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Tell Me Your Desires by Jourdyn Kelly, Melissa Tereze
When the line between pain and pleasure blurs, everyone bleeds. Detective Jaime Baros claws her way through each night, haunted by the blood-soaked memory of her fiancée’s brutal murder. Three years of insomnia haven’t dulled the pain. Now a sadistic killer carves a path through the city, forcing Jaime to plunge into the abyss she’s fought desperately to avoid... -
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Her Wicked Promise by Persephone Black
Thirty more days. Ten million dollars. A bargain I can’t resist…and a beast I can’t forget. I told myself I’d never return. But my sister’s life is on the line, and Eva Novak knows it. She drags me back into her world with an offer I can’t afford to refuse. Forbidden fantasies are waiting in her eyes, in her hands, in the ways she claims me. And she seems to be changing. Softening... -
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![Her Ruthless Heart by Persephone Black]()
Her Ruthless Heart by Persephone Black
She stole my heart. Then my enemies stole her. I'll pay any price to get her back. A queen cannot afford a weakness. And some people think mine has a name. Robin Rivers. The woman I should have let go. The woman I can't live without. My enemies have been watching, waiting for me to slip. They thought she was my soft spot, my liability. But they're wrong. Robin isn't my weakness... -
![Strangers in Paradise, Volume 2: I Dream of You by Terry Moore]()
Strangers in Paradise, Volume 2: I Dream of You by Terry Moore
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsCollects Volume 2 issues #1-9. Strangers in Paradise (SIP) is the story of three friends, Francine, Katchoo, and David and the people they fall in and out of love with. It's a tale of dark pasts and hopeful futures, double-crosses and true friendship, love, and hate... -
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![Love & Honor by Radclyffe]()
Love & Honor by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsUS Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts has more than one secret that could destroy her career, not the least of which is that she’s in love with the president’s daughter. Blair Powell, the first daughter, returns the feeling despite her ambivalence about Cam’s role as her security chief, particularly in the aftermath of an assassination attempt that nearly cost Cam her life... -
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Untold by Nancy Ann Healy
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFive years have passed since Alex Toles walked away from the covert world of international espionage. Alex spends her days as an instructor at the police academy, and her evenings coaching the local high school track team. Life in the Toles household has fallen into a familiar routine... -
![The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali]()
The Devil Unleashed by Ali Vali
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs the heat of violence rises, so does passion. A gunshot meant to end the legacy of the Casey Clan has left a weakened Cain fighting to regain control of her business while trying to protect her heart from the woman who left her. Threatened from every side, Cain must unleash that devil to protect all she holds dear... -
![Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski]()
Buried Promises by Eliza Lentzski
Cold Case detective Cassidy Miller is no stranger to buried things—bodies, secrets, and memories she’d rather forget. Life with her fiancée, the brilliant but guarded defense attorney Julia Desjardin, is the closest thing she’s felt to peace. But as Julia begins the emotional process of fertility treatments, Cassidy finds herself caught between wanting a future and fearing she doesn’t deserve one... -
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Mirror by Max Ellendale
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn the final installment of the Four Point Trilogy, Sali and Maggie, despite their retirement, find themselves tirelessly recruited by civilians asking for their help. When a desperate mother appeals to Sali's sensitivities to search for her missing daughter, the duo, reluctantly, give in... -
![Love & Honor by Radclyffe]()
Love & Honor by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThird book in the Honor Series. US Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts has more than one secret that could destroy her career, not the least of which is that she’s in love with the president’s daughter... -
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Honor Under Siege by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWith the nation on the verge of war, security takes on new meaning for Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts, whose lover just happens to be the President’s daughter. First daughter Blair Powell and her “secret” Secret Service agent lover, Cameron Roberts, intend to get married—with her father’s blessing... -
![Rainey with a Chance of Hale by R.E. Bradshaw]()
Rainey with a Chance of Hale by R.E. Bradshaw
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsRainey Bell, a former FBI Behavioral Analyst, has had a couple of quiet years since her last brush with death. Her old teammate with the BAU and her children's Godfather, Danny McNally, pays a visit to North Carolina from Quantico to escort Rainey into the Butner Federal Correctional Complex. Rainy made a promise almost twenty years ago to a distraught mother of a missing child... -
![Guarding her Gangster Queen by Persephone Black]()
Guarding her Gangster Queen by Persephone Black
I fled the Colombo Family as a widow. But I’m coming back as their Queen. I’m done running. And I’m done having Nik Kusek sacrifice everything for my sake. She’s protected me, killed for me, even turned against her own people…. Now it’s my turn to step up. I’m ready to claim what belongs to the casino, the Family, and the truth about who really killed the old Don... -
![The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland]()
The Kidnapped by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen she sees a picture of a little girl who looks just like her younger self in a book about lost children, Heidi realizes she was born Hollis Richardson and that she’d been stolen from her mother... -
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![Lone Wolf by Persephone Black]()
Lone Wolf by Persephone Black
I'm the perfect solider. Feared. Respected. And utterly alone. I don't need friends. I certainly don't need a partner. But the Styx Syndicate has paired me up with Sunny Santiago. She's everything I'm not—reckless, warm, alive. She laughs during missions, flirts during combat, and treats danger like a dance floor... -
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Relatively Rainey by R.E. Bradshaw
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTerrors come during vulnerable moments in the night. While lost in sleep, demons arise to expose our deepest dreads. Happiness is not a deterrent to the treachery of memories and fears. Having suffered a traumatic event nearly five years prior, Rainey has settled into contented family life... -
![Colde & Rainey by R.E. Bradshaw]()
Colde & Rainey by R.E. Bradshaw
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen an old friend of Billy Bell’s is killed in a hunting accident, Rainey feels obligated to attend the memorial service. The forecasted blizzard cannot deter her from fulfilling what she believes would be her father’s wishes. What begins as a trip to pay her respects deteriorates with the weather... -
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The Rainey Season by R.E. Bradshaw
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThis is the third in the award winning Rainey Bell Thriller series, following Lambda Literary Award Finalist Rainey Nights. Each book is stand-alone. It does help to read them in order, but it is not necessary. In The Rainey Season, former FBI behavioral analyst Rainey Bell has settled into her life as a wife and mother with Katie Myers and the triplets... -
![The Devil You Know by Ali Vali]()
The Devil You Know by Ali Vali
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsCain Casey has much to be thankful for—a loving wife in Emma, three beautiful children, and an ever-expanding family. Her business continues to grow, giving her the power to keep it all safe, but is it? Unknown federal agents are not playing by the government’s rules, and the Russian mob comes seeking revenge for the losses Cain’s inflicted... -
![The System by Nicole Pyland]()
The System by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKieran Hart has just gone through a divorce and is starting over with a new job at a DNA discovery site. After finding out she’s adopted years earlier, she sends in her sample, hoping to find her birth parents, and instead, finds herself in a police station, being accused of a crime she didn’t commit because her DNA was a match to a homicide. Only, it’s not Kieran’s DNA... -
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Identity by Nancy Ann Healy
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOnce a spy, always a spy. Alex Toles and Claire Brackett are back in action. Once rivals, the pair of FBI agents receive a summons from President Candace Reid to the White House. Evidence of forced starvation scattered throughout Russia coincides with a growing military presence in the small Russian exclave of Kaliningrad... -
![Moonlight Avenue by Gerri Hill]()
Moonlight Avenue by Gerri Hill
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsFinley Knight, ex-cop turned private investigator, lives a lonely, solitary life. She uses her downtime to reflect on the past and wonders what could have been. Detective Dee Woodard transferred to Corpus Christi nine years ago to put distance between herself and her ex…an ex she was still in love with. A murder investigation leads her to Moonlight Avenue and Finley Knight... -
![Dangerous Game by Bel Blackwood]()
Dangerous Game by Bel Blackwood
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe other woman… is a mob boss? ! After Wren's girlfriend cheats on her and breaks her heart, Wren craves revenge. She's not going to be a meek little pushover any longer. She's going to seduce and humiliate the other woman, and give her a taste of her own medicine. But she gets more than she bargains for. Katya is a gorgeous, deadly, mafia queenpin. And. . -
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Timber Falls by Gerri Hill
The isolated, sleepy little village of Timber Falls—built on the bend of a swift mountain river—swells during the summer months as tourists flock to town to run the river, lured there by the Class V rapids. Haley Martin used to be what the locals called a “river rat”, back during the days of her college years... -
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![Rusty Logic by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince]()
Rusty Logic by Robin Alexander, Lori Prince
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsAncelet Bay, Louisiana, on the surface is a peaceful and quiet little town. It seemed to be the perfect place for workaholic Rusty Martinez to detox and deal with destructive habits that had affected her health. The respite, however, comes with some unexpected side effects, one of which is a plastic flamingo-wielding neighbor who suspects Rusty is a terrorist... -
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Water Mark by J.M. Redmann
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 10 ratingst’s just one more body in one more destroyed house. In New Orleans, after Katrina, there are thousands of destroyed houses and hundreds of body yet to be found. Can one more matter? It does to Micky Knight as she takes on the search to find out who the woman was and why she might have died there... -
![The Target by Gerri Hill]()
The Target by Gerri Hill
Sara Michaels is the daughter of a prominent senator who has just announced his candidacy for President of the United States--the same senator who has been receiving death threats against his family. Sara Michaels is also the owner of a self-help clinic and is hell-bent--despite the FBI's warnings--on leading a group of ten women on a two-week sojourn through the Rocky Mountains... -
![A Matter of Trust by Radclyffe]()
A Matter of Trust by Radclyffe
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA Prequel to In Pursuit of Justice. Michael Lassiter, a theoretical design executive, is about to wage war on the corporate battlefield as she fights to maintain control of her company in the midst of divorce. She hires JT Sloan, an internet security consultant, to protect her most important asset — her dreams and visions, which are suddenly vulnerable within the corporate computer system... -
![Rescue Me by Michelle L. Teichman]()
Rescue Me by Michelle L. Teichman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLife is exciting if you’re one of the top RCMP officers in the country. With a few good years under her belt and a promotion so close she can almost touch it, Staff Sergeant Kristen Bailey of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has everything figured out. Until she meets Ashleigh Paige. Beautiful, naïve, intelligent, and trusting, Ashleigh is the perfect possible lead for Bailey’s case... -
![Thief of Always by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou]()
Thief of Always by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsStealing a diamond to save the world is the easy part. Mishael Taylor takes comfort in speed, racing from one mission to another as Allegro, one of the Elite Operative Organization's top agents--or from one affair to another, to avoid having to think about the things she's seen and done... -
![Missing Lynx by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou]()
Missing Lynx by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhere do you run when there's nowhere to hide? When a sadistic serial killer known as the Headhunter resurfaces, a government blunder forces the Elite Operatives Organization into action. Operation Mask falls to Lynx. She has the determination, skills, and most importantly, the right profile, but her youth and lack of experience in the field could put more than the mission in jeopardy... -
![The Gemini Deception by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou]()
The Gemini Deception by Kim Baldwin, Xenia Alexiou
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAgent Harper “Shield” Kennedy’s specialty within the Elite Operatives Organization is security, although she’s long lost any gratification from babysitting most VIPs. However, her new assignment—to safeguard the U. S. president—will prove to be the biggest challenge of her career... -
![Storm Lines by Jessica L. Webb]()
Storm Lines by Jessica L. Webb
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConstable Bridget “Marley” Marlowe is always doing the wrong thing for the right reason. This time she’s skating the line of police procedure by protecting a young girl caught up in her father’s designer street drug ring. But when Marley gets injured, she needs help from someone she can trust. Dr. Devon Wolfe is a burned out psychologist on leave from her job in a busy hospital trauma unit... -
![Guardian Angel by Cara Malone]()
Guardian Angel by Cara Malone
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA woman is brutally slain and discarded in a secure construction site. She’s discovered wrapped in a silk sheet, wearing nothing but expensive diamond earrings. No one knows how she got there. When Detective Lena Wolf gets the call to investigate, her department is already stretched thin canvassing a multi-body dump site in the forest at the edge of Fox County... -
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![One Last Thing by Kim Baldwin]()
One Last Thing by Kim Baldwin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBlood is thicker than pride. The final book in the Elite Operative Series brings together foes, family, and friends to start a new order. Special Agent Switch needs to get close to Greek tycoon Konstantinos Lykourgos, the prime suspect in the theft of a priceless ancient icon from a monastery on Mount Athos. His accomplice is the EOO’s recurring nemesis: Theodora Rothschild, aka TQ, the Broker... -
![The Devil's Due by Ali Vali]()
The Devil's Due by Ali Vali
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the sixth book of the Devil Series, Cain and Emma are now married and have returned to a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans to await the birth of their third child. Cain’s wedding gift to Emma was peace of mind with the death of Juan Luis and his mother, but Anthony Curtis is still a threat who has disappeared as effectively as the Luis family once did... -
![Not Dead Enough by J.M. Redmann]()
Not Dead Enough by J.M. Redmann
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA woman wants to find her missing sister. That should be easy for an experienced PI like Micky Knight. Until the woman—or someone who looks like her—ends up in the morgue. Micky finds herself in a tangled mess, not knowing who the real victim is, or how her name keeps coming up in places it shouldn’t... -
![Concealment by Nancy Ann Healy]()
Concealment by Nancy Ann Healy
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsFor over a decade, Alex Toles has walked the fine line between shadow and light, working within the fringes of National Intelligence to expose the roots of The Collaborative—a covert organization of military, political, and corporate leaders whose true agenda remains shrouded in mystery... -
![Death of a Dying Man by J.M. Redmann]()
Death of a Dying Man by J.M. Redmann
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNew Orleans PI Micky Knight just had to get into a butch pissing contest with the journalist partner of a famous doctor working with her lover, Cordelia James. Micky’s insistence that the skills of a reporter are of no use to a PI backfires, and now she’s stuck with a drop-dead gorgeous assistant and the case of a dying gay man looking for a child he might have fathered... -
![Zero Chill by Carolyn Elizabeth]()
Zero Chill by Carolyn Elizabeth
Corey Curtis and Thayer Reynolds, now living together, are more than happy to put the days of their turbulent courtship behind them, trading hospital rooms and jail cells for quiet nights in front of a crackling fire. With the holidays upon them they are looking forward to celebrating with friends and family, intimate moments alone, and festive surprises... -
![Terrors of the High Seas by Melissa Good]()
Terrors of the High Seas by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter the stress of a long Navy project and Kerry's father's death, Dar and Kerry decide to take their first long vacation together. A cruise in the eastern Caribbean seems just the nice, peaceful time they need to unwind and relax... -
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Trigger by Jessica L. Webb
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsDr. Kate Morrison doesn’t know how or why someone would create human bombs that are triggered by touch. But when Sergeant Andy Wyles blocks Kate from touching the patient who collapses in her Vancouver ER, Kate joins the investigation to demand answers, regardless of the danger... -
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High Desert by Katherine V. Forrest
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn this long-awaited new installment of the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Kate is forced to confront her most formidable opponent: herself... -
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Lost at Sea by A.E. Radley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnnie Peck finds herself in a terrible situation and is literally running for her life. A chance encounter with a surprising lookalike leads her towards a risky solution. Captain Caroline West knows she is lucky to be one of the few women cruise ship captains in the world... -
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![Gold Star Chance by C.J. Murphy]()
Gold Star Chance by C.J. Murphy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHigh in the Appalachian Mountains, Sheriff Chance Fitzsimmons, frequently puts her specialized rescue training to use. The retired smoke jumper, turned law enforcement officer, is dedicated to the protection of all those who live in or visit Tucker County, West Virginia. With her K9 partner, Zeus, she maintains the peace even as it eludes her off-duty life... -
![Destroying Angel by Cara Malone]()
Destroying Angel by Cara Malone
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA detective with secrets and a socially awkward scientist team up to solve the case of a relationship gone toxic in this age gap romantic suspense. Emery Ellison is a seasoned scientist at the top of her field, held back only by the shyness that has plagued her all her life... -
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Credo's Hope by Alison Naomi Holt
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlexandra Wolfe takes Sherlock Holmes and Stephanie Plum and rolls them into a fresh, irreverent, tough cop who skates on the edge of the law in her quest for justice. Officially, Alexandra Wolfe, a detective in the Special Crimes Unit of the Tucson Police Department, searches for a madman killing and maiming prostitutes... -
![Ill Will by J.M. Redmann]()
Ill Will by J.M. Redmann
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFirst, do no harm. But as New Orleans PI Micky Knight discovers, not every health care provider follows that dictum. She stumbles into a tangle of the true believers to the criminally callous, who use the suffering of others for their twisted ends... -
![Pathogen by Jessica L. Webb]()
Pathogen by Jessica L. Webb
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen a deadly virus surfaces in the small, wealthy town of Hidden Valley, British Columbia, Dr. Kate Morrison and Sergeant Andy Wyles work together to uncover the source of the outbreak. As the two women navigate their new relationship, Kate and Andy are also forced to navigate a highly political and increasingly panicked community... -
![Art of the Chase by Jennifer Giacalone]()
Art of the Chase by Jennifer Giacalone
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsWhen a notorious art thief surfaces, warring detective exes reunite for the hunt. A second-chance lesbian romantic suspense that fuses the fine line between love and hate. Six years ago, the “Fabulous Gustave” slipped the grasp of Agent Fleur van Beekhof, making off with a priceless artwork…and Fleur’s beautifully ordered life...
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