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Shattered by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWren Cunningham wants to put her past behind her when she and her teenage son move from Chicago to Georgia to start a new life away from the dark cloud they’ve been living under since Wren’s ex was sent to prison. She tells herself she only has time for her son as she builds a wall around her heart. A wall that threatens to crumble when Phoenix saves her son from a fire...Categorized as:
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Tarnished by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome men are born protectors, some are forged by the tragedies of their past, some are tempered and toughened by the atrocities they witness on the battlefield. Former Navy SEAL Logan Haines was a combination of all three. From a young age, he was taught that love hurt—it came with fists, lies, guilt, and blame... -
Adoring Delaney by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsCarter Lenox has two regrets—hesitating on a mission in Afghanistan with disastrous consequences and pushing away Delaney Walker. When he gets word the love of his life is in trouble and she needs him more than ever, the decision to go home is an easy one.Delaney Walker has loved Carter since they were children...Categorized as:
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Trusting Molly by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a heart-pounding installment in the Silverstone series about a love-shy ex-military man and a beautiful scientist reeling from a family tragedy.When Mark “Smoke” Chamberlin ventures into the Nigerian jungle with his team of government assassins, his mission is clear: get in, kill the target, and make it out alive...Categorized as:
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The Man from Sanctum by Lexi Blake
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA painful pastDeke Murphy and Maddie Hall should never have worked as a couple in high school. She was the class valedictorian and he the jock who took nothing seriously…except her. Together they formed an amazing team, and young love blossomed into something that strengthened them both. Until tragedy struck and Deke made a sacrifice that split them up forever...Categorized as:
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Finding Mercy by Riley Edwards, Lori Jackson
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"So much emotion it flew off the page and knocked the wind out of me. Finding Mercy was another great story by the absolutely brilliant Riley Edwards." Jennifer Pierson: The Power of Three Readers DEA Jason Walker became a widower at Twenty-eight. Two years later he's still torturing himself with guilt. They'd married young, and she'd been his first love, but her illness changed everything... -
Dangerous Encounter by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEverything was a lie, fake, a façade of beauty to cover the ugly truth.Sloane Ellis has a secret—actually, she has many. Working in a sex club wasn't part of her life plan, yet neither was her best friend vanishing without a trace. The club and her missing friend go hand and hand. One secret leads to another until the lies pile up... -
Finding Ashlyn by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFriends with benefits. That’s all Ashlyn wanted with Slate. They were certainly combustible in the bedroom, and that was sufficient…wasn’t it? Yes, definitely. He was too bossy. Too protective. She didn’t want someone hovering, wanting to know her every move and telling her she was too reckless. But then again, knowing someone cared enough to worry about her felt kind of nice...Categorized as:
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Giving Grace by Megyn Ward
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings...Categorized as:
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Let Me Love You by Brittney Sahin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLove is a risk for a woman in danger and a mercenary sworn to protect in a blistering novel of vengeance and redemption by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brittney Sahin. Six years ago, Maria Romano got her birthday wish—a kiss from Enzo Costa. A man she could never take her eyes off, but who seemed as haunted as her favorite book boyfriends and strictly off-limits... -
Leo by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe 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...Categorized as:
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Trusting Cassidy by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn this final installment of New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s Silverstone series, a battle-scarred assassin must rescue an old flame from ruthless drug lords.What was supposed to be a short trip to Jamaica becomes a years-long nightmare as Cassidy Hewitt and her son fall into the grip of an infamous drug kingpin... -
Trusting Taylor by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a scorching Silverstone installment that finds a former military man racing to save the woman he loves as danger closes in on them both.Former military man turned government assassin Kellan “Eagle” Trowbridge isn’t looking for love. He’d rather keep his head down at his cover job as an employee of Silverstone Towing...Categorized as:
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Dangerous Love by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDangerous Love is the latest romantic suspense thriller from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Riley Edwards. New series, new steamy, hot heroes. Welcome to Takeback.One night. No names. Two hearts forever changed.There wasn’t a lot that surprised me. My years in the Navy taught me a lot, my years hunting human traffickers taught me the rest... -
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Blaze by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKendrick and Neo's love story, plus the exciting start of the family Dorian and Ray never thought they'd have...Ivy League graduate and computer genius Kendrick Foster, aka Blaze, never expected to find himself putting down permanent roots in a tiny town in Wyoming.But family isn’t always blood, and the Linear Tactical team is very definitely his family. He’s not going anywhere... -
Finding Carly by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJag helped her take control of her life back...but someone is watching and waiting for the perfect moment to finish what her ex had started.On one unforgettable afternoon, a simple fluke kept Carly Stewart out of her crazy ex’s reach…landing her best friend in his clutches instead...Categorized as:
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Finding Lexie by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLexie Green hasn’t thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she’s more than a little shocked... -
Code Name: Outlaw by Janie Crouch, Josie Jade
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMonths 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... -
HOT Courage by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes you have to fight for what you want. Or risk losing everything you love…For elite Strike Team 2 soldier Noah Cross, everything is easy. Hell, that’s his call sign. Easy.But when he inherits a two-year-old baby girl, nothing is easy anymore... -
Johnathan the Fixer by Blue Saffire
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRoniI don't know my past, I've lost control of my future, but I have a bullet for my present. Nough said.JohnathanThat’s Roni, and that’s about as much as you will get from her. When you get to know her, you understand why. From the moment our eyes connected, I knew I’d be the one to fix what was broken. It didn’t matter that we were never supposed to see each other again... -
Rescuing Jenna by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA man who believes he’s unworthy of love. A woman determined to make him see the truth. An enemy watching from the shadows, ready to destroy them both for good. Former Marine Adrian Walker has been called a lot of things…Liar. Traitor. Murderer. Bastard. In order to keep his country safe, he had to become all those things and more. And he’s been fine with it, until now. Until her... -
Protecting Falcon by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSparks fly when opposites attract.When Hope Delancey showed kindness to another slave, she never expected it to put her in the crosshairs of a dangerous man. After weeks of being held captive she's rescued by a gruff, grumpy, intimidating soldier who obviously wishes he was anywhere but in Colombia rescuing her... -
Saving Logan by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey'll have to trust each other if they want to survive. When Claire Barrett decided to dedicate her life to helping those who serve in the military deal with the horrors they experience, the last thing she expected was that she would wind up lost in the middle of Afghanistan. The only other survivor of the helicopter crash is a sexy SEAL with dark, empty eyes... -
Pearl's Fight by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTheir anger will either bring them together or destroy what could have been. Pearl Smith is angry at the world. Stolen as a baby and raised under torturous conditions now she uses those same skills to save other innocents, but it doesn't abate her anger. Nothing does, until a random encounter with a DEA Agent...Categorized as:
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Billionaire Unclaimed: Chase by J.S. Scott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe's an investigative journalist in trouble. He's a billionaire CEO who has sworn off women for the foreseeable future, but has the ability to save her. They're two people who belong together and never really recognize it until the unthinkable happens!I've known Chase Durand since childhood. He's drop-dead gorgeous, sophisticated, ridiculously wealthy, and wildly intelligent...Categorized as:
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Scooter by Marie James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI’m no one’s savior. I work with the Cerberus MC for the thrills, not for the glory. Saving people who’ve been trafficked is just a side benefit, coming in second to the adrenaline rush of eradicating some of the evil in the world. Mia Vazquez didn’t seem to get the memo. When I pulled her out of Hell, she wouldn’t let go... -
Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCan she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again... -
Protecting Dove by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe saw her at her most vulnerable and she never wanted to see him again.Dove Oswald never expected to come face to face with the man who saved her life ever again. Nor did she expect him to save her a second time. Surprised by the spark of attraction between them, when she realizes he's hiding something she's determined to figure out what it is...Categorized as:
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Black Knight (A Black's Bandits Novel): HOT Heroes for Hire: Mercenaries by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe doesn’t know who she is… or why someone’s trying to kill her.When hardened mercenary Jared Fraser finds a woman bleeding in the snow outside his remote cabin, he takes her in and patches her up, intending to get her back to her life and out of his as quickly as possible.But Liberty King is a special case... -
The Hacker by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe’s accidentally pregnant and someone is trying to kill her…and now her one-night-stand is her fierce protector.Helicopter pilot Maggie Lopez is focused on building her helicopter and drone photography business—and she has the loans to prove it...Categorized as:
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Tyler by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSometimes, the biggest secrets can bring both salvation and destruction.Emerson Charles grew up luckier than most, going from a difficult life to finding safety and a true home with her stepmother and stepbrother. Years later, when Levi's in trouble, Emerson will do anything for the brother of her heart, her greatest protector...Categorized as:
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Ultimate Risk by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey'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... -
Saving Charlie by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSuffering recognizes suffering.Faith Johnson is the only surviving victim of an international serial killer. She survived weeks in his torture room and when she escapes she thought the hard part of her ordeal was over. She was wrong. The hard part was only just beginning... -
A Hero's Chance by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRyan Coates does it all.Single dad with an ex who needs a reminder to spend time with their kids. Chief of the Baytown Station of the Virginia Marine Police. Sergeant at Arms for the local American Legion. Son. Brother. Coach. Friend.What he’s not doing is looking for a woman to add to his already busy life.Then he met her. Again.She’s the new doctor in town. And she remembers Ryan...Categorized as:
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Saving Grayson by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's her only hope of escaping the man she's been sold to.Juliet York has lived under her father's thumb her entire life, but when he blackmails her into agreeing to marry a man she doesn't know, she realizes if she doesn't run now she'll spend the rest of her life with an abusive sociopath... -
Ethan’s Obsession by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA former SEAL who wants what he can’t have. An artist who’s afraid to follow her heart. Danger lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect time to strike. Ethan “Apollo” McAllister’s world is filled with controlled chaos. As a former Navy SEAL and member of Tac-Ops, he’s used to running headfast into danger. He’s also damn good at keeping secrets... -
The Last Good Knight (The Original Sinners Pulp Library) by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 8th Circle - Three years before The Siren When Mistress Nora, newly separated from her lover Søren, encounters a sexy newcomer at the 8th Circle it is lust at first sight. But when their session is cut short by Kingsley Edge, Nora vows to seduce the gorgeous submissive, even if it goes against all of Kingsley's orders. The Last Good Knight is an Original Sinners novella told in five parts... -
Sybil’s Protector by Ellie Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSYBIL Falling for my Protector might cost me my life. I was abducted and shipped out, meant to be sold. My freedom stolen. My body no longer mine. My life…over. Or so I thought. The Guardians swooped in. They saved me from a living Hell, but my life is still in danger. The men who took me want me back. They’re out there, hunting me. Once again, the Guardians step up... -
Taking a Risk: Part Two by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsR.I.S.C. (Rescue, Intel, Security, & Capture): An elite, private security team who will stop at nothing to protect the ones they love. The highly anticipated romantic suspense series by debut author, Anna Blakely. >HE LIED TO PROTECT HER It’s been two months since Jake McQueen walked away from the woman he loves. With the other members of R.I.S.C...Categorized as:
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Montana Silence by Josie Jade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRaised in a cult where opinions and freedom in women were not tolerated, Mara Greene narrowly escaped a life as a child bride—one where she would’ve been shared and owned by all the men in the compound.Her testimony helped put the cult leader in prison, but she’s never truly gotten past the horrors inflicted on her... -
Hot & Bothered by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe 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...Categorized as:
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Blake by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA past that can't be changed. A future as uncertain as their relationship.Willow Foster has been a single mother for most of her young daughter's life, ever since the girl's father-a man Willow thought she'd be with forever-inexplicably disappeared. Now, just as mysteriously, he's back, living in Cradle Mountain, Idaho...Categorized as:
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Nailed Down by Chelle Bliss, Eden Butler
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKit Carlyle isn’t just some woman. Beautiful? Yep. Seductive? Damn straight. She’s also my best friend…and my co-worker. But, hell, I’m a guy with a pulse. Every once in a while, I take a look and think filthy things about her that maybe I shouldn’t. But when her cousin dies and leaves her with a long as hell and sexy bucket list, Kit turns to me for a helping hand...Categorized as:
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Savage Risk by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHER SAVAGE NEED FOR JUSTICE MAY END UP COSTING HER EVERYTHINGWhen the serial killer who has taunted Detective Riley York for years suddenly reemerges in her new city, she vows to take him down for good. With her partner by her side, Riley will risk everything for one final chance to see justice served.Until now, Eric West has kept his burgeoning feelings for his partner close to the vest... -
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Castle Scarlet by Suzanne Halliday
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt started with a piece of red plastic in a wallet. No lettering – only a barcode. Welcome to the world of Castle Scarlet Go along with Roman Bishop and his curious fiancée, Kelly as they explore the sinful delights available at his exclusive and very secret sex club...Categorized as:
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Seconds by Freya Barker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove, life…death—a few seconds can change everything. I’m a criminal defense lawyer determined to build my own firm from the ground up. My ex, the new prosecutor, complicates things; especially when the animosity between us infects the whole courtroom. Then I meet Callum—my brother’s friend, a bounty hunter, and the accused in my new case. The charge—sexual battery... -
Condor's Vow by Maddie Wade
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe hunts serial killers, she saves lives. When their worlds collide, he must use all his skills to save her from becoming a killer’s prey.Clay ‘Condor’ East was ready for a change and heading up a new serial killer task force, Ryoshi Delta, was just the challenge he needed... -
Reluctant Renegade by Garrett Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“I was never scared of dying until I loved you.”The shy single dad and the gentle assassin. Domestic bliss and a bloodthirsty revenge mission battle it out in the emotional fifth instalment of the bestselling Rebel Kings MC series.DecoyI met a dude in a bar once. Tall and strong, he had moon-blue eyes and tawny hair, and he moved with the grace of a lion... -
Black Hearted by Julie Ann Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s everything she ever wanted. She’s everything he never knew he needed. Can she convince him she’s the one?The Black Knights are back and better than ever!Samuel Harwood has spent his entire career working in the black and gray areas of international intrigue. Living in the shadows for so long has made him forget who he was and where he came from...Categorized as:
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Back in Black by Julie Ann Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA secret identity mixed in with forced proximity on top of red-hot chemistry? What could go wrong? The Black Knights are back and better than ever! FBI agent Grace Beacham is on the run. After an operation to bring down a Russian disinformation campaign goes sideways and ends in her partner’s death, the Kremlin has sent its most notorious assassin to kill her...
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