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Dogcatcher in the Rye (Bought-the-Farm Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
When Ivy Galloway’s sheepdog sniffs out a corpse in her rye field, the brand new hobby farm innkeeper must trade fresh pies for clues and clear her name in Clover Grove.
Turning a hobby farm into a country inn sounded rustic-chic… until murder plowed through the rye.
Fleeing big-city burnout, Ivy is determined to open Runaway Farm & Inn, even if she can’t tell the difference between an alpaca and a llama. But the grand opening gets shelved when the local police chief—her former high school sweetheart—pegs her as Suspect #1.
Armed with HR-honed interview skills and a border collie who lives to work, Ivy digs for answers among quirky relatives, runaway rescue animals, and a bumper crop of secrets. Meanwhile, the killer closes in on her beloved new home.
MARK KANE MYSTERIES: BOOKS 5 – 8 (affiliate link)
Left For Dead: Morecambe Bay Trilogy 1 (Book 1) (affiliate link)
The first book in the Morecambe Bay series …
A return to the past. Two guilty secrets. A memory that won’t stay buried …
When Charlotte and Will Grayson return to the seaside resort where they met as teenagers, they hope it’ll help to heal the wounds in their marriage.
But visiting the dilapidated holiday camp where their relationship began brings terrible memories back from the past.
The man who’d once made their lives hell has come back to find them – only, the last time they saw him, they’d left him for dead on the beach.
As the threats to their new life become more severe, Charlotte and Will discover that they were mistaken about what happened to Bruce Craven on that fateful night.
And now he’s returned to finish off what was started thirty years ago.
Soldier of Fortune: Fortune Chronicles 1 (affiliate link)
A disgraced soldier, a draco with attitude, and a thief who won’t let him quit. The fight for justice begins on the streets of Nike City.
Gideon Quinn, wrongly imprisoned for treason, is released under suspicious terms and sent to Nike City with nothing but a handful of starbucks, his pet draco Elvis, and a target on his back.
Gideon has one goal: clear his name and end the traitor who framed him. Nothing in that plan includes taking on strays—least of all an under-aged thief who crashes into his life, bringing chaos, questions, and—worst of all—more people.
But as danger closes in and enemies move in the shadows, Gideon must decide: continue chasing his solitary revenge—or stand up and fight for those Fortune has left behind.
A Shot of Scandal (A Cafe Crimes Book 1) (affiliate link)
Small town. Big crime. And one feisty, caffeine-fueled amateur sleuth caught in the middle. It all starts here in A Shot of Scandal—the first brew in the Cafe Crimes Cozy Mystery series.
Parker Hayes—a former true-crime podcaster turned aspiring cafe owner—thought swapping the hustle of big-city life for the charm of Magnolia Grove would be a piece of cake … or at least a slice of pie. But when a high-society gala at the historic Beauregard Mansion ends with a murder and the theft of the priceless Magnolia Rose necklace, Parker’s peaceful plans quickly go up in steam.
Between renovating her new cafe and navigating small-town secrets, Parker finds herself in the middle of a mystery steeped in scandal, lies and lattes.
Can she sift through Magnolia Grove’s dirty laundry, catch a killer and still get her cafe up and running?
Accidental Mystic (Midlife Melody Book 1) (affiliate link)
He’s a vampire who’s been asleep for fifty years. She’s a woman who’s been asleep her whole life. Is this the start of something new or just another match made in Hell?
Bethany Parker is falling apart. Stunned on her fiftieth birthday to discover her stepchildren hate her and her husband wants a divorce, the devastated homemaker is suddenly and unexpectedly on her own. Taking a job as caretaker for a mysterious estate, Bethany fears she’s lost her mind when she learns the house is cursed … and she holds the power to break it.
Teaming with a pushy medium, a hard-drinking housekeeper, and a sarcastic talking cat, the discombobulated divorcée struggles to master the magic she never knew she had. And with the grumpy, wolf-shifter sheriff trying to run her out of town and a sleeping vampire hidden somewhere in the mansion, Bethany worries her new life is already doomed.
Threats and Promises (affiliate link)
After her estranged brother dies, Lauren Stevenson inherits his substantial legacy, allowing her to finally fix a medical condition that’s plagued her all her life. The results of the plastic surgery are nothing less than astounding. In the mirror, Lauren sees a whole new person.
But that’s just the beginning. The shop Lauren has opened in Boston with her best friend is an instant success, and she’s even bought a farmhouse that she can’t wait to renovate. The only thing missing in her life is romance—until Matt Kruger shows up outside of her shop.
A friend of her late brother, Matt is in town on business. The rugged builder is everything Lauren has ever dreamed about, and they embark on a whirlwind romance. Only, strange things begin happening to Lauren—a garage door misses her by inches, a vicious dog appears out of nowhere, and things in the house seem to have been moved. With danger appearing around every corner, Lauren is convinced she’s being stalked.
Heart Lake Series Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
Coming home means facing her past…and the cowboy she’s never gotten over.
Returning to Heart Lake feels like stepping into a dream for Hope Remington. As the new principal, she’s determined to bring healing to a divided town by uniting students from two fiercely competitive high schools under one roof. But she soon realizes her biggest challenge isn’t in the classroom.
Josh Hawling, the champion bull rider who broke her heart, is her new head of security. As student rivalries simmer to dangerous levels, working alongside Josh rekindles feelings she thought she’d put behind her forever.
The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific (affiliate link)
In one of his most exotic and adventuresome journeys, travel writer Paul Theroux embarks on an eighteen-month tour of the South Pacific, exploring fifty-one islands by collapsible kayak. Beginning in New Zealand’s rain forests and ultimately coming to shore thousands of miles away in Hawaii, Theroux paddles alone over isolated atolls, through dirty harbors and shark-filled waters, and along treacherous coastlines.
Along the way, Theroux meets the king of Tonga, encounters street gangs in Auckland, and investigates a cargo cult in Vanuatu. From Australia to Tahiti, Fiji, Easter Island, and beyond, this exhilarating tropical epic is full of disarming observations and high adventure.
Anatomy of a Witch: A Map to the Magical Body (affiliate link)
This book is a guide to the most magical tool in your possession—your body. Not just your physical flesh-and-blood body, but also your symbolic Witch body, the conduit for bringing the material and metaphysical worlds together. Within these pages, you will explore hands-on magical practices, exercises, and sigils related to your Witch Lungs, Heart, Bones, Mind, and the spiraling path of your inner Serpent.
Magic flows most freely when you are in tune with your intuition and the power of your true self. Through dozens of activities, prompts, spells, and rituals, Anatomy of a Witch helps you connect with the seen and unseen worlds, your ancestors, and your living community. Discover the profound correspondences between your body, the mythos of tarot, and the five elements. Practice rituals and activities for protection, warding, rebalancing your home, and embracing your body, despite the limiting beliefs that society foists upon us. This book teaches you how to tap into your personal power as you make a pilgrimage to the inner workings of your true self.
The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: A Novel (affiliate link)
A clever and complex woman builds an ice cream empire after immigrating from Russia in this stunning novel of power, Prohibition, and performance set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America.
In 1913, little Malka Treynovsky flees Russia with her family. Bedazzled by tales of gold and movie stardom, she tricks them into buying tickets for America. Yet no sooner do they land on the squalid Lower East Side of Manhattan, than Malka is crippled and abandoned in the street.
Taken in by a tough-loving Italian ices peddler, she manages to survive through cunning and inventiveness. As she learns the secrets of his trade, she begins to shape her own destiny. She falls in love with a gorgeous, illiterate radical named Albert, and they set off across America in an ice cream truck. Slowly, she transforms herself into Lillian Dunkle, “The Ice Cream Queen” — doyenne of an empire of ice cream franchises and a celebrated television personality.
The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864–April 1865 (affiliate link)
The revised and updated groundbreaking study of the most extensive military operation of the Civil War—from the author of Bloody Roads South.
The Petersburg campaign began on June 9, 1864, and ended on April 3, 1865, when Federal troops at last entered the city. It was the longest and most costly siege ever to take place on North American soil, yet it has been overshadowed by other actions that occurred at the same time period, most notably Sherman’s famous “March to the Sea,” and Sheridan’s celebrated Shenandoah Valley campaign. The ten-month Petersburg affair witnessed many more combat actions than the other two combined, and involved an average of 170,000 soldiers, not to mention thousands of civilians who were also caught up in the maelstrom. By its bloody end, the Petersburg campaign would add more than 70,000 casualties to the war’s total.
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