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Save Me (Katie Winter—Book 1) (affiliate link)
FBI Special Agent Katie Winter is no stranger to frigid winters, isolation, and dangerous cases. With her sterling record of hunting down serial killers, she is a fast-rising star in the BAU, and when a woman is discovered in the middle of a frozen lake, Katie is the natural choice to partner with Canadian law enforcement to track the killer across the brutal and unforgiving landscape.
But tensions run high between Katie and her new Canadian partner, and time is running out before the killer’s trail goes cold. The case also conjures the demons of her own past: Katie’s younger sister, vanished years ago on the shore of the very same lake, a case that remains unsolved.
Can Katie keep her demons at bay long enough to enter a killer’s mind and stop him before it’s too late?
Boardwalk Cottage (A Pajaro Bay Novel) (affiliate link)
Hallie Reed has given up on fairy tale dreams. They only lead to pain. Now she has a new rule: stick to the safe path. But when her friend disappears from a summer job at a funky old amusement park, Hallie has to break out of her protective shell and take a chance on something bigger than herself.
The Madrigal family was shattered when a fire swept through their oceanfront boardwalk a dozen years ago. When outsider Hallie comes to town, she learns the place is haunted by tragedy, and she’s soon swept up in the decades-old mystery of the Madrigals. Is she the one who can help Kyle Madrigal finally make peace with his family’s legacy? And could this be the key to unlocking her own lost dreams as well?
The Old Men in Blue: Take Back Oregon (affiliate link)
Kyle Morris and his long-time buddies of the Ghost Team are at it again. Kyle has recovered enough from his last bullet wound to carry on with the fight. His teammates are ready.
New guys and gals are introduced to assist the Ghost Team in the fight to free Oregon. The ruthless invaders and criminal gangs are still attempting to rule over what’s left of the damaged State of Oregon.
The Ghost Team fights from Eastern Oregon to the Willamette Valley. Some days the team assists the National Guard, other days the Guard is saving the Ghost Team. This is a non-stop action-packed story of the few that stepped up and answered the call to fight for freedom. Shortly after, the Chinese launched an EMP missile strike and invaded Oregon and Washington states.
We Play Games (affiliate link)
They move into your neighbourhood. They charm your friends. And then they destroy your life.
Effie and Ben May aren’t your average married couple. Behind the pristine gates at the exclusive community, Ivy Oaks, they’re hunting for their next mark. Someone vulnerable, someone ripe for manipulation, someone who won’t see the trap until it’s too late.
Their marriage thrives on secrets, seduction, and deceit. But when they commence their latest twisted game, something feels different. Ben has broken the rules. Effie is coming undone. And the neighbours? They’re not as innocent as they seem.
As lies spiral and boundaries blur, Effie and Ben find themselves losing control of the one thing they value most—the upper hand.
Flying Crooked (affiliate link)
It’s 1978, and Jack Dolan is a twenty-six-year-old freight dog from Philly desperate to advance his career. In a bold move to get the passenger jet experience he needs he follows a lead to an airline in Miami. The company has a contract to fly pilgrims on the hajj and, Jack figures it’s worth a shot.
But there’s a hitch.
Pan Tropic Airlines is based at Miami’s infamous Corrosion Corner, an area of the airport that’s like the “House of the Rising Sun,” a place he’ll enter and never be able to leave.
And yet, once inside, he’s drawn in by the airline, its people, and its flying. Pan Tropic’s crew of pilots and flight attendants take the tough jobs no one else will touch — plucking the State Department’s right-wing dictators from the clutches of left-wing mobs, delivering food and critical medical supplies to a war-ravaged people in Sudan — and so many more.
Despite the peril, Jack is hooked. He’ll risk his life, his career, and a woman he loves to succeed.
Zero Car – A Cultivation LitRPG (Ocean Slayers Racing Book 1) (affiliate link)
Defective. Fierce. A lonely survivor.
When Oto didn’t connect to the system at adolescence like everyone else, his dreams for racing his way off-planet shattered into a million little pieces.
A chance encounter out in the Wilds will fix his broken parts and set him back on the path to escaping his terrible life—but not in ways he could have ever expected.
With new friends that he’ll have to learn to trust, and a race car to cultivate, Oto’s in over his head. But that’s never stopped him before.
He’s going to go up against the city’s best and most dangerous racers to guarantee, once and for all, that he cannot be ignored.
More Than Human (affiliate link)
Individually, they are a seemingly simpleminded young man living in the woods who can read the thoughts of others, a runaway girl with telekinetic powers, twin girls who can barely speak but can teleport across great distances, and an infant with a mind like a supercomputer. Together, they are the Gestalt—a single extraordinary being comprised of remarkable parts—although an essential piece may be missing . . .
But are they the next stage in human development or harbingers of the end of civilization? The answer may come when they are joined by Gerry. Powerfully telepathic, he lacks a moral compass—and his hatred of the world that has rejected him could prove catastrophic.
Porn Addict’s Wife: Surviving Betrayal and Taking Back Your Life (affiliate link)
Are you feeling shocked, betrayed, devastated, and downright angry after discovering your husband is addicted to pornography? Are you wondering: how could he do this to me or, why aren’t I enough for him? Do you wonder if your marriage is over? Are you feeling lost and alone? Life and relationship coach Sandy Brown has been there. Her own experience in surviving the betrayal of her husband’s porn addiction has inspired her to focus her practice on helping other women to do the same. Through her own recovery and her experience with clients, Sandy has developed a process of recovery to empower women at a time when they feel all is lost. Porn Addict’s Wife shows readers that they are not alone in feeling shattered by their husband’s sexual addiction, and teaches them how and with whom they can safely share their story. By providing resources for readers to get real help for both themselves and their spouse, it provides guidance to healing and rebuilding a normal life.
Her Wolf (Shifted Love Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Allegra Hale had no idea shifters existed when she headed off to college with her two best friends. Let alone that her campus was near a shifter town. But that all changed when she got into a crash and was rescued by Zeke Blakesley—the wolf shifter who insisted they belonged together.
Zeke knew Allegra was his fated mate the moment he caught her scent. Now that he has found the woman who was born to be his, he’ll never let her go.
The Girls: A Novel (affiliate link)
Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as “the girls.” They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing their thirtieth birthday, they are history’s oldest craniopagus twins, joined at the head by a spot the size of a bread plate.
When Rose, the bookish sister, sets out to write her autobiography, it inevitably becomes the story of her short but extraordinary life with Ruby, the beautiful one. From their awkward first steps—Ruby’s arm curled around Rose’s neck, her foreshortened legs wrapped around Rose’s hips—to the friendships they gradually build for themselves in the small town of Leaford, they are on an incomparable life journey.
Exit Fee: A Pike Logan Novella (affiliate link)
Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are no strangers to international conflict, but this time they’re facing a threat much closer to home. Amena, the young Syrian refugee they have taken into their care, is having trouble settling into her new life in South Carolina. As they all struggle to figure out the bounds of their new life, a fight with Pike sends Amena running to the streets of Charleston, where she befriends a girl and her Serbian guardian who may not be as harmless as they seem.
Pike, wild with worry over Amena’s disappearance, makes it his mission to bring her home safely, but she is in much more danger than they realize. To make matters worse, classified nuclear information may also be on the line. While Pike is on the warpath, Amena learns of the Serbian’s true nature and the terrible ‘exit fee’ he exacts from girls who don’t play by his rules.
Now it’s up to Pike to find her— but the risk will be much higher than he imagines.
The Hunted (OPSIG Team Black Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
How well do you really know the person you love? How far would you go to find out?
If there were one person in the world Dr. Lauren Chambers was sure she could rely on, it was her husband, Michael. Slowly recovering from an agoraphobic depression and still prone to episodes of blinding anxiety, the gifted psychologist has depended on his love and support. So when Michael suddenly and mysteriously vanishes, Lauren once again finds herself balancing on a knife’s edge of paranoia.
Is there more to it than paranoia, though? Private investigator Nick Bradley believes so. As the pair takes off on a cross-country journey in search of answers—a search that yields a series of unsettling truths about the husband Lauren believed she knew so well—bestselling author Alan Jacobson sets in motion a page-turning tale of concealed identities, an assassin’s vendetta, and murderous revenge.
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