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  • Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Due Process by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An Amazon Top 30 bestseller.A young exotic dancer claims she was sexually assaulted at a party thrown by a university football team.Three players stand accused.In the ninth installment of the bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard finds himself defending one of the players accused of assaulting the young woman...
  • Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Echo Team has a new addition—a K-9, and he’s in need of training . . .Eight-plus years as Echo Three and Chris Hunter is still as mission-focused as ever, continuing to fight for his country as part of a secretive team of operatives serving the President.When Chris decides to rescue a dog for the team, he soon discovers he and the guys are far from K-9 whisperers, and they need help...
  • Dutch by Teri Woods

    Dutch by Teri Woods

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    James Bernard Jr., a.k.a. Dutch, has become the most dangerous criminal in New Jersey. From his early skill as a car thief, Dutch recognized the opportunity to rule the streets and he seized it. Feared by all, and completely fearless, Dutch and his dangerous clique take over the lucrative heroin business of a local African drug lord...
  • Judgment Cometh (And That Right Soon): A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Judgment Cometh (And That Right Soon): A Legal Thriller by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Supreme Court Justice is found cut into pieces in the back of a pick-up truck. Three other judges have already gone missing. In the eighth installment of Scott Pratt’s bestselling Joe Dillard Series, Dillard is hired to represent the man driving the pick-up. As Dillard delves into the case, he comes to believe his client is not guilty...
  • 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...
  • The Demise by Ashley Antoinette, JaQuavis Coleman

    The Demise by Ashley Antoinette, JaQuavis Coleman

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Cartel series is back...and more deadly than ever.Las Vegas. A city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but comes with great sacrifice. The stakes have never been this high, and rules of the game have never been this hard to manipulate...
  • 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...
  • True to the Game III by Teri Woods

    True to the Game III by Teri Woods

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly...
  • Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A fast-paced story about a steamy, seedy underworld of crime, 'Dying For Revenge' spans the entire globe and features hit man Gideon, a troubled character, dealing with a world of violence he can never really escape...
  • In Walked Sin by Stoni Alexander

    In Walked Sin by Stoni Alexander

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    IT'S GOOD TO BE BAD…I have no soul.And that suits me.How else could I wield absolute power in the nation’s capital?I own this town and everyone in it. The public thinks the politicos run Washington. Who do you think is pulling their strings?I am.Some hate me for it…until they find themselves in the center of a scandal. That’s when I become their savior...
  • At Dusk by AshleyNicole

    At Dusk by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There’s a killer on the loose…A monster who hides in plain sight, waiting to make his move when you least expect it. When you’re tired. When you’re alone. When you’re not paying attention. At Dusk.Special Agent Harlan Tate of the FBI knows this particular killer’s work well– too well. The killer took somebody important from him when he was a teenager, then disappeared...
  • Cowboy in the Crosshairs by Em Petrova

    Cowboy in the Crosshairs by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They’re total opposites. That doesn’t mean he won’t lay down his life for her.Silas Shanie is ready for action. Now that his medical leave is over, he’s more than capable of being back on the WEST Protection team. His first assignment? Easy. His new ward? Not at all. But he’ll keep the gorgeous, shallow heiress safe because it’s his job. He doesn’t have to like her. Except…he does. Maybe too much...
  • Operation: Trusted Angel by Margaret Kay

    Operation: Trusted Angel by Margaret Kay

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Michaela ‘Tech Goddess’ Karras went to work for Shepherd Security, she closed the door on her past life and everyone in it. It is a life that haunts her, a past she has kept secret from most. She was a loner, a natural beauty who hid behind a standoffish tomboy persona. She kept to herself until Angel joined the agency and they became close friends...
  • Resurrecting Midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Resurrecting Midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Set amidst the exotic and vibrant streets of Miami and Buenos Aires, 'Resurrecting Midnight' is an action-filled, pulse-pounding thriller featuring Dickey's greatest creation - Gideon...
  • Best Served Cold by Rebecca Deel

    Best Served Cold by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    U.S. Marshal Stella Grayson always wanted to be a cop, but after an ambush, she's framed for murder and forced to surrender her gun and badge. Targeted by law enforcement and a killer seeking revenge, she may lose everything she values, including her freedom and the man she loves...
  • Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When her high maintenance boss is assaulted, manager Xena Morgan contacts the only person who can help—the sexy, arrogant, incredibly capable Stark Security agent Liam Foster. The former vigilante takes every case personally, and he's determined to find answers—particularly since he thought he'd cleared this threat already...
  • Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jade Raised by a drug kingpin, you would think that I would be intimately familiar with chaos but the roles in my life were flipped after my father’s death. Boarding school, owning businesses, and mingling with the social elite became my norm.Until one day, the chaos returned...
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  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When archeologist January’s plane is shot down over the Guatemalan jungle, she knows she’s being hunted for the invaluable Mayan artifacts she’s carrying. Only one man and his team can save her…the covert, black ops Team 52, and the distrusting former CIA operative who drives her crazy…Dr. January James has a motto: live life to the fullest...
  • Snapped by Tracy Brown

    Snapped by Tracy Brown

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all Frankie and their life together are her whole world. So Camille tries not to be bothered by his closeness with his coworker and dear friend Gillian. But it soon becomes clear that Camille's suspicions are correct...
  • Landfall by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Landfall by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As a hurricane gathers its power just off Apalachicola’s shore, another storm comes to a head in Lt. Maggie Redmond's home.Held prisoner by a man bent on avenging the death of a son, Maggie must find a way to save herself and her two children.No one knows where they are. No one is coming to help...
  • No Way Out by Amy McKinley

    No Way Out by Amy McKinley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An action-packed mafia romance about secrets, arranged marriage, and redemption by USA Today Bestselling author Amy McKinley.Max’s endgame is clear—take back what’s rightfully his and punish those who have wronged him.Under the guise of assassin Matteo Trambino, Max infiltrates a vital arm of the Chicago Mafia to protect his Sicilian mentor’s granddaughter, Liliana, from her dangerous father...
  • HOT MEN: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Ashlee Price

    HOT MEN: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Ashlee Price

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Collection of 4 Amazon Best Sellers + 1 Exclusive! This guilty pleasure is for readers who love their bad boys, alpha males and billionaires hot, dark and ready to take the women they want..
  • Honor's Revenge by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Honor's Revenge by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To find a killer, they’ll have to use her as bait. World class assassin Lancelot will do anything to get the job done, including lie to his new partner, billionaire professor Hugo. But Hugo has secrets of his own, and when the mission looks like it will fail, he has no choice but to seek out a woman who has no place in their war--Sylvia. Hugo wants to protect her...
  • Redemption by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Redemption by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jessie Clarke has worked hard for almost a decade to overcome the trauma of her past, and building her career as a fireman in McKenzie Ridge has helped her become a strong, independent woman. But, underneath her fowl mouth and tough exterior, Jessie hides a secret that could not only endanger her but all those she loves in her small mountain town...
  • Heartbeat: A Courageous Love Novel by Terreece M. Clarke

    Heartbeat: A Courageous Love Novel by Terreece M. Clarke

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Maya Anderson only knows success: set a goal, create a plan, achieve. Everything she can control she does, down to her color-coordinated closet. Then someone tried to kill her. Now, she has a new goal: stay alive. New town. New identity. No men...
  • Cut and Run by Fern Michaels

    Cut and Run by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right...
  • Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bad boy Mick Sinatra feels the heat from the Feds from without, and disloyal men from within. He has no time for love. But when a woman comes along so unlike the dull socialites and supermodels of his past, he wonders if fate is playing a cruel trick on him...
  • The Shadow by K. Alex Walker

    The Shadow by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mike Huang was the son of one of the most powerful men in China until the empire his family built for centuries suddenly crumbles. The betrayal of a family friend sends him into hiding at the age of ten, and the only life he’s ever known has been on the run. There’s no normalcy for a man like him. No settling down. Everything he’s ever had has come by way of fighting for it or fighting against it...
  • Rocky Mountain Madness by Elle James

    Rocky Mountain Madness by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No stranger to loss, he refuses to care again…After losing his wife and son in a car crash, Bryce “Cole” Coleman never planned on loving or having a family again. Every time a woman tries to get close to him, he pushes her away. After losing a friend in battle, he’s riddled with even more survivor’s guilt...
  • Beautiful Sins by Piper Lawson

    Beautiful Sins by Piper Lawson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I don’t know how to treat a woman like you.”I swore I’d cut Harrison King out of my life, and my bed, forever. The second my contract with the ruthless billionaire who owned me was up… I ran.Not knowing that decision would only twist the web around us tighter.Now, he’s back, and the sins of his past threaten to destroy us both.He still thirsts for power and vengeance...
  • 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...
  • Breaking Hearts by Elle James

    Breaking Hearts by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ladies’ man, Michael “Blade” Calhoun loves women. A confirmed bachelor, he knows it’s a bad move to fall in love when you're a Delta Force Operative. He's sworn off entanglements, preferring to love all the ladies rather than settle on one and end up breaking her heart when he leaves.Living next door to Blade has its perks, but mostly is the bane to bartender Sophia Phillips’s existence...
  • 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...
  • Natural Born Liar by Noire

    Natural Born Liar by Noire

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens when beautiful, twenty-year-old petty thief and ex-stripper Mink LaRue finds out she's a dead ringer for the age-progressed photo of the missing oil heiress Sable Dominion? Harlem-born Mink LaRue makes a beeline to Dallas, Texas, pretending to be the Dominions' long-lost daughter, Sable...
  • 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...
  • Dmitry’s Royal Flush: Rise of the Queen by Latrivia S. Nelson

    Dmitry’s Royal Flush: Rise of the Queen by Latrivia S. Nelson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the popular multicultural author, Latrivia S. Nelson, comes the highly anticipated second installment of the Medlov Crime Family Series, Dmitry's Royal Flush: Rise of the Queen. For Dmitry and Royal Medlov, money doesn’t equal happiness...
  • The Blind Trust by Colin Conway

    The Blind Trust by Colin Conway

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A quiet death in a small town. A double homicide in the big city. Only a murderer knows they’re connected. Whitman County Sheriff Tom Jessup wants a nice, safe county. Unfortunately, things are about to get deadly. A seemingly normal death points Jessup north where he finds Detectives Quinn Delaney and Marci Burkett investigating a double murder...
  • Enduring Charity by Wayne Stinnett

    Enduring Charity by Wayne Stinnett

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When her position with the government is eliminated, Charity Styles is faced with an uncertain future. The only part of her previous life that she truly enjoyed was sailing her classic sloop. The cruising lifestyle is wonderful and helps keep her mind centered, as she sails from one anchorage to another, looking for her true calling...
  • Destino by Sienna Mynx

    Destino by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mira Ellison is poised to have it all. In 1989, she is the first prominent African American fashion designer redefining change for both beauty and style among the renowned in Italy. That happens until the evening she meets a tall, mysteriously charming Sicilian businessman who orchestrates a friendship that awakens a wicked sexual heat she has long forgotten...
  • Truth and Justice by Fern Michaels

    Truth and Justice by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fern Michaels is a national treasure, and her latest in the Sisterhood series finds the stalwart friends bringing justice—and hope—to families devastated by a greedy con artist.   The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice...
  • Deja Vu by Fern Michaels

    Deja Vu by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Thanks to a presidential pardon, the Sisterhood can put their fugitive days behind them and resume their lives in peace. Still, all the women admit that lately things are a little too calm and peaceful. Meeting up for the first time in months to celebrate Kathryn’s birthday — in the City of Sin, no less — seems like the perfect antidote...
  • The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    The Advocate's Felony by Teresa Burrell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sabre Brown’s phone rings at 2 a.m. It’s her brother Ron. After seven years in the Witness Protection Program, someone has discovered his whereabouts, and has tried to kill him. He’s called to warn Sabre that she is in imminent danger. Sabre and her private investigator, J.P., leave sunny San Diego to search for her brother in the cold, wintry Northwest...
  • Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Incriminating Evidence by Sheldon Siegel

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    With his terrific first novel, Special Circumstances , Sheldon Siegel delivered legal fiction so exciting, it drew comparisons with the very top tier of courtroom thrillers. Now he has a new challenge for defense attorney Mike Daley--ex-priest, ex-husband, ex-public defender--and it’s a high-profile zinger: a case he doesn’t think he can win for a client he can’t stand...
  • Aftermath by S.W. Frank

    Aftermath by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE ALFONZO FAMILY SAGA CONTINUES IN THIS LATEST INSTALLMENT: AFTERMATH: Alfonzo Volume VII "Forgive me father, for I have sinned...again!" -Alfonzo (Aftermath) The families have gathered in Palermo for a final farewell to beloved Capo de tutti, Alberti Luca. During the mourning, there is discourse and a simmering feud between cousins flares into a near fatal brawl...
  • Associates by S.W. Frank

    Associates by S.W. Frank

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The charismatic Alfonzo Diaz, his wife Selange, Giuseppe, Nico and the family return in this latest edition of an underground hit, many readers call 'raw' and 'addictive.' Alfonzo knows what is not spoken is found in actions. Observe, listen and often truth is revealed. “Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests...
  • The Lies We Tell for Love by Mz. Robinson

    The Lies We Tell for Love by Mz. Robinson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Damon Whitmore, a true go-getter, will stop at nothing to get what he desires. His wife Octavia was no exception. When Damon first saw Octavia he knew he had to have her. He went through great lengths until his mission was accomplished. Octavia Ellis-Whitmore never thought she would be a one man woman...
  • The Bad Disciples Motorcycle Romance: The Series by Savannah Rylan

    The Bad Disciples Motorcycle Romance: The Series by Savannah Rylan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Bad Disciples Motorcycle Romance Box Set includes all of The Bad Disciple MC books and a SPECIAL BONUS book of Marco's story. The Bad Disciples MC are bad boy MC HEIST romances about badass bikers who love their MC as much as they love their women. Gunner I'll screw any woman I want, even the enemy. As a sniper in the military, I shot on sight...
  • Lawless 2 by Amarie Avant

    Lawless 2 by Amarie Avant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m the Tsar's heartbeat, his entire world . . .AnastasiyaI finally submitted to the darker side of Happily Ever After, claiming my throne as the Tsariana.After all, Simeon left me no other choice—all his love or nothing.But it’s never that easy to be tethered to a man who rules a Bratva. No amount of money or power was going to stop what was coming for us the day Simeon claimed me...
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