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Sloane Monroe: Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
Charlotte Halliwell has been keeping a deadly secret.
Before revealing it to her sister Audrey, she’s found dead. At first glance, it appears to be nothing more than a skiing accident, until the medical examiner discovers poison coursing through Charlotte’s body.
Audrey hires Sloane Monroe, a sassy, headstrong private investigator. As Sloane gets close to solving the case, a second body is found. With the killer aware that Sloane will stop at nothing to find him, he tracks her every move. Will Sloane uncover the truth before he strikes again?
Welcome to the Breezy Spoon Diner, where murder is the main course!
When Dani O’Shea returned to her quirky little hometown of East Spoon Creek City and opened the Breezy Spoon Diner to serve up great food, great conversation and down-home hospitality, she wasn’t counting on a customer getting murdered with her famous kale salad!
With an innocent person charged with the crime, Dani must race against the clock to find the real killer– if the killer doesn’t get her first! Her landlord, dreamy and flirtatious fireman Mark Adams would rather she stayed safe at home with him, but as the mystery deepens Dani must deal with eccentric townsfolk, dangerous new suspects and even Bigfoot to solve the murder!
Solar Flare Outage (Braxton Stone Book 1) (affiliate link)
Electricity gave man the power to conquer nature, but now nature is striking back!
An unprecedented solar storm wreaks havoc on the western seaboard, frying the electrical grid and swatting aircraft from the sky. In moments, hundreds of years of human progress evaporate into the air.
War-weary veteran Braxton Stone has been on the run from himself and his past for as long as he can remember. Now, he finds himself stranded in an unfamiliar town with no other option but to fight to survive.
Devon Hayes has a single thought when the entire casino is thrown into darkness and chaos: save her daughter.
Danger lurks behind every darkened corner in this new world. Thrust together by fate, Braxton and Devon have no choice but to trust each other as they search for an escape from the haunting glamour of the Las Vegas Strip — which threatens to be more dangerous than any battlefield they’ve experienced. Here, anyone can be the enemy.
Doing It Right (Babe Squad Standalones) (affiliate link)
“This doesn’t have to be the end for us.”
Except it was.
What did we know about happily ever after at the age of eighteen?
Mason Braxter was a football legend—destined for glory far bigger than the confines of our small town.
Meanwhile, I had dreams of my own—a simpler life that included staying put and growing roots.
And all those plans of mine were going splendidly.
Until one drunken mishap a month before college graduation left me staring at two pink lines.
Then I was sharing custody with the most unlikely baby daddy.
We’ve figured out a system. Kind of.
I’m rocking this single mom gig. Mostly.
If only I could get a boost in the romance department.
Built to Last: A (affiliate link)
Jake Cooper has built homes for families in Laguna Beach for years, watching others make their dreams come true. Now it’s his turn to settle down, or so he thought. When his long-time girlfriend breaks up with him, he’s left with the perfect family home, just without the family.
Erin Johnson grew up with very few possessions, the glamorous lives of her high school classmates out of reach. Right as she prepared to start her life, a family tragedy forces her to derail her plans. Ten years later, with her college diploma in hand, Erin’s ready for adventure and freedom from responsibility.
When she meets Jake, she questions everything she thought she wanted.
Is it possible to build new dreams when the right person comes along?
London Slayover (Skye Lennox Book 1) (affiliate link)
When this flight lands, everyone’s a suspect
Take flight with Skye Lennox in this delightful new cozy mystery series! When a routine London layover turns deadly, this quick-thinking flight attendant finds herself investigating a puzzling murder at 30,000 feet.
Flight attendant Skye Lennox loves her job at Aether Airlines – serving drinks, calming nervous flyers, and enjoying exotic layovers around the world. But when wealthy socialite Victoria Bellamy is found dead in first class during a flight to Los Angeles, Skye’s London layover takes a dark turn. With a plane full of suspects including a charming but suspicious heir to a biscuit fortune, mysterious art dealers, and shadowy figures from the criminal underworld, Skye must piece together the clues before the killer strikes again.
Alongside her fellow flight attendants – the bubbly and tenacious Jemma and the dashing Aidan – Skye navigates the glittering world of London’s elite while uncovering deadly secrets, stolen artifacts, and a web of blackmail. But investigating murder is turbulent work, and Skye soon finds herself in the crosshairs of both Scotland Yard’s prickly Detective Harper and a killer who’ll stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.
What We Hide (Tupelo Grove Book 1) (affiliate link)
Savannah Webster is trying to find her way forward. She and her husband, Hez, have been separated since tragedy tore them apart and he began numbing his grief and guilt with alcohol. She returned to Tupelo Grove University, which her family helped found over a century ago, to teach history.
When Hez turns up in her classroom asking for a second chance, she rejects the idea immediately. But twenty-four hours later she’s under suspicion for murder, and since Hez is the best attorney she knows, she reluctantly asks him for help. They suspect the murder is tied to someone selling off the university’s pre-Columbian artifacts, but the secrets go much deeper than they realize.
The only hope they’ve got is each other, and they’re going to have to put their past behind them if they’re going to stay alive long enough to uncover all that’s hidden.
I Think I Was Murdered (affiliate link)
Just a year ago, Katrina Berg was at the pinnacle of her career. She was a rising star in the AI chatbot start-up everyone was talking about, married with an adoring husband, and had more money than she knew how to spend. Then her world combusted. Her husband, Jason, was killed in a fiery car crash. Her CEO was indicted, and, as the company’s legal counsel, Katrina faces tough questions as the Feds take over and lock her out of her office. The final blow is the passing of her beloved grandmother.
Her most prized possession is the beta prototype for a new, ultra-sophisticated chatbot loaded onto her phone. The contents of Jason’s email, social media backups, pictures, and every bit of data she could find were loaded into the bot, and Katrina has “talked” to him every day for the past six months. She has been amazed at how well it works. Even the syntax and words the bot uses sound like Jason. Sometimes, she imagines he isn’t really dead and is right there beside her. She knows it’s slowing her grief recovery, but she can’t stop pretending.
The Lost and Found Bookshop: A Novel (affiliate link)
There is a book for everything . . .
Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about.
In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother’s charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative—not counting her scoundrel father.
But the gruff, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying signs of decline. Natalie thinks it’s best to move him to an assisted living facility to ensure the care he needs. To pay for it, she plans to close the bookstore and sell the derelict but valuable building on historic Perdita Street, which is in need of constant fixing. There’s only one problem–Grandpa Andrew owns the building and refuses to sell. Natalie adores her grandfather; she’ll do whatever it takes to make his final years happy. Besides, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief.
Death Behind Every Door: A Novel (The Blackbird Files Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the shadows of a Scottish castle, something deadly is lurking in every corner…
When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society. Named for the eighteenth-century monster regarded as America’s first serial killer, the society is comprised of a twisted web of killers, working to carry out heinous murders in Holmes’s memory. And now the group’s been linked to a Scottish castle turned B and B—where guests check in but never check out.
Arriving at the sinister Graystone Castle posed as a tourist, Luke is joined by Special Agent Carly MacDonald, and the pair is immediately confronted by dangers hidden in the castle’s depths. With guests disappearing and a network of killers closing in, Luke and Carly have only each other to rely on—and they’ll have to race to cut off the head of the snake before the blood trail of the past can culminate in a very real and deadly present.
The Paris Widow (affiliate link)
A dream vacation turns deadly when secrets from the past catch up to a married couple in Paris.
When Stella met Adam, she thought she had finally found a nice, normal guy—a welcome change from her previous boyfriend and her precarious jetsetter lifestyle with him. But her secure world comes crashing down when Adam goes missing after an explosion in the city square. Unable to reach him, she panics.
As the French police investigate, it’s revealed that Adam was on their radar as a dealer of rare and stolen antiquities with a long roster of criminal clients. Reeling from this news, Stella is determined not to leave Paris until she has the full story. Was Adam a random victim or the target of the explosion? And why is someone following her through the streets of Paris?
An irresistible, fast-paced read set in some of Europe’s most inviting locales, The Paris Widow explores how sinister secrets of the past stay with us—no matter how far we travel.
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive (affiliate link)
At 28, Stephanie Land’s dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet.
Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie’s years spent in service to upper middle class America as a “nameless ghost” who quietly shared in her clients’ triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren’t being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor.
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