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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).
Lincoln
This may be my toughest mission yet. None of my SEAL training or my time in the CIA has prepared me for this; a prickly five foot nothing hellcat, Jasmin Smith.
She was MINE. She can fight it all she wanted, but in the end I would have her, every way a man can have his woman. She was a sassy little thing, making me work to bend her to my demands. But I will! I will bend her and tie her to me so tight she would never be able to get free. Only problem is I had to break her first. I had secrets that she needed to know. I have fought to get back here, two years breathing in filth and scum. All for her- my warrior princess. Now all I had to do is make her remember.
Jasmin
My entire life was a lie. Just when I thought I could take no more; I am faced with the most important mission of my life. If I fail, it might cost the one man I have ever loved his life- Lincoln Parker.
I was blissfully living my life as a tier one security contractor, shooting guns and killing bad guys. My life was perfect. Almost. I was missing something; a missing piece of time to be exact. For the last two years I have tried to remember the details of my capture and torture. Two years willing my brain to remember. Then he walked into my life, actually he pushed his way in. It was hard not to notice him, tall, bossy, and sexy as hell. He had no respect of personal space, he used every opportunity to get close and breathe me in. He demanded my attention, whispering the filthiest words in my ear and that was all it took to have me yielding to his every demand. One secret after another is revealed, lies are exposed and the missing pieces of the puzzle are finally put together.
Nightstalker is a high paced action adventure series. Featuring Ex-military badboys and possessive alpha males who use dirty language! Be Advised.
Warning* 18+ explicit and graphic sexual content and language.
Falling for my late-husband’s best friend was never a good idea.
Especially when he’s so hard to resist.
I’m done being a military wife. I’ve moved on. But the past keeps dragging me back and it’s Nick is impossible to stay away from. So what if he’s a sexy soldier who’s determined to take care of me? Surely I’ve learned from my disastrous marriage that I can’t handle military life.
But now I’m scared. Someone is trying to hurt me and I don’t know why. The only person I can turn to is Nick. And he’ll do everything he can to keep me safe.
He’ll also do anything to make me his.
Please note: Not Another Soldier was previously published in 2013 with a different cover.
My best friend is freaking awesome.
But don't just take my word for it. Consider all his attributes.
First, let's start with the obvious one.
Size.
He has this one fantastic bone in his body. It's bigger than other guys'. It's thicker, longer, more powerful.
C'mon. I'm talking about his funny bone.
Spencer Holiday makes me laugh like no one ever has. Sarcastic, self-deprecating, and always at attention with a joke--that's him.
Except, it's no joke when he asks me to be his fake fianceé for a week.
The trouble is I'm already falling for him before we even start.
Oops.
**A Big Rock short story told from Charlotte's POV...this is an optional prequel to Big Rock!**
I was born a fighter.
Destined for the ring. Cold. Hard. Focused.
I never expected to have to run from my enemies and hide out, but it’s not just me anymore.
My little girl deserves more than the life I have to offer. The least I can do is keep her safe from the mad man after me.
At first, we find serenity in the small town I tucked us away in, but nothing is that easy.
A beautiful girl next door grabs my attention, and for a moment, I believe love might be possible–again.
How wrong I was.
Inviting this hot woman into my world was the biggest mistake I’ve made.
One minute, she’s there, and the next, she’s gone.
Kidnapped. Taken from me.
Good damn thing I was born a fighter.
I’ll never give up.
Never.
Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~Weston
When Olivia Doyle's father dies under suspicious circumstances, rather than inheriting a family fortune, she inherits a new identity. She learns they were placed in the Federal Witness Security Program when she was five years old. Her father was involved in an art forgery ring and testified against the mob. Brought up not to trust anyone, Olivia has a difficult time relying on U.S. Marshal Ethan Ryder to protect her, and to keep her secret. She fears her father may have continued his life of crime through her art gallery. She has little choice but to depend on Ethan when she realizes someone is now after her. Olivia's search for the truth leads her and Ethan across the country to a family and a past she doesn't remember.
At the age of ten, Ethan witnessed a brutal murder. He vowed that when he grew up, he'd protect people in danger. Protecting Olivia is difficult when she won't trust him. He soon realizes his desire to protect her goes beyond doing his job, but if his judgment becomes clouded by emotions, her safety could be jeopardized.
Can Ethan and Olivia learn to trust each other when they uncover secrets that will change their lives forever?
*This book was originally published by a Simon & Schuster imprint under the name Eliza Daly.
From USA Today Best Selling author Ali Parker
I’ve never been the sort of man who needed a woman. I’ve never needed anyone, in fact.
The Lost Breed MC gives me all that I could ever ask for.
They’re family, and now they’re in danger.
The Hand is inching closer and closer to our inner circle, and he’s never been more of a threat than he is right now.
Jason, Ryder’s nephew, conveniently reappears while The Hand is making power moves. I’m not blind to coincidence.
Something is amiss.
Not only do I have my hands full dealing with a killer, but there’s a beautiful brown-haired girl drawing circles around my heart and making things more complicated.
Love has never been on my radar, but this woman won’t give up.
She’s in as much danger as I am, if not more.
I might not be enough to stand between her and the man who has been making the last year of my life a living hell, but I’m damn sure going to try.
She’s worth it. My MC is worth it.
Together, they’re all I have left in the world.
We're both addicted to sex, just not with each other.
High school friends - nothing more.
That was our promise to each other, because let's face it, infidelity spreads like a disease.
Everybody cheats.
Period.
And it's easier to remain friends than hurt the only person you ever cared about - or so we thought.
Note: Suitable for mature audience. While Cheaters Anonymous is a stand alone novel, it is advisable to read its short prequel When Things Go Wrong.
No cliffhanger and HEA ending.
I never gave a f*ck about my family’s billions.
I’m a military man, honorable and true.
But my damn brother felt differently. He had me tossed in prison for a crime I didn’t commit, and now, all I think about is revenge.
It slowly becomes an obsession until something finally breaks through the dark cloud.
My high school sweetheart.
It’s been ten years since graduation, and she isn’t a little smart-assed girl anymore.
She’s a woman. My woman.
I thought prison would undo me, but nothing could prepare me for the secret my girl held back from me.
A baby. A family. One I didn’t know I had.
And now my brother knows, too. He’ll use anything to destroy me, including my kid.
Money creates opportunity, but there’s a cost it requires.
The payment for wealth is high, and my brother is willing to go all in.
I might have started out honorable, but now?
There’s nothing this ex-con won’t do to keep his family safe.
Even kill.
Every good girl deserves a bad boy ~ Weston
For five years - one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-two nights to be exact - I’ve watched her from afar…
Protecting her. Keeping her safe from the world.
And stalking her every move.
What started as a favor for her brother has grown into something so much more.
A full-blown obsession.
I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, unless I get my Meredith fix.
Claiming her could start a war, and might very well result in my death.
But she’s mine, she’s always been mine.
She just doesn’t know it yet.
An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Raised by a family of survivalists, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick can take on any challenge—even the hostile reception to her homecoming. But she’s not the only one causing chaos in the rural community of Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. At first believed to be teenage pranks, a series of fires takes a deadly turn with the murder of two sheriff’s deputies. Now, along with Police Chief Truman Daly, Mercy is on the hunt for an arsonist turned killer.
Still shunned by her family and members of the community, Mercy must keep her ear close to the ground to pick up any leads. And it’s not long before she hears rumors of the area’s growing antigovernment militia movement. If the arsonist is among their ranks, Mercy is determined to smoke the culprit out. But when her investigation uncovers a shocking secret, will this hunt for a madman turn into her own trial by fire?
I’m desperate for answers.
I gave up hacking and turned a corner. Only, I can’t forget that five years ago AJ Hart shattered me. Since then I’ve tried to put the pieces back together. Finding my birth parents gives me a purpose and keeps me distracted. Focused.
I had no idea I was being shadowed as I traveled the country on the hunt for clues. My every move watched. My every step followed. Until AJ returned. Letting AJ back into my life wasn’t a part of my plans. What’s to keep him from hurting me again?
On our way back to D.C. it doesn’t take long for us to realize something is terribly wrong. AJ swears he’s here to protect me, but I don’t know if I can believe in him again. Even if he claims he works for the FBI. With my life crashing down around my feet, I don’t know if I can forget our past.
But our lives are at stake, and the clock is ticking.
Never ask questions. Never hesitate. Never get emotionally involved.
Words I've lived by. Until her.
I'm a fixer.
I fix bad, embarrassing, illegal problems, for the right price.
My clients are rich, famous, powerful, and very dangerous.
Now I’ve got a problem of my very own: Eva Martin.
She just happens to be both my best friend’s little sister, and at the center of the most explosive problem I’ve ever faced.
As the body count rises around us, I’m falling for the one woman that’s totally out of bounds.
Her wide innocent eyes, perfect curves, and sexy, smoky voice--she’s a liability and a weakness, but I'm unable to resist.
Eva’s a risky distraction for a man like me.
I'm going to make her mine, and I'll use everything in my arsenal to keep her safe.
Even if it means everyone else—including me—becomes collateral damage.
'Never Say Never' is an 80,000 word full-length standalone steamy "Brother's Best Friend" romantic suspense novel with an HEA and no cheating.
Summer 1977. As the Son of Sam and a scorching heat wave plague New York City, Laila Levin, a Jewish sociologist from Long Island, meets Dr. Eduardo Quintana while giving a speech on the epidemic problem of teenage pregnancies. Laila is relationship-shy after a disastrous marriage, and Eduardo has never completely recovered from his high school sweetheart’s desertion. He is finishing up a residency in New York City and plans to open a family practice near his hometown in New Mexico.
The unlikely pair share strong family values and an interest in helping prevent teen pregnancy. Their mutual passion is so intense it stuns them both. After a brief courtship, Eduardo persuades Laila to accompany him to his family ranch near Española, New Mexico, a rural area with one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in North America.
Once in New Mexico, Laila is blatantly rejected by Sylvia, Eduardo’s controlling mama. Sylvia desperately wants Eduardo to marry Violet, his high school sweetheart. Violet has just returned to New Mexico after a failed flight attendant career, and a walk on the dark side of Hollywood. Her mama and Sylvia cook up a plan to get rid of Laila and reunite their children. The Quintanas hold a large pig roast and invite a menagerie of tattooed cousins, rodeo stars, and mariachis, where the drop-dead gorgeous Violet makes a grand entrance.
In the midst of the pandemonium that results, a shocking family secret is revealed, and Laila and Eduardo’s love for each other is severely tested. Can their relationship survive the fierce clash of cultures, the murderous intentions of a Son of Sam copycat who has stalked Laila from New York City, and their own uncertainties about the upheavals that their union will cause in their lives?
Bagels & Salsa is both a prequel and sequel to Reznik’s best-selling novel, The Girl From Long Guyland. http://www.amazon.com/Girl-Long-Guyland-ebook/dp/B00A45OYD0. Both books are standalone novels.
He should walk away. She doesn’t want him to. But she doesn’t know him, she doesn’t even know his real name…
James Thomas is a hunted man. He has a past full of secrets and a skill set that makes him very dangerous.
Mak Ashwood is a criminal prosecutor taking on the Mob in a triple-murder.
When Mak’s life is threatened, she hires James to protect her. James should deny his feelings for her and terminate the contract. But he doesn’t.
Can he protect her from the Mob, and the violent men hunting him? And should he tell her the truth about her husband’s disappearance thirteen years ago?
If you like fast-paced action, romance, and stories packed with twists and turns, then you’ll love the first instalment in Brooke Sivendra’s James Thomas series.
Declan: I was born into this world. I am what it made me. I do things that others find disgusting. I broke many rules when I met Brooke. She showed up one night and I took advantage of that. When she kept coming back, I knew there was more to her. One fucking day changed it all. One secret from my past blew our relationship out of the water.
Brooke: Loss was all I knew. It creeps around every corner. One dare. That’s all it took. The night I met Declan, I was on the high of my life. I felt safe with him. Little did I know; his secrets were also mine. When his past is revealed, I lose it. The man he claimed to be was a man I’d known all my life.
I’m the Jackpot of all Men.
The Jack of all Trades.
If you haven’t guessed it yet, name’s Jack.
I’d been called other things.
Arrogant. Raunchy. Tats. Punk.
For seven years, I gave up my freedom for a crime I didn’t do.
Why? Money, retirement, dreams.
When it’s time to leave prison, my cellmate asks me for a favor—a promise.
Find his sister, give her a letter, and leave. Easy, right?
Wrong.
Nothing about Ahri was easy.
She’s a stubborn beauty, an intoxicating mystery, and a feisty fury.
She’s a hot mess with a life to match it. Two full-time jobs, school, no sleep, and a diet composed of ramen and energy drinks.
She was nowhere near perfect. But perfection was overrated, and Ahrianna Lore was underrated.
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I went along with the lie of who she thought I was.
Just some guy looking at the apartment next door.
It was supposed to be an easy find, tap, leave.
But curiosity got the best of me, and old habits came crawling out.
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One of which involved me coming out of retirement.
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Have you ever heard the story about the Jack of Hearts whose heart was stolen by a beautiful thief?
No? Well, you’re about to.
Prison Promise is a standalone dark romance with no cliff-hanger and a guaranteed HEA. This book contains steamy and graphic material that might be offensive for some.
Prison Promise is a complete standalone and a part of the Prison Saints series.
From New York Times bestselling author Toni Anderson comes an electrifying novel of Romantic Suspense...
On Sale. Steamy, swearing, mature topics, suspenseful. What if your ex-husband was an abusive, dirty cop, and he was convinced he would get you back someday. What if he was willing to do anything to make that happen? Do you think it would scare off your new boyfriend, a strong, hot firefighter? Not if he has secrets of his own ...
Six full-length novels and one novella. 500,370 words. Over 1500 pages.
Books 1-7 of the best-selling Edge of the Heat Series. This is the complete series (for now) and also includes three free books The Billionaire's Secret Kink 1. Unauthorized Affair, and Hide My Memories.
Edge of the Heat follows four couples on their journey from disaster to happily ever after. Here is the synopsis for book one, but I don't want to include all of the descriptions here, because they include spoilers.
Following a near death experience, firefighter/paramedic Emma Hill's world is turned upside down. Haunted by a vision of the man who could very well be her soul mate, Emma is desperate to find that man, but fear stands in her way.
With a maniacal ex-husband determined to get her back, Emma struggles to stay clear of him or risk living a life riddled by quiet desperation and abuse. Fighting with a dirty cop is dangerous enough, but when that dirty cop is her ex-husband the stakes are raised to disastrous levels.
Craig Masterson, the firefighter who saved Emma's life, finds himself falling for her. When he learns who her ex-husband is, he realizes that this is a battle he may not win.
Choosing to love her is a deadly game. If he can stay alive, their love may flourish, but only if he can defeat her ex.
Heat level: low (for this book - the rest in the series are moderate to moderately-high), suspense, thriller level: moderate. Some swearing. 18+
He’d despaired of ever seeing her again…yet here she is. And she’s in trouble.
Retired Navy SEAL Clay “Raven” Nighthorse is ready to turn down a routine job protecting a woman being stalked by a vengeful ex. Until he realizes this job is anything BUT routine. His client is the woman he met on a beach three years ago. The woman with whom he’d felt an instant connection. The woman who has been haunting his dreams ever since.
Leah Stanhope has never forgotten the stranger who’d simply held her that day and let her cry out her anguish at her husband’s betrayal. And now, fate has brought them together again in a conflagration of sizzling passion and deadly danger. Is she willing to risk her heart? Especially since, when danger closes in, he’s willing to risk his life?
If you like hot alphas, kinky sex, and thrilling suspense, then you’ll love Passion’s Dream.
Helping him could end her career….and her life.
Sworn to uphold the law, police officer Kate Dexter believes in doing the right thing. But when she meets an injured, altogether too sexy ATF agent, her entire world is turned upside down.
Jonas Burke is a wanted man. Framed for murder, he needs sanctuary – now. Finding it in the arms of a beautiful, feisty fellow cop isn't exactly his best plan, but he's desperate and wounded, and time is running out for him to prove his innocence. Armed with a little more than a conspiracy theory, Jonas has no choice but to ask for Kate's help.
Kate is torn between her duty to “serve and protect” and her growing desire for this man on the run. With her colleagues in pursuit and Jonas's enemies closing in, she and Jonas will have to work together if they want to survive. But can she really trust him beyond a shadow of doubt?