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Shadows in the Water (Shadows in the Water Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
It is 1864 when young Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor as companion had mysteriously disappeared, supposedly having run off with an unknown man.
But when the girl’s body is found in the rubble of one of the recently demolished slums around the prestigious new railway station at St Pancras, Lizzie begins to wonder exactly what has been going on.
With the help of an old childhood friend, now Inspector Benjamin Ross, she starts to investigate, risking her life to unearth the truth about the death of a girl whose fate seems interlinked with her own.
The China Pandemic (Graham’s Resolution Book 1) (affiliate link)
What the world dreads most,
has happened.
A weaponized bird flu ravaged the globe to near extinction.
A former Seattle math professor races on a journey to survive.
A community of survivalists, without immunity to the killer virus, struggle to remain undetected.
A young girl is exposed, threatening war between those few left behind.
A Killing Tide (Columbia River Thrillers Book 1) (affiliate link)
Kaz Jorgensen is used to fear–the anxiety of negotiating treacherous currents as she captains her family’s fishing trawlers, the terrifying nightmares of the day she almost lost her life on the river. But now a man is dead, an arsonist has set the Anna Marie ablaze, and her brother is missing.
There’s fire…
Michael Chapman knows how to take the heat–as the new fire chief of Astoria, Oregon, he’s dealt with more than his share. No way can he afford to get involved with the sister of a suspect. But the scorching attraction between him and Kaz burns out of control, and when someone takes a shot at her, his protective instincts kick in. Whatever happens, he can’t allow another woman to die because of him.
The Inn at Willa Bay: A Willa Bay Novel (affiliate link)
Achieving her dream career as a wedding planner hasn’t been easy, but Zoe’s sacrifices are about to pay off. Unfortunately, her carefully crafted life is knocked off course when her elderly landlord Celia is hospitalized, and Zoe learns that their home, the former Inn at Willa Bay, is in jeopardy.
Her friend Meg left a prestigious chef position in the city when she returned home after her mother got sick. Now that her mother is healthy again, is it time for Meg to follow her own dreams?
Another friend, Cassie, never expected to be a single mother, but she’s making things work – until an old rival returns to Willa Bay, threatening her much-needed job as a pastry chef at a local lodge.
Fifteen Coffins (affiliate link)
The truth can set you free – or bury you.
When FBI Agent Sydney Merlot returns to her home town in northern California to wind down her late father’s PI business, she soon finds herself on the wrong side of the aftermath of a high school shooting.
Sydney’s childhood friend – who is now county sheriff – plus the local PD, the mayor’s office, and most of the town’s inhabitants, are convinced the horror ended when the gunman was killed. Now they just want to be left alone to mourn. But Sydney has other ideas – and she is not alone.
Freefall: A Novel (affiliate link)FREE
They say your daughter is dead.
You know they’re wrong.
When her fiancé’s private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, everyone assumes Allison Carpenter is dead.
But Maggie, Allison’s mother back home in Owl Creek, Maine, refuses to believe them. Maggie knows her daughter – or she used to, anyway. For the past two years, the two women have been estranged, and while Maggie doesn’t know anything about Ally’s life now – not even why she was on a private plane to begin with – she still believes in her girl’s strength, and in their love for each other.
Forty Acres: A Thriller (affiliate link)
The Hannah Anointing: Becoming a Woman of Resilience, Fulfillment, and Fruitfulness (affiliate link)
A resilient spirit is born when God makes you wait.
In The Hannah Anointing Michelle McClain-Walters reveals a special kind of spiritual power that stands unwaveringly in the face of recurring disappointment and the enemy’s taunts.
With her unique and empowering prophetic, McClain-Walters tackles issues women face on the road to their destiny and purpose, including how to:
• Release the cry of the barren, pray in faith, and get God’s attention
- • Overcome jealousy, rejection, temptation to compromise, critical spirits, and shame
- • Find healing and purity of heart
- • Get the right perspective of God’s sovereignty and find strength to persevere
- • Maintain three spiritual postures that guarantee victory
- • Make a new vow to God and unlock an overflow of multiplication and increase
Creativity isn’t all in your head. Sometimes it’s in what’s around you—especially when you’re at home.
For over twenty years, scientists have been discovering connections between our physical surroundings and the creative mind. Written by a noted architect, My Creative Space is the first book to turn this rich trove of psychological research into practical techniques for shaping a home that will boost your creativity.
Here’s a sampling of the techniques you’ll learn about:
Which colors lead to peak creative performance
How furniture affects idea flow
Pros and cons of messy versus neat environments
Optimal lighting and noise levels for achieving insights
How memorabilia can break creative logjams
Why ceiling height matters
Which scents improve creative problem solving
And more
As the Crow Flies (DI Nick Dixon Crime Book 1) (affiliate link)
Rock climbers can’t afford to make careless mistakes. But Detective Inspector Nick Dixon’s former climbing partner, Jake Fayter, died doing just that. Or so it seems. Dixon suspects foul play, but his only leads are unreliable accounts of something odd happening in Cheddar Gorge seconds before Jake fell.
The more Dixon learns about Jake’s life, the more he realises that Jake hadn’t been quite the man he remembered…and a lot of people could have wanted him dead. Once Dixon gets too close to the truth, those people will emerge from the shadows and kill to protect their secrets.
The Fascinators (affiliate link)
Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon, Sam needs his friends James and Delia—and their time together in their school’s magic club—to see him through to graduation.
But as soon as senior year starts, little cracks in their group begin to show. Sam may or may not be in love with James. Delia is growing more frustrated with their amateur magic club. And James reveals that he got mixed up with some sketchy magickers over the summer, putting a target on all their backs.
With so many fault lines threatening to derail his hopes for the year, Sam is forced to face the fact that the very love of magic that brought his group together is now tearing them apart—and there are some problems that no amount of magic can fix.
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