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Magi Dawn (The Magi Saga Book 1) (affiliate link)
Broke and on the streets of New York, Amanda had little hope for the future.
She didn’t think life could get any worse…
…until she was attacked by a werewolf!
Dragged down an alley by a slavering beast, Amanda is hurt, stressed and angry.
She’s no match for this monster. But to her surprise, Magical lightning erupts from her hands. She blasts the creature, and her world turns upside down.
Magic, monsters, and those who hunt them, shouldn’t exist. But the Magi are very real, and Amanda is one of them.
She fights to escape New York, but there’s no escaping her new life.
To survive, she must learn to use and control her Magic.
Elsewhere, dark Magi scheme from the shadows, supernatural creatures hunger for blood, and eldritch gods watch from the depths.
The Stories We Keep (Women of Asher Book 1) (affiliate link)
Jenna Cartwright has run away from her family in a desperate bid to save—or end—her life.
Driven to despair by debilitating depression, loneliness, and anxiety, Jenna makes a panic-driven decision to leave her husband and young children behind.
Upon fleeing to her hometown of Asher, Alabama, Jenna searches for help from the generations of women she loves most. As she learns their long-held stories, Jenna struggles to untangle her own thoughts and emotions, while also grappling with the impossible decision of what comes next.
Can she find the strength and courage to return to her family, heal her soul, and form her own life-saving sisterhood? Or will she remain a hopeless runaway mother, trapped by a longing for an irreversible escape?
Tempted by an Unconventional Lady (Lust and Love in High Society) (affiliate link)
Lady Charlotte Fairchild has always been seen as unconventional by society—smart, rich, and uninterested in finding a husband. Raised by her father to defy social expectations, she doesn’t see the need for marriage, except for one reason: to fulfill her secret desires. When she attends a friend’s country wedding, the fiery Charlotte is instantly attracted to a mysterious and captivating duke, stirring feelings she never thought possible.
Will she give up her independence for a love she never saw coming?
Alexander Wentworth, the new Duke of Ashbourne, is overwhelmed by the debts and problems left by his inheritance. Heartbroken from a past lover’s betrayal, he decides to stay in Hampshire hoping to escape his troubles. However, his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets Charlotte—strong-willed, alluring, and unlike anyone he’s ever known. Now, he’s torn between his growing desire for her and his need to find a wife.
Songs for the Dead (Inspector Drake Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the middle of the night…The road is deserted…A killer is waiting…
After two fellow police officers are brutally murdered on an isolated mountain road, the pressure to solve the case threatens to make DI Drake crack. But as the killer taunts him with cryptic song lyrics and promises of more death, Drake’s carefully constructed world begins to unravel.
As tensions build to a crescendo both at home and at work, his worse fears are realised when a local politician appears slain by the same sinister hand. And as Drake keeps receiving the culprit’s cruel gibes, his head pounds at the thought of more victims.
Can he catch the sociopathic felon before he loses his sanity… or his life?
Pretty Little Fliers (Pet Psychic Magical Mysteries Book 1) (affiliate link)
She talks to the animals. But when they witness a murder, who will squawk first?
Cursed and almost powerless, Jolene’s definitely down on her magical luck. Forced to disguise her taboo shifter abilities, she barely makes ends meet by working as a pretend pet psychic. So she eagerly says, “Oui,” to a job securing testimony from a parakeet that watched a woman’s fatal fall.
Teaming up with a true blue police officer and his lie-sniffing German Shepherd, Jolene works hard to hunt down suspects. But with an after-hours affair, a disgruntled neighbor, and risqué photos all seemingly connected to the crime, untangling the truth is bound to get hairy.
Can Jolene protect her cover and pluck out the clues before she falls from grace?
Deadly Spells and a Southern Belle (A Southern Belles and Spells Matchmaker Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
Escape to Witch’s Forge, a magical town tucked deep in the heart of Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains.
Only Witch’s Forge isn’t a supernatural paradise—here spells backfire, kudzu bites and magic is broken.
That is, until Charming Calhoun arrives.
Charming has everything a Southern Belle could ask for—a thriving matchmaking business and great employees.
But when one of her employees goes missing in Witch’s Forge, she quickly realizes there’s something sinister afoot.
Once she arrives, Charming discovers a world of strange. Her house has a mind of its own—adding rooms and coughing up objects. There’s also a broomstick that likes to spank and a pot-bellied pig with an appetite for chocolate.
Then she butts heads with the local vampire chief of police.
No Limits: The Will to Succeed (affiliate link)
For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress from teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens. Now he’s a living Olympic legend in Beijing with a peerless record of gold medals. In No Limits, Michael Phelps—the greatest competitor since Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods—will share the secrets to his remarkable success. Behind his tally of Olympic gold medals lies a consistent approach to competition, a determination to win, mental preparation, and a straightforward passion for his sport. One of his mottos is “Performance is Reality,” and it typifies his attitude about swimming.
No Limits goes behind the scenes to explore the hard work, sacrifice, and dedication that catapulted Phelps into the international spotlight. Phelps shares remarkable anecdotes about family, his coach, his passion for the sport, and the wisdom that he has gained from unexpected challenges and obstacles.
The Turning Point (affiliate link)
Desperate to escape her abusive marriage, Lilly Crawford files for divorce, then slips away from her small east Texas hometown with little more than the clothes on her back. With broken dreams and countless regrets, she points her twelve-year-old car east, hoping and praying to find a new beginning.
Car thieves stole Adam Wakefield’s Porche, his eyesight, and his identity. Once a prominent neurosurgeon in San Francisco, Adam now lives at his secluded estate in Louisiana. Fearing that is blindness is permanent and that he will never be in control of his life again, he sinks deeper into depression each day.
When her car breaks down on a back road in Louisiana, Lilly seeks helps and finds unexpected employment as Adam’s caregiver. Her first encounter with him is disastrous. He reminds her too much of the angry husband she feared; she reminds him of how far he has fallen from the self-assured man he once was. But as the two spend long days together, an unexpected bond develops–one that will be tested by pain and joy and heal both of their shattered lives.
The Mysterious Disappearance of Mr. Darcy: A Darcy & Elizabeth Pride & Prejudice Variation (affiliate link)
What secrets lie in Mr. Darcy’s past?
During a summer sojourn in Ramsgate, Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy—an irresistible, eminent, and seemingly unobtainable model of an ideal gentleman. Following a whirlwind romance with Mr. Darcy and a blossoming friendship with Georgiana Darcy, her life is forever altered.
When Darcy disappears under mysterious circumstances, the new Mrs. Darcy’s world is thrown into chaos. A friend of Darcy’s provides much-needed support as Elizabeth is confronted with rumours insinuating lewd explanations for his absence. Could any of them be true?
In this Pride and Prejudice variation, a Regency mystery romance, Elizabeth cannot be certain what to believe or whom to trust. She is determined to find out what befell Darcy, but will the truth break her heart?
The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History (affiliate link)
Creativity is one of American society’s signature values, but the idea that there is such a thing as “creativity”—and that it can be cultivated—is surprisingly recent, entering our everyday speech in the 1950s. As Samuel W. Franklin reveals, postwar Americans created creativity, through campaigns to define and harness the power of the individual to meet the demands of American capitalism and life under the Cold War. Creativity was championed by a cluster of professionals—psychologists, engineers, and advertising people—as a cure for the conformity and alienation they feared was stifling American ingenuity. It was touted as a force of individualism and the human spirit, a new middle-class aspiration that suited the needs of corporate America and the spirit of anticommunism.
Amid increasingly rigid systems, creativity took on an air of romance; it was a more democratic quality than genius, but more rarified than mere intelligence.
The Charioteer: A Novel (affiliate link)
This novel has been called one of the foundation stones of gay literary fiction, ranking alongside James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar. Celebrated for its literary brilliance and sincere depiction of complex human emotions, The Charioteer is a stirring and beautifully rendered portrayal of love.
Girl, 11: A Novel of Suspense (affiliate link)
Elle Castillo once trained as a social worker, supporting young victims of violent crime. Now she hosts a popular true crime podcast that focuses on cold cases of missing and abducted children.
After four seasons of successfully solving these cases in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Elle decides to tackle her white whale: The Countdown Killer. Twenty years ago, TCK was terrorizing the community, kidnapping and ritualistically murdering three girls over seven days, each a year younger than the last. Then, after he took his eleven-year-old victim, the pattern—and the murders—abruptly stopped. No one has ever known why.
When Elle follows up on a listener tip only to discover the man’s dead body, she feels at fault. Then, within days, a child is abducted—a young girl who seems to fit suspiciously into the sequence halted decades before.
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