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  • Forged in Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Forged in Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a baby goes missing…The ink was barely dry on the contract Bristol Steele had signed for Steele Guardians to provide security for a metro hospital when a baby is abducted from the nursery. Horrified and devastated for the family, Bristol puts everything in her life aside to find the abducted child and return her to her devastated parents...
  • One Last Chance by Susan May Warren

    One Last Chance by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Axel Mulligan was built to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He swam fast and endured long, a miracle for those in peril--until a tragedy sent him home to Alaska. Now, three years later, he's not going to let the past repeat itself. As an Air One rescue swimmer, he'll do anything to save lives--including sacrifice his own...
  • Forgotten Secrets by Christy Barritt

    Forgotten Secrets by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    FBI Special Agent Jesse Marx doesn’t know which is worse—waking up in a horse stable with no memories of the past several days or waking up to discover he’s wearing a wedding band. Not only has he been injured, but he’s also gotten hitched—something he vowed never to do.Sienna Fleming refuses to feel a connection to any man, much less be tied down to one...
  • Secrets of Shame: The Colsons by Christy Barritt

    Secrets of Shame: The Colsons by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A killer’s rampage has just begun . . .Attorney Isaac Colson only wants to put his past in Fog Log behind him and return to his life in Memphis. He thought the trauma involving the infamous The Good Samaritan Killer was behind him—until an ominous letter beckons him back home.Isaac Colson is the only man Rebecca Moreno has ever loved...
  • Tate by Maryann Jordan

    Tate by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Country music, his parents, cold beer, and apple pie…just a few of the things Frank Tate loves. The former SEAL, now a Lighthouse Security specialist also loves his job and lives for the next mission. But when a call from home sends him back to the mid-west, the past and present collide as danger follows the girl he left behind years before...
  • Cold Aim by Janice Cantore

    Cold Aim by Janice Cantore

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Police Chief Tess O’Rourke’s small town is still reeling from a devastating fire when the FBI asks for help: Could she shelter a witness in a high-profile human trafficking case? Initially reluctant to put the townspeople of Rogue’s Hollow at risk, Tess is swayed after she sees Pastor Oliver Macpherson’s genuine conviction to rescue those in need, a trait in him she’s coming to love more each day...
  • April’s Rain by David Johnson

    April’s Rain by David Johnson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Eight years after losing her closest friend, Tucker struggles to keep her rebellious, self-destructive granddaughter under control. When April accidentally kills her boyfriend while defending herself from his attack, Judge Jack helps Tucker ferry her granddaughter away to Spirit Lake, a remote treatment facility in the mountains of eastern Tennessee...
  • Christmas Threat by Lynn Shannon

    Christmas Threat by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An unexpected threat… Faith Hicks has always wanted a huge family, but when her husband died two years ago, that dream faded. When she discovers a baby in her barn, and is subsequently attacked, she’s thrust into a life-and-death situation. Chase McKenzie is determined to protect Faith at all costs. His childhood friend has no idea he’s in love with her and he has no intention of telling her...
  • The Slow Burn of Silence by Loreth Anne White

    The Slow Burn of Silence by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From the crossroads of small town mystery and dark suspense comes a romance that explores the bonds of family, the power of love, and the potentially explosive collateral damage of the secrets we keep... Sometimes a contract to forget can be as powerful as a promise to remember..
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Deep Harbor by Christy Barritt

    Deep Harbor by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A JOB AS EASY AS SUNDAY MORNING Guilt over past mistakes haunt former Navy SEAL Dez Rodriguez. When he’s asked to guard a pop star during a music festival on Lantern Beach, he’s all set for what he hopes is a breezy assignment.   UNTIL HE MEETS BREE JORDAN Bree hasn’t found fame to be nearly as fulfilling as she dreamed...
  • Walking on Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Walking on Her Grave by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The electrifying conclusion of the romantic suspense novella series from Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot. The sleepy town of Solitude, Oregon, has turned into ground zero for a turf war between the manufacturers and distributors of a lethal new drug. When a teenage witness disappears, social worker Carly Taylor must find him before he’s silenced permanently...
  • Murder at Haven's Rock by Kelley Armstrong

    Murder at Haven's Rock by Kelley Armstrong

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven's Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start... with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins.Haven’s Rock, Yukon. Population: 0Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run...
  • Hometown Girl by Courtney Walsh

    Hometown Girl by Courtney Walsh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Courtney Walsh returns with a hopeful and emotional new book about seizing second chances, finding yourself, and forging your own path. Beth Whitaker isn’t supposed to be a small-town girl...
  • Rescued by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rescued by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Just as the walls start to come down, boundaries redefine, and things heat up, tragedy hits the small mountain town of McKenzie Ridge. Sexy EMT Dawson Tayler made hearts break, and panties melt with a single look. Far from home, in the charming tourist town, he lives a simple life his family would be appalled by – if they were alive...
  • The Bones at Point No Point by D.D. Black

    The Bones at Point No Point by D.D. Black

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dive into the #1 best-selling mystery series readers are comparing to Connelly, Patterson, and Baldacci.How do you catch a killer who's already behind bars?Thomas Austin was once a star NYPD detective, known for locking up a psychopathic serial The Holiday Baby Butcher...
  • Sea Glass Cottage: A Hope Harbor Novel by Irene Hannon

    Sea Glass Cottage: A Hope Harbor Novel by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christi Reece is desperate. The one-time golden girl's life has tarnished, and a cascade of setbacks has left her reeling. She needs help, and she's certain Jack Colby is in a position to provide it.When she shows up in Hope Harbor, however, Jack wants nothing to do with the woman who betrayed him...
  • Color of Danger by Alexa Verde

    Color of Danger by Alexa Verde

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Former runaway Mari Del Lobo works hard to save her struggling restaurant and to trust people again. Dallas surgeon Dr. Luke Goodman turns her world upside down with terrifying news. A recent murder has her late brother's - aka the Smiling Killer - signature and MO. When attacks on her escalate, Mari fights her growing attraction to the good doctor as fiercely as she fights for her life...
  • Cowboy Foreman in Love for Christmas by Jo Grafford

    Cowboy Foreman in Love for Christmas by Jo Grafford

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A strapped-for-cash waitress who’s sworn off romance, the single-and-available foreman determined to change her mind, and the late winter storm that leaves her snowbound at the ranch he runs…A strapped-for-cash waitress who’s taking a break from dating, the single-and-available foreman determined to change her mind, and the late winter storm that leaves them snowbound together at the ranch he...
  • Fallen by Linda Castillo

    Fallen by Linda Castillo

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo’s new thriller Fallen, a rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the secrets she takes with her will lead Chief of Police Kate Burkholder down a dark path to danger and death.When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters Mill motel, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is shocked to discover she once knew the victim...
  • A Cry in the Dark by Denise Grover Swank

    A Cry in the Dark by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman fleeing her past finds more than she bargains for in a new suspense series by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank. A woman on the run with no one to trust.With the ink barely dry on her new identity, Cary Moore just wants to disappear…but fate has other plans...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Her Grave Secrets by Kendra Elliot

    Her Grave Secrets by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    There are no secrets in a small town—until someone has one worth dying for. Local cop Stevie Taylor and police chief Zane Duncan have startling new proof that a deadly street drug is expanding its poisonous grip on their small town: a skull found on the banks of the Rogue River has two bullet holes in the back...
  • Make You Feel My Love by Kait Nolan

    Make You Feel My Love by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Will danger catapult these lifelong friends to lovers?Autumn Buchanan has loved Judd all her life. Best friends since they were children, he’s been fulfilling her rescue fantasies for years. But years ago, her dreams of more ended in blood and a nightmare that nearly cost them both their lives...
  • Traces of Virtue by Robin Patchen

    Traces of Virtue by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Don't miss this plot-twisting thriller, the latest in the addictive Coventry Saga from a USA Today bestselling author.When doing what's right goes terribly wrong...From her deathbed, Carly Garcia's mother asked Carly to look after her stepfather and stepsisters. Carly is trying to keep that promise, but now she has a new life to protect, this one innocent and vulnerable...
  • Pelican Point by Irene Hannon

    Pelican Point by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A crumbling lighthouse is not part of the inheritance Army doctor Ben Garrison expects to claim when he journeys to Hope Harbor. Fresh out of the service, he wants only to unload the tower of bricks, decompress from years of treating battlefield trauma, and prepare to launch his civilian career.Hope Harbor Herald editor Marci Weber has other ideas...
  • A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo

    A Gathering of Secrets by Linda Castillo

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A deadly fire exposes the dark side of Amish life in this harrowing new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series.When a historic barn burns to the ground in the middle of the night, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to investigate. At first, it looks like an accident, but when the body of eighteen-year-old Daniel Gingerich is found inside—burned alive—Kate suspects murder...
  • Holy Ghost by John Sandford

    Holy Ghost by John Sandford

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Wheatfield, Minnesota - a metropolis of seven hundred souls. The word "moribund" might have been invented for Wheatfield. Nothing ever happened there and nothing ever would—until the mayor of sorts (campaign slogan: "I'll Do What I Can") and a buddy come up with a scheme to put the town on the map...
  • Stay with Me by Becky Wade

    Stay with Me by Becky Wade

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A mysterious letter alluding to a secret in her parents' past brings Genevieve Woodward back to her Blue Ridge Mountains hometown, but she's also in need of a break from a high-profile career that has left her dangerously burned out and concealing a powerful secret of her own...
  • Dying for Love by Rita Herron

    Dying for Love by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything she believes is a lie. Amelia Nettleton has struggled to overcome her childhood trauma and finally has a chance to lead a normal life—a life with a husband and a family. But a recurring nightmare haunts her: she dreams of a baby crying for its mother…a baby that may be hers, and was stolen from her...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • One to Keep by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    One to Keep by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new content. Stefan Talbot likes order and control. He approaches his life with the same meticulous precision that he uses to put paint on his canvas. Nothing good comes from chaos, and that is why he has refused to allow himself to get close to Jennifer Waters. They are like fire and ice. Though she is younger, her talent as an artist is unquestionable...
  • The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    The Secrets She Kept by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Exciting, emotional, intense. The thrilling follow-up to New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak's highly acclaimed The Secret Sister. The things that happen in families are always surprising and sometimes shocking! The rich and powerful Josephine Lazarow, matriarch of Fairham Island, is dead. The police say it's suicide, but Keith, her estranged son, doesn't believe it...
  • Cry in the Night by Colleen Coble

    Cry in the Night by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bree Nichols gets the shock of her life when her husband-presumed dead-reappears. Bree Nichols and her search and rescue dog Samson discover a crying infant in the densely forested woods outside of Rock Harbor, Michigan. Against objections from her husband, Kade, who knows she'll become attached, Bree takes the baby in...
  • Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Right Where We Belong by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak returns to Silver Springs with a moving story about rebuilding your life when you've got nothing left to lose  Savanna Gray needs a do-over. Her "perfect" life unraveled when, to her absolute shock, her husband was arrested for attacking three women...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  breakup  contemporary
  • Inheritance of Secrets by Robin Patchen

    Inheritance of Secrets by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From a USA Today bestselling author comes the latest in an edge-of-your-seat Christian romantic suspense series that will keep you reading all night long."I didn't do right by your mother. Find her and do what I never had the courage to do.”Her father’s deathbed confession changed everything for Aspen Kincaid. The mystery of her mother’s disappearance was unsolvable, or so she’d believed...
  • Rising Hope by Edie James

    Rising Hope by Edie James

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Coast Guard rescue pilot Enzo MacKenzie puts his life on the line every day, but when his commanding officer persuades him to take part in an undercover drug sting, he quickly realizes this new assignment is going to be everything he deception, greed and deceit.Not his jam.Neither is his reluctant partner, DEA agent Sarah Walker. She’s bossy, bristly and annoyingly overconfident...
  • Rising Fury by Edie James

    Rising Fury by Edie James

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Haunted by their pasts, two damaged souls seek redemption, but they’re running out of time. A killer waits in the shadows, ready to stop them dead. Firefighter Dante MacKenzie carries a burden not even his close-knit family could guess. But after years of running, payment is due...
  • Fearless by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Fearless by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life teeters in the balance when tragedy strikes the small mountain town of McKenzie Ridge… Everly Shaw’s world takes a direct hit leaving her battling demons she thought she buried long ago. A daredevil at heart that throws caution to the wind, the only risk she wouldn’t gamble on was love...
  • Christmas Hideout by Susan Sleeman

    Christmas Hideout by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cowboy lawmen make the best protectors A McKade Law novel Fleeing from her dangerous ex-boyfriend, on-the-run single mother Nicole Dyer takes refuge in a cabin—and is discovered by the ranch owner, Deputy Matt McKade. It’s easy to fall for the handsome lawman and his kind family, but staying at the ranch endangers them all...
  • Refuge: A Small Town Cowboy Romance by Jill Burrell

    Refuge: A Small Town Cowboy Romance by Jill Burrell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Falling in love with a stranger can be dangerous.Rancher Jake Winters is comfortable with his quiet, predictable life. He’s not interested in love, especially if it comes at the expense of his ranch. His life is turned upside down, however, after he rescues a beautiful woman from a car crash.Fingerprints identify the lone survivor of the wreck and the victim of an abduction as Emily Anderson...
  • Cornered by Lynette Eason, Lynn H. Blackburn

    Cornered by Lynette Eason, Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prepare for three times the thrills with these nail-biting page-turners from your favorite romantic suspense authors!In In the Dark by Lynette Eason, accountant Steph Cross is cleaning out a coworker's desk after her untimely death when she finds cryptic notes that lead her to believe her friend's car accident was no accident at all...
  • Summerlin Groves by Elizabeth Camden

    Summerlin Groves by Elizabeth Camden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elizabeth Camden's first Contemporary Romance!Jenny Summerlin is struggling to save her dying orange grove when a baffling mystery upends her world. A skeleton buried with a priceless treasure has been found on her land, which brings of flood of investigators onto her property to study a decades old crime.Captain Wyatt Rossiter is charged with solving the puzzling discovery...
  • Tides of Duplicity by Robin Patchen

    Tides of Duplicity by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Private investigator Fitz McCaffrey went to Belize on a case, bringing his teenage sister Shelby along with him. They lost their parents years ago, he lost his job as a cop, and they both need time to heal. When Fitz meets the beautiful and charming Tabitha Eaton, he falls hard...
  • Dark of Night by Colleen Coble

    Dark of Night by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After clearing Jon’s name and stopping the attempts on her life, Annie Pederson would love some time to just process. Jon was her first love, and now—finally—he’s committed to returning to Rock Harbor and to her. But they’ve both changed in the intervening years...
  • Rattlesnake Road by Amanda McKinney

    Rattlesnake Road by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone hits rock bottom, only the brave escape.Welcome to 1314 Rattlesnake Road.A quaint two-bedroom log cabin nestled deep in the woods of the small, southern town of Berry Springs—the perfect hideaway to escape your past.Tucked inside thick, mahogany walls lay mysterious letters, forgotten and untouched for decades...
  • Deadly Isle by Dani Pettrey

    Deadly Isle by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tennyson Kent is trapped on the isolated island of her childhood by a storm surge, and she is shocked when the typically idyllic community turns into the hunting grounds of a murderer...
  • Cold Light of Day by Elizabeth Goddard

    Cold Light of Day by Elizabeth Goddard

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Police Chief Autumn Long is fighting to keep her job in the quiet Alaska town of Shadow Gap when an unexpected string of criminal activity leaves her with a wounded officer, unexplained murders, and even an attack on her own father. Despite her mistrust of outsiders, she turns to Grier Brenner, a newcomer who seems to have the skills and training Autumn needs to face this threat to her community...
  • Blinded by Lyz Kelley

    Blinded by Lyz Kelley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A small town murder. A second chance at love. Somebody killed Joey Gaccione’s brother. After a ten-year absence, the big city detective returns home to Colorado for the funeral knowing he will be pressured to find Sheriff Sam’s killer. Joey’s instincts say whoever murdered his brother is part of something more sinister than the Elkridge deputies can handle...
  • Rescued: A Small Town Single Dad Romance by Jill Burrell

    Rescued: A Small Town Single Dad Romance by Jill Burrell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Breaking down in a nowhere town called Providence wasn’t part of the plan.When her life falls apart in a matter of a few hours, all single mother Amy Lawson wants is a fresh start. She doesn’t expect to break down and find herself at the mercy of strangers...
  • Midnight Sacrifice by Melinda Leigh

    Midnight Sacrifice by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One by one, people are mysteriously disappearing from a small Maine town. Four months ago, a ruthless murderer killed two people and kidnapped three more, including Danny Sullivan's sister, who barely escaped. Unfortunately so did the killer, vanishing without a trace into the vast wilderness. When the police fail to find his sister's captor, Danny returns to Maine to hunt him down...
    Categorized as:
    crime  drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark
  • Back on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

    Back on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street - a flower shop called Susannah's Garden. The owner, Susannah Nelson, has just hired a young widow named Colette Blake. Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting class. Lydia's previous classes have forged lasting friendships and this one is no exception...
  • Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo, Kathleen McInerney

    Among the Wicked by Linda Castillo, Kathleen McInerney

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community...
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