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Author: Jill Paterson
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International Mystery & Crime
Detective Chief Inspector Alistair Fitzjohn is a detective from the old guard whose methodical, painstaking methods are viewed by some as archaic—but his relentless pursuit of truth never fails. 🔍
In Celtic Dagger, university professor Alex Wearing is found murdered in his study. Fitzjohn’s investigation zeros in on Alex’s brother James as a key suspect. Compelled to clear himself, James starts his own investigation and finds himself immersed in a web of intrigue, uncovering long-hidden secrets about his brother’s life that could easily be the very reasons he was murdered. The gripping tale winds through university halls to emerge in the beautiful yet unpredictable Blue Mountain region.
In Murder at the Rocks, prominent businessman Laurence Harford is found murdered in Sydney’s historic Rocks area. Fitzjohn is asked to solve the crime quickly and discreetly. After barely starting his investigation and uncovering a discarded mistress and disgruntled employees, a second killing occurs. 💀
Jill Paterson delivers this complete mystery box set featuring her beloved Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn. Paterson creates old-school detective fiction in the tradition of golden age mysteries—methodical investigation, careful attention to detail, and puzzles that require patience to solve. Set in Australia with atmospheric locations from university campuses to historic districts to the Blue Mountains, these mysteries combine classic detective work with vivid settings. Perfect for readers who love character-driven investigations where the detective’s persistence and traditional methods ultimately triumph.
Get this complete Fitzjohn mystery collection free—classic detective fiction set in stunning Australian locations! 🇦🇺
Author: Heather B. Moore
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Contemporary Romance
When Alicia moves back to Pine Valley to help her mom through serious addiction, the last person she wants to see is her teenage crush, Jeff Finch—who destroyed their friendship in one single disastrous night. 💔
Alicia is determined not to let anything about Jeff affect her, especially since she hasn’t seen him in ten years. All she knows is that he’s living a successful and charmed life, and she’s more than happy to keep anything between them in the past.
But when he shows up with a date at the restaurant where she works, Alicia realizes she’s still not over her feelings. And Jeff is definitely looking at her in a way he never has before. 👀
USA Today bestselling author Heather B. Moore launches her Pine Valley series with this second-chance romance exploring past mistakes, family obligations, and whether people can truly change. Moore excels at creating emotionally authentic small-town romances where characters deal with real issues—addiction, forgiveness, redemption—while finding their way back to love. The chemistry between Alicia and Jeff simmers with unresolved tension from their shared history, and Moore deftly navigates the question of whether what broke them apart can ultimately bring them together.
A heartfelt second-chance romance about confronting the past and risking your heart again! 💕
Author: G. Bailey, Regan Rosewood
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Rejected Mate Shifter Romance
I’ve been rejected by everyone—but an alpha heir wants me to be his pretend mate. 🐺
As the only wolf shifter in my pack unable to shift, being rejected from my home at eighteen wasn’t unexpected with the shifter war so close. But being sent to a secret academy full of immortal wolf shifters, demons, and teachers with no morals? That wasn’t in the plan.
Luna Alpha Academy is for rejects only. They choose wolves no one cares about if they go missing. If I can survive long enough to learn the dark magic they teach, I might even be welcome back home as a wolf-witch.
Only catch? My tutor is a hot shifter asshole who takes what he wants—this time it’s me. 🔥
In exchange for extra training, Atlas wants me to pretend to be his. Every kiss, every possessive touch, every growl to anyone that comes near me only makes me want him more.
But I can’t have him. Not really. He’s the alpha heir. I’m a wolf who can’t even shift. We don’t belong together, and it’s fake. It can’t ever be real… can it? 💔
G. Bailey and Regan Rosewood team up for this rejected mate shifter romance featuring a heroine who can’t shift, a dark academy for supernatural rejects, and an alpha heir whose fake relationship feels dangerously real. This series combines academy romance with shifter politics, forbidden attraction with power dynamics, and a heroine discovering she’s far more powerful than anyone—including herself—realized. Expect possessive alpha energy, enemies-to-lovers tension, and magic that comes with a dark price.
Why I’m including this: Dark academy meets rejected mate romance with a heroine who proves she doesn’t need to shift to be powerful! ✨
Author: Christopher Barningham
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Biographies of the Military
When Kevin, a young Navy Seabee, deploys to Afghanistan in 2010, he believes he’s ready for the challenge. But nothing can prepare him for the quiet weight of war—not the kind fought with bullets and bombs, but the kind that seeps into your soul through sleepless nights, endless convoys, and the constant hum of uncertainty. 🎖️
From the dust-covered roads of Deh Dahdi to the long days manning the ECP, Kevin finds brotherhood, purpose, and unexpectedly—love. But coming home isn’t a clean break. Kevin battles invisible wounds, the pull of old habits, and the haunting silence left behind by fallen friends.
As he struggles to adjust to life after war, he learns that healing doesn’t come all at once, and that some scars linger long after. 💔
Told with raw honesty, dark humor, and moments of quiet resilience, this story is not just about service overseas—it’s about the battle after the battle, the bonds that never break, and the fight to hold on when everything starts to slip away.
Christopher Barningham delivers an unflinching military memoir about a Navy Seabee’s deployment to Afghanistan and the invisible war that continues after coming home. Barningham writes with brutal honesty about PTSD, survivor’s guilt, and the challenge of reintegration—topics many veterans struggle with but few discuss openly. This narrative combines the camaraderie of deployment with the isolation of returning home, showing how brotherhood forged in war becomes a lifeline during the hardest battles. Raw, honest, and ultimately hopeful, this memoir gives voice to experiences that too often remain unspoken.
A powerful military memoir about deployment, invisible wounds, and the battle to come home—told with raw honesty. 🇺🇸
Author: Anne R. Tan
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Chinese Cozy Mystery
When it rains, it pours…and this amateur sleuth may be in over her head. ☔
Graduate student Raina Sun is trying to keep her head above water as bills roll in when her dashing college adviser cons her out of several months of rent. Her quest to retrieve the money sets in motion a streak of even worse luck.
First, she stumbles on her advisor’s dead body and becomes a suspect in his murder. Next, the only man she’s ever loved reappears as the lead detective on the case. Raina’s having trouble interpreting his signals—does he want to reignite their passion, or just stay close to his prime suspect? 🔍
Her life careens further out of control when her grandma shows up at Raina’s postage-stamp-sized apartment, dragging a red suitcase and trouble of her own. As Raina summons her sleuthing skills, she discovers that when it comes to murder, there may be no place for an amateur. 💀
Anne R. Tan launches her Raina Sun Mystery series with this cozy featuring a broke graduate student, a murdered adviser, and a meddling grandma with secrets of her own. Tan brings cultural authenticity to the cozy mystery genre, creating a Chinese-American protagonist navigating murder investigation while dealing with family expectations and romantic complications. Expect quirky characters, humor that balances the darker elements, and a heroine whose determination outweighs her detective experience.
Perfect for readers who love cozy mysteries with diverse characters, family drama, and romantic tension! ✨
Falling for You Again: A Novel
Author: Kerry Lonsdale
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Family Life Fiction
Furniture artisan Meli Hynes still abides by her uncle’s truism: the only lasting love story is the one between artists and their creations. Having already given marriage a shot—for all of twenty-four hours during a Las Vegas fling—Meli made her choice. The wood-crafting shop that is her family legacy will always come first. 🪵
But when her uncle decides to sell to a competitor, Meli’s promised inheritance goes belly-up. She’ll do anything to muddle the deal. Including a marriage of convenience to an unforgettable and very practical old friend—the competitor’s son, Aaron.
With a controlling family of his own, and every bit as impulsive as Meli, Aaron is in. After all, this isn’t the first time he and Meli got hitched on a whim. 💍
The rules of the ruse are simple: public displays of affection and live together as happy newlyweds. The hardest rule of all? Never let real feelings get in the way of what they plan to be a purely professional second time around. 💕
Kerry Lonsdale delivers a second-chance romance with a twist—they’ve already been married before (for twenty-four hours in Vegas), and now they’re doing it again for business reasons. Lonsdale explores family legacies, the pressure of controlling parents, and two impulsive people who think they can fake a marriage without real feelings getting involved. Expect family drama, fake relationship hijinks, and the slow realization that maybe their Vegas wedding wasn’t as much of a mistake as they thought.
A fake marriage to save a family business—but these two already eloped once before! ✨
Author: Amy Harmon
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Coming of Age Fiction
When Josie Jensen, an awkward 13-year-old musical prodigy, crashes headlong into newcomer Samuel Yazzie, an 18-year-old Navajo boy full of anger and confusion, an unlikely friendship blooms. 🎵
Josie teaches Samuel about words, music, and friendship, and along the way finds a kindred spirit. Upon graduation, Samuel abandons the sleepy small town in search of a future and a life, leaving his young friend behind.
Many years go by and Samuel returns, finding Josie in need of the very things she offered him years before. Their roles reversed, Samuel teaches Josie about life, love, and letting go. 💔
Deeply romantic and poignant, Running Barefoot is the story of a small-town girl and a Native American boy, the ties that bind them to their homes and families, and the love that gives them wings. 🦋
Amy Harmon delivers an emotionally powerful coming-of-age story that spans years and explores the transformative power of friendship-turned-love. Harmon handles the age gap and cultural differences with sensitivity, creating a story about two people who save each other at different points in their lives. This novel examines family ties, cultural identity, small-town life, and the question of when and whether to leave the place that shaped you. Expect tears, beautiful prose, and a romance that feels inevitable and earned.
Why I’m including this: A beautiful, poignant love story about a musical prodigy and a Navajo boy whose friendship transforms both their lives!** 💕
Author: Patricia Dixon
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Psychological Thrillers
Some secrets are too dangerous to tell. Others are too deadly to keep… 🔪
Julia Lassiter has spent years constructing the perfect life: flawless family, thriving company, enviable home. But behind the elegant facade lies a crumbling marriage, a twin sister estranged by secrets, and two daughters caught in the middle of a bitter domestic war.
Julia’s second husband Shane behaves like the perfect partner and stepfather, but is there another side to him? 😱
Eighteen-year-old Molly is about to leave for Princeton. But something dark binds her to the home she plans to escape. She’s been playing with fire, and the heat is getting too much to bear…
When a lavish farewell party is ruined by a night of reckoning, buried secrets slowly come clawing to the surface. Now, with everything at stake, the truth must come out. But the closer you look at the Lassiter family, the more twisted their story becomes. And the real question isn’t what happened that night—it’s why… 🔍
Patricia Dixon delivers a chilling psychological thriller that peels back the layers of a seemingly perfect family to reveal a shocking portrait of obsession, betrayal, abuse, and the lies we tell to protect the ones we love. Dixon excels at domestic suspense where nothing is as it seems and everyone has secrets worth killing for. This twisty thriller explores family dysfunction, the masks people wear, and how far someone will go to maintain appearances. Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell who love unreliable narrators and jaw-dropping revelations.
Grab this twisty domestic thriller at 67% off—a perfect family hides deadly secrets! 💀
Author: Jenny Schwartz
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Galactic Empire Science Fiction
Welcome to the Saloon Sector, Deputy! 🚀
Thelma Bach graduated top of her class after four years at the Galactic Justice academy. But she’s a Rock Sector citizen. She was a fool to believe the core worlders would ever allow her to beat them at their own game. She’s been assigned to serve her seven years as a deputy in the Saloon Sector. The message for the Federation’s out-world citizens is clear: you’ll never be our equal, so don’t even try. 😤
The core worlders chose the wrong person to push around.
Assigned to the despised frontier, Thelma will get her revenge even if she has to subvert a sheriff with a mysterious background (one who served with her Star Marine brother—will she be a baby sister forever?), charm artificial intelligences, fight bandits, and negotiate with aliens. 🌟
It’s not a question of whether Thelma will survive her exile, but whether the Saloon Sector will survive her! 💥
Jenny Schwartz delivers space opera with a Western twist, featuring a frontier deputy determined to prove herself in a sector designed to break her spirit. Schwartz creates a vivid galactic setting with clear class divisions, political intrigue, and a heroine whose determination and competence shine through despite systematic discrimination. This series combines action, humor, and found family dynamics with commentary on privilege and outsider status. Expect AI allies, mysterious sheriffs, alien negotiations, and a protagonist who refuses to accept the limitations others place on her.
Space Western meets determined heroine—she’ll show the core worlders what frontier justice looks like! ⭐
Author: LJ Shen
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Enemies to Lovers Romance
Underneath the goody-two-shoes persona is damaged goods…but can the bad boy across the street save her? 💔
Bailey Followhill is the perfect daughter. Sweet. Charitable. Pretty. Control freak. Not a hair out of place, not an inch out of line, she is everything her troublemaking sister Daria isn’t. But when her A game turns out to be a lukewarm C- at Juilliard, Bailey’s picture-ready life starts fraying faster than the worn satin ribbons of her pointe shoes. 🩰
She’s becoming a piece of gossip. The Troubled Child. A drug abuser. No longer the girl her best friend once knew.
Lev Cole is so golden, he’s got the Midas Touch. Prized quarterback. Football captain. Hottest guy in SoCal. A textbook cliché. But with a girlfriend he doesn’t love and a career path he doesn’t value, Lev is coasting. The only two things he cares about—Bailey and becoming a pilot—are out of reach. 🏈
LJ Shen delivers another angsty romance in her All Saints High series, featuring the perfect girl whose life is unraveling and the golden boy who’s been in love with her forever. Shen excels at creating deeply flawed characters dealing with real issues—addiction, eating disorders, family pressure, mental health struggles. This isn’t light romance; it’s raw, emotional, and sometimes brutal in its honesty. Bailey and Lev’s connection has been building for years, but timing and circumstances keep getting in the way. Expect angst, damaged characters finding salvation in each other, and Shen’s signature blend of heartbreak and hope.
Angsty YA romance about a perfect girl falling apart and the golden boy who’s always loved her—emotional and intense! 🔥
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