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  • Gabriel by Kris Michaels, Matt Haynes

    Gabriel by Kris Michaels, Matt Haynes

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    David Xavier—and all those he loved or counted as friends—would forever be mouth-watering targets to men of evil intent. His wealth could settle a small country's foreign debt. Because of this, from the moment of his birth, his mother obscured his identity...
  • Checkmate by Emilia Finn

    Checkmate by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bishop men are nothing but a plague on this planet, a disease that needs eradication before it spreads. They’re murderers. Liars. Thieves. The day I met Colum Bishop, I thought my life was finally turning around. I was led to believe he would be our saviour. He was supposed to be our hero, a long awaited reprieve from the hardships life insisted on throwing at my mom and me...
  • Barriers: Anderson Special Ops - Book 3 by Melody Anne, John Henley

    Barriers: Anderson Special Ops - Book 3 by Melody Anne, John Henley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hendrick Meeks, also known as Green to his military brother’s in arms is in trouble — big trouble. There are two women in his life that want a piece of him, and he doesn’t know which way to turn.Hendrick’s has always been the youngest man at any stage of his career. He was a sniper for the US Navy SEAL’s and knows how to nail his target...
  • 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...
  • The Patchwork Quilt of Happiness by Ava Miles

    The Patchwork Quilt of Happiness by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Millions of readers have fallen in love with Ava's bestselling books...come join the family. International Bestselling Author Ava Miles shares an emotional tale about a woman’s quest to reunite her family and make a patchwork quilt of happiness out of her own happily ever after. Riley Thomson believes every woman can be her own superhero...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Deserving Henley by Susan Stoker

    Deserving Henley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Years of adversity have molded Henley McClure into the attentive, conscientious psychologist she is today. She lives for her daughter, Jasna, and her work at The Refuge, an exclusive retreat for victims of PTSD. Her life is fulfilling…if a little lonely. But the only man who’s captured her interest, the most standoffish of the mountain retreat’s seven owners, lives in self-imposed isolation...
  • Rising by Melody Anne, John Henley

    Rising by Melody Anne, John Henley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rising continues where book one left off with the mission to purge evil from Seattle just getting started. Katherine comes home, but not all is well in the Anderson world as she battles an enemy Joseph can’t put his hands around. While Joseph can’t purge the cancer, he can support this team who attacked the woman he loves. And that’s exactly what he does...
  • Slaying The Dragon by T.K. Leigh

    Slaying The Dragon by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    THIS IS THE SECOND BOOK IN A TWO-BOOK DUET. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ CHASING THE DRAGON, PLEASE START THERE. RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 18 & UP DUE TO STRONG LANGUAGE, EXPLICIT SEXUAL SITUATIONS, AND VIOLENCE. I should have resisted him, but I couldn’t. My addiction to him was all-consuming, the high from his touch unlike any other...
  • 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...
  • Texas Forever by Janet Dailey

    Texas Forever by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The one woman he didn’t dare touch …   From the moment Luke Maddox sets eyes on Erin Tyler, he can think of nothing else but laying claim to Rimrock’s reigning beauty. But Erin is his boss’s daughter, and Luke knows Will Tyler has bigger plans for Erin’s future than a rough and tumble ranch hand with a brutal history and a talent for breaking hearts...
  • Enforce by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Enforce by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I am the shadow that haunts the night. I am a hunter, a protector...a force for good...I am Jonas Castillo. And now that she’s mine, I’m never letting her go. If only she would let me protect her...Seeing the fear in her eyes, makes me want to do the one thing I’ve vowed never to do again… kill. But I’ll do anything to protect what’s mine. ** The finale of The FORCE Duet...
  • SEALs of Honor: Ryder by Dale Mayer

    SEALs of Honor: Ryder by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is the 14th book in the best selling SEALs of Honor series! Ryder spent his career defending his nation and helping others… After he lost the one good thing in his life, he spent every waking hour trying to forget… After a mission goes south and a friend is hurt, Ryder checks in at medical for an update on his condition only to find Caitlyn working there...
  • 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...
  • Doc by Mary Kennedy

    Doc by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jack "Doc" Harris is one of the most dangerous men to ever come out of the Army Rangers. His skills as a medic are unequaled, but his skills with women are seriously lacking. When beautiful Dr. Aubrey Collins makes him lose all common sense he can barely hold it together. He wants her so desperately he will go to any lengths to make her his and only his...
  • 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...
  • Scotty by Leslie North

    Scotty by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Danger lurks around every corner… but it’s romance that comes as the biggest surpriseNavy SEAL Scotty Devonshire has one weakness: women. But a long-term relationship? That’s not his style—until Hayley Stevens walks into his life. All he wants is to find his SEAL teammate’s widow and clear his buddies’ names. Turns out Hayley, a hacker extraordinaire, is trying to find the same woman...
  • Jaxon: Heroes at Heart by Maryann Jordan

    Jaxon: 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. A rescuer at heart, paramedic Jaxon Chapman enjoyed kicking back when off the job and that included the ladies. But, as his friends began to find meaningful relationships, he wondered if his world was missing something...
  • Total Meltdown by Elle James

    Total Meltdown by Elle James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An elementary teacher during the school year, Lily Grayson hires out as an au pair during the summer in order to travel expenses-paid to exotic locations with wealthy families with children. When one of her students suggests she apply for a summer job with his family going to Costa Rica, she jumps at the chance...
  • Garnet by Helen Hardt

    Garnet by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He'll protect her no matter what...even from herself.As Garnet, professional volleyball player Aspen Davis was hunted on an island in the South Pacific by depraved men who paid millions for the privilege. While her athleticism initially gave her an edge, it turned into a hindrance when her tormentors saw her as a challenge. Scarred and mentally exhausted, she's blocked out a lot of the memories...
  • Naughty and Nice: Clear Security Holidays by Ainsley St. Claire

    Naughty and Nice: Clear Security Holidays by Ainsley St. Claire

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped by an avalanche with San Francisco’s most eligible bachelor would seem like a chemistry packed holiday, but I’m a one-date wonder. There’s no way we’ll ever fall for one another.Clay McGrath is a doctor, a distinguished veteran, and he saved my life.As San Francisco’s most eligible bachelor, women know no boundaries and the texts, photos, and visits are unrelenting.I know why...
  • Safeguarding Miley (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Melissa Kay Clarke

    Safeguarding Miley (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Melissa Kay Clarke

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dr. Miley Ellison loves her career choice. Taking care of small animals is her passion - the larger ones? Not so much. However, when her grandfather leaves her his practice in Wyoming, she resigns herself to a life of dealing mostly with livestock. It isn't ideal but at least she's in control of her own life. If only her mind would focus on the job and not on her best friend's sexy brother...
  • Heroes with Heat and Heart, Volume 3 by Tamrin Banks, Finley Brown

    Heroes with Heat and Heart, Volume 3 by Tamrin Banks, Finley Brown

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    These colors don't run, and neither do our hot heroes!Join us for the upcoming steamy protector romance anthology - Heroes with Heat and Heart 3. All proceeds go to support our veterans through the Wounded Warrior charity.Wishing our brave military members all of the best.Carina AlyceEmKay ConnorLC TaylorCB SametHarper CrossHeather ScarlettCassie MaeDenise WellsHK JacobsC. J. CorbinD...
  • Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunter Townsend loves his new home in the small town of Shadows Landing. It’s his sanctuary when he comes home from a mission as part of his Special Forces team. Maggie, the infuriating, monogram loving, bright color wearing, cuter than she should be woman, who loves to tease him was the only issue in Shadows Landing. Until a mission goes wrong . .
  • Her Too-Perfect Boss by Cami Checketts

    Her Too-Perfect Boss by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A sassy fitness expert, the irresistible man she refuses to fall for, and the tropical storm that will change everything. Navy Quinn has been dodging her perfect boss for over a decade, but a week on a remote island might prove to be her downfall with the tantalizing billionaire Holden Jennings...
  • SEAL's Angel by Lynne St. James

    SEAL's Angel by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Navy SEAL Jake Warner, leader of the Black Eagle team, has witnessed the worst of the world firsthand. After losing faith in everything but his teammates, he meets Dawn Randolph, and she is everything good he’s forgotten.Dawn has lived her own hell over the last few years since her Army Ranger husband died in action...
  • Force by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Force by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I am the shadow that haunts the night. I am a hunter, a protector...a force for good...I am Jonas Castillo. For years I’ve existed on the edge of the dark, protecting innocents who can’t protect themselves. Until… her. Jessica JJ Jones. The bane of my existence. A bright light in the dark. The crack in my armor. A loud, argumentative beautiful crack in my armor...
  • The Long Con by Lexxi James

    The Long Con by Lexxi James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trust me. Some men are made for the con. He's hot. Charming. Sexy.And don't forget wealthy.He can have any woman he wants.Except one.Most women look at him like a sugar daddy. Or a baby daddy.But the way she looked at him was different.Like he wasn't worth her time.Well, she just became worth his.She's smart. Sassy. Slated to be the next CEO.Her head is on business.Her curves beg to be touched...
  • Saving Penni by Nicole Flockton

    Saving Penni by Nicole Flockton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Knox “Fort” Porter never thought a trip to the convenience store could change his life, but that’s exactly what happened. Saving a woman from a gunman is all in a day’s work given his job. However his immediate and uncharacteristically protective reaction to her is something else entirely...
  • The SEAL Next Door by Makenna Jameison

    The SEAL Next Door by Makenna Jameison

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rule #1. You don’t chase after your best friend’s sister… Brianna Miller’s life is in complete chaos. She’s moonlighting as a cocktail waitress after getting laid off, her older brother was seriously injured in Afghanistan, and the man she’s pined for since she was a teenager is back in her life, hotter than hell and more tempting than ever...
  • Iceman by Zoe Dawson

    Iceman by Zoe Dawson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Master Chief Christopher “Iceman” Snow and his team are tasked with gathering intel on a terrorist group that is targeting American citizens overseas. They have hit several targets in Paris. It’s a tragic and volatile mission when he comes face-to-face with the tantalizing woman who has been heavy on his mind. He wonders how he can keep his hands off her to focus on the job at hand...
  • Home Fires by Cat Johnson

    Home Fires by Cat Johnson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Navy SEAL Cal Swenson's going home has been a long time coming. Too bad his homecoming was based on a lie. And why did Granny feign dying to get him back to New York? That's the big question...
  • Carter Brothers Romance Series by Emily Stewart

    Carter Brothers Romance Series by Emily Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For 2 days only get the entire Carter Brother Series for FREE on KU.Are you ready for these cute Carter brothersAthletic BrotherCop BrotherDoctor BrotherFirefighter BrotherFighter BrotherAll have an HEA...
  • Rugged Fox by Elizabella Baker

    Rugged Fox by Elizabella Baker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rugged Fox is a small town romantic suspense with a silver fox hero and a single mother who has given up on finding pleasure with anything other than her toys. A new town. A new job. A new love?! That last one certainly wasn’t part of the plan. Retirement left me floundering and unsure how to adjust to civilian life...
  • Falling for the Ice Queen by Cynthia Eden

    Falling for the Ice Queen by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s more than a little rough around the edges…Memphis Camden isn’t a nice guy. He’s big, dangerous, and has an extremely low tolerance for BS. A former bounty hunter, Memphis now has a deadly new target…a serial killer. Memphis has been tracking the guy for months, and he may just have found the way to drag the monster into the light...
  • Ace by Jaime Lewis

    Ace by Jaime Lewis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Orphaned at a young age, Alex Hardesty was raised by her Navy SEAL uncle. As a military brat, she naturally gravitated to the military life.Two years ago, as a former National Security agent, Alex nearly died in an explosion during a covert operation...
  • 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 Protector by Cristin Harber

    The Protector by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jane Singleton stumbled her way into the perfect nannying job. She cared for the sweetest little boy, adding a sense of ordinary into the eccentric billionaire family—until the family is abducted. Chance Evans has a simple code. Do what's right and don't ask for trouble. Until the Thane family abduction, he'd never struggled with a mission..
  • Kellan by Anna Blakely

    Kellan by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She thought she was free, but he won’t ever let her go.Mia Devereaux escaped from hell, and she has the scars to prove it. Two years later, she’s still looking over her shoulder, afraid to let her guard down or open her heart to the possibility of more. Then she meets Kellan McBride.Former Marine Kellan McBride is a man who knows danger...
  • Ryker by Nyssa Kathryn

    Ryker by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes, the quest for vengeance can cost more than you’re willing to pay.Blakely Sullivan was a foreign aid worker in the Middle East when a deadly bombing took the lives of families she’d come to know and love, collateral damage in someone else’s war...
  • My Cruel Salvation by J. Kenner

    My Cruel Salvation by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t miss the final exciting and romantic chapter in Devlin and Ellie’s love story.He’ll keep her safe, no matter the price.Investigative reporter Ellie Holmes has uncovered billionaire Devlin Saint’s dark and dangerous secrets, and he has both stripped away her protective armor and tamed the wildness within her...
  • Torin by Maryann Jordan

    Torin by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Celtic Cock… the family pub Torin Flanigan ran with his sister. It took up all his time and energy, making it easy to fend off the multiple propositions he got from women every night.But there was one woman that caught, and held, his eye. Erin McBride...
  • To Love a Prince by Nana Malone

    To Love a Prince by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The good news is, I'm out of exile and I have the woman I love by my side. And I still have my crown, tarnished though it may be. The bad news is...all of that is temporary. There are those that want me as far away from the crown as possible. I still have a killer on my tail who has a more permanent solution in mind. Oh and there's the small matter of all the secrets I'm keeping from Ariel...
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