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When They Come Calling (Anna’s Nightmare Book 1) (paid link)
Dr. Emma Steele is baffled when she finds herself dressed in mental health blues, tied to a stretcher, in her own ER.
She was hunting for a killer. She found him.
Just as he found her.
He planted evidence accusing her of his crimes.
She’s innocent, so she’ll be free soon. She has friends who’ll help.
Twice wrong.
Things can’t get any worse.
Mary Mills Mystery Series: Vol 1-2 (paid link)
Am I pretty?
Imagine being asked that question standing face to face with a killer. What would you answer?
While her life is going from bad to worse, journalist Mary Mills receives a disturbing phone call from her father. Her brother was arrested, charged with murder.
Mary decides to go back to her hometown of Cocoa Beach, Florida, which she left twenty years back and has never visited since.
Working with her old friends in from High School, she tracks down the most disturbing and surprising killer this town has ever faced before a shocking conclusion turns everything upside down for them.
Determined to solve the murder and to have her brother acquitted, Mary is forced to face demons from her past she never thought she would have to again.
An empire in flames. A prisoner of war. An unbreakable will to escape.
At just fifteen Eskara Helsene fought in the greatest war mankind has ever known. Fought and lost. There is only one place her enemies would send a Sourcerer as powerful as her, the Pit, a prison sunk so deep into the earth the sun is a distant memory. Now she finds herself stripped of her magic; a young girl surrounded by thieves, murderers, and worse. In order to survive she will need to make new allies, play the inmates against each other, and find a way out.
Her enemies will soon find Eskara is not so easily broken.
Hope for Christmas (Hope Ranch Book 1) (paid link)
Cyan Hewitt drifts onto his estranged grandparents’ New Mexico ranch in time for Thanksgiving… and stays. As a cyber security consultant, he can telecommute, so why not from here, where his restless soul is soothed and his heart is awakened by the attractive ranch housekeeper?
Maria Sanchez works at Rancho de Esperanza to provide a stable life for her son. She’s content—mostly—in her roles as housekeeper, part-time student, and mom, but when her precocious seven-year-old is diagnosed with diabetes, her world shatters. There’s no time for distractions from the long-term visitor who’s stirring a longing in her for more.
The Shop on Main (Comfort Crossing Book 1) (paid link)
Sometimes, doing the right thing backfires… spectacularly
Bella Amaud is about to lose everything. Her shop, her home, and her fragile financial security.
Then she finds out the man she is falling for, Owen, is the businessman at the center of all her problems.
Owen has secretly long to belong—somewhere—anywhere—his whole life. When he decides to do the right thing for his long-lost brother, he ruins any chance of putting down roots and the family he longs for.
Yes, sometimes doing the right thing does backfire and life explodes around you.
Get The Shop on Main, the charming first book in the heartwarming Comfort Crossing series. Join Bella and her best friends, Jenny and Becky Lee, as they navigate life and love in the small southern town of Comfort Crossing, Mississippi.
99 Red Balloons: A chillingly clever psychological thriller with a stomach-flipping twist (paid link)
Two girls go missing, decades apart. What would you do if one was your daughter?
Eight-year-old Grace is last seen in a sweetshop. Her mother Emma is living a nightmare. But as her loved ones rally around her, cracks begin to emerge. What are the emails sent between her husband and her sister? Why does her mother take so long to join the search? And is there more to the disappearance of her daughter than meets the eye?
Meanwhile, ageing widow Maggie Sharples sees a familiar face in the newspaper. A face that jolts her from the pain of her existence into a spiralling obsession with another girl – the first girl who disappeared…
Forever: A Novel (paid link)
Killing Eve: Die for Me (paid link)
Though the cat and mouse chase between these two lethal adversaries has seemingly ended, the sophisticated, deadly thrill of Eve and Villanelle’s relationship is far from over. Told in Jennings’s stylish prose, Killing Eve: Endgame is another page-turning chapter in the espionage exploits of Eve and Villanelle.
Full Throttle: Stories (paid link)
Thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including “In the Tall Grass,” one of two stories cowritten with Stephen King and the basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix.
A little door that opens to a world of fairy-tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in “Faun.” A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in “Late Returns.”
In “By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain”—now an episode on Shudder TV’s Creepshow—two young friends stumble on the corpse of a plesiosaur at the water’s edge, a discovery that forces them to confront the inescapable truth of their own mortality.
The Charm School (paid link)
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (paid link)
With Dale Carnegie’s timeless advice in hand, more than six million people have learned how to eliminate debilitating fear and worry from their lives and to embrace a worry-free future. In this classic work, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas that you can put to work today. It is a book packed with lessons that will last a lifetime and make that lifetime happier!
Discover how to:
-Eliminate fifty percent of business worries immediately
-Reduce financial worries
-Avoid fatigue—and keep looking young
-Add one hour a day to your waking life
-Find yourself and be yourself—remember there is no one else on earth like you!
Burning Truth: A Nick Lawrence Novel (paid link)
FBI Special Agent Nick Lawrence is in hot pursuit of a brilliant serial killer.
He’s also the next target on the killer’s list.
The serial killer is known as The Ferryman. His series of unpredictable and horrific murders have terrified the residents of Austin, Texas, and stymied local law enforcement.
Special Agent Cheryl Simmons of the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit is known throughout the Bureau as a legend among their elite profilers. For the better part of the last four years, she’s devoted herself to tracking The Ferryman, and this may be her best chance to catch him.
For the killer has chosen fellow FBI Agent Nick Lawrence as his next victim.
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