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  • Mouser by Elizabeth Knox

    Mouser by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MouserShe only came into our lives on a whim because we outsmarted the woman who was trying to double cross us. While I hated Sakura at first her actions have proven she’s not only as loyal as they come, but has undeniable honor. Sakura used her connections and pull to save one of us, the most innocent of Reapers, Orion Monroe...
  • Revealing Annie by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Revealing Annie by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the fire department’s joker, Kyle (Sumo) Matsumoto, loves nothing better than ribbing the guys at the station. However, he’s all business when he’s on a call, and when he tries to snag the attention of a cute little baker. Then life takes a more serious turn when he’s plunged headfirst into fatherhood—of a teenage boy—giving his teammates the last laugh...
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  • Mountain Daddy's Fate: A Mountain Man's Baby, Second Chance Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Mountain Daddy's Fate: A Mountain Man's Baby, Second Chance Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "A secret this BIG is what broke us in the first place."Three things I know about Eli:1. I broke his heart over a decade ago.2. The reason I left him was unspeakable . A secret I've kept hidden all these years.3. Even though I'm engaged to another man I'm still madly in love with him . How is this my life!?!Eli's about to receive the biggest shock of his life...
  • Billionaire Unreachable ~ Wyatt by J.S. Scott

    Billionaire Unreachable ~ Wyatt by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What happens when the man you think you despise turns out to be a completely different guy beneath the surface? I didn't like Wyatt Durand. He might be my friend's older brother, but he was unpleasant, sarcastic, and the grumpiest guy on the planet. It didn't matter to me that he was a breathtakingly gorgeous, ultra-wealthy billionaire with the very prestigious Durand last name...
  • Hudson by Melody Anne

    Hudson by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Melody Anne begins a sizzling and heartfelt series about Joseph Anderson’s long-lost nephews.Hudson Anderson has watched his brothers fall victim to the marriage flu. He wants nothing to do with it. That is until he meets a fiery Daisy Green who shows up on the property he’s just purchased, calling him a thief, and insisting the property isn’t his...
  • Crew by Melody Anne

    Crew by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Crew Anderson has been keeping a secret from his family — a huge secret that he doesn’t know how to handle. But soon he learns he can’t face this situation alone. So he goes to Darla, the best friend of his brother’s fiancé, Daisy, who happens to be a social worker...
  • STONE SECURITY: The Complete 5 Books Series by Glenna Sinclair

    STONE SECURITY: The Complete 5 Books Series by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Kindle Unlimited Bundle... Enjoy the complete Stone Security series. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 5 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) JACK Running from her past, Raelyn ends up at the doorstep of security firm owner, Jack. Needing help and shelter, Jack offers her both. Under attack, they can’t help the connection that builds between them...
  • The Enforcer by Renee Rose

    The Enforcer by Renee Rose

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    She’s my weakness, my obsession. And now my prisoner.I spent twelve long years in a Siberian prison.Since my release, nothing's held my interest.Nothing except her.Week after week, I watch her band perform.I can't get her out of my mind.When my past catches up to me, she becomes a target.The only way to save her is to lock her away.Hold her prisoner until things blow over...
  • Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She’s learning to live with her demons. Victoria Gomez had a successful career as an investigative journalist, until a cartel boss she exposed destroyed her entire world in retaliation. She lost everything, including her family and her freedom...
  • Brandon by Melody Anne

    Brandon by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Melody Anne comes the third and final book in the Anderson Billionaires series—a feel-good romance about learning to trust and believing in happy endings...
  • Brandon by Melody Anne

    Brandon by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Melody Anne comes the third and final book in the Anderson Billionaires series—a feel-good romance about learning to trust and believing in happy endings...
  • Gray Wolf Security: Wyoming by Glenna Sinclair

    Gray Wolf Security: Wyoming by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Free with Kindle Unlimited... Enjoy the complete Volume 3 of the Gray Wolf Security series. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 5 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) HANK I’m a cowhand...
  • THE WATCHERS: 6 Military Romance Bundle by Kristina Weaver

    THE WATCHERS: 6 Military Romance Bundle by Kristina Weaver

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A KINDLE UNLIMITED FREE BUNDLE Enjoy 6 Standalone, full length books in this bundle. More than 300,000 words. Approximately 1,000 pages. NO CLIFFHANGERS. VERY STEAMY. You've been warned :) Titles in this series: Seducing the Storm I’m a soldier. I’m a hard man. I don’t do love and I don’t do cute but the moment I meet Lenny Coleman that is exactly what I get...
  • Finding Kenna by Susan Stoker

    Finding Kenna by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After jumping into a canal to save a man’s life, only to find out that he was a Navy SEAL not in the need of saving, Kenna and Marshall “Aleck” Smart hit it off.Aleck is intrigued by the bubbly waitress who almost landed on his head during a training exercise, and after getting to know her better, is thrilled they’ve hit it off so well...
  • The Irish Castle: Keeping Elizabeth by Juliet Gauvin

    The Irish Castle: Keeping Elizabeth by Juliet Gauvin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes losing your way and finding your life is only the beginning. Picking up five years after the events of The Paris Apartment, The Irish Castle is the first book in a new story following Elizabeth Lara and Connor Bannon. It’s time to come back to the land of enchanting green hills and lively music. To friendly dolphins and beautiful people. It’s time to come home to Ireland...
  • The Sheikh's Surprise Twins by Leslie North

    The Sheikh's Surprise Twins by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Holly Remington can’t believe the burning chemistry she feels with Sheikh Malik Abdul-Rahman. It’s like getting knocked in the head with a baseball bat—except far more pleasant. Though she’s supposed to be all business while her company tries to win a lucrative development contract in the oil-rich country of Qadir, Holly simply can’t stop herself from happily succumbing to his charm...
  • Broken Beauty by Stella Andrews

    Broken Beauty by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I ran from the beast into the arms of the Devil.”Sophia Moretti MaverickIt takes a special kind of glue to mend a broken Angel.She came to the right place—or so she thought.Broken, traumatized and scared.Her past was a place that had no business in her future.But she ran to me.She should have kept running...
  • The Sheikh's Marriage Bargain by Leslie North

    The Sheikh's Marriage Bargain by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Laila Tindall is only in Raihan to hone her pottery skills and visit her ailing grandfather. Marriage was never in the picture. But when her grandfather is tricked into signing a binding marriage contract to a man she finds repugnant, she has one choice: Run away...
  • Lumberjack's Baby: A Single Daddy Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Lumberjack's Baby: A Single Daddy Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Once you go Lumberjack, you never go back."My heart belongs to a lumberjack.Single daddy. Dark. Rebel.Some see a hard criminal, incapable of love.But my instincts tell me there's much more to Axel than meets the eye.He saved my life.And the way I feel around the ruggedly handsome woodsman is indescribable.His 'take charge' attitude makes me wonder what he's like behind closed doors...
  • Serving the Couturier by M.S. Parker

    Serving the Couturier by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Enter the chaotic life of Leah Martin, a shy fashion prodigy with an unassuming charm, always used to playing second fiddle to her vivacious identical twin, Sophie. But when a gnarly ski accident in Aspen sidelines her sister, suddenly, Leah's stepping into Sophie's killer heels, working for the drop-dead gorgeous fashion big shot, Damien Laurent...
  • The Kiss Plot by Nicole French

    The Kiss Plot by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jane and Eric de Vries. Often enemies. Sometimes lovers. Husband and wife. Or are we? I wore the dress. We said the vows. And somehow it became more than just a stunt to collect his billions. A promise bound by love more than hate. Until the bastard left me at the altar. Now my errant husband has disappeared, leaving me to unravel his secrets, one by one...
  • Damaged Grump by Nicole Snow

    Damaged Grump by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Wall Street Journal bestselling author Nicole Snow returns with a hysterical office romance where the grumpiest boss claims the good girl and loses his scorched heart.Our meet cute was one big sip of ugly.He pushed my hell-no buttons, wearing an indestructible smirk.I offended his warped morals in front of his starry-eyed minions.Then I got my sweet reward for doing the right thing...
  • Insanity by Xavier Neal, Kim Collins

    Insanity by Xavier Neal, Kim Collins

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Clint "Grim" Walker left for elite training, he never expected the opportunity that was waiting. Suddenly the only thing he's ever wanted for his career collides with the only woman he's ever loved...
    Categorized as:
    military  multicultural  contemporary
  • Retaliation: An Alpha Billionaire Romance by Lauren Landish

    Retaliation: An Alpha Billionaire Romance by Lauren Landish

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Andrea His charm is contagious... and I've just been infected. For years I've been abused by my father, ruthless billionaire Peter DeLaCoeur. Now he wants me dead. If I want to survive, I need to surround myself with those I trust. Simple right? Not if sexy heir Carson Sands has anything to say about it. He shows up out of nowhere, armed with family secrets...
  • Stone Security: Volume 2 by Glenna Sinclair

    Stone Security: Volume 2 by Glenna Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Kindle Unlimited Bundle... Enjoy the complete volume two of the Stone Security series. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 5 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) JACK Jack goes to a small town in Arizona where a local militant group has taken over, harassing honest business owners in an attempt to run them out of town...
  • Campbell Agency by Clara Kendrick

    Campbell Agency by Clara Kendrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dive into this sexy five-book series that follows five security professionals in their quest for both justice and unexpected romance. Lots of suspense, mystery, and romance. No cliffhangers! Book One Gwen Grange doesn’t exist, as far as the world is concerned. She disappeared after her father was accused of horrendous crimes, and has been presumed dead...
  • Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Ruined With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When her high maintenance boss is assaulted, manager Xena Morgan contacts the only person who can help—the sexy, arrogant, incredibly capable Stark Security agent Liam Foster. The former vigilante takes every case personally, and he's determined to find answers—particularly since he thought he'd cleared this threat already...
  • We Shouldn't by Katy Kaylee

    We Shouldn't by Katy Kaylee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunter Raven: A force of nature, the epitome of a broody alpha male. Enigmatic, broody alpha male. Guess I gotta push that out because I am his therapist now. Turns out, he is going to be my most challenging client ever! Everything about this relationship is wrong. He’s ex-military, running away from demons of his past, And I’m supposed to be treating him...
  • The Sheikh’s Convenient Bride by Leslie North

    The Sheikh’s Convenient Bride by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a desperate attempt to get out from her father’s control, Nora Williams agrees to marry a man she doesn’t love. But she’s shocked when her old friend, Sheikh Rashid, whom she hasn’t seen in years, begs her not to go through with it. Even more surprising? Rashid has a proposal. Literally. Nora should marry him instead...
  • Saving Grace (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Shauna Allen

    Saving Grace (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Shauna Allen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ***This book was previously published in Amazon Kindle Worlds*** Lucas “Lucky” Moore has a one-track mind and one thing on his agenda: Track down the Mexican drug lord that has made it his mission to hunt and eliminate Lucky’s Marine Reconnaissance team, their families, and the SEALs working alongside them, and end his reign of terror permanently...
  • Ryder by Amanda McKinney

    Ryder by Amanda McKinney

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I killed a man.Paid ten years of my life for it.Then she blew through my front door, all trainwreck and temptation.A broken soul.… An invitation to danger...
  • The Billionaire’s Bride by L. Steele

    The Billionaire’s Bride by L. Steele

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    You are mineThat's what they tell me.EdwardMy first love, who turned his back on me.The hot ex-priest turned bad boy with the dangerous smile and the now unleashed passionate temper that thrills me to my core. I thought I'd lost him, but he's back and his dark molten gaze follows me possessively wherever I go.BaronMy savior. My second chance...
  • Loved by Daddy's 4 Dirty Friends by Barbi Cox

    Loved by Daddy's 4 Dirty Friends by Barbi Cox

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I have to tell my dad that I’m in love with his four best friends...
  • Romeo by Sybil Bartel

    Romeo by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Pilot.Handler.Marine.My first memory was in the cockpit of a plane. My second was of a uniform. All I’d ever wanted was to be a pilot. The Marines gave me wings and I gave them my all.Half a dozen deployments, countless flight hours—I knew the controls in the cockpit better than I knew my own name. I never made mistakes. But war didn’t care how good you were...
  • Finn by Melody Anne

    Finn by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Melody Anne begins a sizzling and heartfelt series about Joseph Anderson’s long-lost nephews. Finn Anderson is a loyal military veteran who has no desire to live a life of luxury and ease, but sometimes a person doesn’t get a choice...
  • The Powerbroker by Anna Hackett

    The Powerbroker by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    She’s undercover in a dangerous motorcycle club, and her unwanted protector is the city’s most lethal man.Police Detective Brynn Sullivan is dedicated to her job and living up to the memory of her cop father. She’s out to prove herself on her biggest case yet—stopping a dangerous drug from flooding the streets of San Francisco...
  • Bitter Pills by Coralee June

    Bitter Pills by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I’m on the run. I’m a ghost. A nobody. A man longing for two people he can’t have. When the Ringleaders captured me, my life ended. I’ve seen the world. I’ve killed innocents. I’ve lost myself to a cause I never wanted to be apart of. If I want to keep Grace, Alessandro, and Sunshine safe, I have to become a monster. The family I’ve chosen can’t know I’m still alive.Once a Bullet, always a Bullet...
  • Finding Summer by Suzanne Halliday

    Finding Summer by Suzanne Halliday

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Protector Alpha and a Sunshine Girl He's not what he seems and she's an open book. Arnie Templeton is NIGHTWIND’s resident clown He has a big corner office and the swagger that comes with nobody, except his bosses, having a clue what he did with his time. But that's only part of his story. Inherited wealth coupled with a messed up childhood almost derailed his life...
  • The Second Wife by Kishan Paul

    The Second Wife by Kishan Paul

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    If you want to live, you must let go of the past... Twenty-eight-year-old Psychologist, Alisha Dimarchi, is abducted by an obsessed client and imprisoned in his Pakistani compound for over two years. Forced to change her name and live as his second wife, her life is filled with trauma and heartbreak...
    Categorized as:
    military  multicultural  abuse  contemporary
  • Rebellious River by Lindsay Cross

    Rebellious River by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ethan Slade was a loner. No parents. No wife and kids. No liabilities. He had one love in his life - the Special Forces. As a member of the elite Task Force Scorpion, he'd been on more near death missions than most soldiers experienced in a lifetime and he liked it. So when his commander forced him to run protection for a senator's daughter's wedding, something a mall cop could do, he was pissed.
    Categorized as:
    military  multicultural  contemporary
  • Just Faking It by Katy Kaylee

    Just Faking It by Katy Kaylee

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I seduced my brother’s best friend to take my innocence, And he convinced me to fake marry him! Jake Dunne: Sinfully handsome. Naughty . Funny. Piercing Blue eyes. And kisses like nobody’s business… Jake Dunne: Also the man who broke my heart, five years ago. My fake husband but my baby’s REAL father! It was supposed to be….well, let’s call it ‘a business arrangement...
  • Too Much To Love: A Ten-Book Romance Box Set by Summer Cooper, Scarlet Wilder

    Too Much To Love: A Ten-Book Romance Box Set by Summer Cooper, Scarlet Wilder

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Smart. Sexy. Sassy. There’s so much to love...
  • 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...
  • Mountain Man's Rival: An Enemies to Lovers Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Mountain Man's Rival: An Enemies to Lovers Romance by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Archenemy (n.)1) main enemy2) the devil3) Declan Wilde Declan was my brother's best friend.I wanted him to be my first.My happily ever after.Turned out, however, cold-hearted b*stardwas a much more fitting description.Now, fifteen years later, the devil himself shows up unannounced on a very important night. The hairs on my neck rise up."Declan? What are you doing here? How did you find me?""Eva...
  • Ransom  (Whiskey Run: Heroes) by Hope Ford

    Ransom (Whiskey Run: Heroes) by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her kidnapper wants my secrets.I want Brooklyn.This is one mission that I can’t lose.She’s been by my side for five years.She’s put up with my crap and her devotion to me and the business is obvious.She believes in what we’re doing here, and I know she’d never betray me.But this is not a game I’m willing to lose.I’ll give up all my secrets to keep her safe...
  • Give Me Forever by Weston Parker

    Give Me Forever by Weston Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was lust at first sight.Her curves turned my head, but it wasn’t until she became my assistant that I knew I needed far more than her body.She needs me too.Well, really, she needs my money—bad enough to agree to become my fake fiancée.Her family business is going under, and I’m all-in on being the knight in shining armor...
  • Code Name: Omega by Sawyer Bennett

    Code Name: Omega by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I joined the team at Jameson Force Security three months ago and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made. Leaving behind the Marine Corps together, my dog Omega and I made the cross-country trek to Pittsburgh for an exciting new career...
  • The Sweetest Temptation by Rochelle Alers

    The Sweetest Temptation by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Once Faith Whitfield dreamed she'd find her prince, but enough frogs have dispelled that fairy tale. She's been too busy running Let Them Eat Cake and satisfying other people's sweet tooth to lament her own love life. Still, a woman's got to get out of the kitchen sometime and Ethan McMillan's seduction heats her passion to the boiling point...
  • Black Butterfly by Tiffany Patterson

    Black Butterfly by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Each book in the Black Burlesque Series are STANDALONE novels. Book 1: Black Pearl Book 2: Black Dahlia Andre Collins is not looking for love. In fact, love is the last thing on his mind as he continues to run one of the country’s most successful financial services firms alongside his brother. Andre is steadfast in the belief that love and marriage just aren’t for him...
  • Mr. West by Xyla Turner

    Mr. West by Xyla Turner

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Dakota was a finalist on the Invest in the Best television show and she could nearly clutch the victory in her grasp. Except one judge blocked her way to success with his callous and arrogant -- 'No'.After giving him some choice words, everything that Dakota knew as life, changed.Years later, she runs into that same judge and cannot believe he has the dirty nerve to speak...
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