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  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a yacht blows up in the Newport Beach Harbor killing a California congressman, FBI Agent Beck Murray is reminded of another night ten years earlier when a mega-yacht caught fire. Then a rookie cop, he pulled popular teenage TV star Piper Nolan out of the water. He's never forgotten her terror or her rambling story, but the investigation was shut down before it even got started...
  • Blue String by Tess Thompson

    Blue String by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She's a single mom happily raising her son with the help of her family. He's a country music star reeling from tragedy. When he shows up on her doorstep asking for a safe place to hide from the world, will she let him into her heart and family?Costume designer Teagan Lanigan only has time to love her work and the young son she’s raising by herself...
  • Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bad Boy... Billionaire... Baby Brother... Who is the real Jonah Steele? Video game mogul Jonah Steele may be a billionaire , but as the youngest brother in a family of alphas, his struggle to prove his worth is all-consuming. Although he saved his hometown from ruin, he can’t forgive himself for the biggest failure of his life...
  • Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s running for her life……His mission: protect her.Ex-Delta Force Operator Ridge Hansen has a thing for artist Harper Katz.So does his tactical K9, Zeus……But Harper is on the run.Someone is aiming to kill her.Ridge wants two things…Convince Harper to move their relationship from friends to lovers,And find out who she really is...
  • Hemlock by Kiersten Modglin

    Hemlock by Kiersten Modglin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She thought she’d escaped her poisonous past…Thirteen years ago, Maggie Ellis left her small town and vowed to never return. In her rearview mirror were two men she loved and an ominous secret that would forever haunt her.Now, tragedy has brought her back, and she’s determined to forget that fateful night...
  • Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last thing I expect when I walk into The Hawkeye Club is to fall head over heels in lust. It’s supposed to be a rescue mission. I have to get my baby sister off the pole, into some clothes, and out of the grasp of the pussy peddler who somehow manipulated her into stripping...
  • Blue Moon by Tess Thompson

    Blue Moon by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Playboy Ciaran Lanigan was the party. Executive Bliss Heywood was the library. When they meet, sparks fly and so begins an uncontrollable attraction that neither is strong enough to escape, regardless that it’s fraught with lies, secrets and family complexities. But ‘party boy’ Ciaran isn’t everything he appears. Lurking beneath the surface of his charming grin is a man haunted by fears...
  • Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Nelumbo Nucifera by Cristina Slough

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the surface, Gaby Parker has it all; however, behind closed doors, is a woman who lives in constant fear of the man who was supposed to love her: her husband, Kyle. Beaten, desperate, and broken, Gaby realizes the only way to escape from her violent husband is to kill herself — on paper...
  • Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin

    Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed-- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble seeing his greatest weakness...
  • Second Chances in Chianti by T.A. Williams

    Second Chances in Chianti by T.A. Williams

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alice thought her future was set in stone, until her past came knocking... Alice Butler starred in a successful US sitcom until tensions in the cast and crew caused the show to be cancelled. Now, five years later and working towards her dream job in art history, she’s called back for a revival of the show...
  • Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I don’t belong with her. Born into darkness, life made me a cynic incapable of love. But then Ellie waltzed in. Innocent, optimistic, kind. She’s the opposite of what I deserve. I bought her, but she she stole my heart. Now my business is going up in flames. I have only one chance to make it right. That’s where it happens…something I can never take back...
  • Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There was a time when my debt was the only link we had. There was a time when I couldn’t tell him how much I loved him and he couldn’t tell me. There was a time when I thought I could never have enough money. Now, everything is different. Nicholas Crawford is a stranger who is becoming more strange with every moment. I used to think I could make a life with him, but now I’m not so sure...
  • All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Tell Me Your Secret and The Brighton Mermaid comes the breath-taking sequel to the iconic Sunday Times bestseller The Ice Cream Girls.Verity is telling lies...And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.Serena has been lying for years. . .And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable..
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime
  • Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Run: Gemma Falls never expected to use her game theory expertise to outrun a killer. But for years, that skill is all that kept her one step ahead of a deadly stalker. When Gemma gets the chance to teach at D.C. University, she hopes she and her young daughter have found a safe harbor...
  • Identity by Nora Roberts

    Identity by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new thriller about one man's ice-cold malice, and one woman's fight to reclaim her life.Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  drama
  • Before He Vanished by Debra Webb

    Before He Vanished by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His disappearance changed her life forever.Twenty-five years ago, Halle Lane’s best friend vanished from their Tennessee town. When a childhood photo brings Liam Hart to Winchester, Halle is certain the man is the same child who vanished. Now Liam seeks out Halle to help him investigate the circumstances of his mysterious past...
  • Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Tortured Skye by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***Tortured Skye is not a standalone and is best enjoyed after reading Savage Collision***Falling in love with Gabe Anderson was as easy as breathing. Fighting my feelings for my brother’s best friend was agonizingly hard. I never imagined giving in to my desire for him would cause such a destructive ripple effect...
  • In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sienna Rivers’s aspirations for a normal childhood came crashing down the night they discovered her father was a serial killer. Once her mother’s illusion of a perfect family is destroyed, Sienna is sent to live with the only other “family” she knows...
  • Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I see is red.Blood.Pain.Rage.It consumes me.The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul.I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin...
  • On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert becomes a target when she follows the twisting trail of a serial killer in a bone-chilling novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A pair of hikers find a tarp-wrapped body in a clearing in the woods. When a search in the surrounding area yields two more, Sheriff Bree Taggert knows they’ve stumbled onto a serial killer’s dumping ground...
  • Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Breakdown by Jack L. Pyke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Who’s been whispering to you, Jack?” ~ Doctor Halliday Jack Harrison has the evidence there in his hands—the DVD and notepad off D.C. Sanders that proves Gray supposedly played a part in tearing him and Jan brutally apart...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  book
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  suspense  romance  mystery  fiction  contemporary  mlm  dark
  • Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Breaking the Silence by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Laura Brandon had promised her dying father she would visit Sarah Tolley, but her own agony is drowning out the old woman's ramblings. Her husband killed himself, and the only witness--her daughter, Emma--now refuses to speak. Desperate, Laura turns to a man she met once five years ago: Emma's real father...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  drama
  • The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some intruder – earthly or not – is threatening the youngest LeBeau sister, back to claim her inheritance. And though Danae keeps her distance from the sexy hired hand, he falls for her in a heartbeat...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  death  fiction
  • Justice Served by Radclyffe

    Justice Served by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The hunt for an informant in the ranks draws Lieutenant Rebecca Frye, her lover Doctor Catherine Rawlings, and Officer Dellon Mitchell into a deadly game of hide and seek with an underworld kingpin who traffics in human souls...
  • Dealing in Death: A Death and the Devil Extended Novella by L.J. Hayward

    Dealing in Death: A Death and the Devil Extended Novella by L.J. Hayward

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ethan Blade—assassin extraordinaire, cold-blooded killer, heartless monster, and . . . retiree? I’ve spent my whole life dealing in death, efficiently eliminating targets while fighting to preserve a sense of self and morality, to avoid becoming as detached and ruthless as my siblings. I thought I had succeeded...
  • His Forbidden Bride: 50 Loving States, West Virginia by Theodora Taylor

    His Forbidden Bride: 50 Loving States, West Virginia by Theodora Taylor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I know everything about him...except who he really is. Okay. All I wanted to do was leave West Virginia behind after serving my time there in exchange for my medical school degree. But then a shockingly sexy amnesia patient showed up at my hospital and flipped my heart switch on like no one ever has before...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  amnesia  audiobook  biker  book
  • Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m a man who takes what he wants. What do I want? Her. Olive Kernes owned me a debt and she thought that she had paid it back. But now I want more. I want more than just her time. I want more than just her body. Her new life has torn us apart. Now, it’s up to me to make things right. I will make the pieces of our love fit back together if it’s the last thing I do...
  • Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Between Now and Forever by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From #1 NY Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy comes a romantic and suspenseful new novel in the popular family series, The Callaways. Nicole met Ryan when he was a handsome, cocky teenager with a desire to fly high above the clouds...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  drama  fiction  mystery
  • Cub Creek by Grace Greene

    Cub Creek by Grace Greene

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In the heart of Virginia, where the forests shelter secrets and the creeks run strong and deep ~ Libbie Havens doesn’t need anyone. She’s fine on her own. When she chances upon the secluded house on Cub Creek she purchases it. She’ll show her cousin Liz, and other doubters, that she can rise above her past and live happily and successfully on her own terms...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  animals  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc
  • The Kill by Allison Brennan

    The Kill by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her worst nightmare brought back to life, she risks everything for a second shot at justice. For thirty years, FBI scientist Olivia St. Martin has lived with guilt and one abiding certainty–that while she wasn’t able to save her sister’s life, she did testify and helped to convict the rapist and killer...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  death  expert
  • Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

    Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Now stunningly repackaged and reissued, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton unleashes her trademark hard-edged suspense in the first Morgans of Nashville book, as a public defender must seek justice for a murder from the past to prevent new killings in the horrifying present...DON'T LOOKAt first, they struggle to escape...
  • The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

    The Lies I Told by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For a woman obsessed and a killer in her shadow, remembering the past becomes a mind game in a novel of psychological suspense by New York Times bestselling author Mary Burton.Twin sisters Marisa and Clare Stockton were sixteen when Clare’s body was found in Virginia’s James River. No arrests were made...
  • Everything We Give by Kerry Lonsdale

    Everything We Give by Kerry Lonsdale

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    From the author of Everything We Keep comes the final novel in the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling Everything Series. Brimming with suspense, mystery, and romance, Everything We Give brings to a powerful close the gripping series of love, lies, and the secrets families keep...
  • Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot, Stephanie Németh-Parker

    Her First Mistake by Kendra Elliot, Stephanie Németh-Parker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    10 hours, 7 minutes When a very personal cold case murder is reopened, a detective’s secrets come to light in a novel of shocking twists and suspense by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.Thirteen years ago, Assemblyman Derrick Bell was murdered in his home by an intruder. His wife, Noelle Marshall, was left for dead. The crime was unsolved, but it wasn’t forgotten...
  • Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson

    Almost Dead by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Woman Who Wants To Get Even . . . The first victim is pushed to her death. The second suffers a fatal overdose. The third takes a bullet to the heart. Three down, more to go. They're people who deserve to die. People who are in the way. And when she's finished, there will be no one left. . . Will Do Whatever It Takes For Revenge. . . Cissy Cahill's world is unraveling fast...
  • When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    When Never Comes by Barbara Davis

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Author Barbara Davis deftly explores an emotionally charged landscape of pain, loss, and despair—and the risk one woman will take in the hope of loving again.As a teenage runaway and child of an addict, Christy-Lynn learned the hard way that no address was permanent, and no promise sacred...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  cheating  contemporary
  • Backlash by Jack L. Pyke

    Backlash by Jack L. Pyke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Novel (126,000 words)Genres: Thriller, Gay, Romance, BDSMIn the aftermath of Jack Harrison’s release from the psychiatric unit, Gray Raoul’s first instinct is to take brutal revenge on the one responsible for financing Jack’s and Jan’s torturous psychological reconditioning. However, that person is a plays the game dangerously well, knows exactly how to manipulate everyone in Gray’s life...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  suspense  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst  audiobook  book
  • The Struggle Within by Tyler May, Jay Aheer

    The Struggle Within by Tyler May, Jay Aheer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Through Ryan’s trials, there are three different perspectives: a best friend watching from the outside, a lover desperate to get in, and his own mind. His struggles were theirs. He just didn’t know it. A tragic accident changed Dr...
    Categorized as:
    family  lgbtq  abuse  adult  book  contemporary  crime  dark
  • Shattered by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Shattered by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eighteen years ago, Lucy Flannery’s young life was shattered when her mother and little brother were murdered – a crime made all the more heartbreaking by the fact that the killer was her father. However, recently uncovered evidence proves that her father was wrongfully convicted...
  • The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks by John Wiltshire

    The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks by John Wiltshire

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The FINAL book in the addictive, best-selling "More Heat Than The Sun" M/M Thriller seriesBen and Nikolas know that if they were to compare recollections of their life together, they’d remember things very differently. Ben never asks about their time together in the Department, because he doesn’t want to hear Nikolas lie...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  lgbtq  romance  mlm  contemporary  military  crime  dark
  • Runaway by Katie Cross

    Runaway by Katie Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stella Marie:I didn’t ask for my life to be uprooted, but won’t sit by while my creepy ex-boss destroys everything—himself included.Except . . . there’s only one person that can help me disappear for a while, and I’m pretty sure he groans every time he sees me calling.Being Mark Bailey’s accountant isn’t easy...
  • Natural Disaster by Skye Warren, Amelia Wilde

    Natural Disaster by Skye Warren, Amelia Wilde

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Carter Morelli had a plan when he left London: deliver the wildlife photographer and then complete his secret mission. Except a lethal enemy has watched their every move. They tampered with the plane, leaving them stranded on a deserted island.And they kidnapped June Porter, the innocent photographer.In order to save her, Carter must confront the mysterious man in the jungle...
    Categorized as:
    family  lgbtq  suspense  adult  angst  betrayal  billionaire  book
  • Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Notorious by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The woman everyone loves to hate is dead. Dallas socialite Cynthia Langhorne is infamous for her beauty, her philanthropy, and her home wrecking--until she's found shot through the heart and posed nude at a fundraising ball. The case is high profile, and there's a bigger problem: Cindy is the wife of a decorated FBI special agent--the prime suspect in her murder...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction  mystery
  • Cardwell Ranch Trespasser by B.J. Daniels

    Cardwell Ranch Trespasser by B.J. Daniels

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    CARDWELL BEWARE The Cardwell clan has a new, mysterious member. Dana Cardwell warmly welcomed her Justice cousin into the family fold and to the ranch for a reunion. But this cunning kin has other plans for Dana...and designs on her husband, Hud. Hilde Jacobson has known Dana too long to let her best friend get conned-or worse, killed...
  • Riverstar by Tess Thompson

    Riverstar by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After ending an affair with a married movie producer, feisty Hollywood makeup artist Bella Webber finds herself back in the quaint Oregon town of River Valley, the location of a famous director’s latest film...
    Categorized as:
    family  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  female-mc  fiction
  • Royal Reckoning by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Royal Reckoning by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08WYQWLRLWhen a mysterious man arrived at Brother’s Keeper Security, it was uncertain whether he was friend or foe. Despite his deadly secrets, he proved to be a loyal force to be reckoned with...
  • In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    In Plain Sight by K.C. Wells

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Detective Gary Mitchell and psychic Dan Porter are now investigating cold cases that are literally falling from the sky—a headless body in 2006 and a carpenter who fell from a roof two years ago.The first case leads them into dangerous territory. The second feels like a dead end...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  suspense  family  romance  paranormal  mystery  mlm  crime
  • The Lost Girls of Johnson's Bayou by Jana Deleon

    The Lost Girls of Johnson's Bayou by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    WHO IS GINNY BERGERON?She was only six when she walked out of the swamp after the LeBlanc School for Girls caught on fire. Sixteen years after the terrifying night that stole her memory, a child's scream lures Ginny back into the woods...where a strong arm encircles her. The gun-wielding stranger is Paul Stanton, a cop-turned-P.I., who';s come to Johnson's Bayou looking for answers of his own...
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