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Romance Suspense

The Third Call

Romance and suspense collide in this pulse-pounding read!


NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart brings you an emotional OConnell family novel that is both Gut-wrenching & Riveting. 


A small town. A scared little girl. A man with a gun. A small cabin deep in the woods. This book was a wonderful story." 

-Bev, Bookbub ...

Black Cat Blues

Black Cat Blues A nightmare waits in the alley . . . Stabbed in an alley behind the Black Cat Blues bar, private investigator Jimmy Daniels clings to life just long enough to tell Maggy Malone a secret. Maggy, a curvy blues singer with a sultry voice and a razor sharp mind is starting her life over after a lousy marriage. Reluctant at first to get involved with a murder, she tells no one the secre ...

Heart of Legend

Kath Cameron’s acting career plunged off a cliff thanks to the divorce from her mega-star ex-husband. She has one last shot at a reboot when casting for the lead in the Welsh version of Braveheart reopens weeks into production. On location in Wales, she finds herself working around the clock with the film’s undeniably gorgeous director. But Dai Rhys has a knack for getting past all her defenses--a ...

Misdirection

A Suspense filled fast-burn romance.The 1st in the Racing Hearts Series of sizzling action tales. Set in a fast intense and dangerous world of Motorsport & the men and women competing in more ways than one.

Sins in the Deep Blue Sea

In the wake of heartbreak, loss, and a long separation, Lizzie Legard and Damen Wisler are about to face a dangerous and captivating reunion. Five years have passed since they last saw each other, their lives forever changed by tragedy. After battling through the physical and emotional scars of a harrowing helicopter crash during a mission and the painful aftermath of Daniel's death, Damen has fou ...

Jackson Stiles, Road to Redemption

Jackson Stiles is used to having bad days, but they’ve been especially bad since a certain tabloid reporter seems to have it out for him. Emma Green doesn’t mean any harm. She simply sees it as her duty to report the misdeeds of certain Private Detectives who charge too much in a society where people need more superheroes and less villains; something even Jackson has convinced himself he deserv ...

Red Hot Divas

You don't want to mess with these gals! Special Agent Francesca (Award-winning novel) Book #1 – Undercover FBI: Violence, suspense and sizzling romance explode during Francesca’s humorous journey, fighting off the mob! Dr. Sean Collins wants to tame her! Yeah-like that’s gonna happen. Only one thing keeps Francesca motivated. Proving to her mother, the FBI “Snow Queen”, that working undercover ...

Bratva Beast

I have a secret... I’m the daughter of one of the most deplorable Bratva Bosses in the underworld. Only I didn’t know that growing up. I was shielded and under his watchful eye until his past caught up with him and tragedy struck. I fled to Moscow to find answers, and the only thing I found was my father’s past chasing after me. I had nowhere to go until I came upon the perfect hideout. Only my pe ...

Broken Threads

Mead Whittaker wasn’t much more than a boy when he fought at the Battle of Mine Creek, but it damn near cost him his life. The last thing he needed was another injury to the same damn leg, yet that’s exactly what he got at The Duchess Saloon one dark night in October 1880. When Morgan approached him with a possible solution, Mead thought his brother was crazy. However, knowing he might never w ...

Awakening Macbeth

Romantic suspense with a paranormal twist, AWAKENING MACBETH is a passionate tale of love versus evil. From Virginia's most famous university to the Scottish highlands to a dusty road in Iraq, not even Shakespeare could have predicted the secret that will keep you up tonight. When Brodie Macbeth meets Joe Birnam, he hardly seems like the man of her dreams. Brodie is a University of Virginia profes ...

Within the Skin

Known as El Toro, street artist Alba Vargas is on the cusp of fame and fortune. Winner of a prestigious award, she is the toast of the New York City art scene. Or at least she will be, once she figures out how to act like a woman after living disguised as a boy for six years. If she is lucky, she might even attract the attention of the tattoo artist she has long loved from afar. Tattoo artist Fern ...

Bull

She needs a Daddy and he’s in need of a Little who can be strong enough to stand up to him. A last-minute surge of courage enabled Substance Abuse Counselor, Veronica Wallace, to leave her fiancé, chosen by her overbearing mother, at the altar. Escaping to Colorado for a visit with her college roommate, Veronica finds home and acceptance among the citizens in the small town of Grand Ridge. ...

Genteel Secrets

What do a well-bred Southern Belle and a Northern working class Pinkerton detective have in common? Espionage . . . and romance. At the start of the U.S. Civil War, while young men begin dying on American battlefields and slavery is headed toward its end, behind the scenes, female undercover work and Pinkerton intelligence are alive and well. But in the end, can the love between this novella's Rom ...

Special Agent Sophia

Sophia, ace sharpshooter, is called on for FBI’s difficult cases. Her uncanny ability to remain cool under duress makes her the perfect person to rescue the Governor’s twins whose rejected husband has whisked away to Greece. Since the agent spent most of her summers in Rhodes, the place works in her favor. Problems begin when a cocky hero hits on her in the marketplace. Yeah... why her? Sam Rea ...

Easy

The team is tasked with rescuing PAY-TV executive Jacqueline Devers in Caracas when she was sent to by her CEO to close a big deal for the company. She was being held falsely against her will. But when the team go in, Jack and Matthew “Easy” Hitchcock get separated from the team and they have to go on the run across a hostile country until they can be extracted. Jack has been through a terrible, t ...

Out of the Wreckage

What happens when the past threatens the future Miranda and Jason fought for? Miranda thought she finally had it all -- love and a family. But when a rich and successful ex-lover from her past surfaces, Jason's insecurities flare up. Unable to bear watching Miranda give up her dream because of finances, Jason decides the only way to give her dreams back is to walk away. Fighting through doubts and ...

Dark Secret

An alpha male determined to protect what’s his. Jackson Archer built his cyber security empire with a mix of street smarts and hard-won hacking skills. The former Navy SEAL isn’t one to fall for a damsel in distress. Usually, he assigns cases to his trusted operatives, but the moment Mira Swanson walks into his office, the pretty blonde ignites every protective instinct inside his battle-scarre ...

Wanted in Paradise

He's the hot Italian superstar, adored by millions. She's the one that got away... When Romeo Moretti, the most charismatic man Jasmine Hartwell has ever met, offers her a dream job in a paradise location, she hopes it will be a release from her nightmares. She can't run from the survivor's guilt she carries after a deadly typhoon, but perhaps Romeo's offer will be the perfect distraction ...

Stealing Hearts

Stealing back her necklace was easy. Keeping it is an entirely different problem. Evie's life changed irrevocably the night her grandmother's ruby pendant was brutally taken. Ten years later the chance to hold it once more is too much to resist. But posing as the future wife of the man she vowed to hate forever wasn't part of the plan. When fate places the woman he once loved back in h ...

Final Target

His last hit turns out to be his first love… As a final job for his mob boss uncle, Lar Delaney agrees to eliminate one last target. Through the crosshairs of his sniper rifle, he realizes that his target is a former girlfriend—a woman who supposedly died five years previously. Moira Collins is an intelligence agent whose cover has been shot to smithereens. When she finds herself on the wrong side ...

House of Terrors: Paranormal Romance - Sons of the Olympian Gods (The Ambrosia Trilogy Book 2)

It’s been months since Laurel left her home and family to escape her destiny – a destiny that has her giving birth to a demigod. She’s getting by with the help of Aurore, a Titaness with a dangerous secret of her own, who becomes charged with Laurel’s protection. One day, when Laurel accidentally meets the now cold-blooded Sampson, she knows she has lost his love for good. And when she learns the ...

Violent Delights: A Dark Billionaire Romance

She agreed to play. She agreed to be mine. 
I won't let her change the rules of the game.


Violence has always been part of my life. I was angry as a child, underchallenged and neglected, with no outlet for my dangerous rage.

Years have passed, and I’m no longer a victim of my own aggression. 

I’m in control now. 

A co ...

Second Chance Billionaire

He’s my billionaire ex that shattered my heart three years ago… And the last person I thought would save me. Despite our messy breakup, Jacob Adler is the sexiest man to ever cross my path. Those crisp blue eyes, irresistible smile and chiseled body still fuel my dreams. After putting my career on hold to care for my family, I’m ready to move on. But life took a wild turn when I inherited my late ...

Alpha Fighter

Savannah Santos is on the run. She fled everything she ever knew to follow her career dreams. But she wasn’t expecting her new roommate to be her dream guy. For Cooper Quin, being any girl’s dream man is nothing new, but he’s determined to stay exactly that: a dream. His focus is on killing it in the brutal MMA ring. But his sexy new roommate is nothing like one of his usual one- ...

Wreathed in Disgrace

Everybody believes movie star Denise Masters abandoned her family to pursue her dream, but the truth is much more complex. For years, she's longed to return to Coventry to repair her relationship with her daughter, but contractual obligations--and fear of being rejected--have kept her away. When a serial killer targets Hollywood actors, Denise decides to spend the Christmas holidays in New Hampshi ...

Conflicted

Harlow

Is your sister overbearing? Mine certainly is, always has been.

Rhea thinks that just because she's older than me that she can still make my decisions for me. Not anymore.

Sure, I followed her to Colorado to get away from our father several years ago, but now that we're unexpectedly back in New York, I want to know more about the company our father built, es ...

Enigma Rose

Warning!  There is explicit language and sexual content!

Mayor Joshua Steadman's biggest accomplishment is marrying his perfect first lady, Melissa.  But when Melissa falls terminally ill and confesses a disturbing secret on the eve of her death, the mayor's life is thrown into chaos.  Haunted by an alluring, enigmatic ghost from his past, Joshua must suppress his lust an ...

The Bargain

A woman who has everything to lose. The only person who can help her is the man she betrayed years before, the head of the Irish mob. I thought I could betray the Devil of Galway. I was wrong. For two years I was undercover as the lover of the most powerful man in Ireland. The night my betrayal became known he believed I died. Now I’m back and I need his help. I thought I could make a deal with th ...

Innocent

First Impressions can be deceptive. Aidan Blake needs a plumber. Fast. His boiler is dead, his creaky old house crumbling around him. When his elderly neighbour recommends a local trader, George Mahon, Aidan jumps at the prospect of hot water and warm radiators. But George, short for Georgina, is not exactly what he had in mind. He was expecting something else entirely. A man for one thing, ...

Covert Danger

Covert Danger The Mata Hari Suspense Series, Book #1 A single woman — A double life High fashion model, Sadie Stewart, is a dedicated undercover CIA agent used to getting her man. But this time she’s chasing a power-hungry international arms dealer stealing ancient Egyptian amulets. Brilliant, ruthless and slightly wacko, he’s a hard catch. She’s willing to risk everything ...

Impasse

Romance, thrills, a bit of darkness and mystery. It’s all here in IMPASSE. 
This is a newly edited edition:
When family is the enemy, who do you trust? For Jemma, her toughest challenge was to drive in the gruelling Paris-Dakar rally.
She was wrong, her talent has finally been recognised but she can’t free herself from her nemesis, a sinister force lurks and threatens her very ...

Violets for Vanessa

STRUGGLING TO BE FREE OF HER ABUSIVE FATHER, Vanessa Gallagher finds independence managing a tea shop and begs her mother to join her safe haven in small town Crystal Falls. Determined not to let another man control her, Vanessa cannot resist the comforting kindness of handsome contractor Chad James. When her father meets his doom at the bottom of a cliff, police suspect Vanessa's mother. ...

Mateguas Island, A Novel of Terror and Suspense

What could be more idyllic than to live on an island off the coast of Maine? That's what Bill Andersen thought when he moved his family to Mateguas. But Mateguas is more than just pristine beaches nestled between rocky shores. No, Mateguas is something quite different, as Bill and his family will soon find out....

Mirror, Mirror on Her Wall

… The forgotten envelope was like the proverbial can of worms… now that she had opened it, she knew the past would come crawling out, one slimy piece at a time…

Photojournalist Kenzie Reese has spent the past eight years trying to forget her past. Now the Mafia is looking for her father and thinks kidnapping Kenzie will bring him out of hiding. Little do they know what a dysfunct ...

Convenient Lies

“Of course, no matter where in the world she was, she could never have stayed hidden, not as long as he was willing to kill innocent people until he found her. The question was, had he stopped killing people, or was she next on his list?” --Robin Patchen, award winning author of Finding Amanda and Twisted Lies. About CONVENIENT LIES: She married her enemy… When investigative journalist Reagan McAd ...

Glimmer in the Darkness

Nothing could get her home…but this. Cassidy Leblanc worked hard to shake off her tragic childhood. As a foster child with a mother in prison for murder, she was an outcast in her small New Hampshire town until she met James. But she and James’s sister, whom she was babysitting, were kidnapped. She escaped, but Hallie didn’t survive, and everybody assumed Cassidy killed her. Like mother, like dau ...

TEAPOTS 3. HIDEAWAY HOUSE

A luxurious retirement home set in the wild and woolly rainforest of North Queensland is hit by a category 5 cyclone, but as luck would have it, the survivors of a road accident are there to lend a hand. As the disasters mount, the elderly residents must leave their Home and the only place they can go to is the one they escaped from ten months earlier. How will they be received? Suspense mounts a ...

Light Upon the Darkness

Liv Scirocco has screwed up again. She has a long road of bad decisions in her rearview. With nowhere else to go, she moves back to her hometown. Her sisters are tired of picking up her pieces and tell her this is her last chance. She’s determined to create a better life, but the only man she’s ever loved is back too, and avoiding him in this small town is impossible. He has the power to unravel h ...

Dragon Roar

You cannot escape your fate. Everyone has heard tales of the runaway bride. I did not run away I was taken.

Eden
I was finalizing all the last minute details on my wedding day without the wedding planner who did a no-show. If that wasn’t enough, the caterer parks clear across the parking lot a ...

Escaping Illusions

All she wants is a new beginning, but it will come at a chilling cost. Brook Morton doesn’t believe in happily ever after. Not after what she’s been through. Determined to protect her daughter and start a new life, she seeks refuge in the dead of winter in the small town of Vanishing Lakes. But not everything is as it seems . . . When Brook encounters an old friend’s brother, charismatic stage mag ...

Summer Job

Ella Green is looking forward to some time off from her stressful job. Soaking up the sun with her toes in the sand is a hell of a lot less dangerous than chasing down bad guys and dodging bullets on the regular.But when a wealthy resident of the small town she’s ended up in approaches her with a unique problem he’d like her to handle, saying no isn’t as easy as Ella thought it would be.

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Dark Heat (Simmer Trilogy Book 1)

Ash Dixon is a talented chef who works for Jake Rousseau, the grumpiest restaurant owner and head chef this side of creation. She’d love a promotion but, having just had one of “those” dreams about her boss, she’s struggling even more with what to say to the man. One late night after work, Ash and Jake find out just how well they get along without the day-to-day pressures of running a fast-moving, ...

HIS Series Box Set: Volume 1

THREE Romantic Suspense BESTSELLING And AWARD-WINNNING Books • In Sheila Kell’s passionate novels of heat, desire, and suspense, prepare to meet the hot-bodied men of Hamilton Investigation & Security (HIS) as they do whatever it takes to protect the women who have stolen their hearts. Box Set includes: HIS DESIRE, HIS CHOICE, HIS RETURN

Bombshell

A sassy, sexy, exotic, and lightning-fast romantic mystery. Temp worker by day, lounge singer by night, single mom Ava is having a rough go of it on St. Marcos, until she lands a too-good-to-be-true job with a boss who sends her to New York to record a demo. But when Ava stumbles across the raped and murdered body of a young woman, she’s rocked, recognizing her from a shared trauma back in their s ...

Light from Her Mirror

Solid Five Stars from readers!

She thought her past was behind her. In spite of her less-than-normal childhood, things are going well for Kenzie Reese. She has an exciting career as a photojournalist, an active social life, and no contact with her parents. Life is good. She even falls in love. But a single photograph will change her life forever.

 

Kenzie kne ...

SINS of the Rex Book 1

It’s complicated, dark, and nothing is as it seems. My name is Barrett Schaefer and I thought I knew myself. And then I met Flynn Campbell. The mystery and danger surrounding him called to me. He changed my wants, my needs, my life. Love can destroy a person. So can death. Ethics. Morals. Honor. They have no place in my new world. My name is Barrett Schaefer. Who will I be when this is over?

Settling for More

Nothing ever seems to change for 29-year-old Abby, finding herself in a rut after a failed attempt at business and still living in her parents' basement. A surprise New Year's Eve brush with an old flame ignites her resolve to do something about her stagnant life and sets off ripple effects that touch the lives of friends and family in ways she never dreamed. But not everyone is thrilled with her ...

Devil

When duty calls, Dr. Lily "Devil" Devillier answers, no matter how far from home she may be. In the heart of a top-secret lab breach at her research center, she takes the lead in unraveling the enigma. However, she's not alone—by her side is the elusive Chief Operations Officer, Darius Washington, whose presence becomes increasingly significant as they uncover a web of revenge, retribution, and bi ...

Relinquished

Jules Donovan has been in and out of unsavory foster homes and repulsive motels her entire life. She's known nothing but loss, abandonment, crime, and pain. Now that she's aged out of the system, she can't remember ever having dreams for her future because she's constantly fighting for daily survival. When she meets the Riley brothers, there’s something about them that draws her in. She’s never le ...

Explosive Conditions

Staff Sergeant Zeke “Diz” Matthews never forgot the woman he rescued from a burning boat. She invades his dreams at night and thoughts of her distract his days. Fed up with his cranky change in demeanor, his teammates urge him to take advantage of Madame Eve's 1Night Stand dating service. ....Kaci Phillips needs to start a new life. But she struggles to move on from the horrific event that claime ...

No More Darkness

Wedding Planner Aria Scirocco has her life on track after her divorce—or so she wants to believe. She’s engaged to a stable and pragmatic man and her biggest client will wed this weekend at a historic hotel on the beach. Nothing can jeopardize all her hard work—until a snowstorm derails her plans and dumps unfinished business in her path. Hawk Egan wants his ex-wife back. When the storm strand ...

Evening Shadows

When deception leads to vengeance, it’s only your heart you can trust. Time and distance hasn’t impacted Ken “Boss” Patrick’s love for Samantha “Sugar” Milton. When faced with the chance to move them from friends to lovers, forces out of his control make the stakes impossibly high. His mission to win her heart becomes a frantic task to save both of their lives. To survive a new injury and being ca ...

Lovin' You Crazy

Murder suspect Thomasina Murphy gambles on her childhood friend a smart, untested PI to reveal the real killer and bury her secrets.

When the impulsive Thomasina (Tommie) Murphy is invited to dinner at an elegant Florida home, she’s shocked to find her host shot point-blank in the library. As the police examine her pa ...

No Surrender--MM Psychic Detective Romance Adventure

Cold cases, hot leads, a psychic psychopath, a copycat killer, cursed objects, the trial of the century--and wedding plans. Psychic medium Simon Kincaide and sexy homicide detective Vic D'Amato met hunting a supernatural serial killer. Since then, Simon has become a police consultant on cases involving the paranormal, and Vic has gotten over his doubts about Simon's abilities being real. Along the ...

Fearless Lovers Special Edition: A Contemporary Western Romantic Suspense Collection

Fearless Lovers is an enthralling romantic suspense series with formidable characters, intricate plots and a hefty dose of steam. Set in both Montana and New York, it's the perfect set up for romance and danger amid two worlds colliding. This special edition offers unique, artful covers and is also digitally signed by the author. You will get all three full books plus a bonus novella. Book 1 ...

Miller's Secret

Miller's Secret Obsession. Ambition. Betrayal. Left in an orphanage as a young child, Miller Dreeser vowed to someday live a life of wealth and prestige. He obtained that life, with no thought of the consequence to those he used as puppets on a string to get there. His acceptance into the world of the socially elite is not enough to conquer his internal demons, and that unquenchable ambition may c ...

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