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  • Blood & Bones: Shade by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Shade by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A past that defined a future... Shade has a secret.One he’s hidden most of his life.Secrets created in his past.Of a broken family. A little boy lost.Of broken dreams. With only nightmares left in their wake.As a prospect, his MC nicknamed him Shady because he’s quiet and keeps to himself.As a patched member of the Blood Fury, he changed it to Shade, because that’s what he prefers..
  • Soar High by Cherise Sinclair

    Soar High by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She survived.Kit survived her abusive husband. Survived imprisonment and beatings from the Patriot Zealots. Now free and healing, she can make a new life for herself and her son…except he has attached himself to a terrifying, scarred, tattooed ex-mercenary.Women take one look at him and flee.An ugly childhood and combat left Hawk with scars, a rasping voice, and an aversion to talking...
  • Blood Vows by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Blood Vows by Cara Carnes, Shauna Kruse

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s sworn to find his son. Dallas Mason did whatever was necessary to survive his stint in black ops. While in the Collective, there was no line he wouldn’t cross, and no mission he wouldn’t take. He bedded the enemy to secure his freedom and return to his brothers and build a new life, where the lines between right and wrong are sometimes blurred, but never erased...
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    military  suspense  alpha-mc  steamy  biker  romance  war  contemporary
  • Rodeo: Time Served MC, Book 9 by Cee Bowerman

    Rodeo: Time Served MC, Book 9 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    DescriptionTyler isn’t sure of anything in his life except for how much he wants to belong, whether it’s to the group of bikers who’ve asked him to join their club as a prospect or to the little girls who need him as the steady parent in their life...
  • Bray by Maryann Jordan

    Bray by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    His mission? A leisurely, first-class train ride through the Canadian Rockies escorting a doctor who was afraid of flying.Easy. Relaxing. And if the doctor is a beautiful, funny, kind-hearted woman that makes him wish for a future he thought had been buried with his last Special Forces mission, what can go wrong?Plenty.Illegal weapons smuggler. Nefarious businessmen...
  • The Beard Made Me Do It by Lani Lynn Vale

    The Beard Made Me Do It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He’s only a friend. Those words had haunted him from the moment Jessie James had heard them muttered from the one girl, above all others, that he thought had his back. Sixteen years later, he still feels those words like a brand on his soul...
  • Mess Me Up by Lani Lynn Vale

    Mess Me Up by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Rome Pierce moved to Bear Bottom, Texas, it was his intention to lay low. To not be seen. To find a way to heal his body and soul—as well as his son’s. Nobody would know by looking at him that he used to play professional football. Not with the Bear Bottom MC cut covering his back, and definitely not with his friendly smile completely obliterated...
  • Jinx by Marie James

    Jinx by Marie James

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Fake relationships have no place in an adult’s life.Until they do.It was one kiss.One trick to convince her ex she’s in a happy relationship.One kiss is all it took.Captivated isn’t a strong enough word.Haunted is a little closer.Obsessed fits the bill.I’m obsessed with Reagan Dunn.Only Reagan isn’t looking for that happy relationship.Until she needs me to pretend again.Pretending is perfect...
  • Hound: Cerberus 2.0 Book 2 by Marie James, JA Essen

    Hound: Cerberus 2.0 Book 2 by Marie James, JA Essen

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    My first job with the Cerberus MC was to grab a girl from a seedy bar. Easy money, right? The moment I realized the blonde I was hunting wasn’t around, I ended up captivated by a redhead dancing on the stage. With her striking features and sinful body, I knew she was trouble, but that didn’t stop me from making her mine that night...
  • Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He had no complaints… Great job, great boss, great co-workers. And a best friend he’d known for years.Okay, almost no complaints… The women he dated paled in comparison to his best friend.She had a lot of complaints… A job she hated, a tyrant for a boss, working with people that got on her last nerve. And no time for love. Plus, the guys she dated couldn’t come close to her best friend...
  • Shakedown by Lani Lynn Vale

    Shakedown by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wanted: someone to hand feed me Doritos so my hands don’t get orange. No weirdos.Belle Pena was an editor. Not a writer.When her brothers challenge her to create a dating profile, she makes up the most random biography she can think of. She never, not ever, thought she’d find anybody to respond. But she was sorely mistaken...
  • Blood & Bones: Sig by Jeanne St. James

    Blood & Bones: Sig by Jeanne St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Revenge isn’t always sweet, but it sure can be satisfying... Sig never wanted to return to Manning Grove since it didn’t hold any good memories. Growing up a part of the Blood Fury MC ended up being a disaster and screwed up his life, which led to him spending most of it in and out of jail...
  • Rocket by Lilly Atlas

    Rocket by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Logan “Rocket” Carrera has a history he prefers to leave buried under prickly layers of standoffish personality. He’s seen and done things that would make most people lie awake at night. A master of compartmentalization, he’s never had trouble moving on until the night he rescues the redheaded Chloe from a sadistic gang...
  • Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tyler “Ty” Scott finally gets his book! When Cassie Dixon gets threatening letters, there’s only one person who can help - her best friend’s sexy cousin...
  • Sebastian: A Mystery Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Sebastian: A Mystery Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sebastian is a mystery romance and the fifth book in the series, For The Love Of A Good Woman. Sebastian is a standalone, but the characters from the series appear throughout all the books. A large, metal crash sounded behind me and my gaze swiveled to the fence where Maggie had just crashed through the gate. The SUV swerved wildly in front of me, acting as a barrier for the incoming bullets...
  • Law & Beard by Lani Lynn Vale

    Law & Beard by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Winnie thinks she has the perfect life. Two beautiful, healthy children. A police officer husband. A job that she loves. Oh, and let’s not forget that she’s a nationally ranked marathon runner. Fast forward six months, and her perfect life has imploded. Winnie finds herself in a completely new world, and this new world is a brutal bitch. In this new life of hers, her husband is gone...
  • It Wasn't Me by Lani Lynn Vale

    It Wasn't Me by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Piper Mackenzie first sees him shirtless, standing in front of the military plane she was about to board, with one rather large wrench in his hand. The fact that he has the plane—the one that she’s about to be flying on for hours—in pieces only minutes before she’s set to take off on it doesn’t faze her. At least not until a flippant joke about dying in mid-air leaves his lips...
  • Put Out by Lani Lynn Vale

    Put Out by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Angie is a survivor. Anything you could throw at her, she could overcome. After her father left her like a pile of unwanted trash, she began fighting. Fighting to build a life. Fighting to keep her child. Fighting to matter. She thought she had it all figured out. Then Bowen Race Tannenbaum walks into her life, turning it into a flurry of confusion, hope, and then ultimately despair...
  • Oxygen Deprived by Lani Lynn Vale

    Oxygen Deprived by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    No take-backs. That was the motto that Drew lived by in all things, including his love life. He’s a player, pure and simple. He’s learned the hard way that women aren’t all hearts and flowers. Sometimes their sexy bodies and beautiful faces are just a pretty shield to hide the crazy, and he’s so freakin’ over crazy. Been there, done that. He has the divorce papers to prove it...
  • Ain't Doin' It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Ain't Doin' It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Coke Solomon has lived a full life. He’s a retired army drill sergeant, so he is more than used to getting his way. And if he can’t have it his way? Well, let’s just say that’s never happened before… At least not until Cora Maldonado walks into his life, demanding he fall in line, or she’ll find a way to make his life hell...
  • Make Me by Lani Lynn Vale

    Make Me by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Royal St. James got her name when she was born. Not because her mother loved her royally, but because Royal was a giant pain in the ass. She’s spent her entire life fighting to live, and the last thing she needs is to deal with some pretty-boy police officer who wouldn’t know a hardship if it came up and bit him in the…you know. Justice Rector wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth...
  • Code Name: Outlaw by Janie Crouch, Josie Jade

    Code Name: Outlaw by Janie Crouch, Josie Jade

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Months trapped in the clutches of a madman made Jenna Franklin a shell of the woman she once was. All she can do now is use her computer genius from inside the safety of closed doors. Even two years later, going outside = blood-freezing panic. She’s made herself a haven in the only place she’s felt safe since her captivity: Oak Creek, Wyoming—home of her Linear Tactical friends...
  • Thunder by Lilly Atlas

    Thunder by Lilly Atlas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Makenna has a past she’d rather bury deep in her mind. Unfortunately, as the sole guardian for her five siblings, forgetting where they came from isn’t possible. All she can hope for is to provide her loved ones the kind of untroubled childhood she’d always dreamed of and keep them far away from where she grew up...
  • Bear's Beloved by Ciara St. James

    Bear's Beloved by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bear has lived more than half his life for his club. He’ll gladly do it again. He has never regretted starting this club with Bull and a few others years ago. However, seeing his brothers finding love and settling down to have families when he knows he’ll never have that is taking its toll on him. He takes off to get his head straight...
  • Omen's Entrapment by Ciara St. James

    Omen's Entrapment by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Omen’s life has never been an easy one. Growing up basically fatherless in the bayou, he knows all about hardship. When he’s old enough, he heads off to the military. He has a mom and sisters to take care of.Only things don’t turn out as planned and he loses his family. Now, he’s out of the military and looking for his place in the world...
  • Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rocky Ground by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s been hurt too many times… Single mom Tiana Fitzgerald has sworn off all romantic relationships to protect herself and her daughter. Her track record is disastrous and she’s done getting hurt. But a certain sexy Scotsman in Crimson Point has other ideas, and somehow manages to sneak past her defenses at every turn...
  • This Crazy Love by J.H. Croix

    This Crazy Love by J.H. Croix

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rule #1: Do not fall for your brother’s best friend. Rule # 2: Absolutely do not fall for your brother’s best friend. Rule # 3: Don’t break the rules. Shay Jackson Stone is hot—like burn-down-buildings kind of hot. He’s also my brother’s best friend, and the memory of one kiss with him years ago still might get to me. Maybe. But, I am not looking for a second chance...
  • The MC's Baby by A.F. Montoya

    The MC's Baby by A.F. Montoya

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I thought I had shit figured out. Watch over the MC, enjoy being single, and live my life. That was all tossed out the window when an old fling shows up to hand me a four month old she says is mine and disappears again without a trace, an explanation, or even enough diapers for the night. She doesn’t get it, I’m an MC enforcer. My life ain’t kid friendly...
  • Depends On Who's Asking by Lani Lynn Vale

    Depends On Who's Asking by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring…nope. No. Nuh-uh. That’s a lie. The moment that Caro wakes up, she knows that she’s not alone. One thump-thump from the living room and she quickly moves into action. One 9-1-1 call later, and she’s ready to defend herself...
  • Nobody Knows by Lani Lynn Vale

    Nobody Knows by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    All he ever wanted was to matter to someone.What he didn’t know was that he did matter to someone.Someone that worried about him every single day that he was gone.Malachi Gabriel Gnocchi was missing for two years. Thanks to a mission gone wrong, not only had he been captured, but his best friend along with his fellow teammates had been taken, too...
  • Officially Over It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Officially Over It by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Going from a professional baseball player to a SWAT officer should’ve been seamless. Should have been. But it wasn’t. All it took was one single calendar shoot for word to spread that Nathan Cox was not only no longer playing professional baseball, but he was also the man behind saving the life of Reggie Morton, the City of Kilgore’s princess...
  • Doin' a Dime by Lani Lynn Vale

    Doin' a Dime by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Live-in property & pet caretaker needed. Six-year minimum. Background check required. Generous compensation. Marriage of convenience required.The moment that Wyett Villin read the ad on her local community’s page, she knew that it would be perfect. It didn’t matter how big the house was, what kinds of animals she had to take care of, or what the compensation was...
  • Always Someone's Monster by Lani Lynn Vale

    Always Someone's Monster by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A few years ago, when his sister went missing, Haggard Crow turned into something he never wanted to be. A killer.Even after his sister is rescued a year after she was kidnapped and sold, Haggard ‘Thief’ Crow doesn’t have any plans on changing. He sort of likes the zero fucks given guy that he is now...
  • Inmate of the Month by Lani Lynn Vale

    Inmate of the Month by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A porn video changed his life.One second, he has an ex with an ax to grind, and the next, he’s internet famous—and definitely not in a good way. In an, it’ll ruin your career, kind of way.Only, Laric didn’t know that he was internet famous...
  • Kitty Kitty by Lani Lynn Vale

    Kitty Kitty by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is the story of a man falling in love with a woman.A man that was supposed to be a role model, and a woman that was just barely twenty-one.A man who should’ve known better, and a woman that didn’t know that she was destroying his career word by word, innocent touch by innocent touch, smile by smile, until it had already imploded...
  • Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Conjugal Visits by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Don’t ever, ever, ever go near that boy. Not unless you want to be a single mother at seventeen. That boy is Bad with a capital B.The words that my father spoke to me when it came to Trouper Aoki didn’t scare me like they probably should.In fact, they only made me intrigued all the more.When it came to Troup, there was just no resisting fate when it came to the two of us...
  • Nikolai by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Nikolai by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nikolai Volkov has been groomed to one day rule his father’s Empire. Growing up in a crime family, you don't have many options. You live and die by the Volkov name.After connecting with his half-brother in the states, Nikolai chooses to step away from family obligations, to find what he feels has been lacking his whole life...
  • Out of the Darkness by Jessica Prince

    Out of the Darkness by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The light had been snuffed out of Xander Caine’s world a long time ago, leaving him to suffer in darkness. After a tremendous loss, he closed himself off from anyone and everyone, content to live alone in the shadows. Then a woman blew into town with the force of a hurricane and shook everything up. Sage Winthrop was looking to start over...
  • Shadow: Cerberus MC Book 3 by Marie James, Kari Ayasha

    Shadow: Cerberus MC Book 3 by Marie James, Kari Ayasha

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Morrison “Shadow” Griggs, VP of the Cerberus MC, is a force to be reckoned with. Women fall at his feet, willing to do almost anything for a night with him. Misty Bowen is the exception. She’s young and impressionable, but with her religious upbringing, she’s able to resist Shadow’s advances… for a while at least...
  • Desired by Doom by Jamie Begley

    Desired by Doom by Jamie Begley

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There wasn't anything Arden wouldn't do for her family, even if it meant having to brave The Last Riders in their own clubhouse. There, she found herself thrust out of her comfort zone and seeing things that she was too shy to watch on Pay-Per-View. She needed The Last Riders' help to save her younger brother, but who was going to be the one to save her from them? One thing was for certain..
  • Warrior by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Warrior by Renee Rose, Vanessa Vale

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mistake #1: Sleeping with a friendHooking up with Quincy was a no-brainer.The sexy hot-shot Navy pilot wasn’t on my SEAL team.I thought she’d be safe for a one-night stand.Mistake #2: Letting her walk out the doorI realized too late she wasn’t a one-and-done for me.But now she thinks I’m a player. Okay, she knows I’m a player.Which is why she won’t go there with me again...
  • Maybe Swearing Will Help by Lani Lynn Vale

    Maybe Swearing Will Help by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ford Spurlock has known Ashe Trammel since they were babies.He’s also done his level best to stay away from her because every time he gets to within five feet of her, they’re fighting like cats and dogs.Ashe is the apple of her father’s eye. The motorcycle club princess that was never to be harmed in any way—or touched for that matter...
  • Lord Have Mercy by Lani Lynn Vale

    Lord Have Mercy by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Poor judgment: knowing better yet doing it anyway. Flint Stone is a professional in every way. He’s a police officer with the K-9 unit and works at Gun Barrel High as the school resource officer. In his spare time, he’s working his heart out to create a successful gym from the ground up...
  • Sinners are Winners by Lani Lynn Vale, Teddy Hamilton

    Sinners are Winners by Lani Lynn Vale, Teddy Hamilton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He saw her from across a crowded ballpark and knew she was about to change his life. Yes, he realizes just how cliché that really is, but the moment his eyes locked on her, he knew that she was the one. At least, the one that royally screwed him over...
  • Until You Can't by Brittney Sahin

    Until You Can't by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin comes a thrilling new standalone romance.She was the girl next door. His brother’s ex. And the woman he spent a decade pretending to hate . . .After twenty years of service, the Navy told me it’d be too risky to operate again, forcing me to retire as a Navy SEAL...
  • The Best Friend Zone: A Small Town Romance by Nicole Snow

    The Best Friend Zone: A Small Town Romance by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow comes an intense, heartwarming, and funny standalone read where friends-to-lovers insanity is fate for two stubborn hearts.Just friends? Is a peach pie to the face “just” a little mishap?I know what I felt the day Quinn Faulkner saved me from death by dessert.My best friend was always The One. The Impossible.Older. Flawless...
  • Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St. James

    Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Things refuse to quiet down around Tenillo for Fang and his club, the Ares Infidels MC. No matter how many bad guys they bring to justice, they find there are more in need of their kind of vigilantism. For Fang, that’s alright by him. He joins the Ares Infidels to be part of a brotherhood that’s bigger than just him and his club brothers. He joins to have a bigger family...
  • Loving at 40 by L.B. Dunbar

    Loving at 40 by L.B. Dunbar

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sexy silver alpha hero returns to his family’s lakeside cottage where there’s a single mother in his bed and her presence just might be the second chance he needs at love and family.Archer McCaryn has been a mystery to his family. At forty-five, he isn’t certain himself who he is anymore. When he returns to the family’s lakeside cottage, he finds there is someone in his garage apartment...
  • Every Promise You Made by J.E. Parker

    Every Promise You Made by J.E. Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She was his best friend's little sister...He was the boy who'd always fought to protect her. —Hope—She was his best friend's little sister...He was the boy who'd always protected her.I've loved Evan Morgan ever since I was a little girl.Growing up, he was my best friend.I thought he always would be.Turns out, I was wrong.September 30th was the day my world shattered...
  • Iron Bond by Daphne Loveling

    Iron Bond by Daphne Loveling

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ROGUEThe girl who ripped my heart out and stomped on it when we were kids just walked back into my life.Aurora Wilkins. Daughter of the richest man in Ironwood.Wealthy, hot, and untouchable.Except, I touched her.Me. The poor boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Son of her daddy’s gardener.She told me she loved me. Fool that I was, I believed her.Then, she did the one thing I could never forgive...
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