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  • No Shame: The Complete Series by Nora Phoenix

    No Shame: The Complete Series by Nora Phoenix

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Family is more than blood...and love has no shame. Indy is on the run from his mobster ex when he meets Noah and Josh...and starts on the journey that will bring him love and a chosen family...
  • A Family Chosen: Volume 3 by Sloane Kennedy

    A Family Chosen: Volume 3 by Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***Note that this bundle includes books already available as single titles*** Save $ when you buy the bundle vs the individual titles in each bundle! Come meet my amazing extended family of men, the Protectors and the Barrettis! Since all of my series cross over with one another, I've gotten many requests to bundle my bestselling books by reading order...
  • Friends: A Friends to Lovers Gay Romance by Nora Phoenix

    Friends: A Friends to Lovers Gay Romance by Nora Phoenix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seth is so confused. If Coulson is straight, why is he checking Seth out? Seth is an out and proud Secret Service agent. When he’s asked to assist the FBI on an investigation, he meets FBI agent Coulson.Coulson is straight. Or so he says. Seth has no reason to doubt that, not even when they become close friends. Really close friends. But that’s all they are: friends...
  • Ambrose by Silvia Violet

    Ambrose by Silvia Violet

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I thought I was the one straight Theriot cousin...But I was wrong.Because when Sheriff Eric Winston demanded my help in ridding his territory of pure evil, I couldn’t say no.The man’s infuriating—a clean-cut do-gooder—and my family’s never exactly been friends with the law. But I couldn’t deny I owed the man a favor…And I can’t deny the things he makes me feel either.I want to protect him...
  • Rebel Mission by Em Petrova

    Rebel Mission by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s combat ready. But keeping his hands off her might be his biggest battle yet…Special operator Orlando Frost lives to fight for those who can’t defend themselves. So, when a terrorist threatens innocent civilians with a deadly toxin, he’s up to the task of hunting them down and neutralizing the threat...
  • A Tangled Truth by Max Walker

    A Tangled Truth by Max Walker

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Liam Wolfe isn’t having the best of days. He’s being falsely accused of things he’d never even think of doing and is now facing the loss of his career because of it. He has an idea of who’s behind the attempt at assassinating his character but can’t put the pieces together by himself. Mark Masters isn’t having any better of a time...
  • Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than ten years ago, a series of train bombings devastated railways throughout Europe. Strange poetry sent to local newspapers right before each bombing, confounded investigators at the time. In one of only a handful of failed covert missions, Jarrett had been sent into North Korea to take out the bomber...
  • School of Fish by Amy Lane

    School of Fish by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he’s itching to get back to work. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn’t commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Nothing is ever that easy...
  • Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson and Ellery face their toughest case yet—against the criminal justice system itself.Jackson Rivers and Ellery Cramer have worked difficult jobs before, but usually it’s getting the facts that’s the problem. For their newest client, the trouble isn’t finding the truth—it’s corruption at the highest levels of the justice system...
  • Love & Power by Elizabeth Knight

    Love & Power by Elizabeth Knight

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love is what started this whole thing. A man who loved two women. A mother who sacrificed herself for her daughter. A daughter who will stop at nothing to take down those who killed and threatened the ones she loves. I’ve been told all my life that love was a weakness in our world. That couldn’t be further from the truth, but that’s only half of what I need to finish the job...
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    crime  mlm  steamy  multi-pov  lgbtq  romance  reverse-harem  dark
  • Where There’s Smoke… by Romeo Alexander

    Where There’s Smoke… by Romeo Alexander

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Matt:I’m proud to be a Port Dale firefighter but it isn’t all excitement and sitting around eating homemade meals. It’s also dealing with your work “family” in ways you never expected. I love my real family, and I love my work “family”. Well, most of them...
  • Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jarrett Evans and Thayne Wolfe have been partnered in the ATF for nearly two years and their love and commitment to each other has grown over time. Now faced with one final challenge, the boys are headed to Arizona to help Thayne’s mom, stumbling headfirst into a brand new case...
  • Attraction by Kelly Fox

    Attraction by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I run a high-end escort service. And I'm in love with a virgin. It doesn't make any sense, this attraction between us. I'm a violent Mafia Don, and Ford is a nervous, perfectly bow-tied, sexily bespectacled money nerd.But he's had my heart the first night I laid eyes on him, and while he keeps me at arm's length, he's never left my orbit. He's as bound to me as I am to him...
  • Zac's Mulligan by Ann Lister

    Zac's Mulligan by Ann Lister

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zac Mulligan is a former Marine now providing personal security for the infamous rock band, Black Ice. Seeing all the guys around him in committed relationships reminds him of his childhood best friend . . . the only person Zac has never managed to get out of his head or his heart. Ben Holland is an artist...
  • Knot Afraid by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown

    Knot Afraid by Susi Hawke, Crista Crown

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Evan Nilsen's Ideal Omega:• funny• gentle• just as awkward as EvanI always imagined I'd end up with someone kind of like me. Maybe even a nurse so we could open our own practice, saving the world one omega or baby at a time.But then Luis Alfaro walks in, scared, dark, and dangerous—and I freeze like the rabbit I am...
  • Close to Home by Carly Marie

    Close to Home by Carly Marie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jasper Scott is a single workaholic. He split with his girlfriend two years ago and hasn’t felt drawn to anyone else since… except the sexy Navy SEAL he met at his brother’s house two years ago. But that man lives halfway across the country and after so long, Jasper’s convinced his mind has embellished Greg’s sexy gray eyes, rippling muscles, and gorgeous salt and pepper hair...
  • A Nothing Special New Year by A.E. Via

    A Nothing Special New Year by A.E. Via

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New Year’s Eve is usually a night of fun and wild celebrations, but for a police officer, it can be the most dangerous night of the year. Officer Ellis Mason has worked as a beat cop on the streets of Atlanta for over eight years, and he knows what it takes to survive them...
  • Found by Annabella Michaels

    Found by Annabella Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As a former USAF pararescueman, Jeremy O’Brien is used to following orders, no questions asked. So, when Micah, his boss at Hamilton Security, asks him to take on a special case, he readily accepts. Micah’s instructions are simple, find the man in the picture and bring him back to Chicago...
  • Sadistic Sherlock by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Sadistic Sherlock by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ten years ago, Dominic Walsh faked his own death. With no true identity, it wasn’t hard. But if he’d stayed, he would have been drawn further into a life he’d never chosen. He has friends and family at Ward Security now and has managed to escape his dark past. There is only one thing he truly wants. Abraham Stephens...
  • Teaching Trust by Brittany Cournoyer

    Teaching Trust by Brittany Cournoyer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sebastian ~ I screwed up and ruined a perfectly good relationship with my ex, Anthony. But my epic screw-up helped him find the happiness he deserved, and that left me truly alone. So my life became the gym I own, and doing the drive-of-shame home after my countless hook-ups. I cut out trying to have any type of relationship, because my heart just wasn’t in it...
  • Getting Mine by Amy Davies

    Getting Mine by Amy Davies

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sex, decisions, and motorbikes. As a member of the Unforgiven Riders, EC, the sweet, baby-face of the club, did whatever was needed to help his brothers, often utilizing his good looks, body, and charm. But his focus becomes divided when his past mistakes cause him to lose the only two people who have ever held a place in his heart...
  • Juno by Ana Night

    Juno by Ana Night

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Juno doesn’t do relationships and he’s content with that, right until Rome walks through the front door of the tattoo shop Juno works at. Rome is a dangerous man to want, but Juno didn’t join the Salvation Kings because he was afraid to go after what he wants. He’s always looking for a new adventure and being with Rome seems to be the kind that’ll never end...
  • Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Follows with Intent by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Keeping your eye on the prize isn’t always a good thing.Nico knows he’s difficult; he has the string of exes to prove it. But staying sharp was the only way to stay safe in the cutthroat world of modeling, and it turns out, graduate school isn’t any gentler. Career first. Boys…later.Jadon knows he’s burning out; his partner at the Metropolitan Police is more than happy to remind him of that fact...
  • With This Bling by L.B. Gregg

    With This Bling by L.B. Gregg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caesar Romano’s catering career is doing better than he’d ever dreamed. And so is his love life—even if his boyfriend’s house in Staten Island is way too far from civilization for his liking...
  • If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mark Vincent and Quinton Mann have finally kind of, sort of, exchanged promises. Mark has returned from an assignment on the West Coast, and he’s looking forward to spending some quality time with his lover. After all, it’s the St. Patrick’s Day weekend...
  • Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucky Lucklighter has a new life. His old life wants him back.He traded trafficking for taking down criminals with the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, and a drug-lord lover for a man on the right side of the law. Bo Schollenberger found the way past the thorny defenses of Lucky’s heart, and made Mr...
  • Savage by Brea Alepoú

    Savage by Brea Alepoú

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blood, Sweat, and Tears.There is nothing in life more satisfying than seeing someone desperately clinging to life as their final moment ticks away. At least that’s how I’ve lived my life until now.As the crow of the Laureati family, it’s my job to clean up their messes. I’ve always stayed focused and have never had a weakness that my enemies could exploit. It’s what makes me effective...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  multi-pov  steamy  action-adventure  adult  age-gap
  • Ghost by R.J. Scott

    Ghost by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can you ever hold on to a ghost?Elliot is tracking an elusive killer, codenamed Ghost, with ties to organized crime. Every time the Sanctuary team gets close, Ghost slips their grasp.Cole has nowhere left to turn. With his father dying and his sister in danger, he turns for help to the very people trying to track him down...
  • Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Slip and Slide by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ATF special agents, Thayne Wolfe, and his partner, Jarrett Evans, have gotten into sticky situations in the past but nothing prepares them for the daunting task of being loaned out to a coal mine in West Virginia where Jarrett’s grown up. Investigating a deadly mining explosion may be the end of them yet...
  • The Boss's Boy by Aja Foxx

    The Boss's Boy by Aja Foxx

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ~ Dmitri ~I was intrigued by Eiji the first time I saw him dancing in my club. I became obsessed with him when the ink was still wet on our marriage certificate. I wanted to give Eiji the life he should have had until I realized I had taken something from him I had no right to take, and then I knew I had lost him forever...
  • Fly Away Home by Felice Stevens

    Fly Away Home by Felice Stevens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Maybe Colson Delacourt teasing those nosy ladies in the coffeeshop with the plot of his next murder mystery was a bad idea. But does that mean he deserves to be arrested for attempting to kill his elderly neighbor? Why won’t the police believe he has nothing to do with her getting hurt? That detective Harper Rose won’t listen to him—he’s so annoying and arrogant. And sexy and gorgeous...
  • Forever Starts Tonight by Roni Loren

    Forever Starts Tonight by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The wait is over. They fell in love in Melt Into You, but that was only the beginning. Now New York Times bestselling author Roni Loren dials up the passion as three lovers reinvent the meaning of togetherness and find out if love is truly enough… Two dominant men, one beautiful woman...
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    crime  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary
  • Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Just Say When by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Someone wants Police Chief Emilio Mendoza dead. And if his unknown assailant doesn’t kill him, pining for Sheriff Abraham Beecham just might. Abe and Lio’s thirty-year journey has taken them from heated rivals to best friends with countless labels and pit stops along the way. Romance is the only avenue left unexplored but not from lack of love or desire...
  • Bringing It Home by Reese Knightley

    Bringing It Home by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The heart wants what the heart wants. Diesel Gannon doesn’t mind attending a BDSM party or two, but he draws the line at inflicting pain. That might seem odd because he has a dominant personality, but it’s just not who he is. He’s seen enough war and pain to last a lifetime. Out on medical leave, and as a favor for a friend, Diesel heads to the Triple R to check on Triton...
  • Battle It Out by Reese Knightley

    Battle It Out by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Master Sergeant Zane Gannon loves nothing more than being a part of his Special Forces unit and kicking ass, but above everything, he values his friendship with Isaac. Sure, they argue and snipe at each other, but it’s all in good fun. Until it isn’t. Now, Isaac is pulling away and something Zane has buried for two decades is resurfacing...
  • Full Mountie by Ainsley Booth, Sadie Haller

    Full Mountie by Ainsley Booth, Sadie Haller

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lachlan:365 days I’ve wanted Beth beneath me, begging for release. One long, angst-filled year we’ve circled each other, keeping things strictly professional.But I’ve also got shit in my past that complicates relationships. And I should know better than to hope secrets can stay buried.Hugh:A year? Try ten. A decade ago, I let Lachlan walk away because deep down, I knew he needed something else...
  • Theirs to Take by Laura Kaye

    Theirs to Take by Laura Kaye

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s the fantasy they’ve always wanted to share… Best friends Jonathan Allen and Cruz Ramos share almost everything—a history in the Navy, their sailboat building and restoration business, and the desire to dominate a woman together, which they do at Baltimore’s exclusive club, Blasphemy...
  • Make Me Stay by Annabeth Albert

    Make Me Stay by Annabeth Albert

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Roommate Not WantedI’m a forty-year-old homeowner and former detective. My friends think a roommate is the solution to my recent funk, but I know that’s the last thing I need.And even if they’re right, sharing my home with Cal is a bad idea. The prickly SEAL rescue diver has muscles for miles, haunted eyes, a wounded soul, and wandering feet that won’t be happy for long in Safe Harbor...
  • Cask Strength by Layla Reyne

    Cask Strength by Layla Reyne

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Professionally, the FBI team of Aidan "Irish" Talley and Jameson "Whiskey" Walker is as good as it gets, closing cases faster than any team at the Bureau. Personally, it’s a different story. Aidan’s feelings for Jamie scare the hell out of him: he won’t risk losing another love no matter how heart-tripping the intimacy between them...
  • A Summer of Guiltless Sex by Dan Skinner

    A Summer of Guiltless Sex by Dan Skinner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two very different men, from two walks of life find common ground for an exciting and unique adventure. It'd not been a great beginning of the summer season for either Bill, a young bridal store clerk, or Ted, a college student working as a lifeguard at the apartment complex’s pool. They'd both been dumped in their respective relationships and were still looking for “the one...
  • Hot Mess 2 by Stormy Glenn

    Hot Mess 2 by Stormy Glenn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Publishing: The Stormy Glenn ManLove Collection: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA]As a lieutenant on the city's elite SWAT team, I had a job I loved. I lived in a beautiful penthouse apartment overlooking the city park. And the love of my life spent every night in my arms. My life was pretty damn good.Which was why I was not thrilled that someone was messing with it...
  • Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Oceans Apart by Laura Harner

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s been two years since Lord Jamie Mainwaring and Detective Remy Remington worked and loved their way through their one and only case before going their separate ways. Now Jamie is once again mixing agency business with pleasure as he and his partner, Agent Ryan Whiteside, are assigned to a case involving piracy in the Caribbean...
  • Stranger Things Have Happened: An Adrien English Write Your Own Damn Story (The Adrien English Mysteries) by Josh Lanyon, Catherine Dair

    Stranger Things Have Happened: An Adrien English Write Your Own Damn Story (The Adrien English Mysteries) by Josh Lanyon, Catherine Dair

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    WHO KILLED ROBERT HERSEY? Book store assistant and all around bad boy Robert Hersey has been murdered -- and you are the #1 suspect! To clear your name and get your life back, you must figure out who killed your best friend and first love. What happens next in the story all depends on the choices YOU make. How will the story end? It's all up to YOU...
  • Love is Always Write: Volume One (Don't Read in the Closet Events) by Stephani Hecht, Megan Derr

    Love is Always Write: Volume One (Don't Read in the Closet Events) by Stephani Hecht, Megan Derr

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The stories you are about to read celebrate love, sex and romance between men. They are a product of the Love Is Always Write promotion sponsored by the Goodreads M/M Romance Group and are published as a free gift to you...
  • Foolish Me by Tinnean

    Foolish Me by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Light in your Eyes: Book Two A Spy vs Spook Novel Giving up a life as rent boy Sweetcheeks for his lover, William Matheson, was an easy decision for Theo Bascopolis. But years of selling his body and the lingering pain from being thrown out by his father leave Theo worried that Wills, who’s always had his family’s acceptance, can’t truly love him...
  • You Were Made For Me by Tinnean

    You Were Made For Me by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Continuing Adventures of Mark Vincent and Quinton MannCan things possibly run smoothly when a CIA spook moves in with a WBIS spy? If they’re Quinton Mann and Mark Vincent, they damned well better had. Quinn, having resigned from the CIA after the debacle of a covert agent being outed, is now living with Mark...
  • Hot Mess 3 by Stormy Glenn

    Hot Mess 3 by Stormy Glenn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Publishing: The Stormy Glenn ManLove Collection: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA] Two years ago, to the night, my world changed when Lt. Salvador Delvecchio rescued me from a beat down and decided I belonged to him. A year ago, he changed my life once again when he asked me to marry him...
  • Hot Mess 4 by Stormy Glenn

    Hot Mess 4 by Stormy Glenn

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    [Siren Publishing: The Stormy Glenn ManLove Collection: Erotic Alternative Romance, M/M, HEA] Lany I had once thought that my life was the comic relief for the universe. Today, I was positive I had been right in my line of thinking. It was the only way to explain how I ended up sitting on the floor of my favorite Thai restaurant, surrounded by armed men and hostages...
  • Double Cross by Lissa Ford

    Double Cross by Lissa Ford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Happily ever after wasn’t supposed to be this complicated. At last, Jude Anderson and his lover, homicide detective Rowan Muir, are settling into domestic bliss. Or so it seems. Rowan says all the right things, and the sex is still hotter than ever. But something isn’t quite right, and Jude can’t put his finger on what it is...
  • An Officer's Submission by Christa Tomlinson

    An Officer's Submission by Christa Tomlinson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You don’t ever have to keep anything you feel locked up, Clay. I’m your Dom, and whatever you need from me, I’ll gladly give to you.” - Sergeant Logan PiercePolice Officer Clay Foster is finally at peace and happy with his life. He enjoys his career as a member of Houston’s SWAT team, and he loves submitting to his Dom in the bedroom...
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