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Snow Creek (Detective Megan Carpenter Book 1) (affiliate link)
Footprints were scattered about like fallen leaves. She looked down into the ravine, and once more her lungs filled with fear. A body lay silent and unmoving in the bushes.
When Ruth Turner walks into the Sheriff’s office in Jefferson County’s Port Townsend claiming her sister Ida Wheaton has been missing for over a month, Detective Megan Carpenter’s instincts tell her that she needs to do more than just file a report.
Racing over to Ida’s secluded farmhouse in the hills above Snow Creek, Megan finds Ida’s teenage children alone and frightened. She can’t help but notice there’s no TV. No video games. Nothing of the outside world. Something about the Wheaton family doesn’t add up and triggers a painful childhood memory for Megan – when one day, in a flash, both her parents were gone.
Kill Order (Maggie Black Book 1) (affiliate link)
Deadly. Beautiful. On the run.
When secret agent Maggie Black agrees to protect the Mayor of London, she thinks she’s in for a boring night of babysitting. The simple job gets a lot more complicated when an assassin arrives and takes out the Mayor, framing Maggie as the killer.
Unable to explain the evidence against her, Maggie is branded a traitor and hunted by the very people she once fought beside. With no one to turn to, Maggie relies on the one person who has always had her back—herself.
From the hidden nightclubs of Madrid, to the dark streets of Moscow, Maggie must delve into the depths of the criminal underworld to unearth the truth, and fast. Because time is running out and the enemy is closer than she thinks…
Warped Ambition (A Jo Riskin Mystery Book 1) (affiliate link)
A girl with a broken heart. A man dealing with loss. When an accident brings these childhood sweethearts together, will they find love?
When a fire rips through her world, Holly finds her rescuer to be none other than Mitch, the guy she’s not seen for fifteen years. He makes her a business proposition, but can she learn to trust?
Heartbroken Mitch travels across the country to Somerset to oversee the running of his Uncle’s farm, but is he really running away from himself?
Neither can deny their attraction for each other. But is such an intense relationship ideal between two broken people? Holly is fiercely independent and troubled by an historic feud between their families, believing any union between them is doomed. Mitch’s overwhelming desire to save Holly is pushing her away. Will these lost souls ever be reunited? Or will history repeat itself and end in tragedy?
Chasing Dreams in Eversley Village (Eversley Village Book 1) (affiliate link)
A girl with a broken heart. A man dealing with loss. When an accident brings these childhood sweethearts together, will they find love?
When a fire rips through her world, Holly finds her rescuer to be none other than Mitch, the guy she’s not seen for fifteen years. He makes her a business proposition, but can she learn to trust?
Heartbroken Mitch travels across the country to Somerset to oversee the running of his Uncle’s farm, but is he really running away from himself?
Neither can deny their attraction for each other. But is such an intense relationship ideal between two broken people? Holly is fiercely independent and troubled by an historic feud between their families, believing any union between them is doomed. Mitch’s overwhelming desire to save Holly is pushing her away. Will these lost souls ever be reunited? Or will history repeat itself and end in tragedy?
The woods are dark and wicked,
and perhaps some things would be better off staying lost…
Teya Jenkins is ten years old when her sister is taken.
Niven is never found, because no one knows where to look.
No one but Teya that is, who heard the whispers of the trees
and saw the beautiful creatures that dwelled in the shadows.
It is only after another tragedy, years later, that Teya finally dares
to enter the forest that haunts her dreams, determined to bring home
her sister and mend the fractured remains of her family.
Beneath the whispering oaks, she meets Laphaniel, an outcast
from the Seelie Court, who tempts her away with veiled promises
of the thing she’s always longed for…to belong somewhere.
Summer at Serenity Bay (affiliate link)
Workaholic Poppy Jackson is ready to put the past behind her. Embracing an exciting new career with gusto, Poppy is keen to impress at the upcoming Annual Conference.
Romance is the last thing on her mind, yet her focus begins to waver at the appearance of the cheeky Oliver Sullivan! They say that opposites attract but there might be too many differences. Will Poppy take a chance on getting to know him better?
Ianthe Hambly-Jones is growing increasingly frustrated at her son’s refusal to step up. Itching to put her own plans into progress, will she risk losing everything as long-held secrets threaten to erupt?
Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour (affiliate link)
After her father’s sudden death, Amy’s mom has decided to start anew—in Connecticut, just before the start of senior year. And she’s decided that it’ll be Amy’s job to get the car from California to Connecticut.
The only problem? Amy hasn’t gotten behind the wheel since the car accident that took her father’s life.
Enter Roger, a family friend, tasked by his mother to help Amy drive across the country. Amy’s not pleased to be driving across the country with a boy she barely knows, but as Amy gets lost on her cross-country adventure, she must confront the past she’s running from, come to terms with the grief of losing a parent, and learn how to open her heart in order to find herself again.
The Quiet Girl (affiliate link)
Good girls keep quiet. But quiet girls can’t stay silent forever—and the consequences are sure to make some noise.
When Alex arrives in Provincetown to patch things up with his new wife, Mina, he finds an empty wine glass in the sink, her wedding ring on the desk, and a string of questions in her wake. The police believe that Mina, a successful romance author, simply left, their marriage crumbling before it truly began.
But what Alex finds in their empty cottage points him toward a different reality: Mina has always carried a secret. And now she’s disappeared.
In his hunt for the truth, Alex comes across Layla, a young woman with information to share, who may hold the key to everything his wife has kept hidden. A strange, quiet girl whose missing memories may break them all.
To find his missing wife, Alex must face what Layla has forgotten. And the consequences are anything but quiet.
The Dating Show (affiliate link)
It was only supposed to be one night.
Working multiple jobs while trying to put herself through school is catching up with Avery. Luckily, she has a contract for a hot new dating show in her hand. Now, all she can think about is making it to the end of the show, where she can win money to help ease her burdens.
Stella can’t catch a break. She’s been trying to get a job in front of the camera, but after ten years, she’s thinking about packing it in. Just when she’s ready to give up, she’s asked to host a hit new TV show, For Love or Money: Sapphic Edition. Jumping on the chance, Stella’s ecstatic about the opportunity until she sees that one of the contestants is someone she’s very familiar with—someone whose body she still craves.
Avery needs to win, and Stella needs the job. What can go wrong as they navigate their feelings while the camera rolls twenty-four-seven?
It’s All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World’s Family Tree (affiliate link)
A.J. Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: “You don’t know me, but I’m your eighth cousin. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database.”
That’s enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. Who are these people, A.J. wondered, and how do I find them? So begins Jacobs’s three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history
Jacobs’s journey takes him to all seven continents. He drinks beer with a US president, sings with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearths genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels..
The Scots: A Genetic Journey (affiliate link)
An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies, and this book traces the ancient story of Scotland from that scientific viewpoint. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of DNA analysis, is rewriting history in spectacular fashion.
In Scotland: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat explores the history that is printed on our genes, and in a remarkable new approach, uncovers the detail of where Scots are from, where they have journeyed, and who they are—and in so doing, vividly colors in a DNA map of Scotland.
Getting There: A Book of Mentors (affiliate link)
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