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The Inquisitors’ Guild: Three novels from Frosthelm (affiliate link)
A Matchmaker for the Fine Baron (Noble Gentlemen of the Ton) (affiliate link)
Baroness Frederica Ridley is London’s most esteemed matchmaker, who wields her sharp wit and keen intuition to unite the single hearts of the Ton. Despite her success in orchestrating love for others, she secretly fears she may never find a match of her own, scarred by a past loveless marriage and haunted by the memory of her late husband’s betrayal. All until a chance encounter with the enigmatic Baron Pelham ignites a spark that threatens to consume her heart…
Can she defy all expectations and embrace the passion that kindles her soul?
A Tempting Arrangement (Twisted Vows Book 1) (affiliate link)
Marry or lose his inheritance? That’s the ultimatum billionaire Damon Everette faces. There’s one problem. The woman he craves is his sunshine PR rep…who wants nothing to do with him.
Ruthless, arrogant, cold-hearted are some of the words I would use to describe my a**hole of a boss, Damon Everette.
That doesn’t stop the goosebumps from rising along my neck every time he says my name, or the way my pulse races when his stormy gray eyes pierce mine.
So, when he coerces me into a fake marriage to uphold his family’s tradition, I can’t resist pushing his buttons.
He’s a walking red flag, and I should run the second this arrangement ends. But the very thought of losing him is suffocating – a dangerous addiction that I can’t seem to break.
The Soldier’s Wedding: Special Forces #1 (affiliate link)
Love heals all wounds…
Special Forces soldier Dan Jansen has come home from Afghanistan with one objective: to marry Josephine Swann. First he has to convince his childhood friend that their marriage ‘agreement,’ a tipsy scrawl on a beer coaster three years ago, is binding. And that platonic love is enough to build a passionate future on.
Protect those you love…
Jo has only thought of Dan ‘that way’ once; the night before a surgery that changed her life forever. Friendship is all she has to offer as she struggles to care for her grandmother and resurrect her business.
Both have wounds only the other can heal. But that requires surrendering their secrets. Can two best friends create a love story for the ages?
Set Me On Fire (affiliate link)
What’s hotter than a handsome firefighter? Three of them.
When our passion ignites like wildfire, we decide to give in to our delicious urges and share one crazy, unforgettable night.
I even get a little souvenir to remember them by: a positive pregnancy test. Oops.
It’s time to mummy up, and that includes getting a steady job… at their fire station. But it’s fine; they don’t need to know my oven’s been stuffed with one of their buns.
So who’s the daddy? Could it be:
Knox—with grey eyes that stare right into your soul, he leads his team into danger with barely a backward look and he’s just as commanding off the job.
Charlie—the hyperactive guy with a heart of gold. The only thing he takes seriously is putting out fires and now, me.
Or Noah—my high school crush is all grown up, but now I’m back in his life, he’s not willing to let me go.
Cupcakes and Casualties (Peridale Cafe Book 11) (affiliate link)
The residents of Peridale don’t like change, so when the famous actress, Candy Bennett, rolls into the village to demolish a historic cottage, things don’t go as smoothly as she would have hoped. With the ‘Peridale Preservation Society’ protesting her plans to build a modern home on the land, things quickly turn sour. Days into the project, Candy’s lead builder, Shane, is murdered and the task to solve the mystery once again falls into Julia’s lap.
Did one of the protestors kill the builder to make a statement, or was he murdered by someone from within his own team? With the preservation society, the actress, the architect, and the builders all keeping secrets, Julia soon has her hands full gathering evidence, but it’s a familiar-looking new arrival in the village that commands her attention. Julia’s life is torn apart when she learns of the stranger’s true identity, but will she be able to focus on the challenging case before another body turns up?
Gravity Wars: Interstellar Assault (affiliate link)
There are no light sabers, telepathy or warp drives here. No hyperspace or jump points, either, just the hardest science we know to show how interstellar war might really take place.
A beaten race flees the terrible Vims in a generational vessel, working year after year to reach relativistic speeds as the passengers search for a new star system.
The Vims launch three interstellar missiles. It might take 300 years for the missiles to reach the generational vessel, but the relentless chase across deep space has begun.
This is the story of the heroic Sargon, his granddaughter Ningal and her son Assur as they face mutiny, scientific evil, and the despair of a seemingly doomed voyage. It is also the tale of James Petty, one of the most powerful CEOs of 2060 Earth, and Colonel Mike Steele leading humanity’s first space marines in an experimental Orion ship—using nuclear bombs for propulsion.
Never Mine: A Sapphic Romance (affiliate link)
What if their fake relationship wasn’t ever just pretend?
Sage Carson has a messy reputation. Sure, she’s a soccer star with World Cup trophies and Olympic medals, but she’s almost as well known for her rebellious behavior off the pitch. She’s left enough gorgeous women with broken hearts in her dust to fill a roster. That was, until she got injured. Now, her frustratingly-slow recovery means she’d better secure this new squeaky-clean endorsement deal in order to get back on top.
Sweet, sunshiny Willa Bellamy has a crisis on her hands. She’s used to it — as an events coordinator for the Denver Zoo, it’s her job to handle crises. But when she receives an invite to her ex’s wedding, she’s not so sure it’ll be as easy to handle as an escaped emu during a Girl Scout sleepover. Even worse, when the bachelorette party invite mentions that couples are welcome, she realizes she’s the sole single person invited.
Broken Skies: Horizon’s End Book 1 (affiliate link)
A cataclysmic disaster. A family separated by a thousand miles. One chance to make it home. Failure is not an option.
Brought to you by the #1 best-selling – and most prolific – post-apocalyptic author Mike Kraus, writing with acclaimed author Justin Bell, Horizon’s End is a gripping tale of survival, camaraderie and good versus evil in the shadow of a devastating natural disaster.
Across the country, a mysterious plague sweeps through both salt and fresh water, killing anyone – animals and humans alike – unfortunate enough to be in its vicinity. Relentless as it multiplies, all natural and man-made offenses and defenses against it are useless, and millions die in the first twenty-four hours alone.
Don’t Tell a Soul (affiliate link)
She thinks she’s safe. She couldn’t be more wrong.
Elle, desperate to escape her abusive home, runs away to a seemingly cute small town where she gets a job as a waitress. And meets Vera, who offers her an attic room in her large house.
For the first time in years, Elle feels something like contentment as she bonds with Vera who becomes almost like a mother to her. Blossoming, Elle slowly begins to piece her life back together, make new friends and stand on her own two feet.
But all is not as it seems.
End of Summer: Book One of the Seasons of Man (affiliate link)
Running from the Mirror: A Memoir (affiliate link)
As quickly as his face disappeared, so did his mother and father.
Just three days after he was born, Howard Shulman contracted an infection that attacked his face, devouring his nose, lips, lower right eyelid, tear ducts, and palate. Abandoned at the hospital by his parents, he became a ward of New Jersey under the care of a state-employed surgeon who experimentally rebuilt his face.
Running from the Mirror is a poignant story of one man’s struggle to survive against staggering odds. Howard gives an unflinching account of growing up a bullied outcast with no family to officially call his own. Relying on little more than street smarts and grit, he rises from dishwasher to successful entrepreneur. When a chance event shatters his world once again, he must make a daunting choice: live in the shadows of his painful past or summon the strength to make peace with it.
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