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  • Taking Liberty by Riley Edwards

    Taking Liberty by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Army trained Lieutenant Liberty McCoy to be the best—an elite Special Forces soldier, just like her father and uncles. But nothing prepared her for the bossy, good-looking Navy SEAL who rescues her after a mission goes horribly wrong. Navy SEAL Drake Hayes thinks his team is being sent out on a special purpose extraction. He’s had enough experience to expect the unexpected...
  • After Burn by Autumn Jones Lake

    After Burn by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    One spilled secret shines a light on the throne of lies I've been sitting on for years. A revelation with the power to test the bonds of brotherhood like never before. Promises I've made to my brothers I burn to keep. Vows made to my wife I swear to honor. Through the web of tangled loyalties, one thing remains clear. Hope is embedded in my soul...
  • You Only Love Twice by Lexi Blake

    You Only Love Twice by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ASIN B00M8LWHVO here.A woman on a mission Phoebe Graham is a specialist in deep cover espionage, infiltrating the enemy, observing their practices, and when necessary eliminating the threat. Her latest assignment is McKay-Taggart Security Services, staffed with former military and intelligence operatives...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  family  female-mc  kidnapping  revenge  steamy  abuse
  • Fatal Deception by Marie Force

    Fatal Deception by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The wife of the White House deputy chief of staff has been beaten to death, and their one-year-old daughter is missing. D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland is in charge of the murder investigation, but she’s forced to collaborate with Special Victims Unit detectives as well as thorn-in-her-side FBI Special Agent Avery Hill...
  • Unraveled by Helen Hardt

    Unraveled by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ryan Steel and Ruby Lee are in love, but before they can move forward with a life together, they’re determined to bring resolution to the many unanswered questions they still face. To complicate matters, new threats arise with the arrival of two startling figures from their pasts. As they race against time to find answers, unexpected forces pull them apart...
  • Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "So much emotion it flew off the page and knocked the wind out of me. Finding Mercy was another great story by the absolutely brilliant Riley Edwards." Jennifer Pierson: The Power of Three Readers DEA Jason Walker became a widower at Twenty-eight. Two years later he's still torturing himself with guilt. They'd married young, and she'd been his first love, but her illness changed everything...
  • Down & Dirty: Hawk by Jeanne St. James

    Down & Dirty: Hawk by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Hawk’s story… Hawk, the Dirty Angels MC Vice President, has met his match! Description coming soon! Note: This book can be read as a standalone. It includes lots of steamy scenes, biker slang, cursing, some violence and, of course, an HEA...
  • Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Sigma by Tiya Rayne

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shiloh Green has had the worse luck when it comes to men. For the last seven years she’s been trapped in a relationship with her Kingpin boyfriend. But opportunity to escape comes knocking when a mysterious businessman visits. Now Shiloh is headed to a top-secret military base to be a volunteer breeder for a government experiment...
  • Fatal Flaw by Marie Force

    Fatal Flaw by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Back from their honeymoon, Senator Nick Cappuano and D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland are ready for some normalcy after the whirlwind of their wedding, but someone has other plans for them. When Sam discovers wedding cards containing thinly veiled death threats, she’s not sure if she or Nick is the target. Already on edge, Sam and her team start investigating a series of baffling murders...
  • Make Me, Sir by Cherise Sinclair, Шериз Синклер

    Make Me, Sir by Cherise Sinclair, Шериз Синклер

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Her job is to make his life miserable. His job is to make her submit. Whose heart will surrender first?Across the country, rebellious BDSM submissives are being systematically kidnapped, one from each club. When her friend falls prey to the slavers, FBI victim specialist Gabrielle volunteers to be bait in a club not yet hit: the Shadowlands...
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    alpha-mc  dark  family  female-mc  kidnapping  legal  steamy  abuse
  • Joy by Lilly Atlas

    Joy by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Life, death, trauma, healing; the Hell’s Handlers have been through it all over the past year. They’ve conquered old enemies, acquired new ones, and struggled through devastating upheavals. So far, they’ve come out on top, knocking down challenges by focusing on one essential ideal: family above all...
    Categorized as:
    dark  family  steamy  alpha-mc  romance  suspense  crime  contemporary
  • The Russian Unleashed by Red Phoenix

    The Russian Unleashed by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I am a simple man. I love fine vodka, whips, and beautiful women. And I have a secret. At twenty-one, I’ve just inherited my family's entire fortune. Young, rich, and powerful, I am a force to be reckoned with - in and out of the bedroom. But the streets of Russia are dangerous. When innocence is threatened, I risk my life to save a girl. Now the Bratva have their sights set on me...
  • Down & Dirty: Crow by Jeanne St. James

    Down & Dirty: Crow by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Crow's story...When a woman from his past shows up asking for his help, Crow's not sure he can be the hero she's looking for.Crow, self-proclaimed bachelor biker, can't believe his eyes when a woman from his past shows up at his tattoo shop...
  • HOT Courage by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT Courage by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes you have to fight for what you want. Or risk losing everything you love…For elite Strike Team 2 soldier Noah Cross, everything is easy. Hell, that’s his call sign. Easy.But when he inherits a two-year-old baby girl, nothing is easy anymore...
  • One-Eye by K.L. Savage

    One-Eye by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I had her and I lost her.That’s what pain and fear does to someone; they make someone run.And Alicia ran far...Taking my heart with her.We agreed we both had things to work on, but to be honest, I didn’t know how to improve.She did.She fought for us. She got stronger. She did what she said.I lied.The truth is... I’m not the man she needs me to be.And I don’t know how to be it.I’m hideous...
    Categorized as:
    family  steamy  kidnapping  alpha-mc  dark  romance  suspense  abuse
  • Fatal Consequences by Marie Force

    Fatal Consequences by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The murder of two members of the Capitol Cleaning Service might’ve been just another homicide investigation if one of them hadn’t been romantically involved with a married senator from Arizona. Lt. Sam Holland and her team are plunged into another complex case that at first seems routine...
  • La Famiglia by Sienna Mynx

    La Famiglia by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Never question my heart, my courage, my loyalty! To my men and to this family I am all things. But to my wife I am only one. Husband." - Don Giovanni Battaglia. The year is 1992. The Battaglia family awaits the birth of the newest members to their clan. Twin boys will be born to the capo di tutti capi of the Neapolitan clans...
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    alpha-mc  dark  family  poc-mc  steamy  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Fire Dance: A Family Justice Novel by Suzanne Halliday

    Fire Dance: A Family Justice Novel by Suzanne Halliday

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Suzanne HallidayThe Justice Saga continues in FIRE DANCE, a Family Justice NovelThe festivities leading into Roman Bishop and Kelly Anne James’s wedding are kicking off.Kelly's epic bachelorette throw down and Roman's unforgettable bachelor party are bound to be full of shenanigans...
  • Nikolai by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Nikolai by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nikolai Volkov has been groomed to one day rule his father’s Empire. Growing up in a crime family, you don't have many options. You live and die by the Volkov name.After connecting with his half-brother in the states, Nikolai chooses to step away from family obligations, to find what he feels has been lacking his whole life...
  • The Quinn Legacy by Nora Roberts

    The Quinn Legacy by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For the first time, the final two novels of Nora Roberts's breathtaking Chesapeake Bay saga are together in one volume, bringing "a welcome crescendo to the story-symphony that is the family Quinn in all its boisterous, loving resonance" (BookPage).Includes the novels Inner Harbor Phillip Quinn has done everything to make his life seem perfect...
  • Blood & Bones: Deacon by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Deacon by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes a challenge comes along that can either make or break you... Deacon has a great life. A loyal brotherhood within the Blood Fury MC. A successful bail bonds business he runs with his cousin, Judge. A faithful dog. He’s also an expert at seducing the ladies. He’s got the looks. He’s got the charm. And he’s got the skill.Or at least he thought he did. Until he met his match...
  • Down & Dirty: Dex by Jeanne St. James

    Down & Dirty: Dex by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Dex's story... A stranger with a diary that contains a thirty-year-old secret. One that could rip a brotherhood apart... DAMC born and bred, Dex was never like the rest of his club brothers. Even though being a biker was his destiny, something was always missing...
  • Down & Dirty: Diesel by Jeanne St. James

    Down & Dirty: Diesel by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Diesel’s story…She calls him “The Beast.”Diesel, the MC’s Sergeant at Arms and enforcer, is tasked with not only keeping the club’s property and its members safe, but also taking care of “business” when needed...
  • Phantom: Her Ruthless Villain by Theodora Taylor

    Phantom: Her Ruthless Villain by Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Yay! This is Phantom's standalone book.Pro-Tip: Don’t agree to a fake engagement with a ruthless mafia crimelord like me after you catch your real fiancé cheating. I just might keep you.The final and most anticipated book in the Ruthless Triad series is almost here!She agreed to be mine for as long as it takes for a business deal to go through. She thinks this is a game...
  • Maverick by Lilly Atlas

    Maverick by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Stephanie Little firmly believes the world exists in two states: right and wrong; good and evil; unlawful and law-abiding. She chose her side the moment she joined the FBI and pledged to rid the world of as many criminals as possible. Maverick is everything Stephanie isn’t: inked, pierced, flirty, masculine as sin, but most of all, an outlaw...
  • Fallon by Jessica Gadziala

    Fallon by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Presidents of rival MCs, Fallon and Danny were destined to hate each other. And hate they did. Until an unknown enemy forces them together, and makes them realize that under all that hate was an undeniable passion...
  • All We Ever Needed by D.A. Young

    All We Ever Needed by D.A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Always seen and treated like the baby of the overprotective Romankov/Sullivan clan, Katerina may have been the youngest child, and only girl, of Alexei and Vivienne but she was all woman. Kat worked tirelessly to establish her own identity to not only become a world-renowned jewelry designer but carved her own sense of independence, despite the closeness she shared with her family...
  • Hard Rock Deceit: A Rock Star Romance by Athena Wright

    Hard Rock Deceit: A Rock Star Romance by Athena Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's a brilliant artist. A rock star god. He challenges me. Excites me. He makes me quiver. Makes me swoon. He makes me feel things I've never dreamed of. But we're both dedicated to our art. We'll do whatever it takes to succeed. When I find out just how far he'll go, it threatens to tear our world apart. — — — Hard Rock Deceit is a steamy New Adult Rock Star Romance...
  • Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

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

    Knight for a Queen by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An interracial mafia romance (the international mafia series book...
  • Sin Bin by Maureen Smith

    Sin Bin by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Logan “Bruiser” Brassard and Meadow Ryan are no strangers to heartache, loss, and trauma. When they met as foster children, they both bore deep scars from the horrors life had inflicted. Although their time together at the group home was brief, they never forgot each other. Fast forward fifteen years, and Meadow is an unemployed social worker down on her luck...
  • Angels & Assassins by K. Alex Walker

    Angels & Assassins by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tayler Diaz, a pediatric oncologist working in the small town of Yearwood, NC, stumbles upon Gage Wolfe's virtually lifeless body when leaving for the day after a long shift at Yearwood Medical. While phoning for help to get him into the hospital for treatment, Gage makes one last declaration that sends a chill straight to her bones: "Just let me die, love...
  • Waiting For Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Waiting For Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Sexy Six-Pack returns with more teamwork, more suspense, and, most of all, more hot and steamy romance! Twelve years ago, eighteen-year-old Ben 'Boomer' Michaelson's world had fallen apart. Not only had his best friend, Alex Maier, been killed, but Alex's family had perished as well, including his seventeen-year-old sister, Katerina...
  • Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’ve never known what it’s like to have a dream that’s really mine. To live a life without fear. Being the niece of the most ruthless mob boss in Las Vegas has made any sort of freedom impossible. Francesca Rossi has spent much of her life balancing the weight of running the family bakery with avoiding her uncle’s life of violence and corruption...
  • Depraved by Trilina Pucci

    Depraved by Trilina Pucci

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Savagery. Sin. Depravity—-these are my virtues. My religion. My name is Dante Sovrano, head of the Chicago Mob, and I run this city. Everyone bows down to me. Except her. The moment I saw Sarah, I knew she’d be trouble. She’s fiery and cutthroat, wrapped up in a lickable package. But there are dark secrets hiding behind those gorgeous blue eyes...
  • Game of Fear by Robin Perini

    Game of Fear by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brilliant kids from all over the country are disappearing … but no one knows why. Until now. In the cockpit, Search and Rescue pilot Deborah Lansing is in control: her flight, her rules. But after the suspicious disappearance of her supersmart younger sister, she knows this is one rescue mission she can’t fly solo. She needs help. She needs Gabe Montgomery...
  • Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s been mine since the second I saw her. It would be easy to say I have no business even looking at a girl like River Finn. She’s too young. Too innocent. Too much my daughter’s best friend. That is, until the gorgeous forbidden fruit becomes my business. A rival bratva kingpin wants her. I want his empire. Kidnapping her as leverage should be an easy, simple business arrangement...
  • Fallen Angel, Part 3 by Tracie Podger

    Fallen Angel, Part 3 by Tracie Podger

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being married to the dark and dangerous Robert Stone doesn’t come without its problems - trust being one of them. Trusting your average husband means you believe he won’t cheat on you. Trusting a man like Robert is accepting that he will kill to protect his family. Brooke loves her husband - mind, body and soul - she will do whatever is necessary to protect that love...
  • Accidental Evils by Susan Fanetti

    Accidental Evils by Susan Fanetti

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As an enforcer for the Pagano Brothers, Tony Cioccolanti’s life is steeped in violence. For the most part, he feels no burden on his soul for the blood he spills or the pain he inflicts. He is a soldier, and blood and pain are the wages of war. Yet one terrible mistake haunts him, in his dreams and in his waking hours...
  • Down & Dirty: Axel by Jeanne St. James

    Down & Dirty: Axel by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to Shadow Valley where the Dirty Angels MC rules. Get ready to get Down & Dirty because this is Axel's story… When you’re a cop, life can be complicated when the woman you love is MC born and raised... Though the club blood runs thick in Axel’s veins, he’s despised by them for being a cop...
  • Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

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

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

    Twisted Revelations by Keta Kendric

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beverly: For years, Laura and I sat helplessly on the sidelines while our best friend Megan ran from a deadly cartel. When Megan went radio silent, and strange men came creeping out of the darkness, we feared that we’d landed in the cartel’s crosshairs. Our fears were answered when Laura was taken...
  • Storm Surge - Book One by Melissa Good

    Storm Surge - Book One by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's fall. Dar and Kerry are traveling - Dar overseas to clinch a deal with their new ship owner partners in England, and Kerry on a reluctant visit home for her high school reunion. In the midst of corporate deals and personal conflict, their world goes unexpectedly out of control when an early morning spurt of unusual alarms turns out to be the beginning of a shocking nightmare neither expected...
  • True North by Nicole French

    True North by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They said I was a bad idea. Poor. Violent. Criminal. They said I'd amount to nothing, and I believed them too. Until I met her. Layla Barros saved me from my worst, but to do that, she lost the best herself. Now it's my turn to bring her back to life. If only I can figure out how to do it. I'll do anything to protect the chance we finally have together...
  • Havoc by Harley Wylde, Jessica Coulter Smith

    Havoc by Harley Wylde, Jessica Coulter Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jordan -- I spent a year in prison for a crime I admittedly did commit, but I had a good reason. I was supposed to serve a longer sentence, but a handsy guard and a pissed-off warden who wanted me to keep quiet meant I got out early. My brothers have abandoned me, and there’s nowhere for me to go. Until the hottest man I’ve ever met decides to be my knight on shining Harley...
  • Wire (Dixie Reapers MC #13): Bad Boys by Harley Wylde

    Wire (Dixie Reapers MC #13): Bad Boys by Harley Wylde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When my past came knocking, I wasn’t expecting it to arrive in such a tempting package. Lavender -- My parents weren’t the type to win any awards, but I did learn a few things. Like how to read lines of code and get through the backdoor of pretty much any site or program. I also learned about the man my mother dated when she’d met my dad, someone who has intrigued me for years...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  kidnapping  steamy  revenge  poc-mc  dark  biker  age-gap
  • Brewer by Jessica Ames

    Brewer by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BrewerAs the money man of the Manchester chapter of the Untamed Sons Motorcycle Club, my job is simple: make the illegal income legal and don’t get caught. I have a good life in the Sons, an easy one. I don’t have time for women or drama. But when my former cellmate calls and tells me his daughter is in trouble, I have no choice but to respond...
    Categorized as:
    dark  alpha-mc  steamy  kidnapping  revenge  family  romance  suspense
  • Crow by Jessica Gadziala

    Crow by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was busy trying to keep his demons at bay. When one night, a woman crosses his path. And nearly kills him for sticking his nose where it didn’t belong. He could never clearly imagine settling down and starting a future with someone. Until he found a woman whose demons played well with his own.She never wanted anything to do with any man again...
  • The Woman with the Scar by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman with the Scar by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was not the kind of man meant to fall in love. He was the proud enforcer of the Costa Family who perhaps enjoyed the violent, bloody parts of his job a bit too much.All that changed, though, when he was put on a job that had him crossing paths with a woman who changed everything.She was not the kind of woman to have hope. The life she found herself trapped in had very little to look forward to...
  • The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BellamyIt was supposed to be an easy job.Get another scumbag off the streets.I never could have foreseen her ruining the plan.Or having to whisk her away on my jet for both our safety.And I certainly couldn’t have anticipated finding myself starting to fall for the blunt, sarcastic, kick-a$$ woman I found myself trapped in a safe house with...
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