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The Burke and Blade Box Set (The “Night” Series) (affiliate link)
Lucas Burke and Alix “Blade” Baker are Panama City Beach PIs specializing in missing persons cases–work they were led to by their own sister’s disappearance.
Growing up in foster care and children’s homes has made them tough, savvy, and streetwise, but nothing has prepared them for this.
Nora Henri and her infant daughter Emma have vanished off the face of the earth while vacationing in Panama City Beach. Months have passed, and no one has been able to find them. The only clue–the most bizarre 911 call you’ve ever heard.
Can Burke and Blade do what local, state, and federal law enforcement hasn’t been able to? Can they find Nora and Emma and return them home safely, or will they die trying?
All the Shiny Things (Kate Reid Thrillers Book 1) (affiliate link)
For All The World: The Aisling Series – Book 1 (affiliate link)
Dublin, Ireland 1915
Eighteen-year-old May Gallagher is beautiful but restless, and longs for the freedom to live her own life, to decide her own destiny. Mollycoddled as the only remaining child of middle-class parents in the suburbs, she sneaks out to the theatre when she can. She is mesmerised by the captivating actor Peter Cullen, and wishes she could enjoy a more bohemian life.
The Great War is taking all the boys away, and the promise that it will all be over by Christmas is ringing more hollow with each passing month.
Her parents would be appalled if they knew she’d befriended the enigmatic Peter, who was from the wrong side of the city, but there is something about him that intrigues May.
When catastrophe strikes Peter, it’s to May that he turns, and in that moment she knows her life will never be the same again.
THE RHYME OF THE MAGPIE (Birds of a Feather Book 1) (affiliate link)
One for sorrow. Two for joy. Three for murder?
Meet Julia ‘Jools’ Lanchester. Lover of fine wines, sweet birdsong — and solving mysteries!
Nothing can spoil Jools’s cozy night in. Except maybe a visit from her famous father, Rupert Lanchester. Ornithologist célèbre and the most dashing silver fox on English telly.
He turns up on the doorstep of her quaint little Suffolk cottage, desperate to get something off his chest. Jools doesn’t want to hear another word about her glamorous yet snooty new stepmum. She gives him short shrift and sends him on his way.
Next morning, he’s vanished without a trace.
Jools and Michael Sedgwick, her father’s infuriatingly dapper new assistant, team up to go looking for Rupert. What they find is a dead body!
Can Jools unravel this knotty nest of murder and mystery, before the predator swoops again . . . ?
Level Up (One Up Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Virtual is Reality.
What would the world be like if video game rules suddenly applied?
Marcus is about to find out. After a freak accident he finds himself stuck between a game and the real world. He’ll need to fight his way through football hooligans, carnies and the dreaded RNG to get to the final boss and save the world. Anything less means it’s game over for good.
Along the way he’ll learn new skills, chase epic loot and most importantly of all, Level Up!
The Other Magic (Passage to Dawn Book 1) (affiliate link)
The men secured the shackles slowly, hesitantly, but Kibure did not resist; he couldn’t. Whatever otherworldly power had come over him in those moments of passion had fled his body the second he realized what he had done…
In a realm where only clerics are permitted to practice magic, Kibure’s inexplicable use of power places him in grave danger. In a twist of fate, the rogue priestess hired to strip him of his power chooses instead to help him escape. Her reasons for doing so are her own, but something worse than death awaits if they are unable to evade the Empire’s most potent wielders.
Coma (affiliate link)
Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning.
Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in–or a victim of–a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?
The Quiet American (affiliate link)
The Consolation Bride (Unexpectedly Married Book 1) (affiliate link)
Perfect business partners. That’s how my new father-in-law described us at our wedding. He wasn’t wrong.
They had a plan, an arrangement–two powerful families joining forces until one little problem threatened to ruin it all. See, Stanton McCain had been in love with my sister Gretchen for years. So this union was good for Stanton, bad for me because I’d been in love with him for years.
Imagine the scandal when Gretchen ran away to elope with Gabby, the woman she’d been in love with for years and her secret girlfriend. And after the church and reception hall had already been booked. Gasp!
That’s where I come in. Remove Gretchen, and insert Penelope. Single, reliable, and Stanton’s consolation bride.
Bruce Lee: A Life (affiliate link)
Forty-five years after Bruce Lee’s sudden death at age thirty-two, journalist and bestselling author Matthew Polly has written the definitive account of Lee’s life. It’s also one of the only accounts; incredibly, there has never been an authoritative biography of Lee. Following a decade of research that included conducting more than one hundred interviews with Lee’s family, friends, business associates, and even the actress in whose bed Lee died, Polly has constructed a complex, humane portrait of the icon.
Polly explores Lee’s early years as a child star in Hong Kong cinema; his actor father’s struggles with opium addiction and how that turned Bruce into a troublemaking teenager who was kicked out of high school and eventually sent to America to shape up; his beginnings as a martial arts teacher, eventually becoming personal instructor to movie stars like James Coburn and Steve McQueen; his struggles as an Asian-American actor in Hollywood and frustration seeing role after role he auditioned for go to a white actors in eye makeup; his eventual triumph as a leading man; his challenges juggling a sky-rocketing career with his duties as a father and husband; and his shocking end that to this day is still shrouded in mystery.
The Fix (Renaissance Lake Book 1) (affiliate link)
Sydney Bell knows exactly how far is too far when it comes to the law. She’s a cop’s daughter, after all. But the lines between right and wrong become blurred when it involves matters of the heart.
After a devastating divorce, she escapes to the small lakeside town of Maisonville to pick up the shattered pieces of her life and make a fresh start.
Unfortunately, her past isn’t ready to let go. When her ex shows up, the real reason Sydney moves is revealed. To make matters worse, the handsome guy next door won’t stop helping, even when she doesn’t want him to.
Ryan Gentry is living his dream; the perfect job, a house on the lake, and the peace and quiet he always wanted. At least until the opinionated red-headed Sydney moves in next door. Chaos trails her wherever she goes. He doesn’t want to get involved, but what is a nice guy supposed to do?
As she works to make a new life for herself, she’s reminded that a small town can heal your soul, sparring with an arrogant neighbor can build self-esteem, and true friendship has the ability to make you a better person.
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