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Samson’s Lovely Mortal (Scanguards Vampires Book 1) (affiliate link)
Samson, a vampire with an eternity of experience, is facing his most humiliating challenge yet: he can’t get it up. His psychiatrist is stumped. But when the stunning mortal auditor Delilah literally lands in his lap after a frightening assault, Samson’s primal urges awaken with a vengeance. His desire is back, but only for her.
His therapist’s outrageous suggestion—one night with Delilah could be the cure—shatters his last shred of resistance. Samson gives in, expecting a single, scorching night to restore his potency.
However, their intimate encounter is violently interrupted by another attack on Delilah, leaving a trail of blood and unanswered questions in its wake. Now, Samson must not only hide his true, immortal nature but also unravel the secrets that have turned Delilah into the target of a ruthless killer. What began as a desperate cure for his impotence turns into a pulse-pounding descent into desire, danger, and a fight for survival.
Tough and Lovely (The Girl Who Would Be Sheriff) (affiliate link)
A mother’s death.
A daughter’s reckoning.
Sadie September discovers her mother murdered. The man who shot her has fled into the mountains of West Virginia and Sadie vows to catch him herself. Eighteen-years-old and headstrong, she doesn’t understand the demands of a manhunt. To save Sadie from herself, a kind police detective and a wily bounty hunter agree to join her mission. The unusual trio loads up and heads out, in search of the fugitive, who has taken refuge in the ranks of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang…
Trouble in Bayou Sabine (Book 1) (affiliate link)
A small town and a sexy stranger make for one steamy summer on the bayou—but is it too hot for her to handle?
Enza Parker never wanted to set foot in Bayou Sabine again—but inheriting her estranged grandmother’s house means she has no choice but to go back. She’s in the business of fixing things—mainly houses—but her romantic life? Yeah, that’s broken beyond repair.
Silver lining: she can flip the sweet old farmhouse and sell it for a nice profit—and that just might get her back on her feet again.
The only catch? Enza’s new house has an unexpected tenant: sexy firefighter Jack Mayronne. Before she can say “eviction,” he turns on the charm and offers to help her with the flip—if she lets him stay. He’s hotter than a tin roof in July, but he looks like he can use a hammer just fine. She can keep it professional. No problem.
This town’s full of surprises, though, and soon Jack is the least of her worries. Sparks fly as they share a roof and as their fling intensifies, Enza stumbles on a dark family secret that she can’t ignore. Jack has his own secrets, but he’s skilled at knocking down walls—especially the ones Enza has built around her heart. They might be better for each other than she first thought—but is she bold enough to find out if what they have can last?
When a dead body shows up that wasn’t on the lesson plan, a homeschooling mom is the prime suspect.
Rainbow Bailey is happy with her life, homeschooling her five children. Small town life suits her well and she spends contented days juggling her household, science projects, helping her husband, her friends, and planning what comes next.
What she didn’t plan on was murder.
Rainbow is shocked to discover a body in a dumpster. It not only ruins her mom’s night out, but turns her entire world upside down. Things get even bleaker for her when the struggling and frustrated police chief can’t find a better suspect than Rainbow.
Terrified by the prospect of a lifetime in prison for a crime she didn’t commit, it’s up to her and her children to find the true culprit before the killer strikes again.
Will Rainbow and her curious kids crack the case, or will Rainbow take the blame for this heinous crime?
Clean Cut Kid: Secrets, Betrayal, and Survival (Logan Connor Book 1) (affiliate link)
Logan Connor was the perfect all-American boy—adopted into a loving family, living a quiet life in a small town. But that idyllic image shatters when a buried secret about his past is uncovered, throwing Logan into a brutal world he never knew existed. Enter Titus Crow, a master manipulator and government operative who sees raw potential in Logan. Crow recruits him into a shadowy network of covert operations, where lies, murder, and betrayal are just another day at the office.
Under Crow’s relentless training, Logan is molded into a cold-blooded assassin—whether he likes it or not. Struggling to keep his humanity in a world ruled by violence, Logan must navigate a path paved with blood, secrets, and moral conflict. As he uncovers the truth about his origins, Logan faces a terrifying choice: remain the obedient weapon Titus has forged, or break free and reclaim his soul before it’s too late.
With a lost love reignited by danger, betrayal and unbridled passion, two shifters must navigate a perilous path to uncover, find and destroy an evil and reclaim a fated love they thought was gone forever.
In the high-stakes world of paranormal investigations, Kato Blackwood, an Alpha wolf shifter and the commanding leader of the Special Paranormal Investigative Unit (S.P.I.U.) of the FBI, is a force to be reckoned with.
His life is turned upside down when his fated mate, who walked away from him years earlier, returns under the direst of circumstances.
Elara Rivers, a fierce and resilient shifter, has been gravely injured and abandoned in a forest grave. One of many graves.
As Kato and Elara grapple with their shocking reunion and a graveyard filled with dead supernatural, they must confront their tumultuous past and their rekindled sizzling desire for each other, while uncovering and stopping the dangerous, malevolent forces killing paranormal.
Tangled Threat (affiliate link)
A body hanging from the infamous History Tree and a wrongful murder charge unraveled Maura Antrim and Brock McGovern’s teenage love. Now grown up, Maura is again tangled up with Brock, and they’re back in Florida, where that devastating murder occurred.
With two women missing and Brock now an FBI agent, the pair are determined to help investigate the new crimes and uncover the truth of what really happened twelve years ago…and see if their passion has withstood the test of time.
Playground: A Childhood Lost Inside the Playboy Mansion (affiliate link)
In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began.
You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women catering to your every need.
You have your own room. You have new friends. You have an uncle Hef who’s always there for you.
Welcome to the world of Playground, the true story Jennifer Saginor who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion. By the time she was fourteen, she’d done countless drugs, had a secret affair with Hef’s girlfriend, and was already losing her grip on reality. Schoolwork, family, and “ordinary people” had no meaning behind the iron gates of the Mansion, where celebrities frolicked, pool parties abounded, and her own father—Hugh Hefner’s personal physician and best friend, the man nicknamed “Dr. Feel Good”—typically held court.
Every day was a party, every night was an adventure, and through it all was a young girl falling faster and faster down the rabbit hole—trying desperately hard not to get lost.
Time Watcher (Mine Through Time Book 1) (affiliate link)
New York City, 1862. Fabienne Beaumont lies bleeding in a filthy alleyway. Desperate to escape the bloody War of Rebellion, she and her siblings had been trying to hustle passage back home to their native France. Instead, she fell victim to a card shark’s bullets. As everything fades to black, Fabienne thumbs the hands of her old pocket watch – unaware that she’s about to awaken from one nightmare straight into another.
Hartford, Connecticut, 1864. Two years earlier, Union war hero Brayden Marshall married the beautiful Fabienne – but she’s been like a stranger to him ever since. Everything changes, however, when he’s summoned back to Hartford on a mission for The Watchers – a secret society that can harness the power of time travel. It’s like meeting Fabienne for the first time all over again. She’s passionate, curious – and desperate to right the wrongs of her past. Could the mysterious pocket watch she clings to explain the sudden change in Fabienne’s behavior? And if so, can Brayden risk his future on a woman so obsessed with her past?
Savannah, Georgia, 2008. Spirited high-schooler Emily Willburne is reluctantly researching her family history for a Civil War assignment when she stumbles across the diary of her great, great grandmother, Fabienne. The diary claims to contain the secret of traveling through time – a secret Emily believes could save her dying mom, and rebuild her fractured relationship with her estranged father.
Your Brain at Work, Revised and Updated: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long (affiliate link)
A researcher and consultant burrows deep inside the heads of one modern two-career couple to examine how each partner processes the workday—revealing how a more nuanced understanding of the brain can allow us to better organize, prioritize, recall, and sort our daily lives.
Emily and Paul are the parents of two young children, and professionals with different careers. Emily is the newly promoted vice president of marketing at a large corporation; Paul works from home or from clients’ offices as an independent IT consultant. Their days are filled with a bewildering blizzard of emails, phone calls, more emails, meetings, projects, proposals, and plans. Just staying ahead of the storm has become a seemingly insurmountable task.
In Your Brain at Work, Dr. David Rock goes inside Emily and Paul’s brains to see how they function as each attempts to sort, prioritize, organize, and act on the vast quantities of information they receive in one typical day.
Smothermoss (affiliate link)
A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that threaten them and their rural mountain community.
In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn’t be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila cares for their home and keeps to herself, even when enduring relentless bullying. Her fearless younger sister, Angie, is more focused on fighting imaginary zombies and creating tarot-like cards that seem to have minds of their own. When the brutal murder of two female hikers on the nearby Appalachian Trail stuns their small community, the sisters find themselves tangled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Angie discovers a ripped, blood-soaked shirt; money Sheila’s been stashing away disappears; and a strange man tries to barter with a woman’s watch at a local store. As the threat of violence looms larger, the mysterious, ancient mountain they live on—and their willingness to trust each other—might be the only things that can save these sisters from the darkness consuming their home.
Following the death of her fianceé in a car accident, Quinn Adams finds herself adrift—broken-hearted, guilt-ridden, and strangely relieved, which must mean, on top of everything, she’s a monster.
Dr. Digby Hyde has his own issues—the death of his first love left him inspired to become a doctor and reluctant to fall in love again. He’d never date if it weren’t for his meddling soccer star twin brother setting him up on one disaster after the next. It’s like he thinks Digby lives in a romcom.
To quiet his family, Digby asks hospital volunteer Quinn to his brother’s wedding. She’s cute, sharp, funny—and willing to go as friends.
Perfect. He’s safe.
Under pressure to get out there and mingle, Quinn agrees to the brother’s crazy medieval castle wedding though even the hint of true love makes her want to hurl. She doesn’t deserve a second chance at love, but luckily, the funny, smart, handsome doctor wants to go as friends.
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