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  • Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Cuff Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In her most thrilling novel yet, author Fiona Quinn exposes the dark forces threatening America. The Hydra, a monstrous group that includes a secret society that will do anything for power, is ready to strike, and only Lexi stands a chance to stop them. Lexi Sobado and her mentor Spyder McGraw work as a covert team to thwart the four-headed monster they’ve codenamed The Hydra...
  • Thunder Game by Christine Feehan

    Thunder Game by Christine Feehan

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Diego Campos has come home to die. The GhostWalker is tired of walking a dark path shaped by countless losses. There has never been a moment of good in his life that wasn’t followed by something bad. But as he makes his way to his family’s homestead in the Appalachian Mountains, his plans are interrupted by a violent ambush that sets his life on a new course...
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  • Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Liam by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    She’s looking for a fresh start…she finds him. Nylah Walker knows what it’s like to be protected. You don’t grow up with five brothers without having someone close by, watching your back at all times. She craves independence, and Cradle Mountain is her fresh start. Her new beginning...
  • The Darkest Sampler by Gena Showalter

    The Darkest Sampler by Gena Showalter

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER FEATURING EXTENDED EXCERPTS FROM BESTSELLING SENSATION GENA SHOWALTER'S ENTHRALLING LORDS OF THE UNDERWORLD SERIES. Welcome to a dark and sensual world, where the line between good and evil blurs and true love is put to the ultimate test...
  • Timberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Timberman Werebear by T.S. Joyce

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    Danielle Clayton is back in her old stomping grounds after years of avoiding the man she had to leave behind. She’s determined to make Saratoga her home again, but when she sets eyes on her snarly, sexy ex, it’s clear her feelings for him haven’t cooled at all in the years she’s been away. He kept too many secrets the first time around, but Denison has changed...
  • Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Hyper Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    If she fails, her whole team could be destroyed. Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is more than ready for her marriage with ex-SEAL Striker Rheas. But getting her happily ever after is fraught with hurdles when her psychic abilities start going haywire, giving her vague warnings of impending danger. As it turns out, identifying threats can be overwhelming when everything and everyone is the potential source...
  • Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper

    Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper

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

    Shielding Instinct by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The next book from the World of Iniquus! How is he supposed to shield her from danger when she keeps running right toward it? Dr. Petra Armstrong has made the most of her neurodivergent gifts. She’s at the top of her game as a leading FBI brain security researcher. But it isn’t work that brings a handsome ex-Green Beret into her life. That honor belongs to an ill-fated trip to St...
  • Fade To Midnight by Shannon McKenna

    Fade To Midnight by Shannon McKenna

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The "New York Times-"bestselling author of "Ultimate Weapon" and "Extreme Danger" introduces the long-lost sibling of her beloved McCloud brothers, in her steamiest and most riveting romantic suspense novel yet. Beaten and tortured almost to death, Kev Larsen was found eighteen years earlier in a warehouse alley...
  • Silent Truth by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

    Silent Truth by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dianna Love

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

    Wild Heat by Alisa Woods

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He's a hot cop. She's a wild artist. Making art has never been so dangerously SEXY. Kaden Grant is well aware that the Seattle Police Department is no friend of shifters. But when the mayor’s favorite artist is targeted by the local hate-fanatic, he orders protective custody for her… and Kaden is desperate to land the assignment. Because any other cop would just get the girl killed...
  • Heat Seeker by Lora Leigh

    Heat Seeker by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 ratings
    John Vincent has always led a life of danger, and now he has every reason to want to remain as dead as the obituary in the Australian papers had proclaimed him to be. He’d left nothing behind in the life he had once led—except for one woman, and one night of unforgettable passion. Now, both will return to haunt him…...
  • Langdon by Dale Mayer

    Langdon by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Langdon hasn’t been in a good place for a long time, but it was time enough to chase away the woman he’d loved since forever. Unable to reach her to make it right, he realizes she’s disappeared—and not by choice. He then finds out why Molly was kidnapped and by whom. Molly would do just about anything for Langdon, yet being used as leverage to force him to act wasn’t part of the plan...
  • Endless Skye by Donna Grant

    Endless Skye by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant returns with another seductive novel in the magical and dangerous world of the Skye Druids. Passion comes with a price…. For Willa Ryan, family is everything. So, when her brother asks her to locate a book of unparalleled power, she doesn’t hesitate. Except she does more than find it...
  • Murder in Containment by Anne Cleeland

    Murder in Containment by Anne Cleeland

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In this fourth installment of the Doyle & Acton mystery series, Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle realizes that several apparently unrelated murders are actually "containment" murders--murders to contain an ominous scandal that could reach into the highest levels of Scotland Yard's CID...
  • Forged In Ash by Trish McCallan

    Forged In Ash by Trish McCallan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Kait Winchester inherited a special gift from her Arapaho ancestors: she can heal with her touch. And there is no one she would like to get her hands on more than the super-sexy SEAL who seems determined to ignore their off-the-charts chemistry. When the wounded warrior finally seeks her help, she’s ready to nurse him back to health…and into her bed...
  • THE HEALER by Sharon Sala

    THE HEALER by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    It is a gift that may cost him everything. All his life, Jonah Gray Wolf has had an uncanny connection to animals, and the power to heal the sick and wounded. Driven from the only home he’s ever known by those who wish to harness his gift for profit, he becomes a drifter; working in out-of-the-way towns, never staying anywhere too long...
  • Northern Salvation by Tonya Burrows

    Northern Salvation by Tonya Burrows

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    He must rescue the man whose secrets could destroy his life. Dr. Damian Hunter sold his soul to escape the icy grip of his hometown in Alaska. In the Lower 48, he built an empire as a TV veterinarian, leaving behind his life as the forgotten youngest son of the town drunk...
  • Verdad silenciada by Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Verdad silenciada by Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

    Rick's Road by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stubborn was something Rick had been called a lot. Independent. A loner. All true but, once a powerful healer connects to bring him back from the brink of death, Rick is in danger of losing that control and that privacy he so values. Cara understands Rick’s need to be alone, but it’s not possible any longer, and that isn’t something she’s ready to tell him...
  • Walker by Dale Mayer

    Walker by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Having precog abilities didn’t guarantee having answers, but it did mean Walker knew when trouble was in a specific area. In this case it was Finland and involved someone associated with Levi and a friend to Walker. So he wants in on this job – even if Levi doesn’t have a job there. Yet. However, a quick phone call to Terk confirms Walker’s suspicions. And he’s already on the move...
  • Sinister Sanctuary by Colleen Gleason

    Sinister Sanctuary by Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A nerdy (but sexy) scientist. A writer on deadline. A haunted lighthouse. And a secret worth killing for. .. Welcome to Wicks Hollow: a cozy town near Lake Michigan filled with quaint houses, eccentric residents, and more than its share of ghosts, murders, and sexy romance...
  • Bear Ex Next Door by Roxie Ray

    Bear Ex Next Door by Roxie Ray

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My new neighbor is irresistible, but he’s already broken my heart once. .. Being a fashion model had its perks until stalkers and a nasty tabloid scandal forced me to return to my hometown of Lily Valley. When I thought things couldn't get any worse, I meet my new neighbor—my old high school sweetheart. Steff used to be my brother’s best friend before he shattered my heart into a million pieces...
  • Edge of Midnight by Shannon McKenna

    Edge of Midnight by Shannon McKenna

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Shannon McKenna creates characters readers never forget--and in her latest novel, Sean McCloud must protect the woman he has never stopped loving: Liv Endicott. Years ago, Sean had to send Liv Endicott away to save her life. Now he has to keep her closer, very close--for the same reason . . . THE BREAKING POINT...
  • Forged in Smoke by Trish McCallan

    Forged in Smoke by Trish McCallan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Faith Ansell could never be mistaken for an action hero. The scientist is content in her lab, working with her team on life-changing discoveries. But when a mysterious organization captures her colleagues, she’s forced to flee for her life with SEAL Team 7. Lieutenant Seth “Rawls” Rawlings, ST7’s corpsman, hasn’t been himself since a near-death experience in the Sierra Nevadas...
  • Daric's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Daric's Mate by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    GENRE: Adult Paranormal Erotic Romance. Book 5 of The Vampire Coalition:. Prince Daric Carvillius is the twelve hundred year old Prince of the Vampire Healers, the most powerful being on earth, and very accustomed to getting his own way in every situation...
  • Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

    Hunting Fear by Kay Hooper

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

    CHECK by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From New York Times bestseller, Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, comes CHECK, book #3 of the Romantic Suspense series, Mr. Rook’s Island. (Approx. 225 pages). SHE’S ONLY GOT DAYS TO LIVE. HE’S GOT HOURS. BUT WHEN IT COMES TO SAVING THE WOMAN YOU LOVE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR MORE TIME? Mr. Rook, eccentric billionaire and owner of the most exclusive island resort in the world, has a secret...
  • Bones by K.L. Savage

    Bones by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wedding bells and happily ever afters are not for me. I’ve watched my brothers fall to the most dangerous thing of all. Love. But that won’t be me. .. Except the new dance teacher at the youth center has got my attention. I’ve tried not to notice her. She’s too sweet for me, not really my type. Then one night I find her in trouble, and I'm the only one who can save her...
  • Hunting Her by Kelly Lucille

    Hunting Her by Kelly Lucille

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Logan McCord is a highly trained and battle honed warrior. On a mission to rescue one of his pack, he runs into the one thing his training didn't prepare him for. .. his mate. And she's got some training of her own. Xena Yazzie has a job to complete, and finding her mate in the middle of it is problematic at best, even if he is a hot cowboy who wears combat gear like a wet dream...
  • Pale as Death by Heather Graham

    Pale as Death by Heather Graham

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

    Standing in the Shadows by Shannon McKenna

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 38 ratings
    Ex-FBI agent Connor McCloud can never forget the day he was set up to die at the hands of trusted friend and fellow agent Ed Riggs. Hard justice and loyalty to his badge have cost Connor what he wants most--Ed's shy, studious daughter Erin. He can never have her now, but her beauty still haunts and torments his every waking hour and his most fevered erotic dreams...
  • Hell Hath No Fury by Skye Jordan

    Hell Hath No Fury by Skye Jordan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    As a high-profile Washington lobbyist, Jessica Fury has all the coveted trappings of money, connections, and influence. But five years ago, she had something far more happiness. She shared a firefighting career with her husband and the love of her life, Quaid. Then one day her hazmat team walked into a chemical inferno--and Quaid never walked out...
  • The Devil's Revenge by Jennifer Loren

    The Devil's Revenge by Jennifer Loren

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 30 ratings
    The argument for my bail begins, and I lower my head until the doors behind me crash open with a thunderous roar. A vibration rushes through my body, I look up at the judge as his eyes widen and a cold silence takes hold of the room. It's him. I know it's him. It can be no other...
  • Kiss and Tell by Cherry Adair

    Kiss and Tell by Cherry Adair

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Marnie Wright has seen more than her fair share of testosterone, having grown up with four overprotective brothers. But now a longhaired mountain man named Jake Dolan has invaded Marnie's peaceful day of soul-searching at her grandmother's old cabin...
  • Run To Me by Cynthia Eden

    Run To Me by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    He’s used to getting what he wants…. Jennings “Jay” Maverick is a tech billionaire. He has the world at his feet, and he thinks he can buy anything…but he can’t buy her. One look at the mysterious Willow, and Jay knows that he is a goner...
  • Echoes of Evil by Heather Graham

    Echoes of Evil by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Something lurks beneath the surface…. Brodie McFadden is supposed to be on vacation, getting some sunshine and deciding if he wants to join his brothers and the Krewe of Hunters, a special paranormal investigation unit of the FBI. But a diving excursion with an old navy buddy to a historic shipwreck uncovers a crime scene—and the corpse is new...
  • Freaky By Nature by Mia Dymond

    Freaky By Nature by Mia Dymond

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Brett Steele, PI didn't realize there was a politically correct term for stripping until he met Holly London. Initially drawn to her talent, he soon learns there is much more to the "sensual dance" instructor than he thought. Holly has a secret that may change her life forever. When the atmosphere warns her she is the target of a madman, she must expose the secret and trust Brett to stay alive.
  • SPIRITWARRIOR by Jamie Begley

    SPIRITWARRIOR by Jamie Begley

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Jody had been born a warrior. Entrusted to protect his family at all costs, he fought hard and played even harder. He followed the rules Silas had set over the family in order to protect their gifts, but Jody didn’t consider it breaking the rules to have a little fun when he was away from the mountain...
  • Keep Me Close by Cynthia Eden

    Keep Me Close by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Flynn Haddox is a dead man. Literally. As a highly trained Navy SEAL, Flynn once worked covert missions for the U. S. government, but then his life was stolen away. Killed and placed in the secretive “Lazarus” program, Flynn was brought back from the dead and turned into a super-soldier...
  • White Heat by Cherry Adair

    White Heat by Cherry Adair

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

    Bloodrunners Bundle by Rhyannon Byrd

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Welcome to the world of the Bloodrunners, a fierce band of hunters and protectors, half-human, half-Lycan. Only through the act of Bloodrunning, the hunting and assassination of rogue werewolves, may these extraordinary warriors gain full acceptance within their respective packs...
  • Hide and Seek by Lara Adrian, Tina Folsom

    Hide and Seek by Lara Adrian, Tina Folsom

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Catch the next “fast-paced thrill ride”* in the Phoenix Code paranormal romantic suspense series from New York Times bestselling authors Lara Adrian and Tina Folsom! HIDE AND SEEK. Phoenix Code: Books 3 & 4. Darkly gifted and dangerously skilled, they were once the nation's most powerful asset...
  • The Third Kiss: Dorian's Dream by Heather Killough-Walden

    The Third Kiss: Dorian's Dream by Heather Killough-Walden

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    This title is being re-released in 2013. Product Description. An ancient Roma foretelling speaks of vampire kings one day dreaming of the women who could bear them children. These children would be powerful vampire warriors and treasures to their kingdoms. Their mothers would become queens...
  • Nauti Siren by Lora Leigh, Manxie Hardy

    Nauti Siren by Lora Leigh, Manxie Hardy

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Lora Leigh, the New York Times best-selling author of Nauti Intentions and Nauti Dreams revisits that sultry and ¿sinfully good¿ (Joyfully Reviewed) Southern landscape with a story of a young woman whose desire for a Boston attorney draws them both into a dangerous undercover investigation, and an adversary as lethal as he is relentless. ©2013 Lora Leigh ; (P)2013 Penguin Audio...
  • Hunter's Moon by Silver James

    Hunter's Moon by Silver James

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Dr. Jacey Randolph just might be crazy. A rescued wolf is more than he seems and his ability to get into her head—literally—makes her doubt her sanity. After the death of her husband in the Gulf War, she returned to the family ranch to run an animal sanctuary. Bad enough she has to fend off advances from the local sheriff, but now she’s turning into some sort of Dr. Doolittle...
  • Her Forbidden Alpha by Tabitha Conall

    Her Forbidden Alpha by Tabitha Conall

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A steamy werewolf romance from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Tabitha Conall. .. Can fated love triumph over the threat of war? Aislinn Cavett lives a sheltered life, raised in a human supremacist compound and kept separate from the wild variety of non-humans teeming outside the compound’s fence...
  • Always a Thief by Kay Hooper

    Always a Thief by Kay Hooper

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

    The Darkest Corner by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Liliana Hart’s first book in her suspenseful Gravediggers series, featuring an elite group of mysterious men who might be dead to the world, but are also tasked with saving it—and no one can ever know. The Gravediggers aren’t exactly what they seem...
  • Hostage by Kay Hooper

    Hostage by Kay Hooper

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