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  • Finally Free : A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Finally Free : A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Blake Porter was one of the lucky ones. She’d met the man she was going to marry while she was in high school. She thought she was living a fairytale; the nerdy wannabe journalist dating the gorgeous star quarterback. One wrong move proved to irrevocably alter the course of their lives. Betrayed by the girl he loved, Levi McCoy left for the Army and never looked back...
  • The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a serial killer strikes a small Alabama town - anyone could become the next victim, or the main suspect . . . Ben Logan, a former soldier, and now the successful owner of a private security firm, can handle just about anything. Well, anything except a run-in with Riley Carpenter. When Ben joined the Marines, he never looked back, and he broke his best friend's heart in the process...
  • Freedom: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Freedom: A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s game changer he wishes he’d never met. Nolan Clark is the last man standing. While he is happy his teammates have found love, he’s even happier to be single. But fate is a funny thing. When a one-night stand turns into a friends with benefits agreement, he starts to question why he’s holding the beautiful Reagan at arm’s length...
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    military  suspense  age-gap  alpha-mc  female-mc  romance  war  mystery
  • Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A sexy FBI suspense thriller romance Meadow The road was long, it was painful, and it was raw. It has taken me four years to come to terms with my new reality. A life in which I live with the daily reminders of a vicious attack that has left me scarred both emotionally and physically...
  • Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when a woman who’s done the unthinkable needs protection—can a man who’s lost his belief in humanity keep her safe? Max Brown doesn’t trust anyone but his team. The former SEAL learned early in life that people let you down—they lie, they steal, and they lie some more. Love is a word that is used to manipulate. Family is meaningless. Max is an island and he prefers it that way...
  • 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...
  • Chasing Honor by Riley Edwards

    Chasing Honor by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ethan Lenox became a single father at sixteen when his girlfriend signed over custody of their newborn daughter and left to chase her dreams. Eight years later he’s a police officer, fiercely protective of the little girl and dedicated to his work. He’s never had time for dating and won’t allow any woman to betray his trust or abandon him again...
  • Rescuing Casey by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Casey by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One minute Casey Shea was minding her own business, doing her job, teaching entomology to college students, and the next she was in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle fighting for her life. Troy “Beatle” Lennon had watched his friends fall head over heels in love, but never thought it would happen to him. Until he sees a picture of one of his teammates’ sisters. That was it...
  • Her Wild Coast Outlaw: A Small Town Contemporary Romance by Dakota Davies

    Her Wild Coast Outlaw: A Small Town Contemporary Romance by Dakota Davies

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A wild attraction. A forbidden passion. Will two kindred hearts surrender to their fiery chemistry?   Hunter:  She should be off-limits to me. Not only is she too sweet, too innocent, her uncle is the boss of this operation. I’m in Storm Harbor to secretly find out why he's stealing from the town’s dock construction project...
  • Kiwi by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Kiwi by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tai Cooper holds many titles, but to the Kings of Retribution MC, he's known as Kiwi, Road Captain, and their brother.At eighteen, Kiwi left New Zealand- his sights set on The States. In search of a man, he has never met.His birth father...
  • The Broken Trilogy: Books 1-3 by J.L. Drake

    The Broken Trilogy: Books 1-3 by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    *The Complete Broken Trilogy In One Box Set.* BROKEN #1 *** This is the first book in this series and it ends with a cliffhanger. Intended for 18+.*** My name is Savannah Miller. My father is the mayor of New York. One day after my twenty-seventh birthday I was grabbed from behind. A cloth sack was quickly pulled over my head, and I was taken from everything I’d ever known...
  • Trusting Cassidy by Susan Stoker

    Trusting Cassidy by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In this final installment of New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s Silverstone series, a battle-scarred assassin must rescue an old flame from ruthless drug lords.What was supposed to be a short trip to Jamaica becomes a years-long nightmare as Cassidy Hewitt and her son fall into the grip of an infamous drug kingpin...
  • Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a scorching Silverstone installment that finds a former military man racing to save the woman he loves as danger closes in on them both.Former military man turned government assassin Kellan “Eagle” Trowbridge isn’t looking for love. He’d rather keep his head down at his cover job as an employee of Silverstone Towing...
  • The Protector by Anna Hackett

    The Protector by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    For a ballerina in the line of fire, the only man who can keep her safe is a scarred, battle-hardened soldier.One minute Saskia Hawke is dancing on stage, and the next she’s been abducted by a very wealthy, very powerful man with connections. Whisked away to a country estate, she’ll do anything to escape, and prays the former soldier she can’t stop thinking about will come to rescue her...
  • Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I left here a man but came back a beast CHANCE A shoulder-fired missile broke my body. But betrayal obliterated my heart. For months I lingered in and out of hell until my body healed. Now I’m back in town with my club brothers. But I am still fighting a war of darkness in my head and I can’t see a way out...
  • Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker

    Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lexie Green hasn’t thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she’s more than a little shocked...
  • Protecting Sparrow by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Sparrow by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grief is all that’s stopping this friendship becoming more.When Sparrow Oswald's helicopter is shot down in Africa the last person she expects to come to her rescue is her old friend Ethan Zimmerman. She'd love for there to be more between them but he's not over his wife's death. As they work together to find who is using Ethan's plane to smuggle drugs the spark between them grows...
  • Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t get noticed. Zoey “Zero D” Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA’s data farm compiling security briefings and Intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive. Now she’s “one of them.” She’s not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore...
  • Rescuing Emily by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Emily by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Renting out the apartment over his garage shouldn’t be a life-changing decision, but when Delta soldier Cormac “Fletch” Fletcher meets Emily Grant, he feels an instant connection. He can’t stand the thought of Emily and her young daughter living anywhere unsafe. Offering cheap rent is a small price to pay for their safety…and Fletch’s peace of mind...
  • Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Tortured Hero with a Heart of Gold Growing up on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Javier Almeida has only his older sister to protect him. When she’s sold to a human-trafficker, he vows to hunt down those responsible. Years later, Titan Group’s Delta team finds him, tattooed and brawling, a vigilante protector with information they want...
  • Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again...
  • I Can't Even by Lani Lynn Vale

    I Can't Even by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ellodie Cassandra Solaire made a single, solitary New Year’s resolution.That resolution was set in stone, and she wouldn’t be breaking it, no matter what.It was simple: Say yes to every person who asks her out on a date until she finds a boyfriend.Easy, right?Wrong.She breaks that New Year’s resolution three months into the year after a guy gives her serial killer vibes...
  • Untamed Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Untamed Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A tragedy in his past shaped the man he was today . . .Hard. Ruthless. Possessive.If you were his, Jacob Reyes would protect you with his dying breath.That’s why he let so few people close.Then there was HER.Soft and strong. Sweet and sassy.A Little in trouble who called to his Daddy instincts to protect her...
    Categorized as:
    age-gap  alpha-mc  dark  suspense  action-adventure  adult  biker  book
  • Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don’t ever, ever, ever go near that boy. Not unless you want to be a single mother at seventeen. That boy is Bad with a capital B.The words that my father spoke to me when it came to Trouper Aoki didn’t scare me like they probably should.In fact, they only made me intrigued all the more.When it came to Troup, there was just no resisting fate when it came to the two of us...
  • FREE - A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    FREE - A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He was my first love… I wanted him to follow his dreams. I wanted him to escape the life he hated. I thought I was doing the right thing by not telling him how I truly felt. Until it was too late, and my silence turned into my biggest regret. Twelve years ago, Shane Owings died, taking my heart with him. I was left devastated and broken hearted...
  • Grinch by Marie James

    Grinch by Marie James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I never ran from my past or the only woman I ever loved.She made sure to stomp me into the ground and demand I forget all about her.I tried to do just that, and in the twelve years since she ripped my heart out, I’ve done fairly well.Sometimes I could even go a day or two without thinking of her.We were never supposed to see each other again, but Grace Neiman just couldn’t stay gone...
  • Legend by Marie James

    Legend by Marie James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I wouldn’t call it love at first sight, but my body definitely reacted when I saw her.Getting Faith Robbins under me became my obsession.I knew I wanted fast and done.It’s how I always did things.Looking for anything more with a woman was never in the cards.I wasn’t like the other guys in the Cerberus MC. I didn’t want more.It was physical, sating a desire...
  • Forever Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Forever Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All Diamond ever wanted was the one man she could never have, and now the shadowy figure who took him away from her is going to pay. Her special ops training has equipped her to handle the most dangerous situations, but controlling her own emotions isn’t so easy. Is she broken beyond repair? As Diamond takes off for South America with her team in tow, she doesn’t care. All she wants is justice...
  • Thin Ice: by Maryann Jordan, Suspense Sisters

    Thin Ice: by Maryann Jordan, Suspense Sisters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sleeper SEALs, are former U.S. Navy SEALs recruited by a new CIA counter-terror division to handle solo dark ops missions to combat terrorism on U.S. soil. Logan (Preacher) Bishop, retired Navy SEAL, flew tourists on helicopter rides over the mountains of Montana and occasionally rescued skiers from snowy slopes...
  • Changing the Rules by Catherine Bybee

    Changing the Rules by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee comes the steamy first novel in her new adrenaline-fueled Richter series.As an employee of MacBain Security and Solutions, Claire Kelly can certainly hold her own. Armed with an impressive set of covert skills, she’s more than prepared to tackle any job that comes her way…except one involving Cooper Lockman...
  • Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Strike Fast by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A military widow reluctant to risk her heart again. After losing her soldier husband in combat, DEA agent Tess Dubrovksi swore never to fall for another man in uniform. The last thing she anticipates is for a sexy FAST agent single father and his young daughter to steal their way into her heart...
  • Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryder has done his best to break my armor. It’s been a slow process but he’s reminded me what it’s like to feel again. I could never thank him enough for the toe curling and life altering experiences. He’s been my light in a hurricane-but even I know the sun can’t shine all the time. I have a big decision to make and it’s not as simple as just going left or right, forward or backward...
  • 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...
  • Ranger's Baby by Elle James

    Ranger's Baby by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Duncan McKinnon is on leave from the Army Rangers to help his brothers find their missing father. Having sustained a shrapnel wound to the leg, his continued military service is up before a medical review board. A chance meeting in the airport with the woman he’d seduced on his last trip home makes him want to launch a mission to rekindle their desire...
  • Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FOR YEARS, HE’S KEPT HIMSELF CLOSELY GUARDEDFormer SEAL Grant Hill believes love brings nothing but pain. Having suffered more loss than any one person ever should, the gruff R.I.S.C. operative has mastered the art of avoidance…especially when it comes to women.But with his newest bodyguard assignment, Grant’s unwavering determination is put to the ultimate test...
  • The Rise of Ferryn by Jessica Gadziala

    The Rise of Ferryn by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She left a broken girl. Damaged in a way no one should ever be. But determined to make a difference in the world. She stayed away. Training. Learning. Hardening. Bending and breaking herself into what she needed to become to fulfill her mission in life. Something righteous, but wicked in its own way. She returned a warrior. There were promises left unfulfilled. Questions left unanswered...
  • 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...
  • Angels & Assassins by K. Alex Walker

    Angels & Assassins by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tayler Diaz, a pediatric oncologist working in the small town of Yearwood, NC, stumbles upon Gage Wolfe's virtually lifeless body when leaving for the day after a long shift at Yearwood Medical. While phoning for help to get him into the hospital for treatment, Gage makes one last declaration that sends a chill straight to her bones: "Just let me die, love...
  • The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman in the Back Room by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He hadn’t planned on being a part of the Family.Life had thrown a curve at him at a young age that made him reevaluate his path in life.And he chose out.But when tragedy strikes, awakening the need for revenge, he finds himself wanting back in. To the Family. The life. The people.Including a woman he never could have seen coming, one he never would have thought he’d want in his life...
  • Waiting For Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Waiting For Him by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Sexy Six-Pack returns with more teamwork, more suspense, and, most of all, more hot and steamy romance! Twelve years ago, eighteen-year-old Ben 'Boomer' Michaelson's world had fallen apart. Not only had his best friend, Alex Maier, been killed, but Alex's family had perished as well, including his seventeen-year-old sister, Katerina...
  • Pure White Rose by Fawn Bailey

    Pure White Rose by Fawn Bailey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "I will punish you for every step you take away from me." She's finally mine, but she won't admit it. My little rose thinks she can still run away from me. She should know better by now. I'm ready to do whatever it takes to stop her from getting away. Hurt her. She'll have the bruises to show for it. F*ck her. Until she never wants another man. Punish her...
  • Wyatt by Nyssa Kathryn

    Wyatt by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A story that could cost her everything…Investigative journalist Quinn Ross isn’t a woman who can just let major news pass her by. So, when she stumbles across a story like no other, she makes it her mission to report it to the masses.She doesn’t count on the lengths to which some may go to keep her story from seeing the light of day...
  • Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The mayhem continues for the Knight's Legion MC…Storm. My protector. I need his darkness, like he needs my light. After surviving an abusive relationship, I swore off men. Until the President of the Knight’s Legion MC crashes into my life, holding me captive with his haunted gray eyes. Storm is a force to be reckoned with and I welcome the chaos— it makes me feel alive. He owns me. Body and soul...
  • Burn by Jolie Vines

    Burn by Jolie Vines

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I'd wreck his life. For mine, he'd burn down the world.Jamieson was my penpal.My first crush. My surf-crazy, impulsive, pyro boy, and the secret I kept from the world.Until he broke us up before we ever met.When I discover he's been imprisoned by an evil man, saving him becomes my only goal.Except his enemy wants me too. He was fire and water. With him, I'd either drown or burn...
  • Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE MASTER OF EVERYTHING HAS FOUND HIS MATCH Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That’s why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible. And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it...
  • Buying Beth: A Dark Romance by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Buying Beth: A Dark Romance by Izzy Sweet, Sean Moriarty

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I thought he bought me to save me… but he’s keeping me for himself. It was a girl’s night out gone wrong. Like some awful horror movie, my friends and I were grabbed in a dark parking lot and shoved into the back of a van. Coming from powerful families, we thought we were untouchable. We thought wrong. Our captors trapped us, violated us, and put us up for sale on the black market...
  • Nauti Intentions by Lora Leigh

    Nauti Intentions by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fourth in the New York Times bestselling series known for "blistering sexuality and eroticism."(Romance Reviews Today) Since he saw Janey Mackay taking a dip in her bikini, Major Alex Jansen has had to quell the fire she ignites in him. Even touching her would mean death at the hands of the Mackay men...
  • Have Mercy by Hannah Shield

    Have Mercy by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only way to save his best friend’s sister…is to marry her.Ruby Whitestone just found her ex’s dead body. And the police think she did it. But as a single mom, she knows how to fend for herself. No fairytale hero is going to swoop in to save her. Not her brother, the Bennett Security bodyguard. Certainly not Chase, a West Oaks police officer and her brother’s best friend...
  • Edge of Retribution by Jacob Chance

    Edge of Retribution by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Landing my dream job has me eagerly looking toward the future. But when I see Nash Garrison after six long years, my world is thrown completely off its axis. He was my only friend and confidant during the worst days of my life, and I fell hopelessly in love with him. No eighteen year old girl could resist his protective nature and charming grin. I was no exception...
  • 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...
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