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A great tale of love just isn't enough for you, is it you adrenaline junkie? You need love AND suspense. You need two people on the verge of falling in love---while clinging to the side of a cliff. Well, that what we and our eBookHounds' promoting authors are here to give you. Heart wrenching romance and gut wrenching suspense, all wrapped up in a pretty little ebook. And, always free or discounted for you. Read away!
Definition of the "Romantic Suspense Genre": The Romantic Suspense genre is oftentimes the bestselling subgenre of Romance, though that can vascillate with historical romance. The elements of a romance need to be there--a budding relationship between two people that overcomes obstacles and succeeds in the end. But, the critical elements of suspense in that romance setting also need to be interwoven expertly. Those include action, adventure, and oftentimes, a heroine that has been wronged and a hero who attempts to help right that wrong. Through their work to right the wrong, they are brought closer together and what would you know? They fall in love. Honestly, you can think of many, many Disney movie scripts for this storyline (start with Frozen).
Some examples of the top ebooks in the Romantic Suspense genre are Mary Stewart (Nine Coaches Waiting), Tiffany Snow (No Turning Back), Colleen Hoover (Never, Never), and Melinda Leigh (She Can Run).
The Billionaire’s Intern is a classic virgin-meets-billionaire romance - if your idea of classic is scorching hot angst with a plot twist that’ll leave you begging for more...
No one’s ever called me friendly.
You don’t get to where I am by being approachable.
I’m used to seas of people parting for me. Especially in the lobby of the building I own, filled with people who work for me.
Guess no one told the new marketing intern:
She spills her coffee all over me and then offers to replace my custom couture with Kathy Ireland.
Emery is a sweet little blinky-eyed Kansas girl. A kitten in the middle of our shark tank. It’s just common decency to protect her. Take her to lunch and get to know her. Wonder why she looks at me like she wants me to eat her alive, but pulls back every time I’m ready to bite.
Okay, so that last one isn’t decent at all. In fact, every fantasy I have about her is downright filthy.
Discovering I’m her first?
Well, it gives me even more wicked thoughts about the big... city I can show her.
I’ve been burned before. Fool me once, right? I built a billion-dollar company by planning for every possibility. Making sure nothing gets past me again.
But I sure didn’t see this one coming.
Book one of three in The Intern Trilogy.
When the daughter of the US Ambassador to Argentina is kidnapped in broad daylight on Christmas Eve, the FBI sends one of its best negotiators to investigate.
Supervisory Special Agent Max Hawthorne arrives at an embassy thrown into chaos as US and local law enforcement hustle to track the young woman. Is this a simple kidnap for ransom, or part of a political agenda? Could it be something more sinister?
Lucy Aston has something to hide. Preferring to stay in the shadows, the lowly, fashion-challenged office assistant resents being assigned to help Max. But Max can’t resist a puzzle…he’s starting to suspect Lucy Aston is not what she seems.
When rumors emerge of a suspected Russian spy operating out of the embassy, Lucy’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble. As she and Max race to rescue the ambassador’s daughter, Lucy has to do whatever it takes to keep her cover from being blown—even if that means betraying the man she’s falling for.
“Go on a date,” she said. “You’ll love it,” she said. She was wrong!
It had been one year, two months and seventeen days since my last date. So my best friend Abby decided to sign me up for a dating app. She guaranteed that she could get me the best date of my life within one week. I didn’t really want to do it, but I figured what did I have to lose?
Turns out that I had:
1. $500
2. My dignity
3. My patience and
4. My innocence to lose
OK, so I didn’t really have my innocence to lose, but believe you me, Jack Morrison was my worst date ever. And I’ve been on a lot of bad dates. Trust me when I say that that was the longest ten hours and 33 minutes of my life. I never wanted to see or speak to him again.
But it turns out you don’t always get what you want in life, because Jack showed up the very next day at a family gathering I was attending as a fake plus one. As you can imagine that was a real pickle, Jack wanted to know why I went on a date with him when I’m dating someone else. But he can’t know the whole complicated truth of the matter. I’m in a fake relationship and now I’m being blackmailed by the worst date ever.
That’s not even the worst part. I decided to log onto this new app called “confession board” to seek some advice, but it turns out Jack Morrison is absolutely everywhere and he’s not going to leave me alone until I submit to his demands.
She's my tempting but temporary boss.
I always want what I can’t have... but I won't be denied.
What does the most notorious playboy on the Minnesota Caribou professional hockey team do when everything blows up in his face?
Right, I've sworn off women because my multi-million-dollar NHL contract is on the line. If I lose my dream because of my own screw ups, I might never recover.
I've never known a goal I couldn't score - or a girl I couldn't score with.
Until she tumbles from a ladder and straight into my arms.
She's my boss. She's older. She's off-limits.
Sue-Ann Johnson is lush, smart, more determined than I am, and one hundred percent taboo. For the first time in my life, I want someone who’s not a sure bet.
She's the successful business owner who obeys every rule. I'm the guy who breaks them.
Not since college have I shown a woman the real me beneath my reckless charm.
Until now... and there's no going back.
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GAMED is a full-length steamy age-gap sports romance from USA Today Bestselling Author, Colleen Charles. It has a small-town feel, a redemption theme, and giggles with blazing heat until the very last page. It's the fourth book in the gripping MINNESOTA CARIBOU hockey series but can be read as a standalone.
"What a great book! Gamed had a little of everything. Heat and romance, belly laughs and hockey hotties. And don’t forget the psycho Roomba!” ~ Marni K. Reads
Award Winning Author of The Shattered Innocence Trilogy
"I could feel her heart beat
even though we were miles away"
Rescued from the only life she had ever known; Alannah Jackson learns what it means to be loved and not controlled. Finally, able to let go of her past she begins a new life with the man who has shown her what love is. Faced with the truth, Alannah finds she can never escape her past or who she is. She will never love, only serve.
Roman’s love for Alannah is tested when he finds that she has been slaved by a man just as ruthless as Winston Nelson. Against his better judgement, he accepts Martin Holland’s offer to help retrain Alannah and he begins to question the love they shared. After Martin Holland makes it clear of his intentions, Roman stops at nothing to get her back. There is no room for another man in her life.
Contains adult content 18+
It is suggested that you read Bought before reading this book.
Last chance Series
Bought
Slaved
Taken
Broken
Freed
Find more of A.L. Long's books at www.allongbooks.com
Includes a brand new, never-before-published Club X Christmas Story!
Get FOUR contemporary romances FREE in this special boxed set today and fall in love with stories that are fan favorites around the world!
Notorious
The kids of the Club X couples are all grown up and getting their own stories beginning with Cade March, Stefan March's son. He's a player like his father, but a sweet baker named Hailey might change all of that. She just has to believe he's changed his ways.
If I Dream
Ryder is a guy from the wrong side of the tracks, and Serena lives the life her crime boss father dictates. Can they find a way to be together and get a happily ever after?
Crash Into Me
The USA Today bestseller that begins the Heart of Stone series! Fall in love with Tristan and Nina's story and see why readers around the world made this series their favorite.
Crave
Ian is a bestselling author with an obsession. Kristina is an actress who loves being idolized. Their love is intense and combustible, but it's definitely unforgettable.
A Club X Christmas
Join the couples from Club X and their children for a Christmas celebration and see the NeXt series heroes when they're little boys. This is an exclusive story to this boxed set and never published before!
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“…emotional, dark, erotic, suspenseful, traumatic and raw. It will have your heart hurting yet you will laugh plenty too. I can highly recommend this series.” ~ TotallyBooked Blog
ROUGH
I have a dark secret, a pressure valve, a rare moment just for myself. On these nights I visit a club. There I find men who give me what I need. Men who aren’t afraid to take what they want. Men like Colin.
HARD
What Colin doesn’t know can’t hurt him. At least that’s what I tell myself about the secrets I keep. I don’t have a choice, not if I want to keep my daughter safe. There are enemies in the shadows waiting to strike from all sides. I’m holding them out with my bare hands, but it’s hard not to get crushed in the process.
FIERCE
I’m torn between what I want and what I need. Between the men in my past and the man by my side. Colin has tried to control me, to use me. He also guards me so fiercely my heart aches. But there’s no protection left for me. This is my battle, and I’ve already lost.
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Heat up the season with a sexy Santa Claus and a gorgeous fake date for Christmas.
HIS FIRST TIME: NICK -
When I get tricked into playing Santa Claus for a charity event, I decide to make the most of it by spending a steamy night of passion in a lonely single-mom’s bed.
Freckle-faced Tyson and his gorgeous, skittish mother, Kelsey, are trying to wiggle their way inside my ice-cold heart, but even the real Santa couldn’t create that kind of Christmas miracle.
Will a special Christmas wish help me find true love, or am I too far gone for holiday magic to work?
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HOLLY’S FAKE DATE FOR CHRISTMAS -
My life never goes quite right. The pink positive sign on the pregnancy test is even more proof of that.
A fake date for the holidays will solve some of my problems. But there’s more to sexy Zane than I imagine.
Will I be able to let Zane go when the time comes? Will his surprising secret ruin everything?
Enjoy all the feels with two delightful holiday romances in The Christmas Package.
They both hold tight to a terrible secret. When they cross paths in war-torn Europe, will their destinies lead to ruin… or victory over evil?
Poland, 1944. Wanda Odwaga will never stop resisting. As the Nazis occupy her beloved homeland, the twenty-three-year-old artist vows to do whatever it takes to help the underground movement mobilize against Hitler’s forces. But she’s devastated when the Gestapo storms her house in search of rebel leaders, killing her heroic father and leaving the face of his murderer forever etched in her mind.
New York. Finn Keller longs to balance the scales. Having escaped Germany with his mother as a teen, he’s disgusted his estranged twin brother has become a ruthless Nazi henchman with a vicious reputation. So when a covert government agency approaches him with a dangerous undercover mission, Finn willingly risks his life to play his part in turning the tide of war.
Still grieving her unforgivable loss, Wanda’s thirst for revenge takes an unexpected leap forward when she once again encounters her father’s killer. And as Finn dives deeply into the role of impersonating his cold-hearted sibling, he’s captivated by the beautiful Polish woman frozen in front of him… her eyes blazing with the promise of murder.
Can these two players in a deadly game survive the ravages of a sadistic conflict?
The Last Sketch is a breathtaking World War II historical fiction novel. If you like engaging characters, exhilarating espionage, and a dash of enemy-to-lovers romance, then you’ll enjoy Gosia Nealon’s powerful drama.
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Two weeks before her wedding, a stranger stops Amy in the street and warns her she’s in danger. Then that night, Matt, her fiancé, doesn’t come home. Desperate, Amy calls the police – but when Matt fails to emerge, she’s forced to call off her wedding day.
Then another man is reported missing, by a woman called Fiona – a man meeting Matt’s description, who was about to leave his fiancée for her. He was supposed to be moving in with her – but instead, he’s vanished.
Amy refuses to believe Fiona’s lover can be her Matt – but photos prove otherwise, and it soon becomes clear that Matt has been leading a double life. As the police dig deeper, two conflicting, yet equally plausible stories emerge from two women who allegedly have never met.
The wedding day never happened. But the funeral might.
‘A breathtaking, suspenseful thriller with more plot twists and turns than you can imagine’ *****
‘Couldn’t stop reading … Superb story and twisty ending’ *****
‘OMG what a brilliant book, full of twists and turns’ *****
‘Mesmerising from the start’ *****
‘Lies, deceptions and red herrings galore’ *****
‘Truly a roller coaster of a read’ *****
The sex I had with my ex-boyfriend was the best I had ever had. No one could bring me to orgasm like he could. And now that our relationship it is over, I feel unsatisfied. I didn't want it to end. It isn't fair.
So, the last place I want to find myself during an exercise for work bonding is in an Escape Room with James. Sure, when we were together we would hook up wherever we wanted to. I loved the thrill of sex in public places, and I made him love it as well. But he is with someone else now. Someone stunning, apparently.
Turns out, there is one critical thing we didn’t take care of after we called it off. And now we are trapped together in a BDSM themed Escape Room. With time running out, we not only need to solve the puzzles, we also should complete one personal exercise to bring closure to our failed relationship. It will mean following the very explicit instructions to find the last clue.
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Scotland, 2020. Former Marine and bodyguard Konnor Mitchell is on a whiskey tour through the Highlands. But a woman’s cries for help lead him tumbling down a steep ravine. Before he can get his bearings, a Highland faerie pitches him back in time to 1308. Wounded and confused, Konnor is confronted by a breathtaking woman brandishing a sword.
Scotland, 1308. Entrusted with holding her clan’s castle while her kin fights for King Robert the Bruce, Marjorie Cambel discovers a secret plot to attack her stronghold and kidnap her son. She swore never to let another man victimize her. But when she sees a wounded stranger at the bottom of a ravine, she helps him. Despite her attraction to Konnor, she’s not sure she can trust him.
As Konnor’s feelings for the mesmerizing warrior grow, the horrors of his childhood remind him he can never be the husband Marjorie deserves or the father her son needs. And while Marjorie’s heart lifts at the war veteran’s courage, she struggles with the memories of her own violent past.
Can two wounded souls forge an alliance that leads to lasting love and win the battle of their lives?
Highlander’s Secret is the thrilling second book in the Called by a Highlander time travel romance series. If you like steamy encounters, strong heroines, and stories full of historical details, you’ll love Mariah Stone’s captivating tale.
Note: Previously published as Highlander's Hope by Mariah Stone
“What do you seek, child? I see your heart is troubled,” the shadowy figure asked.
“Father, I am conflicted within my heart. Our history with the monsters of blood, the day-walkers of old, tells us to beware, to call upon the ancients to protect us as we battle this evil.”
The figure nodded. “It is so, Child.”
“But with the utmost respect, Father, I have met one, and he is nothing as our ancestors have described. He is honest and true, trying to protect his tribe from the very evil we have battled against. I have seen it with my own eyes. How can I destroy what has saved my life?”
“He has tasted your blood?” The shadow recoiled at the thought.
“No! He fought an evil sorceress, his own mother, to save me and my friends. I would have died if they had not called upon the Piasa Bird to save me.”
“You speak of legends long dead, daughter. You were mistaken in your thoughts. The Piasa Bird is extinct.”
“No, Father, he lives. The last of his kind. Unique, just as I am unique.”
She pulled her shawl away from her shoulders, exposing the birthmark of the dragon. It glowed with an inner light of green. The figure stepped back.
“How long, Daughter?”
“Since the day the sorceress tried to take my soul and my powers. The dragon’s tears saved me, but now, my mark aches and glows.”
The figure was silent for several minutes. Delta worried she would never get an answer to her problem. Finally, he spoke, “There is only one reason for your mark to glow, Daughter. You are the key to banishing this evil from your world. You must turn these evils on to each other, so they will each destroy the other and leave your world forever.”
“Very well, Father. I will turn the day-walker against the dragon. My prayers and offerings will be centered on their demise.”
Delta Malone, shaman, shop owner and unbeknownst to her, destined soulmate of the rarest dragon, is about to embark on the greatest adventure of her life - she will attempt to pit the most powerful vampire against the fiercest dragon in an effort to control her own destiny and prevent the elimination of mankind.
Jackson Thibedeaoux, the last of the great Piasa Bird Dragons, has come home to die. Or at least, that what he thinks until he meets the beautiful, soulful, Delta, saves her from an evil sorceress, and realizes she is his fated mate. He knows she has secrets, but it's nothing he can't handle, right? After all, he's the fiercest dragon of all time with the most powerful friends in the shifter world.
But when he learns his soulmate's secret, it's up to him and his friends to convince her to throw caution to the wind and damn her destiny in favor of love, or else all of them are doomed.
She’s not meant to be a bride…
At least not to the man her parents picked out. Ellie Greene wants a quiet life with Grams on the Wyoming farm, and quiet could happen if someone would stop sabotaging them. Each week something more dangerous happens and Ellie doesn't know how much more she can stand. Forced to seek help, Ellie would prefer anyone else other than the tall, dark, sexy-as-sin cowboy with the knight-in-shining-armor complex she gets stuck with. While the chemistry between them flares brighter than fireworks, Ellie knows they want different things from life. She wants an easy-going farm boy, and nothing about Shane is easy. Besides, soon he’ll be moving on.
He’s not meant to be a civilian…
Shane Hannigan doesn’t know how to be anything but a Marine sniper. Honestly, he’s not sure he’s good at anything else. Since the IED explosion took his leg—and most likely his career—he’s not sure where he belongs. As a man whose job is to protect others, coming across the blonde-curly haired beauty with a flat tire is a nice distraction, that is until he finds out the flat was no accident. Someone is out to get Ellie, and even though she’s the most stubbornly competent woman he’s ever met—and damn if that’s not a sexy trait—he knows she's in danger and he’s going to help her, despite her obstinate objections.
Can they work together to find who is determined to destroy Ellie before it’s too late? Or will Ellie lose her heart and her farm?
“Dark, delicious, and damn near addictive! Don't keep The Master waiting." - USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone
Ten lessons are all that stand between me and my future…
My entire life has been determined for me.
I will be the trophy wife of a powerful man.
But another powerful man stands between us.
The first lesson he teaches me is obedience.
The second, patience.
My third lesson is supposed to be learning to control my mind.
But maybe I’d prefer he do it for me...
Two back to back apocalyptic incidents change the world; the first, a nuclear war between America and North Korea, and then, as the world is still reeling from the consequences of that debacle, two pieces of space rock the size of Manhattan slam into the Earth, wiping out billions of people in just minutes, one of them unleashing a deadly pathogen that scatters into the atmosphere. Within months, men are dying off by the millions, and within a year, they are an endangered species. Women, their physiology unaffected by the virus, are forced to take over. They not only save what little remains of the male species, they start to rebuild a new world, a new paradigm, one entirely dominated by women. New international laws are established forbidding men from ever gaining positions of power again, for it is men who are seen as the toxic element, who failed to prevent a nuclear war, who built the war machines, who waged war against one another, and who subjugated women in their patriarchal society. Sixteen years have passed since the first bombs were dropped and the asteroids fell from the sky, when Tanner McNeal, and his intrepid team of space voyagers, return from their mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. When they step back on Earth, they are shocked to find a different world. Tanner and the men of his crew are promptly arrested under the new mandates, and the women of his crew are taken away to be indoctrinated on their roles in the new Utopia. With so few men left alive, most of them in work camps or farm collectives, relegated to laborers for the most part, Tanner discovers who he is up against, Lady V, the President of New America, a woman who hates men so deeply that she has developed an entirely new gender, Woman Ex, and her goal is to eliminate all men forever. Tanner is racing against the clock, as he organizes a grassroots rebellion, a seemingly impossible uprising against Lady V's army, but he soon discovers that many women are on his side, and the battle ensues to save the race of humanity.
Real Laplaine takes you on another rollercoaster ride into a dystopian world of the near-future in this high-concept thriller.
Charles Freedom Long, author of Alvar's Spear
Chock full of great characters, lively action, and adroit narrative, Woman EX is a novel you won’t want to put down.
Ken Dickson, author of The Road to Amistad
Woman EX, by Real Laplaine, is a wonderfully written dystopia.
Russell Warnberg, author of 2064
Here is another fascinating book from an author I came to enjoy so much. You know you are reading a great book when it sounds less like fiction and more like hypothetical truth.
A.G. Mogan, author of The Secret Journals of Adolf Hitler
If you want to read a book that is so close to the reality and full of action and also makes you think of what could happen in our lifetime, you won't want to miss this one.
Marina Osipova, author of The Cruel Romance
An utterly captivating and quickly-paced thriller with a clear message behind.
Victoria Ichizli-Bartels - author of Cheerleading for Writers
The Doherty Mafia is led by six brothers you don’t want to f*ck with.
Especially when it comes to the women they love.
Authors Kasey Krane and Savannah Rylan bring you this hot AF six book set of interconnected Irish Mafia Romances.
Featuring:
Killian
Aidan
Colin
Brendan
Tristian
Nolan
One secret kiss under the mistletoe can never lead to happily ever after…right?
Once upon a time, Nora shared the hottest kiss ever—followed by an equally steamy Christmas—with her boss’s super-sexy brother. Then he ghosted her. That was eight years ago. Now, she’s completely over it. And when he shows up at the annual holiday party, she will not let herself repeat past mistakes. This time, she’ll stay far away from the mistletoe…
Ashton doesn’t lose control. Ever. Well, except for that one time. His focus has always been on completing his residency and fellowship programs. But seeing the gorgeous redhead again makes him think that losing a little control, just once more, might be just what the doctor ordered…
Will the magic of the season—with an assist from a certain mischievous matchmaker—convince Nora and Ashton to take a second chance on love? It might just take a Christmas miracle…
Batteries Not Included: Be aware, this holiday novella includes oh, so fun sexy times, naughty language, and loads of holiday spirit. Intended for mature audiences.
Misplaces Mistletoe is a fun, steamy, uplifting holiday novella that delivers a joyous happily ever after. It is a part of the West Side Series, but it is a standalone romance, and all of the books in the series can be read in any order.
Sometimes what seems most fragile, can’t be broken.
I was never supposed to meet Poe Halliday. And we definitely weren’t supposed to fall in love. But fate, and Folkestone, had other plans.
A past kept hidden from me.
A secret buried for years.
A love I never expected.
And now the dark history of this town threatens to rip us apart.
I knew this was a mistake.
♥Fragile Things is the debut novel from Samantha Lovelock, and the first book in the suspense-filled Folkestone Sins series. As it is part of an ongoing series, this book does end on a cliffhanger.
This is a star-crossed lovers, angsty, mature new adult high school romance with a twist. It contains situations and flashbacks that may trigger some readers, including drug use, mental health issues, foul language, and scenes of a sexual nature.
What Readers Are Saying
★★★★★ A Stunning Debut
“Fragile Things has total Brayshaw vibes. And I fricking adore that. I loved everything about it. Stella is this fierce, determined bada$&, that gets thrust into a life of privilege after growing up with absolutely nothing. Poe, phew it's getting hot just thinking about Poe. Absolutely fricking charming is he. The twists, the turns, the secrets, the revelations. THEY ARE TO DIE FOR. This is a for sure must read.” - Katie S., Amazon reviewer
★★★★★ Fantastic Debut!!! Can't wait for book two!
“5 Not All is What It Seems Stars!! What a FABULOUS debut novel... my jaw is still on the floor!!!” - Melissa M., Amazon reviewer
★★★★★ #BRILLIANTLYUNIQUE
“HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO ALL!” - Jennifer P., The Power of Three Readers;
★★★★★ 5 Stella Stars!!!
“A solid story with well developed plot, characters and heart. I’m obsessed with Stella, Poe and the Heirs.” - A_Carve, Amazon reviewer
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