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  • Rising Storm by Edie James

    Rising Storm by Edie James

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Homecomings can be deadly.When retired Delta Force operative Rollo MacKenzie returns home to become chief of police in tiny MacKenzie Cove, he has lots of expectations...none of them good.What he doesn't expect is to find his first love targeted by a murderer willing to do anything to bury a twenty-year-old secret...
  • Fireflies & Family Ties by Rachel Hanna

    Fireflies & Family Ties by Rachel Hanna

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When Meg shows up at her mother's door, she has no idea how to break the news to her. She's come home from France, pregnant. At just nineteen years old, this wasn't where she saw her life going.Now, trying to hide her growing belly and figure out her next decision, she moves in with her mother, sister and aunt on Seabreeze Island...
  • The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.”When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue...
  • Cole's Mistake by Laylah Roberts

    Cole's Mistake by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Everyone deserves a second chance, right? Cole Saxon wasn’t so sure of that. He’d burned so many bridges, he wasn’t sure anything he could do would be enough to make amends. Then fate brings him to Haven. To the brother he’d disowned and to the only two people to ever have a hold on his cold, black heart. Keira and Julian have been through hell...
  • Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryder has done his best to break my armor. It’s been a slow process but he’s reminded me what it’s like to feel again. I could never thank him enough for the toe curling and life altering experiences. He’s been my light in a hurricane-but even I know the sun can’t shine all the time. I have a big decision to make and it’s not as simple as just going left or right, forward or backward...
  • A Road Trip to Remember by Judith Keim

    A Road Trip to Remember by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After agreeing to enter the New Life Assisted-Living Community outside of Boston, Agatha “Aggie” Robard talks her devoted, serious granddaughter, Blythe, into driving her to Florida, stopping to see old college friends along the way. She particularly needs to speak to Donovan Bailey, the man she’d thought she would marry right after graduating from college...
  • Make Me, Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Make Me, Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Reagan is smart. She’s successful. She’s also in big trouble. The cops think she’s crazy. But she knows someone is breaking into her apartment and messing with her mind. Luckily for her, the Doms of Club Decadence look after their own. They hire Black-Gray Investigations to look into her stalker. They send in Tiny. Sexy, confident, all male. He confuses her, arouses her and irritates her...
  • Accidental Hero: Hometown Heroes A-Z by Jo Grafford

    Accidental Hero: Hometown Heroes A-Z by Jo Grafford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once burnt, twice shy, never again! He needs a job, she’s trying to save her family’s ranch, and neither of them is looking for an explosive attraction to complicate things...
  • Dark Ambitions by Irene Hannon

    Dark Ambitions by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently--leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isn't convinced...
  • The Letter by Kay Correll

    The Letter by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes life offers second chances … Madeline Stuart, a St. Louis-based accountant, has sworn off relationships. Reeling from a breakup with her long-term boyfriend and her mother’s recent death, she’s determined to avoid personal entanglements of any kind...
  • Scandalized by Livia Grant

    Scandalized by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four lives tangled by an invisible thread...Prepare to be scandalized!Nolan and Piper have a lot in common, and a complicated history that has already hit the rocks twice before. But their undeniable chemistry keeps pulling them back together, and even if she's Mistress Ice, Nolan is determined to have Piper any way he can get her -- secrets and all...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  billionaire  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad

    Delectable Lies by Shauna Mairéad

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Never feed your fears, Saoirse, because if you do, they will eat you alive.Those were the last words my mother uttered before the masked men arrived.She begged me to run, to save myself from the past she kept hidden.But here's the thing, the past doesn't stay buried forever, and somebody has to pay the price for the choices she made.All the King's horses and all the King's men..
  • Run by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Run by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Elle Roberts wants two things in life:One—to find out everything there is to know about the mysterious spy who keeps kissing her, andTwo—to stay off her mob family’s radar.That isn’t too much to ask, is it? It’s not like she wants to win the lottery, or live in a Star Wars movie, or be Chris Hemsworth’s personal bather...
  • New Beginnings on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock

    New Beginnings on Railway Lane by Alison Sherlock

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When high flying, workaholic Katy Smith is suddenly made redundant, she needs to find a job fast!After mistakenly answering an advert online, she quickly realises that the rundown railway station in sleepy Cranfield isn’t the 5-star London hotels she’s used to working in!But a job’s a job. Right?Chef Ryan Connelly is having a crisis of confidence after his Italian dream turns sour...
  • Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin

    Thunder and Rain by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Third generation Texas Ranger Tyler Steele is the last of a dying breed-- a modern day cowboy hero living in a world that doesn't quite understand his powerful sense of right and wrong and instinct to defend those who can't defend themselves. Despite his strong moral compass, Ty has trouble seeing his greatest weakness...
    Categorized as:
    crime  spirituality  suspense  abuse  adult  audiobook  book  christian
  • Justice Delivered by Patricia Bradley

    Justice Delivered by Patricia Bradley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Carly Smith came by her trust issues honestly. A victim of sex trafficking, she's been at the mercy of merciless men, ignored by law enforcement officers who should have helped her, and seemingly rejected by her family. She can't even trust herself to do the right thing...
  • Fearless by Maren Smith

    Fearless by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He was the last thing she thought she needed, but she was everything he wanted. Abused and alone, Kitty had no idea how far she’d have to flee after she finally got the courage to run. She never would have guessed she’d end up halfway around the world, or in the home — much less the arms — of dominant Australian whip-master, Noah Carver...
  • Promise of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Promise of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By the time this is all over, she’ll know what it’s like to kill, or what it’s like to die. Mia Morgan doesn’t let anything get to her. After freeing herself from an obsessive boss and saving loved ones from a serial killer, she feels like she can handle anything life throws at her. But now that killer – a deranged hunter who preys on women for sport – is coming for her...
  • Secret Sundays by Judith Keim

    Secret Sundays by Judith Keim

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The women in the Fat Fridays group continue to come together for their Friday lunches—no calories counted—and to help each other deal with life’s complications. With her unexpected pregnancy and the support of the women in the group, Carol Ann breaks free from her dismal life with her parents...
  • A Summer of Secrets by Kay Correll

    A Summer of Secrets by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A woman with a secret. A man who will never forgive her. Cece Stuart hadn’t planned on ever finding love and she’s made her peace with that. Really, she has… Zach is over women and their secrets. Really, he is… But fate laughed at them, as it often does, and threw them together finishing up a new wedding venue at Sweet River Lodge...
  • Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Three Complete Novels: Heaven/Dawn/Ruby by V.C. Andrews

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This volume features the first novels in three thrilling V.C. Andrews' series: "Heaven, Dawn, " and "Ruby"--an unprecedented hardcover collection--complete and unabridged--at an inviting price! Available...
  • Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Legacy Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She dazzled with Secrets of Whitewater Creek, now Sarah Barrie kicks off a brand-new trilogy about small towns, secrets, and the love that saves lives. Successful horse trainer Alissa Morgan-Jones has the world at her feet, until a tragic fire destroys everything. Widowed, in debt and under suspicion for arson, Alissa’s life is in tatters...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  female-mc  fiction  murder
  • Blinded by Fate by Harlow Stone

    Blinded by Fate by Harlow Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Nothing is as it seems. What you believe you know is all a lie"Book Fairy ReviewsI'm kneeling on the floor at the hands of a monster. My choices along with my dignity are about to be taken and there's little I can do for myself.How did I get here?Of course I know the answer, but if those bastards Fate and Karmatruly hold the cards then I wish I knew where the hell I went wrong...
  • The Magnolia Cafe by Kay Correll

    The Magnolia Cafe by Kay Correll

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes, the past isn’t quite what it seems…Reluctant restauranteur, Keely Granger, wants nothing more than to escape the small town she’s lived in her whole life, but her guilt and family responsibilities keep her firmly entrenched in Comfort Crossing, Mississippi...
  • Sinfully Yours, Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Sinfully Yours, Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He was her every fantasy brought to life—protective, dominant, sweet and sexy. And he wanted her. Life was looking pretty good… Until Tilly gets a phone call that flips her world upside down. Now there’s a gang breathing down her neck; she’s relying on a mob boss for help and she’s in a whole world of trouble...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Dreaming of St-Tropez by T.A. Williams

    Dreaming of St-Tropez by T.A. Williams

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The perfect summer escape on the French Riviera. Sun, sea and secrets… After a disagreement with a billionaire, architect Jess Milton is ‘let go’ from her job. However fortune intervenes – an elderly client asks Jess to dog-sit overweight, but loveable dog Brutus in St. Tropez...
  • Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I don’t belong with her. Born into darkness, life made me a cynic incapable of love. But then Ellie waltzed in. Innocent, optimistic, kind. She’s the opposite of what I deserve. I bought her, but she she stole my heart. Now my business is going up in flames. I have only one chance to make it right. That’s where it happens…something I can never take back...
  • Claron by Katharine E. Hamilton

    Claron by Katharine E. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tossing her belongings into a suitcase and escaping heartbreak seemed like the best idea for Rhea Conners. She’d simply travel across the ocean to visit her grandfather in Ireland and heal. Then she’d come back. Simple. But what she doesn’t expect is to find solace and healing in the form of the O’Rifcan family. One member in Claron...
  • Nowhere to Turn by Lynette Eason

    Nowhere to Turn by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The day Danielle Harding takes her 11-year-old son, Simon, and flees from her abusive husband, is the same day Kurt Harding dies. A relieved Dani believes she and her son are finally safe--but in reality, the danger has just begun. When Kurt was alive, he took something important to a mysterious person. That person wants the item back and believes Dani now has it...
  • Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There was a time when my debt was the only link we had. There was a time when I couldn’t tell him how much I loved him and he couldn’t tell me. There was a time when I thought I could never have enough money. Now, everything is different. Nicholas Crawford is a stranger who is becoming more strange with every moment. I used to think I could make a life with him, but now I’m not so sure...
  • You're Not Safe by Mary Burton

    You're Not Safe by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    HE WILL NEVER FORGET The broken body hanging from a tree in Texas Hill Country . . . the frozen figure huddled in a meat locker…only at second glance does the truth become apparent. What seems like suicide is far more sinister, and the terror is only beginning . . .   NEVER FORGIVE One devastating moment changed Greer Templeton’s life and ended two others...
  • Gone by Elisabeth Naughton

    Gone by Elisabeth Naughton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Three years ago, Alec and Raegan McClane lived every parent’s worst nightmare: their one-year-old daughter, Emma, was abducted from a park when Alec turned his back for just a moment. Emma was never found, and presumed dead. The crushing trauma, plus Alec’s unbearable guilt, ended the couple’s marriage. Now a four-year-old girl matching Emma’s profile is found wandering a local park...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  dark  fiction
  • Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Unforgiven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Run: Gemma Falls never expected to use her game theory expertise to outrun a killer. But for years, that skill is all that kept her one step ahead of a deadly stalker. When Gemma gets the chance to teach at D.C. University, she hopes she and her young daughter have found a safe harbor...
  • Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It started with Piggy. It escalated with Kitty. It ends with Puppy.  For almost a year, Ethen O’Dowell has been locked behind bars and yet Puppy is far from free. A legal ward of her parents, she shares her bedroom with Pony, the only part of her old, submissive life that she has left... apart from the guilt, the fear, and the weekly punishments Ethen dishes out every time they visit him...
  • Coyote's Revenge by Vannetta Chapman

    Coyote's Revenge by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes We Must Face Our Past, While Our Future Hangs in the BalanceAiden Lewis is the perfect undercover agent—a millionaire playboy who has committed his life to protecting his country. For Aiden, work comes first and allows him to make amends for his past. Then Madison Hart is caught in the terrorist web of an insurgent named Coyote...
  • Judas: Indignant Few MC Book 1 by Deja Voss

    Judas: Indignant Few MC Book 1 by Deja Voss

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No bikers ever, that’s my one rule to live by. Burning bridges to the ground is my super power.  I fled the Indignant Few MC after my dad was murdered to start a life of my own in the adult industry. I’d rather sell my body on the internet then sell my soul to the kind of men I was raised around. I don’t want to end up a club slut, or worse, an old lady like my mother...
  • Beast in my Bedroom by B.B. Hamel

    Beast in my Bedroom by B.B. Hamel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s everything I don ’t want . . . but my new bossy Greek mafia husband is going to make a real wife out of me.My rock bottom is a dirty martini in a high-class bar, ten canceled credit cards, and nothing but the clothes on my back.I managed to escape my abusive husband, but a snooty hipster bartender is about to get me arrested for being unable to pay for a drink...
  • Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her happily ever after is so close…and somehow still out of her grasp…Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is no stranger to stressful situations. She can handle the fact that the CIA won’t let her divorce her previously presumed dead husband. She can even figure out a way to legally marry ex-NAVY SEAL Striker Rheas, the love of her life...
  • Missing in Action by C.S. Smith

    Missing in Action by C.S. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A need for justice she can’t ignore.A need to protect he can’t deny.An enemy out to destroy them both.Foreign service officer Emily Dane, the daughter of a retired Navy SEAL, is determined to live life on her own terms, not under her father’s protection. When she helps two young girls escape a sex trafficking ring in Paris, she ends up in the crosshairs of a Parisian crime lord...
  • Knit Along with Debbie Macomber: Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber, Leisure Arts Inc.

    Knit Along with Debbie Macomber: Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber, Leisure Arts Inc.

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Debbie Macomber 20 Wishes is a story about Anne Marie Roche who wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight her life's not what she'd expected-she's childless a recent widow alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street but despite her accomplishments there's a feeling of emptiness...
  • Ethans Fall by Dee Palmer

    Ethans Fall by Dee Palmer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An alternate title/cover for this ASIN can be found here.They say once bitten… Ethan Cates is anything but shy. A little time away from his playboy playground has hardened his heart and returning from his travels he has every intention of keeping it that way.This is summer his plan is for the three S’s Sun, Sea and Surf…It’s just not his entire plan. Three more S’s… Sex, Sex and more Sex...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  bdsm  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery
  • His Redemption by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell

    His Redemption by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Survival is key.I returned to civilian life, thinking that I would be fine.But the truth is…I’m not.Not when I see Sadie, my best friend’s widow, struggling.Not when my last promise to Adam was to take care of her—no matter the cost.When she unknowingly moves into my garage apartment—she enters my world.I didn’t understand how hard it would be to be near her...
  • To Save Sir by Laylah Roberts

    To Save Sir by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What would you do to save the person you loved? Would you die for them? Would you kill for them? She just wanted to make the world a better place... All Jenna wanted was to help people. That’s why she went to medical school. Why she joined Doctors Without Borders. She knew she could make a difference ...until the day her world is ripped apart...
  • Tilly's Tuscan Teashop: A gorgeously uplifting summer read by Daisy James

    Tilly's Tuscan Teashop: A gorgeously uplifting summer read by Daisy James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to Tilly's Tuscan Teashop, the first book in a brand new series from the author of the Hummingbird Hotel and the Cornish Confetti Agency series.When photographer Natalie Nicholson’s beach hut studio – and everything she’s spent the last two years working on – is destroyed in a fire, she doesn’t think things can get any worse...
  • The Wren by Penelope Black

    The Wren by Penelope Black

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the firstborn King, I should be the heir of the Irish Syndicate.Instead, my father wants to marry me off to the highest bidder to fund a war I don’t believe in.My carefully controlled life starts to unravel, spiraling out of control faster than I can stop it.And then I meet them and everything stops for a moment...
  • Primal Pursuit: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Bella J.

    Primal Pursuit: A Dark Enemies to Lovers Romance by Bella J.

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Davian Stark is beautiful, twisted, cruel.And he’s going to die.By my hand.He’s one of the Elites of the Dark Sovereign.A bloodthirsty Mafia Assassin.And a hunter fueled by his need for the chase.If I want to get close to him, I have to give him something to hunt.Me.He made a mistake by letting me survive my family’s massacre. I've trained, fed my hate, and now, I'm ready to strike...
  • Ending Evil by Vickie McKeehan

    Ending Evil by Vickie McKeehan

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Evil TrilogyThree friends believe they have escaped the evil clutches that have haunted them since childhood until a stranger brings revenge full circle. Ending EvilThe castoff daughter of rock star, Nick Tyler and artist, Ella Canyon, Quinn is determined to overcome her grim childhood and achieve her lifelong dream of becoming a doctor...
  • The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    The Betrayed by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One day on the job and contractor Zach Sargent is ready to believe the dilapidated old LeBeau mansion is haunted. Some intruder – earthly or not – is threatening the youngest LeBeau sister, back to claim her inheritance. And though Danae keeps her distance from the sexy hired hand, he falls for her in a heartbeat...
    Categorized as:
    crime  gothic  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  death  family
  • Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Stolen: A Cassidy & Spenser Thriller by Carey Baldwin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is she missing…or a murderer? When Laura Chaucer, daughter of a U.S. senator, vanishes from her college campus, celebrated FBI profilers Special Agent Atticus Spenser and forensic psychiatrist Dr. Caitlin Cassidy are called in. Thirteen years ago, Laura and her nanny disappeared from her family’s Denver home. Laura was found alive, but her nanny wasn’t so lucky… and the killer was never caught...
    Categorized as:
    crime  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  horror  murder
  • Shadows Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Shadows Of Hunters Ridge by Sarah Barrie

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Something’s not right in Hunters Ridge… Ebony Blakely has her life nearly exactly where she wants it. She’s a country vet with a successful business in Hunters Ridge, a town that she loves, and has a close group of friends. The only thing missing is romance...
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