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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...
  • It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair

    It'll Be An Adventure by Cherise Sinclair

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From NYT & USA Today Bestselling author Cherise Sinclair comes an outstanding addition to the beloved Masters of the Shadowlands series. The secret of author Murphy’s success is hands-on research. Murphy loves writing popular Regency thrillers and jumping into new adventures under the guise of research. For one novel, she’d joined a K9 search-and-rescue group—and liked it so much she stayed...
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    military  m-f  contemporary  bdsm  alpha male
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  • Rescuing Mary by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Mary by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Ford “Truck” Laughlin and Mary Weston have weathered their share of storms over the last couple years. Truck’s job, Mary’s health. His bossiness, her bitchiness. All while dancing around their intense attraction. Mary’s tried to push him away for his own good but Truck won’t let her give up…on herself or on them. Just when she decides they deserve a fair shot, disaster strikes...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary  caretaking
  • Securing Piper by Susan Stoker

    Securing Piper by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    What started as an adventure, soon became hell. Piper Johnson’s thrilled to spend time in Timor-Leste with her best friend, a Peace Corps volunteer…until civil unrest erupts throughout the countryside, including an attack at the orphanage the women were visiting...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary
  • Jade by Kris Michaels

    Jade by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Jade King lives life at full speed. After over a year undercover for the DEA, she’s back in play and wants what any hot-blooded woman who’s gone a year without sex would want: an alpha bad boy who is convenient, delicious and disposable. A fun one-night stand, multiple orgasms, and absolutely no strings attached. Right? If only...
  • Legend by Marie James

    Legend by Marie James

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I wouldn’t call it love at first sight, but my body definitely reacted when I saw her.Getting Faith Robbins under me became my obsession.I knew I wanted fast and done.It’s how I always did things.Looking for anything more with a woman was never in the cards.I wasn’t like the other guys in the Cerberus MC. I didn’t want more.It was physical, sating a desire...
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    military  m-f  suspense  mystery  contemporary  bikers
  • A Forever Love by Kelly Elliott

    A Forever Love by Kelly Elliott

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The moment Garrett Mathews sees the woman of his dreams, he vows to fight with everything he has to win Emma Birk’s heart. Garrett will embark on the longest, hardest struggle of his life to make his dreams a reality...
    Categorized as:
    cowboys  m-f  contemporary
  • Covert Mission by Lynn Shannon

    Covert Mission by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Duty is all he knows.  Logan Keller spent his military career saving lives, but none of that prepared him for raising his out-of-control teenage niece. He’s desperate to get through to her. A charity designed for teens seems like the answer, but when Logan arrives to speak to the director, he interrupts an attack on the woman’s life.  Danger surrounds her...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  contemporary  suspense  christian  mystery
  • Justice For Angie by Cara Carnes

    Justice For Angie by Cara Carnes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s never met a fight she couldn’t win…until now. 

After brutally murdering someone in Angie Bierman’s dojo, the killer targets her first and then people she cares about to scare her off the investigation. Determined to prevent further tragedy, she does the one thing she can to keep them safe—run...
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    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary
  • Hammer: Time Served MC, Book 12 by Cee Bowerman

    Hammer: Time Served MC, Book 12 by Cee Bowerman

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    After a rough childhood, Hammer settled down to live the good life. He had a wife he adored, children he doted on, and even the house in the suburbs with the white picket fence. But most of all, he finally had the stability he longed for growing up.When he made a decision to help a woman in need, that bliss was short-lived. What he thought was a horrible accident changed his life forever...
  • Anubis by Kris Michaels

    Anubis by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    In the Shadow World, he was the God of Death, and he was called many names. The monsters he hunted called him Anubis. Those who saw his face died. To Guardian Security, he was a number, a surgical weapon they wielded against monstrous evil. One woman called him Kaeden Lang...
  • Frank by Kris Michaels

    Frank by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A life well-lived.Frank Marshall’s life before he married and had a family is a closely held secret. The past should remain in the past until it doesn’t.A love for the ages.Never in a million years did Frank think he’d find the type of love his parents shared. Until her. Until Amanda King...
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    cowboys  military  contemporary  suspense
  • Finding Elodie by Susan Stoker

    Finding Elodie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    This is the first book in the SEAL Team Hawaii series. This is Elodie and Scott "Mustang" Webber.Sometimes what you think you want in life, isn't what you need. Mustang finds that out the hard way when he meets Elodie...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary
  • Shadow: Cerberus MC Book 3 by Marie James, Kari Ayasha

    Shadow: Cerberus MC Book 3 by Marie James, Kari Ayasha

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Morrison “Shadow” Griggs, VP of the Cerberus MC, is a force to be reckoned with. Women fall at his feet, willing to do almost anything for a night with him. Misty Bowen is the exception. She’s young and impressionable, but with her religious upbringing, she’s able to resist Shadow’s advances… for a while at least...
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    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary  bikers  pregnancy
  • Sins and Scarlet Lace by Liliana Hart

    Sins and Scarlet Lace by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Declan MacKenzie has loved the same woman for as long as he can remember, but after a mission early on in his career turns deadly, he realizes he can never have a wife or family and keep them safe. So he watches her marry another man. Sophia Huxley is involved in a nightmare. Her late husband has been labeled a traitor and he's made her the fall guy...
  • A Hero's Chance by Maryann Jordan

    A Hero's Chance by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ryan Coates does it all. Single dad with an ex who needs a reminder to spend time with their kids. Chief of the Baytown Station of the Virginia Marine Police. Sergeant at Arms for the local American Legion. Son. Brother. Coach. Friend.What he’s not doing is looking for a woman to add to his already busy life.Then he met her. Again.She’s the new doctor in town. And she remembers Ryan...
  • HOOT: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Five by Mary Kennedy

    HOOT: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Five by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Benjamin Scott 'Hoot' O'Neal is one-third of the O'Neal triplets. Prolific members of MARSOC, the triplets are now retiring and heading home to Belle Fleur. With their father and uncle, Eagle and Hawk, they will become members of the RP team. But when his first op finds him carrying a dying woman into an emergency room, Hoot is starting to doubt the wisdom of leaving the Corps...
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    military  m-f  contemporary  alpha male
  • Fearless: A Salvation Society Novel by Chelle Bliss, Salvation Society

    Fearless: A Salvation Society Novel by Chelle Bliss, Salvation Society

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I’ve always been a wild child and my own worst enemy. Ditched by my best friend at a biker bar. A broken Jeep in a new town with no one to call. What else could possibly go wrong? I’m Makenna Dixon, not a damsel in distress. My parents taught me how to survive on my own. But a handsome stranger thinks he’ll be my saving grace. A challenge leads to a lip lock I can’t quite forget...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  contemporary  new adult
  • Shelter for Penelope by Susan Stoker

    Shelter for Penelope by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Dubbed the “American Princess” after her rescue from months in the hands of ISIS, soldier and firefighter Penelope Turner has struggled silently since her return to Texas. The media, the danger of her job, the pressure of knowing lives are in her hands…all of it and more has combined to slowly fill Penelope with seething guilt and doubt...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary  firefighter
  • Cole's Red-Hot Pursuit by Brenda Jackson

    Cole's Red-Hot Pursuit by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    And what the former Texas Ranger wanted now was sultry Patrina Forman. But Patrina was set against falling for a man with a no-strings attitude, and there was no way she'd fall into bed with a lawman!Then a Montana blizzard changed everything. Trapped together for three sinfully delicious nights, Cole soon had Patrina singing a different tune thanks to his brand of red-hot seduction...
  • Justin by Kris Michaels

    Justin by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Being CEO of flourishing JK Holdings isn't a sufficient challenge for millionaire restaurateur Justin King. He craves the rush gained by facing danger and triumphing—be it heli-skiing, rappelling, suit jumping from the peaks of Mt. Everest or racing performance cars. But nothing does it for him like breaking into impenetrable fortresses and rifling their vaults for Guardian Security...
  • A SEAL's Vow by Cora Seton

    A SEAL's Vow by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Navy SEAL Clay Pickett needs a wife, fast, or he’ll lose the model sustainable community he and his friends came home to Chance Creek to build. He’s got just the woman for the job in mind: sexy, sensitive Nora Ridgeway. Too bad she’s not interested in rushing to the altar...
    Categorized as:
    military  cowboys  contemporary
  • Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Protective Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She’s running for her life……His mission: protect her.Ex-Delta Force Operator Ridge Hansen has a thing for artist Harper Katz.So does his tactical K9, Zeus……But Harper is on the run.Someone is aiming to kill her.Ridge wants two things…Convince Harper to move their relationship from friends to lovers,And find out who she really is...
  • Ethan’s Obsession (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Anna Blakely, Operation Alpha

    Ethan’s Obsession (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Anna Blakely, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A former SEAL who wants what he can’t have. An artist who’s afraid to follow her heart. Danger lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect time to strike.Ethan “Apollo” McAllister’s world is filled with controlled chaos. As a former Navy SEAL and member of Tac-Ops, he’s used to running headfast into danger. He’s also damn good at keeping secrets...
  • Ethan’s Obsession by Anna Blakely, Operation Alpha

    Ethan’s Obsession by Anna Blakely, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A former SEAL who wants what he can’t have. An artist who’s afraid to follow her heart. Danger lurking in the shadows, waiting for the perfect time to strike. Ethan “Apollo” McAllister’s world is filled with controlled chaos. As a former Navy SEAL and member of Tac-Ops, he’s used to running headfast into danger. He’s also damn good at keeping secrets...
  • No White Knight by Nicole Snow

    No White Knight by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Handsome devil. Hate-worthy. Walking scandal.I'm catching one feeling with him and it's got teeth...If I were a bird, I know who I'd paint white.Holt Silverton. The cocky dolt who swaggered up thinking he'd buy my ranch out from under me.I know his reputation—those stormy eyes and chiseled looks ruined half this town.Spare me the pick up lines and pretty words...
  • Jason by Kris Michaels

    Jason by Kris Michaels

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Jason King was presented the opportunity of a lifetime… …assume control of Guardian Security from the billionaire who had built the world renowned agency. As CEO, Jason would manage the best security resources in the world...
  • Digitalis by Ronie Kendig

    Digitalis by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Step into the boots of a former Marine in this heart-pounding adventure in life and love. Colton “Cowboy” Neeley is a Marine trying to find his footing as he battles flashbacks now that he’s back home. Piper Blum is a woman in hiding—from life and the assassins bent on destroying her family. When their hearts collide, more than their lives are at stake...
  • Somebody's Angel by Kallypso Masters

    Somebody's Angel by Kallypso Masters

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When Marc d’Alessio first rescued the curvaceous and spirited Italian Angelina Giardano at the Masters at Arms Club, he never expected her to turn his safe, controlled life upside down and pull at his long-broken heartstrings. Months later, the intense fire of their attraction still rages, but something holds him back from committing to her completely...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  contemporary
  • Dirty Little Midlife Drama by Lilian Monroe

    Dirty Little Midlife Drama by Lilian Monroe

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Georgia wants a fresh start, and that doesn't include the handsome cowboy from her past.But Sebastian is in town now, and he has no intention of leaving until he gets what he wants...My high school sweetheart kissed me so naturally, I slapped him.Listen, I’m forty-three years old. I’m divorced. I’m in a new town. I don’t need ghosts from the past haunting me anymore...
  • Dangerously Hot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Dangerously Hot by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    By USA TODAY Bestselling Author Lynn Raye Harris Available Today! The next explosive story in the Hostile Operations Team Series! The world’s most wanted man is back from the dead. And only one woman can stop him… Former Army linguist Lucky San Ramos escaped with her life, but the scars an evil terrorist leader left on her skin are a constant reminder of her captivity...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  contemporary  suspense
  • Second Chance Love by Hope Ford

    Second Chance Love by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I was his wife… but he left me.He broke my heart once, and if given the chance, he’d probably do it again.Which is why I’ve tried to get over him.I’ve dated, I’ve tried to let loose, but no matter how hard I try, my thoughts always return to Nash.Every guy I meet I compare to him.He was always overprotective and possessive...
  • Justice for Boone by Susan Stoker

    Justice for Boone by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Sheriff’s Deputy Hayden Yates has worked hard to gain the respect and admiration of her fellow law enforcement officers. She’s succeeded so well, in fact, that she’s become just one of the guys. As her friends slowly begin to meet their soul mates, Hayden longs to be seen as a desirable woman, and not the tomboy she’s always been...
    Categorized as:
    military  cowboys  suspense  contemporary  abuse
  • Securing Zoey by Susan Stoker

    Securing Zoey by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Zoey Knight has lived in Juneau, Alaska her entire life. She loves her friends, but yearns for more excitement. She gets more than she ever bargained for when the plane she’s in goes down in a remote stretch of wilderness. Mark “Bubba” Wright regrets not spending more time with his pop...
  • Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Torn apart by lies and a hail of bullets… Georgia Randall is a government-trained killer with nothing left to live for except the burning need for revenge. She’s lost everything she cared about, including the only man she ever loved, and now her past has caught up with her. Shadowy enemies are on the move, determined to silence her before she can kill her remaining targets...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary  betrayal
  • Code Name: Ghost by Sawyer Bennett

    Code Name: Ghost by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I knew the risks of this job when I signed on with Jameson Force Security. Knew my time as a marine would prepare me for the danger I would face. But no amount of training could have ever prepared me for the helplessness of watching my teammates die, the agonizing mental and physical pain of torture, or the despair of captivity...
  • Rescuing Wendy by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Wendy by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Aspen “Blade” Carlisle is the last of his Delta Force team to find love…and he’s pretty bummed about that fact. Which might explain why he finds himself chatting up a telemarketer as if she’s a long-lost friend. But Wendy is surprisingly easy to talk to, so when they go from occasional calls during her work, to nightly conversations on their cells, it somehow feels right...
  • Exposed by Kaylea Cross

    Exposed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the one you were meant to be with… Marisol Lorenzo landed her dream job as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and is working on the case that could make her career; now she’s determined to put away the most dangerous drug lord in the country. But his incarceration has opened up a lethal turf war among his lieutenants...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary
  • Disavowed by Kaylea Cross

    Disavowed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The government trained her to kill… Briar Jones has lived most of her life in the shadows, carrying out secret ops to eliminate some of the United States’ most dangerous enemies. She’s devoted her life to serving her country so when a faceless enemy targets her and kills someone close to her, she’ll stop at nothing to bring them down...
  • Healed by Love: Nate Braden by Melissa Foster

    Healed by Love: Nate Braden by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    HEALED BY LOVE is a USA TODAY BESTSELLER In HEALED BY LOVE... Nate Braden has loved his best friend's younger sister Jewel for as long as he can remember, but between their age difference and his respect for Rick, he's always kept his feelings at bay. Now he's back in Peaceful Harbor, and Jewel is no longer sixteen years old--but there's an even bigger obstacle standing in his way...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  contemporary  siblings-bff
  • Wanted by Kaylea Cross

    Wanted by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She thought her past was behind her. After nearly dying at the hands of a madman in New Orleans a year ago, Zoe Renard has worked hard to put that trauma behind her and move on. With her man at her side she’s focused on her writing career and building a future together. Things are almost perfect between them, until a series of shocking events turns her world upside down again...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary
  • Critical Error by Lynn Shannon

    Critical Error by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One decision changed his life.  Nathan Hollister nearly died in a war zone and the experience made one thing crystal clear—breaking off his engagement was a terrible mistake. He arrives at his ex’s ranch to make amends, but gunfire erupts before he can.  Someone wants her dead.  Cassie Miles is used to being abandoned, first by her mother and then Nathan...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  christian  contemporary
  • Faithful Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Faithful Cowboy by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Hope Ford brings you a steamy cowboy romance about a romance author that doesn’t believe in love until she meets a wounded warrior that teaches her that real all-consuming love can withstand anything.HaileyI’m a romance novelist who no longer believes in love.My agent keeps calling it writer’s block, but I think what I have is more permanent...
  • Colorado Cold Case by Elle James

    Colorado Cold Case by Elle James

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sole survivor of a mission gone wrong, Griff left the Navy to recover from his wounds and grief. The one person he’d loved had left San Diego while he'd been on a mission and hadn't returned or reached out. She’d said she was from Colorado...
  • Necessary Peril by Lynn Shannon

    Necessary Peril by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His scars are hidden.  Kyle Stewart always envisioned marriage and children in his future, but being deployed changed him in every possible way. All he wants now is to take care of his aging parents and live a quiet life of bachelorhood. Then a woman from Kyle’s past blasts back into his life with hired hitmen on her tail. She’s not who she claims to be. Sierra Lyons isn’t her real name...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  christian  contemporary
  • A Home For Christmas by Ann Vaughn

    A Home For Christmas by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Single mom, Jenna Blackwell wasn't having a very good start to the Christmas season; her purse got stolen on Black Friday. She's cursing her luck and herself for even being out in the Black Friday madness when the store manager brings in Riley Stanton, a former Navy SEAL who chased down the thieves and recovered her purse...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  contemporary  alpha male
  • Seized by Kaylea Cross

    Seized by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She’s strictly off limits. Carmela Cruz has wanted the same man for over a year, and now that he’s finally free, he’s fair game. But just when it seems like everything is about to click into place for them, he puts on the brakes. For her, the decision is simple. He either wants her or he doesn’t. She’s tired of his mixed messages and done with waiting for him to make up his mind...
  • Fast Kill by Kaylea Cross

    Fast Kill by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The past has come back to haunt her. Having battled long and hard to put her painful past behind her, DEA Special Agent Taylor Kennedy has done everything in her power to make a new life for herself. She never dreamed that same past would suddenly show up on her doorstep one night, or that its reappearance would threaten everything she’s built for herself...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  suspense  contemporary  alpha male
  • No Turning Back by Kaylea Cross

    No Turning Back by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    CIA communications expert Samarra Wallace is on the run from a faceless enemy when she learns terrorists have kidnapped and threatened to execute her cousin. She will do whatever it takes to free her, including breaking cover to contact the former teammate she is dangerously attracted to. Now all she has to do is convince him she's not working for the bad guys...
  • Quit Bein' Ugly by Lani Lynn Vale

    Quit Bein' Ugly by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    There’s a crush, and then there are the type of feelings that Croft Cruisie evokes from a person.He’s everything that any straight woman would want: tall, handsome, charismatic, muscular, and sweet...
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