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  • Baskets and Beignets by Jana Deleon

    Baskets and Beignets by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Worth dyeing for.Ten years ago, Ryan Comeaux was convicted of killing his girlfriend and was sentenced to life in prison. Now a witness has come forward who claims she was with Ryan the entire night and it’s not possible that he was the killer. But the local police assume she’s mistaken and aren’t interested in reopening what they view as an open-and-shut case...
  • Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

    Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    An utterly wonderful debut novel of love, crime, magic, fate and a boy’s coming of age, set in 1980s Australia and infused with the originality, charm, pathos, and heart of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.The mind can take you anywhere you want to goEli Bell’s life is complicated...
  • Forever Hidden by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Hidden by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Some things weren't meant to stay hidden... Sydney Davies is used to being in the spotlight. But the former model turned fashion designer isn't used to family secrets. Sydney is sent to dig up the past. What she finds instead is Deacon and a case of a missing girl with a link back to her life in the fashion industry. Deacon McKnight is hardly ever surprised due to his work as an investigator...
  • Hide & Seek by Nicole Edwards

    Hide & Seek by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With the holidays nearing, Brantley Walker and Reese Tavoularis are getting settled, both personally and professionally. For Reese, dealing with Brantley’s about-face regarding the size of the task force is easy. It’s meeting the parents that he’s worried about...
  • Sexy/Dangerous by Beverly Jenkins

    Sexy/Dangerous by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Wearing her shades, a black Stetson, and snakeskin cowboy boots, security agent Maxine "Max" Blake is the baddest thing walking. Ex-marine, ex-cop, and a whole lotta 'tude, Max doesn't have time for anything but her job. Her latest assignment: to protect Dr. Adam Gary. Her problem: he doesn't want her there. Adam wants to focus on his work, not to be distracted by this tall, sexy woman...
  • Unbreakable Stories: Snow by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Unbreakable Stories: Snow by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Unbreakable Stories: Snow is a collection of short stories and a novelette set after the events of Shatter, book 2 of the Unbreakable Bonds series and before Torch, book 3. Follow the continuing, passionate and heartfelt romance between Dr. Ashton "Snow" Frost and Jude Torres as they merge their lives together as a couple...
  • Storm Surge - Book One by Melissa Good

    Storm Surge - Book One by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's fall. Dar and Kerry are traveling - Dar overseas to clinch a deal with their new ship owner partners in England, and Kerry on a reluctant visit home for her high school reunion. In the midst of corporate deals and personal conflict, their world goes unexpectedly out of control when an early morning spurt of unusual alarms turns out to be the beginning of a shocking nightmare neither expected...
  • Jason's Justice by Annabella Stone

    Jason's Justice by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jason LeHar learned his tracking skills as a kid in the Bayous of Louisiana. Those skills earned him a place on Delta Force Team Panther, and he found the family he chose for himself. When his best friend’s relationship with one of their team commanders was exposed...
  • A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    A Quiet Death by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In book three in the Dark Peak series, things are looking up for Detective Sanne Jensen and Dr. Meg Fielding. Dating each other seems to be working, their families are behaving themselves, and the worst of the post-Christmas crime wave is over.The discovery of a Pakistani girl’s body out on the moors changes all that. No one knows who she is, who hurt her, or how she came to be there...
  • The Fugitive's Trail by J.C. Fields

    The Fugitive's Trail by J.C. Fields

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alternate Kindle cover edition ASIN: B00WS00FW8How do you find a ghost? That’s what FBI Agent Sean Kruger must do. He is dispatched to New York City to find a fugitive who is accused of killing one man and wounding another in the lobby of a high profile investment firm. Once there, Kruger learns the only information known about the man is his name. Everything else has been erased from the system...
  • Repo Girl by Jane Fenton

    Repo Girl by Jane Fenton

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Debt, Dating, and a Dead body...What's a girl to do?Twenty-five-year-old rookie Repo Agent, Andrea Sloan, doesn’t like accepting help from anyone – especially not arrogant musicians who are too charming for their own good. Even though she swore off men years ago, Andi finds herself drawn to handsome rockstar, Cooper Barnett, as he continually pops up in her life when she least expects it...
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    humor  wlw  romance  mystery  fiction  cozy  contemporary  audiobook
  • Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Body and Soul by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    More than ten years ago, a series of train bombings devastated railways throughout Europe. Strange poetry sent to local newspapers right before each bombing, confounded investigators at the time. In one of only a handful of failed covert missions, Jarrett had been sent into North Korea to take out the bomber...
  • The School of Starting Over by Lisa Swift

    The School of Starting Over by Lisa Swift

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nell’s going back to school… but now she’s learning lessons of the heartReception class teacher Nell Shackleton has a plan. At least, she had until she arrived at her new home of Humblebee Farm, a dilapidated farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors...
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    humor  lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • School of Fish by Amy Lane

    School of Fish by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he’s itching to get back to work. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn’t commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Nothing is ever that easy...
  • Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jackson and Ellery face their toughest case yet—against the criminal justice system itself.Jackson Rivers and Ellery Cramer have worked difficult jobs before, but usually it’s getting the facts that’s the problem. For their newest client, the trouble isn’t finding the truth—it’s corruption at the highest levels of the justice system...
  • Tropical Convergence: Book 7 in The Dar & Kerry Series (Dar and Kerry Series) by Melissa Good

    Tropical Convergence: Book 7 in The Dar & Kerry Series (Dar and Kerry Series) by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There's trouble on the horizon for ILS when a rival challenges them head on, and their best weapons, Dar and Kerry, are distracted by life instead of focusing on the business. Add to that an old flame, and an aggressive entreprenaur throwing down the gauntlet and Dar at least is ready to throw in the towel...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  animals  book  contemporary  dog
  • Red Sky At Morning by Melissa Good

    Red Sky At Morning by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A connection others don't understand... A love that won't be denied... Danger they can sense but cannot see... Dar Roberts was always ruthless and single-minded...until she met Kerry Stuart. Kerry was oppressed by her family's wealth and politics. But Dar saved her from that. Now new dangers confront them from all sides. While traveling to Chicago, Kerry's plane is struck by lightning...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  animals  book  contemporary  dog
  • Thicker Than Water by Melissa Good

    Thicker Than Water by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This sequel to Red Sky at Morning is the continuing saga of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart. It starts off with Kerry involved in the church group of girls. Kerry is forced to acknowledge her own feelings/experience toward/with her folks as she and Dar assist a teenager from the group who gets jailed because her parents tossed her out onto the streets when they find out she is gay...
  • Armor: A Firsts and Forever Series Novella by Alexa Land

    Armor: A Firsts and Forever Series Novella by Alexa Land

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dante Dombruso has always been his family’s armor. It’s his job to keep them safe. But he feels he failed them eighteen months ago, when a mysterious arsonist set a fire intended to wipe the Dombrusos off the map. Now Dante is driven to make things right, yet with each day that passes, the trail grows colder and his frustration increases...
  • Hide No More by Rita Potter

    Hide No More by Rita Potter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Vicky Cogburn’s Mafia boyfriend enters the witness protection program, she enlists a law firm to set her up with a fake wife and fake life far away from the city.Ambitious, no-nonsense attorney Rachel Huntington would do anything to secure a partnership in her New York City law firm—even if it means hiding out and playing house with a seductive Mafia mistress...
  • The Wild Turkey Tango by Ann Charles

    The Wild Turkey Tango by Ann Charles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One gun + two turkeys + three Morgan sisters = One helluva Jeep ride! It's Thanksgiving Day in Jackrabbit Junction and the feathers are flying before the food even hits the table. What starts out as a quick trip to pick up a turkey turns into another messy Morgan sisters' mystery filled with hijinks and adventure. Never has Thanksgiving been so wild! ( This is volume 4...
  • Eye of the Storm by Melissa Good

    Eye of the Storm by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Eye of the Storm picks up the story of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart a few months after the story Hurricane Watch ends. At first it looks like they are settling into their lives together but, as readers of this series have learned, life is never simple around Dar and Kerry...
  • Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redmann

    Deaths of Jocasta by J.M. Redmann

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this long-awaited reprint, Micky Knight had a pleasant evening to look forward to; she was running security at a party of beautiful lesbians and gay men. But a dead body ruins the affair. When more dead women are found, the police target Dr. Cordelia James as the killer - the same Cordelia who broke Micky's heart. As Micky works to expose the killer she tries to keep her heart hidden...
  • Wicked Games by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Wicked Games by Aimee Nicole Walker

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryder Jameson and Lucien Clarke have a complicated past: Ryder conserves art; Lucien steals it. Their love-hate relationship spans six years and two continents and has endured multiple heists. Hoping to restore his tarnished reputation, Ryder returns home to Cincinnati to accept a position at an acclaimed museum...
  • Kane and Abel / The Prodigal Daughter / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer

    Kane and Abel / The Prodigal Daughter / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This collection of Jeffrey Archer novels includes "Kane and Abel" the sequel "The Prodigal Daughter" and the novel "Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less"...
  • Sun Catcher: Book One by Giselle Fox

    Sun Catcher: Book One by Giselle Fox

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Playing it safe may be the greatest risk of all ...Cate is sick of her boring job and stolid boyfriend. She craves excitement, and a trip to Panama to visit a wild and crazy friend from her college days is the perfect solution.The expat community there welcomes her, but Cate is more intrigued by Lexi, her friend’s beautiful but mysterious neighbor...
  • Faith's Crossing by Carrie L. Carr

    Faith's Crossing by Carrie L. Carr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the sequel to Destiny's Bridge, new lovers Lexington Walters and Amanda Cauble have withstood many things to be together. When Amanda decides to move to Texas for good, she goes back to her family's California home to get the rest of her things, taking Lex with her. Even though her parents have never understood her "lifestyle", they've not exactly fought against it...
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    lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  angst  book  contemporary  drama
  • Tumbledown by Cari Hunter

    Tumbledown by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How far would you go to protect the one you love? Two years after surviving their ordeal at the hands of white supremacists, Alex Pascal and Sarah Kent have new identities, new careers, and a new home together...
  • Mai Tai Marriage by Chris Keniston

    Mai Tai Marriage by Chris Keniston

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mai Tai Marriage (book three in the contemporary romance Aloha series) What happens when just pretend becomes all too real? Lexie Hale is happily single and loving her life in Hawaii as a dive instructor and manager of the Big Island Dive shop. Lt. Commander James Borden thinks he's found the perfect navy wife for a man like him. That is, until his prospective bride goes AWOL...
  • Find and Keep by K. Sterling

    Find and Keep by K. Sterling

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aiden and Lane return with Lavender and Sage in another Boys Of Lake Cliff book. A baby can cause quite a stir in a town like Lake Cliff. Sometimes, in ways you wouldn't expect. Mr. Lavender reminds us that he'll only be predictable when it suits him and changing one's stripes can be tricky. Big changes are coming to Lake Cliff and a baby's just the beginning...
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    lgbtq  humor  romance  mlm  family  crime  assassins  law-enforcement
  • The Misadventures of Callie Compton by Alyson Root

    The Misadventures of Callie Compton by Alyson Root

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s not everyday you find out that your sweet, sweater knitting, church going grandma is the UK’s most prolific crime boss. For Callie Compton, that day became a reality on her eighteenth birthday. Not being criminally inclined, Callie did the only thing she could. She bided her time, stole her grandma’s little black book of scumbag employees, and ran for her life...
  • The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    The Curse of Redwood by Jaclyn Osborn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Secrets lie within the walls of Redwood Manor.The murders, alleged curse, and ghost stories have fascinated Carter ever since he moved to Ivy Grove. After attending a Halloween ball at the mansion and meeting a man almost too beautiful to be real, Carter is captivated even more.But the man disappears after that, leaving Carter with nothing but the memory of a kiss...
  • If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    If You're Going Through Hell Keep Going by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mark Vincent and Quinton Mann have finally kind of, sort of, exchanged promises. Mark has returned from an assignment on the West Coast, and he’s looking forward to spending some quality time with his lover. After all, it’s the St. Patrick’s Day weekend...
  • Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Manipulation by Eden Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucky Lucklighter has a new life. His old life wants him back.He traded trafficking for taking down criminals with the Southeastern Narcotics Bureau, and a drug-lord lover for a man on the right side of the law. Bo Schollenberger found the way past the thorny defenses of Lucky’s heart, and made Mr...
  • Terrors of the High Seas by Melissa Good

    Terrors of the High Seas by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After the stress of a long Navy project and Kerry's father's death, Dar and Kerry decide to take their first long vacation together. A cruise in the eastern Caribbean seems just the nice, peaceful time they need to unwind and relax...
  • Glittered by Sean Ashcroft

    Glittered by Sean Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Logan’s boss warned him this job was unusual, but he wasn’t expecting the client to be an upbeat drag queen with a strip of pink lace showing above the waistband of his jeans. Logan’s straight, but he’s left trying not to think about how nice Ashley’s butt is while he pretends he’s got this bodyguarding thing all figured out—despite having no experience with this kind of situation...
  • Huntress by A.E. Radley

    Huntress by A.E. Radley

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Amy is stuck in a rut. After graduating, she never left her temporary job at the motorway service station. Daily visits from a mysterious woman are the highlight of her days. Until one day, when the mystery woman vanishes. Amy investigates the disappearance and makes a shocking discovery. Suddenly, she’s being framed and no-nonsense Claudia McAllister is being sent to arrest her...
  • Silhouette by Robin Hale

    Silhouette by Robin Hale

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dr. Molly Fawn’s life is surprisingly normal, considering that she spends her days running support for a man who can fly and lift city buses with one hand. But when Molly interrupts the Silhouette — the city’s most notorious thief — in a middle of a job, everything gets a bit more exciting...
  • Thief of Always by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Thief of Always by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Mishael Taylor takes comfort in speed, racing from one mission to another as Allegro - one of the Elite Operative Organization's top agents. But she confronts her greatest challenge when she's assigned to steal the priceless Blue Star Diamond from Dutch countess Kristine Marie van der Jagt...
  • Wicked Charms: A Lizzy and Diesel Novel by Janet Evanovich - Summarized by J.T. Salrich

    Wicked Charms: A Lizzy and Diesel Novel by Janet Evanovich - Summarized by J.T. Salrich

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A review and synopsis of Janet Evanovich's novel, by J.T. Salrich.Make reading better with… Wicked Charms: A Lizzy and Diesel Novel by Janet Evanovich - Reviewed When Janet Evanovich first wrote about "Lizzy and Diesel" millions of fans around the world fell in love. You could say that she created an instant “Classic” series that has continued with the third book... "Wicked Charms"...
  • Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

    Crownchasers by Rebecca Coffindaffer

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A deadly competition for the throne will determine more than just the fate of the empire in this duology opener.Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy. Her mother sacrificed everything to bring peace to the quadrant, and her uncle has successfully ruled as emperor for decades...
  • Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Love & Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Third book in the Honor Series. US Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts has more than one secret that could destroy her career, not the least of which is that she’s in love with the president’s daughter...
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    humor  lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  bodyguard  book
  • Honor Bound by Radclyffe

    Honor Bound by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts made a promise to Blair Powell, the President's daughter--not to place her own life in danger protecting Blair--but a request from the Commander in Chief forces her to break her word...
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    humor  lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  angst  audiobook  bodyguard
  • Stockholm Syndrome by Miranda MacLeod

    Stockholm Syndrome by Miranda MacLeod

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ASIN moved from less recent edition hereWhen a spy dials a wrong number, could it be the connection of a lifetime? Leigh is a secret agent in peril whose life depends on reaching her agency’s emergency hotline. But when she dials the local public radio pledge drive by mistake, a spy-obsessed office temp named Amanda becomes her only hope for rescue...
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    humor  lgbtq  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  crime
  • Out of Office by Christina A. Burke

    Out of Office by Christina A. Burke

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I love 'Queenie Baby' Diana Hudson – she's one part Stephanie Plum and one part rock goddess! I can't wait to see what she does next!" - Gemma Halliday, New York Times bestselling author of the High Heels Mysteries From author Christina A. Burke comes the second installment in her wacky, romantic comedy series about the misadventures of wannabe rock star, Diana Hudson..
  • You Were Made For Me by Tinnean

    You Were Made For Me by Tinnean

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Continuing Adventures of Mark Vincent and Quinton MannCan things possibly run smoothly when a CIA spook moves in with a WBIS spy? If they’re Quinton Mann and Mark Vincent, they damned well better had. Quinn, having resigned from the CIA after the debacle of a covert agent being outed, is now living with Mark...
  • Double Cross by Lissa Ford

    Double Cross by Lissa Ford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Happily ever after wasn’t supposed to be this complicated. At last, Jude Anderson and his lover, homicide detective Rowan Muir, are settling into domestic bliss. Or so it seems. Rowan says all the right things, and the sex is still hotter than ever. But something isn’t quite right, and Jude can’t put his finger on what it is...
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    humor  lgbtq  action-adventure  adult  book  contemporary  crime  death
  • Pros & Cons of Christmas by A.E. Wasp

    Pros & Cons of Christmas by A.E. Wasp

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christmas time and the gang is celebrating leaving the threats and dangers behind them with a week long house party in the country. It’s the perfect opportunity for a murder. My name is Charlie Binghman. Well, it was back when I was a conman. Now I’m done. Finished. Out of the business. A vigilante grifter no more. Charlie Bingham is dead for real this time...
  • Glen & Tyler's Scottish Troubles by J.B. Sanders

    Glen & Tyler's Scottish Troubles by J.B. Sanders

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the second installment of the Glen & Tyler series, the guys find out what happens when you inherit a Scottish castle, tussle with international crime gangs and host formal balls. Yes, balls -- with dancing and everything! In typical Hardy Boys--er, Glen & Tyler fashion, there are secret passages, irascible old men, caves, missing treasure, fine liquor and kilts...
  • Glen & Tyler's Paris Double-cross by J.B. Sanders

    Glen & Tyler's Paris Double-cross by J.B. Sanders

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Glen and Tyler are young, in love, and the wealthiest human beings on the planet. But when Glen's brother calls from a jail in Paris, they're off to France to tangle with spies, neo-Nazis, evil world-spanning conspiracies and French gangsters. Plus they have a romantic dinner, and find long-lost treasure. Really, it’s a fun-filled non-stop romp...
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