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Don’t Speak (Jade Harrington Book 1) (affiliate link)
The nursery rhyme was wrong. Words can hurt you.
Ambitious, twenty-something FBI Special Agent Jade Harrington cuts her vacation short to investigate the murder of a conservative radio personality only to discover that he may be the victim of a serial killer. Whitney Fairchild, the elegant and charismatic Democratic senator from Missouri, campaigns in a cutthroat race for president of the United States. Cole Brennan, the most popular conservative talk-show host in the nation, battles nightly to save his country and help the incumbent Republican president maintain his ‘inner conservative’ to win re-election.
The lives of Jade, Whitney, Cole, and the killer—who has an agenda of his own—are on a collision course. That course will not just impact them each in ways they could never have foreseen, but also the future of the United States of America. Amidst a backdrop of contemporary power politics driven by the influence of talk radio and social media, DON’T SPEAK thrills even as it explores many of the complex issues facing Americans today.
A First Date with Death (Love or Money Book 1) (affiliate link)
Reality TV meets murder in the first in a new mystery series from the USA Today Bestselling author of the Maternal Instincts Mysteries and co-author the New York Times bestselling Scrapbooking Mysteries.
Some were there for love……
the others for money.
Will she find happiness or a murderer?
Being on a reality show was fun until the first date.
The accident was terrible and in an instant, one of the bachelors was dead.
Was it just bad luck?
A Dickens & Christie Mystery Box Set Books I, II & III (affiliate link)
She’s looking forward to tea and scones. Hunting down murderers? Not so much…
Box set.
Leta Parker moved across the pond to get over her grief. And so far, the serene pastoral countryside seems just the place to make a fresh start. But her visions of quaint villages and posh accents are shockingly disturbed when her tranquility is shattered by a rather dead body…
With her newfound book-loving friends and her charming talking dog and cat, Dickens and Christie, Leta rolls up her sleeves to uncover the culprit. But as the town suffers more mysterious demises, these literary ladies soon have their hands full serving up justice.
Will Leta’s reinvented life turn her quiet hamlet into an amateur detective’s dream escape?
Final Deception (The Keeper’s Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
What could go wrong in the city of sin during a total blackout? EVERYTHING…
Brother’s Keeper security operative Cane O’Reilly has one job, keep Charlie Adams alive. When witness protection fails her, more than once, he’s tasked with protecting the only surviving victim of an infamous deranged killer. She comes with a hell of a lot of baggage and…other needs, Cane is all too happy to fulfill.
Hiding out in one of the most secure cities in the US, he has eyes and ears everywhere searching for the killer with unfinished business. Cane will stop at nothing to protect the beautiful and fierce Charlie, but international serial killer Anson Deveraux will go to the ends of the earth to find her… and finish what he started.
What do you do when the lights go out? Run.
Strictly Business (The Salinger Brothers Book 1) (affiliate link)
One office. Two enemies. And a secret he cannot find out…
You know that post-vacation glow? Where you’re all sun-kissed and optimistic and determined to make changes in your life?
Well, mine lasted for about five minutes. Until I walked into the office and saw Myles Salinger sitting in my boss’s chair.
One look at his scowling face was enough to make me want to fly straight back to Europe. And no, he’s not getting any of the donuts I brought in for the team. He doesn’t deserve them.
You see, on paper he’s my contemporary. But in reality he’s been my workplace nemesis for the last two years.
Lucky for us we’re usually separated by five hundred miles.
But now he’s here in my face, throwing his impressive weight around and driving everybody crazy with his demands.
Surrender the Sea (Surrender to Destiny Book 1) (affiliate link)
A young mistrustful lady, desperate to save her family
A man, burdened by guilt, desperate to please his
Both caught in the brink of a war that could change the course of history forever
On the brink of the War of 1812, Marianne Denton must marry to unlock her inheritance. Without the money, her mother can’t receive medical care and her sister will be destitute. But Noah Brenin needs to sail his cargo to England before the war commences in order to prove his worth to his father and make enough money so he won’t have to marry at all.
But when Noah walks out on their engagement party, Marianne chases him down and ends up on his merchantman out at sea. The situation worsens when Noah’s ship encounters a British man-of-war and the couple is impressed into the British navy.
Paul Theroux virtually invented the modern travel narrative by recounting his 25,000-mile journey by train through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. Three decades later, the world he recorded in The Great Railway Bazaar has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it the last time Theroux passed through.
Now Theroux returns to capture the texture, sights, smells, and sounds of this new landscape. Theroux’s odyssey takes him from eastern Europe, still hung-over from communism. He experiences a tense but thriving Turkey, and a Georgia limping back toward feudalism while its neighbor Azerbaijan revels in oil-fueled capitalism. Through it all, Theroux travels as the locals do—by train, bus, taxi, and foot; he encounters fellow writers, including Orhan Pamuk, Haruki Murakami, and Arthur C. Clarke; and, as always, his omnivorous curiosity and unerring eye for detail capture it all.
Passing Through (Three Rivers Book 1) (affiliate link)
Emily Rivers does not have time for love.
Or dating.
Or even a one night stand.
As the eldest of the Rivers sisters, she’s too focused on keeping her family’s campground running in the wake of a devastating tragedy to even think about romance.
When Kim Jefferies shows up at the local small town bar looking like a lesbian snack on a stick, Emily writes her off as yet another tourist just passing through—no matter how much the butterflies in her stomach try to tell her otherwise.
Only Kim’s plans of ‘passing through’ fade the second she sees Emily Rivers, despite the fact that the whole point of her soul-searching journey was to stop falling for random women in bars who only lead her to heartbreak.
Then We Take Berlin: A Novel (Joe Wilderness Book 1) (affiliate link)
John Wilfrid Holderness—aka Joe Wilderness—was a young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz before he started crisscrossing war-torn Europe as an MI6 agent. With the war over, he’s become a “free-agent gumshoe” weathering Cold War fears and hard-luck times. But now he’s being drawn back into the secret ops business when an ex-CIA agent asks him to spearhead one last venture: smuggle a vulnerable woman out of East Berlin.
Arriving in Germany, Wilderness soon discovers he’s being played as a pawn in a deadly game of atomic proportions. To survive, he must follow a serpentine trail through his own past, into the confidence of an unexpected lover, and go dangerously deep into a black market scam the likes of which Berlin has never seen.
The Last Affair (affiliate link)
Nora Holliday is not the kind of woman who has an illicit affair with a married man. But Josh Landon is everything Nora’s alcoholic husband isn’t. And now she and Josh are so infatuated, they can’t stay away from one another.
Abby Landon, Josh’s daughter, is home from college nursing a broken heart. She’s seeking solace, not more scandal. So when she catches her dad kissing Nora, she vows to take the homewrecker down.
To anyone on the outside looking in, Josh’s wife Gwen—Abby’s mother—appears to be living the ideal suburban life. Until she winds up dead. As the search for her killer begins, a long history of twisted secrets begins to unravel . . .
The French Chateau Dream (Romantic Escapes, Book 10) (affiliate link)
Your dream holiday is just a page away…
You are invited to a summer of sparkling champagne, warm buttery croissants and a little bit of je ne sais quoi
With a broken heart and a broken spirit, Hattie is in need of a summer escape. So when an opportunity comes up to work at a beautiful, stately chateau in the Champagne region of France she books her flights quicker than the pop of a cork.
Romance is the last thing Hattie is looking for but then she wasn’t expecting gorgeous Luc to stroll into her life. With picnics in the warm French sun and delicious foodie trips to the local market, Hattie starts to wonder if a holiday fling – or maybe even something more – might be just what she needs.
THE U.S.S. CUNNINGHAM SERIES (affiliate link)
BOOK 1: CHOOSERS OF THE SLAIN
When Argentinian forces launch a lightning strike against the Antarctic peninsular, only a single US Navy destroyer stands between them and the country’s ambition to seize the continent’s rich resources for herself.
The U.S.S. Cunningham is sailing into hostile waters, untested, unsupported and far from home. But as the enemy will soon discover, the Cunningham is no ordinary warship, nor her Commander any ordinary Captain…
BOOK 2: SEA STRIKE
After decades of simmering tension, the uneasy stand-off between China and Taiwan has erupted into full-scale civil war.
Facing defeat, China threatens a thermonuclear firestorm…
Only the U.S.S. Cunningham stands between them and World War Three.
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