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  • Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan

    Breathe Your Last by Lisa Regan

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Josie presses her hands into the center of the drowned girl’s chest and pumps, counting off compressions. She takes in the girl’s beautiful face, her brown eyes glassy. The memory of a champion swimmer on the podium with her teammates—a red swim cap on, her head thrown back in laughter—a stark contrast to the cold, still body before her. Breathe. Just breathe..
  • Long Gone by Denise Grover Swank

    Long Gone by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Welcome to Lone County, Arkansas, where every corner holds a secret, and the past is never really buried.Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father's law firm, a move as dull as the small town she's returned to. But things take a turn when a local woman wants to declare her missing husband dead, five years after his mysterious disappearance...
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  • Fatal Scandal by Marie Force

    Fatal Scandal by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Book 8 of the Fatal series from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Force... As a new year dawns in the capital city, dual scandals rock the Metropolitan Police Department—and Lieutenant Sam Holland is right in the middle of them...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  mafia  suspense  contemporary  length-medium  m-f
  • Fatal Consequences by Marie Force

    Fatal Consequences by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The murder of two members of the Capitol Cleaning Service might’ve been just another homicide investigation—that is if one of them hadn’t been romantically involved with a married senator from Arizona. Lt. Sam Holland and her team are plunged into another complex case that at first seems open and shut...
  • Fatal Deception by Marie Force

    Fatal Deception by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    The wife of the White House deputy chief of staff has been beaten to death, and their one-year-old daughter is missing. D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland is in charge of the murder investigation, but she's forced to collaborate with Special Victims Unit detectives as well as thorn-in-her-side FBI Special Agent Avery Hill...
  • Fatal Jeopardy by Marie Force

    Fatal Jeopardy by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Washington, D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland and her husband, U.S. Senator Nick Cappuano, have been looking forward to a quiet Thanksgiving with their son. But any thoughts of a restful holiday are dashed when Sam and Nick return home to a gruesome scene: Sam's seventeen-year-old niece Brooke, barely conscious and covered in blood on their front stoop...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  mafia  contemporary  suspense  length-medium  m-f
  • La Sposa by Sienna Mynx

    La Sposa by Sienna Mynx

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 22 ratings
    You are cordially invited to the wedding of Don Giovanni Battaglia and Mira Ellison.... The year is 1991. Two years after discovering love and losing it Mira Ellison has finally accepted her destiny. She will become Donna Mirabella Battaglia, the wife of one of the most notorious crime bosses in Southern Italy...
  • Fatal Flaw by Marie Force

    Fatal Flaw by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Back from their honeymoon, Senator Nick Cappuano and D.C. Police Lieutenant Sam Holland are ready for some normalcy after the whirlwind of their wedding, but someone has other plans for them. When Sam discovers wedding cards containing thinly veiled death threats, she's not sure if she or Nick is the target. Already on edge, Sam and her team start investigating a series of baffling murders...
  • The Hitman's Guide to Codenames and Ill-Gotten Gains by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Codenames and Ill-Gotten Gains by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 17 ratings
    LelandStopping a robbery was only the beginning—to fun, action-filled mayhem. Jackson’s afraid that I’m running headfirst into trouble (again), but I’m not… I’m running gun-first into it. When one of the robbers who’s really just a kid comes begging for my help, I definitely have no choice but to help him...
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    mystery  mafia  m-m  contemporary  humor  suspense  queer  found-family
  • Savage Kings MC - South Carolina Books 1-6 by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Savage Kings MC - South Carolina Books 1-6 by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Are you ready to meet the smoking hot bikers of the South Carolina Savage Kings MC?~ Roman ~Roman McNamara is not only the president of the Savage Kings of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but he’s also the king of one-night stands...
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    mystery  mafia  contemporary  bikers  length-epic
  • Fatal Justice by Marie Force

    Fatal Justice by Marie Force

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    She looked into the dead face of the man she'd dined with the night before Standing over the body of a Supreme Court nominee, Lieutenant Sam Holland is hip-deep in another high-profile murder case. The fact that she was one of the last people to see Julian Sinclair alive just complicates things even more...
  • How to Hack a Hacker by A.J. Sherwood

    How to Hack a Hacker by A.J. Sherwood

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Kyou has a routine. A system. He guards Brannigan Genovese, hacks for his family of choice, and drinks far too much caffeine for any living being...
  • Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bloody Love by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    One. Two. Three. The cat is in the tree. As far as Lilah's concern, her note writing stalker just gets more stupid everyday. One, two, three, the cat is in the tree?What is that? And what does it have to do with a wedding turned bloody? The sixth book in the Lilah Love series...
  • Bad Deeds by Lisa Renee Jones

    Bad Deeds by Lisa Renee Jones

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Wall Street meets the Sons of Anarchy in Bad Deeds , the smoldering, scorching next novel in the explosively sexy Dirty Money series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. Would you bleed for the one you love? To save his family empire from the grip of the drug cartel, Shane is pushed to the edge of darkness, forced to make choices he might never make...
  • Montana Rain by Josie Jade

    Montana Rain by Josie Jade

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Psychiatrist Rayne Westerfield has found purpose in helping patients, especially those with PTSD, heal at the Resting Warrior Ranch. For her, there’s no greater calling than equipping people to fight the worst of their demons.But she’s never allowed anyone to help her fight her own.She’s kept her distance. Kept herself buttoned up tight...
  • Yakuza Fiance: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 6 by Asuka Konishi

    Yakuza Fiance: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii Vol. 6 by Asuka Konishi

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ripples travel out from the battle in Osaka, and Renji is none too happy with Shouma and Kirishima for involving his granddaughter. When a fight breaks out, Yoshino grabs a bat and breaks it up. But corporal punishment is not her style, never mind that Kirishima would absolutely take it and beg for more...
  • Darragh's Dilemma by Ciara St James

    Darragh's Dilemma by Ciara St James

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The O’Sheerans aren't what most might expect a mobster family to be like, however, make no mistake, when it counts they have no problem making those who threaten those they love and protect disappear. The days of being outright feuding mobsters have been tamed, but they’re still the largest Irish mobster family in the US...
  • Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Cian's Complication by Ciara St. James

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Cian O’Sheeran was the second oldest O’Sheeran child. His family was the largest Irish mob family in the US. Well, technically, to the world, they were former mobsters gone straight. The world might speculate and say they still were mobsters, but no one outside the family and their closest people knew the truth. Afterall, it was hard to remove all traces of a hunter from their bloodline...
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    mafia  mystery  contemporary  betrayal  length-medium  m-f
  • Black Velvet by Steven Henry

    Black Velvet by Steven Henry

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Erin learned a lot from her partner: stay alert, follow your nose, and once you've got your teeth in them, never let go.It’s tough working nights with the NYPD. The crime rate is high, the hours are terrible, and forget about a personal life. So when Officer O’Reilly and her K-9 Rolf switch over to the day shift, things are looking up. She’s even able to find time for a new boyfriend...
  • The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    The Devil Incarnate by Ali Vali

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For Cain Casey nothing is more important than family, and having hers close—Emma, Hayden, Hannah, and the new baby—is as near as she’ll get to true happiness. But enemies who lurk in the shadows threaten more than just her business, forcing her to question whether the biggest threat comes from having it all...
  • Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell Me to Lie by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    There was a time when my debt was the only link we had. There was a time when I couldn’t tell him how much I loved him and he couldn’t tell me. There was a time when I thought I could never have enough money. Now, everything is different. Nicholas Crawford is a stranger who is becoming more strange with every moment. I used to think I could make a life with him, but now I’m not so sure...
  • The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    The Silent Dolls by Rita Herron

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home...
  • Edge of Danger: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Edge of Danger: A Thrilling Romantic Mystery by Janie Crouch

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A thrilling romantic mystery about a child protector hero from the USA Today bestselling author, Janie Crouch. Previously published as Texas Bodyguard: Brax.A baby in his care… A target on their backsA skilled security expert and bodyguard, Brax Patterson is ready for anything… except unexpected custody of his reckless half brother’s baby boy...
  • 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...
  • Reign of Royal by Samantha Barrett

    Reign of Royal by Samantha Barrett

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    You know him as the son of Bishop and Kiara Murdoch, heir to the New York and Miami mafia but now you are about to know him as the Don of the Memento Mori.Are you ready for the reign of the heir?Buckle up and get ready for Royal Murdoch and the Memento Mori....Blurb and Cover coming soon..
  • Sinatra versus Gabrini: Family at War by Mallory Monroe

    Sinatra versus Gabrini: Family at War by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A shocking death in the Sinatra family and a Gabrini is to blame. Mob boss Sal Gabrini and his uncle, boss of all bosses Mick Sinatra, find themselves on opposite sides of a deadly battle when Mick the Tick will stop at nothing to avenge what he views as cold-blooded murder. The Gabrinis stick together. The Sinatras stick together...
  • Teddy Sinatra 1: Chains For Love by Mallory Monroe

    Teddy Sinatra 1: Chains For Love by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Pressure is the new normal for Teddy Sinatra. As the oldest son and heir-apparent to take over the Sinatra Crime Family, the underworld, his men, and his siblings all expect perfection from him. His father, the king of mob bosses Mick Sinatra, is very much still in the game and expects his son to be worthy to someday take his place...
  • Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Tell me to Fight by Charlotte Byrd

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    I’m a man who takes what he wants. What do I want? Her. Olive Kernes owned me a debt and she thought that she had paid it back. But now I want more. I want more than just her time. I want more than just her body. Her new life has torn us apart. Now, it’s up to me to make things right. I will make the pieces of our love fit back together if it’s the last thing I do...
  • King's Road by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    King's Road by Lane Hart, D.B. West

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Hold on tight for a ride down memory lane in this Savage Kings MC prequel!Chase Fury reminisces with his new cellmate Abe Cross about his days prospecting for the MC, in an attempt to entice him to join the Kings.You'll find out more about Deacon Fury, the founding member of the Savage Kings, and then go back to the very beginning, when Chase meets the love of his life...
  • Lies Untold by Lexie Winston

    Lies Untold by Lexie Winston

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Tori and Gio are doing everything they can to solidify their positions as a badass mafia family. But a traitor still lurks within the ranks and they need to find out who it is before the threat to their lives becomes a reality.Tori gets a chance to enact revenge against Stacey, but she's playing the long game...
  • Cato by Jessica Gadziala

    Cato by Jessica Gadziala

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He was idling by the curb, waiting for one of his friends when a woman jumped on the back of his bike, wrapped her arms around him, and begged him to drive...
  • Savage Saint by Luna Kayne

    Savage Saint by Luna Kayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    REGARDLESS OF OUR NAME, WE ARE NO SAINTS.LUCKILY, THE WOMEN WE LOVE ARE AS WICKED AS WE ARE.LENNOX SAINTI am who I am for a reason.The monster the world sees when they look at me was born twenty years ago to protect my brothers from the same fate I endured on my sixteenth birthday.After that night, I locked myself away until the night I met Sloane...
  • Long Way Down by Lauren Gilley

    Long Way Down by Lauren Gilley

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When she was six, a horrific crime against a family member determined the course of Melissa Dixon’s life. It eventually drove her away from her tiny, Mississippi home town, away from her family, and into a career in law enforcement. Living and working in NYC, she keeps the past locked away tight, memory relegated to rare nightmares...
  • Cornered Coyote by Dianne Harman

    Cornered Coyote by Dianne Harman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Gripping tale that is as Sweet as a Ballerina and as Pugnacious as a Pitbull! The silver bird gleamed in the blue sky, as the early morning sun bathed it in soft golden hues. Flight 714 was on the last leg of its journey, having burned close to fifty thousand gallons of jet fuel on its trans-Atlantic flight from Paris to Los Angeles...
  • Jonah: Kosher Nostra Book Two by Mirrah McGee

    Jonah: Kosher Nostra Book Two by Mirrah McGee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    JonahMost of my life was planned since before I was born. I am to serve the Avraham Avinu of the Kosher Nostra in North Carolina and protect the mishpocheh with my life. Despite the heavy that description implies, I have enjoyed a blessed and propserous existance of glutton and indulgence...
    Categorized as:
    mafia  mystery  contemporary  humor  length-short
  • Bratva Angel by Sabine Barclay

    Bratva Angel by Sabine Barclay

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Our worlds couldn’t be further apart…She’s light. I’m dark. She’s an angel. I’m a devil.I’ll never walk away from my life with the bratva.My only choice is to bring her in.She’s mine and always will be.Maybe she doesn’t know we’re soulmates yet, but I have since we met.I’ll do anything to protect her. No one’s foolish enough to stop me...
  • Fight by Nikita Parmenter

    Fight by Nikita Parmenter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    So many things have been revealed over the past few hours, and I have a feeling there are more revelations to come.Once I’ve gotten over the huge personal revelation, that I was not even slightly prepared for, we then have to find out who’s killing the parents and whether they pose a threat to us as well...
  • My Blind Date Babygirl by Shanna Handel

    My Blind Date Babygirl by Shanna Handel

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    She doesn't just need a man in her life. She needs a daddy. She's all business and as sassy as they come,Playing the role of Ice Queen.She needs a daddy to warm her up,and reveal her softer side.I want her over my knee...And in my bed.This beautiful girl needs an attitude adjustment...And a firm hand to guide her.It's only one blind date,But I can't get her out of my mind...
  • Dangerous Lies by Kris Butler

    Dangerous Lies by Kris Butler

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Lying to yourself was the most dangerous game of all.I’d once thought the only thing that mattered was the truth. But perhaps I’d been naive. Learning to navigate life with my eyes open, I’d found things weren’t as they seemed. The good guy didn’t always get the girl, the right thing wasn’t always easy to spot, and the bad guy wasn’t always the villain. Life was more about perception than truth...
  • Carter by Shanna Handel

    Carter by Shanna Handel

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    She is mine. It's time she learned what that means.In my world, a man keeps his woman in line.She is used to doing as she pleases.That is about to change...I thought I could have it both ways, but I was wrong.He expects to be obeyed, but he was patient.Until I pushed him too far...Now I'm going to find out what a man like him does to a naughty little girl..
  • Chances by Jackie Collins

    Chances by Jackie Collins

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 33 ratings
    The book that made Collins one of America's favorite authors sweeps readers from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas, plunging into the world of the Santangelo crime family. The book introduces street kid Gino Santangelo, who makes it all the way to the top, and his beautiful and daring daughter, Lucky...
  • The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan

    The Wrong Victim by Allison Brennan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating community is in shock and asking who would commit such a heinous crime—the largest act of mass murder in the history of the San Juan Islands...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  mafia  suspense  contemporary  length-long
  • Lucky by Jackie Collins

    Lucky by Jackie Collins

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 38 ratings
    SHE’S A HOT-BLOODED BEAUTY IN LOVE WITH POWER, HUNGRY FOR PLEASURE… WILD, NOTORIOUS, TROUBLE… SHE’S… LUCKY. THE FABULOUS HEROINE OF CHANCES RETURNS. With the sensual grace of a panther, Lucky Santangelo prowled her Las Vegas casino, restless, ready, eager for action...
  • The Wallflower's Revenge by SweetBlunch

    The Wallflower's Revenge by SweetBlunch

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Russian heiress Tatiana Rostova thought that her 'happily ever after' would be with her beloved fiance. However, the people she cared about most, betrayed her and left her for dead. Saved by a handsome Italian duke, a plan of revenge blooms...
  • War of the Wicked by Davidson King, Morningstar Ashley

    War of the Wicked by Davidson King, Morningstar Ashley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lucifer’s Landing is full of unscrupulous people: five families desperate to own every inch. For years, under the watchful and most powerful eye, there has been peace. With the murder of the most powerful man, it’s as if the gates of Hell have opened.Dante Scavo is trying to fill his father’s shoes, find the person responsible for killing him, and stop Lucifer’s Landing from becoming a war zone...
  • Blane by C.M. Marin

    Blane by C.M. Marin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    BLANEShe’s back home.My friend from a time that feels so distant is as beautiful and as kind as she was over five years ago, but her eyes now hold a confidence that didn’t use to shine there. Lana has returned as a fully independent woman sporting something hard that’s masking the pain that I know was etched in by her past. And fuck if she isn’t sexier than I ever remember her being...
  • Yellow, Volume 02 by Makoto Tateno

    Yellow, Volume 02 by Makoto Tateno

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Yellow Volume 2 marks the return of our heroes Goh and Taki to infiltrate the Japanese narcotics trade. This time, they're after your garden variety heroin that's being "floated" to Japan in a most unique way...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  mafia  m-m  contemporary  queer  length-short
  • Girls on the Run: A Gabrini Valentine by Mallory Monroe

    Girls on the Run: A Gabrini Valentine by Mallory Monroe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Gabrini ladies need a serious break after too much work and too little play leaves them depleted. They make a group decision to take that break during Valentine’s week with a once-in-a-lifetime girls trip to Paris. They leave the men back at home to do what the ladies are always forced to do every year: plan and prepare the Valentine’s Day activities and dinner...
  • Wild Saint by Luna Kayne

    Wild Saint by Luna Kayne

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    SHE BEAT HIM AT HIS OWN GAME ONCE.NOW IT’S ROUND TWO,AND THIS TIME THEY’RE PLAYING DIRTY.DAGEN SAINTFive years ago, Nyla stole two million dollars from me and disappeared.Now she’s resurfaced, and I’m determined to settle her debt…one way or another...
  • The Vigilante's Lover II by Annie Winters, Tony West

    The Vigilante's Lover II by Annie Winters, Tony West

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    If this is what it’s like to be a captive, Mia wants to be a prisoner forever. The second volume of the addictive romantic suspense series from the desk of USA Today bestselling author Deanna Roy / JJ Knight Jax may have kidnapped her. But now Mia wants to stay. The man is skilled. Intelligent. And gorgeous. His life is dangerous and wild...
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