he had to convince his heart to let her go...
  • Texas Tornado by Lani Lynn Vale

    Texas Tornado by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    HimJames had plans for his life. Those plans were derailed by the surprise arrival of his daughter. His life revolved around her. Then she arrived with her beautiful brown hair that was made to wrap around his wrist, and a butt that was to die for in a tight pair of jeans. Nevertheless, he didn't need any more drama in his life. His ex-girlfriend was stirring enough of that up for ten women...
  • Blood & Bones: Sig by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Sig by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Revenge isn’t always sweet, but it sure can be satisfying... Sig never wanted to return to Manning Grove since it didn’t hold any good memories. Growing up a part of the Blood Fury MC ended up being a disaster and screwed up his life, which led to him spending most of it in and out of jail...
  • Beautifully Broken Spirit by Catherine Cowles

    Beautifully Broken Spirit by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She’s always been his safe place to land.Jensen has shared a special bond with Tuck for as long as she can remember, their friendship a language that never needed words. But as life threw her one curveball after another, that secret language turned to stony silence. He’s always been her protector.Tuck has looked out for Jensen since the day she was born...
  • The Beat of My Heart by Avery Maxwell

    The Beat of My Heart by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One week. No strings. Sexy stranger. What could go wrong?My name is Julia McDowell. I’m not the pretty girl next door, I’m the boss at work who solves all your problems. I’m an awkward genius with the worst taste in boyfriends; the last one left me with a 6-figure debt to prove it...
  • Out of the Ashes by Anne Malcom

    Out of the Ashes by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Living a life in darkness causes the soul to char to ash. Battling demons by turning himself into a monster is the only way he can survive...the only way he can keep a grip on sanity. That grip is precarious at best, every day is a silent battle with demons that threaten to yank him into the truest form of darkness, the abyss he’ll never escape. Then it happens. Light shines through the cracks...
  • No White Knight by Nicole Snow

    No White Knight by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Handsome devil. Hate-worthy. Walking scandal.I'm catching one feeling with him and it's got teeth...If I were a bird, I know who I'd paint white.Holt Silverton. The cocky dolt who swaggered up thinking he'd buy my ranch out from under me.I know his reputation—those stormy eyes and chiseled looks ruined half this town.Spare me the pick up lines and pretty words...
  • 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...
  • Montana Danger by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Montana Danger by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Some mistakes haunt you forever. Harlan Young knows that from personal experience. Walking away from Grace Townsend, even with the best intentions and no other choice, still haunts him to this day. So when he had the chance to return to Montana, and be part of something as special as the Resting Warrior Ranch, he took it...
  • Execution Style by Lani Lynn Vale

    Execution Style by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Miller Spurlock might seem like a laid back man on the outside, but piss him off, or violate his trust, and he’ll show you the meaning of pain. He was a Navy SEAL. He could kill a man a hundred different ways and not break a sweat. He’s also a police officer and member of the SWAT team, which means he has the knowledge and skills to get away with it...
  • Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s been hurt too many times… Single mom Tiana Fitzgerald has sworn off all romantic relationships to protect herself and her daughter. Her track record is disastrous and she’s done getting hurt. But a certain sexy Scotsman in Crimson Point has other ideas, and somehow manages to sneak past her defenses at every turn...
  • Siren Unleashed by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Siren Unleashed by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twin detectives Ben and Chase Dawson have been sent to investigate an unusual murder at a resort owned by Julian Lodge. Julian wants them to protect the prime suspect, a young submissive who was the last person to see the victim alive. The job seems simple until Ben and Chase discover that the beautiful submissive they both desire has a dark past...
  • Back in Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Back in Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new content. Logan Green is back in Bliss, but only for a few weeks to help out at the sheriff’s office. Everything changes when Seth Stark strolls into town with Georgia Dawson on his arm. Seth’s arrival is anything but a happy accident. He always dreamed of a big house on the river and a wife he could share with his best friend, Logan...
  • Gen Pop by Lani Lynn Vale

    Gen Pop by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hangry: adjective—feeling irritable or irrationally angry as a result of being hungry.Sometimes, Crockett felt that in her soul.And, of course, the one time that she’s being ‘irrationally angry’ would be the time that the hottest guy on the continent walked into her place of business dressed in prison orange.She should’ve been afraid.She should’ve taken one look at him and walked the other way...
  • SWAT Ed.: Fox & Bull by A.E. Via

    SWAT Ed.: Fox & Bull by A.E. Via

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A fox can set many traps to catch his target—but this one only needs one to catch his.Dominic “Bull” Walker is used to the simpler things in life. Give him his own land to work, a strong horse, and twelve hours of daylight, and he is a contented man. But when someone threatens to take away the successful ranch that took him two years to rebuild, he’ll accept any help he can get to defend it...
  • Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don’t ever, ever, ever go near that boy. Not unless you want to be a single mother at seventeen. That boy is Bad with a capital B.The words that my father spoke to me when it came to Trouper Aoki didn’t scare me like they probably should.In fact, they only made me intrigued all the more.When it came to Troup, there was just no resisting fate when it came to the two of us...
  • 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...
  • Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes, the biggest secrets can bring both salvation and destruction.Emerson Charles grew up luckier than most, going from a difficult life to finding safety and a true home with her stepmother and stepbrother. Years later, when Levi's in trouble, Emerson will do anything for the brother of her heart, her greatest protector...
  • The Gamble by Kristen Ashley

    The Gamble by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Love is the greatest gamble of all...Nina Sheridan desperately needs a timeout vacation. With a fiancé who can't even remember how she takes her coffee, Nina wants some distance to rethink her engagement. Flying halfway around the world from England to a mountain town in Colorado should do the trick...
  • Montana Mystery by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Montana Mystery by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Some nightmares you don’t wake up from.Noah Scott spent two months in an enemy prison camp but made it out alive—unlike most of his SEAL team. He’s one of the lucky ones but doesn’t always feel that way with his scarred body and daily fight against PTSD.Working with the animals at the Resting Warrior Ranch helps...
  • High Impact by Freya Barker

    High Impact by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Manager for Hart’s Horse Rescue, Lucy Lenoir, finally feels she has a handle on life after having worked hard to leave her old one behind. So hard, there are times she almost forgets what she escaped. Memories which suddenly come flooding back when she catches a glimpse of a familiar horseman in town. What’s worse, he’s in the company of the unlikely cowboy she’s only just beginning to trust...
  • Warrior by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Warrior by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mistake #1: Sleeping with a friendHooking up with Quincy was a no-brainer.The sexy hot-shot Navy pilot wasn’t on my SEAL team.I thought she’d be safe for a one-night stand.Mistake #2: Letting her walk out the doorI realized too late she wasn’t a one-and-done for me.But now she thinks I’m a player. Okay, she knows I’m a player.Which is why she won’t go there with me again...
  • Found in Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Found in Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new content. Holly Lang has a hard time trusting men. Eight years ago, her husband tossed her aside and took her son away from her. Finding the little town of Bliss has given her a second chance at life, new friends, and sense of belonging. Unfortunately, Bliss also seems to have filled her days and nights with dreams of two beautiful men...
  • Ranger by Rebecca Sharp

    Ranger by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sydney Ward woke up on the wrong side of life—that’s what it feels like when cancel culture claims another victim...
  • 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...
  • Not a Hero by Cherise Sinclair

    Not a Hero by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    In the Alaska wilderness, four streetwise boys became men—and brothers Now the crazy ex-military survivalist who plucked Gabriel and three other boys from an abusive foster care home has died. But the sarge leaves them a final mission--to revive the dying town of Rescue.  Gabe is done with being a hero...
  • Until Nico by Aurora Rose Reynolds

    Until Nico by Aurora Rose Reynolds

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Sophie Grates has never had it easy, but she’s finding her way through life one step and one day at a time. That is, Until Nico comes in and flips her world upside-down. He forces her to see you cannot live life from the outside looking in, and sometimes you have to step out onto the ledge so you can really enjoy the view. Nico Mayson knew the moment he saw Sophie Grates that she was the one...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  animals  crime  dark  kidnapping  military  multi-pov  steamy
  • 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...
  • Paths: A Killers Novel, Book 2 by Brynne Asher

    Paths: A Killers Novel, Book 2 by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Maya Augustine needed to disappear—her life depended on it. When her path led her to the middle-of-nowhere Virginia, she found the perfect place to hide. A woman on the run, Maya had no business befriending anyone, let alone allowing herself to become involved with a man … especially after her last experience...
  • Absolving Blue by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Absolving Blue by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For long-time Durango Fire Department EMT, Ava ‘Blue’ Navarro, her teammates at Station 3 represent a family more loyal than her own. However, when patients start dying on her watch, she draws the attention of local law enforcement. In particular the smooth-talking detective she’s successfully evaded for years, fearing he might stir up her quiet existence...
  • Ranger's Baby by Elle James

    Ranger's Baby by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Duncan McKinnon is on leave from the Army Rangers to help his brothers find their missing father. Having sustained a shrapnel wound to the leg, his continued military service is up before a medical review board. A chance meeting in the airport with the woman he’d seduced on his last trip home makes him want to launch a mission to rekindle their desire...
  • Searching for Redemption by Tonya Burrows

    Searching for Redemption by Tonya Burrows

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Crazy. Dangerous. Monster.Shane Trevisano knows what the town of Steam Valley, Arizona thinks of him, and he’s happy being their bogeyman in the woods. After suffering horrific burns that left him disfigured, all the former SEAL wants is to be left alone in his remote cabin with his demons...
    Categorized as:
    military  suspense  crime  insta-love  dark  steamy  animals  romance
  • Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some pasts are harder to escape than others.When Carina Murphy is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, a fresh start in a new town is her only option. Unfortunately, Cradle Mountain may not be the safe haven she’d thought. The son of her new patient may be tall, dark and handsome…but he also knows all about her past.Keeping her job should be the hardest part...
  • Chasing Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Chasing Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new content. Gemma Wells came to Bliss, Colorado, after a scandal cost her everything. Utterly lost, the disgraced attorney built walls so high that she thinks no one can get through them. She’s given up on love, friendship, and all matters of the heart...
  • Until Jax by Aurora Rose Reynolds

    Until Jax by Aurora Rose Reynolds

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ellie Anthony isn't looking for love. She isn't even looking for a man, but when Jax Mayson insists on keeping her and her daughter safe, she's left with no choice but to trust him. Now she just hopes she doesn't get hurt when she falls hard for a guy who's known for breaking hearts. Jax Mayson knows that Ellie is his BOOM the moment he sees her...
  • Play It Safe by Kristen Ashley

    Play It Safe by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition with this ASIN here.No connections. Play it safe. These were the rules Ivey lived her life by.Until she hit Mustang, Colorado, a perfectly imperfect town where the citizens were welcoming and one of them included the tall, beautiful, macho man rancher cowboy, Grayson Cody.On the run for a decade, Ivey knew she was supposed to play it safe...
  • High Meadow by Freya Barker

    High Meadow by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An emergency call to pick up an injured stallion on the side of the road sends Alexandra Hart, the new owner of Hart's Horse Rescue, into action. A recent addition to the area, she is not impressed when the animal's taciturn owner shows up. With his less-than-stellar disposition, he’s the kind of man she normally avoids at all costs, unfortunately, he owns the ranch just down the road...
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