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  • The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    The Final Goodbye by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When a serial killer strikes a small Alabama town - anyone could become the next victim, or the main suspect . . . Ben Logan, a former soldier, and now the successful owner of a private security firm, can handle just about anything. Well, anything except a run-in with Riley Carpenter. When Ben joined the Marines, he never looked back, and he broke his best friend's heart in the process...
  • Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Saving Meadow by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A sexy FBI suspense thriller romance Meadow The road was long, it was painful, and it was raw. It has taken me four years to come to terms with my new reality. A life in which I live with the daily reminders of a vicious attack that has left me scarred both emotionally and physically...
  • Theo by Riley Edwards

    Theo by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Is seven days long enough to build a forever love?I was living a nightmare of my own making.My life had been erased. My past rewritten. My name changed. I had nothing from my previous life. I was no longer Bridget Keller.I was promised federal protection. I was promised a new life. I was promised I would be safe...
  • Knight: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Knight: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Knight is the fourth book in the Reed Security Series and should be read in order. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I stiffened. He was here. I stood and looked around the room, but I didn’t see anything. Walking over to the window, I looked out into the dark, hoping that I could see something...
  • Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas

    Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tasha Volkov has been on the run for three years from a brutal cartel who want her dead. her family.She already paid a heavy price for crossing them, and has the scars to prove it. Her only choice is to keep running, even if the tiny town of Pine Valley feels more like home to her than anywhere else she's ever been...
  • Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9781939672285.This is the second book in the BLACK SHADOWS duet, Cass and Calder's story. You must read GOLD SHIMMER before reading STEEL RUSH. Cass has spent years trying to forget her past. But the thing about pasts…they always come back around, sometimes in the most unexpected ways...
  • Oliver by Nyssa Kathryn

    Oliver by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She may have forgotten her past, but her past hasn’t forgotten her…Tori Blake arrives in Marble Falls with nothing. Nothing but a note in her hand and cash in her pocket. She doesn’t know if those two things will be enough to get her the help she needs. She doesn’t know if they’ll lead her to the past she can’t remember.What she does know is that someone is trying to kill her...
  • A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine

    A Shameless Little Con by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I didn’t do it. I never betrayed my friend. Last year, I was kidnapped along with presidential candidate’s daughter Lindsay Bosworth, forced to help her assailants, my mother implicated in one of the biggest political scandals in American history. I've been cleared of any wrongdoing, but that doesn’t matter. Once you’re tried by the media, you’re guilty as sin...
  • Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Discovering your ex is a serial-killing religious zealot would put anyone off dating for a good long while. That’s where Hudson “Taco” Vines’s head is at when he meets Koren, a woman who looks a little too much like his ex for comfort. But he can’t deny their attraction, and the more he gets to know her, the more Taco realizes how different Koren is from his ex, in all the best ways...
  • Evade and Capture by Lori Matthews

    Evade and Capture by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spencer Gordon wasn’t expecting the call from Kathleen Drake, a woman she’d spent years keeping safe as part of the Witness Protection program. The terrified woman begged Spencer for help. Taking a leave of absence from her job with Homeland Security, Spencer hurries to her friend’s side. But the threat to Kathleen is larger than Spencer bargained for, forcing a call for reinforcements...
  • My Every Breath by Brittney Sahin

    My Every Breath by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cade King has fallen for the wrong woman. She's the daughter of New York's most notorious hitman, and he's the newest target.After ten years of living in the shadow of the Irish mob, Gia Callaghan wants nothing more than to escape the darkness of her life. Her burning desire for answers about her past has her constantly plotting new ways to flee...
  • A Shameless Little Lie by Meli Raine

    A Shameless Little Lie by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I did it. I admit it.I fell in love with Silas. My bodyguard. My protector.My new informant.We’re playing a cat-and-mouse game. I’m not sure whether I’m the cat or the mouse, but I can definitely tell I’m in a trap.A trap with no way out.I’m not who everyone thought I was. The truth is out there, finally turning the lie about me inside out. I am the shameless little lie...
  • Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The exciting and thrilling conclusion to Cash and Eva’s story, and the second book in the OPS series! The military defines a Nuclear Option as a drastic step or last resort, and I’m about to take it. Cash I am an expert marksman, engaging the enemy from afar. You’ll never see me coming because I’m that good. Even a sniper can be drawn out of hiding...
  • Ugly by Marie James

    Ugly by Marie James

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hooking up with a cop was supposed to be fun.How joking with Detective Lennox Maison about her handcuffs transformed into her actually arresting me was something I could’ve never predicted.I thought it was a joke at first, but what kind of person would joke about the murder of a local woman?Lennox claimed I was the last one to see her alive.I should have an alibi...
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    suspense  military  dark  crime  romance  contemporary  biker  steamy
  • Line of Resistance by Jemma Westbrook, Janice Whiteaker

    Line of Resistance by Jemma Westbrook, Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Getting stranded in the snow without cell service wasn’t the worst thing that could have happened to Eloise Rivers.Being saved by the man who’d led her on more than once was...
  • Claiming Felicity by Susan Stoker

    Claiming Felicity by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Falling in love could expose a woman in hiding, in the fourth Ace Security novel from New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker. Former mercenary Ryder Sinclair’s stunning discovery that he has three half brothers in Castle Rock, Colorado, is giving them all the chance to color in the spaces of their tragic pasts...
  • The Real Deal by Brittney Sahin

    The Real Deal by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A mysterious deal maker. A ruthless businessman. And now he’s on her board of directors . . . Holly McGregor shouldn’t be attracted to someone with ulterior motives at her company. But she can’t avoid his unforgiving stare, deny their electric chemistry, or resist his touch, his mouth, the dangerous invitation she sees in his eyes...
  • Colder Than Sin by Toni Anderson

    Colder Than Sin by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything—except falling in love. Top FBI negotiator Quentin Savage is hurled into his worst nightmare when a terrorist attack on a luxury hotel propels him from esteemed keynote speaker to powerless captive...
  • Conflicted by Lori Matthews

    Conflicted by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Callahan Security Series.Meet Elias Mason of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.Team RECON has a new headquarters now—Miami, Florida, which also happens to be Elias’s hometown. He’s been avoiding his past like the plague, but there are some things you can’t outrun...
  • Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again...
  • Storm by Janie Crouch

    Storm by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Breathe in. Breathe out. Survive.Marilyn Ellis is finally putting her life back together. The domestic abuse she suffered may be labeled textbook by therapists, but it’s the parts she’s never told anyone that haunt her.She refuses to get trapped in that hell ever again...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  military  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Moving Target by Lynette Eason

    Moving Target by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Maddy McKay and Quinn Holcombe don't show up for Quinn's surprise birthday party, his friends know that something is very wrong. Their search turns up little beyond evidence that Quinn and Maddy just decided to take off for a long overdue vacation. But it soon becomes apparent that they did not leave of their own accord. Maddy awakens in a cement room with no idea where she is...
  • Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Collection One by Susan Stoker

    Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Collection One by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Books 1-4 in the Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Series Justice for Mackenzie Daxton Chambers, a member of the oldest and most distinguished law enforcement agency in the state of Texas, never understood why people killed. But this new case, where someone was kidnapping and burying women alive, is a whole new level of depravity...
  • Cold Deceit by Toni Anderson

    Cold Deceit by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A tenacious forensic anthropologist needs protection from an elite FBI HRT operator as they search for a ruthless killer in this Romantic Thriller by New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson.When forensic anthropologist Zoe Miller stumbles across a murder victim in the blisteringly hostile Sonoran Desert, she triggers a chain of events that puts her in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer...
  • Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 3 in the Black's Bandits series! This book is about Colt and Angie...
  • Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Lead Security by Evan Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve spent the last several years building my company, having zero time for a social life. I preferred it that way. After the mess my ex-wife left me with, I have no interest in anything remotely close to a relationship. Until I meet my daughter’s new next-door neighbor. Harley is kind, beautiful, and she’s also an erotic romance writer. To any man, she’s the perfect package...
  • Wheels of Justice by Rebecca Deel

    Wheels of Justice by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After losing her home and business in a flood, photographer Claire Walker relocates to Nashville, determined to rebuild her life. Two men kidnap Claire in the middle of the night in a scheme to force her captive brother to divulge classified information. When she escapes, Claire calls the one man who can help her evade the kidnappers and save her brother...
  • False Security by Evan Grace

    False Security by Evan Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It was supposed to be a harmless blind date-but it ended in a one night stand when Shayla up and left in the middle of the night without a wink or a wave. I didn’t think I’d see her again…until I walked into my office and met our new employee—none other than the curvy brunette who had rocked my world. The more she fights the attraction between us, the more determined I am to make her mine...
  • Last Taste of Freedom by Lisa Phillips

    Last Taste of Freedom by Lisa Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The fight is coming home.For trophy daughter Nora Gladstone, life isn't as perfect as it appears. When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father's treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world.Zander O'Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services...
  • Marked for Deception by Anna Blakely

    Marked for Deception by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He lied to catch a killer. She just wanted to escape the past. Neither realized just how deadly their deceptions could be.Denver homicide detective Declan King lives by a strict code. But when he’s tasked with using an escaped serial killer’s daughter to catch the twisted murderer, his black and white world becomes blurred in ways he never could’ve imagined...
  • Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Unpredictable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    FOR YEARS, HE’S KEPT HIMSELF CLOSELY GUARDEDFormer SEAL Grant Hill believes love brings nothing but pain. Having suffered more loss than any one person ever should, the gruff R.I.S.C. operative has mastered the art of avoidance…especially when it comes to women.But with his newest bodyguard assignment, Grant’s unwavering determination is put to the ultimate test...
  • Incinerated by Lori Matthews

    Incinerated by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Meet Axel Cantor of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.When a cargo ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal and an American journalist on board ends up dead, Axel is sent in to investigate. He didn’t count on running into Sloan Bishop another reporter and the love of his life. Or maybe the hate of his life. Ever since he ended up in one of her articles...
  • Hung Up by Hannah Shield

    Hung Up by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s her brother’s ex-best friend…And the only man who can protect her.Former Navy SEAL Noah Vandermeer has few regrets. But Danica is one of them. She’s the girl he never forgot, even though he was supposed to. Even though her brother was once Noah’s best friend—and now considers Noah his sworn enemy...
  • Critical Instinct by Janie Crouch

    Critical Instinct by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Every single person Paige has drawn has ended up dead. And now she’s drawn herself.Paige Jeffries’ is the darling of the art world. Her works are original, compelling. But after a brutal attack two years ago —a savage beating from an unknown assailant—Paige has become all but a recluse. She knows her mind is broken. In her sleep she’s drawing scenes of violence. Murders...
  • Royally F**ked by Elle Boon

    Royally F**ked by Elle Boon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HE WAS HER KNIGHT IN BLACK LEATHER. SHE WAS HIS CHANCE AT REDEMPTION.COSMO WAS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE...To those who didn't know him he looked like a rich playboy with too much time on his hands. However, to his brothers, he's the guy they called when they needed a private jet, or someone to back them up, no questions asked. Now it's his turn for some no questions asked backup...
  • Silent Shadows by Natalie Walters

    Silent Shadows by Natalie Walters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Pecca Gallegos moved to the tiny town of Walton, Georgia, to protect her son and escape the dangerous lifestyle that once defined her. When a series of strange circumstances evolve into threats, Pecca finds herself confiding in an unlikely ally--her stubborn patient...
  • Come / Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Come / Come Back by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ***THIS IS A TWO-BOOK BUNDLE*** COME – Dirty, Dark, and Deadly Book One THIS IS BOOK ONE OF A SERIES. THIS IS A NOVELLA. YOU WILL GET MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS IN THIS BOOK. IF YOU HATE THAT - SKIP THIS WHOLE SERIES COMPLETELY. (It's twisty, complicated, dark, dirty, and ALL the main characters are killers.) My name is James Fenici and you will never see me coming...
  • Fateless by Meli Raine

    Fateless by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The future isn’t real.The past isn’t real, either.Only the present is, solid and full, flying at our faces, our bodies, our hearts and souls at breakneck speed as we work to take it all in.As we work to protect others.And, finally - ourselves.We’ve started to break the bonds of Stateless, a system as rotten as the one it seeks to destroy...
  • Xtreme Measures by Em Petrova

    Xtreme Measures by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The mafia, a smuggling ring and the wilds of Alaska are no match for Special Operative Elias Gasper. But a brazen redhead might be.Gasper’s known as the do-it-all guy. From HALO jumps to calming hostages, he’s on it. When he stumbles across a woman in hiding, he meets a new challenge in getting her to talk...
  • Blood Sky by S. Massery

    Blood Sky by S. Massery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kill those who betray you.Never trust someone with nothing to lose.Family is business. Delia I watched my enemies murder my father. On the run, I plot to return home and lead my mafia family as my father did. But some would kill for my inheritance, and unearthing those people from the shadows would be impossible without Jackson...
  • Saving Sophie by Cate Beauman

    Saving Sophie by Cate Beauman

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jewelry designer Sophie Burke has fled Maine for the anonymity of the big city. She’s starting over with a job she tolerates and a grungy motel room she calls home on the wrong side of town, but anything is better than the nightmare she left behind...
  • Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Midnight Rendezvous by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the past and present collide, the result could be fatal. Fortress Security operative Lily Stanton survived life on Nashville's streets and thrived in the Army. Abandoned as an infant, her Fortress teammates have become family, so her world is rocked when a woman claiming to be her mother begs to meet her...
  • False Start by Meli Raine

    False Start by Meli Raine

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This isn't how my life is supposed to end. Then again, a case of mistaken identity got me here. No one is ever who we think they are. Especially my kidnapper, a man whose entire life is designed to deceive. Powerful people want my rescuer to die. I'm just a lure. A pawn. An object. But objects hold meaning. Emotions attach themselves without logic. Like love...
  • Mine to Guard by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Mine to Guard by Kennedy L. Mitchell

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Being ripped from her mundane life by a swarm of police officers is not what Rae Chapin expected when she woke up this morning. Accused of a series of murders she didn’t commit, Rae doesn’t have anyone to rely on. Except him...
  • Head First by Hannah Shield

    Head First by Hannah Shield

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's protecting his former flame... But can he resist falling for her?Lana is about to begin the most important trial of her career. But her sexy star witness, keeps catching her eye. Even worse? They share a history. Years ago, they spent three incredible nights that she still can't get out of her head.Max Bennett hasn't been able to forget about Lana, either...
  • Kade by Apryl Baker

    Kade by Apryl Baker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Gut-wrenching, soul-searing grief has haunted Angel Kincaid for seven years, since she suffered a miscarriage. Just when she starts to think she’s come to terms with it, everything she thought she knew is cast into doubt when she comes face to face with a little boy, and  every instinct tells her the child belongs to her—that he is her son...
  • Falling Under by Lisa Renee Jones, Lucy Rivers

    Falling Under by Lisa Renee Jones, Lucy Rivers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ex-special forces Jacob King is a man who keeps to himself, having learned the hard way that letting people close to you, trusting them, might just get you killed. A lesson he learned when members of his Special Ops team turned dirty while others, men he considered friends, died. He made them pay. He made them hurt. He put them in jail. And so he doesn't trust anyone anymore...
  • Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Danger throws them together. Attraction keeps them from parting. Having lost her best friend, Courtney Davies lives every day like it's her last. Because if life has taught her anything, it's that some are cut far too short without warning. So when sexy former soldier Jason moves to Cradle Mountain, she shouldn't hesitate to express her immediate interest...
  • Nori's Delta by Lori Ryan

    Nori's Delta by Lori Ryan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He won’t lose her again…Delta Operative Heath “Woof” Davis has spent years living on the edge. Protecting a State Department official is just another assignment until he discovers that Eleanor Bonham is Nori Duncan, the one that got away...
  • Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Breaking Silence by Elle James

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rucker Sloan thinks all he’s good for is a fighting, killing machine. Long-term relationships are out of the question. Until he meets a nurse who’d risk her life for someone she doesn’t know…After her mother died of a broken heart, nurse Nora Michaels joined the Army to do something to help others and to escape her sad memories...
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