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Quantum Series Boxed Set, Books 1-3 (affiliate link)
They work hard.
They play harder.
They love hardest.
After surviving a traumatic event at age fifteen and the ensuing estrangement from her family, Natalie Bryant has worked for years to reinvent herself into the woman she is today–a happy teacher fresh out of college and enjoying her first winter in New York City with her faithful dog, Fluff, by her side.
Natalie isn’t expecting her life to change completely during a routine stroll through Greenwich Village on a blustery January day. But when Fluff breaks loose and charges into a park, Natalie gives chase and crashes into her destiny. Only after Fluff bites and draws blood from the man who accidentally knocked Natalie down does she realize Fluff has bitten the biggest movie star in the world.
He has no business being enthralled by the gorgeous, young, innocent teacher…
Hide Me Away (The Bishop Smoky Mountain Thrillers Book 1) (affiliate link)
Rileigh Bishop left her nightmares behind, but a gruesome murder calls her back. In a race against a shadowy killer, her life hangs in the balance.
Ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop never wanted to come back to her hometown. But when a dead teenage girl is found with her tongue cut out, she must return. After all, that’s the same way Rileigh’s sister died.
Reluctantly, she joins forces with the county sheriff to solve the brutal murder. The locals maintain a strict code of silence. The narrow mountain roads winding through Appalachia are fraught with peril.
As Rileigh dives deeper into the case, she not only unearths connections between this murder and her sister’s death but dark family secrets.
Secrets that should’ve remained buried.
When the investigation nearly ends her life, she must find her resolve to solve the crime. Fast.
Two Old Fools Box Set: Volumes 1 – 3 (affiliate link)
If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would really be like, they might have hesitated.
They can have no idea of the culture shock in store for them…no idea they’ll become reluctant chicken farmers and own the most dangerous cockerel in Spain…no idea they’ll help capture a vulture and be rescued by a mule.
Will they stay, or will they return to the relative sanity of England?
“If you wanted an obedient wife, then you chose the wrong woman, Your Grace…”
After returning from war, Duke Colin must face a new battle: raising his nieces. And the only way to win is by finding a wife…
With no way to avoid a marriage of convenience, Lady Jane chooses the lesser of two evils. Even if that means becoming a heartless Duke’s wife…
But Colin soon realizes that his plan is backfiring. For, instead of taming the young hellions, his new wife is determined to infuriate him. So much so that he cannot think of anything but her…
An Amish Healing (affiliate link)
Ada Glick enjoys her role as resident veterinarian in her small Amish community. Even though true love hasn’t found her yet, Ada occupies her time by caring for her neighbors’ fur-babies after receiving informal training from a veterinarian in town.
When an injured dog shows up unexpectedly on her front porch, Ada tends to him with the care she’s always given to animals in need. During the time she cares for the dog, Ada becomes attached to her furry new friend. Ollie—as she names him—doesn’t have a collar and isn’t well enough to travel, however she knows she must take him to be checked for an identification chip. Is there an owner who is missing him?
Jeremiah Huyard has suffered a terrible loss. His family is grieving the deaths of two loved ones, a tragedy that has Jeremiah roiling in grief. When he sets eyes on the beautiful Ada at his relatives’ funerals, he is unexpectedly distracted, but he is also sure he will never see her again.
Wedded to the Icy Duke (affiliate link)
“You are mine now. And you are not to leave this manor…”
No good deed goes unpunished. So when Duke Frederic helps a lady in need, they are seen by half the ton, alone in a dark alley. And now he has to marry her. But he has a condition: She has to stay out of his business.
Forced to become a Duchess, Lilian vows to rebel against her infuriatingly cold husband. Even if she cannot help savoring his dark gaze every time they clash…
Until she follows him into the night. And only when he has to protect her does she get a glimpse of just how cruel her Duke can be…
That Summer: A Novel (affiliate link)
2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn’t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house’s shrouded history begins to open…
1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter, Evie, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur’s collection of medieval artifacts, including Gavin Thorne, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion.
THE COMPLETE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS MYSTERIES 1–5 (affiliate link)
BOOK 1: MURDER AT LUNA LAKE
Avery Andrews is trying to get her life back on track after losing her job. She’s enjoying some peace and quiet at her grandfather’s cabin on Luna Lake when a body is found. Avery can’t help being drawn into the investigation.
BOOK 2: MURDER AT FOLLY BEACH CREEK
Avery has become the go-to gal when a mystery arises. So when a series of murders occur in historic Charleston, she’s called in to help. But a man offering crucial information about the killer has an untimely car accident — and it looks anything but accidental . . .
BOOK 3: MURDER AT GOLDEN COVE FOREST
A woman enters Avery’s office claiming her husband is accusing her of poisoning him. The mystery deepens when more bodies turn up. Each victim received a letter accusing them of various evil deeds just before they died. Can Avery get to the bottom of these mysterious deaths?
When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique music, they hole up at Wylding Hall, an ancient country house with dark secrets. There they create the album that will make their reputation, but at a terrifying cost: Julian Blake, the group’s lead singer, disappears within the mansion and is never seen or heard from again.
Now, years later, the surviving musicians, along with their friends and lovers—including a psychic, a photographer, and the band’s manager—meet with a young documentary filmmaker to tell their own versions of what happened that summer. But whose story is true? And what really happened to Julian Blake?
The Fog Ladies: Book 1 (affiliate link)
Young, overworked medical intern Sarah James has no time for sleuthing. Her elderly neighbors, the spunky Fog Ladies, have nothing but time. When old ladies start to die in their elegant apartment building in San Francisco, Sarah assumes it is the natural consequence of growing old. The Fog Ladies assume murder.
Mrs. Bridge falls off a stool cleaning bugs out of her kitchen light. Mrs. Talwin slips on bubbles in the bath and drowns. The Pacific Heights building is turning over tenants faster than the fog rolls in on a cool San Francisco evening.
Sarah resists the Fog Ladies’ perseverations. But when one of them falls down the stairs and tells Sarah she was pushed, even Sarah believes evil lurks in their building. Can they find the killer before the killer finds them?
Jack Higgins introduces his profoundly conflicted and deeply flawed IRA hero, Martin Fallon, trapped in a life of violence and fighting for redemption.
Cry of the Hunter: After joining the IRA, Martin Fallon shot up the ranks in the fight against the Brits in Northern Ireland with his tactical brilliance and fierce commitment. Then, after a daring escape from prison, he simply disappeared. After years of hiding from the world in his books and the bottle, he thinks he’s out. He’s wrong. The IRA wants him to break a high-ranking Ulster rebel out of prison. Fallon reluctantly agrees, but soon finds that in his absence, the IRA has changed. Those who wanted freedom have been replaced by bloodthirsty psychopaths who only crave power. Now, to save the country he loves, Fallon must turn on his own people.
A Prayer for the Dying: There was a time when Martin Fallon had no problem killing for his IRA brethren, without remorse or regret. But when a mistake leads to the explosion of a school bus full of children, Fallon flees to London to hide with his guilt. His seclusion is broken when he agrees to make one last killing on behalf of the criminal Meehan brothers. But when the hit is witnessed by a priest, the Meehans want the clergyman dead too. In a desperate struggle for his soul, Fallon must protect the priest by fighting the ruthless Meehans as well as his former IRA comrades, who have decided that Fallon himself needs to be silenced.
Project Solomon: The True Story of a Lonely Horse Who Found a Home—and Became a Hero (affiliate link)
Jodi Stuber wasn’t looking for another horse for her struggling therapy ranch—let alone one like Solomon. After losing his herd, he was solitary and sad, spending his days standing near the plastic deer in his yard for company. No stranger herself to loss and heartache, Jodi knew she had to give Solomon a home.
The road to recovery wouldn’t be easy. As Solomon struggled to fit in with his new herd and Jodi continued to navigate her own grief, the two developed a deep bond. But just as Jodi and Solomon were both beginning to heal, an unthinkable tragedy struck the therapy ranch. And Solomon was about to teach Jodi the greatest lesson of all.
Written by Jennifer Marshall Bleakley, author of Joey: How a Blind Rescue Horse Helped Others Learn to See, Project Solomon is a powerful story of resilience, sacrifice, and love that reminds us all how much we matter—to each other and to God.
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