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Cyclone (Linear Tactical Book 1) (affiliate link)
“One rule,” he said against her lips.
“Anything makes you nervous, brings back bad memories—you tell me right away. You don’t try to power through anything. We go as slow as you need.”
Meet Zac Mackay. Military codename: Cyclone.
He’s a widower, a protector, a hero.
And the person who could destroy Anne’s life.
Doctor Anne Griffin is back in Oak Creek, Wyoming, only because she has no other options. Here, she was always the shy, stuttering girl, invisible to everyone.
Except Zac Mackay. The very reason she left in the first place.
Zac’s years in Special Forces taught him survival skills, and he’s created a company—Linear Tactical—to teach those skills to others, so they never have to live in fear.
Dumb Witness (affiliate link)
Join Agatha Christie’s beloved detective, Hercule Poirot, in a thrilling murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
*A Mysterious Death*
When Emily Arundell, a wealthy spinster, dies suddenly, her family is shocked to discover that she’s left her vast fortune to her beloved terrier, Bob. But when Emily’s companion, Wilhelmina, is found dead, Poirot is called to investigate.
*A Complex Web of Secrets*
As Poirot digs deeper, he uncovers a tangled web of family secrets, hidden relationships, and deceit. With his trademark “little grey cells,” Poirot must unravel the mystery behind Wilhelmina’s tragic death and uncover the truth about Emily’s final days.
The Accidental Kiss (The Brotherhood of Station 50 Book 1) (affiliate link)
The biggest prank could be falling in love…
In this San Francisco neighborhood, a kiss at sunset means you might find your true love. Two best friends are about to find out if the legend is real.
When Charley Young spreads the word that Dylan has kissed a woman at sunset and is now engaged, her prank sets off a sequence of events. Her intent was to keep single women away from the hunky firefighter, but it has other, far-reaching consequences. Because Charley doesn’t quite know how to break the news to Dylan, but he’s been kissed at sunset. By her. The last time she was in the city one year ago. It was an accident. Seriously. She’s not kidding.
And if the legend is true, this could be the start of something big. Like, true love.
More Than Enough (affiliate link)
What happens when your heart is torn between two people: The one you want and the one you need?
College is finally complete for Elizabeth Parks. She is looking forward to a real life, a real job, new friends, and endless possibilities.
Then she meets her gorgeous neighbor, Jacob, and things start heating up. Between her relationship with Jacob, and new friendships she has made, life seems about perfect.
Until one day when Elizabeth wakes up in the hospital. What she thought was nerves, stress, and exhaustion turns out to be something more.
Elizabeth finds herself faced with making the biggest decision of her life. Being forced to confront the past she was trying hard to forget, she contacts her old flame from college. She is pregnant and Brady is going to be a father.
Ran-Dumb Fun Facts & Interesting Stories to Make U Smile (affiliate link)
Everything you NEVER thought to ask … but are totally happy to find out.
This rated PG book shares little-known facts and forgotten stories. You will discover secrets about everyday things from vitamin D to zippers – even undead hamsters.
Do you ever wonder:
What space smells like?
Why Gatorade is called that?
How to earn money from sleeping?
65 offbeat questions about Starbucks, Potatoes, Spit, Super Mario, Worms and whatever.
Each chapter gives a full answer to one question, and it’s all about the amusing info.
Get smart and have a little stupid fun at the same time.
Questions like:
Why can’t Johnny Depp enjoy 3D movies?
Did Dr. Seuss have a dark side?
What secrets did painter Bob Ross have?
How are toilets different around the world?
White Jaguar 1: A Tale of the Spanish Main (The White Jaguar) (affiliate link)
The archives of one the oldest Spanish cities in the Americas, Cumaná, in today’s Venezuela, record a strange case: of a European renegade named Yan/John/Juan: who in the early eighteenth century “went native” and rose to prominence as a military commander among the Orinoco Indians.
His name was John Bober. He was a third-generation Polish-American from Virginia. And his adventure began here: as a castaway on an uninhabited island off the Spanish Main. This is his story.
Ended Earth (Invaded Book 1) (affiliate link)
They came wanting a new home.
They stayed because they found one.
Nora Anders was past rock bottom. Fresh out of a divorce and struggling to make ends meet, life had been dealing her one blow after another for as long as she could remember. With a devastating health diagnosis, she doesn’t know how she will care for her sister. She never imagined things could get worse… but then they arrived.
No cars.
No phones.
No power.
No help.
In an unrelenting quest for domination, the ruthless invaders launched an all-out assault on Earth. Every effort to fight back proved futile as the enemy showed their undefeatable strength.
They came, conquered, and took everything.
Now, with time running out and hope dwindling, Nora must summon the strength to fight a losing battle. Will she be able to rise to the challenge and keep her sister safe, or will she succumb to the overwhelming force of the extraterrestrial foe like so many others?
Murder in E Minor (Nero Wolfe Book 1) (affiliate link)
Iconic sleuth Nero Wolfe returns to track down the murderer of a New York Symphony Orchestra conductor.
Ever since disgraced associate Orrie Cather’s suicide, armchair detective Nero Wolfe has relished retirement in his Manhattan brownstone on West Thirty-Fifth Street. Two years after Cather’s death, only a visit from Maria Radovich—and the urging of Wolfe’s prize assistant, Archie Goodwin—could draw the eccentric and reclusive genius back into business. Maria’s uncle, New York Symphony Orchestra conductor Milan Stevens, formerly known as Milos Stefanovic, spent his youth alongside Wolfe as a fellow freedom fighter in the mountains of Montenegro. And now that the maestro has been receiving death threats, Wolfe can’t turn his back on the compatriot who once saved his life.
Laidlaw (The Laidlaw Investigations Book 1) (affiliate link)
The Laidlaw novels, a groundbreaking trilogy that changed the face of Scottish fiction, are credited with being the founding books of the Tartan Noir movement that includes authors like Val McDermid, Denise Mina, and Ian Rankin. Says McDermid of William McIlvanney: “Patricia Highsmith had taken us inside the head of killers; Ruth Rendell tentatively explored sexuality; with No Mean City, Alexander McArthur had exposed Glasgow to the world; Raymond Chandler had dressed the darkness in clever words. But nobody had ever smashed those elements together into so accomplished a synthesis.”
In Laidlaw, the first book of the series, readers meet Jack Laidlaw, a hard-drinking philosopher-detective whose tough exterior cloaks a rich humanity and keen intelligence. Laidlaw’s investigation into the murder of a young woman brings him into conflict with Glasgow’s hard men, its gangland villains, and the moneyed thugs who control the city. As the gangsters running Glasgow race Laidlaw for the discovery of the young woman’s killer, a sense of dangerous betrayal infests the city that only Laidlaw can erase.
Just a Heartbeat Away (The Forever Yours Novels Book 1) (affiliate link)
Some people change your life . . . . Others change your heart
Newly widowed dad Sebastian Dorner was unraveling at the edges—until his son’s teacher, Via DeRosa, threw him a lifeline. Now, two years later, they reconnect at Matty’s new school, and an inconvenient but unmistakable jolt of attraction crackles between them. But why does the first person to spark with Sebastian in years have to be a millennial? Is twentysomething Via really too young for him or does fortysomething Sebastian just feel too damn old?
A former foster kid, Via’s finally forged the stable life she’s always dreamed of—new job, steady income, no drama. The last thing she needs are rumors about her and a single dad at school. But why does she keep being drawn into his capable, worn-flannel orbit? And why does being around Sebastian, Matty and even their dog, Crabby, seem to spark so much want?
Lockout (affiliate link)
Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first senses nothing, the flight displays still showing them on course to New York. But with puzzled passengers reporting stars on the wrong side and growing alarm over the sudden failure of all their radios—not to mention armed fighters pulling alongside to force them to land—the confused pilots discover that Flight 10 is streaking back toward the hyper-volatile Middle East, and there is nothing they can do about it.
An alphabet soup of federal agencies struggle for answers. Messages fly between Washington and Tel Aviv as suspicions grow about a plot to spark a nuclear war. The presence of a hated former head of state in first class fuels fearful speculation. As time and fuel run low, flying at full throttle toward a hostile border, Capt. Jerry Tollefson and First Officer Dan Horneman have to put their personal animosities aside and risk everything to wrest control from the electronic ghost holding them—and perhaps the world—on a course to certain disaster.
Love in the Bargain (Women of Worth Book 1) (affiliate link)
Growing up under the ruling thumbs of autocratic and absentee fathers, Elsie and her two best friends made a childhood vow to never marry. But when Elsie begins her first Season in London, her mother presents her with an irresistible bargain: if she says yes to each and every man’s invitations and still remains unattached by the end of the Season, she will receive her inheritance and become a free woman.
She is thrown into the spotlight by increasing attention in the newspaper gossip articles, and keeping her end of the bargain seems impossible—especially when her best friend’s tyrant of a brother, Lord Cameron, begins to make advances that Elsie literally cannot refuse.
The gossip grows increasingly malicious, leaving destroyed reputations and broken homes in its wake, and Elsie can’t seem to escape its focus. But it’s her own blossoming feelings for Lord Cameron that pose the greater threat. If she can’t keep him out of her heart, she’s sure to compromise the bargain, break her vow, and lose her one shot at freedom for good.
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