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  • Lost and Found by Lexi Blake

    Lost and Found by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Owen Shaw and his “brothers” lost everything, their entire existence erased. Science had robbed him and all the Lost Boys of their memories and their past, but not their future. Hunted by every intelligence agency in the world, they are focused on two goals: find a cure for what was done to them and ensure that the technology that ruined their lives doesn’t get out into the world...
  • Born in Death by J.D. Robb

    Born in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers—both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm—are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's supposedly what friends are for.Now Mavis needs another favor...
  • Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision...
  • Creation in Death by J.D. Robb

    Creation in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When the body of a young brunette is found in East River Park, artfully positioned and marked by signs of prolonged and painful torture, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is catapulted back to a case nine years earlier...
  • Mission: Her Shield by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Shield by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s the one woman he’s always wanted and the one woman he’ll never let himself have, but former Delta Force soldier Axel will risk everything to save his covert team’s beautiful archeologist.Axel Diaz knows that fighting the bad guys requires getting down in the muck. He’s done too much and seen too much to ever inflict his nightmares on a woman...
  • Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb

    Innocent in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    When history teacher Craig Foster is found dead in his classroom, his young wife is devastated, and his family, friends and colleagues all shocked. The two ten-year old students who discovered his body may be traumatised for life.Magdalena Percell, an old flame of Eve's billionaire husband Roarke, has turned up in New York, and she's anything but innocent...
  • No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ONE LAST FLING (WITH DANGER)Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time.Weddings aren’t my thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his daughter’s wedding planner. I’m going to have the wedding of the year…whether I like it or not...
  • Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Radiant Darkness by Anna Carven

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Arkan Kythelian is the last man standing.He's well aware of that fact. The rest of his First Division brothers have succumbed to the Mating Fever, falling for those gentle, alluring creatures—humans.He should probably be more bothered by it, but he's a little preoccupied right now. See, he's just detected the presence of a group of terrified humans onboard a Kordolian slave-trader ship...
  • Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Seduction in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas is searching for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction. Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars...
  • Memory In Death by J.D. Robb

    Memory In Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For once detective Eve Dallas can look at her latest murder victim and feel absolutely nothing. For Trudy Lombard awakens memories in Eve she'd rather forget. A seemingly ordinary middle-aged woman, Lombard was also one of Eve's foster parents and Eve was one of many traumatised children placed in her haphazard care. But now - only a few days after showing up in Eve's office - Lombard is dead...
  • Divided in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Divided in Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Reva Ewing, a former member of the Secret Service and a security specialist for Roarke Enterprises, is a prime suspect in a double homicide. She had every reason to want to kill her husband, the renowned artist Blair Bissel. Not only was he having an affair, he was having it with her best friend.But Lieutenant Eve Dallas, who's on the case, believes Reva is innocent...
  • Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

    Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    After years on the force, Eve Dallas didn't think she could be shocked anymore... until now.It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified...
  • Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Flynn by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some pasts are harder to escape than others.When Carina Murphy is accused of a crime she didn’t commit, a fresh start in a new town is her only option. Unfortunately, Cradle Mountain may not be the safe haven she’d thought. The son of her new patient may be tall, dark and handsome…but he also knows all about her past.Keeping her job should be the hardest part...
  • Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Eve Dallas tracks a couple whose passion is fueled by cold brutality in the newest crime thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Obsession in Death and Festive in Death. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas examines a body in a downtown Manhattan alleyway, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  crime  dark  female-mc  humor  steamy  suspense  urban
  • Seven by K.D. Robichaux

    Seven by K.D. Robichaux

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    SevenSeth Owens, co-owner of Club Alias, has always taken full-advantage of the endless supply of willing submissives who frequent his high-end establishment. But he’s never trusted anyone enough to let them get to know the man beneath the leather mask...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  humor  steamy  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Mission: Her Rescue by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When archeologist January’s plane is shot down over the Guatemalan jungle, she knows she’s being hunted for the invaluable Mayan artifacts she’s carrying. Only one man and his team can save her…the covert, black ops Team 52, and the distrusting former CIA operative who drives her crazy…Dr. January James has a motto: live life to the fullest...
  • Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In the latest suspense thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, the year 2060 is drawing to a close in New York City and loved ones are coming together for Thanksgiving. But sometimes the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water… Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season...
  • The Single Mom and the Orc by Honey Phillips

    The Single Mom and the Orc by Honey Phillips

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Her grumpy orc is going to hammer his way into her heart!When Pippa finds herself in Fairhaven Falls with empty pockets and a brand new baby, she’s thrilled when a sweet - and slightly scary - old lady offers her a job and a place to live. Their new home isn’t much, but it offers a desperately needed shelter.Then her grumpy orc neighbor comes charging into their lives...
  • No Broken Beast by Nicole Snow

    No Broken Beast by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Fierce. Scarred. Ginormous grump.And I get to tell him he's a father...Brilliant life decisions--falling for the bad guy.Leo damn Regis. Hated scourge of Heart's Edge.A wall with arms and legs. Hercules dipped in ink. Incandescent eyes.The legend, the outcast, the boy I loved.But the man they call "Nine" isn't the villain they think.He saved my life and seared my heart once upon a messed up time...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  female-mc  steamy  suspense  action-adventure  adult  book
  • Maria's Journey by Karen Clow

    Maria's Journey by Karen Clow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Compelling, Brutal and stretching every boundary of Love and loyalty to its limits; Maria’s Journey will leave you wondering how she ever survived and remained the lady she is.Continuing to chart the turbulent lives of Jimmy, Maria and Mickey, once again it delves into London’s violent, depraved, criminal underworld...
    Categorized as:
    crime  steamy  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  sci-fi  romance
  • Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

    Twisted Shadows by Allie Therin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a thrilling alternate-universe Seattle, empaths are disappearing—and it’s up to grumpy Reece and his mysterious protector, Grayson, to investigate. Empath hunter Evan Grayson is the Dead Man, transformed by a dark past into a perfect weapon against corrupted empaths...
  • Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Obsession in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    There's a thin line between hero worship and dangerous obsession...the explosive new Eve Dallas and Roarke thrillerA crisp winter morning in New York. In a luxury apartment, the body of a woman lies stretched out on a huge bed. On the wall above, the killer has left a message in bold black ink: FOR LIEUTENANT EVE DALLAS, WITH GREAT ADMIRATION AND UNDERSTANDING...
  • Anarchy Chained by J.A. Huss

    Anarchy Chained by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone wants revenge.That’s what I tell my new would-be partner in crime, Sadie Scott.“You’re crazy,” she says. “Certifiably insane.”Just a little. But isn’t everyone a little crazy?“And I’m gonna get the hell away from you as fast as I can.”She’s so cute when she’s defiant. “As soon as I get my memory back and figure out who I am.”Yeah. That little problem is definitely working in my favor...
  • The Secret Billionaire by Erin Swann

    The Secret Billionaire by Erin Swann

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He whispered in my ear. Three simple words halted all rational thought...PatrickWomen naturally circle the flame of wealth and power, and mine is brighter than most. Does she love me, does she not? There’s no way to know. They’re all faking something.When I stopped to help her, Liz mistook me for a carpenter. Maybe this time I’ll know.She resisted me, but it was pointless...
  • SoL by Jennifer Julie Miller

    SoL by Jennifer Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    AlanaThe question is, do I allow this dark moment in time to rob me of the life I could possibly have here? I have never known such horror or fear. If I hadn’t experienced it myself, I would have never believed any other living thing could possibly do this to another. The scars may be gone on the outside now, but they will remain forever in my soul...
    Categorized as:
    dark  steamy  female-mc  alpha-mc  humor  crime  romance  aliens
  • Poison Hearts by Jennifer Cody

    Poison Hearts by Jennifer Cody

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Orlando:No one intentionally starts out life trying to become a hired unaliver. Weeellllll, most people don’t. I come from a legacy of unalivers, though I think I might be the first one to make a career out of it. Accidentally...
    Categorized as:
    crime  humor  steamy  dark  romance  mlm  contemporary  lgbtq
  • When She's Lonely by Ruby Dixon

    When She's Lonely by Ruby Dixon

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Everyone says humans are safe on Risda III.Yeah, right.I was taken from Earth years ago and I’ve learned one thing - a flawed human is a dead human. So I keep my flaws to myself, and I focus on running my farm.At least, I try to. But when I (accidentally) burn the barn down, one of the local officials shows up to help me put it out...
    Categorized as:
    humor  slow-burn  steamy  adult  aliens  book  contemporary  disability
  • Dark in Death by J.D. Robb

    Dark in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    It was a stab in the dark.On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square...
  • Remember When by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    Remember When by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Part 1: Hot RocksPart 2: Big JackShe's one author - with two number-one New York Times-bestselling careers. As Nora Roberts, her novels include Three Fates and Birthright. As J. D. Robb, she offers such novels as Portrait in Death. Now she unites her separate identities in a riveting two-part novel that combines edgy suspense and romantic passion - and journeys through past, present, and future...
  • Connections in Death by J.D. Robb

    Connections in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In this gritty and gripping new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent—and serve justice to the guilty—on the streets of New York.Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter...
  • Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb

    Strangers in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In 2060 New York, some murders still get more attention than others, especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed—and strangled with cords of black velvet...
  • Ceremony in Death by J.D. Robb

    Ceremony in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Even in an age of cutting-edge technology, old beliefs die hard...Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, Eve takes the warning personally...
  • Midnight in Death by J.D. Robb

    Midnight in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The number-one New York Times best selling In Death series explodes with intrigue, passion, and suspense. Now, Nora Roberts, writing as J. D. Robb, propels you into the darkest night of Lieutenant Eve Dallas' life - when a killer comes to call.Eve's name has made a Christmas list, but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars...
  • Third a Kiss by Pepper Winters

    Third a Kiss by Pepper Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters, brings a new Dark Romance Series to life. This is the third book in GODDESS ISLES. “There was hate once. Hate born from dangerous attraction and fate’s cruel design. There was love once. Love destined to kill us if we didn’t surrender to our war.” Full blurb and cover to come...
  • Varnog by Regine Abel

    Varnog by Regine Abel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The tormented soul of a beast.Created to be a mindless, bloodthirsty monster, Varnog chose to live an honorable life instead. From the day he joined the Vanguard, he’s only had eyes for one female. Petite and delicate in appearance, she awakens his protective instincts and a deep longing for something he can never have. However, his Linette has no need for protection...
  • 180 Proof Vega by Santino Hassell

    180 Proof Vega by Santino Hassell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emilio Vega is a shit-talking, eighteen-year-old gunrunner who is dragged out of the world of crime he grew up in, and forced to work for a covert organization that deals in assassination and political intrigue.The full version of Volume 1 is expected to be published in 2015.Note: The first three parts of Volume 1 are available for free on the author's GR profile...
  • Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Destruction by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Going back into the torture camp where he’d been so brutally abused is the last thing Navy SEAL Drake Fontana wants to do, but if there are other men being experimented upon he has to be the one to get them out. And he has to give them an option other than to be a test subject to the Silverstone Collaborative, the pharmaceutical company funding the diabolical experiments...
  • The Strangest Forms by Gregory Ashe

    The Strangest Forms by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Watson is dead. Holmes is alone. And Jack is desperate.Sixteen-year-old Jack Moreno is managing to hold his life together. Barely. After a terrible car accident leaves his father unable to work, Jack makes ends meet by dropping out of school and covering his dad’s custodial shifts at a school for troubled teens, high in the Wasatch Mountains...
    Categorized as:
    dark  crime  suspense  romance  mystery  mlm  young-adult  contemporary
  • Kiss of Luck by Delta James

    Kiss of Luck by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She got away once. It won't happen againSaylorMy unique relationship with Beck ten years ago made me the perfect choice for an undercover operation. My job... bring down Randall Beckett and his Phoenix Syndicate. In all these years I have never shared his secrets, what makes me think I can now?BeckA decade ago my uncle sent Saylor, my beautiful curvy girlfriend, away...
  • The Summit by K.A. Knight

    The Summit by K.A. Knight

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The Summit has been called and the clans have gathered. A war is brewing in the Wastes, and I seem to be in the center. With old horrors stirring, and bonds breaking can I do what it takes to save us all? Or will my need for vengeance be our downfall? First, I have to face my biggest challenge yet, myself. One thing is certain, the sands will turn red before The Summit is through...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  dark  female-mc  steamy  abuse  adult  apocalyptic  audiobook
  • Alien Beast by Lili Zander

    Alien Beast by Lili Zander

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This human I’m saddled with is… happy.Cheerful, even.She likes to sing to the cat.Kill me now.A year ago, an explosion – the same explosion that killed my best friend – destroyed me.Ruined me.Made me look like a monster.I’m a shadow of the man I once was.I want to be left alone.Instead… there’s Bella.Bella, who sings when she’s happy.Who likes to talk...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  humor  steamy  suspense  adult  aliens  book  contemporary
  • Alpha Collects by Milana Jacks

    Alpha Collects by Milana Jacks

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It takes a special kind of Omega to bring an Alpha to his knees. Kind. Sweet. Beautiful. With legs that go on forever, colored eyes, perky protruding nose, funny ears, and… Were was I? Ah yes, I collected one such Omega, and I’m bringing her before my king. I am Tayseer, the Collector, the Legend. And I will deliver my people the queen...
    Categorized as:
    alpha-mc  anti-hero  humor  steamy  adult  aliens  audiobook  book
  • Guarded by the Snake: Monster Security Agency by Layla Fae

    Guarded by the Snake: Monster Security Agency by Layla Fae

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She stole her way into my cold, serpent heart like a thief in the night.The tiny human hires me to shield her from the vengeance of a powerful organization. There’s nothing wrong with that, except she stole from them, got caught, and now I have to clean up her mess. Add to that her incessant chatter, and I’m in for the most unpleasant job in my career...
  • All Because of Me by Tatiana Machado

    All Because of Me by Tatiana Machado

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THE MAN YOU LOVE?Nineteen-year-old Sarah Williams was never supposed to fall for her brother’s best friend—and she was never supposed to be running for her life, either...
  • Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Risteard’s Unwilling Empress by S.E. Smith

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Ristéard Roald is the powerful and deadly ruler of Elpidios, a planet that is slowly dying without the blood stones needed to absorb the radiation gradually destroying its stratosphere. He has sworn to do whatever it takes to protect his world and his people, but time is running out.Hope comes from an unexpected source, the Kassis...
  • Beyond Solitude by Kit Rocha

    Beyond Solitude by Kit Rocha

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When a motorcycle accident leaves Derek Ford riding a desk at the O’Kane compound, the last thing he needs is a sexy new assistant upending his office and his life. But Mia isn’t scared of her domineering boss. The friction between them generates an undeniable heat—but Mia will not be kept, and Ford will do anything to protect what’s his...
  • Tamed by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Tamed by a Beast by Miranda Bridges

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I hate this place.Not that my life on Najarie was great, but at least I didn’t have a beastly alien trying to sex me up all the time. And when I say all the time, I mean all the freaking time.I haven’t forgotten Earth or the loved ones I’ve left behind. In fact, I’m willing to use any means necessary to get back to them...
  • The Light We Seek by Katie May

    The Light We Seek by Katie May

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Now that I survived the initial storm, I find myself back where I once was: under the control of my dickish parents (if dickish even is a word). Day by day, the world gets worse. Storms brew on the east coast, volcanos erupt on the west, and zombie-like creatures continue to attack the cities. Where does that leave me? Hopefully not dead...at least, not yet...
  • Champion by Anna Hackett

    Champion by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…Space marine Blaine Strong enjoyed being a composed, controlled member of space station security…until he was abducted by alien slavers. Forced into underground fight rings and pumped full of drugs, he’s now seething with anger and out for revenge...
  • Kilty Conscience by Amy Vansant

    Kilty Conscience by Amy Vansant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    While investigating the kidnapping of an actor’s child, Broch suspects a woman at the scene is the beauty who’s been haunting his dreams. Worried his reoccurring fantasies are memories of a former life in nineteenth-century Scotland, he vows to discover if the mysterious Fiona is his true love...
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