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Blackwings MC: The Complete Series by Teagan Brooks
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsBook Dash - When eighteen-year-old Ember turns to the Blackwings for help, the club’s treasurer falls hard as forty years of secrets and lies begin to unravel.Book Duke - A ruined prom night, followed by a series of miscommunications, leads to Reese abruptly leaving Croftridge. But when she goes missing, Duke gets a surprise he never saw coming... -
![Protecting Summer by Susan Stoker]()
Protecting Summer by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsAt age fifteen, Sam "Mozart" Reed's life changed the day his little sister was found abused and murdered. Since her death, he's spent his life hunting for the serial killer who took his sister from him and ruined his family. Using his connections, and SEAL training, Mozart believes he's finally tracked the killer to the town of Big Bear, California...Categorized as:
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![Rydeville Elite Box Set: A Dark High School Bully Romance Trilogy by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew]()
Rydeville Elite Box Set: A Dark High School Bully Romance Trilogy by Siobhan Davis, Sara Eirew
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsThis box set includes the first three books in the Rydeville Elite series. Complete trilogy with HEA. In the power struggle between two elite groups, one feisty girl will bring them to their knees… Life is a cruel game where only the most ruthless survive. It’s a truth my mother rebelled against, and she paid for it with her life. Now, I play their game... -
![Jared by Kris Michaels]()
Jared by Kris Michaels
The jagged line between love and hate is paper thin and razor sharp. Pushing Christian across that line severs him from Jared’s life…until fate steps in giving Jared one last chance. Jared King had endured more than the normal amount of danger in his life. He’d jumped from planes into hot landing zones, been shot at, almost blown up—twice, damn near killed more times than he cared to remember... -
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![Smokey by L. Wilder]()
Smokey by L. Wilder
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author L. Wilder comes book five in the Satan's Fury Series, a standalone MC romance. Smokey You can't fight fate, especially when it brings you a girl like MJ Thompson. She wasn't just beautiful. No, she was so much more than that. She was smart with a smile full of magic and curves that drove me to distraction... -
![Marcus by Lane Hart, D.B. West]()
Marcus by Lane Hart, D.B. West
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen Marcus De La Cruz volunteered to sponsor the next prospect for the Savage Kings MC, he never expected to have a female candidate. Instead of being intimidated by him, she gives as good as she gets.Teagan Allen knows the dangers of being a member of an outlaw MC all too well since her father was killed while wearing the bearded skull king patch... -
![Life & Limb by Freya Barker]()
Life & Limb by Freya Barker
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsGrowing 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... -
![Stay With Me by Rebel Hart]()
Stay With Me by Rebel Hart
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![Blade by C.M. Steele]()
Blade by C.M. Steele
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnthony “Blade” Santini wants a slice of Jules Walker the second he sees the beauty at Penny’s Bakery. Still, with the world of trouble following the Steele Riders, he knows it’s not safe for her. As much as he’d love to be selfish and seal her fate as his, he refuses to put her in danger... -
![Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross]()
Collateral Damage by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsPride 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...Categorized as:
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![The Dying Game by Beverly Barton]()
The Dying Game by Beverly Barton
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsPlay To Win... It's the ultimate game--the adrenaline surge of the hunt, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. For in this game, the rules are simple: To win, you only have to kill. To lose, you will have to die... Play To Scream... The victims are former beauty queens found with a single rose beside their bodies... -
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Outplayed by Lila Rose
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsViolet Marcus’s life is settled. She has it all: a place of her own, a business where her temper has its uses, and great people who work for her. But something is missing. The problem is, her stubbornness refuses to admit how lonely she actually is... -
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Twisted Empire by Eva Chance, Harlow King
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe past has come back to haunt us... way too literally.Our investigation into my dad's murder has taken an even stranger turn than I could have imagined. One that's shattered everything my stepbrother and long-time love believed about himself and his family. One that's thrown all of our plans for a loop.But the four guys standing by my side won't back down, and neither will I...Categorized as:
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![Primal Need by Piper Davenport]()
Primal Need by Piper Davenport
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratings18+ for language and sexual situations... Sundance I’m the president of the Primal Howlers out of Monument, Colorado. My wife was taken from me ten years ago, leaving me to raise our three children alone. I’ve been diagnosed with a disease that I’m not sure I’ll beat, and to make matters worse, I’m now in the crosshairs of a rival club... -
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![Priest by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen]()
Priest by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen
He walked away once, and it nearly destroyed her. Now he wants a second chance… PriestThere’s nothing more important than family.It’s what I live for, what I’ve always lived for.So, when I’m forced to step back from the one girl I’m dying to claim as my own, it wrecks me.But when family asks you to keep a secret, you do it.No questions asked...Categorized as:
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![Keep Me by J.L. Beck, Cassandra Hallman]()
Keep Me by J.L. Beck, Cassandra Hallman
She was my enemy… I was her new captor…. She was the enemy…a tiny little temptress of a woman that made my blood sing for vengeance. I should be punishing her…breaking her from the inside out after finding her in my father’s clutches. But when I discover the truth that she is just as much as a victim of my father's wrongdoings as I am I can’t follow through... -
![Pearl Cove by Elizabeth Lowell]()
Pearl Cove by Elizabeth Lowell
He might help her...if the price is right. Surrounded by potential enemies, Hannah McGarry faces the mystery of her husband's suspicious death, the prospect of bankruptcy...and the disappearance of the fabulous Black Trinity necklace that was to be her financial security. Desperate, she calls Archer Donovan, a silent partner in Pear Cove, her late husband's pearl farm venture. He might help her..Categorized as:
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![Out of Time by Monica McCarty]()
Out of Time by Monica McCarty
A hunt for dangerous secrets leads to explosive chemistry in this exhilarating romantic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Off the Grid. A team of Navy SEALs goes on a mission and disappears without a trace--they are the Lost Platoon... -
![Lick of Fire by Clara Elroy]()
Lick of Fire by Clara Elroy
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsYou can’t escape fate, no matter how fast you run. That was a lesson hard learned for me.I spent years trying to bury my past, but my future held skeletons bleaker than the ones I'd left behind.Darkness follows me everywhere I go, hanging over my shoulders like a scythe. A byproduct of my bad karma.For so long, I refused to even look at my hometown on a postcard...Categorized as:
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Hesitate by Anna Brooks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen I opened the file and saw her face, I knew I was in trouble. The first time she put her hand in mine, I should have simply taken her home and continued to keep her safe from a distance. But her pull was too strong, her beauty too irresistible, and before I knew it was happening, she’d brought me to my knees. I wasn’t the only one who was falling, though... -
![First Touch by Loni Ree]()
First Touch by Loni Ree
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsZander BurtonNever trust a woman and make sure you’re never stupid enough to give your heart to one. I’ve always lived by these words, then Rachel Marsh crashed into my life. It only took one night, one touch for the gorgeous blonde to make me ignore the rule I’d followed my whole life... -
![Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman]()
Hailey's Truth by Cate Beauman
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHailey Roberts has never had it easy. Despite the scars of a tragic childhood, she’s made a life for herself. As a part-time student and loving nanny, she yearns for a family of her own and reluctant Austin Casey, Ethan Cooke Security’s best close protection agent. Hailey’s past comes back to haunt her when her long lost brother tracks her down, bringing his dangerous secrets with him... -
![Stone Walls: A True Heroes Novel by A. M. Madden]()
Stone Walls: A True Heroes Novel by A. M. Madden
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhat happens when a supposedly perfect match is so wrong it’s right? In this roller-coaster novel of destiny and desire from A. M. Madden, a red-hot cop and a broken beauty are linked by painful pasts . . . and one tempting future. As an NYPD officer, Benjamin Stone is married to his job, determined to clean up the drug-infested streets... -
![Billionaire Daddy's Virgin by Bella Love-Wins]()
Billionaire Daddy's Virgin by Bella Love-Wins
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsI’m back to take what was always mine. Jace Knight Cherry comes off as shy to most, but I know her. She’s determined, brazen, and way too young. And she wants me. I turn her away because of her age, but she shows up on my doorstep on her eighteenth birthday. So I can be her first...Categorized as:
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![Stalked on Spring Break by Emma Bray]()
Stalked on Spring Break by Emma Bray
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsShe’s not going to Daytona Beach alone…RileySpring Break is supposed to be fun. I should be letting my hair down and soaking up the sun, but I’m nervous and jumpy. I don’t know why, but I feel like someone is watching me…ParkerShe doesn’t remember me. I know she doesn’t. But she’s all I’ve thought about for two years...Categorized as:
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![The Boss Vol. 6: a Hot Billionaire Romance by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott]()
The Boss Vol. 6: a Hot Billionaire Romance by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLibrarian's Note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B01CXUZ8RO This is the FINAL book in the six part serial. This book is from BOTH Grace and Blake's points-of-view and will be more than twice the size of the other serial installments. She doesn’t know how bad I’m willing to be… For years, Grace Copeland was the one woman I couldn’t have. Now she’s mine. Mine to possess...Categorized as:
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![Hidden Secrets by Carmen Rosales]()
Hidden Secrets by Carmen Rosales
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHidden Secrets (Hillside Kings Book 3) Colton and Linda's StoryThe death of her boyfriend almost destroyed her, but Linda Ramirez is now determined to move on with her life. Attending the exclusive Hillside University is her first step at taking back her life. Hanging up her dreary khakis and humdrum lifestyle, Linda's ready for something new... -
![Claim by Megan O'Brien]()
Claim by Megan O'Brien
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEmerly Greer has been living a low-key life, content with her multiple jobs and her books. People are complicated; animals and kids are much easier to understand. As owner of Talon Security, Travis McAllister has seen success beyond what he ever expected—causing the boundaries he's set around himself to grow ever thicker... -
![Raven's Climb by Tiffany Casper]()
Raven's Climb by Tiffany Casper
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI wasn’t one of those girls that just rolled over and got over something. No, I could hold a mean grudge, and that was what I had been doing for going on seven years. And I didn’t see that stopping any time soon.Why oh why in all of the hospitals in all of the United States, had this job been the only one available for me to take?Seven years ago something vile and despicable had ruined me... -
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Reckless by Jennifer Loren
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsReckless, the sequel to Finding Ava: The decision seemed so innocent in the beginning, exciting even. How could I have ever known what was going to happen? How could I have ever know that someone could be so evil, so determined to destroy lives. I chose to ignore the advice of my brother and instead trusted - believed in friendship, believed in a woman I once loved... -
![The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts]()
The Perfect Neighbor by Nora Roberts
In New York, people were supposed to ignore their neighbours. But that was a rule that Cybil Campbell had never learned. When the sunny brunette knocks on her new neighbour's door, she expected that they would make a connection - after all, she knew everyone else in the apartment block. Preston McQuinn wasn't interested in small talk... -
![Make You Mine by Jackie Ashenden]()
Make You Mine by Jackie Ashenden
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAlex St. James was left with a choice. Pick up the dice and find where they lead, or walk away. Choosing to see where the snake-eyes go, Alex plays in a poker game run by the devil who haunts his past. He will risk everything to find answers—that is, until his alluring, enigmatic bodyguard, Katya, becomes someone he cannot risk losing… Katya is fiercely conflicted...Categorized as:
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![Identity Crisis by Rochelle Paige]()
Identity Crisis by Rochelle Paige
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA reclusive author... Delia Sinclair is desperate to hit a looming deadline. With only two weeks to go before her manuscript is due, she heads to a remote cabin in the Smoky Mountains with no internet or cell service. An ex-military security specialist... Blaine West is halfway around the world when he gets a frantic message from his childhood sweetheart...Categorized as:
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![Command Performance by Nora Roberts]()
Command Performance by Nora Roberts
RETURN ENGAGEMENT In Eve Hamilton's youth, His Royal Highness Alexander de Cordina had played the part of a fairy-tale prince, but seven years ago Eve had learned that its villains were undeniably real. She had also learned to put her childhood dreams behind her. It was Alexander's request that brought Eve, along with her theatrical troupe, back to Cordina... -
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![Forever and Always by E.L. Todd]()
Forever and Always by E.L. Todd
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNow that Sean and Scarlet are together, Scarlet couldn't be happier. They were meant for each other and would make any sacrifice to be together. With her greatest friend as her new lover, their relationship was perfect. But when Sean asks her to move back to New York, she hesitates... -
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Tough Customer by Sandra Brown
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsHard-living detective-turned-P.I., Dodge Hanley tries not to dwell on the past. But when he gets a call from Caroline King, “the one” who got away, there’s no time for looking back; their daughter is in trouble. Caroline has told Berry that Dodge is an old friend they can rely on to prove she didn’t shoot her ex-lover, even though she’s already told the cops she saw the real culprit... -
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Wrecked by Sherilee Gray
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHe's driving her crazy... Piper West is finally on her own, and it's time to get crazy. Except that her overprotective big bro has enlisted his ex-cop best friend to keep an eye on his baby sister. With every move monitored and reported back, Piper's life has gone from "going crazy" to "being driven crazy...Categorized as:
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![Afraid to Fall by W. Ferraro]()
Afraid to Fall by W. Ferraro
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsJaded and hardened by the ultimate of betrayals, Clearwater Falls Sheriff Gage Dennison is content with his simple, detached life. With only his loyal dog at his side, Gage has successfully maintained the walls he's built around his life and heart for eight years... -
![Fatal Deception by April Hunt]()
Fatal Deception by April Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsApril Hunt "will keep you on the edge of your seat" (Lori Foster, New York Times bestselling author) in this heart-pounding new romantic suspense.Roman Steele learned a hard lesson about trusting others. While serving his country, he put his faith in the wrong person and lost a leg for his loyalty. So far, civilian life suits him---as long as he doesn't have to deal with anyone... -
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Stay by Karyn Lawrence
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA gunshot rings out and interrupts Laurel Hayward’s first steps on stage as a professional dancer, and witnessing an assassination is just the beginning of her horrific night. The ruthless killer is determined to either have her or to silence her, landing Laurel in the protective custody of Deputy U.S. Marshal Jason Dunn... -
![In Deep by Kella McKinnon]()
In Deep by Kella McKinnon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrielle What would you do if you met a man that made you burn like wildfire from the inside out? Burn so hot that with one touch you forgot to breathe? And if you knew that he had dangerous secrets? Would you be able to walk away? I couldn’t. As strong as I know I am, I kept going back for more of him...Categorized as:
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![Allegiances by Cynthia Eden]()
Allegiances by Cynthia Eden
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn old enemy returns…with a new victim in the conclusion of The Battling McGuire Boys by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden Private investigator Sullivan "Sully" McGuire has a reputation for danger. He's spent most of his life tracking the men who murdered his parents. The one woman who sees past Sully's predatorial pursuit is the wife he abandoned years ago... -
![Ash to Steele by Karen-Anne Stewart]()
Ash to Steele by Karen-Anne Stewart
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsEmma Who I am and all I believe is marred with just one glance into angry, steel blue eyes. He seems to control my air, my ability to breathe. He makes me crave everything I know is a sin. Pure becomes tainted and lines are blurred. It's my fault; I'm the one who isn't strong enough. I've been damaged...broken. Breck's words haunt me...'There's a consequence for every choice you make...Categorized as:
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![The Enemy by Amelia Shea]()
The Enemy by Amelia Shea
Resident bad girl, Phoebe Shaw is back after her six-month hiatus from Ghosttown. After a year of heartache, financial strain, and an assault charge, she’s ready to put the past behind her and set her sights on a fresh start...Categorized as:
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![Anything But Mine by Linda Winfree]()
Anything But Mine by Linda Winfree
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWill her need to do the right thing cost them everything? Book Four of the Hearts of the South series. Public Defender Autry Holton, honor-bound to defend an accused serial killer, is in a “shunned if she does, disbarred if she doesn’t” position. To complicate matters, she’s pregnant and hasn’t yet told her ex-lover he’s the father. The reason? She’s pretty sure he won’t want the baby...Categorized as:
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![Lethal Game by Julie Rowe]()
Lethal Game by Julie Rowe
As the nation's youngest virologist and hematologist, Captain Sophia Perry has always been one step ahead of her peers. But there's one thing she can't beat—cancer. She wants to make a difference in the time she has left, so when she's sent to investigate a breakout at a Syrian refugee camp, she goes, saying nothing of her diagnosis... -
![The Procedure by Tabatha Vargo, Melissa Andrea]()
The Procedure by Tabatha Vargo, Melissa Andrea
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSAMANTHA ALDRIDGE I went to his office expecting to change myself. I wanted to be someone else—look like the girls my husband was spending his nights with, but I got a different kind of procedure… one that left me wanting things I shouldn’t and seeing myself in a new light. Now everything I thought I wanted doesn’t matter anymore, and Dr. Roman is all I can think about...Categorized as:
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![Caught In The Act by Lori Foster]()
Caught In The Act by Lori Foster
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsCOINCIDENCE? Not. Mick Dawson, undercover cop. He's got his hands full with a pushy broad who claims she's just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Except all the perps seem to know everything there is to know about her. Who're you going to believe? Only one way to find out. Get real close. Lela DeBraye (aka Del Piper), mystery writer... -
![Getting Lucky by Susan Andersen]()
Getting Lucky by Susan Andersen
Road trip! It started out as an impulsive lark for Lily Morrisette, fueled by her strong chemical reaction to sexy Zach Taylor. A tough, blustery, yet tender-in-spite-of-himself career military man, Zach's determined to break up his darling "baby sister" Glynnis's wedding engagement . . . and Lily's coming along for the ride...Categorized as:
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![A Lost Love by Carole Mortimer]()
A Lost Love by Carole Mortimer
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsShe didn't have to guess how Rafe felt about his wife... Brooke Adamson knew the whole bitter story. Because she was Rafe Charlwood's wife, or rather she had been, before the terrible car accident Rafe believed had claimed her life...
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