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The Wolfgang Pierce: Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
Wolfgang Pierce doesn’t play by the rules. As a contract espionage specialist, he operates in any time zone, under any conditions. Subterfuge, shootouts, and high-stakes deception? Just another Monday for Wolfgang and his team.
But this job is different. Their client? The U.S. government. Their mission? To protect a vulnerable CIA operative code-named Raven.
Raven is deep inside a counter-terrorist mission in Paris, and somebody wants him taken out. Wolfgang’s team is hired to run interference—a quick in-and-out job.
Or so they think. But someone is lying….
And it’s a lie that could cost thousands of lives.
Truth or Date (Better Date than Never Series Book 2) (affiliate link)
Truth or Dare is all fun and games until a spontaneous dare has Gina falling for the office playboy.
Gina Hall is done with men who won’t commit. Ten years waiting for her ex to propose wasted her time. Never again. When her friend Kristen starts a game of Truth or Dare, she dares Gina to go on a date with Ethan, who’s amazing and total marriage material.
As Gina plans the going away party for office playboy Chris Bradley, she spontaneously initiates a game of Truth or Dare with him. When his turn comes around, he dares Gina to pose as his girlfriend to help get a flirty colleague off his back. Gina finds playing couple with Chris way too much fun.
Even though Gina and Chris are pretending, their relationship begins to feel painfully real. Fearing she might be falling for another fly-by man, Gina must focus on Ethan so she doesn’t make the same dating mistakes all over again.
Heard It Through the Grapevine (Garcia Girls Book 1) (affiliate link)
Avery 1 (Tantalizing Trilogies) (affiliate link)
Avery Walker has lived a life of being bullied, abused, and taken advantage of by people. Because of how early it started, and with her family being the worst offenders, she stopped pushing back or expecting anything else from life. But when a student slaps her in class and the school tries to sweep the incident and her feelings under the rug, Avery hits the breaking point.
What a perfect time to play the lottery, right?
All of Avery’s bad luck she’s suffered with her whole life gives her one moment of good luck and she actually wins the largest jackpot on record… But what now?
Ryder James is a vampire who is trying to make changes in his life when he meets Avery who helps him see the world in a different way.
Griffin Peterson is an Alpha werewolf that has been so focused on his pack that he forgot he needs things as a man until Avery stepped into his life.
And Lorenzo Ganan is a warlock suffering because of the tragedies that have struck his family and Avery makes him feel as if he might be able to open his heart again.
Deadly Vengeance (Deadly Sight Book 1) (affiliate link)
Just Add Water (Hetta Coffey Book 1) (affiliate link)
Hetta Coffey is a globe-trotting civil engineer with a swath of failed multi-national affairs in her jet stream.
Plying the San Francisco waterfront, trolling for triceps, her attention is snagged by a parade of passing yachts—especially their predominantly male skippers—and experiences a champagne-induced epiphany…
If she had a boat, she could get a man
In spite of a spectacular ignorance of all things nautical, Hetta buys her dream boat, but a shadowy stalker, an inconvenient body, and Hetta’s own self-destructive foibles imperil her goal.
Hetta Coffey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “sink or swim!”
The Midwife’s Secret (affiliate link)
It all began with a midwife’s secret… a secret that once uncovered, could free two families from the bitter tragedy that binds them
1969 On New Year’s Eve, while the Hiltons of Yew Tree Manor prepare to host the party of the season, their little girl disappears. Suspicion falls on Bobby James, a young farmhand and the last person to see Alice before she vanished. Bobby protests his innocence, but he is sent away. Alice is never found.
Present day Architect Willow James is working on a development at Yew Tree when she discovers the land holds a secret. As she begins to dig deep into the past, she uncovers a web of injustice. And when another child goes missing, Willow knows the only way to stop history repeating itself is to right a terrible wrong…
The Perfect Stranger: A Novel (affiliate link)
When Leah Stevens’ career implodes, a chance meeting with her old friend Emmy Grey offers her the perfect opportunity to start over. Emmy, just out of a bad relationship, convinces Leah to come live with her in rural Pennsylvania, where there are teaching positions available and no one knows Leah’s past.
Or Emmy’s.
When the town sees a spate of vicious crimes and Emmy Grey disappears, Leah begins to realize how very little she knows about her friend and roommate. Unable to find friends, family, a paper trail or a digital footprint, the police question whether Emmy Grey existed at all. And mark Leah as a prime suspect.
Fighting the doubts of the police and her own sanity, Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey—and along the way, confront her old demons, find out who she can really trust, and clear her own name.
The Storyteller of Casablanca (affiliate link)
Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It’s a world away from the trouble back home—and Josie loves it.
Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is struggling—with her marriage, her baby daughter and her new life as an expat in an unfamiliar place. But when she discovers a small wooden box and a diary from the 1940s beneath the floorboards of her daughter’s bedroom, Zoe enters the inner world of young Josie, who once looked out on the same view of the Atlantic Ocean, but who knew a very different Casablanca.
It’s not long before Zoe begins to see her adopted city through Josie’s eyes. But can a new perspective help her turn tragedy into hope, and find the comfort she needs to heal her broken heart?
Sicilian Sunset: Book 1 The Triple Flame Trilogy (affiliate link)
Summer, sunshine and fun.
That’s Sicily.
A two-week girls’ trip promises much and delivers more… so much more.
Saving a stranger from certain peril throws me in the path of one hot as hell Italian. Little did I know this would change my life forever.
The hunger in his eyes is blinding, making me want to forget that holiday flings are not for me. But can I resist the most attractive and powerful man I’ve ever met when he’s hell-bent to have me?
It feels like puzzle pieces are falling into place, like fate has brought me and this mouthwatering powerhouse together.
My heart screams, ‘you’ve found HIM’, but my head urges me to run. Is it just irrational fear? Or is danger truly lurking in the shadows?
And when I finally make the choice, will it all be too late?
The Confidence of Wildflowers (Wildflower Duet Book 1) (affiliate link)
For the most part.
When Thayer Holmes moves in next door, the grumpy landscaper both fascinates and amuses me.
When he asks me to nanny his kid, it’s a great way to make some extra money.
It’s impossible not to fall in love with Thayer and his adorable son.
There’s a big problem though.
I’m eighteen. He’s thirty-one.
Falling for someone almost fifteen years older than me wasn’t part of my plans, but sometimes things happen when you least expect them.
The Girl from Silent Lake (Detective Kay Sharp Book 1) (affiliate link)
When single mother Alison Nolan sets off with her six-year-old daughter, Hazel, she can’t wait to spend precious time with her girl. A vacation in Silent Lake, where snow-topped mountains are surrounded by the colors of fall, is just what they need. But hours later, Alison and Hazel vanish into thin air.
Detective Kay Sharp rushes to the scene. The only evidence that they were ever there is an abandoned rental car with a suitcase in the back, gummy bears in the open glove compartment and a teddy bear on the floor.
Kay’s mind spins. A week before, the body of another woman from out of town was found wrapped in a blanket, her hair braided and tied with feathers. Instinct tells her that the cases are connected––and it won’t be long until more innocent lives are lost.
As Kay leads a frenzied search, time is against her, but she vows that Alison and little Hazel will be found alive. She works around the clock, even though the small town is up in arms, saying she’s asking too many questions. Then she uncovers a vital clue – a photograph of the blanket that the first victim was buried in.
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