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The Darkest Lies (The DI Hogarth Mysteries – Gripping Adventures Every Time Book 1) (affiliate link)
Blood is on the streets.
A killer is on the loose… and Detective Inspector Joe Hogarth’s dark secret is about to come out. It could yet cost him far more than his job.
Caught in the middle of a heated affair with the wife of a local MP, Hogarth must keep his head in order to track down the most challenging killer he has ever faced. Because if he fails one of his team will pay with their lives…
A dead man reappears and the darkest lies of two generations are exposed.
One cop takes justice into their own hands, but another may pay the ultimate price.
Forty, foxy, and fond of forensics.
Moving back to my old stopping grounds came with more trouble than I bargained for. I left my investigation agency back in Fort Worth, to start over free from stress.
Two weeks into my retired life, I found myself in a 55+ community—HELLO! Only 43, thank you—and bored out of my mind. I was not cut out for early retirement.
So, I did what any attractive single lady would do—jump as far out of my comfort zone as possible. My mama laughed me out of the kitchen when I told her about my new job as a baker’s assistant, but that was nothing compared to her reaction when I dropped the bomb about the new murder case I was working.
Served up in right in my backyard of all places.
An ancient monolith unearthed in Montana holds the key to humanity’s greatest secret.
Professor Delaney McPhearson’s life is turned upside down when her best friend, archaeologist Drew Masters, is found dead. Before she can deal with the heartbreaking loss, she is viciously attacked in her home by a man with inhuman fighting abilities.
Former Navy SEAL and head of security for a global think tank, Jake Rogan drops everything when he learns his brother has gone missing. There seem to be no clues, no information about where he’s gone. He’s simply vanished. But Jake won’t rest until he finds him.
Joining forces, Laney and Jake realize their search for answers has apocalyptic ramifications circling around an eccentric archaeologist’s work on Gobekli Tepe.
It Takes A Village To Kill Your Husband: A Novel (affiliate link)
Making Arrangements (affiliate link)
Her husband is perfect. Until he dies.
Will her family survive his shocking secret?
Surviving stage four cancer is a piece of cake compared surviving her beloved husband’s death. Grieving, introverted Lang is befuddled by the grammar-butchering fashion plate who befriends her, and she is finally forced to deal with her narcissistic, jet-setting mother who breezes in just in time for the funeral. Everyone has ideas on how she should manage her disastrous life, especially Teddy, her unemployed son. Insisting that he handle her family estate, and adamant that she not cavort about with a goofy yet kindly veterinarian, Teddy gives his mother an ultimatum, one that involves her beloved granddaughter, Katie D.
Her once perfectly organized world in shambles, Lang is faced with a life-changing decision. A decision that could destroy her family.
Love Written In The Stars (affiliate link)
Melanie had always enjoyed working at her family’s farm and never dreamt of marrying. Her world turns upside down when her father forces her to find a suitable husband in order to help with the financial burden that hangs over the farm. Melanie’s only concern is her family’s well being, so she’s left with no choice but to accept the offer of a strange man. On the train to meet her husband-to-be, her life is about to change forever when she meets Alexander; a man who will save her life and put her in a painful dilemma making her doubt her own decisions. Will she give up her father’s plan to follow her heart?
Alexander, the son of one of the richest ranchers in Merton, is running from a difficult past that will inevitably catch up with him. He meets Melanie in a traumatic way when he bravely helps her escape a train robbery. Determined to protect her, he offers to travel with her and the journey that will bind them forever begins… Even though they don’t reveal their true colors at first, they will get to know each other and Alexander’s heart will shiver for the first time.
Silva Ultramind Systems Persuasive Thoughts: Have More Confidence, Charisma, & Influence (affiliate link)
José Silva Jr.’s 30-day plan shows you how to program your brain & mind for greater success.
Week 1: Start using the Alpha Brainwave Level to • Relieve stress for relaxation and good health • Strengthen your willpower with imagination • Turn difficult problems into creative solutions • Develop a leadership mindset
Week 2: Gain control of your subconscious mind • Eliminate limiting beliefs, fears, and phobias • Convert self-doubt to confidence and optimism • Employ dreams to find solutions to problems • Win praise and gain more respect
Week 3: Guiding principles for success • Guidance and help from a higher power • The Universal Laws of Programming • How José Silva programmed to acquire money • Discover and fulfill your life purpose
The Christmas Party (affiliate link)
When Declan Lorne, the last remaining knight in Ireland, dies suddenly, an ancient title passes with him. But his estate on Ireland’s rugged south-west coast is left to his three daughters. The two eldest, Ottie and Pip, inherit in line with expectations, but to everyone’s surprise – and dismay – it is the errant baby of the family, Willow, who gets the castle.
Why her? Something unknown – something terrible – made her turn her back on her family three years earlier, escaping to Dublin and vowing never to return. So when Willow quickly announces she is selling up, her revenge seems sweet and the once-close sisters are pushed to breaking point: in desperation, Pip risks everything to secure her own future, and Ottie makes a decision that will ruin lives. It’s each woman for herself.
Soul Catcher (affiliate link)
Handling Sin (affiliate link)
On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent, and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac convertible. Left behind is a mysterious list of seven outrageous tasks that Raleigh must perform in order to rescue his father and his inheritance.
And so Raleigh and fat Mingo Sheffield (his irrepressibly loyal friend) set off on an uproarious contemporary treasure hunt through a landscape of unforgettable characters, falling into adventures worthy of Tom Jones and Huck Finn. A moving parable of human love and redemption, Handling Sin is Michael Malone’s comic masterpiece.
A Down Home Christmas (affiliate link)
A rising star, a down-to-earth teacher, and a Christmas touched by wonder…
Country music star Kris Trabeau heads to Charming, Mississippi, to convince his aging aunt to sell her farm and move into a nice retirement community. She’s not having it, and she enlists her neighbor Tory Odom to help her remind Kris why the farm means so much…especially at Christmas.
After being dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Tory’s not feeling the holiday spirit. Still, she agrees to co-chair a children’s concert and silent auction to benefit the after-school center where she volunteers. As Kris helps her with the concert and spends time with the kids, the attraction between them becomes harder and harder to ignore. Can he trade spotlights and city lights for the place where the music began?
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