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Nixon's Promise by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFormer 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...Categorized as:
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Shamrock: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvery 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
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’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... -
Hidden Miles by Claire Kingsley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 20 ratings“I wasn’t ready for this. Hannah deserved a man who was whole, not a broken shell. But I couldn’t resist her. Couldn’t resist this. It felt too good. And would that be so bad? To have something that felt good for once?” My name is Leo Miles, and I’m not a hero. I came home broken—wounded and scarred. It’s been five years, and I haven’t left my family’s land. Not once...Categorized as:
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An Act of Obsession by K.C. Lynn
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsShe’s beautiful yet scarred beyond repair. He’s powerful and lethal, in and out of the ring. One act of kindness brought Sophie Parish far more danger than she could have ever imagined. Now she’s on the run, leaving behind her family and the only dream she’s ever had. Retired EFC fighter Kolan Slade’s life has been one endless battle after another... -
Cyclone by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHe’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... -
What You See by Cherise Sinclair
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe will risk everything to rescue her friend.Frankie's BFF and four-year-old son are trapped inside a fanatical militia's compound. In Alaska, no less. Wilderness rescues are so not in the New Yorker's skill set. But she'll figure it out. She must.Bull's new roadhouse server is a mass of contradictions.The city girl's reasons for being in Alaska don't add up. Bull's been burned by liars before... -
Hard to Lose by K. Bromberg
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn all new series of standalone books by New York Times Bestselling author, K, Bromberg. Four sisters set out to try to save their family business. Book 4, Hard to Lose: More info coming soon... -
Menace by Laramie Briscoe
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe sexy, single dad of the MTF finally gets his turn....... Mason “Menace” Harrison “Single and ready to mingle……” Those are the words above every picture of almost every female that strikes my interest on this dating app my son talked me into getting... -
Battle Scars by Cara Carnes
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScars 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
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey 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... -
My Bad by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHoax knows two things very well. One, he’s not relationship material. Two, the nurse that treats him for erectile dysfunction is the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen, and practically has ‘the marrying type’ stamped on her forehead. Does that stop him from wanting her? No... -
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... -
Kye by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSometimes it’s in the depths of hell, that one finds their angel.Samantha Jacobs thought she was aiding her government. She believed the chip she created, the one that could change the world, would be used for the good of mankind. But it was all a lie…and she discovered the truth too late. Now, Samantha will suffer dearly for her mistake... -
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Hound: Cerberus 2.0 Book 2 by Marie James, JA Essen
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy first job with the Cerberus MC was to grab a girl from a seedy bar. Easy money, right? The moment I realized the blonde I was hunting wasn’t around, I ended up captivated by a redhead dancing on the stage. With her striking features and sinful body, I knew she was trouble, but that didn’t stop me from making her mine that night... -
Kevlar To My Vest by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou’re the Kevlar…Behind the badge and the pretty face was a heart. A heart that bled just like the rest. A heart that was so in love with Viddy Sheffield that it was humiliating. Trance had been burned before by a woman that couldn’t handle the fact that he risked his life each and every time he went on shift. She was too vulnerable; somehow he had to convince his heart to let her go...Categorized as:
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Lethal Balance by Cherise Sinclair
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHis 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... -
Rocket by Lilly Atlas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLogan “Rocket” Carrera has a history he prefers to leave buried under prickly layers of standoffish personality. He’s seen and done things that would make most people lie awake at night. A master of compartmentalization, he’s never had trouble moving on until the night he rescues the redheaded Chloe from a sadistic gang... -
Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTyler “Ty” Scott finally gets his book! When Cassie Dixon gets threatening letters, there’s only one person who can help - her best friend’s sexy cousin... -
It Wasn't Me by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPiper Mackenzie first sees him shirtless, standing in front of the military plane she was about to board, with one rather large wrench in his hand. The fact that he has the plane—the one that she’s about to be flying on for hours—in pieces only minutes before she’s set to take off on it doesn’t faze her. At least not until a flippant joke about dying in mid-air leaves his lips... -
Ain't Doin' It by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCoke Solomon has lived a full life. He’s a retired army drill sergeant, so he is more than used to getting his way. And if he can’t have it his way? Well, let’s just say that’s never happened before… At least not until Cora Maldonado walks into his life, demanding he fall in line, or she’ll find a way to make his life hell...Categorized as:
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If You Say So by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGabriel Luca Maldonado, III and Francesca Leandra Solomon were meant to be. They were so in love that everybody prayed for what they had. Everything was glorious. They would get married, have children and live a perfect life. She would be a doctor in the emergency room once she finished her doctorate, and he would be a badass Navy SEAL and save people for a living... -
Only for You by Melissa Foster
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLove only works when your heart is in the right place. Hers could be right next door… Single mom Bridgette Dalton doesn’t have time to stop and smell the roses—not even in her own flower shop. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t noticed Bodhi Booker. Her ruggedly handsome next-door neighbor would be the perfect candidate for a no-strings fling... -
Issued to the Bride: One Airman by Cora Seton
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAirman Connor O’Riley never believed in love until he saw proof of it in the most unlikely place--a battlefield in the middle of the Syrian civil war. Now he's in hot water with the Air Force, and if he wants to clear his name he'll have to put his new-found belief in love to the test--by convincing his superior officer's daughter to marry him. Sadie Reed is done with love... -
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Zero Trace by Cara Carnes
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon’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... -
Protecting What's Mine: A Small Town Love Story by Lucy Score
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIf you can’t stand the heat, don’t fall for a firefighter… Fire Chief Lincoln Reed is known for his heroics in the fire department and in the bedroom. Life is a never-ending good time. Until she lands in the middle of the accident scene he’s working…and then his backyard. Too bad she’s immune to flirty first responders... -
Montana Danger by Josie Jade, Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSome mistakes haunt you forever. Harlan Young knows that from personal experience. Walking away from Grace Townsend, even with the best intentions and no other choice, still haunts him to this day. So when he had the chance to return to Montana, and be part of something as special as the Resting Warrior Ranch, he took it... -
Coup De Grâce by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMichael was that guy. The one that everyone was cautious of. Maybe it was the tattoos. Maybe it was the way he gave off a ‘don’t screw with me’ vibe. Maybe it was because he just told them to leave him the hell alone. Regardless, people gave him his space. He was screwed up, and everyone knew it. He got tattoos because he liked the pain. He was standoffish...Categorized as:
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Halligan to My Axe by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou’re the Halligan... Kettle had it all. Until he didn't. He lost it all in a moment. One heart stopping, soul shattering moment, and there wasn't a single thing he could do about it. From that day forward, he stayed away from relationships. Then he responded to a possible fire and there she was, rocking his world when he didn't want it to be rocked. To My.. -
Another One Bites the Dust by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate cover edition for ASIN: B00HDT3T4K Her I wanted him, but couldn't find the courage to have him. You know that feeling, the one where you’re too scared to go to sleep, too scared to go out, and too scared to do anything? Ever since my assault, I've been functioning, but not living... -
Keys To My Cuffs by Lane Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsYou’re the Keys Loki’s life was a lie. Everything he’d done for the last eight years was under an assumed name for the Benton Police Department. He’d lied, cheated, and stolen all in the name of the law. He wore himself thin, and not even the open road could take away the pain anymore. Then his little next door neighbor moved in, and suddenly he had a reason to get out of bed every morning... -
The Butterfly Effect (Boggy Creek Valley) by Kelly Elliott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe butterfly effect — one small change, one moment in time that impacts the future.At twenty-six years old I never dreamed I’d walk in on my husband in bed with my best friend. At twenty-seven years old I found myself divorced, and the mother of a one-year-old son. Never mind I was learning to take the reins of my family’s apple orchard business... -
The Final Temptation by K.C. Lynn
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsKAYLA~ He moved in next door to me, all bronzed skin and lean muscle, with a panty dropping smile that could make any girl weep with need. He set my body and teenage hormones on fire for three years. THREE LONG YEARS. In that time he became a cop- Officer Sexy as I liked to call him- and every time I pushed, he retreated. But I knew he felt it, I saw it in the way he looked at me...Categorized as:
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Nobody Knows by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAll he ever wanted was to matter to someone.What he didn’t know was that he did matter to someone.Someone that worried about him every single day that he was gone.Malachi Gabriel Gnocchi was missing for two years. Thanks to a mission gone wrong, not only had he been captured, but his best friend along with his fellow teammates had been taken, too...Categorized as:
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Shadow: Cerberus MC Book 3 by Marie James, Kari Ayasha
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMorrison “Shadow” Griggs, VP of the Cerberus MC, is a force to be reckoned with. Women fall at his feet, willing to do almost anything for a night with him. Misty Bowen is the exception. She’s young and impressionable, but with her religious upbringing, she’s able to resist Shadow’s advances… for a while at least... -
The Best of Me by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt wasn’t hard for Nona Fanning to fall for Trick. He was strong, kind-hearted, loyal, and unbelievably handsome. He was the man of her dreams, and all it took was one night to give her a taste of the beauty he had to offer. But while she’d been opening her heart to him, he’d kept his under lock and key...Categorized as:
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Driving Whiskey Wild by Melissa Foster
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDRIVING WHISKEY WILD is a USA Today BestsellerSpecial Forces veteran and Dark Knights Motorcycle Club member Bullet Whiskey lives to protect his family, their bar, and the residents of his small hometown. He’s rough, unapologetic, and haunted by a secret, painful past... -
Son of a Beard by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTruth Alan Reacher was a biker. He was a bladesmith. What he was not, was a fool. The moment he walked in on his girl screwing his cousin on his bike, he does the only thing he can do. He ditches the bike seat—and the girl—riding right out of her life without a backwards glance. That is until he’s forced to attend the marriage of his cousin to his cheating ex-girlfriend... -
Ask Me If I Care by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAres saw him for the first time at a Kilgore Police Department benefit dinner. She’d gone with her dad as his plus one. Hayes Greer had gone by himself and brooded silently across the same table as her, drinking whiskey and not saying a word.It only took that one time for her to become interested... -
Maybe Swearing Will Help by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFord Spurlock has known Ashe Trammel since they were babies.He’s also done his level best to stay away from her because every time he gets to within five feet of her, they’re fighting like cats and dogs.Ashe is the apple of her father’s eye. The motorcycle club princess that was never to be harmed in any way—or touched for that matter... -
Sinners are Winners by Lani Lynn Vale, Teddy Hamilton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe saw her from across a crowded ballpark and knew she was about to change his life. Yes, he realizes just how cliché that really is, but the moment his eyes locked on her, he knew that she was the one. At least, the one that royally screwed him over... -
Beyond Affection by Abbie Zanders
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShane Callaghan is used to drawing female attention, but this is the first time a woman actually drooled over him. From the moment he spotted the pretty blonde catching a few Z’s during his lecture, a spark ignited deep in his chest. And each minute he spends with the gentle-hearted Kindergarten teacher only fans the flames... -
Defending Allye by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLove is a life-and-death risk for the Mountain Mercenaries in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s explosive series of alpha heroes, hot action, and hard passion… Ever since his rescue op off the Pacific Coast, Mountain Mercenary Gray Rogers hasn’t been able to forget his latest “job”—Allye Martin... -
Finally Mine by Lucy Score
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWho is he if not a hero? Aldo Moretta has always been the hero. The strongest, the fastest, the bravest. He fought for his country and built a thriving business in his hometown. With friends and family never more than a few blocks away, there was just one thing he was missing. The right girl. She’d fallen for the wrong guy. The bad guy...Categorized as:
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Bang Switch by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLachlan Downy was a lover, not a fighter. Okay, he wouldn't lie, he was a fighter, too. But nobody had to know that. Especially not Memphis Tennessee Conner and her stuffy attitude when it came to cops and ‘men like him.’ Memphis knew cops. Her daddy was a cop. He was also the president of a motorcycle club...Categorized as:
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Double Tap by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNico met the love of his life when he was seventeen. Immediately, he realizes that the gap in their ages is too significant to make a move on her until she’s legal in the eyes of the law. So he joins the United States Navy, killing time until he can come home to her again...Categorized as:
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Highway Don't Care by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHer 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...Categorized as:
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Vodka on the Rocks by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere are rules to life that one just obeys in order in her attempt to stay on the right path. For example: 1. You don’t wear dirty panties out of the house. You just never know who’s going to see them. 2. A lady must always have chocolate at the ready—just in case the world as she knows it comes to an end. 3. You don’t egg on a drunk woman who’s pissed off at life...Categorized as:
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Ace by Laramie Briscoe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAce is saving lives and mending hearts....... Anthony “Ace” Bailey I’m not a rules kinda guy Department Policy? Kinda sucks, but I do what I have to for the job that I love. Playing it safe? Not my thing. Married? No big deal when I know she’s unhappy and scared...Categorized as:
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Truth Be Told by Marie James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLies ruin lives.Ignacio Torres, the translator for Blackbridge Security, has told his fair share and then some.He lied more than once to Tinley Holland when they were teens.Told her he didn’t love her.Told her he could live without her.Told her what they shared didn’t mean a thing.He’s lived with those lies, lived with the loss of her for over a decade...
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