Bouquet Toss (Love of My Life Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Ever since Daphne Harper graduated from college, all of her friends have fallen in love, become engaged and walked down the aisle. Be it a blessing or a curse, Daphne (a hopeless romantic and perpetual single girl) catches the bouquet at every single wedding she attends.
Daphne’s love life is a mess. Her first love, Mayson, haunts her heart and keeps her from pursuing happiness with any man who comes along. As she struggles to move on from the one who got away, Daphne wonders if she will ever break her curse and find her happily ever after.
Dying Embers (Serial Crimes Investigation Unit (S.C.I.U.) Book 1) (affiliate link)
Dwelling on the past can be murder.
Emma Sweet looks more like a trophy wife than a killer, but as she watches her cheating husband burn alive in his Mercedes, she knows her trophy life is over. Every man she ever loved hurt her. Now it’s time to hurt them back. As she travels from state to state, crossing a name off her list each time she ends a life, she’s only one step ahead of Agent Douglas. She doesn’t care if she gets caught really, as long as the last name on her list—the first man to break her heart—gets the justice he’s earned before the law catches up with her.
With the memory of a fatal house fire looming over her, no one can blame Jace Douglas for being pyrophobic, but agents with the Serial Crimes Investigation Unit don’t get to pick and choose assignments. When a series of murders all have the same killing signature, she can’t let the flames of her past interfere with the job. Alongside one pushy—and altogether too attractive—detective, she embarks on a cross-country manhunt to catch a killer before another man dies.
BUM RAP (Lassiter, Solomon & Lord Book 1) (affiliate link)
A mysterious bar-girl goes missing from a South Beach club…
A Russian gangster is shot dead…
And Steve Solomon holds the smoking gun.
Can Jake Lassiter get Solomon off the hook?
BUM RAP is the novel that brings Lassiter together with squabbling Miami lawyers Steve Solomon and Victoria Lord. In a tale filled with startling twists, Lassiter digs deep into the underbelly of glitzy South Beach to defend a client who’s not telling him the truth.
Cold Barrel Zero (John Hayes Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
John Hayes is a Special Operations legend who went rogue on a deep-cover mission and betrayed his own soldiers. Disgraced and on the run, he returns to the United States to get back to his wife and daughter and take revenge on his accusers with a series of devastating attacks.
Only one man can stop him: Thomas Byrne. He once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic, but he gave up the gun. Now a surgeon, he moves from town to town, trying to forget his past, until he is called upon by a high-ranking government official to help capture the man he once called a friend. Hayes and Byrne were once as close as brothers, but with the fate of the nation hanging in the balance and nothing as it seems, both men must decide whom to trust — and whom to betray.
Lord Valentine’s Castle (The Majipoor Cycle) (affiliate link)
Valentine, a drifter who remembers nothing except his name, finds himself on the fringes of a great city. Joining a motley troupe of jugglers and acrobats, he travels with them across the magical planet of Majipoor. All the while, he hopes to meet someone who can help him retrieve his past.
Then Valentine begins to dream—and to receive messages in those dreams. Messages that tell him he is a lord, a king turned out of his castle. Now his travels have a purpose: to return to his home, discover what enemy took his memory, and claim the destiny that awaits him.
This Savage World (affiliate link)
Who are you when all you hold dear is taken?
London midwife, Maggie Bloodworth, is no shy, domestic creature, but from the moment poverty leads her to steal a handful of clothes she’s in a fight for survival and her very soul.
Banished in 1790 to a place where right and wrong have no meaning, she must live by her wits amid deprivation and cruelty, while striving to get back to her abandoned daughter. All the while she’s haunted by her mother’s dying vision that she is marked, has a dark seed in her.
On an epic journey from England to Sydney Cove, far-flung Norfolk Island, and the wilds of Van Diemen’s Land, she must reckon at every step with how to be a good person in a bad world, even as she struggles with the kind of choices no woman should have to face— from adultery to bigamy, turning her back on one child for the baby who comes next, or forcing others off their land.
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