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Junkyard Dog (Hellhounds Book 1) (affiliate link)
He’s the original junkyard dog and she’s got him by the scruff.
Joshua Tree National Park Ranger Charlotte arrives on the scene of a car accident caused by a large dog tearing across the road. The third sighting of the animal in as many weeks, Charlotte’s interest is piqued. Armed with a bowl of dog food and a bucket of patience, she sets out to find the beast.
With the grille marks of a sedan imprinted on his broken ribs, Alex returns to the scene of the accident, scouring for prints he’d left behind when he encounters Charlotte on the trail. The attraction is undeniable, but Alex is on a mission from Hades and can’t afford the distraction.
While Charlotte continues to gain the trust of the wild dog roaming the park, Alex is caught between the woman he’s falling for and the job he was sent to do. With bodies and secrets piling at his feet, Alex is pushed to choose between the hellhound he is and the man he wants to be.
YOUR MOVE (affiliate link)
Two women. Two dreams. One big lesson in love.
Gemma
With a passion for people and property, nothing gives newbie estate agent Gemma Cole more pleasure than matching buyers with their ideal homes. After a nomadic childhood with her ditzy mum, Gemma longs for nothing more than a place she can call her own with someone that she loves. But with one modest income and meagre savings, will she ever be able to make her home-owning dream come true?
Pan
Pandora works at Perfect 10, a premier beauty and cosmetic clinic. Always effortlessly glamorous with model-looks, bucketloads of confidence and bulging designer wardrobes, she appears to have it all. But Pan also has a spiralling spending addiction, a string of failed relationships, and still lives at home with her mum aged 33. When her numerous credit cards are refused, Pan takes drastic action, and joins dating website MillionaireMen.com. Will a super-wealthy guy be the answer to all Pan’s woes?
FORECAST MURDER (Jo and Macy Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Jo has always dreamed of making it as a professional astrologer. But her practical Virgo soul also recognizes she has to pay the bills, too. When she hears about a part-time job with Macy and Wilson, a private investigation agency, she is more than a little bit curious.
Her new boss (a classic Cancer, and handsome to boot) starts her off with some routine telephone traces. Jo is sure she can make this work alongside her true passion — astrology. But then a man is shot dead, and his sometime lover is found dead in a bath in the Wellington Hotel.
Now Jo is really in over her head . . . Will the victim’s horoscope help unravel what happened at the hour of his death?
Cocky Genius: Ethan Cocker (affiliate link)
Murder Under Construction (Detective Leon Peterson Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Under the flight path, more than one secret is about to emerge…
On the brink of closing a high-profile terrorism investigation, DI Leon Peterson and his team are pulled off to investigate a cold case, a body found on a site for a new airport hotel. He knows this is political posturing, but it doesn’t make it easier to accept watching another DI muscle in on his team’s work.
For Leon, though, the decades-old cold case turns out to be closer to home in more than one way. His DS, Jasmine Todd, can’t understand his interest in the dead man, and Leon is not sure he wants to talk about his past. One thing he fears is that he may have a very personal connection to the deceased. Will the body finally give him the answers he’s waited for nearly forty years?
Broken Promise (Beyond Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
My name is Karlie Masterson, and my life’s plan was not to end up in a brothel in Chester, WV . . . yet I did. Long story. At any rate I made the cardinal mistake of falling in love with one of my steady … um … er … clients… Nick. And he was pretty hot . . . and pretty complicated. He wanted to take me away from all of this debauchery, which I have to admit was a very noble gesture, if not totally unheard of in these neck of the mountains. So, because I’d learned about survival at an early age, I implemented caution before accepting his gallant offer. So, it kind of went like this:
“Is your real name even Nick?” I asked directly.
“Sort of,”he replied, a slight smile gracing his sensual mouth.
Mate Hunt : Books 1-4 (Mate Hunt Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
All it took was one look to end my life…
Because one look is all it takes to trigger a werewolf’s mate hunt.
And when a wolf is hunting, he doesn’t stop until his mate either dies or becomes a wolf too.
Now I’m trapped in some guy’s house, he’s stuck in his wolf form, and there’s no way out for either of us.
Life as I knew it is over, but my fight to survive is only beginning.
Crank (The Gibson Boys Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
This is one mistake Sienna Landry can’t buy her way out of.
As Walker Gibson looks at her, then at the damage to his precious truck (that she may or may not have accidentally inflicted), she knows she’s in trouble. It’s not the busted headlight and dented grill that’s sunk her though. It’s the downright sinful man in front of her that’s the problem.
The small town mechanic is broody. Rough. Smells like engine grease and gasoline and Sienna isn’t sure why that’s so sexy, but it is. It so is. She’s ready to peel off her panties at the drop of his wrench.
He wants her too. She can feel it when he brushes against her. Experience it as he presses her against the wall of the shop. It’s thinly veiled in his deep, brown eyes when he looks at her like she’s everything he’s ever wanted.
Vanished: A Luca Mystery Book #1 (affiliate link)
Obsession can be deadly.
What’s worse than a missing man?
A dead one.
Following a messy divorce and the messier death of his partner, Detective Frank Luca needed a break. He needed sunlight and clean air. He needed a re-boot. So, he’s traded the smog of New Jersey for the sun-kissed beaches of southwest Florida. Babes, bikinis, and booze.
The easy life, right? Wrong.
Working a missing persons case, Frank gets pulled back into the filth he’s tried so hard to avoid. Worse, he’s falling for the missing man’s beautiful wife.
Who does that?
Florida may be beautiful, but its beauty is only skin deep. There’s rot under all that beauty–and death.
Jammed with betrayal, tension, and suspense, Vanished is the first novel in the Luca Mystery series.
Fans of Law and Order, CSI & Bosch will love this gripping mystery crime thriller!
Animal: A Novel (affiliate link)
Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruelties of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan unravels the horrific event she witnessed as a child—that has haunted her every waking moment—while forging the power to finally strike back.
Animal is a depiction of female rage at its rawest, and a visceral exploration of the fallout from a male-dominated society.
Last Summer at the Beach House (Diamond Beach Book 1) (affiliate link)
All she wanted was one last summer at the beach house…
When the unthinkable happens and Claire Thompson’s husband dies suddenly, she’s left wondering how to go on. Being a wife and mother is all she’s ever known. Grieving and lost, she decides to take her family for one last trip to their beach house before she’s forced to put it up for sale. The house is filled with happy memories, and it seems like a great way to remember Bryan.
But as she soon finds out, Bryan was harboring some complicated secrets. The kind that will change the lives of Claire and her daughter. And those secrets come to light while Claire is at the beach house, shattering her memories and making her realize she never really knew her husband.
How does she move forward with these new revelations? How will her daughter cope? What will become of them now that they know Bryan wasn’t the man they thought he was?
Little Heaven: A Novel (affiliate link)
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