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Sweatpants & Sweet Tea (Firefly Island: Southern Nights Book 1) (affiliate link)
Their connection is undeniable. Their goals are incompatible. When Hollywood hits the small town, will their sizzling chemistry explode?
Daphne Moore is determined to stop being a people pleaser. But after seven lackluster years working on a pop culture tabloid show, the ambitious TV producer is starting to rethink her career-first mantra. And a weekend in Georgia sounds like a great opportunity for a simple reset… until she meets a six-foot-four country boy who tempts her to backslide.
Harlan Mitchell knows what he wants. But the retired pro baseball player’s plan to get married and settle down on the family farm implodes when he lays eyes on the blonde-haired California beauty. And he can’t resist chasing the sparks when he realizes the curvy temptation is staying right next door.
Abandoning her no-dating rule when her hunky neighbor answers the door wearing only gray sweatpants riding low on his waist, Daphne tries to enjoy the fireworks without worrying about commitment. But when Harlan discovers she’s still headed back to the West Coast, his loyal heart is torn.
First Light (The Daylight Cycle Book 1) (affiliate link)
Before the attacks, Rose’s life was simple.
Before there was mass violence in America, she was a university student in Liverpool.
Before her roommate was savagely attacked, she wanted to make the world a better place.
That was before the zombie outbreak.
Now, Rose and her best friend Lyra are forced to flee their flat and find refuge onboard a yacht with a group of armed survivors. Although safety seems likely on the open sea, it’s only a matter of time before a new outbreak occurs.
Frozen Stiff (affiliate link)
In a chilling game of cat and mouse, the hunter becomes the hunted.
Two corpses are discovered, grotesquely mutilated and frozen solid. It’s clear that a ruthless killer is on the loose, and it’s only a matter of time before they strike again.
With no leads and no clues, the local PD is left floundering, forcing them to call in the big guns – the FBI.
Enter Chase Adams. An FBI recruit with a background as a Narcotics Officer in Seattle and a NYPD Detective, Chase’s unique insights into the warped minds of killers make her a valuable asset. But as she dives into this chilling case, even Chase, seasoned as she is, finds herself tested to her limits.
When the bodies of a third and fourth victim are discovered across the country, Chase realizes she’s not just on the trail of a killer, but a monster whose murderous spree knows no boundaries.
What kind of creature could commit such horrific crimes? And why?
Death Eternal (Necromancer Rising Book 1) (affiliate link)
Death is supposed to be the end.
Not in my world.
The dead never move on, not since Death walked off the job and disappeared. As a necromancer, it’s my job to police the spirits while they remain stuck and, well, problematic a lot of the time.
Death really needs to take his head out of his backside and get back to work, wherever he might be.
After a horrible incident in the tunnels of the London Underground, my life takes a sharp turn. It’s all my fault and I’m sent off to a small town, a move to keep me out of sight and mind for the time being. Shamed, reputation dragged through the dirt.
I’m not getting that promotion anytime soon.
Beneath This Ink (affiliate link)
And then I finally had her for one night.
A night I don’t remember.
I figured I’d blown my shot.
But now she’s walked back into my life, and this time, I have the upper hand. I want my second chance.
Will she be able to see the man beneath this ink?
The Richest Man in Babylon (affiliate link)
What if the secrets to wealth were as simple as ancient wisdom?
First published in 1926, The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason has helped millions achieve financial success through simple, powerful principles wrapped in unforgettable parables.
Set in the ancient city of Babylon, the book delivers practical lessons on saving, investing, and building wealth through the stories of ordinary people who learn how to master money. Its core teachings—pay yourself first, live below your means, make your gold multiply, and protect your wealth—remain as relevant today as they were nearly a century ago.
Unlike modern finance books full of jargon, Clason’s timeless parables are clear, memorable, and easy to apply. Whether you’re struggling with debt, starting to save, or seeking financial independence, this classic offers the foundation for lasting prosperity.
The Burning Stones (affiliate link)
Love, murder, middle age, and a sauna to die for…
A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered … in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death?
The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen – top salesperson and the victim’s successor at Steam Devil.
And as if hitting middle-age, being in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work weren’t enough, Anni realizes that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all – before it’s too late…
From the international bestselling author of Little Siberia and The Rabbit Factor, comes a darkly funny, delightfully tense new thriller that showcases humanity at its most bare – in middle age, suspected of murder and, of course, in a sauna…
The Pain Hunter (The Broken Doll Book 1) (affiliate link)
A violent jailbreak bleeds into a street fair in Wisconsin. In the wake of the carnage, a getaway van barrels down a rural highway. Inside are two men with a tenuous bond: an obsession with pain.
One is Paul Offenbach, a sadistic crime boss with a life-threatening bullet wound. The other is his hostage, Dr. Stuart Collier, now faced with a harrowing ethical quandary. Mile by mile, as a calculated battle of wills and wits plays out, the killer plots his next move. So does the doctor, sworn to do no harm but desperate to escape.
The Castle of Kings (affiliate link)
In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century girl, refusing to wear dresses and spending more time with her pet falcon than potential suitors. There is only one suitor she is interested in: Mathis, a childhood friend whom she can never marry due to his low birth status.
In the midst of war, Agnes’s falcon finds a mysterious ring, and Agnes begins having strange but seemingly meaningful dreams. Dreams that lead her and Mathis to run away from their home in Trifels Castle and into the midst of the tumultuous Peasants’ War, cast into an adventure that will lead them to shocking revelations about themselves and the future of the emerging German states.
When sixty-four-year-old Jackie Kennedy Onassis died in her Fifth Avenue apartment, her younger sister Lee wept inconsolably. Then Jackie’s thirty-eight-page will was read. Lee discovered that substantial cash bequests were left to family members, friends, and employees—but nothing to her. I have made no provision in this my Will for my sister, Lee B. Radziwill, for whom I have great affection, because I have already done so during my lifetime, read Jackie’s final testament.
Drawing on the authors’ candid interviews with Lee Radziwill, The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters explores their complex relationship. In life, Jackie and Lee were alike in so many ways. Both women had a keen eye for beauty—in fashion, design, painting, music, dance, sculpture, poetry—and both were talented artists. Both loved pre-revolutionary Russian culture, and the blinding sunlight, calm seas, and ancient olive groves of Greece. Both heard the siren call of the Atlantic, sharing sweet early memories of swimming with the rakish father they adored at his East Hampton retreat. But Jackie was her father’s favorite, and Lee, her mother’s. One would grow to become the most iconic woman of her time, while the other lived in her shadow.
The Accidental Housemate (affiliate link)
Cath Beckinsale is in a jam. She’s a single mum of three, with her 40th birthday in sight and a precarious hold on employment. And she can’t quite let go of her late husband Gaz, whose ashes are still in an urn on the kitchen table.
To make ends meet a student lodger seems like the perfect solution – after all, what’s one more child in the house? But when Dan flies in from the US with guitar and chest hair on display, it’s immediately clear that he’s no teenager, but someone who quickly sends life in an unexpected direction.
The Monsters of Templeton (affiliate link)
“The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.” So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl’s search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian’s house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie’s entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father’s identity lies somewhere in her family’s history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town’s past — some sinister, all fascinating — rise up around her to tell their side of the story.
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