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Wilde is a thief…
Grace is a teacher…
Will secrets tear them apart?
It’s a boring day at Wilde’s cover job as a docent at the local museum. She fills the time with a little mischief… but it turns interesting when the boss walks in with a young woman. Seeing her chance to test a theory, Wilde introduces herself to the woman. Little does she know, that moment causes a ripple that changes everything.
What happens when a thief falls in love with a school teacher? When the biggest part of a person is held back, unknown to the other? When someone starts to question what it is they really want in their life?
A Governess for the Rakish Earl (Scandalous Regency Affairs) (affiliate link)
Under her father’s strict rule, Clara Whitaker learned to hide her fiery spirit. Yet, her new role as governess brings her close to the rakish Earl of Hartwell, igniting scandal. Will she risk her heart and reputation for a rake and the child she’s come to love?
Blake Barrett, the rakish Earl of Hartwell, never expected an abandoned child to upend his life. Struggling with duty and his past, hiring Clara seemed the perfect solution, until her allure sparks forbidden desires. Can he resist temptation, or risk losing it all?
As dreatful rumors swirl and the search for the child’s family reveals shocking secrets, Clara and Blake are drawn closer to a dangerous passion. With forces conspiring to pull them apart, can they fight their desire long enough to keep the child safe, or will their love destroy everything they’ve worked to protect?
Teetering on the precipice of losing a lucrative career built over two decades, Olivia Banks returns to her hometown for her younger sister’s wedding under the microscope of a camera crew–the condition to her last shot at saving her job. If she’s lucky, the camera will ensure her estranged older sister is on her best behavior. If her luck is anything like it has been, the tattered remains of their tumultuous relationship will crumble to dust.
Face to face with her resentful older sister, now unwillingly thrust under the same microscope, plunges them all into their intertwined unresolved past. A past leading them in the direction of the man who’d come between them–the man still between them, Dr. Ben Crawley. Old jealousies, and new, take hold leaving their sister’s wedding, and their family unit as they know it, hanging in the balance.
THE THAMES PATH KILLER (Detective Rob Miller Book 1) (affiliate link)
A deranged serial killer targeting brides-to-be. An ambitious young detective. A case that could destroy everything.
A young woman is brutally attacked on her way home. It looks like she was the victim of a jilted — and twisted — ex-lover.
But then two more women, also engaged to be married, are found dead.
The press call the killer the ‘Surrey Stalker’. And there’s a stack of similar cold case files.
The pressure is on for young, ambitious DI Rob Miller.
But with all the time he’s spending at the office, Rob’s also running a fine line trying to keep his fiancée, Yvette, onside as they try to plan their wedding . . .
When action movie star Thor Lobo thwarts a gang of car-jackers on a dark highway near Nero, Florida, he vows to make a movie of his heroics. But before the cinematic blockbuster can show Nero as more than a boring beach town, Thor is killed, struck by lightning on the golf course.
The people of Nero insist that since God took their leading man, The Almighty owes them something of comparable greatness. Next thing we know, some old bones turn up in a sandy lot and are declared the earthly remains of “The Original Adam and Eve.”
In thoroughly Florida fashion, that’s enough to justify a theme park. Rivaling anything in Orlando, this attraction gushes cash on a loaves-and-fishes scale.
No surprise, everybody wants a piece of it. And will kill to get it. Shooting, stabbing, choking, and cement shoes aren’t enough for these greedy killers. They’re packing trigger-happy cops, collapsing buildings, arson, firing squads, S&M rape, and heavily armed “patriots.”
A Little Getaway (affiliate link)
A little getaway takes a deadly turn, and everyone has something to hide…
Morgan Murphy has always longed for a romance for the ages. And she’s found it with the love of her life, husband Kyle Murphy—until their spicy marriage suddenly starts to cool off.
Is Kyle preoccupied and distant because of a problem with his development project? Or is it something worse? Could Kyle Murphy be…cheating? He’s hiding something, that’s for sure. And Morgan’s determined to find out what it is.
With the help of gal pal Carla Flores, Morgan tracks her husband’s movements, and the signs increasingly point to infidelity, the ultimate sin in Morgan’s book. When Kyle increases their life insurance and surprises her with a weekend getaway to get their mojo back, she goes on the offensive and hatches a plan to make him come clean about what’s been going on.
A Testament to Murder (Murder Will Follow) (affiliate link)
A retired detective heads to the French Riviera where a dying billionaire plays a twisted game with nine would-be heirs.
At the lush Villa Calypso on the French Riviera, a dying billionaire launches a devious plan: at midnight each day he appoints a new heir to his vast fortune. If he dies within twenty-four hours, that person takes it all. If not, their chance is gone forever.
Yet these are no ordinary beneficiaries, these men who crossed him, women who deceived him, and distant relations intent on reclaiming the family fortune. All are determined to lend death a hand and outwit their rivals in pursuit of the prize.
As tensions mount with every passing second, retired Scotland Yard investigator Jasper must stay two steps ahead of every player if he hopes to prevent the billionaire’s devious game from becoming a testament to murder . . .
A Kidnapping in New York (affiliate link)
A mother with everything to lose. A secret she can’t afford to reveal. A lie that could destroy it all . . . and every parent’s worst nightmare.
When Public Defender Gwendolyn Black’s infant daughter is kidnapped in broad daylight, her world shatters. As the story grips the nation, two relentless detectives begin to suspect that she’s hiding something. The deeper they dig, the more it becomes clear—Gwen knows more than she’s letting on.
Meanwhile, when a woman loses a pregnancy and sinks into despair, her boyfriend takes a desperate risk to save her. He offers a gift she never expected. A gift that could cost them both everything.
As the detectives close in on the truth, the lines between guilt and innocence blur. And soon Gwen realises, the answer may be to take justice into her own hands . . .
Everyday Magic: Spells & Rituals for Modern Living (affiliate link)
Looking for simple solutions for today’s problems: computer viruses, traffic that drives you crazy, and an overextended schedule?
There’s an easy way to incorporate magic into your life without adding more stress to it. Everyday Magic updates the ancient arts to fit your busy lifestyle. It promotes the use of modern convenience items as viable magical tools, and it incorporates the use of easy-to-find spell ingredients—most of which are already in your kitchen cabinet. It discusses the items and forces that boost magical work, as well as offering a multitude of time-saving tips and a large assortment of recipes for creating your own incenses, potions, and powders. More than 300 spells and rituals cover the everyday concerns of the modern practitioner.
Set your spell into motion and speed up the results with “magical boosters”
Magnify your focused intent and energy flow with herbs, flowers, trees, and stones
Learn how to perform ancient arts with modern tools: your coffee maker, blender and crock pot
Make your own magical powders, sachets, bath salts, potpourris, incenses and oils
Discover the secret to success in magical workings
Practical spells for more than 300 purposes
S.E. Hinton Classic Collection: Rumble Fish, Some of Tim’s Stories, Taming the Star Runner, and Tex (affiliate link)
Four gripping, intense novels from “the author who changed the way that books for teens were written” (The New Yorker).
With millions of copies sold, S.E. Hinton’s novels have inspired readers of all ages for generations. This volume includes four of the award-winning author’s most compelling books.
In Rumble Fish, two brothers discover how the bond of blood can be as tight as a noose: “Packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling.”—School Library Journal
In Taming the Star Runner, a horse provides an opportunity for escape to a troubled young aspiring writer: “A powerful story.”—Kirkus Reviews
In Tex, a boy goes looking for trouble, but might find redemption instead: “An utterly disarming, believable portrait of a small-town adolescent.”—The New York Times
And in Some of Tim’s Stories, a bartender recounts the story of two lives torn apart by tragedy.
The Return: A Novel (affiliate link)
The real Richard Marder would shock his acquaintances, if they ever met him. Even his wife, long dead, didn’t know the real man behind the calm, cultured mask he presents to the world. Only an old army buddy from Vietnam, Patrick Skelly, knows what Marder is capable of. Then a shattering piece of news awakens Marder’s buried desire for vengeance, and with nothing left to lose, he sets off to punish the people whose actions, years earlier, changed his life. Uninvited, Skelly shows up and together the two of them raise the stakes far beyond anything Marder could have envisioned.
As Marder and Skelly head toward an apocalypse of their own making, Marder learns that good motives and sense of justice can’t always protect the people a man loves. A range of fearsomely real characters, from a brutally violent crime lord to a daringly courageous young woman, a roller-coaster of twists and turns, and a shattering exploration of what constitutes morality in the face of evil.
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