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Author
Series
Playful brides volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A noble lady looking for an affair and her hired bodyguard begin a Christmas romance.
42) Queen of dust
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The last Balti Temptress, Mara Leanor, returns home to her planet eighteen years after the Dern occupation where she must guard her heart against Calvy D'Aldiern, the demoted Dern captain-turned-bodyguard assigned to protect her.
43) Howl for it
Author
Series
Publisher
Brava/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Two stories of wolf shapeshifter love and instincts unleashed by passion.
Author
Series
Lincoln's bodyguard volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
Villianized by the South for killing John Wilkes Booth, thereby saving President Lincoln, Joseph Foster disappears following the kidnapping of his daughter, years later he recieves a plea for help from Lincoln.
45) Collision point
Author
Series
Brute Force novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A crime lord's daughter finds safety from her father's enemies in the arms of the bodyguard who broke her heart.
46) Silent judgement
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ordered to protect TV news personality Amelia Chess, an unapologetic Black conservative who has been receiving death threats, Silence starts to see what lies beneath her villainous persona, but when the threats turn real, he is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy where he must fight his personal demons to survive.
Author
Publisher
Bold Strokes Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
If Eve Webb had known she'd be protecting royalty, she'd never have taken the job as bodyguard. As the threat to Lady Katherine's life draws closer, she'll do whatever it takes to save her, and may just lose her heart in the process.
Author
Series
Modern love volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One minute, Katrina King's enjoying an innocent conversation with a hot guy at a coffee shop; the next, a stranger has live-tweeted the entire episode with a romantic meet-cute spin and #CafeBae is the new hashtag-du-jour. The problem? Katrina craves a low-profile life, and going viral threatens the peaceful world she's painstakingly built. Besides, #CafeBae isn't the man she's hungry for . . .With the internet on the hunt for #CuteCafeGirl, Jas Singh...
49) The takedown
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An undercover CIA agent is sent home to investigate her sister's criminal fiance but the last thing she expects is to fall in love with his bodyguard along the way in this sexy romantic comedy. It's been a long time since Sydney Swift has gone home. An unrelentingly successful CIA field officer, she has spent the last five years pretending to be someone - anyone - other than herself. But this year, the festive season is coming with some added surprises....
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"After taking the oath of protector of the Order of Khatar, Mara travels to the Imperial city with her charge, Revathi; although she knew the dizzying city would hold its dangers, she never thought her life--as wall as her heart--would be at stake"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
While protecting a powerful mine owner with many enemies, Quill McKenna hires bounty hunter Calico Nash to help guard his boss's daughter, but is unable to control his attraction to her as death threats come thick and fast.
52) American gunner
Author
Publisher
Black Odyssey Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When his street boss goes missing, Raphael is hired by Alex to be her bodyguard and the pair spark an unexpected friendship and work together on an international business deal that goes awry and leaves him holding the bag.
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 376
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Skye Fargo is playing bodyguard to 'America's Sweetheart,' stunning actress Kathleen Barton. She had the bad judgment to publicly, brutally spurn the attentions of notorious 'Frisco power-broker Zack Lomax, ruining his reputation and his livelihood. Now he wants revenge. And unless the Trailsman keeps both eyes peeled, Lomax is going to give his client a final curtain" -- from publisher's web site.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Charlie Fox must infiltrate a dangerous cult called Fourth Day in their California stronghold in order to try to discover who murdered a boy five years ago, but soon finds herself in over her head, as the cult leader begins to lure her into becoming one of his followers.
Author
Series
Black Knights Inc volume 7
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the president's daughter, Abby Thompson, is kidnapped, it's up to Carlos "Steady" Soto to rescue the only woman he ever loved--and the only woman who ever broke his heart.
56) The Isis collar
Author
Series
Blood singer novels volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Struggling to balance her powers as a Siren with her new vampire nature, Celia is perplexed by a seemingly ineffective magical bomb at a local elementary school only to discover that a zombie plague has been triggered, a situation that is challenged by family foibles and the disappearance of her boyfriend.
57) Inversions
Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. ... Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the protector General of Tassasen."--Jacket.
58) Deathless divide
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus...
Author
Series
Perfect gentlemen volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second Perfect Gentlemen novel from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Masters of Menage series. Privileged, wealthy, and wild: they are the Perfect Gentlemen of Creighton Academy. But the threat of a scandal has one of them employing his most deceptive--and seductive--talents... Recruited into the CIA at a young age, Connor Sparks knows how dirty the world can be. Only when he's with his friends can he find some peace. So when an...
Author
Series
Rakes and rogues volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
The bastard son of nobility, Brant Hallowsby is approached by Bluebell Ballenger, who, also part of the ton and excluded from it, asks him to transform her into a perfect English rose, and as passion flares between them, a secret from her past could tear them apart.
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