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  • Securing Kalee by Susan Stoker

    Securing Kalee by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After her capture by rebels in the mountains of Timor-Leste, Kalee Solberg doesn’t think she’ll live to see her father, friends, or hometown again. What started as an adventure with the Peace Corp until she figured out what to do with her life has turned into a waking nightmare, every day a struggle to survive. Beaten into submission, Kalee guesses she’s been presumed dead by now...
  • Ivory's Fight by Jane Blythe

    Ivory's Fight by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Falling in love has no place in a mission of revenge.Abducted as a baby, Ivory Smith was trained to be one thing; a killer. Rescued before she could fulfil her captor's purposes now she works for Prey Security's Artemis Team taking down human traffickers...
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  • Protecting Cheyenne by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Cheyenne by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Living in Southern California, Cheyenne was used to seeing hot military men as she went about her daily business. An anonymous encounter at the grocery store cemented her crush on one such man. He was big, built, and incredibly easy on the eyes, but it wasn't as if he would ever really notice her. Always in control of any situation, Faulkner “Dude” Cooper knows explosives...
  • Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Outside of Titan Group, there are few people that Roman Hart would die for. He’s a soldier, a protector, and he’s haunted that one of the people he should’ve been able to protect didn’t let him. That was years ago, and now a hardened heart and a cocky attitude are his impenetrable shields, until one woman—one challenge—drives him to distraction. On the outside, Beth Tourne has it all...
  • Uncaged by Harper Sloan

    Uncaged by Harper Sloan

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Greg Cage’s life is more fulfilling than he ever could have imagined. He’s married to the love of his life, has an amazing son, and in a few short months, his family will grow again with the birth of his twin girls. The past year has been a tough one for the Cage family, but they are now on the road to healing by learning to let go of the past and looking forward to their future...
  • Believed by Rebecca Sharp

    Believed by Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From bestselling author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a steamy, marriage of convenience romantic suspense...Reed Lockhard loves his single life. Even after joining Covington Security, he’s still known as the viral sensation, San Francisco’s Hot Cop. His nights are never lonely, and the gorgeous redhead who catches his eye from across the bar promises an unforgettable one...
  • Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The final "powerfully intense" (Romantic Times) Black Ops, Inc. novel from New York Times bestseller Cindy Gerard, featuring a covert private security team and electrifying romantic suspense. Black Ops, Inc. operative Joe Green is determined to bring to justice the man responsible for former team member Bryan Tompkins's death...
  • The Difference Between Somebody and Someone by Aly Martinez

    The Difference Between Somebody and Someone by Aly Martinez

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The world owes you nothing. It took losing the woman I loved and facing the paralyzing task of moving on without her for me to truly understand that. Consumed by regret and razor-sharp memories, I’d resigned myself to a life of loneliness until a survivor from the same plane crash that took my fiancée stormed into my life.Remi Grey was chaos and sunshine, fire and freedom...
  • 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...
  • Cruise: Special Edition by Laramie Briscoe

    Cruise: Special Edition by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, Laramie Briscoe, comes the special edition of a fan favorite series.Nobody writes blue collar romance like Laramie Briscoe, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the Moonshine Task Force: Special Edition Series...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Slow Burn by Jessica Prince

    Slow Burn by Jessica Prince

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When she started on the path to her new life, she never could have guessed where it would lead her.Deva Kent spent most of her life dreaming of escaping. She hated being forced to live among the Fellowship of the Enlightened, the small community closed off from the rest of the world, and was desperate to spread her wings and discover something new...
  • Stone by Max Monroe

    Stone by Max Monroe

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    First, hate. Then, want. But in the end? Heartbreak. My celebrity life was supposed to be easy, and this movie was the biggest break of my career. But from the moment Officer Levi Fox gave me a speeding ticket on my way into town, he’s been nothing but a thorn in my side. Dominant. Cocky. Callous...
  • 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...
  • Scary Hot by Kd Robichaux

    Scary Hot by Kd Robichaux

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Alpha former-military biker.Quirky office manager of a vet clinic.When their best friends meet and have a whirlwind romance, they get swept up in it and have a hot tryst of their own.It leads to a surprise pregnancy—and a soul-deep connection—neither see coming...
  • Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds; while she battles her own emotional damage. Blaming himself for his best friend’s suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken, retreated from life...
  • 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...
  • Black Velvet by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Velvet by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She doesn’t believe in heroes anymore. He’ll prove her wrong. Mercenary Dax Freed would rather stride into the desert naked and covered in honey than pretend to be a reclusive romance novelist’s fake boyfriend, but nobody gave him the option. Roberta Sharpe writes about heroes for a living, but she already knows they don’t exist in real life...
  • Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Jessyka by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Kason “Benny” Sawyer was the last single man on his Navy SEAL team. He loved his teammates like brothers and respected each and every one of their women. They’d all been through hell and they deserved their current happiness. But seeing the love between his friends and their women made it tough to be the odd man out all the time. Jessyka Allen had a good life, until it wasn’t anymore...
  • Targeted by Kaylea Cross

    Targeted by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    They were partners once After an attack on the job that nearly killed her, Special Agent Celida Morales is determined to salvage her reputation in the FBI and get back to the career she loves. Domestic terrorism has left its mark on her—literally—and now she’s more determined than ever to leave her mark on it...
  • Trixsters Anonymous by Ahren Sanders

    Trixsters Anonymous by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Sassy, dramatic, hot-headed are just some of the words used to describe me since the time I was born. A few little mishaps growing up and my mom has a running ‘Emerson Baker’ prayer circle, and I have the reputation of a spit-fire that won’t go away. I prefer the terms loyal, passionate, fiery, and possibly a bit impulsive...
  • 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...
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    suspense  military  alpha male  m-f  contemporary
  • Seeking Vengeance by Abbie Zanders

    Seeking Vengeance by Abbie Zanders

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Monsters do exist. Nicki Milligan knows all about monsters. She lives with them. Fights them every day. She doesn’t have time for distractions, especially not the incredibly hot alpha-male who seems to have taken an interest and knows just how to push her buttons. In coming to Pine Ridge, she hopes to finally fulfill a childhood vow she made to her twin brother years earlier...
  • 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...
  • Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross

    Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pride tore them apart… Warrant Officer Honor Girard made the worst mistake of her life in walking away from the man she promised to marry—and she knows it. An attack on base unexpectedly pushes them together and in the aftermath she realizes she can’t let him go a second time. Only he’s not willing to let her back in...
  • Rescuing Casey by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Casey by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One minute Casey Shea was minding her own business, doing her job, teaching entomology to college students, and the next she was in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle fighting for her life. Troy “Beatle” Lennon had watched his friends fall head over heels in love, but never thought it would happen to him. Until he sees a picture of one of his teammates’ sisters. That was it...
  • Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s latest novel, the Last Option Search Team (LOST) returns— and for one agent, the hunt for a serial killer just got very personal . . . HE SWORE TO PROTECT HER . . . Bailey Jones somehow survived her harrowing abduction by the infamous Death Angel...
  • 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...
  • 367 Days by Jessica Gadziala

    367 Days by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’m not crazy. It’s not amnesia. But I somehow lost a year of my life. When the cops and doctors think you’re out of your mind, but you still need answers, where else is there to turn but a private investigator? Sawyer is nothing you’d want in a friend- a little detached, cool, sarcastic, cocksure...
  • Rekindled by Kaylea Cross

    Rekindled by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    He left her when she needed him most... Four years ago, Dr. Grace Fallon lost everything that mattered in a terrorist attack she barely survived. Now she’s stronger than ever and in Pakistan with a UN-sanctioned team for the most important assignment of her career...
  • Capture by June Gray

    Capture by June Gray

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The future beckons... Elsie has given Henry three chances to win back her trust, but before he is able to complete the challenge, she finds herself faced with a life-changing decision. Elsie must ask herself an important question: is Henry just a thing of the past or does he have a place in her future? The conclusion to the story of Henry and Elsie...
  • Protecting Melody by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Melody by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 18 ratings
    Tex gave everything he had to his country and his SEAL teammates. When an IED took away part of his leg, and his career, he devoted himself to his country and friends from behind his computer. He’s always been the man that can find anyone, that uses his computer skills, legal and illegal, to keep people safe and to put the bad guys behind bars. But behind a computer is a lonely place to be...
  • Falling Hard by Pamela Clare

    Falling Hard by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Gold Star wife alone… Ellie Meeks promised her pilot husband that if he was killed in combat, she would live her life to the fullest. Three years later, she is still alone, raising the twins he never met. She has no interest in dating or meeting men—until one snowy night when a stranger helps her get her sick kids safely home...
  • Tall, Dark And Dangerous by Suzanne Brockmann

    Tall, Dark And Dangerous by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What he remembered: His clothing size What he didn't remember: Everything else Navy SEAL Mitchell Shaw woke up one morning with no clue as to who he was.And the items hidden in his possession were no help-- an address, along with a .22 caliber side arm. The address led him to the Lazy 8 Ranch-- and its beautiful manager, Becca Keyes, who made him believe he might have a future...
  • Sweet Justice by Christy Reece

    Sweet Justice by Christy Reece

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Honor Stone is a young, idealistic FBI agent when her path collides with Seth Cavanaugh. For a girl who has never walked on the wild side, the dark and dangerous Seth is a temptation she can't refuse. But then Seth walks out the door and out of her life...
  • Squall Line by Gwyn McNamee

    Squall Line by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    WAR Out on the water, I’m in control. I don’t make mistakes. But the fiery redhead destroyed my plans and left me no choice. I had to take her. Now I’m fighting for my life while battling my growing attraction for my hostage. Grace may have started my downfall, but she could also be my salvation. GRACE The moment he stepped foot on my ship, I knew he was trouble...
  • Always the One for Me by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Always the One for Me by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The Wilder Brothers from NYT Bestselling Author Carrie Ann Ryan continue in this emotionally charged enemies to lovers romance.It took two days for me to know Kendall was the one for me.And it took two years for me to realize I had to leave in order to protect her.When I walked away, I told myself it was for the best...
  • 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...
  • Killing Time by Cindy Gerard

    Killing Time by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An exciting new series featuring Mike "Primetime" Brown, a character from her popular "Black Ops, Inc." series. For the seven years after Operation Slam Dunk went south, Mike Brown got drunk on each anniversary. The eighth year was no different--until he was drugged by a woman and woke up to her questions about what had happened eight years ago in Afghanistan...
  • False Perceptions by Michelle Heard

    False Perceptions by Michelle Heard

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From International Bestseller Michelle Heard, comes a stand-alone, dark and gritty Military Romance. Conspiracies and lies lead to a secret that was never supposed to be uncovered. Six months ago we rescued Emilie Swanson, the daughter of retired Navy Admiral George Swanson - now a senator running for the presidency...
    Categorized as:
    military  suspense  angst  alpha male  contemporary
  • Savage Hunger by Lisa Renee Jones

    Savage Hunger by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    The first book in a new savagely intense trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Rick Savage, but they call him Savage and for a reason. He can make you laugh and then rip your heart out. No one knows that more than me, Jasmine Marks, the woman he left bleeding from the heart. I loved him. Lord help me, I’ve never stopped loving him...
  • Relentless by Kaylea Cross

    Relentless by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Former Delta Force operator Rhys Sinclair defied the odds by recovering from a traumatic brain injury that should have killed him. Given the chance to repay the beautiful doctor who saved his life by guarding hers, he can't say no--even if it means facing an unknown threat from the cunning terrorist his CIA-sanctioned team had been hunting in Afghanistan...
  • Burned by Kaylea Cross

    Burned by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman with a dark past... Forced into hiding after her NSA-sanctioned task force lands on a terrorist cell’s hit list, cryptologist Zahra Gill must rely on the skill and experience of her ex-Special Ops Titanium Security teammates to keep her safe—including former Force Recon Marine Sean Dunphy...
  • Because of You by T.E. Sivec, Tara Sivec

    Because of You by T.E. Sivec, Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Brady Marshall has made a career of playing it safe - when he decides to do something rash and becomes a Navy SEAL, he thinks he's finally escaped the rigid structure of the high society life his parents forced down his throat. All he does is trade in one set of rules for another...
  • Connelly's Flame by Aliyah Burke

    Connelly's Flame by Aliyah Burke

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dezarae Kerry had no time for men in her life. She was busy enough with her work, restoring old cars to their former glory. All that changed the wintry night she found a handsome Caucasian stranger along side the road and took him to her home. Ross Connelly didn’t know who he was. The beautiful curvaceous ebony woman who had undressed him and put him in her bed didn’t know who he was either...
  • Shattered With You by J. Kenner

    Shattered With You by J. Kenner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With his lethal skills and criminal connections, former British agent Quincy Radcliffe has fast become a key asset at the newly formed Stark Security. But Quincy isn’t the man he appears to be...
  • Operation: Endeavor by Christi Snow

    Operation: Endeavor by Christi Snow

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Colton Robertson left his career in the Air Force… … to come home and help his family heal. Unfortunately, his reception was not quite what he’d hoped for and he ended up as roommate to hippy dippy yoga instructor Penelope Pruitt. Penelope has spent her life under the restrictive thumb of her parents and she doesn’t want to do the same with the straight-laced, serious Colton...
  • My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Carr

    My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    PATRICK RIORDAN ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT NOTHING COULD MATCH THE ADRENALINE RUSH HE GETS FROM HIS JOB. BUT THIS CHRISTMAS, PATRICK’S PULSE IS REALLY RACING... The Riordan brothers may have a reputation for being rough-and tumble, but Patrick has always been the gentle, sweet-natured one. These days, his easygoing manner is being tested by his high-octane career as a navy pilot...
  • Cover of Darkness by Kaylea Cross

    Cover of Darkness by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Targeted by a terrorist cell, Bryn McAllister survives a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut only to be left to die in a desert cellar. When she is rescued by Navy SEAL Lieutenant Declan McCabe and his team, Bryn must rely on the handsome officer to get her to safety...
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