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Game: A Brother’s Best Friend and Sports Romance (affiliate link)
He’s a baseball star. I’m the fool who let him break her heart. I never thought we’d see each other again, but life has a cruel way of forcing people to face their past.
Growing up, Corey Johnson was the guy of my dreams. Handsome, athletic, smart, and surprisingly kind to me– his best friend’s quirky little sister. I worshiped the ground the baseball star walked on, and it seemed like he and I might one day become more than friends.
But that was before Corey did something I will never be able to forget… or forgive.
Years later, I get my dream job as the social media coordinator for my favorite professional baseball team. My life is finally on the upswing. Until the team trades for… you guessed it… Corey freaking Johnson.
Intersection (Alex and Cassidy) (affiliate link)
When FBI agent Alexis Toles was dispatched to New York to investigate threats sent to Congressman Christopher O’Brien, the last thing she expected to find was romance. But during her investigation, Alex finds herself in a love affair with the congressman’s ex-wife, all while discovering the convoluted conspiracy behind the threats.
A highly suspenseful and intriguing political thriller, Intersection takes a sensitive and sensual approach to lesbian relationships and families, and it tells a compelling tale about confronting who you truly are and learning to love amid life’s chaos.
Decker and Joy: North Pole Unlimited Romance 1 (affiliate link)
Private detective Decker Harkness is on the hunt for an experimental prototype from North Pole Unlimited that accidentally got shipped out in a box of pet toys. His investigation leads him to Joy and her posse of furry sidekicks. Luckily for him, his case seems intertwined with hers, so he can spend more time romancing the unsuspecting, pretty cat lady while he works.
Daffodils: Book One in The Katherine Wheel Series (affiliate link)
We meet Katy as a young maidservant, restless for more than domestic service can offer and reckless to a fault. Katy has to develop and mature, as life throws joys and tragedies across her path and the war lures Jem away.
Another man tempts her to stay home but in the end, she too signs up for the war. Katy joins the WAAC and goes to France to help the fight.
There, she finds her true self and discovers that the only thing that matters is, after all, simply love.
Crossed By Death (Stitches In Crime Book 1) (affiliate link)
Paisley Sutton: single mom, salvage expert, and amateur sleuth in over her head.
Paisley uncovers more than just antiques when she stumbles upon a body in an abandoned store. Unearthing a curious connection between a modern murder and the building’s dark past, Paisley stitches together the pieces of a deadly mystery. But someone is determined to bury the evidence–and Paisley with it. Can she find the truth before she and her young son are history?
Crossed by Death is a delightful cozy mystery that will keep you guessing to the very end.
The Witches of Scotland: The Awakening Trilogy Books 1- 3 (The Witches of Scotland Box Sets) (affiliate link)
It’s one thing to read about witches, it’s another thing to discover you are one.
Glasgow law student, David Hunter is drifting through life and feels something is missing. When on a night out someone tries to kill him he discovers he is from a long line of witches known as Dream Dancers, his life is turned upside down.
Now David has unwittingly exposed himself to a world of powerful witches, clandestine government agencies, and a fight to protect the Akashic records.
Is a life filled with Magick really his true calling in life?
Her Pretty Lies (affiliate link)
You trusted her like a sister. Now they think you killed her…
The paramedics tell me I’m in shock as they load the body bag into the ambulance.
Only days ago, I had everything. A man I wanted to marry. A prestigious fellowship for graduate school. A perfect new apartment. I’m a psychology student. I should have known she was hiding something from the start…
Now I’m shivering under a foil blanket wondering how my life became a nightmare.
And when the paramedics check me over, it’s not concern I see on their faces. It’s fear.
Practical Demonkeeping (Pine Cove Book 1) (affiliate link)
Ice Prince (The Princes of Manhattan Book 1) (affiliate link)
Cynthia Swan is not an uptight workaholic who doesn’t know how to have a good time. No matter what her sister says. So what if Cyn is working two jobs, volunteering at an animal shelter, and hasn’t had a boyfriend for over a year. She still knows how to have fun.
She’s going to prove it too. With the scruffy, smirky, far-too-charming personal trainer she just picked up in a bar.
Reliable, responsible, and heir-apparent to his father’s billion-dollar corporate throne, Cameron Prince hasn’t had time for a relationship in years. Besides, in his experience, love always ends in divorce.
Just ask his father, who is on ex-wife number ten.
Shades of Deceit (Rowan Shade FBI Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
A series of horrific murders in a small town puts the spotlight on the town’s sheriff.
His sister disappeared during a similar series of murders when they were teenagers and his fight for her has been his platform for years. The town is shocked when his sister resurfaces and the sheriff’s wife is eager to welcome her into the family and help her heal.
But when Rowan Shade is brought in to solve these murders, family secrets start being exposed and she wonders if there’s something much more sinister at play.
Shades of deceit and craving political power wrap up a twisted story of people desperate to keep their secrets hidden and get what they believe they deserve.
An Italian Affair (affiliate link)
Italy, 1937. Alessandra Durante is grieving the loss of her husband when she discovers she has inherited her ancestral family seat, Villa Durante, deep in the Tuscan Hills. Longing for a new start, she moves from her home in London to Italy with her daughter Diana and sets about rebuilding her life.Under the threat of war, Alessandra’s house becomes first a home and then a shelter to all those who need it. Then Davide, a young man who is hiding the truth about who he is, arrives, and Diana starts to find her heart going where her head knows it must not.
Back home in Britain as war breaks out, Alessandra’s son Robert, signs up to be a pilot, determined to play his part in freeing Italy from the grip of Fascism. His bravery marks him out as an asset to the Allies, and soon he is being sent deep undercover and further into danger than ever before.
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