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  • State of Suspense by Marie Force

    State of Suspense by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A high-profile murder has Sam and her team chasing an elusive killer…. Just back from their anniversary trip to Dewey Beach, there’s no slow roll back to work for the first couple as Sam is immediately thrust into a baffling new case that has everyone on edge. The FBI wants in on this one, and she’s determined to figure out what happened before they can take over her investigation...
  • Men of Honor, Books 1-4 by K.C. Lynn, Callie Dalton

    Men of Honor, Books 1-4 by K.C. Lynn, Callie Dalton

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 25 ratings
    This military romance boxed set series includes all four Men of Honor stories: Fighting Temptation, Sweet Temptation, Resisting Temptation, and The Final Temptation. Best if in order, but all can be listened to as standalones! You will not break me for I am unbreakable. I will live with integrity, fight with honor and die for what's right...
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  • State of Denial by Marie Force

    State of Denial by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Denial: refusing to admit the truth or reality of something unpleasant…. His mother has been arrested, his government is under new threat, the relentless media is driving him mad, and denial becomes the word of the day for President Nick Cappuano. Meanwhile, his wife, DC Metro Police Lt. Sam Holland Cappuano has caught a big new case with suspects everywhere she looks...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  m-f  contemporary  death  audiobook
  • State of Shock by Marie Force

    State of Shock by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    They never saw this coming…. Hold on to your hat for the next First Family book, coming December 20, 2022.
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  m-f  contemporary  death  audiobook
  • State of the Union by Marie Force

    State of the Union by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    It’s the biggest night of President Nick Cappuano’s life. Will his first lady make it to the Capitol in time for his speech? President Cappuano has been working for months on his first State of the Union address, his highest profile moment yet as the country’s new president...
  • The Chesapeake Series: Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor / Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    The Chesapeake Series: Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor / Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts presents her breathtaking Chesapeake Series--SEA SWEPT, RISING TIDES, INNER HARBOR, and CHESAPEAKE BLUE presented together in one set for the first time. SEA SWEPT. When Cameron Quinn receives word that his father has been in a terrible car accident and is near death, Cam returns home...
  • Fatal Scandal by Marie Force

    Fatal Scandal by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Book 8 of the Fatal series from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Force. .. As a new year dawns in the capital city, dual scandals rock the Metropolitan Police Department—and Lieutenant Sam Holland is right in the middle of them...
  • Fatal Identity by Marie Force

    Fatal Identity by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Every family has its secrets…. As the first anniversary of her marriage to Vice President Nick Cappuano approaches, Lieutenant Sam Holland is dreaming of Bora Bora—sun, sand and a desperately needed break from the DC grind. But real life has a way of intervening, and Sam soon finds herself taking on one of the most perplexing cases of her career...
  • State of Retribution by Marie Force

    State of Retribution by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A Baffling Series of Events Leads to An Unsettling Conclusion…. The First Family is hosting their first Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House when Secret Service agents mobilize to hustle them to safety...
  • Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Conflict of Interest by Scott Pratt

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A six-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bed in Tennessee's oldest town. The ransom note demands millions. In this fifth installment of the highly-acclaimed and bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to represent the parents of a child who has gone missing...
  • Fatal Frenzy by Marie Force

    Fatal Frenzy by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Inauguration day is almost here…. Lieutenant Sam Holland is on leave, recovering from an attack that shook her to the core. With no case to distract her, she's trying to stay busy—even voluntarily meeting with her new White House staff. But it's not enough to keep the horrific memories at bay, and her family is worried…especially her husband, Vice President Nick Cappuano...
  • Fatal Jeopardy by Marie Force

    Fatal Jeopardy by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Washington, D. C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland and her husband, U. S. Senator Nick Cappuano, have been looking forward to a quiet Thanksgiving with their son. But any thoughts of a restful holiday are dashed when Sam and Nick return home to a gruesome scene: Sam's seventeen-year-old niece Brooke, barely conscious and covered in blood on their front stoop...
  • Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kale Mueez just wants to work on his computer programs and, okay, some not-so-legal hacking. Even though he sold one of his computer software companies for more money than he’d ever need, he wasn’t one to sit back and do nothing. That is especially true since his father is a super soldier known around the world...
  • Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Years ago, on the darkest night of Poppy and Zinnia’s lives, they got a letter. It was from three elderly sisters in the small town of Keeneston, inviting them to visit and if interested, take a job. The Rose Sisters had wanted to retire, but they’d wanted family to take over their small café...
  • Bake Off by Denise Grover Swank

    Bake Off by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Maddie Baker hasn’t seen Detective Noah Langley since he ghosted her a month ago, but now she needs his help to find a missing woman. When Maddie Baker offers a self-defense course, a terrified young woman asks her for private lessons to escape a chokehold. Maddie readily agrees to meet Amy the next morning, but when she doesn’t show up, Maddie becomes concerned...
  • Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Lost in You by Lexi Blake

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 15 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...
  • Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee

    Not Quite Perfect by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee delivers the fifth heartwarming, flirty novel in the wildly popular Not Quite series. Mary Kildare knows how to read people. It’s both why she makes a great therapist and why she refuses to trust the average bachelor...
  • Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 16 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...
  • A Thin Disguise by Catherine Bybee

    A Thin Disguise by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A former gun for hire and a federal agent find themselves on the right side of love but the wrong end of a bullet in this Richter installment from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee. On a fateful night in Las Vegas, FBI agent Leo Grant is working on a critical detail in a high-profile child prostitution trial when a beautiful woman jumps into the path of a bullet meant for him...
  • Whiskey for Breakfast by Liliana Hart

    Whiskey for Breakfast by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The Private Investigator's Handbook. Rule #1: Don't break the law. Rule #2: See Rule #1. . .. And then there's Addison Holmes, who makes up her handbook as she goes along. Addison is licensed to carry and she means business. The only thing getting in her way is a sexy detective, a neighborhood watch from hell, a dead billionaire, a black market sperm bank, and a long lost heir. Piece of cake...
  • The Edge of Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

    The Edge of Dawn by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    The beautiful daughter of a prominent Michigan doctor,Narice has never strayedanywhere near the wrong sideof the law. Then her fatheris brutally murdered -- andsuddenly federal agents areswarming around her likeflies, making accusations about a stolen North African diamond...
  • Enigma by Lora Leigh

    Enigma by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 29 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. ..
  • Blaze by Helen Hardt

    Blaze by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Are you missing the Steel Brothers? Are you yearning for more? Welcome to the next generation! Join the grown children of Jonah, Talon, Ryan, and Marjorie for new adventures, mysteries, and heart-pounding passion. The action, drama, and secrecy continue with Blaze, coming February 22, 2022!
  • Fatal Consequences: Fatal Destiny: The Wedding Novella by Marie Force

    Fatal Consequences: Fatal Destiny: The Wedding Novella by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Politics can be murder…. Lieutenant Sam Holland has no sooner accepted Senator Nick Cappuano's proposal than she's back on the job. A woman has been found brutally murdered and evidence points to Henry Lightfeather, a senator and close friend of Nick's. While Sam investigates, Nick stands by his friend—complicating his own bid for reelection and causing tension between the couple...
  • Suspects by Danielle Steel

    Suspects by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 28 ratings
    A dedicated CIA agent becomes an unexpected ally to a woman haunted by the kidnapping of her family, in this thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel. Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty...
  • Merciless Obsession by Tay Mo'Nae

    Merciless Obsession by Tay Mo'Nae

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Task with shutting down Ziora's investigation and reporting on his family's business, The Bloodline, was all Ezra was supposed to do. When he first laid eyes on her, he knew he had to have her. No longer concerned with shutting her blogging down, Ezra takes matters into his own hands and sets all his focus on making Ziora his...
  • Skies Over Caledonia by Samantha Young

    Skies Over Caledonia by Samantha Young

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 33 ratings
    He’s a down-to-earth highland farmer. She’s the rebellious daughter of Hollywood royalty. They might seem like they’re from different worlds, but that won’t stop them from engaging in a marriage of convenience…. It’s been five years since Jared McCulloch’s grandfather Collum passed away and he inherited his farm in the Scottish Highlands...
  • One Night with You by Marie Force

    One Night with You by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Since the debut of Fatal Affair in 2010, Fatal Series readers have been wondering about that “memorable” one-night stand between Sam Holland and Nick Cappuano that took place six years before Fatal Affair opens...
  • Twined Bond by Emma Hart

    Twined Bond by Emma Hart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    All is well in Holly Woods. My best friend's love triangle is now a happy little circle. My sister-in-law just gave birth to my gorgeous new niece who is the world's best cuddler, and Nonna's—kind of—not on my back every ten minutes about the fact we're getting married in one month. *Supposedly. *. Until the mayor's niece—our baker for the wedding—commits suicide...
  • Sinful Summer by Emilia Finn

    Sinful Summer by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Summer has arrived, and the honeymoon I’ve been scheming over for months is finally here. I’ve been married to the workaholic, medical examiner, Minka Mayet for nearly half a year already. But it took a lost bet and a metric ton of coercion to get her out of her cold office and into a bikini on the deck of a multi-million-dollar boat. Time well spent, if you ask me...
  • Savage Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Savage Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The third and final book on the Savage Trilogy. .. They say all is fair in love and war, but I really don’t give a damn about fair. In fact, when protecting those I love, fair is the last thing on my mind. Because they also say all is fair in love and war. Now that I’m back in Candace’s life, those who have used her to try to control me, may well put up a final fight, but they will not win...
  • The Hunting Ground by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    The Hunting Ground by Elle Gray, K.S. Gray

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The time for the wicked to meet their end has arrived…. In the small tourist town of Colorado, women are vanishing. From the visitors to the locals, everyone is on the edge. After taking a road trip with Noah to track down her sister's last whereabouts,. Birdie arrives in the town of Driftwood, Colorado to find strange disappearances at her motel...
  • Fatal Destiny by Marie Force

    Fatal Destiny by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    With the week of their wedding finally upon them, Washington, D. C. , Police Lieutenant Sam Holland and her fiance, Senator Nick Cappuano, are at odds. In the aftermath of a tragic loss, they struggle to reconnect as the big day draws near, but their work keeps pulling them apart...
  • Seductive Sin by Helen Hardt

    Seductive Sin by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Enter a world of mystery, suspense, sin, and heart-wrenching emotion with Helen Hardt's new series! They’re drawn into a world of seductive sin…. Savannah Gallo sacrificed herself to save her lover and is now imprisoned inside an opulent mansion belonging to a rival crime family. Despite the confining walls, her spirit remains unbroken...
  • One Last Stand by Susan May Warren

    One Last Stand by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    As a member of the Air One Rescue team, pilot London Brooks has built a new life—one far away from her clandestine past as an operative tasked to take down a branch of Russian terrorists. She has no desire to reenter that world or endure the grief of losing everyone she loved, including her fiancé. But the past won’t stay past...
  • Whiskey Sour by Liliana Hart

    Whiskey Sour by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Addison Holmes is at it again. When priceless Russian gems are stolen on their way to Savannah and the courier is murdered, all the clues lead to back to an escort service that seems above reproach. But looks can be deceiving. Throw in a sexy detective and a dangerous FBI agent, and Addison finds out very quickly that she's in way over her head...
  • Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 21 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...
  • Fear No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Fear No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream. Instead of preparing for her high school graduation, Lucy Kincaid is facing a vicious execution. Lured by an online predator, she’s destined to die horribly–live on the Internet–while hundreds of heartless viewers watch and vote on the method of her slaughter...
  • Sweet Revenge by Christy Reece

    Sweet Revenge by Christy Reece

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 23 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...
  • See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    See No Evil by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A cunning killer hides in plain sight. A troubled teenage girl has been charged with the grisly murder of her stepfather. The evidence is damning: Emily was found alone at the scene with blood on her hands, and an incriminating e-mail she wrote outlines a murder plot identical to the method of the brutal slaying...
  • Crazy Cool by Tara Janzen

    Crazy Cool by Tara Janzen

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 30 ratings
    She's sizzling hot. .. He's icy cool. He called her Bad Luck Dekker, a gorgeous socialite who trailed trouble in her wake. Christian Hawkins should know. Thirteen years ago he saved Kat Dekker’s life—only to spend two years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Now it’s déjà vu all over again when he rescues Kat from an explosion that rips through a Denver art auction...
  • Rescuing Kassie by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Kassie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Graham "Hollywood" Caverly feels the chemistry with Kassie Anderson in the emails they've been exchanging through a dating site. When they finally meet in person, and that online chemistry proves to have real-life sizzle, he knows she's the one. He couldn't be happier when their first date, at an annual Army Ball, goes better than he could have imagined. Until Kassie drops a bomb...
  • The Murder Game by Beverly Barton

    The Murder Game by Beverly Barton

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    New Game. The game is simple--he is the Hunter. They are the Prey. He gives them a chance to escape. To run. To hide. To outsmart him. But eventually, he catches them. And that's when the game gets really terrifying. .. New Rules. Private investigator Griffin Powell and FBI agent Nicole Baxter know a lot about serial killers--they took one down together...
  • Crazy Kisses by Tara Janzen

    Crazy Kisses by Tara Janzen

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Professional soldier Kid Chronopolous moves in stealth and shadow to take out the world�s deadliest threats. Now, after barely surviving a hair-raising mission in South America, the Special Defense Forces agent comes home to Panama City for some sorely needed R & R�and finds a bikini bottom that can belong to only one woman...
  • Burned by Kaylea Cross

    Burned by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • Blood Moon by Sandra Brown

    Blood Moon by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with a sexy thriller where an unruly detective and an ­­­­ambitious tv show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon—while trying to resist the attraction between them...
  • Burning Love by Sable Hunter

    Burning Love by Sable Hunter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The Hell Yeah! Series continues with Burning Love (Hell Yeah! Sweeter Version Book 6 – Cajun Style). Beau’s passion burns hot for Harley Montoya. When he discovers that the woman who has enflamed his libido is the girl he fell in love with so long ago in a runaway shelter, he is overcome with joy. But Harley - or Nada as he knew her - has been burned by tragedy...
  • Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 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...
  • Levi: Driverton 2 by Ruth Cardello

    Levi: Driverton 2 by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Driverton’s bad boy is falling in love with his best friend’s cousin and it just might cost him everything. Levi has always had a sweet spot for Katie, but she’s not his type. He likes his women wild, willing, and from out of town so they’re easy to move on from when his interest wanes. Katie is opinionated and off-limits...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  m-f  contemporary  humor  length-short
  • Luke's Revenge by Lisa Renee Jones

    Luke's Revenge by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The third and final book in the Walker Security: Lucifer Trilogy. .. In the mind-blowing and stunning finale, all will be revealed as Lucifer's forever with the woman he loves hangs in the balance.
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