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Beatdown in Bangkok: A Stetson Jeff Adventure, Book 1 (affiliate link)
When fate brings the family business an offer that sounds just a little too good to be true, Jeff Stetson heads to the wild and wondrous city of Bangkok to take a closer look at their potential business partners. There he discovers that the world outside of Texas is full of surprises, friends, enemies, and Pad Thai. Entered into a Muay Thai tournament after making an angry wager, Stetson Jeff will have to muster all his courage and fortitude if he wants to keep his pride and save face — literally. Can one young Texan learn the ways of Muay Thai mastery in time to overcome the forces of injustice?
From the sun-addled minds of Justin Fike and Adam G. Fleming comes this action-comedy adventure that will get you laughing faster than Stetson Jeff can polish off a porterhouse with barbecue sauce.
Tempt Me Like This: The Morrisons (affiliate link)
As one of the biggest rock stars in the business, Drew Morrison can have anything—and anyone—he wants. Only Ashley Emmit, who has joined his tour to work on a college research project, is completely off-limits. Drew promised her father that, once the tour was over, he would send her home pure and untouched by the rock ’n’ roll world. But he has never been so tempted by anyone in his entire life. How is he going to make it through this tour without giving in to the urge to drag her into his arms and kiss her breathless?
Ashley has always lived by the rules. But from the moment she meets Drew, none of those rules make sense anymore. Not only does Drew’s music affect her deeply…but she’s never wanted to kiss anyone so badly.
Star Born (affiliate link)
Generations after landing on the planet Astra, humankind is still working alongside the friendly aquatic native merpeople to survive and thrive. But young Dalgard Nordis is yearning to see more.
Taking his man-journey, he sets out to find and explore the ruins of a city rumored to have belonged to the Others—the mysterious beings whom the merpeople despise and fear. With this feat of bravery he hopes to prove his worth to the Council of Free Men. But instead his courage will prove costly, as the long-unknown Others are on their way back to the city.
Cowboy Necromancer: Infinite Dusk (affiliate link)
Sterling Monedero ain’t your typical necromancer.
Even with the game system and mancer class forced onto him by the alien monoliths known as Godwalkers, Sterling just wants to farm his peppers in peace and live out the rest of his troubled existence in quiet.
But when the Godwalkers show to destroy his property – and Killbilly bandits appear trying to impose a pepper tax – the tough-as-bones haiku-writing loner decides enough is enough. It’s time for Sterling to reassemble his old team, open up a much needed can of whoop ass, and put an end to the alien threat once like he should have done five years ago. Or die trying.
undone (Burt Bigsley Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
Since Burt retired at fifty-two, he’s been bored. After a chance encounter with a mugger he decides he might just be meant to save the world one crime at a time. And voilà, Burt’s Private Investigations is born.
Before he knows it, he’s in deep and possibly over his head. He stumbles onto a dead body, which turns out to be the daughter of the town’s country club owner who has rumblings of mob ties in his past.
The clues lead him all over the North Georgia mountains, but the most intriguing ones lead to an end of the world compound and its charismatic leader.
The Island House (Getaway Bay Romance Book 1) (affiliate link)
Charlotte Madsen’s whole world came crashing down six months ago with the words, “I met someone else.”
Thirty-seven, recently divorced, and childless. That’s Charlotte when she disembarks from the plane in Getaway Bay. She wants to get away, that’s for sure. She thought the best way to do that was to buy a run-down house overlooking the bay, knowing she’ll need all her fixer-upper skills to get it in shape. Which is just fine. She’s hoping as she overhauls the house, she’ll get a life makeover too.
She was not expecting a tall, handsome man to be under the kitchen sink when she arrives at the supposedly abandoned house. She wasn’t expecting to get drenched when the non-plumber twists something the wrong way. And she certainly wasn’t expecting her heart to be well enough to feel anything for anyone.
The scoundrel dragged her to the altar, and now everything is going to change. In a split second decision, she runs away, and stows aboard a chuck wagon that’s leaving on a cattle drive, heading north to Montana. She doesn’t know where she’ll go, or what she’ll do, she only knows one thing – she has to leave Fort Worth, Texas.
A woman on the trail is bad for business, especially in a group of rough and rowdy cowboys. Will she ruin everything he’s worked so hard for? Or will she be the one thing he really needs?
Girl Gone Mad: A Novel (affiliate link)
They say everything is fun and games until someone gets hurt. Well, someone did—and now the game has changed…
Emily Bennett works as a therapist in Pennsylvania, helping children overcome their troubled pasts—even as she struggles to forget her own. Once upon a time, Emily was part of a middle school clique called the Harpies—six popular girls who bullied the new girl to her breaking point.
The Harpies took a blood oath: never tell a soul what they did to Grace Farmer.
Now, fourteen years later, it seems karma has caught up to them when one member of that vicious circle commits suicide. But when a second Harpy is discovered dead shortly after, also from apparent suicide, the deaths start to look suspicious. And when Emily starts seeing a woman who looks a lot like Grace Farmer lurking in the shadows, she’s forced to wonder: Is Grace back for revenge? Or is Emily’s guilt driving her mad?
The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition (affiliate link)
The Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway’s spare but powerful writing style. It celebrates the art and craft of Hemingway’s quintessential story of the Lost Generation—presented by the Hemingway family with illuminating supplementary material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library.
A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.
Whose Body? (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Lord Peter Wimsey spends his days tracking down rare books, and his nights hunting killers. Though the Great War has left his nerves frayed with shellshock, Wimsey continues to be London’s greatest sleuth—and he’s about to encounter his oddest case yet.
A strange corpse has appeared in a suburban architect’s bathroom, stark naked save for an incongruous pince-nez. When Wimsey arrives on the scene, he is confronted with a once-in-a-lifetime puzzle. The police suspect that the bathtub’s owner is the murderer, but Wimsey’s investigation quickly reveals that the case is much stranger than anyone could have predicted.
Last Tang Standing (affiliate link)
At thirty-three, Andrea Tang is living the dream: She has a successful career as a lawyer, a posh condo, and a clutch of fun-loving friends who are always in the know about Singapore’s hottest clubs. All she has to do is make law partner, and her life will be perfect. And if she’s about to become the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan–a disappointment her meddling Chinese-Malaysian family won’t let her forget–well, she doesn’t need a man to complete her.
Yet when a chance encounter with charming, wealthy entrepreneur Eric Deng offers her a glimpse of an exciting, limitless future, Andrea decides to give Mr. Right-for-her-family a chance.
The Bastard (The Kent Family Chronicles Book 1) (affiliate link)
If Looks Could Kill (affiliate link)
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