Meet Rina Martin, a retired actress with a taste for tea, gardening and crime solving.
She played a TV sleuth for years, but now she has to do it for real.
She retires to the sleepy town of Frantham-on-Sea. Here on the Dorset coast, she runs her own immaculate guest house and life is blissfully quiet.
Until . . .
A few doors down, harmless old Mrs Freer is bludgeoned to death, and Rina can’t help but be drawn into the mystery.
Mrs Freer’s home was ransacked, but this was no ordinary burglary.
Who knew the old lady kept a gun stashed under her pillow?
And who wanted it badly enough to kill?
Detective Sebastian McGregor is called in to solve this baffling case.
But with her neighbours’ safety at stake, Rina knows she needs to give him a helping hand.
I’d brought him home thinking that for once in my life I would live a little.
Then he’d walked out, and I’d chalked the experience up to a bad one-night stand.
Now weeks later I was puking my guts up and had a pink stick with a plus sign on it declaring my future.
And because my life was my life, I was pregnant, alone, and starting a new job.
And whose company was I working for?
Jordan. Jordan O’Keith.
The man who’d I’d brought home that night. The man whose baby was currently residing in my belly. The man I hadn’t recognized…
And the man who was my father’s arch enemy
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Billionaire’s Club
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From New York Times best-seller Claire Contreras comes a new, sexy stand-alone mafia romance novel . . .
I’m OFF LIMITS, but he doesn’t care.
When you grow up in a family like mine, it’s easy to identify the kind of men that are bad news.
They’re the ones with experience.
The ones with secrets.
The ones that exude sex just by saying your name.
From the moment I laid eyes on Lorenzo, I knew he wasn’t just bad news.
He was the headline.
But my head and my heart are at war.
He’s too mysterious, too gorgeous, too wild, and now, he wants me.
I should run far away.
So why am I racing toward him?
I’m totally going to get burned.
I know it.
A man like Lorenzo won’t leave me unscathed.
He’ll make ashes of me.
Sins and Needles (The Artists Trilogy Book 1)
Karina Halle
Regularly $9.99, Today $1.99
Erotic Suspense
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Ship of Bones and Teeth comes a spicy, dark romance about a woman on the run for fans of Katee Robert and Sophia Lark. 🔥
Ellie Watt is a woman on the run. 🏃♀️ After making the mistake of falling for a vicious mob boss, she hopes to find refuge at her uncle’s farm in quiet Palm Valley, California. Ellie swears she’s through with her life of crime. But before she knows it, she’s right back in the game when she meets an easy mark who’s too good—and too hot—to be true. 😈
Master tattoo artist Camden McQueen is nothing like the awkward kid who crushed on Ellie back in high school. 💪 Now, as the owner of the wildly successful Sins & Needles, he’s got tats to kill for, muscles to die for, and money to burn. Ellie can’t believe the transformation—and can’t resist pulling off one last con. 🎯
But when Camden catches Ellie red-handed, the tables are turned. 😱 The mark becomes the master. And when the ultimate player gets played, you never know who’s going to end up on top . . . 🔥
What drew me in: New York Times bestselling author Karina Halle kicks off The Artists Trilogy with this dark, spicy romance where a con artist on the run from a mob boss targets her former high school crush—now a tattooed, wealthy artist—only to have the tables turned when he catches her and the game becomes deadly serious. Perfect for fans of Katee Robert and Sophia Lark who love criminal antiheroes, tattoo artists, and dangerous chemistry!
Lisa Phillips
Regularly $4.99, Today $1.99
Christian Mystery & Suspense
GUARDING THE FIRST DAUGHTER 🕵️♂️
Stopping to pick up a file late at night, former president’s daughter Kayla Harris discovers her law office has been ransacked—and the culprit is still there. 😱 But undercover Secret Service agent Conner Thorne comes to her rescue, and he knows exactly who is after her—just not why. 🔍
Conner and Kayla go way back to their time in the White House when she was the rebellious first daughter and he was the rookie who saved her neck. 💕 Now Conner will put his life on the line again to keep Kayla away from the mobster he’s investigating. And it’s about much more than his job, because this time the woman he’s sworn to protect is also the woman who’s claimed his heart. 💔
Here’s the deal: Lisa Phillips launches the Secret Service Agents series with this Christian romantic suspense where a former president’s daughter discovers her office ransacked and her undercover Secret Service protector from White House days must save her again—this time from a mobster and from losing the woman who’s claimed his heart. Perfect for fans of protective heroes, second chances, and faith-based romantic suspense!
Catherine McKinnon
Regularly $3.99, Today $1.99
Historical World War II Fiction
‘Transcends the boundaries of historical fiction’ Books+Publishing ⭐
DECEMBER 1944 📅 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies’ hard-fought jungle campaign. 💕 At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. 💣 And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family. 🏯
Each of these people yearns to belong, yet each fiercely protects their independence. 💪 Secrets, misunderstandings and fears burden them; shame shapes them; hope and imagination lift them up. They are caught in a moment of history, both enthralled and appalled by actions they must undertake. 😔
A beautiful, rich and intricately woven novel, To Sing of War asks how one person can make a difference in a world that is wondrous, thrilling and endangered. 🌍 It insists on our interconnectedness, hums with the energy of the world and is a blazingly powerful and deeply moving account of friendship, love and war. ✨
‘Deeply intelligent and very affecting’ The Saturday Paper 📰
What you’re getting: Catherine McKinnon weaves together three storylines across the Pacific in December 1944—an Australian nurse reuniting with her first love in New Guinea, physicists building the atomic bomb at Los Alamos, and a Japanese woman protecting her family—asking how individuals make a difference when caught in history’s most devastating moment. Books+Publishing calls it a work that “transcends the boundaries of historical fiction!”
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