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Sweet Spot (Hale Street) (affiliate link)
A bartender, a bakery girl, and a past full of mistakes…
Former marketing whiz Kennedy Lowell knows bartending isn’t her destiny. After derailing her life to epic proportions, though, she’s content with the easy refuge of pouring drinks and keeping to herself. But the arrival of her sexy new boss has her both shaken and stirred. Add the temptation of a bakery in need of a marketing guru and Kennedy begins to wonder if easy is all it’s cracked up to be.
Easy is Hunter Clayborne’s middle name. Uncomplicated is what he expects when he moves back to Nashville to take over the family business. What he finds is the polar opposite of easy—a bar losing money, a family entrenched in its old-fashioned ways, and an irresistible bartender who keeps him at a distance in spite of their sizzling mutual attraction.
Overwatch: Book 1 in the Reed Montgomery Series (affiliate link)
He traded his lethal skill set for freedom. Now he wants out. Can a war-weary killer outgun a criminal empire?
Reed Montgomery is slowly dying inside. Desperate to free himself from an ugly contract, the jaded Marine-turned-hitman agrees to one final job. But the assassin’s chance for salvation crumbles in a whirl of lost nerve when he discovers a shocking personal connection with his target.
With his retirement now a pipedream, Montgomery’s only shot at redemption is to train his sights on his criminal bosses before he’s the next hit. And since he’s become an inconvenient loose end in a treacherous setup, the crafty killer must unleash hell on the biggest crooks in the business… or die trying.
Can one pair of deadly hands snuff out an entire cartel of evil?
Living in the country comes with temperamental goats, an ornery next-door neighbor, and a mysterious murder…
Cassie Alberta is loving her new life in Little Leaf Creek. She is getting over the sudden death of her husband, appreciating what small town life has to offer and is enjoying getting to know the locals and their secrets. She is slowly learning how to live next to two cheeky goats and has fallen in love with her neighbor’s endearing dog. But life becomes a whole lot more complicated when she finds the dead body of an orchard owner.
Cassie partners with her antisocial ex-cop neighbor to help solve the murder. Her hands are full, as Thanksgiving is right around the corner and she is determined to try and bring her friends together for a feast, but they would prefer to remain alone.
I Swear To Tell (Cadence Elliott Book 1) (affiliate link)
How can a girl who was raised in a trailer park be working at a top D.C. law firm?
Cadence Elliott beat graduates from the country’s best law schools to the job. No Ivy-League pedigree. No powerful Washington connections. She got there on merit.
Cadence found her exceptional drive as a teen, when she learned she could never trust her mother again. When she realized the adults who claimed to be looking out for her were liars.
She wanted to make damn sure she’d never have to rely on anyone else, ever again. And becoming a lawyer meant she could be someone who stood up for the powerless.
Blood & Roses (Vigilante Crime Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
An evil presence has come back from her past to wreak vengeance of the worst sort …
Rose, whose tragic childhood made her once vow to become an angel of death, left that world behind to be a normal teenager, sunbathing on the beach, playing chess in cafes, and falling in love …
But her life is ripped apart when an enemy from her dark past appears and goes after everything she cares about.
Rose is then faced with a horrific decision: Leave her new life behind to seek a vengeance that might cost her very soul, or risk losing others she loves.
Blood & Roses is the first book in the Vigilante Justice crime fiction series. If you like take-charge heroines, fast-paced page turners, and gritty dramas, then you’ll love Kristi Belcamino’s tale of revenge.
Scorpionfish (affiliate link)
After the unexpected deaths of her parents, academic Mira returns to her childhood home in Athens. On her first night back, she encounters a new neighbor, a longtime ship captain who has found himself, for the first time in years, no longer at sea. As one summer night tumbles into another, Mira and the Captain’s voices drift across the balconies of their apartments, disclosing details and stories: of careers, of families, of love.
For Mira, love has so often meant Aris, an ex-boyfriend and rising Greek politician who has recently become engaged to a movie star. There is, too, her love for her dear friend Nefeli—a well-known artist who came of age during the military dictatorship—as well as Dimitra and Fady, a couple caring for a young refugee boy. Undergirding each relationship is the love that these characters have for Athens, a beautiful but complicated city that is equal parts lushness and sharp edges.
Seasons of the Storm (affiliate link)
One cold, crisp night, Jack Sommers was faced with a choice—live forever according to the ancient, magical rules of Gaia, or die.
Jack chose to live, and in exchange, he became a Winter—an immortal physical embodiment of the season on Earth. Every year, he must hunt the Season who comes before him. Summer kills Spring. Autumn kills Summer. Winter kills Autumn. And Spring kills Winter.
Jack and Fleur, a Winter and a Spring, fall for each other against all odds. To be together, they’ll have to escape the cycle that’s been forcing them apart. But their creator won’t let them go without a fight.
The Secrets to Happiness at Work: How to Choose and Create Purpose and Fulfillment in Your Work (affiliate link)
For working adults, business leaders, and HR professionals who want to lead a more fulfilling life, THE SECRETS TO HAPPINESS AT WORK shows how we can thrive at work by making empowered, wise choices about the kind of work we do, the people we work with, and the ways we manage our work-life boundaries.
Perfect for readers of What Color is My Parachute?, expert Tracy Brower sets a foundation by making the case for joyful work and life, pointing to research on personal, family, and child health. From stress and sleep to marriage and child development, joyful work is a critical part of a healthy life.
Just Like That (Albin Academy Book 1) (affiliate link)
Summer Hemlock never meant to come back to Omen, Massachusetts…
But with his mother in need of help, Summer has no choice but to return to his hometown, take up a teaching residency at the elite Albin Academy—and work directly under the man who made his teenage years miserable.
Professor Fox Iseya.
Forbidding, aloof, commanding: psychology instructor Iseya is a cipher who’s always fascinated and intimidated shy, anxious Summer. But that fascination turns into something more when the older man challenges Summer to be brave. What starts as a daily game to reward Summer with a kiss for every obstacle overcome turns passionate, and a professional relationship turns quickly personal.
The Foot Fix: 4 Weeks to Healthier, Happier Feet (affiliate link)
This book will empower you to get your feet functioning as they should do, without any medical intervention. Includes a 4-week plan of quick-and-easy exercises to get your feet back into shape, plus solutions for specific foot issues, from plantar fasciitis to fallen arches.
This is a uniquely helpful and accessible guide to taking control of your own foot health by holistic heath innovator Yamuna Zake. We don’t need doctors, orthotics or even surgery to relieve common foot problems, such as plantar fasciitis, bunions, neuromas, arthritis, hammertoes, and flat feet. By learning a correct gait that uses the entire foot to distribute weight, we can relieve and prevent common foot problems without any medical intervention.
The Particulars of Peter: Dance Lessons, DNA Tests, and Other Excuses to Hang Out with My Perfect Dog (affiliate link)
Standing Strong: A Woman’s Guide to Overcoming Adversity and Living with Confidence (affiliate link)
You can’t break a woman who draws her strength from God. God made you to stand strong in any adversity, and this book will show you how.
We live in a culture that constantly tells you who you should be as a woman. You are told that you are not enough and that you don’t have what it takes–you are asked, “Who are you to dream big?”
For the woman who longs to break free from what holds her back, bestselling author Alli Worthington offers a no-nonsense, guilt-free guide to take back your life from self-doubt.
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