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  • All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    All the Lies by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To understand the monsters in the world, you have to get inside their heads. It's a dangerous place to be, especially when you start to empathize and lose your own sense of morality.But that's never happened to me...I've never felt conflicted on any case. Right is right and wrong is wrong. It's simple. Black and white. There's no such thing as a gray area.But fuck this case...
  • Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Scarlet Angel by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    To kill a monster, you have to be twice as monstrous. To love a monster, you have to share your soul...Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more...one day...
  • Sidetracked by S.T. Abby

    Sidetracked by S.T. Abby

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    They always want to break me, but I'm too strong now. Untouchable.Or at least I was...until her.****LOGANI've had tunnel vision for one main goal for so long, that I forgot there was a whole other world just outside. Until Lana.She's everything I never expected, and I love the fact I can never guess her every move or reaction. It's part of the reason I keep falling...
  • 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...
  • FINDING SOLACE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    FINDING SOLACE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A moment is all it takes to change your life forever. Reid Carter—Road Captain for The Kings of Retribution MC. He was born into the life. A world where you live and play by your own rules. Tragedy strikes, taking the life of his younger brother Noah leaving him to pick up the broken pieces. Four years later he still wanders through his existence bitter and jaded by the hand he was dealt...
  • 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...
  • UNBREAKABLE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    UNBREAKABLE by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fear makes us stronger and we become Unbreakable. As the President of The Kings of Retribution MC, Jake Delane has dedicated his life to his family and watched his Club flourish. Seeing his brothers find strong women to stand at their sides unearthed buried feelings of loss; making the idea of never finding love again more absolute. Until a beautiful, and fierce redhead moved to town...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss

    Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    INDIE I have them all now. Just the way I want them.McKay, the one who loves me deepest.Adam, the one who protects me fiercely.Donovan, the one who tells the truth.They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world.And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is.This is the family I’ve always wanted.This is the family I deserve.And I will do whatever it takes to keep them...
  • 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...
  • The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    “Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.”When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Obsessed by Aleatha Romig

    Obsessed by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Everything changed the night our eyes met across the room. His green gaze upon me prickled my skin with uncustomary warmth while my peek beneath his cuff—of a riot of color on his wrist—sparked my insatiable curiosity. Tall and mysterious, Kader was a man whose secrets I longed to know...
  • You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    You Can Hide by Rebecca Zanetti

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Set against the atmospheric backdrop of rural Pacific Northwest, New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Zanetti’s thrilling suspense series follows FBI Special Agent Laurel Snow as she strives to navigate her complicated family life when her newly discovered sociopathic half-sister becomes the target of a dangerous killer...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Black Contract by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I don’t belong with her. Born into darkness, life made me a cynic incapable of love. But then Ellie waltzed in. Innocent, optimistic, kind. She’s the opposite of what I deserve. I bought her, but she she stole my heart. Now my business is going up in flames. I have only one chance to make it right. That’s where it happens…something I can never take back...
  • 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...
  • Gold Shimmer by P.T. Michelle

    Gold Shimmer by P.T. Michelle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go to be with the man who stole your heart but doesn't know your real name? GOLD SHIMMER is the first book in Cass and Calder's epic love story in the BLACK SHADOWS duet. STEEL RUSH is the explosive conclusion to their love story and it is now available. You do not have to read books 1-3 in the IN THE SHADOWS series to enjoy GOLD SHIMMER and STEEL RUSH...
  • Nowhere to Turn by Lynette Eason

    Nowhere to Turn by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The day Danielle Harding takes her 11-year-old son, Simon, and flees from her abusive husband, is the same day Kurt Harding dies. A relieved Dani believes she and her son are finally safe--but in reality, the danger has just begun. When Kurt was alive, he took something important to a mysterious person. That person wants the item back and believes Dani now has it...
  • Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There was a time when my debt was the only link we had. There was a time when I couldn’t tell him how much I loved him and he couldn’t tell me. There was a time when I thought I could never have enough money. Now, everything is different. Nicholas Crawford is a stranger who is becoming more strange with every moment. I used to think I could make a life with him, but now I’m not so sure...
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