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Poison Apple Crisp (Murder in the Mix Book 25) (affiliate link)
This book can be read on its own without reading the other books in the series so dive on in!
My name is Lottie Lemon, and I see dead people. Okay, so I rarely see dead people, mostly I see furry creatures of the dearly departed variety, who have come back from the other side to warn me of their previous owner’s impending doom.
It’s fall. The air is crisp, and the apples are poison. Evie is turning sixteen, my life has been upended, and then there’s that body…Honey Hollow High is having a fundraiser and it’s not only full of surprise exes, and glitzy baubles, it’s full of murder. And on top of that, I have news that has turned my world inside out. And now both Noah and Everett are forced to reckon with it. Everything has changed in my world. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Lottie Lemon has a brand new bakery to tend to, a budding romance with perhaps one too many suitors, and she has the supernatural ability to see the dead—which are always harbingers for ominous things to come. Throw in the occasional ghost of the human variety, a string of murders, and her insatiable thirst for justice, and you’ll have more chaos than you know what to do with. Living in Honey Hollow can be murder.
Cooked (A Lucie Rizzo Mystery Book 6) (affiliate link)
BENEATH (affiliate link)
It was Stella Gullaksen’s final break before starting her freshman year at college. Joining her best friend, Jill, and Jill’s family aboard the STARKISSED, Stella wakes to a violent storm that capsizes the boat over a hundred miles off the New Jersey shore.
As the waves haul her under Stella knows that she is going to die. Instead, an unusual current drags her deep into the underwater canyons of the Atlantic Ocean. Powerless against the raging waters, she is suddenly sucked into a ventilated cave. One by one, Jill and her family also emerge into the sunken cavern.
With only a faulty diving flashlight to keep oblivion at bay Stella and her best friend’s brother, Colin, search the cave in hope of finding a way back to the surface. What they discover, however, is that they are not alone. There are other survivors in this subterranean grotto–survivors spanning decades of maritime disasters.
Will this discovery prove salvation, or have they all been condemned to the same fate? A grim finale at the bottom of the sea?
A Simple Twist Of Fate (Terry Eckhart Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
A Simple Twist of Fate follows Detective Terry Eckhart as he investigates a suspicious house fire in San Francisco’s Sunset District that left two people dead. What begins as a potential accident or suicide grows more complex, raising questions about the intended target. Alongside his partner, Nick Fowler, Eckhart’s search for answers takes them from Golden Gate Park to Silicon Valley.
The case deepens when another body is found in the park, hinting at possible connections or misdirection. Suspects include a Silicon Valley CEO obsessed with turning alchemy into reality and his board chairman determined to halt the dangerous experiments. Meanwhile, Eckhart is haunted by a previous brutal case involving a child killer, which looms over him as a court trial approaches.
In the background, a shadowy figure, driven by prophetic and tormenting thoughts, grows increasingly desperate to act. As the investigation unfolds, the truth behind the crimes and the Dark Figure’s role come into sharper focus, building toward a gripping climax.
How Murder Saved My Life (affiliate link)
With grown children and a husband that travels for work, Zoey spends most of her time alone on her pig farm. Her only companions are her pet mini pig and an evil voice in her head intent on destroying her. A voice she knows well. One she’s beginning to believe.
Things look up when a young woman inherits the farm next door. A friend, a hope – then a murder victim. Zoey’s simple life shatters when she discovers the woman’s body in her field.
The sheriff on the case used to be Zoey’s best friend, but now they can barely stand the sight of each other. With the sheriff against her, her pet pig by her side, and the voice trying to destroy her, Zoey fights as the killer and the voice target her.
Can she find the courage to defeat them all?
A Duchess Godsent (Unexpected Duchesses Book 2) (affiliate link)
“If marrying you is the only way to be close to these children, then I accept.”
Losing a brother and having to raise one’s twin nephews can be hard. But Duke Christopher must succeed, even without a bride. Only, the children’s vexing godmother has other plans…
Despite being a shy wallflower, nothing can keep Frances away from her godchildren. Even if that means giving up all her hopes for a love match and becoming a Duchess of convenience…
Their marriage has only one purpose: raising the boys together.Yet her maddening husband starts haunting her every thought. Making her long for the only thing she can never have… him.
Safe by the Marshal’s Side (Witness Protection Book 1) (affiliate link)
A lawman puts his life—and his heart—on the line to protect a family in danger in Shirlee McCoy’s romantic suspense novel Safe By the Marshal’s Side.
For a year, US Marshal Hunter Davis has protected witness Annie Delacorte and her toddler daughter. But now, someone is determined to stop Annie from testifying against the men who killed her husband.
To guard Annie, by-the-book Hunter will have to break a promise to himself: to not get emotionally involved. After all, he already cares more deeply than he ever imagined for the sweet family of two—a family he’ll do anything to keep safe and sound by his side.
Deadly Setup (Love Inspired Suspense) (affiliate link)
Back in her hometown, Paige Becker has one goal: to prove her brother didn’t murder his wife. But as she begins her hunt for the real killer, a truck runs her off the road, and Paige is convinced it was no accident. Now her old flame, Seth Garrison—the detective who put her brother in jail—is in charge of the investigation into the wreck. Seth doesn’t believe Paige was intentionally targeted…until someone begins stalking her, and a woman who might have information is murdered. In order to unmask the murderer, they must dig into a shadowy and painful past—a past that once drove them apart. But is the killer out for revenge against Paige’s brother, or did Seth put the wrong man behind bars?
An Available Man: A Novel (affiliate link)
When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him.
The problem is that Edward doesn’t feel available. He’s still mourning his beloved wife, Bee, and prefers solitude and the familiar routine of work, gardening, and bird-watching. But then his stepchildren surprise him by placing a personal ad in The New York Review of Books on his behalf. Soon the letters flood in, and Edward is torn between his loyalty to Bee’s memory and his growing longing for connection. Gradually, reluctantly, he begins dating (“dating after death,” as one correspondent puts it), and his encounters are variously startling, comical, and sad. Just when Edward thinks he has the game figured out, a chance meeting proves that love always arrives when it’s least expected.
Reckless: Best Friend’s Older Brother Romance (The Hartleys) (affiliate link)
When a woman who lives by the rules is forced to deal with a man who doesn’t, she has to face a painful truth: sometimes we do the wrong things for the right reasons.
Tyler Hartley — my best friend’s older brother, my childhood crush — has always been a wild card.
A charming heartbreaker who never took anything seriously.
Carefree. Untouchable.
At least, that’s who I thought he was.
Being stuck with him for his sister’s wedding changes everything.
It makes me remember that I’ve always wanted him.
And now… he finally wants me too.
But the closer I get, the more I realize I never really knew him at all.
Falling for him again might be the most reckless thing I’ll ever do.
The Book of Separation: A Memoir (affiliate link)
Born and raised in a tight-knit Orthodox Jewish family, Tova Mirvis committed herself to observing the rules and rituals prescribed by this way of life. After all, to observe was to be accepted and to be accepted was to be loved. She married a man from within the fold and quickly began a family.
But over the years, her doubts became noisier than her faith, and at age forty she could no longer breathe in what had become a suffocating existence. Even though it would mean the loss of her friends, her community, and possibly even her family, Mirvis decides to leave her marriage and her religious world and forge a new way of life. In order to do so, she must learn to silence her fears and the voices telling her who she is supposed to be.
Brave and inspiring, The Book of Separation illuminates universal themes of faith, doubt, love, and change, and explores what it means to heed your inner compass at long last.
Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior’s Life & Legacy (affiliate link)
The Edward Clown family, nearest living relatives to the Lakota war leader, presents the family tales and memories told to them about their famous grandfather. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Crazy Horse. The family clarifies the inaccuracies and shares their story about the past, including what it means to them to be Lakota, the family genealogy, the life of Crazy Horse and his motivations, his death, and why they chose to keep quiet with their knowledge for so long before finally deciding to tell the truth as they know it.
This book is a compelling addition to the body of works about Crazy Horse and the complicated and often conflicting events of that time period in American History.
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