Books like 'Reaching Rachel'

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  • Can't Go Back by Debra Webb

    Can't Go Back by Debra Webb

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The past and the present collide in the final installment of USA Today bestselling author Debra Webb’s Devlin & Falco series, threatening everything these two detectives care about. Birmingham detectives Kerri Devlin and Luke Falco arrive at the scene of a double homicide to discover that nothing makes sense...
  • Beneath Dark Waters by Karen Rose

    Beneath Dark Waters by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Deadly secrets lie beneath the murky waters of the Louisiana bayou in this pulse-pounding new romantic suspense novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose. There's no safe place for a child to hide when danger comes from every direction. Public prosecutor J. P...
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  • Edge of Darkness by Karen Rose

    Edge of Darkness by Karen Rose

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The fourth and final book in Karen Rose's nail-biting Cincinnati Series revisits your favourite characters battling crime in the city's dark underbelly. Fans of Tess Gerritsen, James Patterson and Karin Slaughter will not be able to tear themselves away from this explosive thriller. Homicide detective Adam Kimble is no stranger to battling demons...
  • Guarded from Treachery by Gia Cobie

    Guarded from Treachery by Gia Cobie

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Like a dark and dangerous hero, he came to my rescue when I least expected it. In the midst of a terrifying attack, a mysterious stranger came to my aid. Fierce but gentle, he chased off my attacker, protected, and comforted me. Before he left, my savior told me to call if I ever needed him. Did I think about it? Absolutely. Matt was the most intriguing and handsome man I’d ever met...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  humor  dark  contemporary  length-medium
  • Paragon by Sybil Bartel

    Paragon by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I didn’t get to covet. I bled duty and honor, and my mission was singular—eliminate. So when I saw her, I didn’t think twice. She was trespassing. I was trained to kill. I drew. But I didn’t pull the trigger. I gave her an order… to kneel...
  • Phoenix's Plight by Tiffany Casper

    Phoenix's Plight by Tiffany Casper

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After being left in a dumpster as a baby, Heathen’s life was laid to ruin from the start. Being adopted should have been his saving grace, but after his adoptive mom passes away he’s left alone once more. That was until Powers, a member of the Wrath MC, gave him a home and a family among the brotherhood. With the tendency to level everything in his path, Heathen was appointed Enforcer of the club...
  • Rock's Redemption by Chiah Wilder

    Rock's Redemption by Chiah Wilder

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Rock is the ripped, handsome Sergeant-At-Arms for the Insurgents MC. Being one of the club’s officers, women clamor to share his bed. The biker’s more than willing to oblige as long as it’s a short-time hookup; long-term relationship is not part of his vocabulary. He’s only been in love once—a long time ago—and the end result was shattering. He learned his lesson: keep his heart encased in steel...
  • Big by L. Wilder

    Big by L. Wilder

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    How much would you risk to save the one you love? From NYT and USA Today Bestselling Author L. Wilder comes book six in the Satan's Fury Series, a standalone MC romance. Big:. I don't use a knife or a gun to get the guy I'm after. I find that my weapon of choice has a much longer, more crippling effect. With just a few keystrokes, I can have him scrambling for his life...
  • Condemned Soul by Emma Creed

    Condemned Soul by Emma Creed

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    **The Final Instalment Of The Dirty Soul MC Colorado Series**. 'Bound not by blood but loyalty. We live, we ride, and we die. by our own laws'. Being President isn’t easy. I’ve loved. I’ve lost. But through it all I’ve always had my club. We’ve gone through hell and come out fighting. Relied on each other and never gave up hope. Now, our biggest threat of all is closing in...
  • The Voices are Back by Lani Lynn Vale

    The Voices are Back by Lani Lynn Vale

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Just a word, yet one person came to mind. Morrigan St. Pete. The woman that’d been hounding my every step since the day she was born. From the moment we first comforted each other in the hospital, to the day that I left her to follow her dreams, I knew that she was my one...
  • Guarded from Danger (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) by Gia Cobie, Operation Alpha

    Guarded from Danger (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) by Gia Cobie, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I wrote romance stories. But I never expected to be living in one. At least, it started out that way. In the kind of meet-cute I’d put in my own books, I met Xavier by the romance section in a bookstore. Within the first five minutes, I knew he was someone I wanted to see again. And in some stroke of luck, he felt the same way, asking me out on a date before he left...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  humor  dark  contemporary  length-medium
  • Ruin Me: A Whiskey Row Spin-Off by D.A. Young

    Ruin Me: A Whiskey Row Spin-Off by D.A. Young

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Their paths never should have crossed, but a mandate for justice sealed their fate. From their first encounter, Cruz "The Butcher" Merada and Zafira Wilder's meticulously laid plans were shot to hell. He's a charmingly persuasive player, a keeper of sinful promises, who's used to getting what he wants. She's resilient, determined, and nobody's pushover...
  • 30 Days of Shame by Ginger Talbot

    30 Days of Shame by Ginger Talbot

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The monster draws pleasure from my pain. Now, it's time to fight back. SERGEI. 30 days of pain have pushed Willow to her limits. My pretty prisoner is no longer meek. She's trying to resist. But my precious prize doesn't know what I know. Nobody has ever won a war against me. Nobody has ever bested me. And she's not going to be the first. Good luck, little Willow. .
    Categorized as:
    suspense  dark  mafia  bdsm  captive  contemporary
  • Knight's Bright Eyes by Ciara St James

    Knight's Bright Eyes by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Knight’s life completely changes once he finds out he has a daughter. The months he spends learning to be one and forming a relationship with her have been bumpy but good. He loves her and his club. The only thing his life is missing is female companionship. He has doubts he’ll ever have anything permanent, but he’s come to accept his daughter is his priority, not his love life...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  single-father  dark  bikers
  • Dare Me to Stay by A.J. Wilding

    Dare Me to Stay by A.J. Wilding

    Rated: 0.00 of 5 stars
    · 0 ratings
    Briar Rose has a secret. One she’ll do just about anything to keep. She’s nobody. One night. One dare. One mistake. She betrayed me. I don’t forgive, and I don’t forget. And I don’t do second chances. Because in my world, betrayal is paid for in blood. And I want her on her knees, begging. I’ll rip down every wall she’s built,. burn every bridge she thought would save her...
  • Desperate Lies by Ella Miles

    Desperate Lies by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I lied. He lied. His search for answers is unrelenting. It makes me hate him, but I also want him. No, I can’t want him. I want to kill him, but I’d also die for him. I’m done relying on men to protect me. I’m the huntress, about to become the killer. Desperate Lies is Book 2 in the Lies Series. Ends on a cliffhanger.
  • Perfectly Unraveled by Emily Klepp

    Perfectly Unraveled by Emily Klepp

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I was raised to be composed, controlled, the perfect pawn in a world built on silence and shadows. Every step, every breath, every smile was measured. He was the chaos wrapped in control that my soul begged for. I wasn’t supposed to fall for him because I had a life to build for my baby girl...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  dark  contemporary  humor  office  length-short
  • Blackout by Janine Infante Bosco

    Blackout by Janine Infante Bosco

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Every fairytale is just a tragedy with a twist. And happily-ever-after is a fantasy. Give me the real, ugly love of two people battling their demons to make it work. Two people like us. When the stakes have never been higher, I turn to my past. After all, it's our favorite sins that always do us in. But even in the midst of my blackout, there she is. The beacon of light I don't deserve...
  • Dip's Flame by Andi Rhodes

    Dip's Flame by Andi Rhodes

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Dip…. I’m not a good man, and I’ve never pretended otherwise. As the Road Captain of Satan’s Legacy MC, I’ve seen and done things most wouldn’t be proud of, but me? I couldn’t care less. Good, bad, or indifferent, I am who I am, and you either accept me or don’t. That has always been the way I lived my life. Until the night I walk into a bar and see her...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  humor  bikers  dark  length-short
  • Fixate by K.E. Osborn

    Fixate by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s a part of me. Even though I don’t know her name. The woman I’ve been exchanging letters with and developed feelings for over the past five years. But I can’t help feeling torn in two when I’m suddenly pulled toward another. Maxxy, the club’s horticulturalist, is strong, sassy, and she gives me so much lip the aggravation is exasperating. She infuriates me. She ignites me...
  • Texas Bodyguard: Chance by Janie Crouch

    Texas Bodyguard: Chance by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She has secrets she prefers to keep hidden. Too bad he’s so good at getting to the truth. When a violent attack puts Maci Ford in the hospital, security expert Chance Patterson learns that she’s carrying his baby. Even though she ended their relationship, he’s determined to do whatever it takes to protect her and their child...
  • Last Resort by Janie Crouch

    Last Resort by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Janie Crouch. Previously published as Texas Chance. She has secrets she prefers to keep hidden. Too bad he’s so good at getting to the truth. When a violent attack puts Maci Ford in the hospital, security expert Chance Patterson learns that she’s carrying his baby...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  dark  pregnancy  contemporary  military
  • Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Concealed Affliction by Harlow Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ryder has done his best to break my armor. It’s been a slow process but he’s reminded me what it’s like to feel again. I could never thank him enough for the toe curling and life altering experiences. He’s been my light in a hurricane-but even I know the sun can’t shine all the time. I have a big decision to make and it’s not as simple as just going left or right, forward or backward...
  • Broken Anchor by Ella Miles

    Broken Anchor by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’m broken. He’s broken. We are broken. But sometimes you have to shatter to pick up the pieces. To start over. To overcome our enemies. And find out if we can love again. He’s my anchor, but can our love be repaired? This is the final book in the Sinful Truths series.
  • Inferno: Part 1 by T K Leigh

    Inferno: Part 1 by T K Leigh

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I never believed in fate. That was something for the dreamers, the romantics, not someone as practical and pragmatic as I. Fate had nothing to do with me walking in on my soon-to-be husband in a compromising position with his secretary. Fate had nothing to do with me hopping on a plane to Rome, effectively standing up my former fiancE on our wedding day...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  dark  audiobook
  • Ten Thousand Truths by Kelli Jean

    Ten Thousand Truths by Kelli Jean

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Horror is Odessa “Opie” Powys’s truth. One with muddied memories and haunted dreams. Finding and putting the pieces of her shattered life together is impossible. Hiding herself and her truth is the only option. Until the force that is Deo Dahl notices her from across a crowded bar...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  dark  angst  length-medium
  • Cruel Lies by Ella Miles

    Cruel Lies by Ella Miles

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is book 4 in the Lies Series. It continues Langston & Liesel's story. Ends on a cliffhanger.
  • Vengeance by Alex Grayson

    Vengeance by Alex Grayson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fierce, loyal, controlled. Three things Judge became at a young age. Enduring unimaginable horrors no child should, he swore no person would dictate his or his brother’s lives again. Revenge fueled him, setting a path destined from the moment he and his brothers escaped their hell...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  dark  length-novella  m-f
  • Ruthless Redemption by Eden Summers

    Ruthless Redemption by Eden Summers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They say love hurts—but they never mentioned it could make you bleed. His deceit was like wine. I drank it in. Let it intoxicate me. But he’s not the man I fell for. Matthew Langston is a lie. I’d run from him if I could. I’d flee. If only he hadn’t turned my family against me. Now, I have nothing. There’s no money, phone, or external support. Only him, and his obsession with winning me back...
  • Gabby's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Gabby's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After a heart-shattering tragedy, Tony Marino bottled up his emotions and gave more than twenty hard years to the SEAL teams. Now, he’s enjoying a later in life career in paradise in the Ellington Cove special security office. The best part? Working with their research expert, Gabby Ladd...
  • Blackness Within by Norma Jeanne Karlsson

    Blackness Within by Norma Jeanne Karlsson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Fighting to find his worthy place in life…. This is the story of a woman that has worked tirelessly to build her own life from nothing. While the task has been exhaustive, it’s been worth every drop of sweat to earn her own slice of normal. Natasha Reynolds has built a life beyond an absent mother and a drug addict brother to become a home-owning, dog-loving nurse...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  dark  possessive hero  m-f
  • Ruthless Heir by Aidèe Jaimes

    Ruthless Heir by Aidèe Jaimes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    If love is the deadliest weapon, I’m about to discover just how much I can bleed. My father always warned me against falling in love. That all it would bring is pain and betrayal. But when I meet Noah and his golden gaze trails over me like a fiery tongue that heats my skin, I want nothing more than to prove him wrong. I should know better...
  • Titch by Jessica Ames

    Titch by Jessica Ames

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Titch. As Road Captain of the Untamed Sons MC, I've had my share of pain, but nothing could prepare me for seeing my ex-wife move on with another man. It makes my demons want to come out to play, makes me want to destroy everything in my path. I love Rachel. I'll always love her, but she's no longer mine. Getting her back is my only focus and to do that, I'm willing to cross lines I shouldn't...
  • Filthy Marcellos: The Complete Collection by Bethany-Kris

    Filthy Marcellos: The Complete Collection by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Filthy Marcellos: La Cosa Nostra is not just a choice of regime and routine, it’s a culture. Born as mafia royalty, the Marcello brothers were raised ingrained with the beliefs and rules of what it meant to be a Mafioso prince. It is for life. Their status is considered a given right. They will always be these people. They will always be Marcellos. Family first. God second...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  dark  mafia  contemporary  audiobook
  • Calm & Storm by Susan Fanetti

    Calm & Storm by Susan Fanetti

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    ***PREORDER LIVE NOW. RELEASES 10/27/2015***. THE NIGHT HORDE SOCAL SERIES CONCLUDES. Ronin Drago has always been a fighter, a warrior, a soldier. Not one to take the lead or the limelight, he stands stalwart with his brothers, but he keeps his own counsel. The Night Horde SoCal has been taking too many hits lately, and he fears that they are cracking under the strain...
  • Tension by R.L. Griffin

    Tension by R.L. Griffin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Stella who emerges from the rubble of the bombing in Montana is a woman full of conflict. She knows she should be grateful that she lived when others didn't, but after waking in the hospital as a celebrity, complete with a new moniker, she's bitter and distrustful, questioning everything in her life. She's unsure of her friends, her new boyfriend, and her job...
  • The Catacombs by Penelope Sky

    The Catacombs by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    This man is the only thing that keeps me safe. The only thing that makes life worth living. But I know he's coming. .. I know he's out there. And until Benton kills him, he'll never really be gone.
  • Vow by Bethany-Kris

    Vow by Bethany-Kris

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    They say it’s always the one you least expect …. Andino Marcello made his choices—the right ones for duty and famiglia. But even the right choices have consequences. He’s never been more aware of that fact than he is now. The thing is, Andino isn’t the same man he once was. The mafia wants what it wants. He’ll push until they all break. Even her. They say love shouldn’t hurt …...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mafia  dark  angst  contemporary  length-medium
  • Celt. by London Miller

    Celt. by London Miller

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Welcome to the Den . .. Six minutes is all he needs to get a job done …. Kyrnon “Celt” Murphy is one of the best thieves in the world. After all, his childhood was spent with a caravan of Irish Travelers that taught him everything he knows. He got in …. He got out …. No witnesses …...
  • Almost Innocent by Carina Adams

    Almost Innocent by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Callaghan. A name synonymous with power and fear. A family of untouchable criminals. As a teenager, Gabriella Forte had no intention of getting to know the town's most dangerous brothers. Once Dustin set his sights on her, she was trapped. There was only one way out of her personal hell. Declan was determined to break away from his family's shadow...
  • The Dirty Angels Trilogy: The Complete Box Set by Karina Halle

    The Dirty Angels Trilogy: The Complete Box Set by Karina Halle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lie comes the complete trilogy box set (with bonus content, the novella "Esteban"). Deep within the steamy jungles and unforgiving deserts of Mexico, amid the sordid dealings and gruesome violence of the drug cartels, comes a dark love story unlike any other...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  dark
  • Sin of Love (Illusions Duet) by L.M. Halloran

    Sin of Love (Illusions Duet) by L.M. Halloran

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The riveting conclusion to the Illusions Duet. .. GIDEON. She took me with her when she left. A day. A thousand days. It doesn’t matter. She blew out the flame inside me and now. I’m in the dark. DEIRDRE. Suffering is the cloak that shelters. The mask that protects fragile skin. And happiness is something for those. who have suffered less. Happiness doesn’t live here,...
  • This is me... by Sarah Ann Walker

    This is me... by Sarah Ann Walker

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The tragic conclusion to 'I am HER. .. '. Finally. .. She has a name. She has a past and she has a history. She knows who she is. And she knows who she wanted to be. She knows the way to all she ever wanted, but she knows she can't change the past that destroyed her. "I swear I'm here, but I'm not. I swear I can feel, but I don't. I swear I hear people, but I'm all alone...
  • Shamrock by Courtney Lynn Rose

    Shamrock by Courtney Lynn Rose

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fifteen years ago, I became the President of the Emerald Isle MC . . . At the ripe age of twenty-two. It wasn’t supposed to go down like that, though. Back then, I was young and enjoying life— and freshly in love with the girl of my dreams. Faylinn O’Shea wasn’t just any girl. She was my Vice President’s daughter, my sister’s best friend, and a club princess— but she was mine...
  • Storm by Rie Warren

    Storm by Rie Warren

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Danger. Lust. Desire . . . Trust? STORM. I’m headed back to the Blood Legion MC in New Orleans, my old stomping grounds. Guns. Thugs. Broads. Cocaine nightmares. A Mexican cartel, cracker coke runners, and now there’s a new international threat in town. Blaize Carmichael is my only partner in this op. Blaize. As a biker babe. Jeeesus...
  • Anger by Lily White

    Anger by Lily White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fifth CircleAngerAlso Known as Damon CrossThere is darkness that surrounds this man. One fueled by his past and ignited by his presentHe knows what it means to lose, but he never stops fightingHe wears his heart on his sleeveBut exists within nightmaresHe is shrouded in the name the Inferno gave him. Angry. Feral. Wild and CarelessDamon is an unpredictable storm without rhyme or reason...
  • Scotch by Mhairi O'Reilly

    Scotch by Mhairi O'Reilly

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ashby ‘Scotch’ Feilding returned from the military not feeling like a hero, but as a man fractured by the horrors he witnessed, a shadow of the man he once was. Unable to fit into the normalcy of ordinary life, he finds solace in the roar of engines and the brotherhood of The Devil’s House MC, serving as their tech wizard...
  • Lies and Other Drugs by Coralee June

    Lies and Other Drugs by Coralee June

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Killing my brother’s murderers has become my latest obsession. Against the advice of my alcoholic therapist, I've left my life behind, moving across the country with just two goals in mind: Take down the elite Ivy League School that covered up my twin brother’s death, and seek revenge on the ones responsible...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  dark  poly  length-short
  • Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Wrath by Gwyn McNamee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    All I see is red. Blood. Pain. Rage. It consumes me. The moment he took her, wrath invaded my soul. I only have one purpose. End him and take back what’s mine. Love isn’t always clean, and wrath is the deadliest sin.
  • Consume Me by Geneva Lee

    Consume Me by Geneva Lee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I was born a royal. She made me a king. I can't find my way out of the darkness. Without her, it consumes me. There's nothing I won't risk to reach her—my crown, my family, my life. Because some love is worth dying for. They can come for me. They can come for my throne. But I'll take back what's mine if I have to burn this city to the ground. .
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