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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...
  • Highball Rush by Claire Kingsley, Lucy Score

    Highball Rush by Claire Kingsley, Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Rough around the edges Gibson Bodine takes his lone wolf image seriously. The tough guy. The bad boy. Gibson lives alone. Works alone. He doesn’t do love. And he wouldn’t have it any other way. In Bootleg Springs—home of moonshine and the nosiest neighbors in West Virginia—secrets don’t keep forever...
  • Gin Fling by Lucy Score, Claire Kingsley

    Gin Fling by Lucy Score, Claire Kingsley

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A slow grin spread across his face and I had to turn away from the wattage. It was like staring at the sun. The handsome sun that was making my core temperature rise and causing a hormone dump in my brain. — Shelby Thompson Personal trainer Jonah Bodine discovers more than he bargained for with the half-siblings he didn’t know he had in small-town West Virginia...
  • Catch Her Death by Melinda Leigh

    Catch Her Death by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert and those she loves become the target of a family’s deadly revenge in a chilling novel of suspense by #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.After Sheriff Bree Taggert’s takedown of cold-blooded murderer Travis Ekin, his family vows revenge. Travis’s mother and brothers are every bit as violent, and Bree is in their crosshairs...
  • In the Air Tonight by Marie Force

    In the Air Tonight by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I was there. I saw what you did.BlaiseI wasn’t supposed to be there that night, but my friend Sienna talked me into going to the party in Land’s End so she could spy on her boyfriend. While hiding out in the woods, we witnessed an unspeakable crime. And we did everything wrong afterward.Connections run deep in our small town...
  • Claiming the Enemy: Dustin by Jamie Begley

    Claiming the Enemy: Dustin by Jamie Begley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Porter brothers were raised to live and die by Three Rules. One, a Porter always keeps what’s his. Two, a Porter stands his ground. Three … Dustin never had to search for his true love. They used to play and get in trouble together, shared a playpen, and their mothers used to be best friends. But that was before their fathers made them enemies and changed the course of their lives...
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    dark  family  friends-to-lovers  sad  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Cabin 12 by Freya Barker

    Cabin 12 by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even at thirty seven, with a challenging but rewarding career as a paramedic, Bella Gomez is treated as the baby of the family. It’s made her allergic to anyone meddling, so she chooses to keep mostly to herself. Unfortunately that doesn’t stop her family from inserting themselves in her life. Nor does it deter the one man she knows she shouldn’t get close to from showing up on her doorstep...
  • 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...
  • The Outpost by Devney Perry

    The Outpost by Devney Perry

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Trapped in his tiny mountain cabin, she didn't expect to fall for his big heart. Exposing a prominent criminal family with an investigative news report didn’t exactly work out the way Sabrina had hoped. Instead of basking in the glory of her article’s success, she’s on the run from a powerful man who wants her dead. To stay safe, she’s forced to trade one bad situation for another...
  • Wrecked Palace by Catherine Cowles

    Wrecked Palace by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One night was all it took for everything to change.From college student to guardian in a single breath.My siblings became my world.No time for date nights or romantic dreams.I traded quiet weekends for sleepless nights.Giving my all to make sure they were cared for.But Griffin had a brokenness that called to me—one that mirrored my own.Gruff and just a little bit reckless...
    Categorized as:
    epic  family  friends-to-lovers  multi-pov  sad  suspense  adult  angst
  • Edge of Nowhere by Freya Barker

    Edge of Nowhere by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Open roads and honor meets poke bowls and self-controlI’m a homesick nomad.A protégé, a mountain man, an ally, and a seeker.My name is Wapi.I’m a work in progress looking to belong, and though my road has been a winding one, my heart has found focus.I’m a straightlaced hellcat.A princess, a fool, a target, and a handle.My name is Lindsey...
  • 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...
  • Texas Lilies by Samantha Christy

    Texas Lilies by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everything is bigger in Texas.Including secrets.Devyn came here to be invisible. To run from a past that gives her no chance of a future.Until the day I pull a gun on her and fall head-over-heels in love. With her tenacity; her beauty; even her brokenness.I don’t need to fix her. I just want to help put together her shattered pieces. I know how to do it. I know broken...
  • Surrender to Me by Kelly Elliott

    Surrender to Me by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Arabella Adams was the one woman I would have laid my life down for, no matter the circumstance, because that’s what you would do for your soulmate. But when she broke up with me our senior year of college—for no reason or explanation at all—my world as I knew it fell completely apart...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  multi-pov  suspense  abuse  adult  book  contemporary
  • Warped Minds by Elena Lawson

    Warped Minds by Elena Lawson

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    One, two, the Crows are coming for youThree, four, time to settle the scoreFive, six, Rook will get his fixSeven, eight, accept your fateNine, ten, this is your end.Warped Minds is the fourth and final book in the Boys of Briar Hall series and should be read after Twisted Games...
    Categorized as:
    dark  multi-pov  revenge  stalking  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult
  • Halligan to My Axe by Lani Lynn Vale

    Halligan to My Axe by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You’re the Halligan... Kettle had it all. Until he didn't. He lost it all in a moment. One heart stopping, soul shattering moment, and there wasn't a single thing he could do about it. From that day forward, he stayed away from relationships. Then he responded to a possible fire and there she was, rocking his world when he didn't want it to be rocked. To My..
  • Sidecar Crush by Claire Kingsley, Lucy Score

    Sidecar Crush by Claire Kingsley, Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “I tried to think of something—anything—to calm my raging hard-on. One wrong move and Leah Mae would rub up against it and that was liable to kill me dead on the spot.” -- Jameson Bodine Model turned disgraced reality TV starlet, Leah Mae Larkin, crash lands in her hometown of Bootleg Springs to lay low while a scandal threatens her career...
  • Rason & Eliza by Cee Bowerman

    Rason & Eliza by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rason Harper is all about family and tradition. Raised by two loving parents, he’s not willing to sacrifice his future for the wrong woman. After a dating catastrophe makes him decide to give up on love, his mind is changed in an instant when a quick conversation with his favorite bookworm gives him the chance to get to know her better...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  stalking  steamy  adult  biker  book  contemporary
  • 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...
  • Blue Twilight by Tess Thompson

    Blue Twilight by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Death came between them in high school. Will solving a painful cold case bring them together at last?Carlie Webster remains haunted by the past. After a messy failed marriage sends her packing for her small hometown, she relives the memories of her sister’s thirty-year-old unsolved murder...
  • 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...
  • Reckless Refuge by Catherine Cowles

    Reckless Refuge by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Book four in the Wrecked Series. Synopsis coming soon...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A Rogue Cowboy's Second Chance by Stephanie Rowe

    A Rogue Cowboy's Second Chance by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fifteen years ago, he shattered her heart. Now she needs to trust him with her life. First in a new billionaire cowboy series by New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Rowe.Billionaire rancher Brody Hart protects others…no matter the cost to himself. When the woman he lost a decade ago needs his help, he has a second chance with the sassy country music star he never stopped loving...
  • Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

    Keep This Promise by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I am about to lose everything.My home. My name. My future.My husband was involved in something that could cost us our lives, and on his deathbed, he demands my daughter and I flee Britain. I had no idea he found her biological father, Holden James, in Rose Canyon, and that’s where we’d start over.The moment we see each other, feelings I’d long forgotten rush over me...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Vodka on the Rocks by Lani Lynn Vale

    Vodka on the Rocks by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    There are rules to life that one just obeys in order in her attempt to stay on the right path. For example: 1. You don’t wear dirty panties out of the house. You just never know who’s going to see them. 2. A lady must always have chocolate at the ready—just in case the world as she knows it comes to an end. 3. You don’t egg on a drunk woman who’s pissed off at life...
  • Honest Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Honest Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s not the boy next door anymore, and I’m not the girl I used to be, either.His life is in the spotlight as one of the most popular professional football players on the Vegas Aces, while I can’t afford to have my secrets exposed. But as we work together on a project benefitting our small Midwestern town, we easily slip back into the friendship we once shared...
  • Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The boy next door is back, and so am I.He’s spending his NFL off-season in our small Midwestern town after seven long years away, and I’m in town for different reasons.Memories shift to reality as we find ourselves in the place where we first fell in love. We’re different people now, but I’m falling fast and hard for the man he is now.But he’s married...
  • Looking for You by Kelly Elliott

    Looking for You by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The last person I would ever expect to be waiting on the front porch for me in the middle of the night was Everly Higgins. To say I was both surprised and thrilled to see her would be an understatement. I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about her since we met last fall when my sister, Greer, fell in love with Everly’s brother, Hudson...
  • Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Corpse in the Carnations by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riches to rags. … Chaos calms. … Crime quiets. … But does it really? After getting involved in two murder cases in the short time she’s lived in picturesque Kelowna, divorcee and gardener Doreen Montgomery has developed a reputation almost as notorious as her Nan’s...
    Categorized as:
    animals  dogs  family  suspense  adult  amateur-sleuth  audiobook  book
  • Beautifully Broken Redemption by Catherine Cowles

    Beautifully Broken Redemption by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’s hiding secrets.For Anna, keeping her deepest scars hidden from the world has always been a necessity—from the bruises of her childhood to the mistake that nearly cost her everything. To keep herself safe, she must keep everyone around her at a distance—especially the man who has tempted her since the moment they met.His demons are taunting him...
  • Battles of the Broken by Anne Malcom

    Battles of the Broken by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Souls are interesting things. Not something you can prove you possess. Not something that can be measured, like a heartbeat. But something that can be destroyed by the absence of a heartbeat. No, you cannot prove you possess a soul. But once that soul dies, there doesn't need to be proof that you don't have one. Once that blackened pit opens inside you, the world can see it...
  • Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s looking for a fresh start…she finds him.Nylah Walker knows what it’s like to be protected. You don’t grow up with five brothers without having someone close by, watching your back at all times. She craves independence, and Cradle Mountain is her fresh start. Her new beginning...
  • The Price Of Scandal by Lucy Score

    The Price Of Scandal by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    “I’m the fixer your board hired to clean up your mess.” “So you show up here, break into my house, and take a bath?” Emily Stanton’s perfect life just became a disaster. She has a trust fund brother looking for a handout, a father who is more board member than dad, and a mother who thinks she should give up on this whole billionaire CEO thing and meet a man with a pre-nup and a yacht...
  • Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Perfect Wreckage (The Wrecked Series) by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My past taught me to play it safe.To stay far away from handsome men who promised it all.My life was good without them. Stable, secure, predictable. But one kiss showed me that I’d been playing it safe for far too long.One night, and all I wanted was more of his wildfire.One challenge and my carefully constructed walls tumbled down...
  • Chalk Dirty to Me by Lani Lynn Vale

    Chalk Dirty to Me by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Two years ago, Cannel Crow experienced the worst day of her life. She was taken from a supermarket, and forced to spend a year with a man that treated her worse than a neglected, chained up dog.One year later, she’s saved by a shadow organization that believes the law is a joke, and the only person you can count on is you...
    Categorized as:
    dark  multi-pov  stalking  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc
  • Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of edge of your seat romance and readers of B.J. Daniels, Lindsay McKenna, and Diana Palmer won’t want to miss this electrifying and genuine new page-turner from the bestselling romance legend. When Val Champion returns to the family ranch, she’s ready to put her past behind her. Her dreams of a Hollywood acting career have become a nightmare of fear...
  • Gunner by Rebecca Sharp

    Gunner by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From bestselling romantic suspense author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a surprise pregnancy romantic suspense...Della Bolden needs an escape—that’s what happens when your billionaire father has shielded your entire life.Growing up under the thumb of personal security—for her own safety—Della wanted one weekend of freedom on a ski trip with her friends...
  • 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...
  • The Dark Light of Day by T.M. Frazier

    The Dark Light of Day by T.M. Frazier

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Abby has been through hell and has survived one of the most brutal childhoods imaginable... barely. To the outside world she is just a loner with an attitude. When her grandmother dies in a tragic explosion, Abby is left with questions-and nothing else...
  • Carwrecked by Francesca Penn

    Carwrecked by Francesca Penn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Celeste FontanneComplicated is too simple a word and doesn’t quite describe my life. I’m trapped in between prison and truly being free. Figuratively, I may have escaped from my cell, but I’m still very much in the building. I’d gotten a glimmer of freedom, which lasted mere minutes until it came to a screeching halt. Now, I must climb out of the dregs of my former life and begin anew...
    Categorized as:
    dark  stalking  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  black-mc
  • Bound by Passion : A Motorcycle Club Romance by Ryan Michele

    Bound by Passion : A Motorcycle Club Romance by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author Ryan Michele brings the action packed, suspenseful, spicy next generation of Ravage MC filled with angst, loyalty and family.Raid bled the blood of the club. Undeniably loyal. Focused on family. Determined. His thought processes would make any other man cringe. Calculating. Meticulous. Always thinking...
  • Old Fashioned by Kandi Steiner

    Old Fashioned by Kandi Steiner

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The epic finale of the Becker Brothers series. Each book can be read as a stand-alone.It’s a man’s world.When I declared sports medicine as my major and every man narrowed their eyes, that saying proved true. It was true when my ex-husband decided I’d give up my career when our daughter was born...
  • Tattered Stars by Catherine Cowles

    Tattered Stars by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Be brave. Just for sixty seconds. Twenty breaths.One night changed them both forever. Their lives shattered, beyond repair, with jagged edges and pieces askew. Now, Everly has a chance to make things right. To bring healing to the place where everything fell apart. But it means facing the family her father almost destroyed, and the boy with the dark eyes—now grown—who still haunts her dreams...
  • Until Trevor by Aurora Rose Reynolds

    Until Trevor by Aurora Rose Reynolds

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Trevor Mayson had his life planned out - make the family business successful and play the field for a few more years before eventually settling down. Then he sees her. Liz Hayes was beautiful, shy and everything that he could ever want...but she didn't fit into his plans. After Trevor painfully rejects her, Liz finally starts to move on, but Trevor is finding it difficult to truly let her go...
  • Lead Me Home by A.L. Jackson

    Lead Me Home by A.L. Jackson

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A friends-to-lovers second-chance romance...Fourteen years ago, my life changed forever.My sister disappeared. That day I was selfish. That day I chose myself over her. And that day, I lost everything.Including Nikki Walters.She's the girl I've loved my whole life. She's gorgeous. Caring. Every single thing I've ever wanted but denied myself...
  • After the Fall by Giana Darling

    After the Fall by Giana Darling

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I was settin’ up to live a good life, the kinda life I’d fought hard to deserve. With a good woman––the best woman––at my side, a degree under my belt, and the whole world at my feet, I was livin’ the kinda happily ever after usually denied the rebellious and the criminal. I’d turned my back on that kinda life, thinkin’ I needed that clean, wholesome kinda happy...
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