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  • Billionaire Unreachable ~ Wyatt by J.S. Scott

    Billionaire Unreachable ~ Wyatt by J.S. Scott

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What happens when the man you think you despise turns out to be a completely different guy beneath the surface? I didn't like Wyatt Durand. He might be my friend's older brother, but he was unpleasant, sarcastic, and the grumpiest guy on the planet. It didn't matter to me that he was a breathtakingly gorgeous, ultra-wealthy billionaire with the very prestigious Durand last name...
  • Traitor in the Scottish Isles by Paige Edwards

    Traitor in the Scottish Isles by Paige Edwards

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An intercepted message. Missing MI6 agents. And a traitor hiding in plain sight.To receive her inheritance and escape a scandal not of her making, wealthy socialite CairstieHenderson moves to a small town in the Scottish Isles, far from the city lights and runways shefrequents...
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  • The Desperate Warrior by Jennifer Youngblood

    The Desperate Warrior by Jennifer Youngblood

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She thought she was falling in love.Until the man she trusted shattered her heart.And then the threats began ...Jules Sterling wasn’t looking for romance when she met Brock Ellis—the rugged former Navy SEAL assigned to protect her sister from a stalker. But from the moment they met, sparks flew fast and hot.Now she’s in deeper than she ever intended… and something feels off.Brock is pulling away...
  • Rising Hope by Edie James

    Rising Hope by Edie James

    Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Coast Guard rescue pilot Enzo MacKenzie puts his life on the line every day, but when his commanding officer persuades him to take part in an undercover drug sting, he quickly realizes this new assignment is going to be everything he deception, greed and deceit.Not his jam.Neither is his reluctant partner, DEA agent Sarah Walker. She’s bossy, bristly and annoyingly overconfident...
  • Maddox by Christy Barritt

    Maddox by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    He’s on the case . . . and she’s his prime suspect.Former Navy SEAL Maddox King’s latest assignment for Blackout is to obtain information on a possible domestic terrorist operation. To do so, he must go undercover as a maintenance man at an estate owned by real estate tycoon Seymore Foggerty.Taryn Parsons is his prime suspect. The woman was plucked out of obscurity to become Mr...
  • Seth: A Small Town, Enemies to Lovers, Military Protector Romance by Lynn Raye Harris

    Seth: A Small Town, Enemies to Lovers, Military Protector Romance by Lynn Raye Harris

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 15 ratings
    Dead to their pasts. Ghosts. No family ties. No connections.Six men with a top-secret mission move to a small town where they have to navigate local life, protect their secret, and, above all, stay single.Software engineer Caroline Crowell is a dead woman walking. When the top-secret lab she’s working in goes up in flames and she barely makes it out alive, she knows her time is up...
  • Ranger Loyalty by Lynn Shannon

    Ranger Loyalty by Lynn Shannon

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    No way to escape…After the death of her fiancé, Olivia Leighton takes solace in her work as a wedding planner—until she receives threatening messages. Hiding out isn’t an option if she wants to keep her business afloat. But when she’s attacked and almost kidnapped during a reception, it becomes frighteningly clear the lengths her stalker will go to...
  • Their Unlikely Protector by Meghann Whistler

    Their Unlikely Protector by Meghann Whistler

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    To give two little boys a home… She must take a chance on forgiveness.The last person Valerie Williams expects to rescue her and her toddler twin brothers from a fiery blaze is Brett Richardson, her high school nemesis. But with her house burned down, Valerie is forced to stay at the same inn as Brett and work with him on the town festival...
  • Maverick's Code: An Enemies to Lovers Age Gap MC Romance by Zoey Rose

    Maverick's Code: An Enemies to Lovers Age Gap MC Romance by Zoey Rose

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    MaverickI should kill her on sight. She's an Outlaw, the enemy.So why am I bringing Sadie to my apartment instead of the clubhouse? Why does her bruised face make me want to murder whoever hurt her?She thinks she's lost everything now that her MC has betrayed her. She has no idea how wrong she is.Because I see the fire beneath her fear - the strength that helped her escape...
  • Second Chance for the Single Mom by Cassie Cole

    Second Chance for the Single Mom by Cassie Cole

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It was supposed to be a one-night stand with my ex.As a single mom, I desperately needed a night of guilt-free fun.But when I showed up at his place, his two best friends were there.That didn’t stop us.It only made things a lot more fun.Now it’s weeks later, and I still can’t get that sweaty night of fun out of my head.And the three swoony guys?I keep running into them around town...
  • Endlessly Yours by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Endlessly Yours by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years ago, I promised my dying wife that I’d do one thing: I’d move on.And I knew as I took that oath, I would break it.Then I saw Rory. The woman I’d met on one of my darkest nights, and the woman I can’t ignore. Our one night is a secret we swore we’d never tell.When I see her, I see a glimpse of what could be in the fire in her eyes...
  • Dylan by Christy Barritt

    Dylan by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    His job is to protect her. The trouble is . . . she doesn’t want protection.Former Navy SEAL Dylan Granger’s new assignment requires him to both use his tactical abilities and tap into his acting skills. Hired by Katie Logan’s father, his job is to protect the gutsy university professor. But Katie can’t know Dylan’s protecting her. Instead, Dylan must act as her assistant...
  • Honor Bound by Hallee Bridgeman

    Honor Bound by Hallee Bridgeman

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    It may seem odd to seek peace by moving to a war-torn African country, but for medical missionary Dr. Cynthia Myers, it provided a way to escape a shallow life of unearned wealth, a philandering fiancé, and a father now square in the public eye as vice president of the United States. At least here she knows her work and life have meaning...
  • The Price of Valor by Susan May Warren

    The Price of Valor by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Navy SEAL Hamilton Jones thought that the love of his life was dead. But when a girl claiming to be his daughter shows up with a dire message from his wife, Ham knows he will stop at nothing to find her and bring her home...
  • SEAL's Tempest by Lynne St. James

    SEAL's Tempest by Lynne St. James

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She’s His Worst Nightmare. He’s Her Living Hell. Until…Navy SEAL Josh Hartman’s neighbor has been driving him crazy for weeks, and now he’s fallen into his worst nightmare. She can’t possibly have been assigned to his Red Falcon team for a mission, can she? The Fates wouldn’t be that cruel. Because Josh hates the woman, right?Tempest Miller has been leading a double life for years...
  • Fallout by Rebecca Deel

    Fallout by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Waking up with amnesia next to a dead body means big trouble for Willow Knox. Worse, the police believe she's a cold-blooded killer. On the verge of being arrested, Willow asks a black ops warrior for help. But someone wants Willow dead at any cost. If they're not careful, Willow and Max will lose everything, including their lives...
  • Buried Secrets by Rebecca Deel

    Buried Secrets by Rebecca Deel

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mindy Long left her painful past behind and is determined to create a new life for herself. All she wants is to grow a successful business and provide a stable, loving home for her nephew. But when she’s kidnapped, Mindy realizes she’ll have to defeat a deadly enemy from her past to be truly free. To accomplish that, she needs the help of a cop with lethal skills...
  • Running to the Hero: A Christian Doctor Christmas Romance by Hannah Jo Abbott

    Running to the Hero: A Christian Doctor Christmas Romance by Hannah Jo Abbott

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Spending Christmas with a reclusive grinch isn’t exactly what this runaway bride had in mind for her honeymoon. Felicity Keaton didn't even bother to shed her wedding dress when she left her hometown in the rearview mirror. As if it weren't already the worst day of her life, an accident lands her in the ER in an unknown town - where the handsome doctor is as mysterious as she is...
  • No Hard Feelings (Birch Harbor: Coming Home) by Rue Lennox

    No Hard Feelings (Birch Harbor: Coming Home) by Rue Lennox

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He watched her throw away their future, and swore to win her back.My brother died and I threw a grenade into my life, breaking two hearts in the process. The man I left? My dead brother’s best friend, and a member of his military unit.I may be miserable, but at least I’m not going to bury another person I love.There’s only one little problem with my current situation...
  • Brandon by Christy Barritt

    Brandon by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Physically he’s protecting her. But emotionally she’s never felt more exposed.The last person tech heiress Finley Cooper ever wanted to see again was Brandon Hale. Two years ago, Brandon shattered her heart. Now Finley needs protection, and, against her wishes, Brandon is assigned the job. Even worse, they must pretend to be a couple in order to find answers...
  • Nightshade by Ronie Kendig

    Nightshade by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Soldiers all across the globe are returning home to their families after brutal tours of duty. They are discharged from the service. . .and on their own. Meet Max Jacobs, one of these discarded heroes, as he faces a wall of failure—in his career, his friendships, and his marriage. Failing again—this time to end his life—he is offered a thread of hope...
  • The Way of the Brave by Susan May Warren

    The Way of the Brave by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Former pararescue jumper Orion Starr is haunted by the memory of a rescue gone wrong. He may be living alone in Alaska now, but the pain of his failure--and his injuries--has followed him there from Afghanistan. He has no desire to join Hamilton Jones's elite rescue team, but he also can't shirk his duty when the call comes in to rescue three lost climbers on Denali...
  • Brooke by Ronie Kendig

    Brooke by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prioritizing career over family cost Brooke Metcalfe Mulroney everything—her relationship with her siblings, her marriage, her children. Written off by her family, she delves deeper into her work. Until a life-altering moment offers a chance at something she didn’t know she wanted—redemption. But her self-centered ways nip at her heels as she goes on the lam to do what she knows is right...
  • Billionaire’s Sins by L. Steele

    Billionaire’s Sins by L. Steele

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    On your knees...Father Edward Chase.Brooding. Growly. And... unavailable.He's the hot priest.I am a belly dancer.He's haunted by his past.I am trying to carve out a future for my studio.He’s at war with himself, and I am the casualty.There is nothing he will put before his calling.No stone he will leave unturned for his flock...
  • The Billionaire’s Bride by L. Steele

    The Billionaire’s Bride by L. Steele

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    You are mineThat's what they tell me.EdwardMy first love, who turned his back on me.The hot ex-priest turned bad boy with the dangerous smile and the now unleashed passionate temper that thrills me to my core. I thought I'd lost him, but he's back and his dark molten gaze follows me possessively wherever I go.BaronMy savior. My second chance...
  • Rogue Mission by Kendall Talbot

    Rogue Mission by Kendall Talbot

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She can’t trust anyone. He can’t trust her.But pitched together in a deadly mission, trust becomes everything.Royal Flying Doctor pilot, Xander Devlin ( Razor) walked away from his military career so broken he never wanted to see his ex-army team again. Especially Aria, the woman who crushed his heart...
  • Hawk by Ronie Kendig

    Hawk by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Raptor's communications expert, Staff Sergeant Brian "Hawk" Bledsoe is struggling with his inner demons, leaving him on the verge of an "other than honorable" discharge. Plagued with corrupted intel, Raptor team continues to track down the terrorist playing chess with their lives...
  • Olivia: A Cold Case Murder Mystery Romance by Brooke Ramsey

    Olivia: A Cold Case Murder Mystery Romance by Brooke Ramsey

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Revenge is a dish best served cold. But it might cost you everything you love.In this heart-racing romantic suspense, a sister desperate for answers and a newly recruited FBI agent desperate to prove himself team up on a high-risk mission.Olivia King.Days missing: 1,345 days.Anna has spent the last three years infiltrating the gang of Diaz Smith—the man responsible for her sister’s disappearance...
  • A Love So True by Delaney Cameron

    A Love So True by Delaney Cameron

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She thinks of him as a friend. He's loved her since high school. She's holding on to the past. He's worked hard to overcome his. Brooks knew better than to fall in love with Jaclyn. She's a trust fund kid, and he's from the wrong side of the tracks. Guys like him never end up with girls like her. His head understood the rules. His heart was another story...
  • Shadow of Doubt by Susan Sleeman

    Shadow of Doubt by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A cyber-stalker and a murder threaten her life…When IT specialist, Brooklyn Hurst’s cyber stalker grows bolder and the police refuse to do anything about it, she has to take drastic measures. Like fleeing the only home she’s known to a place so off the map that the stalker would never think to look...
  • Pieces of Me by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Pieces of Me by Carrie Ann Ryan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Gabriel Wilder.Rock God.Voice of an angel.And in love with his best friend’s sister. Resisting Briar Ashford has been one of the hardest things he’s ever done.Until the one night he breaks his promise.Only when tragedy strikes, forgiveness slips through his fingers.Briar Ashford never let herself fall for her brother’s best friend.Until the night she did...
  • Beowulf: Explosives Detection Dog by Ronie Kendig

    Beowulf: Explosives Detection Dog by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Former Navy handler Timbrel Hogan has more attitude than her Explosives Detection Dog, Beowulf, but she’s a tough woman who gets the job done. Green Beret Tony “Candyman” VanAllen likes a challenge and convincing the hard-hitting handler they belong together might just get him killed...
  • Drifter by Kristy Marie

    Drifter by Kristy Marie

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tit for tat. These are the rules I live by. But don’t think this is some kind of cutesy story of a boy and a girl with a simple misunderstanding. This a story of a girl who hates and a boy who loves. This is a story about how weakness became my strength. This is our story. Drifter is a stand-alone in the Commander in Briefs Series. The series has crossover characters from each novel...
  • Restrained by Nicole Dykes

    Restrained by Nicole Dykes

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Grief can hold us back. Sorrow can make us stop enjoying our lives for fear of being too happy when what we truly want is never possible.Lola Sterling has deprived herself of living for a long time. Remaining laser-focused on everyone and trying to fit their pieces back together...
  • Enemy Stand by A.L. Lidell

    Enemy Stand by A.L. Lidell

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A woman hurt by her past. A Delta soldier haunted by his. A fake relationship that becomes all too real…Casey McKenzie is a jerk.The former Delta JAG turned playboy nightclub owner humiliated me in court with a smug grin.I want nothing to do with him.Too bad as Trident Rescue’s attorney, I can’t escape him either...
  • Love You Still by Kat Bammer

    Love You Still by Kat Bammer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    One night brought them together. Life tore them apart. Returning home may be their second chance.Leaving Moon Lake and serving as a Navy SEAL couldn’t erase the pain of Peter’s past. When he returns home as the new deputy Sheriff, it’s with hope for a fresh start in the place with old roots. But it also means exposing deep wounds—his own and the one he inflicted on Lisa...
  • Firethorn by Ronie Kendig

    Firethorn by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Former Marine Griffin Riddell had found purpose working with Nightshade—until he’s falsely convicted of a murder that plants him in a federal penitentiary. Is there anyone he can trust? Amid explosive confusion, covert operative Kazi Faron breaks Griffin out of a maximum-security prison. Then she delivers the death-blow—-the Nightshade team has been dismantled...
  • Crossing the Line by Joy Slaughter, Daniel Sundahl

    Crossing the Line by Joy Slaughter, Daniel Sundahl

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The drama of Grey's Anatomy. The fun of Brooklyn 99. The realism of Third Watch."...masterful...""...a moving love story..."Award-winning author, Joy Slaughter's, debut novel portraying the drama, the highs, and the lows of life on the ambulance.Sergeant Nathan Thompson lost his leg in Afghanistan. Megan hides a secret...
  • Silent Shadows by Natalie Walters

    Silent Shadows by Natalie Walters

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pecca Gallegos moved to the tiny town of Walton, Georgia, to protect her son and escape the dangerous lifestyle that once defined her. When a series of strange circumstances evolve into threats, Pecca finds herself confiding in an unlikely ally--her stubborn patient...
  • The Ranger's Forgiveness: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book Five by Bree Livingston

    The Ranger's Forgiveness: A Clean Army Ranger Romance Book Five by Bree Livingston

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A conspiracy theorist, the high school sweetheart whose heart she broke, and the threats that bring them together. Taylor Mabrey runs a conspiracy theory satire website. It’s something she loves to do, and since it’s anonymous, she doesn’t think twice about it. But the fun stops when she starts getting ominous threats...
  • Home with You by Jess Mastorakos

    Home with You by Jess Mastorakos

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    A widowed Marine, his eight-year-old son, and the spunky PE teacher who keeps striking out at love...When Staff Sergeant Owen O’Malley gets orders to San Diego, the first thing he thinks about is how much his eight-year-old son, Finn, will love the beach. After losing his wife three years earlier, he knows they could both use a little sand between their toes...
  • Billionaire’s Promise by L. Steele

    Billionaire’s Promise by L. Steele

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    You're in my way...With those words... Baron Masters had crashed into my life.Gorgeous devil. Hate-worthy. Instant enemy who was sent to protect me.He's an ex-soldier.I am the woman his friend turned his back on.He's trying to escape his demons.I am trying to get over being abandoned.The connection between us is intense.Forbidden... and all wrong.My heart belongs to someone else...
  • SEAL's Fake Girlfriend by Leslie North

    SEAL's Fake Girlfriend by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Danger and desire go hand in hand…When her little sister Robyn is kidnapped, Rhianne Carlson promises herself she’ll do anything to bring her home safely. Even if it means reluctantly teaming up with private security agent and former Navy SEAL Eric Cruz.Despite his smoldering good looks and undeniable talents, Rhianne has never trusted this sinfully sexy agent...
  • Moonstruck Marine by Kirsten Osbourne

    Moonstruck Marine by Kirsten Osbourne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Melinda Chase is the new head chef at one of the restaurants in the hotel in Quinn Valley. She is finally where she wants to be in life, planning to change the menu and overhaul the restaurant, to make it the finest place to eat in the whole valley...
  • The Shell Collector: A Novel by Nancy Naigle

    The Shell Collector: A Novel by Nancy Naigle

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A touching novel of love and loss, a friendship that crosses generations, and learning how even the smallest gifts can change a life for good, from USA Today bestselling author Nancy Naigle.Amanda Whittier had no idea when she said goodbye to her husband, Jack, the morning he deployed that it would be the last time she'd ever see him...
  • Just Getting Started: From Bluebird Bay to Cherry Blossom Point by Christine Gael

    Just Getting Started: From Bluebird Bay to Cherry Blossom Point by Christine Gael

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When Jack Merrill’s ex comes to ask him a personal favor, he wants to say no. Having her back in Cherry Blossom Point is nothing but a crushing reminder of the son they lost so tragically two decades before. Still, when he finds out that the safety of her daughter is at stake, he can’t refuse…But that doesn’t mean he has to like it...
  • The Stone Family Warrior: Women's Fiction with a lot of Romance by Taylor Hart

    The Stone Family Warrior: Women's Fiction with a lot of Romance by Taylor Hart

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A warrior losing his faith. A not quite love from summer’s past. A second chance at love that might soothe the broken parts in both of them.★★★★★From kindle all-star and USA Today author, Taylor Hart! The South Port Beach Series!Trent Stone, Navy SEAL, won’t give up his obsession with finding the conquistador gold. He's going to crack the cipher...
  • The Bridesmaid by Jess Mastorakos

    The Bridesmaid by Jess Mastorakos

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’ve heard she’s always a bridesmaid and never a bride. But I’d make her mine, if she’d let me.Three years ago, I left South Carolina and the woman I loved without looking back. Okay, that’s a lie. I’ve spent a fair amount of time imagining myself lounging under that Spanish moss with her.Back then, we didn’t have a care in the world. It was simple. Easy. Right. In fact, I’d been about to propose...
  • Out of the Night by Susan May Warren

    Out of the Night by Susan May Warren

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    See, this was why York should put a GPS tracker on the woman he loved.Not that he would, but if he did, then he wouldn’t show up in a town and see said woman trying to do a Spiderman along the face of a building.And, if York hadn’t simply followed his instincts and taken off across the street she would have left an ugly splat on the sidewalk, probably taking out a planter of geraniums...
  • Tex by Zoe Dawson

    Tex by Zoe Dawson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Michael “Tex” Penn comes under fire when a mission goes bad and the Navy pilot embedded with the team is killed in action. The pilot's wife, the daughter of an influential senator, wants answers the Navy has forbidden him to give. The OP was as black as night and Top Secret classified...
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