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  • Lasting Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Lasting Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ridge Faulkner was a renowned luxury house builder. When Ridge was selected at a charity bachelor auction, he was surprised when it wasn’t for an actual date. The woman only wanted him to help fix up her house. Savannah Ambrose was starting her life over in Shadows Landing. But she needed help with the fixer-upper she was moving into...
  • Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a rescue swimmer for the Coast Guard, Wade Faulkner was used to unpredictable situations. But an emergency call late one night turns his life upside down. After finding a boat on fire, he discovers a dead body and a visibly shaken woman in need of rescue. Now he finds himself entangled in a murder mystery between two teams of treasure hunters out for the discovery of a lifetime . .
  • Blue Midnight by Tess Thompson

    Blue Midnight by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What if the road not taken was actually the path meant to be?Finn Lanigan kissed a young Blythe Heywood one last time under a star-scattered Idaho sky. “If you change your mind, here’s this.”It was the last kiss that ever weakened her knees, the last sky she noticed for over a dozen years...
  • Cold Blooded by Toni Anderson

    Cold Blooded by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A journalist searching for the truth about her best friend’s death—and the FBI agent who needs her to stop. Disgraced investigative journalist Pip West is devastated when she discovers her best friend’s body face-down in a tranquil lake. When cops and federal agents determine that her friend overdosed then drowned, Pip knows they’re mistaken and intends to prove it...
  • Obsession by T.K. Leigh

    Obsession by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One week. No names. No expectations.That was our agreement. We were supposed to walk away after our time in Hawaii was over. No matter what.That was before…Before I learned who she is.Before I realized how interconnected our lives are.Before I fell in love.But our love isn’t the stuff fairy tales are made of.Demons lurk around every corner.Good doesn’t necessarily prevail over evil...
  • Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunter Townsend loves his new home in the small town of Shadows Landing. It’s his sanctuary when he comes home from a mission as part of his Special Forces team. Maggie, the infuriating, monogram loving, bright color wearing, cuter than she should be woman, who loves to tease him was the only issue in Shadows Landing. Until a mission goes wrong . .
  • Shadowed by Dani Pettrey

    Shadowed by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Novellas from Bestselling AuthorsIn Dee Henderson's "Missing," a Wyoming sheriff is called to Chicago when his elderly mother goes missing. Paired with a savvy Chicago cop, the two realize her disappearance is no accident, and a race against the clock begins.Dani Pettrey returns to Alaska with "Shadowed," introducing readers to the parents of her beloved McKenna clan...
  • Wait for Me by Susan May Warren

    Wait for Me by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When two women go missing in the Montana wilderness, Pete Brooks must trust his skills, teammatesand the woman who broke his heartif he hopes to bring them all home alive...
  • Engaged in Trouble by Jenny B. Jones

    Engaged in Trouble by Jenny B. Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a washed-up pop star inherits a wedding planning business, it’s all bouquets and bliss until a bride turns up dead.  Paisley Sutton shot to stardom as a teenage rock sensation, but ten years later that star has fizzled out, just like her bank account...
  • Tangled Webs by Irene Hannon

    Tangled Webs by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three-Time RITA Award Winner Delivers Another Heart-Stopping Thriller After a disastrous Middle East mission ends his six-year Army Ranger career, Finn McGregor needs some downtime. A peaceful month in the woods sounds like the perfect way to decompress. But peace isn't on the agenda once he crosses paths with publishing executive Dana Lewis, a neighbor who is nursing wounds of her own...
  • Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . .   Loyalty is a way of life for the Sisterhood and their significant others...
  • Riptide by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Riptide by Dawn Lee McKenna

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Once again, sinister things are afoot in Apalachicola, FL, and one of them is an actual foot.When a local fisherman finds a man’s foot in his net, it sets off a chain of events that no one can anticipate. Lt. Maggie Redmond soon discovers that the foot belongs to the friend of another recently dead guy, Gregory Boudreaux, the man she never told anyone about...
  • It's Only Love by Marie Force

    It's Only Love by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The new Green Mountain Romance from the New York Times bestselling author of And I Love Her. Ella Abbott has long been secretly in love with Gavin Guthrie. A few recent encounters have only added to her infatuation, especially the kiss they shared at her sister’s wedding. It doesn’t matter to Ella that Gavin is in a bad place...
  • Winning Ace: A Winning Ace Novel by Tracie Delaney

    Winning Ace: A Winning Ace Novel by Tracie Delaney

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the opportunity arises for journalist Tally McKenzie to meet tennis ace Cash Gallagher, she grabs it without hesitation. Desperate for a killer story to advance her career, she’ll have to betray her idol and her own morals into the bargain if she is to succeed. Renowned bad boy Cash wants one thing; to remain at the top of his game...
  • Beauty in Hiding by Robin Patchen

    Beauty in Hiding by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book 2 in the Beauty in Flight series: Harper’s second chance at life will become a second stint in prison if anyone connects her to those two dead men. Nutfield, New Hampshire, is as good a place as any to hide from the murderer Harper left behind in Maryland. All she has to do is lie low and make enough money to keep herself and Red alive until she can figure out who her enemies are...
  • Redemption by Eden Winters

    Redemption by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Living is the easy part.Agent Lucky Lucklighter and his partner escaped Mexico alive, only to plunge into bureaucratic fallout from their mission. Hell, maybe Lucky should have stayed south of the border. Especially when the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau places Bo into rehab, and Lucky’s facing both therapy and an inquiry into a fatal shooting...
  • Peony Red by J. Lynn Bailey

    Peony Red by J. Lynn Bailey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three years ago, Alex Fisher lost her husband and since then, she hasn’t been able to find her stride. She’s out of a job, out of time, and running on fumes. When she receives a personal invitation to visit the picturesque town of Granite Harbor, Maine, she jumps at the chance to start fresh. For game warden Eli Young, life is simpler when he’s exploring the back roads of Maine...
  • Dirty Trick by Mickey Miller

    Dirty Trick by Mickey Miller

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eva: I've always been the good girl. Until one night in Tijuana. When the most gorgeous man in the bar struck up a conversation with me. He was so damn cocky, I decided to play a trick on him. So I made up a fake name. It was innocent, even if he was sinful. I didn't ever think four hours later he would be moaning my fake name. Corbin: She was the sexiest girl I’d ever met...
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    sports  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Waiting For Wren by Cate Beauman

    Waiting For Wren by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wren Cooke has everything she’s ever wanted—a thriving career as one of LA’s top interior designers and a home she loves. Business trips, mockups, and her demanding clientele keep her busy, almost too busy to notice Ethan Cooke Security’s gorgeous Close Protection Agent, Tucker Campbell...
  • Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters

    Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Independent and tenacious journalist Vivian DeMarco is back in Walton, Georgia, for one reason -- to do her job and get out. When her boss suddenly dies under suspicious circumstances, Vivian's only hope for finding the truth -- and the next big story -- is small-town law enforcement's lanky poster boy, Deputy Ryan Frost. But the deeper they dig, the more twisted the truth becomes...
  • Evidence of Desire by Lexi Blake, Alexandra Shawnee

    Evidence of Desire by Lexi Blake, Alexandra Shawnee

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A fast-paced contemporary romance that sizzles from the New York Times best-selling author of Order of Protection where passion for the law isn't the only thing heating up the courtroom. Isla Shayne knows she's in over her head. As former all-star linebacker Trey Adams' personal lawyer, she's used to handling his business dealings and private financial matters, not murder charges...
  • 'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He left in handcuffs. Now it's time to set himself free.  Nearly twenty years after he was wrongly convicted of setting the fire that killed his father, Lincoln Fox returns to Rebel Ridge, Kentucky. There, deep in the Appalachians, the truth of that terrible night lies buried-and he's sworn to uncover it...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Falling For Sarah by Cate Beauman

    Falling For Sarah by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Widow Sarah Johnson struggled to pick up the pieces after her life was ripped apart. After two years of grieving, she’s found contentment in her thriving business as photographer to Hollywood’s A-list and in raising her angel-faced daughter, Kylee... until bodyguard and long-time friend Ethan Cooke changes everything with a searing moonlight kiss...
  • On Shadow Beach by Barbara Freethy

    On Shadow Beach by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The California town of Angel’s Bay has had its share of troubles: from the long-unsolved murder of a teenage girl to the young police officer recently left in a coma after being shot. But miracles also have a way of happening . . . as if angels really do keep a watchful eye there...
  • Where There's Smoke by Susan May Warren

    Where There's Smoke by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From RITA award-winning author Susan May Warren comes a new action romance. Book 1 in the Montana Fire: Summer of Fire trilogy. She’s a smokejumper afraid of fire… Kate Burns is a legendary smoke jumper, known for her courage and willingness to risk everything to get the job done. Only she has a secret, one she won’t admit to anyone...
  • Secrets of the Highlander by Janet Chapman

    Secrets of the Highlander by Janet Chapman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He is the father of her child, but the secrets they are hiding are tearing them apart.... Megan MacKeage escaped the smothering protectiveness of the Highland MacKeage clan to work as a scientist on the Canadian tundra. But when fellow researcher Wayne Ferris breaks her heart by rejecting her, Megan returns to Maine alone...
    Categorized as:
    maine  north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  dragons
  • The Deep End by Traci Hunter Abramson

    The Deep End by Traci Hunter Abramson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Another exciting read by Traci Abramson, Traci brings together personal experience in competitive swimming and insider knowledge of US spy agencies to deliver a riveting story from the first paragraph to the...
  • Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone tried to kill her twelve years ago. Teenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died -- and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan's family moved away right afterward, she's never been able to put the crime behind her...
  • The Forever Stone by Gloria Repp

    The Forever Stone by Gloria Repp

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paralyzing memories of abuse . . .A beautiful glass paperweight . . .Escape to the wilderness."Don't bury yourself in that wilderness!" her relatives say. "Even though you're a widow, you're still young." No matter what they think, Madeleine decides to go. She'll help her aunt restore the old house; she'll sign up for an online baking course; and she'll bury--yes, bury--those terrible memories...
  • Black Widow by Laurie Breton

    Black Widow by Laurie Breton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sex, lies and murder to conceal the shameful secrets of a picturesque little Southern town. The jury had no hesitation in convicting Kathryn McAllister of killing her husband - she'd been found standing over his body, covered in blood and holding the murder weapon. But four years later new evidence supports her claims of innocence...
  • Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original...
  • Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen years ago, Ainsley Tidwell’s young life was shattered upon her discovery of the body of her murdered cousin, Carly. Now Carly’s sister Sabrina is missing, and Ainsley returns to Dahlonega, Georgia for the first time since the homicide that tore her family apart...
  • A Cowboy to Keep by Barbara Ankrum

    A Cowboy to Keep by Barbara Ankrum

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the run from her past, photographer Ali Thibeaux arrives undercover in Marietta to find her biological half-sister. Plan A: Meet Olivia, photograph her wedding, and disappear before endangering anyone. Plan B: All hell breaks loose. Reclusive rancher Adam Wolfe’s only plan when he hires Ali to manage his dysfunctional household is to go on hiding from the world...
  • Trouble in Texas by Eve Gaddy

    Trouble in Texas by Eve Gaddy

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trouble comes in all guises—something undercover Fish and Wildlife Service agent Mark Kincaid knows better than most. Recovering from a gunshot wound in the tiny coastal town of Redfish, Texas the last thing he expects to find is trouble…especially of the female variety. Wild bird rehabilitator Cat Randolph loves everything about birds, especially saving them...
  • The Rogue by Jennifer Bernard

    The Rogue by Jennifer Bernard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Griffin Rockwell has returned to Rocky Peak Lodge with a secret. Not even his family knows why he left his beloved sport of motocross at the top of his game. Locals still consider him a hero, but these days the best he can do is play bodyguard to the fascinating new employee at his brother’s pub. As for their intense attraction, he can handle that. Right? Serena Riggs has a secret of her own...
  • Never Again by R.L. Mathewson

    Never Again by R.L. Mathewson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There could only be one reason why Quinn Jackson had taken her to a secondary location…revenge.From New York Times and USA Today’s bestselling author R.L. Mathewson comes a new standalone romantic comedy with down-to-earth characters that will have you laughing out loud and leave you with no choice but to fall in love...
  • Play Me False by E.R. Whyte

    Play Me False by E.R. Whyte

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve just discovered my husband has a secret…and if I’m not careful, it might get me killed.In a single soul-destroying moment, I find in the most public of ways that my husband has an entire other family...
  • The Exposé 3 by Roxy Sloane

    The Exposé 3 by Roxy Sloane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My secret is out — and the stakes are higher than ever. One night with Dax Ryan and my cover is blown, but I can’t walk away. It’s not just the incredible, filthy things he does to my body; I’ve betrayed his trust, and I need to make it right. But each new question only gets me in deeper. And every sexy encounter with Dax makes me want him even more. This is dangerous. Thrilling...
    Categorized as:
    sports  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  steamy
  • Uncontrollable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Uncontrollable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unstoppable (BK 3) - June 3, 2014 As Grace recovers from tragedy, her science class is chosen by Agent Sweeney at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to help with research on the new "Red Wolf Reintroduction Program"...
  • Dangerous Surrender by Katie Reus

    Dangerous Surrender by Katie Reus

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A cold-blooded killer wants her dead. After her friend is murdered right before her eyes, Taylor uses her wits to escape with just a bullet wound, thankful to be alive. But now the killer isn’t the only one after her—the cops are, too, and Taylor’s not sure she can trust them—or anybody else in her life in California...
  • Ultimate Weapon by Shannon McKenna

    Ultimate Weapon by Shannon McKenna

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Tamara’s a bad girl with a dangerous difference. Enter a terrifying, sexually charged world of thrilling suspense where love is the riskiest game of all . . . THE FIRST CUT IS THE DEEPEST Covert operations are what Val Janos is all about. The man is mysterious and sinister, and lethally hot...
  • Gathering Shadows by Nancy Mehl

    Gathering Shadows by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wynter Evans is a promising young reporter for a television station in St. Louis, but even a bright future doesn't take away her pain over the disappearance of her brother nine years ago. So when she stumbles across a photograph of a boy with an eerie resemblance to him, she can't pass up the chance to track him down...
  • Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards. Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now the second is free. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night...
  • Race Against Time by Christy Barritt

    Race Against Time by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Were it not for her cop neighbor, widowed mother Madison Jacobs would be dead. Thankfully, Detective Brody Philips interrupts an attempt on her life in the nick of time. But the would-be killer hasn't given up, and each tick of the clock brings the madman closer to finishing what he started...
  • Back on Bittercreek Ranch by RaeAnne Thayne

    Back on Bittercreek Ranch by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman with amnesia and a former FBI agent find themselves in grave danger—and fighting an irresistible attraction!—in this sweeping romance originally published as The Interpreter in 2005! He found her, barely conscious, on a dark Utah mountain road—a woman with an affinity for obscure languages and seemingly no memory of her identity...
  • Bodyguard Reunion by Margaret Daley

    Bodyguard Reunion by Margaret Daley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    REUNIONS CAN BE DEADLY  Teaming up with an old flame is not what bodyguard Chloe Howard would call a smart move. Nine years ago Chloe and T. J. Davenport worked on a case together, fell in love, then went their separate ways. Now she's reunited with the fearless bodyguard to protect a controversial couple on a book tour through Texas. And the reunion reminds Chloe of dreams best forgotten...
  • In the Eye of the Storm by Jennifer Hayden

    In the Eye of the Storm by Jennifer Hayden

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Saga of THE CALLAHANS continues... Beau Callahan has spent a good portion of his life playing baseball for millions of adoring fans. When the limelight finally gets to him, he decides to visit his brother and sister-in-law in Riverdale, Montana. With nothing in mind but a little R&R, the last thing Beau is looking for is a female entanglement..
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    sports  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  dark  family  fiction
  • Simple Choices by Nancy Mehl

    Simple Choices by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Set your GPS for the small town of Harmony, Kansas, where a city girl becomes embroiled in mystery and romance. Graphic designer Gracie Temple is engaged to Sam Goodrich. As she returns from chaperoning her protégé, Hannah Mueller, during summer art classes in the city, Gracie is eager to finish her wedding plans and marry the man of her dreams...
  • Misty Lake: Book One in the Misty Lake Series by Margaret Standafer

    Misty Lake: Book One in the Misty Lake Series by Margaret Standafer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Samantha Taylor has lost all those dearest to her…her parents, her brother, and now the grandfather who raised her. When his will is read and some of his secrets come to light, Sam finds herself back in Misty Lake, Minnesota, a place that holds countless happy memories but, as she quickly discovers, just as many questions...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Avalanche by Gayla K. Hiss

    Avalanche by Gayla K. Hiss

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Park Ranger Jenny Snowfeather runs into Deputy Marshal Chase Matthews at her brother's Fourth of July barbecue, she suspects there is more going on in Eagle Valley, WA than fireworks. After Chase confides that he believes the fugitive who killed his partner may be hiding out in the area, Jenny is skeptical at first...
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