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The Hogarth Mysteries (affiliate link)
He fell for a woman he shouldn’t have touched.
Now all hell is about to break loose.
How did it happen? Because his name is Hogarth…
A cold-blooded killer roams free, and blood is spilling on the streets. As Hogarth’s own dark secret edges closer to exposure, he knows it might cost him more than his job. Entangled with the wife of a powerful local MP, Hogarth must keep his wits sharp to chase down the deadliest adversary he’s ever faced. Fail, and one of his own could pay with their life.
An old corpse resurfaces, revealing generational lies that could devastate two families. One officer is hell-bent on justice, but the fallout might be deadly for another. With the killer always a step ahead, Hogarth must race against the clock. As his hidden past threatens to explode, can he keep it together, or will the killer strike again?
The Mendocino Book Club (Mendocino Beach 1) (affiliate link)
After her husband reveals a shocking secret he’s been hiding for years, librarian Hannah suddenly finds herself alone and stranded in the small coastal town of Mendocino Beach. Seeking refuge, she escapes into a quaint bookstore – and discovers more than just good books. Run by a hero from her past who’s healing his own wounds, the little bookstore by the sea unexpectedly becomes a haven of hope, love, and new beginnings.
Soon, Hannah meets kindred spirits among her fellow book lovers and reconnects with old friends. Together, they decide to revive their grandmothers’ book club, embarking on a heartwarming journey of friendship, independence, and self-discovery. The newfound sisterhood navigates life’s unexpected twists and turns with humor and heart, proving that second chances can lead to the most uplifting adventures!
Elementary Magic: Relic Hunter Book 1 (affiliate link)
Fantastic possibilities and terrible consequences.
When her job interview goes down in flames, archaeologist Dr. Arienne Cerasola makes a desperate decision to get her life back on track. Returning to the thing that wrecked her life in the first place isn’t rational, but magic is the only option she has.
To find a legendary healing tree and save her friends, Ari must outsmart magic practitioners way more talented and prepared than she is. Can she beat the competition to the prize, or is another magical disaster inevitable?
Sweets and a Stabbing (The Pink Cupcake Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
After a messy divorce, forty-four-year-old Amelia Harley has taken back her maiden name and decided to sell homemade cupcakes out of a food truck. With the help of her two teenage kids in picking out the name and color of her truck (pink, of course) and using social media to help spread the word, Amelia is ready to roll in Food Truck Alley.
However, a man is found stabbed to death in the dining area, and the young man from the burrito food truck next to Amelia’s is arrested. Matthew is a big, tattooed former gang member, an obvious suspect, but Amelia believes he is not the killer. Can Amelia save an innocent man? Can she make her food truck a success and make her children proud?
Hypoxia: A Novel (affiliate link)
The Umbra King (Vincula Realm Book 1) (affiliate link)
The morally grey don’t want redemption. They want retribution.After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Aurora “Rory” Raven spends years forging herself into a ruthless vigilante killer.
She never gave up her search for the man who killed her sister, but when she is convicted of thirteen murders and sentenced to five-hundred years in Vincula, the prison realm, she knows her sister’s death will never be avenged.
After arriving in Vincula, Aurora discovers her opportunity for retribution is closer than she thought.
Caius is the notorious Umbra King, ruler of Vincula, King of the Monsters, and the thing nightmares are made of. After being locked in his own realm for a crime he didn’t commit, his only focus has been revenge.
Grey Mask (The Miss Silver Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime.
Never one for the heroic, Charles’s first instinct is to let the police settle it. But then he hears her voice. Margaret, his long lost love, is part of the gang. To unravel their diabolical plot, he contacts Miss Maud Silver, a onetime governess who applies reason to solve crimes and face the dangers of London’s underworld.
Healer to the Broken King (Brides of Myth Book 1) (affiliate link)
She serves a god. He wears a crown. Their forbidden love could topple his kingdom.
Calliste is a healer moments away from becoming high priestess when the dark, domineering King Theron storms her sanctuary. Abducted and blackmailed, she watches nine years of grueling effort go up in smoke—along with her hopes of safety. He’s dragging her back to the same capital she fled, a glittering city that left her with nightmares and scars.
Theron is a shell of a man with the weight of a crown slowly crushing him. He’ll do anything to save his sleep-cursed son—even capturing a beautiful priestess cherished by the gods. But as Calliste begins to mend his shattered heart, it takes everything he has not to act on his dangerous desires.
Their forbidden passion soon inflames tensions in Theron’s kingdom—and sparks envy in the god Calliste serves. Bound by duty and with destructive secrets lingering between them, can their love survive, or will it doom them both?
Looking for an enchanting love potion? Want to create your own sacred space and promote good energy? The Modern Guide to Witchcraft helps you harness your own inner power so you can shape your destiny.
With the help of spellcraft expert Skye Alexander, you’ll tap into your own magic and create incantations, potions, and charms. As she carefully guides you through each step of these witchcraft practices and details ways of personalizing them to your specific situation, you’ll gain confidence in your own knowledge and inner force.
Once you learn to harness your natural talents as a witch, you’ll discover that a whole new world of possibilities exists.
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (affiliate link)
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America’s changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity–and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
Deep Threat (Billy Beckett Book 1) (affiliate link)
Jarvis Thompson, the most celebrated wide receiver in college football, vanishes along the Tennessee River in the middle of the night.
The circumstances surrounding the receiver’s disappearance are ominous: drugs, cash, and his mentor’s brother lying in a pool of blood.
It’s up to Jarvis’s mentor and soon-to-be agent Billy Beckett to investigate the mystery and find his beloved protégé before the clock runs out. Was it a brazen kidnapping? A setup? Or did Jarvis get in too deep and run? In a frantic quest that takes Billy from the mountains of East Tennessee to the South Carolina coast to the gritty streets of New Orleans, the agent knows careers — and lives— are on the line. As the two men’s pasts collide, both Jarvis and Billy are suddenly embroiled in a terrifying, high-stakes game where winners live and losers die.
Seduced by Madness: The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case (affiliate link)
In October 2002, Susan Polk, the soft-spoken mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. Three years later she was tried for first degree murder, choosing to act as her own attorney in a trial that rapidly devolved into one of the most outrageous media circuses in modern history. To a crowded courtroom, Susan Polk presented her defense—a bizarre story of unethical therapies, abuse, repressed memories, and satanic rituals—and, in doing so, exposed her madness. Carol Pogash was there.
Seduced by Madness is the remarkably compelling, profoundly disturbing true story of the severe dysfunction of an affluent American family, as told by the leading journalist who worked the case. It is a spellbinding re-creation of a troubled life, a marriage, a murder, and a terrifying, inexorable descent into madness.
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