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  • Fatal Fraud by Marie Force

    Fatal Fraud by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Previously title Fatal VengeanceA dangerous truth revealed... A prominent member of the D.C. community has been murdered, pulling Lieutenant Sam Holland into yet another high-stakes homicide investigation that has her trying to connect the dots between a dead woman and the friends and family who’d turned against her right before her untimely death...
  • State of Bliss by Marie Force

    State of Bliss by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When you have their jobs, there’s no such thing as a peaceful vacation…Sam and Nick are ready to get out of DC—and the White House—for a much-needed vacation to celebrate their second anniversary. Due to ongoing political pressures, they decide to scuttle their plans for a return to Bora Bora to stay closer to home at their favorite oceanfront house at Dewey Beach in Delaware...
  • A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues as Mercy Kilpatrick becomes embedded in the nightmare of a terrorist conspiracy.The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound...
  • Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Cajun Fried Felony by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Venus Thibodeaux had a reputation for being trouble. Some said she started at birth. When she finally left Sinful shortly after turning eighteen, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. When she blew back into town four years later, no one was happy about her return...
  • Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Swamp Santa by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    It’s Christmas in Sinful and Fortune is set to participate in all the local hoopla. A Christmas gala, caroling, and a sleigh ride are on the agenda. Murder is not. But when someone bumps off Santa, Fortune is aware a killer is lurking among the holiday cheer...
  • State of the Union by Marie Force

    State of the Union by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s the biggest night of President Nick Cappuano’s life. Will his first lady make it to the Capitol in time for his speech?President Cappuano has been working for months on his first State of the Union address, his highest profile moment yet as the country’s new president...
  • Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments by Denise Grover Swank

    Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Rose Gardner hates seeing her normally flamboyant best friend Neely Kate struggle with depression. So when Rose stumbles onto a piece of evidence indicating her birth mother might have been involved in a crime, she does the one thing guaranteed to cheer Neely Kate. She convinces her friend to help her solve a mystery...
  • If I Live by Terri Blackstock

    If I Live by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Casey is hiding again—in Memphis this time—but it’s different now. She knows without a doubt that Dylan believes her and is doing all he can to help bring Brent’s killer to justice. He’s become an unexpected friend . . . and even, maybe, something more. Hope makes everything more bearable...
  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • Thirty-Six and a Half Motives by Denise Grover Swank

    Thirty-Six and a Half Motives by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Book Nine in the New York Times best selling Rose Gardner Mystery series by Denise Grover Swank...
  • Protecting His Own by Cherise Sinclair

    Protecting His Own by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A man protects those given into his care. Landscape designer, Beth King survived an abusive husband and built a new life for herself with the help of Master Nolan, the strongest, most protective man she has ever known. She loves him with all her heart, but the one thing he wants, she can’t give him. To her grief, the damage from her abusive first marriage means she can’t bear him children...
  • Widow's Undoing by L. Wilder

    Widow's Undoing by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Frankie Sullivan was everything I wasn’t.She was good, beautiful and strong.She hadn’t let her past break her. She’d held on to the hope for a better tomorrow, not only for herself but for her two boys.She was a woman who wanted...who deserved more. I wasn’t a man who could give more.I was cold, broken and full of rage. My past had broken me.I never allowed anyone get too close...
  • Evade and Capture by Lori Matthews

    Evade and Capture by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spencer Gordon wasn’t expecting the call from Kathleen Drake, a woman she’d spent years keeping safe as part of the Witness Protection program. The terrified woman begged Spencer for help. Taking a leave of absence from her job with Homeland Security, Spencer hurries to her friend’s side. But the threat to Kathleen is larger than Spencer bargained for, forcing a call for reinforcements...
  • 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...
  • Slay by Nina Levine

    Slay by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Book 4 in the Bestselling Storm MC Series by Nina Levine BLOOD WILL BE SHED... The ghosts of Donovan "Blade" Brookes' life are closing in on him.   Hardened by an abusive childhood and haunted by the murder of his fiancé, Blade struggles against the dark forces threatening to consume him.  When he helps Layla Reed in her hour of need, he has no idea she will be the light to his darkness...
  • Conflicted by Lori Matthews

    Conflicted by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Callahan Security Series.Meet Elias Mason of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.Team RECON has a new headquarters now—Miami, Florida, which also happens to be Elias’s hometown. He’s been avoiding his past like the plague, but there are some things you can’t outrun...
  • Sweet Child O' Mine by Lexi Blake

    Sweet Child O' Mine by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A look into the life at McKay-Taggart on the day Charlie and Ian have their babies...
  • Brother's Keeper III: Luke by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Brother's Keeper III: Luke by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luke O’Reilly has seen it all, done it all, and lived through it all. When a career ending injury forces him to retire from the military, he struggles to adapt. Luke was born to be a soldier, not conform to the nine-to-five mediocrity of everyday life. He needs to protect and serve like he needs his next breath...
  • Gunner by Heather Slade

    Gunner by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Falling for the enemy... K19 Security Specialist Gunner Godet is so deep undercover that nobody on his team knows where he is or what he's signed up for. And now that he's vowed to help a sexy and mysterious woman from the dirtiest Russian organization in all of Eastern Europe, his only chance at survival lies in her hands—and arms...
  • Cold Malice by Toni Anderson

    Cold Malice by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASAC Steve (Mac) McKenzie is out to prove himself by leading a task force investigating a series of murders in the heart of Washington, DC. His undercover work in an antigovernment compound twenty years earlier is related—as is the sweet, innocent girl he befriended back then. Now that girl is a beautiful woman, and she has something to hide...
  • Tapped by Brynne Asher

    Tapped by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Brynne Asher comes a single-mom, protective-hero romantic suspense where he falls first. My son and I are in danger. The life and death kind. The kind that forces me to make choices no mother should have to. I’ll do anything to keep my son safe and not sacrifice my responsibility to my patients. I’m desperate...
  • Hidden by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Hidden by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Firefighter Colton Sparks is beautiful, brawny, and lonely? Colton, a die-hard romantic, is looking for a Hallmark worthy happily ever after, but finding Mrs. Right has been as fruitful as playing the lottery. It’s no secret that he dreams of white picket fences, finding love, and having a family. He has the white picket fence, he just needs her. He’s every woman’s dream; they just aren’t his...
  • Lethal Secrets by Jenna Gunn

    Lethal Secrets by Jenna Gunn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eli’s first mission after the SEALs is FUBAR. Gather intel? That’s a negative. Save a woman and claim her as his to protect? Roger that. ~Mia BaileyWomen like me don’t get fairytale endings.We get abusive brothers.Liars and cheating.We get scars.Damage so deep it will never be shaken.Until a gigantic battle-hardened SEAL decides to prove otherwise.Vows to avenge me.Puts his life on the line...
  • Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel by Valérie Perrin

    Fresh Water for Flowers: A Novel by Valérie Perrin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences...
  • The Slow Burn of Silence by Loreth Anne White

    The Slow Burn of Silence by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the crossroads of small town mystery and dark suspense comes a romance that explores the bonds of family, the power of love, and the potentially explosive collateral damage of the secrets we keep... Sometimes a contract to forget can be as powerful as a promise to remember..
  • Home Again: Starting Over by Becki Willis

    Home Again: Starting Over by Becki Willis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things in The Sisters are heating up, and Madison Reynolds is in the hot seat. When a local woman dies in a most unconventional way, In a Pinch takes on the quirky case and once again, Maddy finds herself in the middle of a would-be murder investigation. Even with the help of her grandmother and best friend Genny, this case may be too hot to handle...
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    suspense  cozy  crime  female-mc  romance  mystery  christian  humor
  • Rest in Pink by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

    Rest in Pink by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the NY Times Bestselling duo that wrote Agnes and the Hitman, the second book in a new series.Liz Danger is a ghostwriter, trapped in her old hometown for the summer...
  • Savage by K.L. Savage

    Savage by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm on the road, but there's only one thing on my mind.Eden...Problem is, this isn't me.I don't chase.I don't pursue.But I can't help myself.Eden is stubborn.Headstrong.The toughest woman I know.My mistake was letting myself have a taste.It wasn't enough.I'm addicted.I'm breaking my own rules.I don't care how complicated it is.But the complications keep coming..
    Categorized as:
    suspense  female-mc  family  drama  crime  romance  dark  fighter
  • Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The next heart-racing Lilah Love story is coming. This installment to Lilah's series is a standalone. Women are dying. The killer wants to play a game with Lilah Love. Lilah doesn't play games, she doesn't submit to demands...
  • SEAL Salvation by Elle James

    SEAL Salvation by Elle James

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All he wants is to be left aloneJake Cogburn lost his leg, his career, his brotherhood and his will to live when he stepped on that IED in Afghanistan. Back in his home state of Colorado, he’s determined to bury himself as deeply as he can in a bottle of Jack Daniels until the pain in his leg and his heart is so numb he can no longer feel...
  • Incinerated by Lori Matthews

    Incinerated by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meet Axel Cantor of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.When a cargo ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal and an American journalist on board ends up dead, Axel is sent in to investigate. He didn’t count on running into Sloan Bishop another reporter and the love of his life. Or maybe the hate of his life. Ever since he ended up in one of her articles...
  • Laugh or Death by Camilla Chafer

    Laugh or Death by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a broken man arrives in town desperate to locate his missing girlfriend, loved-up PI Lexi Graves is determined to reunite the lost loves. However, the further Lexi delves into the case, the more it appears that the missing woman doesn't want to be found...
  • Rescued by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rescued by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Just as the walls start to come down, boundaries redefine, and things heat up, tragedy hits the small mountain town of McKenzie Ridge. Sexy EMT Dawson Tayler made hearts break, and panties melt with a single look. Far from home, in the charming tourist town, he lives a simple life his family would be appalled by – if they were alive...
  • She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer. Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her...
  • Caleb: A Gritty Bad Boy MC Romance by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Caleb: A Gritty Bad Boy MC Romance by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Best Selling author Ali Parker I’m a loner, and it seems I always will be. It’s safer that way. My last girl up and left because things got too dangerous. Not that I blame her. It’d be better if I could stay away from love for good, but the pretty single mom who dances at my club has my attention, then my body, and now my heart...
  • Bucked by Heather Slade

    Bucked by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's a city slicker. He's a cowboy to the core. Together, opposites may attract but, will sparks fly.BUCK Getting called back to the ranchAfter my dad dies,I know I have my work cut out for me.As a CIA operative, I can juggle it all.Always have.Always will.But when she needs my help,I can't possibly refuse.After all, she's the sexiest city slickerThis BUCK has ever seen...
  • Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In PERILOUS TRUST, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy brings you the first book in a new romantic suspense series! OFF THE GRID: An FBI Trilogy offers three breath-stealing books filled with action-packed plot, heart-stopping romance, and page-turning suspense. It was one dark night that brought Damon Wolfe and Sophie Parker together...
  • A Cottage Full of Secrets by Jane Lovering

    A Cottage Full of Secrets by Jane Lovering

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cottage Two, Bracken Ridge Farm sits at the end of a pitted track, with the glorious Yorkshire moors stretching behind it.  Just a simple two up, two down, the cottage holds the promise of a new start for two very different women, but it is also full of secrets. Fifty years ago, newly-wed Stella is relishing making the little cottage a happy home...
  • Trouble In Dixie by Becky McGraw

    Trouble In Dixie by Becky McGraw

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Professional rodeo team roper, Katie Upton, is tired of being called the "Mild Child" in relation to her less inhibited twin sister. She's spent a lifetime cleaning up her sister's messes, the last of which landed her working for the handsome, but standoffish, owner of the Rockin' D ranch in Amarillo...
  • Xtreme Measures by Em Petrova

    Xtreme Measures by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The mafia, a smuggling ring and the wilds of Alaska are no match for Special Operative Elias Gasper. But a brazen redhead might be.Gasper’s known as the do-it-all guy. From HALO jumps to calming hostages, he’s on it. When he stumbles across a woman in hiding, he meets a new challenge in getting her to talk...
  • Out of the Blue by Kaylee Rose

    Out of the Blue by Kaylee Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Authors Note: Family of Blue (book 1) and Forever Blue (book 2) must be read prior to reading Out of the Blue, the final book in the series.For Kellie, life was almost perfect.She’d found the man of her dreams in Lance, and finally consigned their initial problems to the past...
  • Seduced by Sunday by Catherine Bybee

    Seduced by Sunday by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    She swore off love forever…but he just might change her mind. The sixth sweet, thrilling book in the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Weekday Brides series from Catherine Bybee.Meg Rosenthal: Matchmaker by day, realist by night, Meg is not about to get swept away by a charming, darkly handsome businessman in a designer suit...
  • Bluegrass Undercover by Kathleen Brooks

    Bluegrass Undercover by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In her first follow-up to the Best Selling Bluegrass Series, Kathleen Brooks brings Keeneston back to life through the Davies Brothers. Cade Davies had too much on his plate to pay attention to newest resident of Keeneston. He was too busy avoiding the Davies Brothers marriage trap set by half the town...
  • Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the past and present collide, the result could be fatal. Fortress Security operative Lily Stanton survived life on Nashville's streets and thrived in the Army. Abandoned as an infant, her Fortress teammates have become family, so her world is rocked when a woman claiming to be her mother begs to meet her...
  • Head First by Hannah Shield

    Head First by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's protecting his former flame... But can he resist falling for her?Lana is about to begin the most important trial of her career. But her sexy star witness, keeps catching her eye. Even worse? They share a history. Years ago, they spent three incredible nights that she still can't get out of her head.Max Bennett hasn't been able to forget about Lana, either...
  • A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff by Anna Celeste Burke

    A Body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff by Anna Celeste Burke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Miriam Webster’s a woman with a few secrets—can she keep them after she and her spirited Dalmatian, Domino, find a body on Fitzgerald’s Bluff? When Miriam Webster moves into the Seaview Cottages active adult community, the last thing she expects is to find a body on the bluffs nearby...
  • Fragile Designs by Colleen Coble

    Fragile Designs by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There’s only one thing more dangerous than family secrets.Since her police-officer husband Eric’s mysterious murder, Carly Harris has been struggling to support herself and their infant son. Her career as an antique dealer isn’t sustainable, nor is her dream of becoming a novelist...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  cozy  crime  female-mc  romance  christian  mystery  fiction
  • Watching Over You by Lori Foster

    Watching Over You by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome back to Ridge Trail, Colorado! Get ready for the next book in Lori Foster’s thrilling McKenzies of Ridge Trail series.Detective Crosby Albertson has been tracking a criminal network. While investigating leads, he keeps crossing paths with members of the highly trained, suspiciously well-informed McKenzie family...
  • Texas Tall by Janet Dailey

    Texas Tall by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She can’t forget him. The born rancher who stole her heart, her ex-husband, the tough, tender father of her child . . . Tori Tyler can’t let Will Tyler go to prison for a crime that was a simple accident. But she can’t deny that her feelings for the man run much deeper than loyalty, and her desire for his strong, sure embrace has never died...
  • Through the Storm by Diane Greenwood Muir

    Through the Storm by Diane Greenwood Muir

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once things start falling apart around Polly Giller, chaos takes over and all she can do is hold on for the ride. Sylvie Donovan has finished school and things are supposed to be rainbows and unicorns. Not in Bellingwood. Her oldest son, Jason, has just started high school and isn't handling the transition well...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  cozy  family  drama  female-mc  romance  mystery  fiction
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