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  • True to the Game II by Teri Woods

    True to the Game II by Teri Woods

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    TRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena...
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    crime  drama  poc-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Mine to Have by AshleyNicole

    Mine to Have by AshleyNicole

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Somebody is killing young boys in the neighborhood and its homicide Detective Mellina August’s responsibility to figure out who. She’s the new kid in the precinct and not everybody’s happy about her landing this case, but that won’t stop her from solving it. All she needs is a good partner and she’s golden...
  • True to the Game III by Teri Woods

    True to the Game III by Teri Woods

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly...
  • Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Dying for Revenge by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A fast-paced story about a steamy, seedy underworld of crime, 'Dying For Revenge' spans the entire globe and features hit man Gideon, a troubled character, dealing with a world of violence he can never really escape...
  • Deception by Naomi Chase

    Deception by Naomi Chase

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sisters can share too much. . . Acquitted of murder, Tamia Luke is on a mission to reclaim all she's lost, including her ex, Brandon. He's about to get married, but Tamia's determined, even if it means resorting to deception--a family habit. Her sister, Fiona, betrayed Tamia to save her own skin. Now the two share a scandalous secret that may destroy both their plans to start over. .
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    black-mc  crime  drama  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Ugly by Marie James

    Ugly by Marie James

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hooking up with a cop was supposed to be fun.How joking with Detective Lennox Maison about her handcuffs transformed into her actually arresting me was something I could’ve never predicted.I thought it was a joke at first, but what kind of person would joke about the murder of a local woman?Lennox claimed I was the last one to see her alive.I should have an alibi...
  • Dan Brown Inferno  (Robert Langdon) Unofficial Guide by Stephen Eastment

    Dan Brown Inferno (Robert Langdon) Unofficial Guide by Stephen Eastment

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Dan Brown Inferno Unofficial Guide will allow you to decode the masterful and clever codes, symbols and art history of Dan Brown's fourth international blockbuster, Inferno and follow in the footsteps of the great puzzle solver Robert Langdon. Dan Brown's new international blockbuster, Inferno, will be his fourth book fusing history, art, codes and symbols...
  • Sinatra versus Gabrini: Family at War by Mallory Monroe

    Sinatra versus Gabrini: Family at War by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A shocking death in the Sinatra family and a Gabrini is to blame. Mob boss Sal Gabrini and his uncle, boss of all bosses Mick Sinatra, find themselves on opposite sides of a deadly battle when Mick the Tick will stop at nothing to avenge what he views as cold-blooded murder. The Gabrinis stick together. The Sinatras stick together...
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    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Indebted by Sharon C. Cooper

    Indebted by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even when he does good, he’s bad… Detective Lazarus Dimas doesn’t play by the rules. On the streets, he’s a force to be reckoned with, a dangerous man with a badge and a gun. But he does have a soft spot — the sexy Assistant District Attorney Journey Ramsey. There is something about the woman he can’t shake. She’s irresistible and off limits...
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    black-mc  drama  poc-mc  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • Ti Amo  (Battaglia Mafia Series) by Sienna Mynx

    Ti Amo (Battaglia Mafia Series) by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Let there be war...Don Giovanni Battaglia will have his revenge. A bloody Mafia war has ravaged the southern region of Italy. Every man, woman, and child born under the name Calderone must be made to atone. That is the law. After two years of blood and bullets, the men sworn to follow without question find themselves wanting peace...
  • Tapped by Brynne Asher

    Tapped by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Brynne Asher comes a single-mom, protective-hero romantic suspense where he falls first. My son and I are in danger. The life and death kind. The kind that forces me to make choices no mother should have to. I’ll do anything to keep my son safe and not sacrifice my responsibility to my patients. I’m desperate...
  • Mine to Hold by Ashley Nicole

    Mine to Hold by Ashley Nicole

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For years, she maintained her composure and played the role of dutiful wife as her husband lied and cheated with more women than he could count. Now, Janie is fed up and ready to call it quits, but he wants to hold on. As secrets are revealed, Janie realizes her husband’s double life may just cost her own...
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    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dark
  • Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny-the bodacious women of the Big Girls Book Club. There's only one rule to being a member. You must be at least a size 14. . . BGBC president Tammy loves everything about her life-especially taking care of business for her husband, Tim. This year, she intends to top all his past birthdays by having a threesome with her best friend, Egypt...
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    black-mc  drama  poc-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Resurrecting Midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Resurrecting Midnight by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Set amidst the exotic and vibrant streets of Miami and Buenos Aires, 'Resurrecting Midnight' is an action-filled, pulse-pounding thriller featuring Dickey's greatest creation - Gideon...
  • Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Sleeping with Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    With a supporting cast of grifters and killers, broken-hearted squares and streetwalkers and three very different women who each want to become bad-boy Gideon's leading lady, this is a world that thrives on the darker passions of revenge and desire...
  • Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

    Severe : Carolina Hell Reapers by Keta Kendric

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

    Wreckless Love by Nina.

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rushon “Wreck” Porter, the second oldest of the Porters has found love in all the wrong places until he meets Gia. One night of partying turned into a two-year love affair that had just as many ups as downs. Wreck didn’t think this sweet college girl would even know pain until he got to know her...
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    drama  crime  black-mc  poc-mc  romance  mystery  humor  alpha-mc
  • The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland

    The Alchemy Fire Murder by Susan Rowland

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma mater that their prized medieval alchemy scroll, is, in fact, a seventeenth century copy. She learns that the original vanished to colonial Connecticut with alchemist, Robert Le More. Later the genuine scroll surfaces in Los Angeles...
  • A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A man's word is his bond. His family is his strength. His heart is his own. Superstar musician Caden Granger has spent years running from love, commitment and family. Yet despite his fame and fortune, he knows the kind of respect and adoration he needs can only come from one person—the very woman who wants nothing to do with him...
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    black-mc  drama  poc-mc  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Have you ever wanted something so bad you was willing to crawl over bodies to get it? I mean, fiend for it so hard it didn’t matter who you hurt, how low you had to scrape, it was gonna be yours? That’s what music and balling did for me. They were the fundamentals behind my rise . . . and the perpetrators of my fall...
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    black-mc  crime  drama  poc-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  audiobook
  • No Secrets No Lies by S.K. Hardy

    No Secrets No Lies by S.K. Hardy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ex-football legend Amir Montgomery is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be. When his ex-fiancée dumped him because of cheating, Amir decided to live life his way: no excuses, no explanations, and no apologies.Women vow to tame the notorious bad boy and be the one to make him finally settle down. There’s just one problem: settling down again is not in Amir’s game plan...
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    black-mc  drama  poc-mc  secrets  steamy  adult  betrayal  book
  • Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reno Gabrini and his beautiful African-American wife Trina wheel and deal in Vegas as he runs the mighty PaLargio Hotel and Casino and she runs a high-end clothing store. But everything changes for them when lies are spread about romantic entanglements and their son is victimized...
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    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    The Man in 3B by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Daryl Graham has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be.Connie, an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage...
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    black-mc  crime  drama  poc-mc  suspense  adult  audiobook  book
  • Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Perilous Trust by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In PERILOUS TRUST, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy brings you the first book in a new romantic suspense series! OFF THE GRID: An FBI Trilogy offers three breath-stealing books filled with action-packed plot, heart-stopping romance, and page-turning suspense. It was one dark night that brought Damon Wolfe and Sophie Parker together...
  • Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What would YOU do?What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble...
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    drama  suspense  contemporary  epic  fiction  mystery
  • Black Magic by D. Camille

    Black Magic by D. Camille

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirty year old billionaire Jordan Black is all about handling his business, in the boardroom and most definitely in the bedroom; and his business is controlling everything and everyone around him. That is, until he meets Sage Parker, the ultimate temptation and the younger sister of his close friend and business associate, which makes her the forbidden fruit he will never taste...
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    drama  poc-mc  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Stealing Candy by Allison Hobbs

    Stealing Candy by Allison Hobbs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Forced teen prostitution in America is on the rise and is being exposed through the media. Allison Hobbs offers a provocative look into the lives of three young girls who have been forced into sex slavery by a homicidal pimp, and the one woman who risks everything to try and save their lives. "Stealing Candy "by Allison Hobbs is a shocking novel about human sex trafficking...
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    black-mc  poc-mc  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The Shadow by K. Alex Walker

    The Shadow by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mike Huang was the son of one of the most powerful men in China until the empire his family built for centuries suddenly crumbles. The betrayal of a family friend sends him into hiding at the age of ten, and the only life he’s ever known has been on the run. There’s no normalcy for a man like him. No settling down. Everything he’s ever had has come by way of fighting for it or fighting against it...
  • A Woman to Blame by Vincent Panettiere

    A Woman to Blame by Vincent Panettiere

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hours after a thoroughbred racehorse collapses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win, his trainer—a young woman with a promising career—is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach. To the police, it's a simple case of murder-suicide. But Mike Hegan, veteran police detective, refuses to believe the official story...
  • Brownout - 666: or the Real Meaning of the Swastika by John Richard Spencer

    Brownout - 666: or the Real Meaning of the Swastika by John Richard Spencer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the land of flaunted sex, money, and flexible rules, an ambitious but lonely Rick Daly faces his demons. Rick Daly has established a business in the exotic surroundings of the Philippines, while simultaneously discovering Marilyn Delgado, the woman of his dreams. However, a clash of cultures and his own naiveté lead to disaster...
  • Destino by Sienna Mynx

    Destino by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Mira Ellison is poised to have it all. In 1989, she is the first prominent African American fashion designer redefining change for both beauty and style among the renowned in Italy. That happens until the evening she meets a tall, mysteriously charming Sicilian businessman who orchestrates a friendship that awakens a wicked sexual heat she has long forgotten...
  • The Family That Lies by Lakisha Johnson, LaQuisha Rucker

    The Family That Lies by Lakisha Johnson, LaQuisha Rucker

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Born 18 months apart, Merci and Grayce Alexander were as close as sisters could get. With a father who thought the world of them, life was good. Until one day everything changed.While Grayce got love and attention, Merci got all the hell, forcing her to leave home...
  • No One But You by Maureen Smith

    No One But You by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ONE RECKLESS NIGHT OF PASSION… After a long absence, FBI agent Althea Pritchard has returned home to Baltimore, but it already feels like history is repeating itself. A teenage girl has been abducted—just as Althea was eight years before. The ordeal left her determined to capture such predators, and she’s more prepared than ever...
  • A Line Drawn by Catherine Taylor

    A Line Drawn by Catherine Taylor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What began in the The Finest Line and escalated in A Line Crossed, is now concluded in A Line Drawn. As Mairead looks to her future with James, their wedding on the horizon, she is plagued with the demons of her past. One of them seems to have invaded her life, but Mairead is uncertain whether she is the victim of a tortured mind, or the prey of an evil man...
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    crime  drama  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Rectify by M.K. Gilher

    Rectify by M.K. Gilher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even the most talented surgeon can’t rectify a broken heart. Dr. Jacade Jordan turned my life upside down in less than a week. He came out of nowhere and penetrated my body and soul. This dominating and bewildering man could possibly be my soul mate. But his Mafia connection with my ex has put me and my loved ones in danger. I should cut ties now and move on while there's still a chance...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Suspicion's Fire: Trinity Masters: The Mafia, Book 1 by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Suspicion's Fire: Trinity Masters: The Mafia, Book 1 by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An arranged marriage is already quite dramatic, especially with two grooms. When a bomb goes off at the wedding reception, Gabriella Torres is left wondering who exactly she just married.This might have been an assassination attempt aimed at her new husband Vincente, the security minister for Castile...
  • Tony Sinatra: If Loving You Is Wrong by Mallory Monroe

    Tony Sinatra: If Loving You Is Wrong by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous psychologist Tony Sinatra, the middle son of wealthy landowner Big Daddy Charles Sinatra, is still mourning the end of a longtime relationship when he meets former bartender Samantha “Sam” Carmichael. The problem: she’s nothing like anybody he’s ever met before and nobody, not even his understanding father, wants him to be with her...
  • Stone Cold Liar by Noire

    Stone Cold Liar by Noire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Urban erotica has never been hotter!" —Nikki Turner Her billionaire family's scandalous secrets are as big as their fortune. But consummate con-mami Mink LaRue plans to play them all for the ultimate high stakes... As a newly-minted Dominion family heiress, Mink has new golden moves to snag even more of the family fortune...
  • Fearless III by Amarie Avant

    Fearless III by Amarie Avant

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    VassiliThe mudak, my father Anatoly, raped my mother for all of Russia to see.My baby sister, Sasha, never had it any better.I went from crawling to fighting to stop Anatoly, king of the bratva. Life was a nightmare before Zariah clung to me. Now, we have a little girl and our son is on the way.But the game is changing in the mafia. Too many alphas want a taste. Somehow, I'm shoved into the chaos...
  • Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz

    Night Deception by Tamsen Schultz

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the award-winning author of The Windsor Series comes the second Tildas Island mystery:When treason isn’t enoughIsiah Clarke may be a former Navy SEAL, but now that he’s retired, he’s more than happy to be passing his time tending to the bar he owns on Tildas Island. That is, until a former teammate sends him a message asking for help in finding and protecting an elusive CIA asset...
  • Miami Masters Collection by B.J. Wane

    Miami Masters Collection by B.J. Wane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Strong, dominant men. Feisty, independent women in need of help. Seven troubled young men from varied backgrounds bonded together at a summer camp for juvenile delinquents – a bond that held them together into adulthood and grew stronger through their shared interest in the lifestyle...
  • 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...
  • Rogue by Julia Sykes

    Rogue by Julia Sykes

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 3 in the Impossible Series- Can be read as a standalone. I’ve never been a failure. I don’t allow myself to make mistakes. I’ve lived my life to painstaking perfection. Until now. I can’t seem to get anything right. And when you work for the FBI, mistakes can cost lives. Busting BDSM club Decadence for drug trafficking is my chance to prove myself...
  • Her Russian Protector Boxed Set: Volume 1 by Roxie Rivera

    Her Russian Protector Boxed Set: Volume 1 by Roxie Rivera

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Three ridiculously sexy Russian hunks wrapped up in one volume! *This boxed set includes the first three bestselling books in the Her Russian Protector series: IVAN, DIMITRI and YURI.* IVAN (Her Russian Protector #1) Desperate to find her sister, Erin goes to the only man in Houston who can help her--Ivan Markovic...
  • Lust, Money & Murder by Mike Wells

    Lust, Money & Murder by Mike Wells

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Born in the worst suburb in Pittsburgh, Elaine Brogan is bright, beautiful and bold. When her father is falsely arrested for passing counterfeit $100 bills, Elaine vows to become a Secret Service agent and track down the man responsible. After barely surviving the arduous Secret Service Training Academy in Laurel, Maryland, she is transferred to bleak and blustery Great Falls, Montana...
  • Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Waiting by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Everyone made mistakes, but some were far more dangerous than others… Fin McLaughlin wanted nothing more than to make a difference in his work with the FBI. Headhunted by the deputy director of the Bureau to head up a new division located in St. Louis, Fin was determined to make amends for the mistakes he’d made six years earlier that had almost cost him his career—and his life...
  • Prince of the Brotherhood by K. Alex Walker

    Prince of the Brotherhood by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Only a handful of people know what Dominik Sokolov looks like, and even fewer know who he really is. However, as the mysterious Prince of the Brotherhood and the only son of mafia leader, Yuri Sokolov, it’s Dom’s birthright to lead the organization. His duty...
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    black-mc  crime  law-enforcement  poc-mc  steamy  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Her Perfect Gift by Theodora Taylor

    Her Perfect Gift by Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lacey Winters has sworn off love. She's kept her heart locked away for her own protection, and she's vowed never to fall under a dangerous man's spell again. But that was all before she met Suro Nakamura, a hit man who seems bound and determined to stomp all over her pesky vows...
  • 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...
  • See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A cunning killer hides in plain sight.A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying...
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