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Gone (Gone Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
One poor decision will haunt her forever.
Macy Mercer only wants a little independence. Eager to prove herself grown up, she goes to a dark, secluded park. She’s supposed to meet the boy of her dreams who she met online. But the cute fifteen year old was a fantasy, his pictures fake. She finds herself face to face with Chester Woodran, a man capable of murder.
Distraught over his own missing daughter, Chester insists that Macy replace his lost girl. He locks Macy up, withholds food, and roughs her up, demanding that she call him dad. Under duress from his constant threats and mind games, her hold on reality starts to slip. Clinging to her memories is the only way of holding onto her true identity, not believing that she is Chester’s daughter. Otherwise she may never see her family again.
Let It Breathe (The Can’t Have Hearts Club Book 1) (affiliate link)
Step one: build a new tasting room . . . uh, yesterday.
Step two: dodge PR disasters while wrangling her eccentric family.
Too bad her contractor turns out to be Clay Henderson.
Her ex’s best friend. The most forbidden guy in her orbit.
The old Clay was a wild blend of bad decisions and bar fights.
But new Clay is sober, serious, and sexier than a cellar-aged cabernet.
Too bad he’s still off-limits.
And Reese has her hands full already.
Between her pot-growing grandpa, her parents behaving like smitten teens,
and an alpaca with a groin-butting vendetta,
Reese needs more drama like she needs bonus holes in her wine barrels.
But Clay’s steady presence—paired with a bad-boy-gone-good vibe—
has Reese spiraling faster than a busted corkscrew.
Magical Cool Cats Mysteries Volume 1 (affiliate link)
A Death of Fresh Air (A Right Royal Investigation Mystery) (affiliate link)
Human remains found inside the wall of a disused building have now been identified as those of Victor Blackwell. He was the head chef at Windstanton’s The Seaside Lounge until just over three years ago, when, according his friends, he left for a job in Australia. Detective Inspector Albert Finch from Fenshire’s Cold Case Unit has asked for anyone who has information about the chef’s movements three years ago to come forward.
We have no choice! With only three weeks until the Grand Opening, the last thing Bea and Perry need is the grim discovery of a skeleton in the wall of Simon and Ryan’s soon-to-open restaurant, SaltAir. But when it’s designated a crime scene, and the policeman in charge of the investigation into Vic’s murder refuses to let them have access to continue the refurbishment, they have no other option than to investigate the murder themselves or risk letting Simon and Ryan down.
The Aristocrat Diaries Boxset (affiliate link)
LADY LOVE:
An aristocrat and a gardener walk into a bar, and the barman says—never mind. They walked into a shed, and they’re kissing. Oops.
My name is Lady Gabriella Hastings, and there are three things you need to know about me.
One: my idiot brother will inherit the estate I’ve adored my entire life. Two: my father wants me to marry an idiot who has an estate like this. Three: my aunt’s goats keep escaping and terrorising the public.
Oh, and I have a huge crush on the gardener.
Except I have absolutely no time to sort my own love life, because I’m too busy moonlighting as an online agony aunt to fix everyone else’s problems.
If only I could stop having inappropriate feelings about Miles Kingsley, the grumpy, bearded gardener of Arrowwood Hall.
He hates me, and I’m not quite sure why. My own horticultural dreams are about to slip through my fingers, and he’s the one person who can help me.
If only he wasn’t such a classist bas—ahem.
It’s giving unhinged but wise older sister energy—the one who’s been through it all and is here to spill every chaotic, heart-wrenching, and hilarious detail over cocktails.
At its heart, Don’t Do Anything I Would Do is a memoir about love—the kind that makes you believe in fate, the kind that knocks you flat on your ass, and the kind that forces you to rebuild yourself from the ground up. It’s about big love and even bigger heartbreaks.
Divorce. Situationships. Love-bombing. Ghosting. Grand gestures. Gut-wrenching betrayals.
Checking his location even when you swore you wouldn’t. Making playlists instead of moving on. Chemistry so intense it makes you temporarily lose your mind. And the absolute disaster that is modern dating.
But it’s also about what happens after—when the dust settles, when the texts stop, when you’re left with nothing but your own reflection and a choice: stay stuck or start over.
The Right Place (affiliate link)
From the outside, Maggie Lemon has a perfect life. But she and her husband have been trying for a baby for five years and she’s exhausted. She’s seen countless fertility experts and followed dozens of diets and homeopathic recommendations, and even gave up her dream restaurant in London when doctors suggested the stress might be too much. And now her estranged aunt has died, leaving her hotel in Provence to Maggie.
It’s been years since Maggie visited Le Figuier. There’s a lot of work to be done and she knows she should sell it. But when a disgraced Hollywood actor hiding out at the hotel lends a hand, the load feels a lot lighter. Is it just the chemistry with this handsome stranger, or is it starting to feel like Maggie might finally be in the right place?
The Tenth Justice (affiliate link)
The young attorneys who clerk for Supreme Court justices wield extraordinary power—privy to sensitive material that could prove disastrous in unscrupulous hands, making decisions that could change lives… or destroy them. They are…
THE TENTH JUSTICE
Landing a prestigious position as a Supreme Court clerk fresh out of Yale Law, Ben Addison is on the ultrafast track to success—until he inadvertently shares a classified secret with the wrong listener. And now the anonymous blackmailer who made a killing with Ben’s information is demanding more. Guilty of a criminal act, his golden future suddenly in jeopardy, Ben turns for help to his roommates—three close friends from childhood, each strategically placed near the seats of Washington power—and to his beautiful, whip-smart fellow clerk, Lisa Schulman. But trust is a dangerous commodity in the nation’s capital. And when lives, careers, and power are at stake, loyalties can shatter like glass… and betrayals can be lethal.
Second Down (False Start Book 1) (affiliate link)
Reliving the Past. Remaking the Future.
In 2024, after a lifetime of bad luck, Blake Sims dies alone and angry about what could have been. But that was not the end of Blake’s story. It’s the beginning of a new version of his life when fourteen-year-old Blake wakes up in 1994 with the memory of a vivid dream. A dream of living a whole life filled with disappointment that all started his sophomore year of high school when his father died.
The dream is odd and Blake thinks nothing of it, until things from his dream start coming true. It quickly becomes clear to Blake that his dream, still clear in his memory, was more than just a dream. Using what he learned in the dream life, Blake sets his sights on correcting the wrongs and creating a new future for himself. His first goal, to find a way to save his father, who was killed in a gang initiation gone wrong.
Skylight Confessions (affiliate link)
Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn’s polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticut countryside, to the avenues of Manhattan, and to the blue waters of Long Island Sound. Glass breaks, love hurts, and families make their own rules. Ultimately, it falls to their grandson, Will, to solve the emotional puzzle of his family and of his own identity.
The Thing About Jellyfish (affiliate link)
The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life (affiliate link)
Robert Evans’ The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood storytelling.
With black-and-white photographs from the author’s archive and a new introduction by the legendary actor, producer, and Hollywood studio chief Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture is driven by a voice as charming and irresistible as any great novel.
An extraordinary raconteur, Evans spares no one, least of all himself. Filled with starring roles for everyone from Ava Gardner to Marlon Brando to Sharon Stone, The Kid Stays in the Picture: A Notorious Life is sharp, witty, and self-aggrandizing, and self-lacerating in equal measure.
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