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  • Declan by Riley Edwards

    Declan by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Declan Crenshaw went from orphan, to Special Forces soldier, to the CIA’s golden child. Life was perfect—almost. He shouldn’t have pushed his luck and simply enjoyed the bounty fate had given him—a beautiful wife, sweet baby girl, and more love than he ever dreamed he’d know. Until a threat he never saw coming obliterated his world. His wife and child murdered...
  • Sacrifice The Knight by Emilia Finn

    Sacrifice The Knight by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sacrifices are never ideal, but to win the game, sometimes the knight must fall. Katrina Blair is a single mom to a daredevil teen, which means she has no time for fruitless endeavours such as dating. Why? Because men are all the same: liars, thieves, and unreliable a**holes...
  • The Man from Sanctum by Lexi Blake

    The Man from Sanctum by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A painful pastDeke Murphy and Maddie Hall should never have worked as a couple in high school. She was the class valedictorian and he the jock who took nothing seriously…except her. Together they formed an amazing team, and young love blossomed into something that strengthened them both. Until tragedy struck and Deke made a sacrifice that split them up forever...
  • Impact Zone by Cara Carnes

    Impact Zone by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Rhea Strathmore creates death. Locked within her laboratory at The Arsenal, she concocts whatever’s necessary to protect those around her. She won’t ever negate her pre-Arsenal deficit, but she’ll try. Her past work now threatens everyone she cares for and exposes secrets she’s kept buried...
  • 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...
  • Knight: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Knight: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Knight is the fourth book in the Reed Security Series and should be read in order. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I stiffened. He was here. I stood and looked around the room, but I didn’t see anything. Walking over to the window, I looked out into the dark, hoping that I could see something...
  • Her Wild Coast Outlaw: A Small Town Contemporary Romance by Dakota Davies

    Her Wild Coast Outlaw: A Small Town Contemporary Romance by Dakota Davies

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wild attraction. A forbidden passion. Will two kindred hearts surrender to their fiery chemistry?   Hunter:  She should be off-limits to me. Not only is she too sweet, too innocent, her uncle is the boss of this operation. I’m in Storm Harbor to secretly find out why he's stealing from the town’s dock construction project...
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    military  suspense  steamy  dark  romance  contemporary  war  fiction
  • 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...
  • Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9781939672285.This is the second book in the BLACK SHADOWS duet, Cass and Calder's story. You must read GOLD SHIMMER before reading STEEL RUSH. Cass has spent years trying to forget her past. But the thing about pasts…they always come back around, sometimes in the most unexpected ways...
  • A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine

    A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I didn’t do it. I never betrayed my friend. Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I've been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’re tried by the media, you’re guilty as sin...
  • Bodie by Nyssa Kathryn

    Bodie by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An enemy so fierce, disappearing is her only choice.Maya Harper shouldn’t be alive. All of her co-workers are dead, yet somehow, she survived. But now she knows something. Something important. Something that someone will kill to keep secret.Running is her only choice. Her only protection. But no one can run forever, especially when the enemy’s reach is long...
  • Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker

    Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lexie Green hasn’t thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she’s more than a little shocked...
  • Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely

    Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two Estranged Hearts. One Second Chance. An Unknown Enemy Threatening to Destroy It.

He thought leaving would keep her safe.Five years ago, Gabriel Dawson had it all. He was in charge of his own SEAL team, was married to the love of his life, and together, he and Elle were planning the future he’d always wanted...
  • Entertaining Distraction by Samantha A. Cole, Judi Perkins

    Entertaining Distraction by Samantha A. Cole, Judi Perkins

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The last woman Mike Donovan ever expected to be attracted to is one who wants to dominate him. While his brother is in the BDSM lifestyle, Mike never understood it. But when Charlotte Roth, aka Mistress China, sets her sights on him, he finds himself wanting to obey her every command...
  • Ugly by Marie James

    Ugly by Marie James

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hooking up with a cop was supposed to be fun.How joking with Detective Lennox Maison about her handcuffs transformed into her actually arresting me was something I could’ve never predicted.I thought it was a joke at first, but what kind of person would joke about the murder of a local woman?Lennox claimed I was the last one to see her alive.I should have an alibi...
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    suspense  military  dark  steamy  romance  contemporary  biker  crime
  • 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...
  • Untamed Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Untamed Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A tragedy in his past shaped the man he was today . . .Hard. Ruthless. Possessive.If you were his, Jacob Reyes would protect you with his dying breath.That’s why he let so few people close.Then there was HER.Soft and strong. Sweet and sassy.A Little in trouble who called to his Daddy instincts to protect her...
  • Wrath's Storm: A Masters' Admiralty Novel by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Wrath's Storm: A Masters' Admiralty Novel by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Damn it! He’s a doctor, not a serial killer hunter. When a man they call the Viking walked into his clinic in rural Libya, the last thing Dr. Walt Hayden foresaw in his future was a wedding, a stalker, and a serial killer...in that order.Attending his brother’s wedding becomes the start of a journey across Europe in the company of Dr. Annalise Fischer and her bodyguard...
  • King by Mary Kennedy

    King by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kingston Miles felt lost after leaving the Army, but a chance meeting with the men of the Steel Patriots gave him a new lease on life. Always smiling, always in good humor he's surprised by his own abrasiveness when he meets Claire Evers, the sister of his brother, Tristan. Once he realizes there's no way around his feelings for the woman, he's all in...
  • Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 3 in the Black's Bandits series! This book is about Colt and Angie...
  • The Red Ledger: 5 by Meredith Wild

    The Red Ledger: 5 by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tomorrow isn’t promised… I’ve seen death. I’ve watched my place in the world fall away. Every day, the life I’ve chosen with Tristan changes shape. It’s not the life I wanted for us, but it’s ours. I accept this, as unready as I sometimes feel to face the dark side of humanity he knows too well. Now the person who’s responsible for putting us on this path has slipped from our grasp...
  • Wire by LP Lovell, Stevie J Cole

    Wire by LP Lovell, Stevie J Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tor Jude and I managed to salvage something beautiful from the war torn rubble of our lives, a blissful happiness that we paid for in blood. We fought our way here, leaving pieces of ourselves along the way. I thought this was the happily ever after in our twisted fairy tale, but I was wrong. Jude I may be free by definition...
  • Catch and Release by Lori Matthews

    Catch and Release by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Callahan Security is Back!!! Jake Boxer wants a vacation, but when Jameson Drake calls and asks for a favor, he has no choice. Drake's accountant is in trouble and needs protection, so Jake agrees to take on the job. Little does he know the accountant is not only brilliant but drop-dead gorgeous...
  • Nightstalker by Riley Edwards

    Nightstalker by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    asmin I was blissfully living my life as a tier one security contractor, shooting guns and killing bad guys. My life was perfect. Almost. I was missing something; a missing piece of time to be exact. For the last two years I have tried to remember the details of my capture and torture. Two years willing my brain to remember. Nothing. I could remember nothing...
  • Reginald Bones 2 by Lucian Bane

    Reginald Bones 2 by Lucian Bane

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***WARNING*** PROCEED WITH CAUTION. EXTREMELY HOT MIND BENDER AHEAD Bones should have known allowing Reginald to "date" a woman would end badly. And if he'd known just how badly, he would've forbidden him. But it's too late. Winter Rose is in their life, their mind, and their basement with a death wish. And after discovering her dirty secrets, Bones is ready to oblige her...
  • Fiery Surrender by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Fiery Surrender by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Langston has finally taken his place among the Trinity Masters, America’s most powerful secret society, and he’s ready to stand at the altar to meet his trinity. However, when the Grand Master, Juliet, pairs him in an arranged menage marriage with Rich and Mina, he finds himself struggling to fit into this society he’s only just discovered...
  • Royally F**ked by Elle Boon

    Royally F**ked by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HE WAS HER KNIGHT IN BLACK LEATHER. SHE WAS HIS CHANCE AT REDEMPTION.COSMO WAS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE...To those who didn't know him he looked like a rich playboy with too much time on his hands. However, to his brothers, he's the guy they called when they needed a private jet, or someone to back them up, no questions asked. Now it's his turn for some no questions asked backup...
    Categorized as:
    dark  military  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  biker  book
  • Deadly Alliance: A Fortis/Purgatory Crossover Novel by Maddie Wade, India Kells

    Deadly Alliance: A Fortis/Purgatory Crossover Novel by Maddie Wade, India Kells

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fortis and Purgatory are both exceptional covert agencies composed of deadly operatives. With the Atlantic Ocean between them, they never thought they would ever collaborate until a series of horrible murders force them to unite...
  • Fate Heals by Tina Saxon

    Fate Heals by Tina Saxon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fate has forced me down a twisted path. When I think it can’t get any worse, it reminds me that it can, pushing me into a thick, thorny maze and leaves deep, irrevocable scars. My will to fight has taken hit after hit, that burnt-out fire leaving only embers to scorch those closest to me...
  • Come / Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Come / Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***THIS IS A TWO-BOOK BUNDLE*** COME – Dirty, Dark, and Deadly Book One THIS IS BOOK ONE OF A SERIES. THIS IS A NOVELLA. YOU WILL GET MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS IN THIS BOOK. IF YOU HATE THAT - SKIP THIS WHOLE SERIES COMPLETELY. (It's twisty, complicated, dark, dirty, and ALL the main characters are killers.) My name is James Fenici and you will never see me coming...
  • Have Mercy by Hannah Shield

    Have Mercy by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only way to save his best friend’s sister…is to marry her.Ruby Whitestone just found her ex’s dead body. And the police think she did it. But as a single mom, she knows how to fend for herself. No fairytale hero is going to swoop in to save her. Not her brother, the Bennett Security bodyguard. Certainly not Chase, a West Oaks police officer and her brother’s best friend...
  • Fateless by Meli Raine

    Fateless by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The future isn’t real.The past isn’t real, either.Only the present is, solid and full, flying at our faces, our bodies, our hearts and souls at breakneck speed as we work to take it all in.As we work to protect others.And, finally - ourselves.We’ve started to break the bonds of Stateless, a system as rotten as the one it seeks to destroy...
  • Blood Sky by S. Massery

    Blood Sky by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kill those who betray you.Never trust someone with nothing to lose.Family is business. Delia I watched my enemies murder my father. On the run, I plot to return home and lead my mafia family as my father did. But some would kill for my inheritance, and unearthing those people from the shadows would be impossible without Jackson...
  • Defending Roxanne by P.J. Fiala

    Defending Roxanne by P.J. Fiala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets and lies have become deadly. While investigating the murder of her parents, Roxanne Bowman encounters more than she ever thought she would. The secrets that both of her parents kept knock her off kilter. Finding an intruder in their home afterwards changes her life forever. GHOST operative, Hawk Delany is back in the swing of things after being shot while working a case...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  steamy  dark  military  romance  fiction  audiobook  alpha-mc
  • Threat of Danger by Dana Marton

    Threat of Danger by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Falling in love can be a deadly proposition in this pulse-quickening Mission Recovery novel from the New York Times bestselling author.Jess Taylor and Derek Daley were in the throes of first love in a small Vermont town when they were kidnapped by a serial killer. They escaped his clutches—but not the trauma of the unsolved crime...
  • Her Dom's Lesson by A.D. Justice

    Her Dom's Lesson by A.D. Justice

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophia Vasco Will he ever forgive me? This question haunts me every day and night. He branded me with his touch to the point that no other man will ever compare. Dominic consumed my life. Until the day he learned the truth about me and everything changed. Nothing is as it seems and it has all spiraled out of control. The weight of the world now rests on my shoulders. I have to fix this...
  • Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Of all the times to crave a man's touch, now is not it.Between being handcuffed to a bed post for trespassing, and the stare down from the sexy-as-sin bodyguard sent in to find answers, I'm certain my body must be confusing fear with lust.I was on a mission to find my mother's killer, not a man, but my body seems to think now is a good time to pursue its search for Mr. Right.He's not Mr. Right...
  • Falling for the Ice Queen by Cynthia Eden

    Falling for the Ice Queen by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s more than a little rough around the edges…Memphis Camden isn’t a nice guy. He’s big, dangerous, and has an extremely low tolerance for BS. A former bounty hunter, Memphis now has a deadly new target…a serial killer. Memphis has been tracking the guy for months, and he may just have found the way to drag the monster into the light...
  • Played by Cara Dee

    Played by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Auctioned Series is a journey packed with action, nail-biting suspense, family, and love. In Gray and Darius’s fight for freedom and a future where they aren’t haunted by the ghosts of their pasts, they’ll make you laugh, cry, possibly yell at your e-reader, and swoon just a little bit. One last mission. One last operation—and the stakes had never been higher...
  • Burned by Rebecca Sharp

    Burned by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From bestselling author Dr. Rebecca Sharp comes a brother's best friend, protector romance...Rocco Damiani has trust issues. It’s no wonder since he was given a burn notice by the CIA. No work history, no money, no connections. No identity. Not quite the fresh start he was looking for, but at least he has a good job and loyal friends...
  • The Six Night Truce by Hannah Shield

    The Six Night Truce by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When I stepped into the courtroom this morning, I intended to fight for my client’s life. I never expected to run for my own. Now the courthouse is in lockdown, and I’m trapped in a tiny room with my nemesis—the West Oaks PD cop who hates me most. He’s a single dad with a growly attitude. An ex-Marine. And he’s the star witness against my client...
  • Kade by Apryl Baker

    Kade by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gut-wrenching, soul-searing grief has haunted Angel Kincaid for seven years, since she suffered a miscarriage. Just when she starts to think she’s come to terms with it, everything she thought she knew is cast into doubt when she comes face to face with a little boy, and  every instinct tells her the child belongs to her—that he is her son...
  • FIRE by Hilary Storm, Kathy Coopmans

    FIRE by Hilary Storm, Kathy Coopmans

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FIRE The moment you think you have it all is when it all vanishes right before your eyes. He had one final mission, but who knew it would go wrong? Kaleb Maverick is now fighting for his life. The life he wants to share with the woman he loves. The Fire inside him not only burns for her, it sizzles. Jade Elliott has lost one man in her life. She's determined not to lose another...
  • Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Danger throws them together. Attraction keeps them from parting. Having lost her best friend, Courtney Davies lives every day like it's her last. Because if life has taught her anything, it's that some are cut far too short without warning. So when sexy former soldier Jason moves to Cradle Mountain, she shouldn't hesitate to express her immediate interest...
  • Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn

    Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes it’s the oldest wounds that cut deepest.River Harp fell in love with her brother’s best friend, a boy who was practically part of the family…a boy who broke her heart before leaving town. Sixteen years later, he’s back for her brother’s funeral. And River wants nothing to do with the man. At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself...
  • 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...
  • My Cruel Salvation by J. Kenner

    My Cruel Salvation by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t miss the final exciting and romantic chapter in Devlin and Ellie’s love story.He’ll keep her safe, no matter the price.Investigative reporter Ellie Holmes has uncovered billionaire Devlin Saint’s dark and dangerous secrets, and he has both stripped away her protective armor and tamed the wildness within her...
  • Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I see is red.Blood.Pain.Rage.It consumes me.The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul.I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin...
  • Diesel by Em Petrova

    Diesel by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman in peril. A man willing to ride through the flames for her.Bad ass member of the Dark Falcons Motorcycle Club, Diesel, doesn’t think anything could be worse than the sweet and caring angel who tumbled into his life walking out on him—but he’s wrong. Learning she’s embroiled in a dark and criminal game and needs his help threatens to send him over the edge...
  • Beast by Savannah Rylan

    Beast by Savannah Rylan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bentley “Beast” Harris became a Righteous Outlaw over a decade ago and never looked back. He gained the reputation as being the deadliest among the Outlaws, a skilled killer with no remorse or regrets. What his brothers don’t know is beneath the dark, death stare, and permanent scowl, he is drowning in regrets from a past he can never go back to...
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