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  • Jonny's Redemption by Riley Edwards

    Jonny's Redemption by Riley Edwards

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Can two lost souls find redemption or are some transgressions beyond forgiveness? Lieutenant Jonny Spencer’s life is spiraling out of control. With no end in sight, he withdrawals. Giving in to the darkness is his only reprieve. Roberta “Bobby” Layne knows what it means to live in the shadows. Her childhood was spent fading into obscurity—loneiless her only friend...
  • Rescuing Barbi by Ellie Masters

    Rescuing Barbi by Ellie Masters

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rescuing Barbi is the sixth book in the exhilarating new BRAVO TEAM series. It’s an angsty, steamy, romantic suspense chock-full of edge-of-your-seat action, exciting adventure, and all the protective hero yummy goodness you can handle...
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    military  mystery  suspense  dual-pov  length-medium  m-f
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  • The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    'But how will I look after them? Where can I hide them?' She looked up at me and didn't try to stop the tears from falling. 'I'm begging you. Please, save our children.'Paris, 1942. As the Germans occupy the city she calls home, Adele Basset is determined to keep her pupils' spirits up. Their dance class offers a moment of solace in the dark days of occupation...
  • Hidden Creed by Alex Kava

    Hidden Creed by Alex Kava

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Secrets are exposed and Ryder Creed's life hangs in the balance in the riveting sixth installment of the award-winning Alex Kava Ryder Creed K-9 mysteries.NOTHING STAYS HIDDEN FOREVER...During a training exercise, Creed’s scent dog, Grace, is drawn off course and discovers a shallow grave...
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    mystery  military  suspense  length-medium
  • A Third Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    A Third Moment in Time: A Collection of Short Stories by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Third Moment in Time is a collection of stories by Susan Stoker, including 3 short stories that have been published previously in recent anthologies, a story written specifically for social media, and a brand new, never been published novella featuring a beloved character from the Silverstone series.The Bully: When a bully at school targets the seventh-grader, Annie Fletcher is on her own...
  • Kascius by Dale Mayer

    Kascius by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A trip to overseas would be a great idea, as long as it didn’t include a stop in Scotland. He’d do a lot to visit his brother, but he could cheerfully never see the woman he used to love at the same time. But somehow an American War Dog was shipped overseas and Badger tagged him for the job. Arriving home for the first time in five years is a challenge but nothing has changed...
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    mystery  military  suspense  m-f
  • 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...
  • Remy by Elle James

    Remy by Elle James

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Retired Navy SEAL Remy Montagne left the Navy to take on a career where he could make a difference. After a short vacation to his old hometown of Bayou Mambaloa and a casual hookup with local woman, Shelby Taylor, he joins Hank Patterson’s Brotherhood Protectors in Montana...
  • Disconnect by Traci Hunter Abramson

    Disconnect by Traci Hunter Abramson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Brent Miller is still trying to get past the nightmares of his last mission into Nicaragua when a new commander takes charge of his Navy SEAL team. Commander Gardner has just one to further his career. And the so-called Saint Squad is in his way...
  • Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Protecting the Future by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Wolf and his fellow SEAL team members have saved many lives, and been in even more harrowing situations, but their latest mission might prove the most difficult of all. Charged with rescuing American soldier, Sergeant Penelope Turner, from the clutches of ISIS, the men infiltrate the refugee camp where she’s believed to be held...
  • Buried Scars by Jane Blythe

    Buried Scars by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He's her only chance at saving her daughter's life.Becoming a mother was the best thing to ever happen to Elle Cavey. It was her first time experiencing unconditional love and her seven-year-old daughter is the center of her world. Which makes knowing she's responsible for her daughter's abduction that much worse...
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    military  mystery  suspense
  • Fatal Risk by Jane Blythe

    Fatal Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He doesn’t do emotion, she lives by her emotions, how can they ever work as a couple?Julia Garamond is a reporter who won't let go once she catches a hint of a story, and this one is personal to her. When she crosses paths with one of Prey Security's teams she knows together they can take down the powerful Mikhailov Bratva who she believes is involved in a plot to overthrow the government...
  • Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Cold Fear by Toni Anderson

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 23 ratings
    A relentless FBI profiler hunts a vicious killer. When old evidence turns up on a fresh corpse, ASAC Lincoln Frazer is determined it won’t delay the execution of a convicted serial killer. But when more young women are brutally slain, it becomes clear—this new killer is intimately familiar with the old murders. A dedicated emergency physician hides a dark secret. Former Army Captain Dr...
  • Torn in Half by Samantha A. Cole

    Torn in Half by Samantha A. Cole

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Retired Navy SEAL and current private-security operative Ian Sawyer had never expected to have a child, much less a wife, but his beautiful Angie has changed all that. Her due date is only days away, and his anticipation outweighs his anxiety, thinking about holding his firstborn. But as he’s learned the hard way, life throws curveballs at the worst possible moment...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  military  suspense
  • CC: REAPER Patriots - Book Twenty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    CC: REAPER Patriots - Book Twenty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Charles Corbett Reilly served his country faithfully, waiting and biding his time until he could come home and convince Eva Harris that they belonged together. He’d kept his distance, given their age separation, but it was different now. She was a grown woman with a grown woman’s mind and body. But when he approached her to ask her out, she pushed back, something she’d never done before...
  • HG: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    HG: REAPER-Patriots: Book Fifty-Eight by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hawk Gunner "HG" O'Neal is feeling a bit left out when his brothers and AJ are married within weeks of one another. He never thought he'd be the one to want a family. He also never thought a woman would show up claiming the child in her arms was his. HG knew immediately that the boy didn't belong to him, but he also knew that the woman was stirring something inside him he couldn't ignore...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  length-short
  • JAK: Voodoo Guardians: Book ONE by Mary Kennedy

    JAK: Voodoo Guardians: Book ONE by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Joseph Alec Keith Robicheaux, better known as Jak, has fought a lot of bad men in his day. Terrorists, drug lords, traffickers, rapists, and more, as an Army Ranger, more importantly, a Robicheaux Ranger, he's now fighting one he can't really see. Haiti is falling apart. There is no government, no police to speak of, tourists are murdered, and children are disappearing...
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    military  mystery  length-short
  • HAM: VOODOO GUARDIANS: Book Three by Mary Kennedy

    HAM: VOODOO GUARDIANS: Book Three by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Hamish 'Ham' McDonald commanded one of the best Army Ranger units in the country. Serving with one of the famous Robicheaux Rangers, he was honored when asked to join Voodoo Guardians. Hoping to find a place to call home and still feel useful, he's happy to help keep an eye on the perplexing and hot-tempered Sadie Jordan...
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    military  mystery  suspense  length-short
  • CHRISTIAN: Voodoo Guardians: Book Ten by Mary Kennedy

    CHRISTIAN: Voodoo Guardians: Book Ten by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Christian Martin is ready to retire and head home to work with the family. But he's given one final mission and it's a doozy. A MARSOC brother is dead from an apparent opioid overdose. Except, no one is buying it. Too convenient. Too typical. Too everything. Sent to investigate and find the killer, he never expected to be saved by the Marine's sister. Everything should be easy, simple...
  • BARK or BITE: Gray Wolf Security: Book Four by Mary Kennedy

    BARK or BITE: Gray Wolf Security: Book Four by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Gray Wolf team is asked to help with a case that hits too close to home for them. Lovers of all animals, when a woman hires them to find the men who sold her a diseased, damaged puppy, no expects what they discover. Most of all, Pork doesn't expect their new client to be everything he's ever dreamed of...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  suspense  length-short
  • Mountain by Dale Mayer

    Mountain by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mountain hit the Arctic, knowing full well they would have to drag his dead body back out of the tundra before he ever quit on his little brother, Teegan. Theirs hadn’t been the easiest of upbringings, but, when times had been tough, there’d always been the two of them.Yet the series of events so far has gone from mysterious to downright deadly, and just what is the elusive Dr...
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    military  mystery  suspense  length-short
  • MONKEY BUSINESS: Gray Wolf Security: Book Eight by Mary Kennedy

    MONKEY BUSINESS: Gray Wolf Security: Book Eight by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Things are disappearing at Belle Fleur and her sister islands. Things that should mean absolutely nothing to anyone. What's more concerning is the security cameras are not picking up on anyone. When Ghost loses his favorite coffee mug, filled with hot, fresh coffee, the team realizes that something has to be done. After all, a man's coffee mug is sacred...
  • HEMMED: Gray Wolf Security: Book Nine by Mary Kennedy

    HEMMED: Gray Wolf Security: Book Nine by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Trying on a new suit or dress should be one of the guilty pleasures for all women. But when several young women notice something strange in the dressing room, the only place to turn is Gray Wolf Security. Finding the owners of the cameras is something they know how to do, but the deeper, more twisted mystery is why and finding the individuals pulling the strings...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  suspense  length-short
  • 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...
  • Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Tyler “Ty” Scott finally gets his book! When Cassie Dixon gets threatening letters, there’s only one person who can help - her best friend’s sexy cousin...
  • Jenner by Dale Mayer

    Jenner by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Heading to Ashland, Kentucky, where his ex-wife’s family lives, is not in Jenner’s plans anytime soon. But, given a War Dog is potentially in trouble, well, Jenner will even face his past. Arriving at a small bed-and-breakfast, he meets a woman more interesting than anyone he’d met in a long time...
  • Blade by Mary Kennedy

    Blade by Mary Kennedy

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Benjamin "Blade" LeBlanc left home to join the Army, hoping to help his mother, and possibly, return for his sweetheart. Unfortunately, his plans didn't go as expected when his sweetheart had other needs. With nothing to return for, Ben left to serve his country and now served with his brothers of the Steel Patriots MC...
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    military  mystery  bikers  length-medium
  • Fool's Folly by Elle James

    Fool's Folly by Elle James

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Delta Force Operative Levi Franks retires from the Army and joins the Brotherhood Protectors. Having lost the love of his life, he’s seen the best and worst of humanity and has no interest in love, marriage or a family. He wants to use the skills he’s honed to combat evil.After a messy divorce, Madeline “Maddie” McIntyre, rebuilt her life from nothing to something...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  suspense  second chances
  • Landon by Dale Mayer

    Landon by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Landon, after a tough couple of years helping his navy buddy live out his last years, needed a break. Tracking a war dog named Chica to make sure it was okay sounded perfect. Especially being able to take his three chihuahuas with him...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  suspense  length-medium
  • Silenced in the Sunflowers by Dale Mayer

    Silenced in the Sunflowers by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hearts start to heal. ... Friendships start to grow, ... just not for everyone!Doreen knows her relationship with the police captain has always been on thin ground. She has helped them solve a lot of cases, but she's quadrupled their work and constantly gets in their way...
  • Harper by Dale Mayer

    Harper by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    With his surgery postponed, Harper can finally take on a War Dog case to help out Kat and Badger. Harper knows it is short-term, a fill-his-time thing. Considering his stage of life, that is perfect. Finding out he needs to find two dogs is a surprise, but he doesn’t expect to track one dog in order to keep another alive...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  suspense  length-short
  • A Hero for Her: Small-town Romantic Suspense by Maryann Jordan

    A Hero for Her: Small-town Romantic Suspense by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The first time they met, they didn't like each other.The second time they met, they vowed to stay away from each other.The third time they met…Sometimes, the third time is the charm.Jared’s bad mood had him snap at the beautiful woman on the beach. After another run-in with the rude man, she decided to keep her distance...
  • A Hero's Surprise by Maryann Jordan

    A Hero's Surprise by Maryann Jordan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Jose Martinez isn’t looking for love.Not that he’s opposed to falling in love. And God knows, his mother is desperate for him to find a good woman to marry and start a family with. But he’s waiting for sparks, not willing to settle for less. Plus with his career in full swing, and a house to work on… finding love isn’t top of his list right now...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  suspense  length-medium
  • Onyx's Awakening by Heather Slade

    Onyx's Awakening by Heather Slade

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    He’s an alpha pilot for K19 Security Solutions.She's a grieving sister, determined to get answers.With ONYX by her side, their dark and blackened pasts may have a brighter future.ONYXA crash and a coma has grounded me. Without flight, I’m a pilot without wings. I refuse to give up, give in. I need to be back in the air with nothing but gravity threatening me...
  • Lucas by Elle James

    Lucas by Elle James

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Former Delta Force Operator, Lucas LeBlanc, has lost everyone he’s ever loved and is afraid to commit his heart to anyone. He believes he’s the black cloud, the bad luck killing off the people he dares to love as family, friend or lover. After leaving the military, he joins Brotherhood Protectors where he hopes he can put his combat training and skills to work helping others...
  • A Lethal Betrayal by Lori Matthews

    A Lethal Betrayal by Lori Matthews

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The men and women of the US Coast Guard are back in action in a brand new series, Coast Guard Hawai'iChief Petty Officer Dane Landry is injured and burning through his last chance with the US Coast Guard. His new team is tasked with finding stolen military-grade technology, but he finds himself in the crosshairs of an investigation as the prime suspect in the murder of a former teammate...
  • Montana Heat by Josie Jade

    Montana Heat by Josie Jade

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Fairytale, Colorado.For Jasmine Adel, it seems like the perfect place to start over. What bad could happen in a town with such a charming name?She’s not qualified to do much, so finding a job at the local dress shop is a relief and a chance to leave behind the life that has been slowly smothering her. She’s making friends. She’s even flirting a little with the town’s handsome sheriff...
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    mystery  military  suspense  length-medium
  • 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...
  • Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks

    Counting Miracles by Nicholas Sparks

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change—or even make our peace with—the path we’ve taken.Tanner Hughes was raised by his grandparents, following in his grandfather’s military footsteps to become an Army Ranger. His whole life has been spent abroad, and he is the proverbial rolling stone . .
  • Pretend You're Mine - The Wedding (Benevolence) by Lucy Score

    Pretend You're Mine - The Wedding (Benevolence) by Lucy Score

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A Small Town Love Story I only wanted to protect you... Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. Strong, sweet, and sexy, he doesn't have a girlfriend and doesn't want one. When the wildly beautiful Harper stumbles into his life, though, he realizes that she's the perfect decoy...
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  contemporary  length-long
  • Kidnapped by Dee Henderson

    Kidnapped by Dee Henderson

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    Someone snatched his cousin's wife and son. FBI agent Luke Falcon is searching for a kidnapper and sorting out the crime. He's afraid it's the work of a stalker. He's afraid they're already dead. And he'll do anything required to get them back alive . . . but he didn't plan on falling in love with the only witness...
  • Deadly Risk by Jane Blythe

    Deadly Risk by Jane Blythe

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The last thing he wants is to fall for her.Mackenzie Arden knows she'll never be free of her brother's violent obsession with her, and now she's his prisoner and an unwitting pawn in his plot. When she’s rescued by a man who is as intriguing as he is intimidating, she finally starts to feel safe for the first time in her life, only he wants nothing to do with her...
  • Jager by Dale Mayer

    Jager by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jager Hannover, a former SEAL, has recovered from the damage done when his squad's truck drove over an antitank landmine more than two years ago. Six other team-mates were also badly injured, the seventh--Mouse--dead, in what their team leader Badger Horley realized later had to be a trap...
  • The Final Reveal by Dale Mayer

    The Final Reveal by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This is a novella tying up the SEALs of Steel series. A prosthetic design engineer, Kat Greenwald is in love with Badger Horley. The former SEALs team leader is the love of her life. But she's seen and heard firsthand of the fears and commitment issues Badger and his closest friends--once part of Navy special operations teams--struggle with on a daily basis...
  • The War Hero's Welcome: A Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery by Dianne Harman

    The War Hero's Welcome: A Cedar Bay Cozy Mystery by Dianne Harman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The war hero returns home With his dog, Wicked Both have been injured Their welcome should be pretty straightforward But not everyone likes a war hero Maybe Kelly’s son, Cash, should have stayed in Afghanistan At least there he knew who the enemy was! All Kelly and Mike want to do is help Cash recuperate from his injuries They never planned on becoming involved with a...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  military  suspense  christian
  • Taylor by Dale Mayer

    Taylor by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Murder is a deadly way to start a relationship ...Finally back in Coronado and his own apartment but still tired from traveling, Taylor helps a neighbor by closing her apartment door as she dashes back to work. But, as he does so, a smell he's all too familiar with permeates the air. And he's plunged into a multiple homicide with no meaning or end ..
    Categorized as:
    military  mystery  humor  suspense  length-short
  • SEALs of Honor by Dale Mayer

    SEALs of Honor by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This collection of books contains: 1.Brett2.Devlin3.EastonFull description is below:SEALs of Honor: BrettHigh seas terror and international intrigue all wrapped up in homegrown problems of the loved-and-lost-and-found-again variety...Rescuing hostages trapped on a yacht in the middle of the open ocean is a routine mission for an elite SEAL like Brett...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  military  suspense  length-epic
  • Tactical Takeover by Elle James

    Tactical Takeover by Elle James

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL, Sawyer Johnson’s career as a SEAL is over. He’s the soul survivor of a helicopter crash that cost him friends, brothers and the use of his right hand. Out of the military and aimless, he receives a job offer and a ticket to fly to Colorado Springs. On the flight, he meets a woman who is moving to Colorado to free her brother from a cult...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  military  anthologies  suspense
  • Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Life & Limb by Freya Barker

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Growing up a military brat and spending eight years overseas with the Army Medical Corps, clinical social worker, Willa Smith, has had enough of rules and regulations. Still able to work with veterans as she did at the VA Hospital, she is much happier at the new and far more relaxed South Avenue Shelter, until one of its residents is implicated in a murder...
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