Books like 'Falling for a Santini'

Readers who enjoyed Falling for a Santini by Melissa Schroeder also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.

contemporary  romance  military, war & conflict  action / adventure  war  military  steamy  suspense  friends-to-lovers  in-uniform

  • 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...
  • Finding the Way Back by Brittney Sahin

    Finding the Way Back by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Years ago, he chose duty over love. He's not sure if he can do it again.Charlie "Knox" Bennett traded medical school for the Navy and never looked back. After almost eight years of working top-secret missions for the commander in chief, Knox's greatest regret is lying to his best friend...
  • Finding Her Chance by Brittney Sahin

    Finding Her Chance by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Bravo Team is back in book 4 of the Stealth Ops SEAL Series, starring Liam Evans and Emily Summers. **Blurb to come** The Stealth Ops Team - Navy SEALS who handle covert ops for the president in the U.S. and around the world - under the guise of an alias, Scott & Scott Securities...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • The 707 - The complete Series by Riley Edwards

    The 707 - The complete Series by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FREE Faking my own death came with a higher price tag than I expected. I joined the Army and left behind everything. A life I hated. And the only woman I had ever loved. I thought I was doing the right thing, but my good intentions quickly turned into my biggest regret. One night. One kiss. One final farewell was all I was allowed before I was sent overseas never to return...
  • Cannon by Marie James

    Cannon by Marie James

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m the fun guy.The one always quick with a joke.The guy who is crazy enough to do wild things to make people smile.That’s how people see me.That’s who I’ve presented myself to be.That’s how I introduced myself to Rivet.The first female Cerberus team member wasn’t impressed with my corny pickup lines and wide smile like the other women I use it on...
  • Whiskey: Steel Patriots MC: Book Three by Mary Kennedy

    Whiskey: Steel Patriots MC: Book Three by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wade "Whiskey" English served more than fifteen years as an elite Marine sniper and now serves with his brothers in the Steel Patriots. He carries a heavy burden of the deaths of twelve innocent little girls and seeing the vision in front him, he feels like he should make-up at least for some of it. He has no clue what he's stepping into. Drugs, weapons, trafficking, bondage and more...
    Categorized as:
    military  steamy  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  biker  book
  • 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...
  • SEAL Hard by J.M. Madden, Suspense Sisters

    SEAL Hard by J.M. Madden, Suspense Sisters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL Commander Jack Bishop thought he was done with the government shenanigans that cost him part of his mobility, as well as his marriage. So when he’s approached to join Bone Frog Command, a secret division of the Department of Homeland Security, he’s less than enthused, until he realizes that Navy SEALs he worked with are in danger. But there’s a more personal connection...
  • Cuff's Enchainment by Ciara St James

    Cuff's Enchainment by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cuffs never expects that a rescue of some women will lead him to finding the woman he thinks he could spend the rest of his life with. She’s everything he doesn’t know he’s looking for. However, things are never simple. Her horrific experience has him trying to tiptoe around her. He’s working to wait until she’s ready to let a man into her life. He knows she needs time to heal...
    Categorized as:
    military  steamy  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  biker  book
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Wicked Intentions by A.D. Justice

    Wicked Intentions by A.D. Justice

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A ruthless killer is on the loose, threatening an innocent woman’s life. Painful secrets from Rebel’s past will be exhumed and put on full display. Desperation drives him to save the only woman he’s ever loved. Tragedy strikes in the most unexpected ways, reducing once strong walls to mere rubble. One man’s breaking point is where another man finds his stride. True love can’t be bound...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Undercurrent by Kaylea Cross

    Undercurrent by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s looking to reinvent herself.After the worst two years of her life, Aspen Savich has just moved across the country to the Outer Banks, looking to start over and leave her painful past behind. But it follows her anyway, bringing consequences she never could have imagined. Someone is watching her. Targeting her—and they don’t care who gets in the way...
  • Danger Close by Kaylea Cross

    Danger Close by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The most dangerous threats of all… Partway through her third deployment to Bagram, Army nurse Lt. Erin Kelly is burned out and headed for a well-deserved leave back home in Montana. But when a mysterious stranger shows up and unintentionally drags her into harm’s way with him, she suddenly finds herself an unwitting target of the U.S...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Breaking Boundaries by Teresa J. Reasor

    Breaking Boundaries by Teresa J. Reasor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Corporal Callahan Crowes returns home from Afghanistan missing part of a leg and haunted by guilt over the loss of his men. He pledges to live every moment of his life to the fullest and works to build a career in the only field he knows besides being a soldier: construction...
  • A WILDer Kind Of Love--A WILD Boys Novel by Angel Payne

    A WILDer Kind Of Love--A WILD Boys Novel by Angel Payne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A scarred hero... Dan Colton was once the CIA's golden boy, a get-things-done cowboy who believed forgiveness was better to ask for than permission. But performing the devil's work was always easy with his angel's face, a damn good asset to have whether he was charming agency superiors...or training submissives in his dark dungeon role plays. Until his face was taken away...
  • 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...
  • Wicked Nights by A.D. Justice

    Wicked Nights by A.D. Justice

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes a shiny new baby carriage. But is life ever really that simple? Noah and Brianna Steele were living their dream life as husband and wife. The wicked games of the past were behind them, and every day was better than the last. Hopes and dreams, once only fantasies, were, at last, their reality...
  • Twisted Honor: Deep Six Security Series Book 2 by Becky McGraw

    Twisted Honor: Deep Six Security Series Book 2 by Becky McGraw

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The last thing Slade wants is to be in charge of anyone but himself. The military taught him the price of being in command. Dave Logan is on his honeymoon though, and leaves him right where he doesn’t want to be. Things go from bad to worse very quickly when a prince’s son is kidnapped, and Deep Six is on the verge of losing its biggest security contract on his watch...
  • Rescued Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Rescued Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Please, Jordan. It’s Emme.” The last thing Major Jordan Grant expected was to be pulled off his unit’s deployment for a civilian mission. But when Titan calls, you answer — especially when the mission is to rescue the younger sister of your childhood best friend. Moments away from death, NGO nurse Emme France could only pray for a miracle...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Coming Home by Theresa Marguerite Hewitt

    Coming Home by Theresa Marguerite Hewitt

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the sequel to "Two Weeks With a SEAL" we find Rhea left behind by Chad's deployment. When she's faced with a surprising obstacle, she misses him more as every day passes. Her friendship with fellow SEAL wife, Rosa, grows and they lean on one another for support. Chad wants to protect his brothers and loves his job, but he's ready to be a civilian again and to be home with the love of his life...
  • Puck by Jasinda Wilder

    Puck by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Puck rhymes with f*ck for a reason... And I intended to fully explore that reason, as soon as he finished rescuing me, along with the other women I had been kidnapped with. One of whom was a sassy, saucy woman named Layla. I tried to convince her, and myself, that Puck Lawson wasn't my type.  She just laughed. "Honey, Puck isn’t anyone’s type," she told me...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A Santini in Love by Melissa Schroeder

    A Santini in Love by Melissa Schroeder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was the last woman standing. Madison Baker was born and bred to be a Marine. When a roadside bomb ends her first deployment—not to mention her career—she is left to pick up the pieces of what is left of her life. She’s returned to Oceanside to regroup and move on. It doesn’t mean she’s ready for a relationship, even if a particular Santini has different plans...
  • One Night with a Santini by Melissa Schroeder

    One Night with a Santini by Melissa Schroeder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was searching for something that was missing from his life. Brando Santini is headed to New Orleans to blow off some steam with a few of his buddies. The respite from his life as a Marine doesn’t really seem to do the trick until he runs into his college crush, Kaitlin Fitzpatrick. After a little dancing and a few drinks, they end up in bed together and Brando knows she’s the one for him...
  • Cuffed & Claimed Box Set by Lori King, Caitlyn O'Leary

    Cuffed & Claimed Box Set by Lori King, Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What's better than an Alpha man in uniform? Ten of them. Turn up the heat with ten BRAND-NEW law enforcement stories from some of the hottest USA Today and International best-selling romance authors around. These commanding men in uniform will fulfill your every sinful fantasy, and leave you panting for more...
  • Echoes in the Storm by Max Henry

    Echoes in the Storm by Max Henry

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “Behind those eyes, a battle rages. One that’s not fought overseas with guns and tanks, but one that wreaks havoc in the homeland with harshly spoken words and misguided beliefs.” One week is all we were supposed to share. One week as strangers. Yet you became so much more. You were the echo in my storm. All the little things you did differently irked me...
Fantastic book recommendations by book lovers for book lovers.
Find out more about thebooknaut.com.



Looking for more inspiration? Enter another book title to get more suggestions on what to read next.


Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.