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  • Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Wolf and his fellow SEAL team members have saved many lives, and been in even more harrowing situations, but their latest mission might prove the most difficult of all. Charged with rescuing American soldier, Sergeant Penelope Turner, from the clutches of ISIS, the men infiltrate the refugee camp where she’s believed to be held...
  • Road to Royalty by Autumn Jones Lake

    Road to Royalty by Autumn Jones Lake

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    LIMITED EDITION BOX SET * PRE-ORDER PRICE $2.99 * RETURNS TO $6.99 AFTER RELEASE DAY * OFF SALE JULY 31, 2015. THREE FULL-LENGTH NOVELS, OVER 225,000 WORDS. PLUS NEVER BEFORE SEEN CONTENT...
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  • Marry Your Best Friend by Hope Ford

    Marry Your Best Friend by Hope Ford

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    I love all the foster boys I was raised with. But there’s always been something special about Gabriel Gray.For years I’ve tried to hide my attraction to him, because I know it’s one-sided.Gabe is fiercely protective of me, but that’s as far as his affections go.He’s older than me–something he reminds me of often - and he takes his role of caring for me seriously...
  • Reclaim Me by Ann Marie Walker, Amy K. Rogers

    Reclaim Me by Ann Marie Walker, Amy K. Rogers

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the heart-pounding Chasing Fire trilogy concludes, a dangerous entanglement leaves Hudson and Allie wondering how much they’re willing to risk for the love they can’t live without… There’s almost nothing Alessandra Sinclair wouldn’t do for Hudson Chase. He was her first love, and she’s determined that he’ll be her last...
  • Protect Me by Lacey Black

    Protect Me by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Nate Stevens loves three things: Work, Family, Women. In that order. Having absolutely no desire to follow in three of his siblings’ footsteps by settling down, Nate lives for his work as a firefighter. That’s why his chance meeting with Lia leaves him unsettled like never before. There’s just something about the beautifully shy and reserved woman that he can’t walk away from. Run. Hide...
  • Love on a Summer Night by Zoe York

    Love on a Summer Night by Zoe York

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Never say never. Especially not to a determined bad boy. Zander Minelli is exactly the wrong kind of man. He’s dark, dangerous, and knows far too much about sawed-off shotguns. Faith Davidson finds him irresistible. The widowed single mother knows she should dip her toe back in the dating pool with someone solid and dependable. Definitely no tattoos...
  • Dare You Forever by Allie Juliette Mousseau

    Dare You Forever by Allie Juliette Mousseau

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alpha-male, dirty-talking, MMA Light-Heavyweight Champion Josh North has only three days until the wedding to prove to single mother and greatest-love-of-his-life Sophie Garner that he is the only man she'll ever need! As the wedding day approaches and Sophie begins to get cold feet, Josh comes up with a romantic scheme to prove his love and devotion--and employs all his brothers as Cupid’s...
  • Unexpected Treasure by Melody Anne

    Unexpected Treasure by Melody Anne

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    The Andersons are back in this exciting new line of the bestselling series everyone is talking about. In this new series, you will meet Richard Storm and his five children, and the circumstances that ripped him away from his brothers, Joseph and George Anderson. See how they finally meet. The bonds of an Anderson bloodline are too strong to keep their family apart forever...
  • Never While the Grass Grows by Betty Neels

    Never While the Grass Grows by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Would it really be a convenient marriage? Lucas van de Weijnen didn't ask Octavia to marry him—he told her. Octavia's father had just died and she wasn't in any state of mind to make a rational decision. Besides, Lucas wasn't a man to take no for an answer...
  • Lovestruck: The Naughty List by Julia Jarrett

    Lovestruck: The Naughty List by Julia Jarrett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What’s my grown-up Christmas wish this year? For my secret crush on Hunter Callaghan to not be a secret anymore.Everyone says he’s like a golden retriever, with his happy-go-lucky attitude and friendly personality. But I see something more – I see the vulnerable side he works so hard to cover with a smile and a joke. I see the man I wish I could spend forever with...
  • SEAL's Vow by Makenna Jameison

    SEAL's Vow by Makenna Jameison

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Mark “Mayhem” Covington's book...
  • Finding Home by Ann Vaughn

    Finding Home by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Colt Harris wasn't on the hunt for love when he looked up from his lunch when he spotted Sarah. As cliched as it was, time stood still - all he could see was her. Hearing her laugh sealed his fate; he knew his life was about to change. Sarah Sauter was used to being alone. She lost her parents when he was eighteen and after a really bad love affair, had given up in ever finding love...
  • Second Chances by Delaney Diamond

    Second Chances by Delaney Diamond

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Renaldo da Silva’s near-perfect life in Brazil comes to a halt when he finds out about his wife’s betrayal. Now he doesn’t want to have anything to do with her. But because he needs her help finalizing the biggest deal of his career, he’s forced to make her a multi-million dollar offer and delay their divorce. Sabrina da Silva can’t forgive herself after a reckless night destroys her marriage...
  • Mending by J.B. McGee

    Mending by J.B. McGee

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Gabby has finally started to break down the walls she has worked so hard to build up from all of the heartache she has felt through the years, just as ghosts from Bradley's past begin to show themselves...
  • Only the Beginning by Laramie Briscoe

    Only the Beginning by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Princess of Country Music.America’s sweetheart.Survivor of the scrutiny that comes with it all. Hannah 'Harmony' Stewart has lived most of her adult life in the spotlight. It hasn’t always been easy. One heartbreak almost ruined her. Some days it’s hard to keep a smile on her face and stay positive, but there are a lot of people counting on her to keep it together...
  • Redemption by Lilliana Anderson

    Redemption by Lilliana Anderson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Choose your hero wisely. Have you ever wanted the power to decide who the heroine of a story will ultimately end up with? Now is your chance with Drawn 2 where you have a choice of TWO sequels in which the characters follow TWO different paths to lead them to your chosen 'happily ever after'. This is not two stories told from different points of view...
  • Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

    Cover Your Eyes by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Now stunningly repackaged and reissued, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton unleashes her trademark hard-edged suspense in the first Morgans of Nashville book, as a public defender must seek justice for a murder from the past to prevent new killings in the horrifying present...DON'T LOOKAt first, they struggle to escape...
  • Rocky by Nikita Slater, Jem Monday Publishing

    Rocky by Nikita Slater, Jem Monday Publishing

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Hell’s Jury MC romance novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater.Jess… I have no place to call home until him.With a father in prison and my brother dead, I’m on my way to Reno to give Dutch’s cut back to his MC. Unfortunately, an unplanned act of kindness sends my life spinning out of control.Now I’m caught between the Hell’s Jury MC and their rivals, and I don’t know who to trust...
  • The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman

    The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Penitence Hurd and the Plague arrived in London on the same day... Bound up in righteousness as tight as a parcel, she journeys from Puritan America to find her aunt, and steps into a city full of rogues, hell-fire and fleshly pleasures. When she discovers her aunt is running a brothel in St Giles-in-the-Fields, Penitence has no option but to point out the wickedness...
  • Every One of Me by Jessica Wilde

    Every One of Me by Jessica Wilde

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Alternate Cover Edition ASIN B00GG6AO5I Five years ago, Tessa Marshall turned her back on everything she once knew. She left behind her friends and family hoping they would be better off without her in the way. Now, after being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (Multiple personality disorder) and determined to set her life straight, she is going back...
  • Original Syn: Iron Wraiths MC by A.J. Downey

    Original Syn: Iron Wraiths MC by A.J. Downey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Iron Wraiths rule Savannah’s underground. More than just a motorcycle club, something like the mob, they’re the number one game in town for everything from guns to gambling.Madisyn Jayne Reynolds was continually responsible for her older brother, Zeke, and this time wasn’t any different. The only thing that mattered was getting him out of the hole he’d dug for himself...
  • Fall Semester by Stephanie Fournet

    Fall Semester by Stephanie Fournet

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Despite his stunning good looks, Dr. Malcolm Vashal is perhaps the most detested professor on campus. A floundering career and the aftershocks of a painful divorce have left the 34-year-old with more than a little self-loathing, which only grows when he meets Maren Gardner. The graduate student with the loyal heart and searching eyes is much too good for him...
  • His Secretive Lover by Elizabeth Lennox

    His Secretive Lover by Elizabeth Lennox

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Being the daughter of a famous art thief, Cricket has learned how to steal, lie, cheat and get away with practically anything. She has the skills to sneak into a museum with the highest security and sneak out with no one the wiser. Unfortunately, she hates to steal, lie and cheat...
  • Tangled by Elizabeth Reyes

    Tangled by Elizabeth Reyes

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Just when Romero thought he'd conquered his anger issues... Now that Izzy has earned her credentials to teach at a college level, Romero is doing his best to be supportive. Even after she informs him she won't be teaching. She'll be assisting a professor—a recently divorced professor whom she'll work with side by side...
  • I Want You to Want Me by Erika Kelly

    I Want You to Want Me by Erika Kelly

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From the award-winning author of You Really Got Me comes the next romance in her red-hot Rock Star Romance series, about a rocker who lives for his music—and loves with all his heart. Derek Valencia finally has the success he’s worked so hard for. His band is touring its debut album and great reviews are rolling in...
  • The Greek Tycoon's Lover by Elizabeth Lennox

    The Greek Tycoon's Lover by Elizabeth Lennox

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Helen Miller is in love with her boss. Cliche, of course. But who wouldn't fall in love with the man? Dimitri Thoplolis, one of the wealthiest men in Europe, has everting; charm, looks and power. And when he deomonstrates that he aslo wants Helen, she's ecstatic, happliy falling into a passionate affair with him that burns hotter and brighter than anything either of them have ever experienced...
  • Shattered Heart by Ann Stewart, Stephanie Nash

    Shattered Heart by Ann Stewart, Stephanie Nash

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sometimes loving someone means letting them go. After allowing Alexander James to walk out of her life, Elyssa Hart falls into a dark spiral of deception, submission, and grief. In Alex's absence, the determined Oliver Prescott has the opportunity to win over Elyssa's affections...
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  • The Billionaire's Masquerade by Elizabeth Lennox

    The Billionaire's Masquerade by Elizabeth Lennox

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Growing up in poverty made a lasting impression on Rachel. As a result, she is determined to never again go through the pain and humiliation of being poor. The first step in her strategy for wealth and success is an internship with the reclusive Emerson Watson, investment broker extraordinaire...
  • Tangled Autumn  (The Best of Betty Neels) by Betty Neels

    Tangled Autumn (The Best of Betty Neels) by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She wanted a complete break Sappha Devenish jumped at the chance of a job in Scotland after her romance with Andrew went wrong. The change in scenery took Sappha's mind off her heartbreak, and the presence of the often infuriating but very attractive Dr. van Duyren was also a nice distraction…...
  • Her Hitman by Flora Ferrari

    Her Hitman by Flora Ferrari

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They use my passion for singing against me and kidnap me. The Bratva have me under their control. It’s only a matter of time before I take a fatal misstep and they punish me for it.But then Damian Drake enters my life, a seven foot tall hitman with iron in his hair and the palest, deadliest eyes I’ve ever seen...
  • Thirteen Years by D. Raven

    Thirteen Years by D. Raven

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Thirteen years of fear.Thirteen years of running.Thirteen years of surviving.Thirteen years of lonliness.Rebecca Wareman is a single mother by choice. She’s spent the last thirteen years of her life, living solely for her daughter...
  • Truth or Dare by Lori Foster

    Truth or Dare by Lori Foster

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Three best friends find this is one game you might never outgrow . . . Truth Or Dare Satisfy Me Asia Michaels and her friends find themselves tantalized by a quiet new arrival in their small town--and by its possibilities. One thing leads to another as truth leads to dare, and Asia's in the arms of a man who gives her answers to all of the questions she could never ask . .
  • His Captive Lover by Elizabeth Lennox

    His Captive Lover by Elizabeth Lennox

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She’d been arrested?  Mia couldn’t believe what was happening to her!  How could the police accuse her of killing her ex-fiancé?! She was a kindergarten teacher!  But here she was, standing in front of the judge, her eyes wide with fear and confusion...
  • The Boys of Summer by C.J. Duggan

    The Boys of Summer by C.J. Duggan

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in the front door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him... Toby Morrison...
  • Anticipation by Sarah Mayberry

    Anticipation by Sarah Mayberry

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Blue Sullivan knows a player when she sees one. And Eddie Oliveira—charm and sex personified—was born to play. She never wanted him to say goodbye, so for the last ten years she’s ignored the sizzling attraction between them and focused on being the best sidekick a guy could have. Smart girl, right? Then Blue has a serious accident, and overnight Eddie changes...
  • The Lawson Boys: Marty by Angela Verdenius

    The Lawson Boys: Marty by Angela Verdenius

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Crashing her cheating boyfriend’s wedding in a fit of rage was not voluptuous Belle Broune’s best plan. Now she’s been branded by the gossips as ‘The Other Woman’. Oh, the shame of it! Wedding guest Marty Lawson finds it all very funny, but when family connections result in him trying to comfort her in his usual jovial way, the sparks start to fly between them...
  • The Quiet Professor by Betty Neels

    The Quiet Professor by Betty Neels

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Megan thought she had it all—a good job, a caring family and a fiancé who would make a wonderful husband. But then her perfect world fell apart, and she found that her one hope was Professor Jake van Belfeld...
  • Something Borrowed by Jisa Dean

    Something Borrowed by Jisa Dean

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Legend of the Sisters’ Island:Many years ago, a woman was being forced to marry a man whom she didn’t love while having to say goodbye to the one she did. Instead, her sister sacrificed herself for her sister’s love and married the man herself…and ended up falling in love...
  • Provocative by Jisa Dean

    Provocative by Jisa Dean

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cheap construction, a thick headboard, and two horny roommates all add up to a Valentine’s surprise that Dixie will not soon forget.Dixie Baker isn’t the kind of person to get mad even when a wall almost falls on her because her roommate and boyfriend won’t stop going to town on one another...
  • Smooth Irish by Jennifer Saints

    Smooth Irish by Jennifer Saints

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    About Smooth Irish... Too damaged to be any good for anyone,Jackson walks alone and lives life day to day, except for his nights.  There he wants Nan scorching his bedsheets with no strings sex. Nan is a woman with a plan for success who leaves nothing to chance.  She wants nothing to do with a going nowhere man, but Jackson ignites her senses with a fire only he can quench...
  • Her Last Line of Defense by Marie Donovan

    Her Last Line of Defense by Marie Donovan

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Subject : Luc Boudreau, Green Beret. Current status : Boiling over—with lust! Mission : Teach wilderness survival skills to city girl. Obstacle : Claire Cook. Sweet. Innocent. Dangerously sexy… Luc didn't plan to spend his leave watching over a debutante. But a powerful congressman's daughter outranks him. Luc's dreading it—until he meets spunky Claire...
  • Safer Outside by Kristina Renee

    Safer Outside by Kristina Renee

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Liz moves to a new high school, she hopes for a fresh start. School is her escape from the violence at home and her only hope at breaking the cycle of poverty she was born into. Trying to shield her siblings from her stepfather's fury gets harder each day so when she meets Logan, she thinks it will be a harmless distraction from the fear. She's Wrong...
  • The Boss's Love by Casey Clipper

    The Boss's Love by Casey Clipper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Darren Murphy is a man not to be crossed. He is the head of a world where rules don't apply, the law can be bought and bent at will, and love is something that hasn't been an option...until he meets Courtney Millen. The woman captures his interest immediately. After coming to Courtney's rescue one evening, Darren vows to make the woman his. Permanently...
  • Irresistible by Shara Azod

    Irresistible by Shara Azod

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Inescapable The attraction was instant, immediate, too inescapable for either to resist. Inexplicable Delilah was a stripper, trying to make a better life for herself. Edward was a professor from old money trying to save his nephew from a femme fatale. They had nothing in common, no reason to come together, no reason to love one another...
  • Into the Shadows by Carolyn Crane

    Into the Shadows by Carolyn Crane

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He’s working undercover for the good guys. That doesn’t mean he’s one of them. HE’S A KILLER. Thorne McKelvey knows exactly how Nadia sees him—as a brute and a killer just kinky enough to play her sexy games. And that’s how it has to stay. Leaving her was the hardest thing he ever did, but his undercover mission could blow up at any second. No way will he drag Nadia down with him...
  • If You See Her by Shiloh Walker

    If You See Her by Shiloh Walker

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A FACE IN THE MIRROR Hope Carson may not look like a survivor, but she has escaped an abusive ex-husband and recovered from a vicious assault. Now she endures the painful memories and suspicious rumors surrounding her involvement in the attack. Her ex is a cop, so the last people she trusts are law enforcement officials--and she certainly doesn't trust how the local DA makes her feel inside...
  • The Tattoo Artist by Sara AAuthor

    The Tattoo Artist by Sara AAuthor

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    ❝You're mine. Understand? And if I see you look at a guy the same way you look at me, I'll kill him. And I'll fuck you with his blood around my hand.❞It should scare me.But it doesn't. •••It was unusual for no one to fear the man in love with death, to watch the man who watches you. But for Alexandra Jones it was nothing but a mere mystery to uncover...
  • Hot Number by V.K. Sykes

    Hot Number by V.K. Sykes

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Geeky but brilliant college professor Sadie Bligh has failed once again to win the most prestigious award in mathematics. All she has to show for her life’s work is a flat-lined career and a non-existent social life. So when her best friend suggests a wild week in Las Vegas, gambling and hooking up with hot guys, Sadie decides she has nothing to lose...
  • Allure Magnified by N. Isabelle Blanco

    Allure Magnified by N. Isabelle Blanco

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Librarian's note: This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00ATJSJYQ. It’s been four months since Demitra Davis ended up entangled in the most complicated –albeit gratifying- situation she’d ever thought to find herself in. A situation she isn’t keen to get herself out of. Her now ex-boss, Dorian Sorrenson, is too delicious for her to want to pull herself away from...
  • Obsessing Over His Favorite by Ava Selwyn

    Obsessing Over His Favorite by Ava Selwyn

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Is she dead yet? If she isn’t, then stop bothering me."Those were the last words Emily Crawford heard from her billionaire boyfriend, Lucas Cantrell, before everything went dark on the operating table.She survived—but when she woke up, she didn’t remember him. Lucas didn’t know it yet."Stop being so dramatic, Emily. You’re always overreacting."He had dismissed her every time she was hurt...
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