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The Keeper of Bees by Gregory Ashe
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmery Hazard has pretty much everything under control. He and his fiancé, John-Henry Somerset, are more in love than ever, despite the stress of wedding preparations hanging over them. His business as a private investigator is growing. He’s even enjoying time with his growing circle of friends... -
Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLexie Green hasn’t thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she’s more than a little shocked... -
My Every Breath by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCade 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... -
Copper by K. Webster
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom USA Today Bestselling Author K Webster, comes a new MC dark standalone novel!I’m a Fed.Rigid. Rule follower. One of the good guys. I uphold the law…when it suits me.My loyalty lies first with my brother, Koyn, and secondly with his motorcycle club.Jeremy Koynakov was the man I used to be. I’m Copper now. For a decade, I aided my brother in his quest for revenge. We thirsted for vengeance... -
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Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCan she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again... -
Wrath's Storm: A Masters' Admiralty Novel by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDamn it! He’s a doctor, not a serial killer hunter. When a man they call the Viking walked into his clinic in rural Libya, the last thing Dr. Walt Hayden foresaw in his future was a wedding, a stalker, and a serial killer...in that order.Attending his brother’s wedding becomes the start of a journey across Europe in the company of Dr. Annalise Fischer and her bodyguard... -
Vicious Scars by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNo good deed goes unpunished.Tallulah Russel knows she's made a mistake. Unfortunately it's too late to do anything about it. Snatched from her home and held prisoner in a cabin by a man whose behavior grows more confusing by the minute, she has two choices... -
Heartless Lover by Faith Summers, Khardine Gray
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger…For a man like me, that thing is darkness.The darkness from my past never ended my life.It darkened my heart and flowed through my veins, fueling my hunger for revenge.That's why I accepted the job to protect her.Her: Summer Reeves.The beautiful angel who became an asset to me when she saw something she shouldn’t have seen.The job should have been simple...Categorized as:
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Silent Target by A.K. Evans
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShielded. That’s what Sydney Ryan has done with the secrets of her past. Never wanting anyone to know the truth, Sydney has kept everything bottled inside.All she can do now is conceal her secret and carry her guilt. Unfortunately, someone else knows exactly what she did.And they’re out for revenge... -
Hide & Seek by Nicole Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWith the holidays nearing, Brantley Walker and Reese Tavoularis are getting settled, both personally and professionally. For Reese, dealing with Brantley’s about-face regarding the size of the task force is easy. It’s meeting the parents that he’s worried about... -
Tango Down by Cara Dee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Renegades #4 Romantic Suspense Enemies to Lovers Action MM“This is it, baby. Run.”The murder in Joel Hayward’s eyes wasn’t merely a reflection of the rage within. It was a promise to the men who had kidnapped his daughter. The one person—this amazing slip of a girl—who showed Joel every single day that there was good left in the world.He was running on fumes. He was desperate... -
Mad Man by Onley James
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAvi Mulvaney is many things. Son. Twin. Owner of the fashion label, Gemini. Murderous psychopath. Together, he and his brother, Asa, make one brutally efficient monster, ridding the world of predators who victimize the innocent. History proves Avi and Asa don’t do well apart, but their father has decided to test that theory.Felix Navarro knows exactly who he is. Baby brother. Fashionista... -
Half the Battle by Elle Thorpe
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsAt the edge of a cliff, in the pouring rain, the man I once loved attacks me. His fingers tear at my flesh, his breath hot in my ear as he spews venomous words of hate and promises of death.My only hope is Scythe. The psychopath locked away inside the mind of another. Letting him out will only cause chaos and violence. And yet, I utter his name and free him to save myself... -
Kansas by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsInstincts 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... -
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Avenging Angel by Naomi Porter
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThe 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... -
Forget-Me-Not Bombshell by Caroline Peckham, Valenti
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA dark Mafia STANDALONE romance from Amazon.com and Wall Street Journal #1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne ValentiI was sold to my enemies.The Butchers of the London mob who run an empire built on sin and greed. The stories I’ve heard about the way they rule their underworld are enough to make my heart race. But those rumours have nothing on the truth.Danny, Church, Frank...Categorized as:
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Chill Factor: A Holiday Anthology by Freya Barker, Maddie Wade
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpending the holidays in the snowy mountains of Colorado could be a dream come true…unless you’re in the path of a monster blizzard. As the guests of Aspen’s prestigious ski resort, the St. James Inn, brace for the storm of the century, their holiday vacation changes from jovial celebration to desperate survival...Categorized as:
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Christmas Panther Style by Annabella Stone
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTheir world was turned upside down... With booms, kabooms, and bullets flying after a mad dash across continents on a rescue mission in a plane painted like Santa's sleigh. Join some friends old and new as they chase the enemy none of them ever wanted. One of their own... -
Bulletproof by Reese Knightley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt all started with a glimpse.- A chance encounter left an impression and Wolfgang Brandt was hooked. When Caleb turns eighteen in two months, Wolf is going to be at that birthday party come hell or high water. He doesn’t care if he has to fly across the world to be there. But then things go south and Wolf is left reeling when Caleb goes missing... -
Torian by Eden Summers
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom International bestselling author, Eden Summers, comes a seductive forbidden romance destined to leave you breathless. I fell for the enemy.A man whose actions resemble the devil so closely it frightens me.We were meant to hate each other.To despise and detest.But his appeal is so much greater than the playboy smile and body built for sin.What I'm doing is wrong.What I'm feeling is immoral... -
The Executioner by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBellamyIt 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...Categorized as:
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False Front by Debbie Baldwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmma Porter is not real. She is an accomplished young woman, living a fulfilling life in New York City, working for an online news agency, and striving toward normalcy. The truth, however, is something else. She was once Emily Webster, a child of privilege, and the twenty-first century Lindbergh Baby... -
On the Double by Cara Dee
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 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... -
Mr. Perfect by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWord-slinger. Purveyor of truth. Jaded heart.By day, Felix Franklin is an investigative journalist. By night, he produces Sinister in Savannah, an investigative podcast, with his two best friends. Felix’s life revolves around three principles: fortune favors the bold, honesty is everything, and love is for schmucks...Categorized as:
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The Cleaner by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs the name of her podcast suggests, Poppy is on the case. Of a serial killer operating just under the radar in Navesink Bank. And nothing will get in her way. Except, maybe, a good-looking guy with tortured eyes, anxiety, and a cleaning compulsion...Categorized as:
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Reign by Cassandra Robbins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO LEGENDS COLLIDE?From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Robbins comes her latest sinfully hot rockstar romance. A scorching, enemies to lovers, deliciously addictive stand-alone about rock ‘n’ roll royalty and burning obsessions.They call him a legend.One of the greatest guitarists of our time.The mighty Ace of Spades brought in to produce my album and save the day... -
Breaking Silence by Elle James
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRucker Sloan thinks all he’s good for is a fighting, killing machine. Long-term relationships are out of the question. Until he meets a nurse who’d risk her life for someone she doesn’t know…After her mother died of a broken heart, nurse Nora Michaels joined the Army to do something to help others and to escape her sad memories... -
Ash: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sophie Lark
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsMy Hostage. Her Secret. Our Enemy.Taking the commissioner’s daughter wasn’t part of the plan. It should have been an easy smash and grab. Instead I captured Lara, so scared and helpless…I never want to let her go.I’m obsessed with her. A Bratva shouldn’t be this close to the law. But I can’t keep my hands off her.My desire for this girl is an inferno, threatening to consume everything I hold dear... -
Chained Hands by T.L. Smith
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSailorMy husband sold me.Not only did he sell me, but he told me he loved me while doing the deal.What lies he tells.Only fools believe him.Unfortunately, one of those fools was….. me.KeirNot in the habit of buying women.I didn’t need to.I was a king of my realm, the devil you whispered about in your sleep.So when his debt fell due, he sold me his wife...Categorized as:
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Body and Soul by Patricia Logan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMore than ten years ago, a series of train bombings devastated railways throughout Europe. Strange poetry sent to local newspapers right before each bombing, confounded investigators at the time. In one of only a handful of failed covert missions, Jarrett had been sent into North Korea to take out the bomber... -
School of Fish by Amy Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJackson Rivers has been learning how to take care of himself so he can be there for Ellery Cramer, but after eight weeks of healing, body and soul, he’s itching to get back to work. Finally Ellery gives him a simple task: pick up a file on a kid who probably didn’t commit murder but who refuses to participate in his own defense.Nothing is ever that easy... -
The Vengeance of Roan Sinclair by Ashlyn Drewek
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a lifetime of death and suffering, Aleksandr Vassiliev finally has everything he could ever want — the most important being someone to share his future with. Somehow a spoiled American named Roan gave Sasha a reason to see life could be more. Except, that’s where the fairytale ends... -
Fish in a Barrel by Amy Lane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJackson and Ellery face their toughest case yet—against the criminal justice system itself.Jackson Rivers and Ellery Cramer have worked difficult jobs before, but usually it’s getting the facts that’s the problem. For their newest client, the trouble isn’t finding the truth—it’s corruption at the highest levels of the justice system... -
Risk Everything by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe wedding is two weeks awayIf they survive until then…Following a fire at the New Journeys women’s shelter, Deputy Tanner Dempsey is on high alert, and his fiancée, Bree Daniels, fears that one of the shelter’s clients is being targeted. Outmanned and outgunned, Tanner and Bree must make a last stand for justice and unravel the twisted plot of a dangerous sociopath... -
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His Fatal Love by Leighton Greene
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEasily bored, completely manipulative, and utterly deadly…and that’s just in bed.As an assassin for the Castellani Family, I live for the thrill of the job. I'm devoted to my Family and my Don, because they keep me safe.To Leo Bernardi, I'm a monster. A killing machine. And a puppet that his Family can use for their own ends. To me, Leo is just a pawn in a game that I'm playing. A means to an end... -
Liam by L.K. Shaw
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDublin is mine for the taking.So is Imogen.She's become an obsession. A distraction. All I want is a taste to satisfy my craving.But the minx escapes before I'm done with her. When I find out where she's hiding, she'll think twice about running from the next Dublin King... -
The One for Forever by Hannah Shield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe's the older man I've always wanted. An ex-Special Forces hero. My best friend’s dad.And now, he's the bodyguard assigned to protect me while I prosecute a killer.I’ve wanted Rex Easton since I was eighteen, yet he’s never looked at me twice. I’m determined to finally get over this crush. But after he swears to protect me from the faceless thugs who are after me, I can’t avoid him... -
Possessive by Kristen Luciani
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI 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... -
Vengeful by Kristen Luciani
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne single gun shot threw my life into upheaval. An assassination that will bring my family to its knees.It’s up to me to avenge the murder.An eye for an eye…that’s my MO.I have one job to do, and it may be my last.Find my father’s killer and make him payBefore he finds me.But there’s one problem - one incredibly sexy obstacle I never saw coming.Tali Severinov.I’ve met my match with this woman... -
Stranded by Cara Dee
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsStranded is the second book in The Auctioned Series. Before you read further, you should read Auctioned. “You have my word, Gray. I will get you off this island, and I will bring you home.” It was supposed to be an easy in-and-out job. Nothing Darius Quinn hadn’t done before. But this job had something none of the others did: Gray Nolan... -
Armor: A Firsts and Forever Series Novella by Alexa Land
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDante Dombruso has always been his family’s armor. It’s his job to keep them safe. But he feels he failed them eighteen months ago, when a mysterious arsonist set a fire intended to wipe the Dombrusos off the map. Now Dante is driven to make things right, yet with each day that passes, the trail grows colder and his frustration increases... -
Complicate by Pam Godwin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe heart-pounding conclusion of the DELIVER series.Cole Hartman is a mystery.He works alone, sleeps alone, and satisfies his aches…alone. He hasn’t touched a woman in seven years.No one will ever compare to the one who broke his heart.Until he stares into the seductive eyes of his enemy.He finally meets his match in the redheaded Russian spy.But she’s a dangerous risk... -
Real Risk by Elle Keaton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's possible they're a match but first the two men will have to survive trial by fire. Chief Flynn is fighting smoke and flames, tirelessly protecting the lives and property of his fellow islanders from yet another spate of fires.Arson or accident?When injury puts him on the sidelines, West Coast Forensics Arson Investigator Kimball Frye offers his assistance... -
Carnage by Ker Dukey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEzekiel “Carnage Creator” Ford. Brother of the Royal Bastards MC. Brutality incarnate. A lone wolf. The one they call in from the dark when they need shit done—and there’s no one better for the job than me.I have a tainted soul, oil black, and hungry for bloodshed.The world is a cesspit... -
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The Reaper by Silvia Violet
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA marine. An assassin. A fine line between love and hate.I’ve seen too much death as a marine and the son of a mafia boss’s stooge. I finally have a chance to do what I’ve always wanted: raise horses.The catch: My brother’s ranch is also a safehouse for men the police would never protect.TJ, our first client, is a hot AF mafia assassin who doesn’t take no for an answer...Categorized as:
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Rebel by Reese Knightley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne man on a journey of redemption and the other out to prove himself.Cohen “Ace” Gray – Pegasus Commander.He’d buried one lover; he wasn’t going to take the chance of that ever happening again. Ace had his own demons to work on, but working closely with Jacob and having his friendship— despite their twenty-year age difference—had made life a bit easier... -
Enticed by the Enemy by Leighton Greene
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s an FBI profiler who’s half my age. Contact between us is forbidden. But I can’t stay away from him.As the Morelli Underboss, I'm the Family problem-solver. So when a task force blames the Morellis for a series of murders in Central Park, it's up to me to restore our reputation... -
Seduced by a Sinner by Leighton Greene
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s innocent. He’s chaste. He’s promised to God. And he’s more temptation than I can handle.I’m supposed to guard the Boss's husband, but I just can’t keep my eyes off his best friend, Aidan O’Leary.Watching him.Wanting him.Knowing I can never have him.Aidan is pure in body and soul. He’s about to be ordained as a priest. Me? I’m going to burn for the things I’ve done... -
Beauty and the Assassin by Nadia Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAngelikaA sociopath has stalked me mercilessly for eight years. It’s only a matter of time before he kills me. But then I meet Tolyan.He bursts into my life like a god of vengeance, seething with raw power and danger, trained to protect—or kill. He has a scowl for the world, but for some reason, he’s gentle with me and the idea of deadly power leashed only for me makes my heart flutter... -
Wicked Games by Aimee Nicole Walker
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRyder Jameson and Lucien Clarke have a complicated past: Ryder conserves art; Lucien steals it. Their love-hate relationship spans six years and two continents and has endured multiple heists. Hoping to restore his tarnished reputation, Ryder returns home to Cincinnati to accept a position at an acclaimed museum...
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