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Nora Roberts Land (Dare Valley Series, Book 1) (affiliate link)
Her ex blamed their break-up on her reading too many romance novels.
She set out to prove him wrong.
When journalist Meredith Hale’s dreams of happily ever after—or Nora Roberts Land as she calls it—go up in smoke, she leaves the big city to return to her family and their small town newspaper. A new start? Yes please! Not to mention that it’s a chance to prove her ex wrong. She will find her own romantic hero, prove that true love exists, and publish a story about her quest—even if it kills her.
Tanner McBride has just returned stateside to work for a major newspaper. The last thing he expects is blackmail. His assignment? Make his boss’s ex-wife fall for him and then break her heart. Her article about discovering love à la Nora might air dirty laundry about her marriage to the media mogul, threatening his senate run.
Not Fake for Long (affiliate link)
The one person I can’t stand wants me to be her bridesmaid.
My sister. Not that I have time for her crap.
I’m a stockbroker in training and the last thing I need is to cater to my high-maintenance sibling’s every desire.
And her first request? To learn to ride horses. So she can enter the wedding on one.
You’ve got to be kidding me. We’ve never even touched a horse before.
With lots of peer pressure and guilt tripping, we head to a breathtaking ranch, and lucky for me, the horses aren’t the only beautiful things to look at.
The riding instructor is honestly the hottest guy I’ve ever seen. Everything about him sends me in a tizzy.
Best of all, he’s nothing like my sister’s rich jerk of a fiancé.
Hick Lawyer (affiliate link)
Town Under (The System Apocalypse: Australia Book 1) (affiliate link)
What’s worse than Australian wildlife? Mutated Australian wildlife.
The System Apocalypse has come to Australia, altering native organisms and importing even more menacing creatures to the most dangerous continent on Earth. For Kira Kent, plant biologist, the System arrives while she’s pulling an all nighter at work with her pair of kids in tow.
Now, instead of mundane parental concerns like childcare and paying the bills, she’s got to figure out how to survive a world where already deadly flora and fauna have grown even more perilous – all while dealing with the minutiae of the System’s pesky blue screens and Levels and somehow putting together a community of survivors to forge a safe zone to shelter her son and daughter.
It almost makes her miss the PTA fundraising sales. Almost.
Anchor: A Single Dad, Protector Hero Romance (affiliate link)
He doesn’t know me, but he’ll die to save me.
Or at least, that’s the gist I get when I’m taken hostage by a psycho with a gun. He’d meant to take a little girl, but I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t try to save her. Now I’m in her place instead and my captor is determined to blow it sky high unless his demands are met.
She doesn’t know me, but I owe her everything.
My daughter is my world. After I gave up my career as a Marine to move closer to be with her, I thought I would stay out of danger. And yet here I am diving right back into it.
The rush of adrenaline at a new mission is almost as enticing as the woman who saved my daughter. Getting distracted by her sharp wit and bravery is the last thing I should do, but I can’t help but be drawn to her despite the danger.
A Man at a Crossroads. A Thousand-Mile Pilgrimage. A Life Forever Changed.
Restless and drifting aimlessly through life, Keith Foskett battled an unshakable sense that something was missing. Then, in a Greek bar, a stranger shared the legend of an ancient trail – a path walked by seekers and dreamers for over a thousand years.
With nothing to lose and everything to find, Foskett set off on a 1,000-mile pilgrimage through France and Spain along the legendary Camino de Santiago.
Battling blazing heat, relentless blisters, and encounters with faith healers, thieves, and fellow wanderers, he pushed himself beyond exhaustion, fear, and self-doubt.
As the way meandered and the miles unfolded, one question remained:
Would the trail finally lead him to the answers he’d been searching for?
Ella Gets the D (affiliate link)
The end of my marriage was the beginning of my happily ever after.
What happens when you hear your husband putting dents in your mattress with another woman?
Leave and never look back!
Easier said than done when you’re a stay-at-home mom, share two kids with the no-good cheater, and have a savings account that laughs in your face on the daily.
I want out, so I agree to an outrageous separation agreement to avoid a courtroom showdown with a man standing on his wallet, waiting for me to fall. The mission is next to impossible, but I would rather attempt a full split on a hibachi grill after a Brazilian wax than stay in a marriage I should’ve ended years ago.
Eloise and the Grump Next Door (Oakley Island Romcoms Book 1) (affiliate link)
I’m not sure which is worse–the lawyer handling my grandmother’s estate or the attack pelican living on the screened-in porch. Just kidding–I’ll take the pelican any day.
After graduation, I thought I’d be off to grad school, doing research on my favorite poet. Instead, I’m renovating my late grandmother’s home and posting about the process on Instagram. Talk about a detour …
But here I am. Turning Gran’s beach house into a bed and breakfast–a process that would be a lot easier if I didn’t have to deal with the grumpy lawyer living next door. It doesn’t help that the night Jake and I met, I got a little tipsy, and he had to carry me back to my hotel.
But the longer I stay on Oakley Island, the more I feel a connection to my childhood and to my grandmother. This isn’t the life I dreamed of, but dreams can change. Especially when new dreams include a future with Jake. On the outside, he might be pricklier than a puffer fish, but I catch glimpses of a delicious, cinnamon roll center.
The Beach Hut (affiliate link)
THEY TOLD THE POLICE IT WAS THE PERFECT SUMMER. THEY WERE LYING.
August, 1997. Matilda is killed in a tragic accident on the Dorset rocks, leaving her best friend Sophie alone, wracked with guilt.
Decades later, Sophie is back for the first time since that terrible summer, to sell her family’s old beach hut and bury the memories forever.
But on clearing out the hut, she finds evidence that Matilda’s death was no accident. What really happened the night she died?
As Sophie edges closer to the truth, the past starts to close in on the present.
Because the close-knit community is still home to a killer, and they want Sophie gone.
Running Cold: A Novel (affiliate link)
In this heart-pounding story of deception, murder, and survival, a former Olympian retreats to the Canadian wilderness for a fresh start, only to find out that the past will always catch up to her.
Julie Adler’s perfect facade is shattered by grief when her husband commits suicide. His death reveals that their luxurious California life was a house of cards, and his secret business dealings have left Julie penniless.
As she strikes out on her own, Julie feels drawn to her old stomping grounds in Banff, a charming and isolated ski town where she once trained for the Olympics. She finds work as a housekeeper at a luxury resort, but just as she starts to piece together a new life, an eccentric guest turns up dead. And Julie, the last person seen in her hotel room, is the prime suspect.
Spearwielder’s Tale: The Woods Out Back, The Dragon’s Dagger, and The Haggis Hunters (affiliate link)
Gary Leger is desperate for adventure. Daydreaming and fantasy novels are his only escapes, and he spends much of his free time reading in the woods behind his house. That’s when adventure finds him. Or rather, that’s when he’s hit with a tranquilizer arrow . . .
When Gary comes to, he discovers he’s traveled to the land of Faerie, a world populated by creatures from his fantasy novels—and they need his help. Only Gary can wear the enchanted armor that will allow him to wield a magic spear. In a series of adventures, Gary will team up with a trouble-making leprechaun, an aloof elf, a surly dwarf, and more. Together they must face off against a fearsome witch, a deadly dragon, an army, and a wicked king to restore peace to the kingdom.
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