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  • Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My code name is Aries.The stars say I’m aggressive, dominant, first in line to lead.The stars aren’t wrong.Zodiac Tactical is my company. It’s run by those I’ve chosen for their skills and ability to outmaneuver adversaries. We guard, protect, rescue…assist on the side of the angels.We eliminate the threat when nobody else can...
  • The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a serial killer strikes a small Alabama town - anyone could become the next victim, or the main suspect . . . Ben Logan, a former soldier, and now the successful owner of a private security firm, can handle just about anything. Well, anything except a run-in with Riley Carpenter. When Ben joined the Marines, he never looked back, and he broke his best friend's heart in the process...
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    dark  humor  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary
  • Defending Everly by Susan Stoker

    Defending Everly by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The stakes are personal, hot, and dangerous in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s riveting Mountain Mercenaries novel. As tough as Everly Adams may be, the Colorado Springs SWAT officer is near a breaking point. Her fifteen-year-old half sister, Elise, has disappeared from Los Angeles without a trace, and the window to find her is closing fast...
  • Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when a woman who’s done the unthinkable needs protection—can a man who’s lost his belief in humanity keep her safe? Max Brown doesn’t trust anyone but his team. The former SEAL learned early in life that people let you down—they lie, they steal, and they lie some more. Love is a word that is used to manipulate. Family is meaningless. Max is an island and he prefers it that way...
  • Freeing Jasper: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Freeing Jasper: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The moment Jasper heard Emily Jenkins' sultry voice he was transfixed. An instant and heated reaction that wound its way through his soul and warmed his skin. The inexplicable connection was broken as fast as it began. Emily has a son. Jasper doesn't "do" kids...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • A Dead Man's Pulse by Samantha A. Cole

    A Dead Man's Pulse by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Marine First Sergeant Logan “Cowboy” Reese was rescued hours before he would’ve met the same fate as his five murdered teammates in Afghanistan. Returning to the US and civilian life hadn’t been part of his plans at this stage of his career, but dealing with PTSD forced his hand...
  • Sight Lines by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Sight Lines by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They took her best friend. Now she’s taking them down. Viviana “Quillery” Chambers has one mission: find the people behind Hive’s betrayal and take them down. She and her best friend are the most sought after back office operatives around. She’ll stop at nothing to keep her new team and family at The Arsenal safe...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  war  alpha-mc  humor  dark  romance  military  contemporary
  • Reaper's Wrath by Jamie Begley

    Reaper's Wrath by Jamie Begley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Have you ever wondered how soulmates fall in love after they meet? One touch was all it took to pierce through the hatred, the revenge, the payback that kept Reaper’s sanity in check...
  • Chief by Kris Michaels, Digitally Imagined

    Chief by Kris Michaels, Digitally Imagined

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cloaked in the identity of David Xavier, a billionaire player in multiple world theaters, Mike White Horse worked to enter the Russian Mafia’s lair, by stalking a shadowy creature named "The Concierge." The Russian woman brokered young innocents into slavery, and Mike meant to destroy her and the organization she worked for...
  • Charge To My Line by Lani Lynn Vale

    Charge To My Line by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    You’re the Charge… Bad Boy. Screw-up. Good for nothing. Hero. Angel. These were all words Grayson ‘Torren’ Trammel had heard whispered behind his back over his lifetime. What he hadn't heard was ‘quitter,’ and he’d be damned if some little rehab chick, with her beautiful blonde hair, and hot, sassy little mouth was going to label him as such. To My… Tru knows Grayson’s not for her...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  fighter  humor  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Finding Kenna by Susan Stoker

    Finding Kenna by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After jumping into a canal to save a man’s life, only to find out that he was a Navy SEAL not in the need of saving, Kenna and Marshall “Aleck” Smart hit it off.Aleck is intrigued by the bubbly waitress who almost landed on his head during a training exercise, and after getting to know her better, is thrilled they’ve hit it off so well...
  • Phoenix by Janie Crouch

    Phoenix by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Adrenaline junky. Adventure traveler. Extreme sport sensation. They’re all labels Riley Harrison—known to the world as Phoenix—wears as easily as the tattoos covering his body. But it’s his role as undercover operative for Linear Tactical’s kidnap and ransom unit that makes his blood sing. Riley uses his celebrity status to help infiltrate locations and situations nobody else can get into.In. Out...
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    dark  humor  sports  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook
  • Brooks by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Brooks by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tatiana Jones is no stranger to the battlefield. One look at her scarred flesh tells the tales of her time in captivity. But it’s not only her skin the bears the marks her failures, doubt and a healthy dose cynicism now clouds her vision. She has also mastered the fine art of deception. In her line of work it is a necessity...
  • The Billionaire's Angel by Ivy Layne

    The Billionaire's Angel by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He thought the fight was over until his heart was on the line. I thought coming home would solve all my problems. I’ve never been more wrong. After a decade in the military, I’m more at home in the desert than the mansion where I grew up. I want to pretend that six months as a captive didn’t change me, but ever since I escaped, I haven’t slept. Nightmares. Flashbacks...
  • Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Discovering your ex is a serial-killing religious zealot would put anyone off dating for a good long while. That’s where Hudson “Taco” Vines’s head is at when he meets Koren, a woman who looks a little too much like his ex for comfort. But he can’t deny their attraction, and the more he gets to know her, the more Taco realizes how different Koren is from his ex, in all the best ways...
  • Finding His Mark by Brittney Sahin

    Finding His Mark by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    She's crashed the biggest party of her life, and she's about to pay the price. As the leader of an off-the-books black ops SEAL team, Luke Scott can't afford for anyone to discover the truth about who he is or what he does...
  • Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely

    Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely

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

He thought leaving would keep her safe.Five years ago, Gabriel Dawson had it all. He was in charge of his own SEAL team, was married to the love of his life, and together, he and Elle were planning the future he’d always wanted...
  • Writing Dirty: by Alley Ciz

    Writing Dirty: by Alley Ciz

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I’ve always been her shelter in the storm.”Hockey players.MMA fighters. Rock stars. The boys in blue. Even sexy SEALs have all offered to slay my dragon—or in my case, my stalker. Why can’t they get it through their thick, stubborn heads that I can take care of myself? I’m no damsel!But..
  • Operation:  Dark Angel by Margaret Kay

    Operation: Dark Angel by Margaret Kay

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sienna Andrews found herself in danger, alone, and out of options. She ran...straight into the arms of Razor from Shepherd Security, who, has been under cover in a joint Shepherd Security-DEA mission for six long months. She hires the notorious motorcycle gang-leader to transport her to the wilds of Colorado, which is in the vicinity of a suspicious facility he wants to investigate...
  • Enemy Lines by Alex Lidell

    Enemy Lines by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Enemies-to-Lovers Stand-Alone Healing-Love RomanceKyan Keasly. Reckless, broken and heart-stopping gorgeous. Former Navy SEAL Kyan Keasly is an adrenaline junkie. His records are sealed. His heart, closed. His past, suffocating. All Kyan wants—needs—is to be left alone.And get the meddling Dr. Ivy West out of his life.Ivy won’t risk her career for a man, not even the sex-god Kyan Keasly...
  • Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t get noticed. Zoey “Zero D” Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA’s data farm compiling security briefings and Intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive. Now she’s “one of them.” She’s not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore...
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    alpha-mc  dark  humor  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Thin Ice: by Maryann Jordan, Suspense Sisters

    Thin Ice: by Maryann Jordan, Suspense Sisters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 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 U.S. soil. Logan (Preacher) Bishop, retired Navy SEAL, flew tourists on helicopter rides over the mountains of Montana and occasionally rescued skiers from snowy slopes...
  • Weston's Treasure by Riley Edwards

    Weston's Treasure by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Silver Coyle thought she was doing the right thing—see something, say something. Now she finds herself kidnapped, chained to a pipe in the hull of a ship, and on a collision course with death. Her only chance of rescue is from the one man she never wants to see again—Weston Beil—the know-it-all former SEAL. He’s bossy, arrogant, and sexy all wrapped up in a tough-guy package. Untouchable...
  • 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...
  • Arm Candy Warrior by E.M. Moore

    Arm Candy Warrior by E.M. Moore

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    I don’t belong in the Heights.Truth be told, no one does. It’s dirty, grimy. Riddled with crime, the destitute, and the desperate. Where the family unit doesn’t always mean a mom, a dad, and two-point-five kids. It’s whoever gives you the time of day.That’s how the Heights Crew came about. The only relationship that counts in the Heights is if you’re a part of the Crew...
  • Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A military widow reluctant to risk her heart again. After losing her soldier husband in combat, DEA agent Tess Dubrovksi swore never to fall for another man in uniform. The last thing she anticipates is for a sexy FAST agent single father and his young daughter to steal their way into her heart...
  • Second Sight by Patricia D. Eddy, Aiden Snow

    Second Sight by Patricia D. Eddy, Aiden Snow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Special Forces Sergeant Dax Holloway crawled out of the Taliban's clutches barely alive. His captors took more than his sight. They took his humanity.Six years later, he’s carved out an existence back in Boston. One dependent on routines. On walking the same path. Day after day. Through darkness and pain. Always alone.Second Sight is his only refuge...
  • Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve spent the last several years building my company, having zero time for a social life. I preferred it that way. After the mess my ex-wife left me with, I have no interest in anything remotely close to a relationship. Until I meet my daughter’s new next-door neighbor. Harley is kind, beautiful, and she’s also an erotic romance writer. To any man, she’s the perfect package...
  • Irish: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Irish: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Irish is the 5th book in the Reed Security Series and should be read in order. “Not a chance in hell. I happen to like my hands wrapped around your juicy ass.” She reared back and looked at me in horror. “You think my ass is juicy?” “Uh, you’ve seen it, right? It’s big and perfect for me to grab onto.” She struggled to get down and then pushed me away and stalked out of the water...
  • Hot Protector by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot Protector by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the forbidden is impossible to resist… The 10th novel in the bestselling Hostile Operations Team series. Chase “Fiddler” Daniels finds himself on the run with Sophie Nash—the step-sister he loves to hate. Protecting Sophie from a Russian mobster shouldn’t be too hard...
  • Nightstalker by Riley Edwards

    Nightstalker by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    asmin I was blissfully living my life as a tier one security contractor, shooting guns and killing bad guys. My life was perfect. Almost. I was missing something; a missing piece of time to be exact. For the last two years I have tried to remember the details of my capture and torture. Two years willing my brain to remember. Nothing. I could remember nothing...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  amnesia  book
  • Sweetest Sorrow by J.M. Darhower

    Sweetest Sorrow by J.M. Darhower

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dante Galante has evaded death a few times in his life, but held captive in a sweltering basement, he's certain that death has finally caught up to him. Bloody and barely breathing, he tries to stay strong, but there's only so much a man can endure before darkness takes over. As a critical care nurse, Gabriella Russo witnesses suffering often...
  • 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...
  • Hot Shot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot Shot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    **AVAILABLE TODAY!!** Cool under pressure… Until now. Hostile Operations Team sniper Jack “Hawk” Hunter is cool, methodical, and utterly lethal. Nothing rattles Jack’s calm. But that was before he learned he fathered a child three years ago—a child who has just been kidnapped. Gina Domenico is a superstar, a pop sensation with a string of hit records...
  • Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward

    Blood Kiss by J.R. Ward

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The legacy of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continues in a spin-off series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author…Paradise, blooded daughter of the king’s First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself…be herself...
  • Kane by L.A. Casey

    Kane by L.A. Casey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Aideen Collins is a free spirit. She is outspoken and tough as nails, but she has to be after growing up in a house full of men. Family means everything to Aideen. Her family consists of her four brothers, her father, and her group of wild friends. Aideen is protective of her family, there is not a lot she wouldn’t do to keep them safe. Kane Slater is a tortured soul. Literally...
  • Operation: Protected Angel by Magaret Kay

    Operation: Protected Angel by Magaret Kay

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Angel Matthew’s day started like any other…until she ran into the armed man in the hallway at work. What came next was a blur, a hostage ordeal, a terrorist attack, explosions and gunfire, a fight for her life. Then she wakes with a head injury and finds herself in the custody of a group of armed men, who won’t disclose exactly who they are...
  • Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE MASTER OF EVERYTHING HAS FOUND HIS MATCH Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That’s why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible. And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it...
  • Billionaire Untamed ~ Tate by J.S. Scott

    Billionaire Untamed ~ Tate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lara Bailey isn't in Rocky Springs for the hot springs, the resort activities or the fabulous skiing. She has come to Colorado for one reason and one reason only: to find and get close to Marcus Colter, the eldest Colter brother. Unfortunately, trouble finds her in the form of Tate Colter rather than Marcus...
  • Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Ash Kyndal inherits her Uncle Charlie’s PI firm, her only interest is in finding an out. Circus veteran, social misfit, daughter of a madman—those are shoes that fit. Card-carrying member of polite society? Not so much. But Charlie saved her once, and his staff of lost souls needs her...
  • Enemy Hold by Alex Lidell

    Enemy Hold by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liam will protect Jaz with his life. But what if he is her greatest threat?As a child, Liam Rowen couldn’t protect his family. Now, the former SEAL runs a top-notch security firm. So when an extremist group threatens his best friend’s little sister, Jaz, Liam will pull out all stops to keep her safe. Whether Jaz likes it or not...
  • Macklin by Dale Mayer

    Macklin by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Macklin has tried to forget the one damaging relationship in his life and the woman who won’t believe their relationship is over. She makes his life hell – until she turns up dead – leaving evidence pointing to Macklin as her killer. Alex, the new detective on the Coronado Police force, is determined to make a good impression...
  • North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In what circumstance wouldn’t a knight want to rescue a damsel in distress? A former SEAL working for Legendary Securities, North Dockter has found the very circumstance that challenges even his stalwart, chivalrous ways. Nikki Beckwith is a firecracker who butts heads with him at every turn, refusing to follow orders or listen to his experience unless doing so suits her...
  • Harrison's Heart by Dale Mayer

    Harrison's Heart by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Harrison’s Heart, book 7 in Heroes for Hire, reconnecting readers with the unforgettable men from SEALs of Honor in a new series of action-packed, page turning romantic suspense that fans have come to expect from USA TODAY Bestselling author Dale Mayer. When a call for help comes from Ice’s father, Harrison steps up...
  • SEALs of Honor: Easton by Dale Mayer

    SEALs of Honor: Easton by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the next book in the SEALs of Honor series. Trips to Canada’s wilderness for joint military training are something Easton always enjoys. But meeting the photographer contracted to take pictures of the base and trainees for new marketing materials adds a whole new twist to the trip. A twist Easton quickly realizes has a dark undertone...
  • Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This will be the 4th and final book in the Home Series, and focuses on Commander Michael Casiano and Lainey Riley. Mike Casiano has lived his life by a certain creed: take care of all those who depend on you and leave no man behind. He wanted more for his life than joining his family's law firm when he graduated college...
  • The Problem with Peace by Anne Malcom

    The Problem with Peace by Anne Malcom

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone expects the fairy tale from me. Because on the outside, I look like I live in a fantasy. I'm a hopeless romantic. I fall in and out of love. I change careers, zip codes and hair colors on a whim. I'm a free spirit without a care in the world. I'm the one that loves everyone and hates no one. But I've got a secret... I'm not a free spirit. Not really...
  • 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...
  • FIRE by Hilary Storm, Kathy Coopmans

    FIRE by Hilary Storm, Kathy Coopmans

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FIRE The moment you think you have it all is when it all vanishes right before your eyes. He had one final mission, but who knew it would go wrong? Kaleb Maverick is now fighting for his life. The life he wants to share with the woman he loves. The Fire inside him not only burns for her, it sizzles. Jade Elliott has lost one man in her life. She's determined not to lose another...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book  captivity
  • Gold Shimmer by P.T. Michelle

    Gold Shimmer by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go to be with the man who stole your heart but doesn't know your real name? GOLD SHIMMER is the first book in Cass and Calder's epic love story in the BLACK SHADOWS duet. STEEL RUSH is the explosive conclusion to their love story and it is now available. You do not have to read books 1-3 in the IN THE SHADOWS series to enjoy GOLD SHIMMER and STEEL RUSH...
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