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Class Reunions Are Murder (A Poppy McAllister Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
Fans of Jana DeLeon and Joanne Fluke will love Libby Klein! For fortysomething Poppy McAllister, taking a stroll down memory lane in Cape May, New Jersey, isn’t just awkward–it’s deadly.
Newly widowed and stuck in a middle-aged funk, Poppy has been running on cookies, infomercials, and one-sided chats with her cat for months. There’s no way on earth she’s attending her twenty-five-year class reunion–especially after receiving a very bizarre letter from Barbie, the popular cheerleader who taunted her all through high school. At least, not until Poppy’s best friend practically drags her to the event . . .
Using the dreaded homecoming as an excuse to visit her eccentric Aunt Ginny, Poppy vows to leave Cape May with pride and Spanx intact. Too bad Barbie is still the queen of mean at the reunion. And worse, that her dead body is lying right in front of Poppy’s old locker. Singled out as the killer, it’s up to Poppy to confront her past and clear her name. But between protecting her aunt from disaster and tackling a gluten-free diet, can Poppy crack the case before she’s voted “Most Likely to Die” by the murderer?
Somebody Somewhere (Greetings from Tuckerville Book 1) (affiliate link)
Small towns have a welcoming, comforting feel to them. At least that’s what it looks like in the movies.
When Lexi Mason experienced devastating heartbreak, she needed a change. Tuckerville, a small town, offered a remote work program and she applied. She thought the small town would be the change she needed away from her life in the city, away from her ex.
Ivan Mathis was a successful fitness trainer, in Turner City. But when his mom called pleading with him to return to Tuckerville, to help revitalize it, he was on board to help save the small town.
Neither of them expected that the welcoming, small-town would give them their biggest challenges, or their sweetest rewards.
The Lost Tribe (Nick Randall Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
A race against time, a secret city, and a daughter’s quest to save humanity.
Deep in the Amazon, Dr. Nick Randall has made a discovery that could rewrite the history of mankind… but he may not survive to find out.
The Special Forces Operator turned archeologist is determined to find the lost city of Vilcabamba. A controversial figure in the archeology community, the trip into the Amazon was Randall’s final hope of proving his theories are true.
But he never returned.
When his daughter Samantha learns of her father’s disappearance, she is forced to make a difficult decision. An accomplished archeologist herself, she must decide if she will set aside her career to search for the man she blames for her mother’s death.
And she’s not the only one preparing to hunt him down.
Fat Cat Stew: A Mystery Thriller (affiliate link)
If it wasn’t for bad luck, Nik Briscoe wouldn’t have any luck at all.
On the run from a criminal gang for a crime she didn’t commit, she finds herself arrested in the obscure town of Possum Trot for yet another murder she didn’t commit. Sensing a trend here, Nik knows she needs to clear her good name—and fast.
As a disabled ex-Navy SEAL, Nik is no stranger to challenges, but facing off against Sam Beaulieu, a local power player with seemingly limitless influence, pushes her skills to the limit. With the odds stacked against her, Nik dives into the murky underbelly of Possum Trot, uncovering a web of corruption, deceit, and murder. And that’s all before the criminal gang arrives…
The Tahitian Gold Cup Treasure Hunt: Book Twenty (affiliate link)
This year, The Fifth Annual Gold Cup Cruise Competition hosted by The French Polynesia Tourism Board featured a Treasure Hunt.
A golden object was secreted on five Islands and at least two hundred passengers on each ship had to find it, photograph all five and submit the snapshots to the Board for their ship to win.
The prize those passengers received certainly made it worth their while, as long as at least two hundred participated, that is.
Every passenger successfully completing the Treasure Hunt would receive a five day stay at a top resort somewhere in French Polynesia.
The ship submitting the most correct answers would win a fourteen day vacation for those passengers.
No duplication was allowed and to prevent unscrupulous copying of photos, the passengers were warned their cameras and telephones would be checked to make sure they had taken the pictures themselves.
Tangled Vows (Mistress Book 1) (affiliate link)
One year. Five million dollars. A proposal she can’t refuse.
Escort Ruby Scott is used to waking up in the bed of a wealthy woman. What she isn’t expecting is to wake up with a ring on her finger and married to Yvonne Maxwell, one of the executives behind the Mistress Media empire, a woman as alluring as she is cold.
For ten years, Yvonne has been sitting on an inheritance she can’t touch until she’s married. An encounter with an escort in Las Vegas presents the perfect solution—a marriage of convenience. In exchange for playing the role of her wife for a year, Yvonne will grant Ruby a life of luxury, glamour, and more money than she ever dreamed of.
Yvonne is adamant that they keep their relationship strictly business. But as Ruby’s submissive side awakens, Yvonne can’t resist temptation. And Ruby is intoxicated by the commanding woman and the release she grants.
Plymouth Undercover (affiliate link)
A mother and daughter inherit a PI Agency with a reputation that takes them by surprise.
Meet Emma McCarthy, a thirty-year-old failed actress that just moved home to Plymouth, MA.
And her mother, Cindy, a yoga instructor in the Pinehills, an exclusive golf community in Plymouth.
They’ve just inherited Court Street Investigations, a private detective agency.
And its one part-time employee, eighty-year-old Mickey, a retired police detective.
They expect typical cases like cheating spouses or workman’s comp, but quickly learn that the agency also has a reputation for solving murders when they are hired to find a local missing woman.
Her List (Seattle Soulmates Book 1) (affiliate link)
Amalia
My friends call me picky, while my mother thinks I’m going to end up an old spinster.
Me? I just think I have standards.
And these standards are all neatly laid out on a checklist, one I tick off after each first date.
Lately, I’ve decided it’s safer to have one-off encounters. No expectations, no lists. Just an exchange without a goodbye.
That was working out well until I met Axel Williamson. The only man I couldn’t make an unnoticed escape from. The only guy who seems to be checking off every item on my list, all within the first twenty-four hours.
And you know what they say about something that seems too good to be true…
Firefighter Phoenix (Fire & Rescue Shifters) (affiliate link)
From ashes, love will rise again…
Swan shifter Rose knows she doesn’t have a true mate. She isn’t the one for Ash, the Phoenix Eternal. She knows he can never be more than a friend, no matter how his dark eyes and hard body make her burn.
Everything Rose knows is wrong.
Twenty years ago, Ash destroyed everything to save his true love. But he’s never been able to walk away from her. He yearns to claim her at last…but the shadows of his past are stalking him again. If anyone discovers what Rose means to him, all his sacrifice will be for nothing…
Rose is his mate.
She just doesn’t remember.
Yet.
The Orphanage (Shilling Grange Children’s Home Book 1) (affiliate link)
Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948. She was their only hope. Now they are hers. A gritty, heartbreaking and unforgettable story of love and hope in the darkest of times.
Clara Newton is the new Housemother of Shilling Grange Orphanage. Many of the children have been bombed out of their homes and left without families, their lives torn apart by the war, just like Clara’s. Devastated by the loss of her fiancé, a brave American pilot, she is just looking for a place to start again.
But the orphans are in desperate need of her help. Funds are short, children cry out in the night,and tearful Rita tells Clara terrible stories about the nuns who previously ran Shilling Grange. Clara cannot bear to see them suffer, but what does she know about how to look after eight little ones?
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