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Thrill Switch (affiliate link)
Detective Ada Byron is pumped to finally be assigned her first murder case… until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier.
To see if this is a copycat, or something more sinister, Ada must work with her personal nightmare Jazlin Switch – the programmer who murdered her dad. What follows is a mind-bending, heart-stopping ride through the dark side of reality and the virtual world.
Montana Pines Summer Love (affiliate link)
It’s never too late to start over.
WENDY THOMPSON, manages the Pine Meadows Resort in the mountains near the small town of Pine Meadows, Montana. She’s lived at the resort her entire life, inheriting the manager job from her late father. She’s always been too busy to waste time looking for romance. She’s content to live her life with only her small Australian shepherd, Chase, to keep her company on cold mountain nights.
Millionaire Real Estate mogul, BRYCE BUFFINGTON, just inherited Buffington Properties from his father. From his high rise office in downtown Boston, he struggles to decide which of their worldwide properties to liquidate. Most obvious solution? Sell the small Montana resort to help with the expenses of the larger ones in Paris and London.
When Bryce embarks on a trip to Pine Meadows Resort to assess its value, he finds Wendy to be not at all what he expected. She’s so much more, with her sparkling personality, wholesome good looks, and positive outlook on life. As the attraction between the two of them sizzles, both must decide where their true priorities lie. Can they take a chance on love or will the distance between them prove to be too great of an obstacle?
The Governess Who Touched His Heart (affiliate link)
With a young daughter to raise alone, Howard has no time for grief or unexpected guests. Returning from a cattle drive to find a strange woman in his house is the last thing he expects…especially when she introduces herself as his new governess.
Lilly Prescott didn’t expect to meet her new employer by nearly hitting him in the dark. After fleeing a broken engagement, she’s not ready for more chaos, but the gruff rancher with the soft spot for his daughter isn’t the threat she imagined. “Next time you sneak into a house, try not to scare the woman inside,” she said. “Next time,” Howard replied, glancing at her nightgown, “wear more than a whisper.”
What begins as an arrangement soon deepens into something neither of them saw coming, and when the gang that took everything from Howard is still out there, they’ll have to decide if love is strong enough to face them, or if the past will steal their future for good.
The Cowboy Takes A Bride (Wyoming Matchmaker Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
To keep his ranch he’ll need a wife. To escape her father she’ll need a protector. Love will only complicate their marriage of convenience.
She’s on the run…
A tyrannical father. A life she hates and doesn’t control. Freedom for socialite Meredith Hanover is not a luxury she has. When given an opportunity to become a modern-day mail-order bride to a rancher in rural Wyoming, she realizes this might be her only opportunity at a fresh start.
He’s determined to stay…
Jace Shepard’s dying father gave him two options: get married and take over the ranch or be cut out of the will. But life on the ranch is hard and isolating, something the previous women of his life couldn’t hack. With no other solution, he strikes a deal with a professional matchmaker for a temporary bride.
The plan is foolproof. A bargain struck. Everyone wins in this ruse of fake love. Yet, if they’re both pretending why does it feel so real?
Oil & Water: a Brother’s Best Friend Romance (affiliate link)
An Olive Oil Broker and a Mermaid Walk Into a Book . . .
It’s not like I intended to get naked at the rehearsal dinner for my brother’s wedding.
In the parking lot. With his best friend.
In my defense, he has a beard now. And I was soaking wet.
In our combined defense, we weren’t doing anything other than drying off. In further defense of my own actions, I was merely gazing at the pool, wishing I could go for a swim, when my brother’s lunatic best friend ran up behind me and shoved me in. Hence, the need to dry off in the parking lot. The high beams that spotlighted us could hardly have been anticipated.
My brother has the perfect job, and he’s marrying the perfect woman. The wedding will also be perfect. As will the honeymoon and the immaculate offspring they will no doubt spawn to carry on the family tradition of normalcy.
I’m the misfit—a professional mermaid in a family full of traditionalists. And if I don’t get an audition with the pod of my dreams soon, I’ll have to rent out my tail to make my car note.
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman (affiliate link)
The remarkable story of Gudrid, the female explorer who sailed from Iceland to the New World a millennium ago.
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, no one believed that the details of Gudrid’s story were true.
Then, in 2001, a team of scientists discovered what may have been this pioneering woman’s last house, buried under a hay field in Iceland, just where the epic tales suggest it could be.
Joining scientists experimenting with cutting-edge technology and the latest archaeological techniques, and tracing Gudrid’s steps on land and in the sagas, The Far Traveler reconstructs a life that spanned—and expanded—the bounds of the then-known world.
Forever: Why You Can’t Live Without It (affiliate link)
Is this all you’re living for?
For years, pastor Paul Tripp understood we were “hardwired for forever.” But he didn’t understand that it was more than a valuable insight. It is a practical tool to help us face the disappointment of everyday life. Now he knows, and he can help you discover how to survive and thrive in the middle of your story, with the final chapter of heaven in view.
Instead of embracing the world’s motto–“you only live once”–follow Tripp as he unpacks the biblical truth of the world as a broken place, longing for a second chance. And come alive as you discover the meaning and redemption all this brokenness can bring to your life today.
With practical insights on how eternity impacts your relationships, your job, your kids, and your deepest struggles, you’ll be encouraged to relax into the eternal story God is writing for you. You really are hardwired for eternity, and this book reveals how you can begin to view all that happens in your life as preparation for Forever.
The Funeral Parlor Quilt (Colebridge Community Series) (affiliate link)
A wedding, burial traditions, and a missing quilt combine to keep the Colebridge Community locals on their toes in this crafty mystery.
The third chapter in the life of Anne Brown and the Colebridge Community! In The Basement Quilt and The Potting Shed Quilt, the first and second novels by Ann Hazelwood, you became familiar with the family and friends of Anne Brown, the plucky florist whose life decisions remind us of our own. In the third book in the Colebridge Community series, even as Anne and her quilting friends welcome newcomers into their lives, they come across strange death practices and unusual (to them) uses for quilts. These events give them pause to consider life’s deeper meanings. But what do they signal for the future? The Funeral Parlor Quilt is not just the title of this sequel. As in the first two parts of the series, the quilt itself is a character. You’ll want to meet other quilt “characters” as Anne and her family and friends keep meeting life’s challenges.
The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel (affiliate link)
At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet’s body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man’s heart.
Augustus Landor—who acquired some renown in his years as a New York City police detective—is called in to discreetly investigate. It’s a baffling case Landor must pursue in secret, for the scandal could do irreparable damage to the fledgling institution. But he finds help from an unexpected ally—a moody, young cadet with a penchant for drink, two volumes of poetry to his name, and a murky past that changes from telling to telling.
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography (affiliate link)
From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands as Television, The Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids—whose song “Blank Generation” remains the defining anthem of the era, an era that would forever alter popular culture in all its forms.
How this legendary downtown artist went from a bucolic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York and London’s restless youth culture—cementing CBGB as the ground zero of punk and spawning the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debbie Harry—is a mesmerizing chronicle of self-invention, and of Hell’s yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art. An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, lyricism, and piercing intelligence both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.
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