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  • Elliot by Kris Michaels

    Elliot by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Whatever it takes. As long as it takes.Elliot Sawyer wasn’t supposed to be alive. He’d cheated death by changing shifts with one of his men. Sure, his man asked for the change, but guilt gnawed on his heart every second of every day. If he’d been there, maybe he would have seen something, done something to stop the massacre. Leaving Guardian wasn’t an option for him, but changing assignments was...
  • Securing Piper by Susan Stoker

    Securing Piper by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    What started as an adventure, soon became hell. Piper Johnson’s thrilled to spend time in Timor-Leste with her best friend, a Peace Corps volunteer…until civil unrest erupts throughout the countryside, including an attack at the orphanage the women were visiting...
  • Sparking Sara (The Men on Fire Series) by Samantha Christy

    Sparking Sara (The Men on Fire Series) by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three years of her life are gone in an instant. Her memories of becoming a famous artist - forgotten. Of the falling out with her best friend - lost. Of her charming boyfriend - erased. The doctors tell us getting Sara back into her normal routine is what's best for her. But what happens when she doesn't want her old normal? Some would say I'm trying to save ghosts from my past...
  • Kyle by Riley Edwards

    Kyle by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Anaya Baker knows pain—she got her first taste when she was orphaned and put into foster care. Then it was forever embedded into her soul when she was sold to a sex trafficking ring. Nearly two decades later the stench still clings to her. It coats her skin and burns her gut...
  • The Wanted One by Brittney Sahin

    The Wanted One by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a reality dating show becomes a race for their lives . . .Charlotte Lennox has spent the last decade on the run, protecting her sister from a past she hopes remains buried. Meeting a handsome and funny stranger, only to discover he’s not who he says he is, prompts her to do what she does best—disappear...
  • Engulfing Emma (The Men on Fire Series) by Samantha Christy

    Engulfing Emma (The Men on Fire Series) by Samantha Christy

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Single dad.Firefighter.Hero. On the heels of divorce, Lt. Brett Cash never expected to meet the woman of his dreams. Especially not during a robbery gone bad. But just because she's the woman of his dreams does not mean he's the man of hers . Emma is a child of a 9/11 hero taken far too soon. And she's not about to let her own daughter go through the same hell she did...
  • Gabe by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Gabe by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gabe is the 11th book in the Reed Security series. It is suggested they are read in order. “What’s all this?” Cap asked. “You asked me to bring dishes.” “No,” he said slowly. “I asked you to bring a dish.” “Yeah, and when I asked what kind, you wouldn’t f*&king answer me. You just said enough for everyone. So, I dug through my cabinets and brought every f*&king dish I could find...
  • Line of Fire by A.K. Evans

    Line of Fire by A.K. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Protected. That’s how Kaia Banks spent the better part of her childhood. Raised by an abusive father, Kaia relied on her older sister to keep her safe. But Kaia’s all grown up now. And when her relationship places her in the line of fire, Kaia takes matters into her own hands.Remi Archer is no stranger to surprise...
  • Locked-Down Heart by Tarina Deaton, Shauna Kruse

    Locked-Down Heart by Tarina Deaton, Shauna Kruse

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Denise Reynolds’s tightly controlled life is thrown off kilter when she’s given custody of her young cousins. There are days she has a hard enough time getting herself out of bed, never mind two precocious kids. If that wasn’t enough, Chris Nolton comes strolling back into town as suddenly as he left it...
  • Reaching Ryan by Megyn Ward

    Reaching Ryan by Megyn Ward

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ryan is broken. Damaged beyond repair. Angry and hostile toward everyone around him. Everyone but me. It makes no sense. We’re strangers. We barely know each other. But there’s no denying the way I feel when I see him. The things I want when he touches me. He tells me those things are impossible. That the way I feel is wrong. That what I want will never happen. Can’t happen...
  • Controlled Burn by Marie James

    Controlled Burn by Marie James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As the mechanic for Blackbridge Security, when I make a mistake things don’t work properly.Correcting that mistake is the only way to get things operational.I meet issues in my personal life with the same mindset.How was I to know the woman I’ve been flirting with at the gym is the same woman I called a noise complaint on?I got her kicked out of her condo.My first response: Move in with me...
  • Cael: Heroes at Heart by Maryann Jordan

    Cael: Heroes at Heart by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The true measure of a man is not in the mistakes he makes…but in how he handles those mistakes. Cael Holland devoted himself to his friends and family, but when his niece becomes ill, he steps up to share the burden. Out on the town one night, he runs into her. The woman with the long hair that captures his attention. A woman, after his own heart, not looking for commitment...
  • SEAL Together by Maryann Jordan

    SEAL Together by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After twenty-five years of active duty, US Navy SEAL Commander Eric Lopez chaffed at his forced medical retirement. Bored, he jumped at the opportunity to work for a DHS Secret Division Command. The new National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility had just opened and was already embroiled in controversy. One group protesting the facility want it shut down due to safety concerns...
  • True North by Nicole French

    True North by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They said I was a bad idea. Poor. Violent. Criminal. They said I'd amount to nothing, and I believed them too. Until I met her. Layla Barros saved me from my worst, but to do that, she lost the best herself. Now it's my turn to bring her back to life. If only I can figure out how to do it. I'll do anything to protect the chance we finally have together...
  • Centering Kaos by Harley Stone

    Centering Kaos by Harley Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A determined mother, her wayward son, and their unexpected shot at happiness. Army veteran and former hockey center, Darius “Kaos” Ariti was searching for a new challenge when he joined the Dead Presidents Motorcycle Club. While earning his member patch, he’s compelled to shelter an imperiled woman and her fierce little boy. Now, he's gained a temporary family but is in danger of losing his heart...
  • Out of The Blue by Carina Adams

    Out of The Blue by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Putting others needs before his own was all Mike Carson had ever done. First, it was the friends he loved more than family. Then it was his country. By nineteen, he was a father, a husband and fighting in a war not many people believed in...
  • Love's Trusting by Maryann Jordan

    Love's Trusting by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ***Due to language that some will consider crude and sexual scenes of an explicit nature, readers need to be 18+ *** When trust is broken by loss and grief, can it ever be repaired? High school sweethearts and young lovers, Brad and Suzy had vowed to stay together forever. “I’ll always be here for you. Trust me,” Brad promised but loss separated the young lovers...
  • His Redemption by Hope Ford

    His Redemption by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    His Redemption – Alpha Security 4 An Alpha Man and Curvy Woman Romance Olivia My whole life is my daughter. And when I can’t protect her, Johnny does. He’s everything I could ever want in a man. Even though he tells me he’s not a good man, I just laugh at him. I have come to learn that he is one of the best. Johnny I meet her daughter first...
  • True Hero by Amy Knupp

    True Hero by Amy Knupp

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A one-night fling won't change anything, right?After suffering a terrible loss, fighter pilot Zane North walks away from his military career and returns home to start a new life -- one he's determined to control. Instead, he's confronted by his sister-in-law's unpredictable best friend, the one woman he can't ignore.Hayden Henry, an up-and-coming designer, has devoted herself to her job...
  • Unbreakable Bond by Hope Ford

    Unbreakable Bond by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s my best friend’s daughter and I have no business wanting her the way I do. Especially since it’s my fault that her dad died. Call it survivor’s guilt, if you must, I just know, I’m to blame.Still when she comes to me for help, I can’t refuse her. Which means sleeping on my sofa so she can take my bed.Emerson is temptation personified...
  • Tony: Alvarez Security Series by Maryann Jordan, Shannon Brandee Eversoll

    Tony: Alvarez Security Series by Maryann Jordan, Shannon Brandee Eversoll

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alvarez Security Agency Former Special Forces brother-in-arms now working together to provide an elite security service in the southern city of Richland. Tony Alvarez, former Special Forces Captain, now owns his own security agency. Once destroyed by loss and grief, his business is his life. Working to keep others safe, he safeguards his heart as well. Until he met her...
  • Scary Hot: An Until Series and Club Alias Series Crossover by Kd Robichaux

    Scary Hot: An Until Series and Club Alias Series Crossover by Kd Robichaux

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alpha former-military biker.Quirky office manager of a vet clinic.When their best friends meet and have a whirlwind romance, they get swept up in it and have a hot tryst of their own.It leads to a surprise pregnancy—and a soul-deep connection—neither see coming...
  • Storm by Kali Hart

    Storm by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AspenI can’t think of a better place to spend my last week in Alaska than in Three Rivers.Twenty years as a pilot in the Army has come and gone.Many of the veterans I served with have settled in the small town.It’s only fitting I spend my last days catching up with them.Plus, I’m determined to show my bestie a good time...
  • Hunter by Kali Hart

    Hunter by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunter & Jordynn's storyWe all made a pact. We’ve survived basic together, shared duty stations, and gone to war together. But the needs of the Army have separated us multiple times. That’s why we agreed that when each of us got out, we’d each settle down in the same mountainside town of Three Rivers...
  • Revive by Addison Jane, K.E. Osborn

    Revive by Addison Jane, K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cocky, sarcastic, broken—I grew up in hell and was tossed to the curb by the woman who was meant to love me unconditionally. Humor is my go-to, the thing I use to protect the already shattered pieces inside me. I fought damn hard to get to where I am today. I have everything I’ve ever wanted. Except maybe her...
  • Protecting Remi by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Remi by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When introverted cartoonist Remi Stephenson dumps her cheating ex and goes on their Hawaiian vacation solo, even her creative mind can’t imagine being purposely stranded in the ocean…with a handsome, muscular, brave Navy SEAL. Even more unbelievable is the spark between them. Surely this is just rebound hormones...
  • Connor's Baby (SEAL Daddies) by Annie J. Rose

    Connor's Baby (SEAL Daddies) by Annie J. Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She walked into my pub.Invaded my island paradise.Invaded my fantasies.I had to have her.I moved to St. Martin after I retired from the Navy SEALS.It was paradise at a slower pace, perfect for avoiding my demons, trying to forget the PTSD that came with those covert missions.Brandi is a pretty blond tourist with sad eyes.When I walk her back to her hotel one night, our passion ignites...
  • We Shouldn't by Katy Kaylee

    We Shouldn't by Katy Kaylee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hunter Raven: A force of nature, the epitome of a broody alpha male. Enigmatic, broody alpha male. Guess I gotta push that out because I am his therapist now. Turns out, he is going to be my most challenging client ever! Everything about this relationship is wrong. He’s ex-military, running away from demons of his past, And I’m supposed to be treating him...
  • Blade by C.M. Steele

    Blade by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anthony “Blade” Santini wants a slice of Jules Walker the second he sees the beauty at Penny’s Bakery. Still, with the world of trouble following the Steele Riders, he knows it’s not safe for her. As much as he’d love to be selfish and seal her fate as his, he refuses to put her in danger...
  • Dear Gage: A Short Story (Love Letters) by K.L. Donn

    Dear Gage: A Short Story (Love Letters) by K.L. Donn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A match made... by an 8-year-old?Dear Paisley,I wasn’t looking for love. I was fine with the life I had. Then you wrote me and a whole new world opened up.Dear Gage,I’ve been alone so long. Lost, scared, raising a son who needed a real man. Then you came along. Opening our hearts to your loyalty...
  • Sugar Pie by Mae Harden

    Sugar Pie by Mae Harden

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ♥ Willow ♥My great aunt’s dying wish was to re-open her family’s legacy, the Sugar Creek bakery, and come hell or high water, I’m going to make it happen in her stead. Transferring from L.A., I can deal with the biting cold, an overdose of Valentine’s Day spirit, an apparent saboteur, and even the small town gossip surrounding my (in)famous mother...
  • Brooks by Kali Hart

    Brooks by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    CharlotteWhen my best friend asked me to abandon the city for the small-town life, I took a chance and said yes.I was unhappy in the corporate world and ready for a change.I also made a promise to focus on myself for one year.A whole year to avoid all complications, especially of the male variety.That promise was a whole lot easier to keep until Brooks Montgomery showed up in my life...
  • Blaine by Kali Hart

    Blaine by Kali Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    CharmaneWhen my transmission dies, I’m forced to do the one thing I swore I’d never do:Ask Blaine Stark for a favor.With a massive snowstorm on the way, it’s my last chance to make a trip up the mountain to bring my dear friend supplies until spring.It’s just a quick trip.Except the storm comes early, trapping us.Forcing us to share a cabin...
  • Finding Happiness in a Hoax by Claire Cain

    Finding Happiness in a Hoax by Claire Cain

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One thing being captured and held by terrorists does for a man? It makes him think. Especially about the past.Five years ago, I married a woman to help her out of a desperate situation. But we’ve hardly seen each other since. And if that doesn’t change soon, my command team is going to get suspicious of our arrangement...
  • A Hero for Her by Nichole Rose

    A Hero for Her by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The curvy songbird brings him peace. The broken Army Ranger gives her hope. But can love heal his haunted mind and save her life?Ronan GallagherWhen I left the Army, I left behind pieces of myself.The things I did haunt me. So do the friends I lost.I thought I'd always be broken until I took a job protecting Winter Pyke.This curvy songbird touches parts of me that haven't seen the light in years...
  • Red, White, & Bayou by Erin Nicholas

    Red, White, & Bayou by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wyatt Landry is back in town...for one night only. At least, that's the plan. In spite of the big Fourth of July party, and his cousin’s plan to set him up with a friend of hers, and how much he wishes things could be the way they used to be.But they're not. And he's hitting the road as soon as the sun sets.Until he sees her. The woman in the red dress...
  • Owen by V.H. Nicolson

    Owen by V.H. Nicolson

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was born into privilege.I had it all; the house, the car, more money than I knew what to do with.But it came at a price.Expectation.An arranged marriage to a woman who couldn’t bear to look at me to grow the family empire.As I stood at the altar, the weight of that burden became too much.So, I did the only thing I could. I ran.To another country and straight into the arms of another woman...
  • Rescued by the SEAL by Fiona Davenport

    Rescued by the SEAL by Fiona Davenport

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Huntley Reed was convinced that military relationships were doomed to fail. He’d seen too many marriages go down in flames to think he could make one work. But he didn’t feel as though he was missing out until he met Cora Davis.Huntley tried to stay away from the gorgeous bank teller, but he could only stay away for so long...
  • Forbid by Hope Ford

    Forbid by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    We’ve kept our relationship hidden.For years she’s been mine and nobody knows it.It’s time I stake my claim.She’s younger than me.I work with her brother.I travel all the time.There’s a thousand reasons why we shouldn’t be togetherBut none of that matters now.She has a stalker and I will do any and everything to keep her safe.No one is going to hurt what’s mine..
  • Easy Ride by Nichole Rose

    Easy Ride by Nichole Rose

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Loving his curvy lamb will be this former SEAL's easiest ride yet. ShepAinsley Foster has the brightest eyes and sweetest smile I've ever seen.Whatever she's running from sent her straight to my gym.I want her to run right into my arms.But earning her trust is no easy feat.All she knows of motorcycle clubs is what she's seen on the news...
  • Sweet Ride by Megan Wade

    Sweet Ride by Megan Wade

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s a Harley-riding biker, and she’s a Vespa-riding lawyer. They say opposite’s attract. But when these two collide, anything could happen.It’s not a normal day at the office when a giant, tattooed biker walks in and demands you give up everything you’re working on to help him keep custody of his kid.And after that day, I never have a ‘normal day’ again...
  • This Is Why by Abby Brooks

    This Is Why by Abby Brooks

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A little more than six years ago my life changed forever when I met Tyler Reed. He’s one-hundred percent Marine and one-hundred-ten percent man. From his broad chest and strong back, to his infectious smile and panty soaking charm, he is the man who invaded my heart and consumes my fantasies to this day. He is the love of my life, or, I think he could have been if he hadn’t disappeared...
  • Twist by Naomi McKay

    Twist by Naomi McKay

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What’s a reluctant hero to do when he meets a stubborn damsel in distress?Former Navy SEAL Oliver ‘Twist’ Salinger knows he’s no hero. After a failed mission that cost him most of his team, he now works for his family’s security company. When a friend’s cousin is kidnapped, he doesn’t hesitate to help. What he doesn’t expect is for his target to bring out every protective instinct he has...
  • Teague by Juliana Stone

    Teague by Juliana Stone

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Teague Simon is a man at a crossroads. He’s no good around people and spending time alone at the family cottage will hopefully ease his burden. What he doesn’t need is the woman next door poking around his business making things worse. And what he really doesn’t need are her two young children in his face...
  • Scarred Hero by Hope Ford

    Scarred Hero by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He doesn’t deserve love. She disagrees.I spent the last year of my life trying to get over my injuries and losing my friend.I knew I was destined to be alone and never even considered that I could have love in my future.And then I met Hope.She’s everything I’m not. She’s happy and sees the good everywhere.While I have seen the very worst in people and know what this world is capable of...
  • SEALED with a Kiss by Caitlyn O'Leary

    SEALED with a Kiss by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Relationship Advice from Six Navy Seals? When Billy Anderson decided to ask Rebecca Barnes to the Valentine’s Day Dance, he had no idea that he would be getting relationship advice from six Navy SEALs...
  • SEAL's Spitfire by Lynne St. James

    SEAL's Spitfire by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    While Navy SEAL Rafe Buchanan is stuck at the airport, he is captivated by the woman cursing a blue streak with a take no prisoners attitude. He invites her for drinks and realizes she’s everything he gave up hoping he’d find. But a random glance at a TV monitor ends their flirting when Meghan Henley sees her brother’s missionary group was kidnapped in Afghanistan...
  • Falling In The Mountains by Olivia T. Turner

    Falling In The Mountains by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    New town. New job. New Me. New boyfriend? At least that’s what the hot Mountain Man staring me down with hungry eyes seems to think. Julian works in Search and Rescue in the Greene Mountains. He also owns the bungee jump, and that’s where I meet him. Those beautiful possessive eyes stare me down as he straps the cord around my ankles...
  • Code Name: Hacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Code Name: Hacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m not the same Bebe Grimshaw I was years ago. The woman I was spent years behind the bars of the highest security women’s prison in the nation, my punishment for hacking nuclear codes as part of a crime syndicate I’d gotten in way too deep with. The woman I am today doesn’t regret what I did, or the fact that I got caught, but I am remorseful for the years I lost with my son, Aaron...
  • High-Stakes Loving by Fiona Archer

    High-Stakes Loving by Fiona Archer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Former SEALs Quinn and Mike have discovered in King's Bluff, Wyoming, a town that embraces ménage and BDSM lifestyles. Even better, they found a sweet woman they could love--if they could only gain the shy librarian's trust. Overhearing that she adores capture fantasy books, the two Doms know exactly how to get her attention. Trapped between two experienced Masters, Reagan surrenders...
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