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  • Nixon's Promise by Riley Edwards

    Nixon's Promise by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL Nixon Swagger is home. After twelve years of service and twice as many deployments, all Nix wanted was quiet. He’d sought the solace of the land he’d grown up on and found the peace he needed to silence the noise and figure out his next move. Nixon’s stay was supposed to be temporary...
  • Shamrock: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch

    Shamrock: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Every mission has a price.He never meant for her to pay it. Aiden has never left anyone behind. Not a comrade and certainly not an innocent. But when an undercover mission goes wrong, he's forced to abandon a woman trapped in a human trafficking ring. Violet learned brutally that no one is promised a happy ending...
  • Blood Vows by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Blood Vows by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s sworn to find his son. Dallas Mason did whatever was necessary to survive his stint in black ops. While in the Collective, there was no line he wouldn’t cross, and no mission he wouldn’t take. He bedded the enemy to secure his freedom and return to his brothers and build a new life, where the lines between right and wrong are sometimes blurred, but never erased...
  • Final Vow by Kathleen Brooks

    Final Vow by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    As the ultimate bodyguard, Ahmed’s focus has been protecting the lives of everyone he cares about. When the darkest part of his past resurfaces, Ahmed knows he must go on the offensive to protect his future . . . a future with the one woman that can match his toughness and return the love that was once robbed from him...
  • Broken Vow: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sophie Lark

    Broken Vow: A Dark Mafia Romance by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I’ll Protect Her… Whether She Likes It Or Not. Riona Griffin is gorgeous, intelligent, and iron-willed. My perfect woman, except she hates my guts.She thinks she doesn’t need anybody. But she needs me.She’s being hunted by an assassin who never misses his mark.I’m going to stay by her side, day and night, keeping her safe...
  • Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Cyclone by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He’d protect her from any threat… But what if the biggest threat is him?   Doctor Anne Nichols is back in Oak Creek, Wyoming, only because she has no other options. Here, she was always the shy, stuttering girl, invisible to everyone.   Except Zac Mackay. The very reason she left in the first place...
  • Bray by Maryann Jordan

    Bray by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    His mission? A leisurely, first-class train ride through the Canadian Rockies escorting a doctor who was afraid of flying.Easy. Relaxing. And if the doctor is a beautiful, funny, kind-hearted woman that makes him wish for a future he thought had been buried with his last Special Forces mission, what can go wrong?Plenty.Illegal weapons smuggler. Nefarious businessmen...
  • Battle Scars by Cara Carnes

    Battle Scars by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Scars don’t always heal… Jesse Mason chose duty over love and endured the hell of captivity comforted only with thoughts of the woman he left behind. Though the physical damage has healed, the emotional battle continues now that he’s home. He fakes happy and whole until Ellie is thrust back into his life. She’s everything he ever wanted but can never have...
  • Sight Lines by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Sight Lines by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They took her best friend. Now she’s taking them down. Viviana “Quillery” Chambers has one mission: find the people behind Hive’s betrayal and take them down. She and her best friend are the most sought after back office operatives around. She’ll stop at nothing to keep her new team and family at The Arsenal safe...
  • Redwood by Janie Crouch

    Redwood by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Gavin Zimmerman. Military codename: REDWOOD. This former Special Forces soldier will protect Oak Creek from any threat. Even one that comes in the form of a delicate blonde with haunted eyes.A tiny town in Wyoming and the fake ID in her pocket are Lexi Johnson's last chance. She's used her all her resources to escape the danger that hounds her...
  • Shielding Kinley by Susan Stoker

    Shielding Kinley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Kinley Taylor witnesses what was possibly the last few minutes of a young girl’s life while in Paris, she realizes exactly how alone she is in the world. The only person she has to turn to for help is the one man who she feels is completely out of her league. Gage “Lefty” Haskins liked the personal assistant the first time he met her...
  • Veils: A Killers Novel Book 4 (The Killers) by Brynne Asher

    Veils: A Killers Novel Book 4 (The Killers) by Brynne Asher

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “Give me a memory, Noah.” That’s what she said … the woman who rendered me stupid in the shadows at a wedding reception. I did everything I could to figure her out. She wore more veils of armor than I’ve seen in a lifetime. On the outside, she was strong and self-assured. But within those beautiful, guarded blues? She was laced with vulnerability and grief. We had one night...
  • Jonny's Redemption by Riley Edwards

    Jonny's Redemption by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can two lost souls find redemption or are some transgressions beyond forgiveness? Lieutenant Jonny Spencer’s life is spiraling out of control. With no end in sight, he withdrawals. Giving in to the darkness is his only reprieve. Roberta “Bobby” Layne knows what it means to live in the shadows. Her childhood was spent fading into obscurity—loneiless her only friend...
  • Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas

    Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tasha Volkov has been on the run for three years from a brutal cartel who want her dead. her family.She already paid a heavy price for crossing them, and has the scars to prove it. Her only choice is to keep running, even if the tiny town of Pine Valley feels more like home to her than anywhere else she's ever been...
  • Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He had no complaints… Great job, great boss, great co-workers. And a best friend he’d known for years.Okay, almost no complaints… The women he dated paled in comparison to his best friend.She had a lot of complaints… A job she hated, a tyrant for a boss, working with people that got on her last nerve. And no time for love. Plus, the guys she dated couldn’t come close to her best friend...
  • Possession by Helen Hardt

    Possession by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Your Escape Into A World of Dark Mysteries & Spicy Romance.Jade Roberts’s love for Talon Steel is the real deal, and she’s more determined than ever to help him come to grips with whatever is haunting him. To that end, she continues her investigation of the Steels…and unknowingly attracts some dangerous foes from their shrouded history...
  • Lethal Balance by Cherise Sinclair

    Lethal Balance by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    His name means hunter.  Once the best assassin in black ops, Cazador is now the best at saving lives.  His path has changed from seeking bloody vengeance to running a health clinic in Rescue, Alaska. He will never again risk loving someone he can’t protect. His mother and sister were murdered in front of him, his fiancée slaughtered in a war zone...
  • Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Blaze by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The rings have been selected. The champagne placed on ice. The cake decorated. And the pre-wedding sex is off the charts... Lucas Vallois and Andrei Hadeon are finally ready to walk down the aisle. There’s just one small problem. A ghost from Lucas’s past shows up days before the wedding, desperate for help...
  • Griffin by Maryann Jordan

    Griffin by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sometimes it sucked being the oldest.Griffin had been the oldest of five kids, and even as an adult, those traits still stuck. Responsible. Reliable. Always taking care of others.Moving into an apartment in old Victorian home, he longed to expand his custom home refinishing business, but found himself still taking care of others. The older woman who owned the building...
  • Sebastian: A Mystery Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Sebastian: A Mystery Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sebastian is a mystery romance and the fifth book in the series, For The Love Of A Good Woman. Sebastian is a standalone, but the characters from the series appear throughout all the books. A large, metal crash sounded behind me and my gaze swiveled to the fence where Maggie had just crashed through the gate. The SUV swerved wildly in front of me, acting as a barrier for the incoming bullets...
  • Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Zero Trace by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Don’t get noticed. Zoey “Zero D” Danson thought it was an easy rule to follow. For years she toiled in cubicle 12A of the NSA’s data farm compiling security briefings and Intelligence reports. But she put her neck on the line and burned a dirty government operation to keep a covert ops team alive. Now she’s “one of them.” She’s not a nameless, faceless civilian anymore...
  • Execution Style by Lani Lynn Vale

    Execution Style by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Miller Spurlock might seem like a laid back man on the outside, but piss him off, or violate his trust, and he’ll show you the meaning of pain. He was a Navy SEAL. He could kill a man a hundred different ways and not break a sweat. He’s also a police officer and member of the SWAT team, which means he has the knowledge and skills to get away with it...
  • Obsession by Helen Hardt

    Obsession by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Your Escape Into A World of Dark Mysteries & Spicy Romance.Jade Roberts is in love with Talon Steel but no longer welcome in his home. While she resolves to move on, she still longs for the passion she and Talon shared…and when her boss asks her to dig up information on the Steels, she’s only too happy to comply...
  • Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s been hurt too many times… Single mom Tiana Fitzgerald has sworn off all romantic relationships to protect herself and her daughter. Her track record is disastrous and she’s done getting hurt. But a certain sexy Scotsman in Crimson Point has other ideas, and somehow manages to sneak past her defenses at every turn...
  • Heaven and Hell by Kristen Ashley

    Heaven and Hell by Kristen Ashley

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    After making a bad decision when she was very young, Kia Clementine finds herself in hell. Then, suddenly, within the time it takes for a shotgun to blast, her hell changes. Completely. Then out-of-the-blue she sees Sampson Cooper, her celebrity crush. A man the whole world knows is decent. A man the world knows is loyal. A man the world knows is good...
  • Siren Unleashed by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Siren Unleashed by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Twin detectives Ben and Chase Dawson have been sent to investigate an unusual murder at a resort owned by Julian Lodge. Julian wants them to protect the prime suspect, a young submissive who was the last person to see the victim alive. The job seems simple until Ben and Chase discover that the beautiful submissive they both desire has a dark past...
  • Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don’t ever, ever, ever go near that boy. Not unless you want to be a single mother at seventeen. That boy is Bad with a capital B.The words that my father spoke to me when it came to Trouper Aoki didn’t scare me like they probably should.In fact, they only made me intrigued all the more.When it came to Troup, there was just no resisting fate when it came to the two of us...
  • Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes, the biggest secrets can bring both salvation and destruction.Emerson Charles grew up luckier than most, going from a difficult life to finding safety and a true home with her stepmother and stepbrother. Years later, when Levi's in trouble, Emerson will do anything for the brother of her heart, her greatest protector...
  • Montana Mystery by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Montana Mystery by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Some nightmares you don’t wake up from.Noah Scott spent two months in an enemy prison camp but made it out alive—unlike most of his SEAL team. He’s one of the lucky ones but doesn’t always feel that way with his scarred body and daily fight against PTSD.Working with the animals at the Resting Warrior Ranch helps...
  • High Impact by Freya Barker

    High Impact by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Manager for Hart’s Horse Rescue, Lucy Lenoir, finally feels she has a handle on life after having worked hard to leave her old one behind. So hard, there are times she almost forgets what she escaped. Memories which suddenly come flooding back when she catches a glimpse of a familiar horseman in town. What’s worse, he’s in the company of the unlikely cowboy she’s only just beginning to trust...
  • Tate by Maryann Jordan

    Tate by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Country music, his parents, cold beer, and apple pie…just a few of the things Frank Tate loves. The former SEAL, now a Lighthouse Security specialist also loves his job and lives for the next mission. But when a call from home sends him back to the mid-west, the past and present collide as danger follows the girl he left behind years before...
  • Keeping Guard by Sandra Owens

    Keeping Guard by Sandra Owens

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding the future they deserve will mean leaving the past behind…Navy SEAL Noah Alba is on extended leave after a terrible mistake resulted in the loss of his K-9 partner. He arrives in Asheville, North Carolina, hoping to get his head on straight before he returns overseas. When an old friend recruits him to train service dogs for veterans, he doesn’t feel ready...
  • Warrior by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Warrior by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mistake #1: Sleeping with a friendHooking up with Quincy was a no-brainer.The sexy hot-shot Navy pilot wasn’t on my SEAL team.I thought she’d be safe for a one-night stand.Mistake #2: Letting her walk out the doorI realized too late she wasn’t a one-and-done for me.But now she thinks I’m a player. Okay, she knows I’m a player.Which is why she won’t go there with me again...
  • Full Battle Rattle by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Full Battle Rattle by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Full Battle Rattle is book 7 in the OPS series and should be read in order. I REQUIRE INTENSE SUPERVISION. That’s what they say about me. In fact, it became my nickname—IRIS. Yes, I like to blow stuff up. Yes, it’s more exciting than dismantling a bomb. Is it my fault I have a thirst for exhilarating work? So, I went on this job that was less than thrilling...
  • Ranger by Rebecca Sharp

    Ranger by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sydney Ward woke up on the wrong side of life—that’s what it feels like when cancel culture claims another victim...
  • In the Absence of Light by Adrienne Wilder

    In the Absence of Light by Adrienne Wilder

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    For years Grant Kessler has smuggled goods from one end of the world to the next. When business turns in a direction Grant isn’t willing to follow he decides to retire and by all appearances he settles down in a nowhere town called Durstrand. But his real plan is to wait a few years and let the FBI lose interest, then move on to the distant coastal life he’s always dreamed of...
  • Highway Don't Care by Lani Lynn Vale

    Highway Don't Care by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Her Snark. Jokes. Attitude. These were all things I used to disguise the hole in my heart. I'm not a happy person. I don't live life. I just exist. That is until that beautiful man rides in on his Harley Fat Boy and burns rubber on the way into my heart. Him My life's been no hayride either. Everyone I've ever loved in life has died or betrayed me. So I stay back and watch...
  • Hail No by Lani Lynn Vale

    Hail No by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Evander Lennox doesn’t do anything he doesn’t want to do. At least, that is, until he’s sent to prison. The four years he's incarcerated, he’s had no choice but to do the things he's asked to do, when he’s asked to do them. And now, if he doesn’t, it will mean a one-way ticket straight back to hell...
  • Can't Take My Eyes Off You: A Small Town Romantic Suspense by Kait Nolan

    Can't Take My Eyes Off You: A Small Town Romantic Suspense by Kait Nolan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Exhausted by the futility of her efforts against the city’s endemic problems and the revolving door of violence in her Chicago emergency room, Dr. Miranda Campbell came home to Wishful, where she knew she could make a real difference in people's lives...
  • Frostbitten by Rebecca Zanetti

    Frostbitten by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Enigmatic. With a wildly gifted mind, and an untamed head of hair to match, petite powerhouse Millicent Frost is brilliant when it comes to gadgets and electronics—less so with people. After an attempt to bust a bank scam goes awry, Millie is in hot water with Homeland Security and targeted by lethal enemies...
  • 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...
  • Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s looking for a fresh start…she finds him.Nylah Walker knows what it’s like to be protected. You don’t grow up with five brothers without having someone close by, watching your back at all times. She craves independence, and Cradle Mountain is her fresh start. Her new beginning...
  • Ghost: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch

    Ghost: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everyone eventually breaks under torture. It’s a truth elite solider and government agent Dorian Lindstrom, codename Ghost, knows firsthand. His body may have recovered from what was done to him in that Afghani prison six years ago, but his mind…not quite so much.He’s seeing dead people.Grace Brandt, government codename Wraith, knows her past can’t be forgiven...
  • Survival Instinct by Janie Crouch

    Survival Instinct by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The voices in her head have decided to kill her. Most people joke about hearing voices in their heads. For Chloe Jeffries, they're real. And as the creative force behind one of the most popular shows on television, she has used the constant flood of voices in her mind to her advantage: fuel for entertainment. But now one of the voices has decided it wants Chloe all for itself...
  • Chasing Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Chasing Bliss by Sophie Oak, Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Re-released in a second edition with new content. Gemma Wells came to Bliss, Colorado, after a scandal cost her everything. Utterly lost, the disgraced attorney built walls so high that she thinks no one can get through them. She’s given up on love, friendship, and all matters of the heart...
  • Gunner by Rebecca Sharp

    Gunner by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From bestselling romantic suspense author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a surprise pregnancy romantic suspense...Della Bolden needs an escape—that’s what happens when your billionaire father has shielded your entire life.Growing up under the thumb of personal security—for her own safety—Della wanted one weekend of freedom on a ski trip with her friends...
  • North of Love by Em Petrova

    North of Love by Em Petrova

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman on the run from her stalker lands in a Christmas wonderland with the only man who can save her.As the lead dog handler for an elite search and rescue group in the Alaskan mountains, Hunt Cason knows stress. And he’s ready for a short breather from it all by spending the holiday season in a remote cabin...
  • The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    The Devil's Spare Change by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    FBI agent Sean Malone put in a transfer to return home to North Carolina in order to be closer to his expanding family. What he didn’t expect was a pleasant surprise from his youth. Little Gracie Whitman is all grown up now and drop-dead gorgeous, and he finds himself thinking about her in ways he’d never done before...
  • Smoky Mountain Judge by Ashley A. Quinn

    Smoky Mountain Judge by Ashley A. Quinn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Divorced, single mom, Kennedy Davidson, knew the move from Richmond to Asheville would be a rough one for her twin teenagers. What she didn’t count on was the rocky start for herself. A week into her new job as a federal magistrate, danger comes calling when a mid-level cartel boss lands on her court docket...
  • Siren Beloved by Sophie Oak

    Siren Beloved by Sophie Oak

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, BDSM, spanking, public exhibition, voyeurism] Aidan O'Malley left his fiancee, Lexi Moore, and their best friend, Lucas Cameron, after a night of passion left him shaken to his core. Years later, Aidan is back and he knows what he wants. He wants Lucas and Lexi forever...
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