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  • Playing With Forever by Riley Edwards

    Playing With Forever by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Evan. I’ve spent years keeping control—on the job and at home. My daughter is my world, my badge is my duty, and I don’t let anyone close enough to become a weakness. Then Josie Lark walked into my life. Classy, gorgeous, stubborn as hell. One night with her should’ve been enough, but now I can’t stop thinking about the way she looks at me, or how easily she slips past the defenses I’ve built...
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  • Playing With Forever by Riley Edwards

    Playing With Forever by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Evan. I’ve spent years keeping control—on the job and at home. My daughter is my world, my badge is my duty, and I don’t let anyone close enough to become a weakness. Then Josie Lark walked into my life. Classy, gorgeous, stubborn as hell. One night with her should’ve been enough, but now I can’t stop thinking about the way she looks at me, or how easily she slips past the defenses I’ve built...
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  • Igniting Vic by Freya Barker

    Igniting Vic by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Victoria “Vic” Paige thought she was firmly back in the saddle since returning to her job as a firefighter after a three-year hiatus. These past twelve months with her new crew at Station 3 have rebuilt her confidence. That is until they are called to a motel fire where she stumbles onto the scene of a murder, which has her shaken to the core...
  • Edge by Teagan Brooks

    Edge by Teagan Brooks

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Evie. After starting over once again, I thought my life was on the right track, but everything changed in the blink of an eye when my roommate’s secrets caught up with him—and me. I didn’t have a choice. I had to hide while I figured out what to do. I drove until I was almost out of gas and stopped in the next town I came to, which happened to be Cedar Valley...
  • Winter Frost by Lauren Carr

    Winter Frost by Lauren Carr

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    It all started with a chance encounter in the city with Blair, his late wife. Chris Matheson and the Geezer Squad, working under the guise of a book club, dig into the events surrounding his late wife’s supposed death halfway around the globe. A state department employee shoots himself in the back three times. A CIA operative goes missing...
  • HWY 550 by Freya Barker

    HWY 550 by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Special Agent Luna Roosberg lives and breathes her job. Who needs a personal life when work is so rewarding? When a new case sends her to investigate a local motorcycle club, covering as the president’s new flavor of the week, the lines between professional and personal quickly start to blur...
  • The Don by Stella Andrews

    The Don by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Most fairy tales include a dark figure. The wicked stepmother dressed all in black wearing her anger for all to see. I. n my story she is dressed in innocence and fragility. Soft, gentle, sweet and loving, hiding her black heart beneath perfection. She came into the family and seduced three brothers. Then she married their father who sent them away...
  • The Getaway Cabin by Sage Parker

    The Getaway Cabin by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Her greatest fear came true. Now what? 53-year-old Valerie Schuster was a great mother and wife for over 30 years…until she wasn’t. When her husband decides to leave her days before their anniversary, and their kids move across the country, her sister suggests it’s time for a change. So, Valerie decides to hide away in her parent’s old run-down cabin...
  • The Don by Stella Andrews

    The Don by Stella Andrews

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Most fairy tales include a dark figure. The wicked stepmother dressed all in black wearing her anger for all to see. I. n my story she is dressed in innocence and fragility. Soft, gentle, sweet and loving, hiding her black heart beneath perfection. She came into the family and seduced three brothers. Then she married their father who sent them away...
  • Killer Secrets by Kathleen Donnelly

    Killer Secrets by Kathleen Donnelly

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A small town’s deadly past is exposed in the newest installment of the suspenseful National Forest K-9 series by Kathleen Donnelly. Until an avalanche ripped down a mountainside, exposing a serial killer’s dumping grounds, Antler Valley, Colorado was a quiet town. Now Forest Service officer Maya Thompson and her beautiful K-9, Juniper, must catch the murderer before they become the next targets...
  • The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    The Evening Wolves by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Every victory comes at a cost. The trail has gone cold. For months now, Emery Hazard and John-Henry Somerset have been trying to find something—anything—that might help them uncover the truth about the criminal organization operating out of the Cottonmouth Club. But every lead has turned out to be a dead end, and every step forward has cost them two steps back...
  • Bear's Beloved by Ciara St James

    Bear's Beloved by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bear has lived more than half his life for his club. He’ll gladly do it again. He has never regretted starting this club with Bull and a few others years ago. However, seeing his brothers finding love and settling down to have families when he knows he’ll never have that is taking its toll on him. He takes off to get his head straight...
  • Landon by Lisa Helen Gray

    Landon by Lisa Helen Gray

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    There are five stages of grief, and I clung to my anger like it was a lifeline. I used it as a tether to the world, defying all odds just so I could feel something. They wanted me dead. Now, I’m gunning for them. The rage inside me won’t be quenched until everyone from that night has paid. Someone should have warned them; if you fuck with a Carter, they’ll fuck you over ten times harder...
  • Edge Of Fear by Freya Barker

    Edge Of Fear by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ink and sawdust meets brisket and moxie. I’m a tattooed casualty. A charmer, a fraud, a skeptic, and a carpenter. My name is Tse. I’m cocky enough to believe my own lies, but too oblivious to see the truth is already out there. I’m a cautious perfectionist. A sister, a scrapper, a dreamer, and a workhorse. My name is Sophia...
  • Endurance by Ashley N. Rostek

    Endurance by Ashley N. Rostek

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Jamie & Louie. Grief and fear are a destructive combination. Together they can make even the perfect man act irrationally. Jamie. I failed to protect my family. I won’t fail again. I know she’ll end up hating me. But it’s the price I’m willing to pay. I can’t lose another person I love. Especially not her. Louie. Maura has become a shell of the woman I love...
  • Keeping Her by Jordan Marie, LJ Anderson

    Keeping Her by Jordan Marie, LJ Anderson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    One kiss from those cherry lips and I knew she was meant to be mine. I’m claiming her and I won’t be letting her go. Luke “Grunt” Stafford had one job. He didn’t like it, but when your President gives you an order you usually follow it. He didn’t plan on the feisty redhead that showed up and rocked his world. Jasmine Blake knows how her family and friends see her...
  • All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 2 in the Townsends of Texas Series. Lena. I have one goal in mind: Write another album. The completion of my next album would grant me freedom from my record label. A label owned by my scheming, lying, and manipulative ex-fiancé. Too bad writer’s block has had a death hold over me for months...
  • Holiday Heroes: by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Holiday Heroes: by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    These heroes will protect their women from danger and won’t let them spend the holidays alone…Includes two full books for one great price! A Fairytale Hero — Jackson Prince thought love was done for him when his wife died five years ago. But the shy girl he never forgot from high school saving his life on Christmas Eve proves him wrong. Now they'll both learn it's never too late for love...
  • Only Her by Allie Everhart

    Only Her by Allie Everhart

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Final book in the series! The dramatic conclusion to the story of Pearce and Rachel. After a tragic loss, Pearce has been forced to go on with his life but he's done so without success. He's consumed with work and is neglecting Garret, the only remaining piece of Rachel he has left...
  • Rekindled by Kaylea Cross

    Rekindled by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    He left her when she needed him most. .. Four years ago, Dr. Grace Fallon lost everything that mattered in a terrorist attack she barely survived. Now she’s stronger than ever and in Pakistan with a UN-sanctioned team for the most important assignment of her career...
  • Blade's Edge by Manda Mellett

    Blade's Edge by Manda Mellett

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Blade. Being the enforcer for the Satan’s Devils MC is a tough job, but someone’s got to do it. I can’t allow myself to be distracted, can never let the softer side of me out. Having suppressed it so long, I no longer believe I have one. Women are there for one purpose only. Once I’ve relieved my itch, I’ll move on. Can’t afford to let them get close...
  • Deceptive by K.E. Osborn

    Deceptive by K.E. Osborn

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She is a mystery. A force of nature. The moment Billie ran into us, seeking help from her attacker, I knew I was done for. As a brother fresh out of prospecting for the Houston Defiance MC, it’s my job to sit back and follow the rules. Do as I’m told. Fight when I’m needed. And I do it without question—every single time...
  • Murder in Santa Monica by Dianne Harman, Andrew Thomas

    Murder in Santa Monica by Dianne Harman, Andrew Thomas

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Why would the body of a dead truck driver who was drowned in Santa Monica, California, be found in a hotel parking lot in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho? There doesn’t seem to be a rational reason for it, but Homicide Detectives Luke Falconer and Matt Greene have to find one...
  • Sunset Cabins by June Woods

    Sunset Cabins by June Woods

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She hasn’t seen him since the day she died. Until now. Sally Swift almost married James Hart at the age of 21, until she faked her death and never looked back. But 32 years later, she finds herself buying a run-down Inn in the quiet beach town of Havre de Grace, Maryland. She’s grown accustomed to life on her own, and the new business is just another adventure...
  • Cici's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Cici's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Griff Fowler left his career as a cop after a tragedy he couldn’t shake. Now nearly fifty, he’s a Guardian Agency protector. His job is to shield and to safeguard. And he does whatever it takes to get that job done. So going undercover at a resort in Key West to help take down a drug dealer is business as usual for him...
  • Ilsa's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Ilsa's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After ten years as an Army medic, Max Crosby became a bodyguard to stay closer to his family. As a personal protector, there are fewer medical crises, but plenty of challenges and surprises. The latest surprise? Ilsa Lambert, the curvy Ellington Cove wedding planner with the perpetual smile who handles event details with military precision...
  • The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was a summer to remember…so why did she forget everything? Summer of ‘99 - At her family’s holiday beach cabin, Abigail Clement spent her days falling in love with a local boy, Jacob Givens. It was a whirlwind romance, until the two of them saw something they shouldn’t. The next day, Jacob disappeared. A mystery that shook the town to its core. Abigail hasn’t been back to the cabin since...
  • The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was a summer to remember…so why did she forget everything? Summer of ‘99 - At her family’s holiday beach cabin, Abigail Clement spent her days falling in love with a local boy, Jacob Givens. It was a whirlwind romance, until the two of them saw something they shouldn’t. The next day, Jacob disappeared. A mystery that shook the town to its core. Abigail hasn’t been back to the cabin since...
  • No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Joyce Rodgers never expected her life to turn out like this. Stuck in a dead-end job and alone on the eve of her 49th birthday, she’s determined to make a fresh start. And when her estranged young cousin breaks into her house in need of help, she sees a chance to do some good and help her only family...
  • No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Joyce Rodgers never expected her life to turn out like this. Stuck in a dead-end job and alone on the eve of her 49th birthday, she’s determined to make a fresh start. And when her estranged young cousin breaks into her house in need of help, she sees a chance to do some good and help her only family...
  • The Ex by Amelia Shea

    The Ex by Amelia Shea

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A failing business, a shady deal, and the ultimate betrayal of her ex-boyfriend has Everleigh Fay doubting everything she knows or trusts. One night out to break free and forget her responsibilities puts her right in the path of a man who is sure to be her next big mistake. Any biker associated with her two-timing ex is the last man she should get involved with...
  • Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Betrayed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Torn apart by lies and a hail of bullets…. Georgia Randall is a government-trained killer with nothing left to live for except the burning need for revenge. She’s lost everything she cared about, including the only man she ever loved, and now her past has caught up with her. Shadowy enemies are on the move, determined to silence her before she can kill her remaining targets...
  • Wish by Chelle Bliss

    Wish by Chelle Bliss

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I thought I’d be single forever, but my hot single dad neighbor had other plans. Zoey Gallo. I didn’t want to date anymore. After a string of disappointments, I swore off relationships forever. But when a handsome single dad moves next door, I find my resolve slipping, no matter how hard I tell myself to stay strong. Hunter Evans. I’m completely out of my element. New town. New job. A fresh start...
  • Oath of Vengeance: by Jane Henry

    Oath of Vengeance: by Jane Henry

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It began with a one-night stand. Two lonely strangers. One fiery attraction. Nothing to lose…. Or so we thought. But actions have consequences. And in the morning light, pretty little Detective Emma King will have to face hers. The man she let into her bed, the man she fully submitted to. .. Is none other than Mario Rossi. The player. The mastermind of the family she hates...
  • What You Do to Me by Rochelle B. Weinstein

    What You Do to Me by Rochelle B. Weinstein

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    From the bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends comes a moving novel of two unfinished love stories and the music and lyrics that bring them together. Journalist Cecilia James is a sucker for a love song. So when she stumbles across a clue to the identity of the muse for one of rock’s greatest, she devotes herself to uncovering the truth, even as her own relationship is falling apart...
  • The Devil's Reward by Emily Rose

    The Devil's Reward by Emily Rose

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Quinn:. I moved to escape my past, and give my daughter and I a fresh start. Now, I’m a respected Social Worker for a private VA clinic, and I devote my time to helping veterans find their way in civilian life. I have no time for relationships, and to be honest, I’m too shy to attempt it. But then he keeps getting thrown in my path. Shadow, the Enforcer for the Devil’s Soldiers MC...
  • Rook: Billionnaire, bad boy suspense romance by Jo Raven

    Rook: Billionnaire, bad boy suspense romance by Jo Raven

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pain turns me on. Danger lights me up. But she sets me on fire. It’s my turn to fight the shady Organization that’s dug its goddamn claws into every business in my town. Setting up my trap while keeping my friends safe is a challenge—and my private life shouldn’t interfere with my mission. Except it does...
  • Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Maddox by Megan O'Brien

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    I’ve never known what it’s like to have a dream that’s really mine. To live a life without fear. Being the niece of the most ruthless mob boss in Las Vegas has made any sort of freedom impossible. Francesca Rossi has spent much of her life balancing the weight of running the family bakery with avoiding her uncle’s life of violence and corruption...
  • Python by Elizabeth Knox, Golden Czermak

    Python by Elizabeth Knox, Golden Czermak

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the second I laid eyes on her, I was determined to make her mine. PythonI always thought I’d be the kind of man who stayed on the road his whole life. It turned out I was wrong. My old friend, Razor, brought me into the Reapers Rejects MC and now I had a place to land, a place to call home, and a brotherhood I never knew I needed...
  • No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Joyce Rodgers never expected her life to turn out like this. Stuck in a dead-end job and alone on the eve of her 49th birthday, she’s determined to make a fresh start. And when her estranged young cousin breaks into her house in need of help, she sees a chance to do some good and help her only family...
  • No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Joyce Rodgers never expected her life to turn out like this. Stuck in a dead-end job and alone on the eve of her 49th birthday, she’s determined to make a fresh start. And when her estranged young cousin breaks into her house in need of help, she sees a chance to do some good and help her only family...
  • Robyn's Guardian by Josie Jade, Regan Black

    Robyn's Guardian by Josie Jade, Regan Black

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A paradise island doesn’t erase a lifetime of living through hell. .. Robyn Hartmann escaped to Heartbreak Key to disappear after sending her abusive ex to prison. She stayed in that marriage far too long, and now, at 51, is a shell of the woman she once was. But she’s made a life for herself here—friends, a home, working at an animal shelter. .. And Jake Laww...
  • No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    No Looking Back by Grace Meyers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Joyce Rodgers never expected her life to turn out like this. Stuck in a dead-end job and alone on the eve of her 49th birthday, she’s determined to make a fresh start. And when her estranged young cousin breaks into her house in need of help, she sees a chance to do some good and help her only family...
  • The Mysterious Beach Home by Ivory Fields

    The Mysterious Beach Home by Ivory Fields

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A beach house was the last thing Elizabeth expected to inherit. When her husband’s tragic death leaves her the owner of a quiet cottage on the shores of Tybee Island, she hopes it’s the perfect place to mend her soul and work through her whirlwind of emotions...
  • The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was a summer to remember…so why did she forget everything? Summer of ‘99 - At her family’s holiday beach cabin, Abigail Clement spent her days falling in love with a local boy, Jacob Givens. It was a whirlwind romance, until the two of them saw something they shouldn’t. The next day, Jacob disappeared. A mystery that shook the town to its core. Abigail hasn’t been back to the cabin since...
  • The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    The Forgotten Summer by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was a summer to remember…so why did she forget everything? Summer of ‘99 - At her family’s holiday beach cabin, Abigail Clement spent her days falling in love with a local boy, Jacob Givens. It was a whirlwind romance, until the two of them saw something they shouldn’t. The next day, Jacob disappeared. A mystery that shook the town to its core. Abigail hasn’t been back to the cabin since...
  • Cornered by Lynette Eason, Lynn H. Blackburn

    Cornered by Lynette Eason, Lynn H. Blackburn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Prepare for three times the thrills with these nail-biting page-turners from your favorite romantic suspense authors! In In the Dark by Lynette Eason, accountant Steph Cross is cleaning out a coworker's desk after her untimely death when she finds cryptic notes that lead her to believe her friend's car accident was no accident at all...
  • Mountain Abduction Rescue by Darlene L. Turner

    Mountain Abduction Rescue by Darlene L. Turner

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A wildfire threat…. becomes a missing person search. A serial arsonist is out for revenge in the Canadian Rocky Mountains—and kidnaps park warden Hazel Hoyt’s son and his camping troop. Now Hazel must team up with the man who broke her heart, firefighter Mitchell Booth, to find the missing boys as wildfires blaze around them...
  • Snow's Addiction by Kristine Allen

    Snow's Addiction by Kristine Allen

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    They call me Snow. The Demented Sons MC is my family and I am their president. A short stint in the military after my brother’s death taught me discipline, loyalty, and how to kill without remorse. But it did nothing for my guilt. My brother died because of me and my choices. I didn’t deserve to be loved, nor did I want it. Casual sex was enough because I was married to my grief...
  • The Getaway Cabin by Sage Parker

    The Getaway Cabin by Sage Parker

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Her greatest fear came true. Now what? 53-year-old Valerie Schuster was a great mother and wife for over 30 years…until she wasn’t. When her husband decides to leave her days before their anniversary, and their kids move across the country, her sister suggests it’s time for a change. So, Valerie decides to hide away in her parent’s old run-down cabin...
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