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The Silent Boy (Sloane & Maddie, Peril Awaits Book 1) (affiliate link)
Private Investigator Sloane Monroe is about to face the most challenging case of her life, and this time, it hits a little too close to home.
In the dirty hallway of a local tavern, six-year-old Louie Alvarez plays with his race cars, waiting for his mother to take him home. A scream rips through the air. Louie freezes, then turns, staring at the room at the end of the hallway where the sound had come from.
His mom was in that room.
Louie inches toward the door and peeks through the crack. Inside, his mother begs for her life, but it’s far too late. Her fate has already been sealed. As a gunshot sounds off, a terrified Louie drops his race cars. In an instant, all eyes are on him, and there’s only one thing he can do now—run.
Wash (Fierce Salon Book 1) (affiliate link)
When Nate Edwards left his drug-addicted ex and his modeling career, he followed his other passion and opened up Fierce Salon. He’s a player in every sense of the word but never steps over the line of professionalism when it comes to his staff. They are the only women off limits to him.
Amy loses her job and her boyfriend on the same morning when her salon shuts down unexpectedly and she catches her boyfriend cyber cheating. When she runs into an old friend working at an upscale salon, Amy’s desperate situation begins to look up.
It takes some convincing, but she lands her dream job and gets to spend her days looking at the most beautiful man she’s ever seen. If only he was willing to break his golden rule and see her as more than just an employee.
Married to the Alien Admiral: Renascence Alliance Series Book 1 (affiliate link)
Humans are the most adorable creatures in the galaxy.
Everyone says so.
Is it such a surprise that a mighty Alliance Imperial Warship would take humans prisoners? Yes, the Alliance doesn’t take prisoners.
Once onboard the Alliance ship, the crew of the Dakota are casually informed that human women are now considered to be Alliance citizens. Moreover, all the female crew will be returning to the Alliance homeworld.
This was completely unexpected. What is even more unexpected, Captain Kara Rainer’s infatuation with the alien Admiral who captured her and coerced her into marrying him.
Welcome to Paradise (The Kincaids Book 1) (affiliate link)
They’re going to party like it’s 1885.
Mira Walker is hoping that competing on a “living history” reality show will give her what’s missing from her real life. Maybe she’ll get closer to her boyfriend, who hasn’t been all that nice to her lately. Get fired up about her job again. Who knows, she might even win a million dollars.
Gabe Kincaid and his brother Alec are after that million too, though. Mira and Scott are no threat at all, not when everybody involved is going to want to kill Scott after the first day. And there’s no bond stronger than a twin’s. What could possibly go wrong?
Uniworld Online Trilogy: A LitRPG Journey (affiliate link)
The skills of a talented and determined Bard are not to be trifled with…
Cadence was born with a previously unknown disability that prevented her from being able to communicate verbally or through the use of sign language, though it didn’t prevent her from using the written word. Regardless of the challenges she faced through her short life, she persevered and started her first year at college, rooming with her best friend Jill.
However, a brutal attack that left her near death caused her to be without a way to easily relay information about her attackers. With no other options available to communicate with others – and with boredom as a result of being confined to a hospital bed having a detrimental effect on her health – Jill came up with a way for her best friend to play a game.
The Missed Kiss (affiliate link)
Lily loves her life, her job and her two best friends, she does not need romance to come along and mess that up!
Nobody is more surprised than she is when after a blind date, she finds herself falling head over heels in love with Zack.
But Zack isn’t the only one with feelings for her. Lily’s heart and body are about to be torn between two very different men, as she tries to find a way to hold on to both of them. Lily hasn’t met ‘The One’, she has met ‘The Two’.
Can she have it all? Or will she be forced to make an impossible decision?
Get ready to fall in love…
The Signature of All Things: A Novel (affiliate link)
One Way Ticket (affiliate link)
When Paige Lowry discovers her boyfriend, owner of Yoga Soulone studio, has invited several bendy yoga instructors into their bed, she realizes it’s time to smack him with her yoga mat and namaste away. When fate sends her a new job as retreat coordinator at Tranquila Inn, Paige seizes the opportunity to start her life over on a gorgeous tropical beach.
Jack Byron has enough on his hands with managing a failing resort on Poco Poco Island. The last thing he needs is to train someone new. When Paige arrives at the hotel, sweaty, dusty, and more than annoyed with her reception – she immediately gets under his skin. Despite his misgivings, Jack finds himself admiring her grit and passion – particularly when she learns that the arriving guests are none other than her ex-boyfriend and his group of mistresses.
The Color of Us (affiliate link)
Callie Evans isn’t exactly living her best life in Los Angeles. She dropped out of college, has been repeatedly fired, and is now literally watching paint dry at a hardware store for a living. This depressing existence isn’t what she had planned for her early twenties, but here she is.
Although she’s faced a shattering trauma, she’s learning that avoiding grief has owned her for far too long. A change of scenery might be what she needs to regroup and move forward.
Callie takes a few months away from her California chaos to handle renovations on her family’s old house in small-town Vermont. This temporary escape could be just the thing to ease the pain that crushed her past and continues to impact her present. And maybe, just maybe, she’ll get a chance to reconnect with a certain boy from her childhood, whom she’s now aching to see again.
The French Gift: A Novel of World War II Paris (affiliate link)
A forgotten manuscript that threatens to unravel the past…
Fresne Prison, 1940:A former maid at a luxury villa on the Riviera, Margot Bisset finds herself in a prison cell with writer and French Resistance fighter Joséphine Murant. Together, they are transferred to a work camp in Germany for four years, where the secrets they share will bind them for generations to come.
Paris, around about now:Evie Black lives in Paris with her teenage son, Hugo, above her botanical bookshop, La Maison Rustique. Life would be so sweet if only Evie were not mourning the great love of her life.
When a letter arrives regarding the legacy of her husband’s great-aunt, Joséphine Murant, Evie clutches at an opportunity to spend one last magical summer with her son.
The Definitive FDR: Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox and Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom (affiliate link)
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s dramatic biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US president during the Depression and WWII.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the longest serving president in US history, reshaping the country during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II. James MacGregor Burns’s magisterial two-volume biography tells the complete life story of the fascinating political figure who instituted the New Deal.
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