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Murder at the Wedding (Modern Midwife Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Birth, death, mayhem, and murder…..
Maeve O’Reilly Kensington loves her job as a nurse-midwife at Creighton Memorial Hospital in the quintessential New England seaside town of Langford. Nothing could bring her more pleasure than helping women usher new life into the world… except possibly having a child of her own with her husband, Will. In the meantime, she’s happy to celebrate the families of those she treats, and content to support her husband in his newly formed catering business.
However when Creighton Memorial’s Chief Obstetrician suddenly drops dead at his daughter’s extravagant wedding reception, catered by Will, Maeve’s two worlds collide in the worst possible way. Suddenly murder is on the menu, and Maeve is desperate to help her husband and find out who killed the doctor.
Incubation (Green Fields Book 1) (affiliate link)
All Dr. Brianna Lewis wants is a cup of coffee.
Coffee, to make slaving away in her cell culture lab at Green Fields Biotech a little more bearable on a Friday afternoon when everyone is home already.
What she doesn’t count on is a group of terrorists blowing up all the entrances to the building and taking her and a select few others hostage. Bree soon finds herself conflicted. Not only does she know their charismatic leader. She also starts to suspect that there is a lot more to this than the hunt for an illegal bioweapon—a virus that could potentially kill millions in just a few days—particularly as there is currently a flu epidemic raging across the country, and reports about violent behavior among the afflicted are getting more and more alarming.
Appetizers and Alibis (Alphabet Soup Book 1) (affiliate link)
Opening night of Chef Jessica Vasquez’s new restaurant: The Crock Pot. With the media spotlighting the opening on the evening news and food bloggers featuring the restaurant online, the pressure is on.
She thought she’d have to worry about burned food or slow ticket times, but nothing prepared her for a dead body by the dumpster.
Suspicion is cast on Jess, and she’s taken to the police station for questioning. She doesn’t want to be compared to her father, so she’s thrust into the role of sleuth to clear her name, find her friend’s murderer, and save her business.
But the more she digs into the murder, it becomes clear that someone has it in for her and her business.
Jeremy’s Secrets (Harry & Company Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
When deputy director Jeremy Foster is killed before he can expose illegal operations inside the Agency, Harry Wilson is tapped to lead an outside effort to find where his best friend had hidden the incriminating evidence. Together with Foster’s ex-wife Brenda and other Company associates, Harry pieces together the facts that lead them to totally unexpected conclusions. As it turns out, Jeremy had more secrets than anyone ever imagined. There are plenty of twists and turns to delight the reader, along with just enough suggestive PG language and non-graphic sex and violence to prove that life is still worth living after retirement.
The Ravenglass Chronicles (affiliate link)
In the labyrinth of destiny, magic stirs a rebellion…
Meet Kat, the reluctant heir, first in line to an empire she wants no part in ruling. On the day her world is set to shatter, she faces an impossible choice – bow to her mother’s wishes and surrender her life to the Empire, or embark on a path that leads to a destiny brimming with magic.
As the prospect of an arranged marriage looms like a specter, Kat is torn. Will she uphold her royal obligations or dare to succumb to the whispers of forbidden love?
In a grand game of thrones, Kat endures a gauntlet of humiliating rituals. Will she accept her ordained role as Ostreich’s future queen or defy tradition, guided by her own desires?
The Bend (affiliate link)
Gift or curse? As the lone survivor of a school bombing, she’s hid from the press for twenty years. Her new job as a photographer in the rural town of Bend, PA offers her another safe haven from bold reporters.
Until women start disappearing.
Each missing woman appears to have a connection to a mysterious local cult, and Seth, Bend’s only reporter, sets out to investigate. His drastic plans to expose the members make Kate fear for his–and her own–safety, but can she trust him enough to reveal her secrets?
The wrong answer could get one, or both of them killed.
Heartbreak Hill: A Novel (affiliate link)
Grayson Caballero sees the glass half-empty. Born with a life-threatening heart defect, he’s been living on borrowed time. The uncertainty of tomorrow makes him push people away, helping Grayson to avoid any real commitment.
Then he meets Reid Sullivan and falls madly in love. The two work together at the Wold Collective, Grayson as a project manager and Reid in HR. They even live in the same apartment complex. But Grayson continues to keep his distance, despite their obvious attraction. And Reid’s not interested in waiting around.
When Grayson collapses at a basketball game, Reid learns he’s been keeping secrets from her. Now his life hangs in the balance…and a stranger from Boston holds the key to his survival.
Four Letters of Love: A Novel (affiliate link)
Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas’s own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it.
Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She’s a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play. Years later, Isabel will continue to somehow blame herself, casting off her own chances for happiness.
And then, the day after Isabel’s wedding to man she doesn’t love, Nicholas arrives on her western isle, seeking his father’s last surviving painting.
The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything (affiliate link)
Being married to a comedian is no joke.
Kate is sick of it. Sick of being a wife, cook, dog walker and flat-pack assembler, while still being treated like a doormat. Her husband all but ignores her – unless he needs a clean shirt – and she’s constantly compelled to keep up with the (very smug) Joneses in their neighbourhood.
What happened to the fun-loving woman she used to be? At almost 50, Kate feels lost, overlooked and stuck. That is, until she comes home to one of her husband’s impromptu parties – and is expected to feed their hungry guests.
And that’s it. Breaking point. The final straw.
The Dragon’s Blade Trilogy (affiliate link)
Arrogant. Scornful. Full of pride. Darnuir, Prince of Dragons, cares nothing for the damage he’s doing to the faltering alliance against the Shadow. He thinks himself invincible – right up till a mortal wound forces him to undergo a dangerous rebirthing spell, leaving him a helpless babe in human hands.
Twenty years pass and demonic forces are poised to sweep across the land. With the alliance between humanity, dragons, and fairies fracturing, Darnuir will have to uncover the secrets of his past, seek redemption for his sins, and rally the disparate races if they are to survive.
Only Darnuir can do this. For he’s the last member of the royal bloodline and only he can wield the Dragon’s Blade.
Maybe Next Time: A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick (affiliate link)
Dan is Emma’s person. She’s known it since the first time she saw him dressed in lederhosen on the tube.
On their fifteen year ‘dateversary’, Emma texts a list of everything she should have told Dan that morning.
Tell the kids to remember their homework…
And their gloves.
Can you defrost some sausages?
Emma just forgets to write the most important words of all – I love you – and by the end of the day everything changes.
Or does it? Emma is given the chance to rewrite their future – if she can just figure out their past…
Find Me in California: A Novel (affiliate link)
Raised by her fiercely passionate and free-spirited grandmother, Julia Hope has never gone without love. But as she tends to her only living relative during her final days, Julia struggles to overcome her fear of being alone.
A thousand miles away, Matt Gatlin has managed to avoid the coldhearted grandmother with whom he once lived. But after twelve years of her being blessedly out of sight, she needs him. His resentments still raw, Matt packs up his car and reluctantly heads to California to confront a bitter past he thought was long gone.
Over the next six days, Julia’s and Matt’s fates intersect. An old diary exposes the tragedy of a long-lost love. A history of secrets in two families comes to light. And on a lonely back road, Matt picks up an unusual yet captivating hitchhiker with a secret of her own.
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