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Paradise Bay Boxed Set (affiliate link)
THE HONEYMOONER
A wickedly funny, ridiculously romantic tale. When Libby Dewitt is jilted at the altar via text message, she sets off on her honeymoon alone only to discover that to find true love, you have to leave the groom at home.
WHISKED AWAY
An irresistibly romantic, delightfully funny tale of love, passion, books, and food. When plucky chef Emma Banks has to spend a month on a private island cooking for an infuriatingly arrogant writer, the last thing she expects is to fall in love…
THE SUITE LIFE
A laugh-out-loud tale of a single mum and the man who restores her faith in love. Uber-responsible single mum Bree Lewis has completely given up on love and forgotten how to have fun. When she rents a garden suite to a handsome playboy, she finds out he may be the man who can remind her that life is about more than responsibility…
Man Hunt (On A Manhunt Book 1) (affiliate link)
That was me. I did that. I might be a genius, but that was really dumb.
I sneak into the office to delete it, but it’s too late. He knows my naughtiest fantasies.
Instead of firing me, he wants to fulfill every one of them.
He’s everything I didn’t know I wanted: Older, fiercely protective and a possessive streak the size of Montana.
But can he really want someone like me with a past full of man struggles and a head full of math problems?
Inception (The Genesis Machine Book 1) (affiliate link)
Aliens have arrived… and this isn’t the first time.
When expert Navy linguist and cryptographer Charlie Cutter is recruited into a shadowy wing of the NCIS, she’s tasked with unravelling a mysterious ancient text that has puzzled researchers for centuries. Charlie isn’t eager to revisit her previous failures… but when she discovers the same strange language in top-secret photographs, she finds herself roped into a job that could make or break her young career.
After a strange pod crashes to earth during a violent storm, Charlie and her small team uncover an incredible truth: aliens have landed on earth – and not for the first time. Catapulted into a thrilling mystery that will carry them from the political swamps of D.C. to the scorching Las Vegas desert, Charlie must race against time to crack the code and save humanity from a possible alien invasion.
Surrounded by a web of secrets and lies, Charlie struggles to track down the origin of the pods – and unmask the hidden motives of their extra-terrestrial visitors. The mystery stretches back centuries… and it leads Charlie to a shocking revelation that will change everything.
Summer Shadows (Mysteries Next-Door Book 1) (affiliate link)
Runaway Groom (affiliate link)
He’s promising to marry this girl, but he’s running away with me.
The entire City of Angels is hung up on the latest season of their favorite reality show and its star, Rhett Roberts.
The cocky jerk has women throwing themselves at him in every episode, and it looks like he’s loving it.
Well, good for him.
He’s a cocky player with a wild streak ten miles wide.
The man defies death for a living as a stuntman, for heaven’s sake. Well, when he’s not too busy being fed champagne by fifteen different girls on a yacht or breaking the hearts of the ones he sends home.
No thank you. That’s a hard pass from me.
All I want to do is make a name for myself by making sure the flowers on the finale are the best they can possibly be.
Until I meet him.
He’s famous for his gorgeous eyes, daring personality, and doing stunts for some of the biggest celebrities the city has ever seen.
People love this guy.
Wizard Defiant (Intergalactic Wizard Scout Chronicles Book 1) (affiliate link)
A high-tech, futuristic soldier is thrust into battle alongside a magic-using, high-elf priestess in a quest that could mean the salvation or destruction of two galaxies.
Wizard scouts are the elite, deep-recon forces of the Intergalactic Empire, trained to operate light years behind enemy lines with little or no support. While still a first-year student at the Intergalactic Empire’s legendary Wizard Scout Academy, Cadet Richard Shepard excels at the mix of technology and psionic abilities that make wizard scouts the Empire’s most elite soldiers.
When war breaks out with the Crosoian Federation, Richard is sent by an entity known only as ‘the One’ to the magic dimension to help the beautiful elf, Shandria, defeat a demon and its army of undead.
A Girl From Nowhere (The Firewall Trilogy Book 1)
Surrounded by fire, a girl with mysterious powers and a young warrior search for safety.
Life in the wasteland is a constant struggle. No one knows it better than Taimin. Crippled, and with only his indomitable aunt to protect him, Taimin must learn to survive in a world scorched by two suns and frequented by raiders.
But when Taimin discovers his homestead ransacked and his aunt killed, he sets off with one mission: to seek revenge against those who stole everything. With nowhere to call home, his hunt soon takes a turn when he meets a mystic, Selena, who convinces him to join her search for the fabled white city. Taimin and Selena both need refuge, and the white city is a place where Taimin may find someone to heal his childhood injury.
As they avoid relentless danger, Taimin and Selena attempt to reach the one place that promises salvation. And they can only hope that the city is the haven they need it to be…
Storm Warning (Honourable Duncan Morant Book 1)
In August 1939, the Honourable Duncan Morant, only son and heir of the second Lord Eversham, is enjoying life as a man-about-town and skippering his racing schooner Kristin. But he is also a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, and as the war clouds gather, he is called up.
Due to his experience in small boats and of navigating the English Channel, Morant is given command of one of the new torpedo boats. This is a disappointment − both because he had hoped for a place on a battleship, and because no one in the Navy seems to know exactly what these boats are to be used for. However, as the war takes a disastrous turn, the Channel becomes a battleground and Duncan and his crew, in their plywood hull, find themselves in the thick of hazardous operations …
The Shiver Series: Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner
In Shiver, meet Sam. He’s not just a normal boy—he has a secret. During the summer he walks and talks as a human, but when the cold comes, he runs with his pack as a wolf. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house—but never dreamed that she would fall in love with one of them. Linger tells the story of Sam and Grace’s struggle to stay together, and the dangerous secret Grace must keep from everyone, including her parents. In Forever, wolves are being hunted, which means the stakes are even higher for Grace and Sam and the wolf pack. With Sinner comes the long awaited story of Cole, a wolf wrestling with his own demons, and his attempt to win back Isabel Culper
For Grace, Sam, and Cole and Isabel, life is harrowing and euphoric, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But can it be enough?
Picture Me Dead
Police rookie Ashley Montague is shocked by the discovery of a body on the highway—and her glimpse of a mysterious hooded figure watching from the side of the road.
At another crime scene in the heart of the Everglades, Detective Jake Dilessio stares at the mutilated body of a woman—and notes the striking resemblance to previous victims he’s seen. But he put away a cult leader for those murders five years ago. Is this a copycat killing, or is the wrong man behind bars?
As they join their investigations together, the last thing Ashley and Jake want or need is the electric pull of desire as they are dragged deeper into a dangerous conspiracy. Now, with time running out and their lives on the line, they have everything to fight for . . . and everything to lose.
Heart of Curiosities (Curiosity Bay Series Book 1)
A single dad romance set in the perfect small town on Marigold Island! Welcome to Curiosity Bay…
Amelia Evans knew one day she’d come back to help at her family’s Antiques and Baubles on Curiosity Bay. She just didn’t expect it to happen after her fiancé leaves her for her best friend, her apartment burns down, and her trusty ride of over a decade wheezes its last breath.
With her sisters welcoming her into the fold, she realizes the island’s coveted antique store might just be the place to mend her broken heart.
But when an exotic vase arrives with something special inside, she knows she needs to find the rightful owner. There’s no way he would ever have let this go. She just never expects it to be…him.
When James Edwards hears from an antique dealer regarding his family’s belongings, he ignores the call. After all, everyone’s been after him since his mom’s death to get a piece of his family’s rare collectibles.
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