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  • All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.But that's never happened to me...I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.But fuck this case...
  • Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day...
  • What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestseller.In the fourth book of the multimillion-copy bestselling series, Morgan Dane’s new client has blood on her hands—and no recollection of what happened.Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before...
  • Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He’d protect her from any threat… But what if the biggest threat is him?   Doctor Anne Nichols is back in Oak Creek, Wyoming, only because she has no other options. Here, she was always the shy, stuttering girl, invisible to everyone.   Except Zac Mackay. The very reason she left in the first place...
  • The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered...
  • Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh

    Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert is blindsided by a killer’s devious plan in number one Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of escalating shock and suspense.When Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a young woman floating near the bank of the Scarlet River, a note in her abandoned car suggests suicide. The autopsy reveals a different story...
  • Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s hunting. He’s watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago...
  • In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White

    In the Waning Light by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Two decades after her sister’s brutal attack and murder, Meg Brogan has finally found happiness…or so it appears. A bestselling true-crime writer, Meg has money, fame, and a wealthy fiancé. But when a television-show host presses her to tackle the one story everyone claims she cannot write—the story of her own family’s destruction—her perfect life shatters...
  • A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    A Lantern in the Dark by Stacey Reynolds

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a sleepy beach town in Coastal Carolina, two lost souls learn the destructive nature of secrets and the healing power of love. Captain Aidan O’Brien is a decorated officer of the Royal Irish Regiment. While on a personal mission with his brother to retrieve Michael’s would-be mate, Aidan visits an old friend on the local Marine Corps base...
  • Malone's Fate by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    Malone's Fate by Laylah Roberts, Golden Czermak

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He met the love of his life, and then she disappeared without a trace . . .That was it.Tanner wasn’t going to fall in love again. The pain wasn’t worth it. So what if all his brothers had met their soulmate?There had to be one wild, crazy Malone left to live up to their reputation.Right?Wrong.Because he hadn’t counted on fate walking back into his life.Only this time, she's not alone...
  • The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale: someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it’s her job to aid the agent leading the case—even if that agent is her estranged husband...
  • Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Montana Sanctuary by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes the worst wounds can’t be seen.Lucas Everett knows that firsthand. It's why he and his former Navy SEAL brothers created the Resting Warrior Ranch.They aren’t doctors, but they can offer the healing freedom of their Montana range. And they specialize in training service and emotional support animals to help sooth even the worst emotional scars.Usually, soldiers show up at their door...
  • Finding Hope by Sloane Kennedy

    Finding Hope by Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At 19, Beck Barretti is living two lives. To his family, he’s a young man trying to find his way after years of battling a mental illness that nearly cost him everything. But to the rest of the world he’s just another privileged kid with problems. The truth doesn’t even lie somewhere in between because Beck’s entire life is actually about keeping secrets. From the people he loves...
  • You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of Laura Griffin and Jayne Ann Krentz won’t want to miss this brand new thriller series by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti, as FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow, a rising star profiler, strives to stay one step ahead of the criminal mind—and discovers that her own demons may be the hardest to outrun… Laurel Snow wouldn’t call hunting a serial killer a vacation, but with a pile...
  • You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Set against the atmospheric backdrop of rural Pacific Northwest, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti’s thrilling suspense series follows FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow as she strives to navigate her complicated family life when her newly discovered sociopathic half-sister becomes the target of a dangerous killer...
  • The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.” Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods...
  • Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts

    Shelter in Place by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    From Nora Roberts comes the #1 New York Times bestseller Shelter in Place (June 2018) — a powerful tale of heart, heroism...and propulsive suspense.It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses...
  • The Witness by Nora Roberts

    The Witness by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks...
  • Beyond Control by Kat Martin

    Beyond Control by Kat Martin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Victoria Langford got engaged, she told herself to give love a chance. Six months later, she's on the run from her angry, abusive ex-fiancé with her four-year-old daughter and nowhere to go. Seventy miles north of Dallas, the Iron River Ranch is pretty much nowhere. That’s what its new owner, Josh Cain, wanted when he came back from Afghanistan. Big skies, quiet nights, no trouble...
  • Enemy Zone: Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Healing-Love Military Romance (Trident Rescue) by Alex Lidell

    Enemy Zone: Enemies-to-Lovers Standalone Healing-Love Military Romance (Trident Rescue) by Alex Lidell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I know all about guys like Cullen Hunt.Gorgeous. Wealthy. Powerful. I just fled New York to escape one. But when I reach Colorado, it’s either take a job at Cullen’s Trident Rescue or become homeless.And Cullen? He’s worse than I thought. Controlling. Demanding. Jerk.A grenade always teetering on the edge.He’s also hot as sin and makes my toes curl.I hate that I dream about him...
  • Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Scream For Me: A Novel of the Night Hunter by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing is deeper than the desire they can’t fight—or deadlier than the evil they can’t escape. They were only supposed to have a professional relationship, but FBI agent Kyle McKenzie has been fantasizing about his sexy partner, Cadence Hollow, from the moment they first moment. It takes the darkest case of their careers to finally bring their hidden desire bubbling to the surface...
  • Forgotten Secrets by Robin Perini

    Forgotten Secrets by Robin Perini

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    At age ten, Riley Lambert watched helplessly as her sister was abducted from her bedroom. Fifteen years later, she’s channeled the pain of her past into a career as an FBI profiler. Riley devotes her life to bringing violent criminals to justice…and secretly uses government resources to search for her sister, who was never found...
  • Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch

    Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Air Force Combat Controller Derek Bollinger knows what it is to feel that every breath might be his last. Enduring hell in an enemy prison for five weeks taught him that.The only thing that got him through it was the thought of his family, his hometown of Oak Creek, Wyoming, and especially of Becky Mackay.He survived, but with blood on his hands. His own. His friends’ who died beside him...
  • A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr

    A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport in Fallujah four years ago, then disappeared as soon as their unit arrived stateside...
  • Black Promises by B.B. Hamel

    Black Promises by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I sold myself to a monster.He gets my body. And in exchange?He'll murder the demon that's haunted me for years.Jarrod Hale is the cruelest boy at school.A gorgeous fallen angel with a wicked streak.He dominates our campus with his clique of handsome jackals.And I promised him my virginity.We made a bargain, and I sealed my fate in blood and promises.One death, and then I'm his...
  • The Blood We Crave: Part One by Monty Jay

    The Blood We Crave: Part One by Monty Jay

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My secrets are infested with infatuation. His cravings are dripping in blood. Is it love? Or is it something much darker… An obsession. Death found me as a young girl. Latching onto the core of my soul. No one knows what that horrid night did to me. What kind of monster it flourished inside me...
  • Searching for Shadows by Tonya Burrows

    Searching for Shadows by Tonya Burrows

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s trapped by fear.Veronica Martens once soared boldly through life as an Air Force pilot until a brutal assault shattered her spirit. Now, she’s a prisoner in her own home, paralyzed by agoraphobia and haunted by the ghosts of her past. She’s lost her wings, independence, and will to live.He thrives on terror.Horror writer Connelly Davis needs to recharge his creative batteries...
  • Sweet Solitude by Sav R. Miller

    Sweet Solitude by Sav R. Miller

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From international bestselling author Sav R. Miller comes a steamy and twisted love story between two humans haunted by their pasts.In the wake of her father’s death, lonely Juliet Harrison struggles with the guilt over her loss. She deals with it the way she deals with everything: by burying her feelings beneath impulsive decisions and desecrating the local graveyard...
  • Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Stealing Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What if you could enter a madman's cruel mind as he planned his vicious crimes? What if you could see the terrified faces of his victims ... Psychic Cassie Neill helps the LA police catch killers — until she makes a terrible mistake and an innocent child dies...
  • You Can Kill by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Kill by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A string of brutal murders is leaving a grisly trail across the Pacific Northwest—and drawing rising star FBI profiler Laurel Snow back into a treacherous case and a twisted personal drama she can’t escape . . .The first body is torn apart, blood and flesh discovered across both state and federal lands...
  • Sapphire Storm by C. Travis Rice

    Sapphire Storm by C. Travis Rice

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Under his new pen name, C. Travis Rice, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Rice offers tales of passion, intrigue, and steamy romance between men. The third novel, SAPPHIRE STORM, once again transports you to a beautiful luxury resort on the sparkling Southern California coast where strong-willed heroes release the shame that blocks their hearts’ desires...
  • Devil May Care by Cynthia Rayne, Sara Rayne

    Devil May Care by Cynthia Rayne, Sara Rayne

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Captain, the president of the Four Horsemen MC, has been in love with Eddie Rollins since he first set eyes on her. Unfortunately, she was already married to Joker, a man who didn’t deserve her. So, Captain forced himself to move on. But the torch he carries for Eddie still burns hot. Now, that both of them are finally single, he is determined to make her his old lady...
  • Fake It For Me: A Grumpy Boss Secret Baby Romance by R. S. Elliot

    Fake It For Me: A Grumpy Boss Secret Baby Romance by R. S. Elliot

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pregnant with my boss’s baby.Not exactly the best way to start a career.JustinI need a fake fiancée to close the biggest deal of my life.I’m thinking my new assistant might be perfect for the job.The only problem? She hates me.I don’t blame her. Most people hate me.I’m rich, powerful, influential.But somehow, I have a soft spot for her...
  • Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac by K.A. Merikan

    Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac by K.A. Merikan

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “I love Christmas. So every year, I kill someone. As a treat."NicoHave you ever fallen in love with a man as he was pointing his gun at you? Well, I have. Tiny problem? I’m in the middle of my murderous Christmas tradition, and he’s a witness.But it’s not his fault I got too excited and didn’t check if I was alone. I can’t just kill him because of my own blunder...
  • Hot as Hades by Cynthia Rayne

    Hot as Hades by Cynthia Rayne

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cowboy is a former rodeo star and a member of the Four Horsemen MC. He spots Daisy Weston stripping in a club owned by the club’s rivals, the Raptors. They have taken her younger sister, Rose, and Daisy is determined to free her at any cost. With Cowboy acting as her bodyguard and guide to the outlaw world, she is getting closer to discovering Rose’s whereabouts, one lap dance at a time...
  • Damned by Cynthia Rayne, Sara Rayne

    Damned by Cynthia Rayne, Sara Rayne

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rose Weston is in hell. After being kidnapped and held as a sex slave, she is struggling to come to terms with the trauma. Under the care of her sister, Daisy, Rose is recovering at the Hades Motel& Diner, owned by the Four Horsemen MC. When Rose is threatened by her former captor, she asks Duke for help. Duke has been to hell and back...
  • Everything She Ever Wanted: A Different Kind of Love Novel by Liz Durano

    Everything She Ever Wanted: A Different Kind of Love Novel by Liz Durano

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her perfectly-planned life is off-kilter.... His is off the grid. I was never into fairy tales. But discovering a real live princess in my house reminds me of the story of the three bears and some chick who breaks into their pad, eats all their food, and sleeps in their beds. Just like the one that’s in mine right now...
  • After the Dark by Cynthia Eden

    After the Dark by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden's gripping new series, a disgraced FBI profiler must save her reputation by stopping a sadistic killer she knows all too well.  Former FBI agent Samantha Dark was one of the most respected profilers in the bureau, an expert on the twisted minds and dark hearts of the most depraved criminals...
  • Country Nights by Winter Renshaw

    Country Nights by Winter Renshaw

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sixty country days and nights—that’s all I wanted. I needed to get away from the city, away from the hot mess that had become my life. When I stumbled upon my childhood home on RentBnB.com, I took it as a sign, cleaned out my life savings, and hightailed it to the only place that ever meant something to me, a place I hadn’t seen since a lifetime ago...
  • The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart

    The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on the lush island of Crete. Then on her day off, she links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbledupon a scene of blood vengeance. And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end .
  • Out of the Blues by Mercy Celeste

    Out of the Blues by Mercy Celeste

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Whoever said you can't go home again should change that to should not go home again. As in EVER! Mason Foxworth swore on his grandmother's bible never to return to the small Georgia town he sort of grew up in. And for eight years he'd succeeded in keeping that promise. Until his twin sister decided she needed to get married...back home...and she'd invited their parents...
  • Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Dysfunctional by Isabel Lucero

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A dark, MM romanceEzra Hamilton hasn’t felt the warm spurt of blood flow through his fingers or the indescribable feeling of pushing a knife deep into someone’s flesh in a long time. Too long.He’s been watching a man stalk women, curious as to what he’s doing with them...
  • The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb

    The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this thriller by the author of The Secrets We Bury, danger continues for a doctor grappling with an enigmatic past and the threat of a serial killer.Doctor Rowan Dupont knows a serial killer is coming for her. Julian Addington has been waiting. Watching. And it’s only a matter of time before he strikes. But what Julian doesn’t know is that Rowan is ready for him...
  • We Are Us by Tara Leigh

    We Are Us by Tara Leigh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I fell in love with a beautiful, broken boy.His whispered words of love were the sweetest of lies.He gave me his heart and destroyed mine. I am his. I fell in love with the beautiful man who broke me.His boldly spoken vow was the cruelest of cages.He gave me his name and destroyed my soul. He is mine. The boy I once loved is now a man.The man I once loved is now gone. We are us...
  • These Jagged Edges by Tuesday James

    These Jagged Edges by Tuesday James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a woman bound by fear, her life shaped by shadows she’s too afraid to confront. Every moment feels like a tightrope walk, the ground beneath her scattered with fragments of a past she can’t escape.He’s a man hollowed by loss, drifting through a world that no longer feels real...
  • Birthright by Nora Roberts

    Birthright by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adventure, danger, and romance.While overseeing the dig, she must try to make sense of a cloud of death and misfortune that hangs over the project-fueling rumors that the site is cursed...
  • Light in Shadow by Jayne Ann Krentz, Joyce Bean

    Light in Shadow by Jayne Ann Krentz, Joyce Bean

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Zoe Luce is a successful interior designer in the Arizona town of Whispering Springs who's developed an unusual career specialty - helping recently divorced clients redesign their homes, to help them forget about the past and start anew. But Zoe knows that some things can't be covered up with a new coat of paint...
  • Pledge Your Loyalty by Gail Haris, Ashton Brooks

    Pledge Your Loyalty by Gail Haris, Ashton Brooks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Taylor I promised myself sophomore year of college was going to be the year I truly let myself experience life. I never imagined that mindset would lead me down this dark, dangerous path. Directly into the Illicit Brotherhood. I’m brought into a world filled with the perfect mixture of danger and pleasure.Maybe that’s why I find him so intoxicating...
  • Friction by Sandra Brown

    Friction by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him doing deskwork rather than fieldwork, and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents...
  • Tully by Paullina Simons

    Tully by Paullina Simons

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The astonishing debut novel from international number one bestselling author Paullina Simons, now beautifully repackaged Tully Makker is a tough young woman from the wrong side of the tracks and she is not always easy to like. But if Tully gives friendship and loyalty, she gives them for good, and she forms an enduring bond with Jennifer and Julie, school friends from very different backgrounds...
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