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  • The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin

    The Letter Keeper by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Combining heart-wrenching emotion with edge-of-your-seat tension, Charles Martin explores the true power of sacrificial love. He shows up when all hope is lost. Murphy Shepherd has made a career of finding those no one else could—survivors of human trafficking. His life’s mission is helping others find freedom. But then the nightmare strikes too close to home...
  • Tactical Force by Lynn Shannon

    Tactical Force by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Some wounds never heal.  As a former Navy SEAL, Walker Montgomery faces danger without flinching. But not even a combat zone halfway around the world was far enough to escape the trauma of his teen years. His younger sister was murdered and the killer never caught. Since returning home, he’s been quietly working the case, unable to move on with his life until justice is served.  She’s a survivor...
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  • Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The final "powerfully intense" (Romantic Times) Black Ops, Inc. novel from New York Times bestseller Cindy Gerard, featuring a covert private security team and electrifying romantic suspense. Black Ops, Inc. operative Joe Green is determined to bring to justice the man responsible for former team member Bryan Tompkins's death...
  • Covert Mission by Lynn Shannon

    Covert Mission by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Duty is all he knows.  Logan Keller spent his military career saving lives, but none of that prepared him for raising his out-of-control teenage niece. He’s desperate to get through to her. A charity designed for teens seems like the answer, but when Logan arrives to speak to the director, he interrupts an attack on the woman’s life.  Danger surrounds her...
  • One Last Shot by Susan May Warren

    One Last Shot by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    When country music star Oaken Fox joins survivalist Mike Grizz's new adventure show in the Alaskan wilderness, he just wants to boost his fan base. But when tragedy strikes and Air One Rescue must save them, Oaken wants to quit. Too bad his producer has other plans--signing him on with Air One Rescue as a recruit and making a reality show...
  • True Honor by Dee Henderson

    True Honor by Dee Henderson

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 36 ratings
    CIA officer Darcy St. James is after a man who knew September 11 would happen--a man who chose to profit from the knowledge. Navy SEAL Sam "Cougar" Houston is busy: The intelligence Darcy is generating has his team deploying around the world. Under the pressure of war, their romance flourishes...
  • Cruise: Special Edition by Laramie Briscoe

    Cruise: Special Edition by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, Laramie Briscoe, comes the special edition of a fan favorite series.Nobody writes blue collar romance like Laramie Briscoe, and nowhere is it more apparent than in the Moonshine Task Force: Special Edition Series...
  • The Negotiator by Dee Henderson

    The Negotiator by Dee Henderson

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 41 ratings
    FBI agent Dave Richman from "Danger in the Shadows" is back. He's about to meet Kate O'Malley, and his life will never be the same. She's a hostage negotiator. He protects people...
  • Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Hostile Intent by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ava Jackson entered the military shortly after high school, but her mother's illness has forced her to request an early discharge. She already lost her father while deployed, and there's no way she's going to let her mother die alone. But after a visit to the nursing facility where her mother lives, Ava is attacked walking back to her car...
  • Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Fraser by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Fraser Marshall is pretty sure his career as a Spec Ops fighter is over. Yes, he’s gone into private security, working for Jones, Inc, but his last gig ended with him wounded and taken captive. And those wounds just won’t heal. The last thing he wants to do is stick around his family’s winery pressing grapes...
  • Expired Return by Lisa Phillips

    Expired Return by Lisa Phillips

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’ll give everything to protect her family.He always knew she was the one.Veterinary tech Pepper Miller lives a quiet life in Last Chance County. She’s watching her niece until her sister shows up…if she ever does. When Victory’s father demands he take over her care, Pepper knows something has gone wrong...
  • Ranger Bravery by Lynn Shannon

    Ranger Bravery by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Shadows of the past linger…Piper Jensen escaped her small-town, seeking a new life without the baggage of her childhood. Her only regret: breaking up with her first love through a hastily scrawled note. A decade later, when her sister is hurt in a car accident, Piper moves home to help care for her niece and nephew...
  • Maggie by Charles Martin

    Maggie by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance...
  • Honor by J.L. Drake, Joe Arden

    Honor by J.L. Drake, Joe Arden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The Broken trilogy continues here.... Bullets fly during a dangerous mission, and Major Mark Lopez is critically injured....  A Blackstone soldier, Mark is transferred to the North Dakota hospital with the security clearance to treat members of the elite covert team.  The pretty new nurse assigned to his case knows her stuff, but Mark soon discovers she knows more than just how to save lives...
  • The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin

    The Dead Don't Dance by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    A sleepy rural town in South Carolina. The end of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the midst of hope and celebration comes unexpected tragedy, and Dylan Styles must come to terms with how much he's lost...
  • Sins and Scarlet Lace by Liliana Hart

    Sins and Scarlet Lace by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Declan MacKenzie has loved the same woman for as long as he can remember, but after a mission early on in his career turns deadly, he realizes he can never have a wife or family and keep them safe. So he watches her marry another man. Sophia Huxley is involved in a nightmare. Her late husband has been labeled a traitor and he's made her the fall guy...
  • The Safe Bet by Brittney Sahin

    The Safe Bet by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    She's there to plan the military ball - not to fall for the Marine in charge.Michael Maddox thinks he has his life under control. No attachments, no relationships - he's too busy transforming his knack for military intelligence into a multi-million-dollar enterprise. But when headstrong event planner Kate Adams comes barreling into his life, everything changes...
  • Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Outside of Titan Group, there are few people that Roman Hart would die for. He’s a soldier, a protector, and he’s haunted that one of the people he should’ve been able to protect didn’t let him. That was years ago, and now a hardened heart and a cocky attitude are his impenetrable shields, until one woman—one challenge—drives him to distraction. On the outside, Beth Tourne has it all...
  • A New Song by Jan Karon

    A New Song by Jan Karon

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Jan Karon's millions of fans can't wait to sit down with her heartwarming and hilarious characters, who have a way of becoming family. In fact, readers and booksellers across the country kept Out to Canaan and At Home in Mitford on The New York Times bestseller list for months. In A New Song, Mitford's longtime Episcopal priest, Father Tim, retires...
  • Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin

    Send Down the Rain by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Martin offers us “grace, mercy, and forgiveness in this sweeping love story.”*Allie is still recovering from the loss of her family’s beloved waterfront restaurant on Florida’s Gulf Coast when she loses her second husband to a terrifying highway accident...
  • Driving Force by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo

    Driving Force by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He’s the last client she wants to protect…Elite Guardians bodyguard/former sniper CHRISTINA SHERMAN has protected uncooperative clients before—but this time, well her client is bossy, headstrong and occasionally eats off the floor...
  • Murdock by Elle James

    Murdock by Elle James

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Ex-Navy SEAL, Sean Murdock, is done with the Navy, done with being a bodyguard and ready to embrace construction as his new vocation. When he offers to ride shotgun with the local mobile veterinarian to deliver a horse to a client, he doesn’t expect the trip to turn into a rescue mission.Gabbie Myers grew up on a ranch in Montana and knew from her first pony that she would become a veterinarian...
  • Honor's Refuge by Hallee Bridgeman

    Honor's Refuge by Hallee Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When she was just five years old, Melissa Braxton watched her father take her mother's life. Separated from her sister, Lola, at that time, Melissa grew up with a strong desire to help those stuck in abusive relationships. It's why she became a family therapist and opened a domestic abuse shelter...
  • 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...
  • WILL: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    WILL: REAPER-Patriots: Book Forty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    William Pechkin is home for his friends wedding. He plans to see everyone. His parents, his sisters, his new nephew. He'll see all the old guard, but most importantly, he'll see her. The woman he can't get out of his head. Brooke. She's worked at the diner for years now and he never misses a chance to go in and see her. Speaking is another matter...
  • 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...
  • Vanishing Legacy by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo

    Vanishing Legacy by Lynette Eason, Kate Angelo

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For this Elite Guardian, protecting her client’s daughter just got personal.Elite Guardian Alana Flores, former LAPD underwater dive detective, just wants a fresh start in Savannah, Georgia, with her son, Rocco...
  • Silent Sins by Edie James

    Silent Sins by Edie James

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Rescuing his black-sheep younger brother from yet another mess is nothing new for former SEAL and current Redemption Creek operative Mason Ortiz. Being forced to team up with a brilliant––and seriously controlling––FBI agent absolutely is, though. Mason will do anything to get his brother out of danger, but Special Agent Avery Ellis is only going to compromise this mission, in every way possible...
  • One Last Promise by Susan May Warren

    One Last Promise by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After years as a pilot of a Navy rescue chopper, Arlo "Moose" Mulligan returned home to start Air One Rescue--and made a name for himself. He loves his job, his life, and his routines, which include breakfast at the Skyport Diner, always at one of Tillie Young's tables. She's sweet and pretty, but Moose knows his life has no room for anything more...
  • Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Stitched Up Heart by Tarina Deaton

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    As an Air Force medic, Bree Marks saw the worst the War on Terror had to dish out. Now a physical therapist, she uses her experience to help other veterans heal from their physical wounds; while she battles her own emotional damage. Blaming himself for his best friend’s suicide, former Army Ranger Jase Larken, retreated from life...
  • Trixsters Anonymous by Ahren Sanders

    Trixsters Anonymous by Ahren Sanders

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Sassy, dramatic, hot-headed are just some of the words used to describe me since the time I was born. A few little mishaps growing up and my mom has a running ‘Emerson Baker’ prayer circle, and I have the reputation of a spit-fire that won’t go away. I prefer the terms loyal, passionate, fiery, and possibly a bit impulsive...
  • Collateral Damage by Lynette Eason

    Collateral Damage by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Honorably discharged from the Army after an explosion nearly killed her, former military psychiatrist Brooke Adams has set up shop to help others--but her days of helping military personnel are over. She's got her own battles to fight from her time overseas, and she's not equipped to take on more...
  • Active Defense by Lynette Eason

    Active Defense by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As a former field surgeon in Afghanistan, Heather Fontaine is used to life-or-death situations. She just didn't expect them to follow her home. When she returns from a party to find that someone has broken into her house--and threatened her friends--she assumes it is the stalker who has been following her and creeping her out...
  • Word of Honor by Hallee Bridgeman

    Word of Honor by Hallee Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Former college sweethearts FBI Special Agent Lynda Cutler and Sergeant Bill Sanders of the Special Forces A-Team must team up to play husband and wife to stop an ecoterrorist organization in Istanbul...
  • Fallout by Rebecca Deel

    Fallout by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Waking up with amnesia next to a dead body means big trouble for Willow Knox. Worse, the police believe she's a cold-blooded killer. On the verge of being arrested, Willow asks a black ops warrior for help. But someone wants Willow dead at any cost. If they're not careful, Willow and Max will lose everything, including their lives...
  • The Shifting Current by Dani Pettrey

    The Shifting Current by Dani Pettrey

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An elusive killer. A false identity. A deadly maze of lies.When Coast Guard Investigative Service Special Agent LOGAN PERRY’s beloved grandfather is murdered, Logan races to his hometown of Cauldron Creek, New Mexico to investigate the murder. His teammate and friend, EMMY THORTON, insists on joining him...
  • Home Fires by Cat Johnson

    Home Fires by Cat Johnson

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Navy SEAL Cal Swenson's going home has been a long time coming. Too bad his homecoming was based on a lie. And why did Granny feign dying to get him back to New York? That's the big question...
  • Thrill Ride by Julie Ann Walker

    Thrill Ride by Julie Ann Walker

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 35 ratings
    He's Gone Rogue Ex-Navy SEAL Rock Babineaux’s job is to get information, and he’s one of the best in the business. Until something goes horribly wrong and he’s being hunted by his own government. Even his best friends at the covert special-ops organization Black Knights Inc. aren’t sure they can trust him...
  • Wolfsbane by Ronie Kendig

    Wolfsbane by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A 2012 Christy Award Winner.   Embark upon a danger-laden mission within the pages of Ronie Kendig’s riveting Wolfsbane . Demolitions expert Danielle Roark thought escaping from a brutal Venezuelan general was a challenge. Now she’s charged with espionage and returned to the jungle where a new nightmare begins...
  • Hawk by Ronie Kendig

    Hawk by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Raptor's communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an "other than honorable" discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives...
  • Happy Death Day by Lisa Renee Jones

    Happy Death Day by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Kane Mendez.The son of a drug lord, who is not his father's son, and yet, he has enemies. Too many enemies.Lilah Love.The FBI agent who perhaps kills a little too easily. Or does she? As she's called in to consult on a case, and catch a killer, her troubles back home don't go away. People want her dead. She simply wants them dead first.Kane and Lilah. Lilah and Kane. War is on the horizon...
  • True Devotion by Dee Henderson

    True Devotion by Dee Henderson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 40 ratings
    Kelly Jacobs has already paid the ultimate price of loving a warrior; she has the folded flag and the grateful thanks of a nation to prove it. Navy SEAL Joe "Bear" Baker can't ask her to accept that risk again--even though he loves her. But the man responsible for her husband's death is back; closer than either of them realize. Kelly is in danger, and Joe may not get there in time...
  • Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Taken by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Eden’s latest novel, the Last Option Search Team (LOST) returns— and for one agent, the hunt for a serial killer just got very personal . . . HE SWORE TO PROTECT HER . . . Bailey Jones somehow survived her harrowing abduction by the infamous Death Angel...
  • 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...
  • Firethorn by Ronie Kendig

    Firethorn by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Marine Griffin Riddell had found purpose working with Nightshade—until he’s falsely convicted of a murder that plants him in a federal penitentiary. Is there anyone he can trust? Amid explosive confusion, covert operative Kazi Faron breaks Griffin out of a maximum-security prison. Then she delivers the death-blow—-the Nightshade team has been dismantled...
  • Digitalis by Ronie Kendig

    Digitalis by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Step into the boots of a former Marine in this heart-pounding adventure in life and love. Colton “Cowboy” Neeley is a Marine trying to find his footing as he battles flashbacks now that he’s back home. Piper Blum is a woman in hiding—from life and the assassins bent on destroying her family. When their hearts collide, more than their lives are at stake...
  • Acceptable Risk by Lynette Eason

    Acceptable Risk by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sarah Denning is a military journalist with the Army in the Middle East when her convoy is attacked and she's taken hostage. When former Army Ranger Gavin Black is asked by his old unit commander--Sarah's imposing father--to plan an extremely risky rescue, he reluctantly agrees and successfully executes it...
  • Jed Had to Die by Tara Sivec

    Jed Had to Die by Tara Sivec

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The happiest day of Payton Lambert's life was the day she graduated high school and watched Bald Knob, Kentucky get smaller and smaller in her rearview mirror. She wanted more for her life than a tiny town where everyone knows your business and you can’t find a decent cup of coffee for at least forty miles...
  • Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Experience two classic tales of heroes facing danger and falling in love from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann’s Tall, Dark and Daring series — collected here in one volume! The Admiral’s Bride When six canisters of a lethal nerve agent are stolen from a military testing lab, Admiral Jake Robinson must recover the chemicals—by any means necessary...
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