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The Scent of Winter by Tiffany Reisz
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe 2016 Original Sinners Christmas story, free on December 20th.Kingsley Edge thought he was being driven to the airport. He never expected he'd be kidnapped and relocated to a cabin in the middle of nowhere, Maine to help Søren celebrate his birthday. But it's not quite the sexy party Kingsley hoped for... -
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Grinch by Marie James
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI never ran from my past or the only woman I ever loved.She made sure to stomp me into the ground and demand I forget all about her.I tried to do just that, and in the twelve years since she ripped my heart out, I’ve done fairly well.Sometimes I could even go a day or two without thinking of her.We were never supposed to see each other again, but Grace Neiman just couldn’t stay gone... -
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![Code Name: Pisces by Janie Crouch]()
Code Name: Pisces by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMy code name is Pisces. The stars say I’m independent, wise, and intuitive.Still waters run deep. I’m the leader of Zodiac Tactical’s guardian unit. We’re the bodyguards—the ones who stand toe to toe with danger and refuse to give any ground. We protect people who need it most.But what if who needs it most is a spoiled diva?I don’t normally take on movie stars...Categorized as:
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![Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe]()
Extreme Risk by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsCan she accept an offer of help from a patient she’s attracted to?Dr. Piper Hamilton is used to keeping on the fringes. She knows what it's like to be responsible for the death of someone you love and she'd do anything to protect herself from feeling that pain again... -
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![Capture Me: The Complete Trilogy by Anna Zaires]()
Capture Me: The Complete Trilogy by Anna Zaires
All 3 books in the USA Today bestselling trilogy, available for a limited time in one convenient, discounted bundle. “A perfectly dark thrill ride of breathtaking action and scorching hot romance” —Skye Warren, New York Times bestselling author “Yulia,” he whispers, staring down at me, and I know he feels it too, this pull, this visceral connection between us...Categorized as:
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![Ugly by Marie James]()
Ugly by Marie James
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHooking up with a cop was supposed to be fun.How joking with Detective Lennox Maison about her handcuffs transformed into her actually arresting me was something I could’ve never predicted.I thought it was a joke at first, but what kind of person would joke about the murder of a local woman?Lennox claimed I was the last one to see her alive.I should have an alibi... -
![The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks by John Wiltshire]()
The Bright and Hungry Future of Hawks by John Wiltshire
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe FINAL book in the addictive, best-selling "More Heat Than The Sun" M/M Thriller seriesBen and Nikolas know that if they were to compare recollections of their life together, they’d remember things very differently. Ben never asks about their time together in the Department, because he doesn’t want to hear Nikolas lie... -
![Dutch’s Surprise Baby by Aria Ray]()
Dutch’s Surprise Baby by Aria Ray
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFigured my major screw-up was losing Joy, but it was losing that precious secret she cradled in her belly. Now she's back, and I'll guard her and my little dude 'til my last wicked beat.Despite being much older than Joy, I was damn sure we were meant to ride together. Then, she vanished, leaving me with just a quick note and a shattered heart.Didn't sit right, but I respected her call... -
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Rescuing Isabelle by Ellie Masters
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsKeeping her safe from a deadly cartel might be the easy part of our relationship…As a former NAVY SEAL and Guardian, rescuing Isabelle LaCroix was my job.Falling for her was not.But that didn’t stop me.Boy, did I fall hard.Just my luck… Izzy isn’t looking for happily ever after. Especially not with a guy like me... -
![The Voices are Back by Lani Lynn Vale]()
The Voices are Back by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsJust a word, yet one person came to mind. Morrigan St. Pete. The woman that’d been hounding my every step since the day she was born. From the moment we first comforted each other in the hospital, to the day that I left her to follow her dreams, I knew that she was my one...Categorized as:
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![Special Kind of Twisted by Lani Lynn Vale]()
Special Kind of Twisted by Lani Lynn Vale
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsHe had a way of pulling everyone into his darkness. Then, to make matters worse, he convinced you that you liked it there. Kyle Davis—ex professional baseball player and current felon—loved Sara, his best friend. Strictly platonically, of course. He’d do absolutely anything for her, even put up with Greer, Sara’s other best friend. What she was not was Kyle’s best friend... -
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Raven by K.L. Savage
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNot even the holidays can make a bastard like me feel better.The guys are all gone for Christmas, but I decide to stay.I'm hunting a horrific serial killer and I can't afford to lose him.I'm regretting that decision when I find her:Beaten, bloodied, and left out in the snow to die.Who is she?That's the problem. Not even she knows... -
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Luca by Eden Summers
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLuca dragged me from hell and delivered me to salvation.At least that's what I thought.I hoped this would be a new life. A fresh start.But the pain followed.I'm certain the monsters did, too.I'm told it's paranoia. Trauma. PTSD.Nobody believes my truth.But they'll soon learn.We all will.Because as much as I want to forget the mantra from my nightmares, it hasn't stopped being true... -
![Cold Silence by Toni Anderson]()
Cold Silence by Toni Anderson
Read the next edge-of-your-seat Romantic Thriller from New York Times bestselling author, Toni Anderson.FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Shane Livingstone is frustrated when an injury sidelines him during an operation to catch a sadistic killer. A killer who auctions off vicious ways to torture his victims and screens the events for money on the dark web...Categorized as:
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![Watch Your Back by Karen Rose]()
Watch Your Back by Karen Rose
A cold case reopened. A murderer re-emerging more deadly than ever before… Baltimore Homicide Detective Stevie Mazzetti has suffered losses no woman should have to endure. And, despite it all, she’s still a fighter. When she learns that her ex-partner might have miscarried justice, she’s determined to put the past to rights, even when she becomes a target...Categorized as:
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![Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas]()
Code Name: Gemini by Janie Crouch, Danielle M. Haas
Tasha Volkov has been on the run for three years from a brutal cartel who want her her family.She already paid a heavy price for crossing them, and has the scars to prove it. Her only choice is to keep running, even if the tiny town of Pine Valley feels more like home to her than anywhere else she's ever been... -
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Hellfire by Cathleen Cole, Frank Jensen
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsShe’s his best friend’s little sister, but he’d risk everything to have her…HellfireSmoke would kill me if he knew all the dirty, depraved things I want to do to his little sister. For years, I’ve been forced to look and not touch.She’s been mine since the first time I saw her, even if she doesn’t know it.But when yet another threat to the club comes out of the woodwork, I decide I’ve had enough...Categorized as:
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![The Six Night Truce by Hannah Shield]()
The Six Night Truce by Hannah Shield
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhen I stepped into the courtroom this morning, I intended to fight for my client’s life. I never expected to run for my own. Now the courthouse is in lockdown, and I’m trapped in a tiny room with my nemesis—the West Oaks PD cop who hates me most. He’s a single dad with a growly attitude. An ex-Marine. And he’s the star witness against my client...Categorized as:
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![Out of the Ashes by R.C. Boldt]()
Out of the Ashes by R.C. Boldt
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsPhoenix /fēniks/: (in classical mythology) a unique bird inhabiting the Arabian Desert that burned itself on a funeral pyre before rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle. This isn’t mythology, it’s war, and Hendy is left in the hands of Hell’s cruelest gatekeepers... -
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Devil by Silvia Violet
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsA Dark Mafia Romance Devil is a mobster with a dangerous secret... There's a cop who hates him. A cop he caught and released. A cop he can't get out of his mind after the one forbidden night they shared... -
![Cold Deceit by Toni Anderson]()
Cold Deceit by Toni Anderson
A tenacious forensic anthropologist needs protection from an elite FBI HRT operator as they search for a ruthless killer in this Romantic Thriller by New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson.When forensic anthropologist Zoe Miller stumbles across a murder victim in the blisteringly hostile Sonoran Desert, she triggers a chain of events that puts her in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer...Categorized as:
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![Covert Risk by Jane Blythe]()
Covert Risk by Jane Blythe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn unplanned pregnancy puts her in the sights of a terrorist.Lila Angeletti fought hard to get away from her family and build her own life. After years of not letting anyone get too close she falls for a man only to have him break things off with no explanation. Then she finds out she's carrying his baby... -
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Pretty Nightmare by J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsINDIE I have them all now. Just the way I want them.McKay, the one who loves me deepest.Adam, the one who protects me fiercely.Donovan, the one who tells the truth.They are my friends, they are my lovers, they are my world.And Maggie belongs to all of us—no matter who her father is.This is the family I’ve always wanted.This is the family I deserve.And I will do whatever it takes to keep them... -
![Bound by Fate by Ryan Michele]()
Bound by Fate by Ryan Michele
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author Ryan Michele brings the action packed, angst filled story of second chances.Oh what a wicked web we weave...Marine, Benjamin Dryerson has been to war and knows the ugly side of freedom. It changes a man leaving him knowing what is important in life.He’s found peace in the Ravage Motorcycle Club and the family that comes with the cut... -
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![Texas Bodyguard: Chance by Janie Crouch]()
Texas Bodyguard: Chance by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe has secrets she prefers to keep hidden.Too bad he’s so good at getting to the truth.When a violent attack puts Maci Ford in the hospital, security expert Chance Patterson learns that she’s carrying his baby. Even though she ended their relationship, he’s determined to do whatever it takes to protect her and their child... -
![Opal: A Wolfes of Manhattan Novel by Helen Hardt]()
Opal: A Wolfes of Manhattan Novel by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe lashes out with spite and venom. He fights back with anger and passion.Being held captive on a South Pacific island and forced to submit to the depravity of strange men was horrific, but it wasn’t the worst experience of Kelly Taylor’s life. Abused as a child and abandoned once she turned eighteen, Kelly is now free…except for the threatening text messages she’s receiving...Categorized as:
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![Last Resort by Janie Crouch]()
Last Resort by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom USA TODAY Bestselling Author Janie Crouch. Previously published as Texas ChanceShe has secrets she prefers to keep hidden.Too bad he’s so good at getting to the truth.When a violent attack puts Maci Ford in the hospital, security expert Chance Patterson learns that she’s carrying his baby... -
![Damaged by Willow Winters]()
Damaged by Willow Winters
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsI married the bad boy from Brooklyn. The one with the tattoos and the look in his eyes that told me he was bad news. The look that came with all sorts of warnings. I knew what I was doing. I knew by the way he put his hands on me, how he owned me with his forceful touch. I couldn’t say no to him, not that I wanted to. That was then, and it seems like forever ago... -
![The Company by J.A. Huss]()
The Company by J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome people are above the law. Those people are called COMPANY.Twenty-eight-year-old James Fenici has been an assassin since he was sixteen. He's amassed debts and favors from countless Company brothers and participated in hundreds of Company jobs. But there are not enough favors in the world to clear his debt and make him worthy of the only girl he's ever wanted... -
![Defending Keirnan by P.J. Fiala]()
Defending Keirnan by P.J. Fiala
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAll Keirnan Vickers ever wanted was to be a teacher. Having realized that dream, she’s focusing on helping the local library with desperately needed repairs so she has a place to host her growing reading program. Just when her life is beginning to look like a storybook, an enemy of her father's threatens her very existence. Single father Dane Copeland has known his share of heartaches... -
![Sin With Me by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain]()
Sin With Me by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain
Sin with Me is the first book in a four-book contemporary romance series by New York Times bestselling author, JA Huss, and veteran actor and writer, Johnathan McClain. Each full-length novel will release three weeks apart starting on March 6, 2018. *** Two broken people in a city fueled by sin. Maddie Clayton isn't looking to be saved... -
![A Harmless Little Ruse by Meli Raine]()
A Harmless Little Ruse by Meli Raine
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsShe has no idea what she’s doing. Loose cannons never hit their targets. And they take out plenty of collateral damage. Four years ago Lindsay experienced the unspeakable right before me, and I couldn’t stop them. But that’s all changed now. When her father, Senator Bosworth, contacted me to ask — demand — that I protect her, it was a second chance. A shot at redemption... -
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Wrecked by J.B. Salsbury
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen you can't trust yourself, how can you ask anyone else to? It's been months since Aden Colt left the Army, and still the memories haunt him. When he moved into a tiny boat off the California coast, he thought he'd found the perfect place to escape life. Then Sawyer shows up and turns his simple life upside down... -
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Midnight Target by Elle Kennedy
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Score and Midnight Revenge... Four years ago, Cate’s entire life changed when she discovered she was the daughter of a supersoldier. But Jim Morgan’s overprotectiveness has pushed her away. These days, she’s working as a freelance photographer and living the dangerous life Jim never wanted for her... -
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![The Rogue by Kimberly Kincaid]()
The Rogue by Kimberly Kincaid
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe scars that cut deepest are the ones beneath the surface…Detective Addison Hale is a survivor. The armor she uses to hide her scars keeps her safe on the job, and holding people at arm’s length is a small price to pay when there’s a stalker on the loose.Especially since he’s after the sister of impulsive firefighter Ryan Dempsey, who she had a scorching-hot fling with two months ago...Categorized as:
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![Opal by Helen Hardt]()
Opal by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe lashes out with spite and venom. He fights back with anger and passion.Being held captive on a South Pacific island and forced to submit to the depravity of strange men was horrific, but it wasn't the worst experience of Kelly Taylor's life. Abused as a child and abandoned once she turned eighteen, Kelly is now free...except for the threatening text messages she's receiving... -
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Phoenix by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDon't miss the gripping conclusion to the Wolfes of Manhattan/Gems of Wolfe Island series!A threat. A ghost from the past. A murder.And two tortured souls who find solace in each other.Ex-Navy SEAL Leif Ramsey—known as Phoenix—has fallen hard for spitfire Kelly Taylor, but the first order of business is to protect her from whoever is sending her threatening texts... -
![Guarded from Sabotage by Gia Cobie, Operation Alpha]()
Guarded from Sabotage by Gia Cobie, Operation Alpha
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI never imagined my life could fall apart so quickly.It all started when my credit card was stolen.I chalked it up to bad luck. A minor annoyance. Until more things started happening—fraudulent loans taken out in my name, my bank accounts drained, and I was even accused of a crime I couldn’t possibly have committed.And it became terrifyingly clear this wasn’t just bad luck. This was intentional... -
![Damaged Kingdom by MJ Crouch]()
Damaged Kingdom by MJ Crouch
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMari Marcosa always knew she would die young, so being left to bleed out on a warehouse floor is no shock to her. But as the blood seeps from her body, her thoughts aren’t of the Marcosa empire she's ruled for years, or the city she's given everything to protect. It's on the three men who’ve stood by her Greyson: her soul, her foundation. So hard and reserved, showing emotion only to Mari... -
![War Poppy by Nicole Lynne, Stevie J. Cole]()
War Poppy by Nicole Lynne, Stevie J. Cole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPoppy Love and war. Two words that should have little association, but to me the two go hand in hand. Both are a tragedy. They rip you open and spit you out. The war killed my husband, Connor, shattered my will to live, and took my best friend. Brandon may not have physically died in that war, but his soul did. And now we're left to pick up the wreckage... -
![Sweeter Than Hate by Anna Zaires, Charmaine Pauls]()
Sweeter Than Hate by Anna Zaires, Charmaine Pauls
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI shouldn’t have heard the things I did. Shouldn’t have attracted his attention.Now I feel his stare like a touch. Viscerally. Acutely. The Russian assassin has me in his sights, and there’s only one way out.His bed.Good thing I’m drawn to danger... -
![Rust by Aria Ray]()
Rust by Aria Ray
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeing pulled from a raging river by a sinfully hot biker could be the start of a fairytale love story - the trouble is, I have no idea who I am or what deadly secrets my past holds.A tall, dark, tattooed biker pulled my bruised and battered body from a raging river. That's all I remember when I wake up from a coma.Everything else, my entire life - is gone. I have nothing. Nothing except for Rust... -
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Have Mercy by Hannah Shield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe only way to save his best friend’s sister…is to marry her.Ruby Whitestone just found her ex’s dead body. And the police think she did it. But as a single mom, she knows how to fend for herself. No fairytale hero is going to swoop in to save her. Not her brother, the Bennett Security bodyguard. Certainly not Chase, a West Oaks police officer and her brother’s best friend...Categorized as:
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![Gabby's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black]()
Gabby's Protector by Janie Crouch, Regan Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a heart-shattering tragedy, Tony Marino bottled up his emotions and gave more than twenty hard years to the SEAL teams. Now, he’s enjoying a later in life career in paradise in the Ellington Cove special security office.The best part? Working with their research expert, Gabby Ladd... -
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Burn by Heather Long
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy name is Grace Degas Black.Years ago, I made a splash during a charity fashion show where an agent “discovered” me. My work led to the glitzy world of haute couture, perfume ads, and more. I was living my best life, traveled the world, and the only thing that would have made it better was if my twin would have come along for the ride.My other half. My best friend. Then one day, she disappeared... -
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Hung Up by Hannah Shield
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsHe’s her brother’s ex-best friend…And the only man who can protect her.Former Navy SEAL Noah Vandermeer has few regrets. But Danica is one of them. She’s the girl he never forgot, even though he was supposed to. Even though her brother was once Noah’s best friend—and now considers Noah his sworn enemy... -
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Defied by Maria Luís
I am both a sinner and a saint, but I bleed vengeance. For years, I’ve lived in the grey… until her. Avery Washington didn’t belong in the shadows, but I dragged her into the darkness anyway. One kiss, and I would stop at nothing to possess her. One caress, and my need to destroy wavered. Our attraction was poison and pleasure... -
![False Hope by Meli Raine]()
False Hope by Meli Raine
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsShe thinks she’s fooled me. But I’ve known all along.Almost.Lily is hiding something, a secret so big, she came out of a year-long coma and her first instinct was to lie.Who does that? Someone who is afraid. No—not afraid.Terrified. And it’s my job to take that fear away.My partner and I have spent countless man-hours hunting down the cold-blooded killer who did this to her... -
![Falcon by Elizabeth Knox, A.M. Myers]()
Falcon by Elizabeth Knox, A.M. Myers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe was nothing more than a friend, until she was ripped from my clutches.FalconOver my entire life, I always saw my fair share of action. I saw more of it than most between my time serving in the United States Marines, and being the Prez of the Deathstalkers MC. After a while, I became accustomed to it. But, there was only one thing I never got used to: attacks on the people I cared about... -
![Angels Fall by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain]()
Angels Fall by J.A. Huss, Johnathan McClain
Sometimes angels fall. Maddie doesn't really owe drug lord, Carlos Castillo, money. So she hadn't taken his threats seriously. Until now. He wants it, whether she owes it or not. And if she doesn't have it in six weeks he's gonna take her as payment instead. Tyler would save the world if he could. That's a fight that lasts forever. And if there's one thing he's good at, it's fighting...
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