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Margot Harris Mystery Series : Box Set 2 (affiliate link)
A man and his mistress are brutally murdered in his own backyard and his wife becomes the main suspect.
Private Detective, Margot Harris is on the case to help Phoebe, the murdered man’s wife, but her alibi is shaky at best.
Irrespective of whether Phoebe is innocent or not, the truth she is hiding is bound to put not only Margot’s life in danger but also the people she cares about.
To make the matter worse, Killings don’t stop there…
As bodies start piling up it is hard for Margot to decide who is innocent and whom to trust.
The case hits home for Margot when her boyfriend becomes the target of a drive-by shooting. Margot finds herself making an extremely hard decision about her ex-boyfriend, a disgraced cop kicked out of the police force.
Midlife Bounty Hunter (The Forty Proof Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
One day I’m married, living in Seattle, and magic isn’t real.
The next, I’m divorced and living in the guest room of my ex’s hotter- than-sin cousin’s place in Savannah . . . and talking to an animated skeleton named Robert.
I have to admit, Robert isn’t my worst date.
At forty-one, I didn’t think I’d be starting over. But I’ll be damned if my ex thinks I’m down and out because he pulled a fast one on me.
When a job comes my way that offers me a chance to use my childhood training in the shadow world, I take it—I need the money more than I care about my sanity.
It’s dangerous.
I have to embrace the magic and dark of my past.
And I need Advil to keep me going.
Whispers From Yesterday: A Novel (Women of Hope) (affiliate link)
Survive the Fall (EMP: Return of the Wild West Book 1) (affiliate link)
Survival of the fittest becomes harsh reality in the blink of an eye.
Greg Healy isn’t fooled—this hunting trip is designed to get Greg and his father to end their feud. Not even Greg’s teenage daughter or his father’s hunting buddies along for the ride will be enough of a buffer to heal the rift of long-standing resentments.
They’ve barely been dropped off in the remote Canadian wilderness when they discover their new equipment is dead with no explanation. Now they’ll have to rely on each other and resort to Old West ingenuity to find their way home—before the hunter becomes the hunted.
For seventeen-year-old Darryl Healy, things aren’t much easier on his grandparents’ cattle ranch. When the lights go out after a nationwide cyberattack, frightening responsibilities fall squarely on Darryl’s unproven shoulders as a power-hungry politician is determined to confiscate the ranch’s resources—by any means necessary.
The Cowgirl’s Forever Love (The Colemans of Heart Falls Book 1) (affiliate link)
Rust: The Dawn Bringers Book 1 (affiliate link)
Banished to a distant world, they triggered the release of an ancient menace. Can one man unite sworn enemies before the galaxy is destroyed?
Nineteen-year-old Andrew Wallace regrets killing billions. Having engineered an apocalyptic virus to end Earth’s war with an alien race, he’s seeking peace and redemption. But after accepting exile along with everyone else responsible for the carnage on both sides, he’s horrified to discover their destination planet is home to a terrifying new threat.
Stranded with most of their tech ravaged, Andrew forms a tentative friendship with an alien girl while researching an answer to the nightmare around them. But as suspicion and fear reignite tension between the two species, he uncovers a solution he doesn’t dare to share.
Can Andrew unify the former adversaries before a primal life form consumes them all?
Alien Secrets (Solar Warden Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the final days of World War II, the Allies ransacked Berlin. Third Reich scientists were highly sought- out prizes for Americans and Russians desperate to possess the Nazi knowledge of nuclear firepower. But they failed to capture one of the most vital members of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle: SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Kammler. One of the engineers of Auschwitz, Kammler was also a liaison with the Nazis’ silent partners whose technological wonders nearly helped the Axis win the war—the alien species the Germans called the Eidechse.
More than seven decades later, U. S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter has witnessed the impossible. On a mission in North Korea, an unidentified flying object destroyed a compound developing weapons of mass destruction. Now, he has been recruited to join a government agency that has been harboring a secret alliance with extraterrestrials since 1947. Selected to lead an elite force of soldiers, Hunter will travel across the stars to help humanity stake its claim among greater intelligent life in the universe.
But the aliens who have infiltrated Earth and guided war mongering nations since the twentieth century have their own agendas…
Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and in Life (affiliate link)
Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them as troublemakers, outcasts, contrarians: those colleagues, friends, and family members who complicate seemingly straightforward decisions, create chaos, and disagree when everyone else is in agreement. But in truth, rebels are also those among us who change the world for the better with their unconventional outlooks. Instead of clinging to what is safe and familiar, and falling back on routines and tradition, rebels defy the status quo. They are masters of innovation and reinvention, and they have a lot to teach us.
Francesca Gino, a behavioral scientist and professor at Harvard Business School, has spent more than a decade studying rebels at organizations around the world, from high-end boutiques in Italy’s fashion capital, to the World’s Best Restaurant, to a thriving fast food chain, to an award-winning computer animation studio. In her work, she has identified leaders and employees who exemplify “rebel talent,” and whose examples we can all learn to embrace.
An American comic icon tells the story of his second–act rise from obscurity to multimedia stardom.
“When I was a kid,” writes Rodney Dangerfield, “I worked tough places in show business––places like Fonzo’s Knuckle Room. Or Aldo’s, formerly Vito’s, formerly Nunzio’s. That was a tough joint. I looked at the menu. They had broken leg of lamb.” For once, one of America’s most beloved comic icons isn’t kidding. Dangerfield has seen every aspect of the entertainment industry: the rough–and–tumble nightclubs, the backstage gag–writing sessions, the drugs, the hookers, the lousy day jobs – and the red–carpet star treatment. As he traces his route from a poor childhood on Long Island to his enshrinement as a comedy legend, he takes readers on a roller–coaster ride through a life that has been alternately touching, sordid, funny, raunchy, and uplifting – equal parts “Little Orphan Annie” and “Caligula.” And unlike most celebrity autobiographers, he seems to have no qualms about delivering the unfiltered whole story, warts and all.
The Following (affiliate link)
When she was a child, a near-death experience left Harper Monroe with the ability to transcend to another realm and speak to those who had passed on. For the longest time, this was a gift she tried to bury, but now it is back with a vengeance.
Not only can Harper talk to those who died, she now has the ability to pull them back through for one final moment. Believing she can help people, Harper dives into her gift with full force.
But by doing so, does she open a door that should have remained closed years before?
Mystery in Provence (Miss Ashford Investigates, Book 1) (affiliate link)
A beautiful French estate
A wedding
A murder
And a novice detective intent on solving her first case!
Fresh from teaching at her prestigious Swiss boarding school, Miss Atalanta Ashford suddenly finds herself the most eligible young lady in society when she inherits her grandfather’s substantial fortune. But with this fortune, and an elegant new Parisian home, comes a legacy passed down from grandfather to granddaughter…sleuthing discreetly for Europe’s elite.
This young lady isn’t one to back down from a challenge and Miss Ashford must depend on her sharp wit and charm to solve her first case, which takes her to the lush lavender fields of Provence and a wedding at the mansion of the Comte de Surmonne.
Now, as murder strikes twice, Atalanta will have to race to solve the case but will she be able to stop the blushing bride from facing a fatal ‘I do’?
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