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  • 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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    suspense  military  mystery  contemporary  bikers
  • Tactical Force by Lynn Shannon

    Tactical Force by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some wounds never heal.  As a former Navy SEAL, Walker Montgomery faces danger without flinching. But not even a combat zone halfway around the world was far enough to escape the trauma of his teen years. His younger sister was murdered and the killer never caught. Since returning home, he’s been quietly working the case, unable to move on with his life until justice is served.  She’s a survivor...
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  • 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...
  • Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Leo by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He had no complaints… Great job, great boss, great co-workers. And a best friend he’d known for years.Okay, almost no complaints… The women he dated paled in comparison to his best friend.She had a lot of complaints… A job she hated, a tyrant for a boss, working with people that got on her last nerve. And no time for love. Plus, the guys she dated couldn’t come close to her best friend...
  • Remy by Elle James

    Remy by Elle James

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Retired Navy SEAL Remy Montagne left the Navy to take on a career where he could make a difference. After a short vacation to his old hometown of Bayou Mambaloa and a casual hookup with local woman, Shelby Taylor, he joins Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors in Montana...
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    mystery  suspense  military  contemporary
  • Beyond the Chase by Brittney Sahin, Connor Crais

    Beyond the Chase by Brittney Sahin, Connor Crais

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When your whole world disappears, where do you turn?Ava Daniels' lab has been wiped clean.Everything is missing, including her boss and the formula for the dangerous chemical substance they had just discovered.The major problem? No one was supposed to know her lab even existed. And now Ava is the main suspect in the crime.Ava needs answers, and she's utterly alone...
  • A Third Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    A Third Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Third Moment in Time is a collection of stories by Susan Stoker, including 3 short stories that have been published previously in recent anthologies, a story written specifically for social media, and a brand new, never been published novella featuring a beloved character from the Silverstone series.The Bully: When a bully at school targets the seventh-grader, Annie Fletcher is on her own...
  • Terkel's Twist by Dale Mayer

    Terkel's Twist by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    In advance of another major attack, Terk races to Levi's compound in Texas, where Terk finally gets to meet Celia, the woman carrying his child. Thankfully he arrives in time to protect his friends and new family from another attack, but he's determined to get to the end of this nightmare that tried to earlier destroy his team...
  • Jager by Dale Mayer

    Jager by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jager Hannover, a former SEAL, has recovered from the damage done when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine more than two years ago. Six other team-mates were also badly injured, the seventh--Mouse--dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap...
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    mystery  suspense  military  contemporary
  • The Final Reveal by Dale Mayer

    The Final Reveal by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a novella tying up the SEALs of Steel series. A prosthetic design engineer, Kat Greenwald is in love with Badger Horley. The former SEALs team leader is the love of her life. But she's seen and heard firsthand of the fears and commitment issues Badger and his closest friends--once part of Navy special operations teams--struggle with on a daily basis...
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    mystery  suspense  military  contemporary
  • 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 Finley by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Finley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    They've finally found someone who accepts them as they are, but it could all go up in flames in an instant.Finley Norris is a woman with curves to spare, a fact she made peace with long ago…but she can’t say the same for everyone else. Ridiculed for her size her whole life, it’s easy for her to assume her huge crush on a certain sexy mechanic will remain unrequited...
  • The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    The Last Exchange by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.” When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren’t working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the bodyguard for movie star Maybe Joe Sue...
  • Acceptable Risk by Lynette Eason

    Acceptable Risk by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sarah Denning is a military journalist with the Army in the Middle East when her convoy is attacked and she's taken hostage. When former Army Ranger Gavin Black is asked by his old unit commander--Sarah's imposing father--to plan an extremely risky rescue, he reluctantly agrees and successfully executes it...
  • Fatal Risk by Jane Blythe

    Fatal Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He doesn’t do emotion, she lives by her emotions, how can they ever work as a couple?Julia Garamond is a reporter who won't let go once she catches a hint of a story, and this one is personal to her. When she crosses paths with one of Prey Security's teams she knows together they can take down the powerful Mikhailov Bratva who she believes is involved in a plot to overthrow the government...
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    suspense  mystery  military  contemporary
  • Enigma by Lora Leigh

    Enigma by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    In the prologue to LIVE WIRE, Tehya Talamosi, code name: Enigma, is the one woman Jordan Malone, commander of the Elite Ops, wants and is the one woman he knows he can never have. But when they share one blazingly hot night, everything changes in ways Jordan could have never imagined..
  • Command Indecision by Camilla Chafer

    Command Indecision by Camilla Chafer

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A young woman is dead. Her supposed killer is in custody. And Private Investigator Lexi Graves is on the warpath. Lexi Graves finally feels like she’s got her life on track. She’s got a job that is made to measure and the perfect boyfriend but all it takes is a few shocking minutes for everything to start falling apart...
  • CHRISTIAN: Voodoo Guardians: Book Ten by Mary Kennedy

    CHRISTIAN: Voodoo Guardians: Book Ten by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Christian Martin is ready to retire and head home to work with the family. But he's given one final mission and it's a doozy. A MARSOC brother is dead from an apparent opioid overdose. Except, no one is buying it. Too convenient. Too typical. Too everything. Sent to investigate and find the killer, he never expected to be saved by the Marine's sister. Everything should be easy, simple...
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    suspense  military  mystery  contemporary
  • Wolfsbane by Ronie Kendig

    Wolfsbane by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A 2012 Christy Award Winner.   Embark upon a danger-laden mission within the pages of Ronie Kendig’s riveting Wolfsbane . Demolitions expert Danielle Roark thought escaping from a brutal Venezuelan general was a challenge. Now she’s charged with espionage and returned to the jungle where a new nightmare begins...
  • Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This will be the 4th and final book in the Home Series, and focuses on Commander Michael Casiano and Lainey Riley. Mike Casiano has lived his life by a certain creed: take care of all those who depend on you and leave no man behind. He wanted more for his life than joining his family's law firm when he graduated college...
  • Firethorn by Ronie Kendig

    Firethorn by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Former Marine Griffin Riddell had found purpose working with Nightshade—until he’s falsely convicted of a murder that plants him in a federal penitentiary. Is there anyone he can trust? Amid explosive confusion, covert operative Kazi Faron breaks Griffin out of a maximum-security prison. Then she delivers the death-blow—-the Nightshade team has been dismantled...
  • 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...
  • Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ava Jackson entered the military shortly after high school, but her mother's illness has forced her to request an early discharge. She already lost her father while deployed, and there's no way she's going to let her mother die alone. But after a visit to the nursing facility where her mother lives, Ava is attacked walking back to her car...
  • Jenner by Dale Mayer

    Jenner by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Heading to Ashland, Kentucky, where his ex-wife’s family lives, is not in Jenner’s plans anytime soon. But, given a War Dog is potentially in trouble, well, Jenner will even face his past. Arriving at a small bed-and-breakfast, he meets a woman more interesting than anyone he’d met in a long time...
  • Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fraser Marshall is pretty sure his career as a Spec Ops fighter is over. Yes, he’s gone into private security, working for Jones, Inc, but his last gig ended with him wounded and taken captive. And those wounds just won’t heal. The last thing he wants to do is stick around his family’s winery pressing grapes...
  • Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fraser Marshall is pretty sure his career as a Spec Ops fighter is over. Yes, he's gone into private security, working for Jones, Inc., but his last gig ended with him wounded and taken captive. And those wounds just won't heal. The last thing he wants to do is stick around his family's winery pressing grapes...
  • Ned by Susan May Warren

    Ned by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After four years of training to become a Navy SEAL, Ned Marshall is finally ready to marry the woman of his dreams, Shae Johnson. And Shae's been uber patient, waiting, building a life as a free-lance graphic artist, moving around the globe to be with him. So, when she said yes to his proposal in Geneva, he fully expected to live happily-ever-after...
  • Onyx's Awakening by Heather Slade

    Onyx's Awakening by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He’s an alpha pilot for K19 Security Solutions.She's a grieving sister, determined to get answers.With ONYX by her side, their dark and blackened pasts may have a brighter future.ONYXA crash and a coma has grounded me. Without flight, I’m a pilot without wings. I refuse to give up, give in. I need to be back in the air with nothing but gravity threatening me...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  military  mystery  contemporary
  • Honor by J.L. Drake, Joe Arden

    Honor by J.L. Drake, Joe Arden

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Broken trilogy continues here.... Bullets fly during a dangerous mission, and Major Mark Lopez is critically injured....  A Blackstone soldier, Mark is transferred to the North Dakota hospital with the security clearance to treat members of the elite covert team.  The pretty new nurse assigned to his case knows her stuff, but Mark soon discovers she knows more than just how to save lives...
  • 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...
  • Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The exciting and thrilling conclusion to Cash and Eva’s story, and the second book in the OPS series! The military defines a Nuclear Option as a drastic step or last resort, and I’m about to take it. Cash I am an expert marksman, engaging the enemy from afar. You’ll never see me coming because I’m that good. Even a sniper can be drawn out of hiding...
  • 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...
  • Guarded by Helena Newbury

    Guarded by Helena Newbury

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From the author of Saving Liberty comes a scorching, standalone romantic suspense packed full of emotion. He’s a grumpy Texan bodyguard who lost everything he cared about. She’s the single mom who melts his frozen heart. She and her son might just be his shot at a second chance...if he can keep them alive.I swore I’d never love again. After my wife and son were torn from me...
  • Ignite by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Ignite by Jocelynn Drake, Rinda Elliott

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Two of Noah’s Army buddies are dead. Someone has taken shots at Noah. And now Noah’s former lover, JB, is a target. Noah, Rowe, and JB team up to track down a killer trying to take out all of Noah’s old Army team in hopes of covering up a dark secret. But this trip to Washington, D.C. threatens to unravel the perfect life that Rowe and Noah have built over the past three years...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  suspense  m-m  contemporary
  • Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Experience two classic tales of heroes facing danger and falling in love from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann’s Tall, Dark and Daring series — collected here in one volume! The Admiral’s Bride When six canisters of a lethal nerve agent are stolen from a military testing lab, Admiral Jake Robinson must recover the chemicals—by any means necessary...
  • Sweet Revenge by Christy Reece

    Sweet Revenge by Christy Reece

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jamie Kendrick went on a trip to hell at the hands of Stanford Reddington, a monster protected by money and power. Now, asking for Last Chance Rescue’s help, Jamie makes plans for her revenge. And Dylan Savage, one of LCR’s most skilled operatives, is given an assignment he despises but can’t refuse—to train the lovely Jamie but thwart her revenge plot at all costs...
  • Complicated Creatures: Part Two in a Romantic Suspense Series by Alexi Lawless

    Complicated Creatures: Part Two in a Romantic Suspense Series by Alexi Lawless

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Isn't it terrible when love is not enough?" In the action-packed sequel to Complicated Creatures: Part One… Jack Roman was perfectly happy living the life of a high-powered and charismatic philistine. He had time, money, women and a penchant for the fast life...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  military  suspense  contemporary  athletes
  • 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...
  • Yellowstone Investigations by Clara Kendrick

    Yellowstone Investigations by Clara Kendrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    5 Books. Kindle Unlimited. In the wilds of Yellowstone National Park there are five rugged men who will risk everything to do the right thing even when the people who hire them aren’t always exactly what they seem. Book One Spring thaw often brings out those looking for something that might have been lost during the winter. I’m not worried. My dogs can find anything I ask them to...
  • Marquette Security by Clara Kendrick

    Marquette Security by Clara Kendrick

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    5 Books. Kindle Unlimited. Strong, independent, funny, and sexy as hell, all five Marquette security agents have a relentless passion for finding the truth—they just didn't expect to find love was well. Book One Strong and silent, Ethan spends every spare minute at Marquette Security, working his fingers to the bone so that he can avoid his reality...
  • Caballo Security: Complete 6-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Caballo Security: Complete 6-Part Series by Camilla Blake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    OLIVER Valerie Cole is a pediatrician looking forward to her summer break. She dreams of beaches and martinis, of good books and sunbathing. Instead, she finds herself coaxed by her charming brother into a working vacation, two weeks in a remote Mexican city where his nonprofit has just opened a free clinic...
  • Living Lies by Natalie Walters

    Living Lies by Natalie Walters

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the little town of Walton, Georgia, everybody knows your name--but no one knows your secret. At least that's what Lane Kent is counting on when she returns to her hometown with her five-year-old son. Dangerously depressed after the death of her husband, Lane is looking for hope. What she finds instead is a dead body...
  • Dark Ambitions by Irene Hannon

    Dark Ambitions by Irene Hannon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Former Army Night Stalker Rick Jordan usually has his camp for foster children to himself during the winter months. But someone has visited recently--leaving a trail of blood. One of the two clues left behind tips Rick off to the identity of his visitor, who soon turns up dead. The police deem it an accident, but Rick isn't convinced...
  • Code Name: Hacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Code Name: Hacker by Sawyer Bennett

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    I’m not the same Bebe Grimshaw I was years ago. The woman I was spent years behind the bars of the highest security women’s prison in the nation, my punishment for hacking nuclear codes as part of a crime syndicate I’d gotten in way too deep with. The woman I am today doesn’t regret what I did, or the fact that I got caught, but I am remorseful for the years I lost with my son, Aaron...
  • Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Growing up a military brat and spending eight years overseas with the Army Medical Corps, clinical social worker, Willa Smith, has had enough of rules and regulations. Still able to work with veterans as she did at the VA Hospital, she is much happier at the new and far more relaxed South Avenue Shelter, until one of its residents is implicated in a murder...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  military  mystery  contemporary
  • Driving Force by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo

    Driving Force by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    He’s the last client she wants to protect…Elite Guardians bodyguard/former sniper CHRISTINA SHERMAN has protected uncooperative clients before—but this time, well her client is bossy, headstrong and occasionally eats off the floor...
  • Corbin by Dale Mayer

    Corbin by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Corbin is tracking a cabinet minister’s pregnant daughter, who’d been snatched off the streets several days ago. The incident followed several other missing women’s cases, except those women already had given birth, and their children were also kidnapped at the same time...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  military  mystery  contemporary
  • Scott's Summit by Dale Mayer

    Scott's Summit by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everyone has the right to make a mistake, … but the one Naira made isn’t one Scott can forgive. He wakes from a coma, sure that the ex-love of his life had been at his side, but finds no sign of her. When he does see her, he can’t get past a long-ago decision she’d made that tore them apart...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  military  mystery  contemporary
  • HEX: REAPER-Patriots: Book Thirty-Seven by Mary Kennedy

    HEX: REAPER-Patriots: Book Thirty-Seven by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hex Vernon resigned himself to the life of a bachelor. A retired Marine, he vowed to never take up arms again unless circumstances required it. Circumstances require it. The first woman he's had any interest in, since his divorce, is in danger and he won't just sit by and watch. With the help of his brothers, he'll travel to Dallas to rescue Gwen and find a killer...
    Categorized as:
    military  suspense  mystery  contemporary
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