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Above and Beyond (To Serve and Protect Book 1) (affiliate link)
He’s a special agent sent to guard the President’s sister. She’s everything he wants in a woman…except she’s off limits.
POTUS sends Special Agent Nick Marino to upstate New York to guard his sister, Isabelle, who’s being threatened in anonymous notes. Amidst the heightened anxiety of tracking down the culprit, the constant vigilance and an ever-growing sexual attraction between Isabelle and Nick, these two people must uncover not only the plot against the president but determine what to do about their impossible romance.
ABOVE AND BEYOND provides a deep dive into the life of a Secret Service agent, the glamor of Washington politics and a close look at being related to the most powerful man in the world.
Mia DeAngelis knew it was time to make a change. Wanting to provide a better life for herself and her ten-year-old nephew, Ben, she took a chance and moved to the small town of Compass Cove. Now, the college librarian is adapting to a new job, a new town, and living with her feisty seventy-eight-year-old grandmother. Mia is determined to make it all work, hoping the coastal hamlet gives both her and Ben the sense of community, family and belonging they both want so much.
Adam Miller, a retired NFL quarterback, has come back to Compass Cove to start over after an injury puts an end to his high-octane life. Settling into the small town routine proves to be a challenge, but his job coaching at Jennings College gives him a sense of purpose, while keeping him connected to the game he loves.
Surly didn’t begin to describe Clay Cardell. A lifetime of experience taught him not to love and never to trust, but he desperately needed a business manager. What he got was a spunky, high-tempered woman who tilted his world more than a little off-center. But, if he had learned anything in his life, it was to not expect her to stick around. You don’t trust a woman, any woman, to not just disappear.
Hailey Lambert just needed a shot. Montana was a long way from New Mexico and she just needed one chance to prove she could do the job. She was warned that Clay Cardell would not be the easiest man to work for. After their initial meeting she thought they might have understated that just a tad. The fact that her heart did some kind of somersault when we first saw him didn’t really concern her. If she could deal with the man’s attitude, she could certainly deal with some little physical reaction. Right?
Well… maybe not.
ONCE BITTEN (Atkinson Detective Agency Book 1) (affiliate link)
A Marquess’ Passionate Ride (Love and Intrigue in High Society) (affiliate link)
All her life, the ravishing Sarah Poole has dreamed of one thing; to train horses. Yet, it is only when her father falls ill, that she grabs the opportunity to secretly offer riding lessons to the children of noble families. Even though it is not what she truly desires, soon fate will throw her way the most seductive Marquess she has ever laid eyes on and everything will change. Despite vowing to never be weakened by lust, she soon starts falling for the tempting stranger…
Will the enthralling Sarah surrender to the most scandalous affair of all?
For Peter Hallow, the captivating Marquess of Hampton, family always comes first. When his beloved sister is in need of riding lessons, Peter instanlty seeks out the much-praised instructor that all the noble families in the area seem to be raving about. However, when the instructor turns out to be a tempting and fiery woman, his life will be turned upside down forever.
A Wicked Duke to Her Rescue (Love and Intrigue in High Society) (affiliate link)
Being mistreated by her stepmother her whole life, the fiery Liliane Ward is trying to live a peaceful life, which leaves no time for romance. Certainly no time for the seductive stranger she keeps running into… However, when a flaming encounter at a ball reveals that he is the newly named Duke of Gillingham, remaining unnoticed will become much harder.
Can her desire for the Duke make her dance on the wild side?
Harry, the tempting Duke of Gillingham, is convinced that love is not in the cards for him. However, things are about to change when he meets a mysterious servant-girl who insists on keeping her identity a secret. After her very seductive appearance at a ball, he is even more intrigued, but every time he tries to get close to her, she disappears.
Will he manage to discover the identity of the mysterious woman who always leves him wanting so much more?
Bride of a Wicked Scotsman (affiliate link)
Lady Maura O’Donnell swore to her father on his deathbed that she’d recover the Circle of Light, an enchanted Celtic relic that had brought the family prosperity—until it was stolen a century earlier by a notorious pirate. Now the pirate’s descendant, the Duke of Gleneden, holds this rare treasure, and Maura would give anything to get it back . . .
Alec McBride knows when he’s been had. Lady Maura tricked him into marriage with the expertise of a born seductress, and now she’ll pay for her treachery. He’ll ravish her, tempt her, tame her—until she sorely wishes she’d never heard of the Duke of Gleneden. Caught up in their game of revenge, Alec and Maura never notice what is happening in their hearts—until it’s too late.
Their marriage may have been a farce, but there is nothing truer than their desire . . .
Do No Harm (affiliate link)
Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loyal and loving police detective—and has a rewarding career as a doctor at the local hospital.
But everything comes crashing down when her son, Josh, is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Determined to save him, Emma makes the risky decision to sell opioids to fund the life-saving treatment he needs. But when somebody ends up dead, a lethal game of cat and mouse ensues, her own husband leading the chase. With her son’s life hanging in the balance, Emma is dragged into the dark world of drugs, lies, and murder. Will the truth catch up to her before she can save Josh?
The Werewolf Principle (affiliate link)
His body hosting a pair of strange alien presences, an amnesiac space traveler returns home to an unrecognizable Earth
Many centuries in the future, a two-hundred-year-old man is discovered hibernating in a space capsule orbiting a distant star. Transported back to his home planet, Andrew Blake awakens to an Earth he does not recognize—a world of flying cars and sentient floating houses—with no memory whatsoever of his history or purpose. But he has not returned alone. The last survivor of a radical experiment abandoned more than a century earlier, Blake was genetically altered to be able to adapt to extreme alien environments, and now he can sense other presences inhabiting his mind and body. One is a biological computer of astonishing power; the other is a powerful creature akin to a large wolf. And Blake is definitely not the one in control. With his sanity hanging in the balance, Blake’s only option is to set out in frantic pursuit of his past, the truth, his destiny—and quite possibly the fate of humankind.
Murder on Devil’s Pond (A Hummingbird Hollow B&B Mystery) (affiliate link)
When thirty-three-year-old Hannah Solace returns to her hometown to renovate and reopen the inn she co-owns with her sister Reggie, her mission is to give the old Victorian hotel an entirely new life. She’s even planting pollinator gardens around the inn–native flowers and fruit trees to lure honeybees and houseguests alike.
Hannah’s fresh start is stymied by Reggie’s continual interference, unreliable contractors, a check-the-couch-for-coins budget, and townspeople Hannah left behind fifteen years ago. Her main source of camaraderie is Ezra Grayson, an eighty-year-old recluse who lives nearby. After an unsettling conversation with a disgruntled Ezra, Hannah is horrified to discover him dead on her property later that day.
Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor (affiliate link)
On December seven, 1941, the Japanese navy launched a surprise aerial assault on U.S. bases on Hawaii. In a little over two hours, more than two,400 Americans were dead, propelling the U.S.’s entry into World War II.
Dead Reckoning is the true story of the high-stakes operation undertaken to avenge that deadly strike. Expertly crafting this “hunt for Bin Laden” —style WWII story, New York Times–bestselling author Dick Lehr recreates the tension-filled events leading up to the climactic clash in the South Pacific skies.
Lehr goes behind the scenes at Station Hypo on Hawaii, where U.S. Navy code breakers first discovered exactly where and when to find Admiral Yamamoto, and then chronicles in dramatic detail the nerve-wracking mission to kill him.
Lehr focuses on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot tasked with conceiving a flight route. Given unprecedented access to Mitchell’s personal papers, Lehr reveals for the first time the full story of Mitchell’s wartime exploits up to the face-off with Yamamoto, along with those of key American pilots Mitchell chose for the momentous mission. The spotlight also shines on their enemy target –Admiral Yamamoto, the enigmatic, charismatic commander in chief of Japan’s Combined Fleet.
Falling for Alaska (Moose Falls, Alaska) (affiliate link)
A small-town restaurateur and a big city former football player go head-to-head in this heartfelt enemies-to-lovers romance . . .
As the oldest of three brothers, former pro-football player Xavier Stone is no stranger to making tough calls. Like returning to his small hometown of Moose Falls, Alaska to help run his grandmother’s hard cider company and gastro pub. He agrees to keep an open mind, but between working with his estranged father and confronting heavy childhood memories with his brothers, Xavier’s ready to rush back to civilization. Even the stunning woman who runs his grandmother’s restaurant seems to instantly dislike him . . .
True Everett knows better than to let a ridiculously handsome man distract her, especially when it’s the same guy who stands between her and owning Northern Exposure, the tavern she manages.
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