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Declan by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDeclan Crenshaw went from orphan, to Special Forces soldier, to the CIA’s golden child. Life was perfect—almost. He shouldn’t have pushed his luck and simply enjoyed the bounty fate had given him—a beautiful wife, sweet baby girl, and more love than he ever dreamed he’d know. Until a threat he never saw coming obliterated his world. His wife and child murdered... -
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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... -
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Shielding Sierra by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSierra 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... -
![It Happens by Lani Lynn Vale]()
It Happens by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsZee + Annmarie and Tan + Jubilee. Forever. No exceptions. They were to have the picture-perfect life together. Everything was all planned out. Jubilee was to marry Eitan and Ezekiel was to marry Annmarie. That’s how it was always supposed to be from the moment that they met. Textbook, right? Wrong... -
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Redwood by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGavin Zimmerman. Military codename: REDWOOD. This former Special Forces soldier will protect Oak Creek from any threat. Even one that comes in the form of a delicate blonde with haunted eyes.A tiny town in Wyoming and the fake ID in her pocket are Lexi Johnson's last chance. She's used her all her resources to escape the danger that hounds her... -
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Code Name: Pisces by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy code name is Pisces. The stars say I’m independent, wise, and intuitive.Still waters run deep. I’m the leader of Zodiac Tactical’s guardian unit. We’re the bodyguards—the ones who stand toe to toe with danger and refuse to give any ground. We protect people who need it most.But what if who needs it most is a spoiled diva?I don’t normally take on movie stars... -
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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... -
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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... -
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Stand and Defend by Sloane St. James
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsJordanaI live my life head over heart and never rock the boat. Which is how I wound up engaged to Bryan Davenport—the biggest mistake I ever made. We were a power couple, but no one knew how cruel he could be behind closed doors. When I decide to leave, my fiancé shows just how ruthless he can be and sends me running to the last person I expected: his best man...Categorized as:
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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... -
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Shelter for Koren by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDiscovering 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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Enemy Contact by Alex Lidell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEli Mason. Powerful CEO and former SEAL. Protector. Leader. Sexy as hell.A man who has learned the hard way to hide his wounds. And the man I’ve been hired to destroy.As a cognitive psychologist, I evaluate high power executives. Help bring bullies to their knees. So when the Board of Directors for Mason Enterprises begs for my help with Eli Mason, I can’t say no...Categorized as:
in-uniform stalking dark romance contemporary military enemies-to-lovers billionaire -
![Keep It Classy by Lani Lynn Vale]()
Keep It Classy by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGhosts are real. Well, technically speaking, maybe not. But the ones that haunt a man’s soul? Those are very real. So real, in fact, that there are times when Castiel would rather silence them forever in the worst way possible than to go on living with them haunting his every step. All it took was one single second in time for his attention to drift, and everything changed... -
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Shelter for Adeline by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSaddled with a job she hates and a detestable boss she likes even less, Adeline Reynolds could use a break. It doesn’t look like she’ll get one today. Her service dog, Coco, is alerting her she’s about to have an epileptic seizure—and her frustrated blind date has left her to deal on her own... -
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Echo by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSometimes the deepest scars are the ones that can't be seen. Single mom Peyton Ward works three jobs to make ends meet. At Linear Tactical she’s surrounded by heroes on a regular basis…but none of them are hers. She thought she'd found one in Linear’s silent partner, and country music superstar, Cade Conner. She was wrong. Unintended wounds still cut as deep... -
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Rescuing Ellena by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTwo Estranged Hearts. One Second Chance. An Unknown Enemy Threatening to Destroy It. He thought leaving would keep her safe.Five years ago, Gabriel Dawson had it all. He was in charge of his own SEAL team, was married to the love of his life, and together, he and Elle were planning the future he’d always wanted... -
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Bribed by Rebecca Sharp
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLennon Love Clarke needs to put on a show.With her reputation sinking, the famous actress has no choice but to grin and bear it because the tabloids were better than the truth. If only Lenni could remember what that was—and who is stalking her. Now, she’s in hiding—or would be if her new bodyguard hadn’t found her first.Dante Lozano is Covington Security’s very own Casanova... -
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Searching for Khloe by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe thought secrets would tear them apart; instead, they brought them together.Khloe Moore has secrets. She came to Fallport, Virginia, under false pretenses, only intending to stay for a short while... -
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Blaze by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDead to their pasts. Ghosts. No family ties. No connections. Six men with a top-secret mission move to a small town where they have to navigate local life, protect their secret, and, above all, stay single. Former Hostile Operations Team soldier Blaze "Shadow" Connolly knows what it’s like to lose everything. He’s got nobody except his job and his team and that’s the way he likes it... -
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I'm Only Here for the Beard by Lani Lynn Vale, Kendall Taylor
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSean is a man with needs—needs that a lot of women were ready and willing to fulfill. Yet, the only woman that he wants to fulfill them dumped him for another man. A man who’s a member of his MC and is someone he has to see every single day and twice on Sundays. He’s bitter and angry. He’s definitely not in the right frame of mind when it comes to dealing with women... -
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Justice for Corrie by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBlind since birth, Corrie Madison relies on her other sharpened senses in her job as a chiropractor. Never did she imagine she’d have to depend on them to identify a killer. But when a man enters her practice, murdering everyone in his path, Corrie is the only witness—putting her directly in the killer’s crosshairs... -
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Protecting Melody by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTex gave everything he had to his country and his SEAL teammates. When an IED took away part of his leg, and his career, he devoted himself to his country and friends from behind his computer. He’s always been the man that can find anyone, that uses his computer skills, legal and illegal, to keep people safe and to put the bad guys behind bars. But behind a computer is a lonely place to be... -
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Aidan by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSome loves are impossible to leave behind…Cassie Webber had it all. A man who loved her, a mother and sister who were all the family she needed, and a job she adored. Until, in the blink of an eye, everything changed. Now her mother and Aidan are gone, and her sister’s in danger... -
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Revealing Annie by Freya Barker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the fire department’s joker, Kyle (Sumo) Matsumoto, loves nothing better than ribbing the guys at the station. However, he’s all business when he’s on a call, and when he tries to snag the attention of a cute little baker. Then life takes a more serious turn when he’s plunged headfirst into fatherhood—of a teenage boy—giving his teammates the last laugh... -
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Rescuing Eve by Ellie Masters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a moment of defiance turns into a living nightmare, Eve Deverough will do whatever it takes to survive.EVEDaughter of a shipping mogul, Eve leads a charmed life. She wants for nothing, except for the love of her cold and distant father. In a moment of defiance, she runs off to Cancun, shedding her private security detail for some fun in the sun over spring break.Only there is no fun... -
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Keeping Guard by Christy Barritt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"You can't hide from me."Her anonymous stalker's threats are getting scarier and scarier. Now Kylie Summers fears for her life. She flees her home for the protection of a former military man in a small Virginia town. But her brother's handsome best friend already has a long list of obligations. Kylie knows she's intruding on Nate Richardson's life... -
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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... -
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Excalibur by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe never should have touched her.She’s beautiful, sweet, and all sunshine. He’s too old, too rough, and too grumpy.Now she’s pregnant with his baby and in danger, and there is nothing he won’t do to keep her safe.All Adaline Harris ever wanted to do was escape her small town and make it as a ballet dancer in New York. But luck is never on her side... -
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Intentional Risk by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe thought he’d lost his chance to be with her. Now, he'll move Heaven and Earth to keep her safe. As a former SEAL and now Alpha Team’s technical analyst, Derek West is all about the numbers. But, when this Texas native unexpectedly bumps into the one that got away, he’s determined to beat the odds... -
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Huck by Jessica Gadziala
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHUCKWho would have thought that setting up a chapter would be such a hassle?I was no stranger to the life of crime, But chopping cars and running guns were leagues apart.Especially when there were other bad guys in the area that didn’t take too kindly to our arrival on the scene... -
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The Protector by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a sizzling suspense about the romance that blossoms between two strangers during a snowstorm and the stalker who threatens them both.Riggs “Chappy” Chapman didn’t expect to be disrupted at his remote cabin in the woods... -
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Controlling Chloe by Kate Oliver
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBlurb coming soon! This is Bash Gilroy's story... -
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Fiery Surrender by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLangston has finally taken his place among the Trinity Masters, America’s most powerful secret society, and he’s ready to stand at the altar to meet his trinity. However, when the Grand Master, Juliet, pairs him in an arranged menage marriage with Rich and Mina, he finds himself struggling to fit into this society he’s only just discovered... -
![Going Under (A Titan World Novel) by Anna Bishop Barker]()
Going Under (A Titan World Novel) by Anna Bishop Barker
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT UNDERWATER Clinical researcher Rebecca Shaughnessy’s life has always been planned, ordered, controlled, logical. She isn’t a damsel and she doesn’t need a hero. What she needs is a decent day planner and some really good ice cream. And to stop looking at the hot new therapist’s backside. Ex- Army Ranger Max Lawrence has had his course plotted, focused, laid in... -
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![Bravery's Sin by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois]()
Bravery's Sin by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unbearable loss. A man willing to kill for her. A future they’ll never have. Brilliant, beautiful...and scarred, Nyx Kata is living on borrowed time. In a race to find the villain threatening to destroy the Masters Admiralty, Nyx is forced to face the terrifying secrets of her past. Secrets...and a man...she can no longer run from... -
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In Too Deep by Kimberly Kincaid
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs Station Seventeen’s rookie, Luke Slater knows his fire and EMS training will be both rigorous and risky, but he never imagined having to partner up with the one woman he wants to keep at arm’s length most of all. Quinn Copeland is as wide-open as Luke is reserved. He has no interest in letting the sweet and sexy paramedic rock his hard-earned control... -
![Pretend: A Dark Military Romance by Lexie Axelson]()
Pretend: A Dark Military Romance by Lexie Axelson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlessia ValentínShe’s an intelligence officer on orders to go overseas on her first deployment. Despite who her parents are, she’s determined to prove she belongs there. After getting informed by her step-father, Admiral Ravenmore, that she’s a target for multiple enemies, he assigns Operator Creature as her personal security to watch over her while she’s on deployment... -
![Rescuing Sadie by Susan Stoker, Lexi Blake]()
Rescuing Sadie by Susan Stoker, Lexi Blake
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsSadie Jennings was used to being protected. As the niece of Sean Taggart, and the receptionist at McKay-Taggart Group, she was constantly surrounded by Alpha men more than capable, and willing, to lay down their life for her. But when she learns about a friend in trouble, she doesn't hesitate to leave town without a word to her uncle to help... -
![Trusting Skylar by Susan Stoker]()
Trusting Skylar by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom bestselling author Susan Stoker comes a sizzling new series about four former military operatives who rid the world of the worst of humanity while fighting to protect the best part of their lives: the women they love.Former military operative Carson “Bull” Rhodes hasn’t dated seriously since he and his teammates left the army... -
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Charlotte by Nicole James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDoes the MC President want her bar badly enough to scare her into selling out?Or is he the only one who can save her from a madman?Rocker Charlotte Justice longs to escape her hectic life. Her estranged twin sister, Scarlett, owns Badlands, a biker bar outside Vegas, and has always wanted a chance at the limelight she feels was stolen from her... -
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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... -
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Falling for the Ice Queen by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s more than a little rough around the edges…Memphis Camden isn’t a nice guy. He’s big, dangerous, and has an extremely low tolerance for BS. A former bounty hunter, Memphis now has a deadly new target…a serial killer. Memphis has been tracking the guy for months, and he may just have found the way to drag the monster into the light... -
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Tracking Tahlula by Freya Barker
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs author Tahlula Rae has discovered; success is a double-edged sword. Leading a quiet and anonymous life, she isn’t prepared for the hateful backlash when her latest book hit the lists, propelling her into the limelight... -
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Ryker by Nyssa Kathryn
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, the quest for vengeance can cost more than you’re willing to pay.Blakely Sullivan was a foreign aid worker in the Middle East when a deadly bombing took the lives of families she’d come to know and love, collateral damage in someone else’s war... -
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Obsession by S.K. Lessly
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHer…Darkness wants me. I’ve been surrounded by darkness since the day I was born. It is all I’ve ever known. It consumes me, it suffocates me, and no matter how far I run, darkness is always at my heel threatening to devour me. My darkness is… fear! I never believed I could feel anything else until the moment he touched me. He has given me hope... -
![Wanted by Kaylea Cross]()
Wanted by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe thought her past was behind her. After nearly dying at the hands of a madman in New Orleans a year ago, Zoe Renard has worked hard to put that trauma behind her and move on. With her man at her side she’s focused on her writing career and building a future together. Things are almost perfect between them, until a series of shocking events turns her world upside down again... -
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Protecting Sam by Abbie Zanders
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhere there's "Smoke", there's definitely fire. Former SEAL Steve "Smoke" Tannen is finding the transition back to civilian life more of a challenge than he'd expected. Not only is he dealing with the aftereffects of a horrific ordeal overseas, he doesn’t know what normal is anymore... -
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Beautiful Risk by Anna Blakely
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCan he forgive himself in time to save the woman he loves? Former Delta Force operator, Trevor Matthews, has spent years trying to move on from the sins of his past. Nearly a decade later, he’s still haunted by the deaths of his teammates and the woman he cared deeply for. Then, he meets Lexi—the beautiful waitress with an angelic smile—and almost instantly, his soul sparks back to life... -
![Malakai: Volumul 2 by A. Stephanie]()
Malakai: Volumul 2 by A. Stephanie
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHannah nu intenționa să își complice viața, însă i se frânge inima de fiecare dată când îl privește pe Malakai. Își dă seama că deși e în viață, Malakai vrea să dispară și își promite că nu va permite asta. Așa că face tot posibilul să-l scoată din universul lui întunecat.Convins că toată lumea îl părăsește la un moment dat, Malakai face tot posibilul să o țină pe Hannah la distanță... -
![Broken Soldier: A Lost Hearts Novella: Novella One (Lost Hearts Series) by Blue Saffire]()
Broken Soldier: A Lost Hearts Novella: Novella One (Lost Hearts Series) by Blue Saffire
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAward winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents Broken Soldier: A Lost Hearts Novella from the Lost Hearts Series I'm a man of my Word. I just never thought my word would lead me to her. I'll do anything for Lakia and Isaac and not just because I promised to. It's what I was made to do. Yet, I'm broken and those pieces are trying to make me stumble...
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