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  • Muted by L.H. Owens, Leanne Owens

    Muted by L.H. Owens, Leanne Owens

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Outback horseman Lane Dimity is one of the most powerful social media personalities on the planet. Although unable to speak since the tragedy that took place on his eighth birthday, his words reach out across the world, changing lives. When he learns that more than a thousand stallions have been bred by the U.S. pharmaceutical company Pilatos, he is determined to free them...
  • Harley by Dale Mayer

    Harley by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Returning to the town he was raised in was hard, except that Harley can once more see the only golden light of those days. He’d walked away from her because she’d been too young, and he would never be good enough. Harley was back to check on the War Dog Bowser, but Harley can’t help but feel like he never really left...
  • Promising You by Allie Everhart

    Promising You by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Jade first arrived at Moorhurst College, she never imagined that the guy who helped her move in would end up being the guy she wants to be with forever. Now, seven months later, Jade and Garret are starting to talk about a future together. But the people around Jade are planting doubts in her mind, questioning her decision to be part of the Kensington family...
  • The Wedding Plan by Kathi Daley

    The Wedding Plan by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this mystery series set in the small town of White Eagle Montana. In book 10 in the series, Tess and Tony plan a secret wedding ceremony, Nona plans a visit, and Tess and Mike plan a face to face meeting with their father. Of course you know what they say about the best laid plans...
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    animals  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  dogs  family
  • Alaskan Rescue by Terri Reed

    Alaskan Rescue by Terri Reed

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A mountain search-and-rescue missionturns into a fight for their lives.Sent to find a wedding party that disappeared during a hike, Alaskan state trooper Hunter McCord and his K-9 partner, Juneau, discover bridesmaid Ariel Potter hanging from a cliff. But this was no accident—she was pushed—and her hiking companions are missing...
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    animals  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  dogs  fiction
  • Desert Rescue (K-9 Search and Rescue) by Lisa Phillips

    Desert Rescue (K-9 Search and Rescue) by Lisa Phillips

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With his K-9’s help,can he save the son he didn’t know existed?Rescuing a kidnapped child is part of the job for search-and-rescue K-9 handler Patrick Sanders—but this time it’s his son. Now Patrick and his furry partner must work with his high school love, Jennie Wilcox, to shield the little boy he just learned about...
  • Betrayed: Book Two - The Road to Redemption by Nicky Charles

    Betrayed: Book Two - The Road to Redemption by Nicky Charles

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How do you love again when your heart is dead? How do you know when it’s time to let go?Damien’s kicked about the country these past three years. No pack. No purpose. No reason to keep on living. When an old friend, Kane Sinclair, asks for his help, he agrees and heads to Chicago. After all, what does he have to lose?Sam’s grown up on the streets...
  • Cold Case Pursuit (True Blue K-9 Unit: Brooklyn) by Dana Mentink

    Cold Case Pursuit (True Blue K-9 Unit: Brooklyn) by Dana Mentink

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A cold case solved by the K-9 unit…but the past is not so easily escaped.Decades after her parents’ murders, Penelope McGregor’s grateful the killer’s finally been identified—until he comes after her. Now Detective Tyler Walker and his K-9 partner, Dusty, must protect Penelope and catch the culprit…while making sure his little girl stays out of the crosshairs...
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    animals  suspense  adult  book  christian  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • High Meadow by Freya Barker

    High Meadow by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An emergency call to pick up an injured stallion on the side of the road sends Alexandra Hart, the new owner of Hart's Horse Rescue, into action. A recent addition to the area, she is not impressed when the animal's taciturn owner shows up. With his less-than-stellar disposition, he’s the kind of man she normally avoids at all costs, unfortunately, he owns the ranch just down the road...
  • Finding Felicity by P. Creeden

    Finding Felicity by P. Creeden

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can the sweetness of rekindled love temper the bitter tang of murder? Despite a difficult childhood, Felicity Stilton never gave up on her dreams. Now, as an adult, she and her Golden Retriever, JJ, help special needs children pave the way for their own futures. Everything is perfect, until she gets the one call she never expected to receive...
  • Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Just vibing. Good Vibes Only is a collection of short stories from Iron on Iron. It includes the “All the Feels” Jem and Tean get settled in their temporary new home. This story is set after The Face in the Water . “Add Me Back” Theo and Auggie (especially Auggie) spend time with their new friends. This story is set before The Girl in the Wind . “Adulting is Hard” North and Shaw are..
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    suspense  animals  romance  mlm  contemporary  mystery  crime  family
  • Another Man's Treasure by S.W. Hubbard

    Another Man's Treasure by S.W. Hubbard

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    On a snowy Christmas Eve, a beautiful young mother goes out to buy a few last minute gifts and never returns…. ….thirty years later, her daughter picks up her trail. As the owner of an estate sale business, Audrey Nealon knows a lot about art, antiques, and the unlikely places old people hide their treasures...
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    animals  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Battling Destiny by Danielle Stewart

    Battling Destiny by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Michael Cooper has his life together. He is the successful lawyer all his friends turn to when they find themselves in trouble, and he and his beautiful wife just welcomed their newborn daughter to the world. In just under two years, he went from a cocky bachelor to a quintessential family man with a close-knit group of friends. Yes, Michael Cooper has his life together...
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Yukon Justice by Dana Mentink

    Yukon Justice by Dana Mentink

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sabotage on a family ranch…this K-9’s on the case.When her estranged uncle attempts to sabotage her family’s reindeer ranch, K-9 team assistant Katie Kapowski heads home to help save it—and becomes his target. With their rocky past, Alaska State Trooper Brayden Ford and his furry partner are the last team Katie wants assigned to protect her...
  • Saving Sarah by Melissa Storm, Sweet Promise Press

    Saving Sarah by Melissa Storm, Sweet Promise Press

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sarah Campbell loves living vicariously through the residents in the Redwood Cove Rest Home. Each day, she and her Golden Retriever, Lucky, treat and care for patients in hospice, making their final days as comfortable as possible while listening to all of their lives’ greatest stories. But a surly patient named Eleanor insists she can’t die before “setting things right”...
    Categorized as:
    animals  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  crime  drama  fiction
  • Operation K-9 Brothers by Sandra Owens

    Operation K-9 Brothers by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL Jack Daniels (save the jokes, he's heard them all) and his trusty Belgian Malinois sidekick, Dakota, are back home in Asheville, North Carolina, after a bomb left them scarred. Unable to accept that he'll never be able to return to his team, Jack is looking for a miracle...
  • Mountain Survival (K-9 Search and Rescue) by Christy Barritt

    Mountain Survival (K-9 Search and Rescue) by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An injured victim has disappeared…Can a park ranger and her K-9 find him?When search-and-rescue park ranger Autumn Mercer and her K-9 partner, Sherlock, meet a stranger in the mountains whose brother is injured, they drop everything to help. But all they find where Derek Peterson last saw his sibling is a trail of blood—and men who want them dead...
  • Micah's Promise by Annabella Stone

    Micah's Promise by Annabella Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Micah Kennedy has lived with PTSD for years. He is an expert at hiding his struggles behind the quick wit and snark that is very much a part of his makeup. His need to keep a promise to a dying comrade feeds his nightmares and invades his dreams—until that promise brings him military K-9 Delta. Hawk McKinnon has spent most of his life kicking trouble’s ass in every hotspot around the globe...
  • Magnus by Dale Mayer

    Magnus by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Deep in the permafrost of the Arctic, a joint task force, comprised of over one dozen countries, comes together to level up their winter skills. A mix of personalities, nationalities, and egos bring out the best—and the worst—as these globally elite men and women work and play together...
  • Her Guarded Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Guarded Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can He Save Her Life? Can She Save His Soul?Navy SEAL Dalton Sullivan, once again, seeks solace in the wilderness. As he treks through the forests surrounding Lake Tahoe shots ring out, and he watches in horror as a woman is thrown off her horse and lands unconscious at his feet.Aurora Chance has no idea why someone wants her dead...
  • The Breath of Dawn by Kristen Heitzmann

    The Breath of Dawn by Kristen Heitzmann

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kristen Heitzmann Delivers Powerful New Romantic SuspenseMorgan Spencer has had just about all he can take of life. Following the tragic death of his wife, Jill, he retreats to his brother's Rocky Mountain ranch to heal and focus on the care of his infant daughter, Olivia...
  • Too Many Crooks Spoil the Plot by Sarah Osborne

    Too Many Crooks Spoil the Plot by Sarah Osborne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pediatrician Mabel Aphrodite Brown adores kids. So when a childhood friend asks Ditie to babysit her kids for a few days, she jumps at the chance. She never imagined she’d be solving a murder too . . .   Despite growing up together, Ditie hasn’t seen Ellie Winston in two years, and she didn’t even know Ellie was living in Atlanta...
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    suspense  animals  romance  mystery  cozy  fiction  crime  contemporary
  • Macarons and Mayhem by Agatha Frost

    Macarons and Mayhem by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Excitement blossoms through Peridale when a prestigious gardening magazine picks the village as the spotlight for their next issue, but that joy quickly turns to dread when members of the local gardening society, The Peridale Green Fingers, start dying one by one after their obituaries are sent to The Peridale Post the day before their murders...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  animals  romance  mystery  cozy  fiction  contemporary  crime
  • Into the Deep by Colleen Coble

    Into the Deep by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A local scientist misses his son's birthday party and turns up dead in Lake Superior. A radical environmental group blames a mysterious lab for the dead fish found in a remote stream. Then an Alzheimer's patient goes missing and his home is ransacked. Into the Deep is third in the acclaimed romantic suspense series from best-selling author Colleen Coble...
  • Catherine Coulter Collection: The Cove, The Maze, and Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter

    Catherine Coulter Collection: The Cove, The Maze, and Eleventh Hour by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Cove (Sandra Burr, Joyce Bean, Melissa Coates): The Cove is a quaint little postcard town made up only of old folk who sell the World's Greatest Ice Cream - a secret recipe that brings lots of tourists into town. Into The Cove comes Sally Brainerd, daughter of murdered Amory St. John of Washington, D.C., seeking sanctuary, and FBI Special Agent James Quinlan who's undercover and after her...
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    suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    In Her Father's Shadow by Quinn Avery

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sienna Rivers’s aspirations for a normal childhood came crashing down the night they discovered her father was a serial killer. Once her mother’s illusion of a perfect family is destroyed, Sienna is sent to live with the only other “family” she knows...
  • Pervade Montego Bay by Vanessa Fewings

    Pervade Montego Bay by Vanessa Fewings

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For every patch of sun, there's a pool of shadows. For every stretch of paradise, there's a stain of secrets. Montego Bay offers everything the heart desires...and the soul fears. Emily Rampling once again finds herself in the throes of unforgettable passion and irresistible power as she dives deeper into the love of two men and the dangerous world they inhabit...
  • Chasing Secrets by Heather Woodhaven

    Chasing Secrets by Heather Woodhaven

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a witness becomes a target…Can this K-9 track down the killer?After Karenna Pressley stumbles upon a ruthless drug dealer trying to drown her best friend, she’s on his hit list—and out of places to run. Her ex-boyfriend, K-9 officer Ray Morrow, is determined to keep her safe with his drug-detecting spaniel, Abby...
  • A Scandalous Husband by Bev Pettersen

    A Scandalous Husband by Bev Pettersen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PRISON CHANGES EVERYTHING. It’s been two rough years since Dani Tattrie has seen her husband. She didn’t plan on running their California ranch by herself, but she’s scraped by. Now though, a string of bad luck has left her reeling and ready to sell. Training horses is still her dream job but she’s never recovered from her husband’s bewildering incarceration...
  • Christmas K-9 Unit Heroes by Lenora Worth, Katy Lee

    Christmas K-9 Unit Heroes by Lenora Worth, Katy Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Danger comes to Denver for the holidays…in these thrilling Rocky Mountain K-9 Unit novellas.With veterinarian Sydney Jones being targeted, K-9 Officer Gavin Walker and his furry partner must stand between her and certain death in Lenora Worth’s Hidden Christmas Danger...
  • A Home for Haley by Mary Jane Morgan

    A Home for Haley by Mary Jane Morgan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haley Donahue’s husband has been missing in action for more than a year, a year of waiting and pain as she watches other soldiers return home to their families. Determined to build a better life for her toddler Ryan, Haley relocates to Nashville and takes a job as nanny to a little girl learning to live without her mother...
  • Watching Willow by Ann Omasta

    Watching Willow by Ann Omasta

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On the verge of losing her job, local television star Willow Winks desperately seeks the one thing she believes can save her fledgling career--a golden retriever sidekick.Willow thought being told she was getting too old for television was the most frightening thing a celebrity diva could hear--until she and her furry best friend, Buddy, receive a threatening letter...
  • A Tangle in the Vines by Anna Celeste Burke

    A Tangle in the Vines by Anna Celeste Burke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The curtain may fall on the Calla Lily Players' first season unless Lily and Austin can find a killer on the loose in California's wine country. Torrential rains threaten to put a damper on The Calla Lily Players’ first outdoor theater production. When the ground suddenly shifts, buried secrets revealed amid the tangled vines put the spotlight on murder...
  • Til Death by Annette Dashofy

    Til Death by Annette Dashofy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When one of Chief Pete Adams’ first murder convictions is overturned, he and County Detective Wayne Baronick are assigned to reinvestigate the case. As new theories about the murder surface, Pete begins to question not only the original suspect’s guilt, but his own investigative skills from the days when he first took over the Vance Township Police Department...
  • Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Firefly Effect by K.K. Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, tales of the Firefly Man were nothing more than elaborate rumors spread by residents in the Great Smoky Mountains.Until the night Evelyn Vaughn stumbled upon a dead body in the woods.Fear gripped her, and silence stole her voice.All while she watched the boy she was with that night take the fall.Fourteen years later, Evelyn is nothing more than a shell of her former self...
  • Detection by Lisa Phillips

    Detection by Lisa Phillips

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    BIG CITY CRIME. SMALL TOWN HEROESA boy with no name.Officer River Gaines walks in the footsteps of the cop who rescued him from the ocean and gave him a name—and a family to belong to. River and his K-9 partner, Kutter, work side-by-side finding people in Benson, but the fact he never remembered who he is has become a weight he never let go.A girl with no future...
  • Thicker Than Water by Melissa Good

    Thicker Than Water by Melissa Good

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This sequel to Red Sky at Morning is the continuing saga of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart. It starts off with Kerry involved in the church group of girls. Kerry is forced to acknowledge her own feelings/experience toward/with her folks as she and Dar assist a teenager from the group who gets jailed because her parents tossed her out onto the streets when they find out she is gay...
  • Justice Mission by Lynette Eason

    Justice Mission by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caught in a killer’s sights… Introducing the True Blue K-9 Unit series After K-9 unit administrative assistant Sophie Walters spots a suspicious stranger lurking at the K-9 graduation, the man kidnaps her—and she barely escapes. With Sophie’s boss missing and someone determined to silence her, NYPD officer Luke Hathaway vows he and his K-9 partner will guard her...
  • Tracking Justice by Shirlee McCoy

    Tracking Justice by Shirlee McCoy

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In the night, a young boy goes missing from his bedroom. Police detective Austin Black assures desperate single mother Eva Billows that he'll find her son. He has to, so he can put to rest his own harrowing memories. With his search-and-rescue bloodhound, Justice, Austin searches every inch of Sagebrush, Texas. And when Eva insists on helping, Austin can't turn her away...
  • Mystic Falls by Vickie McKeehan

    Mystic Falls by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Emotionally reeling after the death of her grandmother, Gemma Channing is settling into Coyote Wells, the hometown where she grew up, after a ten-year absence. While trying to come to terms with the loss of her Gram, disturbing things begin to happen. Women are disappearing...
  • Beyond a Doubt by Colleen Coble

    Beyond a Doubt by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nothing seems beyond a doubt when Bree opens a cold-case file with clues too close for comfort. Arson. Theft. Murder. When Bree Nichols discovers a corpse in her own basement, a whirlwind investigation ushers an unbidden danger to all she holds dear...
  • A Rush of Wings by Kristen Heitzmann

    A Rush of Wings by Kristen Heitzmann

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Running from terrors both recent and remembered, Noelle flees her New York mansion for the Rocky Mountains, seeking a place to hide from the men who betrayed her. Her sanctuary is a horse ranch, where she discovers solace in the breathtaking scenery she paints...
    Categorized as:
    animals  horses  suspense  abuse  adult  book  christian  contemporary
  • Sealed with Courage by Laura Scott

    Sealed with Courage by Laura Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Risking their hearts and their lives while protecting the innocent…Will they find the kidnapped boy in time?Sign language teacher Aubrey Clark feels responsible when ten-year-old Lucas goes missing. She’s determined to find her deaf student and knows more than she should from reading the lips of the man involved in the boy’s disappearance. Now she’s in the killer’s crosshairs too...
  • Beowolf by Fiona Quinn

    Beowolf by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They weren’t looking for love. But fate—and a dog named Beowolf—had other plans…Retired military pilot Thaddeus (Nutsbe) Crushed deserves peace and quiet. If his work in tactical operations for Iniquus’s Panther Force hadn’t earned him that right, the fact that he lost his legs in the service of his country should’ve...
  • Intricate Obsessions by Jennifer Rayes

    Intricate Obsessions by Jennifer Rayes

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gaia and Raoul have recovered from the poisoning, but the assassination attempt has fractured their relationship beyond repair. Dominique has lost his mother, his crew, and his purpose, and is trying not to lose his sister, while playing a dangerous game with the Governor...
  • Backstretch Baby by Bev Pettersen

    Backstretch Baby by Bev Pettersen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She can accept his past...but can he? Private investigator Rick Talbot shuns polite society, preferring to keep horrific memories at bay by hunting the most hardened of criminals. Tracking down stolen bridles at a California racetrack is a mind-numbing assignment that’s way beneath his pay grade...
  • Sheriff by Laura Scott

    Sheriff by Laura Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HAZARDOUS HOMECOMING  Witnessing a prison break, FBI agent Julianne Martinez is within seconds of death…before she's rescued by the one man she thought she'd never see again. She'd know her long-ago love, Brody Kenner, anywhere, even with a sheriff star on his chest. Years ago she left Texas and Brody, and had no plans of returning…until the trail of a missing agent brought her home to both...
  • Mountain Hostage by Hope White

    Mountain Hostage by Hope White

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They’re tracking a kidnapper But will they be the next targets? After an ambush during a mountain hike, Zoe Pratt ends up shoved off the mountain and her friend kidnapped. Enigmatic search and rescue volunteer Jack Monroe tracks Zoe with the help of his K-9 partner, Romeo, but as the only witness to the attack, she’s far from safe...
  • Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth Goddard

    Fugitive Trail by Elizabeth Goddard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A killer’s out for vengeance…unless this K-9 sniffs him out first.When a plane carrying dangerous convicts crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Deputy Sierra Young and her search-and-rescue K-9, Samson, race to help—and discover they’re after her! With one survivor vowing revenge, Sierra’s former coworker turned PI, Bryce Elliott, is determined to protect her...
  • Christmas Ranch Rescue by Lynette Eason

    Christmas Ranch Rescue by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HER CHRISTMAS PROTECTOR When his former crush is suspected of funneling drugs through her ranch, it’s DEA agent Nathan Williams’s job to find out if Becca Price is guilty. But after Becca is attacked, his top priority becomes protecting her. Convinced she’s innocent, Nathan is determined to find the real culprit before the escalating threats become deadly...
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