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  • A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues as Mercy Kilpatrick becomes embedded in the nightmare of a terrorist conspiracy.The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound...
  • The Fall of V by Jessica Gadziala

    The Fall of V by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    They knew she was going to strike back for taking down her empire, for imprisoning her for years. All those years stuck in a cell gave her a lot of time to think, to plot, to plan her revenge. But they couldn't have anticipated this . * This can not be read as a standalone. ** This is also not a romance...
  • Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Save Your Breath by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger investigate the mysterious disappearance of a true-crime writer.When true-crime writer Olivia Cruz disappears with no signs of foul play, her new boyfriend, Lincoln Sharp, suspects the worst. He knows she didn’t leave willingly and turns to attorney Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger to find her before it’s too late...
  • Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "So much emotion it flew off the page and knocked the wind out of me. Finding Mercy was another great story by the absolutely brilliant Riley Edwards." Jennifer Pierson: The Power of Three Readers DEA Jason Walker became a widower at Twenty-eight. Two years later he's still torturing himself with guilt. They'd married young, and she'd been his first love, but her illness changed everything...
  • Chasing Honor by Riley Edwards

    Chasing Honor by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ethan Lenox became a single father at sixteen when his girlfriend signed over custody of their newborn daughter and left to chase her dreams. Eight years later he’s a police officer, fiercely protective of the little girl and dedicated to his work. He’s never had time for dating and won’t allow any woman to betray his trust or abandon him again...
  • Fatal Identity by Marie Force

    Fatal Identity by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Every family has its secrets… As the first anniversary of her marriage to Vice President Nick Cappuano approaches, Lieutenant Sam Holland is dreaming of Bora Bora -- sun, sand and a desperately needed break from the DC grind. But real life has a way of intervening, and Sam soon finds herself taking on one of the most perplexing cases of her career...
  • Rescuing Casey by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Casey by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One minute Casey Shea was minding her own business, doing her job, teaching entomology to college students, and the next she was in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle fighting for her life. Troy “Beatle” Lennon had watched his friends fall head over heels in love, but never thought it would happen to him. Until he sees a picture of one of his teammates’ sisters. That was it...
  • Called to Protect by Lynette Eason

    Called to Protect by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For the past year, Chloe St. John has been working as a K-9 cop with her German shepherd partner, Hank. After being dumped by her fiance for another woman, Chloe has decided that Hank is just about the only male she likes. She's over the whole romance thing and focuses her attention on doing her job...
  • Tough as Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Tough as Steele by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Searching for an abducted woman...Detective Londyn Steel is thrown into the deep end when she’s assigned to find an abducted socialite. Problem is, her family’s company, Steele Guardians, was supposed to protect the family matriarch at her eightieth birthday party when she disappears, and Londyn fears her investigation will expose problems in her family’s company and bring them down...
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  • Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

    Secrets Never Die by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The #1 Amazon Charts bestselling series continues as Morgan Dane and PI Lance Kruger fight for the innocence of a young murder suspect—if only they could find him.When a retired sheriff’s deputy is shot to death in his home, his troubled teenage stepson, Evan, becomes the prime suspect. Even more incriminating, the boy disappeared from the scene of the crime...
  • Famished: Part Two: by Ellie Messe

    Famished: Part Two: by Ellie Messe

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I’m a coward. I just wanted to forget. I just wanted an escape from reality. I didn’t ask for any of this. Hiding the truth just might kill me, but how can I come clean when everything around me is so twisted? Funerals, weddings, secrets…between them all, I’m losing myself. I’m not even sure I know who I am anymore. I missed the memo where families are built on lies...
  • Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker

    Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lexie Green hasn’t thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she’s more than a little shocked...
  • Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t get noticed. Zoey “Zero D” Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA’s data farm compiling security briefings and Intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive. Now she’s “one of them.” She’s not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore...
  • Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s been hurt too many times… Single mom Tiana Fitzgerald has sworn off all romantic relationships to protect herself and her daughter. Her track record is disastrous and she’s done getting hurt. But a certain sexy Scotsman in Crimson Point has other ideas, and somehow manages to sneak past her defenses at every turn...
  • Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again...
  • Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dr. Ivy Collins, founder and CEO of Hedera, Inc., is ready to begin clinical trials of her company's cutting-edge prosthetic. Her work has been heralded by government, medical, and advocacy groups and everyone hopes the device will be a success. Well, almost everyone...
  • Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Diamond may be used to saving the world, but can she save her own relationship? With her husband’s killer still on the loose and her life in England a disaster, Diamond returns to the only thing she knows: work. As the star of special ops takes on enemies from the States to Syria, she finds the toughest battle is the one going on in her own head...
  • Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FOR YEARS, HE’S KEPT HIMSELF CLOSELY GUARDEDFormer SEAL Grant Hill believes love brings nothing but pain. Having suffered more loss than any one person ever should, the gruff R.I.S.C. operative has mastered the art of avoidance…especially when it comes to women.But with his newest bodyguard assignment, Grant’s unwavering determination is put to the ultimate test...
  • Savage by K.L. Savage

    Savage by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I'm on the road, but there's only one thing on my mind.Eden...Problem is, this isn't me.I don't chase.I don't pursue.But I can't help myself.Eden is stubborn.Headstrong.The toughest woman I know.My mistake was letting myself have a taste.It wasn't enough.I'm addicted.I'm breaking my own rules.I don't care how complicated it is.But the complications keep coming..
  • Blood & Rust by Cat Porter

    Blood & Rust by Cat Porter

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The bad boy. The fuck up. The thief. That was me. Once a king, Now a wanderer. I'd thrown the best parts of me away, over and over again. I was reckless. Still am. I'd been exiled. Twice. I did my time. I've cleaned up. Well, sort of. I got plans. Yeah, good ones. Then I ran into her. A bolt of lightning Startling Unsettling Breathtaking Out of reach...
  • ANGEL: Lords of Carnage MC by Daphne Loveling

    ANGEL: Lords of Carnage MC by Daphne Loveling

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Even the toughest Angels can fall... Lords of Carnage is mine. My club, My life, My family, And I protect my family at any cost. Rival clubs, gangs, enemies, Don't scare me, Can't stop me. Only one thing scares me, Stops me, Makes me long for more, And it's her. Sexy, feisty, strong, Everything I want, And everything I refuse to take...
  • This is Who I Am by Cherise Sinclair

    This is Who I Am by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    When trying to save a woman from slavers, Master Sam screwed up. Royally. Now Linda wants nothing to do with him. Or with BDSM. She won’t even admit she’s a masochist. As a dominant and sadist, he can give her what she needs, and when an opportunity arises, he slips into her life, intending to make amends...
  • Where the Snow Falls by London Miller, Bethany-Kris

    Where the Snow Falls by London Miller, Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Blood always leaves the brightest stains where the snow falls. Fresh out of lockup, Kazimir Markovic is focused on two things only—having Violet Gallucci back at his side, and putting his father in the ground. With his plans already in motion the very second he’s free, Kaz goes after what’s most important. Violet first. Vasily second. The Russians are out for blood...
  • Game of Fear by Robin Perini

    Game of Fear by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Brilliant kids from all over the country are disappearing … but no one knows why. Until now. In the cockpit, Search and Rescue pilot Deborah Lansing is in control: her flight, her rules. But after the suspicious disappearance of her supersmart younger sister, she knows this is one rescue mission she can’t fly solo. She needs help. She needs Gabe Montgomery...
  • No Way Out by Amy McKinley

    No Way Out by Amy McKinley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An action-packed mafia romance about secrets, arranged marriage, and redemption by USA Today Bestselling author Amy McKinley.Max’s endgame is clear—take back what’s rightfully his and punish those who have wronged him.Under the guise of assassin Matteo Trambino, Max infiltrates a vital arm of the Chicago Mafia to protect his Sicilian mentor’s granddaughter, Liliana, from her dangerous father...
  • Deadly Alliance: A Fortis/Purgatory Crossover Novel by Maddie Wade, India Kells

    Deadly Alliance: A Fortis/Purgatory Crossover Novel by Maddie Wade, India Kells

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fortis and Purgatory are both exceptional covert agencies composed of deadly operatives. With the Atlantic Ocean between them, they never thought they would ever collaborate until a series of horrible murders force them to unite...
  • The Road to Solace by Samantha A. Cole

    The Road to Solace by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Adam Westfield is an ex-friar just released from prison. Unsure of his destiny, he roams America, hoping to find a purpose . . . and forgiveness. A widowed mother of two, Sage Hammond is struggling to keep her horse ranch afloat. Unable to find a ranch hand willing to work for meager wages, she’s close to giving up. Then, an answer to her prayers appears—a quiet, handsome stranger...
  • The Damaged by Tijan

    The Damaged by Tijan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The world knows about Kash.Both Bailey and Kash were used to living in the shadows, but now they must live in the public eye.Kash is figuring out his new found role against his grandfather, and Bailey is starting her graduate program late. At university, everyone is watching Bailey, and some are wondering if her legendary father, Peter Francis, bought her way into the elite program...
  • Have Mercy by Hannah Shield

    Have Mercy by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The only way to save his best friend’s sister…is to marry her.Ruby Whitestone just found her ex’s dead body. And the police think she did it. But as a single mom, she knows how to fend for herself. No fairytale hero is going to swoop in to save her. Not her brother, the Bennett Security bodyguard. Certainly not Chase, a West Oaks police officer and her brother’s best friend...
  • Edge of Retribution by Jacob Chance

    Edge of Retribution by Jacob Chance

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Landing my dream job has me eagerly looking toward the future. But when I see Nash Garrison after six long years, my world is thrown completely off its axis. He was my only friend and confidant during the worst days of my life, and I fell hopelessly in love with him. No eighteen year old girl could resist his protective nature and charming grin. I was no exception...
  • Pressure by Ivy Nelson

    Pressure by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Someone is breaking through the cyber security system tech billionaire, Lance Moss built from the ground up and he's running out of time to plug the holes before Club Solitaire is forced to close and someone gets hurt.Reluctantly, he allows his fellow board member and friend, Eli, to bring in an outsider to help. He's not expecting to see his ex-girlfriend turned enemy walk through the door...
  • Her Last Goodbye by Melinda Leigh

    Her Last Goodbye by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s Morgan Dane series continues as the fearless attorney and her partner, investigator Lance Kruger, take on a disturbing disappearance…Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls’ night out…and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children...
  • Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Fate Hates by Tina Saxon

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Of all the times to crave a man's touch, now is not it.Between being handcuffed to a bed post for trespassing, and the stare down from the sexy-as-sin bodyguard sent in to find answers, I'm certain my body must be confusing fear with lust.I was on a mission to find my mother's killer, not a man, but my body seems to think now is a good time to pursue its search for Mr. Right.He's not Mr. Right...
  • Darker: The Novice by M. S. Parker

    Darker: The Novice by M. S. Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I don’t date, ever. Casual sex is all I need.Relationships? Well, my dark past crushed that fairytale fantasy for me. Instead, I’m all into my PI firm. After a snail’s pace start, I have my first big client. There’s just one snag, I have to do research in my hometown, a place I never wanted to see again in my life...
  • The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BellamyIt was supposed to be an easy job.Get another scumbag off the streets.I never could have foreseen her ruining the plan.Or having to whisk her away on my jet for both our safety.And I certainly couldn’t have anticipated finding myself starting to fall for the blunt, sarcastic, kick-a$$ woman I found myself trapped in a safe house with...
  • When He's Dirty by Lisa Renee Jones

    When He's Dirty by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a member of Walker Security, Adrian Ramos has found redemption for a walk on the dark side. For six years the former FBI agent was undercover in the notorious Texas Kings biker club. For six years he changed, he became one of them and when the bust happened, he didn't know who he was anymore...
  • Celebrating Tina: An Inspirational Holiday Romantic Suspense by Sara Blackard

    Celebrating Tina: An Inspirational Holiday Romantic Suspense by Sara Blackard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A K-9 handler determined to prove she belongs. A detective with an unwavering plan. Can they overcome their painful pasts and accept the gift of love?Tina West has spent her life feeling like she stood on the outside, but since taking a job at Stryker Security, life seems to be turning for the better.Tina never imagined when she took a job as a nanny she’d end up training for search and rescue...
  • False Front by Debbie Baldwin

    False Front by Debbie Baldwin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emma Porter is not real. She is an accomplished young woman, living a fulfilling life in New York City, working for an online news agency, and striving toward normalcy. The truth, however, is something else. She was once Emily Webster, a child of privilege, and the twenty-first century Lindbergh Baby...
  • Hit and Run by Lori Matthews

    Hit and Run by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Gage Callahan knew his latest assignment with Callahan Security was going to be a disaster. He traipsed around Europe to locate the computer programmer he was hired to protect only to discover she's actually a hacker hiding in Alaska. Tensions mount when she narrowly escapes becoming roadkill as a vicious organization comes after her...
  • Make Them Pay by Allison Brennan

    Make Them Pay by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan are finally tying the knot.Two weeks before their wedding, a surprise visitor shows up at their door: Eden, Sean's estranged sister from Europe. She claims she's in town for the wedding and wants to mend fences. Lucy invites Eden to stay with them after all, family is family but her boss, SSA Noah Armstrong, knows far more about Eden's sketchy past than he's let on...
  • Two Bit: Satan's Fury MC by L. Wilder

    Two Bit: Satan's Fury MC by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Where I was his weakness, he became my strength. Two Bit: I've never been one to hold back. I've always said what was on my mind - right or wrong - and earned my name because of it. Giving my two cents hasn't always been a good thing, but on one fateful night, it led me to her. She was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of girl. Undeniably beautiful. Fearless. Unforgettable...
  • Iron & Bone by Cat Porter

    Iron & Bone by Cat Porter

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A knife that cut too deep, a slash that still burns, failures piled high and flammable. I held my losses at bay with knives, with guns, my hands, my bike, my brothers, my iron will. But not my heart. No, my heart was the flame that would light the match, ignite the blaze...
  • Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rucker Sloan thinks all he’s good for is a fighting, killing machine. Long-term relationships are out of the question. Until he meets a nurse who’d risk her life for someone she doesn’t know…After her mother died of a broken heart, nurse Nora Michaels joined the Army to do something to help others and to escape her sad memories...
  • Deja Vu by Fern Michaels

    Deja Vu by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Thanks to a presidential pardon, the Sisterhood can put their fugitive days behind them and resume their lives in peace. Still, all the women admit that lately things are a little too calm and peaceful. Meeting up for the first time in months to celebrate Kathryn’s birthday — in the City of Sin, no less — seems like the perfect antidote...
  • Game Over by Fern Michaels

    Game Over by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened honeymoon, they are hit with some exciting yet unsettling news...
  • Cross Roads by Fern Michaels

    Cross Roads by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Sisterhood Will Not Be Broken It's been a year and a half since the women of the Sisterhood received their presidential pardons, but the freedom they craved has come at a high price...
  • Thin Ice by Irene Hannon

    Thin Ice by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After losing her parents in a car accident and her sister to a house fire, Christy Reed has been mired in grief. Life is finally starting to feel normal again when an envelope arrives in the mail--addressed in her sister's handwriting. And the note inside claims she is still alive...
  • Dead Heat by Allison Brennan, Kate Udall

    Dead Heat by Allison Brennan, Kate Udall

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid takes on her most explosive case yet in New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan's Dead Heat DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS Assigned to San Antonio’s Violent Crimes unit, Lucy Kincaid joins a team of seasoned veterans and newer agents for a task force called Operation Heatwave. It’s supposed to be a simple sweep of known offenders with outstanding warrants...
  • Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins

    Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lucky Santangelo is back—with a vengance! Dangerously sensual, breathtakingly beautiful, and utterly unforgettable, she is Lucky Santangelo, the sizzling star of Chances, Lucky, and Lady Boss. With Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge, Jackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, betrayal, drugs, intrigue, and murder...
  • Courage in the Shadows by Robin Patchen

    Courage in the Shadows by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When she crosses paths with a killer from her past, can she survive long enough to step into her future?Ever since she and thirteen other models were kidnapped years before, Summer Lake has fought to ensure that she can protect herself...
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