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Bulldog (Dev Haskell Private Investigator Book 9) (affiliate link)
Sleeping with her Highland Foe (Black Highland Hearts Book 1) (affiliate link)
Life is full of choices; each one hides a blessing and a trap…
Caitríona Kincaid is a woman on a mission to uncover the murderer of the McCallum Laird. This mission is her only chance to redeem herself from the sinister past that is hunting her.
While everything seems to be pointing out, who the killer might be, something is amiss. It seems too easy…
Ualan McCallum is a torn man. He has heard the whispers echoing through the corridors and the gossip behind his back. Not only did he lose his father and the woman he loved, but now, one by one, his people are silently blaming him. For them, he is a patricide.
His only solace in all this havoc is her, a beautiful maid that just arrived in the keep and seems to appear in the most peculiar places.
Caitríona must discover if Ualan is the murderer, or if the real culprit is hiding in the shadows. Should she follow her heart that is anxiously screaming for Ualan or let logic prevail and fulfil her mission?
Winter’s Daddy (affiliate link)
Love wasn’t on my Christmas List this year, but Santa had other plans.
Meeting Winter was like a punch to the gut. She took my breath away and I knew I had to have her.
She’s sweet and innocent and everything I’ve ever wanted in a babygirl.
My new mission in life is to make her mine.
Getting Wrapped Up (Sapphire Falls Book 4) (affiliate link)
At least one good thing has come from millionaire playboy Levi Spencer’s car accident– it seems to have knocked some sense into him.
Ready to leave his wild ways behind, he decides to spend Christmas with his brother in Sapphire Falls.
California girl, Kate Leggot just once would like to experience a real Christmas.
After a childhood without Christmas and three failed attempts to find the magic of the season on her own, she agrees to spend the holiday with her college friend in the idyllic little Nebraska town.
It doesn’t take long in Christmas-crazy Sapphire Falls for these two strangers to get all wrapped up in the town, the holidays… and each other.
Her Montana Hero (Montana Home Book 1) (affiliate link)
Fourteen years after her abrupt departure, Samara Davis is back in Marietta, Montana. Now a widow, all she wants is to give her anxious four-year old daughter, Jade, a happy, stable home. Unfortunately, the heritage house she purchased is nowhere near ready for occupancy. And the man responsible for the delay is none other than high-school golden boy and love of her life Logan Stafford, available, interested and just as swoon-worthy as ever.
But this single mother has one priority. She’s all Jade has, and she’ll do anything, make any sacrifice, for her child’s future. And getting distracted by a long-lost boyfriend is not on the agenda.
Logan Stafford never forgot the lonely girl from the wrong side of the tracks who broke his heart. Not only is she as irresistible as ever, but her delightfully odd little girl has him wrapped around her finger in no time.
Post Pattern (Burnside Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
On a dark Los Angeles freeway, someone fires a gunshot at a local football star. His family turns to Private Investigator Burnside, a former football star himself, who has recently left the LAPD. As he battles his way through the investigation, Burnside’s own life is repeatedly placed in jeopardy, and the body count starts to pile up.
Burnside encounters beautiful girls, wayward athletes, and overworked cops on his way toward finding a killer who knows he’s looking for them. And as he navigates this perilous path, Burnside also comes to grips with a betrayal from his past, one that keeps returning to him, no matter how hard he avoids it.
This well-crafted, award-winning novel is set against the sun-drenched backdrop of a hot Los Angeles summer, Post Pattern provides an engaging, action-packed story. The novel delivers a smart, sexy plot with crackling dialogue and fascinating characters.
The Event (The Survivors Book One) (affiliate link)
The ships came at dawn.
Dean’s wife is dead. Her last words: When the ships come…wear the necklace.
Then the ships arrived.
Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky.
Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth.
A trail of clues left by his dead wife guide Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond, to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom.
The Witch who Couldn’t Spell (French Country Murders Book 1) (affiliate link)
Penzi’s a new witch in a new town.
Her long-lost mother’s been locked up for murder.
What should she do? Find the real killer – however dangerous that may be.
So far, Penzi’s done well. Despite her reading disability, she’s qualified as a lawyer in London and raised her two brothers on her own. But she doesn’t have the skills to hunt down a murderer.
True Penzi’s a white witch, so she could use magic, and she does have her mother’s Book of Spells, but she’s hit a stumbling block. Try as she may, Penzi cannot decipher the grimoire’s medieval script. She needs help desperately if she’s to save her mother from a life in prison.
Will the High Council of the Guild of White Witches listen to her plea and allow her an assistant in time to free her mother? An assistant with supernatural powers of their own?
Little Wolf, Torrin Pedersen Chronicles Book 1 (affiliate link)
I didn’t know that werewolves were real until I met one close-up, face to face. Bad breath and all.
Now I’m a werewolf, and still working on my hospital residency. When the bad guys came back, I ended up at the local pack house to sort out my new werewolf life. Except there is a family of witches that has a spell that can turn werewolves into mindless slaves, and only I can save us.
Why? Turns out I’m a witch, too. If I want to keep my own furry hide and those of the other werewolves intact, I need to decide how far I’ll go to save us all.
Little Wolf is part of the Torrin Pedersen Chronicles, an urban fantasy trilogy with romantic elements. Each book ends in a HFN (Happy-For-Now) or an HEA and can be read alone — although it’s really better together.
The Impostor (A Blake Barrett Thriller Book 1) (affiliate link)
Living a lie while seeking the truth. Meet Blake Barrett.
Minding his own business with a quiet life in the Ozarks, former Air Force Special Reconnaissance airman Blake Barrett survives a surprising assassination attempt on his life and must make a difficult choice to avoid a life on the run: impersonate an assassin. Not an easy task for a man who was passed over for an elite special ops team because of his reticence to take another’s life.
With his life at stake, Barrett must find the resolve to do what he couldn’t do years before. But in the process, he’s thrust headlong into a twisted conspiracy that weighs heavily on a hotly contested presidential election.
Posing as a covert operator, Barrett infiltrates a shadowy organization pulling the strings behind the scenes. From Spanish caves to secret underground tunnels in Indianapolis to luxury yachts in the Mediterranean, Barrett battles terrorists, arms dealers, and corrupt politicians, all in an effort to uncover the truth and stop an attack that could alter the course of American history.
When Emmie’s aunt offers her a job at Catpurrcino, it is the fresh start she needs after a rough year. Now, in the lead-up to Christmas, Emmie can’t imagine anything more purr-fect than pouring hot chocolate for customers and taking care of the café’s many feline residents.
Needing an extra pair of hands for the holidays, Emmie’s aunt hires Jared as a driver. Emmie is immediately struck by how tall and handsome he is, but there is something guarded about Jared, not to mention his allergy to cats. Emmie could never fall for someone who can’t be around her furry friends - and she doesn’t have much time to spare, anyway.
❄️Until an unexpected blizzard arrives on Christmas Eve. ❄️
Trapped in the café with Jared and the cats, Emmie discovers Jared has been holding on to more than one secret – and is in desperate need of someone to help him lay his past to rest.
The Lost Memories (affiliate link)
Suffolk, 1944. American pilot Charlie’s second tour is about to draw to a close, but his heart is forever changed when he meets Kitty, a local girl with dreams of joining the Women’s Land Army. As love blooms, the pair are all too aware that every perilous mission Charlie flies may well be his last…
Suffolk, 2011. When Kitty’s granddaughter and ambitious tearoom owner Amy meets American tourist and photographer Jack, she agrees to show him around in exchange for his photographic talents. The deal quickly grows into an unexpected bond – but when long-buried secrets emerge, neither of their worlds will ever be the same again…
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