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  • Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Sunken Shadows: Shadows Landing #2 by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a rescue swimmer for the Coast Guard, Wade Faulkner was used to unpredictable situations. But an emergency call late one night turns his life upside down. After finding a boat on fire, he discovers a dead body and a visibly shaken woman in need of rescue. Now he finds himself entangled in a murder mystery between two teams of treasure hunters out for the discovery of a lifetime . .
  • To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    To Dream by Carolyn Brown

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother's wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life for the second time. But on her way out of town, she caused a three car pileup when she dropped her cell phone and tried to retrieve it while traveling ninety miles an hour...
  • Black Widow by Nikki Turner

    Black Widow by Nikki Turner

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bestselling author Nikki Turner returns with an explosive new novel about a woman at an emotional crossroads and the men left in her wake. Isis Tatum knows firsthand the way love can mess up a person. After all, she saw her mother drive a truck through the home of her father's mistress before killing her dad...
  • Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Carolina Booty by T. Lynn Ocean

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jaxie Parker works for one of the best ad agencies in Atlanta and and thrives in the upscale fast lane. She loves everything about the big city including her power-packed days and party-filled nights. But life as she knows it comes to a screetching halt when the boss puts her in charge of the firm’s annual pro bono project, which is to revitalize a small town...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  humor
  • Shadowed by Dani Pettrey

    Shadowed by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three Novellas from Bestselling AuthorsIn Dee Henderson's "Missing," a Wyoming sheriff is called to Chicago when his elderly mother goes missing. Paired with a savvy Chicago cop, the two realize her disappearance is no accident, and a race against the clock begins.Dani Pettrey returns to Alaska with "Shadowed," introducing readers to the parents of her beloved McKenna clan...
  • Tangled Webs by Irene Hannon

    Tangled Webs by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Three-Time RITA Award Winner Delivers Another Heart-Stopping Thriller After a disastrous Middle East mission ends his six-year Army Ranger career, Finn McGregor needs some downtime. A peaceful month in the woods sounds like the perfect way to decompress. But peace isn't on the agenda once he crosses paths with publishing executive Dana Lewis, a neighbor who is nursing wounds of her own...
  • Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Hot Shot by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . .   Loyalty is a way of life for the Sisterhood and their significant others...
  • Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Chasing Destiny by Eric Jerome Dickey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Billie is known on the streets as much for her unusual beauty as for her sexy yellow Ducati motorcycle. She can handle just about anything she meets on the road - but this time she might be headed for a crash...
  • The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    The House on the Beach by Linda Barrett

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion....Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove—the source of her fondest childhood memories—to pick up the pieces of her life. The solitude of Sea View House is just what she needs...
  • Secret Vows by Rochelle Alers

    Secret Vows by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Hideaway Wedding WagerTwins Ana and Jason and their cousin Nicholas are successful thirty somethings who are single�and loving it. They have no idea that their relatives are betting on which one of them will get married first...
  • Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Facing Home by Danielle Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Vitorino “Click” Coglinaese shouldn’t feel more at home in a war zone than he does in his own backyard. But when you earn yourself a nickname like Click, the only sound the enemy hears before you strike, transitioning back to civilian life is a more insurmountable task than any combat mission...
  • Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters

    Deadly Deceit by Natalie Walters

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Independent and tenacious journalist Vivian DeMarco is back in Walton, Georgia, for one reason -- to do her job and get out. When her boss suddenly dies under suspicious circumstances, Vivian's only hope for finding the truth -- and the next big story -- is small-town law enforcement's lanky poster boy, Deputy Ryan Frost. But the deeper they dig, the more twisted the truth becomes...
  • 'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    'Til Death by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He left in handcuffs. Now it's time to set himself free.  Nearly twenty years after he was wrongly convicted of setting the fire that killed his father, Lincoln Fox returns to Rebel Ridge, Kentucky. There, deep in the Appalachians, the truth of that terrible night lies buried-and he's sworn to uncover it...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    His Christmas Bride by Lara Van Hulzen

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lucas lives in New York, but he's always loved Marietta. When he gets engaged, he decides Montana is exactly the place to get married. Tanner Ranch brings back happy memories of horseback riding and summer nights under the stars making it the perfect place to hold his wedding...
  • Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Watch Me by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Someone tried to kill her twelve years ago. Teenagers Sheridan Kohl and Jason Wyatt were parked at the lake in Whiterock, Tennessee, when a stranger wearing a ski mask shot them both. Sheridan lived but Jason died -- and the stranger was never caught. Even though Sheridan's family moved away right afterward, she's never been able to put the crime behind her...
  • The Forever Stone by Gloria Repp

    The Forever Stone by Gloria Repp

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Paralyzing memories of abuse . . .A beautiful glass paperweight . . .Escape to the wilderness."Don't bury yourself in that wilderness!" her relatives say. "Even though you're a widow, you're still young." No matter what they think, Madeleine decides to go. She'll help her aunt restore the old house; she'll sign up for an online baking course; and she'll bury--yes, bury--those terrible memories...
  • Black Widow by Laurie Breton

    Black Widow by Laurie Breton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sex, lies and murder to conceal the shameful secrets of a picturesque little Southern town. The jury had no hesitation in convicting Kathryn McAllister of killing her husband - she'd been found standing over his body, covered in blood and holding the murder weapon. But four years later new evidence supports her claims of innocence...
  • Secret Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Secret Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    On paper, Vivienne Neal had a lifestyle most people would envy. Only she knows what a sham her marriage really was. So when her politician husband is killed in a hit-and-run accident, she moves to Florida and takes a job as a personal assistant to Diego Cole-Thomas, a powerful CEO with an intimidating reputation...
  • Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Blue Moon Over Texas by Tori Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Book Two of the Lone Star Cowboys Series and the sequel to Blame it on Texas. Carol and Jake were high school sweethearts, but when she chose college over marriage, it cut Jake to the core. When they finally had a second chance at love, she chose to help her brother win custody of his daughter by moving to Dallas to live with them, leaving Jake once again...
  • Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Whisper My Name by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a beautiful professor joins forces with a sexy detective to find a serial killer, shes caught in a web of danger and desire as she becomes the murderers next target. Original...
  • Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Avarice by Lisa Clark O'Neill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Seventeen years ago, Ainsley Tidwell’s young life was shattered upon her discovery of the body of her murdered cousin, Carly. Now Carly’s sister Sabrina is missing, and Ainsley returns to Dahlonega, Georgia for the first time since the homicide that tore her family apart...
  • All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    All My Tomorrows by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Disenchanted with the politics of working in an upscale Washington, D.C. restaurant, twenty-seven-year-old chef Lydia Lord resigns from her job and resolves to make it on her own...
  • His Distraction by Thia Finn

    His Distraction by Thia Finn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Being on tour is great for the hot new alternative rock band, Assured Distraction, but not for relationships. Guitar player Ryan and girlfriend Krissy quickly realize they have two different visions for their future. She wants the house and two point five kids. He wants the band to be on top. The band is ready to leave leave on their epic tour with Ryder Steel...
  • Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Keeping You by Daphne Elliot

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He was my first kiss. My first love. And my first heartbreak . Twenty years later, our reunion is not the meet-cute I imagined. Instead, it's a meet-puke when I find Callum Quinn throwing up on my front lawn. We’ve both come a long way since high school. I’m a free spirit single mom, back in town with twin boys and a family farm to save...
  • Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Still the Best Woman for the Job by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 of the Jenkins Family Series Joint heir to the largest construction company in the state of Ohio, master plumber, Toni (TJ) Jenkins has been groomed to behave in a way that is befitting of the respected Jenkins’ family name...
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    north-america  usa  adult  black-mc  book  contemporary  fiction  ohio
  • Uncontrollable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Uncontrollable by Shelli R. Johannes

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Unstoppable (BK 3) - June 3, 2014 As Grace recovers from tragedy, her science class is chosen by Agent Sweeney at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to help with research on the new "Red Wolf Reintroduction Program"...
  • Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Taming the Texas Cowboy by Charlene Sands

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After a disaster destroyed nearly everything Maddie Brooks owned, Trey Walker offered the petite redhead shelter at 2 Hope Ranch. A veterinarian, Maddie was smart, sexy, and good with animals… Impossible to resist, yet Trey is convinced he is cursed when it comes to women. The temporary arrangement Maddie made with Trey was supposed to be strictly business...
  • In Shadows by Sharon Sala

    In Shadows by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    To protect her, he must remain a ghost… Jack McCann has been in love with Shelly since they were teens. They married just out of college and right before he went to work as an undercover agent for the FBI. When he can, he slips away from his assignments to see her.Jack has been undercover on his latest case for months, investigating a weapons-smuggling business...
  • Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Hiding in Park City by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A single mom on the run and an injured FBI agent find their greatest danger is with each other in this story of secret identity, originally titled Nowhere to Hide and published in 2003! As an on-the-run single mother out to protect her little girls, Lisa Connors needs two things: money, and to keep her identity secret...
  • Blade's Desire by Leah Brooke

    Blade's Desire by Leah Brooke

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Desire for Three: Winning Back Jesse [Siren Menage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Menage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, light consensual BDSM, spanking, HEA] Living in Desire, Oklahoma, and married to two incredible men, Jesse Erickson felt her world was perfect, until she walks through the door of her home one day and has her world turned upside down...
  • Gathering Shadows by Nancy Mehl

    Gathering Shadows by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wynter Evans is a promising young reporter for a television station in St. Louis, but even a bright future doesn't take away her pain over the disappearance of her brother nine years ago. So when she stumbles across a photograph of a boy with an eerie resemblance to him, she can't pass up the chance to track him down...
  • Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Shameless by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "She's a temptation he can't afford." Ian Sinclair, the man with no heart, the ultimate Trojan, the untouchable, the unreachable, may just have met his match. As wild as the untamed winds, as innocent as love itself, Courtney's vivacious spirit shines as brilliantly as the brightest star. And he wants nothing more in life than to see the sweet innocence that is so much a part of her survive...
  • Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Dead Certain by Mariah Stewart

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart comes a novel of sexy romantic suspense for fans of Nora Roberts, Catherine Coulter, and Karen Robards. Three devious prisoners vow murderous revenge. Now the second is free. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night...
  • Josh by R.C. Ryan

    Josh by R.C. Ryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rancher and mountain climber Josh Conway has never backed down from a challenge. So when a photographer disappears in the wilderness during a blizzard, Josh answers the emergency call and leaps into action. Yet he's soon shocked to find the person in "distress" is doing fine-and she's a gorgeous blond spitfire who's as brave and bold as he is...
  • Strictly Confidential Attraction by Brenda Jackson

    Strictly Confidential Attraction by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "I need you, Alli." -- Mark Hartman, desperate new dad Did Mark mean what Alison Lind hoped? Was her boss declaring his passion for her? Did he really feel the same way she secretly felt for him? Apparently not. Turned out that what Alison wanted and what Mark needed were two different things. Instead of asking her to be his lover, he was asking her to be temporary nanny to his baby niece...
  • Race Against Time by Christy Barritt

    Race Against Time by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Were it not for her cop neighbor, widowed mother Madison Jacobs would be dead. Thankfully, Detective Brody Philips interrupts an attempt on her life in the nick of time. But the would-be killer hasn't given up, and each tick of the clock brings the madman closer to finishing what he started...
  • Triggered: A Cowboy Bodyguard Romance by Elle James

    Triggered: A Cowboy Bodyguard Romance by Elle James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Read the first book New York Times bestselling author Elle James’s beloved Covert Cowboys, Inc. series! After taking justice into his own hands, Austin police officer Ben Harding faces an unknown future. But a new job referral as a bodyguard carries the possibility of salvation...
  • Back on Bittercreek Ranch by RaeAnne Thayne

    Back on Bittercreek Ranch by RaeAnne Thayne

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A woman with amnesia and a former FBI agent find themselves in grave danger—and fighting an irresistible attraction!—in this sweeping romance originally published as The Interpreter in 2005! He found her, barely conscious, on a dark Utah mountain road—a woman with an affinity for obscure languages and seemingly no memory of her identity...
  • Perfection: The MacGregor Grooms / A Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    Perfection: The MacGregor Grooms / A Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The MacGregor Grooms(1998)Daniel MacGregor sets his matchmaking skills against three of his grandsons - D.C., Duncan, and Ian.A Perfect Neighbor(1999)Daniel MacGregor is matchmaking again when he encourages playwright Preston McQuinn to move in across the hall from his granddaughter Cybill Campbell...
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    north-america  usa  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Bodyguard Reunion by Margaret Daley

    Bodyguard Reunion by Margaret Daley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    REUNIONS CAN BE DEADLY  Teaming up with an old flame is not what bodyguard Chloe Howard would call a smart move. Nine years ago Chloe and T. J. Davenport worked on a case together, fell in love, then went their separate ways. Now she's reunited with the fearless bodyguard to protect a controversial couple on a book tour through Texas. And the reunion reminds Chloe of dreams best forgotten...
  • Greyson Fox by T.L. Travis, Sl Perrine

    Greyson Fox by T.L. Travis, Sl Perrine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Greyson Fox, the man, the myth, the legend. The highly sought after, self-proclaimed permanent bachelor. Or so the rumor mill goes. Sure, I’ve heard it all – but the one that stung the most was being called a heartless bastard. Love ‘em and leave ‘em, that one in particular I found to be the most humorous since only one man had ever shared my bed more than once, and he’d long since passed away...
  • Simple Choices by Nancy Mehl

    Simple Choices by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Set your GPS for the small town of Harmony, Kansas, where a city girl becomes embroiled in mystery and romance. Graphic designer Gracie Temple is engaged to Sam Goodrich. As she returns from chaperoning her protégé, Hannah Mueller, during summer art classes in the city, Gracie is eager to finish her wedding plans and marry the man of her dreams...
  • Lost in Cottonwood Canyon (The Searchers) / How to Train a Cowboy by RaeAnne Thayne, Caro Carson

    Lost in Cottonwood Canyon (The Searchers) / How to Train a Cowboy by RaeAnne Thayne, Caro Carson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Originally published in 2004 and called Nothing to Lose, New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne brings readers a thrilling story of a sister desperate to save her brother’s life and the true crime writer who may be the only man who can help!Crime expert Wyatt McKinnon has built his career by turning high-profile cases into bestsellers...
  • Dirty Minds by Rhys Ford

    Dirty Minds by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a free Cole McGinnis short done for the Dirty Deeds Tour. I want to say thanks to all of the blogs who hosted me in this tour.This is a free story. Hope you enjoy a bit of Cole’s life...
  • His Brown-Eyed Girl by Liz Talley

    His Brown-Eyed Girl by Liz Talley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She's saving him from…the kids? Lucas Finlay is used to calling the shots. But looking after his two nephews and niece in New Orleans, he's entirely out of his league. Luckily help is next door. With almost no effort Addy Toussant manages to make order from the kid chaos. Lucas is beyond grateful…he's also very attracted to her. Images of an adults-only playdate are soon dancing in his head...
  • Hooked by Tiffinie Helmer

    Hooked by Tiffinie Helmer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She baited a cop and hooked a killer. She crosses the line... Sonya Savonski has something to prove as the only female drift boat captain fishing the deadly depths of the Bering Sea. She stirs the waters, luring a murderer to the surface, and gets the unwanted attention of an Alaska State Trooper. He tows the line..
  • Chill by Stephanie Rowe

    Chill by Stephanie Rowe

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    HE DISAPPEARED. Alaskan bush pilot Luke Webber did not exist until eight years ago. His brutal history still haunts him, but no one will ever know who he used to be. It needs to stay that way, or more people will die. SHE FOUND HIM. Isabella Kopas is on the run, a bullet in her shoulder and a murderer on her tail...
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    north-america  suspense  usa  adult  alaska  book  contemporary  drama
  • Simple Secrets by Nancy Mehl

    Simple Secrets by Nancy Mehl

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can graphic designer Gracie Temple have it all: the big city life and a job at a successful advertising firm? Just when she feels life coming together she receives an unknown uncle’s inheritance in a quiet Kansas Mennonite community. The house comes with a dark legacy and a cast of interesting neighbors, including farmer Sam Goodrich...
  • Enduring Fate by Alicia Rae, Jovana Shirley

    Enduring Fate by Alicia Rae, Jovana Shirley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book One in the Fate for Love Series Colton Kingston has loved Paige Summers his entire life. All he has ever dreamed of is having Paige by his side while he lives the simple life of a cowboy raising horses and cattle on his farm. When tragedy strikes, fate tests the strength of their love...
  • Lone Star Christmas by Diana Palmer, Joan Johnston

    Lone Star Christmas by Diana Palmer, Joan Johnston

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Top Silhouette authors Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston have saddled up to bring their loyal readers another original novel each in their respective series, Long, Tall Texans and Hawk's Way! Two romantic Christmas love stories bound in one incredibly priced, mass market sized, hardcover collector's edition...
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