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The Wrecked One by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne moment. One decision. Will change everything. I’ve spent my life chasing stories and mysteries, as well as running from love. I’ve also come face-to-face with evil before. Felt its breath on my skin and survived.But nothing could prepare me for that one day when my life changed. Impossible choices and unbearable sacrifices were made, and evil still won...Categorized as:
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Hitting Xtremes by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo amount of snow and ice can melt this attraction…Special ops captain Penn Sullivan is no stranger to extreme conditions, but chasing an elusive drug trafficker through the Alaskan wilderness proves a challenge...Categorized as:
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Steel by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHis skills and ruthlessness made him a legend.The dark, dangerous former spy.Now the operative turned billionaire known as Steel collides with fiery agent Hellfire when they discover they’re both on the kill list of a deadly assassin.CIA agent Devyn “Hellfire” Hayden came from nothing and made herself into one of the CIA’s best deep-cover agents. She’s dedicated to her country...Categorized as:
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The Man from Sanctum by Lexi Blake
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA painful pastDeke Murphy and Maddie Hall should never have worked as a couple in high school. She was the class valedictorian and he the jock who took nothing seriously…except her. Together they formed an amazing team, and young love blossomed into something that strengthened them both. Until tragedy struck and Deke made a sacrifice that split them up forever...Categorized as:
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The Dom Identity by Lexi Blake
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA man with everythingMichael Malone seems to have it all. A wealthy, loving family. A job that fulfills him. Friends he can count on. But something is missing. He’s spent years watching his brother and close friends get married and start families, but it hasn’t happened for him. When an assignment comes up to investigate fallen Hollywood star Vanessa Hale, he jumps at the chance...Categorized as:
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Blake by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLighthouse Security Investigations The security and investigation company is filled with handpicked men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and Air Force Special Ops. All trained in CIA Special Operations, the Keepers were the best of the best and ready to take on any mission... -
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Justice for Milena by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIt’s been years since Milena Reinhardt has seen TJ “Rock” Rockwell. The last time, he was nearly a shell of a man…but he was her man…and he tore her heart out of her chest. Circumstances unbeknownst to TJ have ensured Milena’s never fully recovered. TJ left his sniper days behind—for the most part—when he left the Army and become a respected Texas Highway Patrolman. He also left behind Milena... -
Hope's Delta by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHope Mitchell lived her life on the outskirts, no attachments, no friends, no family. All of this by design. All of it because she knew the pain that came when you lost someone who meant something to you. She’d sworn off men long ago, the last time she fell in love she’d invited the devil into her heart and she’d lost, huge... -
Dangerous Love by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDangerous Love is the latest romantic suspense thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Riley Edwards. New series, new steamy, hot heroes. Welcome to Takeback.One night. No names. Two hearts forever changed.There wasn’t a lot that surprised me. My years in the Navy taught me a lot, my years hunting human traffickers taught me the rest... -
Thaddeus by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThere had been a time, I’d been happy—blissfully happy—then a single act of brutality tore Thaddeus Bench from my life. But not from my heart. I never thought I’d see him again. But I did. In a cantina in Mexico. And when he looked over at me with so much hatred in his stare, it pulverized what was left of my heart. Emerson Pierce was my own personal hell... -
Engaging the Billionaire by Ivy Layne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIf we can’t outrun the past, we won’t have a future. The rock on her hand is real, but our engagement is a fake. Once upon a time, I dreamed of buying her a ring, until everything blew up in my face. That was the past, and this is business. At least, it is until I kiss her. It's supposed to be part of the act — and it is — right until my lips touch hers. I forget where we are...Categorized as:
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Oliver by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe 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... -
Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLexie Green hasn’t thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she’s more than a little shocked...Categorized as:
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Drew by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLighthouse Security Investigations The Lighthouse SI Keepers were men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and AF Special Ops. All having been trained in CIA Special Ops, the Keepers were the best of the best and ready to take on any mission. Drew…southern boy, former Air Force and CIA Special Ops. Now, he works for Lighthouse Security Investigations as a Keeper... -
Black Velvet by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe doesn’t believe in heroes anymore. He’ll prove her wrong. Mercenary Dax Freed would rather stride into the desert naked and covered in honey than pretend to be a reclusive romance novelist’s fake boyfriend, but nobody gave him the option. Roberta Sharpe writes about heroes for a living, but she already knows they don’t exist in real life...Categorized as:
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Protecting Sparrow by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGrief is all that’s stopping this friendship becoming more.When Sparrow Oswald's helicopter is shot down in Africa the last person she expects to come to her rescue is her old friend Ethan Zimmerman. She'd love for there to be more between them but he's not over his wife's death. As they work together to find who is using Ethan's plane to smuggle drugs the spark between them grows...Categorized as:
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Enemy Lines by Alex Lidell
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEnemies-to-Lovers Stand-Alone Healing-Love RomanceKyan Keasly. Reckless, broken and heart-stopping gorgeous. Former Navy SEAL Kyan Keasly is an adrenaline junkie. His records are sealed. His heart, closed. His past, suffocating. All Kyan wants—needs—is to be left alone.And get the meddling Dr. Ivy West out of his life.Ivy won’t risk her career for a man, not even the sex-god Kyan Keasly... -
Darius' Promise by Jen Talty
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCaptain Darius Ford has done his best to put the past where it belongs. He and his team have a new gig with the Brotherhood Protectors, and starting over never looked so good. That is until the woman who has haunted his dreams comes waltzing into his office as if she wasn’t the reason his military career ended. Special Agent Fenmore Harley has never for a second believed that Darius was a liar...Categorized as:
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Line of Resistance by Jemma Westbrook, Janice Whiteaker
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGetting 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...Categorized as:
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Strategic Maneuvers by Jemma Westbrook
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPierce has been waiting.Working hard to lift up a woman who struggled to find her own strength.A woman he intended to make his when the time was right.But there can be no more waiting.Mona is in danger. Threatened by an evil he brought to her doorstep... -
Wrath's Storm: A Masters' Admiralty Novel by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDamn it! He’s a doctor, not a serial killer hunter. When a man they call the Viking walked into his clinic in rural Libya, the last thing Dr. Walt Hayden foresaw in his future was a wedding, a stalker, and a serial killer...in that order.Attending his brother’s wedding becomes the start of a journey across Europe in the company of Dr. Annalise Fischer and her bodyguard... -
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Troy by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSEAL of Honor: TroyWhen a friend of Tesla's sends out an SOS on the lowdown on an oil rig in trouble, Troy has a good idea what he's getting into. As far as he is concerned, the maximum danger, the potential for betrayal, and the chances of not coming home sounded like the right kind of job for him.After all, he lived alone... -
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Keeping Guard by Sandra Owens
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFinding the future they deserve will mean leaving the past behind…Navy SEAL Noah Alba is on extended leave after a terrible mistake resulted in the loss of his K-9 partner. He arrives in Asheville, North Carolina, hoping to get his head on straight before he returns overseas. When an old friend recruits him to train service dogs for veterans, he doesn’t feel ready... -
Gold Rush: A romantic suspense novel by Elise Noble
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLara Reynolds has a lot of things she wants to escape. An asshole of an ex-boyfriend and a stalker are just two of them. Becoming housekeeper to Nick Goldman, a man whose home is as filthy as his mind, is far from her dream job but she's out of other options. She tries to flee from her past, but when you have a weakness for high heels, there are bound to be a few stumbles along the way... -
Wheels of Justice by Rebecca Deel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter 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... -
Rank by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLighthouse Security Investigations The Lighthouse SI Keepers were men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and AF Special Ops. All having been trained in CIA Special Ops, the Keepers were the best of the best and ready to take on any mission... -
Mine to Keep by Kennedy L. Mitchell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn unlikely friendship, a stalking ex, and a serial killer on the loose.FBI profiler Charlie Bekham prides himself on three unique talents: hacking any database, making women swoon with a cocky smirk, and letting no one see the desperate man buried deep...Categorized as:
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Marked for Deception by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe 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...Categorized as:
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Desperate Play by Barbara Freethy
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDESPERATE PLAY brings you the third book in #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy's new romantic suspense series: Off The Grid: FBI Series. Special Agent Wyatt Tanner has always worked undercover. He thrives in the dark of the night. He survives by turning himself into someone else. But living so long in the shadows can make a man forget who he really is... -
Her Wicked Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsONE LOOK AND HE WAS HOOKED A photograph. A feeling. A knowing. That’s all it took for Dante “Zed” Zaragoza to realize his fate was intertwined with a woman he’d never met. Now it was up to him to find Marcia Price and bring her home safely... -
Mace by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratings*****This book was originally published in the USA Today Bestselling boxed set Love Under Siege***** Lighthouse Security Investigations Mace Hanover, former Special Forces and CIA Special Ops, filled his security company with other men and women from the SEALs, Rangers, Special Forces, Deltas, and AF Special Ops. All having been trained in CIA Special Ops, his Keepers were the best of the best... -
Mixed Up with a Marine by Kait Nolan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCan a Marine turned baker and a jaded contractor find their way to a second chance?Braxton Whitmore needs a change. After leaving the Marines, he’s free to build a new life. But is he gonna be a baker? Really? When his buddy inherits a decrepit bar and proposes they partner up to turn it into a bakery, Brax figures why not? Until his ex comes walking in...Categorized as:
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Hung Up by Hannah Shield
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe’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...Categorized as:
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Gunner by Rebecca Sharp
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom 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... -
Her Chosen Protector: Navy SEAL Romance by Caitlyn O'Leary
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCan he overcome his pain and heartbreak in time to save the woman he loves? Life had always come easy to Navy SEAL, Asher Thorne, until a overwhelming loss made him doubt his ability to protect the ones he loved. Devastated, he has no choice but to push on and do his duty... -
Life & Limb by Freya Barker
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrowing up a military brat and spending eight years overseas with the Army Medical Corps, clinical social worker, Willa Smith, has had enough of rules and regulations. Still able to work with veterans as she did at the VA Hospital, she is much happier at the new and far more relaxed South Avenue Shelter, until one of its residents is implicated in a murder...Categorized as:
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Killian by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKillian is called up to retrieve a woman who’s been kidnapped, then escaped, only to be captured again.With a sketchy SOS coming in, he’s tracking her from Vancouver to Alaska, where the intel finally stops.The apple of her father’s eye, Cisco was a late gift in his life. But when it counted, he wasn’t there for her, leaving her alone and unprotected... -
Corbin by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCorbin is tracking a cabinet minister’s pregnant daughter, who’d been snatched off the streets several days ago. The incident followed several other missing women’s cases, except those women already had given birth, and their children were also kidnapped at the same time... -
Carson's Choice by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCarson is pleasantly surprised by the job Levi assigns him, until Carson hears all the details. An elderly friend of Ice’s believes someone is out to kill her. But she has no proof, no suspects, no motives. The police think she’s imagining things and won’t look into the case any further. However, after meeting this lady … and her granddaughter, Carson has his own suspicions... -
Diesel by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiesel book 13 in The Mavericks series.Traveling to China to retrieve a kidnapped scientist shows Diesel the depths of human depravity. Not that he needs more proof. He's been doing this type of work for a decade. This is the first time though the person he was rescuing was this interesting... -
Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpending the holidays in the snowy mountains of Colorado could be a dream come true…unless you’re in the path of a monster blizzard. As the guests of Aspen’s prestigious ski resort, the St. James Inn, brace for the storm of the century, their holiday vacation changes from jovial celebration to desperate survival...Categorized as:
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Storm by Giulia Lagomarsino
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStormI had one job, get Jessica "Rabbit" Finley to sell her property to Reed Security. I could do that. I was Army Strong. Hell, I took down bad guys for a living. I could handle this sexy vixen. No problem. Except, she's a little crazy. She thinks that there are ghosts on her property, and she has the men at Reed Security believing her too... -
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Protecting His Pretend Family by Katie Knight, Leslie North
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDanger makes the heart grow fonder…It’s her first day on the job, and Aurora Sunshine is excited to meet her new boss. Until she discovers it’s former Navy SEAL Jackson Sheppard…The same gorgeous man she just had an unforgettable one-night stand with…Aurora figures she's ruined her big chance by sleeping with her future boss... -
Crushed by A.K. Evans
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat’s the price of survival?Sawyer McKinney didn’t want to come back. It wasn’t like anyone wanted to see her ever again anyway.But this was about life or death, and that meant there was only one place she could go.If Jesse Hale never saw Sawyer again, it would be too soon. After all the devastation she left behind years ago, he can’t imagine why she’d ever show her face again...Categorized as:
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Sarah's Protector by Regan Black, Josie Jade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSarah Clarkson's dream vacation has turned into a nightmare.The widowed mother of a high school senior is giving the empty-nest life a test drive with a solo vacation to Key West. The resort is pure luxury, as is the sexy silver fox who makes her feel beautiful on her first night in town.Finding out he’s a former Navy SEAL? Even better...Categorized as:
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Silenced by A.K. Evans
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaxwell ‘Maxie’ Oliver wasn’t looking for trouble. She would have rather remained oblivious. Now that she has information she doesn’t want, a missing coworker, and a scandal on the horizon, Maxie doesn’t think she can remain quiet.But being a whistleblower comes at a high price, and Maxie isn’t willing to risk her life... -
Cold Spite by Toni Anderson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA disgraced former Navy SEAL is looking for revenge in this romantic thriller from author Toni Anderson.When FBI Agent Delilah Quinn survives an attempt on her life, she pretends to be dead in order to outwit her attacker. There is only one person she can turn to for help—a man she never wanted to see again…a man who abandoned her five years ago and left her heartbroken...Categorized as:
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The Hunted One by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWill this growly protector break her book-loving heart . . . or become her second chance at love?Savanna Vasquez lost her Navy SEAL husband years ago to terrorists, and she doesn’t think she’s capable of falling in love again. So, she busies herself by running her café and buries her face in the pages of fiction for a romantic escape...
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