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Made for You (Whisper Lake Book 4) (affiliate link)
Sign divorce papers…check
Road trip to Whisper Lake…check
Fall in love…
Sara Kellan was ready to start the next chapter in her life. With two little ones depending on her, the blue-eyed beauty knew she had no choice but to find her way again. What she didn’t know was that she might find something more than she bargained for in Whisper Lake.
Break off engagement…check
Return to Whisper Lake to settle B&B business…check
Meet the love of his life…
Austin Stone was finally ready to step up as the owner of his late grandparents B&B. After serving his country, the sexy Marine sniper knew that he had to face his past in Whisper Lake. What he didn’t know was that he just might come face to face with his future as well.
After putting everyone else’s needs in front of her own, will Sara finally be able to let someone else take the wheel?
A Kiss to Wake: Marda Loop Mysteries Book 1 (affiliate link)
You never forget the one that got away…
Louise Dubois was tired of hiding.
After being attacked by an unknown assailant three years ago, she is moving on with her life. As if on cue, officer Gregory Band – an old university flame – calls upon Louise to revisit her own cold case and give him new leads to follow in a local murder. Louise dusts off old memories, willing to do anything to help Gregory catch the Marda Loop murderer.
The similarities between the recent murder and Louise’s unsolved case cannot be ignored. Single women, minimal traces of DNA, and the signature red dress at the scene. But these connections aren’t the only thing making Louise’s heart race. A resurgence of feelings for her former lover has her pulse pounding too. She wonders if she can trust their fragile connection or if the past will come back to haunt her once again.
Caution, Cobbles (affiliate link)
When a storm cut the power to the village of Cobbles, Harry took the lack of electricity as an excuse to take shelter in the local pub, looking for warmth and friendship. He found the slightly warm cider and lack of Wi-Fi brought everyone together and enjoyed the novelty of candlelight and people actually talking to each other.
As the power stubbornly stayed off the next day, and the next, people had to adjust to life without technology or hot showers, while mysterious men searched for missing stolen money. Breakfast Television came to the rescue, with the intention only to provide everyone with a hot meal but exposed a complex web of long held secrets and desires. Caution, Cobbles was inspired by true events.
Starship’s Mage Book 1 (affiliate link)
Will magic save the galaxy… or tear it apart?
Damien Montgomery is as much a nobody as a Mage of the star-spanning Protectorate of Mars can be. Trained as a Jump Mage, one of the elite who teleport ships across interstellar space, he lacks the connections to find a ship that will take him.
Until pirates and politics strand Captain David Rice of the jump freighter Blue Jay in his home system. The two men’s matching needs birth a choice and a partnership that will take them from high-end orbitals to prisons to alien graveyards in forgotten star systems.
And in the shadows of the Protectorate, Damien is faced with a simple question: who is he in the dark?
Ellie Frites is twenty-four, single, and going nowhere. She spends her days rotting in a cubicle and her nights drinking herself into an emotional stupor. One day, Ellie has a jarring hallucination: an old classmate stands beaten and bloodied in the woods of their hometown. The visions persist, growing more intricate and detailed, yanking Ellie from her humdrum present and back to the unforgiving halls of sixth grade. As she digs deeper into what happened that day in the woods, she finds there is someone intent on keeping the truth buried. And soon her life—and the lives of her loved ones—are in serious peril.
FATED (The Fated Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen (affiliate link)
As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. But who was she really? In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on her story.
Hardman shows how Marie-Antoinette played a significant but misunderstood role in the crisis of the monarchy. Drawing on new sources, he describes how she refused to prioritize the aggressive foreign policy of her mother, bravely took over the helm from her faltering husband, and, when revolution broke out, worked closely with repentant radicals to give the constitutional monarchy a fighting chance. For the first time, Hardman demonstrates exactly what influence Marie-Antoinette had and when and how she exerted it.
The Nine Lives of Chloe King: Complete Trilogy (affiliate link)
Chloe King is a seemingly normal girl. She goes to class (most of the time), fights with her mom, and crushes on a boy…or two. But around her sixteenth birthday, Chloe finds that perhaps she isn’t so normal after all. There’s the heightened night vision, the superfast reflexes—oh, and the claws.
As Chloe discovers who she is—and where she comes from—it is clear she is not alone. Someone is trying to get her. And they will stop at nothing until they do. Chloe has nine lives…but will nine be enough?
Copycat (affiliate link)
Befriending Traci Calloway Cole is the best thing Simone Phillips has ever done. Traci is the kind of woman Simone wants to be-in every way possible. She begins copying her role model. Not because she wants to be Traci. She just wants to be exactly like Traci.
Traci doesn’t worry, though. She knows Simone doesn’t mean any harm and that her mimicry is only sincere admiration. Until she discovers how far Simone’s obsession has gone.
It is then that Simone’s entire world begins unraveling, and dreadful secrets from her past are exposed with no warning. Secrets that she’ll do almost anything to protect.
Forgive Me: A Novel (affiliate link)
A inmate seeking redemption and a woman trying to outrun domestic abuse are on a collision course in this thriller from an an international bestseller.
In prison, Archie Colbrook spends his time writing letters. Letters addressed to a person against whom he committed terrible, nameless harm. Archie knows he doesn’t deserve forgiveness. Yes, he didn’t mean to hurt anyone, and sure, he was only following orders. But does that matter? He still did it.
In a small coastal town of Northern England, Claudia Winters hopes to feel safe for the first time in years after fleeing from her abusive husband with her mother and daughter. Their new life is supposed to be a fresh start. But Claudia knows the past won’t stay hidden for long—and she can’t help but feel that someone is watching her. And that something terrible is about to happen.
Linked by one irrevocable act of violence, Archie and Claudia’s lives intertwine. Claudia can’t overlook what Archie did to her family—but is forgiveness the only way to truly move on?
The Grandees: America’s Sephardic Elite (affiliate link)
In 1654, twenty-three Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled from their homeland by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers, earning great wealth. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington’s army during the American Revolution.
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