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Redeeming Violet (The Red Team ) by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA woman who betrayed her county. Violet Myers has a good reason for her treachery – better to sacrifice the few to save the many. The only problem is, no one believes her. With a platoon on Navy SEALs walking into an ambush, the stakes are high. Her only hope is convincing the sexy Jaxon “Blue” Cain she’s telling the truth this time... -
![Finding Her Chance by Brittney Sahin]()
Finding Her Chance by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsBravo Team is back in book 4 of the Stealth Ops SEAL Series, starring Liam Evans and Emily Summers. **Blurb to come** The Stealth Ops Team - Navy SEALS who handle covert ops for the president in the U.S. and around the world - under the guise of an alias, Scott & Scott Securities... -
![Shattered Lies: Web of Lies #3 by Kathleen Brooks]()
Shattered Lies: Web of Lies #3 by Kathleen Brooks
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe time has come to step out of the shadows . . . Valeria McGregor was a better shot, a better fighter, and smarter than everyone she’d ever gone up against as an agent for the DEA. Then she’d uncovered illegal activity within her own organization and was fired as part of a cover-up. That was how she’d joined the secret group who reports only to the president... -
![Hitting Xtremes by Em Petrova]()
Hitting Xtremes by Em Petrova
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo amount of snow and ice can melt this attraction…Special ops captain Penn Sullivan is no stranger to extreme conditions, but chasing an elusive drug trafficker through the Alaskan wilderness proves a challenge... -
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![Owen by Riley Edwards]()
Owen by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOwen Cullen was a dream. Not a dream come true because I’d never dared to dream. He was my wildest fantasy, a hallucination, a delusion. The handsome man who’d saved my life—twice. He was a real-life hero, and I was…what was I? Filth, that was what I was. The daughter of a gangster, the niece of the reigning king of Chicago’s underground. I tried my best not to fall in love with Owen... -
![Justice For Hope by Susan Stoker]()
Justice For Hope by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHiding from her ex is exhausting enough, but for Hope Drayden, putting her seven-year-old son through a life on the run and living on the streets has been mentally torturous. When a kind diner owner offers her a job, Hope begins to claw her way toward a new beginning for herself and Billy, one tip at a time... -
![Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks]()
Whispered Lies by Kathleen Brooks
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGovernment secrets are being sold and the newly-sworn-in President of the United States already feels out of options. Without knowing the full scope of the scandal, the president decides to turn to the one person he knows he can trust--former FBI Agent, Elizabeth James. Her deep distrust of the system is rooted in her unfair discharge from service... -
![The Reunion: A Novel by Dan Walsh]()
The Reunion: A Novel by Dan Walsh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAaron Miller knows a thing or two about loss. He’s lost love. Dignity. Second, and even third, chances. Once honored for his heroism, he now lives in near obscurity, working as a handyman in a humble trailer park. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Unbeknownst to Aaron, someone is searching for him... -
![The First Hostage by Joel C. Rosenberg, David de Vries]()
The First Hostage by Joel C. Rosenberg, David de Vries
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“The president of the United States…is missing.”Three years before Clinton and Patterson, another New York Times bestselling author of thirteen international thrillers, Joel C. Rosenberg, posed this chilling scenario: What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in history?Award-winning journalist J. B... -
![Jason by Kris Michaels]()
Jason by Kris Michaels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJason King was presented the opportunity of a lifetime… …assume control of Guardian Security from the billionaire who had built the world renowned agency. As CEO, Jason would manage the best security resources in the world... -
![Shadow: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch]()
Shadow: A Linear Tactical Romantic Suspense Standalone by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHeath Kavanaugh lost years of his life working for a covert agency that ended up being the enemy. Knowing they put something inside his head— constant, incomprehensible whispers —is driving him crazy. He needs answers, but they’re nowhere to be found... -
![I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes]()
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsA breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mountainside in Afghanistan... -
![Torn in Half by Samantha A. Cole]()
Torn in Half by Samantha A. Cole
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRetired Navy SEAL and current private-security operative Ian Sawyer had never expected to have a child, much less a wife, but his beautiful Angie has changed all that. Her due date is only days away, and his anticipation outweighs his anxiety, thinking about holding his firstborn. But as he’s learned the hard way, life throws curveballs at the worst possible moment... -
![The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton, James Patterson]()
The President's Daughter by Bill Clinton, James Patterson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThere's a new administration in the White House. But it's the previous First Family who tops an international assassin's hit list.Michael Keating is a former Navy SEAL -- and a former President of the United States, now relocated to rural New Hampshire after a brave but ill-fated military mission cost him his second term... -
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![The Price of Valor by Susan May Warren]()
The Price of Valor by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFormer Navy SEAL Hamilton Jones thought that the love of his life was dead. But when a girl claiming to be his daughter shows up with a dire message from his wife, Ham knows he will stop at nothing to find her and bring her home... -
![The Heart of a Hero by Susan May Warren]()
The Heart of a Hero by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJake Silver may not be able to put the memories of his time as a sniper and Navy SEAL behind him, but at least he can put his skills to use as a part of the Jones Inc. rescue team. Saving the life of pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Aria Sinclair on Denali helped too... -
![Shelter for Blythe by Susan Stoker]()
Shelter for Blythe by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBlythe Coopman never imagined she’d be homeless, but a series of events has landed her on San Antonio’s streets…hungry, tired, and scared. She clings to her most precious possession, a phone accidentally swiped from a local firefighter, who, instead of canceling the number, starts texting her... -
![Hidden by Vannetta Chapman]()
Hidden by Vannetta Chapman
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Christian romantic suspense by bestselling author Vannetta Chapman Home is where our story begins ... DANA JACOBS would rather forget the night of tragedy and violence that marred her childhood. She is now supervisor in charge of the Department of Homeland Security in Taos, New Mexico. Her team is prepared to handle any threat—biological, chemical, conventional, cyber, even nuclear... -
![Max: Best Friend. Hero. Marine. by Jennifer Li Shotz]()
Max: Best Friend. Hero. Marine. by Jennifer Li Shotz
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis movie novelization of the soon-to-be major motion picture tells the story of a canine hero.When Justin's older brother, Kyle, is killed in Afghanistan, Justin can't believe that his brother is really gone. Except there's one thing that Kyle left behind…Max is a highly trained military canine who has always protected his fellow soldiers... -
![Talon by Dale Mayer]()
Talon by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTalon Lore, a former SEAL, has spent the last two years recovering from the damage done when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine. Six other team-mates were also badly hurt, the seventh dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap set to take them out... -
![Damascus Countdown by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
Damascus Countdown by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIsrael successfully launches a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheads. American president William Jackson threatens to support a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression. And the Twelfth Imam prepares to order a genocidal retaliation... -
![Leather & Lace / His Angel / Waiting for Him by Samantha A. Cole]()
Leather & Lace / His Angel / Waiting for Him by Samantha A. Cole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"No one does Alpha heroes like Samantha A. Cole!"—New York Times, USA Today, #1 Amazon Bestseller, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Susan StokerLeather & Lace:How does a “vanilla” woman write a BDSM novel? With hands-on research!Kristen needs inspiration and personal experience for a sequel to her unexpected and kinky bestseller...Categorized as:
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![Heirs of Falcon Point by Traci Hunter Abramson, Sian Ann Bessey]()
Heirs of Falcon Point by Traci Hunter Abramson, Sian Ann Bessey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the early days of World War II, the Lang family lost everything. Eighty years later, it’s time to take it back.The Nazis have taken control of Austria, and wealthy widower Leopold Lang faces a difficult decision: join the ranks of the foreign power that has taken over his homeland or flee with his children to safety. Leopold makes his choice—but too late... -
![True Honor by Dee Henderson]()
True Honor by Dee Henderson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCIA officer Darcy St. James is after a man who knew September 11 would happen--a man who chose to profit from the knowledge. Navy SEAL Sam "Cougar" Houston is busy: The intelligence Darcy is generating has his team deploying around the world. Under the pressure of war, their romance flourishes... -
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![Firethorn by Ronie Kendig]()
Firethorn by Ronie Kendig
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFormer Marine and current Nightshade team member Griffin “Legend” Riddell is comfortable. So comfortable he never sees the set up that lands him in a maximum security prison, charged with murder. How can he prove his innocence behind bars? Covert operative Kazi Faron is tasked with reassembling Nightshade—the black ops team someone dissected... -
![Wolfsbane by Ronie Kendig]()
Wolfsbane by Ronie Kendig
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA 2012 Christy Award Winner. Embark upon a danger-laden mission within the pages of Ronie Kendig’s riveting Wolfsbane . Demolitions expert Danielle Roark thought escaping from a brutal Venezuelan general was a challenge. Now she’s charged with espionage and returned to the jungle where a new nightmare begins... -
![Serve and Protect: a small town romantic suspense novel by Lori Ryan]()
Serve and Protect: a small town romantic suspense novel by Lori Ryan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’s hiding from memories that could tear her apart. He knows getting her to face her past is the key to the most important murder investigation he’ll ever handle. Ashley Walker was one of the lucky ones. Adopted when she was fourteen years old by a family who loved her as their own and stuck beside her through all she put them through. She can’t outrun the hell of her past, though... -
![Acceptable Risk by Lynette Eason]()
Acceptable Risk by Lynette Eason
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSarah Denning is a military journalist with the Army in the Middle East when her convoy is attacked and she's taken hostage. When former Army Ranger Gavin Black is asked by his old unit commander--Sarah's imposing father--to plan an extremely risky rescue, he reluctantly agrees and successfully executes it... -
![True Devotion by Dee Henderson]()
True Devotion by Dee Henderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsKelly Jacobs has already paid the ultimate price of loving a warrior; she has the folded flag and the grateful thanks of a nation to prove it. Navy SEAL Joe “Bear” Baker can't ask her to accept that risk again—even though he loves her. But the man responsible for her husband's death is back; closer than either of them realize. Kelly is in danger, and Joe may not get there in time... -
![Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter]()
Time to Hunt by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHe is the most dangerous man alive. He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that nearly killed him...It's not going to happen... -
![Gavin by Dale Mayer]()
Gavin by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen four members of one family-owned corporation are kidnapped off the streets in Honolulu, Gavin’s intel says this is a corporate espionage case … but is it? Not much to like about this case. Too many people are involved, … including an old friend of Gavin’s. But, as Gavin digs deeper into the motives of the suspect pool, events get uglier, and bodies start to fall... -
![Seeking the Truth by Terri Reed]()
Seeking the Truth by Terri Reed
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer investigation could prove fatal… In this exciting True Blue K-9 Unit installment By secretly investigating the New York City K-9 Command Unit chief’s murder, reporter Rachelle Clark puts a bull’s-eye on her back. Single dad and K-9 unit officer Carter Jameson thought Rachelle was reporting on police-field-dog trials—not his brother’s death... -
![Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter]()
Game of Snipers by Stephen Hunter
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his biggest job to date...and confronts an assassin with skills that match his own... -
![The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg]()
The Copper Scroll by Joel C. Rosenberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFifty years after The New York Times broke a story that another Dead Sea Scroll had been found, a new evil is rising. White House advisors Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy find themselves facing a terrifying new threat triggered by an ancient mystery... -
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![Ranger Creed by Elle James]()
Ranger Creed by Elle James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNative American of the Blackfeet Nation, Lani Running Bear ends her service in the Army Military Police corps and returns to the reservation to help her people as a law enforcement officer. When members of her tribe turn up dead, she doesn't know who she can trust and calls on a man she’d busted while deployed... -
![Levi by Maryann Jordan]()
Levi by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPacked up, loaded up, and ready to move.Heading from Wyoming to Maine to take on his new position with Lighthouse Security Investigations, Levi was hauling his possessions on a leisurely trip across the country, enjoying the sights he rarely had the time to see in his former career with the FBI. Time to get off the highway and take the backroads...Categorized as:
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![North's Nikki by Dale Mayer]()
North's Nikki by Dale Mayer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn what circumstance wouldn’t a knight want to rescue a damsel in distress? A former SEAL working for Legendary Securities, North Dockter has found the very circumstance that challenges even his stalwart, chivalrous ways. Nikki Beckwith is a firecracker who butts heads with him at every turn, refusing to follow orders or listen to his experience unless doing so suits her... -
![Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry]()
Fire & Ash by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the gripping conclusion to the action-packed standard bearer (Booklist) of zombie series, the threat of death is given new life.Benny Imura and his friends have found the jet and Sanctuary, but neither is what they expected. Instead of a refuge, Sanctuary is a hospice, and the soldiers who flew the plane seem to be little more than bureaucrats who have given up hope for humanity's future... -
![True Valor by Dee Henderson]()
True Valor by Dee Henderson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsHeroes get a new meaning when you see inside their lives. Gracie is a Navy Pilot; Bruce works Air Force Pararescue. With dangerous jobs—often away from home—they write love letters. When Gracie is shot down behind enemy lines, Bruce has one mission: get her out alive... -
![The Escape by David Baldacci, Ron McLarty]()
The Escape by David Baldacci, Ron McLarty
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsSpecial Agent Puller's brother is the country's most wanted criminal, but his conviction points to a cover-up--and a dangerous enemy bent on burying the truth in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They know it's impossible...until now... -
![Bishop's Endgame by Katie Reus]()
Bishop's Endgame by Katie Reus
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRead the final book in the Endgame trilogy where blood is thick, but passion is thicker… He kidnapped a princess to exact revenge. Set up for a crime he didn’t commit, Ellis Bishop takes the law into his own hands to exact justice and clear his name. Unfortunately, that means he has to kidnap a crime boss’s daughter—a perfect mafia princess, set to become queen of a dirty empire... -
![Destruction by Reese Knightley]()
Destruction by Reese Knightley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho is the boy in the cage? What secret has Lash been keeping? Why can’t Fear keep his distance? Join Phoenix in the next explosive action packed book. Micah Robertson, code named Lash, has always loved Alex from the first moment their eyes met. He thought they’d be together forever and it tears him apart when he and Alex split after a life-altering tragedy... -
![Digitalis by Ronie Kendig]()
Digitalis by Ronie Kendig
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStep into the boots of a former Marine in this heart-pounding adventure in life and love. Colton “Cowboy” Neeley is a Marine trying to find his footing as he battles flashbacks now that he’s back home. Piper Blum is a woman in hiding—from life and the assassins bent on destroying her family. When their hearts collide, more than their lives are at stake... -
![Hidden Peril by Irene Hannon]()
Hidden Peril by Irene Hannon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs teenagers, Kristin Dane and her two best friends took a vow to make the world a better place. Twenty years later, she's fulfilling that pledge through her fair trade shop that features products from around the world. All is well until, one by one, people connected to the shop begin dying. Detective Luke Carter, new to the St. Louis PD, wants to know why... -
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![Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin]()
Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAllie's second husband is killed tragically when his 18-wheeler crashes into the rocks near their home in Cape San Blas--the tanker was full of fuel and the explosion could be seen on overhead satellites. She'd already lost the beloved waterfront restaurant her parents started and now losing her husband, no matter how unfulfilling their marriage was, might just push her over the edge... -
![Unwind by Neal Shusterman]()
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsConnor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end...Categorized as:
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![Wrong Side of the Tracks by Jessica Prince]()
Wrong Side of the Tracks by Jessica Prince
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGypsy Bradbury was never destined for great things. Or at least that’s what she’d convinced herself of. Growing up on the wrong side of the tracks, she had learned that hoping for more was a waste of time. Then Marco forced his way into her life and gave her a glimpse of a future brighter than any she could have imagined... -
![Sizzle by Liliana Hart]()
Sizzle by Liliana Hart
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA killer who taught her everything she knows… A mission that pits her skills against his… And a new partner that makes her body…Sizzle When Declan MacKenzie asks Archer Ryan to do a special job for MacKenzie Security, Archer has no choice but to say yes. He owes Declan his life, and Declan more than has his hands full with his own family problems... -
![The Way of the Brave by Susan May Warren]()
The Way of the Brave by Susan May Warren
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFormer pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He may be living alone in Alaska now, but the pain of his failure--and his injuries--has followed him there from Afghanistan. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones's elite rescue team, but he also can't shirk his duty when the call comes in to rescue three lost climbers on Denali... -
![Nightshade by Ronie Kendig]()
Nightshade by Ronie Kendig
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSoldiers all across the globe are returning home to their families after brutal tours of duty. They are discharged from the service. . .and on their own. Meet Max Jacobs, one of these discarded heroes, as he faces a wall of failure—in his career, his friendships, and his marriage. Failing again—this time to end his life—he is offered a thread of hope...
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