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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...
  • Impact Zone by Cara Carnes

    Impact Zone by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Rhea Strathmore creates death. Locked within her laboratory at The Arsenal, she concocts whatever’s necessary to protect those around her. She won’t ever negate her pre-Arsenal deficit, but she’ll try. Her past work now threatens everyone she cares for and exposes secrets she’s kept buried...
  • Thanatos by Kris Michaels

    Thanatos by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It wasn’t until people started shooting at her that Eve Salutem had an inkling she was anything other than an elementary school teacher suffering from a rare form of cancer. Discovering she was a walking source of the vaccine for lethal bioweapons and that her previous twenty-seven years were based on lies, lies, and more lies, shattered her fragile world and threatened her sanity...
  • Screw: A Hell's Handlers/No Prisoners Crossover by Lilly Atlas

    Screw: A Hell's Handlers/No Prisoners Crossover by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Hell's Handlers/No Prisoners CrossoverOne biker in denial.One woman with secrets.One enforcer with something to prove.Three parts of one uncertain future.Jazmine lives with secrets she buries beneath conservative clothing and avoidance of relationships. Those secrets are just one reason she spends months resisting the advances of the Hell’s Handlers’ resident flirt, Screwball...
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    alpha-mc  crime  lgbtq  mlm  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult
  • Worship Me: Men of Inked Book 7  (Men of Inked Series) by Chelle Bliss

    Worship Me: Men of Inked Book 7 (Men of Inked Series) by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    James Caldo needs to control everything in his life, even his wife, Izzy Gallo. But she’s headstrong and has a need to test her husband’s limits as much as he pushes hers.When a case at ALFA Private Investigation takes a dark turn, James is forced to get Izzy involved in an undercover sting, and the assignment will test her sexual boundaries as well as the very foundation of their relationship...
  • Jared by Kris Michaels

    Jared by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The jagged line between love and hate is paper thin and razor sharp. Pushing Christian across that line severs him from Jared’s life…until fate steps in giving Jared one last chance. Jared King had endured more than the normal amount of danger in his life. He’d jumped from planes into hot landing zones, been shot at, almost blown up—twice, damn near killed more times than he cared to remember...
  • Ruined by April Wilson

    Ruined by April Wilson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finally! Sam and Cooper's long-awaited story is here... a second chance gay romance, with a guaranteed HEA. Sam... Coming out of the closet was easy. Falling in love with a man twice my age was not. Cooper grew up old-school, hiding his true self. He may be the love of my life, but I can’t be his dirty little secret any longer. He needs to man up and claim me if he wants to keep me...
  • 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...
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    lgbtq  military  mlm  steamy  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Dezi's Diamond by Dale Mayer

    Dezi's Diamond by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When opposites attract... anything can happen... Dezi was a plain-and-simple type of guy. He loved working for Levi's company and had enjoyed the jobs he'd been given so far. When a businesswoman contacted Ice over, well, ice, ... things got interesting.Diamond was an exclusive jewelry designer, born and raised in the industry, working within her father's diamond company...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Boomer by Marie James

    Boomer by Marie James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Secrets are poison. They eat away at you from the inside. I doubt there’s a single person in the club that would have a problem with who I am.Keeping my mouth shut is all about my own shame. Who I am isn’t acceptable. That’s what my Fundamentalist family raised me to believe, but even after leaving home, I couldn’t be myself...
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    mlm  military  suspense  steamy  lgbtq  alpha-mc  romance  contemporary
  • Hush by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Hush by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She could save him from the ghosts of his past. But only if he let her… HushI had love once and lost it. Never again.That’s why I told myself she’s off limits—forbidden.It doesn’t matter that she’s as sexy and courageous as she is unexpected. Or that I can’t get her out of my mind.I’m not her happily ever after. So, I’ll help her investigate why people are going missing in the desert...
  • Cowboy Truth by Olivia Jaymes

    Cowboy Truth by Olivia Jaymes

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Genre: Contemporary Western Erotic Romantic Suspense Series: Cowboy Justice Association FULL LENGTH NOVEL People will do desperate things to keep the truth dead and buried. Sheriff Logan Wright might be the sexiest bad boy Ava Hayworth has ever seen but she’s not interested in the least. He can have every other woman in town and probably already has...
  • Perfectly Paired by Lexi Blake

    Perfectly Paired by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A table for two Waitress Tiffany Hayes knows what she wants and she wants Sebastian. Top’s grumpy sommelier calls to her in a way no man has before. She simply needs to show him that they belong together. Finding an opportunity to spend some quality time with him turns out to be the easy part. Convincing Sebastian to look beyond his damaged heart and soul is far more difficult...
  • 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...
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    crime  military  mlm  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Range of Motion by Em Petrova

    Range of Motion by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s tougher than he thinks. She’s also more vulnerable than she wants to admit… When it comes to two things—his special ops team and women—Lennon is never in over his head. But after a hot chick invites him as her date to her ex’s wedding, he’s not sure what he got himself into. He wants to see more of her—okay, all of her...
  • Target in Range by Em Petrova

    Target in Range by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Avery Aarons believes it’s fate that she will die by the hand of a criminal. As a child, she hid in a cupboard while men ransacked their home. In college, she met with an attacker walking home on campus. After that, going into law enforcement is her only path to protect herself and others who can’t. She’s never felt so empowered, until she ends up in the wrong place without backup...
  • 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...
  • Dine & Dash by Abigail Roux

    Dine & Dash by Abigail Roux

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Ty and Zane ficlet. Takes place between Armed & Dangerous and Stars & Stripes...
  • TNT by Giulia Lagomarsino

    TNT by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After walking into his girlfriend's house and finding her murdered, Tony is struggling to get back to normal. Everyone's looking at him like he's damaged, but they don't know the truth. And when they find out, they won't ever look at him the same again. But a one night stand changes everything...
  • 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...
  • Christmas Panther Style by Annabella Stone

    Christmas Panther Style by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Their world was turned upside down... With booms, kabooms, and bullets flying after a mad dash across continents on a rescue mission in a plane painted like Santa's sleigh. Join some friends old and new as they chase the enemy none of them ever wanted. One of their own...
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    mlm  military  suspense  lgbtq  crime  romance  contemporary  children
  • Kilo by Sybil Bartel

    Kilo by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Breacher.Navy SEAL.Mercenary.Being a breacher on the Teams wasn’t a job, it was my drug of choice. Detonating charges, the blast waves going through me, I lived for the rush of tactical explosive breaching. As long as I kept my brothers safe and didn’t eat a piece of frag, I never looked past my next mission... until I screwed up.Miscalculating a blast zone, I took a hit...
  • Nick - by Darlene Tallman

    Nick - by Darlene Tallman

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nick Johnson went through hell during his military tours. When he finally comes home, he's no longer the person who left that sunny day. Unable to be around his family, he finds solace as a member of The Black Tuxedos MC. The brotherhood and camaraderie help him keep his PTSD at bay and when he takes over training at the sanctuary his president's old lady starts, he finds his niche...
  • Max's Redemption by L. Wilder

    Max's Redemption by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He has his second chance, and this time he's not letting her go.Harper Campbell was beautiful, smart, and innocent. I wanted her to be mine. There was just one problem. She was my best friend's sister. She was off-limits, but I couldn't help myself.We were just kids when we fell in love--young and carefree. Then tragedy struck, and I felt I was to blame...
  • Topping the Alpha by Samantha A. Cole

    Topping the Alpha by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Trident Security operative, Jake Donovan, has been a member of the BDSM lifestyle since his teenage years. Starting as a submissive, he eventually became a Dom, but a brutal incident, years ago, changed Jake's life forever. Unable to shake the ghosts of his past, Jake avoided giving his heart to anyone for sixteen years. Until Nick...
  • Some Like It Hot: An Erotic Romance Anthology by Olivia Cunning, Nicole Edwards

    Some Like It Hot: An Erotic Romance Anthology by Olivia Cunning, Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The heat is on... Five bestselling authors have come together to bring you five smoking hot, never before seen novellas that will test the limits of your internal thermostat. What could be hotter than sizzling firefighters, sultry cowboys, sexy bodyguards and scorching bad boys?Nothing, that's what...
  • The Beautiful Mess Series by T.K. Leigh, Kim Young

    The Beautiful Mess Series by T.K. Leigh, Kim Young

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    RECOMMENDED FOR READERS 18 AND UP DUE TO EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS, STRONG LANGUAGE, AND GRAPHIC VIOLENCE A Beautiful Mess: Olivia Adler is a woman with a troubled past. After losing her parents at the young age of six and being raised by an uncle who she lost years later, she refuses to get attached to anyone, including friends...
  • Savage Silence by Ellis Leigh

    Savage Silence by Ellis Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There's no escaping a Dire Wolf on the hunt...Dire Wolf Thaus preferred the silence, having spent most of his time alone as the weaponry expert of his pack. But a mission outside of his expertise will challenge him more than he ever expected and threaten more than just his life.
Some memories are too horrific to forget...
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    crime  lgbtq  military  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Summer Fire by Gennita Low, Stacey Lewis

    Summer Fire by Gennita Low, Stacey Lewis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love when it’s hot? So do romance writers. Especially when we’re writing about gritty alphas, angsty bad boys, sizzling attraction, and unrequited passion. So loosen your buttons, turn the fan to oscillate and join us for this steamy, groundbreaking bundle of summer tales that are hot hot hot...
  • 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...
  • Beast by Savannah Rylan

    Beast by Savannah Rylan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bentley “Beast” Harris became a Righteous Outlaw over a decade ago and never looked back. He gained the reputation as being the deadliest among the Outlaws, a skilled killer with no remorse or regrets. What his brothers don’t know is beneath the dark, death stare, and permanent scowl, he is drowning in regrets from a past he can never go back to...
  • Deadly Attraction by Misty Evans

    Deadly Attraction by Misty Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wildfire out of control…His twin brother is dead and the only way National Intelligence officer, Mitch Holden, is going to make it through the holidays is by staying focused on his latest SCVC Taskforce investigation—catching a homegrown terrorist with a penchant for arson. The terrorist has started a wildfire eating up thousands of acres of forest and putting dozens of people in danger...
  • Logan: Brotherhood Protectors World (The Guardian Agency) by Regan Black, Brotherhood Protectors World

    Logan: Brotherhood Protectors World (The Guardian Agency) by Regan Black, Brotherhood Protectors World

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The invisible wounds are the hardest to heal...Months ago, Allison Weaver's boyfriend turned violent after one of his investments tanked. She left him immediately, but the incident shattered her confidence. Now he's harassing her with threats and accusations that her research into an historical site in Charleston, South Carolina has derailed his newest business deal...
  • Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Interlude by C.S. Poe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Interlude is a collection of short stories spanning the complete timeline of the Snow & Winter series, beginning with The Mystery of Nevermore, to after the conclusion of The Mystery of the Bones. They feature the point of view of Sebastian Snow and Calvin Winter and consist of mini-mysteries as well as scenes from daily life...
  • Deadly Secrets by Misty Evans

    Deadly Secrets by Misty Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Blacklist meets Criminal Minds Secrets can get you killed in this latest riveting release in the SCVC Taskforce romantic suspense series by USA TODAY Bestselling Author, Misty Evans. He killed my best friend when we were only girls…but I got away. Now he’s hunting me again. Well-renowned anthropologist and religious studies expert, Dr...
  • Abigail by Angela Rush

    Abigail by Angela Rush

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abigail Miller’s life had been anything, but easy. Watching her mother die during a police raid on a drug house, left a lasting impression. She’d survived the night with the help of Robbie an older boy who sheltered her from the chaos. She’d never seen him again...
  • Protecting Mandy by Leslie North

    Protecting Mandy by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even an ace mechanic can’t repair a broken heart… When Mandy’s father died he left her alone, heartbroken, and buried in crippling debt to an unscrupulous bookie. Now, Mandy’s the proud owner of an auto repair business whose only other mechanic just quit. Things couldn’t get any worse...
  • 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...
  • Detonate by Reese Knightley

    Detonate by Reese Knightley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The love of a lifetime hasn't always been easy…Stefano – Phoenix Commander He’d waited around long enough. They’d known each other for over thirty years, been together for a good portion of those years, and had lived in the same house for the past two. And still, Giovanni Rossi wouldn’t tell people they were a couple...
  • 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...
  • A Heart's Desire by Kris Michaels

    A Heart's Desire by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Agent McKenzie is nobody's 'yes' boy and has the letters of reprimand to prove it. He smells the stink of political maneuvering in this case, and he can see the handwriting on the wall. Hell, the words are three feet high and written in crayon. Someone in his agency wants a target on Liam Mercier's back, but McKenzie would be damned if he'd put one there...
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    crime  law-enforcement  lgbtq  military  mlm  steamy  suspense  abuse
  • Conviction by Jane Henry

    Conviction by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Braxton Cannon can’t get the girl on the dance floor out of his mind, the woman he literally swept off her feet and into Club Verge. She’s no submissive, but he can’t help but admire her ferocity, even as he yearns to take her over his lap and teach her manners. He’s determined to keep her safe if he has to lock her up himself. Officer Zoe Mackay can handle herself...
  • Defending Sophie by Desiree Holt

    Defending Sophie by Desiree Holt

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being unceremoniously discharged from 10th Special Forces due to internal politics, five members of Team Trojan needed to find a use for their specialized skills. They were fighting men, trained to protect, guard, extract and rescue...
  • Tied Up in Steele by Annabella Stone

    Tied Up in Steele by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Steele Givens doesn’t do relationships and he knows better than to fall for a man he rescued during a CIA Operation; but then he’s never been a ‘follow the rules’ kinda man. He always swore he’d never drag someone he cared about into a world of danger. But what do you do, when danger stalks him anyway? Kalon Roberts wanted to move on. He’s done with danger and Black Ops Operators...
  • Nothing Between Us by Roni Loren

    Nothing Between Us by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Need You Tonight comes a steamy Loving on the Edge novel that proves watching is only half the fun… Unlike the heroine of her popular thriller series, Georgia Delaune can’t afford to take risks or push sexual boundaries—unless you count spying through her neighbor’s bedroom window, and never missing a single move he makes...
  • Love’s Tempting by Maryann Jordan

    Love’s Tempting by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    **DUE TO SCENES OF AN EXPLICIT SEXUAL NATURE AND LANGUAGE SOME MAY CONSIDER CRUDE, 18+ ONLY**** Detective Matt Dixon had a scarred face earned in the line of duty and a scarred heart when his cheating fiance’ left him. Quiet and surly, he was determined to not let love in again. Until he met her…Lily Swanson. The first woman in a year that did not focus on his scar...
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