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  • The Steele Wolf by Chanda Hahn

    The Steele Wolf by Chanda Hahn

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    After finally settling into her new life at the Citadel, Thalia is reunited with her father, who is disturbed at the changes within her. Risking banishment, Thalia must work to prove to her clan and herself that she is still capable of leading them. The problem is, her memories haven’t returned, and she cannot shake the feeling that she doesn’t belong...
  • Other People's Things by Kerry Anne King

    Other People's Things by Kerry Anne King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Whisper Me This comes a witty, magical story about improbable connections, difficult gifts, and the unexpected events that heal us and bring us together. Jailbird. Klepto. Spectacular failure to launch...
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  • Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Shattering Dawn by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    An unsettling investigation teaches two deeply suspicious people how to trust in the next thrilling novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.Amelia Rivers, a member of the Lost Night Files podcast team, hires private investigator Gideon Sweetwater to catch the stalker who has been watching her...
  • Knock Out by Catherine Coulter

    Knock Out by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Seven-year-old Autumn Backman needed a hero. When she saw Special Agent Dillon Savich on TV after he'd brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew she'd found him. She called Savich, but she didn't use the phone... Ethan Merriweather, sheriff of Titusville, Virginia, a small mountain town near the Titus Hitch Wilderness, goes looking for a missing little girl...
  • 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...
  • Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter

    Labyrinth by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling FBI Thriller series returns with another tour de force in which Agent Sherlock risks losing her career—and her sanity—over a case that is more complicated and twisted than any she’s ever encountered. On a dark night, Agent Sherlock is driving along circuitous mountain roads in West Virginia when her car is suddenly T-boned at an intersection...
  • Scraps of Paper by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Scraps of Paper by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Abigail Sutton’s beloved husband walks out one night, doesn’t return, and two years later is found dead, a victim of a long ago crime. It’s made her sympathetic to the missing and their families.Starting her new life, Abigail moves to small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died...
  • Quinn by Iris Johansen

    Quinn by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen explores the darkest corners of the human heart as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan closes in on the killer who stole her daughter so many years ago.  As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be...
  • Blood Game by Iris Johansen

    Blood Game by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    First comes darkness, then comes fear - Eve Duncan is back! Blockbuster New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen’s latest thriller brings Eve closer to discovering her daughter’s killer…and into a web of danger from which she may not be able to escape… Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered: a ruthless killer who taunts her...
  • Fade To Midnight by Shannon McKenna

    Fade To Midnight by Shannon McKenna

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 29 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...
  • Heat Seeker by Lora Leigh

    Heat Seeker by Lora Leigh

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 37 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...
  • The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz

    The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz...
  • Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons by Denise Grover Swank

    Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures she’s lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, she’s picked as a juror on a murder case. As the trial progresses, she realizes an ominous vision she had in the men’s restroom proves the defendant is innocent...
  • The Summoning by Heather Graham

    The Summoning by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A CALL FROM BEYOND… When Kristi Stewart inherits a property in the old part of Savannah, she knows it comes with stories of hauntings. But she doesn’t believe in ghosts, even while she runs seances for the guests of McLane House Bed-and-Breakfast. Until the inexplicable midnight appearance of one of her infamous ancestors...
  • Chasing The Night by Iris Johansen

    Chasing The Night by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    A CIA agent's two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every day. Her friends, family, and colleagues tell her to let go, move on, accept that her son is never coming back. But she can't...
  • Quinn: A Novel by Iris Johansen

    Quinn: A Novel by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers the second book in the Eve trilogy.As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil. When he first met Eve, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance—no matter how devastating...
  • Shadow Play by Iris Johansen

    Shadow Play by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    An explosive new Eve Duncan thriller from the New York Times #1 bestselling authorEve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands...
  • Speak No Evil: The Book of Caspian - Part 1 by Tiana Laveen

    Speak No Evil: The Book of Caspian - Part 1 by Tiana Laveen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Please note, that this book is adult in nature. Please be advised.This is book 3 of a three book series. It is the final book of The Brother Disciple series. This specific book has been divided into two parts, due to its length. This is Part 1 of a double novel. (The second installment of book 3, is available at the exact same time.) This is a standalone. No cliffhangers...
  • Dragon Kiss: A Dragon Kings Novella by Donna Grant

    Dragon Kiss: A Dragon Kings Novella by Donna Grant

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Donna Grant’s latest installment picks up where Dragon Arisen leaves off. Alasdair and Lotti return to face the biggest foe the Dragon Kings have met yet—and the stakes have never been higher.Lotti has come a long way since finding love with Alasdair and uncovering her true origins as a Star Person...
  • The Secret of the Chateau by Carrie Bedford

    The Secret of the Chateau by Carrie Bedford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD—AND DEATH.SHE KNOWS IT’S COMING; SHE HAS TO STOP IT!London architect Kate Benedict has barely shucked off her coat before she spots her host's aura, a swirling pattern above his head that Kate has come to recognize as a prediction of death within a few days.And she’s barely realized he’s in danger when he drops to the floor, shot by an unseen assailant...
  • Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Whiplash by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Yale professor Dr. Edward Kender's father is undergoing chemotherapy when the supply of a critical accompanying drug suddenly runs out. Unwilling to accept the drug company's disingenuous excuse of production line problems, Dr. Kender hires private investigator Erin Pulaski to prove that something more sinister is going on at Schiffer Hartwin...
  • Point Blank by Catherine Coulter

    Point Blank by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    FBI Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most explosive case of their careers, pitting them against an unstable villain-with a very long memory...
  • Forged in Smoke by Trish McCallan

    Forged in Smoke by Trish McCallan

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 24 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...
  • Night and Day by Iris Johansen

    Night and Day by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the explosive third book in the latest Eve Duncan trilogy.Iris Johansen's third book in her latest explosive trilogy starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan takes readers on a high-energy adventure with Eve fighting to overcome the odds. Protecting Cara Delaney from the enemies who want her dead leads Eve to be their target...
  • Stalemate by Iris Johansen

    Stalemate by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Eve Duncan has turned down the job twice already. Her skill and devotion in identifying murder victims and helping bring their killers to justice may be world-renowned. But Eve works exclusively for law enforcement and the families of the innocent, and the man on the other end of the phone is many things�none of them law-abiding or innocent...
  • Forged In Ash by Trish McCallan

    Forged In Ash by Trish McCallan

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 30 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...
  • Split Second by Catherine Coulter

    Split Second by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    The number-one New York Times-bestselling author returns with another pulse-pounding thriller featuring FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock, and introducing Speical Agents Lucy Carlyle and Cooper McKnight. A serial killer is on the loose, and it's up to FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock to bring him down...
  • Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron

    Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and Halloween--approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana...
  • Deadly Obsession by Jaycee Clark

    Deadly Obsession by Jaycee Clark

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    ”DEADLY OBSESSION is the third story about the Kinncaid family and is a heart-wrenching tale. A well-written, in-depth romantic suspense, Jaycee Clark's DEADLY OBSESSION is one of those stories that will linger in your mind and heart long after the story is over.” --Sinclair Reid, Romance Reviews Today She’s his angel . . . his love . . . his obsession. . .
  • Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Marriage Lynx by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Her happily ever after is so close…and somehow still out of her grasp…Lexi “Lynx” Sabado is no stranger to stressful situations. She can handle the fact that the CIA won’t let her divorce her previously presumed dead husband. She can even figure out a way to legally marry ex-NAVY SEAL Striker Rheas, the love of her life...
  • Inked Forever by Dale Mayer

    Inked Forever by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tasmin’s business isn’t for everyone. Yet she recognizes the value she offers for grieving families. Still, the subject isn’t something most people are willing to talk about. However, over time, her business has grown through word of mouth—much to the horror of her family.Until a detective walks in, inquiring about a piece that had been stolen overnight...
  • Simon Says….Walk by Dale Mayer

    Simon Says….Walk by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Detective Kate Morgan isn’t impressed with her latest case. A terrorized woman walks into the police station, with a message for Kate. Actually a message that drags Simon into the middle of it—no, make that front and center. A challenge has been issued, one that Kate is determined to solve, hopefully keeping Simon on the sidelines...
  • Finding Harmony by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Finding Harmony by Pamela Fagan Hutchins

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Katie’s already on edge when a dead guy shows up at Estate Annalise and shady locals claim there are slave remains in the foundation, but when Nick doesn’t come home to her and the kids from work one day, she’s ready to lose it...
  • The Hidden by Heather Graham

    The Hidden by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    www.eHeatherGraham.com Can the same killer strike again—a hundred and fifty years later? Estes Park, Colorado, is a place of serenity. But it wasn't always so serene. Shortly after the Civil War, Nathan Kendall and his wife were murdered there, leaving behind a young son. The crime was never solved...
  • Bonnie by Iris Johansen

    Bonnie by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    When Eve Duncan gave birth to her daughter, she experienced a love she never knew existed. Nothing would stand in the way of giving Bonnie a wonderful life - until the unthinkable happened and the seven-year-old vanished into thin air. Eve found herself in the throes of a nightmare from which there was no escape...
  • If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham Pozzessere, Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Madison Adair didn’t witness her famous mother’s brutal murder. But she saw it. Saw the gloved hand...felt the knife strike...knew her mother’s terror. That was a lifetime ago. But the nightmares have returned; only, this time they’re of a faceless serial killer stalking women in south Florida. A killer she can’t see but who knows she is watching...
  • 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...
  • Deeper Evil by Vickie McKeehan, Dreamscape Covers J.D. Stroube

    Deeper Evil by Vickie McKeehan, Dreamscape Covers J.D. Stroube

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For forty years the double murder of an elderly couple in the Hollywood Hills remained unsolved and all but forgotten. But a stranger, bent on revenge, is out to change all that. Baylee Scott grew up in Beverly Hills, the daughter of renowned director William Scott and actress Sarah Moreland...
  • Countdown by Iris Johansen

    Countdown by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    When it reaches zero, you die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers’ pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out. .
  • Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

    Close Your Eyes by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    In Close Your Eyes, The New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen are back with a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killers    The FBI doesn’t usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases...
  • Blood Sins by Kay Hooper

    Blood Sins by Kay Hooper

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Young, vulnerable, attractive, Tessa Gray made the perfect victim. Which was why Noah Bishop of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit recruited her to play the role of grieving widow. As the supposed new owner of property coveted by the Church of the Everlasting Sin, she'd be irresistible bait for the reclusive and charismatic Reverend Samuel...
  • Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham

    Haunted Destiny by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    www.TheOriginalHeatherGraham.com Between the evil and the deep blue sea…  A historic cruise ship, a haunted ship, the Celtic American Line's Destiny, sets sail from the Port of New Orleans—with a killer on board. He's known as the Archangel Killer because of the way he displays his victims in churches. And how he places a different saint's medallion on each body...
  • Secrets in the Dark by Heather Graham

    Secrets in the Dark by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Over a century after Jack, a new Ripper is on the loose. Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake...
  • It Began With a Lie by Michele Pariza Wacek

    It Began With a Lie by Michele Pariza Wacek

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    An award-winning, gripping psychological thriller. All Becca wanted was a fresh start. That wasn’t what she got.Becca was sure the move from New York to Redemption, Wisconsin was exactly what her troubled family needed. A way to get her crumbling marriage back on track, and to bond with her difficult 16-year-old stepdaughter...
  • Deadline by Judy McDonough

    Deadline by Judy McDonough

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caroline's life is on track. She's about to get her nursing degree and she's engaged to rich, handsome Trevor. But, before they get married, Trevor wants Caroline to spend the summer in Louisiana, getting to know her father, who's never been in her life. She reluctantly agrees and heads south, deep into bayou country where she meets Cade...
  • Blind Alley by Iris Johansen

    Blind Alley by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    ONE OBSESSED KILLER ... ONE DEADLY TRAP ... ONE WOMAN'S DARKEST NIGHTMARE ... Her job is to put a face on the victims of violent crimes. But as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan works on the skull of a newly discovered victim, she's about to get the shock of her life. The murdered Jane Doe's face has been erased beyond recognition. But whoever killed her wasn't trying to hide her identity...
  • Sinister Summer by Colleen Gleason

    Sinister Summer by Colleen Gleason

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A sexy professor. A logical lawyer.A determined ghost.And a very real killer...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 romance.Diana Iverson needs a break—from her stressful job, from her philandering boyfriend, and from the rest of her fast-paced life...
  • Hide Away by Iris Johansen

    Hide Away by Iris Johansen

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Iris Johansen's beloved forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back and now the stakes are higher than ever. Dramatic changes are on the horizon for Eve and Joe Quinn and their relationship may never be the same...
  • Kiss Me, Kill Me by Maggie Shayne

    Kiss Me, Kill Me by Maggie Shayne

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She's protected him since the day he was born. Since the day the LIE BEGAN.A long-ago act of kindness to a desperate woman changed Dr. Carrie Overton's life forever. Before disappearing, the grateful stranger had given Carrie her newborn son. When the woman is murdered, the secret becomes Carrie's alone.She had kept both it and her son, Sam, safe for sixteen years...
  • The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

    The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 103 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am...
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