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What happens when a tech billionaire with commitment issues meets a brilliant engineer who thinks his “survival bunker” needs a hot tub?
Love. Chaos. And one very opinionated goat named Fran.
A romantic comedy that will make you laugh until the world ends… and then keep laughing
Adam Miller sold his cybersecurity company for millions and retreated to rural Texas with one simple plan: build the perfect survival bunker, stock it with canned beans, and wait for the apocalypse. Alone. Simple, efficient, foolproof.
There’s just one problem, he’s too paralyzed by perfectionism to actually start building.
Then Ronnie Cole moves in next door.
She’s a civil engineer fleeing a soul-crushing corporate job, and she has dangerous ideas like “strawberry greenhouses,” “underground bowling alleys,” and “proper water pressure in the shower.” Suddenly Adam’s theoretical bunker is becoming an actual underground luxury resort, complete with a recording studio for the piano he doesn’t know how to play and a goat room with panoramic windows.
But when the world actually ends, their crazy underground paradise becomes the only safe haven for miles around.
What if the force that destroyed Atlantis so utterly it became just a myth, is real and its back to threaten our present world?
Former Green Beret Eric Dane teams up with the mysterious Sin Fen, a woman with powers he can’t quite understand, to fight the dark Shadow that is poised to destroy our world across timelines. All around the planet, at the junction of ley lines and where tectonic plates join, interdimensional gates are opening, letting the dark Shadow into our world, threatening the very planet itself. This war is taking place between worlds and across time.
In the year 1,000 AD, a fearsome Viking warrior, Ragnarok, must protect a Seer from Valkyries, Kraken and other forces of legend and help her on a quest that connects through those gates to Dane’s battle in the present.
The October Horses (affiliate link)
Carnations and Deadly Fixations (Fern Grove Book 1) (affiliate link)
Going home was supposed to be simple—until someone was murdered.
Tracy Adams thought returning to Fern Grove would be a fresh start. Sure, helping her aunt run a failing flower shop wasn’t the dream, but it was a chance to regroup after losing her career.
That chance vanished when the town’s most unpopular florist turned up dead—and Tracy got linked to the crime. The gossip is spreading. And the police are looking at her as their top suspect.
Now, Tracy has to solve the murder before her new life is over before it’s even begun. Can she untangle the truth when everyone in town has something to hide?
Carnations and Deadly Fixations is a twisty, lighthearted mystery full of secrets, small-town drama, and surprises that will keep you guessing until the end!
Where the Waters Agree: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (affiliate link)
He ached from just looking at her. From wanting her. And from wanting to tell her—again and again—that she was the very best thing that had ever happened to him.
EVERMORE ON SEA IS NOT BRIGHTON. There are no horse races, no balls or parties held every other night, and no red-coated officers to provoke the two youngest Bennet sisters into behaviour that would embarrass themselves and their family, which is precisely why Elizabeth Bennet believes Mr Bennet sent his wife and daughters there when her mother had pestered him for a seaside holiday.
WHILE MRS BENNET FINDS THE VILLAGE much more to her liking than the seaside itself, Elizabeth finds solace and pleasure amongst the sandy strands and grassy bluffs of the coast, which are very different than the woods and fields of Hertfordshire. It is atop one of those picturesque bluffs that she unexpectedly comes face to face with Mr Darcy.
A runaway wife, a surprise baby, and a dark secret.
MONTE CARLO, 1982
The odds of a man like Marco de Noli falling for a girl like me were a million to one.
He’s old money, classic European jet set, a master of the universe.
When we met, I was a shy girl from Oklahoma, pretty enough, but nowhere near his league.
One year later, after he stands me up on our first anniversary, I have to face facts. Our marriage was a mistake. My in-laws think I’m a gold digger, Marco lives at the office, and nights of passion aren’t enough. There’s nothing keeping me in Monte Carlo.
But when I run, I don’t realize that I’m taking the de Noli heir with me —
Fortune’s Rocks: A Novel (affiliate link)
The Fortune Rock’s Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve’s most beloved novels-Fortune’s Rocks, The Pilot’s Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve’s ability to illuminate women’s lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New England home, one that has inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as saying, ”You could base an entire life’s work on the people who come in and out of a house.”
Fortune’s Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple’s new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot’s Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash.
Plum Springs: An Intense Thriller Torn from the Headlines (affiliate link)
Nine-year-old Rusty Travis and his older brother Bo can’t take it anymore. The manual labor forced upon them has worn them thin and callused their hands. Water is rationed and the heat is slowly killing them. They miss their mom.
She lives on the same lot as them but in a different trailer, separated by a single plum tree. They’re not allowed to see her. And now that their dad has gone after their baby sister, Ruby, it’s up to them to do what’s needed for survival.
Desperate to change their fates, Rusty and Bo run away into the forest. They stay nearby and closely watch their dad’s trailer. When the time is right, they’ll risk it all to save themselves and their sister.
But the town of Plum Springs, Kentucky, and its secrets won’t make it easy. All the boys need is for someone to show them mercy. They’re just boys.
Alamo on the Rhine (Iron Crucible) (affiliate link)
It’s September 1992. The Yugoslav Crisis is over, but tensions are rising along the Iron Curtain in Germany. 48 hours before a surprise Soviet invasion, hardened airborne commandos of the Warsaw Pact launch a daring raid. Their mission: the covert seizure of NATO’s Rhein-Main Air Base. The only thing in their way is a small band of U.S. Air Force personnel. Heroic last stands abound in a desperate hour-by-hour struggle for the runways, as the “Gateway to Europe” becomes the Alamo on the Rhine…
Set during the events of Red Front, Alamo on the Rhine is a novella covering a small but crucial slice of the great East-West confrontation. The actions of a few men and women in a few short hours will determine the fate of nations.
Small Miracles (affiliate link)
A little bit of sin is good for the soul.
Gadriel, the fallen angel of petty temptations, has a bit of a gambling debt. Fortunately, her angelic bookie is happy to let her pay off her debts by doing what she does best: All Gadriel has to do is tempt miserably sinless mortal Holly Harker to do a few nice things for herself.
What should be a cakewalk of a job soon runs into several roadblocks, however, as Miss Harker politely refuses every attempt at temptation from Gadriel the woman, Gadriel the man, and Gadriel the adorable fluffy kitten. When even chocolate fails to move Gadriel’s target, the ex-guardian angel begins to suspect she’s been conned. But Gadriel still remembers her previous job… and where petty temptations fail, small miracles might yet prevail.
The Waves Take You Home: A Novel (affiliate link)
The death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny.
Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn’t approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes.
After years of being on her own in NYC, Violeta finds herself on a plane back to Colombia, accompanied at all times by the ghost of her grandmother who is sending her messages and signs, to find she is the heir of the failing family restaurant, the very one Abuela told her to run from in the first place. The journey leads her to rediscover her home, her grandmother, and even the flame of an old love.
The Inheritance: And Other Stories (Rain Wilds Chronicles) (affiliate link)
The Inheritance & Other Stories is a marvelous new collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling master storyteller Robin Hobb—including tales written under the pseudonym Megan Lindholm, by which the acclaimed fantasist first began her illustrious writing career. Included in this essential volume are Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short masterworks, as well as brand new tales and the never before published in the U.S. title story—a unique compendium of wonders displaying the breathtaking skill, imagination, and remarkably varied styles of both alter egos.
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