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  • Searching for Lilly by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Lilly by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Searching for Lilly is the exciting first book in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s Eagle Point Search & Rescue series.Ethan “Chaos” Watson is the unofficial leader of Fallport, Virginia’s Search and Rescue team...
  • 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...
  • Dangerous Games by Riley Edwards

    Dangerous Games by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Reese Turmel has sworn off women. Commitment wasn’t something he was willing to consider again after his wife cheated on him while he was on deployment. However, not even a man as jaded as the former SEAL could deny the instant attraction that sizzled to life the first time he walked into Treats Bakery and saw the beautiful woman behind the counter—and he tried...
  • 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...
  • Blood & Bones: Whip by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Whip by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You never know where the road may lead you. Or who you’ll find along the way… When Whip comes across a disabled motorcycle at the foot of the mountain—the one that’s nothing but bad news—he hopes the stranded rider is nothing more than just that. Someone who needs help.And not a trap. Or an undercover fed...
  • Searching for Finley by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Finley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They've finally found someone who accepts them as they are, but it could all go up in flames in an instant.Finley Norris is a woman with curves to spare, a fact she made peace with long ago…but she can’t say the same for everyone else. Ridiculed for her size her whole life, it’s easy for her to assume her huge crush on a certain sexy mechanic will remain unrequited...
  • A Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    A Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three short stories by Susan Stoker, including The Boardwalk, The Other Side of the Story, and The Gift.The Boardwalk- Walking along the beach one day a man meets a woman sitting on a bench. They talk and he takes her to lunch. But as most things in life, there's always more to the story than what meets the eye. The ultimate love story...
  • Deserving Henley by Susan Stoker

    Deserving Henley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Years of adversity have molded Henley McClure into the attentive, conscientious psychologist she is today. She lives for her daughter, Jasna, and her work at The Refuge, an exclusive retreat for victims of PTSD. Her life is fulfilling…if a little lonely. But the only man who’s captured her interest, the most standoffish of the mountain retreat’s seven owners, lives in self-imposed isolation...
  • Doc: a Club Alias novel by K.D. Robichaux, Kayla Robichaux

    Doc: a Club Alias novel by K.D. Robichaux, Kayla Robichaux

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr Neil Walker, MD, MFT, Ph DI’m not your average therapist. As the founder of Imperium Security—the cover for my mercenary team—I’ve dedicated my entire life to helping heal those who’ve had their power unwillingly taken from them and avenging the ones who didn’t survive...
  • Stone by Anna Hackett

    Stone by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He’s the new silver fox recruit at Sentinel Security. The hot, tough former Marine Raider.And he won’t touch her because he works with her brother.Real estate agent Magnolia “Nola” Newhouse has it all. Okay, not quite all. She loves her work, has a growing collection of designer heels, and is about to become an aunt…she’s just missing the love of her life...
  • SEAL'S PROMISE by Rebecca Deel

    SEAL'S PROMISE by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Narrowly escaping a terrorist attack, Rachelle Carter believes the threat is over until continued assaults prove the danger's real. With escape impossible, her survival lies in the hands of a battle-hardened Fortress Security operative. But his skill and experience may not be enough to defend Rachelle against a man determined to eliminate her...
  • Home Front by Cat Johnson

    Home Front by Cat Johnson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When ranking his rotten luck, it was hard to decide which topped the list. The injury that could end his career in the SEALs.The storm of the century that stranded him in Atlanta Airport.The naked man he found on top of his girlfriend . . .One thing was certain. Things couldn't get much worse. Then he met her. Super star.Super stuck up.Super sexy.Super engaged...
  • King by Mary Kennedy

    King by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kingston Miles felt lost after leaving the Army, but a chance meeting with the men of the Steel Patriots gave him a new lease on life. Always smiling, always in good humor he's surprised by his own abrasiveness when he meets Claire Evers, the sister of his brother, Tristan. Once he realizes there's no way around his feelings for the woman, he's all in...
  • Burg by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Burg by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the 10th book in the Reed Security Series and it is recommended that they are read in order. “Blake, I want to keep it a secret.” I was pacing back and forth in the doctor’s office. Emma didn’t want to know, but I needed to know. “You don’t understand. I need to know.” “Why?” “Because, everyone so far has had girls. Girls! I need to know if we’re going to have to buy more guns...
  • Protecting Kiera by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Kiera by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    This book was previously published in Kindle Worlds and even though it has a new cover, has not changed significantly. Cooper Nelson’s SEAL career was cut drastically short when an explosion left him almost completely deaf...
  • Doc by Mary Kennedy

    Doc by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jack "Doc" Harris is one of the most dangerous men to ever come out of the Army Rangers. His skills as a medic are unequaled, but his skills with women are seriously lacking. When beautiful Dr. Aubrey Collins makes him lose all common sense he can barely hold it together. He wants her so desperately he will go to any lengths to make her his and only his...
  • Justice For Angie by Cara Carnes

    Justice For Angie by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s never met a fight she couldn’t win…until now. After brutally murdering someone in Angie Bierman’s dojo, the killer targets her first and then people she cares about to scare her off the investigation. Determined to prevent further tragedy, she does the one thing she can to keep them safe—run...
  • Hush by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Hush by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

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

    Road Tripped by Manda Mellett

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What do you do when your hopes and dreams literally come crashing down around you? One split second and something that wasn’t your fault, stops you from participating in your chosen sport just when you’re nearing the top?Another rider’s misjudgement, and my trial bike competition days were over. I was angry; I admit it. I love my MC brothers, but they couldn’t understand...
  • Masquerade by Lynn Raye Harris

    Masquerade by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Black Heart Prologue NovellaThe line between hate and love often stands on a razor’s edge...Ian Black has sacrificed his honor and reputation for God and country. He’s a fighter and a survivor. No price is too high, and no one crosses him. Not for long, anyway.But then Natasha Oliver walks into his life, threatening to expose the one thing Ian thought dead and buried: his heart...
  • The Devil's Reward by Emily Rose

    The Devil's Reward by Emily Rose

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Quinn:I moved to escape my past, and give my daughter and I a fresh start. Now, I’m a respected Social Worker for a private VA clinic, and I devote my time to helping veterans find their way in civilian life. I have no time for relationships, and to be honest, I’m too shy to attempt it. But then he keeps getting thrown in my path. Shadow, the Enforcer for the Devil’s Soldiers MC...
  • Bravery's Sin by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Bravery's Sin by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An unbearable loss. A man willing to kill for her. A future they’ll never have. Brilliant, beautiful...and scarred, Nyx Kata is living on borrowed time. In a race to find the villain threatening to destroy the Masters Admiralty, Nyx is forced to face the terrifying secrets of her past. Secrets...and a man...she can no longer run from...
  • Shielding Blair (Special Forces: Operation Alpha): A Fierce Protectors Novella by Casey Hagen

    Shielding Blair (Special Forces: Operation Alpha): A Fierce Protectors Novella by Casey Hagen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Evan Brooks is a world away from life-shattering memories made during his time as a SEAL. No matter how hard he tries, despite the time and distance from his dark past, his failures find him, haunt him, stealing what happiness he manages to find. When he meets Blair, a loving woman with a huge heart, he’s drawn to the constant glow of happiness that she exudes...
  • Pretend: A Dark Military Romance by Lexie Axelson

    Pretend: A Dark Military Romance by Lexie Axelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alessia ValentínShe’s an intelligence officer on orders to go overseas on her first deployment. Despite who her parents are, she’s determined to prove she belongs there. After getting informed by her step-father, Admiral Ravenmore, that she’s a target for multiple enemies, he assigns Operator Creature as her personal security to watch over her while she’s on deployment...
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  • Dangerous Affair by Riley Edwards

    Dangerous Affair by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dangerous Affair is a one-night-stand-turned-friends to lovers, age gap, alpha protector romantic suspense novel with a tortured hero and a take-no-sh!t heroine who has a feisty, opinionated grandmother who likes to butt into other people's relationships. It was supposed to be a fantasy-fueled, one-night stand, something to make me shed my good girl inhibitions...
  • Master Key Resort: A Novella by Samantha A. Cole

    Master Key Resort: A Novella by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An exciting, new, private resort is opening in the Florida Keys, and you’re invited to join the fun. That is if you like kinky sex and are either a Dominant or a submissive!The Sawyers have had much success with their elite lifestyle club in Tampa, and they’ve decided to invest in a second one...
  • SEAL's Promise by Makenna Jameison

    SEAL's Promise by Makenna Jameison

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dangerous hostage standoff at sea. An event planner caught in the middle. And a Navy SEAL who’ll risk everything to save her.Navy SEAL Troy “T-Rex” Harrison doesn’t expect to see the pretty redhead he flirted with at the beach ever again. Her flirtatious smile and sexy curves might’ve made his heart pound, but when he had to rush off to base for an emergency, he didn’t get her name or number...
  • Her Righteous Protector by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Righteous Protector by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He Has A Son? How Could He Have Not Known?Navy SEAL, Lieutenant Max Hogan, has watched as every single one of his men has paired off. He is beginning to wonder if there is something more to life than just mission after mission.He is surprised the moment he's asked to attend the reading of a will and even more surprised when he discovers who has passed away...
  • Kilo by Sybil Bartel

    Kilo by Sybil Bartel

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

    Whiskey by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mercenary.Navy SEAL.Unconventional Operative.I didn’t join the Teams. I was recruited. They called me the Specialist. They said I had a unique skill set. I knew who I was.For eight years, the Navy tried to rein me in with their tactics, techniques and procedures—operations, missions, objectives—they told me to adapt and overcome. I didn’t adapt. I did my time.Now I worked for Alpha Elite Security...
  • Assassin's Promise by Elaine Levine

    Assassin's Promise by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Traumatized by her unusual childhood, sociologist Dr. Remington Chase, has made a career out of her lifelong obsession with American cults. Her research often results in pushback from the groups she studies, but not like what’s happening now, with the White Kingdom Brotherhood biker gang shadowing her every move...
  • Trident's Enjoyment by Ciara St. James

    Trident's Enjoyment by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Trident gave thirty years of his life to his country. He enjoyed that life and after searching for two years, he thinks he’s found a new family. However, it isn’t just a new family he finds, but a woman who affects him like no other. He finds love. If only the woman in question will give him the time of day.He’s battled for months to get her to see him as something more than a player...
  • Burned by Rebecca Sharp

    Burned by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From bestselling author Dr. Rebecca Sharp comes a brother's best friend, protector romance...Rocco Damiani has trust issues. It’s no wonder since he was given a burn notice by the CIA. No work history, no money, no connections. No identity. Not quite the fresh start he was looking for, but at least he has a good job and loyal friends...
  • Falling for the Delta by Susan Stoker, Riley Edwards

    Falling for the Delta by Susan Stoker, Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Delta operatives Dash and Magic officially meet Holly and Stella—the women they’ve had their eyes on—it’s hardly a conventional moment, but the fireworks are undeniable. Both men fall hard, fast, and deep, each planning a Valentine’s Day their women will never forget. And they don’t…but for reasons no one saw coming...
  • 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...
  • Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It started with Piggy. It escalated with Kitty. It ends with Puppy.  For almost a year, Ethen O’Dowell has been locked behind bars and yet Puppy is far from free. A legal ward of her parents, she shares her bedroom with Pony, the only part of her old, submissive life that she has left... apart from the guilt, the fear, and the weekly punishments Ethen dishes out every time they visit him...
  • Rescuing Olivia by J.M. Madden

    Rescuing Olivia by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There was a sense of unreality to the morning. It was ten years to the day that they’d been rescued by the Delta Team, and sent home from Afghanistan, broken and bruised in so many ways. It seems only appropriate that Olivia is involved in a devastating automobile crash. Sure. Why not? Seems appropriate for her life...
  • Dangerous Desires Anthology by Tia Siren, Tara Wylde

    Dangerous Desires Anthology by Tia Siren, Tara Wylde

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When danger lurks in the shadows, desire can lay hidden for far too long. But there are men who step into the light to fight for, protect and claim the ones they love. They’re strong alpha males who would do anything to win the hearts— and delicious bodies— of the women who change them from bad boys to relationship material. This is a book featuring exactly those kinds of guys...
  • SEAL the Deal by Cat Johnson

    SEAL the Deal by Cat Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As more wedding invites pour in, veteran SEAL and security specialist Zane Anderson is happy that he and his girlfriend Missy don’t need a legal document to prove their love. Or at least he didn’t think they did...
  • HOT Heroes: A HOT Series Starters Collection by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT Heroes: A HOT Series Starters Collection by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heroes who do the right thing. No matter the price!Get FOUR full-length novels in this collection that includes the first book in each of Lynn’s series! If you haven’t been sure where to start, start here and enjoy stories about four military special ops teams set in Lynn’s Hostile Operations Team® world...
  • Saving Silas: The Boys of Fury by Kelly Collins

    Saving Silas: The Boys of Fury by Kelly Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One phone call has the potential to change his life. One woman has the power to erase his past. One town can influence his future… Silas Savage is back in the last place he ever wanted to be, Fury Colorado—the town where his parents died—the place where his life became a nightmare...
  • Jag by Carson Mackenzie

    Jag by Carson Mackenzie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences 18+. Contains language and actions some may deem offensive. Sexually explicit content. MF. In book five of Black Hawk MC: Dominic “Jag” Amara is calm, cool, and always in control. Being the club’s attorney and its VP, he needs to be, people depend on him. But he finds it all tested every time he comes in contact with a certain redhead...
  • Trusting Zane by Casey Hagen, Operation Alpha

    Trusting Zane by Casey Hagen, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zane Crew, former SEAL, current security genius, and forever loner has reached his breaking point where his sister, Chloe, is concerned. Finished with her bad decisions, he’s sworn off cleaning up her messes for good, until danger chases her right onto his doorstep, his niece and nephew in tow...
  • 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...
  • Rhys by Anna Blakely

    Rhys by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Former Air Force corpsman Rhys Maddox learned a long time ago never to trust a pretty face. So when the one person he hoped to never see again leaves a late-night voicemail begging for his help, he’s tempted to delete the message and move on—just like he’d spent the last few years trying to erase his memory of her...
  • Captured by A.K. Rose

    Captured by A.K. Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She was a liar. A deceiver. A seductress. And now Helene King is a Daughter of the Order.Under the guise she was headed for the place where Halestrom Hale held our sister she is forced into a truck.Only that wasn’t where she was headed.A new breed of evil rose. One that told us exactly what Hell waited for her...
  • Abigail by Angela Rush

    Abigail by Angela Rush

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

    Protecting Mandy by Leslie North

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

    Embattled Christmas by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is a 13k word novella. Christmas at the Lost and Found Investigative Service is anything but merry this season. John Palmer dreads the holiday. For the past year he and Shannon have been getting along like gangbusters, but as the holiday creeps closer tension invades their relationship. He’s at a loss as to how to fix it. Until he makes a risky gamble...
  • Lear by Jasinda Wilder

    Lear by Jasinda Wilder

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was supposed to be a one-night stand with a tall, wiry, handsome, slightly nerdy guy with oddly captivating green eyes. Those eyes were the only clue that there was a lot more to this guy than I’d first assumed—they were hard, wickedly intelligent, cunning eyes. They hid more than they revealed, and the name he gave, Lear, seemed made up...
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