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Striped & Strangled (A Knitty Kitties Mystery) (affiliate link)
The victim never saw it coming…
Tessa Wakefield has her hands full juggling a cozy craft store, her nutball family, and two men who’d rather poke out their eyes than describe themselves as cute. Which they totally are.
Cute, charismatic, and occasionally on her mind when she’s not stumbling over dead bodies and using her newfound ninja skills to track down murderers.
So when Cape Discovery’s resident fortune-teller fails to predict her own demise, courtesy of a dog leash wrapped around her throat, Tessa once again find herself in a pickle. And it’s out of the frying pan and into the flames after her crush becomes the prime suspect.
What’s New Zealand’s super-sleuth supposed to do?
Vegas Murder Mystery (affiliate link)
Shadows of Winter: The Curse and the Crown (affiliate link)
How could a visit to the kingdom capital turn disastrous so quickly?
As a commoner, it’s Kaylina Korbian’s duty to bow to aristocrats, avoid rabble-rousers, and call the haughty royal rangers my lord. Especially the arrogant Vlerion of Havartaft.
Handsome, powerful, and a legendary swordsman, he’s the last person you’d want to cross. Naturally, Kaylina irks him at their first meeting, and he arrests her.
Unbeknownst to her, the city is dealing with political strife and assassinations, and the rangers are on edge.
Kaylina must work with Vlerion to clear suspicion from her name, even as she unearths a dark secret about him that will either bind them together… or get her killed.
The Perfect Family (affiliate link)
In the picturesque town of Flaxton, the Radcliffe family presents a picture of flawless unity. “The Perfect Family,” a spellbinding novel by Jacquie Underdown, invites readers into a labyrinth of shadowy secrets that could shatter this family’s polished veneer.
Matt and Nikki, the embodiment of marital tranquillity, weave through their days, blissfully ignorant of the menacing undercurrents threatening their harmony. Little do they know that danger hides in plain sight, casting ominous ripples through their placid lives.
High-fliers Anthony and Belinda, graced with success and affluence, find their world in disarray when they become pawns in a wicked, unseen game. With a veiled menace extending its reach, they must unravel the twisted plot before it engulfs them.
The Frontiers Saga: Episodes 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 (affiliate link)
EPISODE 1.1: “AURORA: CV-01”
A world recovering from a devastating plague…
A brutal enemy threatening invasion…
A young man seeking to escape the shadow of his father…
A ship manned by a crew of fresh academy graduates…
A top-secret experimental propulsion system…
A questionable alliance with a mysterious green-eyed woman…
What destiny has in store for the crew of the UES Aurora, is far greater than any of them could ever imagine.
And this is only the beginning.
Catfished (Rylie Cooper Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
Rylie Cooper is at rock bottom, living in her parents’ basement, her life a tangle of failures and broken dreams.
But opportunity knocks in the most unexpected form—a park ranger job. It isn’t glamorous, but it promises fresh air, nature, and a chance to start anew.
Too bad on her very first day, she finds a body caught in a catfish trap.
Enter Luke Hannah, Rylie’s first love, now wearing the badge of lead investigator. Their rekindled connection is both thrilling and complex, sparking old flames and bringing up memories they’d both rather forget.
As they delve into the case, it becomes clear something’s not right. The evidence points to the wrong man.
For anyone who has ever wondered what it’s like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance mission, this book has the answer. Completely redesigned and updated with photos from author Colonel Richard H. Graham’s personal archive, as well as a new introduction, Flying the SR-71 Blackbird details what an SR-71 mission entailed, from planning to donning a pressure suit to returning to base.
The Lockheed SR-71, unofficially known as the Blackbird, was an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed by Lockheed Skunk Works. The aircraft flew so fast and high that not one was ever shot down, even by a missile. SR-71 pilot and instructor Colonel Richard Graham offers a rare cockpit perspective on how regular Air Force pilots and navigators transformed themselves into SR-71 Blackbird crews, turning their unique aviation talents to account in an unprecedented way.
The Lyon and The Rose of Mayfair: The Lyon’s Den Connected World (affiliate link)
Can Charlotte and Hugh’s love survive a family feud?
Charlotte Rose will settle for nothing less than true love. But how is she to find it amongst the ton where suitors compete to win her hand like a prized trophy? Dubbed ‘the Rose of Mayfair’ for her extraordinary beauty, Charlotte has low expectations as she prepares to enter her third Season. But her focus changes when her father’s nemesis returns to London, and an old feud reemerges, affecting her adored papa’s health and throwing their happy home into turmoil. Charlotte will do anything to end the feud and restore her papa to his genial self—even if it means consorting with his enemy’s son.
Hugh Warsham is nothing like his father, a hot-tempered general who spent much of his life in military combat. Determined not to follow in his footsteps, Hugh studies to be a barrister but finds the work tedious and the long hours torturous. Reprieve comes in the form of an unexpected inheritance. With his newfound fortune, Hugh starts to frequent the Lyon’s Den, delighting in the freedom denied to him in his previous life.
Following the murder of his half-brother, legendary Army Ranger Luke Foster returns to the United States from fighting terrorists. His brother’ s history with a prominent New York Mafia family was no secret, so it’ s no surprise his life was cut short. But the Mafia enforcers don’ t know about Foster, his reputation as The Reaper, or that he’ s coming for them.
FBI Special Agent Calico Hayes is determined to stop Luke Foster from leaving a trail of bodies across the U.S. in his unsanctioned quest for vengeance. But stopping Foster’ s revenge proves more difficult than she expected, and sparks fly in more ways than one when the two cross paths.
While investigating his broth
The British Are Coming: Books 1 & 2: Box Set #1 (affiliate link)
Despite the dishonorable circumstances of his own birth, Adam Faulkner has never begrudged his half-brother Sebastian’s legitimate position as the Viscount Willowthorpe. Having a title and everything that goes with it never mattered to Adam—until “everything” became the hand of Miss Eliza Southwick. Adam knows, as the stable manager at Hooke Manor, he shouldn’t hope to wed a well-born miss. After all, enchanting such a lady’s heart would take a true gentleman…something he is not.Eliza Southwick loves horses more than society and doesn’t care a whit about status or titles. But her father has set his sights on the Viscount Willowthorpe for his future son-in-law and has brought his daughter to Hooke Manor in hopes of arranging a marriage contract.
Forest Trap (The Rose Landgreen Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
In a forest of secrets, every whisper leaves a trace.
After many tough years in the trenches of big-city homicide, Detective Rose Landgreen returns to upstate New York. She’s ready for the relaxed pace of a small-town PD, to care for her aging mother, and to keep an eye on the forest that’s forever encroaching on the old family farm.
When a dog walker stumbles across a shallow grave in a clearing, a cold case, a murder, and the disappearance of a little girl converge into the perfect storm. Rose has to take the reins from rookie partner, Eric, or risk a repeat of her haunted past.
Soon, Rose discovers that in Twin Creek, grudges, gossip, and family feuds guide her investigation. Folks insist that for years, their small town has been plagued by a murderous creature hiding in the forest. But if there’s one thing Rose knows for sure, it’s this: every monster leaves evidence.
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into the Universe (affiliate link)
- · Pluto denied
- · Kitchen chemistry
- · Football gets physics-al
- · Planet Earth’s sudden hot flashes
- · Food’s incredible journey . . .through you
- · The science of surfing, skating, and snowboarding
- · How they plugged the hole in the ozone layer
- · How “defenseless” animals stay alive
- · Sci-fi that’s more fi than sci
- · Ancient astronomers
- · Know your clouds
- And much, much more
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