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  • State of Bliss by Marie Force

    State of Bliss by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When you have their jobs, there’s no such thing as a peaceful vacation…Sam and Nick are ready to get out of DC—and the White House—for a much-needed vacation to celebrate their second anniversary. Due to ongoing political pressures, they decide to scuttle their plans for a return to Bora Bora to stay closer to home at their favorite oceanfront house at Dewey Beach in Delaware...
  • Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Echo Team has a new addition—a K-9, and he’s in need of training . . .Eight-plus years as Echo Three and Chris Hunter is still as mission-focused as ever, continuing to fight for his country as part of a secretive team of operatives serving the President.When Chris decides to rescue a dog for the team, he soon discovers he and the guys are far from K-9 whisperers, and they need help...
  • Jade by Kris Michaels

    Jade by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jade King lives life at full speed. After over a year undercover for the DEA, she’s back in play and wants what any hot-blooded woman who’s gone a year without sex would want: an alpha bad boy who is convenient, delicious and disposable. A fun one-night stand, multiple orgasms, and absolutely no strings attached. Right? If only...
  • 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...
  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • Awash by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Awash by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "Bones don't float, no."In the quiet, coastal town of Apalachicola, the past is never far behind, and secrets don't always stay buried.When a young girl is attacked, Lt...
  • Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Passion, betrayal, and heartache collide in an emotionally charged and dangerous chain of events that could unravel everything Sebastian and Talia have worked to overcome...
  • Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9781939672285.This is the second book in the BLACK SHADOWS duet, Cass and Calder's story. You must read GOLD SHIMMER before reading STEEL RUSH. Cass has spent years trying to forget her past. But the thing about pasts…they always come back around, sometimes in the most unexpected ways...
  • Widow's Undoing by L. Wilder

    Widow's Undoing by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Frankie Sullivan was everything I wasn’t.She was good, beautiful and strong.She hadn’t let her past break her. She’d held on to the hope for a better tomorrow, not only for herself but for her two boys.She was a woman who wanted...who deserved more. I wasn’t a man who could give more.I was cold, broken and full of rage. My past had broken me.I never allowed anyone get too close...
  • A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine

    A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I didn’t do it. I never betrayed my friend. Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I've been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’re tried by the media, you’re guilty as sin...
  • Evade and Capture by Lori Matthews

    Evade and Capture by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spencer Gordon wasn’t expecting the call from Kathleen Drake, a woman she’d spent years keeping safe as part of the Witness Protection program. The terrified woman begged Spencer for help. Taking a leave of absence from her job with Homeland Security, Spencer hurries to her friend’s side. But the threat to Kathleen is larger than Spencer bargained for, forcing a call for reinforcements...
  • Conflicted by Lori Matthews

    Conflicted by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Callahan Security Series.Meet Elias Mason of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.Team RECON has a new headquarters now—Miami, Florida, which also happens to be Elias’s hometown. He’s been avoiding his past like the plague, but there are some things you can’t outrun...
  • Dead Wake by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Dead Wake by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    DIY has a sinister component in historic Apalachicola, FloridaWhen the local florists find a dead guy in their wall, it opens up a decades-old missing persons case. It also opens up a Pandora’s box of secrets - secrets that might have ramifications for Sheriff’s Office investigator Maggie Redmond...
  • Brother's Keeper III: Luke by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Brother's Keeper III: Luke by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luke O’Reilly has seen it all, done it all, and lived through it all. When a career ending injury forces him to retire from the military, he struggles to adapt. Luke was born to be a soldier, not conform to the nine-to-five mediocrity of everyday life. He needs to protect and serve like he needs his next breath...
  • Gunner: Satan's Fury MC- Memphis by L. Wilder

    Gunner: Satan's Fury MC- Memphis by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In our world, there are some lines you just don’t cross. New York Times and USA Today Best Seller L. Wilder brings readers a new addition to the Satan’s Fury MC- Memphis series. Get ready for a ‘wilder’ ride. Gus wasn’t just my president. He was the father I never had. He was steadfast and strong. I looked up to him and trusted him without question...
  • No Fair Lady by Nicole Snow

    No Fair Lady by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Unbreakable. Lethal. Rip-your-heart-out fine.Now let me tell you about him...Oliver Major was the only lunk brave enough to tame me.Strict. Rich. Deliciously handsome. The right kind of scary.And the scary kind of right.He was my rugged oasis in high-stakes corporate hell.The day he disappeared without a trace sheared my soul.Years later, I'm on a date with destiny...
  • Reborn by Meredith Wild

    Reborn by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s death for hire… Some people measure life in hours. Days. Weeks. I measure mine in kills. A covert military mission gone wrong robbed me of my memory and any link to my past. This is my existence now. I execute and survive. Nothing more, nothing less...
  • Smoke and Sin by Shayla Black, Lexi Blake

    Smoke and Sin by Shayla Black, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    More than a decade ago, Roman Calder had a scorching affair with the sister of one of his best friends. Augustine Spencer drove him so crazy he thought of nothing but her. The only thing they did more often than heat the sheets was fight...
  • Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A honeymoon in Maui. A luxury beachfront resort. A handsome wealthy new husband. A vicious murder. After all, this is PI Miranda Steele we're talking about. And where Miranda goes, trouble follows. That lovely honeymoon gets hijacked when she finds the body of a popular fire dancer on the beach. Of course, she has to investigate...
  • Roaming Wild by Tracey Devlyn

    Roaming Wild by Tracey Devlyn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She's loved him forever... The last thing traveling nurse Evie Steele expects to find aboard the RV housing her mobile health clinic is her brother’s best friend. As always, Deke’s close proximity stirs her forbidden desires and long-suppressed dreams. But his sudden reappearance in her life and curious interest in her patients makes Evie wonder what he’s hiding. ..
  • Point of No Return by Tiffany Snow

    Point of No Return by Tiffany Snow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kathleen Turner wasn't expecting to fall in love when she came to Indianapolis a year ago, much less with two very different men. And not just any men. Brothers.Blane Kirk, former SEAL turned attorney, is every woman’s dream man. A playboy who changes women as often as he changes his tie, trying to hold on to Blane could only break Kathleen's heart...
  • Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her sister was a world-class jewel thief. But she crossed the wrong person and now Sophie's baby may pay the price. Sophie Valero has spent her life living down her last name. In a family of murderers, thieves, and con artists, she's the black sheep...
  • Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Diamond may be used to saving the world, but can she save her own relationship? With her husband’s killer still on the loose and her life in England a disaster, Diamond returns to the only thing she knows: work. As the star of special ops takes on enemies from the States to Syria, she finds the toughest battle is the one going on in her own head...
  • Teasing the Princess by Nana Malone

    Teasing the Princess by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Roone … She’s gone. Someone took her from me. I knew I wasn’t supposed to fall in love. But I did it anyway. And now it might have cost my princess - the princess - her life. I won’t stop until I find her. But when I do, I’ll need to stay away. She won’t survive the scandal. There’s no way I can love her and protect her. I'll have to choose one...
  • Dangerous Choice by Barbara Freethy

    Dangerous Choice by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Dangerous Choice, Special Agent Diego Rivera must choose between duty and love, loyalty and betrayal, and between his ideals and the agency he serves… Don't miss this new thrilling, chilling, romantic suspense by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy...
  • Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When her high maintenance boss is assaulted, manager Xena Morgan contacts the only person who can help—the sexy, arrogant, incredibly capable Stark Security agent Liam Foster. The former vigilante takes every case personally, and he's determined to find answers—particularly since he thought he'd cleared this threat already...
  • Betting On Him by Kelly Collins

    Betting On Him by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s a gangster going straight. She’s a waitress going bankrupt. Will their gamble on a marriage of convenience pay off in true love? Alex Wilde desperately wants to be free of the family’s mob business. But when his infamous father is murdered, the family attorney makes a suggestion he can’t ignore: find a bride before the funeral or they'll force a wedding with a nice Russian gangster girl...
  • Seize the Castle by Elizabeth Dear

    Seize the Castle by Elizabeth Dear

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In Saint Gabriel City, there’s a war brewing.The Four Families have ruled the City for generations, but they made a huge fucking mistake when they murdered my parents and didn’t manage to kill me too.I’ve revealed my true identity, taking the City and Holywell Academy by storm, but the heads of Spencer, Hargraves, and Ferrero continue to underestimate me...
  • SEAL Salvation by Elle James

    SEAL Salvation by Elle James

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All he wants is to be left aloneJake Cogburn lost his leg, his career, his brotherhood and his will to live when he stepped on that IED in Afghanistan. Back in his home state of Colorado, he’s determined to bury himself as deeply as he can in a bottle of Jack Daniels until the pain in his leg and his heart is so numb he can no longer feel...
  • Incinerated by Lori Matthews

    Incinerated by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meet Axel Cantor of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.When a cargo ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal and an American journalist on board ends up dead, Axel is sent in to investigate. He didn’t count on running into Sloan Bishop another reporter and the love of his life. Or maybe the hate of his life. Ever since he ended up in one of her articles...
  • Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When archeologist January’s plane is shot down over the Guatemalan jungle, she knows she’s being hunted for the invaluable Mayan artifacts she’s carrying. Only one man and his team can save her…the covert, black ops Team 52, and the distrusting former CIA operative who drives her crazy…Dr. January James has a motto: live life to the fullest...
  • Mine to Hold by Shayla Black

    Mine to Hold by Shayla Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This is an alternative cover edition of the Kindle version ASIN B005OH9APK published on June 5, 2012.A friend’s duty.Tyler Murphy was an LAPD detective, single and happy—until a near-fatal tragedy crippled his friend, fellow detective Eric Catalano. While Tyler supported Eric, he also became a shoulder for Eric’s wife, Delaney, to lean on...
  • Bodyguard to the Billionaire by Nana Malone

    Bodyguard to the Billionaire by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Derrick Arlington is one of the world's most eligible billionaires. Voted Sexiest Man Alive—two years running. And I just so happen to look exactly like him. It’s never come in handy until I get offered an actual job out of it. It was supposed to be so simple. Go to the Winston Isles, stand in as his body double for a few weeks, go back to my life...
  • Seconds by Freya Barker

    Seconds by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love, life…death—a few seconds can change everything. I’m a criminal defense lawyer determined to build my own firm from the ground up. My ex, the new prosecutor, complicates things; especially when the animosity between us infects the whole courtroom. Then I meet Callum—my brother’s friend, a bounty hunter, and the accused in my new case. The charge—sexual battery...
  • Xtreme Affairs by Em Petrova

    Xtreme Affairs by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A scarred special operative meets his match with the woman determined to save him from himself.It was just a little accident—but it changed his life.Special Xtreme Ops team, River Hepburn wakes in the hospital to the sight of Sacha—his best friend’s little sister—watching over him. Their emotional bond over her brother’s death is undeniable, but he isn’t prepared to feel more...
  • Xtreme Measures by Em Petrova

    Xtreme Measures by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The mafia, a smuggling ring and the wilds of Alaska are no match for Special Operative Elias Gasper. But a brazen redhead might be.Gasper’s known as the do-it-all guy. From HALO jumps to calming hostages, he’s on it. When he stumbles across a woman in hiding, he meets a new challenge in getting her to talk...
  • Out of the Blue by Kaylee Rose

    Out of the Blue by Kaylee Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Authors Note: Family of Blue (book 1) and Forever Blue (book 2) must be read prior to reading Out of the Blue, the final book in the series.For Kellie, life was almost perfect.She’d found the man of her dreams in Lance, and finally consigned their initial problems to the past...
  • A Lethal Betrayal: A Thrilling Novel of Romantic Suspense by Lori Matthews

    A Lethal Betrayal: A Thrilling Novel of Romantic Suspense by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The men and women of the US Coast Guard are back in action in a brand new series, Coast Guard Hawai'iChief Petty Officer Dane Landry is injured and burning through his last chance with the US Coast Guard. His new team is tasked with finding stolen military-grade technology, but he finds himself in the crosshairs of an investigation as the prime suspect in the murder of a former teammate...
  • Home Fires by Cat Johnson

    Home Fires by Cat Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Navy SEAL Cal Swenson's going home has been a long time coming. Too bad his homecoming was based on a lie. And why did Granny feign dying to get him back to New York? That's the big question...
  • Darker: The Novice by M. S. Parker

    Darker: The Novice by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I don’t date, ever. Casual sex is all I need.Relationships? Well, my dark past crushed that fairytale fantasy for me. Instead, I’m all into my PI firm. After a snail’s pace start, I have my first big client. There’s just one snag, I have to do research in my hometown, a place I never wanted to see again in my life...
  • 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...
  • Royal Tease by Nana Malone

    Royal Tease by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The plan was royally simple...Go undercover, protect my best friend's little sister. It should have been the easiest assignment of my life. But Jessa is uncooperative. She's feisty, mouthy, and stubborn. Oh and she hates me. Ever since I threw her over my shoulder and carried her out of a bar fight, I've been persona non grata.But the stakes are too high to mess this up. The monarchy is at risk...
  • Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the past and present collide, the result could be fatal. Fortress Security operative Lily Stanton survived life on Nashville's streets and thrived in the Army. Abandoned as an infant, her Fortress teammates have become family, so her world is rocked when a woman claiming to be her mother begs to meet her...
  • The Alpha Billionaire Club Trilogy: BBW Billionaire Romance by Alexa Wilder

    The Alpha Billionaire Club Trilogy: BBW Billionaire Romance by Alexa Wilder

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Together in one volume, all three books in the Alpha Billionaire Club series by Amazon Bestselling Author Alexa Wilder. Over 1,300 pages of steamy, sexy, action-packed billionaire romance! THE WEDDING RESCUE She thinks she's not his type. He's determined to prove her wrong. Leigha Carmichael is used to the quiet life...
  • Hiding by Calle J. Brookes

    Hiding by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Adventure. Danger. Excitement. Those were not words PAVAD Internal Affairs Supervisor Kyra Dillon wanted to hear in conjunction with her life ever again. She’d had enough adventure in her life lately—and had the bullet scar on her temple to prove it. But she’d go through all that hell again if it meant never returning to her hometown—Value, Texas. Population 897...
  • Head First by Hannah Shield

    Head First by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's protecting his former flame... But can he resist falling for her?Lana is about to begin the most important trial of her career. But her sexy star witness, keeps catching her eye. Even worse? They share a history. Years ago, they spent three incredible nights that she still can't get out of her head.Max Bennett hasn't been able to forget about Lana, either...
  • Mafia Boss by Khardine Gray

    Mafia Boss by Khardine Gray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Better to be at the right hand of the devil than in his path… When you come from a crime family, you have a name to live up to. My enemies know I'm a bastard who shows no mercy—exactly the cold-hearted don my father would want me to be. Except we're not the ones in charge...
  • Watching Over You by Lori Foster

    Watching Over You by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome back to Ridge Trail, Colorado! Get ready for the next book in Lori Foster’s thrilling McKenzies of Ridge Trail series.Detective Crosby Albertson has been tracking a criminal network. While investigating leads, he keeps crossing paths with members of the highly trained, suspiciously well-informed McKenzie family...
  • The Master by Tara Sue Me

    The Master by Tara Sue Me

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tara Sue Me’s New York Times bestselling Submissive series continues with a delicious new story that explores the thin line between pleasure and pain. . . .   She’s ready to try again. . . .   Sasha Blake is scarred from a BDSM session gone wrong, but she can’t deny how much a strong Master turns her on...
  • Need You Tonight by Roni Loren

    Need You Tonight by Roni Loren

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s making a wish list, and he wants to be on top. From foster kid to trophy wife, Tessa McAllen is about to reinvent herself all over again—and defy every insult her cheating ex-husband ever used against her: Selfish? She’s championing a charity. Stupid? She’s getting her degree. Boring in bed? Kade Vandergriff can help her with that one...
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