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  • A Crone to Pick by Amanda M. Lee

    A Crone to Pick by Amanda M. Lee

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Scout Randall knows what she is, more than a witch, more powerful than she ever thought imaginable. She’s only hit the tip of the iceberg on what she can do. Now she has to grapple with another problem.When her former partner Evan was believed dead in a vampire attack, she blamed herself, mourned, and tried to move on. Now he’s back, and he’s more than anybody ever imagined, too...
  • Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    She’s looking for a fresh start…she finds him.Nylah Walker knows what it’s like to be protected. You don’t grow up with five brothers without having someone close by, watching your back at all times. She craves independence, and Cradle Mountain is her fresh start. Her new beginning...
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  • The Body in the Backyard by Lucy Score

    The Body in the Backyard by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Left Behind Her spray-tanned, self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband careening back into her life was not on this psychic detective's bingo card. But not only does Griffin Gentry show up unexpectedly at Riley Thorn's door―the real shock is that he's begging for her help...
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    mystery  m-f  paranormal  contemporary  fantasy  humor  dual-pov
  • A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil

    A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed...
  • Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper

    Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper turns up the heat even as she chills readers to the bone with a new suspense novel that distills the essence of fear itself. In this relentless thriller, two psychics put more than their lives on the line to stop a killer darker and more evil than they could ever imagine. . .
  • Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Seth Quinn is finally home. It's been a long journey. After a harrowing boyhood with his drug-addicted mother, Seth had been taken in by the Quinn family, growing up with three older brothers who'd watched over him with love...
  • Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Whisper of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 39 ratings
    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence... Three victims have fallen to a killer’s savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community — yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murder...
  • The Kraken King and the Inevitable Abduction by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Inevitable Abduction by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Kraken King has declared that Zenobia Fox is under his protection—and with her identity revealed, she needs that protection more than ever. But it comes with a price when Ariq demands that Zenobia reveal her secrets in return. Ariq wants nothing more than for Zenobia to trust him, and he knows exactly which sensual tricks will breach her defenses...
  • Silent Truth by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Silent Truth by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the sizzling new adventure from New York Times bestselling authors Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love, a red-hot BAD boy teams up with a sexy television reporter on an explosive quest for revenge. Tough-as-nails Bureau of American Defense agent Hunter Thornton-Payne is no stranger to uncomfortable top-secret missions, but tonight takes the cake...
  • The Donovan Legacy: Charmed & Enchanted by Nora Roberts

    The Donovan Legacy: Charmed & Enchanted by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    In two tales of the Donovan family, Anastasia Donovan is afraid to reveal her true self to her intriguing new neighbor, Boone Sawyer, while Rowan Murray is fascinated by her enigmatic neighbor, Liam Donovan. - She has published 101 New York Times bestsellers as of 2003, 29 of them reaching #1...
  • Touching Evil by Kay Hooper

    Touching Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 37 ratings
    Sometimes evil lingers so close, you can feel it.... Seattle police sketch artist Maggie Barnes has an extraordinary gift. She listens as traumatized crime victims describe their ordeals -- and then uses those horrifying recollections to draw dead-on sketches of the assailants. Some cops think Maggie is telepathic, that she can actually enter the victims' minds...
  • The Kraken King and the Iron Heart by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Iron Heart by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook. The Kraken King, Part VThe Kraken King and the Iron Heart With their lives and the fate of an empire at stake, Ariq is forced to leave Zenobia behind...
  • Blood Ransom by Sophie McKenzie

    Blood Ransom by Sophie McKenzie

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    CLONES RACHEL AND THEO NOW LIVE THOUSANDS OF MILES APART. THEY KEEP IN TOUCH, BUT THINGS JUST AREN T THE SAME. WHEN RACHEL DISCOVERS THAT EVIL SCIENTIST ELIJAH IS STILL WORKING IN SECRET FOR A SECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ABOUT TO MURDER DANIEL, SHE SETS OUT TO RESCUE THE LITTLE BOY, BUT HER PLANS BACKFIRE WITH DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES...
  • Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Sense of Evil by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    Kay Hooper is the brightest new star of suspense fiction. Now the New York Times bestselling author who's built a reputation for keeping her readers' pulse in the red zone delivers a thriller that will stun the senses -- all six of them. This time a psychic special agent and a gritty cop must stop a brutal killer with a chilling M.O. and an unstoppable... Sense of Evil...
  • Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Sleeping with Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 35 ratings
    Fear has never been so close... New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper returns with a relentless thriller that brings her readers face-to-face with fear itself. In this terrifying new novel, a psychic special agent finds herself caught up in a tangled web of secrets, lies... and evil. Riley Crane woke up fully dressed, a gun under her pillow, and covered in blood...
  • The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Scribbling Spinster by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A former smuggler and thief, Ariq—better known as the Kraken King—doesn’t know what to make of the clever, mysterious woman he rescues from an airship besieged by marauders...
  • The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Crumbling Walls by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Experience the incredible adventure and heart-stopping romance of the Iron Seas in this thrilling steampunk tale from New York Times bestselling author Meljean Brook...
  • The MacKade Brothers: Rafe and Jared by Nora Roberts

    The MacKade Brothers: Rafe and Jared by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    Ten years later and the bad boy of the bunch had returned home. Appealing as ever, no even lovely Regan Joners, the town's reserved antiques dealer, was immune to Rafe MacKade. Regan claimed her plans didn't include relationships with rebels, but her reaction to The Return of Rafe MacKade - and his sizzling kisses - said something quite different...
  • The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm by Meljean Brook

    The Kraken King and the Abominable Worm by Meljean Brook

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As they continue their expedition across Australia, Ariq is determined to stay close to Zenobia and figure out what kind of game she’s playing—even as his admiration for the enigmatic woman starts to override his suspicion...
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Replay by Ken Grimwood

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died. And when he woke and he was 18 again, with all his memories of the next 25 years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the future, seeking happiness...
  • Verdad silenciada by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Verdad silenciada by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Agent Hunter Thornton is no stranger to top-secret missions, hes got nothing to lose until a beautiful brunette pulls him into her own dangerous agenda. When a heiress is murdered as Abbie tries to blackmail her for clues, Abbie realizes shes stumbled into an unforgiving conspiracy. They discover a connection and begin a battle against an evil enterprise...
  • The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    The Librarian's Vampire Assistant: 2 by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes a humorous, standalone mystery, The Librarian’s Vampire Assistant, Book 2. (Yep! It’s a standalone. The boring title is just to mess with you!) HOW MUCH LONGER CAN HE KEEP HIS SECRET AND HIS FAVORITE HUMAN SAFE? Michael Vanderhorst has always been a lone wolf. Or lone vampire? Whatever...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    There's a new psychic on the scene, and he's ready for action: introducing Lucas Jordan, the latest addition to Noah Bishop's crackerjack Special Crimes Unit. Lucas Jordan has an extraordinary psychic skill that police all over the country find invaluable: he locates missing people...
  • Pale as Death by Heather Graham

    Pale as Death by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    From the dark depths of Hollywood’s past The crime scene is horrific: the corpse of a young actress, drained of blood and cut in two. LAPD Detective Sophie Manning’s new case is high-profile and difficult—there’s no evidence to work with. And it’s a disturbing echo of the infamous Black Dahlia killing...
  • Absolutely, Positively by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Absolutely, Positively by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Unconventional Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father's scientific foundation and owner of Seattle's Abberwick Tea & Spice Company, was mad enough to fire her new consultant, Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan. She'd hired him when the foundation had needed the advice of the best expert in America on new inventions...
  • Three Fates by Nora Roberts

    Three Fates by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 49 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes an unforgettable tale of luck and love in which the fortunes of three siblings depend on a simple twist of fate.When the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, one survivor became a changed man, giving up his life as a petty thief...
  • Cold Blooded by Lisa Jackson

    Cold Blooded by Lisa Jackson

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The New York Times bestselling author of Hot Blooded returns to steamy New Orleans and the French Quarter with her supremely sexy and suspenseful new novel.With every book she pens, Lisa Jackson reaffirms her status as one of today's most talented, original and compelling writers of romantic suspense...
  • Sticks and Bones by Carolyn Haines

    Sticks and Bones by Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter Garden party at the Prince Albert Hotel. It's a dazzling success...until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door...
  • Defy The Ravaged by E.M. Raegan

    Defy The Ravaged by E.M. Raegan

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    My name is Willow.His name is Jason.He hated me. I hated him— while silently hiding how much all that hate hurt deep down inside me. But all that was before. Before everything changed. Before I woke up to gunshots and screaming and death.Now he still hates me, along with his Uncle Paulie and their club brothers. But I don’t hate him. I can’t, not after he came for me. Not after he saved me...
  • Hiding in the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Hiding in the Shadows by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    Terror waits just out of sight... Accident victim Faith Parker has done what her doctors feared she never would: awakened from the coma that held her prisoner for weeks. But she has no memory of the crash that nearly killed her -- or the life that led up to it. Nor does she remember journalist Dinah Leighton, the steadfast friend who visited her in the hospital..
  • Suzanna & Megan by Nora Roberts

    Suzanna & Megan by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 30 ratings
    Synopsis Atop the rocky coast of Maine sits the Towers, a magnificent family mansion that is home to a legend of long-lost love, hidden emeralds -- and four sisters determined to save their home against all odds. New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts brings you the Calhoun Women -- Suzanna's Surrender -- Burned-out and tired as hell, all ex-cop Holt Bradford wanted to do was relax...
  • White Heat by Cherry Adair

    White Heat by Cherry Adair

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Never have the stakes been higher. Never have two people faced greater risks or grappled with deeper desire. Never has Cherry Adair–award-winning author of Hot Ice–burned the pages with so much blazing action and blistering passion. Professional art restorer Emily Greene is in no mood to see the devil-may-care Max Aries...
  • A Grave Search by Wendy Roberts

    A Grave Search by Wendy Roberts

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Julie Hall is finally adjusting to her new career: locating dead bodies with dowsing rods.The crime scene is drenched with blood, but the body is nowhere to be found.When a grieving mother requests Julie’s help tracking the body of her missing daughter, Julie is hesitant...
  • Rip Tide by Kat Falls

    Rip Tide by Kat Falls

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 29 ratings
    Return to the subsea frontier with Ty and Gemma! The mysteries of the deep are deadlier than ever when Ty'With time running out for his parents, Ty's desperation leads the two teenagers to the underwater underworld...and into an alliance with the outlaws of the Seablite Gang. But one mystery soon leads to another...
  • A Garland of Bones by Carolyn Haines

    A Garland of Bones by Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Spunky southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney tackles a string of strange accidents while celebrating the holiday season in Carolyn Haines's cozy A Garland of BonesSarah Booth has traded in hosting this Christmas season for a road trip with her besties...
  • Nauti Siren by Lora Leigh, Manxie Hardy

    Nauti Siren by Lora Leigh, Manxie Hardy

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Lora Leigh, the New York Times best-selling author of Nauti Intentions and Nauti Dreams revisits that sultry and ¿sinfully good¿ (Joyfully Reviewed) Southern landscape with a story of a young woman whose desire for a Boston attorney draws them both into a dangerous undercover investigation, and an adversary as lethal as he is relentless...
  • Smarty Bones by Carolyn Haines

    Smarty Bones by Carolyn Haines

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body. Olive claims she can not only identify the corpse, she can also prove the woman's scandalous role in the nation's history...
  • Always a Thief by Kay Hooper

    Always a Thief by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    In a deadly game of skill and deception...A master thief is just the first wild card... The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited-- and the show' s director, Morgan West, can' t ignore her growing uneasiness. She' s certain she hasn' t seen the last of the infamous cat burglar Quinn...
  • Third Time's a Charm by Marquita Valentine

    Third Time's a Charm by Marquita Valentine

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Note: Alternate/new cover edition for ASIN# B0096TKHAO To the world, Alexander "Sasha" Romanov is a sexy, globe-trotting playboy that parties with the very rich and famous. But behind the façade exists a ruthless man willing and able to destroy anyone and anything standing in the way of his ultimate goal ...until he meets Rose Holland...
  • Hostage by Kay Hooper

    Hostage by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Haven operative Luther Brinkman has been sent into the wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee to locate escaped felon Cole Jacoby, a mentally unstable bank robber. Supposedly, Jacoby hid more than ten million dollars from his last heist before he was captured—and rather mysteriously escaped federal custody...
  • Haunted by Kay Hooper

    Haunted by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    How do you make peace with the dead if the dead aren’t ready to forgive? In New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper’s new novel, the answer lies in the twisting shadows of a small town, and its secrets yet unearthed... When Deacon James’s younger sister Melanie calls him, terrified, he goes to her aid in the small Georgia town of Sociable...
  • Hell Bent by Heather Killough-Walden

    Hell Bent by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jack Thane is a man with a very big secret. For years, he has relied upon the skills and resources that came with this secret in order to protect the people he cares about, especially the young Annabelle Drake… the only woman he has ever loved. However, now Jack’s past is catching up with him – and it’s after Annabelle...
  • Smoke in Mirrors by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Smoke in Mirrors by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    A con artist and seductress, Meredith Spooner lived fast—and died young. But her final scam—embezzling more than a million dollars from a college endowment fund—is coming back to haunt Leonora Hutton. The tainted money is stashed away in an offshore account for Leonora...
  • Bones and Arrows by Carolyn Haines, Kate Forbes

    Bones and Arrows by Carolyn Haines, Kate Forbes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Love hurts… In Zinnia a criminal Cupid turns into a case for Delaney Detective Agency. Gods, goddesses, slaves, centurions—all are gathered at Tinkie Richmond’s elegant home to celebrate the holiday for love. The costume Valentine’s party is the hot ticket in the Mississippi Delta. But Tinkie’s title of Queen Bee of Delta Society becomes jeopardized when her Valentine’s guests are all robbed...
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    mystery  m-f  paranormal  humor  contemporary  fantasy
  • I'll Be Watching You by Tina Wainscott

    I'll Be Watching You by Tina Wainscott

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her grandmother's murder brings her back to the town she fled years ago to reclaim her home and unearth the truth … while a killer watches her every move. Ten years ago, Kim testified against her rich stepfather in a local girl’s murder. When he was acquitted, the hostile and disbelieving residents forced her to leave town...
  • Night Shadow by Nora Roberts

    Night Shadow by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 28 ratings
    Fear casts a long shadow.... IN A CITY RULED BY FEAR... ...a solitary figure shrouded in black walked the night, determined to awaken a terrified metropolis from the nightmare of crime. There was nothing -- no bullets, and certainly not legal technicalities -- that could deter the man they called Nemesis from his mission...
  • Energized by Mary Behre

    Energized by Mary Behre

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the new Tidewater novel by the author of Guarded , a kiss between strangers draws both into unexpected danger and unforgettable desire... She’s searching for a sign... Hannah Halloran has always believed in her gift. The things she sees through her psychic touch have never led her wrong before. Not when they led her to an unforgettable night with a sexy Marine at a bar...
  • Last Kiss Under the Mistletoe by Melanie A. Smith

    Last Kiss Under the Mistletoe by Melanie A. Smith

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    NATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN ROMANCE FICTION AWARDS 2021 FINALIST IN PARANORMAL ROMANCE2021 COLORADO ROMANCE WRITERS BEVERLY CONTEST FINALIST From award-winning and international best-selling author Melanie A. Smith comes a steamy holiday murder-mystery romance with a psychic twist...
  • Reunion by Sharon Sala

    Reunion by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    The facts are public knowledge: five people have been murdered. Each has died from a blow to the head. And the media-dubbed Prince Charming killer has left a "calling card" with each victim. A single thornless rose. But there's another fact...one that the police haven't made public. Something no one, except the killer and the police, should know...
  • True Love by Jude Deveraux

    True Love by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Jude Deveraux, the New York Times bestselling author of unforgettable romance, returns with a breathtaking first book in a fantastic new series—the Nantucket Brides trilogy. Set on the magical Massachusetts island, True Love introduces characters from a new generation of Montgomery-Taggerts, the beloved family from Deveraux’s classic novels...
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