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  • Unraveled by Helen Hardt

    Unraveled by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ryan Steel and Ruby Lee are in love, but before they can move forward with a life together, they’re determined to bring resolution to the many unanswered questions they still face. To complicate matters, new threats arise with the arrival of two startling figures from their pasts. As they race against time to find answers, unexpected forces pull them apart...
  • Bound by Desire by Ryan Michele

    Bound by Desire by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Have you ever wanted something so badly it consumes you? There is a fine line between needs and wants. Deke Gavelson has wanted his Ravage cut for as long as he can remember. He’s earned it. He was born to be in this club. He’s not afraid to fight for his place, either. Then she barreled into his world, and Deke suddenly desires something more than his rag and winning the next round...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  family  female-mc  kidnapping  suspense  abuse
  • Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "So much emotion it flew off the page and knocked the wind out of me. Finding Mercy was another great story by the absolutely brilliant Riley Edwards." Jennifer Pierson: The Power of Three Readers DEA Jason Walker became a widower at Twenty-eight. Two years later he's still torturing himself with guilt. They'd married young, and she'd been his first love, but her illness changed everything...
  • Twisted by Helen Hardt

    Twisted by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ryan Steel, his world recently upended by an earth-shattering secret, now faces yet another potential revelation surrounding the Steel family mystery. He no longer fully trusts his siblings or the woman he loves. He’s alone—alone and terrified and immersed in a conundrum that becomes more twisted each day. Ruby Lee loves Ryan and desperately wants to help him...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook
  • Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee

    Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Catherine Bybee delivers the fifth heartwarming, flirty novel in the wildly popular Not Quite series. Mary Kildare knows how to read people. It’s both why she makes a great therapist and why she refuses to trust the average bachelor...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  family  female-mc  stalking  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • Curtain Call by Denise Grover Swank

    Curtain Call by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Magnolia Steele has nothing left to lose. Her once-beloved father has been unmasked as a criminal, her mother is dead, and her two closest allies—her boyfriend and her sister-in-law—have broken her trust. Worse, the serial killer who has tormented her since her return to Franklin has escalated his behavior...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  female-mc  kidnapping  stalking  suspense  adult  amnesia
  • 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...
  • Sealed in Strength by Ryan Michele

    Sealed in Strength by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the risk truly was the worth the reward. Rylynn I knew pain. I knew my pain. I knew his pain. I knew our pain. He sparked a fire inside me I couldn’t put out. Crow I was strong. I was fearless. The biggest mistake my enemies could make would be to assume she was my weakness. Rylynn made me stronger, harder, and more determined to protect what was mine...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  kidnapping  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One. Two. Three. The cat is in the tree. As far as Lilah's concern, her note writing stalker just gets more stupid everyday. One, two, three, the cat is in the tree?What is that? And what does it have to do with a wedding turned bloody? The sixth book in the Lilah Love series...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  family  female-mc  insta-love  suspense  abuse
  • Mallicks: Back to the Beginning by Jessica Gadziala

    Mallicks: Back to the Beginning by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A girl raised by monsters.A man who helped get her free.A love that spans decades.Let's go back to the 80s to see how Charlie and Helen Mallick fell in love...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  insta-love  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Scheming Heart by Ivy Layne

    Scheming Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ScarlettI don’t want to lie to him. I really don’t.First of all, he's hot. Really hot. I know I swore off gorgeous men for the rest of eternity, but Tenn Sawyer has me questioning all of my choices. At least, any choices that mean I can’t have him.Second, he isn’t just hot, Tenn is bossy and domineering and patient and his smile makes my panties melt. And that was all before he kidnapped me.After...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  family  insta-love  suspense  adult  billionaire  book
  • Dead Man's Hand: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Renee Rose

    Dead Man's Hand: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “I OWN YOU NOW” She made a big mistake. You don’t blackmail a Tacone. Coming to me with a threat? Unacceptable. If she needs money, she’ll have to ask nicely. But once I give it to her, we both know what it means: She belongs to me. I do my best to hold back. Give her respect. Trouble is, I can’t keep my hands off her...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  kidnapping  suspense  adult  age-gap  audiobook
  • Dirty Martini by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Martini by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a friend from medical school shows up on J.J. Graves' doorstep in distress, J.J. offers her a sanctuary. But the woman has brought trouble to Bloody Mary, and no one is safe...
  • Prospect: The Kings of Retribution MC by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Prospect: The Kings of Retribution MC by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Family isn't always by blood. Family is who you are willing to bleed for. Refusing to yield to his father's will and expectations to one day take the reins of the family business, Sam McGregor leaves his home in Texas. Fate leads him to the small town of Polson Montana, home to the Kings of Retribution MC, where he starts over and meets Sofia Torres...
  • Roderick by Jessica Gadziala

    Roderick by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Roderick He joined the MC for many reasons. To be able to financially take care of his mother and sisters, to have fun, to let loose, to meet women. But only casually. Only for a night or two. He wasn’t ready to settle down. Until one day, when the president gives him a job. Just drop the guns, get the money, come home. Don’t f— it up. Except everything goes to hell...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  adult  biker  book
  • Bound by Family by Ryan Michele

    Bound by Family by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cooper Cruz knows what it means to be surrounded and bound by family. Loyalty, brotherhood, and protection are all learned, earned, and respected by him and the Ravage Motorcycle Club family he grew up in. At the same, he’s a man, having fun and living the life he has always envisioned, until a trip to Florida changes everything...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  family  female-mc  insta-love  suspense  abuse
  • Claiming Sarah by Susan Stoker

    Claiming Sarah by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestseller. All defenses are down in the fifth Ace Security novel from New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker. Sarah Butler isn’t flattered. She’s angry and unnerved. She’s been getting intimate gifts from a man she barely knows. Nothing threatening yet, but there’s just a weird vibe she can’t ignore. Her recourse is Ace Security...
  • Shattered by Bethany-Kris

    Shattered by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Don’t fall in love with me. I ruin beautiful things.” Love made him this way, but life makes him stay. Life doesn’t give a redo. There’s no rewind or pause button to take you back or stop time. Once something happens, it happened. The most tragic of those times in his life, the ones he wouldn’t get back and the moments he could never fix, reminded Demyan Avdonin of a bullet meeting glass...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  suspense  abuse  adult  book
  • 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...
  • Second Sight by Sharon Sala

    Second Sight by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The clock is ticking… When Charlie Dodge gets a phone call from a frantic woman stating her daughter has been kidnapped by her ex-husband and taken into a cult called Fourth Dimension, he takes the case without hesitation. The cult’s rumored purpose is to gather men with psychic abilities with the goal of breeding a race of people who have supernatural powers...
  • Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Diamond may be used to saving the world, but can she save her own relationship? With her husband’s killer still on the loose and her life in England a disaster, Diamond returns to the only thing she knows: work. As the star of special ops takes on enemies from the States to Syria, she finds the toughest battle is the one going on in her own head...
  • Phoenix: Steele Shadows Rising by Amanda McKinney

    Phoenix: Steele Shadows Rising by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From bestselling and multi-award-winning author Amanda McKinney comes a standalone romance in the bestselling Steele Shadows series.A man who cheated death.A woman hired to pick up the broken pieces.And an obsession strong enough to kill for.They told him he’d been given a second chance at life. Told him to count his lucky stars, to stop and smell the roses...
  • Denying the Devil by Calle J. Brookes

    Denying the Devil by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Persephone Tyler was the last holdout. Just because her sisters had gone nuts over the rugged, good-looking, perfect cowboy Masterson brothers didn’t mean Perci was going to meekly fall in line—especially not with the last Masterson brother. Dr. Nate Masterson had been the biggest thorn in her side since Perci first started working at the tiny Masterson County Hospital...
  • Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FOR YEARS, HE’S KEPT HIMSELF CLOSELY GUARDEDFormer SEAL Grant Hill believes love brings nothing but pain. Having suffered more loss than any one person ever should, the gruff R.I.S.C. operative has mastered the art of avoidance…especially when it comes to women.But with his newest bodyguard assignment, Grant’s unwavering determination is put to the ultimate test...
  • Huck by Jessica Gadziala

    Huck by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HUCKWho would have thought that setting up a chapter would be such a hassle?I was no stranger to the life of crime, But chopping cars and running guns were leagues apart.Especially when there were other bad guys in the area that didn’t take too kindly to our arrival on the scene...
  • Angels & Assassins by K. Alex Walker

    Angels & Assassins by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tayler Diaz, a pediatric oncologist working in the small town of Yearwood, NC, stumbles upon Gage Wolfe's virtually lifeless body when leaving for the day after a long shift at Yearwood Medical. While phoning for help to get him into the hospital for treatment, Gage makes one last declaration that sends a chill straight to her bones: "Just let me die, love...
  • The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He hadn’t planned on being a part of the Family.Life had thrown a curve at him at a young age that made him reevaluate his path in life.And he chose out.But when tragedy strikes, awakening the need for revenge, he finds himself wanting back in. To the Family. The life. The people.Including a woman he never could have seen coming, one he never would have thought he’d want in his life...
  • Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve never known what it’s like to have a dream that’s really mine. To live a life without fear. Being the niece of the most ruthless mob boss in Las Vegas has made any sort of freedom impossible. Francesca Rossi has spent much of her life balancing the weight of running the family bakery with avoiding her uncle’s life of violence and corruption...
  • 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...
  • Rebel by S. Massery

    Rebel by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sterling Falls is a dark, gothic reverse harem romance series with enemies to lovers, romantic suspense, and new adult themes. Rebel is book 3 in the series and a continuation of the first two - it is not a standalone.Warning: the blurb contains spoilers for the previous books in the series.––War has come to Sterling Falls.The guys and I are scattered. Finding them is the first step...
  • Game of Fear by Robin Perini

    Game of Fear by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brilliant kids from all over the country are disappearing … but no one knows why. Until now. In the cockpit, Search and Rescue pilot Deborah Lansing is in control: her flight, her rules. But after the suspicious disappearance of her supersmart younger sister, she knows this is one rescue mission she can’t fly solo. She needs help. She needs Gabe Montgomery...
  • Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The mayhem continues for the Knight's Legion MC…Storm. My protector. I need his darkness, like he needs my light. After surviving an abusive relationship, I swore off men. Until the President of the Knight’s Legion MC crashes into my life, holding me captive with his haunted gray eyes. Storm is a force to be reckoned with and I welcome the chaos— it makes me feel alive. He owns me. Body and soul...
  • 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...
  • Obsession by T.K. Leigh

    Obsession by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One week. No names. No expectations.That was our agreement. We were supposed to walk away after our time in Hawaii was over. No matter what.That was before…Before I learned who she is.Before I realized how interconnected our lives are.Before I fell in love.But our love isn’t the stuff fairy tales are made of.Demons lurk around every corner.Good doesn’t necessarily prevail over evil...
  • North of Love by Em Petrova

    North of Love by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman on the run from her stalker lands in a Christmas wonderland with the only man who can save her.As the lead dog handler for an elite search and rescue group in the Alaskan mountains, Hunt Cason knows stress. And he’s ready for a short breather from it all by spending the holiday season in a remote cabin...
  • Ideal Image by Freya Barker

    Ideal Image by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In one blinding flash, the very fiber of her existence is shredded. For criminal lawyer and single mother, Stacie Gustafson, a dependable career, a well-organized life, and an immaculate image, had always been her armor. Without it she’s left exposed and struggling to create a new existence for her and her daughter. No matter how hard she tries, she is unable to avoid her history...
  • The Damaged by Tijan

    The Damaged by Tijan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The world knows about Kash.Both Bailey and Kash were used to living in the shadows, but now they must live in the public eye.Kash is figuring out his new found role against his grandfather, and Bailey is starting her graduate program late. At university, everyone is watching Bailey, and some are wondering if her legendary father, Peter Francis, bought her way into the elite program...
  • Big: Satan's Fury MC by L. Wilder

    Big: Satan's Fury MC by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    How much would you risk to save the one you love? From NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author L. Wilder comes book six in the Satan's Fury Series, a standalone MC romance. Big: I don't use a knife or a gun to get the guy I'm after. I find that my weapon of choice has a much longer, more crippling effect. With just a few keystrokes, I can have him scrambling for his life...
  • Black Hat Hacker (Chicago Syndicate World) by Soraya Naomi

    Black Hat Hacker (Chicago Syndicate World) by Soraya Naomi

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Although part of the Chicago Syndicate world, Black Hat Hacker is a complete standalone and can be enjoyed either with or without reading the rest of the series. You don’t know me. But that’s only because I don’t want you to. I have the most lucrative job in the country as a hacker in the notorious underworld...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  kidnapping  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • Faith's Tears by E.C. Land

    Faith's Tears by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Life is never as easy as they make it out to be.FaithFinding my way back to Axel, well, him finding me, it’s been as if we’re sailing on cloud nine. But what happens when another woman comes into the picture claiming she’s Axel’s and that they share a child together...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  family  stalking  suspense  adult  biker  book
  • Brutal Bloodline by M'Renee Allen

    Brutal Bloodline by M'Renee Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A life for a life. That was the code they lived by. After their Don was gunned down, things changed. This was no longer a life for a life situation. A coward had tried to make a name for himself by taking on their family. It was time for the DeLucas to show their enemies just how brutally savage their bloodline could be...
  • For Cam by Soraya Naomi

    For Cam by Soraya Naomi

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Cam can be read as standalone, but it's advised to read book 3 For Adriano before book 4. Book 1 and 2 center around another couple.Camilla Guillermo’s life has been turned upside down ever since she joined the Chicago Syndicate and was reunited with Adriano Montesi, the cocky and charismatic Mafia man who captured her heart two years ago...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  kidnapping  suspense  adult  book  contemporary
  • The Woman with the Scar by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman with the Scar by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was not the kind of man meant to fall in love. He was the proud enforcer of the Costa Family who perhaps enjoyed the violent, bloody parts of his job a bit too much.All that changed, though, when he was put on a job that had him crossing paths with a woman who changed everything.She was not the kind of woman to have hope. The life she found herself trapped in had very little to look forward to...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  family  female-mc  insta-love  suspense  abuse
  • Viper's Touch by E.C. Land

    Viper's Touch by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I swore I'd never let another woman look into my heart, but Jade didn't need to see to know the type of man I am.ViperAfter being framed and ending up in prison, I was done with women. I wanted nothing to do with them. A woman was the reason I landed in jail in the first place, so I wasn't ever going to let another put me in so much risk again...
  • The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BellamyIt was supposed to be an easy job.Get another scumbag off the streets.I never could have foreseen her ruining the plan.Or having to whisk her away on my jet for both our safety.And I certainly couldn’t have anticipated finding myself starting to fall for the blunt, sarcastic, kick-a$$ woman I found myself trapped in a safe house with...
  • 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...
  • Cruz  (Diablo's Throne MMA) by H.J. Bellus

    Cruz (Diablo's Throne MMA) by H.J. Bellus

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She hates fighting. He lives for it. Layla's vicious past drove her away from her hometown. She couldn't live with all the reminders surrounding her--so she ran. Cruz Felix found a new home, a place where he could get his head on straight, train, and fight match after match toward the end goal--the championship in Las Vegas...
    Categorized as:
    athlete  crime  dark  female-mc  insta-love  sports  suspense  adult
  • Safeguard by Jane Henry

    Safeguard by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A standalone entry in the NYC Doms seriesShe's feisty, gorgeous, impossible.Submissive.And all mine.I don't do half-assed relationships. When I set my sights on the most headstrong, tenacious submissive I've ever met, I'm all in. I'll show her the dark, sensual world she craves, dominate her, and leave her begging for more...
  • Down to my Bones by Bijou Hunter

    Down to my Bones by Bijou Hunter

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    HEAT ღ HUMOR ღ HEA The first time I notice Miranda Johansson, she’s feeding potato salad to geese. I instantly crave the gorgeous oddball. Tempting her dangerous father’s temper, I travel to Ellsberg with the sole purpose of getting to know Miranda up close and personal. She quickly steals any urge I have to return home. Where Miranda goes, I will follow...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  insta-love  suspense  adult  anti-hero  biker
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