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Puppily Ever After (affiliate link)
Robin Taylor isn’t looking for love. In fact, she’s barely holding it together after a brutal breakup and an even more brutal move back to her sleepy hometown. Working at the local pet store was supposed to be temporary—just long enough to figure out her next step. She didn’t count on Remi.
Remington “Remi” Picasso is sunshine in human form. He’s the annoyingly cheerful manager with surfer hair, puppy eyes, and a mysterious past he doesn’t talk about. He’s also the reason Robin keeps showing up for her minimum-wage shifts and why her heart won’t stay in its cage.
When a scruffy white rescue dog named Pinky brings them closer than either of them expects, Robin and Remi find themselves tangled in more than just a leash. Between flirtatious banter, awkward close calls, and the world’s most chaotic pet store, their opposites-attract connection turns into something neither saw coming.
But can two broken hearts—and one very determined dog—find their way to happily ever after?
Last Man Standing (The Earthburst Saga Book 1) (affiliate link)
I wasn’t supposed to survive.
The station has been hit. Everyone around me is dead.
I have 11 hours of life support left and no way of contacting Earth.
I’m alone. I’m stranded. I’m desperate.
But I’m alive.
The more of the station I explore, the surer I get that this was no accident. Someone did this, and I don’t think they’re finished yet.
Making it home feels like an impossible task, but I’m not just fighting for my own life.
I have to protect my family — whatever it takes.
And as long as I’m breathing, this isn’t over.
Because whoever did this almost pulled it off… but they made one big mistake:
They left the wrong man standing…
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How many lives would you spend to find your beloved?
Dominick Davidner was murdered. Then things got worse.
Instead of going on to the afterlife, Dominick found himself back in his nine year old body, all memories of his previous life intact.
All he can think about is Emily, the love of his life, left behind when he died.
Unfortunately, she is now thousands of miles away. How can Dominick find his way back to the woman he loves, and what will he say if he finds her?
Rogue Agent (A Star Nation in Peril Book 1) (affiliate link)
She was his protector. Until he betrayed them all. Now he’s dead—and the secrets buried with him may ignite a war.
Heather Kilgore is the deadliest assassin in the Fringe, a fearsome agent for her King and star nation. But when a high-profile defector is found dead outside the embassy on a contested world, Heather is pulled back into a past she’d tried to forget. Her orders are simple: find out why her name was in the dead man’s pocket. But nothing is simple in a galaxy of shifting loyalties and buried truths.
As the stakes escalate and alliances blur, Heather must confront enemies on both sides of a centuries-old conflict, and she may be the only hope of stopping a war. But for her, this one is personal, and she’ll do whatever it takes to complete her mission and find out why she was betrayed.
The Complete Mycroft Holmes Mysteries Box Set (affiliate link)
It’s been one-hundred years since Watson died and Mycroft still doesn’t understand what Sherlock saw in having such a companion, but after so long alone and somehow still as young, he is starting to wonder what it might be like to have a disciple of his own.
Life for Amelia Jones is dull, she’s spent all her years writing about the adventures other people have, and then she meets the Holmes brothers. Can she persuade the most intelligent person in the world to trust her? And if she does, can she survive the danger that surrounds them?
The Duke’s Stolen Bride (Stolen by the Duke Book 1) (affiliate link)
“Make me your villain then. But like it or not, you are my wife, and you will obey.”
To save her sister’s future, Lady Evangeline agrees to marry her childhood friend, a man she doesn’t love. But her plans are shattered when the notorious Duke of Eldermoor storms into the church, claiming her fiancé is already married… To his sister!
Duke Hugh will stop at nothing to avenge his sister’s ruin. He will destroy the man who wronged her—and even steal his bride.
Now locked in a marriage born of revenge, Hugh must stay away from his alluring wife. No matter how much he wants to claim her… Or how she shivers under his touch.
The Edge of Town (The Jones Family Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
The Names of Dead Girls (Canaan Crime Novels) (affiliate link)
Every murder tells a story. Some stories never end . . .
In a remote northern Vermont town, college student Rachel Rath is being watched. She can feel the stranger’s eyes on her, relentless and possessive. And she’s sure the man watching her is the same man who killed her mother and father years ago: Ned Preacher, a serial rapist and murderer who gamed the system to get a light sentence. Now, he’s free.
Detective Frank Rath adopted Rachel, his niece, after the shocking murder of her parents when she was a baby. Ever since, Rath’s tried to protect her from the true story of her parents’ deaths. But now Preacher is calling Rath to torment him. He’s threatening Rachel and plotting cruelties for her, of the flesh and of the mind. When other girls are found brutally murdered, and a woman goes missing, Rath and Detective Sonja Test must untangle the threads that tie these new crimes and some long-ago nightmares together. Soon they will learn that the truth is more perverse than anyone could guess, rife with secrets, cruel desires, and warped, deadly loyalty.
Jacqueline in Paris: A Novel (affiliate link)
In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She’s twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother’s expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light. Jacqueline is immediately catapulted into an intoxicating new world of champagne and châteaux, art and avant-garde theater, cafés and jazz clubs. She strikes up a romance with a talented young writer who shares her love of literature and passion for culture – even though her mother would think him most unsuitable.
But beneath the glitter and rush, France is a fragile place still haunted by the Occupation. Jacqueline lives in a rambling apartment with a widowed countess and her daughters, all of whom suffered as part of the French Resistance just a few years before. In the aftermath of World War II, Paris has become a nest of spies, and suspicion, deception, and betrayal lurk around every corner.
When she moved her young family to her husband’s hometown in northern France, Karen Le Billon expected some cultural adjustment. But she didn’t expect to be lectured for slipping her fussing toddler a snack, or to be forbidden from packing her older daughter a school lunch. Karen is intrigued by the fact that French children happily eat everything – from beets to broccoli, from salad to spinach – while French obesity rates are a fraction of what they are in North America. Karen soon begins to see the wisdom in the “food rules” that the French use to foster healthy eating habits and good manners in babies and children. Some of the rules call into question both our eating habits and our parenting styles. Other rules evoke commonsense habits that we used to share but have somehow forgotten.
Combining personal anecdotes with practical tips and appetizing recipes, French Kids Eat Everything is a humorous, provocative look at families, food, and children that is filled with inspiration and advice that every parent can use.
There’s Always Room at the Table: A Cozy Homestyle Cookbook with a Rustic Farmhouse Approach (affiliate link)
When Kaleb Wyse started documenting his daily life on his farm in Iowa, he didn’t think many people would take notice or even care. After all, his way of life is simple, guided by the seasons—he spends his days gardening, preserving, baking, and cooking, a rhythm not all that different from that of his parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents who worked the land before him.
But it turns out that people from all over the country (and even the world) connected with Kaleb’s simple, back-to-basics way of living, and fell in love with his hearty, homestyle cooking. From casseroles to biscuits, his recipes hit the sweet spot of nostalgia for some—and are a breath of fresh air for others.
In his debut cookbook, Kaleb shares his midwestern family recipes, updated for the way we eat today:
Overnight French Toast Stick Casserole
Cornmeal Pancakes with Blackberry Sauce
Roasted Pork Tenderloin with Spiced Apricot Glaze
Caesar Roasted Brussels Sprouts
Roasted Zucchini, Dill, and Feta Dip
Honey Dijon Three Bean Salad
Rhubarb Custard Pie Bars
Salt Lane (affiliate link)
Sergeant Alexandra Cupidi is a recent transfer from the London metro police to the rugged Kentish countryside. She’s done little to ingratiate herself with her new colleagues, who find her too brash, urban, and — to make matters worse — she investigated her first partner, a veteran detective, and had him arrested on murder charges.
Now assigned the brash young Constable Jill Ferriter to look after, she’s facing another bizarre case: a woman found floating in local marsh land, dead of no apparent cause. The case gets even stranger when the detectives contact the victim’s next of kin, her son, a high-powered graphic designer living in London. Adopted at the age of two, he’d never known his mother, he tells the detectives, until a homeless womanknocked on his door, claiming to be his mother, just the night before: at the same time her body was being dredged from the water.
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