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  • The Dom Identity by Lexi Blake

    The Dom Identity by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A man with everythingMichael Malone seems to have it all. A wealthy, loving family. A job that fulfills him. Friends he can count on. But something is missing. He’s spent years watching his brother and close friends get married and start families, but it hasn’t happened for him. When an assignment comes up to investigate fallen Hollywood star Vanessa Hale, he jumps at the chance...
  • Unraveled by Helen Hardt

    Unraveled by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Ryan Steel and Ruby Lee are in love, but before they can move forward with a life together, they’re determined to bring resolution to the many unanswered questions they still face. To complicate matters, new threats arise with the arrival of two startling figures from their pasts. As they race against time to find answers, unexpected forces pull them apart...
  • Impact Zone by Cara Carnes

    Impact Zone by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Rhea Strathmore creates death. Locked within her laboratory at The Arsenal, she concocts whatever’s necessary to protect those around her. She won’t ever negate her pre-Arsenal deficit, but she’ll try. Her past work now threatens everyone she cares for and exposes secrets she’s kept buried...
  • Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9781939672285.This is the second book in the BLACK SHADOWS duet, Cass and Calder's story. You must read GOLD SHIMMER before reading STEEL RUSH. Cass has spent years trying to forget her past. But the thing about pasts…they always come back around, sometimes in the most unexpected ways...
  • Adam by Kris Michaels

    Adam by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr. Adam Cassidy knew two things: life isn’t easy and fate’s a bitch. Adam's last mission cost him an eye, his memory, and any chance of staying with his military brothers-in-arms on Guardian's Alpha Team. After two years he'd scraped together the remnants of his life. He’d refined, rebuilt and pushed on alone...
  • Bound by Aleatha Romig

    Bound by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With more revealed, what does that mean for the future? From New York Times bestselling author Aleatha Romig comes a brand-new dark romance trilogy bringing us back to the same dangerous underworld as WEB OF SIN. You do not need to read the Web of Sin trilogy to get caught in this new and intriguing saga, Tangled Web...
  • Remy by Elle James

    Remy by Elle James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Retired Navy SEAL Remy Montagne left the Navy to take on a career where he could make a difference. After a short vacation to his old hometown of Bayou Mambaloa and a casual hookup with local woman, Shelby Taylor, he joins Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors in Montana...
  • Lost and Found by Lexi Blake

    Lost and Found by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Owen Shaw and his “brothers” lost everything, their entire existence erased. Science had robbed him and all the Lost Boys of their memories and their past, but not their future. Hunted by every intelligence agency in the world, they are focused on two goals: find a cure for what was done to them and ensure that the technology that ruined their lives doesn’t get out into the world...
  • Turbulent Intrigue by Melody Anne

    Turbulent Intrigue by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The final novel in bestselling author Melody Anne’s Billionaire Aviators series finds Ace Armstrong back home after years away in the CIA. Faced with the stipulation in his father’s will to find a wife or lose his inheritance, the “black sheep” of the family takes to the skies like his aviator brothers...
  • Ryder by Amanda McKinney

    Ryder by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s an ex-con who just wants to be left alone. She's stranded in the middle of a blizzard—a broken soul… an invitation to danger.Photographer by day, Ben and Jerry’s enthusiast by night, Louise Sloane isn’t known for her organizational skills or obsession to detail...
  • 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...
  • Reluctantly Rescued by Ruth Cardello

    Reluctantly Rescued by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bradford has spent his life saving innocents, but there are some days he doesn't see much difference between himself and the criminals he takes out. His goal is to die doing something important.Until he meets Joanna and she turns his life upside down.Children's book author. Mini-horse rescue owner...
  • 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...
  • Strategic Maneuvers by Jemma Westbrook

    Strategic Maneuvers by Jemma Westbrook

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Pierce has been waiting.Working hard to lift up a woman who struggled to find her own strength.A woman he intended to make his when the time was right.But there can be no more waiting.Mona is in danger. Threatened by an evil he brought to her doorstep...
  • Sweet Child O' Mine by Lexi Blake

    Sweet Child O' Mine by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A look into the life at McKay-Taggart on the day Charlie and Ian have their babies...
  • The General by Jessica Gadziala

    The General by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everyone in Navesink Bank knows about Senator Ericsson’s son, his wife, and the story that hit headlines that eventually led to one of the Mallick boys going to jail for assault. What became of that woman after being coerced into lying on the stand was unknown. That was until late one night when a phone rang in the offices of Quinton Baird & Associates...
  • King by Mary Kennedy

    King by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kingston Miles felt lost after leaving the Army, but a chance meeting with the men of the Steel Patriots gave him a new lease on life. Always smiling, always in good humor he's surprised by his own abrasiveness when he meets Claire Evers, the sister of his brother, Tristan. Once he realizes there's no way around his feelings for the woman, he's all in...
  • Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When her high maintenance boss is assaulted, manager Xena Morgan contacts the only person who can help—the sexy, arrogant, incredibly capable Stark Security agent Liam Foster. The former vigilante takes every case personally, and he's determined to find answers—particularly since he thought he'd cleared this threat already...
  • When He's Wild by Lisa Renee Jones

    When He's Wild by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The third and final book in a Walker Security trilogy featuring Adrian Ramos...He was dirty, then he was bad, now he's just plain wild. Like all the men of Walker Security, when he fell for his woman, he fell hard. Some might call his love for Priscilla a weakness, but you might as well call her a weapon.You hurt her, vengeance is coming and his name is Adrian...
  • Collateral Damage by A.K. Evans

    Collateral Damage by A.K. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claimed. That’s what Camille Bennett becomes when she crashes into the arms of Deacon Archer. Camille didn’t have a plan when she attempted to fight off a random attacker, but responding well under pressure has never been her strong suit either. She was merely grateful someone who could handle the heat happened to be nearby...
  • Live, Love, Spy by Lexi Blake

    Live, Love, Spy by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Life can often be awkward when you are a child genius. For Louisa Ward, that came in the form of meeting her one true love at age 12. TJ Taggart was perfect. But being a year younger and a full year ahead of him in school always made things weird. Working in the CIA has made her into a strong and capable woman. Until she sees TJ...
  • Dangerous Secrets by Jenna Gunn

    Dangerous Secrets by Jenna Gunn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The former SEAL’s new mission has a serious perk—a fake date with a beautiful stranger. Unraveling the lies surrounding her life? That’s where things get lethally dangerous. Justin 'Dozer' Roark didn’t expect to need a fake date for his first civilian security mission. He would quickly flip you off if you told him he’d fall for the cocktail waitress he paid to help him...
  • Flame by Aleatha Romig

    Flame by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    “What matters most is how you walk through the fire.” ~ Charles Bukowski No longer simmering and crackling beyond our realm, the fire smoldering in the distance roars to life. The blaze has the capacity to scorch and destroy everything and everyone in its path. All that I’ve known and believed was obliterated the moment Madeline spoke a truth I’d never suspected...
  • Catch and Release by Lori Matthews

    Catch and Release by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Callahan Security is Back!!! Jake Boxer wants a vacation, but when Jameson Drake calls and asks for a favor, he has no choice. Drake's accountant is in trouble and needs protection, so Jake agrees to take on the job. Little does he know the accountant is not only brilliant but drop-dead gorgeous...
  • Rent Free by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rent Free by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fuck me for choosing the wrong sister.Atlas Carter was a protector. He was a police officer, had spent years in the Air Force, spent his entire teen years as a volunteer firefighter.Being a protector was in his blood.It was his dream.So when a woman was in a dangerous situation, it was his every instinct to protect her. To shield her. To watch over her.Only, that woman had played him...
  • Captivate Me by Ryan Michele

    Captivate Me by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Who’s behind all the mayhem in the Ravage MC? Time to find out. **Please note, this is the last book in the Ravage MC series. It is told from several different points of view. Including, but not limited to: Buzz, Bella, Breaker, Pops and Ma. Of course in true Ryan Michele fashion, there are twists, turns and action to keep you on your toes and the pages flying.** Full blurb coming soon...
  • Fiery Surrender by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Fiery Surrender by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Langston has finally taken his place among the Trinity Masters, America’s most powerful secret society, and he’s ready to stand at the altar to meet his trinity. However, when the Grand Master, Juliet, pairs him in an arranged menage marriage with Rich and Mina, he finds himself struggling to fit into this society he’s only just discovered...
  • Royally F**ked by Elle Boon

    Royally F**ked by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HE WAS HER KNIGHT IN BLACK LEATHER. SHE WAS HIS CHANCE AT REDEMPTION.COSMO WAS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE...To those who didn't know him he looked like a rich playboy with too much time on his hands. However, to his brothers, he's the guy they called when they needed a private jet, or someone to back them up, no questions asked. Now it's his turn for some no questions asked backup...
  • Honor's Revenge by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Honor's Revenge by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    To find a killer, they’ll have to use her as bait. World class assassin Lancelot will do anything to get the job done, including lie to his new partner, billionaire professor Hugo. But Hugo has secrets of his own, and when the mission looks like it will fail, he has no choice but to seek out a woman who has no place in their war--Sylvia. Hugo wants to protect her...
  • Loyalty's Betrayal by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Loyalty's Betrayal by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Head of security for the world’s most powerful secret society isn’t an easy job. Mateo failed in his duties, and people died. When he’s offered a chance to prove himself and unmask a traitor, he accepts without hesitation. His chance for redemption comes with a condition, a deadline...and an ultimatum. The condition? Mateo won’t be working alone...
  • Smoky Mountain Judge by Ashley A. Quinn

    Smoky Mountain Judge by Ashley A. Quinn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Divorced, single mom, Kennedy Davidson, knew the move from Richmond to Asheville would be a rough one for her twin teenagers. What she didn’t count on was the rocky start for herself. A week into her new job as a federal magistrate, danger comes calling when a mid-level cartel boss lands on her court docket...
  • Billionaire Untamed ~ Tate by J.S. Scott

    Billionaire Untamed ~ Tate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Lara Bailey isn't in Rocky Springs for the hot springs, the resort activities or the fabulous skiing. She has come to Colorado for one reason and one reason only: to find and get close to Marcus Colter, the eldest Colter brother. Unfortunately, trouble finds her in the form of Tate Colter rather than Marcus...
  • Runaway Heiress by Melody Anne

    Runaway Heiress by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Joseph and George Anderson are once again back to match-making in the sixth book in The Billionaire Bachelors Series. Bree has had enough of over-protective brothers and a meddling father, so she decides to run to a small town, where she can prove she can make it on her own...
  • Heir in Exile by Danielle Bourdon

    Heir in Exile by Danielle Bourdon

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Chey's return to Latvala is fraught with deception. She enters the country illegally upon Prince Sander's request, and, realizing they cannot hide their relationship much longer, prepare to announce their status to the King and Queen.Neither could have imagined the lengths the ruling Monarchs would go to keep the two apart...
  • Trouble In Dixie by Becky McGraw

    Trouble In Dixie by Becky McGraw

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Professional rodeo team roper, Katie Upton, is tired of being called the "Mild Child" in relation to her less inhibited twin sister. She's spent a lifetime cleaning up her sister's messes, the last of which landed her working for the handsome, but standoffish, owner of the Rockin' D ranch in Amarillo...
  • Savage Ending by Lisa Renee Jones

    Savage Ending by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A man, a former assassin, who is now in love, a man on his honeymoon, who vows to leave the killing behind him.That is, until someone sets their eyes on revenge and goes after his woman. Now someone is going to find out just what a Savage he really is.Savage Ending is the fourth and final book in the Savage Series...
  • Fateless by Meli Raine

    Fateless by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The future isn’t real.The past isn’t real, either.Only the present is, solid and full, flying at our faces, our bodies, our hearts and souls at breakneck speed as we work to take it all in.As we work to protect others.And, finally - ourselves.We’ve started to break the bonds of Stateless, a system as rotten as the one it seeks to destroy...
  • Distracted by A.K. Evans

    Distracted by A.K. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Marriage of convenience? More like marriage of inconvenience. Especially when it turns deadly.Ellery Cross did what she had to do to save her family from ruin. She married a man she wasn’t in love with. Worse, she married a man she knew nothing about.But Ellery eventually learns all she needs to know about her husband. And sticking around is not an option...
  • Her Dom's Lesson by A.D. Justice

    Her Dom's Lesson by A.D. Justice

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophia Vasco Will he ever forgive me? This question haunts me every day and night. He branded me with his touch to the point that no other man will ever compare. Dominic consumed my life. Until the day he learned the truth about me and everything changed. Nothing is as it seems and it has all spiraled out of control. The weight of the world now rests on my shoulders. I have to fix this...
  • Colson by Jessica Gadziala

    Colson by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The club has known peace for so long.Too long, it seemed. And now the president is missing,the supply chain is drying up,and there are threats from within and out.Colson should have had nothing else on his mind.But then there she was.The new neighbor.A woman with her hands full of her own problems should have sent him running, but he just couldn't seem to stay away...
  • Edge of the Heat 6 by Lisa Ladew

    Edge of the Heat 6 by Lisa Ladew

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emma and Vivian finally find their brother, whom they were separated from at birth. But tragedy strikes the family once more as they discover he is a U.S. Marine in the Middle East who has been taken hostage by terrorists. They beg Sara, a former killing machine for the secret DCIA, to help him and she agrees, but in the only way she knows how: she's going to do it all herself...
  • Ravaged River by Lindsay Cross, Elle James

    Ravaged River by Lindsay Cross, Elle James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Special forces operative Hoyt Crowe wasn't just damaged… he was broken. After suffering brutal torture in captivity, his once lively spirit is shattered. Now his greatest adversary isn’t some unknown terrorist in a foreign country, it’s himself. Hayden James watched Hoyt slide into a private purgatory of post-traumatic stress disorder, taking her heart with him...
  • The Alpha Billionaire Club Trilogy: BBW Billionaire Romance by Alexa Wilder

    The Alpha Billionaire Club Trilogy: BBW Billionaire Romance by Alexa Wilder

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Together in one volume, all three books in the Alpha Billionaire Club series by Amazon Bestselling Author Alexa Wilder. Over 1,300 pages of steamy, sexy, action-packed billionaire romance! THE WEDDING RESCUE She thinks she's not his type. He's determined to prove her wrong. Leigha Carmichael is used to the quiet life...
  • Burned by Rebecca Sharp

    Burned by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From bestselling author Dr. Rebecca Sharp comes a brother's best friend, protector romance...Rocco Damiani has trust issues. It’s no wonder since he was given a burn notice by the CIA. No work history, no money, no connections. No identity. Not quite the fresh start he was looking for, but at least he has a good job and loyal friends...
  • Cease Fire by Marie James

    Cease Fire by Marie James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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  • Bossy Brothers: Johnny by J.A. Huss

    Bossy Brothers: Johnny by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She wasn’t supposed to be the princess I wasn’t looking for. When my father ‘died’ five years ago I took over the ‘family business’. But when I say business, I really mean secret society. Or cult. Or militia. Hell, let’s keep it simple and call it the mob. It’s just not that mob. It’s much darker, much dirtier, and much more dangerous than any old everyday mob...
  • Tuff Enough by Samantha A. Cole

    Tuff Enough by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    While security operative Jason "Tuff" Tanner lives for dangerous assignments, he likes his downtime in his quiet neighborhood too. But that peacefulness is suddenly interrupted when his new next-door neighbor becomes a target for someone with nefarious intentions...
  • Kade by Apryl Baker

    Kade by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gut-wrenching, soul-searing grief has haunted Angel Kincaid for seven years, since she suffered a miscarriage. Just when she starts to think she’s come to terms with it, everything she thought she knew is cast into doubt when she comes face to face with a little boy, and  every instinct tells her the child belongs to her—that he is her son...
  • Falling Under by Lisa Renee Jones, Lucy Rivers

    Falling Under by Lisa Renee Jones, Lucy Rivers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ex-special forces Jacob King is a man who keeps to himself, having learned the hard way that letting people close to you, trusting them, might just get you killed. A lesson he learned when members of his Special Ops team turned dirty while others, men he considered friends, died. He made them pay. He made them hurt. He put them in jail. And so he doesn't trust anyone anymore...
  • Take Me Back by Rosalind James

    Take Me Back by Rosalind James

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hallie Cavanaugh’s late father just left her millions of reasons to stay away from Jim Lawson, deputy sheriff of Paradise, Idaho, and the man who broke her heart fourteen years ago. Hallie has worked hard for independence, but she can’t dismiss a massive inheritance, even if she has to follow her father’s manipulative terms to get it...
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