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  • Axel by Christy Barritt

    Axel by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Women are missing. Private security firm Blackout must find them before another victim disappears.Axel Hendrix likes to live on the edge. That’s why being a Navy SEAL suited him so well. But after his last mission, he cut his losses and joined Blackout instead. His team’s latest case involves an undercover investigation on Lantern Beach...
  • White Lines by Tracy Brown

    White Lines by Tracy Brown

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother's boyfriend. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn't save her from a crack addiction...
  • When a Secret Kills by Lynette Eason

    When a Secret Kills by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Investigative reporter Jillian Carter knows it's time to put the past to rest. She's tired of looking over her shoulder, letting a killer go free. She's no longer the scared kid who changed her name and disappeared. Now, no matter what the cost, Jillian must do what she is trained to do--ferret out the truth and expose it...
  • Night Prey by Susan Sleeman

    Night Prey by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She lived for upholding the law…Defense attorney, Malone Rice, doesn’t want to go to her fifteen year class reunion. Attending means running into her former high school flame, now Portland police detective, Ian Blair. But when the committee decides to honor her for her pro-bono work with homeless teens, she knows it would be churlish not to attend. She will have to go and make the best of it...
  • One Last Chance by Susan May Warren

    One Last Chance by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Axel Mulligan was built to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. He swam fast and endured long, a miracle for those in peril--until a tragedy sent him home to Alaska. Now, three years later, he's not going to let the past repeat itself. As an Air One rescue swimmer, he'll do anything to save lives--including sacrifice his own...
  • The Family Business by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    The Family Business by Carl Weber, Eric Pete

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life! Carl Weber and Eric Pete deliver a thrilling underworld drama in The Family Business.L.C. Duncan, patriarch of the family, is at the age when he’s starting to think about retirement in sunny Florida...
  • In Too Deep by Lynn H. Blackburn

    In Too Deep by Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the dive team is called in to recover a body from a submerged car, they aren't prepared to find an encrypted laptop--or an unsettling connection between investigator Adam Campbell and the dead accountant. Adam turns to his friend Dr. Sabrina Fleming--a professor at the local university with unparalleled computer security and forensics skills--to recover the files from the laptop...
  • A Heart Divided by Iris Bolling

    A Heart Divided by Iris Bolling

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Attorney General, J.D. Harrison is the leading candidate to become Governor and eventually President of the United States. He has a beautiful wife, two wonderful children and a promising political career ahead of him. However, he has a nemesis that will go to any length to destroy the Harrison's family-including murder. A Heart Divided continues the journey towards the White House for J.D...
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    black-mc  poc-mc  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  mystery  romance
  • Wreathed in Disgrace by Robin Patchen

    Wreathed in Disgrace by Robin Patchen

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A famous actress, a protective bodyguard, a festive Christmas season, and a killer...or two...on the loose.Everybody believes movie star Denise Masters abandoned her family to pursue her dream, but the truth is much more complex. For years, she's longed to return to Coventry to repair her relationship with her daughter, but contractual obligations--and fear of being rejected--have kept her away...
  • Five Years in Yemen: A Titus Ray Thriller by Luana Ehrlich

    Five Years in Yemen: A Titus Ray Thriller by Luana Ehrlich

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A CIA contractor goes missing in Iraq. Five years later, he turns up in Yemen. Now, it’s up to Titus to find out if he’s a traitor or a patriot. After Titus accepts an assignment to bring rogue CIA contractor Jacob Levin back to the States, he learns the operation has been put on hold pending Presidential approval. That’s fine with him...
  • Refuge of Redemption: The Colsons by Christy Barritt

    Refuge of Redemption: The Colsons by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Home is a place of refuge—unless it’s a serial killer’s playground. For years, residents of Fog Lake thought of Bear Colson as the son of an infamous serial killer. But Bear stood his ground, determined not to be driven away. Now, new evidence has emerged that could clear his father’s name, and Bear sets out to use his skills as a computer forensics expert to find the killer’s real identity...
  • Capturing Sosimo: A Sweet Romantic Suspense by Sara Blackard

    Capturing Sosimo: A Sweet Romantic Suspense by Sara Blackard

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A billionaire inventor hiding her identity. An ex-soldier determined to protect her. Will her lies compromise their chance at love?There’s nothing Sosimo Rivas hates more than liars.But in his new job with Stryker Security Force as private protection for the rich, he sees his fair share of them. Sosimo spends most of his time working on old engines and keeping their clients safe...
  • Cold Fury by Susan Sleeman

    Cold Fury by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Five years ago tragedy tore them apart… Forensic anthropologist Maggie Turner happily works as an assistant professor at her local university and lives a quiet life near campus. That is until Jackson Lockhart enters her classroom. Then a cyclone of emotions erupt as she remembers the tragedy that once tore them apart...
  • Cold Fear by Susan Sleeman

    Cold Fear by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A shared past…Riley Glen’s former girlfriend, recording artist Leah Kent, is performing at a summer concert nearby and calls to tell him she’s in danger and needs his help. After the concert, he discovers her bending over a girl’s dead body, and the girl has Leah’s name freshly tattooed on her wrist. Leah claims she just found the body and didn’t have anything to do with the murder...
  • In Harm's Way by Irene Hannon

    In Harm's Way by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    How can she expect anyone to believe her... when she can hardly believe it herself? FBI special agent Nick Bradley has seen his share of kooks during his fifteen years with the Bureau. But Rachel Sutton is an enigma. She seems normal when she shows up at his office... until she produces a tattered Raggedy Ann doll and tells him about a strange feeling of terror it gives her when she touches it...
  • Breaker's Reef by Terri Blackstock

    Breaker's Reef by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene...
  • Second Time Sweeter by Beverly Jenkins

    Second Time Sweeter by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a new heartwarming novel set in Henry Adams, Kansas. Malachi “Mal” July has run into trouble in the past. With a reputation as a player, he’s now a recovering alcoholic and has made progress in redeeming himself in the eyes of his family and the citizens of Henry Adams, Kansas...
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    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  family
  • Margin of Error by Christy Barritt

    Margin of Error by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some secrets have deadly consequences. Brynlee Parker thought her biggest challenge would be hiking to Dead Man’s Bluff and fulfilling her dad’s last wishes. She never thought she’d witness two men being viciously murdered while on a mountainous trail. Even worse, the deadly predator is now hunting her. Boone Wilder wants nothing to do with Dead Man’s Bluff, not after his wife died there...
  • Deadly Intentions by Lisa Harris

    Deadly Intentions by Lisa Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Research scientist Caitlyn Lindsey is convinced that someone is taking out her team one by one. First, a friend and research partner was killed in a home invasion. Three months ago, her boss died in a suspicious car accident. Four days ago, another partner supposedly committed suicide. And now Caitlyn herself has miraculously survived a hit-and-run...
  • Wreckless Love by Nina.

    Wreckless Love by Nina.

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rushon “Wreck” Porter, the second oldest of the Porters has found love in all the wrong places until he meets Gia. One night of partying turned into a two-year love affair that had just as many ups as downs. Wreck didn’t think this sweet college girl would even know pain until he got to know her...
  • Distorted by Christy Barritt

    Distorted by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mallory Baldwin is a survivor. A former victim of human trafficking, she’s been given a second chance, yet not a night goes by that she doesn’t remember being a slave to weapons dealer Dante Torres. Despite being afraid of the dark and wary of strangers, Mallory is trying to rebuild her life by turning her tragedy into redemption...
  • Dark Ambitions by Irene Hannon

    Dark Ambitions by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently--leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isn't convinced...
  • Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines

    Black Girl Lost by Donald Goines

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In this shocking novel of a young girl alone on the streets, Goines delves into yet another facet of the ghetto experience-the dark, despair-ridden world of a black girl s soul! Sandra took to the streets when she was eight years old and tried to fight off the hunger pangs by shoplifting and moving into the profits of drug pushing. The she met Chink and discovered love and affection..
  • Sweet on You by Becky Wade

    Sweet on You by Becky Wade

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Britt Bradford and Zander Ford have been the best of friends since they met thirteen years ago. Unbeknown to Britt, Zander has been in love with her for just as long.Independent and adventurous Britt channels her talent into creating chocolates at her hometown shop. Zander is a bestselling author who's spent the past 18 months traveling the world...
  • Reno Gabrini: For His Lover by Mallory Monroe

    Reno Gabrini: For His Lover by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reno Gabrini, the longtime owner of the PaLargio Hotel and Casino on the Vegas Strip, faces his toughest foes yet when he has to face the ghosts of his past. Just when he thought life was sailing right along, and his family were all making their own dreams come true, the sins of his past come back with a vengeance and seek to dismantle all that he holds dear...
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    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous bad boy Mick Sinatra is in a good place in his life. His beautiful, African-American wife has been offered a starring role at a theater on London’s famed West End. His son, Teddy, has taken over the day-to-day running of his ruthless crime family. His daughter, Gloria, has learned the error of her ways...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Reno and Trina: In the Shadows of Love by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Reno Gabrini and his beautiful African-American wife Trina wheel and deal in Vegas as he runs the mighty PaLargio Hotel and Casino and she runs a high-end clothing store. But everything changes for them when lies are spread about romantic entanglements and their son is victimized...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Mick Sinatra 6: Now Will You Weep by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 6: Now Will You Weep by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Gorgeous gangster Mick Sinatra has recovered from the vicious attack that nearly took him out, but the organizations that spearheaded his downfall are still up and running. His own organization is fractured and bleeding and his ability to maintain control is questioned. He knows he must trust no man, he must verify everything, and he must fight to the death to reassert his dominance...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Mick Sinatra 4: If You Don't Know Me By Now by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 4: If You Don't Know Me By Now by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Heartthrob mobster Mick Sinatra is on a roll. It’s six weeks after the birth of his twins. His beautiful African-American wife is enjoying success in her business unlike she’d ever had before, and they both are looking forward to success in the bedroom after six weeks of abstinence. His grown children are all working for him, with Teddy Sinatra as his new enforcer...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  crime  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  female-mc
  • Sal Gabrini 4: I'll Take You There by Mallory Monroe

    Sal Gabrini 4: I'll Take You There by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It should have been the best time of his life. Italian tough guy and business mogul Sal Gabrini asks his beautiful African-American girlfriend, criminal defense attorney Gemma Jones, to marry him. And she says yes. But the world around them says no. No to their happiness. No to their union. No to any peace for either one of them...
    Categorized as:
    black-mc  crime  legal  poc-mc  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary
  • Who the Bishop Knows by Vannetta Chapman

    Who the Bishop Knows by Vannetta Chapman

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What You Don't See Might Hurt You Every year, residents of the small Amish community in Monte Vista, Colorado, look forward to the Ski Hi Stampede, the state's oldest professional rodeo. The rodeo is always good, clean entertainment for the hardworking farmers of the San Luis Valley. But this year, the Stampede turns deadly for one Amish man...
  • Guarding Grace by Ann Omasta, Sweet Promise Press

    Guarding Grace by Ann Omasta, Sweet Promise Press

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The puppy that stole their hearts is missing! Grace Wilson loves the wonderful life she has created with her daughter, Clover, in picturesque Redwood Cove, California--even if she is a bit lonely. When sweet Clover asks her mom for a "Golden Wetweevuh" puppy, Grace decides they might just have room in their hearts for a lovable and fluffy four-legged addition to their little family...
  • Finding Felicity by P. Creeden

    Finding Felicity by P. Creeden

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can the sweetness of rekindled love temper the bitter tang of murder? Despite a difficult childhood, Felicity Stilton never gave up on her dreams. Now, as an adult, she and her Golden Retriever, JJ, help special needs children pave the way for their own futures. Everything is perfect, until she gets the one call she never expected to receive...
  • Trial by Fire by Terri Blackstock

    Trial by Fire by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim...
  • Don't Look Back (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    Don't Look Back (Women of Justice) by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Top rated romantic suspense at its best!***One man lives to see her dead. The other is fighting to keep her alive.Twelve years ago, forensic anthropologist Jamie Cash survived a brutal kidnapping. After years of therapy, she has made a life for herself--though one that is haunted by memories of her terrifying past...
  • Word of Honor by Terri Blackstock

    Word of Honor by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    WHAT WILL IT COST TO KEEP A PROMISE? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing? The answer comes in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of the hotel room where Jill Clark is staying...
  • Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock

    Smoke Screen by Terri Blackstock

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A gripping new novel from New York Times bestselling author Terri Blackstock. One father was murdered, and another convicted of his death. All because their children fell in love. Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado home town...
  • Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra 1: For Once In My Life by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bad boy Mick Sinatra feels the heat from the Feds from without, and disloyal men from within. He has no time for love. But when a woman comes along so unlike the dull socialites and supermodels of his past, he wonders if fate is playing a cruel trick on him...
  • Lone Witness by Rachel Dylan

    Lone Witness by Rachel Dylan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Prosecutor Sophie Dawson's first job in the White Collar division of the Fulton County D.A.'s office is to build a case against a local bank employee who may be cheating clients. But when circumstances beyond her control leave her as the only witness to a double homicide involving a vengeful gang, her world is turned upside down...
  • Fatal Mistake by Susan Sleeman

    Fatal Mistake by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An FBI agent must protect the woman who can identify a terrorist bomber in bestselling author Susan Sleeman's riveting romantic suspense novel. Each day could be her last...but not if he can help it. Tara Parrish is the only person ever to survive an attack by the Lone Wolf bomber...
  • Justice Buried by Patricia Bradley

    Justice Buried by Patricia Bradley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In an effort to get her security consulting business off the ground, Kelsey Allen has been spending a lot of time up in the air, rappelling down buildings and climbing through windows to show business owners their vulnerabilities to thieves...
  • Mountain Survival (K-9 Search and Rescue) by Christy Barritt

    Mountain Survival (K-9 Search and Rescue) by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An injured victim has disappeared…Can a park ranger and her K-9 find him?When search-and-rescue park ranger Autumn Mercer and her K-9 partner, Sherlock, meet a stranger in the mountains whose brother is injured, they drop everything to help. But all they find where Derek Peterson last saw his sibling is a trail of blood—and men who want them dead...
  • Dead End by Nancy Mehl

    Dead End by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a body is discovered in a field in Iowa, the police uncover fourteen additional corpses ranging from 20 years old to recent. The remains point to a serial killer with an MO the authorities have seen before--Ed Oliphant, a man who has been in prison for over 20 years . . . and is Special Agent Kaely Quinn's father...
  • Gone without a Trace by Patricia Bradley

    Gone without a Trace by Patricia Bradley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It's been more than two years since homicide detective Livy Reynolds's cousin disappeared from Logan Point. Unlike most people in her hometown, Livy has never believed that Robyn left voluntarily. When Dallas private investigator Alex Jennings contacts Livy concerning a missing senator's daughter who was last seen in Logan Point, she notices eerie similarities between the two disappearances...
  • The Calling by Suzanne Woods Fisher

    The Calling by Suzanne Woods Fisher

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Twenty-year-old Bethany Schrock is restless. Her love life has derailed, her faith hangs by a thread, and she is spending the incredibly hot summer days wading through a lifetime’s accumulation of junk at the home of five ancient Amish sisters. About the only thing that holds her interest is the spirited and dangerously handsome Jimmy Fisher–and he seems bent on irritating her to no end...
  • He's Just a Friend by Mary B. Morrison

    He's Just a Friend by Mary B. Morrison

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The national bestselling author of Never Again Once More and Soulmates Dissipates delivers her most emotionally and rewarding work to date, a new novel about a woman's quest for the true meaning of love. Having dated twenty-six men in fifty-two weeks, Fancy Taylor wants to settle down. And after a year of living recklessly, she has enough experience to know that if a man is married, he's bad news...
  • No Place to Hide by Lynette Eason

    No Place to Hide by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It's not every day you see your childhood friend and one-time crush on national news. Jackie Sellers just wishes it were under different circumstances. She can't believe that Ian Lockwood is wanted in connection with a terrorist plot, and she's determined to find him and help him clear his name. But she's not the only one looking. The FBI wants him captured. The bad guys want him dead...
  • Deceived by Irene Hannon

    Deceived by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For three years, Kate Marshall has been grieving the loss of her husband and their four-year-old son in a boating accident. But when she spots a familiar-looking child on an escalator in the mall, she is convinced it is the son she thought was dead. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan...
  • Into the Deep by Colleen Coble

    Into the Deep by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A local scientist misses his son's birthday party and turns up dead in Lake Superior. A radical environmental group blames a mysterious lab for the dead fish found in a remote stream. Then an Alzheimer's patient goes missing and his home is ransacked. Into the Deep is third in the acclaimed romantic suspense series from best-selling author Colleen Coble...
  • Collateral Danger by Roxanne Rustand

    Collateral Danger by Roxanne Rustand

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Josh Bryant is back in Wolf Creek. And now, mountain guide Tessa McAllister has more to fear than drought, wildfires, and underhanded rivals.Years ago, the handsome photojournalist had broken her heart, leaving her with a secret to harbor alone. Now he is back in town. Distracting her. Making her remember their past.But someone is watching them. Waiting...
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