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  • Taking Liberty by Riley Edwards

    Taking Liberty by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Army trained Lieutenant Liberty McCoy to be the best—an elite Special Forces soldier, just like her father and uncles. But nothing prepared her for the bossy, good-looking Navy SEAL who rescues her after a mission goes horribly wrong. Navy SEAL Drake Hayes thinks his team is being sent out on a special purpose extraction. He’s had enough experience to expect the unexpected...
  • Winner Takes All by Emilia Finn

    Winner Takes All by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    To win, is to win it all. But to lose, means you're all alone. Spencer Serrano is seven feet of f*cked up. He’s crude, flirtatious, and far more dangerous than his stupid jokes imply. Abigail Rosa lives her life inside a bubble, placed there by those who love her, kept there by the respect she has for them...
  • Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Code Name: Aries by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    My code name is Aries.The stars say I’m aggressive, dominant, first in line to lead.The stars aren’t wrong.Zodiac Tactical is my company. It’s run by those I’ve chosen for their skills and ability to outmaneuver adversaries. We guard, protect, rescue…assist on the side of the angels.We eliminate the threat when nobody else can...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  humor  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Securing Caite by Susan Stoker

    Securing Caite by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Caite McCallan is a Department of Defense admin working in Bahrain when a glitchy elevator, of all things, leads to an unexpected invitation to dinner by a gorgeous Navy SEAL. When he later stands her up, Caite’s understandably upset…until she overhears a plot that confirms Rocco didn’t blow her off...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when a woman who’s done the unthinkable needs protection—can a man who’s lost his belief in humanity keep her safe? Max Brown doesn’t trust anyone but his team. The former SEAL learned early in life that people let you down—they lie, they steal, and they lie some more. Love is a word that is used to manipulate. Family is meaningless. Max is an island and he prefers it that way...
  • Owen by Riley Edwards

    Owen by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen Cullen was a dream. Not a dream come true because I’d never dared to dream. He was my wildest fantasy, a hallucination, a delusion. The handsome man who’d saved my life—twice. He was a real-life hero, and I was…what was I? Filth, that was what I was. The daughter of a gangster, the niece of the reigning king of Chicago’s underground. I tried my best not to fall in love with Owen...
  • Securing Avery by Susan Stoker

    Securing Avery by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Navy Nurse Avery Nelson never dreamed she’d be taken hostage during her deployment in Afghanistan. She’s assisting local women with healthcare, not fighting in a war. But digging her way out of her would-be grave turns out to be the battle of her life...
  • Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Wolf and his fellow SEAL team members have saved many lives, and been in even more harrowing situations, but their latest mission might prove the most difficult of all. Charged with rescuing American soldier, Sergeant Penelope Turner, from the clutches of ISIS, the men infiltrate the refugee camp where she’s believed to be held...
  • Kye by Nyssa Kathryn

    Kye by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes it’s in the depths of hell, that one finds their angel.Samantha Jacobs thought she was aiding her government. She believed the chip she created, the one that could change the world, would be used for the good of mankind. But it was all a lie…and she discovered the truth too late. Now, Samantha will suffer dearly for her mistake...
  • The Broken Trilogy: Books 1-3 by J.L. Drake

    The Broken Trilogy: Books 1-3 by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    *The Complete Broken Trilogy In One Box Set.* BROKEN #1 *** This is the first book in this series and it ends with a cliffhanger. Intended for 18+.*** My name is Savannah Miller. My father is the mayor of New York. One day after my twenty-seventh birthday I was grabbed from behind. A cloth sack was quickly pulled over my head, and I was taken from everything I’d ever known...
  • Freedom by J.L. Drake

    Freedom by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rain pelted my face as I pushed through the roar of the storm. Deep in the belly of Mexico, my team and I were on the hunt. One of the cartel’s mules flipped and wanted a ticket to freedom. The information they held could be our game-changer. Returning home to a civilian lifestyle was always an adjustment, even if it was temporary...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  humor  military  organized-crime  suspense  war
  • Landing Eagle by Harley Stone

    Landing Eagle by Harley Stone

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    18+ for language and sexual situations... One last time. That’s the promise Naomi Lincoln and Houston “Eagle” Archer break every time the whiskey flows and their clothes are ripped off in a carnal, passionate ravaging that neither can resist...
  • Kill Shot by Lani Lynn Vale

    Kill Shot by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Bennett had the world in the palm of his hands when he was sixteen, then he allowed his dick to do the thinking for him. That one night changed his life, giving him a child that would forever alter the course of his life, and an ex that was a crazy nut case on the best of days. With the help of his parents, he went into the Navy, becoming the SEAL that he always wanted to be...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  biker  crime  dark  humor  kidnapping  military  multi-pov
  • Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I left here a man but came back a beast CHANCE A shoulder-fired missile broke my body. But betrayal obliterated my heart. For months I lingered in and out of hell until my body healed. Now I’m back in town with my club brothers. But I am still fighting a war of darkness in my head and I can’t see a way out...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  biker  crime  dark  military  organized-crime  suspense  war
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Black Heart by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Heart by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s untouchable. Unbreakable. She plans to destroy him.Former CIA agent Ian Black has done terrible deeds. Sacrificed his honor and reputation for God and country. He’s a fighter and a survivor. His mission is to rid the world of scumbags who prey on innocent people.No price is too high, and no one crosses him. Not for long, anyway...
  • Anders's Angel by Dale Mayer

    Anders's Angel by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s all about second chances… Anders loves winter and the wilderness, so a trip to the Swiss Alps to retrieve a glaciologist is right up his alley. When he realizes who he’s picking up, he can’t help but smile at fate...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Ain't Doin' It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Ain't Doin' It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Coke Solomon has lived a full life. He’s a retired army drill sergeant, so he is more than used to getting his way. And if he can’t have it his way? Well, let’s just say that’s never happened before… At least not until Cora Maldonado walks into his life, demanding he fall in line, or she’ll find a way to make his life hell...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  biker  dark  humor  kidnapping  military  multi-pov  suspense
  • Black Dawn by Cristin Harber

    Black Dawn by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Parker Black wants the one woman he shouldn’t have—his buddy’s girl. She sweet and smart, but clueless about how deep Parker lives in Titan’s virtual world. Everything is controlled. Chaos is mastered with data and risk analysis. That is the way he understands his world, how he plays his role to keep Titan teams alive. But he’s wrong. About everything. Lexi Dare lives two lives...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  humor  kidnapping  military  suspense  war
  • Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ember Harris has sworn to save lives. Joseph King is an assassin. Death is their common ground, only they stand on opposing sides. A dead man’s plea pushes Dr. Ember Harris headfirst into a swirling mire of drugs, death and political corruption. The Cartel boss who murdered Ember’s friend will stop at nothing to get the information entrusted to her...
  • Out of the Ashes by R.C. Boldt

    Out of the Ashes by R.C. Boldt

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Phoenix /fēniks/: (in classical mythology) a unique bird inhabiting the Arabian Desert that burned itself on a funeral pyre before rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. This isn’t mythology, it’s war, and Hendy is left in the hands of Hell’s cruelest gatekeepers...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  humor  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t get noticed. Zoey “Zero D” Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA’s data farm compiling security briefings and Intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive. Now she’s “one of them.” She’s not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore...
  • Defending Morgan by Susan Stoker

    Defending Morgan by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Protection leads to passion in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s dangerously hot Mountain Mercenaries adventure.Dispatched to the Dominican Republic to rescue a kidnapped child, former Navy SEAL Archer “Arrow” Kane makes a startling discovery: another hostage—Morgan Byrd, a very beautiful and very well-known missing person who disappeared off the streets of Atlanta a year ago...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  kidnapping  military  suspense  war  abuse
  • HOT SEAL Rescue by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT SEAL Rescue by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Lynn Raye Harris comes the next explosive story in the HOT SEAL Team series! Navy SEAL Cody “Cowboy” McCormick is in Las Vegas for a little R & R before his friend’s wedding when a beautiful blonde jams a gun in his side and abducts him from a casino in broad daylight...
  • Guerrilla Tactics by Jemma Westbrook

    Guerrilla Tactics by Jemma Westbrook

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He’s a straight-laced type A with a by-the-book attitude. She’s never followed a rule a day in her life. It’s true opposites attract, but sometimes the consequences can be deadly._______________________________________________Shawn keeps everyone on Team Rogue in line. Organized.He thrives on order. Lives and breathes rules, expectations, and schedules...
  • Ultimate Risk by Anna Blakely

    Ultimate Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They've been partners for years. As Alpha Team's two snipers, Sean "Coop" Cooper and McKenna "Mac" Kelley have worked side-by-side for years...as partners and friends. What happens when one partner wants to become more? When Mac's past catches up to her, she's pulled back into the dark, ugly world she escaped from years ago...
  • HOT Storm by Lynn Raye Harris

    HOT Storm by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She changed her name. Her look. Her location. But what if running away isn’t enough to save her?Physical therapist Scarlett Reed is looking for a fresh start when she takes a job in another state. Her rules are simple: don’t get close to anyone, and flee at the first sign of danger.Wounded soldier Malcolm McCoy plans to work hard in rehab so he can get back to saving the world...
  • SEALs of Honor: Devlin by Dale Mayer

    SEALs of Honor: Devlin by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The right place at the right time… or the very wrong place… As part of a group helping to training Iraq soldiers, Devin is doing additional training on how to use the latest drones. But when a murder is committed on the base and suspicion is thrown on the drone’s designer, he can’t stop himself from helping her. When they return stateside, another employee in the same company is murdered...
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    alpha-mc  crime  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Brandon's Bliss by Dale Mayer

    Brandon's Bliss by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brandon, the newest member of Levi’s team at Legendary Securities, heads to Africa. Bullard purchased a new holding there, but, shortly after arriving, went missing. Kasha has worked for Bullard for five years. She's familiar with most of those who work for Legendary as well...
  • Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Outside of Titan Group, there are few people that Roman Hart would die for. He’s a soldier, a protector, and he’s haunted that one of the people he should’ve been able to protect didn’t let him. That was years ago, and now a hardened heart and a cocky attitude are his impenetrable shields, until one woman—one challenge—drives him to distraction.On the outside, Beth Tourne has it all...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  humor  kidnapping  military  suspense  war
  • I Don't Dance by Lani Lynn Vale

    I Don't Dance by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Her Blaine didn't understand the true meaning of lonely until she spent her first Christmas away from her husband. She was never one to believe in love at first sight. Then she met Elliott while he was on leave from the Army. From that moment on, they loved fiercely, and never wasted a day. She knew that deployment was a very real possibility… one that scared her to death...
  • 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...
  • Live Wire by Cristin Harber

    Live Wire by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Titan Group is expanding. New recruits mean Jared Westin has potential new hires to scrutinize. What he didn’t expect was his very pregnant wife Sugar to finagle her way onto the surveillance team as the prospects were assessed. Her involvement in the simple observation goes dangerously wrong. She and best friend Lexi Black stumble into a problem with Russian mobsters...
  • Hot & Bothered by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot & Bothered by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He can never have her. Having her means the end of his career in the Hostile Operations Team. But when he learns she’s carrying his child, he’ll have to make a choice… Ryan “Flash” Gordon has been drawn to Emily Royal bin Yusuf since the first moment he met her. But she’s a terrorist’s widow, which means she’s completely off-limits...
  • King of Clubs by Sandra Owens

    King of Clubs by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the second novel in acclaimed author Sandra Owens’s Aces & Eights series, passions—and tempers—flare as one star-crossed couple gets a second chance at love. Covert FBI agent Court Gentry loves his brothers, his job, and his Harley-Davidson. Once he loved a girl, too, but when she broke his heart, he put his emotions on lockdown…until she crosses his path again...
  • Wreaking Havoc by Harley Stone

    Wreaking Havoc by Harley Stone

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ***2nd edition with bonus content, no cheating, HEA, 18+ for language and sexual situations... Fresh out of jail, the Dead Presidents MC Sargent at Arms, Marcus “Havoc” Wilson, is trying to lay low and keep his PTSD-induced temper under control while helping other military veterans rejoin society...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  biker  humor  military  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Trapping Wasp by Harley Stone

    Trapping Wasp by Harley Stone

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    18+ for language and sexual situations... Andrew “Wasp” Marshall, VP of the Dead Presidents MC, rides life like it’s his bike, at full speed with no real destination. But when he sets his sights on an irresistible new bartender with a comical little kid, Wasp will have to decide if he’s willing to give up his carefree lifestyle and buckle down to become the man she needs...
  • Any Day Now by Lani Lynn Vale

    Any Day Now by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Amelia loves her good friend, Avery. So much so that she agrees to do the stupidest thing ever. A stranger photo shoot. You know the type. The photographer takes photos of two individuals. Two individuals that, until that day, have never met in their life. The moment she shows up at the photo shoot, she knows that she made a terrible decision...
  • Captivate Me by Ryan Michele

    Captivate Me by Ryan Michele

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Who’s behind all the mayhem in the Ravage MC? Time to find out. **Please note, this is the last book in the Ravage MC series. It is told from several different points of view. Including, but not limited to: Buzz, Bella, Breaker, Pops and Ma. Of course in true Ryan Michele fashion, there are twists, turns and action to keep you on your toes and the pages flying.** Full blurb coming soon...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  biker  crime  dark  military  multi-pov  suspense  war
  • Link'd Up by Harley Stone

    Link'd Up by Harley Stone

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    President Tyler “Link” Lincoln of the Dead Presidents MC, runs a club dedicated to helping military vets readjust to society. When his sergeant at arms is arrested for the attempted murder of a prominent Seattle figure, Link’s search for a lawyer brave enough to fight for justice leads him to an alluring defense attorney with a bleeding heart and a steel backbone...
  • Gray Matter by Becky McGraw

    Gray Matter by Becky McGraw

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can Gray help his new office manager clean her dirty laundry? Or will the mafia princess hang him out to dry? Since leaving the FBI Grayson Jennings has found peace in his life with his job as a forensic accountant with Deep Six Security and he treasures it. It remains that way until Michaela Girabaldi is hired as the new office manager for their east coast office...
  • Dirty Mother by Lani Lynn Vale

    Dirty Mother by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The thing about hitting rock bottom… Ridley doesn’t think he has anything left to lose, not after the life he’s lived. Then he meets her, Freya Capone, the nurse who saves his life when the last thing he wants is to be saved. One look at her, and he’s transfixed. He doesn’t know what drives him to run by her house that night. Intuition. Sixth sense...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  biker  crime  dark  humor  military  multi-pov  suspense
  • Targeted Risk by Anna Blakely

    Targeted Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    HE'LL TRUDGE THROUGH THE DEPTHS OF HELL JUST TO KEEP HER SAFE.Returning to the dangerous world of deep cover is the last thing Mike Bradshaw—former Delta Force operator and newest member of R.I.S.C.’s Alpha Team—wants to do. But just when he thinks he’s finished with covert life for good, Mike discovers the woman he left behind—the woman he still loves—is in danger...
  • Grinch Reaper by Donna Michaels

    Grinch Reaper by Donna Michaels

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Sleeper SEALs are former U.S. Navy SEALs recruited by a new CIA counter-terror division to handle solo dark ops missions to combat terrorism on U.S. soil. GRINCH REAPER The only thing Matteo “Reaper” Santarelli hates more than Christmas is having to leave the teams to take over his family’s chain of pizza joints after his father suffers a stroke...
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    alpha-mc  humor  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Jackson by Dale Mayer

    Jackson by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A bullet takes out his rig, but a mechanic captures his heart…When Jackson is forced to pull his rig to the side of the road as the radiator overheats, he’s not impressed, but when a bouncy mechanic in camo drives back to help him, he’s even less enthralled – with himself. She’s smart, capable, single and knows a whole lot more about mechanical things than he does...
    Categorized as:
    humor  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book  fiction
  • Kanen by Dale Mayer

    Kanen by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His best friend’s wife is in trouble… A panicked phone call sends Kanan flying across the ocean to find that she’s been held captive in her apartment, tortured for something her dead husband supposedly hid...
  • North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    North's Nikki by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In what circumstance wouldn’t a knight want to rescue a damsel in distress? A former SEAL working for Legendary Securities, North Dockter has found the very circumstance that challenges even his stalwart, chivalrous ways. Nikki Beckwith is a firecracker who butts heads with him at every turn, refusing to follow orders or listen to his experience unless doing so suits her...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Defending Sophie - Special Forces: Operation Alpha by P.J. Fiala

    Defending Sophie - Special Forces: Operation Alpha by P.J. Fiala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Accused of murder and on the run, Sophie must turn to the one man she could never have. Investigating her friend’s suspicious death, Sophie’s only source of information turns up dead - and she’s the prime suspect. Forced into hiding, she turns to her brother’s best friend to help keep her alive, clear her name, and find the killer before she becomes the next victim...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  humor  military  war  action-adventure  adult
  • Rescuing Mercy  (Special Forces: Operation Alpha): A Dead Presidents MC Spinoff by Harley Stone, Operation Alpha

    Rescuing Mercy (Special Forces: Operation Alpha): A Dead Presidents MC Spinoff by Harley Stone, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tragedy drove Landon Welch to enlist in the Army with no plans of returning home. After serving seven years as a combat medic, he's teetering on the edge of burnout when ordered to take leave and confront his demons. Landon’s been searching for redemption, but he never expected to find Mercy...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  biker  military  suspense  war  action-adventure  adult  book
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