Romantic Suspense

Romantic Suspense

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).

Silent Cats: Deadly Dance

by J.D. Wallace

"For women readers, this is a romantic international spy novel; for men, it's an international spy novel with romance - all wrapped up in a true life historical thriller written with Dan Brown flare."

First in the SILENT CATS series, JD Wallace's Deadly Dance spins the mind-bending, genre-blurring fictionalized true story based on the life of Kat, the youngest Kidon Katsa Assassin in the history of Mossad, and her husband, Pantera, the fabled Chief Black Site Interrogator, who worked under such special access programs as the Operation Copper Green (created under Donald Rumsfeld), the United Nations Security Council - Special Operations Group (UN-SOG), and Task Forces 88 and 121.
 
Reaching back to 1989, Kat and Pantera meet in the City of Seven Hills, beautiful Rome, Italy, at a U.S. Embassy New Year's Eve ball, kicking off their 16-year relationship in the onion-layered world of covert operatives, spy hunters, slave traders, and sovereign-paid intelligence peddlers. Of necessity, their encounters are beset by lies wrapped in half-truths, concealed in shadowy realities. Kat and Pantera maneuver through action-packed covert operations, romantic encounters, torture, and acrobatic combat, all while coming to grips about who they're hunting and who is hunting them.

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Special Agent Kandice (Undercover FBI Book 4)

by Mimi Barbour

Powerful, thrilling and character-driven, this romantic suspense is a real page-turner.

Special Agent indeed, Kandice Warner is everyone’s best friend. Talk about a Barbie doll! This female might have the same pretty-girl looks but even though she has a tender heart, she also has the resilience needed for a very successful FBI Hostage Negotiator. Feelings of inadequacy constantly force her to prove that she’s tough, and she demonstrates her courage when dealing with a murderous bank robber, a desperate jumper, being stalked, kidnapped and beaten. But her tender heart can get her in trouble and she needs to grow a thicker skin. Almost impossible when her obstinate new boss, for reasons of his own, interferes in everything she does.

Assistant Director of the Criminal Investigative Division in Washington, Dan Black is as hard as they come. With the grit of a street youth stiffening his resolve, he’s worked his way up through the ranks, his personal space shields as strong as ever. Until he sees the sweetest things on two legs! A girl from his past. The one he’s never been able to forget. Working undercover in the Seattle bureau, he tries to protect his childhood fantasy but she refuses to stay put or take orders. Faced with a woman like that, what’s a mere man to do?

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The Hitman's Dancer: A Bad Boy Mafia Romance (The Snake Eyes Series Book 2)

by Tabatha Kiss

While a bodyguard protected a beautiful starlet in Los Angeles...
A hitman knocked on a door in Chicago.


DANTE

It was only supposed to be one night.

One night with me and I’d make her father’s debt to the Zappia crime family a little easier to swallow.
Turns out, swallowing ain’t much of an issue for Lucy Vaughn.

I should never have gotten involved with her. Now, the Zappia family is after her and she’s lost everything. Hell, even Snake Eyes — the deadliest criminal organization on the planet — wants to see her in the ground.

It’s all my fault. A few blissful nights in my bed and her life is ruined.

Lucy wants payback. She wants to watch them burn for what they did to her and I can’t say she’s wrong.
But I won’t let her become a killer.
Not like me.

LUCY

I was a dancer. The star ballerina of my father’s dance company.
Until one day, Dante Hart came strolling into his office and whisked me off to his place.

The next thing I knew, my entire world burned around me.

The Zappia family took everything from me.
I want to return the favor in blood.

Luckily, I know a man who knows a little something about killing but Dante ain’t interested in teaching me much outside of his bed.

I will have my revenge. With or without him.

Now, where did he hide the keys to these cuffs?

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Ashes of Autumn (Mina's Adventures Book 4)

by Maria Grazia Swan

On the eve of the final sale of her mother’s business, Italian import Mina Calvi faces a crossroads. The road she dreams of foretells a life of rosy bliss in a quaint Laguna Canyon cottage, sipping cappuccino with her lover, Diego. When a chance detour brings her face to face with the love of her life caught in the wrong place, with the wrong crowd, that road to paradise takes a turn onto a rocky trail dotted by death, betrayal and loneliness. Mina’s friends, old and newly found, rally to keep her safe while she navigates through intense drama and self doubt to finally find redemption.
Ashes of Autumn is possibly the most poignant sequence of Mina and Diego’s intensely obsessive love story.

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A DANGEROUS HARBOR: Pilgrim's Progress Trilogy (A Romantic Mystery Sailing Trilogy Book 1)

by RP Dahlke

Two Weeks #1 on Amazon Best seller list in 2012-Mystery/Romantic Suspense/Adventure.

When Katrina Hunter is forced to shoot her sister's stalker, she takes the required leave of absence from the SF police department as her chance for a long over-due sail to Mexico.
But when she discovers a floater close to her first port-of-call, she naturally does the right thing; she reports the dead body to the Mexican Navy. Except that doing her civic duty brings her into the Ensenada police station where she comes face-to-face with her unfortunate past. A past that could cause her to lose her hard won position as a detective in the San Francisco police department.
Though the handsome, Italian-Mexican investigator, Raul Vignaroli, finds Katy attractive, he is quick to take advantage of her secret. Now, instead of releasing her, he chains her boat to the dock. Though Katy is furious, Raul coerces her with a combination of Latin charm and subtle threat into helping him uncover which of the American sailors in this small Baja port is a killer.

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Wet N Wild Navy SEALs

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Whether you're looking for a little sizzle or a lot of steam, you'll find the hard-bodied, soft-hearted hero of your dreams on Sea, Air or Land in these sexy romance-packed novels and novellas brought to you by 10 of your favorite New York Times, USA Today and other award-winning and best-selling authors.

Limited Edition Boxed Set--Grab your copy today before it's gone!

Includes:
A SEAL's Proposal by Tawny Weber
SEAL It With A Kiss by Rogenna Brewer
Rogue by Laura Marie Altom
A SEAL's Song by Jennifer Lowery
A SEAL's Vigilant Heart by Caitlyn O'Leary
Withholding Evidence by Rachel Grant
Her Firefighter SEAL by Anne Marsh
Nobody's Hero by Patricia Keelyn
Hero Of My Heart by Teresa Hill
Seeking Bliss by Barbara Raffin

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Recourse: Steamy Romantic Suspense (The Arrangement Book 1)

by Amy Silva

Sometimes life gives you a second chance but changes the rules. 
Laura Bishop was a world apart from the girl Chase Adams knew back in high school. He was always the gorgeous Greek god who could have any girl he wanted, and she was just Laura Bishop, the girl who blew her chance at having him. . 
Years later her new secrets led Laura far away from the girl Chase used to know. But she could never imagine just how far. What happens when new life clashes with the one person from your past you don't dare forget? What do you do when fate gives you another chance but changes the game? 

 

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Pretty When You Cry: A Dark Romance Novel

by Skye Warren

I came from a place of dirt floors and holy scriptures. They told me the world outside was full of sin, and the first night I escape, I find out it's true. Ivan saves me, but he does more than that. He takes me. He makes me his own girl.

My conditioning runs too deep. Ivan sees what I am.

That's the thing about showing a mouse to a cat. He wants to play. And it's terrifying, even for me. Because the only thing darker than my past is his.

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Call Me Cat (The Call Me Cat Trilogy, Book 1)

by Alex Lux

From USA Today bestselling author Alex Lux comes a sexy mystery full of heat, romance and page-turning suspense.

Catelyn Travis is a good girl who gets good grades in law school, doesn't date and never gets into trouble. But when a run of bad luck threatens to destroy everything she's worked for, she's forced to become Cat, phone sex goddess who fulfills the fantasies of her clients night after night. When she meets Ashton Davenport, bad boy biker billionaire, she knows to stay away. But when he calls her alter ego, Cat, she has no choice but to fall for the sexy stranger.

Now her life is spiraling out of control as she struggles to keep her two identities separate, but there's one person who knows her secret. And he'll stop at nothing to destroy her, just like he destroyed her parents. Threatened at every turn, her life crumbling around her, Catelyn must decide who she can trust, because the wrong choice could end her life.

*Mature Content Warning* Sex, swearing and adult content. You've been warned. This is the first book in the Call Me Cat Trilogy. Leave Me Love and Tell Me True are now available.

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Captive (The Bliss King Book 1)

by AA Paton

“The irony of my scarred, tattooed, gun toting, global drug empire running kidnapper, who goes by the nickname Lord Ruin, the Bliss King, telling me I’m safe is not lost on me.”

When ghostwriter Greer Gibson woke wearing silk pyjamas, in a room she didn’t recognise, she figured she’d done it again. Picked up a stranger in a local bar and gone to a city hotel with him.

Except she had no memory of doing that, the room was an expansive suite on a tropical island, she didn’t own silk pyjamas, and she was locked in.

Lek Hetherington needs a talented writer. But the best in the business, Greer Gibson, is booked out for years. That’s just a shoulder shrug for an underworld figure who rules over a global drug empire from his island hideaway.

Lek gets what he wants, even if he has to take it by force.

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Damsel In Danger (Danger Incorporated Book 1)

by Olivia Jaymes

Ex-DEA agent Jason Anderson is trying to rebuild his life after being held prisoner by a sadistic drug cartel. With a little help from his friends, Logan Wright and Jared Monroe, he’s starting a new business and moving forward. He only thinks about the past during the long, dark nights. It’s then that he feels most alone.

Brinley Snow has moved into her dream home. It’s everything she’s wanted and more although she's facing a mountain of renovation work. Luckily it came with the bonus of a sexier than sin neighbor.

One sultry summer night, Brinley gathers up her courage and asks Jason to join her for dinner. They’re instantly attracted to one another but the evening quickly goes down hill when she ends up in the interrogation room of the local police. An unknown dead man had her address clutched in his hand. The authorities – and Jason – think she’s the key to finding a cold-blooded murderer.

With a first date like that Brinley’s not sure she’ll survive a second. Then again she’s never met anyone like Jason. He’s not the typical boy-next-door. He’s all man. And with a little luck, he could become all hers.

They just have to stay alive long enough to catch a killer.

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Indebted Series Boxed Set

by Pepper Winters

New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Series.

Seven books in total. This edition contains the first three:

Debt Inheritance
"I own you. I have the piece of paper to prove it. It's undeniable and unbreakable. You belong to me until you've paid off your debts."

Nila Weaver's family is indebted. Being the first born daughter, her life is forfeit to the first born son of the Hawks to pay for sins of ancestors past. The dark ages might have come and gone, but debts never leave. She has no choice in the matter.

First Debt:
"You say I'll never own you. If I win--you willingly give me that right. You sign not only the debt agreement, but another--one that makes me your master until your last breath is taken. You do that, and I'll give you this."

Nila Weaver's family is indebted. Stolen, taken, and bound not by monsters but by an agreement written over six hundred years ago, she has no way out.

Second Debt: 
"I tried to play a game. I tried to wield deceit as perfectly as the Hawks. But when I thought I was winning, I wasn't. Jethro isn't what he seems--he's the master of duplicity. However, I refuse to let him annihilate me further." 

Nila Weaver has grown from naïve seamstress to full-blown fighter. Every humdrum object is her arsenal, and sex...sex is her greatest weapon of all.

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Coming In Hot: A Squad of Sexy Firefighter Romances

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ALL FIREFIGHTERS: This LIMITED TIME steamy bundle of 13 firefighter romance books is over 579,000 words.

The Firefighter's Secret Obsession - Lisa Ladew
For him it was love at first sight but as they connect in a deeper way, her secrets threaten to get them both killed.

Disguise - Bella Wild and Bella Love-Wins
Rock star Lexxi Rock thought she had it all until she was cheated on. Hiding from unwanted paparazzi and media attention, she goes undercover. Except there's a wild card she did not count on. Her father's neighbor, and scorching hot firefighter, Sebastian "Bash" Sullivan, knows exactly who she is, and plays along with her ruse to get close to her.

Through Smoke - J.R. Tate
Firefighter Michael McGinnis has a broken past. Using his troubled childhood as inspiration, he's channeled his harsh memories toward working hard as a search and rescue man with the fire department. He's no stranger to intense situations, but despite his years on the job, nothing can prepare him for helping Casey, his drug addict brother, when a dangerous bookie hunts him down for unpaid gambling debts.

Michael is thrown into a web of lies, deceit, and tough love for his brother. An unexpected romance blossoms with fellow paramedic, Eva Crisante, adding fuel to the fire in a burning inferno that engulfs him.

Red HOT 1 – Kate Fargo
When San Diego firefighter Sandal Steeves goes to Mexico during a department-enforced vacation, all hell breaks loose. Newly minted Embassy agent Emily Patrick is tasked with bringing him home … but the way back is more complicated than either of them could have imagined.

With their lives in danger, they have no one to count on but each other. Can their attraction be real? And will the love flaring between them hinder them or inspire them to work together so they can make it home alive?

From the Ashes - Xandra James
Dragon shifter and fireman, Ethan Barrett, has no other option than to steal back a much coveted map that could save Deadrose, a paranormal community, from vicious outside threats. If only he hadn't underestimated the cute curator at the museum, his life would be so much easier right now, and she wouldn't be a beautiful thorn in his side that could be the key to bringing down the whole show...

Hot Shot - MJ Fredrick
The last thing hot shot firefighter Gabe Cooper needs is a rookie on his crew. To make it worse, she’s a rookie because she’s a reporter writing a story about him. He doesn't need anyone thinking he’s a hero.

Peyton Michaels has one job to do—write a story about everyday heroes. She never expected to find herself running up a mountain, a wildfire nipping at her heels, her life in his very capable, very strong hands. After the death of her husband in the line of duty, she does not want to fall in love with another man who puts his life at risk day in and day out.

But there’s an arsonist at work, and danger is closing in on them until they can only turn to each other.

Light My Fire - Misha Carver
Alexandria O’Neil has been the acting chief at her fire department for several months and is waiting for position to become official. She needs the raise to leave her alcoholic husband and put her deaf daughter into private school. When Chance Friedman, the boy who tormented her in high school rolls into town, everything goes up in smoke.

Sparks fly, hearts collide, and flames ignite. Will muscular Chance Friedman win the heart of the girl he’s always dreamed about? Or will curvaceous and sassy Alexandria O’Neil come out on top?

Blinded by the Blaze - Piper Presley
John is a handsome, caring and respectful firefighter attracted to a beautiful redheaded lawyer named Carolyn, the woman of his dreams. He likes Patty, a cute and bubbly brunette, but just as friends. Even though Carolyn is gorgeous, are her looks deceiving? Is Patty better for John?

Edge of the Heat 1 - Lisa Ladew

Hide Me Series, the complete series.

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Defaced: A Dark Romance Novel (The Monster Trilogy Book 1)

by Marissa Farrar

Monster
Hidden away from society by his criminal father, there lives a man who has never entered the outside world. Now, having taken over his father’s business, he has all the money and power he could dream of, yet still he refuses to let himself be viewed by the rest of society.

Lily
Traumatised by an event in her past, Lily Drayton has a phobia of being touched. Though she helps people externally with her skills as a laser therapist, she refuses to let anyone in, emotionally or physically. When Lily is kidnapped on the way home from work one evening, she discovers she’s not the only person who keeps themselves cut off from the rest of the world.

Defaced
A man owns her now—a man both dangerous and enigmatic. Drawn by his dual beauty and hidden pain, he awakens something inside her, something she believed was long dead. Brought to a room without windows, she’s given an impossible task: to make her owner acceptable to the outside world.

Can altering his face change who he is as a man, or is he truly a monster, both inside and out?

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Clarity

by Loretta Lost

Her world has always been dark, but he might be able to change everything...


Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down. She did not expect a traumatic event to devastate her life and force her to drop out of college. Disillusioned by the cruelty of people, Helen retreated from society to live by herself as a reclusive writer in the woods--where no one could ever hurt her again.


When a brilliant young doctor shows up on her doorstep, promising her that his new research can give her the ability to see for the first time, Helen stubbornly refuses. She has learned not to trust anyone, and to rely only on herself. But Dr. Liam Larson will not take no for an answer. He makes it his personal mission to rescue Helen from her loneliness, and bring joy into her world once more--the joy she has denied herself for so long.


When Helen's demons come racing back into her life, threatening to rip her apart and destroy the strength she has carefully rebuilt, Liam is the only one who might be able to save her. Can he reach the broken girl in time, helping her to heal and see the world in a different light? Or will Helen's grief send her spiraling out of control, lost to him forever?

 

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Delirious Series - Boxed Set: Seek, Snare, Seize & Scorch

by Clarissa Wild

~ SEEK (prequel)
"All I remember is him: Sebastian Brand, my savior."
Lillith's world changed forever when she came home from vacation. Her life was ruined, her heart shattered. Putting her trust in Sebastian Brand has been the key to her survival ... but at what cost?

~ SNARE (Book 1)
"Claimed by a man with the exterior of an angel and the mind of a brute, I will do anything to unveil his secrets and face my own demons."
Taken.
Humiliated.
Used.
A body in exchange for freedom. A heart in exchange for truth.
Life is never a given. Only a certain death.

~ SEIZE (Book 2)
"She thought she could run, but there's nowhere to hide. You think I'm the monster? Think again."
Sebastian wants only one thing: Power. Claiming Lillith is the key, but her horrible past and uncertain future are undeniably tied to him. When the choices you make decide your fate, the line between good and evil blurs. In order to play this game, sacrifices must be made.

~ SCORCH (Book 3)
"I am the forgotten one, the girl who was left for dead. I remember everything. Their faces. Their touch. Even their smell.... I will kill them all."
Sweet revenge keeps her alive ... and drives her to kill. Finally, secrets and revelations come to light after a long and grueling journey. Every choice has led to this moment, but no one is prepared for the unfathomable consequences of life and death. Will love be enough to overcome the pain of the past?

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The Knight of Ambra: An Action Adventure Romance (Mercenaries of Fortune Book 1)

by Lyn Brittan

Modern knighthood ain't easy...


Brant Jacobs is determined not to screw up his first mission as a Knight of Ambra. Sneak in, retrieve the stolen artifact and disappear. Easy…right up until a woman in yoga pants stumbles through the wrong door at the wrong friggin’ time. She’s too cute and too innocent to be left on her own, but bringing her along might put them in the greatest danger of all.

Michaela Alberto only took the stupid delivery job out of necessity. How the crap she wound up here – between the barrel of a mobster’s gun and some super secret government agent – is beyond unfair. Now they're on the run and Brant promises her safety, but what happens when he has her life…and her heart…in his hands?

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Revealing Secrets: A Sexy Novella (The Sexy Billionaire Bad Boy Series Book 1)

by Jessica Kelly

Dominic Montgomery has it all -- he's a world-famous model, he has a smoking hot girlfriend that most men would kill for, and he's using his architecture degree to build luxury resorts on some of the world's most beautiful islands.

And, oh yeah, he comes from Texas' richest oil family. That makes him the sexiest billionaire on the planet. Put all of his amazing assets together, and you have a hot billionaire with a very unique twist!

But when a local island myth threatens to derail his latest architectural masterpiece, Dominic decides his only option is to solve it. The problem? This myth is hundreds of years old, and in all that time, no one's been able to get to the bottom of it.

Getting tangled in a massive mystery is only part of what this sexy billionaire bad boy is about to experience. Little does he know that a hot historian is about to enter his world and make him realize that he's not really living the life of his dreams after all.

Turns out, the truly rich men are the ones who follow their passions -- both in business and in the bedroom.

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Twilight's Encore (Wounded Hearts Book 3)

by Jacquie Biggar

One man's betrayal will seal another's fate.
Ty Garrett fell in love with Katy Fowler from the moment they'd met. When her father’s betrayal yank the young couple apart, Ty becomes bitter.
After a decade away, Katy returns to Tidal Falls with plans to get married in her family's theatre. But she hadn't expected to run into Ty Garrett, the boy she'd never forgotten.
When unseen forces endanger their lives, can Ty save Katy and win back her love, or is it too late for these two star-crossed lovers?

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Call Me Cowboy

by D'Ann Lindun

Rock star Johnny Cortez—Cowboy—married the wrong woman. He quickly learned all she wanted from him was her own singing career. After he caught her cheating with his guitarist—and best friend—he divorced her. From now on, he’s vowed to stick with porn stars and strippers, the kind of women who expect no commitment.

Third generation hunting guide Montana Weaver is in trouble. The bank is demanding she pay the three months mortgage she’s behind, or they’ll foreclose. With no hunters, and no employment prospects, she’s forced to take a bad boy rock star for a client, even though she’s sworn to never deal with famous men.

When a series of frightening events convince Johnny and Montana he is being targeted by a killer, they go on the run across the Colorado Rockies, falling in love along the way.

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