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  • Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Landon Davies had worked hard to start his own restaurant. It was a very different path than most of his family had taken. He was one of the few family members that were not military or law enforcement. But his hard work had given him a restaurant that was beginning to take off when a woman’s scream in the alley outside his kitchen changed everything...
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    sports  suspense  contemporary  humor  m-f  audiobook
  • Descent by Helen Hardt

    Descent by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The end to his story has already been written…. Brad Steel made a promise to his wife and children—to create a legacy born from his love for them and his desire to protect them from harm. It was a worthy ambition…. But along the way, something went terribly wrong. Daphne Steel loves her husband beyond measure and will stand by him no matter what, even when it’s more than she can deal with...
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  • Seven Card Stud by Emilia Finn

    Seven Card Stud by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This is book 7 in the Stacked Deck Series. Full blurb coming soon.
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    sports  cliffhanger  new adult  humor  length-medium  m-f
  • Breathless by Helen Hardt

    Breathless by Helen Hardt

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Marjorie Steel, sister of Talon, Jonah, and Ryan, takes center stage in Breathless, the highly anticipated next installment of the Steel Brothers Saga. #1 New York Times, #1 USA Today, and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Helen Hardt has captivated readers with the twists and turns of the Steels, and Marjorie’s story promises to deliver even more heat and surprises...
  • In High Cotton by Denise Grover Swank

    In High Cotton by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The second book in the USA Today bestselling Neely Kate Mystery series, a spinoff of the New York Times bestselling Rose Gardner series. Neely Kate’s life is finally coming together. She’s living and working with her best friend, Rose...
  • Enemy Territory by Jemma Westbrook, Janice Whiteaker

    Enemy Territory by Jemma Westbrook, Janice Whiteaker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes your biggest enemy isn’t across the line. Dutch Mackey has made his fair share of enemies over the years. None of them are like Harlow Mowry. As the hacker for Team Rogue, she’s got her hands in everything. Occasionally that includes his pants. The woman is as vicious as she is irresistible, and can run hotter than hot and colder than cold...
  • Bitter Pill by Fern Michaels

    Bitter Pill by Fern Michaels

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    No one weaves a story as well as beloved New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels. In the latest in the Sisterhood series, a team of unscrupulous doctors is profiting from others’ distress—but these loyal friends know just the cure . . . For the Sisterhood, there’s a special satisfaction that comes with helping a friend in need, especially when it’s someone as dear as Charlotte Hansen...
  • King's Wrath by Nina Levine

    King's Wrath by Nina Levine

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Finally meet the enigma that is King. Our love wasn’t like everyone else’s. There wasn’t a first date or flowers and gifts. We didn’t have a song or cute nicknames for each other. There were no calls during the day to check in with me, no coming home to cook me dinner, and no foot massages at the end of a long day. That wasn’t how he loved. But love me he did...
  • Shake by Addison Jane

    Shake by Addison Jane

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Ham lost his family in one swoop of the devil’s hand. His parents were killed, and his brother and sister were torn away from him by a broken system. As the eldest sibling, he was meant to protect them and keep what was left of their family together. But he failed. When he found the Brothers by Blood MC, he was given a second chance at a family...
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    suspense  cliffhanger  bikers  audiobook
  • Born Sinner by Cora Kenborn, Catherine Wiltcher

    Born Sinner by Cora Kenborn, Catherine Wiltcher

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    My sins will be her penance. A Corrupt Gods prequel. I came to this college for one reason—her. A cartel princess. Mexican royalty. Sworn enemy of the Colombian ranks I’m destined to climb. I’m meant to hate her. Destroy her name and sacrifice her innocence. But Lola Carrera isn’t the delicate flower her family thinks she is. And I just took a match to her ivory tower. Obsession is a loaded gun…...
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    suspense  cliffhanger  mafia  virgin heroine
  • Bases Loaded by Lisa Suzanne

    Bases Loaded by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Alexis is backed into a corner as she looks between two doors. Behind door number one is the man her father is pushing her to marry, the man who’s good for her brand and her future. Behind door number two is me: the bad boy of baseball who happens to be the man she has fallen in love with. I wish we could just run away together. I promised I’d wait for her no matter how long it took...
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    sports  cliffhanger  contemporary  m-f  audiobook
  • Reborn by Meredith Wild

    Reborn by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He’s death for hire…. Some people measure life in hours. Days. Weeks. I measure mine in kills. A covert military mission gone wrong robbed me of my memory and any link to my past. This is my existence now. I execute and survive. Nothing more, nothing less...
  • Back to the Streets by Treasure Hernandez

    Back to the Streets by Treasure Hernandez

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The Romeo and Juliet of the streets are still struggling to find their way back to each other after fate has cruelly separated them. In order to move up in rank on the streets of Flint, Michigan, Malek knows that he’s going to have to deal with some jealous players in the game, but when he’s forced to go up against players on his own team, the rules change...
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    sports  suspense  length-short  audiobook
  • Caught Looking by Lisa Suzanne

    Caught Looking by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When her father orchestrates an engagement for business purposes, Alexis is forced to say yes publicly. Now I’m the other man in this equation, and despite my reputation as the bad boy of baseball, I learned long ago to stay away from married women. But not everything is as it appears, and she isn’t married yet, which forces me to confront my own morals and fears when it comes to relationships...
  • Triple Power Play 3 by Jessica Lyn

    Triple Power Play 3 by Jessica Lyn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I played by the rules my whole life. I climbed the ranks and became an undercover agent, tasked with taking down Kyle O’Reilly, the country’s most corrupt police commissioner, and superstar Jackson O’Reilly’s father. Then, with a single touch, I fall madly in love with Aurora Embers, Jackson’s fiancée, and throw it all away...
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    suspense  sports
  • The Red Ledger: 2 by Meredith Wild

    The Red Ledger: 2 by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    She’s the only link to his past…. Six years ago, Tristan Stone was everything to me. My whole heart, my future. We were unshakeable, bound tighter by any force that tried to drive us apart. Then he disappeared from my life, leaving me in tatters, broken and running away to one of the most intense cities in the world. Somehow he found me, but now nothing is the same…...
  • Vivian, Midnight Call Girl by Danielle Norman

    Vivian, Midnight Call Girl by Danielle Norman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Drunk dialing at it's finest. .. All it took was a couple bottles of champagne. .. And a fully charged cellphone,. For me to go from widow to call girl. Talking to a stranger in the middle of the night was the push I needed. To feel something again. Something safe. It’s not like I will ever run into him. We don’t even know each other. .. yet. Aaron Skye returns my call the next day,...
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    suspense  sports  military  humor  length-short  audiobook
  • Trick by Lane Hart

    Trick by Lane Hart

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ~ Patrick ~. The fairy tales have it all wrong. Cinderella didn’t fall in love with the prince. He was nothing more to her than an easy escape from her shitty life. How do I know? Because in this twisted Cinderella story I’m her long-lost stepbrother. Wilhelmina is about to marry the wrong man...
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    sports  suspense  military  length-short  m-f
  • Who's Loving You by Mary B. Morrison

    Who's Loving You by Mary B. Morrison

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Mary B. Morrison sizzles with her edgy, new novel Who's Loving You. When Honey Thomas receives a sudden stroke of good luck, she gets a second chance--and the man of her dreams. But as Honey is about to discover, anything worth having in life comes with a high price. .
  • Baby Momma Drama  (A Man's World Series) by Carl Weber

    Baby Momma Drama (A Man's World Series) by Carl Weber

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Two very different women are about to learn that when it comes to sorting out life and love, no sister is perfect…. Sensible older sister Jasmine is working hard, saving money, and waiting for Mr. Right. In smooth-talking attorney Derrick, she thinks she’s found him. But it doesn’t take long for Jasmine’s shrewd granny to expose her man as nothing more than a drug-dealing hustler...
  • The Red Ledger: 5 by Meredith Wild

    The Red Ledger: 5 by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tomorrow isn’t promised…. I’ve seen death. I’ve watched my place in the world fall away. Every day, the life I’ve chosen with Tristan changes shape. It’s not the life I wanted for us, but it’s ours. I accept this, as unready as I sometimes feel to face the dark side of humanity he knows too well. Now the person who’s responsible for putting us on this path has slipped from our grasp...
  • Bend the Pucking Rules by Rachel Leigh

    Bend the Pucking Rules by Rachel Leigh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Bend The Pucking Rules is the second book in the sexy and suspenseful Ice Lords Series. An Enemies to Lovers, Why-Choose, College Hockey Romance. I know too much and now, I’m paying the price. One secret shattered my world. Three boys wrecked my life. And one of them just might own my heart—if only he could remember...
  • Tempting Fate by Pamela Clare

    Tempting Fate by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A woman with no roots…. Naomi fled the cult-like nightmare of her childhood and learned to rely on one person—herself. Her resourcefulness keeps her alive during a catastrophe in the mountains, but it’s no help at all when it comes to Chaska Belcourt, the sexy EMT who saves her life...
  • Blackbridge Security Box Set 1 by Marie James

    Blackbridge Security Box Set 1 by Marie James

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Box Set contains Hostile Territory, Shot in the Dark, and Contingency Plan! Hostile Territory. Can you call someone an enemy if you haven’t seen them for the better part of a decade? Deacon Black is perfectly content with the status quo—work, sleep, repeat. Who cares if he’s rigid, structured, and set in his ways? It’s a job requirement that keeps his men safe and his company’s doors open...
  • On Deck by Lisa Suzanne

    On Deck by Lisa Suzanne

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a family emergency reminds us all how short life can be, Alexis’s father moves up the wedding date. She’s forced to wrestle with her father’s emotional manipulation as we fall harder and harder for one another and her wedding day moves closer. We’re keeping a huge secret from her father and her rabid fan base, and we both feel the walls closing in on us...
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    sports  cliffhanger  contemporary  m-f  audiobook
  • Savage Burn by Lisa Renee Jones

    Savage Burn by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    My name is Rick Savage but they call me Savage for a reason. But savage that I am, there is only one woman who can tame the beast in me, one woman who sees the real man. I loved Candace. I lost Candace. Now my enemies have targeted her. For this, they will not survive. I’m back home to save her and win her back, no matter what the cost.
  • Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football by Jim Dent

    Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football by Jim Dent

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Jim Dent, author of the New York Times bestselling The Junction Boys, returns with his most powerful story of human courage and determination. More than a century ago, a school was constructed in Fort Worth, Texas, for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Texas Freemasons. It was a humble project that for years existed quietly on a hillside east of town...
  • Big Thaw by A.J. Stewart

    Big Thaw by A.J. Stewart

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the Case Goes Cold, Things Get Hot When an insurance case lands on his desk, Miami Jones is less than enthusiastic. That is until he discovers that the case involves the new hockey arena in West Palm Beach. Strange things are happening there. Is it sabotage or the result of a voodoo curse? Miami must find the truth before South Florida burns. Series. ". .. strong, unstereotyped, and engaging...
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    sports  suspense  mystery  length-medium
  • More Than Meets the Eye by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

    More Than Meets the Eye by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    New York Times bestselling authors Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen team up for another electrifying thriller that pits a serial killer against Kendra Michaels' heightened powers of deduction.  After scoring a plea deal in a high-profile murder trial, serial killer James Michael Barrett leads a grim parade of law enforcement officers to the body of his last victim...
  • Frosty Blues: A Westbrook Blues Novella by Thandiwe Mpofu, Thandie

    Frosty Blues: A Westbrook Blues Novella by Thandiwe Mpofu, Thandie

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Silent night. Truth night. All is blue. All is simmering, waiting to blow up. Be still and sleep in peace? Not here. Not with them. They don’t forget. They don’t forgive. And they don’t give a damn. Ready the cannons and missiles, the troops are in formation because these boys… they’re frosty but the girls? Well, let’s just say it’s the most wonderful time of the year to let go of old wounds...
  • Vicious Chaos by Samantha Bee

    Vicious Chaos by Samantha Bee

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I never cared if I lived or died. For eight years I lived as a mess of broken pieces that never could fit back together quite right. Eight years of training. Of building an empire. Of fighting. Of just surviving. Of letting my heart beat for revenge. Only revenge. Eight years of not really living at all. While I was living half a life, I didn’t realize all that was being built up around me...
  • The Red Ledger: 3 by Meredith Wild

    The Red Ledger: 3 by Meredith Wild

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She can’t outrun him…. Isabel should have died the night we met. She has a gift for looking danger in the eye and coming out unscathed. She narrowly escaped DC with her life, and now she’s on the run again. I’m hardly her guardian angel, but I’m determined to keep her safe. More, I refuse to give her up. She’s under my skin, sparking more than a few latent memories. She’s made me feel again...
  • Dirty Rich Secrets: Part Two by Lisa Renee Jones

    Dirty Rich Secrets: Part Two by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 8 ratings
    Ashley and Aaron's journey continues right where the prior book left off in this edgy and intense story. More secrets and lies, and more passion and danger. Ashley and Aaron could never be prepared for what's about to happen. Questions will be answered. Answers will lead to more mysteries. And the chemistry between these two will leave you breathless.
  • Vicious Vows by Kristen Luciani

    Vicious Vows by Kristen Luciani

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Betrayal can destroy everything we've built. .. My fiancé is a tyrant, a monster dipped in gorgeousness with the power to make women melt at his feet. Including me. As the newly crowned boss of the Mulligan crime family, he never shows signs of weakness. Only dominance. When the sensual beast inside of him roars to life, I am his target. His release...
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    suspense  cliffhanger  length-medium
  • One Spark of Magic by Iris Bolling

    One Spark of Magic by Iris Bolling

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A dream leads dancer Paige Cartwright to a plane ride that will change her life. The man in the seat across from her sent a spark through her heart. It was him. She knew it without a doubt. She knew her grand mere's dream had sent her to meet the man she was to marry. Jarrett Bryson is a star. Not just on the baseball field, but in life as well. He has it all, money, fame, and women...
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    sports  suspense  bwwm  black-mc  length-medium
  • Inferno: Part 2  (The Vault) by T.K. Leigh

    Inferno: Part 2 (The Vault) by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Recommended for mature readers due to strong language and explicit sexual situations. A stolen glance across a darkened restaurant. A kiss under the Italian moon. A proposition I never would have made in my former life. Our story began just like all fairy tales do…. Once upon a time...
  • Colors of Crime: The Complete Series by Sophie Lark

    Colors of Crime: The Complete Series by Sophie Lark

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    ★★★★★ “The heroes are Alpha males, the women are strong and fierce. Each story is set in a different location, with a unique plot and obstacles to overcome… Scorching hot! So intense and entertaining you won’t be able to put them down. ”. The Lark Notes:. 1. Emerald: A Dark Mafia Romance – If you liked Callum and Aida in "Brutal Prince" then you will love Ivan and Sloane...
  • Bloody Vows by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bloody Vows by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    FBI agent Lilah Love leads a complicated life. She's engaged to Kane Mendez, a man most call dangerous, but hey birds of a feather, do flock together. She's dangerous, too, and in ways only Kane understands. As for their happily ever after, well that might have to wait...
  • Steele Waters by M. Monique

    Steele Waters by M. Monique

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Deja Ruben embarks on a new life in Crestview Waters, one she was thrust into, not of her own will. Loss has led her to a place she wouldn't otherwise step foot in. One fateful morning brings Deja’s new life spinning out of control and into arms of steel. Phoenix Steele wishes none other than to remain the reclusive lawyer that he is...
  • The Perfect Woman by Nicole French

    The Perfect Woman by Nicole French

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    My husband is a monster. My home is riddled with lies. I thought I could bear the torment for my daughter's sake. Until I met him. In one night, Matthew Zola showed me everything I never knew I was missing. Passion. Pleasure. Deep, dark, earth-shattering love. Matthew thinks I'm the perfect woman. But we're only as good as the secrets we keep...
  • Carter Brothers Romance Series by Emily Stewart

    Carter Brothers Romance Series by Emily Stewart

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    For 2 days only get the entire Carter Brother Series for FREE on KU. Are you ready for these cute Carter brothers. Athletic Brother. Cop Brother. Doctor Brother. Firefighter Brother. Fighter Brother. All have an HEA.
  • Play Thing by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Play Thing by Cassie-Ann L. Miller

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 16 ratings
    A bad boy hockey captain who can’t seem to stay out of trouble? Totally not my style. So this new job as his live-in assistant should be a breeze. Right? After Ronan Brighton’s latest scandal, I’m assigned to supervise him around the clock. But when my PR job has me moving into the guesthouse of his secluded home, I start seeing Ronan in a whole new light...
  • Avalanche by Cambria Hebert

    Avalanche by Cambria Hebert

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Don’t get caught in the surge. Through a bullet hole in a wall, I watch a man bleed to death. Those responsible think their crime died with the victim, until I identify them. What’s a girl to do when she’s being hunted by murderers. witness protection can’t even stop? Run. My only refuge is a place I vowed to never go again...
  • Always by Chloe Walsh

    Always by Chloe Walsh

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    "If I told you a secret, would you keep it? ". He's damaged. I'm determined. I've loved him my whole life, but he's broken, older, full of secrets. The bruises on his skin, the silent tears, the hidden pain. .. I know I'm in over my head. My father warns me against him, but his eyes plead with me to save him. All I know is that I can't walk away from him. I promised I would be there for him...
  • Brutal Boxer by Naomi Porter

    Brutal Boxer by Naomi Porter

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Aspen. My Snow. As teenagers, we were always each other’s forever and ever. Until we weren’t. Now I am the enforcer for the Knight’s Legion MC. I dole out punishment on soulless criminals with my blade Ricky. In the MMA cage, I unleash my anger and frustrations. Fighting is my lifeline to living without the only woman I ever loved, my Snow...
  • Luke by Lane Hart

    Luke by Lane Hart

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Have you ever loved someone who is completely wrong for you? God knows I have. But in my defense, I fell for Megan Warner years before my older brother Eli ever noticed her, before he asked her out and made her his...
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    sports  suspense  humor  mma-boxing  m-f
  • Filthy Kisses by London Casey, Karolyn James

    Filthy Kisses by London Casey, Karolyn James

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She has my son. .. and nothing is going to stop me from being the outlaw father I'm meant to be. **. When Dakota got pregnant, she begged me to keep it a secret from the MC, which I did. But after I'm thrown into jail for a couple months, I come out not only a free man, but also a father. The problem? Dakota has taken off - with my son...
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    sports  suspense  humor  military  new adult  length-short
  • Sniper by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Sniper by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Chance "Sniper" Hendrix is all about a good time. He was married when he was serving as a Navy SEAL and it didn't work out so well for him. When his wife left him, he decided that he was going to enjoy life and do what he loved. He knows that marriage can be good, but he just doesn't want to go there again. He never intended to sleep with a stripper. He never intended to get involved in her life...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  cliffhanger  military  length-short
  • Forbidden War by Stella Gray

    Forbidden War by Stella Gray

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    I thought we were star-crossed lovers… but Bellanti men make their own fates. I fell in love with a lie. That perfect face, those smoldering touches, his careful words. .. I should have known a Bellanti can’t be trusted. Now I’m married to a man I no longer recognize. And his family is at war with mine. And I’m caught in the middle, trapped between men who would kill to possess me...
  • Awakenings by Rhonda R. Dennis

    Awakenings by Rhonda R. Dennis

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Even though Paramedic Emily Boudreaux looks forward to her upcoming marriage, turmoil abounds again! After running off a series of new partners, she is forced to admit that the emotional scars from her recent abduction are worse than she thought. A nice, long beach vacation with friends should make things all better, right? Wrong! Her drug-addicted ex-partner is still stalking her...
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