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Love Me Like You Mean It (Be My Fake Fiancé Book 1) (affiliate link)
Ever told a white lie that spirals outta control and you end up finding true love? Just me?
I was having the worst day ever, and to cheer myself up I was trying on wedding gowns at a boutique.
Which is cool, until my frenemy walked in with her posse of women.
“Emma! You’re getting married too? So am I!”
I’m NOT getting married. I don’t even have a boyfriend.
I just find wearing a wedding dress can turn a bad day around.
But I couldn’t bring myself, to tell the truth.
It’s too…pathetic.
So I say a little white lie.
Sinister Summer (Wicks Hollow Book 1) (affiliate link)
A sexy professor.
A logical lawyer.
A determined ghost.
And a very real killer…
Welcome to Wicks Hollow: a cozy town near Lake Michigan filled with quaint houses, eccentric residents, and more than its share of ghosts, murders, and romance.
Diana Iverson needs a break–from her stressful job, from her philandering boyfriend, and from the rest of her fast-paced life. When she inherits her eccentric Aunt Jean’s home on Wicks Lake, Diana takes a much-needed vacation in the cozy little town.
But when the lake house becomes the scene of multiple break-ins and other unsettling events, Diana begins to suspect Aunt Jean’s death was not as innocent as it seems.
Housewife Chronicles: A suburban murder mystery with a touch of romance (Housewife Chronicles Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Appearances are everything in this L.A. neighborhood…especially if it means hiding the truth
Her husband’s affair coming to light two weeks before his death should have been the worst thing to happen to Beth Cartwright that year. But being a widowed, single mom in a community of upper-class housewives is proving to be far more difficult. An artist whose dreams got sidelined with marriage and kids, she didn’t really fit in before the scandal and now? The divide between her and her coffee friends is even greater.
Living next door to her husband’s mistress and the group’s former yoga instructor, Gina Thompson, has Beth wanting to pack up her teenage kids and get the hell out of the neighborhood. But when she becomes a suspect in her husband’s death, leaving is no longer an option. She has to clear her name without revealing all her secrets. Which has her relying on women she doesn’t exactly call friends…including her husband’s mistress!
Matchmaker Mysteries Books 1-3 (Matchmaker Marriage Mysteries) (affiliate link)
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition(classics illustrated) (affiliate link)
This edition presents the original twelve poems from Whitman’s premier 1855 publication of Leaves of Grass”
Trust Me Once (Desperate Games Series) (affiliate link)
A woman runs through the glittering streets of Newport with killers on her trail.
She needs help. She needs someone she can trust…
Attorney Sarah Rand returns home from abroad to discover that she is a dead woman. In shocked disbelief she realizes the murder victim mistakenly identified as her was really her best friend. No one knows that Sarah is still alive—except the killers still hunting her down.
Alone and on the run, Sarah desperately searches for answers. Why has her boss and mentor, a prominent local judge, been arrested for the crime? What does she have or know that’s worth killing for? And what are the most powerful people in exclusive Newport—a senator, a dying professor and his embittered wife, a top-notch security expert and a cadre of criminals—determined to hide.
Luna Rising: Book 1 of the Luna Rising Series (affiliate link)
Xavier Blackwood is the man every girl at my college dreams about at night, myself included, but I’d never let anyone know that.
Standing at 6’8 with steel grey eyes, he might look like a walking dream, but he acts like a first-class jerk.
Who would have thought that one night, while dragging myself home after doing double shifts at the diner, I’d be jumped by three men…only to have Xavier come to my rescue.
Oh yes, Xavier bloody Blackwood saved my life…but the thing I saw, the CREATURE that ripped those men to shreds, wasn’t the Xavier everyone thinks they know.
He wasn’t human…
Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase (affiliate link)
His dying wish was to set her free. So why does she feel so trapped?
Jack had two dying wishes: that his wife scatter his ashes somewhere ‘exotic’, and that she not give up on life once he was gone. He intended to spur her on to new adventures, but despite clinging to her red suitcase, Geraldine Verne hasn’t left the house for three months.
It takes an accident for Geri to accept help from her friends, but when Meals on Wheels arrive she is mortified. Yet heartbroken volunteer Lottie brings with her more than cottage pie and custard. Like Geri, she too is struggling to cut loose.
As a gloriously unlikely friendship blossoms, Geraldine begins to feel a long-lost spark of life and a newfound confidence. Perhaps what both women needed most, after all, was each other.
Carrying the Fire: 50th Anniversary Edition (affiliate link)
Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moon
The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events—technical and spiritual—of our lifetime.
In Carrying the Fire, Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humor of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the Air Force, through his days as a test pilot, to his Apollo 11 space walk, presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, light, and movement from someone who has seen the fragile earth from the other side of the moon.
Presumed Innocent: A Novel (Kindle County Book 1) (affiliate link)
Reckless (affiliate link)
Kell Jameson has the life she’s always dreamed about. A partner at a prestigious Atlanta law firm that represents famous—if guilty—clients, she’s far from her days as a lonely orphan in rural Georgia. But one frantic phone call will bring her back to the place she’s spent years trying to escape. The head of her childhood orphanage has been accused of murder, and Kell is her only hope for freedom.
From the first moment Kell meets Sheriff Luke Calder, tempers flare. Luke is a stickler for law and order, and while he finds Kell compelling, unfortunately she represents his prime suspect. Forced to work together, they dig deep into the town’s scandals to uncover the truth. But Kell has a secret of her own…
The Lost Jewels: A Novel (affiliate link)
Why would someone bury a bucket of precious jewels and gemstones and never return?
Present Day. When respected American jewelry historian, Kate Kirby, receives a call about the Cheapside jewels, she knows she’s on the brink of the experience of a lifetime.
But the trip to London forces Kate to explore secrets that have long been buried by her own family. Back in Boston, Kate has uncovered a series of sketches in her great-grandmother’s papers linking her suffragette great-grandmother Essie to the Cheapside collection. Could these sketches hold the key to Essie’s secret life in Edwardian London?
Good Man, Dalton (affiliate link)
Greta Hansen has arrived in Manhattan to intern with the Vanderhaven Corporation, a company owned by distant and very wealthy relatives. But she soon realizes she’s actually been hired to keep watch on their capricious daughter, social media celebrity Cece. No last name required. Why bother? The entire Twitterverse already watches every fabulous move she makes. Including an unfortunate shoplifting mishap when Cece decides to go off script. It’s then that a handsome–and homeless–stranger comes to the rescue.
Dalton Bishop has a secret. A man of privilege, he’s been living on the streets as a social experiment. Now, in gracious payback for his chivalry, Cece invites him to an elegant fund-raiser called the Forgotten Man Ball. It’s Greta he’s taken with, however–and to Greta’s surprise, she’s taken right back.
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