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  • Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a rescue swimmer for the Coast Guard, Wade Faulkner was used to unpredictable situations. But an emergency call late one night turns his life upside down. After finding a boat on fire, he discovers a dead body and a visibly shaken woman in need of rescue. Now he finds himself entangled in a murder mystery between two teams of treasure hunters out for the discovery of a lifetime . .
  • To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother's wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life for the second time. But on her way out of town, she caused a three car pileup when she dropped her cell phone and tried to retrieve it while traveling ninety miles an hour...
  • Black Widow by Nikki Turner

    Black Widow by Nikki Turner

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a woman at an emotional crossroads and the men left in her wake. Isis Tatum knows firsthand the way love can mess up a person. After all, she saw her mother drive a truck through the home of her father's mistress before killing her dad...
  • Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Seducing Sawyer by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Stand-alone Wishing Well, Texas romance, complete with HEA—and plenty of heat and heart along the way! I had to keep my distance… Sawyer Briggs could admit that she was all he ever thought about, but the tall, sexy alpha knew that if he truly wanted what was best for her, he would stay away… It's now or never… Delilah Turner was ready to go for who she really wanted! The curvaceous...
  • Texas Gift by R.J. Scott

    Texas Gift by R.J. Scott

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Hayley arrived on the steps of the D, Riley and Jack knew life would never be the same. Told through Riley and Jack’s eyes, this is ten years in the life of their family and watching Hayley grow up, fall in love, and start her own life. Hurricanes, illness, babies, happiness, sadness, work, play, the barn, the office, horses, friends, enemies, and above all love...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  book  children  contemporary  family
  • Wild Ride by Lorelei James, Moira Keith

    Wild Ride by Lorelei James, Moira Keith

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    BUCKLING DOWN by Moira Keith Levi McKenna heads to Las Vegas with one simple goal: win the rodeo and cement his place in rodeo history. Then Lady Luck throws a wild card into the deck—Sydney Hart. Time and distance haven’t dulled the sharp edge of their attraction, but thanks to a long-ago promise, she will always be the forbidden fruit dangling just out of reach...
  • Happiness In Jersey by Jacinta Howard

    Happiness In Jersey by Jacinta Howard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The only thing in Jersey Kincaid’s world that she has time for are keeping her grades up so that she doesn’t lose her scholarship to South Texas University, playing the bass in her band, The Prototype, and satisfying her coffee addiction. Oh, and the occasional random hook-up she indulges in to pass the time. Love? Eh, not so much. Save that crap for a Katherine Heigl or Natalie Portman movie...
  • Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jaxie Parker works for one of the best ad agencies in Atlanta and and thrives in the upscale fast lane. She loves everything about the big city including her power-packed days and party-filled nights. But life as she knows it comes to a screetching halt when the boss puts her in charge of the firm’s annual pro bono project, which is to revitalize a small town...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Shadowed by Dani Pettrey

    Shadowed by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Novellas from Bestselling AuthorsIn Dee Henderson's "Missing," a Wyoming sheriff is called to Chicago when his elderly mother goes missing. Paired with a savvy Chicago cop, the two realize her disappearance is no accident, and a race against the clock begins.Dani Pettrey returns to Alaska with "Shadowed," introducing readers to the parents of her beloved McKenna clan...
  • Megan's Hero by Sharon Gillenwater

    Megan's Hero by Sharon Gillenwater

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Six months pregnant, unmarried, broke, and alone, Megan Smith doesn't think things can get much worse--and then they do. Stuck on the road without shelter when a tornado appears, Megan barely escapes with her life. And when Will Callahan comes upon her in the road, her life will never be the same...
  • Tangled Webs by Irene Hannon

    Tangled Webs by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three-Time RITA Award Winner Delivers Another Heart-Stopping Thriller After a disastrous Middle East mission ends his six-year Army Ranger career, Finn McGregor needs some downtime. A peaceful month in the woods sounds like the perfect way to decompress. But peace isn't on the agenda once he crosses paths with publishing executive Dana Lewis, a neighbor who is nursing wounds of her own...
  • Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . .   Loyalty is a way of life for the Sisterhood and their significant others...
  • Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Billie is known on the streets as much for her unusual beauty as for her sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle. She can handle just about anything she meets on the road - but this time she might be headed for a crash...
  • The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion....Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove—the source of her fondest childhood memories—to pick up the pieces of her life. The solitude of Sea View House is just what she needs...
  • The Simple Soul of Susan by Noel Branham

    The Simple Soul of Susan by Noel Branham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love hopes for the simple things to last forever, even though life itself does not.When Susan Combs discovers a heart-breaking truth from the boy she has loved her entire life, she must make a life-altering choice...
  • Secret Vows by Rochelle Alers

    Secret Vows by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Hideaway Wedding WagerTwins Ana and Jason and their cousin Nicholas are successful thirty somethings who are single�and loving it. They have no idea that their relatives are betting on which one of them will get married first...
  • Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vitorino “Click” Coglinaese shouldn’t feel more at home in a war zone than he does in his own backyard. But when you earn yourself a nickname like Click, the only sound the enemy hears before you strike, transitioning back to civilian life is a more insurmountable task than any combat mission...
  • Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters

    Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Independent and tenacious journalist Vivian DeMarco is back in Walton, Georgia, for one reason -- to do her job and get out. When her boss suddenly dies under suspicious circumstances, Vivian's only hope for finding the truth -- and the next big story -- is small-town law enforcement's lanky poster boy, Deputy Ryan Frost. But the deeper they dig, the more twisted the truth becomes...
  • The Crush by Kelly Fox

    The Crush by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Augustus Walker, Jr. is a problem. Every queer person I know has had a tragic crush on a straight person at some point in their lives, and for the last year, Walker has been mine.Not that my crush on him is serious—I'm just appreciating a sweet, sexy guy who happens to be a big fat goose egg on the Kinsey scale. Le sigh and all that...
  • Emily's Chance: Christian Contemporary Western Small-town Romance by Sharon Gillenwater

    Emily's Chance: Christian Contemporary Western Small-town Romance by Sharon Gillenwater

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Emily Rose may be in the tiny West Texas town of Callahan Crossing for the moment, but it's just a rung on her ladder to success. Her work at the Callahan Crossing historical society will look good on her ever-growing resume as she attempts to break into the prestigious world of a big city museum curator...
  • 'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He left in handcuffs. Now it's time to set himself free.  Nearly twenty years after he was wrongly convicted of setting the fire that killed his father, Lincoln Fox returns to Rebel Ridge, Kentucky. There, deep in the Appalachians, the truth of that terrible night lies buried-and he's sworn to uncover it...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucas lives in New York, but he's always loved Marietta. When he gets engaged, he decides Montana is exactly the place to get married. Tanner Ranch brings back happy memories of horseback riding and summer nights under the stars making it the perfect place to hold his wedding...
  • Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone tried to kill her twelve years ago. Teenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died -- and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan's family moved away right afterward, she's never been able to put the crime behind her...
  • The Forever Stone by Gloria Repp

    The Forever Stone by Gloria Repp

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paralyzing memories of abuse . . .A beautiful glass paperweight . . .Escape to the wilderness."Don't bury yourself in that wilderness!" her relatives say. "Even though you're a widow, you're still young." No matter what they think, Madeleine decides to go. She'll help her aunt restore the old house; she'll sign up for an online baking course; and she'll bury--yes, bury--those terrible memories...
  • Black Widow by Laurie Breton

    Black Widow by Laurie Breton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sex, lies and murder to conceal the shameful secrets of a picturesque little Southern town. The jury had no hesitation in convicting Kathryn McAllister of killing her husband - she'd been found standing over his body, covered in blood and holding the murder weapon. But four years later new evidence supports her claims of innocence...
  • Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Texas Twist by Cynthia D'Alba

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Real bad boys can grow up to be real good men. Paige Ryan has lost everything important in her life. Her parents, her lover, her horse, her life on the rodeo tour. Lost about her future, she moves to Whispering Springs, Texas to be near her step-brother...
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    north-america  texas  usa  adult  book  contemporary  family  fiction
  • Secret Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Secret Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On paper, Vivienne Neal had a lifestyle most people would envy. Only she knows what a sham her marriage really was. So when her politician husband is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she moves to Florida and takes a job as a personal assistant to Diego Cole-Thomas, a powerful CEO with an intimidating reputation...
  • Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Two of the Lone Star Cowboys Series and the sequel to Blame it on Texas. Carol and Jake were high school sweethearts, but when she chose college over marriage, it cut Jake to the core. When they finally had a second chance at love, she chose to help her brother win custody of his daughter by moving to Dallas to live with them, leaving Jake once again...
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    north-america  suspense  texas  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original...
  • Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen years ago, Ainsley Tidwell’s young life was shattered upon her discovery of the body of her murdered cousin, Carly. Now Carly’s sister Sabrina is missing, and Ainsley returns to Dahlonega, Georgia for the first time since the homicide that tore her family apart...
  • All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Disenchanted with the politics of working in an upscale Washington, D.C. restaurant, twenty-seven-year-old chef Lydia Lord resigns from her job and resolves to make it on her own...
  • His Distraction by Thia Finn

    His Distraction by Thia Finn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being on tour is great for the hot new alternative rock band, Assured Distraction, but not for relationships. Guitar player Ryan and girlfriend Krissy quickly realize they have two different visions for their future. She wants the house and two point five kids. He wants the band to be on top. The band is ready to leave leave on their epic tour with Ryder Steel...
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    north-america  suspense  texas  usa  adult  book  contemporary  family
  • Texas Treasure by Sharon Gillenwater

    Texas Treasure by Sharon Gillenwater

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christian Contemporary Romance Buckley, Texas Series -- Book 2 Deeply wounded by the infidelity of his late wife, widower Grant Adams has stuck to his vow to avoid all women. But when bright, bubbly antiques dealer Dawn Carson enters his life, he is unexpectedly touched by her gentle spirit...
  • Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was my first kiss. My first love. And my first heartbreak . Twenty years later, our reunion is not the meet-cute I imagined. Instead, it's a meet-puke when I find Callum Quinn throwing up on my front lawn. We’ve both come a long way since high school. I’m a free spirit single mom, back in town with twin boys and a family farm to save...
  • Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 of the Jenkins Family Series Joint heir to the largest construction company in the state of Ohio, master plumber, Toni (TJ) Jenkins has been groomed to behave in a way that is befitting of the respected Jenkins’ family name...
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    north-america  usa  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  fiction  ohio
  • Gibson by Jacki James

    Gibson by Jacki James

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tristan Aguilar is keeping a big secret. But there’s one man he can’t hide from any longer… “Thank you, Daddy.” Three little words uttered in a moment of weakness that have the power to undo all the years of progress Tristan has made as the mayor of River Gorge. “Thank you, Daddy.” Three little words Gibson Carr had never dreamed he would hear come from his best friend’s gorgeous mouth...
  • Uncontrollable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Uncontrollable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unstoppable (BK 3) - June 3, 2014 As Grace recovers from tragedy, her science class is chosen by Agent Sweeney at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to help with research on the new "Red Wolf Reintroduction Program"...
  • Snowflake Kisses by Jacki James

    Snowflake Kisses by Jacki James

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Frankie Taylor is a pastry chef in need of a fresh start, and Cap Roberts is a coffee shop owner in need of a pastry chef. Should be a perfect fit. But the delicious pastries he bakes aren't the only thing about Frankie that makes Cap's mouth water, and as a newly single father, Cap can’t afford to risk not only his heart, but his daughter's as well...
    Categorized as:
    north-america  texas  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  lgbtq
  • Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a disaster destroyed nearly everything Maddie Brooks owned, Trey Walker offered the petite redhead shelter at 2 Hope Ranch. A veterinarian, Maddie was smart, sexy, and good with animals… Impossible to resist, yet Trey is convinced he is cursed when it comes to women. The temporary arrangement Maddie made with Trey was supposed to be strictly business...
  • In Shadows by Sharon Sala

    In Shadows by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    To protect her, he must remain a ghost… Jack McCann has been in love with Shelly since they were teens. They married just out of college and right before he went to work as an undercover agent for the FBI. When he can, he slips away from his assignments to see her.Jack has been undercover on his latest case for months, investigating a weapons-smuggling business...
  • Most Wanted by Kelly Fox

    Most Wanted by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Thane: Letting him go was the biggest mistake of my life. Giving me a second chance might be the biggest mistake of his.I’d spent a year as Ronan’s friend-with-benefits, convincing myself that he could never feel the way I felt. I was floored when those three little words flew out of his mouth. So, I ran. And have regretted that decision every day for the last five years...
  • Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A single mom on the run and an injured FBI agent find their greatest danger is with each other in this story of secret identity, originally titled Nowhere to Hide and published in 2003! As an on-the-run single mother out to protect her little girls, Lisa Connors needs two things: money, and to keep her identity secret...
  • Blade's Desire by Leah Brooke

    Blade's Desire by Leah Brooke

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Desire for Three: Winning Back Jesse [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, light consensual BDSM, spanking, HEA] Living in Desire, Oklahoma, and married to two incredible men, Jesse Erickson felt her world was perfect, until she walks through the door of her home one day and has her world turned upside down...
  • Taming Alex by Jill Sanders

    Taming Alex by Jill Sanders

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alexis has always been the wild child. She’s the girl everyone always gossips about behind her back. Now that she's engaged to the town’s bad boy, Travis, she finally thinks she's heading in the right direction. Then life throws a tall, dark, and good man her way and causes her whole world to shake. Grant's back in town...
  • Gathering Shadows by Nancy Mehl

    Gathering Shadows by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wynter Evans is a promising young reporter for a television station in St. Louis, but even a bright future doesn't take away her pain over the disappearance of her brother nine years ago. So when she stumbles across a photograph of a boy with an eerie resemblance to him, she can't pass up the chance to track him down...
  • Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "She's a temptation he can't afford." Ian Sinclair, the man with no heart, the ultimate Trojan, the untouchable, the unreachable, may just have met his match. As wild as the untamed winds, as innocent as love itself, Courtney's vivacious spirit shines as brilliantly as the brightest star. And he wants nothing more in life than to see the sweet innocence that is so much a part of her survive...
  • Chasing Dreams by Nicole Edwards

    Chasing Dreams by Nicole Edwards

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Cooper Krenshaw knows what it’s like to feel the bright lights upon him, the sound of the crowd roaring when he walks on stage; after all, he happens to be one of the biggest names in country music at the moment. And he has knowingly just dropped off the grid. The first decision he has made on his own in quite some time...
  • Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards. Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now the second is free. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night...
  • A Courageous Ride by Andrew Grey

    A Courageous Ride by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Aspiring orchestra conductor Marshall is exhausted after months of auditions without a single job offer. Marshall’s friend, Terry, recommends a change of scenery and points Marshall in the direction of a dude ranch run by former bull rider Indigo Santana. Marshall is understandably skeptical, but his friend is convincing, and Marshall needs a break, so he agrees to go...
  • Josh by R.C. Ryan

    Josh by R.C. Ryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rancher and mountain climber Josh Conway has never backed down from a challenge. So when a photographer disappears in the wilderness during a blizzard, Josh answers the emergency call and leaps into action. Yet he's soon shocked to find the person in "distress" is doing fine-and she's a gorgeous blond spitfire who's as brave and bold as he is...
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