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  • Ember by Chelle Bliss

    Ember by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    INKED PROTECTOR REUNITES WITH A SINGLE MOTHER.Rocco Caldo is tall, dark, and handsome, but not interested in love. Loyal to a fault, he can’t turn away an old friend in need or a beautiful woman on the run…especially when they have unfinished business.Rebel Bishop is a single mom, looking for shelter, not a handout...
  • Redwood by Janie Crouch

    Redwood by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Gavin 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...
  • The Devil's Angels MC: Book 5 - Cash by Lola Wright

    The Devil's Angels MC: Book 5 - Cash by Lola Wright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    LiviBeing a female in a male-dominated career can be daunting, but I refuse to allow others’ attitudes to deter me. I always try to be professional, compassionate and non-judgmental. Through hard work, I have earned respect within my department. Wearing a badge and uniform, I’ve seen the best and worst of humanity...
  • Sheriff Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Sheriff Daddy by Laylah Roberts

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Georgina James had always strived to be better, smarter, stronger, faster.Frankly, it was exhausting.Drawn back to Wishingbone, she keeps running into the handsome, overprotective, entirely-too bossy sheriff.Ed doesn’t know why he’s so intrigued by the closed-off FBI agent. But there’s something about her that tugs at his every Daddy instinct...
  • Edge of Nowhere by Freya Barker

    Edge of Nowhere by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Open roads and honor meets poke bowls and self-controlI’m a homesick nomad.A protégé, a mountain man, an ally, and a seeker.My name is Wapi.I’m a work in progress looking to belong, and though my road has been a winding one, my heart has found focus.I’m a straightlaced hellcat.A princess, a fool, a target, and a handle.My name is Lindsey...
  • Code Name: Outlaw by Janie Crouch, Josie Jade

    Code Name: Outlaw by Janie Crouch, Josie Jade

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

    Delicate Escape by Catherine Cowles

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Trust doesn’t come easily when you’ve been running for as long as I have, which is why moving in with a man I barely know is such a bad idea.Shepard Colson is all golden-boy charm and devastating good looks. But I know what it’s like to be taken in by easy smiles and the promise of forever—I have the scars to prove it...
  • Bribed by Rebecca Sharp

    Bribed by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lennon 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...
  • Searching for Khloe by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Khloe by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She 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...
  • Blaze by Lynn Raye Harris

    Blaze by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dead 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...
  • The Hero She Deserves by Anna Hackett

    The Hero She Deserves by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When he goes to investigate a blaring smoke alarm, the last thing he expects to find is Hollywood’s hottest actress…naked.Deputy Sheriff Sawyer Lane likes the pace of life on Maui. After years as a Navy SEAL and in Ghost Ops, he likes that no one shoots at him. Coming to the island saved him. He still can’t sleep, but he’ll take the sun, sand, and solitude...
  • Changed by you by Kristin Mayer

    Changed by you by Kristin Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'm in over my head, and Teale Delaney is the reason why. She's beautiful, sassy, and I can't stop thinking about her. If I let myself, I could fall in love. But I can’t. I won’t. It’s to protect her, not me. Someone out there wants vengeance. If I allow them to see my true feelings for Teale, they’ll stop at nothing to take her away...
    Categorized as:
    dark  stalking  suspense  adult  angst  audiobook  book  contemporary
  • Charlie by Janice Whiteaker

    Charlie by Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charlie is overwhelmed. Shadow Pine is changing so fast it takes everything she has just to keep up. Every minute of the day now goes to stocking shelves. Counting inventory. Filling out freaking spreadsheets. It’s miserable. And it’s all because of one man. Adam Bollingsworth. If the newscaster hadn’t insisted on writing that story, then everything would still be like it was...
  • A Rogue Cowboy's Second Chance by Stephanie Rowe

    A Rogue Cowboy's Second Chance by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fifteen years ago, he shattered her heart. Now she needs to trust him with her life. First in a new billionaire cowboy series by New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Rowe.Billionaire rancher Brody Hart protects others…no matter the cost to himself. When the woman he lost a decade ago needs his help, he has a second chance with the sassy country music star he never stopped loving...
  • Ranger by Rebecca Sharp

    Ranger by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sydney Ward woke up on the wrong side of life—that’s what it feels like when cancel culture claims another victim...
  • Honest Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Honest Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s not the boy next door anymore, and I’m not the girl I used to be, either.His life is in the spotlight as one of the most popular professional football players on the Vegas Aces, while I can’t afford to have my secrets exposed. But as we work together on a project benefitting our small Midwestern town, we easily slip back into the friendship we once shared...
  • Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Hidden Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The boy next door is back, and so am I.He’s spending his NFL off-season in our small Midwestern town after seven long years away, and I’m in town for different reasons.Memories shift to reality as we find ourselves in the place where we first fell in love. We’re different people now, but I’m falling fast and hard for the man he is now.But he’s married...
  • Revealing Annie by Freya Barker

    Revealing Annie by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As 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...
  • My Kinda Wedding by Lacey Black

    My Kinda Wedding by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You are cordially invited to celebrate the marriage of Meghan Summer to Nicholas Adams, D.D.S., at four o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the sixth of May, at the beachside home of Alison Jane and Sawyer Randall. Reception to follow. The Summer family comes together once more as the final sister prepares to tie the knot...
  • Anti-Hero by Kelly Fox

    Anti-Hero by Kelly Fox

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Spoiler This isn't some sad exploration of my tragic past. I have a list of the people who bought and sold me. And they aren't getting a redemption arc. I was luckier than most. I was rescued by a team of guys who search out people like me, and now I get to work with them. But I'm not the hero of this story. I don't forgive. I don't forget...
  • Blake by Nyssa Kathryn

    Blake by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A 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...
  • The Protector by Susan Stoker

    The Protector by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From 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...
  • The Christmas Letters by Jenny Proctor

    The Christmas Letters by Jenny Proctor

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Can an old letter spark a new flame?When Tess Ravenel gets herself stuck inside a bathroom stall in one of Charleston’s most historic buildings, she isn’t exactly thinking about her dating life. But then the paramedic who comes to her rescue has a voice that sounds like butter and enough charm to make her forget she’s seconds from having a panic attack.If only he were interested...
  • Wolf.e by Paisley Hope

    Wolf.e by Paisley Hope

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Always ride faster than your angel can fly.-Gabriel Wolfe As president of the Hounds of Hell motorcycle club, my life has been infused with darkness and trauma since the day I was born. Chaos is my birthright. I crave it to feel stable. Secure. Whole.The only people I care about are the ones who don my cut. Women are just a tool. Never to covet, only to use, each face blending into the next...
  • Bodyguard by Night by Taryn Quinn

    Bodyguard by Night by Taryn Quinn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Protecting my best friend's new sister-in-law Willow from a fan who wants to get a little too close is a no-brainer. Just requires me to do some checking around, to act as her shadow for a while, maybe even give her a place to stay so I can keep an eye on her—all so my best friend's small-town wedding to Willow's sister goes off without a hitch...
  • Steady by Anna Brooks

    Steady by Anna Brooks

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Erik Anderson is paying for his mistakes and enduring every bit of pain that comes his way. After all, if it weren’t for him, the girl who gave him more than he deserved would still be alive. Even if he were to be put out of his misery, he’d never see her again. Considering angels go to heaven and sinners go to hell, Erik’s going to burn. Polly Madison has never had it easy...
  • Seeking Sanctuary by Annie Anderson

    Seeking Sanctuary by Annie Anderson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One broken girl. Two brothers. One small town with a big secret. Planning to escape her controlling boyfriend, Isla’s getaway hits a snag when a pair of pink lines show up on a pregnancy test. Levi just needs an accountant. Someone smart, dependable, and someone who won't blow town and leave him in the lurch...
  • The Beginning of Home: Langley Park Series by Krista Sandor

    The Beginning of Home: Langley Park Series by Krista Sandor

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New name. New town. New life. Lindsey Hanlon is so close to a new beginning. After fleeing an abusive relationship and living on the run, she’s starting over in the quaint town of Langley Park. Even though she’s escaped, she’s not in the clear. Lindsey’s carrying a secret that could get her killed. As long as she flies under the radar, she’s safe...
  • Betting Man by Maggie C. Gates

    Betting Man by Maggie C. Gates

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The day I decided to leave Kyle Kingsley was the day I no was no longer afraid of dying.I was afraid of living.Bridget McGrath had it all.Or so everyone thought.Beneath the façade of the white picket fence, shiny car, and pretty smile, she was trapped. Confined to a gilded cage by a deadly monster.After surviving a dangerous relationship for years, she found the strength to leave...
  • Charlotte by Nicole James

    Charlotte by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Does 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...
  • Key to Hell by Alex Grayson

    Key to Hell by Alex Grayson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The highly anticipated conclusion of the Hell Night Series. Emo's story.Death. Destruction. Pain. A soulless void. It's his life. It's his reality. Emo doesn't feel. Anything. His soul is dark and filled with hatred. People in the small town of Malus watch him with fear, with reverence. Exactly the way he prefers it. Guilt surrounds him, caging him in an ominous past he refuses to let go...
    Categorized as:
    dark  friends-to-lovers  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  anti-hero  book
  • Distracted by A.K. Evans

    Distracted by A.K. Evans

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Marriage of convenience? More like marriage of inconvenience. Especially when it turns deadly.Ellery Cross did what she had to do to save her family from ruin. She married a man she wasn’t in love with. Worse, she married a man she knew nothing about.But Ellery eventually learns all she needs to know about her husband. And sticking around is not an option...
  • Protect Me by Lacey Black

    Protect Me by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nate Stevens loves three things: Work, Family, Women. In that order. Having absolutely no desire to follow in three of his siblings’ footsteps by settling down, Nate lives for his work as a firefighter. That’s why his chance meeting with Lia leaves him unsettled like never before. There’s just something about the beautifully shy and reserved woman that he can’t walk away from. Run. Hide...
  • No Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    No Mistake by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All I want is my happy ending with the boy next door.Every time we get close, something threatens to break us. Half-sisters, town gossips, and jealous exes throw punch after punch, but we hold on tight to each other as we attempt to navigate the chaos.With his life in the spotlight as a professional football player, I start to feel like it might always be like this...
  • Holding On by Pamela Clare

    Holding On by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A hero barely holding on… Harrison Conrad returned to Scarlet Springs from Nepal, the sole survivor of a freak accident on Mt. Everest. Shattered and grieving for his friends, he vows never to climb again and retreats into a bottle of whiskey—until Kenzie Morgan shows up at his door with a tiny puppy asking for his help...
  • Protecting Sam by Abbie Zanders

    Protecting Sam by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Where 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...
  • Buried Lies by Kaylea Cross

    Buried Lies by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She left her painful past behind. Poppy Larsen is finally free. She moved to Crimson Point to make a new life for herself, full of bright possibilities. A whole new world awaits her, if she can find the courage to trust again—even her gorgeous neighbor, the town sheriff. But darkness lurks in the picturesque Oregon Coast town, concealing a deadly threat that’s closer than she ever imagined...
  • Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Jason by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Danger throws them together. Attraction keeps them from parting. Having lost her best friend, Courtney Davies lives every day like it's her last. Because if life has taught her anything, it's that some are cut far too short without warning. So when sexy former soldier Jason moves to Cradle Mountain, she shouldn't hesitate to express her immediate interest...
  • Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn

    Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sometimes it’s the oldest wounds that cut deepest.River Harp fell in love with her brother’s best friend, a boy who was practically part of the family…a boy who broke her heart before leaving town. Sixteen years later, he’s back for her brother’s funeral. And River wants nothing to do with the man. At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself...
  • Burning for Autumn by Freya Barker

    Burning for Autumn by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Autumn McCoy accepted a temporary work contract in Durango, she thought it would be a safe way to add some spark to her existence. She may be getting more than she bargained for when she finds herself the target of impending danger. The outspoken forty-two-year-old isn’t prepared for that spark to ignite flames threatening to engulf every aspect of her life...
    Categorized as:
    dark  stalking  suspense  adult  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Beautifully Destroyed by Michelle Heard

    Beautifully Destroyed by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I used to be a happy, vibrant girl.Until I was destroyed in a single night.My trauma’s stalking me, every text and photo he sends me, a nail in my coffin.I run to my cousin, hoping I can hide in the sleepy coastal town of Southport.But there’s no outrunning my demon.There’s no hiding from the nightmares...
  • Cole by Nyssa Kathryn

    Cole by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    She’s a single mom with a secret. He’s a former Delta who doesn’t let people too close.Aria Callas understands struggle and sacrifice. Getting pregnant at sixteen, she’s spent more than a decade and a half ensuring her and her son’s safety the only way she knows how—by staying on the move...
  • Reckless Faith by Nyssa Kathryn

    Reckless Faith by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Letting him go was the hardest thing she’d ever done…until he returns, and letting him back in proves even harder.Elle Marshal has spent most of her life pining for the same boy. A boy she’s known since she was eight. A boy with beautiful blue eyes who’s never been interested in anything more than friendship...
  • Wild Heart by Ivy Layne

    Wild Heart by Ivy Layne

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes you need the dark to protect the lightQuinn Sawyer is a mystery.She’s an heiress. She’s a backcountry guide.She has a suite in a mansion, but she sleeps in the woods.I can’t make sense of her. I shouldn’t care.My job is to keep her safe, not get to know her.She’s my best friend’s little sister. She’s a client.And she can never be mine...
  • Lift You Up by Jessica Gadziala

    Lift You Up by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Friends of the family were forbidden fruit. You didn't get to take a bite, no matter how tempting it might be...
  • Southern Comfort (Southern Series ) by Natasha Madison

    Southern Comfort (Southern Series ) by Natasha Madison

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Buried secrets never stay hidden in the South. Olivia When you find out that your fiancé is arrested for swindling over ten million dollars from his clients, you do what any sane woman would do. You escape reality and go undercover, trading in your city-girl Louboutins for country-pumpkin cowboy boots. It wasn’t a forever change—it was temporary...
  • Kane by Lynn Raye Harris

    Kane by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Notorious charmer Kane “Demon” Fox learned the hard way that love is a liability. Since losing his wife, he's built walls no one can breach—keeping his focus on the mission and his team. Feelings are a risk he can't afford to take ever again.Until a stranded beauty with haunted eyes makes him question everything.Daphne Bryant thought Sutton's Creek was far enough to outrun her past...
  • Flower by Jaclyn Combe

    Flower by Jaclyn Combe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AvaI am the pretty blonde cheerleader adored by all.The popular girl, living that so-called perfect life.But when my childhood sweetheart betrays me in the worst possible way, my entire world comes crashing down around me.They say you should always expect the unexpected in life. But the one thing I never expected… was him.MasonI am the high school nerd...
  • Head Start by Freya Barker

    Head Start by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kendra Schmitt puts most of her time into the new clinic in Cedar Tree, which is now almost running full time. With her schedule a bit more predictable, she finally considers a personal life and concedes to a disastrous blind date. Always the responsible one in her family, she has avoided any kind of entanglement. In particular with a certain young investigator...
  • Bad Taste In Men by Erin Nicholas

    Bad Taste In Men by Erin Nicholas

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “You’ve been moping around long enough. Let me show you how these guys should be treating you.” Bailey Davis does not have bad taste in men. She’s just had some relationships that haven’t worked out. That’s totally normal. And she now has one broken engagement. Big deal. And an ex-fiancé who cheated on her. Okay maybe she has bad taste in men. At least the ones she plans to marry...
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