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The Ticket: The Perfect Holiday (Love Again Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Hottie Lumberjack (Ponderosa Resort Book 4) (affiliate link)
I have my reasons for walking into Chelsea Singer’s cupcake shop with an axe. Too bad I’ve forgotten what they are.
Hell, I forgot my own name the second she flashed those blue eyes and offered up a double-fudge cupcake with Irish cream frosting. I may look like a grumpy lumberjack, but I’m a softie for sweets, single moms, and my massive, messy family.
The family stuff gets messier now that we’re running a resort together on our late-father’s ranch, which brings my siblings that much closer to discovering I’m not who they think I am.As things heat up with Chelsea, I’m falling faster than an old-growth redwood filled with buttercream and lit on fire and then maybe chopped into kindling. It’s a figure of speech, okay? And it’s damned inconvenient, since it turns out someone wants to hurt Chelsea and her daughter. But they’ll have to get through me first.
Jack Ryder Murder Mysteries Novellas 1 – 3 (affiliate link)
Jack finds himself entangled in a gruesome murder investigation, with the killers eerily mimicking the method from one of Jack’s own novels. Logan enlists Jack’s help, but there’s a twist—the investigation must take place on Jack’s boat, the Easy Ryder, docked at the Miami Beach Marina. As they delve into the enigma, they realize federal agents are closely observing their progress.
Subsequent novellas in the series present new challenges for Jack and Logan, demanding their unique skills to solve intricate murder cases. With a refreshing and contemporary twist, fans of classic detective stories like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Ellery Queen will be captivated by these cozy yet gripping murder mysteries. Jack Ryder and Logan Robert, with their blend of wit, intellect, and determination, are destined to become cherished characters among crime fiction enthusiasts.
Falling for a Rake (Fallen Book 1) (affiliate link)
He’s the most notorious rake in England. She’s a Perfect Lady. Their secrets will come tumbling out. . .
When Lady Emily is trapped while fern hunting in an old mine shaft overnight with irresistibly sexy Lord Markshall, she indulges in the sin of his delicious, melting kiss. After all, it’s just one night… Until the newspaper gossip forces him to propose. Lady Emily can’t marry him, but a fake engagement can save her ruined reputation and prevent her scandalous secret from being revealed.
The censure of prim Lady Emily is the ideal way for Lord Markshall to reinforce his image as a scoundrel and a rake. He didn’t mean to compromise her, or to be overcome with desire for a clever woman hiding her real self. But to protect her, he’ll have to choose: his covert mission or his heart.
Never Let a Good Disaster Go to Waste: Making Sense of a Life of Absurdity, A Memoir (affiliate link)
When her husband leaves her on her 40th birthday, Kat Finnerty’s world is shattered.
But then something remarkable happens. She overcomes his betrayal in 12 hours. It’s almost as if her absurd, disaster-prone life has been arming her with the superpowers to master her disaster. So begins Kat’s astonishing and inspiring true story.
Spanning the globe from her hometown of Toronto to Indonesia, Europe, the rugged outback of Australia and beyond, Kat sets out on a high-stakes adventure to squeeze more meaning and purpose from her life. It’s a roller coaster ride of epic proportions that comes crashing down when she’s diagnosed with a crippling disease. She’s forced to contemplate the unthinkable, until fate intervenes in the form of three eccentric spiritual guides: a tattooed Maori Buddhist teacher, an unorthodox Canadian yoga guru and a Zen motorbike-riding spiritual renegade.
Code Name: Viper (affiliate link)
Biologist Dr David Knight is a lucky man. He has been granted special permission to survey Xulakan – the forbidden island of the Mayan people.
At the volcanic island’s birth in the Gulf of Mexico, it rose from the sea looking like a smoking pyramid, almost as if it were a fiery, holy temple. Mayan high priests immediately declared Xulakan to be sacred ground, so it was never inhabited and visited by the ancient people.
But now legend and fear have kept it strictly off limits for centuries. When Dr Knight arrives, he senses eyes watching him — human eyes — and he is about to discover a world of lethal secrets. Soon, he begins to realise that this time, he might not live to tell the tale…
Finding himself the captive of a mysterious, Crusoe-like man, Dr Knight is told the story of a viper’s nest of secrets and lies. He discovers that his captor may not be as hostile as first thought.
The Shepherd (affiliate link)
Choose Your Story, Change Your Life: Silence Your Inner Critic and Rewrite Your Life from the Inside Out (affiliate link)
The things we tell ourselves affect how well or poorly our path in life goes. It’s time to flip the script on the internal stories you tell yourself and live life on your terms.
Most of the “self-stories” you tell yourself—the kind of person you say you are and the things you are capable of—are invisible to you because they have become such a part of your everyday mental routine that you don’t even recognize they exist.
Yet, these self-stories influence everything you do, everything you say, and everything you are.
Choose Your Story, Change Your Life will help you take complete control of your self-stories and create the life you’ve always dreamed you’d have. Author Kindra Hall offers up a new window into your psychology, one that travels the distance from the frontiers of neuroscience to the deep inner workings of your thoughts and feelings.
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope (affiliate link)
In this harrowing true story of tragedy, faith, and fortitude, two families are joined by a twist of fate after a fatal car accident.
In 2006, five lives were lost in a tragic car accident. The sole survivor was rushed to the hospital, where she remained in a coma for five weeks. Everyone believed that Laura Van Ryn was in a coma, and that Whitney Cerak had died in the crash—until Whitney woke up.
This shocking case of mistaken identity stunned the country and made national news. Would it destroy a family? Shatter their faith? Push two families into bitterness, resentment, and guilt? In Mistaken Identity, the Van Ryn family and the Cerek family describe their ordeal and explore the bond sustaining and uniting them as they deal with their bizarre reversal of life lost and life found.
The Long Song: A Novel (affiliate link)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) (affiliate link)
The authoritative edition of the classic play, a comedy full of romance, faeries, magic, and mischief in a Greek forest.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the woods outside Theseus’s Athens, two young men and two young women sort themselves out into couples—but not before they form first one love triangle, and then another.
Also in the woods, the king and queen of fairyland, Oberon and Titania, battle over custody of an orphan boy; Oberon uses magic to make Titania fall in love with a weaver named Bottom, whose head is temporarily transformed into that of a donkey by a hobgoblin or “puck,” Robin Goodfellow. Finally, Bottom and his companions ineptly stage the tragedy of “Pyramus and Thisbe.”
Ghost Shadow (The Bone Island Trilogy Book 1) (affiliate link)
There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution . . . vengeance . . . to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence.
Katie O’Hara is one who can.
As she’s drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katie must uncover the truth: Could David Beckett really be guilty of his ex-fiancée’s murder?
Worse—the body count’s rising on the Island of Bones, and the dead seem to be reenacting some macabre tableaux from history. The danger is increasing by the moment—especially as Katie finds herself irresistibly drawn to David, who may be responsible for more than just one killing . . .
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