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  • Hidden Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Hidden Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Powerful, predatory, irresistibly male, Matt Sterling has been called a soldier of fortune--and worse. But for Eve Blackwell, he's the perfect man for a dangerous job: to track down Alejandro Delgado, Eve's wealty ex-husband, into Mexico. There, he must rescue Eve's young son Chris, who has been abducted by his vengeful father...
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    abduction  contemporary  length-medium
  • Tempting Fate by Pamela Clare

    Tempting Fate by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman with no roots… Naomi fled the cult-like nightmare of her childhood and learned to rely on one person—herself. Her resourcefulness keeps her alive during a catastrophe in the mountains, but it’s no help at all when it comes to Chaska Belcourt, the sexy EMT who saves her life...
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  • The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

    The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    “It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”– The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas...
  • Call Me Crazy by Quinn Loftis

    Call Me Crazy by Quinn Loftis

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    “I’m looking out from inside the chaos. It must be a one-way mirror because no one seems to be able to see back inside to where I am. The looks on their faces, the judgment in their eyes, tells me everything I need to know. The most frustrating part about the whole messed up situation is that even though I’m the one that they stare at in shock, I am just as shocked as they are...
  • Her Eternal Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Eternal Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She Needed a Hero Tied up, tossed in a truck, and locked in a muddy shack, Jenny Rivers is sure she is going to die, because if her captors don’t kill her, her injuries probably will. Navy SEAL Braxton Walker’s job is brutal, but he thrives on it. Parachuting into Bangladesh to rescue a woman is all in a day’s work...
  • Lobsters, Bisques, and Berries by Olivia Gaines

    Lobsters, Bisques, and Berries by Olivia Gaines

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lakota Simjak is nothing like he looks. A laid-back kind of fella that takes life as it comes, while enjoying the simple beauty of the day to days. However, the lonely nights and eternal mornings tells him it’s time for a change. He wants a wife.Melody Willis’ trophy case displays thirty years of being in the music business and performances all over the world. Yet, she goes to bed alone...
  • Keep Her Quiet by Emma Curtis

    Keep Her Quiet by Emma Curtis

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    'This is grip-lit at its best' Fanny BlakeJenny has just given birth to the baby she’s always wanted. She’s never been this happy.Her husband, Leo, knows this baby girl can’t be his. He’s never felt so betrayed.The same night, a vulnerable young woman, Hannah, wakes to find her newborn lifeless beside her. She’s crazed with grief...
  • My Sister the Moon by Sue Harrison

    My Sister the Moon by Sue Harrison

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    An abused and unwanted daughter of the First Men Tribe, young Kiin knows the harsh realities of life in a frozen land at the top of the world...
  • Voice of the Eagle by Linda Lay Shuler

    Voice of the Eagle by Linda Lay Shuler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In VOICE OF THE EAGLE, Linda Lay Shuler continues her Time Circle Quartet as Kwani, "She Who Remembers," her mate Tolonqua and their newborn son begin their trek to Cicuye, Tolonqua's home. Cicuye is a pueblo city, an outpost where desert canyons meet the verdant buffalo range. Danger lurks there, for marauding tribes prey on the village with savage ferocity...
  • The Target by Catherine Coulter

    The Target by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are faced with the case of an abducted child in this “absorbing”(Publishers Weekly) FBI Thriller. Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Colorado Rockies...
  • The Red Hot Cajun by Sandra Hill

    The Red Hot Cajun by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    The long hot Louisiana summer just got hotter for Rene LeDeux. He's burned out by D.C. politics and only wants to build his cabin in peace...
  • Embrace The Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner

    Embrace The Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abigail Trent was very young when she left the world she knew to forge her destiny with a half-breed Cheyenne brave, Lone Eagle. But now, as Civil War raged across the land, their love was put to the harshest test of all. For even in the peaceful New Mexico territory, they couldn't escape the violence of a country in upheaval...
  • Down Weavers Lane by Anna Jacobs

    Down Weavers Lane by Anna Jacobs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Madge Carter goes back to her home town of Northby, she takes her daughter with her, but continues to live from immoral earning. Unfortunately, as Emmy grows up she catches the eye of Madge's protector, who tries to force her down the same path as her mother. Then a wealthy gentleman becomes obsessed by her and pursues her, though Emmy seeks only to earn an honest living as a maid...
  • Fool Me Once by Deany Ray

    Fool Me Once by Deany Ray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Thirtysomething Piper Harris and her grandmother, former members of a motorcycle gang, are struggling to adjust to their new life in Bitter End, Florida, after being relocated there at a retirement complex as part of the witness protection program.Let’s just say Gran laundered money so well, she washed away their freedom...
  • Forsaken by B.B. Hamel, Willow Winters

    Forsaken by B.B. Hamel, Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She’s safe in her cage. But she can’t stay in there forever. Depravity. Murder. Darkness. As a hitman, I’m comfortable with all three. I don’t need anything else. Until turning down a hit grants me a bonus I wasn’t expecting. Grace Rossi. A mafia princess. She’s a temporary gift to break and mold into an obedient slave for my employers...
  • Brother Wind by Sue Harrison

    Brother Wind by Sue Harrison

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In the desolate Aleutian Islands, two women, Kiin and Kukutux, confront tragedies that threaten their very survival, while Samiq, leader of the First Men, must face the cruel challenge of leading those whom the spirits have abandoned...
  • The Shark by Mary Burton

    The Shark by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 34 ratings
    At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum’s past roars back to haunt her. When she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley’s old flame, is Shield Security’s newest member...
  • In a Dark House by Deborah Crombie

    In a Dark House by Deborah Crombie

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Barnes & Noble Review Deborah Crombie is building a reputation for creating powerful and dramatic mysteries. Her protagonists, Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, have more in common than the home and love they share, they're also both Scotland Yard detectives...
  • Stray Hearts by Jill Shalvis

    Stray Hearts by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling "master storyteller"* Jill Shalvis comes a collection of two stories of love on the wild side....Animal Magnetism-When Lilah Young rear-ends the truck of pilot-for-hire Brady Miller, the kennel co-owner finds it hard to ignore the sexy, gorgeous stranger...
  • In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

    In the Barren Ground by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In the Barrens, a vast wilderness in northern Canada bordering the Arctic Circle, night consumes every hour of the winter. Humans are scarce; ferocious predators roam freely. Locals say spirits do, too. Rookie cop Tana Larsson doesn’t mind the dark and quiet. Five months pregnant and hoping to escape the mistakes of her past, she takes a post in Twin Rivers, population 320...
  • The Baby Rescue by Margaret Daley

    The Baby Rescue by Margaret Daley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    OPERATION BABY RESCUE To rescue an abducted infant from a baby-smuggling ring, U.S marshal Colton Phillips has to work with FBI agent Lisette Sutton. But their tactics couldn't be more different. The too-pretty agent goes by the book, whereas Colton breaks rules to get the job done. Colton vows to keep his heart out of the job, but his unwanted attraction to Lisette lowers his guard...
  • Savage Moon by Cassie Edwards

    Savage Moon by Cassie Edwards

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Savage Moon, bestselling author Cassie Edwards brings readers another passionate historical romance set on the American frontier. Misshi Bradley knew two lives. As a settler girl, she'd seen her family die, one by one, on the grueling trail west. Stolen by renegade Indians, she'd grown to womanhood with an Indian family...
  • No One But You by Maureen Smith

    No One But You by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ONE RECKLESS NIGHT OF PASSION… After a long absence, FBI agent Althea Pritchard has returned home to Baltimore, but it already feels like history is repeating itself. A teenage girl has been abducted—just as Althea was eight years before. The ordeal left her determined to capture such predators, and she’s more prepared than ever...
  • If Stars Were Wishes: by Audrey Carlan

    If Stars Were Wishes: by Audrey Carlan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Audrey Carlan comes the next, and final book, in The Wish Series.Growing up, I believed in infinite possibilities. I wished on stars and let my imagination prepare me for the unknown. The older you get the more you realize that you have power. You have been given the free will to control your own path. Jump into your destiny feet first...
  • Wolf's Hunt by Carol Dawn

    Wolf's Hunt by Carol Dawn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Her...I love my job. It's my passion and something that I will do for the rest of my days. Even when the sexy Indian man starts invading my life. But, I don't have time for romance. People need my help. But, something big is happening on the streets and the police are no help whatsoever. So, I do the one thing that I know I'm good at. I help. Him..
  • Captive Queen by May Dawson

    Captive Queen by May Dawson

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I’m married to him… but I kneel for them.As a mafia princess, I’ve always had a bodyguard. But when he disappears under mysterious circumstances, handsome, dangerous Luca takes his place. Sometimes Luca terrifies me. Sometimes he makes me feel safe for the first time in my life.Meanwhile, my father won’t listen to my fears about my fiancé, Gabriel...
  • The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths

    The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of what might be a notorious Victorian child murdress and a baby snatcher known as "The Childminder" threatens modern-day Norfolk in the latest irresistible mystery from Elly Griffiths. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting new entry in a beloved series...
  • Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming

    Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The eighth book in the Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery series. On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire, that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Which is the very last thing Russ needs...Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood...
  • Song of the River by Sue Harrison

    Song of the River by Sue Harrison

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Eighty centuries before our time, in the frozen, snowbound interior of a place that will someday be called Alaska, a beautiful young woman called K'os, of the Cousin River Village, is brutally attacked and ravaged by men from the Near River Village. With ruthless passion she vows vengeance on those who have wronged her...
  • She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler

    She Who Remembers by Linda Lay Shuler

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Kwani. A beautiful woman born in the American southwest into the long extinct Anasazi tribe, long before Columbus...whose blue eyes marked her as a witch and set her apart from the Indian tribe that raised her...
  • Cleansing Flame by Andrew Grey

    Cleansing Flame by Andrew Grey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sequel to Rekindled Flame Rekindled Flame: Book Two Life has been grinding Dayne Mills down almost for as long as he can remember. First he lost the love of his life in an accident that also left him with a permanent injury, and then his mother passed away a year later. When his house burns to the ground, it’s the last straw...
  • Jamaican Sunset by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Jamaican Sunset by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Publicly betrothed to Baret Buckington, her handsome sea captain, Emerald Harwick can scarcely contain her joy. She will manage her plantation's Great House on Jamaica until his return from sailing with buccaneer Henry Morgan, and then they will marry. Meanwhile, she will begin a singing school and translate the African slave chants God's songs of redemption...
  • Call Down the Stars by Sue Harrison

    Call Down the Stars by Sue Harrison

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On that day of great terror and sadness, the girl called Daughter escaped with her grandfather across the icy North Pacific to find shelter on the islands of the Whale Hunters. But peace was not to be their lot. For here the mad medicine woman K'os was scheming vengeance against her most despised enemy, the revered warrior and statesman called Chakliux -- her son...
  • Walks The Fire by Stephanie Grace Whitson

    Walks The Fire by Stephanie Grace Whitson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Indian thumped his chest and repeated, "Know God here." Opening the fist, he touched his temple. "Need God here. Missionary say this book teach God. You teach." Captured by the Lakota Sioux on a Nebraskan prairie, Jesse King wonders how she will adjust to life among the Indians...
  • The Betrayal of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The Betrayal of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Murder and mayhem are afoot! Feisty private eye, Emily Parker, is finally moving forward in her relationship with the hunky police detective--that is, until a new friend suddenly goes missing. Suspicions are flying that one of Emily's closest girlfriends may be involved...
  • Savage Mists by Cassie Edwards

    Savage Mists by Cassie Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With dreams of peace for his people, Iron Cloud begins his quest for vengeance against the government agents who have abused them, by first abducting white woman...
  • Emeralds and Espionage by Lynn Gardner

    Emeralds and Espionage by Lynn Gardner

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Allison Alexander, home in California on a brief vacation from her work at the United Nations, is shot at and pursued by mysterious intruders who have taken over the estate on which she and her mother have lived as caretakers since Allison was a child...
  • Critical Pursuit by Janice Cantore

    Critical Pursuit by Janice Cantore

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it's personal because she was once one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes. Detective Jack O'Reilly isn't ready to return to his homicide duties after losing his wife to a drunk driver...
  • Turquoise and Terrorists by Lynn Gardner

    Turquoise and Terrorists by Lynn Gardner

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The news hit Allison like a blow to the stomach. A helicopter carrying her kidnapped husband, Bart, had crashed into the side of a mountain. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Alexander . . .there were no survivors,” the secret service agent said...
  • Tender Ecstasy by Janelle Taylor

    Tender Ecstasy by Janelle Taylor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kiss of the night wind. . .Whispered kisses. . .Follow the wind. . .Each novel that Janelle Taylor writes is filled with heart-pounding passion and romantic adventure. Yet it is the compelling saga of the beautiful Alisha and her Indian lover Gray Eagle and their descendants which continues to enthrall her readers the most. .
  • Running Scared by Shirlee McCoy

    Running Scared by Shirlee McCoy

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Thanks to Maggie Tennyson, Kane Dougherty's son--abducted five years earlier--has finally been found. The private investigator just wants to show his gratitude...so why is Maggie pushing him away?Maggie's thrilled to have united father and son. Now, if only Kane would leave her alone! It's not safe to be near her, not with her shadowed past...
  • Game Changer by Jami Davenport

    Game Changer by Jami Davenport

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When horse racing and football collide, Hunter McCoy, star tight end of the Seattle Steelheads and neophyte horse owner, finds himself in a battle of wills with a sexy horsewoman and a stubborn, opinionated race horse. Kate Vanderhof-Carrigan's family has raised champion Thoroughbreds on their Kentucky bluegrass farm for over a century...
  • Pearls and Peril by Lynn Gardner

    Pearls and Peril by Lynn Gardner

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Allison and Bart, married less than a week, return to their Hawaiian honeymoon suite to find the room ransacked. Thousands of miles from home, they’re being followed. But why, and by whom? What dark secret do they hold that makes them prime targets for murder by a sinister madman bent on revenge? It’s a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, with Allison caught in a demonic web...
  • Mother Earth Father Sky by Sue Harrison

    Mother Earth Father Sky by Sue Harrison

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In a time before history, in a harsh and beautiful land near the top of the world, womanhood comes cruelly and suddenly to beautiful, young Chagak. Surviving the brutal massacre of her tribe, she sets out across the icy waters off Ameria's northwest coast on an astonishing odyssey that will reveal to Chagak powerful secrets of the earth and sky... and the mysteries of love and loss...
  • The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles

    The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    As seamstresses, the young sisters Emília and Luzia dos Santos know how to cut, how to mend, and how to conceal. These are useful skills in the lawless backcountry of Brazil, where ruthless land barons called "colonels" feud with bands of outlaw cangaceiros, trapping innocent residents in the cross fire...
    Categorized as:
    abduction  contemporary  length-epic
  • Exposed by Laura Griffin

    Exposed by Laura Griffin

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 24 ratings
    Every picture tells a story. But not all of them have happy endings. As a forensic photographer at the Delphi Center crime lab, Maddie Callahan is used to seeing violence up close, but she's never before been the target of it. When a freelance photo shoot goes awry, she realizes she may have seen, and perhaps photographed, the kidnapping of a key witness in a federal probe...
  • This Time Forever by Kathleen Eagle

    This Time Forever by Kathleen Eagle

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    EVEN SHATTERED HEARTS CAN CAPTURE A DREAM Seeking refuge in a world not her own, a beautiful nurse follows her conscience to the reservation of the Lakota Sioux--hoping to heal the wounds of her ravaged heart. Condemned for a crime he did not commit, a handsome half-breed rodeo rider seeks freedom...and justice...
  • The Dom by Julia Sykes

    The Dom by Julia Sykes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I don’t deserve her: the sweet, perfect angel with the sweet, perfect life. She doesn’t know anything about my violent past. But if I could just touch her, taste her, then maybe I could pretend her perfect world could be mine, too. I know I should stay away, but when she looks to me for protection, her fate is sealed. Ashlyn will be mine. Note: The Dom is the prequel to The Daddy and The Dom...
    Categorized as:
    abduction  mafia  bdsm  contemporary
  • Fires Of Autumn by Kathryn Le Veque

    Fires Of Autumn by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Casey Cleburne is the descendant of the great Confederate General, Patrick Cleburne. Beautiful and intelligent, she’s a single mom with two boys working as the personal assistant for the newly-elected President of the United States...
  • Night Sky by Jolene Perry

    Night Sky by Jolene Perry

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After losing Sarah, the friend he’s loved, to some other guy, Jameson meets Sky. Her Native American roots, fluid movements, and need for brutal honesty become addictive fast. This is good. Jameson needs distraction – his dad leaves for another woman, his mom’s walking around like a zombie, and Sarah’s new boyfriend can’t keep his hands off of her...
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