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61) 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.
62) Fire bound
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Flame-haired Lissa Piner is a skilled glass blower whose delicate gift conceals a burning inner strength that can destroy as exquisitely as it can create. Commissioned to design chandeliers for a string of luxury hotels, her remarkable skills have taken her to Italy. But Lissas real mission there is a secret. For her entire life has been a lie, leading to a chance to avenge a terrible wrong. Enlisted as her bodyguard is Casmir Prakenskii, a trained...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tis the season--for everyone except Emmy Garrett. She's on the run after witnessing a crime. But when it becomes clear that trouble will continue following her, the US Marshal in charge takes her somewhere no one will think to look-Montana. Not only is Emmy in a new place for her protection, but now, she's stuck with a handsome cowboy as her bodyguard...and she wants to do more than kiss him under the mistletoe. Dwight Reynolds left behind his old...
Author
Series
Billionaire wolf (Terry Spear) volume 4
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Billionaire wolf Derek Spencer may have a rocky history with she-wolves, but there's no one better to take as his date to the latest gala than the wolf he's had his eye on ever since she applied to be his bodyguard -- the remarkable Kate Hanover. Kate checks all the boxes for his perfect mate: she's smart, sexy, and business savvy, not to mention one of the best bodyguards around. But ever since Derek gave his bodyguard position to another wolf,...
66) The masseuse
Author
Series
Body work trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Heat Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Anna never takes on a massage client without screening him first, but the paycheck offered by billionaire Maxim Stein is too good to turn down. Stein is the richest man she's ever laid her hands on, and despite the risks, she trusts that she can take care of herself. After all, she's handled difficult clients in the past. What she isn't prepared for is getting caught in a compromising situation by Maxim's tall, dark, and gorgeous bodyguard--or the...
67) Lone witness
Author
Series
Atlanta justice novels volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Prosecutor Sophie Dawson's first job in the White Collar division of the Fulton County D.A.'s office is to build a case against a local bank employee who may be cheating clients. When she becomes the only witness to a double homicide involving a vengeful gang, her world is turned upside down. Former Atlanta police officer turned private security guard Cooper Knight is hired to ensure that Sophie is kept safe. The gang will stop at nothing to keep...
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.
Author
Series
Crush novels (Phoef Sutton) volume 2
Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When Rachel Fury, a con-artist friend who'd vanished for a couple of years after a big scam, reappears in Hollywood under a new name as a glitzy movie star, she hires Crush as a bodyguard, and he quickly gets drawn into a criminal mess that requires all his brawn, skill, and savvy to negotiate."--
70) High-risk rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the shadow of Mt. Rainier her life hangs in the balance. Surviving a shoot-out is not how Hannah Kahn planned to start her new job. But when her boss is killed, the shooters think she knows something and make her their next mark. She'll have to rely on Ayden Honor -- her boss's bodyguard and her ex -- to outrun the mysterious mercenaries now intent on chasing her. And the secret she's kept from him must finally come to light.
71) Tan cerca de ti
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta es la historia de un guardaespaldas y una escritora convencida de que no necesita protección. Kobo cree que será un trabajo fácil; Eva está más que dispuesta a ser su siguiente problema con tal de conservar su libertad. Sin embargo, cuando la tensión y la atracción entre ellos crezca hasta convertirse en un deseo irrefrenable, ambos deberán decidir si se dejan llevar o si ponen punto final a la aventura que acaba de empezar. Un trabajo...
Author
Series
Blood singer novels volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Celia Adams, bodyguard, part siren, part vampire is called upon by her aunt, who is the queen of the sirens, to act as her cousin Adriana's bodyguard during Adriana's wedding since a conspiracy is afoot.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine, a code operator at a top-secret remote CIA 'Numbers Station' where encrypted messages are sent and received. When an elite team of heavily armed assailants lays siege to the station, Emerson and Katherine suddenly find themselves in a life-or-death...
74) Forged in desire
Author
Series
The Protectors (Brenda Jackson) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When good girl Margo Connelly becomes Lamar 'Striker' Jennings's latest assignment, she knows she's in trouble. And not just because he's been hired to protect her from an underworld criminal. The reformed bad boy's appeal is breaching all her defenses, and as the threats against her increase, Margo isn't sure which is more dangerous: the gangster targeting her, or the far too alluring protector tempting her to let loose."-- Page [4] of cover.
75) Dream eyes
Author
Series
Dark legacy volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Gwen Frazier is no stranger to ghosts. She sees them in pools of water, windows, mirrors -- any reflective surface -- at the scene of violent deaths. But finding justice for the dead is something she's not trained to do and a luxury she can't afford. What pays the bills is her work as a psychic counselor who sees auras and interprets dreams. The death of her friend and mentor, Evelyn Ballinger, brings Gewn back to the small town of Wilby, Oregon,...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Jillian Moorewood, the oldest child of a con man and an heiress, returns home after thirty-nine months in prison and discovers her scheming family ignored her go-legit-or-else ultimatum, and confronts them with demands to clean up their act while she attempts to get her own life in order.
Author
Series
Body Armor novels volume 1
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Leese Phelps's road hasn't been an easy one, but it's brought him to the perfect job--working for the elite Body Armor security agency. And what his newest assignment lacks in size, she makes up for in fire and backbone. But being drawn to Catalina Nicholson is a dangerous complication, especially since it could be the very man who hired Leese who's threatening her. What Catalina knows could get her killed. But who'd believe the sordid truth about...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in L.A. But he also lost the Qomrama Om Ya, an all-powerful weapon from the banished older gods. Older gods who are returning and searching for their lost power. The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall -- a global shopping paradise infested with Lurkers and wretched bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families, squatters who...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
While acting as a bodyguard for Lucifer and wooing a former French porn star, half-human fallen angel Stark is bitten by one of the many zombies roaming the countryside. This causes his human side to die and turns him into an emotionless killing machine. The condition has a cure-- should he choose to take it.
Author
Series
Secret scientists of London volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What is a lady's formula for love? Bring together one brilliant noblewoman and an enigmatic bodyguard. Mix in a measure of danger and attraction. Heat over the warmth of humor and friendship, and the result is more than simple chemistry--it's elemental. Lady Violet Hughes is keeping secrets. First, she founded London's first social club for ladies to provide sanctuary for England's most brilliant female scientists. Second, she is using her genius...
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