As an Amazon Associate we earn commissions from qualifying purchases.
Severed Relations (Finn O’Brien Book 1) (affiliate link)
Murder behind the gates of Fremont Place was unusual…
Two children and a nanny slaughtered in the home of a rich young lawyer and his beautiful wife was unheard of. Shunned cop, Detective Finn O’Brien, and his partner, Cori Anderson, must connect the dots between the L.A. ladies-who-lunch, lawyers who skate on the edge of the law, pornographers, and Hollywood freaks.
Following a trail of bodies and shattered relationships, they uncover a horrific truth behind the murders that will either bind them together for eternity or sever their relationship in the cruelest cut of all.
The Sugar Belly Secret: Subtract the Sugar, Lose the Weight, and Transform Your Life (affiliate link)
This book reveals the simple secret to losing your sugar belly and never seeing it again.
Trendy low-carb diets, exercise programs, exercise equipment, and weight-loss surgeries typically produce a yo-yo effect, with short-term gains that cannot be sustained for a meaningful length of time. It’s a vicious cycle that teases you with progress, raises your hopes, and brings you crashing back to reality.
The Sugar Belly Secret is different. It’s a new, highly effective, easily sustainable weight-loss system based on the best practices of the most successful low-carb and high-carb diets that substitute real, healthy food and beverages for fake, processed ones. It doesn’t require you to count calories, reduce portion sizes, or exercise, either.
In his informative and entertaining new book, The Sugar Belly Secret: Subtract the Sugar, Lose the Weight, and Transform Your Life, Joe Bovino explains how he discovered the secret to lasting weight loss and maintenance, and how you can use it to improve your appearance, health and fitness at any age.
The House That Jack Built: A Humorous Haunted House Fiasco (affiliate link)
Never Flip a Haunted House…
In less than 24 hours Nate Merritt loses his job, his girlfriend, and his estranged Aunt Edna. But after Edna’s will bequeaths him a historic mansion deep in the backwoods of Louisiana, Nate hatches a daring plan: he’ll renovate the house and flip it for a tidy profit. The fact that Nate knows nothing about home improvement doesn’t deter him at all.
Too bad he doesn’t realize the mansion in question happens to be haunted. And the ghost who lives there might not be so indiscriminate about Nate’s ability.
Humorous and irreverent, The House That Jack Built is a story of learning how to move on to the next chapter of life—as well as a tribute to every disastrous renovation ever attempted by a homeowner.
And ghosts. Don’t forget the ghosts.
Tempting as Sin (Sinful, Montana Book 2) (affiliate link)
Once bitten, twice shy.
Rafe Blackstone may play the sexiest werewolf superhero to ever melt a woman’s…heart…on the big screen, but Lily Hollander has already been bitten once by an actor, and once was enough. When she’s fooled all over again, it’s time to put that wayward heart in lockdown mode, especially once Rafe starts aiming his overprotective streak at her identical twin. Lily may seem like the softer side of the twinship, but nobody messes with her sister.
There’s nothing she can do about Rafe being her temporary neighbor in the mountains above Sinful, Montana, or about being forced to witness the least impressive feats of horsemanship known to man. That doesn’t mean she has to let him into her lingerie store, her heart, or any other part of her anatomy. He can just take his silver-blue wolf eyes, his rueful smile, and the rest of his gorgeous self, and…Wait, where was she again?
Murder by the Letter (Lettering Book 1) (affiliate link)
Greetings from Monchac, Louisiana. Home to fifty-seven souls and the world’s only floating stationery store!
When Mila Breaux’s LA dreams go up in smoke, she’ll move her cozy lettering shop down to bayou country, and pile her pens and paper onto her late uncle’s houseboat.
But the discovery of human bones just feet from her new store will rock the foundations of the sleepy swamp town. It will be up to Mila and a quirky band of characters to get to the bottom of things before it is too late!
Interesting locals include her new best friend, a Cajun girl who claims to speak to animals; her Auntie Roma, the best cook in all the south; and Xavier Ordoyn, a handsome but severely lax game warden. Among them, Mila will find a new home, a new pet kitty, and a new life as she dredges the swamps for the truth!
Something Sweet (Something Series Romances Book 1) (affiliate link)
She has a passion for sweets and frosting. He just wants to do his job and have a cup of coffee.
Marley Winters’ life is baking up delicious treats. But just as the holiday season kicks off, she learns that trusting others comes at a steep cost. Her (now ex) boyfriend has been stealing the store’s rent money. To make matters worse, John Klaus, the most handsome lawyer she’s ever seen, arrives to serve her an eviction notice since she is now several months behind on payments. Since she doesn’t have the cash, Marley must leave her business by the end of the year.
When John delivers the bad news to Marley, it’s just another day on the job. But then the pretty baker fights back, proposing an improbable plan: if she can drum up all the missing rent money, she can stay in her bakery. John’s not a monster… he doesn’t want to dash the hope twinkling in those dazzling blue eyes. He agrees to give her three weeks. There’s no way she can raise the money in time. Besides, it’s all in the spirit of Christmas.
In her work as Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing, Meeks has fought tirelessly to shed light on racism and provide tools and experiences to enable faith communities to work to combat it. In this new book, she shares highlights and insights from her journey and offers a much-needed meditative guide for the weary and frustrated. By looking inward and at each other clearly, she argues, good people of all backgrounds can forge a long term and individual path to making a difference. With personal stories and thoughtful direction, she takes the reader on the trajectory from self-awareness to recognition of the past to a new and individual way forward.
Meditation topics include how to work through fear and rage, how stories can help heal, honoring your ancestors while looking toward the future, what it really means to love one another and the meaning of social justice.
Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay (affiliate link)
The sun is shining on the golden castle on Rainbow Bay – and change is in the air!
Amelia is a single mother, doing her very best to look after her young son, Charlie – but money is tight and times are tough. When she first hears that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and that she has inherited a Real-Life Castle by the sea, Amelia can’t quite believe her ears. But it’s true!
She soon finds that owning a castle isn’t quite the ticket to sorting out her money problems that she’d first hoped: she can’t sell, because the terms of the ancient bequest state that any Chesterford who inherits the castle, must live there and work towards the upkeep and maintenance of the family home. So ever-practical Amelia decides to uproot her little family and move to this magnificent castle by the sea.
Deadly Motives (Detective Grant and Ruby Book 1) (affiliate link)
Secrets never stay buried forever…
The Detective
When a nurse is brutally strangled, Detective Grant recognises the work of a killer called Travis. Grant’s a respected detective but early in his career Grant caught Travis for the murder of five women and Travis has been incarcerated ever since. The problem is, Travis was at the hospital when the nurse was murdered.
The Profiler
Young and talented, Ruby is a criminal profiler. Grant takes her under his wing to work this case. It could make her career or it could break her, because Ruby’s been in hiding for a reason.
Photo Finished (Snapshot of NYC Book 1) (affiliate link)
While some people escape into books or music, Liv Spyers escapes through her camera’s lens, which inspires her to jump into things she might otherwise have no business tackling—like moving to New York City. Hustling to make her dreams come true as a portrait photographer, she runs a pocket-sized studio below her grandparents’ West Village brownstone and key shop, where she also lives and works part-time. All of which still has her down to the end of her savings as the holidays approach. Everything changes in a flash, however, when elite events photographer, Regina Montague, invites Liv to shoot with her at New York City’s most exclusive socialite event of the year—the Holiday Debutante Ball!
Liv snaps at the opportunity, convinced that a job with Regina will launch her career. But when her fabulous new gig ends with the murder of billionaire Charlie Archibald, her dream job may never develop with Regina framed for murder.
30 Day Mental Challenge (affiliate link)
In The 30-Day Mental Challenge, Mitch guides you through one simple exercise—so simple, in fact, that you may not believe it can change anything. But, like thousands who have tried, you will be surprised.
You are to direct your thoughts for 30 days toward what is productive, forwarding, and promising—and to believe that every reasonable ambition is within your reach. That’s it. Simple as it sounds, however, this exercise places you in front of tremendous and unforeseen challenges. Hence, Mitch guides you—with realism, bluntness, and authentic ideals—through each day to help you stay on track, contend with pitfalls (which are many), and witness concrete results.
Effort is all it takes. Will you try? Many have said yes only to drop off. Many others have stayed on.
… See the rest of today ‘s Book Picks here on page 2Page 2