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Too Quiet In Brooklyn (Fina Fitzgibbons Book 1) (affiliate link)
Allison’s Secret: Post Apocalyptic Woman Book 1 (affiliate link)
Looking for a strong woman to take on the Apocalypse? Allison’s Secret offers a different approach to post apocalyptic fiction.
Follow a woman who has a will to survive as she works to build a community that offers hope for a new future.
Allison has a secret. Like any farm wife, she is prepared for bad storms, bad times, and bad luck. But, even her husband is unaware that she is more prepared than the average farm wife.
(But don’t ever call Allison a prepper!)
Riley and Will are motorcycle buddies on a mission to rescue Riley’s nephew who’s been kidnapped by his father.
When a solar flare throws them all together, there’s going to be problems.
I Saw Him Standing There (affiliate link)
Small-time con artist Siggy needs to get out of town fast. When she’s offered tickets on the legendary Oceanic Aphrodite, Siggy jumps at the chance to get away. A week on a luxury cruise ship, with a suitcase full of clothes and all expenses paid? Yes, please! The only catch is that she has to pretend to be someone else.
No problem. Siggy has no intention of getting close enough anyone to discover her secrets.
But this is the Oceanic Aphrodite and love is in the air. When Siggy sees assistant cruise director Will taking tickets, Cupid’s arrow hits the target. Luckily, Will’s too busy smiling at her to check out her fake passport because he’ll toss Siggy off the ship if he finds out about the scam.
Onboard, dolphins and cameras and runaway ferrets bring Siggy and Will together. The more time they spend together, the more Siggy wants to tell him the truth.
Potluck and Pandemonium (Sweetwater Springs Book 1) (affiliate link)
Glory decides to put her mystery-solving instincts to work and “help” her brother, a detective on the local force, prove her innocence. But when his new boss, the hunky Hunt Walker, steps in and takes over, Glory can’t seem to stay out of hot water. And it’s getting hotter by the minute!
Can Glory find the killer before another dead body is found?
This fun, southern cozy mystery is full of lovable characters and a small town you can’t help but fall in love with.
Talon the Slayer (Tales of Talon Book 1) (affiliate link)
For the galaxy’s greatest warrior, there is only one rule: Victory or Death…
Talon is a slave, a gladiator. A lifepod malfunction erased his memories and stole his past. All he remembers now are years of brutal combat in the galaxy’s deadliest arenas. But when a mysterious alien sorceress drags him into an intergalactic war, he finds himself fighting for the ultimate prize…
His freedom.
As Talon and a rag-tag crew of mercenaries embark on a vital mission for an exiled prince, they are pursued by an ancient warlord who has unleashed the most destructive force in the galaxy. The key to stopping it? Talon’s lost memories.
If Talon can’t unlock the secrets of his past, his newfound freedom will be lost, and the galaxy will be doomed to annihilation. Wielding a plasma axe and an indomitable will, he must triumph over the evil forces that stand in his way. He must be more than just a warrior. He must become…
Murder at the Beacon Bakeshop (A Beacon Bakeshop Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
After catching her celebrity chef fiancé sizzling in the arms of another woman, Lindsey Bakewell left big city Wall Street for small town Beacon Harbor, Michigan to pursue her own passion as a pastry baker—and gets mixed up in someone’s sweet taste of revenge . . .
More interested in kneading dough than adding it up, Lindsey’s breakup inspired her to set up the shop she always wanted in a place that always made her happy. She’d spent many childhood summers near this beach community and converting the old run-down lighthouse into a bakery café and home offers a perfect fresh start for Lindsey and her devoted Newfoundland dog, Wellington.
But not everyone in town has a sweet tooth. The preservation society won’t have the lighthouse’s history sugar coated by lattes and cakes—and a protest group crashes Lindsey’s Memorial Day opening.
Cold as Hell (An Áróra Investigation Book 1) (affiliate link)
Icelandic sisters ÁrÓra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren’t on speaking terms, but when their mother loses contact with Ísafold, ÁrÓra reluctantly returns to Iceland to find her sister. But she soon realizes that her sister isn’t avoiding her … she has disappeared, without trace.
As she confonts Ísafold’s abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend BjÖrn, and begins to probe her sister’s reclusive neighbors – who have their own reasons for staying out of sight – leads ÁrÓra into an ever darker web of intrigue and manipulation.
Baffled by the conflicting details of her sister’s life, and blinded by the shiveringly bright midnight sun of the Icelandic summer, ÁrÓra enlists the help of police officer DanÍel, as she tries to track her sister’s movements, and begins to tail BjÖrn– but she isn’t the only one watching…
The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland (affiliate link)
The Obsession (affiliate link)
Boy Meets Girl. Boy Stalks Girl. Girl Gets Revenge.
Logan thinks he and Delilah are meant to be.
Delilah doesn’t know who Logan is.
Logan believes no one knows Delilah like him. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can by watching her through a hidden camera. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called “romantic”.
Delilah is keeping secrets though, deadly ones. There’s so much more to her than meets the eye.
Logan is determined to make Delilah the heroine in his twisted fantasy and he’ll do anything to get what he wants.
Delilah is done with the men in her life controlling her. If Logan won’t let her go…she’ll make him.
The Royal Secret (affiliate link)
Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. Soon afterwards a government clerk dies painfully in mysterious circumstances. His colleague James Marwood is asked to investigate – but the task brings unexpected dangers.
Meanwhile, architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street, where the air smells of blood and a captive Barbary lion prowls the stables. Then a prestigious new commission arrives. Cat must design a Poultry House for the woman that the King loves most in all the world.
Unbeknownst to all, at the heart of this lies a royal secret so explosive that it could not only rip apart England but change the entire face of Europe…
The Vanishing Point: A Novel (affiliate link)
Julian Ladd and Rye Adler cross paths as photography students in the exclusive Brodsky Workshop. When Rye needs a roommate, Julian moves in, and a quiet, compulsive envy takes root, assuring, at least in his own mind, that he will never achieve Rye’s certain success. Both men are fascinated with their beautiful and talented classmate, Magda, whose captivating images of her Polish neighborhood set her apart, and each will come to know her intimately – a woman neither can possess and only one can love.
Twenty years later, long after their paths diverge, Rye is at the top of his field, famous for his photographs of celebrities and far removed from the downtrodden and disenfranchised subjects who’d secured his reputation as the eye of his generation. When Magda reenters his life, asking for help only he can give, Rye finds himself in a broken landscape of street people and addicts, forcing him to reckon with the artist he once was, until his search for a missing boy becomes his own desperate fight to survive.
Up and Down: Victories and Struggles in the Course of Life (affiliate link)
He was a small-town boy who burst onto the international golf scene with a dramatic hook shot from deep in the woods to win the Masters— before the game he loved almost killed him. Opening up about the toll that chasing and achieving his dream of being a champion golfer took on his mental health, Bubba Watson shares his powerful story of the breaking point that gave him clarity.
Bubba Watson is known as the big-hitting left-handed golfer who plays with the pink driver—the small-town kid who grew up as a child golf prodigy before going on to win two Masters Tournaments, competing in the Olympics, and rising to be the number two golfer in the world.
But every dream comes with a price. Feeling that he was never good enough, Bubba began to let the constant criticism from fans and commentators haunt his thoughts. Success in the game he loved was killing him.
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