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  • The Nauti Boys Collection by Lora Leigh

    The Nauti Boys Collection by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Get to know the irresistibly sexy Nauti Boys in this collection of novels from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh.NAUTI BOYDuty as a U.S. Marine put a safe distance between Rowdy Mackay and the temptation of a nubile Kentucky vixen. Now he's back home and ready to engage in the kind of erotic games that have earned him and his two cousins a Nauti-boy reputation in three counties..
  • Taggart Family Values by Lexi Blake

    Taggart Family Values by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From Ian and Charlotte’s first meeting in Paris to a look into the future, Taggart Family Values chronicles Masters and Mercenaries’ favorite family through a series of short stories and novellas. Includes one brand new short story and one new novella...
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    suspense  bdsm  contemporary  length-short
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  • Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Robert McClellan was forced to serve as a soldier in a war he didn’t understand. Liberated by McKay-Taggart, he struggles every day to reclaim the life he lost and do right by the men he calls his brothers, The Lost Boys. Only one thing is more important – Ariel Adisa. The gorgeous psychologist has plagued his dreams since the day they met...
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    suspense  bdsm  contemporary  mystery  length-long  m-f
  • Hugo by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Hugo by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Everly Fulton is desperate for a man to come along and sweep her off her feet, giving her a brief reprieve from her hectic life. She’s been anxiously awaiting prince charming or a knight in shining armor for years.What she got instead was a grumpy Savage King who is just passing through town.Hugo Reddick set out in search of an old hookup...
  • Gypsy Soul by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Gypsy Soul by Janice M. Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Felicity It’s hard being a woman in a man’s world. It’s where I’ve always been. Pushing limits. Proving I can be what they want. I can’t. So I’m done. No more trying. No more fighting to show I’m good enough. Worthy of a man’s attention. And that includes the man who shoved his way into my life. Under my skin. It can’t happen. I don’t care how good he looks naked...
  • Ruby Mercy by Naomi West

    Ruby Mercy by Naomi West

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    I’m having my bosshole’s baby.Safe to say that’s not ideal…Especially because he doesn’t even know.As a matter of fact, Kirill is clear across the country, and I’m pretty sure he’s never coming back.That’s fine.My daughter and I will be a-okay without him.At least, that’s what I thought.But five years goes by like pulling teeth.And I learn something:It hurts to do this alone...
  • Tied to Hope by Red Phoenix

    Tied to Hope by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Welcome me home…” My life is what dreams are made of! I am deeper in love with Thane after the birth of our child, and I can’t believe the plans he has for our future. My joy Is doubled when Rytsar Durov returns as a conquering hero. In the midst of such bliss, a dark secret surfaces that has the power to tear our world apart...
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    suspense  bdsm  humor  new adult  length-medium
  • Unseen by Karin Slaughter

    Unseen by Karin Slaughter

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring detective Will Trent are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil...
  • Twisted Mercy by Elaine Levine

    Twisted Mercy by Elaine Levine

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hope Townsend has spent long years searching for the brother she was brutally separated from when their mother was murdered. Now, thanks to help from a mysterious source, she’s found him deep in the Medicine Bow Mountains on the remote compound of the notorious White Kingdom Brotherhood motorcycle club and prison gang—a viper's nest of drug runners, murderers, and thieves...
  • Out of Air by Robert F. Barker

    Out of Air by Robert F. Barker

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A final, climactic confrontation...
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    bdsm  suspense  mystery  length-long
  • Mad Max by S.J. Rowe

    Mad Max by S.J. Rowe

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Cheyanne —I don’t have friends. And I’m not crazy, my mother had me tested. I have my uncle, but he’s in prison. While I’m not great with social cues, I do know it’s not a good dinner topic to bring up I’m related to someone charged for treason. But that doesn’t seem to bother him. A beast of a man who takes me for what I am and doesn’t question. Or at least not till his club thinks I’m the enemy...
  • Her Russian Returns by Red Phoenix

    Her Russian Returns by Red Phoenix

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rytsar Durov should be dead.But in the BDSM world, loyalties run as deep as kinky passions. Sir Thane Davis is determined to save his Russian brother, but must call on his friends at the Center to execute the plan.Clinging to hope, Brie trusts she will see Rytsar again...
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    suspense  bdsm  new adult  length-short
  • His Reward by Winter Travers

    His Reward by Winter Travers

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blood or not, the Banachis are family…When a typical day turns into an unexpected meeting with Kitty, Princeton quickly realizes he’s got something good right in front of him. Something he doesn’t want to let go.As a ghost from his past waltzes in without warning, threatening to take away Kitty, Princeton knows nothing will happen to Kitty and her family as long as he’s breathing...
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    bad boys  suspense  mafia  humor  new adult  length-short
  • Opposition by Jane Henry

    Opposition by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I hate Liam Alexander. I hate his Rolex. I hate his scowl. I hate everything his multi-billion-dollar company stands for. When the pompous, rich, arrogant jerk comes strutting into the coffee shop, I barely manage civility. But people make mistakes, and when I screw up, it's epic. I never expected the jerk would actually be a well-respected member of Club Verge...
  • Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Point of Freedom by Stacey Lynn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Hatred. Desire. Broken Dreams. Jules McAllister has loved and lost. She experienced the gut wrenching pain of grief after her boyfriend, Scratch, a member of the Nordic Lords MC, died on the same night that she told him they were going to have a child. Grief stricken and destroyed, she left Jasper Bay, unable to tell anyone the truth of what really happened that fateful night...
  • Shadow by Ivy Nelson

    Shadow by Ivy Nelson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Dark Romantic SuspenseCannon Ripley has spent his life in the shadows, but he's always been able to count on Olivia being there for him on the rare occasions he was able to come home. That is until he couldn't. When she walked away from their casual arrangement to marry someone else, he knew he'd stayed away too long. But she's divorced now and he's ready to come home for good...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  contemporary  length-medium  m-f
  • Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Muffler's Mayhem by Elizabeth Knox, Charli Childs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I lost her once, and I'll be damned if I lose her again.MufflerBeretta and I had a relationship many years ago, only, we were the only two who knew about it. Now she's been in an accident and is suffering from amnesia. The doctors tell us her memories will come back with time, but to go along with what she thinks. Only, she thinks it's the time period when we're still together...
  • Bulldog by Delta James

    Bulldog by Delta James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She wears the collar because she is his. She is his because her body knew its master.The moment Olivia Miles resorted to fighting dirty in a fencing match, Lord Nigel Pederson decided to teach her a shameful lesson, but as her quivering bottom reddened under his punishing hand the arousal pooling between her thighs made it clear she needs to be mastered completely...
  • Jaded by D.D. Prince

    Jaded by D.D. Prince

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Want equal rights?Don't f____ a biker.Want safe and predictable?Do not fall for a biker.Want wind in your hair, fire in your soul, and a man's fingerprints on your body, marking you as his and only his, to be protected and treasured forever?Don't accidentally become a club bunny...
  • Unseemly Entanglement by Piper Stone

    Unseemly Entanglement by Piper Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    His offer made me blush. Taking it made me his. I was warned about Frederick Duvall. I was told he was dangerous. But I never suspected that meeting the billionaire advertising mogul to discuss a business proposition would end with me bent over a table with my dress up and my panties down for a shameful lesson in obedience. That should have been it...
  • Hemlock by Marie James

    Hemlock by Marie James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I might be the first man to join the Cerberus MC and not love it. Instead of leaving, I bide my time, knowing that I burn every bridge I cross.When an opportunity plucks me from the desert of New Mexico and transplants me in East Tennessee I feel a little better about the path my life has taken.The new job isn't as solitary as I expected it to be...
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    bdsm  suspense  bikers  contemporary  length-medium
  • Prez by Rae B. Lake

    Prez by Rae B. Lake

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He thought he had lost his world...She was there to pick up the pieces... Alex-I was the president of a small motorcycle club, Wings of Diablo. My word was law and I had a crew that would put their very lives on the line if I asked. I did, and I was wrong. I was blinded by my own pride. I couldn't see that I was in over my head and that hubris was enough to cost me everything. My club. My brother...
  • Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Dark Destiny by Avelyn Paige, Geri Glenn

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He's an inmate.She's a free spirit.Delilah believes animals can heal anyone. But she's never come up against someone like the hardened biker who rarely speaks. With Stone Face part of her inmate rehabilitation program, she's got her work cut out for her.Stone Face isn't there to be rehabilitated. Her program is the only way to get to the man that murdered his twin sister...
  • No True Legend by Nicole Snow

    No True Legend by Nicole Snow

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Beast. Monster. Legend.But what's the truth about the man they call Nine?Everybody gossips about him in Heart's Edge.Outlaw. Savage. Walking tragedy.A mess of ink and scars darker than his soul.A small town villain.Yeah, I don't believe it.Because there are so many different stories.And Nine isn't a psycho beast-man in all of them.Some say he's a man still in love...
  • Black Light: Protocol by Shane Starrett

    Black Light: Protocol by Shane Starrett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “Yes, sir.”Galen Harmon lives to hear those two words. And for fifteen years he lived the dream with a submissive who’d knelt at his feet and offered that simple phrase over and over again.But then she was gone. Ripped away in a heartbeat of savage betrayal and anguish that still haunts him.Until he met Alex.She’s everything that was taken from him...
  • Finan by Amy Davies

    Finan by Amy Davies

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When you grow up in the Rugged Skulls MC, you get everything dropped at your feet, women included. You are also expected to act a certain way, but for me, that persona was always something that didn't sit right with me. I'm just not like other bikers.People watching is my thing. I like deciphering what makes people tick...
  • Poughkeepsie Begins by Debra Anastasia

    Poughkeepsie Begins by Debra Anastasia

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It ends with the beginning. This legendary, indie, cult-favorite series ends its tale with the story of the Poughkeepsie brotherhood before the tattoo...
  • The Deliverance of Dilan by Kathy Coopmans

    The Deliverance of Dilan by Kathy Coopmans

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dilan Levy. The mysterious man The man with a war to end. The man who was put behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. The man who disappeared after he was shot. The man who fell for the woman. The innocent woman. He’s back to deliver his rightful revenge. Anna Drexler. He saved her life. Took a bullet for her. Then left. For six long months, she’s tried to forget him...
  • Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Boone by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I was never good at love, but damn if I didn’t want to try when I met her.BooneAll my life, I’ve never been good at love. My wife literally decided out of the blue that she was going to up and leave me, and our two boys. She acted like she was going to the grocery store to grab a few things and never came back...
  • A Little Groundhog Day Gamble: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Allie Belle, Rawhide Authors

    A Little Groundhog Day Gamble: A Holidays at Rawhide Ranch Story by Allie Belle, Rawhide Authors

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Facing down one of her high school bullies didn't exactly go the way she'd planned...Instead of giving Darius Smith a piece of her mind and walking away knowing she'd had the last word, Brynnly somehow finds herself on a date with him.At Rawhide Ranch.Where Darius just accepted a job as a professor at the University...
  • Travis: Rugged Skulls MC -Next Generation #3 by Amy Davies

    Travis: Rugged Skulls MC -Next Generation #3 by Amy Davies

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When you belong to the Rugged Skulls MC you have everything at your fingertips. Money, women, and whisky. Club life isn’t always easy, but it’s filled with love, loyalty, and respect.People always told me that one day a special woman would come along and ruin me for all others. Then one day I saw Willa and she took my breath away. I knew from the moment I saw her that I had to have her...
  • Heated Caress by E.C. Land

    Heated Caress by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve wanted her for longer than I should’ve. She’s off limits and I know it.ChristianBlood coats my hands and I don’t regret them being stained. Not when it comes to the reason behind it. Being who I am, I’m as cold-hearted as they come. I only care for those close to me. But even still I keep them at bay. There’s only one who gets under my skin, and she knows it...
  • Diesel's Perseverance: Insurgents Motorcycle Club by Chiah Wilder

    Diesel's Perseverance: Insurgents Motorcycle Club by Chiah Wilder

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two hearts scarred … Two souls intricately intertwined.Diesel is an Insurgent through and through. His loyalties lie with the club and his kin. A stint in prison makes his freedom that much sweeter. His favorite pastimes are riding the backroads on his Harley, a whiskey neat, and a bevy of women at his beck and call...
  • Masters of the Castle: Witness Protection Program by Maren Smith, Rayanna Jamison

    Masters of the Castle: Witness Protection Program by Maren Smith, Rayanna Jamison

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Ten of your favorite authors. Eight brand new stories. One really, really bad man. Where will you be when the bomb goes off? When Master Marshall gets an emergency phone call, he can’t believe his ears. His cousin, Grace, has become the only surviving witness to a terrible murder and she is refusing police protection...
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    suspense  bdsm  m-f  length-epic
  • Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Call Sign: King by Livia Grant

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He got cocky. Let his guard down.Now the love of his life is paying the price.For a moment he'd forgotten there were men who wanted him dead. Men who lived their lives in the dark, who could reach out of the shadows he used to live in, and he'd been naive to think the light inside her would keep her safe...
  • Evil's Pawn by Raven Dark, Olivia Alexander

    Evil's Pawn by Raven Dark, Olivia Alexander

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He promised to make me pay for stealing from his club. But now, he's decided that owning me is not enough. The scorching hot, frighteningly dark, and unrelentingly dangerous monster who holds me captive won't be satisfied until he's broken me. From Book One Spider She’s mine...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  cold hero  length-medium
  • Finding Us by S.K. Hartley

    Finding Us by S.K. Hartley

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Tate & Low's story. I'm loud, I'm proud, and I like to bust balls in my spare time. At least, that's what Low Parker would do. But she is just a mask, one I have perfected over years of running. I am Willow Knoxx. Master of deception, secrets, and lies. I am the girl your mother told you to stay away from, and the girl your father fantasized about...
  • Beyond Measure by Jane Henry

    Beyond Measure by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Jane Henry delivers a gritty, impassioned romance of arranged marriage, fearless love, and ultimate triumph over evil. I'm the girl no one wants. Scarred beyond repair and locked away, I'm tainted and tarnished. Unworthy of friendship, love, or hope. But I was born into Bratva life, and my life is not my own...
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    suspense  bdsm  contemporary  mafia  length-medium  m-f
  • Elusive by L.A. Fiore

    Elusive by L.A. Fiore

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I didn’t set out to be a pirate. Life for me was about surviving the ugliness that people knew existed but didn’t talk about. I lived in hell. Then I saw her. I knew I couldn’t keep her, but for just a little while I had found heaven. Eight years later, I can’t get her out of my head. It is a mistake sailing to her island. It is a mistake reaching out to her...
  • Because of His Past by Kelly Favor

    Because of His Past by Kelly Favor

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Grace Knowles isn’t the type of girl to have sex in exchange for money. But when the unimaginably rich and handsome Liam Houston suggests just such an arrangement, she doesn’t exactly say no to him. Instead, Grace goes to his room in the middle of the night, intending to give him a piece of her mind. But when Liam Houston finally gets his hands on her, nothing’s that simple...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  contemporary  m-f  length-novella
  • Obsession by Vivian Wood

    Obsession by Vivian Wood

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author Vivian Wood Secrets can kill. Harper wanted Sean to dominate her, to degrade her… and she loved every second of it. Every hot, gasping-for-breath, clenching-the-sheets moment. She loved to have him looming over her, dictating her every move. She got off on it. But now it’s too real...
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    suspense  bdsm  humor  length-long
  • Master of the Mountain by Lucky Moon

    Master of the Mountain by Lucky Moon

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    His mountain. His rules.Emily Carter is a thrill-seeking, nature-loving Little with a painting and cataloguing the world's most stunning and elusive creatures. But when a hike up Pine Peak mountain goes badly wrong, she's left stranded and hurt.Reed Dawson does not share. Not his secrets. Not his heart.He's the law on Pine Peak, a reclusive mountain man who's as hard as the rock he calls home...
    Categorized as:
    bdsm  suspense  age difference  length-short
  • Starving For Vengeance by Debra Kayn

    Starving For Vengeance by Debra Kayn

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Born into Bantorus Motorcycle Club, Lee Ramchett skirts the law, works secretly for the federal government, and kills. As he grows closer to seeking revenge for what the Mexican mafia has done to his family, his supervisor orders him to go back to Bantorus MC to watch over Shari —one of the available and beautiful Silver Girls...
  • Freeing Him by A.M. Hargrove

    Freeing Him by A.M. Hargrove

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    *This novel contains mature content and is not intended for younger readers. Kolson Hart and Gabriella Martinelli…destined to be together, fated to be torn apart. After avoiding his father for years, Kolson knew asking his father, Langston Hart, for a favor would be like selling his soul to the devil. Only the devil wants more ... more than Kolson is willing to pay...
  • Wild Fury by Lindsay Cross

    Wild Fury by Lindsay Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s been in love with the same man since she was a little girl— but that man’s been broken beyond repair. Tomi was forced to leave Cole years ago… but even with a new boyfriend, she can’t seem to let go. Working under a new employer, she struggles to forget her old life— but the situation she’s landed herself in is worse than the one she left...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  military  menage  length-medium  m-f
  • Tamed: by Felicity Brandon

    Tamed: by Felicity Brandon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He took her, he caged her, but can he truly tame her? Lost in the woods, author Molly Clary is running for her life. After being trapped in the torrid dark world of Connor Reilly, Molly has made a desperate escape from the tantalizing torment, but little does she know what fate awaits her...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  m-f  length-medium
  • Savage Love: A Dark Romance by Jane Henry

    Savage Love: A Dark Romance by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Jane Henry concludes the Savage Island duet with a fast-paced, high-stakes novel of survival, suspense, and heart-breaking passion. The island took everything from me. It won't take her. They created a monster. A savage. They're about to see exactly what that means. Because Harper Lake is mine...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  contemporary  betrayal  length-short  m-f
  • Temptation by Leigh Lennon

    Temptation by Leigh Lennon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **This release in Jan of 2020 as a newsletter exclusive. This book will release under simply Temptation July 23rd with more content in the story! TemptationEveI’ve never been loved. Growing up with a drunk father taught me to trust no one. When a man offers me a way to achieve my freedom, I’m put to the test. He thinks he’ll win when all I see is a man who wants to strip me of my freedom...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  new adult  length-short
  • Conviction by Jane Henry

    Conviction by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Braxton Cannon can’t get the girl on the dance floor out of his mind, the woman he literally swept off her feet and into Club Verge. She’s no submissive, but he can’t help but admire her ferocity, even as he yearns to take her over his lap and teach her manners. He’s determined to keep her safe if he has to lock her up himself. Officer Zoe Mackay can handle herself...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  bdsm  contemporary  spanking  m-f
  • Re/Defined by Michele Zurlo

    Re/Defined by Michele Zurlo

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Amy Markevich nurses fantasies about dominant agent Jordan Monaghan, but she knows they’ll never come true. He’s younger, to-die-for handsome, and so very different from her. She settles for friendship and dreaming from afar, even when he agrees to show her the platonic side of submission...
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