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  • Searching for Elsie by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Elsie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Once upon a time, Elsie Ireland thought she’d found the man of her dreams, only to learn her fairytale romance was just another cautionary tale. Beyond a perfect family image, her husband had little interest in Elsie, and even less in their son. Years later, she and nine-year-old Tony have landed in Fallport, Virginia...
  • The Wrecked One by Brittney Sahin

    The Wrecked One by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One moment. One decision. Will change everything. I’ve spent my life chasing stories and mysteries, as well as running from love. I’ve also come face-to-face with evil before. Felt its breath on my skin and survived.But nothing could prepare me for that one day when my life changed. Impossible choices and unbearable sacrifices were made, and evil still won...
  • Shattered by Riley Edwards

    Shattered by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wren Cunningham wants to put her past behind her when she and her teenage son move from Chicago to Georgia to start a new life away from the dark cloud they’ve been living under since Wren’s ex was sent to prison. She tells herself she only has time for her son as she builds a wall around her heart. A wall that threatens to crumble when Phoenix saves her son from a fire...
  • 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...
  • Bear by Cee Bowerman

    Bear by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Bear is the silent brother in the Texas Kings MC. After a life spent mostly alone, he never imagined he would ever find someone who could fit into his life, or might possibly even want to. A chance meeting with a beautiful woman changes everything. He'll put himself in front of a bullet for her, but will she be able to live in his world?Autumn has had the world in her pocket for her entire life...
  • Dangerous Rescue by Riley Edwards

    Dangerous Rescue by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Just friends. I’d repeated the lie so many times I’d almost convinced myself it was the truth.Our friendship was accidental. A lost phone, a string of text messages that led to a once-a-year birthday text. The real trouble started when we upped the game and called each other. Those phone calls strengthened our connection and solidified our bond...
  • 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...
  • Maliki by Kris Michaels

    Maliki by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Betrayal.When it comes at the hands of family, betrayal destroys lives. His reputation destroyed and career as a surgeon shattered, Harrison M. Boswell, VI, vanishes, and the alter-ego of Dr. Maliki Blue arises. His employer, Guardian Security, knows who he had been—but they are the only ones. Too bad pasts don’t stay buried...
  • Smoke by Kris Michaels

    Smoke by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shades of good are colored by the poison of greed, lust, and envy, and all too often the warm colors of humanity are consumed by evil.The assassin known as Smoke had his future planned. When his partner’s life imploded, his absence left Smoke adrift. Then Guardian threw a sassy, enticing anchor at him. When the alluring siren boarded his ship, he should have seen the rocky shore in the distance...
  • Promises by Kris Michaels

    Promises by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Promises. A commitment, bond, pledge or pact. Some are broken, others withstand the test of time.Promises can be made between friends, families, or lovers. Each will be honored. Even the promise of payback, although Joseph King prefers the word revenge. Family fun at his expense? Not on your life. Join the members of the Guardian family as they delve into the nuances of promises made and kept...
  • Hop by Maryann Jordan

    Hop by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Easy to let go. Frank (Hop) Hopkins thought it was just a fun night to catch up with an old friend.Spending days on rescue missions when his Tennessee hometown flooded, he was stunned to meet up with an old friend, Lori Baker. But dinner, drinks, talking, and laughing turned into a night he’d definitely remember fondly. But they’d promised one night only...
  • Finding Ashlyn by Susan Stoker

    Finding Ashlyn by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Friends with benefits. That’s all Ashlyn wanted with Slate. They were certainly combustible in the bedroom, and that was sufficient…wasn’t it? Yes, definitely. He was too bossy. Too protective. She didn’t want someone hovering, wanting to know her every move and telling her she was too reckless. But then again, knowing someone cared enough to worry about her felt kind of nice...
  • Let Me Love You by Brittney Sahin

    Let Me Love You by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love is a risk for a woman in danger and a mercenary sworn to protect in a blistering novel of vengeance and redemption by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin. Six years ago, Maria Romano got her birthday wish—a kiss from Enzo Costa. A man she could never take her eyes off, but who seemed as haunted as her favorite book boyfriends and strictly off-limits...
  • Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He had no complaints… Great job, great boss, great co-workers. And a best friend he’d known for years.Okay, almost no complaints… The women he dated paled in comparison to his best friend.She had a lot of complaints… A job she hated, a tyrant for a boss, working with people that got on her last nerve. And no time for love. Plus, the guys she dated couldn’t come close to her best friend...
  • Forever by Janie Crouch

    Forever by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some loves are meant to be from the very beginning.Jess O’Conner and Ethan Bollinger have known each other almost their entire lives and have loved each other from the start. The people of Oak Creek have watched them grow up, and everyone has always known what they are...Soulmates.But sometimes, fate demands a different path, derailing even the most carefully mapped plans...
  • Blaze by Janie Crouch

    Blaze by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kendrick and Neo's love story, plus the exciting start of the family Dorian and Ray never thought they'd have...Ivy League graduate and computer genius Kendrick Foster, aka Blaze, never expected to find himself putting down permanent roots in a tiny town in Wyoming.But family isn’t always blood, and the Linear Tactical team is very definitely his family. He’s not going anywhere...
  • Kyle by Maryann Jordan

    Kyle by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Detective Kyle McBride battles to get drugs off the streets of Hope City and is sure someone at Kilton Pharmaceutical Company is key to the thefts of prescription fentanyl.Bored in the marketing department of Kilton Pharma, Kimberly gets to use her journalism background to write human-interest stories about the employees. But her digging turns up more than she bargained for...
  • Jack by Maddie Wade

    Jack by Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Once a protector, he has now become the hunter.Jack Granger has done the right thing all his life, but when his life was turned upside down, forming Eidolon became his salvation. He built a team who are ready to fight beside him and die for the vow they all made—to protect the Queen...
  • Home Port by Maryann Jordan

    Home Port by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Lighthouse Security Investigation West Coast crossover novel.Chris Andrews needs to go home. A new job awaits. A new opportunity. A new chance to build better memories.The last time he was there, he buried his father. The time before that, they had argued over his joining the Navy. Now, he needs to go home to start anew...
  • Gunner by Maddie Wade

    Gunner by Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Traitor, Killer, Enemy those were just some of the words his former team at Eidolon now call him.Gunner Ramberg spent his life paying for the sins he committed as a child, fighting to make life better for the sister he adores and almost killed. Eidolon was supposed to be his first chance to fit in somewhere...
  • Protecting Raven by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Raven by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Their daughter’s abduction destroyed their marriage. Raven Oswald has never given up on her daughter, for ten years she's used her computer skills to try to bring down the trafficking ring responsible for Cleo's abduction. When she finally gets a viable lead she heads straight to Columbia to check it out. The last person she expected to follow her was her ex-husband...
  • Protecting Hawk by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Hawk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was only supposed to be one night.When Madeline Montgomery finds out she's carrying her one night stand's baby she's shocked, but without his name she can't find him, and determines to raise her child alone. With a stalker upping his ante and the cops refusing to take her seriously, she runs to Prey Security for help...
  • Protecting Sparrow by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Sparrow by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grief is all that’s stopping this friendship becoming more.When Sparrow Oswald's helicopter is shot down in Africa the last person she expects to come to her rescue is her old friend Ethan Zimmerman. She'd love for there to be more between them but he's not over his wife's death. As they work together to find who is using Ethan's plane to smuggle drugs the spark between them grows...
  • Gwen's Delta by Lynne St. James

    Gwen's Delta by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Shy bookstore owner Guinevere Dedmond resigned herself to living her dreams through the pages of the books she sells. But when she receives a mysterious call demanding she pay ransom to save her parents, her comfortable world erupts in chaos. Panicked, she turns to the sexy soldier who swept her off her feet, not knowing he's part of an elite spec ops team...
  • Rescuing Gabriella by Anna Blakely

    Rescuing Gabriella by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HE FINALLY FOUND THE ONE…BUT THEN SHE VANISHED.After nearly dying on a Bravo Team op, former Marine Zade King spends the final weekend of his recovery in paradise where he meets Gabby. She’s smart, funny, beautiful…everything he’s ever wanted in a woman. Then she disappears without a trace.SHE’S NOT WHO HE THINKS SHE IS...
  • This Crazy Love by J.H. Croix

    This Crazy Love by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rule #1: Do not fall for your brother’s best friend. Rule # 2: Absolutely do not fall for your brother’s best friend. Rule # 3: Don’t break the rules. Shay Jackson Stone is hot—like burn-down-buildings kind of hot. He’s also my brother’s best friend, and the memory of one kiss with him years ago still might get to me. Maybe. But, I am not looking for a second chance...
  • Protecting Dove by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Dove by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He saw her at her most vulnerable and she never wanted to see him again.Dove Oswald never expected to come face to face with the man who saved her life ever again. Nor did she expect him to save her a second time. Surprised by the spark of attraction between them, when she realizes he's hiding something she's determined to figure out what it is...
  • Keeping His Promise by Anna Blakely

    Keeping His Promise by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Five disbanded SEALs. A young widow who needs their help. An enemy waiting to strike...and a mystery that may never be solved.Anna Blakely's exciting new Eagle's Nest Securities Series follows a group of former Navy SEALs whose team was unexpectedly—and suspiciously—disbanded. With a vow to keep in touch, the five remaining members go their separate ways...
  • No Shame: The Complete Series by Nora Phoenix

    No Shame: The Complete Series by Nora Phoenix

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Family is more than blood...and love has no shame. Indy is on the run from his mobster ex when he meets Noah and Josh...and starts on the journey that will bring him love and a chosen family...
  • Our Time by Maryann Jordan

    Our Time by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Military duty called them away to war zones, but after tours overseas, the group of friends found their way back home as men, seeking the peaceful little seaside town. Now, the band of brothers, together once more, work to provide a place for less fortunate veterans to call home...
  • Fighting for Jen by Cara Carnes

    Fighting for Jen by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She fights for those who can’t fight back…Jennifer Davenport vowed to never back down from a fight. Raised in a violent home, she’d survived her share of nightmares and monsters lurking in the shadows. She’s made it her life mission to help all of Counterstrike’s clients start a new life. Her former Delta force brothers get them out, and she paves the way to a better future. Easy, right?Yeah, no...
  • A Trident Wedding by Jaime Lewis

    A Trident Wedding by Jaime Lewis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When she bumped into the handsome blue-eyed stranger two years ago in Afghanistan, Alexandra Hardesty knew that her life would change forever. With her upbringing, she understood that falling in love with a Navy SEAL wouldn’t be all smooth sailings and that their relationship would face many hurdles...
  • Montana Ranger Returns by Elle James

    Montana Ranger Returns by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Betrayed by his wife and filled with self-loathing, he joined the Army on his path to self-destructionFin McClain left Montana to escape his past. He joined the US Army to fight enemies of his country and his own internal demons in an attempt at redemption or suicide. On a mission in Syria, he fought alongside a woman they called the Angel of Death, a woman as fierce as she was beautiful...
  • Atlas' World: A Poseidon's Warriors MC Novel - Book 5 by Darlene Tallman

    Atlas' World: A Poseidon's Warriors MC Novel - Book 5 by Darlene Tallman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Beck ‘Atlas’ Crandall is a combat veteran, just like the majority of his club brothers that started Poseidon’s Warriors MC. A trained medic, it was his responsibility to head into missions in an effort to hopefully rescue those involved. Sadly, most ended up being recovery situations instead, which started causing him extreme mental duress...
  • Collateral Damage by Rebecca Deel

    Collateral Damage by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a second kidnapping attempt upends her life and a friend goes missing, Sage Reynolds partners with her childhood hero to unmask the culprit. When the search for clues leads to an inescapable trap, she’ll need a battle-hardened warrior to escape.Fortress Security operative Brody Weaver is a protector to the bone...
  • Hemingway by Zoe Dawson

    Hemingway by Zoe Dawson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Atticus “Hemingway” Sinclair has wanted to become a SEAL since he could remember. With the help of his brother-in-law, Ashe “Kid Chaos” Wilder he’s on his first step toward his goal—BUD/S training. Everything runs smoothly up until the night before he has to report to Coronado. He meets a woman in a bar, and she blows him away during their one night of anonymous passion...
  • Rescuing Carmen by Ellie Masters

    Rescuing Carmen by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Meet the Guardians, former military special ops soldiers turned hostage rescue specialists. With dangerous missions, heroic rescues, nail-biting suspense, and sizzling romance, the entire series is an addictive adrenaline rush from the first page to the last. Fierce protectors, the Guardians are a band of brothers who'll face any danger to rescue those who've been taken...
  • SEAL Hard by J.M. Madden, Suspense Sisters

    SEAL Hard by J.M. Madden, Suspense Sisters

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL Commander Jack Bishop thought he was done with the government shenanigans that cost him part of his mobility, as well as his marriage. So when he’s approached to join Bone Frog Command, a secret division of the Department of Homeland Security, he’s less than enthused, until he realizes that Navy SEALs he worked with are in danger. But there’s a more personal connection...
  • Garrett’s Destiny by Anna Blakely

    Garrett’s Destiny by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He wanted a break from the action. She wanted to prove she could be more. They found each other in paradise…but a killer followed them home.Former Army Ranger Garrett Morgan loves working for Tactical Operations. Using his special forces training to rescue innocent civilians is what he lives for. But lately, Garrett’s been feeling the strain of a life that’s all work and no play...
  • Dino by Jaime Lewis

    Dino by Jaime Lewis

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Arianna has spent the last few years in Europe working undercover for the FBI to assist in bringing down the mob boss of one of Europe's most prominent crime families. Her fake job...Becoming Europe's most photographed lingerie model. Using connections within the modeling industry finally pays off when Arianna is presented with an opportunity to work for the man she has been patiently seeking out...
  • Destiny's Delta by Becca Jameson

    Destiny's Delta by Becca Jameson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It's been twelve years since she picked the wrong brother...Destiny Fisher is ready to move past the guilt and shame of losing a fiancé to the war in Afghanistan twelve years ago. She never should’ve said yes to his proposal in the first place, and she's been plagued by her choices for over a decade.She was his biggest regret..
  • HOT SEAL Target by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT SEAL Target by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL Adam “Blade” Garrison’s assignment to infiltrate a tech billionaire’s criminal operations just got complicated. His cover: bodyguard for the man’s wife. His problem: Blade knows Quinn Halliday far too well. A sophisticated version of the chubby, shy girl Blade once knew, Quinn brings out all his protective instincts—as well as a few carnal ones that surprise him...
  • Loving Bea by Cara Carnes

    Loving Bea by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    he’s a magnet for trouble... After they saved her from a violent marriage years before, Bea Stanz made a vow to fix her own problems and not rely so much on her brother and his fellow operatives at Counterstrike. Her newfound independence has been far from easy, but Bea 2.0 is determined to handle whatever comes her way...
  • Defending Casey by Reina Torres

    Defending Casey by Reina Torres

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hale “Hondo” Foster never intended to come back to Fool’s Gold, Colorado, but maybe it was time to put some ghosts to rest. He left, heartbroken, and found himself in the military. He built a career but there was always something missing.Now that he’s back in Colorado, he knows who it is. Casey, his high school sweetheart...
  • No Angel by Helena Newbury

    No Angel by Helena Newbury

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once he was a Marine. Now he's the world's most notorious thief. But when the woman he's fallen for is kidnapped, this charismatic criminal must become a hero again. Buckle up for the new scorching, standalone romantic suspense from NYT bestselling author Helena Newbury.Gabriel Kain. Sinfully gorgeous and ferociously smart. Once a Marine, he's now the world's most notorious thief...
  • 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...
  • SEAL's Sunshine by Lynne St. James

    SEAL's Sunshine by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL Cam Patterson can’t wait for the day that he returns to the woman he loves. But everything blows up when he finds out there is a plot to kill the President of the United States. 
 Miranda Stanhope has been anxiously awaiting Cam’s return. Months ago, he and his Black Eagle SEAL Team wrenched her away from the Taliban who’d been torturing her. The terrifying nightmares still haunt her...
  • Rescuing Katherine by Anna Blakely

    Rescuing Katherine by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    HE GAVE HER HIS HEART—AND SHE SHATTERED IT.

Bravo Team operative Matthew Turner used to believe in happily ever after, but that was years ago, before the only woman he’s ever loved betrayed him and shredded his heart. Since then, he’s worked hard and played even harder, determined he’ll never be vulnerable again.

NOT EVERYTHING IS AS IT SEEMS...
  • Protecting Harper by Olivia Michaels

    Protecting Harper by Olivia Michaels

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Michael “Flint” Gray is a Navy SEAL forced into retirement by a personal secret that could shorten his life and trap him in a nightmare. A former teammate gives Flint a new lease on life when he offers Flint a job in Colorado with Watchdog Protectors, a security company with its own secrets...
  • 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...
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