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  • What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    What I've Done by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestseller.In the fourth book of the multimillion-copy bestselling series, Morgan Dane’s new client has blood on her hands—and no recollection of what happened.Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before...
  • The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    The First Death by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered...
  • Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh

    Drown Her Sorrows by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert is blindsided by a killer’s devious plan in number one Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh’s novel of escalating shock and suspense.When Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a young woman floating near the bank of the Scarlet River, a note in her abandoned car suggests suicide. The autopsy reveals a different story...
  • Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rogue Lies by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The web has begun to untangle. Elizabeth James has been working in the shadows to take down the group that has quietly snatched power in nearly every part of society. But now, Elizabeth is no longer alone. Tate Carlisle was a respected television journalist until an investigation of the wrong person cut her career short. She may be off the air, but she’s not off the job...
  • The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    The Last Straw by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Charlie Dodge may be down, but he’s most definitely not out. He’s still reeling after a series of earth-shattering events, so when a desperate woman hires Dodge Investigations to find her missing sister, the head-scratcher of a case is exactly the distraction Charlie and his steadfast partner, Wyrick, need...
  • Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Perfect Target by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a yacht blows up in the Newport Beach Harbor killing a California congressman, FBI Agent Beck Murray is reminded of another night ten years earlier when a mega-yacht caught fire. Then a rookie cop, he pulled popular teenage TV star Piper Nolan out of the water. He's never forgotten her terror or her rambling story, but the investigation was shut down before it even got started...
  • Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Reddest Black: A Billionaire SEAL Story, Book 7 by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Passion, betrayal, and heartache collide in an emotionally charged and dangerous chain of events that could unravel everything Sebastian and Talia have worked to overcome...
  • Targeted by Kendra Elliot

    Targeted by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    A Wall Street Journal bestseller All Detective Mason Callahan wanted was a quiet fishing trip with the guys—a chance to get away and unwind before Halloween.Until he finds the body of his boss, Denny Schefte, near their remote Oregon cabin. Now all he wants is to catch the sadist who slit Denny’s throat and covered his face with a mask...
  • Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Hide and Seek by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    She’s hunting. He’s watching. Special Agent Macy Crow is a survivor. After a vicious hit-and-run nearly kills her, she gets right back to work, and now she’s gunning for a spot on the FBI’s elite profiling team. As an audition, she offers to investigate the recently discovered bones of Tobi Turner, a high school girl who disappeared fifteen years ago...
  • Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    Morally Ambiguous by Veronica Lancet

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She just wants to be loved… by the one man who is not capable of feeling it. A CUTE PSYCHO Charming and unpredictable, Vlad Kuznetsov is known as the joker of the underground world. Known to many yet known by none, he is a true social chameleon. His feigned affability might present him as inoffensive but his inner demons could unleash a bloodbath at any time...
  • Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Driven by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Unswerving: Angus Force is determined to hunt down the serial killer he’d once shot dead—or so he thought. But an anonymous source reports that Lassiter is alive. Force hasn't slept since, knowing it’s only a matter of time before “the Surgeon” strikes again. And soon, a body is found, bearing Lassiter’s same maniacal MO...
  • Danger Zone by Fiona Quinn

    Danger Zone by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s supposed to report the news, not become it…War correspondent Remi Taleb needs to get to Beirut. Fellow journalists who were kidnapped by terrorists have a story to tell, and she will report on it. So, if that means hitching a ride with a Senator who may or may not be a danger to herself (and everyone else), so be it...
  • 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...
  • Jack Be Quick by Fiona Quinn

    Jack Be Quick by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Strike Force: An Iniquus Romantic Suspense Mystery Thriller The prayer on her lips is JACK Be Quick. It’s been months since ex-Navy SEAL Jack McCullen last saw his fiancée, Suz Molloy. He was on the other side of the world involved in a grueling black ops mission for Iniquus Corporation at the behest of the US government...
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    female-mc  suspense  crime  romance  mystery  paranormal  fantasy  war
  • Little Girl Vanished by Denise Grover Swank

    Little Girl Vanished by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A new mystery series by Denise Grover Swank, author of the USA Today, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal bestselling Rose Gardner Series. James "Skeeter" Malcolm's story isn't finished yet.Disgraced, ex-detective Harper Adams is perfectly content wallowing at rock bottom...
  • Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If she fails, her whole team could be destroyed.Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is more than ready for her marriage with ex-SEAL Striker Rheas. But getting her happily ever after is fraught with hurdles when her psychic abilities start going haywire, giving her vague warnings of impending danger.As it turns out, identifying threats can be overwhelming when everything and everyone is the potential source...
  • The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    The Dollmaker by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dr. Tessa McGowan had never seen anything quite like it. But the mutilated bodies on her exam table tell a stunningly macabre tale: someone with a twisted mind is kidnapping women and altering their faces to resemble real, life-size dolls. As a forensic pathologist, it’s her job to aid the agent leading the case—even if that agent is her estranged husband...
  • Blackest Red by P.T. Michelle

    Blackest Red by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times, USA Today, and International Bestselling seriesNo matter how hard I've tried to let go of Mister Black, the memories of us together torture me. They're an unforgettable reminder of a life I can't have for many reasons.Burying myself in work mostly keeps thoughts of him to a screaming minimum, until he's thrust into my life under circumstances beyond my control...
  • Seeds of Iniquity by J.A. Redmerski, Kris Koscheski

    Seeds of Iniquity by J.A. Redmerski, Kris Koscheski

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Victor Faust's new Order is growing. Business is good as there is no rest for the wicked in an underground world of hardcore criminals and contract killing. Relationships among the operatives have changed little over the past year—but things are about to change now, and all six high-ranking members of the new Order will be blindsided by an unlikely enemy...
  • Gulf Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Gulf Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.In this woman’s action adventure, with an explosive psychic twist, USA Today bestselling author Fiona Quinn takes her reader into a world of international crime, terror, spies, and resistance networks...
  • Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Stripping Bare by Kelsey Browning

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Bad Boy... Billionaire... Baby Brother... Who is the real Jonah Steele? Video game mogul Jonah Steele may be a billionaire , but as the youngest brother in a family of alphas, his struggle to prove his worth is all-consuming. Although he saved his hometown from ruin, he can’t forgive himself for the biggest failure of his life...
  • Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s running for her life……His mission: protect her.Ex-Delta Force Operator Ridge Hansen has a thing for artist Harper Katz.So does his tactical K9, Zeus……But Harper is on the run.Someone is aiming to kill her.Ridge wants two things…Convince Harper to move their relationship from friends to lovers,And find out who she really is...
  • Subverted by Lori Matthews

    Subverted by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Callahan Security Series.Meet Finn Walsh of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.After an abandoned ship is found in international waters, Team RECON is summoned by Homeland Security to find answers. Finn Walsh has massive reservations about boarding the empty US Navy ship...
  • Before It's Too Late by Sara Driscoll, Angela Dawe

    Before It's Too Late by Sara Driscoll, Angela Dawe

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Special Agent Meg Jennings and her trusted search-and-rescue Labrador, Hawk, must race against the clock before a diabolical killer strikes again . . . Somewhere in the Washington, D.C. area, a woman lies helpless in a box. Barely breathing. Buried alive. In Quantico, the FBI receives a coded message from the woman’s abductor. He wants to play a decipher the clues, save the girl...
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    suspense  crime  romance  mystery  dogs  animals  fiction  audiobook
  • 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...
  • Relic by Fiona Quinn

    Relic by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Digging For The Truth Can Be DeadlyBrian is ex-special forces.He’s working for a security group that only hires the best of the best. His job is fueled by danger and adrenaline, and he loves every minute of it. At least he did up until this minute. When Sophia walks into their briefing room, Brian’s heart stops...
  • Deadlock by Fiona Quinn

    Deadlock by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’ll Risk It All To Keep Her SafeHoney Honig is good at his job, infiltrating the most dangerous places on Earth and pulling the hostages away from their kidnappers. When the bad guys slip through Honey’s fingers, he hunts a lead to Tanzania.Honey finds his way onto a safari with Dr. Meg Finley, and into her bed.For him, this isn’t just a passing romance, though...
  • Carved in Ice by Ivy Smoak

    Carved in Ice by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    When I was little, I dreamed my life would be a fairy tale. But it just so happens that I don't need a knight in shining armor to save me anymore. I'm made of freaking steel. It's time for answers. Time for vengeance. And time to finally unmask the notorious V. There's no going back now. See what happens in the epic conclusion of the Made of Steel series...
  • Defender's Instinct: Cerberus Tactical K9 by Fiona Quinn

    Defender's Instinct: Cerberus Tactical K9 by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It’ll take more than his battle-hardened instincts to defend her…CIA linguist Sabrin Harris’s plans for a relaxing vacation went up in smoke when twenty-six hostages disappeared just north of her grandmother’s house in Slovakia. Now, she’s been called into action. Her mission is fairly simple...
  • Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Savage Collision: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The last thing I expect when I walk into The Hawkeye Club is to fall head over heels in lust. It’s supposed to be a rescue mission. I have to get my baby sister off the pole, into some clothes, and out of the grasp of the pussy peddler who somehow manipulated her into stripping...
  • 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...
  • Spiders in the Grove by J.A. Redmerski

    Spiders in the Grove by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Izabel and Naeva find themselves right where they wanted to be in Mexico: captured and held in the slave compounds owned by the Ruiz family. But the two are soon separated and forced into very different—but equally dangerous—situations...
  • You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Run by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of Laura Griffin and Jayne Ann Krentz won’t want to miss this brand new thriller series by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti, as FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow, a rising star profiler, strives to stay one step ahead of the criminal mind—and discovers that her own demons may be the hardest to outrun… Laurel Snow wouldn’t call hunting a serial killer a vacation, but with a pile...
  • The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    The Obsession by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The riveting new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.” Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods...
  • Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Bridged by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    After a congressman’s tortured body is found dangling from a Portland bridge, the FBI joins the Oregon State Police to investigate the case—and FBI Special Agent Ava McLane, still recovering from a bullet wound, hunts the twisted killer alongside the man who captured her heart, police detective Mason Callahan...
  • Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kray and North are like a unit, where there's one, there's the other. When the both of them take a case involving a missing agent, they become more involved than they bargained for. Vienna is willing to do anything to find her sister and bring her home safe. Anything except shacking up with the two bikers who are dead set on solving this case...
  • Behind The Hands That Kill by J.A. Redmerski

    Behind The Hands That Kill by J.A. Redmerski

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Even professional killers need vacations, but for Victor Faust, his vacation in Venezuela is about more than relaxation and time alone with Izabel Seyfried. It is a chance for him to come clean to Izabel: to tell her the truth about why he sent her to Italy with his brother, the truth behind his interest in Nora Kessler, and about his knowledge of Izabel’s child with her former captor...
  • The Witness by Nora Roberts

    The Witness by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Daughter of a controlling mother, Elizabeth finally let loose one night, drinking at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman known as Abigail Lowery lives on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks...
  • Scarlett Red by P.T. Michelle

    Scarlett Red by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times, USA Today, and International Bestselling series!Mister Black swept in and out of my life like a tornado, leaving me twisted up and forever changed in his wake.And now that my life is finally back on track, I need to move on, despite the many reminders of our time together...
  • Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Evolution: Awakening by Hope Anika

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Ash Kyndal inherits her Uncle Charlie’s PI firm, her only interest is in finding an out. Circus veteran, social misfit, daughter of a madman—those are shoes that fit. Card-carrying member of polite society? Not so much. But Charlie saved her once, and his staff of lost souls needs her...
  • Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Forged in Flames by Ivy Smoak

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    I remember when I thought my life would be like the fairy tales I read about. I'd do anything to go back in time when everything was so simple. When my knight in shining armor had a face and a name. When my biggest secret was that I snuck out at night to watch the stars.I'm worried that there's a sickness in me, swallowing me whole. I don't understand what's happening to me...
  • 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...
  • Cold Red by Fiona Quinn

    Cold Red by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Undercover. Under fire. Under arrest...…It’s hard to save a special agent’s life with your hands cuffed behind your back.Anna walks into the house and is met with flashbang. The FBI have her cuffed and belted into the back of their car. Two FBI agents are escorting her over the mountains of West Virginia heading to Washington DC for interrogation……She was never meant to get there alive...
  • United Reign by Kylie Kent

    United Reign by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dark Mafia RomanceTheoEverything we’ve built is crashing down around me.I’m consumed by the darkness, my blood boiling with the need for revenge.My wife is the only light in my life; she’s the very reason I keep on fighting.They’re coming after me. And worse yet, they’re coming after her.But let them come…I’m waiting. We’re waiting.To send them all back to the hell they crawled out of...
  • In Too Deep by Fiona Quinn

    In Too Deep by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes Trust Can Get You KilledRetired Marine Special Operator Deep Del Toro watched the newscaster play the video of the woman he loves fighting off the FBI agent and escaping from a murder scene the night before. Now, Lacey's turning herself over to the police. What Deep’s practiced eye saw in the video was a highly-choreographed crime. But somehow Lacey had thwarted the professionals’ plans...
  • Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zoe knows the secrets, now they're coming for her.The enemy will stop at nothing to get to Zoe and the military secrets that could change everything. What Zoe knows is getting people killed. Is she next?Gage is a hardened Marine special forces operative with only one soft spot: Zoe.Her desperate screams echoing from inside her home switch his instincts from lover to guardian...
  • Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thorn Has Met His MatchRetired Navy Seal, turned Iniquus security operative, Thorn Iverson is heading home from Brussels when the call comes in.A U.S. military scientist's daughter, Juliette, was snatched from the streets of France, and she’s in immediate danger.Juliette is desperate.Juliette is fighting for her life...
  • Arrangement in Black and White by Fred Misurella

    Arrangement in Black and White by Fred Misurella

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She's white; he's black. But their conflicts are more than racial. Margy's from Iowa, an artist, the product of an abusive mother and neglectful father. Everet's from Connecticut, a civil rights lawyer on the rise toward greater recognition, and their lives take a tense turn when he decides to run for political office just as Margy moves forward in her own career...
  • Alone by Kendra Elliot, Tanya Eby

    Alone by Kendra Elliot, Tanya Eby

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One rainy night in the woods outside of Portland, Dr. Victoria Peres is called to the site of a haunting crime scene. Six beautiful young girls—all in white dresses and arranged in a perfect circle—have been left for dead. Only one girl, fighting for her life at a nearby hospital, has survived the carnage...
  • The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

    The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding...
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