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  • Reaper by Kris Michaels

    Reaper by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hindsight–– is always 20/20. For the assassin known as Reaper, the chances he missed were displayed in perfect resolution every time he went back. Back to her, the only woman he'd ever loved. Back to where his life ended and then started again. The regrets had become too heavy, and he intended this trip home to be his last. Memories–– hold no future...
  • Maliki by Kris Michaels

    Maliki by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Betrayal.When it comes at the hands of family, betrayal destroys lives. His reputation destroyed and career as a surgeon shattered, Harrison M. Boswell, VI, vanishes, and the alter-ego of Dr. Maliki Blue arises. His employer, Guardian Security, knows who he had been—but they are the only ones. Too bad pasts don’t stay buried...
  • Jonny's Redemption by Riley Edwards

    Jonny's Redemption by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can two lost souls find redemption or are some transgressions beyond forgiveness? Lieutenant Jonny Spencer’s life is spiraling out of control. With no end in sight, he withdrawals. Giving in to the darkness is his only reprieve. Roberta “Bobby” Layne knows what it means to live in the shadows. Her childhood was spent fading into obscurity—loneiless her only friend...
  • The Hangman by Mary Burton

    The Hangman by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Julia Vargas is a cop with a mission. When she’s not chasing down bad guys, Julia dedicates her time to investigating the Hangman serial killer…the same unsolved case that her father, Jim Vargas, was working on when he supposedly shot and killed himself three decades before. While rumors continue to swirl around her father’s death, Julia attempts to hunt down the truth...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Innocence & Betrayal by Brittney Sahin

    Innocence & Betrayal by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Reserved biochemist Ava Daniels has spent the last six months working on a top secret assignment for Homeland Security. One morning, after a night of finally letting loose, she discovers her lab empty and her boss missing. Interrogated by the very organization she works for, followed by unknowns, and attacked, Ava finds herself in search of answers as the clock winds down...
  • Her Relentless SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Relentless SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ON THE RUN FOR HER LIFE Small-town girl Evie Avery’s dream vacation has become her worst nightmare. Now she's on the run in a foreign country, and has no idea why. NO ROOM FOR ERROR Navy SEAL, Aiden O’Malley, had his reasons for turning his back on Evie all those months ago, but he hasn’t been able to get her out of his mind. She changed him, for better or worse...
  • Dirty Cravings by Kenya Wright

    Dirty Cravings by Kenya Wright

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We return for the sixth installment of the Lion and the Mouse.Kazimir and Emily hunt for the traitor in Italy. Constant threat lurks within the shadows. The more puzzle pieces are discovered the more their reality unravels.Dark and deeply erotic, this high-octane romance will lure you into a mystery with deadly twists and turns...
  • Xtreme Behavior by Em Petrova

    Xtreme Behavior by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This special operative and a K-9 handler must work in close proximity to solve a crime—and whether they kill each other or wind up in bed is anyone’s guess.After a string of deaths are linked to a man locked up for another crime, Special Operative Alix Broshears and his team are racing against the clock to stop him before another person dies...
  • Barracuda Security: Complete 5-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Barracuda Security: Complete 5-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book One Maclean Harris is a man who lost everything that mattered and is trying to put his life back together the best that he can. A former cop, he’s recently taken a job with the brand new security firm, Barracuda Security. He’s handed a new case, one that seems simple enough. Keep a lady attorney safe from a potential stalker...
  • Even Odds by Fiona Quinn

    Even Odds by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Double crossedDouble agentsDoubling down……She’s putting her heart and her life on the line.Raine Meyers is only alive today because of the heroic efforts of the Delta Force Echo Team. It’s time to pay that debt.As an undercover defense intelligence officer, Raine tracks a Russian threat to the Delta Force wives left vulnerable while their husbands are downrange protecting the U.S...
  • T-Bone by L. Wilder

    T-Bone by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Over the years I’d been with my share of women. Hell, I’d had more than I could count, but for one reason or another, it never seemed to last. I’d told myself that I just hadn’t found the one, and I was okay with that. I had the club, and with my brothers at my side, I had everything I needed—or so I thought. Alyssa was young, smoking hot, and had the world at her fingertips...
  • Colder Than Sin by Toni Anderson

    Colder Than Sin by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything—except falling in love. Top FBI negotiator Quentin Savage is hurled into his worst nightmare when a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel propels him from esteemed keynote speaker to powerless captive...
  • Danger Signs by Fiona Quinn

    Danger Signs by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her choice is arranged marriage . . . or death . . .Kira al-Attiyah's hope for a bright future in the U.S. died along with her father. Now, royal family tradition demands she marry. Refusing? Not an option. Especially since honor killing isn’t just urban legend. She knew what she had to do. She just never expected her intended to be a terrorist . .
  • 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...
  • Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Cold Hearted by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Hunting For A Killer...Who Doesn't Play By The Rules. Detective Erin Donovan expects life to quiet down after the arrest and conviction of a serial rapist who terrified her university town last summer. Then two young women are brutally slain and the murders bear all the hallmarks of the campus rapist...
  • Cold Malice by Toni Anderson

    Cold Malice by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    ASAC Steve (Mac) McKenzie is out to prove himself by leading a task force investigating a series of murders in the heart of Washington, DC. His undercover work in an antigovernment compound twenty years earlier is related—as is the sweet, innocent girl he befriended back then. Now that girl is a beautiful woman, and she has something to hide...
  • Adrift by Jana Deleon

    Adrift by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Emma Turner has spent eight years running, hiding, dodging…limiting her short stays to big cities where she could easily get lost in the crowd. But when she steps onto Tempest Island, something changes. The tiny island speaks to her in ways no other place ever has, and tempts her into breaking the life rules she established long ago to keep herself safe...
  • Cade by Dale Mayer

    Cade by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cade Terence, a former SEAL, has spent the last two years physically recovering when his unit's truck drove over an antitank landmine. Six other team-mates were also badly hurt, the seventh dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap set to take them out. The father of Laszlo, a member of his unit, was in a hit-and-run...
  • Liam's Lily by Dale Mayer

    Liam's Lily by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When former Navy SEAL Liam O'Brian joins Legendary Securities, he looks forward to being shipped somewhere exciting for his first mission with Levi and his crew. Instead, he learns exotic and enormous aren't exactly synonymous when he stumbles upon the oversized pachyderms inhabiting his new backyard...
  • Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the black sheep of the Steele brood, Micki Steele craves one thing: the love of her family. Working as a hacker for a ruthless fixer, Micki has done things she'll never be proud of. When she flees Vegas and returns to her hometown, she brings along her boss’s secrets and plenty of danger...
  • Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Cold Justice Series Box Set: Volume I: Books 1-3 by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Now you can get the first three books of the Cold Justice Series in one bundle! Justice isn’t always black or white. Sometimes it’s cold and dark. A Cold Dark Place: Former CIA assassin Alex Parker works for The Gateway Project, a clandestine government organization hell-bent on taking out serial killers and pedophiles before they enter the justice system...
  • 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...
  • Danger Close by Fiona Quinn

    Danger Close by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Too close for comfort…Alone in the wilds of mountainous Asia, Jett undertakes an undercover military operation. With threats all around her, alone is the last thing she should be. So, when help arrives, she’s ready to get off the cliff’s edge and back to civilization.But when her teammate’s K9 partner shows up carrying a plea for help, nothing will stop Jett from racing to the rescue...
  • Montana Ranger's Wedding Vow by Elle James

    Montana Ranger's Wedding Vow by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dallas Hayes muscled her way through Army Ranger training only to be considered a curse on her all-male unit in an operation in Syria. When half the team is killed, she’s left Injured, losing the lower portion of her left leg. Back in the States, she’s fitted with a prosthetic, still jogs and works out, but she’s medically discharged. Angry and resentful, she doesn't trust anyone...
  • Home Again: Starting Over by Becki Willis

    Home Again: Starting Over by Becki Willis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things in The Sisters are heating up, and Madison Reynolds is in the hot seat. When a local woman dies in a most unconventional way, In a Pinch takes on the quirky case and once again, Maddy finds herself in the middle of a would-be murder investigation. Even with the help of her grandmother and best friend Genny, this case may be too hot to handle...
  • Relic by Fiona Quinn

    Relic by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Digging For The Truth Can Be DeadlyBrian is ex-special forces.He’s working for a security group that only hires the best of the best. His job is fueled by danger and adrenaline, and he loves every minute of it. At least he did up until this minute. When Sophia walks into their briefing room, Brian’s heart stops...
  • Deadlock by Fiona Quinn

    Deadlock by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’ll Risk It All To Keep Her SafeHoney Honig is good at his job, infiltrating the most dangerous places on Earth and pulling the hostages away from their kidnappers. When the bad guys slip through Honey’s fingers, he hunts a lead to Tanzania.Honey finds his way onto a safari with Dr. Meg Finley, and into her bed.For him, this isn’t just a passing romance, though...
  • Fear the Reaper by Fiona Quinn

    Fear the Reaper by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everything was going according to plan…until it fell apart in the most spectacular way… Ex-SEAL Ryan “Reaper” Hamilton is well on his way to having it all. His marriage to Kate is finally on solid ground, and his goal of being a K9 trainer with Iniquus’s Cerberus team is within reach...
  • Ace of Spades by Sandra Owens

    Ace of Spades by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two FBI agents struggle with desire in the shadow of a killer, in the third installment of Aces & Eights. Nate Gentry has been a rock for his two younger brothers since the day their mom walked out and left them with their abusive father. Now that they’ve grown up, he’s watched Alex and Court fall in love and settle down. But Nate isn’t made for romance. He keeps his relationships casual...
  • Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Love Me Dead by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The next heart-racing Lilah Love story is coming. This installment to Lilah's series is a standalone. Women are dying. The killer wants to play a game with Lilah Love. Lilah doesn't play games, she doesn't submit to demands...
  • 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...
  • Laugh or Death by Camilla Chafer

    Laugh or Death by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a broken man arrives in town desperate to locate his missing girlfriend, loved-up PI Lexi Graves is determined to reunite the lost loves. However, the further Lexi delves into the case, the more it appears that the missing woman doesn't want to be found...
  • Murphy by L. Wilder

    Murphy by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some rules are meant to be broken. New York Times and USA Today Best Seller L. Wilder brings readers a new addition to the Satan's Fury Memphis series. Murphy's Law- Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. As Satan's Fury's sergeant-at-arms, it was my job to stay one step ahead. It was up to me to make sure the club was ready when things went awry...
  • Cold Secrets by Toni Anderson

    Cold Secrets by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When an international ring of sex traffickers kidnaps an eight-year-old girl in Boston, FBI Agent Lucas Randall heads undercover. But his rescue operation goes disastrously wrong and Lucas barely escapes with his life. Now the ruthless traffickers are hunting him down, along with everyone else who threatens their operation...
  • She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In one moment, high school teacher and single mother Brooke Davenport interrupts a vicious assault, saves a young woman’s life, and attracts the attention of a serial killer. Sixteen years ago, Brooke lost her roommate to a brutal murder. Now she teaches women’s self-defense, still trying to heal from the guilt and grief that plague her...
  • Forever by Ivy Nelson

    Forever by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Russell Adler has one job while Elijah Barrett is away. Keep Holly Barrett and her best friend safe from those out to collapse Club Solitaire. There's just one problem, Holly's best friend is a pain in the ass. A gorgeous, irresistible, pain in the ass.Forever is the conclusion to the Diamond Doms series. Cover Reveal and full description coming soon...
  • O Christmas Knight by Em Petrova

    O Christmas Knight by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tyler Knight, younger sister of the famed brothers who make up the Knight Ops team, ran off and joined the Marines, demanding to be treated as one of the guys and given all the accolades that have her big brothers thumping their chests daily. So a dark mission to clear a Middle Eastern village of a threat finally rewards her with the guts and glory she asked for...
  • Within Range by Em Petrova

    Within Range by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When trouble walks in, there’s no choice but to hold on tight for the ride. Two years before, Shaw Woodward watched the love of his life walk down the aisle to another man. Since then, life has kicked him in the balls and lifted him up several times. Just so happens he’s on the downward dip of that cycle right now...
  • Range of Motion by Em Petrova

    Range of Motion by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s tougher than he thinks. She’s also more vulnerable than she wants to admit… When it comes to two things—his special ops team and women—Lennon is never in over his head. But after a hot chick invites him as her date to her ex’s wedding, he’s not sure what he got himself into. He wants to see more of her—okay, all of her...
  • Target in Range by Em Petrova

    Target in Range by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Avery Aarons believes it’s fate that she will die by the hand of a criminal. As a child, she hid in a cupboard while men ransacked their home. In college, she met with an attacker walking home on campus. After that, going into law enforcement is her only path to protect herself and others who can’t. She’s never felt so empowered, until she ends up in the wrong place without backup...
  • Out of Range by Em Petrova

    Out of Range by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Arielle Jackman grew up as an Army brat—and then she became an Army wife. Now she’s widowed and looking for something she’s never had… roots. Back in her favorite Texas town, she’s teaching middle-schoolers, and since she and her husband never had any, she considers them all her kids. But the evenings are lonely, and Arielle’s wondering if she should get out and make some friends...
  • The Fall of East by Nana Malone

    The Fall of East by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE SIZZLING CONCLUSION TO THE HEAR NO EVIL TRILOGYNyla Kincade has stolen my ruthless heart.Now that she owns it I’m not taking it back.I’ve vowed to protect her and all that we love with everything that I have.I will die before I break that oath.Considering the danger we face, that might be a careless promise.But I’ve fought this hard for vengeance, I must see it through...
  • Merciless Survival by Em Petrova

    Merciless Survival by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wrecked his mission, but he stole her heart. SEAL Team Blackout Operator Ronin Ramsey is confident that this will be a successful international op. Locate the enemy and get out—simple. Until all hell breaks loose and he discovers a group of women are being held hostage by the very terrorist his team’s after...
  • Rebel Mission by Em Petrova

    Rebel Mission by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s combat ready. But keeping his hands off her might be his biggest battle yet…Special operator Orlando Frost lives to fight for those who can’t defend themselves. So, when a terrorist threatens innocent civilians with a deadly toxin, he’s up to the task of hunting them down and neutralizing the threat...
  • After MidKnight by Em Petrova

    After MidKnight by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At the tender age of seventeen, Roades Knight was caught eloping. His parents put a swift end to that, and Roades was forced to break ties with the young Puerto Rican beauty. Five years later, he’s a member of the elite Knight Ops team and his family is once again disappointed in his behavior, after he’s muddled up a mission...
  • Fire with Fire by Michelle St. James

    Fire with Fire by Michelle St. James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love is a battlefield — and only the strong survive. Shunning his Ivy League education and the empire that was his birthright, Damian Cavallo found his place in New York City’s criminal underworld after the fall of the Syndicate. Reclusive and angry, he works alone — until crime lord Nico Vitale makes a compelling argument for the new organization’s far-reaching power...
  • Beyond the Badge: Nox by Jeanne St. James

    Beyond the Badge: Nox by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When two broken halves come together to forge one unbreakable whole… Officer Bradley Lennox, aka Nox, has been living in the shadows of his own grief since the unexpected loss of his wife. Just when he was finally on the road to recovery, they found Sadie in a motel in Ohio, causing his world to spiral back into darkness...
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