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  • Keeping Quinn by Riley Edwards

    Keeping Quinn by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He liked fast and loose—she was sweet and innocent.Firefighter Brice Lancaster lived his life by a set of rules: No commitments, no attachments, no promises. Three rules that were easy to follow—rules that kept his heart safe, rules that should’ve kept his best friend’s cousin out of his bed...
  • Imperfect by Riley Edwards

    Imperfect by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sergeant Shiloh Kent has never quit anything in her life. She’s had to claw her way out of poverty. Fight to inch her way up the professional ladder. But after a barricade situation ends in tragedy, she’s rethinking her position on the SWAT team she fought so hard to join. The ugly seed of self-doubt has planted itself deep in her belly, and with each day, it grows and flourishes...
  • Flawed by Riley Edwards

    Flawed by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A career-ending mission sends Trey Durum’s life into a death spiral. Out of control, scarred, and with his spirit broken, he tries to adjust to civilian life. His plan to fade into the background goes up in smoke when Adalynn Walker crashs into his life. The sexy physical therapist has everyone fooled. She’s not sweet. She’s not shy. She’s not patient and kind...
  • Finding Justice by Brittney Sahin

    Finding Justice by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    They say the truth will set you free--if it doesn't bury you first. As a Navy SEAL for a covert special ops team, Owen York has no time for relationships. But when he's forced to go on vacation, he finds himself falling for a sexy stranger, a woman who turns out to be linked not only to his latest assignment but to his past...
  • Shelter for Penelope by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Penelope by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dubbed the “American Princess” after her rescue from months in the hands of ISIS, soldier and firefighter Penelope Turner has struggled silently since her return to Texas. The media, the danger of her job, the pressure of knowing lives are in her hands…all of it and more has combined to slowly fill Penelope with seething guilt and doubt...
  • The Broken One by Brittney Sahin

    The Broken One by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Fake marry her brother’s best friend to catch a killer . . . sure, what could go wrong?Growing up on a ranch with four older brothers, Ella Mae Hawkins is no stranger to rugged and tough men. But her heart has always belonged to the one man she can’t have...
  • Shelter for Quinn by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Quinn by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Freak. Witch. Ugly. Abomination.Having grown up with a port-wine birthmark on her face and neck, Quinn Dixon’s heard them all. Her own mother couldn’t bear to touch her, let alone strangers. Years of stares and insults from everyone from classmates to foster families have made her understandably reluctant to trust...
  • Rescuing Wendy by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Wendy by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Aspen “Blade” Carlisle is the last of his Delta Force team to find love…and he’s pretty bummed about that fact. Which might explain why he finds himself chatting up a telemarketer as if she’s a long-lost friend. But Wendy is surprisingly easy to talk to, so when they go from occasional calls during her work, to nightly conversations on their cells, it somehow feels right...
  • Rescuing Harley by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Harley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Video game coder, Harley Kelso, thought a tandem skydive would help her make her latest game more realistic. Instead, it literally put her in the arms of the sexiest man she’s ever seen. Geeky to the core, Harley is the polar opposite of big and burly Beckett, but that doesn’t stop her from wanting to play more carnal games with the sexy soldier...
  • HOT SEAL Redemption by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT SEAL Redemption by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bailey Jones doesn't know jack about babies, but she knows how much it sucks to have a deadbeat father. So when her sister drops off her newborn baby and then disappears, Bailey is ready and willing to confront anyone, including a six-foot-two, sexier-than-sin Navy SEAL sniper, and make him do his duty...
  • Nobody Knows by Lani Lynn Vale

    Nobody Knows by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All he ever wanted was to matter to someone.What he didn’t know was that he did matter to someone.Someone that worried about him every single day that he was gone.Malachi Gabriel Gnocchi was missing for two years. Thanks to a mission gone wrong, not only had he been captured, but his best friend along with his fellow teammates had been taken, too...
  • Close Cover by Lexi Blake, Rebecca Zanetti

    Close Cover by Lexi Blake, Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Remy Guidry doesn’t do relationships. He tried the marriage thing once, back in Louisiana, and learned the hard way that all he really needs in life is a cold beer, some good friends, and the occasional hookup. His job as a bodyguard with McKay-Taggart gives him purpose and lovely perks, like access to Sanctum...
  • Destiny's Delta by Becca Jameson

    Destiny's Delta by Becca Jameson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's been twelve years since she picked the wrong brother...Destiny Fisher is ready to move past the guilt and shame of losing a fiancé to the war in Afghanistan twelve years ago. She never should’ve said yes to his proposal in the first place, and she's been plagued by her choices for over a decade.She was his biggest regret..
  • HOT SEAL Target by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT SEAL Target by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL Adam “Blade” Garrison’s assignment to infiltrate a tech billionaire’s criminal operations just got complicated. His cover: bodyguard for the man’s wife. His problem: Blade knows Quinn Halliday far too well. A sophisticated version of the chubby, shy girl Blade once knew, Quinn brings out all his protective instincts—as well as a few carnal ones that surprise him...
  • HOT Secrets by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT Secrets by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She nearly ruined his life. Now she needs him to save hers. It was supposed to be a simple job for hacker Bliss Bennett: access confidential files and turn them over to the CIA. But something went wrong—and now Bliss has a target on her back. With no idea who to trust, she heads straight toward the one man she hopes won’t turn her away...
  • Edge of Fury (Edge Security) by Trish Loye

    Edge of Fury (Edge Security) by Trish Loye

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    E.D.G.E. Security is a covert international organization that handles jobs most governments won’t. The operators are the elite of the elite, soldiers and spies, chosen for their skills and secrecy, and their ability to go beyond the edge...
  • Slow Ride: Sleeper SEALs Book 2 by Becky McGraw, Suspense Sisters

    Slow Ride: Sleeper SEALs Book 2 by Becky McGraw, Suspense Sisters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Sleeper SEALs are former U.S. Navy SEALs recruited by a new CIA counter-terror division to handle solo dark ops missions to combat terrorism on US soil. SLOW RIDE Only a month into his retirement from the SEAL teams, Lt. Commander Keegan McDonald was bored out of his mind working at his uncle's motorcycle repair shop...
  • At Your Service by Lexi Blake

    At Your Service by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Juliana O’Neil’s promising future was burned away in the heat of battle. She had been an officer with a bright future in the military, but now she is struggling to survive. Her husband gone and her career in shambles, she finds a job at Top as a hostess and tries to put together the pieces of her life...
  • Hot Rebel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot Rebel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A rebel on the run… Victoria Royal is a traitor. Or so the U.S. government believes. Victoria was once a promising sniper in the Army, but now she’s gone rogue—worse, she’s just landed in the middle of a Hostile Operations Team mission in the desert and blasted it all to hell. Nick “Brandy” Brandon doesn’t expect to run into Victoria when he’s bugging out from a mission gone wrong...
  • Sniper by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Sniper by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Chance "Sniper" Hendrix is all about a good time. He was married when he was serving as a Navy SEAL and it didn't work out so well for him. When his wife left him, he decided that he was going to enjoy life and do what he loved. He knows that marriage can be good, but he just doesn't want to go there again. He never intended to sleep with a stripper. He never intended to get involved in her life...
  • Rocco and Mandy: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine

    Rocco and Mandy: A Red Team Wedding Novella by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pregnant and alone—not a situation Mandy Fielding ever expected to find herself in, especially not while living with the man who owns her heart and is her baby’s father. Rocco isn’t a whole man, and hasn’t been since his return from Afghanistan. Just where they go from here, she doesn’t know. The past is more real than the present in covert operative Rocco Silas’ mind...
  • Reclaimed by Kaylea Cross

    Reclaimed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes love isn’t enough. Summer Blackwell has endured her own private hell and fought her way through to the other side. She’s lost so much and her marriage has crumbled, but she refuses to give up hope. Just as she thinks there might be a chance to reconcile with her husband, things go terribly wrong during a job in Jordan when she and her team are captured by the enemy...
  • Wet by Angel Payne

    Wet by Angel Payne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    T-Bomb, Tait Bommer’s call-sign, has never described him more accurately. A loose cannon with a penchant for pissing people off, he’s now responsible for a major screw-up during the First Special Forces Group’s most recent mission. His mess has earned him two weeks of mandated R&R on the shores of Kauai, where the ultimatum is clear—straighten up and fly right, or don’t return to active duty...
  • Box Set: Rescue Me Saga, Books 1-3 by Kallypso Masters

    Box Set: Rescue Me Saga, Books 1-3 by Kallypso Masters

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ON SALE FOR A LIMITED TIME! More than 1,300 pages in three full-length novels, each with a happy ending! Need an escape from it all? To immerse yourself in a series that sucks you in and doesn’t let go? This set includes USA Today bestselling author Kallypso Masters’ first three Rescue Me Saga full-length novels, plus the introduction Masters at Arms...
  • Wyatt by Lynn Raye Harris

    Wyatt by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL Wyatt Chandler loves the pulse-pounding, adrenaline-spiking tempo of Special Ops. But when a teammate dies in his arms during a mission gone wrong, he decides it’s time to hang up his combat boots before he becomes the next casualty. He can’t let his grandmother—the woman who raised him after his parents died—go through that kind of pain ever again...
  • Black Tie by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Tie by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abducted while on a business trip to Europe, Tallie Grant quickly realizes she’s a commodity to be sold—and there’s no way out. Determined not to surrender to the man who buys her, she’ll soon discover he’s not what he seems. Mercenary Brett Wheeler has one task: infiltrate a human trafficking operation and get as much information as possible...
  • Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross

    Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pride tore them apart… Warrant Officer Honor Girard made the worst mistake of her life in walking away from the man she promised to marry—and she knows it. An attack on base unexpectedly pushes them together and in the aftermath she realizes she can’t let him go a second time. Only he’s not willing to let her back in...
  • Knight: A Club Alias Novel by K.D. Robichaux

    Knight: A Club Alias Novel by K.D. Robichaux

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Clarice He’s been my best friend for eleven years, ever since I witnessed his heroism in Afghanistan and nursed him back to health. The young soldier grew into a man I could spend the rest of my life with. But I can never let him know just how much I love him, because not even a hero who lived through a war can survive my past. Brian She knows every little detail about me...
  • Relentless by Kaylea Cross

    Relentless by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Former Delta Force operator Rhys Sinclair defied the odds by recovering from a traumatic brain injury that should have killed him. Given the chance to repay the beautiful doctor who saved his life by guarding hers, he can't say no--even if it means facing an unknown threat from the cunning terrorist his CIA-sanctioned team had been hunting in Afghanistan...
  • Rekindled by Kaylea Cross

    Rekindled by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He left her when she needed him most... Four years ago, Dr. Grace Fallon lost everything that mattered in a terrorist attack she barely survived. Now she’s stronger than ever and in Pakistan with a UN-sanctioned team for the most important assignment of her career...
  • Hidden Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Hidden Ink by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Montgomery Ink series continues with the long-awaited romance between the café owner next door and the tattoo artist who's loved her from afar. Hailey Monroe knows the world isn't always fair, but she's picked herself up from the ashes once before and if she needs to, she'll do it again...
  • Dangerously Hot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Dangerously Hot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    By USA TODAY Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris Available Today! The next explosive story in the Hostile Operations Team Series! The world’s most wanted man is back from the dead. And only one woman can stop him… Former Army linguist Lucky San Ramos escaped with her life, but the scars an evil terrorist leader left on her skin are a constant reminder of her captivity...
  • The Investigator by Anna Hackett

    The Investigator by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should have been easy. Stay away from her boss’ hot brother.Museum curator Haven McKinney has sworn off men. All of them. Totally. She’s recently escaped a bad ex and started a new life for herself in San Francisco. She loves her job at the Hutton Museum, likes her new boss, and has made best friends with his feisty sister...
  • Secrets and Satin by Liliana Hart

    Secrets and Satin by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    No one knows heartbreak like Jade Jax. After losing her husband to a tragic death, she doesn’t believe love can happen twice. But after years of living a half-life without her husband, her body starts to waken again, and needs she’d forgotten come to the surface...
  • Hot SEAL, Alaskan Nights  (SEALs in Paradise) by Cynthia D'Alba

    Hot SEAL, Alaskan Nights (SEALs in Paradise) by Cynthia D'Alba

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From NYT and USA Today Best Selling Author comes a beach read that isn’t the typical sun-drenched location. Homer, Alaska. A Navy SEAL on leave. A nurse practitioner in seclusion. A jealous ex-lover looking for redemption…or is it revenge? Navy SEAL Levi Van der Hayden returns to his family home in Homer, AK for the three Rs…rest, relaxation and recovery...
  • Renewed Faith by Kennedy Layne

    Renewed Faith by Kennedy Layne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kevin and Elle's story. Is it possible to renew one’s faith in love? Injury ended former Marine Kevin Dreier’s enlistment much too soon, leaving him with unwanted pins and screws in his right leg to serve as a constant reminder of what he’d lost. Being a team member of Crest Security Agency, however, gives him a sense of purpose and accomplishment...
  • SEALs of Honor: Chase by Dale Mayer

    SEALs of Honor: Chase by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone has something in their history they’d like to keep there… Chase has more than most. Only he’s not going to be allowed to forget as someone in his past has come looking for him. And he’s on a deadline. Vanessa is all about moving forward in her life. There are enough difficulties in her history for a lifetime. But when she gets embroiled in Chase’s problems – they become her problems too...
  • Bennett by Sybil Bartel

    Bennett by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Being the drummer for the hottest new rock band should’ve been a dream come true. Sold-out shows, women, more money than I deserved…. But I didn’t want any of it. The fame sucked, the money was a burden and I’d given up my one shot at ever having her—my best friend’s sister. I wasn’t supposed to touch her. My best friend made me swear I wouldn’t...
  • A Soldier's Gift by Lynne St. James

    A Soldier's Gift by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lieutenant Thomas “Mac” MacDonald pulls three of his unit’s soldiers from their burning Humvee when a roadside bomb explodes in Afghanistan. During the rescue he sustains a severe head injury that leaves him believing he’s dying—until he wakes up stateside alive but blind. Beth’s life changed forever with one phone call. An accident leaves her ex-husband and daughter fighting for their lives...
  • Seal My Destiny by Sharon Hamilton

    Seal My Destiny by Sharon Hamilton

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Back from a horrible tour, Navy SEAL Luke Paulsen has a chance encounter with a woman who begins to unthaw his troubled soul. Deciding he's too damaged, he begs off further entanglement, but then meets her again a month later at a family wedding, where the unavoidable attraction pulls them together as never before...
  • Hard Justice by Pamela Clare

    Hard Justice by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Elizabeth Shields has always craved adventure. That’s why she went to work for the CIA straight out of college. That’s probably also the reason she feels drawn to Quinn McManus, a veteran of the British Special Air Service. The big Scotsman gives off a dangerous vibe that she can’t resist. Yet, resist she must...
  • The SEAL's Baby Deal by Katie Knight, Leslie North

    The SEAL's Baby Deal by Katie Knight, Leslie North

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL David Hettinger has never wanted kids—not with his job…and not with a past that has shown love isn’t for him. But when his lifelong best friend, Eleanor Thornton, shows up looking gorgeous and asking for a big favor, he’ll have to rethink his stance on playing Baby Daddy. Wildlife photographer Ele knows she wants a baby—romantic partner not included...
  • Handcuffed by Her Hero by Angel Payne

    Handcuffed by Her Hero by Angel Payne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The W.I.L.D. Boys are at it again! Angel Payne's hot romance adventure series continues. Between a rock and a hard place... To Sergeant Zeke Hayes, the expression has always been a non-factor...
  • Enigma by Lora Leigh

    Enigma by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the prologue to LIVE WIRE, Tehya Talamosi, code name: Enigma, is the one woman Jordan Malone, commander of the Elite Ops, wants and is the one woman he knows he can never have. But when they share one blazingly hot night, everything changes in ways Jordan could have never imagined..
  • Targeted by Kaylea Cross

    Targeted by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They were partners once After an attack on the job that nearly killed her, Special Agent Celida Morales is determined to salvage her reputation in the FBI and get back to the career she loves. Domestic terrorism has left its mark on her—literally—and now she’s more determined than ever to leave her mark on it...
  • Extinguished by Kaylea Cross

    Extinguished by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s wanted him forever... For years former Marine Jordyn Bridger has been in love with a man who refused to see her as anything but his best friend’s little sister. A mind-blowing kiss finally changed that, but then he disappeared from her life. Now he’s back, to recruit her for a job with his NSA-sanctioned Titanium Security team...
  • Honor Unraveled by Elaine Levine

    Honor Unraveled by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Love Isn’t a Battle… Kit Bolanger, ex-spec ops soldier, has followed the trail of an international drug lord back to his childhood town, the one place he swore never return to. He and his team of terrorist hunters are the only thing standing between the town’s residents and the evil threatening them. It doesn’t help to know that she’s here—the woman who betrayed his trust and shredded his heart...
  • Just One Taste by Lexi Blake

    Just One Taste by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One Hot Chef…. Eric Vail has always loved a challenge. After leaving the Navy, he mastered his passion for cooking. As the sous chef at Top, one of Dallas’s hottest restaurants, his skills are pushed to the limit every night. Unfortunately, his ultimate prize still eludes him. Server Deena Holmes is the sweetest thing he’s seen in forever, but she’s as distant as she is beautiful...
  • Nobody's Lost by Kallypso Masters

    Nobody's Lost by Kallypso Masters

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A standalone novel about two characters with very minor mentions in the earlier books. Ryder Wilson returned from serving multiple deployments but can't leave the hell of combat behind him. Frustrated and ashamed of his inability to function in the world as well as the veterans he served with, he retreated, choosing to engage only with those he trusted...
  • Dangerous Games by Lora Leigh

    Dangerous Games by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When this hot, hard-bodied Navy SEAL plays around, he means business…It’s not whether you win or lose.Navy SEAL Clint “Iceman” McIntyre didn’t earn his name by being a coward. Or a quitter. Having crushed an infamous drug cartel in Columbia, Clint was nothing short of an American hero...
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