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Dark Peak (affiliate link)
How far would you go to protect a secret?
Thirty years ago, Mitch Walker was left for dead in the woods while his younger sister was abducted.
Now, circumstances pull him back to the place where she vanished.
He finds evidence linking his sister to a number of girls whose disappearances remain a mystery. Mitch has to face the fact that she may have been a victim of a serial killer known as the Blackden Edge Murderer.
Elly Cooper, ex-journalist and bestselling author, has been tasked by her agent to investigate the disappearances for a new book. She needs to find out if the rumoured Blackden Edge Murderer is more than just an urban legend. This is Elly’s last chance to get her failing career back on track and face her personal demons.
ARC (New Earth Book 1) (affiliate link)
They say that necessity is the mother of all inventions.
Amir Weatherby has the world in his hands, quite literally. When his company discovers an asteroid on a direct collision course with Earth, they decide to keep the news quiet and find a way to survive the impending apocalypse themselves. Secret projects begin with the intent of preventing the world going the same way as the dinosaurs.
Three top-secret sites are developed, each designed to hold a small pocket of the human race safe until after impact.
It just so happens that one of these sites is in space.
The former ISS is transformed intoa safe haven called the ARC, the Automated Resettlement and Repopulation Cryostation, where some of the world’s greatest scientific minds will sleep through the whole show.
His Other Wife (Stella Fall —Book One) (affiliate link)
Stella seems to have her whole life ahead of her: she has just graduated with a dual masters in Psychology and Criminal Justice, she is engaged to the man of her dreams after a whirlwind romance, and she is moving to the East Coast with him as she prepares for the wedding and searches for a dream job, hoping to be a criminal profiler. She is unbelievably excited for her life together with Chris—until she meets his family.
Stella, from a humble Midwestern upbringing, never felt comfortable around money, and she hates the world Chris comes from. She is in shock at the culture clash as she gets to know his elitist family and friends, all of whom look down on her. Isolated and demeaned, Stella wonders if she can live a life in such hostile surroundings. When they move into the guest house on his estate, things only get worse.
Sweet Hearts (Samantha Sweet Mysteries Book 4) (affiliate link)
Death in a Scarlet Gown (Murray of Letho Book 1) (affiliate link)
P.S. I Hate You (PS Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Dear Isaiah,
Eight months ago, you were just a soldier about to be deployed and I was just a waitress, sneaking you a free pancake and hoping you wouldn’t notice that my gaze was lingering a little too long.
But you did notice.
We spent one life-changing week together before you left, and we said goodbye on day eight, exchanging addresses at the last minute.
I saved every letter you wrote me, your words quickly becoming my religion.
But you went radio silent on me months ago, and then you had the audacity to walk into my diner yesterday and act like you’d never seen me in your life.
The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller (affiliate link)
Randall Haight has a secret: He is a convicted murderer, a man with the blood of a young girl on his hands. He has built a new life for himself in the small Maine town of Pastor’s Bay, but someone has discovered the truth about him. He is being tormented by anonymously sent reminders of his crime. He wants private detective Charlie Parker to make them go away.
But another girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor’s Bay itself, and her family has its own secrets to protect. Now, in a town built on blood and shadowed by old ghosts, Parker must unravel a twisted history of violence and deceit involving the police and the FBI, a doomed mobster and his enemies, and Randall Haight himself.
Because Randall is telling lies. . . .
Murder at Millar’s Hotel: A (Lady Ellen Investigates Book 1) (affiliate link)
It’s 1924. Lady Ellen of Ashcombe Hall is on a relaxing hotel break to recuperate. Her nemesis is found dead in the restaurant, face down in his pea and ham soup. Can she confront her past to solve the mystery?
Lady Ellen seeks respite in the charming seaside town of Branden Bay, whilst her home, which was used as a convalescent home for war veterans, is being refurbished to its former glory. Her peaceful break takes a dark turn when she unexpectedly crosses paths with her arch-nemesis, the enigmatic Major Albert Coltrane. Major Coltrane is found lifeless, his face submerged in his own soup after a heated and public confrontation with Ellen who finds herself accused of murder.
Determined to clear her name, she forms an unlikely alliance with Lottie Penny a hotel chamber maid and Captain Ernest Hamilton, a former patient at her convalescent home.
Wanting More (Kimbell Texas) (affiliate link)
From the comfort of friendship emerges a longing for more …
Dr. Jasmine Jones and ex-pro football player Darren Manning have been best friends their whole lives. But when family and friends start planting doubts that their close friendship is stopping them from finding true love, Jasmine comes up with a plan for them to start dating other people. What she doesn’t expect is the surprising jealousy and confusion she feels watching Darren fall for someone new.
After years of unrequited pining, could Darren finally have a chance at winning over the girl he’s always loved? He’s willing to sacrifice his own happiness to make sure Jasmine ends up with the perfect guy. But his plan backfires when playing matchmaker leads Jasmine into the arms of another man.
The Clairvoyant’s Glasses Volume 1: A vision unexpected (affiliate link)
Every Christmas, Sophie insisted on a new reading, expecting and waiting for it to change, for Aunt ‘Daffy’ to reveal that one day Sophie would have a star on the pavement in Hollywood. But every year, until her death, Daphne predicted the same thing for Sophie – she would have extraordinary psychic powers.
When Sophie is called to the grand dame’s rambling home for the reading of her Will, she is desperately hoping to be left her aunt’s house so she can live in style and spend her day auditioning until her big break. Unfortunately, the only thing ‘Daffy’ leaves Sophie is her pair of reading glasses.
Inferno: Dawn of Ruin Book 1: (A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller) (affiliate link)
When the fires of hell itself rain down on your head, how far will you go to keep your loved ones safe?
A firestorm rages across North America, destroying everything in its path.
In its wake, a lone firefighter survives the conflagration – but his survival and journey home is anything but assured.
In a quiet suburb, a young boy finds himself to be the only survivor in a city full of the dead.
On the other side of the country, a family watches the devastation grow closer, though the flames are not the most dangerous threat they face…
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