Deception and Chaos
Sophia Cova lived a quiet, normal life, shadowed in sadness after the loss of her parents in a tragic airline accident. With her older brother being her only living relative and her anchor, Sophia is sure she’s destined for a brighter future. But that was until she was taken.
Stolen from her mundane, orderly life, she was drugged, and woke to every woman’s worst nightmare.
With only four grimy basement walls and a rancid mattress, she loses her sense of time, and preserves what’s left of her dignity by hurtling herself into the safety of her mind. The men, the beatings, they come and go with no reaction, until she hears one word that sends an arctic chill through her body. Sold.
Tales of Crow – The Complete Series Volumes 1-5
From a mountainous study camp in Japan, through the wilds of Romania, the political upheaval of Barcelona, the bleakness of a Siberian ghost town, and finally into a near-future Britain at the beginning of a nightmare … one man has been at the centre of it all.
If indeed you could even call him a man…
Dark genius of robotics and genetic engineering, megalomaniac and callous prankster, Tales of Crow follows the rise of Professor Kurou from an orphaned nobody to someone capable of making and breaking countries, and then charts his dramatic fall.
Adam’s Witness: A Thrilling Mystery, Crime and Romance Novel (Adam and Grace Book 1)
When newspaper reporter Grace Rampling stumbles onto a grisly crime scene while on a routine weekend assignment, she abruptly finds herself at the centre of a police investigation into the death of a Catholic bishop.
As the investigation unfolds, evidence points to a troubling hate crime as Grace finds herself central to the case – not only as a key witness, but a suspect and even potential victim. Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Adam Davis is thrown by the fierce attraction he feels toward Grace that, if acted upon, could throw the entire case into jeopardy.
With Grace at risk and off limits, Adam races to unravel an increasingly disturbing mystery, while he struggles to both protect and resist the woman of his dreams.
You Can Sleep In Your Car But You Can’t Drive Your House To Work
In 2004 his house was foreclosed on. After the county Sheriff moved him out he started sleeping in his car at a local truck stop parking lot. Jobless, depressed, broke and addicted to alcohol, Sutton shares how he changed his thinking and actions, which changed his life.
You will laugh and cry at the situations he found himself in.
Deadly Sins: Sloth (Sloane Monroe Stories Book 1)
Fed up with her lazy, unruly neighbor, Mary Pritchard sprints across the street, determined to give Darryl a piece of her mind.
She arrives to find he’s been shot, the bullet piercing the center of his forehead. He’s been executed, and that’s not all. A mysterious woman is sprawled out on the floor in Darryl’s hallway. She’s dead too. Who is the woman? Why is she there? And why have they both been murdered?
This Wedding is Doomed!
You are cordially invited to the Wedding Disaster of the Year: Graham and Tessa’s wedding…where true love awaits, except for the bride and groom…
The Wedding Planner: Flirting with Disaster
A troublemaking uncle and a perfectionist wedding planner end up butting heads, and more than sparks fly..
The Best Man: Sex, Lies and Karmic Catastrophe
After years of covering the groom’s many misdeeds, the best man must choose between loyalty and the love of a wedding singer.
The Maid of Honor: Lovers in Lockdown
Two lifelong best friends are accidentally trapped in a wine cellar, and resort to sampling the wine – and each other…
The Enigma Strain (Harvey Bennett Thrillers Book 1)
A virus that’s been dormant for centuries…
…has been released.
A reclusive Yellowstone park ranger is forced into action, teaming up with a beautiful woman from the CDC.
Harvey Bennett isn’t a fighter, but he’ll fight for what’s right.
And he’ll do anything to take down the terrorists behind the attack.
From Yellowstone across the American landscape, Harvey and Juliette must do what it takes to survive, before it’s too late.
Bloody Mary – A Thriller (Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels Mysteries Book 2)
Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
Stir in a psychopath littering the city with body parts. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary–the second novel in the funny, frightening world of Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels.
Join Jack as she struggles to repair her train wreck of a personal life while tracking down and convicting one of the scariest serial killers in recent memory–a killer for whom getting caught is only the beginning…
Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
Dead Drunk: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse… One Beer at a Time
Charlie Campbell was your average, balding, thirty-year-old alcoholic with a dead-end job and a penchant for shambling through life one mistake after another. However, none of that mattered following the sudden arrival of a mysterious sickness that brought with it infected mobs of zombie-like creatures thirsting for the flesh of the living.
Trapped in a Chicago apartment the morning after a raucous bachelor party, Charlie and his old fraternity buddies must battle for survival against the cannibalistic horde, a military invasion and their own rampant stupidity.
With supplies, common sense and brain cells dwindling by the hour, the motley crew — including a racist cop, a Sri Lankan used car salesman, a stoner landlord and a pet raccoon — must pull out all the stops to avoid joining the ranks of the dead.
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Sultana Al-Sa’ud, a Saudi Arabian Princess, has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, and designer dresses galore. But in reality, Sultana has no freedom or control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country.
For the sake of her daughters, Sultana has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country: thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the women’s room, a padded, windowless cell where women are confined with neither light nor conversation until death claims them. In speaking out, Sultana risks bringing the wrath of the Saudi establishment upon her head. But by telling her story to Jean Sasson, Sultana allows us to see beyond the veils of this secret society, to the heart of a nation where sex, money, and power reign supreme.
Bananas Foster and a Dead Mobster (Poppy Peters Mysteries Book 3)
Reluctant sleuth Poppy Peters is back in Georgia, and her last semester of pastry school is no icing on the cake when a body is discovered at the local farmer’s market, and the murder weapon has Poppy’s name on it. Not to mention, the victim belonged to a deadly southern crime family. Now, Poppy is being tailed by the mafia, and it doesn’t help that the school’s new pastry instructor has her working with her worst rival. But after a heart-stopping car chase, a frightening discovery at an old jam factory, and a spontaneous trip to New Orleans, Poppy discovers a secret that makes her past feats look like a piece of peach pie. Poppy’s chances of making it to graduation day are about to go up in flames just like her Bananas Foster.
**Recipes included!**
Brooklynaire
You’d think a billion dollars, a professional hockey team and a six-bedroom mansion on the Promenade would satisfy a guy. You’d be wrong.
For seven years Rebecca has brightened my office with her wit and her smile. She manages both my hockey team and my sanity. I don’t know when I started waking in the night, craving her. All I know is that one whiff of her perfume ruins my concentration. And her laugh makes me hard.
When Rebecca gets hurt, I step in to help. It’s what friends do. But what friends don’t do is rip off each others’ clothes for a single, wild night together.
Now she’s avoiding me. She says we’re too different, and it can never happen again. So why can’t we keep our hands off each other?
Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock
On Friday, August 15, 1969, a crowd of 400,000—an unprecedented and unexpected number at the time—gathered on Max Yasgur’s farm in upstate New York for a weekend of rock ‘n’ roll, the new form of American music that had emerged only a decade earlier. For America’s counterculture youth, Woodstock became a symbol of more than just sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll—it was about peace, love, and a new way of living. It was a seminal event that epitomized the ways that the culture, the country, and the core values of an entire generation were shifting. On one glorious weekend, this generation found its voice through one outlet: music.
Back to the Garden celebrates the music and the spirit of Woodstock through the words of some of the era’s biggest musical stars, as well as those who participated in the festival.
The Possibility Dogs: What I Learned from Second-Chance Rescues About Service, Hope, and Healing
After a grisly search-and-rescue operation led to troubling consequences for author Susannah Charleson, she found that her relationship with Puzzle, her search dog, made a surprising contribution to her own healing. Inspired by that experience, Charleson learned to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, plucking them from shelters and training them to work with disabled human partners, to whom the dogs bring assistance, comfort, and hope.
Similar to her best-selling first book, Scent of the Missing, Charleson’s The Possibility Dogs goes beyond the science that explains working canines to tell the stories of the dogs themselves.
Driven: A White-Knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back
Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction to the powerful personalities around her, and came too from her desire to find a place in the world where her artistic ambitions wouldn’t be thwarted. She found in automobiles the promise of a future.
From a lineage of secondhand family cars of the late ’60s, to the Honda that carried her from Montana to Texas as her new marriage disintegrated, to the ’70s Ford she drove away from her brother’s house after he took his life (leaving Melissa the truck, a dog, and a few mix tapes), to the VW van she now uses to take her kids camping, she knows these cars better than she knows some of the people closest to her. Driven from grief and toward hope, Melissa reckons with what it means to lose a beloved sibling.
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