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Fire Magic & Ice Cream (Casual Magic Book 1) (affiliate link)
When fire meets ice cream, will passion turn into a melted mess or dessert flambé?
Quinn Byrne is rare even among fire elementals, with her powers hard-wired into her arousal. She can’t touch herself without setting the sheets ablaze. With an incendiary sex drive, Quinn’s dating life is dryer than the desert that surrounds her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. She’d give anything to have a normal romantic relationship. But she knows one thing for sure: human men are out of the question. No exceptions. Not even if the guy is trying to woo her with delicious ice cream.
August Nord is new to town, building a business that involves things staying cold. His whole life has been one, long icy stretch, until a fiery redhead saunters into his ice cream shop. Quinn is the hottest accountant he’s ever met, and a small business owner would be dense not to hire a professional to review their finances, right?
As the two approach their attraction with wary steps, the sparks flying between them are all too real. Will the flames feed their burning desire or melt their chance of a happily ever after?
Forever Forty (Magical Midlife Death Book 1) (affiliate link)
A witch. A vampire. An immortal mistake.
As a witch, I have a healthy dislike for the undead. While they can turn a human, their venom kills those of us with power. At least that was true until I was attacked by a rogue and transitioned into a vampire.
Now the entire supernatural community wants answers, including the vampire overseer who had a surprising reaction to my unnatural rebirth. In addition to my sexy undead leader, I am assigned a death dealer mentor to investigate the reason I was targeted and protect my family.
When we discover there is a conspiracy at play, will I accept my new life or unleash an unholy monster that could destroy humanity?
City of Thorns (The Demon Queen Trials Book 1) (affiliate link)
I never thought I’d be singing happy birthday to myself in a dungeon. And yet when a sinfully sexy demon crashes happy hour, that’s exactly what happens. He’s known as the Lord of Chaos, and he’s mistaken me for my succubus doppelgänger.
Happy birthday to me.
When he tastes my blood, he finally understands I’m mortal. And I realize we have something in common: we both crave revenge. So we make a deal: I can stay in the forbidden city to hunt for my mom’s killer. In return, I’ll help him get the vengeance he craves. I just have to pose as a sexy succubus. One problem–he’s my number one suspect.
And that’s increasingly hard to remember as he teaches me my role: seduction. With each heated touch I drift further into peril. And if I fall under his seductive spell, death awaits me.
With This Ring (Windswept Bay Inn Book 6) (affiliate link)
The Sinclair brothers have watched their sisters fall in love and now…it’s their turn ready or not!
After her small son, Kevin, asked both God and Santa for a new daddy for Christmas, and then didn’t find him under the tree, school teacher, Jessica Lyons is starting the new year out with a very unhappy six year old on her hands. Kevin can’t understand that she’s only been a widow for 2 years and she can’t imagine marrying again—not yet at least. But, unknown to her Kevin has a plan and has decided that if God and Santa won’t give him what he wants then maybe the police can!
When the very handsome Chief of Police, Levi Sinclair shows up as Kevin’s Show-and-Tell he believes, as does Jessica, that her son has asked him there to show him off as the “police chief”—It’s a little awkward when Kevin introduces Levi as his next daddy!
Oops I Ate A Vengeance Demon: Foils and Fury Book One (affiliate link)
Getting possessed by a demon wasn’t on my to-do list. I was just too busy for that sort of thing.
I had a fifty-hour work week, a hellraiser of a toddler, debilitating morning sickness and a husband who thought his only job was taking out the trash. I was at breaking point.
I don’t remember being possessed, or attacking Terry, or my local priest pulling the demon out of me and trapping her in a banana (with the help of a stranger, a badass girl who apparently wrangled supernatural creatures for a living.)
But the aftermath was wild. Terry promised he’d try harder, and give me more support.
He lied. And I broke.
So… I ate the banana. I absorbed the vengeance demon.
She’s a part of me now, sharing my body; we’re like two people in a car. Most of the time, I’m driving. Sometimes, I let her take the wheel.
She’s the rage of wronged women; the vengeance of the vulnerable, wild justice for the oppressed. She can hear bad thoughts, she can sense evil intentions. She can tell when someone wants to abuse their power, and she whispers their secrets to me.
No Place to Hide (Jake Ord Thrillers Book 1) (affiliate link)
A TENSE ADVENTURE THRILLER WITH HEART-STOPPING TWISTS.
Jake Ord lives in peaceful seclusion with his companion, Magda, in a small town in Portugal.
They each have something to hide, but their life together is just how they want it: tranquil, safe and agreeably boring.
THEN JAKE RECEIVES A PHONE CALL THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Crime boss Ed Fogarty has escaped from prison. He wants revenge on those who put him there.
He also wants the missing £20 million from his last heist.
Fogarty is ticking names off his hit list.
He knows where Jake lives.
It’s time for Jake and Magda to run.
But Magda is no stranger to the criminal underworld — or to the violent men hunting them.
Strangers We Know (affiliate link)
Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little about her lineage. But when she’s stricken with a mystery illness, the results of a genetic test to identify the cause attract the FBI. According to Ivy’s DNA, she’s related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades. Ivy is the FBI’s hope to stop the enigmatic predator from killing again.
When an online search connects Ivy with her younger cousin, she heads to rural Rock Island, Washington, to meet the woman. Motivated by a secret desire to unmask a murderous relative, Ivy reaches out to what’s left of a family of strangers.
Discovering her mother’s tragic fate and her father’s disappearance is just the beginning. As Ivy ventures into a serial killer’s home territory, she realizes that she may be the next victim of poisonous blood ties.
The Young Lions: A Novel (Phoenix Fiction) (affiliate link)
Standing alongside Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s From Here to Eternity, The Young Lions is one of the most powerful American novels to tackle the Second World War. Ambitious in its scope and robust in its prose, Irwin Shaw’s work is also deeply humanistic, presenting the reality of war as seen through the eyes of ordinary soldiers on both sides. The story follows the individual dramas—and ultimately intertwined destinies—of Christian Diestl, a Nazi sergeant; Noah Ackerman, a Jewish American infantryman; and Michael Whitacre, an idealistic urbanite from the New York theatrical world.
Diestl first appears as a dashing ski instructor in Austria, mouthing his loyalty to Nazi ideals. As the war progresses, Diestl’s character continues to erode as he descends into savagery. Ackerman must endure domestic anti-Semitism and beatings in boot camp before proving himself in the European theater. Eventually, as part of the liberating army, he comes face-to-face with the unimaginable horrors of the death camps. Whitacre, trading cocktail parties for Molotov cocktails, confronts the barbarism of war, and in fighting simply to survive, finds his own capacity for heroism.
Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic: Lessons in Everyday Elegance (affiliate link)
The Chosen (affiliate link)
DC journalist January DeLena believes the recent murders of homeless men are all connected—the depraved actions of a man who calls himself “The Sinner.” January takes her suspicions to homicide detective Benjamin North, a cop who she can’t help wanting to cross professional boundaries for.
As they work together to find “the Sinner,” January and Ben discover their passion for each other rivals their passion for investigation. But January has a secret—one that puts her in the path of a twisted killer who’ll do anything to achieve his dark purpose . . .
Cherry Drop (Abner Fortis, ISMC Book 1) (affiliate link)
The ISMC Wants You!
Abner Fortis joined the International Space Marine Corps for two reasons: to escape a life of drudgery building biodomes for his father’s company and to pay off several billion credits in student loans, which the ISMC promised to do.
Every Space Marine starts out as a cherry, though, and Abner is no different. When he makes his first combat drop, or cherry drop, he’s a know-nothing second lieutenant added to the mission roster as an afterthought.
The Space Marines are tasked to support the Galactic Resource Conglomerate (GRC) while they test a revolution in military technology: Precision Crafted Soldiers (PCS). All the Space Marines have to do is kill bugs. Even when a tragic accident leaves Fortis in command, the mission is still an easy breather.
When the Space Marines discover proof of a long-buried betrayal, though, friends become enemies, and their mission goes awry. Does Fortis have what it takes to lead the Space Marines to survival in the face of overwhelming odds?
Summer Ever After (Windswan Lake) (affiliate link)
Happily Ever After doesn’t happen to people like me.
My step-mother is a wannabe gold digger and we’ve been criss-crossing the country trying to find her next husband.
Windswan Lake is beautiful, and full of opportunities, aka rich men. It’s her newest hunting grounds.
My evil step-sister is poised to follow in her mother’s footsteps. She spends her days working out and getting her hair done, while I work two jobs as a maid to keep the lights on.
They find the perfect job for me – a billionaire with a beautiful cottage, but that’s not the reason I had to take the job.
The billionaire has a son – and my evil step-sister wants him.
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