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Starboard Secrets (Millie’s Cruise Ship Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Millie Sanders’ happily ever after is suddenly destroyed when her husband of 35 years comes home one day and informs her that he is leaving her for another woman. To make matters worse, the other woman happens to be her “friend” and hairdresser, Delilah Osborne!
After months of mourning and moping around the house, she stumbles upon a help wanted ad in the newspaper for the perfect job as an assistant cruise ship director. Before Millie can talk herself out of it, she fills out the application and mails it in. Much to her surprise, not only does the company contact her, they hire her!
Determined to start a new life and new career, Millie boards the ship, ready for a new adventure. She isn’t on board the massive floating city – her new home – more than ten minutes when a dead body is discovered near the atrium bar. Her curiosity gets the best of her and before she knows it, Millie finds herself right in the thick of the investigation.
Willow Cove Series: Books 1-2 (affiliate link)
If loving him was wrong… why did it feel so right?
A family tragedy brought Ella Moretti home. Seven years later, with her dreams still on hold, living with her grandfather and working in the family restaurant, she is stuck. Until, a handsome stranger on the bus makes her dare to dream again.
Unfortunately, his last name makes him completely off limits. Neither wanting to betray their family, they start a secret love affair, but when the past resurfaces and old feuds refuse to stay buried, Ella and Lucas have to decide if their forbidden love is worth the consequences.
Death’s Door (Jesse Yates/Palm Court Detectives Book 1) (affiliate link)
Elite combat veteran Jesse Yates is used to things being simple: find the enemy and kill him. But at a point where 9/11 seems to have become a distant memory to everybody but him and his team, Yates opts out of the military. Now he just wants to be a regular guy and fit back into society. But he’s not a regular guy, and he has come home to a stressed-out America where every act seems to involve a risky set of consequences.
Yates needs a job, and Palm Court Detectives, run by an ex-Jesuit priest in a vintage motel, can provide the two things he wants more than anything right now—a close-knit team like the one he had in the military, and a chance for the occasional thrill.
Yates could have hoped for a better first assignment than getting behind the wheel of a big rig to draw out hijackers, but he’s not the kind of guy who questions his marching orders. Devotion to duty and supreme confidence soon drive the rookie private eye into the middle of a turf war between outlaw bikers and a drug cartel renegade with a severe Jesse Yates problem.
The Beast’s Unwanted Duchess (Icy Dukes Book 1) (affiliate link)
The Duke of Ravenmoor has killed his wife… or at least that’s what the rumors say. And even though Victor couldn’t care less about the ton’s gossip, this particular one needs to be stopped immediately!
Abandoned by her beastly husband on their wedding night, Alice thought her life couldn’t get worse. Until the vexing Duke returns…
And this time he is planning to stay, until his reputation is restored. Yet Alice cannot wait until then. Not when she starts yearning for the man she can never have: her husband…
Beyond the Shadows (Savannah Sleuths Book 1) (affiliate link)
They solved a murder before prom—now they’re retired, nosy as ever, and dead set on cracking one last case before someone signs them up for chair yoga and a senior discount.
When Emma Lynn Whitmore returns to her childhood home in Savannah after losing her husband, she expects peace, maybe a little porch-sitting—not a fifty-year-old mystery clawing its way out of the attic. A faded photograph, a broken promise, and a name no one’s dared mention in decades all point to one thing: Delilah didn’t run away. She vanished.
Teaming up with her old high school partners-in-crime-solving—sharp-tongued Margaret and quietly brilliant Graham—Emma Lynn dives headfirst into a Southern tangle of missing land deeds, whispered family names, and secrets buried deeper than a Lowcountry grave.
Prison psychologist Dr. Alison Payne has interviewed hundreds of convicted killers, advocating for their release—or determining if they should remain behind bars.
But when a suspected killer she once interviewed escapes, Alison must delve into the dark corridors of his mind to save others before it’s too late—and to save herself.
The Best Friends (affiliate link)
I thought we were best friends. But maybe I was wrong . . .
I get a text from Evan. Lily’s been attacked. Get here asap.
Lily is my old college roommate and my best friend. Her businessman husband Evan worships the ground she walks on.
Evan meets me at the hospital, a quiet sob wracking his body. He gives me a hug. For some reason it makes me uncomfortable.
Lily is in a coma, surrounded by beeping equipment, a tube emerging from her swollen, purple lips.
The police show me something. Photos they found scattered around Lily’s body. A woman showering, sleeping, undressing. Pictures of a woman with a man, her face blurred out.
After working as a cop in New Orleans, Carter Trahan is back in Mystere Parish, where his latest assignment seems like a joke: making sure Alaina LeBeau lives in her childhood home for two weeks to comply with her mother”s will. But soon the sexy sheriff isn”t laughing. Someone—or something—is stalking the beautiful defense lawyer, turning her once-grand mansion into a house of horrors.
But as he searches for the truth, Carter must face ghosts of his own past lurking in the bayou. Most troubling of all is his unprofessional attraction to the woman he”s protecting, as Alaina”s allure haunts him as no specter ever could….
Kiss an Angel (affiliate link)
Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don’t happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix?
Alex Markov, as humorless as he is deadly handsome, has no intention of playing the loving bridegroom to a spoiled little feather-head with champagne tastes. He drags Daisy from her uptown life to a broken down traveling circus and sets out to tame her to his ways.
But this man without a soul has met his match in a woman who’s nothing but heart. Before long, passion will send them flying sky high without a safety net… risking it all in search of a love that will last forever.
The Game (affiliate link)
It started out like any other Tuesday.
I spent twelve hours writing algorithms for one of the largest companies in the world and then came home to work on a pet project of mine—feeding facts about the men I knew into a formula to find my perfect match before my twenties came barreling to a close.
But then a man knocked on my door and handed me some papers that turned my life upside down.
Apparently, a father I never knew existed had left me something in his will. That something turned out to be part ownership in a professional football team.
Next thing I knew, I was learning a sport I knew nothing about by spending time with the team’s quarterback who was out with an injury, a man who my formula would definitely determine was all wrong for me.
Say You Still Love Me: A Novel (affiliate link)
Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway.
On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day.
Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group, and coincidentally the first love of her life.
The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counselors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The guy who apparently doesn’t even remember her name.
Loving Cara (Love Under the Big Sky Book 1) (affiliate link)
Cara Donovan’s summer tutoring job is turning out to be a challenge—and not just because of her troubled twelve-year-old student. It’s his uncle Josh who’s the real problem. If problem is the word for an irresistibly cocky, muscle-bound rancher with a taste for tight Levi’s and shameless flirtation…
Cara is nothing like the wallflower Josh King remembers good-naturedly teasing in high school. This Cara is gorgeous, confident, fun. From the moment the fiery teacher steps foot on his family’s Lazy K Ranch, the stubborn playboy is determined to corral her. So what happens when his luscious lover takes over the reins?
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