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  • Crime Lord's Paradise by Mia Knight

    Crime Lord's Paradise by Mia Knight

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After Gavin Pyre steps down from his position as crime lord, he and Lyla focus on picking up the pieces of their lives and creating the paradise they deserve.Note: This novella intersects with book 4, Awakened by Sin, so books should be read in sequence...
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    suspense  possessive hero  mafia  alpha male
  • I'll Remember You by Sable Hunter

    I'll Remember You by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Aron and Libby McCoy became husband and wife. No woman could desire a more perfect love. But tragedy struck... while diving on their honeymoon, Aron does not come up from beneath the blue waters off the Cayman Islands. A massive rescue mission is launched, but the only clues found were his wedding ring and later a shredded wet suit covered in blood. The McCoy family is devastated...
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  • I'll See You in My Dreams by Sable Hunter

    I'll See You in My Dreams by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Zane Saucier is handsome, brilliant, powerful, a practicing cowboy and a successful attorney, but he cannot see. Presley Love is smart, intrepid, and attractive, but she wants not to be seen. Through legal battles, family affairs, and a fight to make it in the world, these two unlikely partners discover a true love greater than any obstacle...
  • Until Susan by C.P. Smith

    Until Susan by C.P. Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From the world of NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Aurora Rose Reynolds. See how the Mayson clan began. You've read their sons' stories, now it's James and Susan's turn. Experience the boom all over again in this action-packed novella of insta-love and suspense from Author CP Smith...
  • Hot Rebel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Hot Rebel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A rebel on the run… Victoria Royal is a traitor. Or so the U.S. government believes. Victoria was once a promising sniper in the Army, but now she’s gone rogue—worse, she’s just landed in the middle of a Hostile Operations Team mission in the desert and blasted it all to hell. Nick “Brandy” Brandon doesn’t expect to run into Victoria when he’s bugging out from a mission gone wrong...
  • Searching for Lilly by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Lilly by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Searching for Lilly is the exciting first book in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s Eagle Point Search & Rescue series.Ethan “Chaos” Watson is the unofficial leader of Fallport, Virginia’s Search and Rescue team...
  • A Rose By Any Other Name... by Helen Bell

    A Rose By Any Other Name... by Helen Bell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When insecure sophomore Emma gets a part-time job, she’s thrilled. The job is a six-week long project where she’ll be coding a website for a martial arts studio. For Emma, a computer science major, it’s perfect—a great way to gain some real world experience. But her excitement quickly evaporates when she finds out that her boss is Ryan Damon, the mean, arrogant guy she has slammed into, twice...
  • Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Tyler “Ty” Scott finally gets his book! When Cassie Dixon gets threatening letters, there’s only one person who can help - her best friend’s sexy cousin...
  • Broken by Rebecca Sharp

    Broken by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Roman Knight is a man of his word. When he swore to take care of his sister’s daughter, he meant it. And one fateful day gave him a chance to keep his promise. Quitting his job with the FBI, Roman moved across the country to tackle his hardest assignment yet—becoming a single parent.Stevie Michaels is no stranger to sacrifice...
  • Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Wolf and his fellow SEAL team members have saved many lives, and been in even more harrowing situations, but their latest mission might prove the most difficult of all. Charged with rescuing American soldier, Sergeant Penelope Turner, from the clutches of ISIS, the men infiltrate the refugee camp where she’s believed to be held...
  • Derek by LeAnn Ashers

    Derek by LeAnn Ashers

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BrittanyHe watched me from afar for over a year.Everywhere I went, he was there. His eyes on me.Little by little, he got closer. He stalked his prey…and that prey was me.But I wanted to be caught.I wanted to be his.I wanted him just as much as he wanted me.So I gave into him.I was his.DerekShe was mine.She had been from the second her eyes connected with mine from across the room.I waited...
  • One Man's Treasure by Sable Hunter, Ryan O'Leary

    One Man's Treasure by Sable Hunter, Ryan O'Leary

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Jet is a hero—Special Forces, an Equalizer, a motorcycle riding MMA fighter who is part pirate and all man. No one messes with Jet. He is formidable—the tall, dark, and deadly type. In One Man’s Treasure, he’s on a quest for gold. Jet travels to Mexico to fight a challenger before he sails the Sirena to bring up a fortune from the sunken Spanish galleon, San Miguel...
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    suspense  virgin heroine
  • Ivan by Lane Hart

    Ivan by Lane Hart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I’ve always had one goal in life – find the man who murdered my mother and make him pay for taking her away from me. Who would’ve guessed that a beautiful woman from a one-night stand would lead me straight to the person I’ve spent the last six years searching for. Now I just need to find a way to get close enough to kill him...
  • Collateral Damage by Rebecca Deel

    Collateral Damage by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After a second kidnapping attempt upends her life and a friend goes missing, Sage Reynolds partners with her childhood hero to unmask the culprit. When the search for clues leads to an inescapable trap, she’ll need a battle-hardened warrior to escape.Fortress Security operative Brody Weaver is a protector to the bone...
  • Love's Trusting by Maryann Jordan

    Love's Trusting by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ***Due to language that some will consider crude and sexual scenes of an explicit nature, readers need to be 18+ *** When trust is broken by loss and grief, can it ever be repaired? High school sweethearts and young lovers, Brad and Suzy had vowed to stay together forever. “I’ll always be here for you. Trust me,” Brad promised but loss separated the young lovers...
  • The Slow Burn of Silence by Loreth Anne White

    The Slow Burn of Silence by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the crossroads of small town mystery and dark suspense comes a romance that explores the bonds of family, the power of love, and the potentially explosive collateral damage of the secrets we keep... Sometimes a contract to forget can be as powerful as a promise to remember..
  • Hunter by Rebecca Sharp

    Hunter by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From bestselling romantic suspense author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a friends-to-lovers bodyguard romance...Zoey Roberts is on the run—that’s what happens when someone is stalking you.Winding up in Wyoming was her latest move and last resort, but giving up everything was the only way to protect herself. New state. New apartment. New life...
  • Protecting Eagle by Jane Blythe

    Protecting Eagle by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    First impressions can be hard to overcome.Olivia Wakefield took the job at the prestigious and world renowned Prey Security under false pretenses. She always knew there was a chance she could be found out. What she didn't expect was for her sexy boss to put her in prison, or to find herself directly in the crosshairs of a dangerous terrorist...
  • Road Demons by T.L. Drake

    Road Demons by T.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    EmberMy whole life I’ve been a victim. Touched, tormented and eventually, taken. Trust isn’t something I give easily. But I trust Mia, and eventually I found my place within her family. When her cousin, Declan gets hurt by the same men who haunt me, I feel it’s my place to help him through the nightmare. After all, he’s the man who saved me...
  • Saving Sparrow by Madalyn Judge

    Saving Sparrow by Madalyn Judge

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ༒BRAXTON “SPARROW” ALLEN༒
I’m man enough to admit that I’ve been spiraling for the last year. I was drowning my grief in whisky and women after my unborn child was taken. Unable to watch me fall any further, my president gives me an ultimatum that I can’t refuse; get my act together or step down as VP...
  • Shadow by Brooke Summers

    Shadow by Brooke Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wants the future... He's stuck in the past...Serenity Michaels has wanted Shadow since the moment she laid eyes on him and she's never been the one to shy away from what she wants.One drunken night with him proves the future she craves.He walks away without a second look.One night together was never going to be enough..
  • Blade by C.M. Steele

    Blade by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Anthony “Blade” Santini wants a slice of Jules Walker the second he sees the beauty at Penny’s Bakery. Still, with the world of trouble following the Steele Riders, he knows it’s not safe for her. As much as he’d love to be selfish and seal her fate as his, he refuses to put her in danger...
  • Captured by the Mob by C.M. Steele

    Captured by the Mob by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Nero: As the Underboss and enforcer for the Bianchi Family, I've got my hands full. When dealing with my enemies, I'm quick, efficient, and I never slip up. That's until one beauty accidentally gets in the way, seeing more than she should. I can't let her go, and I can't end her, so I do the only thing I can...I take her captive. Mariana: I thought my day couldn't get any worse...
  • Ronin: Lost Valkyries MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Ronin: Lost Valkyries MC by Esther E. Schmidt

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Anouk - He's a killer who took me with him. Although he was sweet, tender, and yet so very dominating a moment ago; that's all insignificant now. Ronin - I answer to no one. As the Prez of Lost Valkyries MC, people answer to me, not the other way around...
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    suspense  virgin heroine  contemporary
  • Tethered To Him : A Second Chance Romance by Kylie Kent

    Tethered To Him : A Second Chance Romance by Kylie Kent

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ⚠⚠This story contains content that can be considered dark, such as but not limited to: Discussions and scenes displaying post-traumatic stress. Adult language and content. If any of these are triggers for you, you should consider skipping this one.⚠⚠AvaI had my whole life figured out, down to the very last detail.I was the good girl, top of my class.Never went to parties or stayed out late...
  • A-List F*ck Club: Part 1 by Frankie Love

    A-List F*ck Club: Part 1 by Frankie Love

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Life is hard enough as it is. A little p*ssy, a little c*ck—if that’s the something sweet you need to help make the medicine go down, open wide baby, and I’ll pour it right in. When country-girl-turned-supermodel Juliana shows up at my club, she doesn’t want anything to do with a place so dangerous...
  • Collide by Megan O'Brien

    Collide by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    After years working for Talon Security, Sarah Scott has settled into her life in Los Angeles. Her friendships are growing stronger, and that spark with a certain former SEAL... well, it just might be worth exploring. That is, until her ugly past becomes her present and Sarah sees no other choice but to disappear. Letting her go isn't an option...
  • A Lady Never Surrenders by Sabrina Jeffries

    A Lady Never Surrenders by Sabrina Jeffries

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries delights readers with the final novel in her sexy Regency Hellions of Hallstead Hall romance series, featuring Lady Celia Sharpe and the upstanding Bow Street runner, Pinter. Lady Celia Sharpe has always been wary of marriage but now her future depends on it...
  • The Proposition: A Prologue Novella by Amelia Wilde

    The Proposition: A Prologue Novella by Amelia Wilde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Retribution (verb): inflict hurt on someone for an injury or wrongVengeance. It runs through Mason Hill's veins. Except the person who walks through his office door isn't his enemy. It's the man's daughter.Charlotte Van Kempt tempts the worst part of him. He wants to use her.He forms a new plan for revenge...He'll take out every past hurt and dark memory on her sweet body...
  • Fractured Vows by Jessica Ames

    Fractured Vows by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sariah4 weeks, 28 days, 672 hours—that’s all I have left until my fate is sealed.I am promised to a monster. A man twice my age. He plans to keep me like a pretty doll, making me move to whatever whims he has.Trapped, all my choices are taken away apart from one.A handsome stranger. He tells me his name is Lucas and for one night I'm able to leave my cursed future behind...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  virgin heroine  contemporary  mafia
  • White Ribbon by Aleatha Romig

    White Ribbon by Aleatha Romig

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Julia McGrath’s world is shaken.Seizing the opportunity to flee her commitments, obligations, and the lies she’s accepted for too long, Julia embarks on a quest for a new life. Replying to a job listing has her driving away from Chicago to the northern top of Wisconsin.A surprise snowstorm turns her world into a snow globe. Ice covered roads lead her into a snowbank...
  • Wrench by C.M. Steele

    Wrench by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Sometimes a mother does know best.Simon “Wrench” West has been hounded by his matchmaking mother for the past eight months to meet the woman she knows is perfect for him. In those eight months, he’s never encountered the woman and starting to think his mom has lost her mind until a broken down car finds his mystery girl on the back of his bike...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  virgin heroine
  • Riptide by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Riptide by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    There’s nothing he wouldn’t do to save her. Now he’s about to prove it… RiptideIt only took one look to know I was a goner.I’d never be able to forget the sweet smile and sinful curves I’d only glimpsed before she’d been ripped away.The girl in the desert was a prisoner, and I was going to set her free.All it would take was infiltrating a dangerous cult...
  • Enrico by C.M. Steele

    Enrico by C.M. Steele

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    EnricoShe wasn’t supposed to be on my radar. Another woman who was caught up in the traffickers’ sights, but one look at January and I’d become as lost as Dario and Alessio before me. I had no choice but to hunt her down and make her mine, even if that meant doing some illegal things. Nothing new to me anyway.JanuaryThe brute...
  • Annihilate Me Vol. 4 by Christina Ross

    Annihilate Me Vol. 4 by Christina Ross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book Four in the best-selling Annihilate Me Series! You must read the first, second and third volumes before reading Book Four. Each book is a full-length, 50,000-word novel...
  • WALKER by Frankie Love

    WALKER by Frankie Love

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Amazon Bestselling Author Frankie Love brings you a new full-length standalone romance … With all the mountain man goodness you crave… I came to the Whiskey Mountains to outrun my past, but now it’s knocking on my cabin door. One look, one kiss, one night -- and I know Waverly is mine. But this innocent woman is linked to my family in a way that will break her. I can’t let her go...
  • Risky Game by Tracy Solheim

    Risky Game by Tracy Solheim

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the next sizzling sports romance from the author of Foolish Games, Brody is at the top of his game… until Shannon changes the rules. Baltimore Blaze tight end Brody Janik is a natural-born football star. At twenty-seven, his record-breaking athletic performance and his cover-boy good looks have turned him into a household name...
  • Becoming the Street Boss by Hayley Faiman

    Becoming the Street Boss by Hayley Faiman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Massimo Ferrucci is a third-generation Zanetti famiglia Made Man. Born a bastard. His mother, a mistress. His father, cruel and hard. Raised by a woman who held no affection for him. Pippa Mazzilli has only ever craved freedom. Forced to live with an aunt who cares nothing for her other than the financial security her existence provides. When the money runs out, Pippa is turned away from her home...
  • Ride the Tide by Julie Ann Walker

    Ride the Tide by Julie Ann Walker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Brand new hot romantic suspense from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Ann WalkerWeary of being a fighting man, and burned by a bad divorce, former SEAL Mason "Monet" McCarthy is tight-lipped and self-contained. Unfortunately, he can't avoid Alexis Merriweather when she joins him and his business partners in the hunt for the Santa Cristina...
  • A Just Deception by Adrienne Giordano

    A Just Deception by Adrienne Giordano

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The protector: Peter Jessup, former Navy SEAL, currently employed by Taylor Security. He likes being the hero--in charge and in control. His client: Lawyer Isabelle DeRosa. The sexy brunette is the personification of Peter's fantasies. She's willing to get physical but nothing more serious...
  • Unchained Melody by Sable Hunter

    Unchained Melody by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sparks fly when Annalise walks thru the door of Ethan Stewart's Bed & Breakfast, turning his life upside down ... again. Six years ago she had simply vanished into thin air after eight short days of earth-shattering passion. Ethan had searched desperately for her, but never found Lise...
    Categorized as:
    virgin heroine  suspense  contemporary
  • Buried Sins by Karice Bolton

    Buried Sins by Karice Bolton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fletcher Security Systems has become one of the largest firms of its type in the world. Luke has mastered how to protect everyone else at all cost without dealing with his own demons. Or so he thinks. When one of Luke’s top men is captured, he realizes the people who murdered his parents are sending a message loud and clear. He is next...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  virgin heroine  contemporary
  • My Secret Santa My Stalker by Cassi Hart

    My Secret Santa My Stalker by Cassi Hart

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    AceWhen I was thirteen, an angel came into my life. Ella was the only light in a world of darkness. But at eighteen, that darkness threatened to consume me, and I had no choice but to flee. Over the years, I’ve kept an eye on my angel from a distance, never making contact. I’m not the boy she remembers. I’ve learned to thrive in the dark, but I’m still drawn to the light...
  • The Woman with the Secret by Jessica Gadziala

    The Woman with the Secret by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Emilio needed a house manager. Or so his mother thought, setting up appointments with women she’d vetted for the task. All of whom were polished and professional.Except for the woman who came literally tripping into his life, spilling her coffee over her paperwork, and cussing like a sailor.Avery was everything a house manager shouldn’t be. Inexperienced, clumsy, and way, way too tempting...
  • The Duchess Takes a Lover by Jillian Eaton

    The Duchess Takes a Lover by Jillian Eaton

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A duchess with nothing to lose... After a disastrous wedding night followed by eighteen months of isolation at her husband's country estate, the Duchess of Southwick has grown tired of being lonely. There's only so many books a person can read, and Mara has read most of them twice. So she's made a decision. For the first time since her wedding, she's traveling to London for the Season...
  • Dead to Rights by Jessica Prince

    Dead to Rights by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    When I caught my husband having an affair, I picked up what remained of my tattered pride and broken heart and left the city behind, heading for a small town where motorcycles outnumbered cars three to one. Ashland, Tennessee was where I planned to start over and become the woman I wanted to be; a woman who was fun and just a little bit reckless...
  • Taming the Rake by Monica McCarty

    Taming the Rake by Monica McCarty

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    They are known as the Rake Slayers… Tired of the different standards applied to the men who flout society’s rules, three young ladies seek a little primitive justice and hatch a plan to bring a few of London’s most notorious rakes up to snuff before refusing them. But they soon learn exactly what it is that makes rakes so dangerous...
  • Task Force Bride by Julie Miller

    Task Force Bride by Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JULIE MILLER'S THE PRECINCT: TASK FORCE SERIES HEATS UP WHEN A PLAIN JANE AND AN EXPERIENCED COP POSE AS AN ENGAGED COUPLE. Something about Hope Lockhart fascinated Officer Pike Taylor. The cop and his canine companion had been patrolling the neighborhood around Hope's bridal shop for months, trying to capture the criminal who targeted her...
  • An Uncommon Earl by Sian Ann Bessey

    An Uncommon Earl by Sian Ann Bessey

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Alexander Allerton, the Earl of Bloxley’s, greatest desire is to alleviate the suffering of the poor and less fortunate of England. So when his hackney carriage is involved in an accident that results in the death of one of those he is determined to help, he is devastated...
  • Alpha by Sybil Bartel

    Alpha by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Billionaire.Mercenary.Navy SEAL.The Teams trained me to be a killer. War taught me to be ruthless. Then an ill-fated mission proved I was human. Combat wounded, cut loose by the Navy, I had a choice. Fade into obscurity or use the skills I had.Alpha Elite Security was born, and three years later, my company was the most sought-after security contractor in the world...
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