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  • 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...
  • 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...
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  • 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...
  • Desperate Measures by Brenda Jackson

    Desperate Measures by Brenda Jackson

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    WHEN DANGER ARRIVES, REAL MEN TAKE ACTION. Dakota (Dak) Navarro, wealthy entrepreneur, international playboy and jet-setter, arrives in Miami for the wedding of his friend, Andrew Logan. He is hoping to see Dr. Amelia Courson, the woman he met two years earlier at another wedding - that of his good friend and her brother, Stonewall Courson. Dr...
  • 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…...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  cliffhanger  mafia  virgin heroine
  • Secret Betrayals: Dark MC & Mafia Romance | Second Chance | Romantic Suspense by Tonya Anders

    Secret Betrayals: Dark MC & Mafia Romance | Second Chance | Romantic Suspense by Tonya Anders

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In Secret Betrayals, loyalty is tested, family is redefined, and love is forged in fire. Some sins can’t be forgiven. Some debts can’t be repaid. And some hearts refuse to be broken more than once. Beneath the roar of engines and the glint of chrome, the Sinners ride the line between loyalty and treachery...
  • 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...
  • My Best Friend's Wish by Blue Saffire, Natasha Snow Designs

    My Best Friend's Wish by Blue Saffire, Natasha Snow Designs

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Award winning, Bestselling, Author Blue Saffire presents. My Best Friend’s Wish. Work Husband Series. Dario. When I was younger, I believe I heard something I shouldn’t have. After what I overheard, I don’t believe our mother just up and left us. I was a kid. I didn’t have money, power, or respect to get the answers I needed back then. Not until now...
  • 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…...
  • Avenging Devil Part 2 by Manda Mellett

    Avenging Devil Part 2 by Manda Mellett

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Niran. Saffie’s past was darker than I’d ever expected, and now I’m embroiled in the thick of it. I’m fully prepared to forfeit my life if it means I save hers, but I have no idea how I’m going to achieve that objective. I do all that I can, lying to convince them I’m one of their kind despite having the wrong skin colour...
  • 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...
  • Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding Them? Simple. Getting Them Out Alive? Now That Will Take a Minute. Lincoln Hart’s Navy SEAL team is sent to Syria to rescue a team of Americans who have been captured. When he realizes their interpreter, Leila Cloud is one of the people who has been kidnapped, all bets are off. He’s been dreaming about her for months...
  • Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Fearless Warrior by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Finding Them? Simple. Getting Them Out Alive? Now That Will Take a Minute. Lincoln Hart’s Navy SEAL team is sent to Syria to rescue a team of Americans who have been captured. When he realizes their interpreter, Leila Cloud is one of the people who has been kidnapped, all bets are off. He’s been dreaming about her for months...
  • A Demon's Harmony: A Devil's Riot MC Crossover by E.C. Land

    A Demon's Harmony: A Devil's Riot MC Crossover by E.C. Land

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tanner. I lost the one person who brought harmony into my life. She hates me and I know exactly why. If only she could see what's right in front of her face. The person who she trusted even more than me -- she's the one who put the nails in the coffin that was the end of my relationship. It's been years since it happened and I'm watching my closest friends find their forever women...
  • War of Monsters by Bella Di Corte

    War of Monsters by Bella Di Corte

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Royal Organized Crime Romance. History books are written about why men go to war. Religion. Land. Oil. And the most dangerous reason of all—a woman, the kind worth risking your heart for. My wife, Scarlett Fausti, was that woman. She sparked a war amongst the world’s most dangerous men...
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    multicultural  suspense  m-f  length-epic
  • Trial by Richard North Patterson

    Trial by Richard North Patterson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Trial confirms Richard North Patterson’s place as “our most important author of popular fiction. ”. In a propulsive narrative that culminates in a nationally televised murder case, Trial explores America’s most incendiary flashpoints of race. A Black eighteen-year-old voting rights worker, Malcolm Hill, is stopped by a white sheriff’s deputy on a dark country road in rural Georgia...
  • All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    All of Me by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Book 2 in the Townsends of Texas Series. Lena. I have one goal in mind: Write another album. The completion of my next album would grant me freedom from my record label. A label owned by my scheming, lying, and manipulative ex-fiancé. Too bad writer’s block has had a death hold over me for months...
  • 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.
  • Lust & Lies: AMBW Amnesia Romance by M'Renee Allen

    Lust & Lies: AMBW Amnesia Romance by M'Renee Allen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A seductive thriller with a romance so twisted it blurs the lines between passion and obsession. He says I’m his wife. He says I’m the love of his life. He says his world would fall apart if he ever lost me. But I don’t remember him. I don’t remember our love. I don’t remember this beautiful, elegant life he swears is mine. In fact, I don’t remember anything. Aiden Park is perfect...
  • Possession: An Interracial Romance by T.K. Leigh

    Possession: An Interracial Romance by T.K. Leigh

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the right path isn’t the easiest one. Weston Bradford entered my world in a whirlwind. Or, more accurately, during a torrential downpour. After our brief encounter, I didn’t think I’d ever see the attractive man with mesmerizing blue eyes again. Not in a city the size of Atlanta...
  • Royals of Italy by Bella Di Corte, Annie Rose Welch

    Royals of Italy by Bella Di Corte, Annie Rose Welch

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A Royal Organized Crime Romance. There was one secret that I kept from my wife. The Fausti famiglia was one of the most infamous and powerful crime families in the world. Their rule spanned the thickness of history books—and I was one of them...
  • Obsession Too by S.K. Lessly

    Obsession Too by S.K. Lessly

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Romantic thriller with a cliffhanger in the end…. You’ve been warned…. Her…. This wasn’t supposed to happen. I wasn’t supposed to fall in love. Oh, who am I kidding? I had been in love with this man since the first day I laid eyes on him. This man was tall, muscular with chiseled features, a low beard, and these unbelievable blue eyes. He was a badass, and I wanted him...
  • Stains of Desire: A Military Romance by Maggie Cole

    Stains of Desire: A Military Romance by Maggie Cole

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Everything about this mission is a first. The hemisphere we’re in. The lack of direction from headquarters. The stunning redhead I rescue and inappropriate thoughts I can’t keep to myself. But the filthier my mouth becomes, the more she responds to me. Then I learn about her daughter. Santiago kidnapped them together, then ripped Millie away and used her as a tool to make Penelope obey him...
  • A Family That Slays Together by Shay Rucker

    A Family That Slays Together by Shay Rucker

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When a man is named after a god, it only stands to reason that he shows deference to nothing but the Blade Spirits he’s bound to, and no one, but the woman who’s bound him in her love. When that same man assumes the responsibility of a child whose survival requires that he adapt, he must move towards a level of existence he’s never aspired to...
  • 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...
  • Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s learning to live with her demons. Victoria Gomez had a successful career as an investigative journalist, until a cartel boss she exposed destroyed her entire world in retaliation. She lost everything, including her family and her freedom...
  • 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.
  • Betrayed by Sharon C. Cooper

    Betrayed by Sharon C. Cooper

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When secrets turn into lies…. Former DEA agent Angelo González’s final undercover operation exploded in a betrayal he’ll never forget or forgive. He’s moved on. As one of Atlanta’s Finest, providing personal security for the rich and famous, Angelo is living his best life—until he has to play fake boyfriend to one of their clients. Not just any client...
  • Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge by Ruth Logan Herne

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Creator of the bestselling "Welcome to Wishing Bridge" and "At Home in Wishing Bridge" award-winning author Ruth Logan Herne invites readers back to the little town with the big heart with "Finding Peace in Wishing Bridge". Being a supermodel isn't just hard...
  • Fiery Surrender by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Fiery Surrender by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Langston has finally taken his place among the Trinity Masters, America’s most powerful secret society, and he’s ready to stand at the altar to meet his trinity. However, when the Grand Master, Juliet, pairs him in an arranged menage marriage with Rich and Mina, he finds himself struggling to fit into this society he’s only just discovered...
  • Necessary Pursuit by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Necessary Pursuit by Mari Carr, Lila Dubois

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Oscar has no desire to join one of the two secret societies issuing him invitations and he sure as hell isn’t interested in an arranged menage marriage. They say you can’t die of a broken heart, but he almost did. Deadly circumstances throw sexy physicist, Selene, and a dangerous man with a price on his head in his path. Now he’ll do anything to keep them safe...
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    suspense  multicultural  menage  cold hero  m-f
  • Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Gorgeous bad boy Mick Sinatra is in a good place in his life. His beautiful, African-American wife has been offered a starring role at a theater on London’s famed West End. His son, Teddy, has taken over the day-to-day running of his ruthless crime family. His daughter, Gloria, has learned the error of her ways...
  • Marks of Rebellion: A Military Romance by Maggie Cole

    Marks of Rebellion: A Military Romance by Maggie Cole

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He Stole Her Freedom and Wants Her Back…. In the darkness of the night, she climbed out of the dirt pit and tugged on heartstrings I didn’t even know I had. There’s no slow-burn for her. It’s a full-speed freight train of desire mixing with the jungle heat. Her touch brings me to my knees. Her intoxicating kisses flood adrenaline in my veins. But it’s not just about us...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  cliffhanger  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Saving Liliana by Elle James

    Saving Liliana by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Abandoned by his mother, raised by a taciturn Marine, Dax joined the Navy to become a SEAL. Fast-forward twelve years later, he’s out of the navy, done time as a mercenary and now works for Brotherhood Protectors. Never trusted women. Never married. Never wanted to. Lawyer and motivational speaker, Liliana Lightfeather is running for the US house of representatives for the state of Wyoming...
  • Kalea's Hero by Elle James

    Kalea's Hero by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Kalea’s Hero was previously published as Hot SEAL Hawaiian Nights. Since it really is the first book in the Brotherhood Protectors Hawaii series, it has been rebranded and a new epilogue has been included...
  • Kiana's Hero by Elle James

    Kiana's Hero by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Former Marine Force Recon, Devlin Mulhaney left the military when politics interfered with the mission, and he lost a friend. He quickly realizes that navigating civilian life can prove to be just as dangerous...
  • Belgian Betrayal by Elle James Author

    Belgian Betrayal by Elle James Author

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On his first solo mission with Brotherhood Protectors International, former British SAS operative, Fearghas Gordon is attacked and left for dead, floating in a canal in Bruges, Belgium. He’s fished out by the Russian spy he's determined to bring back, dead or alive...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  suspense  military
  • Two Steps Ahead: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Two Steps Ahead: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A determined bodyguard. A fierce heiress. And death is just a shot away…. Silent, stealthy and professional, Weston Patterson is always two steps ahead of trouble—until he’s hired to bodyguard a woman he never expected to see again. Someone won’t stop until Kayleigh Delacruz is dead. But the feisty heiress is challenging Weston to keep her close as well as safe...
  • 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...
  • Savage by Tiana Laveen

    Savage by Tiana Laveen

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Warning: This book contains graphic, adult content. (Not limited to but including: Profuse violence, gratuitous profanity, detailed sexual encounters, drug usage. ). It is recommended for audiences 18+ years or older. *Ladies and Gents, please be aware that this is a big book. BLURB. Maximus Savage is no ordinary man...
    Categorized as:
    multicultural  suspense  length-long
  • 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...
  • Don's Blaze by Tiffany Patterson

    Don's Blaze by Tiffany Patterson

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    DonBeing a firefighter is not just a job for me. It's a mission. As soon as that bell rings and I put on my protective gear, I'm all business. One false move could cost a life. Rescue Four is the best in Williamsport. One night a deadly fire almost kills my best friend and squad mate, Corey. A fire I know is the result of arson...
  • 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...
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