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  • Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

    Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Available in English for the first time, this best-selling Turkish classic of love and alienation in a changing world captures the vibrancy of interwar Berlin. A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade and discover life in 1920s Berlin...
  • 小蘑菇 by 一十四洲

    小蘑菇 by 一十四洲

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An Zhe was a mushroom whose lifelong mission was to raise his own spore.One day, he lost his spore.He searched all over the world for a long time before finally seeing a familiar spore on the news.An Zhe desperately knocked on the door of a colonel in the human military.“Hello, Sir. Did your research turn out well? Can I have my son back after the research?”The colonel looked cold...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  military  romance  sci-fi  fantasy  fiction  dystopia  mlm
  • Danger Zone by Fiona Quinn

    Danger Zone by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s supposed to report the news, not become it…War correspondent Remi Taleb needs to get to Beirut. Fellow journalists who were kidnapped by terrorists have a story to tell, and she will report on it. So, if that means hitching a ride with a Senator who may or may not be a danger to herself (and everyone else), so be it...
  • Rising Storm by Edie James

    Rising Storm by Edie James

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Homecomings can be deadly.When retired Delta Force operative Rollo MacKenzie returns home to become chief of police in tiny MacKenzie Cove, he has lots of expectations...none of them good.What he doesn't expect is to find his first love targeted by a murderer willing to do anything to bury a twenty-year-old secret...
  • Missed: Rafael and Lisa by Tess Thompson

    Missed: Rafael and Lisa by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Return to the beloved beach town of Cliffside Bay, where USA Today bestseller Tess Thompson spins another emotional, intriguing tale about overcoming adversity and finding strength in love in this standalone story about Lisa and Rafael. After years of struggling as a starving actor, Lisa Perry's dreams are finally coming true...
  • Subverted by Lori Matthews

    Subverted by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Callahan Security Series.Meet Finn Walsh of the US Coast Guard’s TEAM RECON. As in reconstructed. As in broken and needs fixing.After an abandoned ship is found in international waters, Team RECON is summoned by Homeland Security to find answers. Finn Walsh has massive reservations about boarding the empty US Navy ship...
  • Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Breaking Free by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the black sheep of the Steele brood, Micki Steele craves one thing: the love of her family. Working as a hacker for a ruthless fixer, Micki has done things she'll never be proud of. When she flees Vegas and returns to her hometown, she brings along her boss’s secrets and plenty of danger...
  • Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Gentry Boys by Cora Brent

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    “All my life I’d always known what the Gentry boys were. A set of fraternal triplets born to a depraved family, they were rough, sexy and wild as wolves..." DRAW They called us ‘those white trash Gentry boys’ until we believed that’s what we were. Our people squatted at the edge of a hellhole prison town for generations. The childhood we endured was the stuff of nightmares...
  • Finding Hope by Sloane Kennedy

    Finding Hope by Sloane Kennedy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    At 19, Beck Barretti is living two lives. To his family, he’s a young man trying to find his way after years of battling a mental illness that nearly cost him everything. But to the rest of the world he’s just another privileged kid with problems. The truth doesn’t even lie somewhere in between because Beck’s entire life is actually about keeping secrets. From the people he loves...
  • The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber

    The Titan Series Boxed Set by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Titan Series, books 1-5: Winters Heat, Garrison’s Creed, Westin’s Chase, Gambled, & Chased Winters Heat: After putting her life on the line to protect classified intelligence, military psychologist Mia Kensington is on a cross-country road trip from hell with an intrusive save-the-day hero...
  • Accidental Hero: Hometown Heroes A-Z by Jo Grafford

    Accidental Hero: Hometown Heroes A-Z by Jo Grafford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Once burnt, twice shy, never again! He needs a job, she’s trying to save her family’s ranch, and neither of them is looking for an explosive attraction to complicate things...
  • Deadlock by Fiona Quinn

    Deadlock by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’ll Risk It All To Keep Her SafeHoney Honig is good at his job, infiltrating the most dangerous places on Earth and pulling the hostages away from their kidnappers. When the bad guys slip through Honey’s fingers, he hunts a lead to Tanzania.Honey finds his way onto a safari with Dr. Meg Finley, and into her bed.For him, this isn’t just a passing romance, though...
  • 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...
  • Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Kray: Broken Deeds MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kray and North are like a unit, where there's one, there's the other. When the both of them take a case involving a missing agent, they become more involved than they bargained for. Vienna is willing to do anything to find her sister and bring her home safe. Anything except shacking up with the two bikers who are dead set on solving this case...
  • Rebel Bear by Anna Lowe

    Rebel Bear by Anna Lowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Up-and-coming supermodel Hailey Crewe can’t wait to escape the limelight and return to the modest, anonymous lifestyle she once led. Escaping literally? That was never part of her plan. But when an unwanted suitor — and her scheming mother/manager — go a step too far with a surprise Hawaii wedding, Hailey becomes a bride on the run...
  • Sabian: by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Sabian: by Ali Parker, Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today Best Selling Author, Ali Parker... I’m an unlucky guy. Shit just has a way of kicking me when I’m down. When the girl of my dreams comes back to New York City and doesn’t refrain from seeking me out, I know it’s only a matter of time before the other shoe drops and shit hits the fan. Someone is hunting Lost Breed members and they’re not being shy about it...
  • Shallow by Cora Kenborn

    Shallow by Cora Kenborn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Higher The Star…The Harder The Fall Shiloh Only the good die young. But I’ve never been good. I’ve lived a life most people only dream about—famous men, expensive booze, and the finest drugs money could buy. But every vice has its price and living a life of excess has finally dragged me down, forcing me back to the one place I swore I’d never return...
  • Consumed by Rage by Zara Teleg

    Consumed by Rage by Zara Teleg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MY TIME HAS RUN OUT. NO ONE CAN SAVE ME. Juliet Four years ago, I had it all… until one night changed everything. Now I am trapped in a prison of lies where my heart is locked away with my secrets. Rage has stirred things in me I thought I could never feel again. He thinks he can get through. But I can’t give in… I mustn't… for his sake and mine...
  • Nate by Lane Hart

    Nate by Lane Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Nathan Lewis always finds himself at the wrong place at the wrong time.Burdened by his guilt, Nate’s unable to let go of his painful memories. He keeps to himself, refusing to let anyone else in for fear that they’ll learn the truth.When a nosy reporter starts investigating his past, the skeletons Nate’s kept locked up tight in his closet start to rattle, threatening to surface and ruin him...
  • Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard

    Shattered Rhythm by R.B. Hilliard

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Chaz Jones’ life hasn’t been easy. Meltdown’s newest drummer doesn’t give a damn about anything except for his kit, his sticks and his throne. Music offers him a way out and he takes it, only to discover it isn’t enough. Nothing is ever enough. … Until Olivia Olivia Marshall had her dream job, her dream boyfriend, and her dream life...
  • Cold Red by Fiona Quinn

    Cold Red by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Undercover. Under fire. Under arrest...…It’s hard to save a special agent’s life with your hands cuffed behind your back.Anna walks into the house and is met with flashbang. The FBI have her cuffed and belted into the back of their car. Two FBI agents are escorting her over the mountains of West Virginia heading to Washington DC for interrogation……She was never meant to get there alive...
  • Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Wasp by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Zoe knows the secrets, now they're coming for her.The enemy will stop at nothing to get to Zoe and the military secrets that could change everything. What Zoe knows is getting people killed. Is she next?Gage is a hardened Marine special forces operative with only one soft spot: Zoe.Her desperate screams echoing from inside her home switch his instincts from lover to guardian...
  • Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Thorn by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Thorn Has Met His MatchRetired Navy Seal, turned Iniquus security operative, Thorn Iverson is heading home from Brussels when the call comes in.A U.S. military scientist's daughter, Juliette, was snatched from the streets of France, and she’s in immediate danger.Juliette is desperate.Juliette is fighting for her life...
  • Beyond Control by Kat Martin

    Beyond Control by Kat Martin

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When Victoria Langford got engaged, she told herself to give love a chance. Six months later, she's on the run from her angry, abusive ex-fiancé with her four-year-old daughter and nowhere to go. Seventy miles north of Dallas, the Iron River Ranch is pretty much nowhere. That’s what its new owner, Josh Cain, wanted when he came back from Afghanistan. Big skies, quiet nights, no trouble...
  • Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Black Light: Brave by Maren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It started with Piggy. It escalated with Kitty. It ends with Puppy.  For almost a year, Ethen O’Dowell has been locked behind bars and yet Puppy is far from free. A legal ward of her parents, she shares her bedroom with Pony, the only part of her old, submissive life that she has left... apart from the guilt, the fear, and the weekly punishments Ethen dishes out every time they visit him...
  • Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All I see is red.Blood.Pain.Rage.It consumes me.The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul.I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin...
  • Blue Velvet by Linnea May

    Blue Velvet by Linnea May

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m filthy rich and dripping with power – but the army left me broken beyond repair. My jagged edges make me a nightmare. She wants to join my dark solitude. But where she seeks solace, I seek sanity. The Velvet Rooms provide our sanctuary. A place of safety, bliss and unbridled play, untainted by the clamor of reality. Here, there is no sight. There is no sound...
  • Healing What's Mine: Hound Search & Rescue Book 3 by Autum Remington

    Healing What's Mine: Hound Search & Rescue Book 3 by Autum Remington

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hawk I’ve never felt this way before. Seeing her but never having her is torture that even rivals my past... well, almost. I’m too dark, too broken. I never want to bring her into the nightmare that is my life. Just when I think I have found the one to chase away the darkness and heal my broken soul, someone tries to take what’s mine. I find I will stop at nothing to bring them down...
  • The Ranch by Michael Robert

    The Ranch by Michael Robert

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An Erotic Gay Romance Josh West left the family ranch at eighteen, swearing to never return to Cody, Wyoming again. After the untimely death of his parents ten years later, he leaves the mess of his soon-to-be-ex behind in Seattle and returns to the ranch as the now fourth-generation owner to handle the sale of the land...
  • Missing in Action by C.S. Smith

    Missing in Action by C.S. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A need for justice she can’t ignore.A need to protect he can’t deny.An enemy out to destroy them both.Foreign service officer Emily Dane, the daughter of a retired Navy SEAL, is determined to live life on her own terms, not under her father’s protection. When she helps two young girls escape a sex trafficking ring in Paris, she ends up in the crosshairs of a Parisian crime lord...
  • The Art of Growing by Jacqueline Ramsden

    The Art of Growing by Jacqueline Ramsden

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Maybe a weekend is just the right amount of time to fall in love.Sloane Abbott likes her quiet life. She owns a landscaping business, she tends her plants, lives alone, and secretly crushes on her favorite nonbinary garden center employee, Polly. Between anxiety and modesty, Sloane's never planning on telling Polly she likes them...
  • Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch

    Hero's Flight by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Air Force Combat Controller Derek Bollinger knows what it is to feel that every breath might be his last. Enduring hell in an enemy prison for five weeks taught him that.The only thing that got him through it was the thought of his family, his hometown of Oak Creek, Wyoming, and especially of Becky Mackay.He survived, but with blood on his hands. His own. His friends’ who died beside him...
  • Where the Heart Is by Annie Groves

    Where the Heart Is by Annie Groves

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A fabulous drama of the Campion family, struggling to stay together as World War Two rages over Liverpool Lou Campion has joined the WAAFs, against the wishes of her parents and twin sister Sasha. Lou's always been a rebel, but now finds that if she wants to succeed she'll have to follow extremely strict rules...
  • His Redemption by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell

    His Redemption by Anne-Marie Meyer, Lucy McConnell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Survival is key.I returned to civilian life, thinking that I would be fine.But the truth is…I’m not.Not when I see Sadie, my best friend’s widow, struggling.Not when my last promise to Adam was to take care of her—no matter the cost.When she unknowingly moves into my garage apartment—she enters my world.I didn’t understand how hard it would be to be near her...
  • Temptation by T.K. Leigh

    Temptation by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A brand new older woman, younger man romance...It was supposed to be a typical business trip to Hawaii.During the day, I’d promote the new location of my bakery. At night, I’d relax on the lanai while sipping a glass of wine.But that all changes when I meet him.Sexy. Intriguing. Haunted.And easily fifteen years younger than me.I should walk away...
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  romance  mystery  fiction  contemporary  mlm  suspense  dark
  • Secret Obsession by D.M. Mortier

    Secret Obsession by D.M. Mortier

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Colonel Colton James Ragnarson III should have known better. He wanted nothing more than to enjoy his retirement after his intensely active combat years in the US Army, take care of his family, and find the mystery woman who had made him personalized weapons...
  • Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

    Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The thick glass of a mason jar cuts deep, and the pain washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you...
  • The Hour Before Dawn by Sara MacDonald

    The Hour Before Dawn by Sara MacDonald

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A rich, multi-generational saga, set in Singapore and New Zealand. The mysterious disappearance of a young child sets in motion a series of events that will haunt future generations of the family. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain...
  • Prodigal Son by Jay Crownover

    Prodigal Son by Jay Crownover

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When she was a little girl, Remy Archer fell in love with Hyde Fuller at first sight. In fact, he was the only thing she could see for a very long time. For Remy, it never mattered to her that Hyde was always too serious and always seemed so sad. To her, he was the very best, and the center of her entire world. She never dreamed he would let her down when she needed him the most...
  • Justice Served by Radclyffe

    Justice Served by Radclyffe

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The hunt for an informant in the ranks draws Lieutenant Rebecca Frye, her lover Doctor Catherine Rawlings, and Officer Dellon Mitchell into a deadly game of hide and seek with an underworld kingpin who traffics in human souls...
  • Dealing in Death: A Death and the Devil Extended Novella by L.J. Hayward

    Dealing in Death: A Death and the Devil Extended Novella by L.J. Hayward

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ethan Blade—assassin extraordinaire, cold-blooded killer, heartless monster, and . . . retiree? I’ve spent my whole life dealing in death, efficiently eliminating targets while fighting to preserve a sense of self and morality, to avoid becoming as detached and ruthless as my siblings. I thought I had succeeded...
    Categorized as:
    lgbtq  military  abuse  action-adventure  adult  angst  assassins  book
  • Black by Elin Peer

    Black by Elin Peer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Some people grow up with caring families, summer camps, and birthday parties. Not me! If you saw me, your first thought would be: Goth girl – and then you would look the other way, like everyone else. But that’s okay, I get it, and I don’t care. Caring is a luxury I can’t afford. My life isn’t about caring...
  • Saving Cate by Ellie Masters

    Saving Cate by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    True love isn’t about falling in love. Sometimes it’s about letting go…Caleb broke what should never have been broken. He made a mistake and walked away from his soulmate to join the Marines and become the man she deserves. Now grief has stolen Cate's smiles. He did that. He destroyed her happiness...
  • Her Independence Day by K.C. Crowne

    Her Independence Day by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Four strapping Marines are home for Independence Day.And all four brothers in arms have their eyes on one lucky lady.I moved in with my older brother after leaving a toxic relationship.To my surprise he'll be going away for business...Leaving me alone with four of his insanely HOT military best friends.I remember drooling over them growing up.Now they can't keep their eyes off me...
  • Breaking Jade by Quil Carter

    Breaking Jade by Quil Carter

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Skyfall, the only city that King Silas spared when he started the Fallocaust. It is a safe haven from the radiation, and a place where there is plant life, electricity, protection; things never seen or felt in the lawless, savage greywastes.In Skyfall lives a teenager named Jade, born and raised in the 'slum district' Moros by an insane mother...
  • Suicide Watch by Kelley York

    Suicide Watch by Kelley York

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    18-year-old Vincent has spent his entire life being shuffled from one foster home to the next. His grades sucked. Making friends? Out of the question thanks to his nervous breakdowns and unpredictable moods. Still, Vince thought when Maggie Atkins took him in, he might've finally found a place to get his life--and his issues--in order.When Maggie dies, it all falls apart...
  • The Deep End by Traci Hunter Abramson

    The Deep End by Traci Hunter Abramson

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "Another exciting read by Traci Abramson, Traci brings together personal experience in competitive swimming and insider knowledge of US spy agencies to deliver a riveting story from the first paragraph to the...
  • The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford

    The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Set in the ghettos of wartime Warsaw, this is a sweeping, poignant and heartbreaking tale, based on the true story of one of World War II's quiet heroes - Dr Janusz Korczak.'You do not leave a sick child alone to face the dark and you do not leave a child at a time like this.'Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom...
  • Broken Circle by Amy McKinley

    Broken Circle by Amy McKinley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Life with Alex is simple and secure - everything she's ever wanted. Or so she thought...Upper East Side artist, Olivia Wrightwood is ready for a change. Marrying Alex Mudarra, a dedicated and up-and-coming NYPD detective, is exactly what she needs to escape the clutches and scrutiny of her family's political dynasty...
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