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Dangerous Code


Stella Marie Alden - 2017
    He's got her. If they don't get their sh*t together soon, New Yorkers are going to die. Don't freak out, Jones. It's probably just a bug. Oh. My. God. I'm on a bus with a friggin' terrorist!In the bus's side window, my wide-eyed reflection gawks back, pale Irish skin tinted green. And instead of a successful entrepreneur, I see a woman biting down on her lower lip like a scared teenager. Yeah, I want off this death trap. Who wouldn't? One small push on the stop bar and I could get free. But I can't just leave a bus filled with innocent people,can I? I brace for the searing blast wondering if there really is a heavenly doorway with brilliant white light.There's a clunk. I wait. Then nothing.Finally a male voice shouts from upfront, "NYPD. Everyone remain seated!"When I open my eyes, I figure I didn't survive the attack and this is the afterlife. Otherwise the chances of seeing Colin O'Brien again are what? A hundred zillion to one? ...He hasn't changed a bit. He's still got those dreamy baby-blues and jet-black lashes.I can't handle his intense stare, his breath. Just like long ago, his presence makes my panties melt.

Chasing Bullets


Suzanne Cass - 2022
    Then she ran away from him in the ultimate act of betrayal. Two years later, Tara Hunter’s easy life in Byron Bay is turned upside down when David Cooper, her ex-police partner, appears and their chequered past comes back to haunt her. Coop is in town on an undercover mission to prevent a possible terrorist plot. While he’s recovered physically from the bullet wound, mentally he’s still scarred by her act of deceit. Reluctantly, Tara is drawn into Coop’s operation to track down a group of extremists hiding in the jungle wilderness, where she soon finds the illicit desire they shared two years ago is back, stronger than ever. But will she be able to find the courage to tell him she loves him and save him from the brutal terrorist gang? Suzanne Cass writes a thrilling romantic suspense in this game of hide and seek, full of passionate romance and heart stopping choices. Pick up a copy of Chasing Bullets today and get lost in this world of romance and deception.

Devil's Advocate, Book 1


Carla Coxwell - 2015
    Kristie finds herself falling for him but will her attraction to Gray prove fatal? ***Due to sexually graphic content and language that some may find offensive, this book is intended for mature readers only*** When Kristie comes home from college, the last thing she expects is her world to be turned upside down by the appearance of a handsome, gruff stranger, Gray. He is the head of a biker gang in town called the Devil’s Advocates. Kristie’s mom asks if she can befriend Gray in hopes of getting him on the straight and narrow. The plan backfires, however, as Kristie finds herself falling for Gray. Is it possible he feels the same way? The connection between them threatens to tear down everything Kristie has ever held dear. The more she falls for Gray, the more messy things get. As Gray gets yanked further and further into the world of his gang, Kristie finds herself having to make a choice: stay on her own path or risk everything to be with Gray. Will she be able to make it out unscathed? Download the story to find out what happens.

Lord


Autumn Summers - 2020
    Never does she expect to get caught up with an MC that would put her life in danger. Lord: At first, she’s just a hot piece I picked up off the side of the highway. But now I can’t seem to let her out of my sight. I don’t know where these feelings are coming from, but I’m going to do whatever it takes to make her mine…and keep her away from dark past. Mandy: I was just looking for a wild ride, but then I get caught up in his eyes and his strong protective presence. When trouble goes down with one of the bikers and I’m caught in the middle of a rivalry between two motorcycle clubs, I’m terrified and scared for my life. Can I really trust the word of this complete stranger?This stand-alone motorcycle club romance, featuring an older bad boy MC outlaw with a younger curvy girl, is part of the Savage Saint MC series. An action-packed motorcycle romance with HOT & steamy scenes that have a happily-ever-after.

Making Her His


Lexy Timms - 2017
     Saks’ Story Anthony Parks, AKA Saks, straddles two worlds and neither one is very reputable. By day, he’s a motorcycle mechanic and Road Captain of the Hades’ Spawn, a none-too-squeaky-clean motorcycle club. By night, he’s the scion of an organized crime family who wants him to join the family business full time. Recent events with the Spawn MC have soured his community reputation, and while certain women like bad boys that’s not the kind Saks is looking for. Add in pressure from his family to marry, and Saks is faced with an impossible situation. His wise-guy uncle proposes an arranged marriage between Saks and the daughter of a don from another crime family. When he meets a mysterious blonde who shows him love at first sight is possible, he knows he can never accept his uncle’s proposal. Now he has to figure out a way to tell Uncle Vits without getting excommunicated from the family or putting the Spawn in the crosshairs of a powerful crime organization. Now if only he could find the woman who stole his heart. Christina’s story Christina Marie Serafina decided a long time ago that her loving but paternalistic family wasn’t going to determine the course of her life. She has no desire to get mixed up in any of the illegal businesses her family owns. She’s earned a Masters in Business and Communications on her own dime, and just landed her dream job as Director of Marketing for an up and coming business. Marriage and a family aren’t in her game plan right now. When her grandfather announces that he’s arranged a marriage for her with a good Italian man, Christina goes ballistic. She’s marrying a man of her own choosing, not some member from another crime family. Urged by her sister to at least check the guy out, she goes to his family’s bar to confirm her suspicions. Except she meets a handsome biker that knows exactly how to send her body into overdrive. Realizing the hunky man is the one her grandfather wants her to marry sends her into flight mode, even though he haunts her dreams. Can Saks convince the woman of his dreams to look past his family connections and take a chance on a lowly motorcycle mechanic? And if he does, can he look past hers?

Harris


Jasinda Wilder - 2016
    Ex-Army Ranger, former personal security for the one and only Valentine Roth, mercenary, assassin, pilot, and my lover. After Roth and Kyrie holed up in their island fortress estate in the Caribbean, Nick started a private security contracting company: Alpha One Security. He hired the best of the best, the scariest, nastiest, toughest—and sexiest—security experts in the business. And now he has the mission of a lifetime: the three year old daughter of two A-list celebrities has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. The twist? The mercenary and Russian mafioso who snatched the sweet, innocent little girl is a vicious, evil, sadistic thug with a grudge against Nick. And the fallout from this mission will be jet fuel on the flames of that grudge, pulling everyone around Nick into the vortex of violence and vengeance. Good thing we have the seven deadliest and most badass men on the planet on our team… And oh yeah, there’s little ol’ me: Layla Campari, mercenary-in-training.

Thrilling Suspenseful Nights: Fabulous Freebie Collection


Mimi Barbour - 2021
    With death and destruction in the air, these characters need to succeed, protect, or die trying.Featuring:Mimi Barbour – Retaliation – She watches the mob kill her twin & revenge claws at her sheltered existence until she can’t breathe. She will avenge. USA Today and NY Times Bestselling Author.Stacy Eaton – Love Torn: The Twisted Love Series - A major part of love ‘em and leave ‘em Detective Kali “The Mann-Eater’s” past comes back to haunt her just as she begins to open up. Will both her private and professional life now be torn apart? USA Today Bestselling AuthorRachelle Ayala – Bad Boys for Hire: Ryker – Terri calls Bad Boys for Hire to book a date for her birthday party and gets caught in a motorcycle club vendetta. USA Today Bestselling AuthorTaylor Lee – The Moscow Affair – A dangerously elegant man and a beautiful feisty young woman take on the evils of the international sex trade while exploring a passionate world of their own. USA Today Bestselling AuthorNancy Radke (with Nolan Radke) – Height of Danger – Can CIA operative Owen Putman protect the Texas billionaire’s daughter if she won’t stay where he hides her, at the top of a tree in the rainforest? USA Today Bestselling Author

The Bend in Redwood Road


Danielle Stewart - 2019
    No more than a quiet wondering around the edges of her mind.   What has become of the baby she left behind?   Smiling through the pain and suffering in silence, Leslie Laudon marches forward. Embracing the life skillfully designed by her husband Paul. Living right could be penance for an impossible choice made with an uneasy heart. Dutiful and anchoring, Leslie poured herself into her other children. Nurturing them through infancy, protecting them as toddlers, guiding them as teens. As her youngest child heads off to college with her suitcases and coordinating dorm room accessories, so goes Leslie’s identity. The chaotic life of a busy working mother threatens to become dangerously quiet. Quiet enough to hear the voices she’s tried to silence for decades.   Gwen Fox was adopted by two perfect people. Noel and Millie have always treated her the same as their two biological sons. Her parents love is strong and unwavering, yet a soul-deep ache still lingers. Plagued by an unnamed, hard to explain, longing Gwen could never shake.   Riddled with doubt and dragged down by the undertow of unanswered questions, Leslie and Gwen both find their lives suddenly upended. One seeks the truth about the day she was born. The other seeks herself, the woman she was before motherhood. Before she made a choice to leave a piece of her heart lying asleep in the hospital nursery.   In this complex journey for answers, blame is abundant. Guilt is thick enough to choke on. Marriages are brought to the brink of disaster. As the ripples of the past vibrate through their lives, Gwen and Leslie realize there is no turning back. What they have put into motion cannot be stopped. The road toward the truth will be littered with casualties.

Sweet Masterpiece


Connie Shelton - 2010
    But her real dream is to open her own pastry shop, Sweet's Sweets.Life is a little crazy for Sam right now. At one of her break-in properties a dying woman insists that she take a small wooden box. Sam doesn't realize that the old woman was known locally as a bruja, a witch, until she begins to feel some strange effects from the box, herself.Meanwhile, at another property, she finds an unmarked grave and the authorities come to investigate. The property owner disappeared a few months earlier and Sam wonders--who is the body in the grave? A small mural in the house leads to a connection with a famous artist; a bogus will points to possible fraud; and the handsome deputy investigating the case seems completely enchanted with Sam.While Sam scrambles to fill bakery orders and keep her properties in order, she's equally intrigued with the idea of a new romance. It all makes for a delightful romantic mystery with elements of the paranormal.

Redeeming Ryker


Kelly Collins - 2017
    He’s haunted by his mistakes. Can their love survive the painful truth behind a shared tragedy?After years in jail, Ryker Savage is still guilt-ridden over the bloody crime that traumatized his small town and tore his family apart. So when a stranger moves into a beloved victim’s house, old emotions come bubbling to the surface. But he can’t afford to turn down the alluring owner’s odd jobs: it’s the only way he can bankroll the search for his long-lost brother. Working alongside the beautiful woman, Ryker starts to feel her kindness melt his hardened heart to make room for love.After her grandma’s death, Ana Barrett lost her only family in the world. So when the down-on-her-luck artist unexpectedly inherits property in Colorado, she hopes the move could be her chance at a new beginning. After hiring an ex-con to help whip the house in shape, she wonders if she should trust the small-town gossip… or what her heart is telling her.When shocking revelations intertwine their half-forgotten pasts, will the painful truth strengthen their love or tear them apart?

Devil Chaser's MC Romance Boxed Set


L. Wilder - 2015
    a large fire that is dangerously out of control.2. a place of suffering; hellTessa is a school teacher and single mom starting a new life in Paris, TN. Romance is the last thing on her mind. Bishop is the leader of the Devil Chasers' Motorcycle Club, and a single dad trying to rescue his son from sins of his father. Bishop's past won't let go, and soon Tessa is swept up in the powerful, intense biker's world- and all the danger that brings. When all hell breaks loose, will their love survive the blast or will everything be lost in the inferno?  Smolder-Smolders; 1.: To burn slowly without flames but usually with smoke 2. (Literary) a.: to feel a strong emotion but keep it hidden  Some connections are so intense, so deep that they span years. Starting with nothing more than a casual conversation, a look in the eye, a touch --but the point is they start. They smolder with a quiet intensity that eventually leads to combustion.  When both Taylor and Renegade's lives are rocked by tragedy, can they find comfort in each other's arms? Or will old wounds and scars tear them apart forever? In hearts where pain, love, and passion lie smoldering... will anything survive the blast when the fire sparks?Ignite:Ignite; ignites; ignited; igniting 1. To set (something) on fire: to cause (something) to burn 2. To give life or energy to (someone or something) Lily's quiet life was upturned the day she found out her sister was dead. Now, she only has one thing on her mind- to keep her sister's baby safe... at all cost. As Vice President of the Devil Chaser's MC, Goliath's main focus his my club. He's worked hard to help make it legal and successful, and it's finally paying off. He's committed to the Devil Chaser's, and his brother's know he'll do anything for them. Goliath had no clue what he was getting into the day he matched wits with the sassy spitfire Bishop hired to run the bar. Sometimes fate intervenes when we least expect it, and forces collide so fast and so hard, they can't help but Ignite.  ConsumedConsumed1.            To destroy (something) or expend by use; use up 2.            To destroy by burning (something) 3.            To absorb; engross Courtney is a curvy, feisty bombshell who has watched her friends be swept off their feet by the alpha men of the Devil Chasers' Motorcycle Club. She thinks she has met her match when she falls for one of the MC bad boys, but a vindictive act against the Devil Chasers will change her forever. Bobby is the brains behind the Devil Chasers' Motorcycle Club, a computer whiz who keeps his club a step ahead of the rest. The club is his family, and he would protect them at any cost. When a rival club puts her in danger, Bobby's world is rocked to its core.Combust:(verb)• to catch fire; burst into flame• to become suddenly angry(Noun)• the act or process of burning• rapid burn • violent excitement or passionSheppard’s devotion to his club was unquestionable. He would do anything for them, including giving his own life to protect his brothers’. He proved that the day he took a bullet for Bishop, the president of the Devil Chaser’s MC. He thought his life was over when he fell into the lake and got dragged under by the fast-paced current. Ana’s world was crashing down around her. Her lifelong dream of becoming a doctor was being threatened. She felt lost, and she was quickly losing hope. The day she stumbled across a body by the lake, her instinct to his life overwhelmed her. She knew her life was complicated, but she couldn’t stop herself. She had to help him. When she looked into the handsome stranger’s eyes, she knew she would go to any lengths to save him.Ana would do everything she could to save Sheppard’s life, but would he be able to do the same for her? When Ana’s past comes crashing into her future, will they be able to withstand the blast? Or will their love combust into flames?

JACOB


Victoria Jayne - 2021
    Going to Ohio for club business is his opportunity to prove himself. If he does it right, he can also use it as his second chance with Sparrow Malone, the one that got away seven years ago.But Sparrow has goals and a life of her own. As the daughter of a fallen biker, she knows a woman’s place in an MC all too well. It’s her place within the club she’s not sure about. Then Jacob rides back into town and steals her self-control, her decency, and her morals.Amid lollipops, love letters, and a serenade, their undeniable connection draws them to each other. But their club obligations may keep them apart. In a world where loyalty is everything, they have to decide where theirs lie and what is worth sacrificing.

Wraith


Kathleen Kelly - 2020
    They will regret ever having touched what I protect. These men have never come up against a Wraith, and I swear, this Wraith will be the last thing they see before they meet their miserable end.

Meridian File


C.B. Samet - 2018
    He wants an uncomplicated assignment. As a celebrity stalker targets Aurora Meridian, the Rider team--Mason and Maxine--are drawn into the sinister underworld of the Russian mafia. Aurora and Mason fight for their lives and each other while Maxine Rider discovers the lines she must cross and the sacrifices to be made to keep her client and her team safe.

Sweet Curse of Bali


Mya Grey - 2020
    Alonzo's ego was crushed, totally crippled for the very first time--by a woman! "Do you even know who I am?" he said to her. Sure, he thought. She's a purple belt in Jiu-Jitsu...but I'm Alonzo, the only rightful heir of the Ortega family.A Spanish billionaire with more power than she can fathom. But he didn't tell her that. Camila doesn't give a damn about his gorgeous body or his self-absorbed attitude. And that drives him crazy. Now he's obsessed. Not to sleep with her. But to beat her on the mat and show her who the boss. But in the midst of his determination, they begin to form a friendship.Unlike any other woman Alonzo has encountered, Camila does not flirt with him. She pays for her own drinks and would rather teach yoga than party all night. She is blunt and speaks her mind. She is wild but level-headed, confident and strong.She is everything he is not. But everything he needs