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  • One Year Home by Marie Force

    One Year Home by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    He came home a hero and lost the only woman he’s ever loved... Navy Captain John West has no idea how to survive without his beloved Ava, who moved on with her life during John's six-year deployment and has now married Eric...
  • No Compromise by Rochelle Alers

    No Compromise by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    As the driven executive director of The Sanctuary, a program dedicated to reaching out to victimized women, Jolene Walker has neither the time nor the energy for a personal life...until she meets United States Army Captain Michael Kirkland, a sexy, powerfully compelling intelligence expert who tempts her to trade in her eighteen-hour work days for sultry nights of sizzling passion...
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  • Home Sweet Home by Lacey Black

    Home Sweet Home by Lacey Black

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    LeoEveryone has a past they’re trying to outrun, myself included. My time in the military left me with scars, both physically and emotionally, which is why I keep to myself. Since returning home to Stewart Grove, I work a lot so I have little time to think. To remember. I’m just content to make it through the day.Then I meet Kallie Carpenter...
  • Kaya's King: A Poseidon Warriors MC novel by Darlene Tallman

    Kaya's King: A Poseidon Warriors MC novel by Darlene Tallman

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kaya Mabry never expected to be a young widow with a young son. When her little boy is faced with some life-changing medical issues, she decides to move across the country and take the tattoo artist position she was offered by Loki from the Poseidon’s Warriors MC...
  • Fearless Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Fearless Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She came to close a deal. But meeting him has her questioning everything.Everyone has a price.That's what my client told me when he sent me to North Carolina to talk a guy into selling his property. It's just an empty strip of land next to his cabin, so why wouldn't he sell it?But within minutes of meeting him, it's clear that he has no interest in selling...
  • Cursed Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Cursed Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She's a hard-working real estate agent. He's a former buyer, angry over his purchase. When sparks fly, can they set aside their differences?He thinks his cabin is cursed.As Seduction Summit's hardest-working real estate agent, I'm working alone when he comes into the office, angry over the house he bought five years ago...
  • Possessive Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Possessive Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She's in town for a girls' weekend. But when her friends desert her, a hunky lumberjack is all too willing to show her around.It was supposed to be an adventurous vacation with my friends.But while I want to enjoy the great outdoors, everyone else just wants to get drunk and dance on bars. Even our rappelling adventure, which wasn't even my idea, ends up being a bust...
  • Devoted Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Devoted Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She's facing writer's block in a cabin. Her neighbor's puppy gives her a reason to spend time with a hot lumberjack.Writer's block is no fun.I've isolated myself in a cabin in a small mountain town to write my thriller. When I hear a spooky scratching sound, I think about incorporating it into my book. But it soon goes from inspirational to downright scary...
  • Freedom by J.L. Drake

    Freedom by J.L. Drake

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Rain pelted my face as I pushed through the roar of the storm. Deep in the belly of Mexico, my team and I were on the hunt. One of the cartel’s mules flipped and wanted a ticket to freedom. The information they held could be our game-changer. Returning home to a civilian lifestyle was always an adjustment, even if it was temporary...
  • My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Carr

    My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that started it all…  While the Riordan brothers have a reputation for being rough-and-tumble, Patrick has always been the gentle, sweet-natured one. But his easygoing manner is tested by his high-octane career as a navy pilot, and for the Riordan men, when the going gets tough…the tough find the love of a good woman...
  • Sizzle by Liliana Hart

    Sizzle by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    A killer who taught her everything she knows… A mission that pits her skills against his… And a new partner that makes her body…Sizzle When Declan MacKenzie asks Archer Ryan to do a special job for MacKenzie Security, Archer has no choice but to say yes. He owes Declan his life, and Declan more than has his hands full with his own family problems...
  • Protecting Dakota by Susan Stoker, Suspense Sisters

    Protecting Dakota by Susan Stoker, Suspense Sisters

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Sleeper SEALs, are former U.S. Navy SEALs recruited by a new CIA counter-terror division to handle solo dark ops missions to combat terrorism on U.S. soil. PROTECTING DAKOTA Dakota James's life has become the stuff of nightmares. The leader of the Ansar al-Shari'a terrorist group has become obsessed with her, determined to take her as his wife...
  • Fire Dance: A Family Justice Novel by Suzanne Halliday

    Fire Dance: A Family Justice Novel by Suzanne Halliday

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author Suzanne HallidayThe Justice Saga continues in FIRE DANCE, a Family Justice NovelThe festivities leading into Roman Bishop and Kelly Anne James’s wedding are kicking off.Kelly's epic bachelorette throw down and Roman's unforgettable bachelor party are bound to be full of shenanigans...
  • ROBBIE: REAPER-Patriots: Book Thirty-Three by Mary Kennedy

    ROBBIE: REAPER-Patriots: Book Thirty-Three by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Robbie Robicheaux is a true renaissance man. A soldier, a lover, an oil man, a dancer, and definitely a man who knows a great thing when he sees it. Falling in love with Carrie Pechkin is the easiest thing in the world. Realizing that he's the right man for her, was a little harder...
  • JT: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Six by Mary Kennedy

    JT: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Six by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    JT Stanton is a happily single Navy SEAL. His convenient relationship with a woman he barely knows is fast turning into something he doesn't want, and she is striving for. As gently as possible he lets her go, on the same night, finding the woman that makes his heart skip a beat. When fate delivers a cruel blow, he does what he does best. Protects...
  • BOGEY: REAPER-Patriots: Book 50 by Mary Kennedy

    BOGEY: REAPER-Patriots: Book 50 by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will 'Bogey' Humphrey finds himself just a few hours from the home he left when he joined the Navy. He never got to say goodbye to his grandmother and he's left more than a few things unsaid and undone. He thought he'd make a quick trip to say a final goodbye and see who might still be hanging around...
  • MO: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Two by Mary Kennedy

    MO: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Two by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Moses 'Mo' Baird spent a lifetime loving a woman he was told he couldn't have. Letters written, but never returned, told him all he needed to know. She wasn't interested. Becoming a SEAL filled his life with good friends and brothers, then coming to RP made everything all the sweeter. Helping the team in Jakarta, he never dreamed he'd run into the woman who'd haunted him for more than a decade...
  • HOOT: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Five by Mary Kennedy

    HOOT: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Five by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Benjamin Scott 'Hoot' O'Neal is one-third of the O'Neal triplets. Prolific members of MARSOC, the triplets are now retiring and heading home to Belle Fleur. With their father and uncle, Eagle and Hawk, they will become members of the RP team. But when his first op finds him carrying a dying woman into an emergency room, Hoot is starting to doubt the wisdom of leaving the Corps...
  • Undertow by Jana Deleon

    Undertow by Jana Deleon

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Jill Morgan left Tempest Island after high school, she didn’t know what she wanted to do the rest of her life. The only thing she’d ever loved was writing fiction, but that was a pursuit with no financial guarantees. So she did the responsible thing and got her college degree, then a job that provided a good living, and she wrote in her free time...
  • My Everything - Seth & Amber by Melanie Shawn

    My Everything - Seth & Amber by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Strong. Sexy. Skilled. Seth Sloan is returning to Harper’s Crossing a decorated war hero. As the leader of a Special Forces Marine Elite Unit Seth is trained to handle any situation…except one. An injury sustained in combat forced him to accept a medical discharge. Now he’s heading back to his hometown to reconnect with his family and a world he doesn’t recognize...
  • Temptation Ridge: A Virgin River Novel by Robyn Carr

    Temptation Ridge: A Virgin River Novel by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series… Shelby McIntyre has big plans—plans that include finding Mr. Right. Her dream man will have a clean-shaven jaw, creases in his pants and hopefully an advanced degree. What she gets is rugged Luke Riordan...
  • The MacKenzie Family Security Series by Liliana Hart

    The MacKenzie Family Security Series by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Three MacKenzie Security books in one! SHADOWS AND SILK Agent Brant Scott knows when a battle is lost. He’s been an integral part of hunting down members of the del Fuego cartel for years, but it’s not the violent criminals that have the ability to bring him to his knees. That honor belongs to one woman...
  • Saving Logan by Kaci Rose

    Saving Logan by Kaci Rose

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He's lost his voice. She's here to teach him to speak to the world again.FaithI love helping people communicate that can't. It’s why I became an ASL teacher.Getting to work with military men and women who were injured in action? Sign me up. I can’t think of a better way to help.I pride myself on keeping things professional…until him...
  • Holding Mia by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew

    Holding Mia by Terri Anne Browning, Sara Eirew

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    They call me the rocker’s princess, some even call me the dance prodigy, but none of them knows the real Mia Armstrong. Now that dancing is no longer my future, I don’t know either. All I want is the opportunity to find out, to have some time to try being just a little normal. To discover who this new girl is. I fought for the chance to go to college on my own...
  • Tormented Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Tormented Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 5 ratings
    A wedding brings them together...but only for a weekend. Can love find a way to keep her in his life?I didn't realize how much I missed my hometown until I returned for my friend's wedding. It helped that I got the best welcome imaginable. A hot mountain man meets me at the town's diner, and it turns out he's going the same place I am...
  • Rough Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rough Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She's a woman on a mission. He can help...or just distract her.My best friend is missing. She came to this small mountain town to work on her book, but within 24 hours, she was calling to say she wouldn't be coming back. She's fallen in love.But something isn't right. She's gone off the grid, not responding to my texts and calls...
  • Mountain Man's Mail Order Mix-Up by Lilah Hart

    Mountain Man's Mail Order Mix-Up by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    She came to marry a stranger, then fell for the wrong man. Now her fresh start might mean breaking one heart to follow another.I'm in Wildwood Valley to get married.I've never met my groom-to-be, but we've messaged for weeks. Mostly, I'm here out of desperation. I've lost my job and my parents. Starting fresh in a new town sounds like a good idea...
  • Guardian of Misty Mountain by Cameron Hart

    Guardian of Misty Mountain by Cameron Hart

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I came back to my hometown of Misty Mountain, Colorado five years ago with a scar on my face and a head full of excruciating memories. My time in the Marines tossed me around, chewed me up, and tried to swallow me whole. I moved further and further up the mountain until I damn near reached the top. Now, I stand guard, watching over the people with minimal interaction...
  • The Grace in Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    The Grace in Darkness by Melissa Andrea

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Every part of me yearns for Ryland and there hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I don’t question if I made the right decision...
  • Scarred Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Scarred Mountain Man by Lilah Hart

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    When her car battery dies, her hunky lumberjack neighbor jumpstarts her car...and her heart.A gorgeous lumberjack lives in the cabin next door. Last night, I caught him doing something very, very private.And now it's the next morning, and my car won't start. He agrees to give me a jumpstart, but I can't stop thinking about him naked...
  • Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Finally Home by Ann Vaughn

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    This will be the 4th and final book in the Home Series, and focuses on Commander Michael Casiano and Lainey Riley. Mike Casiano has lived his life by a certain creed: take care of all those who depend on you and leave no man behind. He wanted more for his life than joining his family's law firm when he graduated college...
  • Innocent Salvation by Maddie Wade

    Innocent Salvation by Maddie Wade

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Sabine ‘Snow’ Goubert grew up thinking that all families were like hers. She had a mother who’d abandoned her for the sake of her political career, and a father who’d taught her that deception was love. Then she meets the operatives of Shadow Elite and is drawn into a team that would give her the family and values she craved...
  • Healing the Warrior by Violet Rae

    Healing the Warrior by Violet Rae

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can the younger, bubbly paramedic heal the battle scars of this older, gruff ex-soldier?FletcherWhen I'm honourably discharged from the British Army on medical grounds following a brutal tour in Afghanistan, I use my skills as a combat medic to continue to save lives as a paramedic. I'm confident there's no situation I can't handle ... until I'm teamed up with chirpy Grace Newton...
  • Blade by Sybil Bartel

    Blade by Sybil Bartel

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Battle born.SEAL.Loner.Ringing out of BUD/S was never an option. Third generation Navy SEAL, the Teams were in my blood. I earned my Trident, and a year later my brother earned his.As Tier One operators, the battlefield was our playground.Then I got a cryptic call. Enemy combatants, coordinated attack, no survivors, catastrophic loss—my brother was dead...
  • Abigail by Angela Rush

    Abigail by Angela Rush

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Abigail Miller’s life had been anything, but easy. Watching her mother die during a police raid on a drug house, left a lasting impression. She’d survived the night with the help of Robbie an older boy who sheltered her from the chaos. She’d never seen him again...
  • Capture by June Gray

    Capture by June Gray

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    The future beckons... Elsie has given Henry three chances to win back her trust, but before he is able to complete the challenge, she finds herself faced with a life-changing decision. Elsie must ask herself an important question: is Henry just a thing of the past or does he have a place in her future? The conclusion to the story of Henry and Elsie...
  • Out of The Blue by Carina Adams

    Out of The Blue by Carina Adams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Putting others needs before his own was all Mike Carson had ever done. First, it was the friends he loved more than family. Then it was his country. By nineteen, he was a father, a husband and fighting in a war not many people believed in...
  • Fast Kill by Kaylea Cross

    Fast Kill by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The past has come back to haunt her. Having battled long and hard to put her painful past behind her, DEA Special Agent Taylor Kennedy has done everything in her power to make a new life for herself. She never dreamed that same past would suddenly show up on her doorstep one night, or that its reappearance would threaten everything she’s built for herself...
  • The Embattled Road by J.M. Madden

    The Embattled Road by J.M. Madden

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the harrowing prequel to The Lost and Found series, three embattled Marines must deal with their devastating physical and emotional injuries in a world that seems to have turned against them. When the rescue helicopter crashes into his convoy in Iraq, Marine First Sergeant Duncan Wilde struggles with the loss of men, his career and the use of his body. Things can't get much worse...
  • Salvation by Ahren Sanders

    Salvation by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her innocence is masked with vulnerability. Until her walls crumble… Undeniable Desire His world is full of despair. Until he finds her light… Unyielding Chemistry Falling in love seemed to heal them both. Until their haunting pasts threatens to destroy… Unrelenting protection Robbie Hayes’s life changed the day a horrific accident shook his foundation...
  • My Last - Riley & Chelle by Melanie Shawn

    My Last - Riley & Chelle by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 25 ratings
    He was the bad boy... After twelve years in the Marines Special Forces Riley Sloan is more than ready to start his new civilian life. No one to answer to. No one depending on him. No more dangerous rescues...he thought. After receiving a distress call he is sent on a recon mission to check on the one girl that is completely off limits and the only girl that ever made him question his loyalty...
  • Moonlight Road by Robyn Carr

    Moonlight Road by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    WITH HER BELOVED YOUNGER SIBLINGS SETTLED AND HAPPY, ERIN FOLEY HAS EMPTY NEST SYNDROME. AT AGE THIRTY-FIVE. So she's hitting the pause button on her life and holing up in a secluded (but totally upgraded --- she's not into roughing it!) cabin near Virgin River. Erin is planning on getting to know herself ... not the shaggy-haired mountain man she meets...
  • Protecting Julie by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Julie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Julie Lytle is working hard to turn her life around. Being kidnapped by sex traffickers changed her drastically, but having grown up the spoiled daughter of a senator, Julie wishes she could’ve changed just a little sooner...
  • Issued to the Bride: One Airman by Cora Seton

    Issued to the Bride: One Airman by Cora Seton

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Airman Connor O’Riley never believed in love until he saw proof of it in the most unlikely place--a battlefield in the middle of the Syrian civil war. Now he's in hot water with the Air Force, and if he wants to clear his name he'll have to put his new-found belief in love to the test--by convincing his superior officer's daughter to marry him. Sadie Reed is done with love...
  • Onward: A Family Justice Novel by Suzanne Halliday

    Onward: A Family Justice Novel by Suzanne Halliday

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    USA Today Bestselling Author Suzanne Halliday's enthralling Justice Saga continues in ONWARDThere’s no time for dull moments in Bendover, the Arizona desert town that Justice calls home as changes and challenges keep everyone on their toes...
  • His Midnight Virgin by Sadie King

    His Midnight Virgin by Sadie King

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I was always the good girl, until I met Quinn…What do a law student and a smuggler have in common? Nothing, absolutely nothing. So I should leave the straight-laced, curvy Coraline alone.But I can’t.I’m no good for her. Every minute she spends with me, she’s risking her career, her future. I should let her go.But I can’t.My need to have her, to possess her, drives me to complete selfishness...
  • A Hundred Wishes  (Band of Sisters) by Marianne Rice

    A Hundred Wishes (Band of Sisters) by Marianne Rice

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    After being badly burned from a roadside bomb two years ago, former Army sergeant Gina Fisher is finally ready to live her life again. She has found a sense of inner peace through her sewing, crafting, and teaching children online. Jobs that keep her at a distance from everyone but her sisters...
  • Wild Weekend by Sadie King

    Wild Weekend by Sadie King

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A weekend fling, a secret pregnancy and an ex-military biker who crosses the country to find his woman.When our rooms get mixed up and I find Stella in my shower, I’m instantly attracted to her.It’s supposed to be a fling. A weekend of fun then we go back to our separate lives on opposites sides of the country.But I can’t stop thinking about her curves and when I try to find her down...
  • The Seal's Squid by Layne Daniels

    The Seal's Squid by Layne Daniels

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Meet the girl of my dreams? Check.Have the best night of my life? Check.Get called away for weeks with no contact? Check. Unfortunately.I never expected life post-active duty to be more adventurous than when I was still with my SEAL team, but here we are. A simple freelance contract for the government, and I come home to find my organized life is in chaos.Thankfully, my girl is waiting for me...
  • Cornered by Kaylea Cross

    Cornered by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She wants answers—and justice. Jaia knows her brother was murdered on a contracting job overseas, and that the company they work for covered it up. She just can’t prove it—yet. But she’s been quietly searching, gathering evidence and building her case at great personal risk...
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