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  • Legacy by Helen Hardt

    Legacy by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    HE'LL KEEP HIS COMMITMENTS NO MATTER WHAT. Brad Steel is in love. Daphne Wade is more than just his wife-to-be and the mother of his unborn child. She's his destiny. Fate brought them together, and he vows to protect her. His determination doesn't waver when he learns a secret about his bride - a secret she herself doesn't know...
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    drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Walker: Lighthouse Security Investigations by Maryann Jordan

    Walker: Lighthouse Security Investigations by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.70 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. Julie Baxter, chaperone to three teenage girls to the Mayan ruins in Mexico was having the vacation of a lifetime...
  • Deception by Naomi Chase

    Deception by Naomi Chase

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sisters can share too much. . . Acquitted of murder, Tamia Luke is on a mission to reclaim all she's lost, including her ex, Brandon. He's about to get married, but Tamia's determined, even if it means resorting to deception--a family habit. Her sister, Fiona, betrayed Tamia to save her own skin. Now the two share a scandalous secret that may destroy both their plans to start over. .
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    drama  suspense  urban  adult  audiobook  black-mc  book  contemporary
  • Rafe by Maryann Jordan

    Rafe by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The true measure of a man is not in the mistakes he makes…but in how he handles those mistakes. Rafe Walker gained fame while in the Army when he was photographed for a Military Calendar. Afterward, modeling contracts rolled in but he found his life in California lacking and longed for a change...
  • Darius' Promise by Jen Talty

    Darius' Promise by Jen Talty

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Captain Darius Ford has done his best to put the past where it belongs. He and his team have a new gig with the Brotherhood Protectors, and starting over never looked so good. That is until the woman who has haunted his dreams comes waltzing into his office as if she wasn’t the reason his military career ended. Special Agent Fenmore Harley has never for a second believed that Darius was a liar...
  • Dead Drift by Dani Pettrey

    Dead Drift by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Burning debris littering the ground . . . smoke pluming in the acrid air . . . this is just the beginning if he fails.Seven years ago, operative Luke Gallagher vanished to become part of an elite team set on capturing a deadly terrorist...
  • 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...
  • Troy by Dale Mayer

    Troy by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SEAL of Honor: TroyWhen a friend of Tesla's sends out an SOS on the lowdown on an oil rig in trouble, Troy has a good idea what he's getting into. As far as he is concerned, the maximum danger, the potential for betrayal, and the chances of not coming home sounded like the right kind of job for him.After all, he lived alone...
  • Gage's Goal by Dale Mayer

    Gage's Goal by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gage hadn’t told the rest of his team, but he’d planned to meet up with Lorelei after their team disbanded. A little one-on-one time was needed to see if all the sparks they’d felt over the last few years were the real thing. He’d deliberately avoided getting involved with anyone he worked with, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity...
  • A Third Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    A Third Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Third Moment in Time is a collection of stories by Susan Stoker, including 3 short stories that have been published previously in recent anthologies, a story written specifically for social media, and a brand new, never been published novella featuring a beloved character from the Silverstone series.The Bully: When a bully at school targets the seventh-grader, Annie Fletcher is on her own...
  • Lethal Secrets by Jenna Gunn

    Lethal Secrets by Jenna Gunn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Eli’s first mission after the SEALs is FUBAR. Gather intel? That’s a negative. Save a woman and claim her as his to protect? Roger that. ~Mia BaileyWomen like me don’t get fairytale endings.We get abusive brothers.Liars and cheating.We get scars.Damage so deep it will never be shaken.Until a gigantic battle-hardened SEAL decides to prove otherwise.Vows to avenge me.Puts his life on the line...
  • Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Something On The Side by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Meet Tammy, Egypt, Isis, Nikki, Coco, and Tiny-the bodacious women of the Big Girls Book Club. There's only one rule to being a member. You must be at least a size 14. . . BGBC president Tammy loves everything about her life-especially taking care of business for her husband, Tim. This year, she intends to top all his past birthdays by having a threesome with her best friend, Egypt...
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    drama  suspense  urban  adult  audiobook  black-mc  book  contemporary
  • Winds of Danger by Christy Barritt

    Winds of Danger by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Wes O’Neill is perfectly content to hang with his friends and enjoy island life on Lantern Beach. Something begins to change inside him when Paige Henderson sweeps into his life. But the beautiful newcomer is hiding painful secrets beneath her cheerful facade. Police dispatcher Paige Henderson came to Lantern Beach riddled with guilt and uncertainties after the fallout of a bad relationship...
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    drama  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    A Man's Promise by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A man's word is his bond. His family is his strength. His heart is his own. Superstar musician Caden Granger has spent years running from love, commitment and family. Yet despite his fame and fortune, he knows the kind of respect and adoration he needs can only come from one person—the very woman who wants nothing to do with him...
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    drama  suspense  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  fiction  holidays
  • Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Thug-A-Licious by Noire

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Have you ever wanted something so bad you was willing to crawl over bodies to get it? I mean, fiend for it so hard it didn’t matter who you hurt, how low you had to scrape, it was gonna be yours? That’s what music and balling did for me. They were the fundamentals behind my rise . . . and the perpetrators of my fall...
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    drama  suspense  urban  adult  audiobook  black-mc  book  contemporary
  • Snapped by Tracy Brown

    Snapped by Tracy Brown

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As the pampered wife of Frankie Bingham, Camille wants for nothing. After all Frankie and their life together are her whole world. So Camille tries not to be bothered by his closeness with his coworker and dear friend Gillian. But it soon becomes clear that Camille's suspicions are correct...
  • Killian by Dale Mayer

    Killian by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Killian is called up to retrieve a woman who’s been kidnapped, then escaped, only to be captured again.With a sketchy SOS coming in, he’s tracking her from Vancouver to Alaska, where the intel finally stops.The apple of her father’s eye, Cisco was a late gift in his life. But when it counted, he wasn’t there for her, leaving her alone and unprotected...
  • Corbin by Dale Mayer

    Corbin by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Corbin is tracking a cabinet minister’s pregnant daughter, who’d been snatched off the streets several days ago. The incident followed several other missing women’s cases, except those women already had given birth, and their children were also kidnapped at the same time...
  • HOT MEN: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Ashlee Price

    HOT MEN: A Contemporary Romance Box Set by Ashlee Price

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Collection of 4 Amazon Best Sellers + 1 Exclusive! This guilty pleasure is for readers who love their bad boys, alpha males and billionaires hot, dark and ready to take the women they want..
  • Diesel by Dale Mayer

    Diesel by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Diesel book 13 in The Mavericks series.Traveling to China to retrieve a kidnapped scientist shows Diesel the depths of human depravity. Not that he needs more proof. He's been doing this type of work for a decade. This is the first time though the person he was rescuing was this interesting...
  • Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the surface, Gaby Parker has it all; however, behind closed doors, is a woman who lives in constant fear of the man who was supposed to love her: her husband, Kyle. Beaten, desperate, and broken, Gaby realizes the only way to escape from her violent husband is to kill herself — on paper...
  • Don't Look Back (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    Don't Look Back (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Top rated romantic suspense at its best!***One man lives to see her dead. The other is fighting to keep her alive.Twelve years ago, forensic anthropologist Jamie Cash survived a brutal kidnapping. After years of therapy, she has made a life for herself--though one that is haunted by memories of her terrifying past...
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    drama  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  christian  contemporary  crime
  • Black Magic by D. Camille

    Black Magic by D. Camille

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirty year old billionaire Jordan Black is all about handling his business, in the boardroom and most definitely in the bedroom; and his business is controlling everything and everyone around him. That is, until he meets Sage Parker, the ultimate temptation and the younger sister of his close friend and business associate, which makes her the forbidden fruit he will never taste...
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    drama  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Wade's War by Dale Mayer

    Wade's War by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sophia met Wade a few years back, and the last she heard from him was he’d be back to take her out to dinner—and never saw him again. Having spent several years in the meantime working with Merk and his team in Texas, when Terk called for her help, Sophia jumped at the opportunity to go. Even if Wade didn’t get it, she knew a connection worth trying for when she felt it...
  • 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...
  • A Wicked Song by Lisa Renee Jones

    A Wicked Song by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Kace August: famous, intense, dark, addictive. Aria Alard: a woman with secrets, passion, and a dangerous past. Passion. Secrets. Mystery. Aria fell hard for Kace. She trusted him. But did he deserve that trust? And where is Gio?A Wicked Song is the second book in the Brilliance Trilogy...
  • The Way of Grace by Cathy Bryant

    The Way of Grace by Cathy Bryant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In pursuit of justice, in need of grace . . . A justice-seeking perfectionist pursues her dream of a perfect life in her hometown of Miller’s Creek, Texas. Sidetracked by a desire to be a prosecuting attorney, Grace Soldano launches into uncharted waters, making herself over to please her boss and mentor...
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    drama  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  fiction  medical
  • Body of Evidence by Irene Hannon

    Body of Evidence by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Forensic pathologist Grace Reilly has seen her share of unusual deaths in rural Missouri. But when she begins to notice a curious pattern in autopsies of elderly residents whose demise appears to be natural, she takes her concerns to Sheriff Nate Cox.Nate is skeptical about the link Grace is seeing between the deaths--and her suspicions of foul play. But her persistence is compelling...
  • A Bridge Unbroken by Cathy Bryant

    A Bridge Unbroken by Cathy Bryant

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Letting go to build a bridge… Dakota Kelly wants her painful past to disappear. A plan to start afresh is derailed when she co-inherits her late grandfather’s farm with Chance Johnson, the man responsible for the scars on her heart. But Chance isn’t the only ghost from the past. Someone else is out to get her and will stop at nothing to get what he wants...
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    drama  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Treasure and Protect by Lori Ryan

    Treasure and Protect by Lori Ryan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's finished waiting. Cora Walker is tired of waiting for Justin Kensington to open his eyes and see that they could be great together. No worries. She's got a Man Plan, More specifically, a Get-Over-The-Man Plan. Or maybe she'll call it the Move-on Method. Whatever. It involves online dating and sorting through the losers to find her winner...
  • Labyrinth of Lies by Irene Hannon

    Labyrinth of Lies by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the daughter of a high-profile businessman disappears from an exclusive girls' boarding school, police detective Cate Reilly is tapped for an undercover assignment. It doesn't take her long to realize that beneath the veneer of polish and wealth, things are not as they seem at Ivy Hill Academy. But the biggest surprise of all? The only man she ever loved is also working at the school...
  • The Still of Night by Kristen Heitzmann

    The Still of Night by Kristen Heitzmann

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kristen Heitzmann's characters leap from the page with a balance of strength and fragility as they face anguish from the past. Jill and Morgan, once high school sweethearts, had loved and lost—each other and the baby whom Jill gave up at birth. Years later, Morgan is outwardly successful, but he is still haunted by the memory of the tiny child...
  • 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...
  • Edge of Honor by Jacob Chance

    Edge of Honor by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I was the FBI’s dirty little secret, until I wasn’t." I’m Brennan Collins, but my associates call me Belfast.Perhaps you’ve heard of me?I’ve been known to be everything from a gentleman gangster to a cold-blooded killer. Men fear me and pledge their undying loyalty. Women desire me and the power I possess, but there’s only one worth my time…Agent Georgia Cohn...
  • Lennox by Dale Mayer

    Lennox by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Planning to meet his sister in Germany, but, when she’s a no-show, Lennox has his first inkling that trouble has come home in a big way … When his sister and her best friend go missing, Lennox is determined to find and to keep his only family member safe … and her best friend. They were both doctors, traveling the globe with the UN. Lennox was proud of his sister’s accomplishments...
  • Luke's Revenge by Lisa Renee Jones

    Luke's Revenge by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third and final book in the Walker Security: Lucifer Trilogy...In the mind-blowing and stunning finale, all will be revealed as Lucifer's forever with the woman he loves hangs in the balance...
  • A Line Drawn by Catherine Taylor

    A Line Drawn by Catherine Taylor

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What began in the The Finest Line and escalated in A Line Crossed, is now concluded in A Line Drawn. As Mairead looks to her future with James, their wedding on the horizon, she is plagued with the demons of her past. One of them seems to have invaded her life, but Mairead is uncertain whether she is the victim of a tortured mind, or the prey of an evil man...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  crime
  • Rectify by M.K. Gilher

    Rectify by M.K. Gilher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even the most talented surgeon can’t rectify a broken heart. Dr. Jacade Jordan turned my life upside down in less than a week. He came out of nowhere and penetrated my body and soul. This dominating and bewildering man could possibly be my soul mate. But his Mafia connection with my ex has put me and my loved ones in danger. I should cut ties now and move on while there's still a chance...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction  multi-pov
  • Hatch by Dale Mayer

    Hatch by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hatch is more than happy to step up and to rescue the missing father-and-daughter archeological duo. Now if only it were that easy. They’d been questioned by the Egyptian government and released, with a warning to not leave Cairo. But, when their hotel room is found empty, most believe they took off ahead of punishment—but not Hatch’s team...
  • Shadow in the Desert by Becca Jameson

    Shadow in the Desert by Becca Jameson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a disastrous career-ending mission, he never expected to be sent back into the shadows.For months Ajax has been languishing on his sister’s couch, drowning himself in beer and whiskey. It was the only way to bury the pain of losing his entire SEAL team during a mission he does not remember. Until he discovers everything he’s been told about that day was a lie...
  • Reno by V. Theia

    Reno by V. Theia

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone thought Reno was a happy-go-lucky biker.But in truth, the Diablo Disciples MC’s SAA had many personal issues on his shoulders.His co-dependent twin, for one.They’d relied only on each other for years.Now their sadistic older brother was back in their lives to cause trouble for the club.And then a knock-out woman changed Reno’s entire outlook on life.He wanted more...
  • Tension by R.L. Griffin

    Tension by R.L. Griffin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Stella who emerges from the rubble of the bombing in Montana is a woman full of conflict. She knows she should be grateful that she lived when others didn't, but after waking in the hospital as a celebrity, complete with a new moniker, she's bitter and distrustful, questioning everything in her life. She's unsure of her friends, her new boyfriend, and her job...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  angst  book  contemporary  dark  female-mc
  • Your Pastor...My Husband by B.M. Hardin

    Your Pastor...My Husband by B.M. Hardin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Is he a Saint...or is he a Sinner? Maxine thought that she had life all figured out. Despite rough beginnings, she could finally say that above all else...she was happy. Her life changed for the better when she married the respected, adored and handsome Pastor Shelton Cartwright. To her, her husband was nothing less than perfect...at least that was what she'd thought...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  urban  adult  book  christian  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • Concrete Evidence by DiAnn Mills

    Concrete Evidence by DiAnn Mills

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the family's Brazos River Ranch in Texas, Avery Elliott helps run her grandfather's commercial construction business. Raised by Senator Elliott, Avery has never doubted her grandfather is the man of integrity and faith she's always believed him to be . . . until the day she finds him standing with a gun over the body of a dead man...
  • Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes a romantic and suspenseful new novel in the popular family series, The Callaways. Nicole met Ryan when he was a handsome, cocky teenager with a desire to fly high above the clouds...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction  mystery
  • Player Haters by Carl Weber

    Player Haters by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    An Essence Bestseller A Black Expressions Book Club Selection National bestselling author Carl Weber returns with another page-turner full of family drama. The Duncans are no strangers to sibling rivalry, heartbreak, or the high price of getting played - even when it's by one of their own...
    Categorized as:
    drama  urban  adult  audiobook  black-mc  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Butterfly by Kathryn Harvey

    Butterfly by Kathryn Harvey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Above an exclusive men's store on Rodeo Drive there is a private club called Butterfly, where women are free to act out their secret erotic fantasies. Only the most beautiful and powerful women in Beverly Hills are invited to join... JESSICA--The lawyer, who longs for the days when men were men, and women dressed to please them...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  steamy
  • A Lover's Game by Max Walker

    A Lover's Game by Max Walker

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Zane Holden, the founder of Stonewall Investigations, has been haunted by the same case for years. He’s had loved ones taken by the serial killer known as the Unicorn, and his drive to find the monster is higher than ever. Finally, he feels like he’s getting close. Something else that’s getting closer? His wedding day to the man of his dreams. Lorenzo De Luca found the love of his life in Zane...
  • Protect the Seed by Erosa Knowles

    Protect the Seed by Erosa Knowles

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Former Marketing Executive Imani Randall moved back home to avoid going to jail. After a painful divorce two-years ago, her ex refuses to believe they’re done and fights for a reconciliation he’s convinced she wants no matter what she says. When he arrives unexpectantly at her job, she latches on to a stranger and pretends he’s the new man in her life to get her ex to leave...
    Categorized as:
    drama  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction  kind-mc
  • The Proposal/Solid Soul by Brenda Jackson

    The Proposal/Solid Soul by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings you the story of Jason Westmoreland. With one convenient proposal, he could have a Southern beauty in his bed and her birthright in his hands. If only the lovely lady would say yes….Plus a Brenda Jackson classic—the first in the Steele family series, Solid Soul...
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