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Run For Your Life (Mitch Cannon Savannah Heat Book 1) (affiliate link)
With the weekend right around the corner, Homicide Detective Mitch Cannon is looking forward to Saturday night. It isn’t often he has a date, and this one will be particularly interesting. His new friend Liza is beautiful, edgy, outspoken, and somewhat odd.
But Mitch’s usual Friday-morning phone call to his mom sets the wheels in motion for five days of pure hell. Mitch’s sister, Marie, has gone missing without a trace. His date is canceled, and Mitch’s partner, Devon, and Liza also go missing the following night. The only clue is a call Mitch gets from someone whose number is blocked, the anonymous speaker saying, “Ticktock, ticktock.”
Mitch and the entire Habersham precinct set out on a white-knuckle search to find his sister, partner, and new friend before time runs out and all three are gone forever.
North’s Pole (Camp Bay Christmas) (affiliate link)
Located on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille in beautiful Northern Idaho, Camp Bay Chalet is a discrete and cozy B&B, popular with both locals and minor celebrities for its fabulous holiday weekends.
The pic seen around the world….
The son of Hollywood royalty, North Astor-Ford has lived his entire life in the public’s eye. He knows better than anyone that someone is always watching.
So when one not-so-innocent picture meant for a hook-up accidentally ends up crossposted across all his social media, North is left humiliated and scared. With no one to turn to, he flees to Camp Bay Chalet to be close to the one person he used to count on to protect him from the world.
The Lakeside Inn (Return to Sapphire Bay Book 1) (affiliate link)
Penny Terry loves her job as a property development manager in one of Seattle’s biggest construction companies. When tragedy strikes, she returns to Sapphire Bay to say goodbye to her grandmother and comfort her parents.
The last thing Penny or her sisters expect is to inherit the house her grandma called home. But there’s a catch–and it could change their lives forever.
Wyatt Johnson didn’t move to Sapphire Bay to be harassed by four females and a large Golden Labrador. But when the Terry sisters become his neighbors, any chance of completing his latest collection of paintings disappears under a blast of plaster dust and never-ending banging.
When Penny needs his help to solve an old family mystery, they’re drawn into a web of secrets unlike anything Sapphire Bay has ever seen.
Angel of Fire (Medieval Heroes) (affiliate link)
Devastated by the death of her father, Norman noblewoman Chrestien de Lontaine vows to see her twin sister wed and take refuge in a nunnery… but the Wolf has come knocking on their door and treachery is at hand.
King Henry’s blue-eyed champion has been sent to quell a nation’s rebellion. He vows to seal their peace by wedding Gilbert de Lontaine’s beautiful daughter, but although the girl with smoky eyes holds his heart in peril, the real danger lurks in unexpected quarters. Can true love bind two hearts and bring the Wolf’s bride home?
We Did This Once Before: A Novel (affiliate link)
Broke and lonely, Kim is about to make the worst decision ever.
Divorced and struggling, middle-aged Kim is hanging on by her fingernails. When her elderly mother invites her to return to the lush island of her Florida childhood, Kim is tempted. She could spend time with Mom, start her dream business, and craft the perfect new life.
But when she arrives, Kim is horrified to find a dysfunctional disaster. Mom’s sister with dementia has moved in, the house is falling apart, and a cousin is living in a trailer in the backyard with her scary, drug-dealing boyfriend. Kim has arrived just in time, but she’s furious that Mom tricked her into coming to the rescue. Again.
THE GRINDING MILL (affiliate link)
The mills of the law grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly fine.
Two police officers shoot dead an innocent Black man on his porch. They are now facing a murder charge.
Nick Bennett, a 51-year-old veteran lawyer, has been off the court circuit for years. He takes on the defense case — but at what cost?
Old-time reporter Hamilton Durst is looking for a break. When he stumbles across the explosive truth behind the shooting, he knows it is going to save his career.
But this story won’t just put one death in the spotlight.
The Story of French (affiliate link)
Why does everything sound better if it’s said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at one time, the pre-eminent language of literature, science and diplomacy.
In a captivating narrative that spans the ages, from Charlemagne to Cirque du Soleil, Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow unravel the mysteries of a language that has maintained its global influence despite the rise of English. As in any good story, The Story of French has spectacular failures, unexpected successes and bears traces of some of history’s greatest figures: the tenacity of William the Conqueror, the staunchness of Cardinal Richelieu, and the endurance of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Romanov (affiliate link)
My name is Anastasia. The history books say I died. They don’t know the half of it.
Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them, and he’s hunted Romanov before.
Nastya’s only chances of saving herself and her family are either to release the spell and deal with the consequences, or to enlist help from Zash, the handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya has only dabbled in magic, but it doesn’t frighten her half as much as her growing attraction to Zash. She likes him. She thinks he might even like her.
That is, until she’s on one side of a firing squad . . . and he’s on the other.
Spell Shocked (A Charmed Midlife Book 1) (affiliate link)
One feisty aunt with talking animals, a surprisingly supernatural lakeside town, and a boatload of magic are all it takes to shake up my midlife.
No one should live day to day just to exist. It only took an invite from a person I’ve never met to a place I didn’t know existed to tempt me to walk…no, run away from everything I knew. How sad is it when I’m the last one to see that my crappy life needs a do-over?
Starting over in my midlife wasn’t exactly the plan. But with the discovery that I actually have an aunt I never knew existed, magic is real, humans can turn into animals, and there might even be a real freaking dragon living in Guardian Lake—I can’t help but hope there has to be a better life waiting for me to choose it.
The Oyster Diver’s Secret: A Novel (affiliate link)
Set on the beautiful Swedish coast, this is a story of deep friendship and hope, about facing the worst parts of ourselves and stepping into a new future.
Inez is ready to clean out her life. Seventy years old and no longer working as a women’s fiction author, her life has been accumulating in piles around her Swedish cottage by the sea. But it’s not just the house that needs cleaning. Inez is also ready to write one last book—her first true one—about the oyster diver, her friend who disappeared so long ago.
Then Meja enters Inez’s life. Thirty-seven years old and hopelessly lost, Meja survives on the kindness of her disinterested boyfriend, a series of temp jobs, and bitterness over her mother’s constant disapproval. The second Inez sees her, she despises her. Meja seems just like the wispy women that Inez used to write about, except those women actually change.
Kept: The Lost Vampire Journals Book 1 (The Kept Series) (affiliate link)
When Josephine stumbles upon an old leather-bound journal, she knows she shouldn’t read it, but curiosity gets the better of her, and she decides to keep it.
Now she’s in a race against time to outrun the vampire it belongs to, because he wants it back – and he wants her.
She knows how he enjoys killing. She’s read all about it. Will Josephine be able to outrun and outwit him to survive, or will she lose everything, including her heart?
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