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Christmas Cake Murder (affiliate link)
A cozy Christmas fundraiser becomes a crime scene. Three amateur sleuths must race to clear their names. Will our delightful detectives spend Christmas behind bars?
Courtney Cain is heading up a cracking Christmas fundraiser for the Curly Bay Pet Hotel and Rescue.
She’s going to need some help and is delighted when Jessi’s old college friend Sammy Baker comes to town from Sunny Cove. Jessi suggests they also bring in her favorite blogger (and another amateur sleuth) Emily Cherry, to top off the festivities.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year with friends old and new until…
Someone won’t be waking up on Christmas morning!
Courtney, Sammy, and Emily are on the case to prove their innocence and find the culprit.
Run Run Rudolph (affiliate link)
A sexy holiday, close proximity, one bed romance from bestselling author, Chelle Sloan
All I want for Christmas is to go back to how my life was before…
Before this trip to Vegas where my whole life imploded and I lost my career, my reputation, and became the paparazzi’s latest poster child for female empowerment.
All because I said sometimes “it’s good to be a little bad.” Overnight, I went from The Nice List to The Naughty List and I can’t take the spotlight anymore. So I do the only thing I think of.
I run away.
What I wasn’t expecting under my tree this year was an unlikely sidekick.
With his strong jawline, sweet demeanor, and sexy Southern drawl, Trent Rudolph is making me feel like I’m starring in a real life Christmas movie.
But, I can’t hide from my reality forever. Soon, the Christmas magic will run out, and we’ll have to face the music..
Mister McHottie (The Girl Band Book 1) (affiliate link)
The best enemies make the best lovers…
There are three things I hate:
Bratwurst in any form, my neighbors boinking like farm animals at 3 AM, and Chase Jett.
Mostly I hate Chase Jett. It’s been ten years since he took my virginity—I’d make a bratwurst joke, but the unfortunate truth is that it would have to be a brat-best joke, and yes, it kills me to admit that—and now he’s not only a billionaire, he’s also my new boss.
Turns out our hate is mutual. And this kind of hate is horrifically twisted, filthy, and banging hot.
I just might have to hate him forever.
Always and Forever (Dogwood Cove Book 1) (affiliate link)
He’s my childhood best friend’s older brother, and he’s determined to convince me to stay in Dogwood Cove, with him, forever.
Coming home to Dogwood Cove after eighteen years away is bittersweet. But running into Ethan Monroe has me wondering why I put it off for so long.
He isn’t the boy I played hide and seek with as a child anymore. Now he’s the seriously hot, plaid wearing, scruff bearing, mayor of this small town. A man who can sweep me off my feet, and make me feel safe, all at the same time.
Except I didn’t come back here looking for love. My estranged father is dead, and because of an unexpected inheritance, I find myself learning the truth of everything I lost when my mother moved us away.
Through it all, Ethan’s right by my side. And with every day that passes, he’s helping me to see that coming back to Dogwood Cove could be the start of the life I’ve always dreamed of.
Tony Valenti Thrillers Box Set (affiliate link)
When a woman is brutally slain, suspicion falls on her ex-husband. But should it?
The suspect’s family turns to Tony Valenti for help. The case is a bewildering maze, with multiple potential killers and a mountain of contradictory evidence that points both to and away from the ex. Is he innocent? Even Tony isn’t sure.
Tony is fully immersed in the battle to win the case when a lethal terror from his past surfaces and shakes his faith in himself. Now desperate to protect himself and his family as he fights to free his client, Tony fears that he is being pulled in too many directions to save anyone. He’ll need every trick he knows to get everyone out alive.
Trouble Me: A Steamy (Madison Ridge Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Rule #1: Don’t mix business with pleasure
Rule #2: Don’t fall for the boss
Emma Reynolds knows how to run a successful company. But when life takes a troubling turn, she finds herself back home and determined to save her family’s estate–even if it means working in a winery as a recovering alcoholic.
Turns out, her new boss, the broody Billionaire owner, Shane Kavanaugh, is far more tempting than the wine.
He’s there to make a name for himself, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get it done. Smart and hard-working? That’s a dangerous combination.
Not to mention, he’s hot as sin with a panty-melting smile and kisses that curl her toes.
It’s an irresistible–and addicting–package that makes her want to risk breaking all of her carefully crafted rules.
Manhattan (Becker Brothers) (affiliate link)
Everyone knows not to fall in love with your best friend.
But when your best friend is Michael Becker, it’s impossible not to.
He’s everything our town knows a Becker brother to be: devastatingly handsome, charming as a thief, and the icing on the cake — a sentimental musician who’s never without his guitar.
And he was mine. At least, that’s what I’d convinced myself.
Our bond was born in elementary school, strengthened by circumstance and the promise to always be there for each other, no matter what. And the best thing about my life was being friends with Michael Becker.
Until it was the worst.
The Isle of the Lost (Descendants, Book 1) (affiliate link)
Hell’s Gate (Wray Mallory Book 1) (affiliate link)
Wray Mallory knows curses.
Formerly one-half of a team of paranormal investigators, Wray used her gift in psychometry to carve out a lucrative career in television. Objects speak to her. They tell her stories of their pasts. Some of them are cursed, and Wray has worked to break those curses.
Until one comes along which just might break her.
Divorced, out of a job and flat broke, Wray is eking out a new life in Kimotan Rapids. When a shady client brings a painting to the pawn shop where Wray works, she is pummeled by a vision—one of a ghostly woman clawing out of a grave.
Wray is led to a mansion on the edge of town—and ultimately to a cop named Mars, haunted by a suicide he couldn’t prevent. As the two forge an unlikely partnership, they find themselves on the trail of a centuries-old curse threatening the only remaining member of a venerable British family.
The Lost English Girl (affiliate link)
Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother’s scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family.
Five years later and on the eve of World War II, Viv is faced with the impossible choice to evacuate her young daughter, Maggie, to the countryside. In New York City, Joshua gives up his failing musical career to serve in the Royal Air Force and try to piece together his feelings about the family he left behind.
The Space Between Us (Love Struck Book 1) (affiliate link)
Gwen Fox has two obsessions: her life’s work and her hatred of Ty Sterling, the cynical billionaire who wants to shut down her program.
About to lose everything, Gwen is forced to travel to Peru to change his mind. Her mission to save her team takes an unexpected turn when the pair find themselves stranded alone together in the jungle.
Forced to rely on each other, the space between enemies and lovers begins to collapse. As their bickering reaches new heights, so does their undeniable attraction. Gwen starts to see that Ty’s heart may not be made of stone after all.
But could he possibly be the love of her life?
The Language of Spells (affiliate link)
Gwen Harper left Pendleford thirteen years ago and hasn’t looked back. Until an inheritance throws her into the mystical world she thought she’d escaped. Confronted with her great-aunt’s legacy, Gwen must finally face up to her past.
The magic she has long tried to suppress is back with a vengeance but, gift or burden, for Gwen it always spells trouble. She has to stay – she has nowhere else to go – but how can she find her place in the town that drove her out after branding her a witch…?
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