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  • Shielding Sierra by Susan Stoker

    Shielding Sierra by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sierra Clarkson thought she’d found the perfect way to serve her country without having to join the military...until she was kidnapped right from the base in Afghanistan she was working on. Even worse, no one knew she’d been taken and no one was looking for her. Except someone was. The tall, very confident in himself, Delta Force soldier she’d met one day on base a year or so ago...
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    dark  kidnapping  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Maximus by Riley Edwards, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What happens when a woman who’s done the unthinkable needs protection—can a man who’s lost his belief in humanity keep her safe? Max Brown doesn’t trust anyone but his team. The former SEAL learned early in life that people let you down—they lie, they steal, and they lie some more. Love is a word that is used to manipulate. Family is meaningless. Max is an island and he prefers it that way...
  • Owen by Riley Edwards

    Owen by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Owen 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...
  • Securing Avery by Susan Stoker

    Securing Avery by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Navy Nurse Avery Nelson never dreamed she’d be taken hostage during her deployment in Afghanistan. She’s assisting local women with healthcare, not fighting in a war. But digging her way out of her would-be grave turns out to be the battle of her life...
  • Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Phoenix by Teagan Brooks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Phoenix I met the love of my life when I was 17 years old. She was my best friend, my love, my soulmate. Even at such a young age, we had a solid plan for our future. I would join the Marines after graduation. We would get married after my first deployment. When my time with Marines was up, we would start a family. But that’s not what happened...
  • Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Tickle His Fancy by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    All around him, Brody ‘Egghead’ Evans’ Trident Security teammates have fallen in love and gotten their happily ever after. Ironically, they had always thought the charismatic Dominant would be the first one to fall—not the last...
  • Freedom by J.L. Drake

    Freedom by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rain pelted my face as I pushed through the roar of the storm. Deep in the belly of Mexico, my team and I were on the hunt. One of the cartel’s mules flipped and wanted a ticket to freedom. The information they held could be our game-changer. Returning home to a civilian lifestyle was always an adjustment, even if it was temporary...
  • Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Hell on Wheels by Penny Dee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I left here a man but came back a beast CHANCE A shoulder-fired missile broke my body. But betrayal obliterated my heart. For months I lingered in and out of hell until my body healed. Now I’m back in town with my club brothers. But I am still fighting a war of darkness in my head and I can’t see a way out...
  • Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Discovering your ex is a serial-killing religious zealot would put anyone off dating for a good long while. That’s where Hudson “Taco” Vines’s head is at when he meets Koren, a woman who looks a little too much like his ex for comfort. But he can’t deny their attraction, and the more he gets to know her, the more Taco realizes how different Koren is from his ex, in all the best ways...
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    crime  dark  war  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • Black Heart by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Heart by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s untouchable. Unbreakable. She plans to destroy him.Former CIA agent Ian Black has done terrible deeds. Sacrificed his honor and reputation for God and country. He’s a fighter and a survivor. His mission is to rid the world of scumbags who prey on innocent people.No price is too high, and no one crosses him. Not for long, anyway...
  • Black Dawn by Cristin Harber

    Black Dawn by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Parker Black wants the one woman he shouldn’t have—his buddy’s girl. She sweet and smart, but clueless about how deep Parker lives in Titan’s virtual world. Everything is controlled. Chaos is mastered with data and risk analysis. That is the way he understands his world, how he plays his role to keep Titan teams alive. But he’s wrong. About everything. Lexi Dare lives two lives...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Joseph by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ember Harris has sworn to save lives. Joseph King is an assassin. Death is their common ground, only they stand on opposing sides. A dead man’s plea pushes Dr. Ember Harris headfirst into a swirling mire of drugs, death and political corruption. The Cartel boss who murdered Ember’s friend will stop at nothing to get the information entrusted to her...
  • Defending Morgan by Susan Stoker

    Defending Morgan by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Protection leads to passion in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s dangerously hot Mountain Mercenaries adventure.Dispatched to the Dominican Republic to rescue a kidnapped child, former Navy SEAL Archer “Arrow” Kane makes a startling discovery: another hostage—Morgan Byrd, a very beautiful and very well-known missing person who disappeared off the streets of Atlanta a year ago...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • Torment by Chloe Walsh

    Torment by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    * A heavyweight title up for grabs * * A family to protect * * Enemies closing in * With a baby on the way and a mob family hot on his heels, Noah must once again dust off his gloves and fight. This time, there's more on the line than ever before. With his best friend dead and the career he worked so hard to build crumbling around him, Noah must make some unfavorable decisions...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  war  angst  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Delta: Revenge by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Tortured Hero with a Heart of Gold Growing up on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Javier Almeida has only his older sister to protect him. When she’s sold to a human-trafficker, he vows to hunt down those responsible. Years later, Titan Group’s Delta team finds him, tattooed and brawling, a vigilante protector with information they want...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  war  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book
  • Locke and Key by Cristin Harber

    Locke and Key by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Standalone Romantic Suspense novel from the NYT Bestselling author of the Titan Series... THE STOIC SPECIAL FORCES OPERATOR There’s only one person to blame for darkening the last years of Locke Oliver’s military career: Cassidy Noble. And damn if he doesn’t have to save her from the side of a frozen mountain. Even after the job is done, he can’t shake the woman from his thoughts...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Watching from the Shadows by Samantha A. Cole

    Watching from the Shadows by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The Sexy Six-Pack is back! Retired Navy SEAL, Marco DeAngelis, is now an operative at Trident Security. He’s also a Dominant in the BDSM lifestyle. After a poor childhood, he is determined to stay single and childless for the rest of his life. But unbeknownst to him, one night of shared grief and comfort with his deceased sister’s best friend changes that forever...
  • Jax by Cristin Harber

    Jax by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Seven is an enigma. A motorcycle club princess. The daughter of a notorious gangster. The best friend of the deputy mayor. A coffee shop owner. The single mom of two young, adopted children...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  war  action-adventure  adult  audiobook  book
  • Storm by Janie Crouch

    Storm by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Breathe in. Breathe out. Survive.Marilyn Ellis is finally putting her life back together. The domestic abuse she suffered may be labeled textbook by therapists, but it’s the parts she’s never told anyone that haunt her.She refuses to get trapped in that hell ever again...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  book  bullying
  • Dangerous Games by J.T. Geissinger

    Dangerous Games by J.T. Geissinger

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The epic conclusion to the thrilling Dangerous Beauty series. The game isn’t over until somebody dies. Eva knows what it’s like to be imprisoned by a man’s twisted obsessions. But after running, hiding, and finding refuge in a rescuer’s arms, she’s suddenly pulled back into the black hole of her past...
  • Tame: Carter Kids #3 by Chloe Walsh

    Tame: Carter Kids #3 by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Noah and Teagan are back! Through prison sentences, misunderstandings, death threats and criminal encounters, Teagan and Noah have somehow managed to find their way back to each other. Traveling the country together, partying it up in hotel rooms, and causing drama wherever they go, the fiery couple are completely invested in making their fickle relationship work this time around...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  war  alpha-mc  angst  audiobook  book
  • Blame It on the Pain by Ashley Jade

    Blame It on the Pain by Ashley Jade

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Pain. It hurts us. It pushes us. It punishes us. Or, for the few poor souls out there like me...it defines us. I'm not a good person. There are no redeeming qualities about me...not anymore. Any that I had, I'd given to the devil on the night that changed everything. The night my baby sister died. The night I murdered her killer. Yes, I've taken a life..
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  war  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • FREE - A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    FREE - A Black Ops Romance by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He was my first love… I wanted him to follow his dreams. I wanted him to escape the life he hated. I thought I was doing the right thing by not telling him how I truly felt. Until it was too late, and my silence turned into my biggest regret. Twelve years ago, Shane Owings died, taking my heart with him. I was left devastated and broken hearted...
  • Ultimate Risk by Anna Blakely

    Ultimate Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They've been partners for years. As Alpha Team's two snipers, Sean "Coop" Cooper and McKenna "Mac" Kelley have worked side-by-side for years...as partners and friends. What happens when one partner wants to become more? When Mac's past catches up to her, she's pulled back into the dark, ugly world she escaped from years ago...
  • The Ghost: A Bratva Blood Novella by SR Jones

    The Ghost: A Bratva Blood Novella by SR Jones

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Andrius:In order to ensure my wife can live freely and safely, I might be about to blow up my marriage.War is coming though, and sometimes the only thing you can do is head into battle. This time, my enemies won't see me coming. I'll slip into their lives like a ghost, and leave them devastated. I must hope and pray that when I return to my own life, my wife will still be waiting for me...
  • Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Outside of Titan Group, there are few people that Roman Hart would die for. He’s a soldier, a protector, and he’s haunted that one of the people he should’ve been able to protect didn’t let him. That was years ago, and now a hardened heart and a cocky attitude are his impenetrable shields, until one woman—one challenge—drives him to distraction.On the outside, Beth Tourne has it all...
  • Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Kason “Benny” Sawyer was the last single man on his Navy SEAL team. He loved his teammates like brothers and respected each and every one of their women. They’d all been through hell and they deserved their current happiness. But seeing the love between his friends and their women made it tough to be the odd man out all the time. Jessyka Allen had a good life, until it wasn’t anymore...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  war  abuse  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc
  • Missing Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Missing Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With her mentor on his way in from overseas, Lexi is ready to join the team to take down Hydra. Kidnapped and taken to a Honduran prison. Lexi must risk everything to stay alive...
  • Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Out by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Book 3 in the Black's Bandits series! This book is about Colt and Angie...
  • Live Wire by Cristin Harber

    Live Wire by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Titan Group is expanding. New recruits mean Jared Westin has potential new hires to scrutinize. What he didn’t expect was his very pregnant wife Sugar to finagle her way onto the surveillance team as the prospects were assessed. Her involvement in the simple observation goes dangerously wrong. She and best friend Lexi Black stumble into a problem with Russian mobsters...
  • Hot & Bothered by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot & Bothered by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He can never have her. Having her means the end of his career in the Hostile Operations Team. But when he learns she’s carrying his child, he’ll have to make a choice… Ryan “Flash” Gordon has been drawn to Emily Royal bin Yusuf since the first moment he met her. But she’s a terrorist’s widow, which means she’s completely off-limits...
  • His Angel by Samantha A. Cole

    His Angel by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The 'Sexy Six-Pack' is back! The men of Trident Security are ex- Navy SEALs, hardened warriors with hearts of gold. Angelina 'Angie' Beckett has been waiting a long time for Mister Right. Unfortunately, all her boyfriends have turned out to be Mr. Wrong. None of them have been able to hold her interest for long and give her what she craves in a relationship...
  • Sin With Me by Delaney Foster

    Sin With Me by Delaney Foster

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Makenna Taylor and Reid Landry are high school sweethearts. He was her first. Her only. They had life all planned out. Right down to the white picket fence and 2.5 kids. Then Reid joined the Marines, and from that day forward, life as Makenna knew it would never be the same. She thought it was just another part time job waiting tables while she worked her way through college...
  • Jacob by Kris Michaels

    Jacob by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In a world of shadows, smoke, and covert black op missions—where people vanish and living one more day is never a given—falling in love is the last thing Victoria and Jacob expected. Victoria Marshall didn't cooperate by dying in the Afghani hell-hole like the CIA expected...
  • Finding My Bodyguard by A. Blossom

    Finding My Bodyguard by A. Blossom

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Claim my heart and protect me like a bodyguard.Protection. Monroe Iris has lived her entire life seeking it. She longs to have a safe space to fall in love—to be vulnerable. She’s surrounded by things and people that were put in place to fill her with security but has none. Her entire life has been molded around being the perfect wife for an imperfect man...
  • Targeted Risk by Anna Blakely

    Targeted Risk by Anna Blakely

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    HE'LL TRUDGE THROUGH THE DEPTHS OF HELL JUST TO KEEP HER SAFE.Returning to the dangerous world of deep cover is the last thing Mike Bradshaw—former Delta Force operator and newest member of R.I.S.C.’s Alpha Team—wants to do. But just when he thinks he’s finished with covert life for good, Mike discovers the woman he left behind—the woman he still loves—is in danger...
  • The War of Gods by Con Template

    The War of Gods by Con Template

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Before the changing of tides, there is always silence. A prolonged silence to warn people about what’s coming, an insufferable silence that promises pain, and an epic silence that guarantees an event that will carve itself into history. For Choi Yoori, the changing of her tides has started...
  • Defending Sophie - Special Forces: Operation Alpha by P.J. Fiala

    Defending Sophie - Special Forces: Operation Alpha by P.J. Fiala

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Accused of murder and on the run, Sophie must turn to the one man she could never have. Investigating her friend’s suspicious death, Sophie’s only source of information turns up dead - and she’s the prime suspect. Forced into hiding, she turns to her brother’s best friend to help keep her alive, clear her name, and find the killer before she becomes the next victim...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  war  action-adventure  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • The Protective SEAL by Katie Knight, Leslie North

    The Protective SEAL by Katie Knight, Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jack Williams has never felt so lost. For him, being a Navy SEAL wasn’t just a job, it was a way of life. Protecting people had always been his strength, until a career-ending injury forced him into retirement. He’s struggling to start over when he stumbles across a car in a ditch, springing him back into action. Only this is no random citizen in distress...
  • Destructive by Jay McLean

    Destructive by Jay McLean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some villains are made.  Some villains are born.  And some villains aren’t villains at all.  
 Nate DeLuca was born into a life he didn’t want. Forced to walk a path that was already chosen for him.  Grandson to a mob boss, he’s forever torn between his duty, his honor, his legacy, and the truth.  But the truth is never simple, and it’s not at all what it seems...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  war  abuse  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • The Commander by Melanie Moreland

    The Commander by Melanie Moreland

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Men of Hidden JusticeBecause love can bleed into the darkest heartMy instincts had always served me well.Listening to my gut, the warning voice in my head that told me when to walk away.I never failed to heed the signs.Until the day she walked into my office.I knew she would be trouble, but I ignored the alarm bells.And then it was too late, and I fell. Hard...
  • Road To Ruin by Callie Hart, Jonny James

    Road To Ruin by Callie Hart, Jonny James

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Malicious Destruction of Property. Two counts of breaking and entering. Two counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance. Four counts of assault. Three counts of illegal gambling. Three years served in Orleans Parish Prison. Tommy ‘Havoc’ Kendrick’s rap sheet reads like a recipe for disaster: one part mayhem to three parts chaos...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  organized-crime  war  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • Let Freedom Ring by Weston Parker

    Let Freedom Ring by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’m falling for the one guy my father absolutely hates.A Navy SEAL with thick shoulders, dimples, and a wicked grin. Too bad he’s a complete alpha-hole. I shouldn’t be spending my time daydreaming about all the ways he could make me blush, but I can’t help myself.Besides, it’s finally summer. My pre-med classes are done, and the beach in Cali is calling my name...
  • Nikolai: What's Left Of Me by Shandi Boyes

    Nikolai: What's Left Of Me by Shandi Boyes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Blurb to come. . .The gripping third and final installment in the Russian Mob Chronicles.Author Warning: Due to adult content this book is not recommended for those under the age of 18...
  • Black Tie by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Tie by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Abducted while on a business trip to Europe, Tallie Grant quickly realizes she’s a commodity to be sold—and there’s no way out. Determined not to surrender to the man who buys her, she’ll soon discover he’s not what he seems. Mercenary Brett Wheeler has one task: infiltrate a human trafficking operation and get as much information as possible...
  • Saving Ryder by Jane Blythe, Operation Alpha

    Saving Ryder by Jane Blythe, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's left her twice before why should she believe this time is any different? Abigail McNamara feels like she always has to prove herself and could never live up to her family's expectations. Her grandfather was a SEAL, her father was a SEAL, her brother is a SEAL, and, oh yeah, her brother's ridiculously hotter than hot hunkalicious best friend is also a SEAL...
  • Cry for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Cry for Me by Kay Elle Parker

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alabama-born Anarchy might be able to hide her southern accent, but she can't hide her feelings for Avalon's resident sadist.Everyone, it seems, knows how much she loves Jasper, including the man himself, but that doesn't stop the pain of the axe falling on her dreams with a sharpened blade...
  • Dark Destiny by Bec Botefuhr

    Dark Destiny by Bec Botefuhr

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    You were with Willow and Jagger when they found their happily ever after in Dark Endings. You felt their love. You felt their relief, but what you didn't feel, was the pain they left tucked inside. Jagger killed his own father, he suffered on an island alone being forced to fight to save his life. Now, the memories are catching up on him. The reality is haunting him. He's becoming numb...
    Categorized as:
    crime  dark  kidnapping  organized-crime  war  adult  alpha-mc  angst
  • Sweet One by Cristin Harber

    Sweet One by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Cash is alive. But who knows how bad he’s hurt. There was an explosion, and he won’t wake up. It’s the phone call the any Titan wife dreads, and the one that brings Nicola Garrison to her knees in tears. Crying and praying for Cash to wake up, she has one secret to tell him and now it might be too late. “I’m pregnant. You’re going to be a daddy...
  • Redeeming Justice by Suzanne Halliday

    Redeeming Justice by Suzanne Halliday

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes …Happily Ever After comes with a price Alex Marquez wears many hats. Sometimes he’s the slightly patrician Don of a family with deep Spanish roots. Other times he’s a brilliant tech-God and CEO of an exclusive security agency. He’s also a boss, a musician, and a fierce friend...
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