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  • Let Me Love You by Brittney Sahin

    Let Me Love You by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Love is a risk for a woman in danger and a mercenary sworn to protect in a blistering novel of vengeance and redemption by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin. Six years ago, Maria Romano got her birthday wish—a kiss from Enzo Costa. A man she could never take her eyes off, but who seemed as haunted as her favorite book boyfriends and strictly off-limits...
  • Daddy's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Daddy's Soul by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Faith Blossom has hit rock bottom.She’s drowning.Broke, demoralised, tired, and alone, she accepts a job that could be the answer to her problems.So long as she can survive a force of nature bent on destroying everything in his path.Reuben Jones.He’s driven, loyal, stern, and unforgiving.Possessive and protective.Grumpy.And he wants to own her. Dominate and control her.Be her Daddy...
  • Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Steel Rush by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is an alternate Cover Edition for ISBN13: 9781939672285.This is the second book in the BLACK SHADOWS duet, Cass and Calder's story. You must read GOLD SHIMMER before reading STEEL RUSH. Cass has spent years trying to forget her past. But the thing about pasts…they always come back around, sometimes in the most unexpected ways...
  • Skirt by K.L. Savage

    Skirt by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There are few things people know about me. I'm Scottish. I really hate pants. And Poodle is me best friend.But. There are always buts.There is one thing people don't know. Me love for fightin'. I come from a long line of fighters. I live it. I breathe it. Flesh. Blood And brass knuckles.It's me way of life. So I fight, legally. No one knows...
  • The Beat of My Heart by Avery Maxwell

    The Beat of My Heart by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    One week. No strings. Sexy stranger. What could go wrong?My name is Julia McDowell. I’m not the pretty girl next door, I’m the boss at work who solves all your problems. I’m an awkward genius with the worst taste in boyfriends; the last one left me with a 6-figure debt to prove it...
  • Romancing His Heart by Avery Maxwell

    Romancing His Heart by Avery Maxwell

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    LokiI’m a highly trained special operative tasked with taking down the East Coast’s most dangerous man—my father.She’s a bubbly, timid, overly inquisitive romance author with an aversion to true love. And she’s now under my protection.As our worlds collide, we’re forced into hiding while I piece together who’s chasing us...
  • My Every Breath by Brittney Sahin

    My Every Breath by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cade King has fallen for the wrong woman. She's the daughter of New York's most notorious hitman, and he's the newest target.After ten years of living in the shadow of the Irish mob, Gia Callaghan wants nothing more than to escape the darkness of her life. Her burning desire for answers about her past has her constantly plotting new ways to flee...
  • Pearl's Fight by Jane Blythe

    Pearl's Fight by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Their anger will either bring them together or destroy what could have been. Pearl Smith is angry at the world. Stolen as a baby and raised under torturous conditions now she uses those same skills to save other innocents, but it doesn't abate her anger. Nothing does, until a random encounter with a DEA Agent...
  • Brother's Keeper I: Declan by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Brother's Keeper I: Declan by Stephanie St. Klaire

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing that can taint money, privilege, and endless access to the finer things in life is murder. Lydia exchanges her life of luxury for a life on the run when she discovers her real estate tycoon husband is nothing more than a cold-blooded killer with endless resources. The only person who can keep her alive is the last person she wants to trust...
  • Doc: a Club Alias novel by K.D. Robichaux, Kayla Robichaux

    Doc: a Club Alias novel by K.D. Robichaux, Kayla Robichaux

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Dr Neil Walker, MD, MFT, Ph DI’m not your average therapist. As the founder of Imperium Security—the cover for my mercenary team—I’ve dedicated my entire life to helping heal those who’ve had their power unwillingly taken from them and avenging the ones who didn’t survive...
  • Tangled Innocence by Nicole Fox

    Tangled Innocence by Nicole Fox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “What do you mean, ‘You gave me the wrong sperm sample’?!”But the doctor says he isn’t joking.Instead of being my sister's surrogate...I'm accidentally carrying my boss's baby.A few months ago, I agreed to be my sister's surrogate.Then she died in an unsolved accident.I swore I'd keep her child and raise it on my own.But as it turns out, there was a mix-up at the clinic...
  • Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Into the Black: A Romantic Thriller by Elise Noble

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Diamond may be used to saving the world, but can she save her own relationship? With her husband’s killer still on the loose and her life in England a disaster, Diamond returns to the only thing she knows: work. As the star of special ops takes on enemies from the States to Syria, she finds the toughest battle is the one going on in her own head...
  • Sybil’s Protector by Ellie Masters

    Sybil’s Protector by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SYBIL Falling for my Protector might cost me my life. I was abducted and shipped out, meant to be sold. My freedom stolen. My body no longer mine. My life…over. Or so I thought. The Guardians swooped in. They saved me from a living Hell, but my life is still in danger. The men who took me want me back. They’re out there, hunting me. Once again, the Guardians step up...
  • Excalibur by Anna Hackett

    Excalibur by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He never should have touched her.She’s beautiful, sweet, and all sunshine. He’s too old, too rough, and too grumpy.Now she’s pregnant with his baby and in danger, and there is nothing he won’t do to keep her safe.All Adaline Harris ever wanted to do was escape her small town and make it as a ballet dancer in New York. But luck is never on her side...
  • Ruthless Rival by K.C. Crowne

    Ruthless Rival by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cold. Ruthless. Killer.I am King of the Nicolaevich Bratva.Respected and feared by all.I get what I want - and what I want most is Sandra Antonov.But the last thing I ever imagined desiring…Was making her my Queen.And I'll give my Queen all her little heart desires.Except for one thing: Her freedom. SandraHere’s some advice you never asked for...Don’t sleep with your captor...
  • Bratva Knight by T.J. Maguire

    Bratva Knight by T.J. Maguire

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nikolai VolkovThe funny thing about trust is it’s so hard to gain but so easy to lose. One stupid mistake cost me the only woman I’ve ever loved.Cost me her.Tatiana Andreeva.My fierce, golden-haired goddess with the face of an angel and the attitude of the fucking devil. She was my everything, and I would do whatever it took to get her back, because a life without her was a life not worth living...
  • Kansas by K.L. Savage

    Kansas by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Instincts are all we have to rely on.And mine were spot on.There are a few things I don’t like to talk about in life.My father.And Kansas.I hate him, and I hate that godforsaken state.To this day, I haven’t loved because there’s a fear.An inkling.An instinct that I will be just like him.I convinced myself our blood was rotten, tainted, and sour...
  • Controlling Chloe by Kate Oliver

    Controlling Chloe by Kate Oliver

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Blurb coming soon! This is Bash Gilroy's story...
  • Dirty by Scott Hildreth

    Dirty by Scott Hildreth

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    LEX - The victim of a human trafficking ring, I was confined to a tiny bedroom with seven other women. The conditions were horrific. They’d taken my freedom, my clothes, and, eventually, what little hope I clung to. Then, one night, we heard gunshots. Prepared for the worst, I stood with my eyes fixed on the door, ready to meet my fate. And he opened the door.He saved me from the monsters...
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    age-gap  crime  dark  humor  kidnapping  military  multi-pov  abuse
  • Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Owned by the Bratva King by Jagger Cole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s been mine since the second I saw her. It would be easy to say I have no business even looking at a girl like River Finn. She’s too young. Too innocent. Too much my daughter’s best friend. That is, until the gorgeous forbidden fruit becomes my business. A rival bratva kingpin wants her. I want his empire. Kidnapping her as leverage should be an easy, simple business arrangement...
  • Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The mayhem continues for the Knight's Legion MC…Storm. My protector. I need his darkness, like he needs my light. After surviving an abusive relationship, I swore off men. Until the President of the Knight’s Legion MC crashes into my life, holding me captive with his haunted gray eyes. Storm is a force to be reckoned with and I welcome the chaos— it makes me feel alive. He owns me. Body and soul...
  • Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade

    Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Spending 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...
  • Sacrifice by Sarah Bailey

    Sacrifice by Sarah Bailey

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Him I wanted to take them all down. I had everything under control. Then she walked into my life. And turned my world completely upside down. She changed me. She was my light in the darkness. I was her avenging angel. Until I ruined everything. Her I wanted to be his everything. The one who took me. He showed me their darkest secrets. He taught me their twisted ways...
  • The Best of Us by Brittney Sahin

    The Best of Us by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A man driven by duty and a woman who never gave up hope are thrust together by fate and a secret he never saw coming in a captivating novel of love, danger, and sacrifice by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin.Constantine Costa has spent his life shielding others from harm...
  • The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    BellamyIt was supposed to be an easy job.Get another scumbag off the streets.I never could have foreseen her ruining the plan.Or having to whisk her away on my jet for both our safety.And I certainly couldn’t have anticipated finding myself starting to fall for the blunt, sarcastic, kick-a$$ woman I found myself trapped in a safe house with...
  • On the Double by Cara Dee

    On the Double by Cara Dee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Renegades #3 • Romantic Suspense • Action • MMM“It’s a fine line between not revealing your arsenal and creating disorder by showing your strength.”Funny how calm you could feel when someone had ripped the heart out of your chest.River and Reese Tenley had grown up on the fringes of society, spending most of their adult years as private military contractors in places nobody else wanted to go...
  • Seize by Addison Jane

    Seize by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I escaped a dark past. Barely dragging myself from the depths of hell.But when addiction sinks its claws into your soul, there are only two options—surrender and let it devour you or wage the fight of your life.Out of the shadows, I found strength and resilience.What I didn’t expect was to find him.Bishop wasn’t just the President of The Exiled Eight MC in Detroit.He was powerful...
  • Wanted by Kaylea Cross

    Wanted by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She thought her past was behind her. After nearly dying at the hands of a madman in New Orleans a year ago, Zoe Renard has worked hard to put that trauma behind her and move on. With her man at her side she’s focused on her writing career and building a future together. Things are almost perfect between them, until a series of shocking events turns her world upside down again...
  • Defied by Maria Luís

    Defied by Maria Luís

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I am both a sinner and a saint, but I bleed vengeance. For years, I’ve lived in the grey… until her. Avery Washington didn’t belong in the shadows, but I dragged her into the darkness anyway. One kiss, and I would stop at nothing to possess her. One caress, and my need to destroy wavered. Our attraction was poison and pleasure...
  • Smokehouse by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Smokehouse by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He vowed to never let a woman hurt him again, but she came along and ruined everything…SmokehouseI didn’t know what I was getting into when I stumbled out of the bar and into bed with the not-so-innocent girl of my wet dreams.Our one night together made me question everything.But when she snuck out of bed before I could ask her to stay, I figured I’d never see her again...
  • Deadly Risk by Jane Blythe

    Deadly Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The last thing he wants is to fall for her.Mackenzie Arden knows she'll never be free of her brother's violent obsession with her, and now she's his prisoner and an unwitting pawn in his plot. When she’s rescued by a man who is as intriguing as he is intimidating, she finally starts to feel safe for the first time in her life, only he wants nothing to do with her...
  • Detained by Luna Mason

    Detained by Luna Mason

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    FrankieI don’t have to hide behind a mask anymore.I rule New York, and now all I have to do is finish what I started ten years ago. To destroy the man who took my life from me. No one can get in my way. That is until I am arrested for murder and have my first taste of Detective Zara O’Reilly.The woman hell bent on ruining my plans...
  • Kane by Lynn Raye Harris

    Kane by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Notorious charmer Kane “Demon” Fox learned the hard way that love is a liability. Since losing his wife, he's built walls no one can breach—keeping his focus on the mission and his team. Feelings are a risk he can't afford to take ever again.Until a stranded beauty with haunted eyes makes him question everything.Daphne Bryant thought Sutton's Creek was far enough to outrun her past...
  • Sinful by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Sinful by M. Malone, Nana Malone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Leave it to me to finally learn how to drive stick …with a woman who’s nothing but trouble. Protecting people is what I do. But with Gemma everything is different . There was a time when she was my everything and I would have given my life to protect her. Now she’s back and this time I won’t fail her . I’m ready to put it all on the line to keep her safe...
  • Hot Sauce by Tabatha Kiss

    Hot Sauce by Tabatha Kiss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The stand-alone sequel to Muffin Top from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Tabatha Kiss! *Available for the pre-order price of 2.99. Price will raise to 3.99 after release day.* I met the father of my child today. It did not go well. I suck at relationships. I never had the time to get them right...
  • The Billionaire's Navy SEAL by Lori Ryan

    The Billionaire's Navy SEAL by Lori Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A man struggling to leave the battlefield behind, a woman powerful enough to help him all the way home.Logan Stone should be happy. More than happy, in fact. He’s Sutton Capital’s newest executive, no longer a Navy SEAL in the line of fire, fighting for his country and his brothers-in-arms. Now he spends his days working side-by-side with Samantha Page, the sexy, brilliant woman of his dreams...
  • Undeniable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Undeniable Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Homeland Agent Jason Ryker lives for his job, often blurring the lines between right and wrong for the greater good. But when the only woman to ever steal his focus--and his heart--becomes the target of a ruthless killer, there are no more lines. There's only her...
  • Damaged Soul by Emma Creed

    Damaged Soul by Emma Creed

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘Bound not by blood but loyalty. We live, we ride, and we die by our own laws’ Becoming a Soul saved me from myself.My compulsions are an asset to them, and a curse to me.Doing my duty for the club provides me with the release I need,But beneath the surface my demons still lurk.Rogue’s fierce, strong and unpredictable, and when she reaches out to the clubI’m the only one who can help her...
  • Pretty Dirty Trick by Tabatha Kiss

    Pretty Dirty Trick by Tabatha Kiss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A brand-new star-crossed romance from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Tabatha Kiss! I had one job. Stand up tall, look pretty, and don’t fall for the lawyer trying to put my father in prison. I had one. f*cking. job. I’ve always had a thing for the forbidden guy...
  • Bratva Boys  (Box Set) by T.L. Smith

    Bratva Boys (Box Set) by T.L. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All four Books in one! Distrust. Disbelief. Defiance. Dismissed. Their name has meaning, holds royalty. They aren’t to be trifled with. And if you get too close, prepare to be destroyed—they are the Russian mafia. Gashes and bruises mean nothing to them, blood is what they live by. It’s all they know...
  • Dark Truth by Summer Cooper

    Dark Truth by Summer Cooper

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    They say the truth hurts. But living a lie hurts more. Trent’s letter has left me with so many questions. What does he want from me? What do my family want? They’re not usually ones to forgive and forget. I’m finally in a good place. At peace with not having them in my life. I’ve got a good job, I'm standing on my own two feet...
  • Healing Hope by J.M. Madden

    Healing Hope by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    BB Jones has a very nice life, if it’s a little lonely. When her sister calls her to take a job in a pinch, she’s not enthused. She doesn’t need the money and the job itself seems a little dirty- greet a Navy SEAL home, pamper him for three days, then leave. The fact that the man has no one else to welcome him home sways her to take the job...
  • Revive by Addison Jane, K.E. Osborn

    Revive by Addison Jane, K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cocky, sarcastic, broken—I grew up in hell and was tossed to the curb by the woman who was meant to love me unconditionally. Humor is my go-to, the thing I use to protect the already shattered pieces inside me. I fought damn hard to get to where I am today. I have everything I’ve ever wanted. Except maybe her...
  • Possessive by Kristen Luciani

    Possessive by Kristen Luciani

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I struck a deal with the devil…and lost. For years, I followed orders and obeyed instructions.I put the family first. Always. Until temptation consumed me.I made mistakes and lost my focus, putting a target on my own back.I changed the game, Risked it all, And collected a prize. His prize.So when the devil came to collect, I had two options.Join him… Or kill him...
  • Ruthless King by Laylah Roberts

    Ruthless King by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cold. Commanding. Ruthless. There is only one thing Regent Malone cares about.His family.And he will do whatever is necessary to protect them.Amass power, wealth, and fear.Whatever it takes.Because they are the only thing standing between him and the darkness.Cross his family and feel his wrath.No one is immune . . .Not even a gorgeous brunette with more sass than self-preservation...
  • Shackled Hearts: by T.L. Smith

    Shackled Hearts: by T.L. Smith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Betrayed, deceived, broken.They are the only words used to describe who I have become.Make no mistake, I let this happen.But do you want to know the thing about letting someone into your life?It can be undone.Lucas Rossi may think he has won this round.But I have news for him.I’m going to win every other one he sends my way.My heart may be in shackles, but my head has perfect clarity...
  • A SEAL's Surrender by Makenna Jameison

    A SEAL's Surrender by Makenna Jameison

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s the one man she can never forgive…or forget.Lexi Mattingly, a hotshot Pentagon security specialist, can’t escape her past. Sent down to Little Creek to track down hackers attempting to infiltrate Top Secret naval databases, the last man she expects to run into is the ruggedly handsome Navy SEAL she left in Coronado a lifetime ago...
  • Relentless by Sybil Bartel

    Relentless by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Resourceful. Resolute. Bodyguard. A single diagnosis, and I wasn’t good enough. Not for college ball, not for my family, and not for the Marines. Medically discharged before I finished basic training, I was determined to prove myself. Landing a job as a bodyguard for the best security firm in the business was a second chance...
  • Brutal Captor 3 by Amber Adams

    Brutal Captor 3 by Amber Adams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Russian mafia don, Valentin Ivankov, has taken, Dr. April Cooker away from everything she's ever known and, much to her shock, he's now announced he'll be taking her as his wife!Although her first attempt fails, escape is still her only thought.But while she attempts to gain his trust she finds herself unable to resist the pulse-rasing effect he has on her...
  • In My Heart by E.L. Todd

    In My Heart by E.L. Todd

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sean is being scandalized by the media, and the reputation he worked so hard to preserve is on the line. Will he convince the public he’s not a crook? Trinity realizes Maximum Shot’s intentions toward her are neither professional or friendly. She ends their arrangement permanently...
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