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  • Death Rocks by L.J. Ross

    Death Rocks by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 38 ratings
    THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A COINCIDENCE. .. When the body of a talented photographer is found on the rocks beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, DCI Ryan and his team of detectives immediately suspect the worst. But, since none of their potential suspects seems to have a motive, the case runs cold...
  • State of Alert by Marie Force

    State of Alert by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The first couple is on full alert, deflecting new threats from near and far…. Lieutenant Sam Holland has seen just about everything as a D. C. homicide detective, but she’s never been asked to lie to her closest colleagues and her husband—until now...
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  • State of Alert by Marie Force, Eva Kaminsky

    State of Alert by Marie Force, Eva Kaminsky

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    11 hours, 35 minutes. The first couple is on full alert, deflecting new threats from near and far…. Lieutenant Sam Holland has seen just about everything as a D. C. homicide detective, but she’s never been asked to lie to her closest colleagues and her husband—until now...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  mystery  audiobook
  • Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh

    Beyond Her Reach by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the wake of a woman’s savage murder, the suspects and motives are only mounting for Sheriff Bree Taggert in a twisting novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. In a quiet suburban neighborhood in upstate New York, single mom Kelly Gibson is slain in her home—the victim of a rage killing...
  • Fatal Fraud by Marie Force

    Fatal Fraud by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Previously title Fatal Vengeance. A dangerous truth revealed. .. A prominent member of the D. C. community has been murdered, pulling Lieutenant Sam Holland into yet another high-stakes homicide investigation that has her trying to connect the dots between a dead woman and the friends and family who’d turned against her right before her untimely death...
  • Sanibel Sunsets by Hope Holloway

    Sanibel Sunsets by Hope Holloway

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    When Eliza’s son arrives in Shellseeker Beach, he’s struggling. Dane deeply disapproves of his mother’s relationship with a new man, causing friction in Eliza’s happy life. In addition, he must navigate a whole new life and find a way to channel his emotions in to music. Support comes from the most unexpected corner, surprising everyone…including Dane...
  • Enigma by Christy Barritt

    Enigma by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.82 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some secrets refuse to stay buried . . . Olive Sterling thought time off from her job would finally give her the chance to uncover the truth about her family’s unsolved murders. The man she believes holds the answers is none other than the father of Jason Stewart—her former boyfriend and current colleague...
  • State of Suspense by Marie Force

    State of Suspense by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A high-profile murder has Sam and her team chasing an elusive killer…. Just back from their anniversary trip to Dewey Beach, there’s no slow roll back to work for the first couple as Sam is immediately thrust into a baffling new case that has everyone on edge. The FBI wants in on this one, and she’s determined to figure out what happened before they can take over her investigation...
  • Ground Zero by Christy Barritt

    Ground Zero by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Some betrayals detonate in code. Others explode at ground zero. Blackout operative Maverick Adams’s surf session on Lantern Beach is cut short when an FBI agent blasts into his world, arresting him for crimes he didn’t commit. When he learns that his digital fingerprints implicate him in a recent terror attack, he knows someone in his inner circle has set him up...
  • On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    On Her Watch by Melinda Leigh

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Sheriff Bree Taggert becomes a target when she follows the twisting trail of a serial killer in a bone-chilling novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. A pair of hikers find a tarp-wrapped body in a clearing in the woods. When a search in the surrounding area yields two more, Sheriff Bree Taggert knows they’ve stumbled onto a serial killer’s dumping ground...
  • Fireproof by Eric Wilson, Alex Kendrick

    Fireproof by Eric Wilson, Alex Kendrick

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    INSIDE BURNING BUILDINGS, Captain Caleb Holt lives by the firefighter's adage: NEVER LEAVE YOUR PARTNER. Yet at home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules. Growing up, his wife Catherine always dreamed of marrying a loving, brave firefighter . . . just like her father. Now, after seven years of marriage, she wonders when she stopped being "good enough...
  • Forever Lasting by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Lasting by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Cassidy Davies is used to being seen as the youngest in the huge Davies family. She’d grown up with too many overprotective brothers and cousins to count. So, she learned how to be invisible. That is, after she learned from her family how to be a spy, how to be an elite soldier, and how to bat her eyes and smile while taking a person down...
  • Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Chasing Fortune by Brittney Sahin

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Echo Team has a new addition—a K-9, and he’s in need of training . . . Eight-plus years as Echo Three and Chris Hunter is still as mission-focused as ever, continuing to fight for his country as part of a secretive team of operatives serving the President. When Chris decides to rescue a dog for the team, he soon discovers he and the guys are far from K-9 whisperers, and they need help...
  • State of Denial by Marie Force

    State of Denial by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Denial: refusing to admit the truth or reality of something unpleasant…. His mother has been arrested, his government is under new threat, the relentless media is driving him mad, and denial becomes the word of the day for President Nick Cappuano. Meanwhile, his wife, DC Metro Police Lt. Sam Holland Cappuano has caught a big new case with suspects everywhere she looks...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  mystery  death  m-f  audiobook
  • The Last Girl by A.J. Rivers

    The Last Girl by A.J. Rivers

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    After her mother’s death and a life filled with twists and turns,. Gabriela Nolan moves to Juniper Springs hoping for a fresh start. A new job, a new town, and a new lease on life. But when an armed heist shocks the town to its core,. Gabriela’s world is flipped once more. Now, she’s thrust into madness and a mystery that defies all logic...
  • Tainted by Riley Edwards

    Tainted by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL sniper Matthew Kessler thought his life was charmed. He was wrong. He thought his father had amassed the family’s wealth through hard work. He was wrong again. He thought the battlefield had taught him everything he needed to know about strength and courage. He was absolutely wrong. In the blink of an eye, everything he thought he knew about his family became a lie...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  contemporary  military  m-f  audiobook
  • A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    A Merciful Promise by Kendra Elliot

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    The Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues as Mercy Kilpatrick becomes embedded in the nightmare of a terrorist conspiracy. The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound...
  • The Girl in the Moss by Loreth Anne White

    The Girl in the Moss by Loreth Anne White

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    A shallow grave exposes deadly secrets as bestselling author Loreth Anne White brings her thrilling series of romantic suspense to its shocking conclusion…. Disgraced ex-cop Angie Pallorino is determined to make a new start for herself as a private investigator...
  • Cuthbert's Way: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L.J. Ross

    Cuthbert's Way: A DCI Ryan Mystery by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A SECRET KEPT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. .. After the dramatic theft of a priceless artefact from Durham Cathedral, the rest of the world believes that DCI Ryan and his team were able to recover and return St. Cuthbert’s cross to its rightful home. But Ryan knows the cross he recovered was a fake—far from being over, their problems are only just beginning…...
  • The Chesapeake Series: Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor / Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    The Chesapeake Series: Sea Swept / Rising Tides / Inner Harbor / Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts presents her breathtaking Chesapeake Series--SEA SWEPT, RISING TIDES, INNER HARBOR, and CHESAPEAKE BLUE presented together in one set for the first time. SEA SWEPT. When Cameron Quinn receives word that his father has been in a terrible car accident and is near death, Cam returns home...
  • Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again...
  • Final Vow by Kathleen Brooks

    Final Vow by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    As the ultimate bodyguard, Ahmed’s focus has been protecting the lives of everyone he cares about. When the darkest part of his past resurfaces, Ahmed knows he must go on the offensive to protect his future . . . a future with the one woman that can match his toughness and return the love that was once robbed from him...
  • Through the Dark Night by Jessie Gussman

    Through the Dark Night by Jessie Gussman

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    More than a decade ago, Shannon fled her seaside hometown, escaping an unimaginable tragedy she never dared speak of again. Settling across the country, she buried her sorrow beneath the busy demands of motherhood and a successful career. But when her grown children scatter and her marriage collapses, Shannon finds herself alone, haunted by unanswered questions from her past...
  • 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.
  • The Magic of Sea Glass by Jenny Hale

    The Magic of Sea Glass by Jenny Hale

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the USA Today, bestselling author of The Summer House, with over one million copies of her books sold, comes a heartwarming beach read, perfect for fans of Sheila Roberts, Jill Shalvis, and Debbie Macomber. After the loss of her fiancé a year ago, event planner Lauren Sutton can’t seem to go on with her choice of career or the life she’d built with her fiancé any longer...
  • The Starfish Sisters by Barbara O'Neal

    The Starfish Sisters by Barbara O'Neal

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids comes an emotional novel about two women facing the betrayals, heartbreaks, and refuge of true friendship. Phoebe and Suze used to be closer than sisters. Growing up in a quiet and wildly beautiful coastal town in Oregon, they shared everything...
  • For Your Love by Beverly Jenkins

    For Your Love by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    NAACP nominee and bestselling author Beverly Jenkins returns to Henry Adams, Kansas—an unforgettable place that anyone would want to call home—with a story of family, friends, and the powerful forces from our past that can irrevocably shape our future...
  • A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s search for the truth uncovers long-hidden secrets and rocks the very foundation of her world. Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend—a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old, leaving behind no children. Or so the story goes…...
  • Searching for Caryn by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Caryn by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 27 ratings
    Caryn Buckner’s fondest childhood memories are all from Fallport, where she spent every summer with her beloved grandfather. Now she’s back for an extended visit. Long enough to make sure her grandpa is on the mend after a vicious attack…and maybe figure out the next steps in her life...
  • Together Under a Snowy Skye by Lisa Hobman

    Together Under a Snowy Skye by Lisa Hobman

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    After the heartbreak of a secret unrequited love, Millie Treadaway has finally found someone to spend her life with. Harry Rose is handsome, successful and treats her like a princess. That is until Millie presents her fiancé with a surprise birthday gift, and their future is suddenly doomed...
  • Chasing Down a Dream by Beverly Jenkins

    Chasing Down a Dream by Beverly Jenkins

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    NAACP nominee and USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins continues her beloved Blessings series with a heartwarming novel about what really makes a family. There’s never a dull day in Henry Adams, Kansas. Tamar July has never had a great relationship with certain members of her family. In fact, she’d characterize it as a “hate/hate relationship...
  • Raven's Watch by Elle James, Kris Norris

    Raven's Watch by Elle James, Kris Norris

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    One final flight. One impossible rescue. One chance to stop running. After a mission gone wrong shatters his team and nearly ends his life, retired Air Force pilot Foster Beckett returns to Raven’s Cliff, a sleepy coastal town where he hopes to lay low and start over. Alongside the last surviving members of his crew—men who’ve become more like brothers—he plans to rebuild, one quiet day at a time...
  • Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lilian doesn’t remember anything about her life before the day Maggie Muir found her on her front porch—a toddler, abandoned and alone. And maybe that’s okay. She has a beautiful life at Muir Farm, including an adopted family she adores and a successful career as a lawyer. But she also has a secret . . . one that raises just as many questions about her future as it does her unknown past...
  • Bad Seed by Sharon Sala

    Bad Seed by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    Can she have the man of her dreams and the life she's always wanted? It's love at first sight when head pastry chef Brendan Pope meets private investigator Harley Banks at Serenity Inn for her latest investigation. But unknown to them both, Harley has a hitman after her, courtesy of the wrong-doer she put behind bars on her last case...
  • Forever by Janie Crouch

    Forever by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Some loves are meant to be from the very beginning. Jess O’Conner and Ethan Bollinger have known each other almost their entire lives and have loved each other from the start. The people of Oak Creek have watched them grow up, and everyone has always known what they are. .. Soulmates. But sometimes, fate demands a different path, derailing even the most carefully mapped plans...
  • Wild Man Creek by Robyn Carr

    Wild Man Creek by Robyn Carr

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 45 ratings
    Colin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is wonderfully supportive, but it's his art that truly soothes his troubled soul. Stung personally and professionally by an ill-advised affair, PR guru Jillian Matlock has rented an old Victorian with a promising garden in Virgin River...
  • Black Velvet by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Velvet by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She doesn’t believe in heroes anymore. He’ll prove her wrong. Mercenary Dax Freed would rather stride into the desert naked and covered in honey than pretend to be a reclusive romance novelist’s fake boyfriend, but nobody gave him the option. Roberta Sharpe writes about heroes for a living, but she already knows they don’t exist in real life...
  • Road to Christmas: Holly / Harper by Kathi Daley

    Road to Christmas: Holly / Harper by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Join Holly and Harper as they work to solve the mystery which will bring them home. Holly - previously published in December 2013 as Road to Christmas Past. Holly Thompson’s life changed forever when she received an early Christmas present from her dead Aunt Meg. Prior to her death, her former foster mother won the gorgeous PI during one of her Tuesday morning poker games...
  • Undertow by Jana Deleon

    Undertow by Jana Deleon

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

    Pure Chemistry by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’ve never wished for a knight in shining armor before, but today might be the day I let go of that pigheadedness and accept a little help. I’m a biochemist with a dream to cure cancer, but in my quest to save lives, I may be the reason thousands die...
  • Last Rites by Sharon Sala

    Last Rites by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There's nothing a community won't do to protect its own. .. Shirley Wallace and her four sons return to her childhood home on Pope Mountain in Jubilee, Kentucky, with a lifetime of hardship behind them, hoping to find peace and begin their lives anew. Eldest brother Aaron Pope returns to his life as a police officer, and is settling in just fine...
  • The New Doctor at Peony Practice by Christie Barlow

    The New Doctor at Peony Practice by Christie Barlow

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Preorder the next book in the heartwarming and bestselling Love Heart Lane series. Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what. All’s fair in love and…medicine? Dr Katie O’Neil has only been in Heartcross a few hours when she finds herself already ruffling feathers – not least with medical school nemesis and new colleague Ben Sanders...
  • 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...
  • Summer at the Twist and Turn Bakery by Helen J. Rolfe, Helen Rolfe

    Summer at the Twist and Turn Bakery by Helen J. Rolfe, Helen Rolfe

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    It’s summer in Heritage Cove, the picturesque village by the sea. Join some of your favourite characters and welcome new faces in this uplifting, romantic read brimming with character, community and friendship…...
  • Craving In The Mountains by Olivia T. Turner

    Craving In The Mountains by Olivia T. Turner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 23 ratings
    What do you do when you’re in a funk that won’t quit? I tried. - Sleeping all day (check). - Binge watching Stranger Things all day (check). - Feeling sorry for myself all day (check). But nothing works. My funk gets funkier. Depression looms. So I do something drastic to shake myself out of it. I head to the Greene Mountains to go parachuting with my crazy cousin and his wild friends...
  • The Cottage in the Highlands by Julie Shackman

    The Cottage in the Highlands by Julie Shackman

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    When Leonie Baxter finds herself out of a job and out of a relationship, she’s at her wits end. Her life has just been turned upside down and she needs a plan, fast. By chance, on a walk with her rescue puppy, Leonie stumbles across a striking house in the woods; fully furnished but unoccupied. As a journalist, she is determined to find out more, after all, reporting is in her nature...
  • Midnight by Sharon Sala

    Midnight by Sharon Sala

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Sharon Sala is a consummate storyteller. " —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author. Crossroads, Texas, is a town of second chances in this new small town romance series from Sharon Sala, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Blessings, Georgia series. Asher Kingston is a special investigator for the Texas Attorney General's office in Austin, TX...
  • The Hiding Place by Paula Munier

    The Hiding Place by Paula Munier

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mercy and Elvis are back in The Hiding Place, the most enthralling entry yet in USA Today bestselling Paula Munier's award-winning Mercy Carr mystery series. When the man who killed her grandfather breaks out of prison and comes after her grandmother, Mercy must unearth the long-buried scandals that threaten to tear her family apart...
  • Neanderthal Next Door by K.C. Crowne

    Neanderthal Next Door by K.C. Crowne

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Don't fall for your enemy. .. Especially NOT a Neanderthal neighbor determined to make your life h*ll. After one unforgettable encounter Hunter immediately became the bane of my existence. He may be insanely HOT, dark and mysterious. .. But I want ZERO to do with him. There are THREE very good reasons:. #1 He's got secrets. #2 He's a crabby pants S. O. B. who thinks he can intimate me...
  • 1105 Yakima Street by Debbie Macomber

    1105 Yakima Street by Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    1105 Yakima Street. Cedar Cove, Washington. Dear Reader,. You’ve probably heard that my wife has left me. Rachel’s pregnant, and she says that she can’t handle the stress in our household anymore. My thirteen-year-old daughter, Jolene, is jealous of her. Maybe it’s my fault. As a widower I spoiled her – Jolene was reading over my shoulder just now and says that’s not true...
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