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A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAn Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a spellbinding novel about one woman’s love, loss, and courage during wartime... -
Malicious Intent by Lynn H. Blackburn
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDr. Ivy Collins, founder and CEO of Hedera, Inc., is ready to begin clinical trials of her company's cutting-edge prosthetic. Her work has been heralded by government, medical, and advocacy groups and everyone hopes the device will be a success. Well, almost everyone... -
Trapper Road by Rachel Caine, Carrie Ryan
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSometimes danger comes from the most unexpected places.Gwen Proctor has always been willing to do anything it takes to protect her kids. But there are some things even she can’t protect them from. When a violent incident at Connor’s school brings the press to Gwen’s doorstep, she agrees to take a case out of town hoping to keep her family out of the crushing media spotlight... -
GRAY WOLF SECURITY, Texas: The Complete 6-Books Series by Glenna Sinclair
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFree with Kindle Unlimited... Enjoy the complete Volume 2 of the Gray Wolf Security series. Romance, Suspense, Mystery and a touch of Comedy. 6 Books. No Cliffhangers. More than 1,000 pages :) Book 1: Defending Tierney I never wanted to be anything other than a defense attorney... -
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Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsThe year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas.Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . -
The Man in 3B by Carl Weber
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDaryl Graham has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every woman wants and every man wants to be.Connie, an unhappy wife, turns to Daryl for help losing weight, hoping to fix her marriage... -
A Whirlwind of Color by Ivy Smoak
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne great love. That’s what every heart craves. I was lucky enough to find mine when I was 19. But I wouldn’t describe myself as lucky now. My husband looks at me like I’m the light of his life. We live in a penthouse apartment that overlooks Central Park. My closet it filled with designer clothes and more pairs of shoes than I can count... -
Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives comes another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters—where the epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s...In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own... -
Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWith a “knack for romantic tension and page-turning suspense, this one is a winner.” The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful New York Times bestselling novel by Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas (Booklist, starred review)... -
Targeted: Three Romantic Suspense Novellas by Lynette Eason, Lynn H. Blackburn
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this novella collection, an FBI computer hacker, the Vice President, and a CIA officer each find themselves in the clutches of merciless criminals. These thrilling stories offer excitement, intrigue, and romance--and hit the bullseye every time... -
Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing... Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways - but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed... -
Butterfly in Amber by Camilla Monk
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHe's waiting for you... Under a blanket of snow, surrounded by dark woods and a frozen sea, lies an ogre's castle. There lives a little princess, trapped in the maze of her own mind. On a battlefield where the past meets the present stand a fairy godmother and a pirate, an old ice cream man and a knight in shining clean armor.. -
The Stationmaster's Cottage by Phillipa Nefri Clark
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsChristie is happy in her life... or so she tells herself. Despite the tragedy in her childhood, she has a satisfying career, a city apartment, and a long-term relationship. But deep down she yearns for a simpler life. Family. A garden. And a place to heal her heart.The decision to attend a funeral in a town she's never heard of throws her safe world into disarray, exposing the holes in her life... -
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsLove and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and Above the Bay of Angels.Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice... -
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SEAL INVESTIGATIONS: A 5-Books SEAL Romance Series by Lola Silverman
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE COMPLETE SERIES, now FREE with Kindle Unlimited. 5 books and NO cliffies! Book 1: JASE I did not work my ass off to become a Navy SEAL because I had a desire to add the title of “nursemaid” to my resume. So when my commanding officer requested that I go check up on his baby sister, I was understandably less than thrilled... -
Crush by Kim Karr
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLogan McPherson and Elle Sterling continue to thrill in this powerful conclusion to the tantalizing, provocative, and unexpected sizzling romance that began in BLOW. The danger isn’t over. It’s only just begun. Circumstances brought them together and their undeniable connection won’t let them part... -
Tortured Skye: A Hawke Family Novel by Gwyn McNamee
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings***Tortured Skye is not a standalone and is best enjoyed after reading Savage Collision***Falling in love with Gabe Anderson was as easy as breathing. Fighting my feelings for my brother’s best friend was agonizingly hard. I never imagined giving in to my desire for him would cause such a destructive ripple effect... -
Tangled Hearts by M.S. Parker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“In a race against time to save my sister, I'm putting it all on the line – even my heart.” When Aria left Gig Harbor and its haunting childhood memories behind, she vowed never to return. But when her foster sister, Rachel, vanishes, Aria's determination is tested... -
Across the Winding River by Aimie K. Runyan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA woman unlocks the mystery of her father’s wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max... -
Embers in the London Sky by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAs the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside... -
Still Not Into You by Nicole Snow
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNo way. No how. Never.And if he calls me darlin' one more time...He pushes buttons I didn't even know I had.Gabe freaking Barin.Fire to my ice. Walking mountain. Growly, alpha, and achingly kind.Last man on earth I want in my life.But I've got three heaping problems:1. My baby niece is missing.2. Some psycho just slashed up my car.3. My boss made Gabe my personal protector... -
Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of Catching the Wind, which Publishers Weekly called “unforgettable” and a “must-read,” comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own extraordinary way... -
The Cottage in the Highlands by Julie Shackman
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhen Leonie Baxter finds herself out of a job and out of a relationship, she’s at her wits end. Her life has just been turned upside down and she needs a plan, fast.By chance, on a walk with her rescue puppy, Leonie stumbles across a striking house in the woods; fully furnished but unoccupied. As a journalist, she is determined to find out more, after all, reporting is in her nature... -
Kings of Linwood Academy - The Complete Box Set by Callie Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsCOMPLETE REVERSE HAREM SERIESRich boys don’t fraternize with the help.They don't torture the help.They don't crave the help.For as long as I can remember, my mom and I have lived on the edge of ruin, so when she finally gets a decent job offer, she moves us cross-country to take it... -
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At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsEnter the world of Mitford, and you won't want to leave. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away... -
What We Hide by Colleen Coble, Rick Acker
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSavannah Webster is trying to find her way forward. She and her husband, Hez, have been separated since tragedy tore them apart and he began numbing his grief and guilt with alcohol. She returned to Tupelo Grove University, which her family helped found over a century ago, to teach history.When Hez turns up in her classroom asking for a second chance, she rejects the idea immediately... -
Something New by P. G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOne thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them – both intent on a dangerous enterprise... -
The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in 1930s Berlin, during the Nazis' rise to power, 'The Seventh Gate' brings together Sophie Riedesel, an intelligent, artistic, and sexually adventurous 14-year-old with Isaac Zarco and his friends, most of whom are Jews, ex-circus performers and underground activists... -
Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsEscrevendo anonimamente sob o pseudônimo de Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie, conhecida mundialmente como a Rainha do Crime, deixa de lado a investigaçăo policial para explorar a alma humana, seus conflitos e emoçőes.Em "Ausęncia na primavera", Mary Westmacott conta a história de Joan Scudamore, uma típica dona de casa que está voltando do Oriente após fazer uma visita a sua filha em Bagdá... -
Bratva Beast by B. B. Hamel
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIt was either kiss the beast or get devoured.So I made out with a monster— and I liked it.Mack Orlov doesn’t do half-measures.He leaves me breathless and shaken and scared for my life.But most of all, I crave just one more touch.I must be sick in the head, because that man’s a nightmare wrapped in an Armani suit... -
Our Darkest Night by Jennifer Robson
To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel — a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family... -
Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and eleven-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival... -
Holiday Amnesia by Lynette Eason
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith no memory, who can she trust?A deadly Christmas in Wrangler’s CornerRobin Hardy survived an explosion in her university lab—but her memories are gone. With danger lurking behind every Christmas tree, she needs shelter from the attackers she can’t identify. She’ll trust fellow professor Toby Potter to safely hide her away... -
The Girl from Bletchley Park by Kathleen McGurl
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill love lead her to a devastating choice?1942. Three years into the war, Pam turns down her hard-won place at Oxford University to become a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. There, she meets two young men, both keen to impress her, and Pam finds herself falling hard for one of them... -
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All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a baby is discovered floating in a basket along the canals of 1807 Venice, a guild of artisans takes him in and raises him as a son, skilled in each of their trades. Although the boy, Sebastian Trovato, has wrestled with questions of his origins, it isn't until a woman washes ashore his lagoon island that answers begin to emerge... -
The Curator's Daughter by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and--decades later--a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma.1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race... -
Big Bad Daddy: A Secret Baby, Enemies to Lovers Romance by K.C. Crowne
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsYears ago, one fateful night changed my world. He took my virginity, then left town. Now, it’s up to me to clear his name. If this isn’t irony I don’t know what is. I watch as Martin leans back in his chair. Arms folded over a broad chest. An unshakable confidence that makes my blood BOIL. Still devilishly handsome. Turns out the devil is twisted. Arrogant. Cold... -
The Ring by Danielle Steel
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn Germany engulfed by war and hatred, the beautiful wife of an influential banker fell in love with a German author. His Jewish heritage led them both to death. The husband who survives her lives on to protect her memory, and their children. And the ring he passes on to his daughter, Ariana von Gotthard, remains a bond of love between them... -
Save Me by Heidi McLaughlin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTucker McCoy thought the hardest mission of his life was over. After being deployed for six years, all he wanted to do was return home to his wife and daughter. But when he arrives home with roses in his hand, the last thing he expects is to be welcomed by a stranger. Being presumed dead for six years doesn’t help his cause as no one is giving him the answers he needs... -
The Italian Ballerina by Kristy Cambron
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA prima ballerina. Two American medics. And a young Jewish girl with no name . . . At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save Italian Jews in this breathtaking World War II novel based on real historical events.Rome, 1943... -
The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsOn the longest night of the year, Jenny Majesky loses everything in a devastating house fire. But among the ashes she finds an unusual treasure hidden amid her grandfather's belongings, one that starts her on a search for the truth, and on a path toward a life that she never imagined... -
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsAn abandoned house...June 1933, and sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family's Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.A missing child.. -
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Liane Moriarty comes a novel that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepestThe Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . -
Pimpernel by Sheralyn Pratt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThey seek him here; they seek him there. For centuries, the elite of the world have sought the Pimpernel everywhere. Some want to kill him, others want to hire him, but Jack Cavanaugh knows that the love/hate relationship comes with the job title. At present, Jack is trying to dismantle an investment scheme centered in Las Vegas, but "trying" is the operative word... -
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The Codebreaker's Secret by Sara Ackerman
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA brilliant female codebreaker. An “unbreakable” Japanese naval code. A pilot on a top-secret mission that could change the course of WWII. The Codebreaker's Secret is a dazzling story of love and intrigue set during America’s darkest hour.1943... -
Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFull of fascinating dialogue, surprising twists of plot, and well-developed, memorable characters, a stunningly successful work of fiction. NASHVILLE BANNER This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power, and privilege.. -
The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsSpanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences... -
Protecting Abigail by R.R. Banks
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"I need you to protect my sister." Not the typical request from a best friend. But when I locked eyes with Abigail, there was no turning back. The loss of my wife left me and my daughter broken. A despair so deep, the billions I had couldn't come close to fixing. Abigail was more than just green eyes and gorgeous curves. She was a precious thing I wanted to save and protect... -
For Renata by B. Robert Sharry
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Moving at a fast clip...the narrative explores many weighty issues...which Sharry covers with insight and finesse. ...the tale becomes quite gripping as... past mysteries unfold. A nostalgic romance, rich with Portuguese culture and a few surprising twists at the end." KIRKUS REVIEWS... -
Reveal: A Blood Riders MC Novel by Tia Lewis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDrake Whoever thought they could mess with me doesn’t f*cking know who they’re dealing with. I’m the soon-to-be President of the Blood Riders MC, and I don’t take sh*t from anyone. Sure as f*k not when it comes to Nicole. Every death threat they send only fuels my fire to find those bastards. She’s my ride or die. The only true love of my life...
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