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The Greek Island Secret (affiliate link)
A secret diary. Love lost. And love found . . .
Greece, 1969. Reeling from a devastating loss, free-spirited Elin Morgan escapes to a sun-drenched Greek island. She seeks shelter among the blue painted shutters, bobbing fishing boats and lanes lined with olive trees.
Up the hill from the taverna where she’s staying, Elin rekindles her love of painting at a tiny art studio and, with the help of handsome wood-carver Stelios, unlocks hidden passions.
But their carefree summer isn’t to last. Elin leaves, taking with her a shocking secret that will span decades.
Wales, 1991. Art student Alexandra is unmoored by the death of her beloved mother Elin. She doesn’t know what to do when she learns she’s been left a beautiful old diary.
Elin’s journal tells of the summer she spent on a Greek island in 1969 and gives Alexandra her blessing to find out the truth about her past.
The Amnesia Desk (affiliate link)
Meet the Amnesia Desk : a clandestine, ultra-violent group tasked with keeping the CIA’s darkest secrets hidden – permanently.
When archaeologist Lee Jackson takes an experimental drug he starts having vivid hallucinations about the deep past. But are they hallucinations or actual ancestral memories? And why are they dominated by memories of battles?
But while most of Jackson’s memories are from centuries ago, one is from the recent past, and it’s a threat to the very existence of the CIA.
Jackson has to die.
The Amnesia Desk send their finest to Britain to deal with the threat. But there’s something they haven’t counted on: Lee Jackson has access to centuries of combat experience. This is a fight the Amnesia Desk wasn’t expecting.
The Truth About Fairy Tales (Matchmaking Agency) (affiliate link)
Callie Bloom, owner of The Truth About Fairy Tales Matchmaking Agency—TAFT for short—knows just how hard it is to find a man, much less a good and faithful man. That’s why her matchmaking agency strives to help the women of Belmont, Georgia find their happily ever after.
Business is booming, or at least it was before the murder of a client. Now, she must figure out how to help her clients find their Prince Charming without sending them into the arms of a killer.
Throw in a sexy detective and some chocolate sauce, and things get complicated. Will she figure out who the killer is before another TAFT client loses their life? And, will Jack, the sexy detective, save her heart from more than just this killer?
That One Regret (The Heartbreak Brothers Next Generation Book 1) (affiliate link)
He was her unforgettable one-night stand. She’s the one woman he can’t have.
Grace never meant for the dare to go this far.
Flirt with the hot stranger at the hotel bar? Easy. Spend the night tangled in his arms? Even easier. Walk away without a backward glance? Impossible.
But when morning brings a devastating revelation, Grace has no choice but to leave Michael Devlin behind—without a goodbye.
She thought she’d never see him again. She was wrong.
A year later, Michael is in her small town, and he’s even more maddeningly irresistible.
Older, guarded, and carrying secrets of his own, he makes it clear he’s not staying. But avoiding him in a town like this? Not an option.
Every accidental touch, every heated glance, every stolen moment makes it harder to remember all the reasons he’s off-limits.
At twelve-years-old, Isla and Ben are strangers until their family vacations in Thailand bring them together. In the days that follow, their rare connection blossoms into something magical, framed by the shimmering ocean.
But on Boxing Day morning, a giant tsunami tears through their paradise, leaving them both missing, presumed dead.
For over twenty years they’ve lived separate lives, haunted by the same disaster, never knowing the other survived. But when a chance encounter brings them back together in Bangkok, both are forced to confront the past, the grief that shaped them, and a love that could change everything.
Inspired by real-life events, The Day of the Wave is a deeply moving, often funny story of healing, hope, and the power of love to rise above even the most unthinkable loss.
To Be Your Girl (To Be Yours Book 1) (affiliate link)
First Love, Second Chance (affiliate link)
When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it’s not because she wants to. It’s because she’s disillusioned, broke—and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she’s paying a high price for trusting the wrong man.
Booker Robinson is the the man she’d left behind in Dundee . . . and the first person she sees when she comes back. But despite Booker’s notorious past, he now has a successful business and a home of his own.
Katie’s vowed she’ll never trust her heart again to a man. But sometimes a man isn’t everything he seems. And sometimes he’s more . . .
The Pink House (GraceTown Book 1) (affiliate link)
Hannah isn’t sure exactly what she’s hoping to find in GraceTown, but a mysterious pink house in the woods that no one but her has ever seen isn’t it. Nor does she expect the woman living in the house—someone unknown yet still familiar to Hannah–to present her with a gift: a handwritten letter from her deceased husband.
Who is the woman in the pink house? How did she get the letter? What is Hannah meant to do with all it reveals?
Answering these questions will lead Hannah to places—and people—she never could have imagined.
Fatal Complications (affiliate link)
When a colleague’s patient suffers a bizarre reaction in the operating room, Luke Daulton, a newly minted anesthesiologist, volunteers to help. Despite the surgical team’s best efforts, the patient succumbs to a rare anesthetic complication. Luke becomes perplexed, even suspicious, over their inability to save the woman. Is it possible that the diagnosis was wrong? Or, worse yet, was the diagnosis faked? Luke even wonders if his boss Dr. Katz is involved.
Too busy with the rigors of new job and his pending fatherhood, Luke is forced to put his suspicions on hold. When his wife Kim faces a C-section, his fears are reignited. Could there be a murderer—or murderers—operating in his hospital? Could his wife’s obstetrician be involved? When the C-section goes horribly wrong, Luke must launch into action to save his wife and baby and expose a conspiracy he’s uncovered in his hospital.
Wood’s Relic (Mac Travis Book 1) (affiliate link)
The Writing Life (affiliate link)
From Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer’s life.
In these short essays, Annie Dillard—the author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and An American Childhood—illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. A moving account of Dillard’s own experiences while writing her works, The Writing Life offers deep insight into one of the most mysterious professions.
The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography (affiliate link)
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