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Author: Pierce, Blake
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Women Sleuths
FBI Special Agent Rachel Gift is among the FBI’s most brilliant agents at hunting down serial killers. She plans on doing this forever—until she discovers she has months left to live. Determined to go down fighting, and to keep her diagnosis a secret, Rachel faces her own mortality while trying to save other’s lives. But how long can she go until she collapses under the weight of it all?
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Author: Hart, Shaw
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Two-Hour Romance Short Reads

I’ve always wanted him. Just not like this…

I’ve been in love with my brother’s best friend since we were kids.

Anson is the only man that I’ve ever wanted.

Too bad for me, he only seems to see me as his best friend’s little sister.

I thought that when he left for the military, things would get easier.

That maybe my feelings would fade, maybe I could forget him when he’s away on deployments.

I should have known better.

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Author: Moore, Addison
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Contemporary Women’s Fiction

Escape to Lake Loveless where the skies are blue, the evergreens are verdant, and the lake is shimmering with secrets.

All I wanted was something for the summer—and it was Ace who made my mouth water. The rules: no strings, no expectations, just something hotter than the sun to set the world on fire.

It was supposed to be just for the summer…Some people just don’t belong together, or at least that’s what the world would have them believe. Reese Westfield comes from a world of old money, country clubs, cotillions, and expensive cars. She’s tired of dating Warren McCarthy just to make her father happy. Reese has long since had her eye on someone else, and this summer she’s determined to make it happen.Growing up in Lake Loveless there has always been a strict monetary divide–there was the rest of the Lake and then there were the Watermans.

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Author: Patching, Will
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British Crime Thriller

A killer paroled. A tormented profiler. A blood-soaked quest for revenge.
Doc Powers is one case away from a complete breakdown. Grief-stricken over the death of his wife, his reliance on booze and drugs fills his life with startling hallucinations. As he battles his demons, his efforts to stay coherent fail to keep a cunning psychopath behind bars…

With a bloody trail of death spreading, Doc fears both he and his colleague are next on the killer’s hit list. Fighting the visions that threaten to consume him, he must tap into the profiling skills of his past to put an end to the parolee’s murderous rampage.

Can Doc overcome his past and match wits with a maniac before he becomes the next victim?

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Author: Webb, Brenda J.
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Regency Historical Romance

Darcy and Elizabeth – A Most Unlikely Couple is a Pride and Prejudice variation. Not a simple retelling, it is an intriguing new story that does not follow canon. It is rated for mature audiences.

With his persuasive tongue, Andrew Darcy is a very charismatic scoundrel. Having dealt for years with the scandals created by this wayward cousin, Fitzwilliam Darcy has grown weary. Thus, when yet another gentleman confronts Darcy about Andrew’s blatant betrayal of his daughter, Darcy decides he has had enough.

He sets out for Meryton to find Andrew, but no sooner has Andrew left for Manchester to offer for the unfortunate lady, than Meryton is abuzz with a new scandal involving Andrew and a local woman.

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Author: Lister, Dionne
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Fun Witch Cozy Mystery

All it takes is one morning for Sydney Photographer Lily Bianchi’s life to go off the rails and over a cliff. A well-dressed English woman turns up at her door, swearing she’s a witch. If that’s not crazy enough, she explains Lily’s brother, James, has been kidnapped and the Paranormal Investigation Bureau needs Lily’s help finding him. And the craziest part? The Englishwoman tells Lily she’s a witch too.

Before she can say, “Where’s my coffee?” she’s on a plane bound for Westerham, England.

Unfortunately, England’s not as welcoming as she hoped–she’s barely arrived before she gets set up, arrested, and almost shot. Things can only get better from here, right? Yeah, right…

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Author: Marin, Lucy
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Two-Hour Romance Short Reads

Had he really been so arrogant as to assume that he could insult her and those she cared about and still she would be grateful for his proposals?

FITZWILLIAM DARCY IS A MAN IN DESPAIR following his disastrous proposal to Miss Elizabeth Bennet at the parsonage house in Kent. He could not cease wondering how it might have been if only he had said or done things differently, or if only he had made more of an effort. Was he too late? Perhaps it was not.

SOON AFTER THAT FATEFUL APRIL DAY, Darcy unexpectedly sees Elizabeth in London. He seeks her out again, ostensibly to ensure she now thinks better of him but quickly decides that he wants to win her affections. Has he any hope? He knows it will require effort, perhaps a great effort, but he knows that Elizabeth Bennet is worth fighting for.

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Author: Evanovich, Janet
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Women Sleuths

It’s the return of Stephanie Plum, New Jersey’s “fugitive apprehension” agent (a.k.a. bounty hunter), introduced to us in the award-winning and bestselling novel One for the Money.

Now Stephanie’s back, armed with attitude—not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38, Stephanie is after a new bail jumper, Kenny Mancuso, a boy from Trenton’s burg. He’s fresh out of the army, suspiciously wealthy, and he’s just shot his best friend.

With her bounty hunter pal Ranger stepping in occasionally to advise her, Stephanie staggers knee-deep in corpses and caskets as she traipses through back streets, dark alleys, and funeral parlors.

The Professor (affiliate link)

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Author: Brontë, Charlotte
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Classic Literary Fiction

The story of a young Englishman who becomes a teacher at a Belgian girls’ school from the author of Jane Eyre.

An orphan taken in by his uncles and educated at Eton, William Crimsworth rejects his relatives’ plans to marry him off to his cousin and set him up with a career in the church, so he leaves to make his own way in the world. Unfortunately, William’s attempt to become a tradesman leads to unhappiness—but when he makes his way to Belgium and finds a place at a girls’ school as a teacher, his future is irrevocably changed.

Though it remained unpublished until after her death, The Professor was Charlotte Brontë’s first novel, inspired by her own experiences as a student and teacher, which lend the story the emotional power for which her fiction is so well known.

Mistborn: The Final Empire (affiliate link)

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Author: Sanderson, Brandon
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Action & Adventure Fantasy

For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the “Sliver of Infinity,” reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler’s most hellish prison. Kelsier “snapped” and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld’s elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Only then does he reveal his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

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Author: Bellows, Ava
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Contemporary Literary Fiction

Maggie Hoyt is a quick-witted, house-sitting LA actress who’s dated one too many DJs for her liking. An incorrigible insomniac, she desperately needs more than four hours of sleep, according to her therapist.

One night, while still grieving the death of her ex-boyfriend, Maggie reluctantly attends her friend’s boat party. There she meets Rob, a charming British tattoo artist who makes her feel like her best self for the first time in a while. Their attraction to each other is instantaneous and electrifying. There’s just one glaring problem: he’s wearing a wedding ring.

Despite their best efforts, Maggie and Rob can’t seem to shake their unwavering feelings for each other. When Maggie unexpectedly receives a letter from Rob’s estranged wife, she is forced to confront the love she’s been looking for, the guilt she’s been harbouring, the grief she’s been hiding—and the woman she wants to be.

Death Angel (affiliate link)

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Author: Powers, Martha
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Psychological Thrillers
Kate and Richard Warner have a quiet life, a routine life, until the one afternoon that changes them forever. Within a few short hours they are thrust into the black hole of every parent’s worst nightmare. Suddenly they are at the center of attention of their community, the media, and the police. Richard has been singled out as the primary suspect in a heinous crime that took more than an innocent life. With Richard as a suspect, Kate’s life unravels into unbearable chaos, grief, and a whole new world of deception. After a second murder and Richard’s disappearance, Kate sets out to find the killer in their midst and clear her husband’s name. She begins to piece together an eerie puzzle, finding clues in the heart of her own community. In Death Angel anguish, suspicion and death combine in the horrifying aftermath of a vicious crime that pits a mother’s love against a ruthless killer. In a stunning conclusion, Kate risks her own life to track down and kill the Death Angel.

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