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  • The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem by Alice Winters

    The Hitman's Guide to Righting Wrongs While Causing Mayhem by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Leland: Growing up, I was taught that getting too close to someone would be my downfall. But I’ve proven that wrong now that I’m happily married to Jackson, the greatest man in the world. The issue is that mayhem always seems to find me (which is definitely not my fault), and this time, it comes in the form of a woman looking for her daughter...
  • Mouser by Elizabeth Knox

    Mouser by Elizabeth Knox

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    MouserShe only came into our lives on a whim because we outsmarted the woman who was trying to double cross us. While I hated Sakura at first her actions have proven she’s not only as loyal as they come, but has undeniable honor. Sakura used her connections and pull to save one of us, the most innocent of Reapers, Orion Monroe...
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  • Revealing Annie by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Revealing Annie by Freya Barker, Operation Alpha

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the fire department’s joker, Kyle (Sumo) Matsumoto, loves nothing better than ribbing the guys at the station. However, he’s all business when he’s on a call, and when he tries to snag the attention of a cute little baker. Then life takes a more serious turn when he’s plunged headfirst into fatherhood—of a teenage boy—giving his teammates the last laugh...
  • The Prodigy by Shae Sanders

    The Prodigy by Shae Sanders

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "First day back home and already in some mess."Jakari Windermere hasn't been home to Midling in eight years. He's been laying low in Atlanta, and nobody knows why. But it doesn't matter now, because a tragedy draws him back to the town he grew up in...the town his family basically owns. But this won't be a pleasant homecoming, and he finds that out the moment he sets foot back in Midling...
  • Hidden Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Hidden Agenda by Rochelle Alers

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Powerful, predatory, irresistibly male, Matt Sterling has been called a soldier of fortune--and worse. But for Eve Blackwell, he's the perfect man for a dangerous job: to track down Alejandro Delgado, Eve's wealty ex-husband, into Mexico. There, he must rescue Eve's young son Chris, who has been abducted by his vengeful father...
    Categorized as:
    abduction  contemporary  length-medium
  • Infinite by Corinne Michaels

    Infinite by Corinne Michaels

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Book 2 of 2 in Indefinite DuetI was right. I never should've fallen back in love with Quinn. I always knew we wouldn't make it. And to make matters worse, not only did I lose my soulmate--I lost myself as well. Everything was stripped away, leaving me bare and unable to breathe. No one told me it could hurt this much. I was unprepared for this level of agony from the horrible weight of grief...
  • The Billionaire and the Runaway Bride by Nadia Lee

    The Billionaire and the Runaway Bride by Nadia Lee

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Who knew the biggest drama in my life wouldn’t be from a wedding I'm trying my best to avoid--my own!Running away to L.A. was supposed to end all the drama in my life. Find an apartment, get a job, show my rich family I don't need their money...until I end up as the assistant to the world's Number One underwear model...
  • Refrain by Kennedy Ryan

    Refrain by Kennedy Ryan

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    People dream of a love that runs deep. So deep it feels like it's always been with you, just waiting for the person who'll own your heart and soul forever. So few ever find it, but for Rhyson Gray and Kai Pearson, happily ever after was only the beginning... One of the biggest rock stars in the world and one of the brightest rising stars make a life together...
  • The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

    The Persian Boy by Mary Renault

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    “It takes skill to depict, as Miss Renault has done, this half-man, half Courtesan who is so deeply in love with the warrior.”– The Atlantic Monthly The Persian Boy traces the last years of Alexander’s life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas...
  • Fool Me Once by Deany Ray

    Fool Me Once by Deany Ray

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Thirtysomething Piper Harris and her grandmother, former members of a motorcycle gang, are struggling to adjust to their new life in Bitter End, Florida, after being relocated there at a retirement complex as part of the witness protection program.Let’s just say Gran laundered money so well, she washed away their freedom...
  • Forsaken: A Dark Romance by B.B. Hamel, Willow Winters

    Forsaken: A Dark Romance by B.B. Hamel, Willow Winters

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    She’s safe in her cage. But she can’t stay in there forever. Depravity. Murder. Darkness. As a hitman, I’m comfortable with all three. I don’t need anything else. Until turning down a hit grants me a bonus I wasn’t expecting. Grace Rossi. A mafia princess. She’s a temporary gift to break and mold into an obedient slave for my employers...
  • The Shadow by K. Alex Walker

    The Shadow by K. Alex Walker

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Mike Huang was the son of one of the most powerful men in China until the empire his family built for centuries suddenly crumbles. The betrayal of a family friend sends him into hiding at the age of ten, and the only life he’s ever known has been on the run. There’s no normalcy for a man like him. No settling down. Everything he’s ever had has come by way of fighting for it or fighting against it...
  • Dark Desires by Candace Wondrak

    Dark Desires by Candace Wondrak

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Monsters tend to hurt those they’re closest to. I went from one prison to another, to a mansion hidden behind wealth and handsome faces. Here, there are no heroes, no Prince Charmings. Only men who aren’t afraid to kill to get what they want. And what they want is me. Markus Scott rules them all, but even with an iron fist, sometimes there’s rebellion...
  • Keep Her Quiet by Emma Curtis

    Keep Her Quiet by Emma Curtis

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    'This is grip-lit at its best' Fanny BlakeJenny has just given birth to the baby she’s always wanted. She’s never been this happy.Her husband, Leo, knows this baby girl can’t be his. He’s never felt so betrayed.The same night, a vulnerable young woman, Hannah, wakes to find her newborn lifeless beside her. She’s crazed with grief...
  • MAXWELL: Brothers Ink Tattoo by Nicole James

    MAXWELL: Brothers Ink Tattoo by Nicole James

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A sweet, romantic love story, awash in heartbreak and emotion— Malee was sheltered all her life, Until the day she walked into Brothers Ink Lucky for her… he’s waiting. She’s naïve and wary. But that’s okay… Maxwell O’Rourke is a patient man. Some things are worth waiting for. He’s nothing Malee ever thought she’d want, but everything she needs...
  • The Target by Catherine Coulter

    The Target by Catherine Coulter

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    FBI agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock are faced with the case of an abducted child in this “absorbing”(Publishers Weekly) FBI Thriller. Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in the Colorado Rockies...
  • The Red-Hot Cajun by Sandra Hill

    The Red-Hot Cajun by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Rene LeDeux returns home to southern Louisiana after quitting his job in Washington as an environmental lobbyist. Years of battling with the oil industry and land developers have left him completely burnt out, and now all he wants to do is work on his cabin on Bayou Black. But his peace of mind is disrupted by a few things. One, his great-aunt Tante Lulu is determined to get him hitched...
  • The Red Hot Cajun by Sandra Hill

    The Red Hot Cajun by Sandra Hill

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    The long hot Louisiana summer just got hotter for Rene LeDeux. He's burned out by D.C. politics and only wants to build his cabin in peace...
  • The Betrayal of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    The Betrayal of Lies by Debra Burroughs

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Murder and mayhem are afoot! Feisty private eye, Emily Parker, is finally moving forward in her relationship with the hunky police detective--that is, until a new friend suddenly goes missing. Suspicions are flying that one of Emily's closest girlfriends may be involved...
  • No One But You by Maureen Smith

    No One But You by Maureen Smith

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ONE RECKLESS NIGHT OF PASSION… After a long absence, FBI agent Althea Pritchard has returned home to Baltimore, but it already feels like history is repeating itself. A teenage girl has been abducted—just as Althea was eight years before. The ordeal left her determined to capture such predators, and she’s more prepared than ever...
  • Missed Connection by Stephanie Shea

    Missed Connection by Stephanie Shea

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 6 ratings
    Avery Dimaano is good at most things. No, she’s better. She has amazing friends, a family that’s only slightly more dysfunctional than others, and an affable way of strutting through the world that makes her the quintessential person for the role of HR at Gia, San Francisco. There’s only one problem, she has no one to spend her weekends with...
  • His Grumpy Childhood Friend by Jackie Lau

    His Grumpy Childhood Friend by Jackie Lau

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It's been five years since Charlotte Tam had to endure a public proposal at a baseball game—literally the stuff of her nightmares—and realized her ex never really knew her. She hasn’t dated since, afraid that no man will understand her cranky, introverted, coffee-obsessed self, but she wants to try again. Her friend suggests she ask a guy to ease her into the dating game and give her some lessons...
  • Deadly Promise by Brenda Joyce

    Deadly Promise by Brenda Joyce

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    It is March of 1902, and Francesca Cahill-Fifth Avenue heiress, undaunted political activist and intrepid amateur sleuth-has just learned of a grave new danger haunting the streets of New York. A beautiful teenage girl named Emily O'Hare is missing and Francesca fears that the girl has been abducted...
  • In a Dark House by Deborah Crombie

    In a Dark House by Deborah Crombie

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The Barnes & Noble Review Deborah Crombie is building a reputation for creating powerful and dramatic mysteries. Her protagonists, Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, have more in common than the home and love they share, they're also both Scotland Yard detectives...
  • The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

    The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A 20-year-old Chinese painter named Stephen is sent to his family's summer home in a Japanese coastal village to recover from a bout with tuberculosis. Here he is cared for by Matsu, a reticent housekeeper and a master gardener. Over the course of a remarkable year, Stephen learns Matsu's secret and gains not only physical strength, but also profound spiritual insight...
  • The Shark by Mary Burton

    The Shark by Mary Burton

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 22 ratings
    At the grisly murder scene of a teen prostitute, Virginia state trooper Riley Tatum’s past roars back to haunt her. When she was a teenage runaway, she was kidnapped, drugged, and left unconscious on the streets. She has no memories of what happened, only strange recurring dreams of two men playing cards. Former FBI agent Clay Bowman, Riley’s old flame, is Shield Security’s newest member...
  • The Flesh Cartel #5: Wins and Losses by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau

    The Flesh Cartel #5: Wins and Losses by Rachel Haimowitz, Heidi Belleau

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In episode five of The Flesh Cartel, Nikolai is well on his way to undermining the bond between Mat and Dougie, but there’s still a long road ahead. Training slaves is a process full of setbacks, and with these two, the situation is more complex and precarious than usual. Walking the line with Mat is especially challenging...
  • Silent Honor by Danielle Steel

    Silent Honor by Danielle Steel

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The doyenne of bestseller lists weaves another romantic story in her 38th novel, a tale of separated families and shattered lives set against one of the most morally reprehensible events in U.S. history: the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II...
  • Exposed by Laura Griffin

    Exposed by Laura Griffin

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Every picture tells a story. But not all of them have happy endings. As a forensic photographer at the Delphi Center crime lab, Maddie Callahan is used to seeing violence up close, but she's never before been the target of it. When a freelance photo shoot goes awry, she realizes she may have seen, and perhaps photographed, the kidnapping of a key witness in a federal probe...
  • The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths

    The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of what might be a notorious Victorian child murdress and a baby snatcher known as "The Childminder" threatens modern-day Norfolk in the latest irresistible mystery from Elly Griffiths. Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting new entry in a beloved series...
  • Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming

    Through the Evil Days by Julia Spencer-Fleming

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The eighth book in the Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery series. On a frigid January night, Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne and Reverend Clare Fergusson are called to the scene of a raging fire, that quickly becomes a double homicide and kidnapping. Which is the very last thing Russ needs...Currently he's struggling with the prospect of impending fatherhood...
  • Hard Knocks by Ruby Lang

    Hard Knocks by Ruby Lang

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Neurologist Helen Chang Frobisher is on a mission to ban hockey from Portland to prevent the kind of concussive brain injury that plagues her father. Oregon Wolves player Adam Magnus is desperately trying to secure his career and his retirement despite the team’s dismal record...
  • Her Unexpected Roommate by Jackie Lau

    Her Unexpected Roommate by Jackie Lau

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 5 ratings
    When electrical engineer and depressed plushie enthusiast Rose Pang decides to go out alone one evening, she certainly doesn’t expect to meet easygoing landscaper Cal. They spend an enjoyable night together, and the next day, romance is on her mind. Cal promises to text…but he never does. Hurt, Rose tries her best to forget about him...
  • Before He Was Gone by Becky Wicks

    Before He Was Gone by Becky Wicks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Standalone sequel to Before He Was Famous (out now!) Sometimes, you have to get lost to find yourself... When her rock star boyfriend breaks things off out of the blue, Alyssa applies to hit reality TV show Deserted and to her shock she gets through...
  • Jamaican Sunset by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Jamaican Sunset by Linda Lee Chaikin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Publicly betrothed to Baret Buckington, her handsome sea captain, Emerald Harwick can scarcely contain her joy. She will manage her plantation's Great House on Jamaica until his return from sailing with buccaneer Henry Morgan, and then they will marry. Meanwhile, she will begin a singing school and translate the African slave chants God's songs of redemption...
  • The Baby Rescue by Margaret Daley

    The Baby Rescue by Margaret Daley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    OPERATION BABY RESCUE To rescue an abducted infant from a baby-smuggling ring, U.S marshal Colton Phillips has to work with FBI agent Lisette Sutton. But their tactics couldn't be more different. The too-pretty agent goes by the book, whereas Colton breaks rules to get the job done. Colton vows to keep his heart out of the job, but his unwanted attraction to Lisette lowers his guard...
  • Time of the Dragons by Robert Shea

    Time of the Dragons by Robert Shea

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Shike: Time Of Dragons, Book...
  • After All These Years by Sally John

    After All These Years by Sally John

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Popular fiction author Sally John's first series The Other Way Home (more than 65,000 copies sold) comes to life with a fresh, new cover for a new audience of readers.In "After All These Years," the second book of the series, Isabel Mendoza's past is just a memory...until Tony, her boyfriend from college days, arrives in Valley Oaks. Romantic sparks fly again, but Isabel is a Christian now...
  • Protecting Plain Jane by Julie Miller

    Protecting Plain Jane by Julie Miller

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She'd Become A Prisoner To Her Fears Until One SWAT Protector Unlocked Her Cell. Ten years ago quiet heiress Charlotte Maywether was abducted and held for ransom...but when she was targeted a second time, SWAT officer Trip Jones vowed to protect her. The damaged beauty was slow to trust, but even she couldn't deny the tender bond forming between her and her handsome bodyguard...
  • Critical Pursuit by Janice Cantore

    Critical Pursuit by Janice Cantore

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Officer Brinna Caruso has built a reputation at the precinct as the cop to call when a child goes missing. For Brinna, it's personal because she was once one of them. Brinna and her K-9 search and rescue dog, Hero, will stop at nothing to find a missing child, no matter the stakes. Detective Jack O'Reilly isn't ready to return to his homicide duties after losing his wife to a drunk driver...
  • The Treble With Men by Piper Sheldon

    The Treble With Men by Piper Sheldon

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As far as Green Valley is concerned, Kim Dae disappeared into the Wraiths a decade ago. They were sort of right. Kim has spent her life since Jethro fighting her curious nature and trying to blend into the background. Unfortunately for her, a mysterious Maestro comes to town and takes quick notice of her for reasons unknown to anybody...
    Categorized as:
    east-asian-mc  humor  contemporary
  • Tanamera by Noel Barber

    Tanamera by Noel Barber

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The spell binding story of two lovers and two great dynasties; one British, the other Chinese, the society that separated them and the passion that bound them. TANAMERA sweeps from the steamy, British-ruled Malaya of the 1930s through the bloody days of the Japanese occupation, to the tumultuous birth of a nation...
  • Emeralds and Espionage by Lynn Gardner

    Emeralds and Espionage by Lynn Gardner

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Allison Alexander, home in California on a brief vacation from her work at the United Nations, is shot at and pursued by mysterious intruders who have taken over the estate on which she and her mother have lived as caretakers since Allison was a child...
  • Turquoise and Terrorists by Lynn Gardner

    Turquoise and Terrorists by Lynn Gardner

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The news hit Allison like a blow to the stomach. A helicopter carrying her kidnapped husband, Bart, had crashed into the side of a mountain. “I’m sorry, Mrs. Alexander . . .there were no survivors,” the secret service agent said...
  • The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker

    The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present.  When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of...
  • Pearls and Peril by Lynn Gardner

    Pearls and Peril by Lynn Gardner

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Allison and Bart, married less than a week, return to their Hawaiian honeymoon suite to find the room ransacked. Thousands of miles from home, they’re being followed. But why, and by whom? What dark secret do they hold that makes them prime targets for murder by a sinister madman bent on revenge? It’s a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, with Allison caught in a demonic web...
  • Saving Scotty by Annie Jocoby

    Saving Scotty by Annie Jocoby

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Scotty is sure that she was betrayed by Nick, so she wants nothing more to do with him. Unfortunately, her life is endangered by Mr. Lucas, as she is abducted by him and spirited away to an island far away from New York City. Nick begins a desperate search for Scotty, knowing that every minute that Scotty is in the hands of Mr. Lucas is another minute that she is horribly suffering...
    Categorized as:
    abduction  contemporary  length-medium
  • Cross My Heart by Cynthia Eden

    Cross My Heart by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    There are some cases you never forget.Former FBI agent Elijah Cross tried to put the past behind him. For years, he spent his days and his nights tracking some of the most brutal killers in the US. Now? He protects the rich and famous while working at Wilde. Less danger, more glamour…and a whole lot more cash...
  • The Dom by Julia Sykes

    The Dom by Julia Sykes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    I don’t deserve her: the sweet, perfect angel with the sweet, perfect life. She doesn’t know anything about my violent past. But if I could just touch her, taste her, then maybe I could pretend her perfect world could be mine, too. I know I should stay away, but when she looks to me for protection, her fate is sealed. Ashlyn will be mine. Note: The Dom is the prequel to The Daddy and The Dom...
    Categorized as:
    abduction  mafia  bdsm  contemporary
  • Moondust and Madness by Janelle Taylor

    Moondust and Madness by Janelle Taylor

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    CAPTIVE TO HIS SAVAGE PASSION... A moan escaped Jana Greyson as this strong, handsome stranger invaded her lips with his demanding kisses. He had stolen her from her world, made her his prisoner, and now enslaved her with the trembling rapture of his hunger... igniting a white-heat that melted her will to resist...
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