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Hostile Taco-ver (Street Food Cozies Book 1) (affiliate link)
When an unexpected inheritance turns deadly…
Billie Halifax is not only new to Sea Glass Island, Florida, but also to the food truck business. After her late grandmother left her a non-functional fleet, Billie packed up and headed out on a new adventure, ready for anything. Or so she thought…
Her first task is to find a manager for the initial truck, so she narrows it down to three potential candidates from a local culinary school. They’ll show off their skills and she’ll pick the best of the best for her first truck, Taco the Town.
Billie’s off to a bit of a rocky start, having to deal with a cranky business partner she didn’t even know she had. Things go from bad to worse when one of the contestants competing for the manager position is found dead and the other two are at the top of the suspect list.
With her entire future at stake, it’s up to Billie to solve the crime before her taco truck’s next stop is failure.
While Dawn Luke travels to her hometown of Arkansas to tend to her sick mother, London Carter is called upon to investigate the murder of a young teenager whose body is found stuffed under the exit ramp of an overpass. It was apparent to London that the murderer wanted to make sure the kid was dead, but the motive for the killing was far from obvious.
Summoning the assistance of Detective Rachael Bowler, the two are finally able to locate the actual crime scene and that leads them to the identity of their young victim. But instead of providing answers, the identification leads to more questions. Could a secret involving the young man lead them to the killer, or will it only muddy the waters and interfere with their investigation? Whatever the case, this is one killer no one should take for granted–not even a cop as skilled and gritty as London Carter.
Soldiers of Earthrise: Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
Jon Taylor is an Earthling. He doesn’t care much about space. At least until his brother dies on Bahay, a war-torn planet many light-years away.
After the funeral, Jon joins the army. He learns to kill. And he flies to Bahay, sworn to avenge his brother.
Centuries ago, Filipino colonists arrived on Bahay to build a utopia. But this world has become a nightmare. Jon finds himself in a dizzying dreamscape, a world of dark jungles and neon slums, of ruthless guerrillas and intoxicating bargirls, of blood-soaked battlefields and glittering brothels. Here on Bahay, a man can lose his life in the jungle, lose his sanity in the gleaming drug dens, or lose his heart to a local girl with a sweet smile and knife behind her back.
On Bahay, nothing is as it seems. In this place of strange dreams and secrets, Jon hunts the man who killed his brother. But he learns that revenge always comes with a price…
Death Of A Deputy (A Murder In Milburn Book 2) (affiliate link)
Nora Newberry’s dream life is not going according plan.
Her best friend and business partner, Raquel, has just been murdered. The one man she had thought she loved can now be seen moseying through town with a supermodel dangling off his arm. And the diner she and Raquel had planned on opening together may never feed its first customer.
At least she still has her friend, Sean, the town sheriff…
So, when the sheriff’s deputy is killed at the town’s annual Viking festival and everyone suspects Sean of murder, Nora realizes she must figure out a way to prove him innocent. After all, she can’t handle losing him, too!
Fingertips (Courageous Love Series) (affiliate link)
A rising executive and her boss’s new client – a heated workplace romance that goes deeper than one night.
Selene Whitaker’s carefully curated life is thrown into comical then deadly chaos when her one-night stand is revealed as Jacob Q. Fox, her boss’s new client.
A consummate professional and dedicated personal assistant, Selene has built her quiet, predictable life from the ashes of her wild, dark youth in Appalachia. She owes it to her estranged family to keep her head down and her passions under lock and key, but her boss’s new client makes her ache for freedom from her restraints.
When Fox is roped into his brother’s business affairs, he welcomes the distraction as a great way to keep him from chasing after the vixen who gave him the morning-after-brush-off. What was supposed to be a routine business meeting becomes more than he bargained for when he finds himself face-to-face with his fling and hundreds of employees’ well-being on the line. He is drawn to the enigmatic Selene even though her uncanny ability to read people makes him uneasy and her quiet smile renders him speechless.
The Wilds relentlessly reclaim all things. Humanity shelters within their ever-dying cities. Mages create the only path forward.
Tala had to fight tooth and nail in the Magic Academy to forge a path to power that was her own. She knows it’s her duty to use that power to serve humanity, defending them against the creatures of the untamable wilds. However, she skipped a few steps in her education, like apprenticing to someone who actually knows what they’re doing.
Now, Tala has to balance learning as fast as she can with paying off the veritable mountain of debt the Magic Academy dropped on her shoulders for the opportunity; not to mention staying alive.
Even though she should only be a Mageling, the world considers her a Mage. Bless the stars she directed most of her magic toward survival.
Finding His Mark (Stealth Ops Book 1) (affiliate link)
She’s crashed the biggest party of her life, and she’s about to pay the price.
As the leader of an off-the-books black ops SEAL team, Luke Scott can’t afford for anyone to discover the truth about who he is or what he does. But when a critical mission gets botched by a member of an iconic Hollywood family, he’ll have to fight to protect his team’s identity, as well as keep himself from falling for the woman who’s turned his life upside down.
Eva Sharp’s the writer and co-producer for the hit TV series SEAL Security. While on break from filming, the last thing she expects is to end up in the middle of a real-life action scene–one that puts her life on the line. At first, she’s not sure if she can trust this stranger in the mountains, even if he has military written all over him. But the more time she spends with him, the harder it is to fight the pull of attraction, without also jeopardizing his op.
From a Distance: Timber Ridge Reflections, book 1 (affiliate link)
What happens when the realization of a dream isn’t what you imagined—and the secret you’ve spent a lifetime guarding is finally laid bare?
Determined to become one of the country’s premier newspaper photographers, Elizabeth Westbrook travels to the Colorado Territory to capture the grandeur of the mountains surrounding the remote town of Timber Ridge. She hopes, too, that the cool, dry air of Colorado and its renowned hot springs will cure the mysterious illness that threatens her career—and her life.
Daniel Ranslett, a former Confederate sharpshooter, is a man shackled by his past, and he’ll do anything to protect his land, and his solitude. When an outspoken Yankee photographer captures an image that appears key to solving a murder, putting herself in danger, Daniel is called upon to repay a debt. He’s a man of his word, but repaying that debt will bring secrets from his past to light.
The World That We Knew: A Novel (affiliate link)
At the time when the world changed, Hanni Kohn knows she must send her twelve-year-old daughter away to save her from the Nazi regime. Her desperation leads her to Ettie, the daughter of a rabbi whose years spent eavesdropping on her father enables her to create a mystical Jewish creature, a rare and unusual golem, who is sworn to protect Hanni’s daughter, Lea. Once Ava is brought to life, she and Lea and Ettie become eternally entwined, their paths fated to cross, their fortunes linked.
What does it mean to lose your mother? How much can one person sacrifice for love? In a world where evil can be found at every turn, we meet remarkable characters that take us on a stunning journey of loss and resistance, the fantastical and the mortal, in a place where all roads lead past the Angel of Death and love is never-ending.
VISIT: A Novel (affiliate link)
President Maggie Lawson is thrust into an unprecedented crisis when an alien craft crash-lands near her hometown while she gives a local speech. As the Secret Service mobilizes and special forces race to secure the site, Lawson’s worst fear comes true—her 15-year-old daughter has gone missing.
When it becomes clear that her daughter has been abducted by the extraterrestrial visitors for reasons unknown, Lawson calls on Curt Holt, a notorious former Army military intelligence officer known for his ability to interpret and handle unexplained aerial phenomena.
As the world edges closer to discovering the truth, President Lawson faces an impossible dilemma: conceal the alien encounter to prevent mass hysteria, or risk everything to bring her daughter home—and hope the visitors’ demands don’t ignite a global chaos.
Under the Southern Sky (affiliate link)
Recently separated Amelia Saxton, a dedicated journalist, never expected that uncovering the biggest story of her career would become deeply personal. But when she discovers that a cluster of embryos belonging to her childhood friend Parker and his late wife Greer have been deemed “abandoned,” she’s put in the unenviable position of telling Parker—and dredging up old wounds in the process.
Parker has been unable to move forward since the loss of his beloved wife three years ago. He has all but forgotten about the frozen embryos, but once Amelia reveals her discovery, he knows that if he ever wants to get a part of Greer back, he’ll need to accept his fate as a single father and find a surrogate.
Each dealing with their own private griefs, Parker and Amelia slowly begin to find solace in one another as they navigate an uncertain future against the backdrop of the pristine waters of their childhood home, Cape Carolina. The journey of self-discovery leads them to a life-changing lesson: family is always closer than you think.
Blessed by a Highland Curse (A MacKay Clan Legend) (affiliate link)
He’s a Highlander from the past, seeking his soulmate. She loves coffee and air conditioning.
He’s determined to take her back to his time. She’s dead set on keeping him in hers.
Newly divorced, teetering on bankruptcy, and about to lose her land, Rachel Hawkins is hanging on by a frazzled thread, but she’s still hanging on and that’s what counts. But when she dreams about a handsome Highlander who treats her to a hotter night of loving than any she’s ever read about and then shows up on her doorstep the next morning, she wonders if her frazzled thread has snapped. While it’s true her grandmother was a talented witch and trained Rachel before she died, Granny never said anything about conjuring up the perfect lover in a dream and having him delivered to your door the next day. The last thing she needs right now is a man to complicate the mess that is her life. Unless he wants to rent out the room over her garage. Rent money? She can use that. A relationship? Not so much.
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