Still grieving the loss of her mother, Kari Hagen leaves her younger siblings behind and travels to Walker Creek, Texas. She promised to deliver a letter to her mother’s first love, so now she just has to find him. Should she accept an offer of assistance from that tall cowboy who’s as handsome as any man she’s ever seen? The sooner she gives the letter to Mr. Caleb Walker, the sooner Kari can start earning money as a seamstress for train fare back to her family in Minnesota. 💌Seth Davis isn’t expecting any surprises when he meets the train. He plans to pick up his uncle’s new racehorse and head back to Walker Creek Ranch. Yet what about that pretty little miss standing alone on the platform, all honey-gold curls, blue calico, and no taller than his chin? Is she lost? He’s never seen her before, though she looks oddly familiar, something telling Seth that his day just got a whole lot more interesting. 🤠
Why I’m including this: Still grieving the loss of her mother, Kari Hagen leaves her younger siblings behind and travels to Walker Creek, Texas. She promised to deliver a letter to her mother’s first love, so now she just has to find him. Should she accept assistance from that tall handsome cowboy? Seth Davis isn’t expecting surprises when he meets the train to pick up his uncle’s new racehorse, but what about that pretty little miss standing alone on the platform with honey-gold curls and blue calico? She looks oddly familiar.
First a shooting, then a grisly discovery on the common. A bag of severed fingers is found in the playground by a rough housing estate. Police partners, Detective Inspector Tom Calladine and Detective Sergeant Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole area erupts in violence. Their boss thinks it’s all down to drug lord Ray Fallon, but Calladine’s instincts say something far nastier is happening on the Hobfield housing estate. 😱Can this duo track down the murderer before anyone else dies and the press publicize the gruesome crimes? Calladine and Bayliss are led on a trail which gets dangerously close to home. In a thrilling finale they race to rescue someone very close to Calladine’s heart. Helen H. Durrant delivers crime thriller where bags of severed fingers found in playgrounds by rough housing estates create police partners racing against time tracking down killers before whole areas erupt in violence. 🔍
Why I’m including this: First a shooting, then a grisly discovery on the common—a bag of severed fingers is found in the playground by a rough housing estate. Police partners Detective Inspector Tom Calladine and Detective Sergeant Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole area erupts in violence. Their boss thinks it’s all down to drug lord Ray Fallon, but Calladine’s instincts say something far nastier is happening. The trail gets dangerously close to home.
Strippers, drugs, and headless corpses? All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective. Does she like her job? No. Is she good at it? Also no. She can’t afford to be too good. The last time she got curious it cost her a job, a limb, and almost her life. 🤖But when a seemingly simple case takes a gruesome turn, and Bubbles discovers a disturbing connection to the cold-case death of an old friend, she is driven to dig deeper. And deeper. Until what she uncovers can never be buried again. S.C. Jensen delivers cyber-noir thriller where strippers, drugs, and headless corpses are all in day’s work for HoloCity’s only cyborg detective who can’t afford being too good since last time curiosity cost job, limb, and almost life. 😱
Why I’m including this: Strippers, drugs, and headless corpses? All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective. Does she like her job? No. Is she good at it? Also no. She can’t afford to be too good—the last time she got curious it cost her a job, a limb, and almost her life. But when a seemingly simple case takes a gruesome turn and Bubbles discovers a disturbing connection to the cold-case death of an old friend, she’s driven to dig deeper until what she uncovers can never be buried again.
The Invisible Woman: A Thriller
An undercover FBI agent investigates a family with suspected ties to organized crime—by posing as their live-in nanny in this thriller from the world’s #1 bestselling author, James Patterson. No one sees her, but she sees everything. Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career at the FBI. Now decades past solving crimes with the bureau, she is personally and professionally forgettable. Which is exactly what her former FBI boss needs. 🔍He disguises Elinor as a middle-aged nanny, and casts her as an agent on the inside of his investigation into a New York art dealer suspected of ties to organized crime. But as Elinor pushes toward the truth, her superpower—anonymity—morphs into a fatal flaw. The more the invisible woman integrates into her “host” family, the more dangerously memorable she becomes. James Patterson and Susan DiLallo deliver women sleuth thriller where decades-past FBI agents become personally and professionally forgettable creating perfect disguises as middle-aged nannies investigating art dealers with organized crime ties. 😱
Why I’m including this: Elinor Gilbert was once a young woman with a thriving career at the FBI. Now decades past solving crimes with the bureau, she is personally and professionally forgettable—which is exactly what her former FBI boss needs. He disguises Elinor as a middle-aged nanny investigating a New York art dealer suspected of ties to organized crime. But as Elinor pushes toward the truth, her superpower anonymity morphs into a fatal flaw. The more she integrates, the more dangerously memorable she becomes.
From one of America’s leading doctors, an authoritative, practical, and entertaining guide to living a full and healthy life. Everyone wants to live a full and healthy life—and every day brings a tidal wave of attention-grabbing misinformation, faddish ideas from “wellness” influencers, and bizarre advice from news outlets over-extrapolating the results of tiny, outlier studies. The “Wellness Industrial Complex” prescribes conflicting and complicated regimens while promising us more time to enjoy in the future—though it sure is demanding a lot of time right now. But what actually matters most to our health and longevity? What has the most robust, actionable evidence? What’s the junk you can skip? 🍦In Eat Your Ice Cream, renowned physician Ezekiel J. Emanuel argues that life is not a competition to live the longest and that “wellness” shouldn’t be difficult; it should be an invisible part of one’s lifestyle that yields maximum health benefits with the least work. Dr. Emanuel cuts through the noise with wit and good humor, giving readers just what they need: simple, high-impact, evidence-based guidelines on such issues as alcohol consumption, food and nutrition, exercise, sleep, mental acuity, and social engagement. 💪
Why I’m including this: From one of America’s leading doctors, an authoritative guide to living a full and healthy life. Everyone wants to live full and healthy lives but every day brings tidal waves of misinformation from wellness influencers and bizarre advice from news outlets. Dr. Emanuel argues life is not a competition to live the longest and wellness shouldn’t be difficult. He cuts through the noise with simple, high-impact, evidence-based guidelines on alcohol, nutrition, exercise, sleep, and social engagement.
A luxury sailing trip is the perfect escape from Palmer’s shattered marriage. Until the Pacific Coast cruise—a chance for old friends to mend old wounds—descends into a harrowing fight for their lives. Twenty years ago, the five of them were inseparable. But after a rafting accident their senior year, only four of them returned. Volleyball captain Courtney’s body was never found. And their lives were never the same. ⛵Now Palmer, her ride-or-die Beth, and home renovator Emma are on an all-expenses-paid trip with mega-influencer Gigi. But a mysterious note and a violent storm soon push them dangerously off course. The radio’s down, the captain’s missing, and the first officer’s woefully inexperienced. And in a chilling echo of the past, Gigi gets swept away. Perhaps on purpose. Someone doesn’t want them to make it back. Palmer’s not sure who to trust, but she knows the truth lies in the murky depths of what really happened that day on the river. 😱
Why I’m including this: A luxury sailing trip is Palmer’s perfect escape from her shattered marriage until the Pacific Coast cruise descends into a harrowing fight for their lives. Twenty years ago after a rafting accident their senior year, only four of them returned and volleyball captain Courtney’s body was never found. Now a mysterious note and violent storm push them dangerously off course with Gigi swept away perhaps on purpose. The truth lies in what really happened that day on the river.