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Twisted Truth (An Amy Rush Suspense Thriller—Book 1) (affiliate link)
Fish & Wildlife Agent Amy Rush has spent a lifetime honing her wilderness survival skills. Now she’ll use them to catch a serial killer.
In the remote wilderness, victims are ruthlessly hunted and killed by an unseen predator armed with a deadly crossbow. Only Fish & Wildlife Agent Amy Rush, a survival expert and naturalist, can track down the killer and save more innocent lives—including her own.
Stag Party (affiliate link)
Tryst Six Venom (affiliate link)
Marymount girls are good girls. We’re chaste, we’re untouched, and even if we weren’t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut.
Not that I have anything to share anyway. I never let guys go too far. I’m behaved.
Beautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirt’s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday.
That’s me. Always in control.
Or so they think.
The truth is that it’s easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. Something soft and smooth. Someone dangerous and wild.
GONE When Bad Things Happen (affiliate link)
A sheltered mother. A medically fragile child. They can’t just vanish. Or can they?
In the riveting novel “Gone,” the delicate balance of Jackson and Elizabeth’s lives unravels in the face of unforeseen challenges, exposing the fragility of their relationship. Jackson grapples with the complexities of raising Timothy, their special-needs son, while strains in his marriage with Elizabeth come to light.
As Timothy’s medical condition takes center stage, revelations during a visit to the neurologist set off a chain of events that put the family on a perilous path testing Elizabeth’s resilience through challenges creating layers of suspense.
Captivity unveils the challenges of caring for a special-needs child, while detectives intensify their search, uncovering discrepancies that deepen the mystery. Through it all is Russell Rose, an unsettling figure whose troubled past casts a shadow on Elizabeth and Timothy’s ordeal.
Scottsdale Heat (Laura Black Book 1) (affiliate link)
Scottsdale Squeeze (Laura Black Book 2) (affiliate link)
Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life. On August 16, 1996, Janet had an appointment to finally file for divorce. But she never arrived. On the night of August 15, she vanished.
Janet’s disappearance incited a massive search and media frenzy that revealed her husband Perry’s seedy dealings. When he absconded with his children to a new life in Mexico, Janet’s parents began a decade-long, international custody battle that culminated in Perry’s dramatic extradition to Tennessee.
Meanwhile, the Nashville Police Department never found Janet’s body. In spite of overwhelming odds, cold case detectives and prosecutors were determined to get justice—and with the help of a shocking surprise witness, they did.
The Hot Rock:Dortmunder (Book One) (affiliate link)
The Billionaire and I (Jenny and Cole’s Story Book 1) (affiliate link)
Rule Number One: Remember it’s fake.
I come from nothing. I’m no one. Then billionaire Cole Bryson hires me as his fake date. The keyword here is FAKE. But I’m getting in too deep with the handsome, muscular, sexy billionaire who claims he doesn’t do relationships.
That’s fine by me. I don’t do relationships, either.
Except… Cole’s different. He makes me feel things I shouldn’t feel. I connect with him in a way I haven’t ever connected with anyone. He makes me feel beautiful, sexy, smart… Worthy. Like I might belong in his world. Which is a dangerous thing for a girl like me.
So I made a rookie mistake. I fell for him.
I know better—I can’t risk my heart in this billionaire’s game. When his father finds out I’m an escort, he threatens Cole’s empire. And then my secret past comes back to haunt me.
Like I said, I knew better. The billionaire hired me as his fake date. The keyword here is FAKE.
So why does it feel so…real?
The Caretakers (affiliate link)
Filmmaker Tessa Shepherd helped free a man she believed was wrongly imprisoned for murder. When he kills again, Tessa’s life is upended.
She’s reeling with guilt, her reputation destroyed. Worse, Tessa’s mother has unexpectedly passed away, and her sister, Margot, turns on her after tensions from their past escalate. Hounded by a bullying press, Tessa needs an escape. That’s when she learns of a strange inheritance bequeathed by her mother: a derelict and isolated estate known as Fallbrook. It seems like the perfect refuge.
A crumbling monument to a gruesome history, the mansion has been abandoned by all but two elderly sisters retained as caretakers. They are also guardians of all its mysteries. As the house starts revealing its dark secrets, Tessa must face her fears and right the wrongs of her past to save herself and her relationship with Margot. But nothing and no one at Fallbrook are what they seem.
Death Deserved (Alexander Blix Book 1) (affiliate link)
Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja NordstrØm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits NordstrØm’s home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number ‘one’ has been pinned to the TV.
Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars of a hostage situation nineteen years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl. Traces of NordstrØm soon show up at different locations, but the appearance of the clues appear to be carefully calculated … evidence of a bigger picture that he’s just not seeing…
Blix and Ramm soon join forces, determined to find and stop a merciless killer with a flare for the dramatic, and thirst for attention.
Trouble is, he’s just got his first taste of it…
Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life (affiliate link)
The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary time
Martha Gellhorn’s heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. The preeminent-and often the only-female correspondent on the scene, she broke new ground for women in the male preserve of journalism. Her wartime dispatches, marked by a passionate desire to expose suffering in its many guises and an inimitable immediacy, rank among the best of the twentieth century.
A deep-seated love of travel complemented this interest in world affairs. From her birth in St. Louis in 1908 to her death in London in 1998, Gellhorn passed through Africa, Cuba, China, and most of the great cities of Europe, recording her experiences in first-rate travel writing and fiction. A tall, glamorous blonde, she made friends easily-among the boldface names that populated her life were Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, and H. G. Wells-but she was as incapable of settling into comfortable long-term relationships as she was of sitting still, and happiness often eluded her despite her professional success. Both of her marriages ended badly-the first, to Ernest Hemingway, publicly so.
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