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  • Gabe by Riley Edwards

    Gabe by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Gabe Harris was the walking, talking personification of a hero. And a hero was what I needed. My life went from boring to hair-raising with a stroke of a key. I knew better than to poke around on the dark web. But when my friend Kalee Solberg came home months after she’d been presumed dead, I couldn’t stop myself from looking into who was behind her capture...
  • 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...
  • Recluse: Wolfes of Manhattan Two by Helen Hardt

    Recluse: Wolfes of Manhattan Two by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A secret lies trapped in the deepest recesses of Roy Wolfe’s mind.And it’s slowly drowning him.When Charlene Waters’s boss married the new CEO of Wolfe Enterprises after a whirlwind romance, she brought her assistant along for the ride. Charlie now has a cushy new job at the billion dollar company, and she’s excited to begin her new venture.Roy Wolfe is a recluse...
  • Long Lost by Lexi Blake

    Long Lost by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A stolen past The only thing Tucker remembers of his past is pain. Used in a doctor’s evil experiments, his memories and identity were erased, and his freedom taken. He believed his nightmare was over when he was liberated by the men and women of McKay-Taggart, until he heard the name Steven Reasor...
  • 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...
  • Battle Scars by Cara Carnes

    Battle Scars by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Scars don’t always heal… Jesse Mason chose duty over love and endured the hell of captivity comforted only with thoughts of the woman he left behind. Though the physical damage has healed, the emotional battle continues now that he’s home. He fakes happy and whole until Ellie is thrust back into his life. She’s everything he ever wanted but can never have...
  • Remy by Elle James

    Remy by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Retired Navy SEAL Remy Montagne left the Navy to take on a career where he could make a difference. After a short vacation to his old hometown of Bayou Mambaloa and a casual hookup with local woman, Shelby Taylor, he joins Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors in Montana...
  • Billy by Kris Michaels

    Billy by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Whatever it takes, as long as it takes. He’d been dead for years. Billy Pearson’s cover for the work he did for the CIA had come at a high price. Betrayed by the CIA, he was dead to all who used to know him. Guardian gave him the opportunity to start over. However, the new doctor assigned to the training annex has an uncanny resemblance to the woman he once loved. That sucker punch left Billy raw...
  • In the Clear by Kathryn Nolan

    In the Clear by Kathryn Nolan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He needs to keep the gorgeous competition out of his head…and his bed.Former FBI agent Abe Royal believes in hard work, justice, and a suit for every occasion. He’s hot on the trail of an elusive book thief when he realizes he’s being followed…by a sultry, cunning stranger.Ambitious, young detective Sloane Argento has just been handed the case of a lifetime...
  • Marie Force The Fatal Series Volume 1: Fatal Affair\Fatal Justice\Fatal Consequences by Marie Force

    Marie Force The Fatal Series Volume 1: Fatal Affair\Fatal Justice\Fatal Consequences by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Marie Force, the first three books in The Fatal Series, now available in one box set!Fatal Affair Washington, D.C., Metro Police Detective Sergeant Sam Holland needs a big win to salvage her career—and her confidence—after a disastrous investigation...
  • Leather & Lace / His Angel / Waiting for Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Leather & Lace / His Angel / Waiting for Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "No one does Alpha heroes like Samantha A. Cole!"—New York Times, USA Today, #1 Amazon Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan StokerLeather & Lace:How does a “vanilla” woman write a BDSM novel? With hands-on research!Kristen needs inspiration and personal experience for a sequel to her unexpected and kinky bestseller...
  • Nice Guys Collection With Added Bonus Material by Kindle Alexander, Reese Dante

    Nice Guys Collection With Added Bonus Material by Kindle Alexander, Reese Dante

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Have you met the Nice Guys? Available for a limited time! Here's your chance to get the complete Nice Guys collection with an additional 30,000 words of bonus material for the low price of $2.99 for fourteen days only...
  • The Grifter by Kimberly Kincaid

    The Grifter by Kimberly Kincaid

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Only one person has ever rocked Detective Shawn Maxwell’s titanium composure.Francesca Rossi, his ex-partner.His ex-everything.He hasn’t seen Frankie since she left him eight years agoand now he has to work with her on an undercover casethat could break them both...
  • Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Deathwish by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer Gabriella Maria Flores desperately needs a big win to save her career. A case that proves that she has her act together, something non-controversial to make people forget the recent scandal she's been involved in. Instead, the murder she catches couldn't be more high-profile, the number one suspect her boss's brother. Means, motive, opportunity--check...
  • Dams by Esther E. Schmidt

    Dams by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dams is a man of few emotions, apathetic if you will. His past carved him into the man he is today; a strong body and mind but lacking the desire for connections beyond his brothers. He’s stoic. Unflappable. You can throw anything at him and he will divide and conquer making him the perfect VP of Areion Fury. He’s got everything he needs in life, or so he thought...
  • Playing with Danger by Riley Edwards

    Playing with Danger by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It’s strange how quickly life can go from predictable and boring to…not.How a chance meeting can set off a chain reaction.How a single moment can offer much-needed clarity.How a kiss can alter the course of your life.Valentine Malone fell into my life…correction, I fell into his in the aisle of a grocery store...
  • Campbell Agency by Clara Kendrick

    Campbell Agency by Clara Kendrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dive into this sexy five-book series that follows five security professionals in their quest for both justice and unexpected romance. Lots of suspense, mystery, and romance. No cliffhangers! Book One Gwen Grange doesn’t exist, as far as the world is concerned. She disappeared after her father was accused of horrendous crimes, and has been presumed dead...
  • Beautiful Rush by Emery Rose

    Beautiful Rush by Emery Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a lifetime of being tailed by her father’s bodyguards, Keira Shaughnessy just wants her freedom and independence, and to bond with her long-lost brothers. On a quest to outrun her past, she turns to illegal street racing. She loves the rush, the hint of danger, and living just on the edge of losing control...
  • One Man's Treasure by Sable Hunter, Ryan O'Leary

    One Man's Treasure by Sable Hunter, Ryan O'Leary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jet is a hero—Special Forces, an Equalizer, a motorcycle riding MMA fighter who is part pirate and all man. No one messes with Jet. He is formidable—the tall, dark, and deadly type. In One Man’s Treasure, he’s on a quest for gold. Jet travels to Mexico to fight a challenger before he sails the Sirena to bring up a fortune from the sunken Spanish galleon, San Miguel...
  • Cowboy Bikers MC #9 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Cowboy Bikers MC #9 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When eyes meet and make two hearts beat as one, there’s no holding the reins. Lust will take a turn and gallop toward love at full speed, taking on any danger it might face along the way.Spiro - I’m a biker in an MC located at a huge ranch which breeds both longhorns and quarter horses. I’m not just a biker, a cowboy, or a rancher, but I am a man of many trades and talents...
  • 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...
  • Seeking Justice by Olivia Jaymes

    Seeking Justice by Olivia Jaymes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes happily ever after isn’t forever… With a murderer on the loose, Kaylee is pitching in to help her best friend Ava take care of the twins while they’re in hiding. Unfortunately, that means being close to her estranged husband Reed. No one knows they’ve separated. Not wanting to burden her friends with her own issues, she’s going to have to pretend to be the happy, loving wife...
  • Bound to Fall by Pamela Clare

    Bound to Fall by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Featuring characters from Pamela Clare’s acclaimed I-Team series.She barely survived.Sasha Dillon, a five-time world champion climber, moved to Scarlet Springs to join the Rocky Mountain Search & Rescue Team. She loves the tiny mountain town and its quirky residents and finds happiness using her climbing skills to save lives...
  • Loving Deep by Tracey Devlyn

    Loving Deep by Tracey Devlyn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Biologist Britt Steele is on a mission­-to protect endangered red wolves in the mountains of North Carolina. But when the wolves extend their territory, he clashes with the new landowner—his mentor’s daughter, a sexy, determined woman who intends to sell her inheritance to the highest bidder. Miranda Shepherd’s quirky bar is her passion, but money’s flowing out faster than she can pour a drink...
  • Opal by Freya Barker

    Opal by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    GEM: A PRIVATELY-FUNDED ORGANIZATION OPERATING INDEPENDENTLY IN THE SEARCH FOR—AND THE RESCUE AND RECOVERY OF—MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN. ALTHOUGH, AT TIMES WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT, GEM AIMS TO ENSURE THE VICTIMS RECEIVE JUSTICE…BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY. ____GEM Operator Opal; multifaceted, versatile, a chameleon.She hides in plain sight, adapts, and infiltrates...
  • Snowed In: Hunter's Story by Adira August

    Snowed In: Hunter's Story by Adira August

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trapped by the blizzard outside... HunterDane & Camden Snow contend with the storm raging inside. In the pre-dawn darkness, Hunt moaned and thrashed under the comforter. Finally, the nightmare receded. He settled, breathed deeply several times, and opened his eyes."You okay?" Cam asked.“Sure," Hunter smiled, half-awake, not remembering. "I'm here with you. Safe inside the storm. Away from .
  • Cowboy Bikers MC #3 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Cowboy Bikers MC #3 by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When eyes meet and make two hearts beat as one, there’s no holding the reins. Lust will take a turn and gallop toward love at full speed, taking on any danger it might face along the way.Decker - I’m a biker in an MC located at a huge ranch which breeds both longhorns and quarter horses. I’m not just a biker, a cowboy, an ex-FBI agent, or a rancher, but I am a man of many trades and talents...
  • Collateral Damage by Jemma Westbrook

    Collateral Damage by Jemma Westbrook

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No names. No promises. One night neither of them can forget. Bess was supposed to be letting loose, taking one more step away from a man she’s ready to leave in her past. But being dragged to a bar is about as far from a night of fun as Bess can imagine. She’d rather be outside, enjoying peace and isolation, instead of crouched on the sticky floor while her best friend loses her lunch...
  • Mountain Impact by J.R. Pace

    Mountain Impact by J.R. Pace

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s the one woman he hasn’t been able to forget.This time, they’re not going to give up on each other.Drake Jacobs, second-in-command of the Mont Blanc Search & Rescue unit, is temporarily in charge of the team. A freak accident in the mountains means he needs to be cleared by the department’s psychologist before he can get back to work―which shouldn’t be a problem, except Drake and Dr...
  • Mac by Mia Malone

    Mac by Mia Malone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can there be love at first sight when you've known each other a year?  Mac lost his wife and son but has rebuilt his life, with help from his friends and because of who he is; calm, solid and strong. As chief of police in a small town in the Rockies, he's busy. His friends keep him busy too. And when he feels lonely – well, there are women who aren't looking for commitments...
  • Night Moves : Dream Man/After the Night by Linda Howard

    Night Moves : Dream Man/After the Night by Linda Howard

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dream Man Marlie Keen was trying to lead a quiet, ordinary life. She thought the clairvoyance that allowed her to witness crimes as they happened had been destroyed in the nightmare of her past. Then one night it returned with a vengeance, and she desperately needed to find someone to make it stop. Detective Dane Hollister of the Orlando police department had never met anyone like Marlie...
  • Wrecked With You by J. Kenner

    Wrecked With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He never wanted a partner. And then she came along. After more than a decade chasing shadows, Antonio Santos finally has a lead on the hiding place of The Serpent, the elusive villain who kidnapped him as a child and murdered his mother and uncle. But in order for Tony to get close, he’ll need access to an exclusive private island—where he can only enter with a woman on his arm...
  • 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...
  • Crave by Liliana Hart

    Crave by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Evangeline Lockwood witnesses the murder of a prominent politician, the killers will do everything they can to make sure she can't testify. Since Evangeline's father was once Deputy Director of the CIA, he knows just who to call to protect his only daughter – MacKenzie Security...
  • Beyond the Breakwater by Radclyffe

    Beyond the Breakwater by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sheriff Reese Conlon and Doctor Tory King face the challenges of personal change as they define their lives and future together. Tory’s pregnancy forces her to examine her personal needs and goals while Reese struggles with her escalating anxieties over conditions she cannot control...
  • Beneath the Secrets Part 1 ) by Lisa Renee Jones

    Beneath the Secrets Part 1 ) by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Beneath the Secrets, Part One includes: Prelude: One Dangerous Night Blake Walker left behind the ATF when the drug cartel he was hunting cost him the life of his fellow agent, and fiancee. Now, two years later, he's working with his brothers at Walker Security, but he's living fast, hard, and wild, until he reaches the ultimate high...revenge. And he's close, so close he can taste it...
  • Crazy Cool by Tara Janzen

    Crazy Cool by Tara Janzen

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She's sizzling hot...He's icy cool. He called her Bad Luck Dekker, a gorgeous socialite who trailed trouble in her wake. Christian Hawkins should know. Thirteen years ago he saved Kat Dekker’s life—only to spend two years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Now it’s déjà vu all over again when he rescues Kat from an explosion that rips through a Denver art auction...
  • The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by Ivy Blossom

    The Progress of Sherlock Holmes by Ivy Blossom

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Author's summary: Sherlock is head over heels for John, but you wouldn't know it by looking at him. First-person present-tense series of short scenes from Sherlock's point of view, borrowing heavily from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories...
  • Highlander by Julia Sykes

    Highlander by Julia Sykes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman on the run... My Master is dead. He was my whole world. He was also my protector. Without his ownership, I've become a pawn to be used by the more bloodthirsty members of the Russian Mafia. To survive, I need to outwit them. If the man who helped kill my Master doesn't find me first. A man on the hunt... She put a bullet in my chest to protect the monster she called Master...
  • Broslin Creek Boxed Set: Books 1-3 by Dana Marton

    Broslin Creek Boxed Set: Books 1-3 by Dana Marton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    --3 bestselling romantic suspense novels ON SALE for a limited time from USA Today bestselling author, Dana Marton.-- Book 1: Deathwatch ----------------------------- The only person who can identify the most notorious hit man in the country, Kate Bridges is running for her life...
  • The Lady is a Thief by Aimee Nicole Walker

    The Lady is a Thief by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Detective Elijah Markham has decided to trade big city danger for sleepy town charm. He quickly learns that small towns harbor deadly secrets, and the biggest threat to Elijah may prove to be the sexy lady who lives next door. Guarding his turbulent heart could be his biggest challenge if he falls captive to her irresistible charms. Maegan Miracle seemingly has the perfect life...
  • Her True Blue by Sierra Hill

    Her True Blue by Sierra Hill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Milltown, Colorado, population 15,000, where the only things hotter than the annual fireworks show are the men in uniform looking for love. Join the authors of Flirt Club with The Fireworks Series of stories that celebrate summertime, BBQs, and all things that end with a bang! Where will you be when the fireworks go off?She’s a big-city girl that ignites his small-town heart...
  • Lakota Dreaming by Constance Gillam

    Lakota Dreaming by Constance Gillam

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fired from her job as Editor-in- chief of a New York fashion magazine, Zora Hughes travels to a South Dakota Indian Reservation. She hopes to find answers to lifelong dreams her psychiatrist calls genetic memories. Zora dreams of a female ancestor who fled life as a slave and was aided in her journey to freedom by a Sioux warrior who would become her husband...
  • Doubling Down by Athena Steller

    Doubling Down by Athena Steller

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to Sin City! Home to the newest Daddy/ little collection from author Athena Steller.Eric Smith is getting used to changes in his life and figuring things out as he goes. In a new undercover assignment Eric comes across a young man that calls to his very soul. Having done research into a Daddy and boy lifestyle has in no way prepared him for the feelings that Ezra Lee stirs up in him...
  • Captive by Tess Oliver

    Captive by Tess Oliver

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 of the addictive new Lace Underground trilogy.Heartbreak led me there. I had a mission but it didn't take long for my grasp on reality to come loose. As the tethers to my past were torn away I found myself inextricably bound to him, to the twisted monster.Kane Freestone's secret world was like the ultimate mix of good and evil. They called him the mad genius, and he was just that...
  • It's Our Secret by W. Winters

    It's Our Secret by W. Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From romance author Willow Winters comes a USA Today best-selling emotionally gripping, standalone, romantic suspense. Allison: It was only a little lie.That’s how stories like these get started.But with every lie I told, he saw through it.I think in his heart he knew I was broken; he felt my pain as if it was his.And that’s what changed everything.He’s the reason it all fell apart...
  • Tease Me by J. Kenner

    Tease Me by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J. Kenner comes a new story in her Stark International series…Entertainment reporter Jamie Archer knew it would be hard when her husband, Stark Security Chief Ryan Hunter, was called away for a long-term project in London. The distance is difficult to endure, but Jamie trusts the deep and passionate love that has always burned between them...
  • Master Delacroix by Trista Ann Michaels

    Master Delacroix by Trista Ann Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nathan Delacroix never expected his favorite thriller author to be a woman, and a very pretty one at that. So when she comes to him for advice on BDSM, he can’t resist offering her the use of his club, as well as his skills as a Master. Connelly is shocked at just how much she enjoys being dominated, spanked and jeez, even shared. She needs to be careful because Nathan is way out of her league...
  • Sinner Like Me by Avril Ashton

    Sinner Like Me by Avril Ashton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Syren Rua finally has what he’s always wanted. He’s settled into a life with his Marshal and the daughter they’re raising as a couple. Everything he’s been through, all the pain and dark memories, brought Syren this far, and he’s in a wonderful space. Happy and loved. Which is why he never sees the approaching danger until it’s too late...
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