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Fractured by Riley Edwards
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsLoving Echo Kent was painful. Not the falling in love part, that was easy. One look at the tall, blond-haired, blue-eyed narcotics detective and I knew I wanted him. A few months later I knew I couldn’t live without him. But my Echo, he had demons and secrets and a mountain of guilt. His love was selfish and one-sided—he could love but he refused to allow others to love him... -
Capone by Jahquel J., Joseph Editorial Services
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsI shouldn’t have felt this way about her. She’s my brother-in-law’s first love.She was forbidden fruit. Ain’t shit ever been forbidden for me. I take what I want, and I want her. I shouldn’t have these strong of feelings for a woman I just met.I wanted to lay every man that even thought about looking her way… including my brother-in-law.Erin was mine before she even knew it... -
There’s Still Beauty in This Street Love 2: Her Fallen Angel by Elle Kayson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOn his own since he was fifteen, Ángel Cruz has never had to explain how or when he moves to anyone. As someone who works from the shadows, he goes where and when work calls. His relationship with Tamar Kinsey means he has to learn to open himself to her or risk losing the hot-tempered beauty.As if feeling abandoned by Ángel is not enough, Tamar suddenly has to deal with another betrayal... -
Last Stop from Innocence by Takerra Allen
Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA nostalgic tale of first love, first loss, and the budding womanhood of a Black girl in the '90s. Tragedy flips Amore Brown’s world on its axis right before she heads off to college. Having to sit tight for the summer, she chooses Jersey City, New Jersey - the home of her estranged father - to pass the time... -
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Until Susan by C.P. Smith
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom the world of NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Aurora Rose Reynolds. See how the Mayson clan began. You've read their sons' stories, now it's James and Susan's turn. Experience the boom all over again in this action-packed novella of insta-love and suspense from Author CP Smith... -
Ashes by Chelle Bliss
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDylan Walsh left his small town behind and vowed to never return. But when his brother needs help, Dylan steps back into the memories he tried so hard to forget. He thought there was nothing there for him anymore until a woman he knew as a little girl catches more than Dylan’s eye.Rosie Gallo is known for her kind spirit, good-girl vibes, and her loyalty to the ones she loves... -
Hero's Heart by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsHe was out of the game.He should've stayed that way.When a former FBI colleague asks Callum Webb to rescue the kidnapped daughter of an American bigwig in eastern Europe, Callum’s just got one word for him...No.Okay, actually two words: hell, no.Callum is out of the international law enforcement game and has been for a long time... -
Smolder by Helen Hardt
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAre you missing the Steel Brothers? Are you yearning for more? Welcome to the next generation! Join the grown children of Jonah, Talon, Ryan, and Marjorie for new adventures, mysteries, and heart-pounding passion... -
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 76 ratingsWhen a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collideEarly morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents... -
Sisco by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFormer SEAL and new LSI-MT Keeper, Sisco Aguilar, never expected his day at the hospital to turn into a nightmare.All he wanted was to finish his paramedic recertification and head home. But instead, he found himself thrust into a life-or-death hostage situation, protecting a terrified little girl and her stunning, single mother.Lenore Keller’s day was meant to be filled with hope... -
Rescuing Casey by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsOne minute Casey Shea was minding her own business, doing her job, teaching entomology to college students, and the next she was in the middle of the Costa Rican jungle fighting for her life. Troy “Beatle” Lennon had watched his friends fall head over heels in love, but never thought it would happen to him. Until he sees a picture of one of his teammates’ sisters. That was it... -
The Watson Girl by Leslie Wolfe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsAn entire family was murdered and, by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed. For fifteen years, she believed the killer had been caught, and he’s now on death row, awaiting execution. While trying to be content with her adoptive family, she’s living in relentless uncertainty and the fear of remembering what really happened that night when she was five years old. She’s The Watson Girl... -
Code Name: Libra by Janie Crouch
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMy code name is Libra. The stars say I’m charismatic, intelligent, charming.The one with the easy smile.Zodiac Tactical has been the biggest part of my life for the past three years. We guard, protect, rescue...eliminate the threat when nobody else can. And I’ve always been at the front lines—first to help in whatever way was needed.Until I took a bullet to the chest... -
Reckless: Sins of the Father by Nicole James
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Nicole James, comes a STEAMY, WOKE UP MARRIED IN VEGAS, AGE GAP, MC ROMANCE! The SECOND GENERATION has arrived! Harley Jean—The pounding in my head wakes me— that and the fact that I have to pee. Must have been one hell of a bachelorette party last night... -
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No More Secrets by Kerry Lonsdale
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA young man seeks redemption from his past in the third novel from the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.After serving six months in a juvenile detention center, Lucas Carson returns home irrevocably changed by what happened there... -
Just One More Chance by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsThe Baytown Boys MysteriesMilitary duty called them away to war zones, but after tours overseas, the group of friends found their way back home as men, seeking the peaceful little seaside town. Now, the band of brothers, together once more, work to provide a place for less fortunate veterans to call home... -
Rebel Heart by Ivy Layne
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNASH Parker Sawyer fell into my life like a bomb. The first sight of her hit me like an explosion, changing everything. My mind, my heart, my life. The goals I thought I had and the dreams I thought I wanted. Nothing was the same after Parker. The night I fell in love with her, I let her get away. This time, there's no escape. Parker can run but she won't get far. This time I have a plan...Categorized as:
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Dolby by Maryann Jordan
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDolby had earned his down time, eager for the solitude. Then he met her.One innocent night with a beautiful woman as they sheltered from the storm, Dolby wanted a chance to know her more. But with the morning light, she was gone.Marcia had spent years dealing with the crippling fear of strangers. Then she met him... -
Perfect Crime by Helen Sarah Fields
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsYour darkest moment is your most vulnerable…Stephen Berry is about to jump off a bridge until a suicide prevention counsellor stops him. A week later, Stephen is dead... -
Jim and Katherine by Traci Hunter Abramson
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsJim Whitmore has lofty dreams of a bright political career. So when a well-connected friend invites him home for the weekend, the promise of rubbing shoulders with her congressman father and his professional associates is thrilling. What he doesn’t anticipate is meeting his friend’s sister, Katherine, an intriguing woman who immediately steals his heart... -
Black Mail: A Black's Bandits Novel by Lynn Raye Harris
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTyler “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... -
Chase the Sunset by Winter Travers
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen your world comes crashing down around you, sometimes the only thing you can do is ride the wind.If only that fixed everything... -
...And A Wake-Up by Giulia Lagomarsino, Reggie Deanching
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsI should be on Island Time right now.They say no man is an island.Well, let me tell you something. I was born for island living.I like to drink, smoke my cigars, and sleep under my favorite hat.That’s my idea of a good time.Island living isn’t for everyone, especially the guys at OPS.You would think as former military that I would fit right in... -
Fang's Enlightenment by Ciara St James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThings refuse to quiet down around Tenillo for Fang and his club, the Ares Infidels MC. No matter how many bad guys they bring to justice, they find there are more in need of their kind of vigilantism. For Fang, that’s alright by him. He joins the Ares Infidels to be part of a brotherhood that’s bigger than just him and his club brothers. He joins to have a bigger family... -
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Shattered Oath by Lisa Lovell
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Bratva Boss wants me dead.Too bad I’m pregnant with his baby.I’ve run far and wide to escape the Devil’s rage.But it wasn’t long before he caught me.Now I’m standing in front of him bound and naked.About to face the consequences of my betrayal.With every inch of my skin exposed to his will,And my life flashing before my watery eyes,He draws my traitorous body under his spell... -
Dirty Desires by Nicole James
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA twist of fate threw us together…Gypsy—I’m a Devil King; loyal to no one but my club, until she comes along and tests everything I thought I believed in.When I do a favor for my imprisoned ex-president’s ol’ lady, I come face to face with the one-night-stand that’s haunted me for three years. She pulled a disappearing Cinderella act on me, vanishing with the dawn... -
Always Yours by Kennedy Fox
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsRehearsals, leotards, and textbooks—that was my life. Dancing is all I’ve ever known, but when Liam’s problems turn everything upside down, I’m thrust into a world I know nothing about. Secrets and betrayal changed the man I’ve fallen for and he isn’t who I thought he was. Regardless, Liam is all I’ve ever wanted and though I’m struggling with my emotions, deep down I’d do anything for him... -
Scythe's Grasp by E.C. Land
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNothing is worth grasping unless it’s something you’d die for.ScytheThere’s not much I care for in this life. My club. My brothers. My blood. All the rest of it blurs together. The only feeling I get is when I’m doing things, I’m not proud of. I’m stained and that’s the way it’ll stay. Nothing can change the past or present.Not even her... -
Protecting Kiera by Susan Stoker
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book was previously published in Kindle Worlds and even though it has a new cover, has not changed significantly. Cooper Nelson’s SEAL career was cut drastically short when an explosion left him almost completely deaf... -
Nevada by Mackenzy Fox
From best selling author Mackenzy Fox comes the highly anticipated MC spin-off series from the Bracken Ridge NOLA Rebels MC - (New Orleans Series Book 8)Nevada is gritty, reverse-age gap, reverse-grumpy sunshine, tough talking P.I. heroine and a hero biker who falls instantly...Categorized as:
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Sanctuary by Terri Anne Browning
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJack I’m the quiet one. The one everyone respects…but secretly fears. They should. I’ve seen the darkness in the world—and it has slowly bled into me until not even a glimmer of light remains. The women who come to Sanctuary are in need of someone to rescue them. It’s my job to protect them. To send the monsters who terrorize them back into the abyss they slithered out of... -
Buried by C.J. Carmichael
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAn alternate cover edition can be found here.Justice is overdue in the coastal town of Twisted Cedars where two unsolved mysteries lay buried in the past.Over thirty years ago a series of murders targeting Oregon librarians was never solved. Now someone with inside knowledge is feeding clues to true crime writer Dougal Lachlan, promising him the best story of his career... -
The Cowboy of the Mountain by Tessa Klein
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHe’s my older brother’s best friend. A single dad. My forbidden crush.The one man I shouldn’t have a one-night stand with.I haven’t seen Wyatt Hartwell in nearly a decade, but it takes me a split second to recognize him. Can’t say the same for him. He has no clue he just rescued his best friend’s little sister from a drunken idiot... -
Fealty by J.A. Armstrong, Nancy Ann Healy
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsAlex, Cassidy, Candace, Jameson, Claire, and Eleana return for a new adventure that combines two best-selling series by Nancy Ann Healy (JA Armstrong), Alex and Cassidy and By Design.Two families caught in the crossfire of an international conspiracy dating back to World War II must work together to secure the future of democracy... -
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Montana Lights and Mistletoe Nights: Gabriel and Alba by Crystal Daniels, Sandy Alvarez
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCelebrate Christmas Kings of Retribution style.Gabriel has everything a man could want: his club, the love of a good woman, two kids, and another baby on the way.They are the light to his dark.Life is good.Trouble soon rolls into town, putting Gabriel’s family and club in danger.Driven by love and loyalty, Gabriel will stop at nothing to keep them safe... -
Madam Alana: A Marriage Auction Novella (The Marriage Auction) by Audrey Carlan
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Audrey Carlan comes a new story in her Marriage Auction series…I run the most elite auction in the world.Candidates and bidders come from all over the globe hoping to change their lives.And I deliver.I’m in the business of bringing couples together in a mutually beneficial and legally binding marriage...Categorized as:
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Starting Over With You by Darlene Tallman
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsManuel “Manny” Alvarez I will never regret my actions that led to me spending five years in prison... -
Black Hearted by Julie Ann Walker
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s everything she ever wanted. She’s everything he never knew he needed. Can she convince him she’s the one?The Black Knights are back and better than ever!Samuel Harwood has spent his entire career working in the black and gray areas of international intrigue. Living in the shadows for so long has made him forget who he was and where he came from... -
Meant to be Falling by Alexandra Hale
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the boss's wife asks me to fill in for a stranger photoshoot the only answer is yes.And man am I glad I did. At twenty-three, most people think I have no business chasing after the divorced, single mom more than a decade older than me.But they’d be wrong.I’ve lived more in my time than most will in the entirety of theirs... -
Blade by Sybil Bartel
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBattle born.SEAL.Loner.Ringing out of BUD/S was never an option. Third generation Navy SEAL, the Teams were in my blood. I earned my Trident, and a year later my brother earned his.As Tier One operators, the battlefield was our playground.Then I got a cryptic call. Enemy combatants, coordinated attack, no survivors, catastrophic loss—my brother was dead... -
Ghost by C.M. Steele
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMy last assignment.The one I didn't want and my family begged me not to take, but I had to do what I could to make our town, our state, our country a little safer.I had no idea that I'd walked into a trap set up by some of the deadliest men in the world.My vision had gone black as I faced the end of my life.All the regrets, all the love I'd miss out on... -
Daimon by Jessica Ames
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDaimonAs Treasurer of the Untamed Sons MC, I don't have time to deal with a bratty kid. Briella is nineteen. I'm thirty-one. I'm too old for her tantrums, but I'm sure there's something more to her acting out than a late teenage rebellion. When I look in her eyes, I see her demons glaring back at me, and I want to know who put them there... -
Until Avery by Brynne Asher
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsDreams. I never had one. Never even knew what a dream was until a certain unassuming Carpino waltzed into my life. That day my world tilted. It became unhinged. I might not have been a dreamer, but she was. She wrote the words missing from my life. Her notes ignited my heart. Her flame lit up my darkness. Her dreams became mine and I’d move heaven and earth to give them life... -
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Suspicious Behavior by L.A. Witt, Cari Z.
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDetective Darren Corliss is hanging by a thread. In between recovering from a near-fatal wound and returning to work at a hostile precinct, he’s struggling to help care for his ailing brother. His partner and boyfriend, Detective Andreas Ruffner, wants to help, but doesn’t know how. And with his own family crises brewing, Andreas is spread almost as thin as Darren... -
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Flight Plan by T.B. Markinson, Miranda MacLeod
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo women entangled in a web of danger, deception, and unexpected desire. Will their fake romance be the key to survival, or will it unravel the very foundation of their hearts?Reggie Hawkins is used to living a lie. As the closeted lesbian daughter of a billionaire media mogul, the only luxury she can’t afford is being herself... -
Beast by C.M. Steele
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA witness to a crime, Mary Stark lands herself in Steeleville, under the care and protection of DA William “Beast” Brandon and the Steele Riders. Unbeknownst to her, she’ll be living with Beast until the trial. She’s been warned of his gruff and surly behavior when it comes to people invading his home and messing it up, but accidents happen...Categorized as:
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Glacier's Thaw: A Poseidon's Warriors MC novel by Darlene Tallman
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsGlacier I’m awkward, socially inept, and if it wasn’t for the men in my club who I now call brother, I’m unsure if I’d still be kicking around this ol’ earth. Life isn’t kind to those who face challenges, especially when they’re not physically visible... -
Royal Daddy by K.C. Crowne
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsI'm her father's closest friend.And I've vowed to tame his estranged daughter.But her fire is so d*mn fierce it reduces my rules to ash. How will I protect her when all I want is to ruin her? Ava: There I was selling crab cakes out of my food truck,When the world's biggest scrooge approaches me.I can't help but notice his impressively ripped body in a perfectly tailored suit...
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