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Shielding Kinley by Susan Stoker
When Kinley Taylor witnesses what was possibly the last few minutes of a young girl’s life while in Paris, she realizes exactly how alone she is in the world. The only person she has to turn to for help is the one man who she feels is completely out of her league. Gage “Lefty” Haskins liked the personal assistant the first time he met her... -
Thorn's Challenge by Brenda Jackson
Thorn Westmoreland was not enough to convince Tara Matthews to risk her heart in love again...or was it? The beautiful pediatrician and the hard-riding motorcycle tycoon mixed like oil and water. Why, then, couldn't Tara burn the sexy racer from her head or the memory of his passionate caresses from her body? Thorn had wanted Tara since the day they'd met...Categorized as:
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Riding The Storm by Brenda Jackson
Women called him the perfect storm because he could sweet-talk any woman into his bed, and regularly did so. Firefighter Storm Westmoreland used lovemaking the way other men used a long, hot shower-to blow off steam. Until a torrid weekend with a too-hot-to-handle virgin left a certain legendary player craving something other than mere physical gratification...Categorized as:
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Desired Too by S.K. Lessly
Angel and Raquel possess two very strong personalities separately. They are alphas to the core. The problem comes when these two fire-filled individuals come together. One needs to be in control while the other refuses to be controlled. Angel Leonetti, the complete Alpha Male “Let me first address this ‘using you’ shit that you mentioned... -
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Stone Cold Surrender by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTwo classic Westmoreland novels from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Brenda JacksonStone Cold SurrenderBestselling thriller writer Stone Westmoreland can think of plenty of ways to describe the stranger he meets on a flight to Montana. Tantalizing. Whip-smart. And completely unaware of how good it feels to give in to your wilder impulses... -
The Chase Is On by Brenda Jackson
WHAT CHASE WESTMORELAND WANTED... Something sure looked tempting, and Chase knew it wasn't on his restaurant's menu. His new neighbor Jessica Claiborne was as deliciously enticing as the confections she created--so enticing, Chase was finding it difficult to concentrate on anything but the curve of her lips... -
Emanuel's Heat by Tiffany Patterson
Janine I walked right into him outside my hotel room while on vacation. Somehow that turned into my spending the following three days in Cabo San Lucas with him. Emanuel, the firefighter and obvious heart breaker. But I don’t have time for love. Not anymore, after a recent break-up, career change, and relocating to a new city... -
Count to Ten by Karen Rose
In all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday ahs never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires - devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem - his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined... -
Jared's Counterfeit Fiancee by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPretending to be Jared Westmoreland's fiancée wasn't high on Dana Rollins's list of priorities. But she owed him a favor, and Jared's persuasive charm and sinful masculinity--not to mention his sizzling kisses--were impossible to refuse... -
Falling North by Alyson Santos
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTurner Artist Management Urgent Action Item: ✔ Save Falling Back North from implosion. When your agency’s newest artist shows signs of collapse, you jump on the problem. When it involves a potential rift between the brothers who form the band’s soul, you throw your Hail Mary. So I did—by hiring a respected marketing goddess to save them...Categorized as:
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Southern Heartbreaker by Jessica Peterson
He was the bad boy I fell for in college. Now he’s a sexy single dad and Charleston’s most successful venture capitalist. Dominant and decisive, Ford Montgomery is used to getting what he wants. And he just set his sights on me... Ford Montgomery was my first everything. First love. First guy I slept with. First heartbreak when he dumped me without explanation... -
Fear No Evil by Allison Brennan
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsIn cyberspace, no one can hear you scream. Instead of preparing for her high school graduation, Lucy Kincaid is facing a vicious execution. Lured by an online predator, she’s destined to die horribly–live on the Internet–while hundreds of heartless viewers watch and vote on the method of her slaughter... -
Slow Ride by Mayra Statham
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJakob ‘Brick’ Wallace is all about the simple life. He loves working with his hands and as part of the Men of Valor, he isn’t afraid to get dirty. All he needs is his bike, brothers and an ice-cold beer after work.That is until Mackenzie ‘Mack’ Moreno drives into town.One look at Valor’s new resident and Brick finds that this bohemian beauty has shaken up and turned his organized life upside down... -
The Fall of East by Nana Malone
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTHE SIZZLING CONCLUSION TO THE HEAR NO EVIL TRILOGYNyla Kincade has stolen my ruthless heart.Now that she owns it I’m not taking it back.I’ve vowed to protect her and all that we love with everything that I have.I will die before I break that oath.Considering the danger we face, that might be a careless promise.But I’ve fought this hard for vengeance, I must see it through... -
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Fast Vengeance by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe’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... -
Happy New You by Brenda St. John Brown, Cassie-Ann L. Miller
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratings★10 Resolutions. 2 Friends. 1 Shot At Love. ★ I’ll admit, having nine New Year's resolutions makes me twitchy. After all, I’m Allison Gottlieb; overthinker, overachiever, hot mess extraordinaire. I’ve spent my entire life trying to be the best but for some reason, I’ve always fallen short... -
Disavowed by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe government trained her to kill… Briar Jones has lived most of her life in the shadows, carrying out secret ops to eliminate some of the United States’ most dangerous enemies. She’s devoted her life to serving her country so when a faceless enemy targets her and kills someone close to her, she’ll stop at nothing to bring them down... -
Capture by June Gray
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe 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... -
Best Laid Plans by Brenda Jackson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLove wasn’t supposed to be a part of the deal…Even a famed matchmaker like Nolan Madaris’s great-grandmother can’t get it right every time. Nolan, the notorious fun-loving ladies’ man, could never connect with someone as straitlaced as tech whiz Ivy Chapman. Yet the scheme Ivy proposes is tempting—they can pretend to be a couple, just long enough to satisfy their families... -
Freeing Ruby: A slow burn, suspenseful, close proximity, multicultural romance by April Wilson
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEver since witnessing the murder of her mother when she was a young teenager, Ruby Hammond has suffered with severe agoraphobia. When her father became too impatient with her condition, Ruby moved out and got her own apartment. She's lived alone, in complete isolation, for the past two years, never once having set foot outside her safe haven... -
Killing Time by Cindy Gerard
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAn exciting new series featuring Mike "Primetime" Brown, a character from her popular "Black Ops, Inc." series. For the seven years after Operation Slam Dunk went south, Mike Brown got drunk on each anniversary. The eighth year was no different--until he was drugged by a woman and woke up to her questions about what had happened eight years ago in Afghanistan...Categorized as:
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Forbidden Soul by Emma Creed
‘Bound not by blood but loyalty. We live, we ride, and we die by our own laws’ I found my place with the Soul’s I’m the one who keeps his calm,the Prez’s Sgt in Arms, and unbeaten in the ring.I was happy. I thought I had it all…Until I saw her.Pure, and innocent, pretty, and sweet.She’s everything I’m not, and everything I want.But she belongs to the tribe who hate us…The girl is forbidden... -
Undeniable by Delaney Diamond
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey can’t stand each other…or can they? For years, hard work and perseverance have been the tenets by which Santiago Vila lived his life. As such, he’s achieved everything he’s gone after. Except Abena Dubango. She’s the total package of brains, beauty, and a sense of humor. Even though she wears another man’s ring, he’s never forgotten the moments they spent together... -
Love Above Law by Sandy Alvarez, Crystal Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAgent Lex Taylor My assignment—take down human and drug trafficker Miguel Santino and rescue Leyna Martinez, the sister of an outlaw MC member. One look. That's all it took. My center of gravity shifted, and I knew; she was going to be mine. I take down criminals; the rats of society. I eat, sleep and breathe the law, but I'm willing to risk it all—my badge and my life to protect her...Categorized as:
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Trey by A.M. Madden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey say time heals all wounds. And maybe they’re right. But what about wounds no one sees? The kind that open again and again? The kind that have you feeling like you swallowed glass?Those are the wounds I carry. Years of heartbreak have created layer after layer of scar tissue over my whimpering heart... -
Guarded Dreams by L.J. Evans
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Just like the moon called the tides, she had called me home. To her."Serious, by-the-book Eli Wyatt has life all figured out. He’s got a five-year plan, his future in the Coast Guard, and friends who always have his back.And then Ava Abrams breezes into his life, tempting him in ways he can’t shakeA free spirit, Ava’s on the run, heading in the direction of her dreams... -
Saving Grace (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) by Shauna Allen
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratings***This book was previously published in Amazon Kindle Worlds*** Lucas “Lucky” Moore has a one-track mind and one thing on his agenda: Track down the Mexican drug lord that has made it his mission to hunt and eliminate Lucky’s Marine Reconnaissance team, their families, and the SEALs working alongside them, and end his reign of terror permanently... -
Beyond the Badge: Rez by Jeanne St. James
Sometimes an opportunity comes along that you just can’t resist… As a member of the Tri-State Federal Drug Task Force, Antonio Alvarez seizes the opportunity to go undercover with the Deadly Demons MC when it unexpectedly arises...Categorized as:
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Take Me to the Valley by Kaci Rose
He’s her brother’s best friend. She’s never had a thing for single dads or younger men… until him. Evan I’ve built my life around two things: protecting my daughter, Skye, and serving Whiskey River as a detective. Love? It’s off the table. I can’t have both—it’s not fair to Skye, and I’ve already been burned once... -
Engage by June Gray
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsPART FIVE OF JUNE GRAY'S DISARM SERIES The past has a way of catching up... A long time has passed since Elsie's heart was broken, since the person who always shielded her from pain broke her heart. Just when she begins to rebuild, Henry returns and upends everything all over again... -
Rebellious River by Lindsay Cross
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEthan Slade was a loner. No parents. No wife and kids. No liabilities. He had one love in his life - the Special Forces. As a member of the elite Task Force Scorpion, he'd been on more near death missions than most soldiers experienced in a lifetime and he liked it. So when his commander forced him to run protection for a senator's daughter's wedding, something a mall cop could do, he was pissed. -
Wheels of Steel, Book 1 by Pepper Pace
Jason, better known as Top, is an up and coming DJ. He’s a white guy that knows more about Hip Hop than most and he also has cerebral palsy. His group Wheels of Steel is comprised of self-proclaimed misfits that are made cool by their talent. But despite his talent and popularity, Jason is plagued by issues of trust and anger... -
Sugar and Spice by Kat Baxter
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAll she wants is a weekend rendezvous…I love the small town I’m from. I love having so much extended family close by and I love my mail order chocolate company. But what what I don’t love is being everyone’s favorite aunt. It’s like being cock-blocked by the entire town...Categorized as:
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The Girl in the Plane by Katherine Center
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom Katherine Center, New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away, comes a short story The Girl in the Plane, featuring Cassie Hanwell, the courageous female firefighter at the heart of Things You Save in a Fire. This audio edition is read by the author... -
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Unforgivable by Laura Griffin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsTracing Killers is Mia Voss's Business. And Her Work Just Got Personal.At first, Mia Voss thinks it’s just bad luck when her already lousy day ends with a carjacking, but what seems like a random incident is followed by another sinister episode. A DNA expert, Mia has made it her mission to put away vicious criminals. Suddenly, she’s become the target of one... -
Queen of Thorns by Bella Di Corte
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA Royal Organized Crime RomanceThe moment Scarlett Rose appeared in the window of her parents’ dance studio, twirling like a beautiful figurine in a music box, she became mine. Irrevocably.She knew me better than I knew the lines of my own hands, though I had never confessed to her whose blood ran through my veins, the famiglia that I belonged to... -
Broken Beast by Crystal Kaswell
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDanielle Bellamy is broke and out of options. Until I offer her a lifeline: A million dollars to play my wife.Danielle Bellamy is mine.For the next year, the curvy photographer is staying in my secluded mansion, wearing my ring.A ruse, to exact revenge against the man who destroyed me.Only every time I gaze into her dark eyes, I forget we're pretending.Her kiss is intoxicating... -
Faster by Tory Baker
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsRancher Rhett Spencer loves his life. It’s slow and easy, but when he meets his woman, there’s nothing slow about the way he claims her—unless you count between the sheets.Rhett was traveling for work when he first laid eyes on Selena Perez. She might not live close to him, but he wasn’t about to let distance get in the way.He wanted her and what this cowboy wants, he gets... -
Daybreak by Nicole Fox
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 2 and the exciting conclusion of the Tsezar Bratva duet He gave me a chance at happily ever after. And then he snatched it all away. COURTNEY Did the man of my dreams sell me to the monster of my nightmares? I don’t want to believe it. But no matter how hard I pinch myself, the horrors won’t go away... -
Finley's Claim: A Dark Mafia Romance by Atlas Rose, Raven Scott
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey call me the Cosa Nostra Prince. The first son of the most dangerous Salvatore Mafia family. We run the crime. We take the money. We control the war.So when our ‘launderer’ decides to run with one hundred million dollars of our money, you can bet we’ll hunt them down. Only they’ve run to a place they think they’re safe. A place that’s heavily guarded.An island in the middle of nowhere... -
Before and After You by Hope Ellis
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLeigh D'Alessandro is a fighter. She fought to escape her dysfunctional family, to end a soul-killing marriage, and to build a new life in a small Tennessee town. When the fate of the community hospital she works for is threatened, she's primed and ready for battle... -
Chicago Blaze Books 1 & 2 by Brenda Rothert
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBecause the only thing better than one hot hockey romance is two, the first two books in the Chicago Blaze hockey romance series , Anton and Luca, are bundled together in this collection. Book 1 - Anton He’s known as Father Anton to his teammates—the brooding, sexy captain of the NHL’s Chicago Blaze has a reputation for…not having a reputation... -
Make You Mine by Niobia Bryant
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan two strangers make that lovin' feelin' last?Three months after a first date that ended in a night of explosive passion, Caress Coleman and Julius Jones find themselves somewhere between roommates with benefits and true love. She's smart, beautiful, and one paycheck away from broke. He's smart, handsome, and very successful. But that's just the beginning of their differences. . . -
Black Light: Saved by Raisa Greywood
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsJafari’s little rabbit might try to run, but he’s going to catch her. No matter what.Kacy's past is dark and twisted, and it's coming back to haunt her. But she's not alone this time.Dominant and possessive, Jafari isn't going to let his favorite masochist run away again. He'll keep her tied up and begging for him while he slays her dragons, even if she insists she's no damsel in distress... -
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Wedded to a Wayne: A Finn World Holiday Romance by R.G. Alexander
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author R.G. Alexander, A Finn Factor/Finn’s Pub Holiday Romance! Tanisha Chahal is a successful businesswoman, a lip balm and reality show aficionado, and filthy rich. She doesn’t need a man. So why is she proposing to Emerson Wayne? Emerson is a family man and the father of two wonderful boys he’ll do anything to keep... -
Filthy Valentine: A Dungeon Demons MC Prequel by Elizabeth Knox
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s been off limits, but now I’ll have her.PrestonScarlett Allen has been in my life for longer than I can remember. You see, she’s my little sister’s best friend. With an eight-year age gap between us, I went off to college and started my career while she was still learning what she wanted to do in life... -
Devante by Laramie Briscoe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the next book in the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team.Trust Laramie Briscoe to provide engaging characters in a well-built world I want to revisit again and again. Carly Phillips, NY Times bestselling author... -
His on Demand (BBW Romance) by Fiona Murphy
***New Release sale of .99 Cents only until 4/2 when it will go up to 3.99*** To make my dream come true I’ll do anything, even put up with an a$$hole like Leandros Kaplan. Four years, five tops and I’ll have enough money saved to stop working and write full time. I know lying to him to get the job is crazy and stupid... -
Teaching Abby by Becca Jameson
It’s a summer internship.Never mind that the owners are hot.Never mind that there are three of them.Never mind that they are twice her age.Never mind that they have a secret “play" room in the basement.Never mind that she’s never been more intrigued in her life.She only has three months... -
Falling Fast by Kaylea Cross
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShe’s putting herself in harm’s way to make a difference. Having grown up in a household of elite, overprotective male Marines, Charlie Colebrook is savoring her hard won independence and avoiding a serious relationship that could tie her down. As a computer forensics expert for the DEA she might be a civilian rather than an agent, but she’s far from helpless, and she’s hungry to prove herself...
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