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  • Securing Kalee by Susan Stoker

    Securing Kalee by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    After her capture by rebels in the mountains of Timor-Leste, Kalee Solberg doesn’t think she’ll live to see her father, friends, or hometown again. What started as an adventure with the Peace Corp until she figured out what to do with her life has turned into a waking nightmare, every day a struggle to survive. Beaten into submission, Kalee guesses she’s been presumed dead by now...
  • Searching for Heather by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Heather by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    She'd lost everything once, and now that she's found herself, and a man she trusts to be by her side, she refuses to let it all be taken from her a second time.Ever since hearing about the mysterious woman in the woods who'd rescued his friends, Talon Ross has been intrigued. Who is she? Why is she there? Is she cold? Hungry? Scared? He can't rest until he's found her, made sure she's all right...
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  • Sacrifice The Knight by Emilia Finn

    Sacrifice The Knight by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sacrifices are never ideal, but to win the game, sometimes the knight must fall. Katrina Blair is a single mom to a daredevil teen, which means she has no time for fruitless endeavours such as dating. Why? Because men are all the same: liars, thieves, and unreliable a**holes...
  • Checkmate by Emilia Finn

    Checkmate by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Bishop men are nothing but a plague on this planet, a disease that needs eradication before it spreads. They’re murderers. Liars. Thieves. The day I met Colum Bishop, I thought my life was finally turning around. I was led to believe he would be our saviour. He was supposed to be our hero, a long awaited reprieve from the hardships life insisted on throwing at my mom and me...
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  • Protecting Remi by Susan Stoker

    Protecting Remi by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The start of a brand-new series featuring Navy SEALs who will do whatever it takes to keep their women safe. When introverted cartoonist Remi Stephenson dumps her cheating ex and goes on their Hawaiian vacation solo, even her creative mind can’t imagine being purposely stranded in the ocean…with a handsome, muscular, brave Navy SEAL. Even more unbelievable is the spark between them...
  • Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Last Man Standing by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The final "powerfully intense" (Romantic Times) Black Ops, Inc. novel from New York Times bestseller Cindy Gerard, featuring a covert private security team and electrifying romantic suspense. Black Ops, Inc. operative Joe Green is determined to bring to justice the man responsible for former team member Bryan Tompkins's death...
  • Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hunter Townsend loves his new home in the small town of Shadows Landing. It’s his sanctuary when he comes home from a mission as part of his Special Forces team. Maggie, the infuriating, monogram loving, bright color wearing, cuter than she should be woman, who loves to tease him was the only issue in Shadows Landing. Until a mission goes wrong . .
  • Deserving Henley by Susan Stoker

    Deserving Henley by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Years of adversity have molded Henley McClure into the attentive, conscientious psychologist she is today. She lives for her daughter, Jasna, and her work at The Refuge, an exclusive retreat for victims of PTSD. Her life is fulfilling…if a little lonely. But the only man who’s captured her interest, the most standoffish of the mountain retreat’s seven owners, lives in self-imposed isolation...
  • Rescuing Annie by Susan Stoker

    Rescuing Annie by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Annie Fletcher has known what she’s wanted to do since she was seven years old...a special forces soldier just like her dad. But now that she’s one of the very few women in the ranks of the elite Green Berets, she isn't sure she wants the role anymore. But the last thing she wants to do is disappoint her father. Or his Delta Force teammates, who are all like uncles to her...
  • Believed by Dr. Rebecca Sharp

    Believed by Dr. Rebecca Sharp

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From bestselling author, Dr. Rebecca Sharp, comes a steamy, marriage of convenience romantic suspense...Reed Lockhard loves his single life. Even after joining Covington Security, he’s still known as the viral sensation, San Francisco’s Hot Cop. His nights are never lonely, and the gorgeous redhead who catches his eye from across the bar promises an unforgettable one...
  • Searching for Lilly by Susan Stoker

    Searching for Lilly by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Searching for Lilly is the exciting first book in New York Times bestselling author Susan Stoker’s Eagle Point Search & Rescue series.Ethan “Chaos” Watson is the unofficial leader of Fallport, Virginia’s Search and Rescue team...
  • Deserving Reese by Susan Stoker

    Deserving Reese by Susan Stoker

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    He never expected to fall for his best friend's sister, but now that he has...he'll do whatever it takes to keep her safe.Having a crush on one of your brother’s friends is so cliché. But Reese Woodall isn’t too worried…it’s not as if she’d ever have a chance with the former Delta Force Operative. For one thing, he lives in New Mexico, and she’s in Missouri...
  • Hard to Lose by K. Bromberg

    Hard to Lose by K. Bromberg

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    I know finding and signing a military vet to the agency is a long shot--but it’ll be good press just letting him try out. That’s what I tell my family, rather than admit I can’t get the letter he wrote us five years ago out of my head. But what I tell the bartender in his hometown is a lie. I know veterans protect each other. So I pretend to be a graduate student. Sparks. Flame. Fire...
  • Castling The Rook by Emilia Finn

    Castling The Rook by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Die a hero. Forever remain a hero. Junior, baby-faced, rookie – Riley Cruz has heard it all. The youngest police recruit in town, Riley is thirty-one years old, but is constantly overlooked because of his youthful features and habit to keep his mouth shut when everyone else is loud. But not everything is as it seems. Not everyone is as innocent as they appear...
  • Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Hart Attack by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Outside of Titan Group, there are few people that Roman Hart would die for. He’s a soldier, a protector, and he’s haunted that one of the people he should’ve been able to protect didn’t let him. That was years ago, and now a hardened heart and a cocky attitude are his impenetrable shields, until one woman—one challenge—drives him to distraction. On the outside, Beth Tourne has it all...
  • Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn

    Jackson by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Sometimes it’s the oldest wounds that cut deepest.River Harp fell in love with her brother’s best friend, a boy who was practically part of the family…a boy who broke her heart before leaving town. Sixteen years later, he’s back for her brother’s funeral. And River wants nothing to do with the man. At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself...
  • Dead in the Water by Julie Ann Walker

    Dead in the Water by Julie Ann Walker

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Ann Walker delivers perfect pulse-pounding romantic suspense! The former Navy SEALs of Deep Six Salvage thought they could retire to the sea and hunt for treasures of the deep, but when trouble comes to visit, there'll be hell to pay.Dalton “Doc” Simmons is having one helluva week...
  • Carter Brothers Romance Series by Emily Stewart

    Carter Brothers Romance Series by Emily Stewart

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For 2 days only get the entire Carter Brother Series for FREE on KU.Are you ready for these cute Carter brothersAthletic BrotherCop BrotherDoctor BrotherFirefighter BrotherFighter BrotherAll have an HEA...
  • Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Tall, Dark and Daring by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Experience two classic tales of heroes facing danger and falling in love from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann’s Tall, Dark and Daring series — collected here in one volume! The Admiral’s Bride When six canisters of a lethal nerve agent are stolen from a military testing lab, Admiral Jake Robinson must recover the chemicals—by any means necessary...
  • Falling Hard by Pamela Clare

    Falling Hard by Pamela Clare

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A Gold Star wife alone… Ellie Meeks promised her pilot husband that if he was killed in combat, she would live her life to the fullest. Three years later, she is still alone, raising the twins he never met. She has no interest in dating or meeting men—until one snowy night when a stranger helps her get her sick kids safely home...
  • Disavowed by Kaylea Cross

    Disavowed by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The government trained her to kill… Briar Jones has lived most of her life in the shadows, carrying out secret ops to eliminate some of the United States’ most dangerous enemies. She’s devoted her life to serving her country so when a faceless enemy targets her and kills someone close to her, she’ll stop at nothing to bring them down...
  • Sweet Justice by Christy Reece

    Sweet Justice by Christy Reece

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Honor Stone is a young, idealistic FBI agent when her path collides with Seth Cavanaugh. For a girl who has never walked on the wild side, the dark and dangerous Seth is a temptation she can't refuse. But then Seth walks out the door and out of her life...
  • Cornered by Kaylea Cross

    Cornered by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She wants answers—and justice. Jaia knows her brother was murdered on a contracting job overseas, and that the company they work for covered it up. She just can’t prove it—yet. But she’s been quietly searching, gathering evidence and building her case at great personal risk...
  • Sudden Impact by Kaylea Cross

    Sudden Impact by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She won’t let him in.Psychologist Mia Ramos is over dating—especially players like the tall, dark and sexy Asher. He’s all wrong for her, and getting involved with him will only end in heartbreak. Yet she can’t stop wanting him, and every time he shows her another glimpse of the real man beneath the slick front he shows the rest of the world, it hooks her more...
  • The SEAL’s Surprise Baby by Leslie North

    The SEAL’s Surprise Baby by Leslie North

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Navy SEAL Anderson Park and agency operative Violet DiPaula didn’t like each other, but that didn’t diminish the spark between them. On a mission together in Russia, they gave in to the red-hot chemistry between them...
  • Dark 'N' Deadly by Tee O'Fallon

    Dark 'N' Deadly by Tee O'Fallon

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 7 ratings
    ATF Special Agent Eric Miller and his explosives detecting K-9, Tiger, pull over a truck, the contents of which are explosive. Literally. More shocking, the driver is the kid brother of a woman he left behind. One who still haunts his days and his nights. They’d never so much as kissed, but Tess McTavish never forgot the handsome, dangerous agent who vanished in a shroud of mystery...
  • Cole by Nyssa Kathryn

    Cole by Nyssa Kathryn

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    She’s a single mom with a secret. He’s a former Delta who doesn’t let people too close.Aria Callas understands struggle and sacrifice. Getting pregnant at sixteen, she’s spent more than a decade and a half ensuring her and her son’s safety the only way she knows how—by staying on the move...
  • No Turning Back by Kaylea Cross

    No Turning Back by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    CIA communications expert Samarra Wallace is on the run from a faceless enemy when she learns terrorists have kidnapped and threatened to execute her cousin. She will do whatever it takes to free her, including breaking cover to contact the former teammate she is dangerously attracted to. Now all she has to do is convince him she's not working for the bad guys...
  • Killing Time by Cindy Gerard

    Killing Time by Cindy Gerard

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    An exciting new series featuring Mike "Primetime" Brown, a character from her popular "Black Ops, Inc." series. For the seven years after Operation Slam Dunk went south, Mike Brown got drunk on each anniversary. The eighth year was no different--until he was drugged by a woman and woke up to her questions about what had happened eight years ago in Afghanistan...
  • Unbreak This Heart by Betty Shreffler

    Unbreak This Heart by Betty Shreffler

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ever since that horrific night, I’d shut men completely out of my life. I’d gone from the spunky, fun, Alex DeMarco to a broken woman terrified of intimacy. Easing me back into dating, my best friend sets me up with kickboxing lessons from my charming and perfectly sculpted instructor—Carter Maxwell...
  • Just a Hint - Clint by Lori Foster

    Just a Hint - Clint by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    SOME DAYS, IT DOESN'T PAY TO GET OUT OF BED That's what crosses Clint Evan's mind the minute he takes on the four thugs holding heiress Julie Rose hostage. It isn't the danger--Clint's made the reputation by being reliably ruthless, a quality that keeps his wounds deeply undercover. What's got Clint in a lather is Julie herself...
  • Operation: Endurance by Christi Snow

    Operation: Endurance by Christi Snow

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They had a single night of passion before he deployed on a risky mission. 18 hours on a mission gone very wrong was all it took to shatter all their hopes and dreams. The hero: He survived 6 months of captivity and torture, kept alive by dreams of her. The heroine: She thought he was dead and moved on only to have her world fall apart once again...
  • Capture by June Gray

    Capture by June Gray

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The future beckons... Elsie has given Henry three chances to win back her trust, but before he is able to complete the challenge, she finds herself faced with a life-changing decision. Elsie must ask herself an important question: is Henry just a thing of the past or does he have a place in her future? The conclusion to the story of Henry and Elsie...
  • Burned by Kaylea Cross

    Burned by Kaylea Cross

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman with a dark past... Forced into hiding after her NSA-sanctioned task force lands on a terrorist cell’s hit list, cryptologist Zahra Gill must rely on the skill and experience of her ex-Special Ops Titanium Security teammates to keep her safe—including former Force Recon Marine Sean Dunphy...
  • Tall, Dark and Fearless by Suzanne Brockmann

    Tall, Dark and Fearless by Suzanne Brockmann

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times and USA TODAY Bestselling Author SUZANNE BROCKMANN returns with two more classic tales of tall, dark and dangerous men who face the msot daring adventure of all -- FALLING IN LOVEFRISCO'S KIDBeing a Navy SEAL is more than a career to Alan Frisco Francisco--it is his whole world. So when a bullet wound threatens his future in the Navy, he is determined to achieve a full recovery..
  • Gambled by Cristin Harber

    Gambled by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Brock Gamble’s epic fall from the Titan Group labeled him a traitor. He betrayed his men. He failed his family. And when he thought he’d hit the lowest point, his wife walked out with their children, leaving him alone to drown himself in the bottle. Surviving an abduction didn’t end the nightmare for Sarah Gamble. The aftershocks of post-traumatic stress disorder hit her hard...
  • Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Westin's Chase by Cristin Harber

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    THE MASTER OF EVERYTHING HAS FOUND HIS MATCH Jared Westin knows his reputation and likes it. He gets the job done. No emotion. No baggage. That’s why his elite ops company, The Titan Group, is better than the best. They complete projects classified as mission impossible. And then, in walks a woman as tough as she is sexy. His counterpart in every way, should he choose to admit it...
  • Close Contact by Lori Foster

    Close Contact by Lori Foster

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    There’s no resisting a desire like this…MMA fighter Miles Dartman’s casual arrangement with personal shopper Maxi Nevar would be many men’s fantasy. She seeks him out, they have mindblowing sex, she leaves. Rinse, repeat. Yet lately, Miles wants more...
  • Ice Cold Kiss by Cynthia Eden

    Ice Cold Kiss by Cynthia Eden

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The son of a serial killer. A devil in the flesh. Midas Monroe knows that his big size intimidates plenty of people, and when they learn about his twisted past? Most folks go running. But he’s not like his dear old monster of a dad, despite the stories that still circulate in the press. He’s a bodyguard. Protecting and defending is his bit. No emotional attachments, ever. And no mistakes...
  • Operation: Endeavor by Christi Snow

    Operation: Endeavor by Christi Snow

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Colton Robertson left his career in the Air Force… … to come home and help his family heal. Unfortunately, his reception was not quite what he’d hoped for and he ended up as roommate to hippy dippy yoga instructor Penelope Pruitt. Penelope has spent her life under the restrictive thumb of her parents and she doesn’t want to do the same with the straight-laced, serious Colton...
  • SEALed With A Kiss: Heroes With Heart by Sharon Hamilton, Teresa J. Reasor

    SEALed With A Kiss: Heroes With Heart by Sharon Hamilton, Teresa J. Reasor

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Anthology of 8 Navy SEAL novellas by New York Times, USA Today and award-winning bestselling authors: Marliss Melton, Gennita Low, Teresa Reasor, Elle James, Delilah Devlin, Stephanie Tyler, J.M. Madden and Sharon Hamilton. Code of Silence by Award-winning Internationally Bestselling author Marliss Melton : Navy SEAL Vinny DeInnocentis has no idea his news reporter wife is keeping secrets...
  • Hot Alpha SEALs by Anne Elizabeth, Cat Johnson

    Hot Alpha SEALs by Anne Elizabeth, Cat Johnson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    12 New York Times, USA Today or Award-winning bestselling Hot Alpha Authors brings you this Military Romance Megaset for your reading pleasure: THE KISS OF A SEAL by Award-winning Author Anne Elizabeth — Jessa Grainger’s world is rocked by the kiss of a SEAL, SO-1 Link Tyler...
  • Cold Day in Hell by Jerrie Alexander

    Cold Day in Hell by Jerrie Alexander

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ex-Army Ranger Tyrell Castillo’s first mission for Lost and Found, Inc. goes awry when his contact is kidnapped, and he’s left scrambling for weapons and explosives. He’ll have to blow up a drug cartel’s compound, rescue the woman, and keep her safe while they cross the sweltering hot Colombian jungle. Driven by the need for revenge, Ana Maria Vega Cisneros doesn’t want to be rescued...
  • Chance Encounter by Christy Reece

    Chance Encounter by Christy Reece

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Chance brought them together. A killer is determined to rip them apart. She’s the face of innocence whose secrets, if uncovered, could destroy her carefully crafted life. On the cusp of achieving every goal she’s set for herself, Kacie Dane is one step away from superstardom. The hell she endured five years ago is a nightmare of the past...
  • Before the Lie by K.D. Robichaux

    Before the Lie by K.D. Robichaux

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It was love at first sight. Not just for me, but for Corbin as well. Our eyes locked across the room, and that was all she wrote. But we didn’t rush things. We wanted to do it right. After all, we would spend the rest of our lives together. The love of my life. My soul mate. He was the intense and fiercely protective soldier, and I was his doting and faithful lover...
  • I Need You To Save Me by Genicious

    I Need You To Save Me by Genicious

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Perhaps the stars aligned, but fate had other plans…Ace and Calla face the ultimate test as they navigate through the harsh realities of his arrest. The stakes are higher than ever before. With their future crumbling and their past lurking in the shadows, they must confront the demons that threaten to consume them...
  • I Own the Dawn by M.L. Buchman

    I Own the Dawn by M.L. Buchman

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Name: Archibald Jeffrey Stevenson III Rank: First Lieutenant, Dap Hawk Copilot Mission: Strategy and execution of special ops maneuvers Name: Kee Smith Rank: Sergeant, Night Stalker Gunner and Sharpshooter Mission: Whatever it takes to get the job done You Wouldn't Think It Could Get Worse, Until It Does..
  • Save Me by Heidi McLaughlin

    Save Me by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tucker McCoy thought the hardest mission of his life was over. After being deployed for six years, all he wanted to do was return home to his wife and daughter. But when he arrives home with roses in his hand, the last thing he expects is to be welcomed by a stranger. Being presumed dead for six years doesn’t help his cause as no one is giving him the answers he needs...
  • No Control by Shannon K. Butcher

    No Control by Shannon K. Butcher

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    NO HIDING . Lana Hancock knows all about danger--and betrayal. Eighteen months ago, she was captured by a terrorist group known as the Swarm while one of its members, a rugged man with sinfully dark eyes, did nothing to help her. Now when she's freed and desperate to put it all behind her, the unthinkable happens...
  • Stone Cold Heart by Laura Griffin

    Stone Cold Heart by Laura Griffin

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    When local rock climbers stumble upon abandoned human bones in a remote Texas gorge, Sara Lockhart is the first to get the call. She has a reputation as one of the nation’s top forensic anthropologists, and police detective Nolan Hess knows she is just the expert he needs to help unravel this case...
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