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  • The Red Files by Lee Winter

    The Red Files by Lee Winter

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ambitious Daily Sentinel journalist Lauren King is chafing on LA’s vapid social circuit, reporting on glamorous A-list parties while sparring with her rival—the formidable, icy Catherine Ayers. Ayers is an ex-Washington political correspondent who suffered a humiliating fall from grace, and her acerbic, vicious tongue keeps everyone at bay...
  • Unbreakable by Cari Hunter

    Unbreakable by Cari Hunter

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dr. Grace Kendal never stands a chance. The injured woman comes out of nowhere, bleeding heavily and holding a gun. Compelled to help her, Grace is dragged into Elin Breckenridge’s nightmare. Their fight to survive will take them across the country and to the limits of their endurance...
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    lgbtq  wlw  crime  suspense  romance  mystery  audiobook  fiction
  • Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Deal with the Devil by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s business as usual for crime boss Cain Casey as she maneuvers to form an alliance with the Jatibon organization and secure peace among the ruling families in New Orleans. Cain’s new associate Remington Jatibon is a lot like Cain used to be—a playgirl with a passion for bedding beautiful women and an even greater passion for expanding her father’s empire, on both sides of the law...
  • The Devil Be Damned by Ali Vali

    The Devil Be Damned by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cain Casey is close to getting everything she wants. Her partner Emma is pregnant with their third child, her children are safe and happy, and her business is still thriving despite the FBI’s vendetta. Life is perfect on the surface, but it’s the underbelly that worries her...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  drama
  • Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Reckoning by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her sister was a world-class jewel thief. But she crossed the wrong person and now Sophie's baby may pay the price. Sophie Valero has spent her life living down her last name. In a family of murderers, thieves, and con artists, she's the black sheep...
  • Gray Wolf Security: Wyoming by Glenna Sinclair

    Gray Wolf Security: Wyoming by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Free with Kindle Unlimited... Enjoy the complete Volume 3 of the Gray Wolf Security series. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 5 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) HANK I’m a cowhand...
  • Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage

    Triplets Rise by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Daddy's little girl is all grown up.Things are about to change around here.If there is one thing I won't allow, it's having my dad's MC ran into the ground.Everyone expects my brothers to take charge, but there is one thing no one knows.I'm the one that runs this club.A woman.And according to men, a woman's place is in bed not at the head of the table...
  • Rialto by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rialto by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Someone has it out for Rialto.  Ian Banner is loving his hectic life. He’s newly married, ready to start a family, and opening a new restaurant. All his dreams are coming true. The last thing he needs is a problem with his restaurant.  But when one attack after another comes, he grows convinced he has another enemy...
  • Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Cold Blooded Lover by Eliza Lentzski

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Marine, Cassidy Miller knew what it took to be a good soldier and even a decent beat cop. She was starting to figure out how to be a girlfriend as her relationship with Julia Desjardin progressed, but what did she know about being a cold case detective? Buried under paperwork in the basement of the Fourth Police Precinct, she was going to have to figure it out...
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    lgbtq  wlw  grumpy-mc  crime  suspense  romance  fiction  mystery
  • Disrupted Engagement by Nicky James

    Disrupted Engagement by Nicky James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The ring has been bought, and all Aslan has to do is create the perfect setup for a proposal. No problem. Nothing to it. Quaid deserves the best, and he plans to deliver.After choreographing a romantic evening to officially pop the question, Aslan is ready.But things don’t go as planned, and the evening is ruined. Quaid’s insecurities rear their ugly head, making him suspicious...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  suspense  grumpy-mc  romance  mlm  mystery  contemporary
  • Gunner by Rebecca Sharp

    Gunner by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From bestselling romantic suspense author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a surprise pregnancy romantic suspense...Della Bolden needs an escape—that’s what happens when your billionaire father has shielded your entire life.Growing up under the thumb of personal security—for her own safety—Della wanted one weekend of freedom on a ski trip with her friends...
  • Dead Sea by Pandora Pine

    Dead Sea by Pandora Pine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a new client asks the West Side Detectives to look into the Redcoat Murders on Dead Man’s Rock in the years before the start of the Revolutionary War, Ronan O’Mara thinks he might have the perfect case to put his new detective agency on the map. The only problem is that while Ronan’s specialty is cold case murders, he’s never investigated a case nearly three centuries cold...
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    crime  lgbtq  paranormal  action-adventure  adult  book  drama  fiction
  • The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Cain Casey nothing is more important than family, and having hers close—Emma, Hayden, Hannah, and the new baby—is as near as she’ll get to true happiness. But enemies who lurk in the shadows threaten more than just her business, forcing her to question whether the biggest threat comes from having it all...
    Categorized as:
    crime  wlw  lgbtq  suspense  romance  mystery  fiction  audiobook
  • The Devil's Orchard by Ali Vali

    The Devil's Orchard by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In book five of the Casey Family series, Cain and Emma are planning a wedding before the birth of their third child. Cain has done everything possible to protect her family and get their lives back to normal. Cain is strengthening her partnership with the Jatibons and Carlotti families, as well as trying to help her cousin Muriel heal from FBI agent Shelby Phillips’s betrayal...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  children
  • Christmas Panther Style by Annabella Stone

    Christmas Panther Style by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Their world was turned upside down... With booms, kabooms, and bullets flying after a mad dash across continents on a rescue mission in a plane painted like Santa's sleigh. Join some friends old and new as they chase the enemy none of them ever wanted. One of their own...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  lgbtq  crime  romance  mlm  military  contemporary  children
  • Molly: House on Fire by R.E. Bradshaw

    Molly: House on Fire by R.E. Bradshaw

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Molly Kincaid is an extremely successful and equally wealthy defense attorney, but that is all even her closest friends know about her. Behind the facade is a dark past she thought she buried long ago. Now, Molly must face that past and the danger that comes with it...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  action-adventure  adult  book  dark
  • Hiding by Calle J. Brookes

    Hiding by Calle J. Brookes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Adventure. Danger. Excitement. Those were not words PAVAD Internal Affairs Supervisor Kyra Dillon wanted to hear in conjunction with her life ever again. She’d had enough adventure in her life lately—and had the bullet scar on her temple to prove it. But she’d go through all that hell again if it meant never returning to her hometown—Value, Texas. Population 897...
  • Wicked Outlaw by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Wicked Outlaw by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cole loves the city. He loves the noise, chaos, and having tacos delivered at 2 a.m.He loves his job at Ward Security. He might look like a bodyguard, but there’s nothing better than being counted as one of the hacking tech triplets.There is no way he will ever love horses, cows, and the great wide open of Texas.At least, that’s what he thought until JB Alexander rode into his life...
  • Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Word of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All Cameron Roberts and Blair Powell want is a small, intimate wedding, but the paparazzi and a domestic terrorist have other plans. First Daughter Blair Powell and her lover Cameron Roberts, newly appointed deputy director of the Homeland Security Office, escape to a ski chalet in the Rockies after a harrowing attack by members of a domestic terrorism organization...
  • 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...
  • Devoted to the Don by Leighton Greene

    Devoted to the Don by Leighton Greene

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luca thought keeping me out of the Family business would keep me safe.He was wrong. Now his own life is hanging in the balance, too. While our enemies stalk us, long-buried secrets begin to resurface, and I’m not sure who we can trust.But I won’t let anyone take him from me. No matter what I have to do.I meant every promise I made to Luca in my marriage vows...
  • 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...
  • Southbound and Down by K.B. Draper

    Southbound and Down by K.B. Draper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Drew Beckett’s life is a well-curated plan. Small-town to successful Assistant U.S. Attorney, assigned to an above-the-fold case that could eliminate a notorious crime family and put her firmly in line for her ultimate promotion. The last thing she needs is a distraction; like a threat on her life or the seriously lickable dimples on the U.S. Marshal assigned to protect her.U.S...
  • Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her happily ever after is so close…and somehow still out of her grasp…Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is no stranger to stressful situations. She can handle the fact that the CIA won’t let her divorce her previously presumed dead husband. She can even figure out a way to legally marry ex-NAVY SEAL Striker Rheas, the love of her life...
  • The Killer Who Kept Me by Davidson King

    The Killer Who Kept Me by Davidson King

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nothing about Em’s life is simple. He’s treated worse than anyone in the house, punished for every minor infraction, and has zero chance of ever escaping his current situation. He dreams that someday he’ll be free of this nightmare and finally find someone who will want to keep him.That dream may come true sooner than he thinks...
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    suspense  crime  lgbtq  romance  mlm  abuse  organized-crime  anti-hero
  • Ghostly Dilemma by E.M. Leya

    Ghostly Dilemma by E.M. Leya

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes it's the little cases.Not every minute of being a detective is spent solving huge murder cases. Sometimes it's the little ones that take up Detective Young's life, like the seventy-year-old cold case that suddenly fell into his lap or figuring out if a death was suicide or murder.Lance spends most of his time working cases that no one hears about...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  lgbtq  crime  suspense  romance  mlm  mystery  ghosts
  • Locked In by Lori Matthews

    Locked In by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the quaint town of Cedar Bluff Maine lies a mystery that even the most secure locks can't contain.Flynn O'Connor, a top-tier operative from the Lock and Key Society, is dispatched to the enigmatic Everlasting Manor—a property whispered to be haunted. Guests report unsettling voices and inexplicable disappearances...
  • Deadly Lover: Special Edition by Jocelynn Drake

    Deadly Lover: Special Edition by Jocelynn Drake

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New Expanded Content for Deadly Lover!Justin Mallory is an assassin. But he’s really a good guy.He has years of bad decisions to make up for, starting with agreeing to join the CIA after being recruited out of the Marines. No reason to add more black marks to his soul.Now he chooses the jobs and he works always alone. It’s safer that way, and he can make sure the good guy always wins...
  • 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...
  • Tempting the Heiress by Nana Malone

    Tempting the Heiress by Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One error in judgment. That is all it took.  They say don't mix business with pleasure, but I fell in love with the client and now I’ve lost her. But I would do it all over again if it meant keeping her safe. Now I’ll have to fight like hell to earn her trust again. If I don’t, it could cost both of us everything...
  • Malik's Redemption by Annabella Stone

    Malik's Redemption by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ex- Mossad agent Malik Dahan has lived for years in the shadows, straddling the very fine line between his own moral code and the missions his assassin role required. Two years ago, refusing an order from Mossad's Operations Base near Glilot Junction on the west end of Tel Aviv put him on a collision course with Team Panther...
  • Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Thunder and Lightning by Patricia Logan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jarrett Evans and Thayne Wolfe have been partnered in the ATF for nearly two years and their love and commitment to each other has grown over time. Now faced with one final challenge, the boys are headed to Arizona to help Thayne’s mom, stumbling headfirst into a brand new case...
  • Mine to Share by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Share by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Five murders, one killer, and a chance at an unconventional happily ever after. Two years ago, flirty FBI agent Jameson Bend was the crush I left behind.Today, the grumpy Detective Slade is the man who stars in my dirty fantasies.When my autopsy findings connect five recent murders committed by a single suspect, Jameson and Slade join forces to help solve the series of homicides...
  • Price of Honor by Radclyffe

    Price of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Honor and duty are not always black and white—and when self-styled patriots take up arms against the government, the price of honor may be a life. Blair Powell and Jane Graves have much in common and even more that sets them apart in an invisible battle raging on home soil...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne

    Deadly Obsession by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A cold-blooded killer with a burning obsession… Rachel de Luca has a bad feeling about the new woman in Detective Mason Brown's life, the nurse taking care of him after he's injured in the line of duty. She'd like to think it's just jealousy, but intuition tells her it's something more, maybe something dangerous...
  • King Security by Kenna Coulby

    King Security by Kenna Coulby

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new military romance series! 5 Books, No Cliffhangers, and Free with Kindle Unlimited. CHRIS Dancing is my life, always has been. Even when a stalker started sending threatening letters, I didn’t think twice—until the threats intensified. I don’t have a choice but to partner with the hunky Chris, ex-Marine and private security agent...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • 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...
  • Fatal Truth by Misty Evans

    Fatal Truth by Misty Evans

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    **First in a thrilling, new romantic suspense series by USA TODAY bestselling author Misty Evans! **Other books in the series include FATAL HONOR and FATAL COURAGE. She’s an investigative reporter who lives to uncover the truth. Feisty television host Savanna Bunkett exposes government cover-ups on her award-winning show, The Bunk Stops Here...
  • Tied Up in Steele by Annabella Stone

    Tied Up in Steele by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Steele Givens doesn’t do relationships and he knows better than to fall for a man he rescued during a CIA Operation; but then he’s never been a ‘follow the rules’ kinda man. He always swore he’d never drag someone he cared about into a world of danger. But what do you do, when danger stalks him anyway? Kalon Roberts wanted to move on. He’s done with danger and Black Ops Operators...
  • Code of Honor by Radclyffe

    Code of Honor by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The face of terror is hard to recognize—especially when it’s homegrown. Blair Powell is set to join her father on the campaign trail even though a domestic terrorist group has already launched one attack on President Andrew Powell's life...
    Categorized as:
    bodyguard  crime  lgbtq  suspense  wlw  action-adventure  adult  angst
  • False Hope by Meli Raine

    False Hope by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She thinks she’s fooled me. But I’ve known all along.Almost.Lily is hiding something, a secret so big, she came out of a year-long coma and her first instinct was to lie.Who does that? Someone who is afraid. No—not afraid.Terrified. And it’s my job to take that fear away.My partner and I have spent countless man-hours hunting down the cold-blooded killer who did this to her...
  • Tropical Storm by Melissa Good

    Tropical Storm by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From bestselling author Melissa Good comes a tale of heartache, longing, family strife, lust for love, and redemption. Tropical Storm took the lesbian reading world by storm when it was first written . . . Don't miss this exciting revised "author's cut" edition. Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless...
  • Stop Me by Brenda Novak

    Stop Me by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Who was the real killer? Romain Fornier lost his reason for living when his daughter was kidnapped and murdered. He used a cop's gun to mete out his own justice and spent the next few years in prison. Once he was freed, he returned to his Cajun roots in small-town Louisiana. But now he learns that he might have killed the wrong man...
  • Redemptio Animae by Sydney Gibson

    Redemptio Animae by Sydney Gibson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Catriona “Kit” Witmer was a shooting star in the Secret Service. When a high profile detail goes horribly wrong, her career is derailed, leaving her to fall into a bottle. Forced to pick up low level celebrity security details to keep herself afloat, Kit is set on a path of self-destruction and increasing isolation...
    Categorized as:
    bodyguard  lgbtq  wlw  workplace  action-adventure  adult  angst  book
  • Desperate Choices by Tracy Brody

    Desperate Choices by Tracy Brody

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    At nineteen, Stephanie Anderson harbored a secret crush on high school senior Ray Lundgren—her brother’s best friend. After Ray left to join the Army, she put her unrequited crush behind her. Over the next five years, she fell in love, married, and started a family. Only her happy life was shattered when her husband was killed eight months ago...
  • A Woman to Treasure by Ali Vali

    A Woman to Treasure by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An ancient scroll isn’t the only treasure Levi Montbard finds as she starts her hunt for the truth—all she has to do is prove to Yasmine Hassani that there’s more to her than an adventurous soul.Levi Montbard loves history and isn’t afraid to search it out no matter where it takes her...
  • The Soldier and the Bodyguard by R.J. Scott

    The Soldier and the Bodyguard by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Someone wants JC dead, and Adrian is the only thing standing in the way. Has war followed them home? Or is something more sinister at play?JC struggles to understand his place in the world, and despite being wealthy beyond imagination, he’s never found real happiness outside of his friendship with Adrian...
    Categorized as:
    crime  lgbtq  bodyguard  suspense  mlm  mystery  military  contemporary
  • In the Company of Crocodiles by Maggie Brown

    In the Company of Crocodiles by Maggie Brown

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two strong-willed women are fighting for survival in a primitive wilderness of venomous snakes, stinging insects, and crocodile-infested swamps. Too bad those are the least of their worries. After being severely wounded in a covert operation, ex-Australian Secret Service officer Vivian Andrews has built a quiet life for herself in a small fishing village in Northern Queensland...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  crime  lgbtq  romance  action-adventure  mystery  heist  fiction
  • Heart of the Devil by Ali Vali

    Heart of the Devil by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    There was a time when Dalton Casey ran the Casey family while grooming the next generation, but Cain Casey inherits the reins too early when Dalton is gunned down. His loss leaves Cain devastated, and she does her best to keep the business together, but his loss has left her adrift and hungry for revenge. That ends the night a new employee douses her in beer...
    Categorized as:
    wlw  crime  lgbtq  romance  mystery  action-adventure  fiction  book
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