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Whiskey Chaser (affiliate link)

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Author: Score, Lucy, Kingsley, Claire
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Romantic Comedy

I want this with you, Dev. I want a big house and wild kids and bonfires.

Raised by her three overbearing brothers, Scarlett is a hell-raising tomboy with a tool belt. A tornado stirring up trouble everywhere she goes. Her favorite pastimes? Drinking any man under the table and two-stepping. But she has zero interest in love. Scarlett’s only being neighborly when she claims her sexy next-door neighbor as her new pet project.

Devlin is a man at rock bottom. Marriage, political career, five-year plan to Washington, D.C. All destroyed with one well-placed jab. The golden boy is now the black sheep relegated to Bootleg Springs, a tiny West Virginia town with two claims to fame: 1. Moonshine and 2. The cold case disappearance of a teen girl.

Devlin just wants to lick his wounds. But Scarlett has other ideas for his tongue… and the rest of him. She’s determined to bring him back to life, even if getting him back on his feet means never seeing him again. But when an old mystery becomes new news, she’ll need his help to survive the scandal.

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Author: Barton, Bridget
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Historical Regency Romance

The Secret Admirer of an Extraordinary Lady

When Lydia receives letters from a secret admirer, she begins to dream of fairytales and happily ever afters. But when she discovers the sweet side of her childhood friend, Anthony, she finds herself trapped in a dilemma. Anthony has found pleasure in teasing his best friend’s little sister. But, when one day he takes it too far and she walks off leaving him standing in front of the crowd, embarrassed and furious as he is, Anthony starts plotting his revenge, until the moment he realizes his heart beats only for her. Will he manage to make up for the chaos he has created? Will they follow their instincts and find their path to true love?

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Author: Moore, Addison
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Detective Fiction

Believe. Obey. Survive.
Welcome to Paradise where faith meets fear, and salvation is written in blood.
Clean language and heart-stopping twists that keep you glued to the edge of your seat until the very last page.

When FBI Agent Fallon Baxter returns to her hometown of Pine Ridge Falls to join the local field office, she expects a fresh start and a chance to mend her broken past. Instead, she’s thrust into the heart of darkness when a string of brutal murders shakes the quiet community.

The victims, found brutally murdered and linked only by their ties to the secretive Paradise Cult, draw Fallon into an investigation that spirals into the depths of danger and deceit.

Led by the charismatic and ruthless Supreme Leader, the cult preaches a doctrine of salvation through sacrifice and hiding evil motives beneath a veneer of spiritual enlightenment.

As Fallon digs deeper, she unearths chilling connections between the cult and her own troubled history. With the disappearance of her sister complicating matters, Fallon navigates a complex web of loyalty and betrayal.

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Author: Farrar, M K
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Police Procedurals

A ten year old murder is back to haunt him…

When fishermen haul a bag containing a dismembered arm from the River Avon, a search ensues to find the rest of the body.
Detective Inspector Ryan Chase of the Bristol Major Crimes Investigation Team is in charge of identifying the deceased and bringing the killer to justice.
Dealing with grief from the death of his daughter, his broken-down marriage, and a worrying habit he can’t seem to break, DI Chase has his hands full.
The mystery deepens when a second limb is found, and it doesn’t match the first.
Who is dumping body parts into the river? Why are clues leading DI Chase back to a ten-year-old unsolved case?
Has a murderer reignited their taste for death?

Cupcakes and Candlesticks (affiliate link)

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Author: Fountain, Nora
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Contemporary Romance

When Maddy’s husband Rob suddenly announces that he’s leaving her and moving to Canada with his pretty young employee, her world comes crashing down.

As Rob’s promises of financial support prove worthless, Maddy finds herself under growing pressure to forge a new life for herself and her four children. She decides to start a catering business, but will it earn enough money — and is that what she really wants? And then along comes the gorgeous Guy Deverill in the strangest of circumstances …

Fate conspires to throw every obstacle in her path from planning laws to sick children but she won’t give up.

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Author: Ardnek, Kendra E.
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Fantasy Romance

All’s fair till it isn’t a game…

Go to a ball, meet the prince, fall in love.
It’s all simple process, though Elindala knows better than to fall in love with the prince. She wears a glamour that molds her into his perfect woman, and as soon as she has his heart, she will play the part of a faithful wife until she has torn down the defenses and has laid bare his kingdom for her family’s attack. She just has to keep up the walls around her heart that have kept her safe her whole life.

Christof knows that all isn’t right with his new bride. Ella’s story has a few too many holes, and she’s keeping a few too many secrets. However, she is the woman he’s chosen, and he’s determined to win her heart the way that she has stolen his. His parents worry, but he’s sure that a little patience and care is all it’ll take. After all, she’s clearly not had much of that from her stepfamily.

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Author: Claire, Nicola
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Cozy Mystery

When the Wedding of the Century takes place at Cooper’s Beach, the guest list turns out to be deadly.

Life is going great for Doubtless Bay’s kooky private investigator, Summer O’Dare. She’s got a new boarder staying at her house by the beach. She just wrapped up a case for the local wildlife sanctuary. She has a hot date planned for this evening.

And then her dog finds a dead body on the beach.

The case has the full attention of the local police, but it’s not the only unsolved mystery. A stranger has washed up on the beach. He doesn’t know his name, he doesn’t have any identification, and the police are too busy investigating a murder.

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Author: Holmberg, Martha
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Seasonal Cooking

Joshua McFadden, chef and owner of renowned trattoria Ava Gene’s in Portland, Oregon, is a vegetable whisperer. After years racking up culinary cred at New York City restaurants like Lupa, Momofuku, and Blue Hill, he managed the trailblazing Four Season Farm in coastal Maine, where he developed an appreciation for every part of the plant and learned to coax the best from vegetables at each stage of their lives.

In Six Seasons, his first book, McFadden channels both farmer and chef, highlighting the evolving attributes of vegetables throughout their growing seasons—an arc from spring to early summer to midsummer to the bursting harvest of late summer, then ebbing into autumn and, finally, the earthy, mellow sweetness of winter. Each chapter begins with recipes featuring raw vegetables at the start of their season. As weeks progress, McFadden turns up the heat—grilling and steaming, then moving on to sautés, pan roasts, braises, and stews. His ingenuity is on display in 225 revelatory recipes that celebrate flavor at its peak.

Stranger in the House (affiliate link)

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Author: MacDonald, Patricia
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Ghost Suspense
WHAT DID HE SEE?
WHAT DOES HE KNOW?
Eleven years ago, Anna Lange’s life was shattered when her young son, Paul, disappeared — though she never gave up hope that he might be alive. Now, her son has been returned. The joyful family reunion is short-lived, however, as the nervous, withdrawn Paul begins to behave strangely. Anna’s husband and daughter grow fearful living in the same house with him. But Anna believes that Paul is still recovering from the extreme psychological trauma he experienced the night he disappeared — though he claims he has no memory of that time.
Does he or doesn’t he? Someone remembers — and will stop at nothing to keep the truth a secret. Now Anna will have to contend with a nightmare from the past that will either tear her family apart, or destroy them together….
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Author: Hayes-McCoy, Felicity
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Mothers & Children Fiction

As she drives her mobile library van between villages of Ireland’s West Coast, Hanna Casey tries not to think about a lot of things. Like the sophisticated lifestyle she abandoned after finding her English barrister husband in bed with another woman. Or that she’s back in Lissbeg, the rural Irish town she walked away from in her teens, living in the back bedroom of her overbearing mother’s retirement bungalow. Or, worse yet, her nagging fear that, as the local librarian and a prominent figure in the community, her failed marriage and ignominious return have made her a focus of gossip.

With her teenage daughter, Jazz, off traveling the world and her relationship with her own mother growing increasingly tense, Hanna is determined to reclaim her independence by restoring a derelict cottage left to her by her great-aunt.

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Author: Pawlish, Renee
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Serial Killer Thrillers

For Denver Homicide detective Sarah Spillman, a secret from her past haunts each new investigation and could derail her hard-earned career.
A missing boy’s body is found in a dumpster in a seemingly idyllic Denver neighborhood, and the list of suspects includes the boy’s mother and father. Sarah barely begins her investigation when a man who lived nearby is also discovered dead, an apparent suicide.

Sarah continues to dig deeper, looking for a link between the two deaths, only to find the lies are piling up.

Everyone has secrets they don’t want exposed, and she must unravel the deadly connections between her suspects to find a killer.

High Adventure (affiliate link)

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Author: Westlake, Donald E.
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Humorous Fiction

Kirby Galway may be a low-level marijuana smuggler in Belize, but the man has a dream—to make lots and lots of money. So when a local official offers him a back-jungle tract of land he swears would make a perfect cattle ranch, Kirby jumps at the opportunity. Unfortunately, he lands himself in a swamp—that he now owns.

Kirby begins selling homemade “artifacts” from his property to American museums and witless tourists, even building a fake ancient temple and recruiting a tribe of Mayan Indians who know a good scam when they see one.

But his cash-cow paradise soon attracts the attention of two snooping New York reporters, a beautiful archaeologist from UCLA, and a troop of Guatemalan guerillas just itching to shoot somebody. Kirby is going to have to talk fast, move faster, and pull out every dirty trick he knows if he’s going to get out of this alive . . .

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