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  • Paint It All Red by S.T. Abby

    Paint It All Red by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Hush, little baby, don't say a word... Will Logan choose them? Or will we watch them burn together? It's time to fuck with their minds. It's time to finish it all. It's time to paint it all red... Monsters don't usually wish for happily-ever-afters. **BE WARNED: Some descriptions are vivid and can be a trigger for sensitive readers...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  adult  angst
  • All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.But that's never happened to me...I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.But fuck this case...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day...
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    alpha-mc  crime  dark  steamy  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestseller.In the fourth book of the multimillion-copy bestselling series, Morgan Dane’s new client has blood on her hands—and no recollection of what happened.Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before...
  • Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He’d protect her from any threat… But what if the biggest threat is him?   Doctor Anne Nichols is back in Oak Creek, Wyoming, only because she has no other options. Here, she was always the shy, stuttering girl, invisible to everyone.   Except Zac Mackay. The very reason she left in the first place...
  • The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered...
  • Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh

    Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert is blindsided by a killer’s devious plan in number one Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of escalating shock and suspense.When Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a young woman floating near the bank of the Scarlet River, a note in her abandoned car suggests suicide. The autopsy reveals a different story...
  • Mending a Malone by Laylah Roberts

    Mending a Malone by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jaret Malone has a problem . . .A five-foot-two curvy, crazy problem. One who doesn’t seem to take no for an answer.After his last relationship ended disastrously, he has had no interest in getting involved with someone else.Especially not some insane woman who seems to think that her grandmother left him to her in her will.Nobody tells a Malone what to do . .
  • Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s hunting. He’s watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago...
  • In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White

    In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Two decades after her sister’s brutal attack and murder, Meg Brogan has finally found happiness…or so it appears. A bestselling true-crime writer, Meg has money, fame, and a wealthy fiancé. But when a television-show host presses her to tackle the one story everyone claims she cannot write—the story of her own family’s destruction—her perfect life shatters...
  • Malone's Fate by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    Malone's Fate by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He met the love of his life, and then she disappeared without a trace . . .That was it.Tanner wasn’t going to fall in love again. The pain wasn’t worth it. So what if all his brothers had met their soulmate?There had to be one wild, crazy Malone left to live up to their reputation.Right?Wrong.Because he hadn’t counted on fate walking back into his life.Only this time, she's not alone...
  • The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale: someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it’s her job to aid the agent leading the case—even if that agent is her estranged husband...
  • Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the worst wounds can’t be seen.Lucas Everett knows that firsthand. It's why he and his former Navy SEAL brothers created the Resting Warrior Ranch.They aren’t doctors, but they can offer the healing freedom of their Montana range. And they specialize in training service and emotional support animals to help sooth even the worst emotional scars.Usually, soldiers show up at their door...
  • Margaritas at the Beach House Hotel by Judith Keim

    Margaritas at the Beach House Hotel by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An upscale hotel like The Beach House Hotel sometimes attracts surprise guests….Ann and Rhonda continue overseeing their Beach House Hotel along the Gulf Coast of Florida and providing guests with a lovely experience of good eating, relaxation, and the privacy many of them require...
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  epic  family  female-mc
  • Dirty Dozen by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Dozen by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the twelfth installment of the J.J. Graves mystery series from New York Times Bestselling Author Liliana Hart, winter has moved into Bloody Mary with a vengeance. But so has a killer who's bringing a modern flair in his imitation of Jack the Ripper. It's up to J.J. and her husband, Sheriff Jack Lawson, to hunt the hunter and bring justice to the victims...
  • Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Fallen by Mia Sheridan

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter...
    Categorized as:
    dark  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  animals  audiobook  book
  • Montana Promises by Kim Law

    Montana Promises by Kim Law

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s falling for his brother’s ex—as if he needs another reason to go. Nate Wilde is ready to leave Birch Bay. He’s been home too long as it is and extending his visit means risking fantasies of staying for good. Wants and desires never work out for him, though. With good comes bad, and he’s had enough bad to last a lifetime. Unfortunately, his siblings need him...
  • Finding Hope by Sloane Kennedy

    Finding Hope by Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At 19, Beck Barretti is living two lives. To his family, he’s a young man trying to find his way after years of battling a mental illness that nearly cost him everything. But to the rest of the world he’s just another privileged kid with problems. The truth doesn’t even lie somewhere in between because Beck’s entire life is actually about keeping secrets. From the people he loves...
  • Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh

    Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For Sheriff Bree Taggert, a gruesome double murder exposes the secrets of the dead in a shocking novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A teenager returns home from work and finds her parents shot to death in their bed. Responding to the call, Sheriff Bree Taggert realizes the crime wasn’t a burglary gone wrong. The couple was executed...
  • You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of Laura Griffin and Jayne Ann Krentz won’t want to miss this brand new thriller series by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti, as FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow, a rising star profiler, strives to stay one step ahead of the criminal mind—and discovers that her own demons may be the hardest to outrun… Laurel Snow wouldn’t call hunting a serial killer a vacation, but with a pile...
  • You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Set against the atmospheric backdrop of rural Pacific Northwest, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti’s thrilling suspense series follows FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow as she strives to navigate her complicated family life when her newly discovered sociopathic half-sister becomes the target of a dangerous killer...
  • Pieces of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Pieces of a Life by Jewel E. Ann

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The summer before fourth grade, Colten Mosley moved into the house across the street from mine, and we became inseparable.He played the piano and baseball.I had a penchant for dead things while at the same time imagining what it would be like to kiss Colten.We were filled with curiosity and overly active imaginations.We were also forbidden to be more than friends.But that didn’t stop us...
  • The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.” Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods...
  • Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts

    Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    From Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller Shelter in Place (June 2018) — a powerful tale of heart, heroism...and propulsive suspense.It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses...
  • The Witness by Nora Roberts

    The Witness by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks...
  • The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper, Dick Hill

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    He's no ordinary kidnapper. Not only does he strike again and again, but he collects the ransom, gets away safely, and leaves his helpless hostages dead. Now, after months of eluding the best that law enforcement can put against him, this monster has left nothing in his wake but a cold trail of unconnected victims. He's no ordinary cop...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable...Sense of Evil...
  • Love, Me by Anna Brooks

    Love, Me by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Vaughn Morris survives on denial and hope. He spends his days permanently marking other’s skin and his nights trying to forget the scars embedded in his soul. No longer the defenseless teenager he used to be, he returns to his home town, never expecting to fall for a woman who is just as complicated as he is. Rayne Garner hasn’t truly lived in years...
  • Third Time's The Charm by Liz Talley

    Third Time's The Charm by Liz Talley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When you find someone who has no hope left, give the bracelet to her… Sunshine “Sunny” Voorhees David would rather be dead than back in Morning Glory, Mississippi. But after losing both her husband and a pregnancy, she comes home temporarily to the place she swore she’d never return...
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    steamy  adult  animals  audiobook  book  cheating  children  comedy
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence...Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  ghosts
  • Beyond Control by Kat Martin

    Beyond Control by Kat Martin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Victoria Langford got engaged, she told herself to give love a chance. Six months later, she's on the run from her angry, abusive ex-fiancé with her four-year-old daughter and nowhere to go. Seventy miles north of Dallas, the Iron River Ranch is pretty much nowhere. That’s what its new owner, Josh Cain, wanted when he came back from Afghanistan. Big skies, quiet nights, no trouble...
  • Enemy Zone: Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Healing-Love Military Romance (Trident Rescue) by Alex Lidell

    Enemy Zone: Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Healing-Love Military Romance (Trident Rescue) by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I know all about guys like Cullen Hunt.Gorgeous. Wealthy. Powerful. I just fled New York to escape one. But when I reach Colorado, it’s either take a job at Cullen’s Trident Rescue or become homeless.And Cullen? He’s worse than I thought. Controlling. Demanding. Jerk.A grenade always teetering on the edge.He’s also hot as sin and makes my toes curl.I hate that I dream about him...
  • Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing is deeper than the desire they can’t fight—or deadlier than the evil they can’t escape. They were only supposed to have a professional relationship, but FBI agent Kyle McKenzie has been fantasizing about his sexy partner, Cadence Hollow, from the moment they first moment. It takes the darkest case of their careers to finally bring their hidden desire bubbling to the surface...
  • The Next Grave by Kendra Elliot

    The Next Grave by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.Following a murder and a woman’s sudden disappearance, investigations into old crimes and new collide in an alarming novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Detective Evan Bolton is gutted by his latest investigation...
  • Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

    Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Dr. Julia Cates was one of the country's preeminent child psychiatrists until a shocking tragedy ruined her career. Retreating to her small western Washington hometown, Julia meets an extraordinary six-year-old girl who has inexplicably emerged from the deep woods nearby—a child locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation...
    Categorized as:
    crime  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  children  contemporary  drama
  • Forgotten Secrets by Robin Perini

    Forgotten Secrets by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    At age ten, Riley Lambert watched helplessly as her sister was abducted from her bedroom. Fifteen years later, she’s channeled the pain of her past into a career as an FBI profiler. Riley devotes her life to bringing violent criminals to justice…and secretly uses government resources to search for her sister, who was never found...
  • Corrupting Ivy by Ann-Marie Davis

    Corrupting Ivy by Ann-Marie Davis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I wanted to stay hidden… anonymous.  But fate had other plans. After stumbling upon a grim scene that threw me into the spotlight, my life is turned upside down, and I’m no longer safe. Then he walked in. The one everyone warned me about.He's rumored to have more demons than Hell.But the devil can be oh so tempting… WARNING: This book is a DARK/ANTI HERO romance...
  • Shooting Star in the Rain by Nola Marie

    Shooting Star in the Rain by Nola Marie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    **Amazon top 50 seller**What do you do when your heart wants the one that got away? What do you do when she comes back broken? Can you love her scars and all?JakeThe day I decided to finally lay out my feelings for the girl of my dreams was the day life threw me a curve. In order to do what I knew in my heart was right, I had to give up my dreams of making it big with my band. And my dream of her...
  • Changing Lanes by Maren Lee

    Changing Lanes by Maren Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lane Bennett is the new hotshot lead public defender of Bounty County. A transplant from Chicago to Montana, Lane ran from the big city to escape a bad breakup, a far-too-stressful job, and all the anxiety issues that came along with it. But kicking ass and taking names as a small town public defender often pits her against the hottie Sheriff's Department deputies...
  • Love Lost Her Way: A tragic story about a girl who lost all hope by Julie Anne Addicott

    Love Lost Her Way: A tragic story about a girl who lost all hope by Julie Anne Addicott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the outside, my life was picture perfect. On the inside, something sinister lurked. I thought he was sick. I thought I could fix him. All I wanted was for him to love me. I was used and abused. Sold to the highest bidder. Unloved. Unseen. Unheard. Until Declan. He was my saviour. He helped me believe in the power of unconditional love. Then, he was gone...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  suspense  romance  fiction  slow-burn  small-town  abuse
  • On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert becomes a target when she follows the twisting trail of a serial killer in a bone-chilling novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A pair of hikers find a tarp-wrapped body in a clearing in the woods. When a search in the surrounding area yields two more, Sheriff Bree Taggert knows they’ve stumbled onto a serial killer’s dumping ground...
  • Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, tales of the Firefly Man were nothing more than elaborate rumors spread by residents in the Great Smoky Mountains.Until the night Evelyn Vaughn stumbled upon a dead body in the woods.Fear gripped her, and silence stole her voice.All while she watched the boy she was with that night take the fall.Fourteen years later, Evelyn is nothing more than a shell of her former self...
  • The Bird Catcher by Michael Robert

    The Bird Catcher by Michael Robert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Happily married, Seattle furniture designer, Ben, comes home early from work on his thirtieth birthday. After finding his husband of twelve years already celebrating in the shower with the party planner, Ben decides he needs a fresh start.Logan, a twenty-five-year-old residing in Idaho, is trying to escape from an emotionally abusive relationship...
  • Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch

    Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Air Force Combat Controller Derek Bollinger knows what it is to feel that every breath might be his last. Enduring hell in an enemy prison for five weeks taught him that.The only thing that got him through it was the thought of his family, his hometown of Oak Creek, Wyoming, and especially of Becky Mackay.He survived, but with blood on his hands. His own. His friends’ who died beside him...
  • The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some intruder – earthly or not – is threatening the youngest LeBeau sister, back to claim her inheritance. And though Danae keeps her distance from the sexy hired hand, he falls for her in a heartbeat...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  death  family  fiction
  • Scarlett XOXO by Autumn Reed

    Scarlett XOXO by Autumn Reed

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some stories should never be told. Others have to be—it’s the only way. Since moving back to my hometown of Hastings, Texas, I’ve been called a whore, tramp, and homewrecker. And maybe I’m all of those things and more. But those people don’t know me. They don’t see me. They only see my mistakes...
    Categorized as:
    dark  stalking  steamy  abuse  adult  billionaire  book  bullying
  • Say You Love Me by Sarah J. Brooks

    Say You Love Me by Sarah J. Brooks

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “Jeremy Wyatt is the biggest playboy you’ll ever meet. He’s a great attorney and a decent friend, but he’s an ass to women. He’s all about the conquest, and then he loses interest. You’re too good for a guy like him. And I don’t want to have to break his arms for messing with you. You’re young, Lena. And a little naive. A man like Jeremy would eat you up and spit you out...
  • Rewriting Grey by L.A. Ferro

    Rewriting Grey by L.A. Ferro

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "Bad choices make epic stories. Write one with me."Iverson Grey wasn’t supposed to be my happily ever after.He wasn’t even on my radar.I came to Copper Falls, expecting to settle my sister's estate and learn about the woman I never knew existed until I was notified of her death. Little did I know that stories about her weren't the only thing that awaited me in the small town...
  • Fred & Breakfast by Phoebe MacLeod

    Fred & Breakfast by Phoebe MacLeod

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Perfect for fans of Portia MacIntosh, Milly Johnson and Sophie Kinsella. Daisy's life is going nowhere, but that's just how she likes it. Unable to move on from the tragic accident that killed her parents ten years ago, she's living each day as it comes...
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