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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...
  • Flack by Kris Michaels

    Flack by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Surprises come in small packages .The assassin known as Flack wasn’t expecting to become the guardian of his fourteen-month-old niece. His life as an assassin wasn’t exactly family-friendly. Plus, he had no idea how to take care of a baby. How could he work for Guardian Security with a kid in tow? Flack needed help, like yesterday.Surprises come in unexpected situations...
  • Tainted by Riley Edwards

    Tainted by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL sniper Matthew Kessler thought his life was charmed. He was wrong. He thought his father had amassed the family’s wealth through hard work. He was wrong again. He thought the battlefield had taught him everything he needed to know about strength and courage. He was absolutely wrong. In the blink of an eye, everything he thought he knew about his family became a lie...
  • Elliot by Kris Michaels

    Elliot by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.Elliot Sawyer wasn’t supposed to be alive. He’d cheated death by changing shifts with one of his men. Sure, his man asked for the change, but guilt gnawed on his heart every second of every day. If he’d been there, maybe he would have seen something, done something to stop the massacre. Leaving Guardian wasn’t an option for him, but changing assignments was...
  • Shattered by Riley Edwards

    Shattered by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wren Cunningham wants to put her past behind her when she and her teenage son move from Chicago to Georgia to start a new life away from the dark cloud they’ve been living under since Wren’s ex was sent to prison. She tells herself she only has time for her son as she builds a wall around her heart. A wall that threatens to crumble when Phoenix saves her son from a fire...
  • Smoke by Kris Michaels

    Smoke by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shades of good are colored by the poison of greed, lust, and envy, and all too often the warm colors of humanity are consumed by evil.The assassin known as Smoke had his future planned. When his partner’s life imploded, his absence left Smoke adrift. Then Guardian threw a sassy, enticing anchor at him. When the alluring siren boarded his ship, he should have seen the rocky shore in the distance...
  • Promises by Kris Michaels

    Promises by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Promises. A commitment, bond, pledge or pact. Some are broken, others withstand the test of time.Promises can be made between friends, families, or lovers. Each will be honored. Even the promise of payback, although Joseph King prefers the word revenge. Family fun at his expense? Not on your life. Join the members of the Guardian family as they delve into the nuances of promises made and kept...
  • Blake by Maryann Jordan

    Blake by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lighthouse Security Investigations The security and investigation company is filled with handpicked men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and Air Force Special Ops. All trained in CIA Special Operations, the Keepers were the best of the best and ready to take on any mission...
  • Hope's Delta by Riley Edwards

    Hope's Delta by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hope Mitchell lived her life on the outskirts, no attachments, no friends, no family. All of this by design. All of it because she knew the pain that came when you lost someone who meant something to you. She’d sworn off men long ago, the last time she fell in love she’d invited the devil into her heart and she’d lost, huge...
  • Finding Ashlyn by Susan Stoker

    Finding Ashlyn by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Friends with benefits. That’s all Ashlyn wanted with Slate. They were certainly combustible in the bedroom, and that was sufficient…wasn’t it? Yes, definitely. He was too bossy. Too protective. She didn’t want someone hovering, wanting to know her every move and telling her she was too reckless. But then again, knowing someone cared enough to worry about her felt kind of nice...
  • Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He had no complaints… Great job, great boss, great co-workers. And a best friend he’d known for years.Okay, almost no complaints… The women he dated paled in comparison to his best friend.She had a lot of complaints… A job she hated, a tyrant for a boss, working with people that got on her last nerve. And no time for love. Plus, the guys she dated couldn’t come close to her best friend...
  • Dangerous Love by Riley Edwards

    Dangerous Love by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dangerous Love is the latest romantic suspense thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Riley Edwards. New series, new steamy, hot heroes. Welcome to Takeback.One night. No names. Two hearts forever changed.There wasn’t a lot that surprised me. My years in the Navy taught me a lot, my years hunting human traffickers taught me the rest...
  • Finding Carly by Susan Stoker

    Finding Carly by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jag helped her take control of her life back...but someone is watching and waiting for the perfect moment to finish what her ex had started.On one unforgettable afternoon, a simple fluke kept Carly Stewart out of her crazy ex’s reach…landing her best friend in his clutches instead...
  • Logan's Promise by Kris Norris

    Logan's Promise by Kris Norris

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Some promises were meant to be broken.Done. That one word sums up the past two years of former Delta Force soldier, Logan Bishop’s life. First his relationship, then his honor — his entire career — and he’s vowed to put the past behind him and move on.Relocating to Fool’s Gold with the rest of his team is a good start...
  • KGI Series 1-4 by Maya Banks

    KGI Series 1-4 by Maya Banks

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Kelly Group International (KGI) is a super-elite, top secret, family-run business that handles jobs the U.S. government can't. And the qualifications for those jobs are high intelligence, a military background--and a rock-hard body...Don't miss the first four in the action-packed, sexy series..
  • Drew by Maryann Jordan

    Drew by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lighthouse Security Investigations The Lighthouse SI Keepers were men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and AF Special Ops. All having been trained in CIA Special Ops, the Keepers were the best of the best and ready to take on any mission. Drew…southern boy, former Air Force and CIA Special Ops. Now, he works for Lighthouse Security Investigations as a Keeper...
  • Protecting Raven by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Raven by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Their daughter’s abduction destroyed their marriage. Raven Oswald has never given up on her daughter, for ten years she's used her computer skills to try to bring down the trafficking ring responsible for Cleo's abduction. When she finally gets a viable lead she heads straight to Columbia to check it out. The last person she expected to follow her was her ex-husband...
  • Protecting Hawk by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Hawk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was only supposed to be one night.When Madeline Montgomery finds out she's carrying her one night stand's baby she's shocked, but without his name she can't find him, and determines to raise her child alone. With a stalker upping his ante and the cops refusing to take her seriously, she runs to Prey Security for help...
  • Gwen's Delta by Lynne St. James

    Gwen's Delta by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shy bookstore owner Guinevere Dedmond resigned herself to living her dreams through the pages of the books she sells. But when she receives a mysterious call demanding she pay ransom to save her parents, her comfortable world erupts in chaos. Panicked, she turns to the sexy soldier who swept her off her feet, not knowing he's part of an elite spec ops team...
  • Rescuing Gabriella by Anna Blakely

    Rescuing Gabriella by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HE FINALLY FOUND THE ONE…BUT THEN SHE VANISHED.After nearly dying on a Bravo Team op, former Marine Zade King spends the final weekend of his recovery in paradise where he meets Gabby. She’s smart, funny, beautiful…everything he’s ever wanted in a woman. Then she disappears without a trace.SHE’S NOT WHO HE THINKS SHE IS...
  • Castle Investigations: The Complete 5-Books Series by Dee Bridgnorth

    Castle Investigations: The Complete 5-Books Series by Dee Bridgnorth

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book 1 Scarlett Ferguson has raised her younger sister Emery since their parent's death. Working two jobs to put food on the table leaves no time for romance. When a former Air Force Para rescue pilot visits her diner every week vying for her attention, Scarlett is tempted to throw caution to the wind and take a chance...
  • Deserving Reese by Susan Stoker

    Deserving Reese by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He never expected to fall for his best friend's sister, but now that he has...he'll do whatever it takes to keep her safe.Having a crush on one of your brother’s friends is so cliché. But Reese Woodall isn’t too worried…it’s not as if she’d ever have a chance with the former Delta Force Operative. For one thing, he lives in New Mexico, and she’s in Missouri...
  • Protecting Dove by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Dove by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He saw her at her most vulnerable and she never wanted to see him again.Dove Oswald never expected to come face to face with the man who saved her life ever again. Nor did she expect him to save her a second time. Surprised by the spark of attraction between them, when she realizes he's hiding something she's determined to figure out what it is...
  • Breaking Point by Elle James

    Breaking Point by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Delta Force Operative John “Tank” Sanders is a few years away from retirement. The old man on the team, he keeps his head down and his heart guarded. Burned in a relationship as a young man, he’s sworn off getting involved. Love isn’t for him and no woman is worth the effort. To save money while building a house, he moves into his RV and parks it at a local trailer park...
  • SEAL Forever by Kris Michaels

    SEAL Forever by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A career ending injury forced Creed Lachlan out of the Navy SEALs. Now he works as a freelance contractor for a highly classified sub-set of Homeland Security, the Bone Frog Division. His country calls when it needs his elite skills. His current mission is to identify the production site for emerging “dirty” bombs...
  • Jayden by Maryann Jordan

    Jayden by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jayden Chapman may have always been the quieter twin, but deep inside lay the heart of a protector. When he came upon a young woman stranded on the side of the road, he recognized her as someone he had seen before…and not been able to help. Determined to not let history repeat itself, he befriended her, as well as took care of her car...
  • Gold Rush: A romantic suspense novel by Elise Noble

    Gold Rush: A romantic suspense novel by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lara Reynolds has a lot of things she wants to escape. An asshole of an ex-boyfriend and a stalker are just two of them. Becoming housekeeper to Nick Goldman, a man whose home is as filthy as his mind, is far from her dream job but she's out of other options. She tries to flee from her past, but when you have a weakness for high heels, there are bound to be a few stumbles along the way...
  • Ethan’s Obsession by Anna Blakely

    Ethan’s Obsession by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A former SEAL who wants what he can’t have. An artist who’s afraid to follow her heart. Danger lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect time to strike. Ethan “Apollo” McAllister’s world is filled with controlled chaos. As a former Navy SEAL and member of Tac-Ops, he’s used to running headfast into danger. He’s also damn good at keeping secrets...
  • Dino by Jaime Lewis

    Dino by Jaime Lewis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Arianna has spent the last few years in Europe working undercover for the FBI to assist in bringing down the mob boss of one of Europe's most prominent crime families. Her fake job...Becoming Europe's most photographed lingerie model. Using connections within the modeling industry finally pays off when Arianna is presented with an opportunity to work for the man she has been patiently seeking out...
  • Talon's Enamorment by Ciara St. James

    Talon's Enamorment by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A chance meeting months ago set up a desire within Talon. A second meeting only increased that desire. He hadn’t been thinking too much about settling down until meeting Lorelei. Sure, his club brothers were dropping left and right into marital bliss, but he hadn’t thought he’d be lucky enough to have what they had. Meeting Lorelei and her young son, Zavier, had changed that...
  • SEAL's Sky by Lynne St. James

    SEAL's Sky by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SEAL's Sky is book four in the exciting Black Eagle series and features John "Tex" Keegan from Susan Stoker's SEALs of Protection series.Navy SEAL Drew "Murph" Murphy was determined to stay single and win the bet with his SEAL team. Until he met Sky. Her damaged heart and undeniable strength ignited his need to protect...
  • Deadly Valor by Kaylea Cross

    Deadly Valor by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s been targeted by a killer.Widow Danae Sutherland moved to Crimson Point a month ago with her teenage son to begin a new chapter in their lives. Adjusting to small town life is a big change for them both, but it’s been especially hard on her son, and the holidays are making it even harder...
  • Friendly Fire by Jemma Westbrook, Janice M. Whiteaker

    Friendly Fire by Jemma Westbrook, Janice M. Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abe never intended to be a lifelong bachelor.It just happened.Now he’s staring down fifty. Alone. Watching the men around him find what always seemed to escape his grasp.Unfortunately, the only woman to catch his eye in years is more than a handful.Elise is high-strung, smart-mouthed, and defiant as hell.And he can’t seem to stay away from her.Until she’s taken from him...
  • Rescue Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rescue Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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  • Potter by Jaime Lewis

    Potter by Jaime Lewis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tenley Cortez finally had everything going for her; a job that she enjoyed, her friends and family, and a man who treated her with love and respect. But when her toxic ex-boyfriend shows back up and decides he wants to rekindle their relationship to further his shady business dealings things get a little dicey, not to mention dangerous...
  • SEAL's Sunshine by Lynne St. James

    SEAL's Sunshine by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL Cam Patterson can’t wait for the day that he returns to the woman he loves. But everything blows up when he finds out there is a plot to kill the President of the United States. 
 Miranda Stanhope has been anxiously awaiting Cam’s return. Months ago, he and his Black Eagle SEAL Team wrenched her away from the Taliban who’d been torturing her. The terrifying nightmares still haunt her...
  • Rescuing Katherine by Anna Blakely

    Rescuing Katherine by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HE GAVE HER HIS HEART—AND SHE SHATTERED IT.

Bravo Team operative Matthew Turner used to believe in happily ever after, but that was years ago, before the only woman he’s ever loved betrayed him and shredded his heart. Since then, he’s worked hard and played even harder, determined he’ll never be vulnerable again.

NOT EVERYTHING IS AS IT SEEMS...
  • Her Wicked Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Wicked Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ONE LOOK AND HE WAS HOOKED A photograph. A feeling. A knowing. That’s all it took for Dante “Zed” Zaragoza to realize his fate was intertwined with a woman he’d never met. Now it was up to him to find Marcia Price and bring her home safely...
  • Mace by Maryann Jordan

    Mace by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    *****This book was originally published in the USA Today Bestselling boxed set Love Under Siege***** Lighthouse Security Investigations Mace Hanover, former Special Forces and CIA Special Ops, filled his security company with other men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and AF Special Ops. All having been trained in CIA Special Ops, his Keepers were the best of the best...
  • Protecting Harper by Olivia Michaels

    Protecting Harper by Olivia Michaels

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Michael “Flint” Gray is a Navy SEAL forced into retirement by a personal secret that could shorten his life and trap him in a nightmare. A former teammate gives Flint a new lease on life when he offers Flint a job in Colorado with Watchdog Protectors, a security company with its own secrets...
  • Her Chosen Protector: Navy SEAL Romance by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Chosen Protector: Navy SEAL Romance by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can he overcome his pain and heartbreak in time to save the woman he loves? Life had always come easy to Navy SEAL, Asher Thorne, until a overwhelming loss made him doubt his ability to protect the ones he loved. Devastated, he has no choice but to push on and do his duty...
  • 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...
  • Scotty by Leslie North

    Scotty by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Danger lurks around every corner… but it’s romance that comes as the biggest surpriseNavy SEAL Scotty Devonshire has one weakness: women. But a long-term relationship? That’s not his style—until Hayley Stevens walks into his life. All he wants is to find his SEAL teammate’s widow and clear his buddies’ names. Turns out Hayley, a hacker extraordinaire, is trying to find the same woman...
  • Total Meltdown by Elle James

    Total Meltdown by Elle James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An elementary teacher during the school year, Lily Grayson hires out as an au pair during the summer in order to travel expenses-paid to exotic locations with wealthy families with children. When one of her students suggests she apply for a summer job with his family going to Costa Rica, she jumps at the chance...
  • Liam by Maddie Wade

    Liam by Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Since that fateful day when couldn’t save his best friend, Liam Hayes had coasted through life, going from one deadly mission to another, not caring if he lived or died. His only goal is to protect his team members and those he cares about from getting hurt—even if it costs him his life...
  • Safeguarding Miley (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Melissa Kay Clarke

    Safeguarding Miley (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Melissa Kay Clarke

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dr. Miley Ellison loves her career choice. Taking care of small animals is her passion - the larger ones? Not so much. However, when her grandfather leaves her his practice in Wyoming, she resigns herself to a life of dealing mostly with livestock. It isn't ideal but at least she's in control of her own life. If only her mind would focus on the job and not on her best friend's sexy brother...
  • 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...
  • Boomer's Embroilment by Ciara St. James

    Boomer's Embroilment by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Boomer is one of the last few single members in his club. At first, he thinks he wants a woman of his own, only to change his mind. He refuses to be brainwashed into thinking he needs to be like so many of his club brothers. He vows to stay single and have fun. His resolve starts to crumble almost immediately when he meets Bella, the best friend of his brother Torpedo’s old lady, Londyn...
  • Angel Fire: Boxed Set Books 4-7 by Ellie Masters

    Angel Fire: Boxed Set Books 4-7 by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dive into USA Today Bestselling Author, Ellie Masters' Angel Fire Rock Romance Series second Boxed Get Hearts Divided, Hearts Entwined, Forest's Fall, and the Last Beat.Hearts DividedTrue love only comes once in a lifetime...but what if they're wrong?Bash fell hard for his childhood sweetheart. She was the one, his forever, until she taught him the truth about love.Love fails. Love lies...
  • Arguing for Alexa by Elizabella Baker

    Arguing for Alexa by Elizabella Baker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now she can't outrun those lies when she's caught standing over her informant. Her very dead informant.Charged with murder. Then released on bail. Alexa will have to try and discover who set her up. She will have to learn to trust the prison guard, Colt, who first thought the worst about her.Colt Allen wasn't looking for love. Not after his first disastrous marriage...
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