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  • The Moor: A DCI Ryan Mystery by LJ Ross

    The Moor: A DCI Ryan Mystery by LJ Ross

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    FROM THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOLY ISLAND and LONGSTONE The circus is in town… When a ten-year-old girl turns up on DCI Ryan’s doorstep to tell him she’s witnessed a murder, he has no idea he’s about to step into his most spellbinding case yet...
  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a yacht blows up in the Newport Beach Harbor killing a California congressman, FBI Agent Beck Murray is reminded of another night ten years earlier when a mega-yacht caught fire. Then a rookie cop, he pulled popular teenage TV star Piper Nolan out of the water. He's never forgotten her terror or her rambling story, but the investigation was shut down before it even got started...
  • Mercy by David Baldacci

    Mercy by David Baldacci

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    FBI Agent Atlee Pine’s harrowing search for her long-lost sister Mercy reaches a boiling point in this breakneck thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.   For her entire life, FBI agent Atlee Pine has been searching for her twin sister, Mercy, who was abducted at the age of six and never seen again...
  • Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Our Stolen Pieces by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When the morning after a slumber party reveals two missing girls, a newly minted Detective and a young veteran are assigned the case. Recently partnered, the pair of detectives must set aside their troubled pasts to recover the pair of girls who may have been coerced by a stranger who had kidnapped before...
  • Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bad Boy... Billionaire... Baby Brother... Who is the real Jonah Steele? Video game mogul Jonah Steele may be a billionaire , but as the youngest brother in a family of alphas, his struggle to prove his worth is all-consuming. Although he saved his hometown from ruin, he can’t forgive himself for the biggest failure of his life...
  • Close to Home by Robert Dugoni

    Close to Home by Robert Dugoni

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s acclaimed series continues as Tracy Crosswhite is thrown headlong into the path of a killer conspiracy.While investigating the hit-and-run death of a young boy, Seattle homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite makes a startling discovery: the suspect is an active-duty serviceman at a local naval base...
  • Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Martin Swan was not a terrorist, nor a truck driver. He only replied to the want-ad because the wording linked Florida with Washington DC and wanted someone who could speak Arabic. The year was 2008. Jobs were scarce, gas prices high. The back page ad called for a big rig driver with a clean record, who could be at Black Water Crossing the day before Halloween...
  • Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s running for her life……His mission: protect her.Ex-Delta Force Operator Ridge Hansen has a thing for artist Harper Katz.So does his tactical K9, Zeus……But Harper is on the run.Someone is aiming to kill her.Ridge wants two things…Convince Harper to move their relationship from friends to lovers,And find out who she really is...
  • Matching Configurations by Kyle Keyes

    Matching Configurations by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Matching Configurations is the second sequel to Quantum Roots, a light Sci-Fi adventure story that features everyday Olan Chapman as a hero vigilante who defends the weak and helpless victims of today's society. Like the first two editions of Quantum Roots, Matching Configurations is based on a growing belief that creation forms from recycled energy, and people evolve from recycled quarks...
  • The Patient Man by Joy Ellis

    The Patient Man by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a totally absorbing mystery full of stunning twists and turns. Discover the author who’s sold over two million books globally...
  • The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.”When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue...
  • Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last thing I expect when I walk into The Hawkeye Club is to fall head over heels in lust. It’s supposed to be a rescue mission. I have to get my baby sister off the pole, into some clothes, and out of the grasp of the pussy peddler who somehow manipulated her into stripping...
  • Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series by Lili St. Germain

    Gypsy Brothers: The Complete Series by Lili St. Germain

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    *LIMITED EDITION ON SALE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY - INCLUDES BONUS EXCLUSIVE NOVELLA* Lili's USA Today Bestselling series, together in one edition for the first time! Contains ALTERNATE - A Gypsy Brothers novella featuring chapters told from Jase, Elliot and Dornan's points of view. The GYPSY BROTHERS series My father was most certainly NOT an innocent man...
  • The Viaduct Killings by Wes Markin

    The Viaduct Killings by Wes Markin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Still grieving from the tragic death of her colleague, DCI Emma Gardner continues to blames herself and is struggling to focus. So, when she is seconded to the wilds of Yorkshire, Emma hopes she’ll be able to get her mind back on the job, doing what she does best - putting killers behind bars.But when she is immediately thrown into another violent murder, Emma has no time to rest...
  • Quantum Roots by Kyle Keyes

    Quantum Roots by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Federal agents, Alexis Grumman and Jeremy Wade track down a current day vigilante, whose fingerprints match those of a Korean War veteran. Author Kyle Keyes uses characters from two previous novels, to promote a theory that particle energy formats with a quantum root system, that can bypass time and space...
  • United Reign by Kylie Kent

    United Reign by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Mafia RomanceTheoEverything we’ve built is crashing down around me.I’m consumed by the darkness, my blood boiling with the need for revenge.My wife is the only light in my life; she’s the very reason I keep on fighting.They’re coming after me. And worse yet, they’re coming after her.But let them come…I’m waiting. We’re waiting.To send them all back to the hell they crawled out of...
  • Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zoe knows the secrets, now they're coming for her.The enemy will stop at nothing to get to Zoe and the military secrets that could change everything. What Zoe knows is getting people killed. Is she next?Gage is a hardened Marine special forces operative with only one soft spot: Zoe.Her desperate screams echoing from inside her home switch his instincts from lover to guardian...
  • Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thorn Has Met His MatchRetired Navy Seal, turned Iniquus security operative, Thorn Iverson is heading home from Brussels when the call comes in.A U.S. military scientist's daughter, Juliette, was snatched from the streets of France, and she’s in immediate danger.Juliette is desperate.Juliette is fighting for her life...
  • Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett

    Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    While hiking in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, FBI Special Agent Kendra Dean and her K9 partner, Baxter, stumble upon a dead body stashed in the woods. The discovery changes both of their lives forever.Special Agent Rick Sanchez hunts a serial murderer who is targeting women on a multi-state killing spree...
  • Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I don’t belong with her. Born into darkness, life made me a cynic incapable of love. But then Ellie waltzed in. Innocent, optimistic, kind. She’s the opposite of what I deserve. I bought her, but she she stole my heart. Now my business is going up in flames. I have only one chance to make it right. That’s where it happens…something I can never take back...
  • A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    A Very Bad Thing by J.T. Ellison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a taut thriller about one author at the pinnacle of her career, whose past threatens to destroy everything she has—and everyone she knows.A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder...
  • Sleep Tight by Caroline Mitchell

    Sleep Tight by Caroline Mitchell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Close your eyes … Just pray you don’t wake up.A killer stalks the streets of East London. All over the area, murdered young women are discovered, their bodies posed into disturbing recreations of fairytale princesses.Detective Ruby Preston is determined to hunt down the murderer who is using the women to realise his dark fantasies...
  • Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There was a time when my debt was the only link we had. There was a time when I couldn’t tell him how much I loved him and he couldn’t tell me. There was a time when I thought I could never have enough money. Now, everything is different. Nicholas Crawford is a stranger who is becoming more strange with every moment. I used to think I could make a life with him, but now I’m not so sure...
  • YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    YOU DID THIS by Jamie Millen

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A sister’s worst nightmare. A homicide detective’s destiny.Everybody loves Claire’s little sister, Tina. But only Claire sees the twisted psychopath hiding behind her sister’s angelic face. When Tina is brutally murdered on her fourteenth birthday, the day Claire failed to walk her home from school, Claire never forgives herself. And neither does their mother...
  • Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Run: Gemma Falls never expected to use her game theory expertise to outrun a killer. But for years, that skill is all that kept her one step ahead of a deadly stalker. When Gemma gets the chance to teach at D.C. University, she hopes she and her young daughter have found a safe harbor...
  • Before He Vanished by Debra Webb

    Before He Vanished by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His disappearance changed her life forever.Twenty-five years ago, Halle Lane’s best friend vanished from their Tennessee town. When a childhood photo brings Liam Hart to Winchester, Halle is certain the man is the same child who vanished. Now Liam seeks out Halle to help him investigate the circumstances of his mysterious past...
  • Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Tortured Skye is not a standalone and is best enjoyed after reading Savage Collision***Falling in love with Gabe Anderson was as easy as breathing. Fighting my feelings for my brother’s best friend was agonizingly hard. I never imagined giving in to my desire for him would cause such a destructive ripple effect...
  • Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I see is red.Blood.Pain.Rage.It consumes me.The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul.I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin...
  • A New Paige by Zara Teleg

    A New Paige by Zara Teleg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Would you risk losing the ones you love if it meant finally finding out the truth?PaigeAfter being kidnapped and nearly killed by a sadistic drug lord, I discovered a startling secret, and I can't let it go. I was forced to move to small-town Sugar Maple. Kai, the hot-as-hell biker who rescued me, is now my new landlord and makes me feel safe...
  • Beast in my Bedroom by B.B. Hamel

    Beast in my Bedroom by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s everything I don ’t want . . . but my new bossy Greek mafia husband is going to make a real wife out of me.My rock bottom is a dirty martini in a high-class bar, ten canceled credit cards, and nothing but the clothes on my back.I managed to escape my abusive husband, but a snooty hipster bartender is about to get me arrested for being unable to pay for a drink...
  • Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her happily ever after is so close…and somehow still out of her grasp…Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is no stranger to stressful situations. She can handle the fact that the CIA won’t let her divorce her previously presumed dead husband. She can even figure out a way to legally marry ex-NAVY SEAL Striker Rheas, the love of her life...
  • Possessive Devil by B.B. Hamel

    Possessive Devil by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He can own me. But I won’t obey.Calvino is a nightmare wrapped in a million dollar suit. He has eyes like the black between stars and his toned body is a sculptor’s dream.And someone in his family murdered my cousin.When Calvino catches me drugging and stealing from his brother, my life hangs in the balance...
  • The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke

    The Girl in the Snow by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A retired FBI agent. A heartstopping tragedy. Carolina Caccia, a divorced mother of two, confronts her worst fears when her son goes missing during a family ski trip. As she discovers her son has been taken, she must revisit her dark past to rescue her child...
  • Devilish King by Kylie Kent

    Devilish King by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dark Mafia Romance, Contains scenes that could be triggering to some, read with caution. This is book 1 of a trilogy, an epic cliff-hanger can be expected!!TheoMy whole life was mapped out, designed for me, before I was even a twinkle in my old man's eye. I am the heir to the Valentino throne. A kingdom built with blood and dirty money. But one I'll rule all the same...
  • Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m a man who takes what he wants. What do I want? Her. Olive Kernes owned me a debt and she thought that she had paid it back. But now I want more. I want more than just her time. I want more than just her body. Her new life has torn us apart. Now, it’s up to me to make things right. I will make the pieces of our love fit back together if it’s the last thing I do...
  • Rip Tides by Toby Neal

    Rip Tides by Toby Neal

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Surfing in Hawaii can be fame, talent and…murder. Poised to win the prestigious Triple Crown of Surfing, Maui surf star Makoa Simmons washes up tragically dead. Detective Lei Texeira plunges into a high-profile case whose dark and tangled motives reach deep into the elite world of professional surfing on the North Shore of Oahu...
  • Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us.Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing...
  • Grave Deception by Kathy Lockheart

    Grave Deception by Kathy Lockheart

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My new neighbor is a scorching hot police detective—one I have a massive crush on, but I never wanted to get his attention like this: as the apparent victim of an attempted murder.After rescuing me from the icy waters of the Chicago River, Shane begins investigating the people closest to me, and to my horror, discovers several of them have a motive to want me dead...
  • The Dark Bones by Loreth Anne White

    The Dark Bones by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s come back to solve the mystery of her father’s death and confront her own dark past. When Detective Rebecca North left her rural hometown, she vowed never to return. Her father’s apparent suicide has changed that. The official report is that retired cop Noah North shot himself, knocked over a lantern, and set his isolated cabin ablaze. But Rebecca cannot believe he killed himself...
  • The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis

    The Fourth Friend by Joy Ellis

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Looking for your next unputdownable mystery? Then try this book by #1 best-selling author Joy Ellis, a mystery full of stunning twists and turns. FOUR LOST FRIENDS. FOUR TASKS TO COMPLETE. ONE BIG MYSTERY LEFT. Police detective Carter McLean is the only survivor of a plane crash that kills his four best friends. He returns to work but he is left full of guilt and terrible flashbacks...
  • Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Never Tell by Lisa Gardner

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D. D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there.A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun.D. D...
  • Lethal Wedding by Charlotte Byrd

    Lethal Wedding by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To save my father’s life and our family’s legacy, I have to marry a cruel man who wants me only as a trophy. I thought Franklin Parks was a bad man before, but now I know he’s a monster. To survive, I will have to beat him at his own game. But then Henry Asher, my one and only love, comes back into my life and things get a lot more complicated...
  • His Addiction by Charlotte Byrd

    His Addiction by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 4 in the Bestselling series - includes Book 1 as a BONUS! The hotly anticipated fourth book continues the sensual saga of Ellie and Aiden. Aiden Black is beautiful and flawless and tormented and damaged. I'm a good girl who never thought that she would fall for a man who would buy her at an auction. But what started out as a relationship of pure lust has evolved into something more..
  • West End Justice by K.J. Kalis

    West End Justice by K.J. Kalis

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything in Detective Morgan Foster’s life is a secret…Living in West End, West Virginia wasn’t part of the plan, but the murders of her husband, Peter, and her partner, AJ Roth, have sent her into hiding.For a while, everything seemed to be fine, but two dead bodies at her waitressing job tell another story..
  • Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Close Encounter, Part 1 by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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  • Scarred Empire by Bri Blackwood

    Scarred Empire by Bri Blackwood

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She is scarred. When I stormed into her life, it was supposed to be temporary. Anais was supposed to be like the rest,Then I became addicted.My past caught up with me and she walked out before I could make her mine.Tragedy strikes and I have no choice but to bring her back into my world.In order to protect her, I convince her to wear my ring...
  • Steel Empire by Bri Blackwood

    Steel Empire by Bri Blackwood

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Our bond is steel.We began to rebuild what we had,Because I'm determined to make things right.Someone is out to ruin me,And they're using Anais to do it.Danger threatened to take her from me forever.But what they don't know,Is when someone threatens what is mine,There will be hell to pay. Steel Empire is book three in the Broken Cross series. It is the final book in Anais and Damien's story...
  • The End of Lies by Andrew Barrett

    The End of Lies by Andrew Barrett

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My name is Becky. I arrived home to find my husband, Chris, stabbed to death and a gang of men ransacking our house. Turns out that Chris has something that belongs to them. And if I want to stay alive, I have to find it and return it. They have given me seven days. And a beating. There is nowhere to hide and no time left to look. So I will stand my ground as the deadline approaches...
  • Beauty: A Hate Story, The End by Mary Catherine Gebhard

    Beauty: A Hate Story, The End by Mary Catherine Gebhard

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once upon a time, I thought love was a fairytale. My prince was a Beast with blood on his hands and ice in his veins. My family offered to save me. The only price: leaving the tattered pieces of my heart behind. Our love was irrational. Cruel. Unforgiving. Nothing like the storybooks said it should be—but it was perfect. The longer we were apart, the more I lost myself...
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