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The Complete Rose Thorn Box Set (affiliate link)
It’s all fun and games until someone ends up dead…
When Rosa Thorn, star of top soap opera Camden Lock, has her big moment hijacked she is furious. Her character was about to be revealed as the killer of Elsa Gibson’s character Maudie, but Elsa has used her influence to ensure that she gets the final scene all to herself. The next day, Elsa is found dead in her dressing room and in a bizarre twist, her own death mimics the death of her character, Maudie.
As someone known to have a grudge against Elsa, and as the last person to see her alive, suspicion falls on Rosa, both from the police and from her colleagues.
Things go from bad to worse when another famous actress, who is an old enemy of Rosa, is also murdered on the very night that she and Rosa met up and supposedly sorted out their differences.
Folk Tales and Fudge Brownies (Sweets and Secrets Book 1) (affiliate link)
When popular Bigfoot skeptic Kevin McNight is murdered, Jean Williams refuses to believe Detective Wheeler’s explanation that the killer was just a bear – she believes there was a human involved, and she’s determined to find justice for Kevin.
With the local Bigfoot festival just days away, there many who stand to benefit from Kevin’s death – from the well-known Sasquatch believer Roy Turner, to the event organizers who profit from the festival each year, to the Bigfoot “researchers” who despised Kevin.
In between working at her aunt’s bakery café, Jean finds time to slip into the woods and the festival campground in her quest to uncover the truth. But will her hunt lead her straight into a bear’s den – or worse, into the hands of a killer?
Chasing Hope (Tomorrow’s Promise Collection) (affiliate link)
The Feline Affair: An Incident Series Novelette (affiliate link)
Murder at the Limes (Murder in Antiquity Book 1) (affiliate link)
Accused of murdering a Roman officer? Welcome to the arena—faster than you can declare, ‘Not Guilty!’
Thanar, a shady merchant and disgraced son of a Germanic chieftain, is implicated in the murder of a Roman officer. Before he can even try to prove his innocence, he himself almost gets killed by an assassin on a nocturnal street.
The trail leads to a well-known slave trader in whose villa the rich and powerful indulge in luxury—with lavish food, rich wines, and the most beautiful girls in the province.
Soon, further respected citizens of Vindobona start losing their lives …
Will the arena’s roaring lions be the next stop for Thanar or can he solve this lethal puzzle in time?
Layla, an astute and strikingly cunning slave girl, could be his only hope …
Z-Burbia: A Novel (affiliate link)
When the zombie apocalypse hits the quiet Asheville, NC subdivision of Whispering Pines, the residents don’t turn to the police or the military. Nope. They rely on their iron-fisted Home Owners Association! Which Jace Stanford and his family aren’t too keen on. Undead hordes are hard enough to deal with in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, who needs HOA fines too?
Filled with blood, gore, plenty of bad jokes, cannibals, dreaded HOA covenants, and a whole lot of snark, Z-Burbia is guaranteed to thrill and entertain!
Welcome to life in Z-Burbia!
The Shopkeeper’s Daughter (affiliate link)
In World War II–torn England, a young woman must fight to keep her family together, whatever the cost
Ginnie Travis has been working in her father’s shop for the past five years, trying to keep it afloat. When scandal rocks her family just as relentless Nazi raids threaten their very lives, Ginnie and her sister are forced to flee and stay with their aunt in the North of England. The last thing she expects to find in the quiet countryside is love, especially with an American soldier. A soldier who has secrets of his own.
Tragedy strikes, the horror of war rages on, and Ginnie will do whatever she must to protect everything she holds dear.
Lemon, Love & Olive Oil (affiliate link)
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR
Author of the cult-favorite Cooking for Artists, Mina Stone, returns with a collection of 80 new recipes inspired by her traditional Greek heritage and her years cooking for some of New York’s most innovative artists.
Growing up in a close-knit Greek-American household, Mina Stone learned to cook from her Yiayia, who taught her that food doesn’t have to be complicated to be delicious—and that almost any dish can be improved with judicious amounts of lemon, olive oil, and salt. In this deeply personal cookbook, Stone celebrates her grandmother and the other influences that have shaped her life, her career, and her culinary tastes and expertise. Lemon, Love & Olive Oil weaves together more than 80 Mediterranean-style dishes with the stories that inspired them.
The Sound (affiliate link)
A British nanny looking for a low-key summer finds buried secrets, murderous attention, and unexpected romance when she visits the Nantucket Sound in this heart-pounding novel.
The Nantucket Sound is a beachfront playground for the privileged and elite, where the sunny days are filled with scenic bike rides, backyard picnics, and bonfire parties.
But all Ren Kingston—a visiting Brit still reeling from heartbreak—really wants is a quiet summer as a nanny for one of Nantucket’s wealthy families. Getting acquainted with handsome Jeremy and his young group of trust fund, private school kids was not part of the plan. Neither was befriending the local bad boy whose reputation is more dangerous than charming.
After a dead body is found next to The Sound’s postcard-perfect view, Ren starts to wonder where the real threat lies. Because it’s becoming clear that her newfound “friends” are much more than they seem. They’re hiding secrets. Secrets that Ren wants no part of.
But once The Sound has you in its current, it won’t want to let you go…
Bloody Point (Tucker and McKenna, FBI Book 1) (affiliate link)
My Shanghai: Recipes and Stories from a City on the Water (affiliate link)
Experience the sublime beauty and flavor of one of the oldest and most delicious cuisines on earth: the food of Shanghai, China’s most exciting city, in this evocative, colorful gastronomic tour that features 100 recipes, stories, and more than 150 spectacular color photographs.
Filled with galleries, museums, and gleaming skyscrapers, Shanghai is a modern metropolis and the world’s largest city proper, the home to twenty-four million inhabitants and host to eight million visitors a year. “China’s crown jewel” (Vogue), Shanghai is an up-and-coming food destination, filled with restaurants that specialize in international cuisines, fusion dishes, and chefs on the verge of the next big thing. It is also home to some of the oldest and most flavorful cooking on the planet.
Betty Liu, whose family has deep roots in Shanghai and grew up eating homestyle Shanghainese food, provides an enchanting and intimate look at this city and its abundant cuisine. In this sumptuous book, part cookbook, part travelogue, part cultural study, she cuts to the heart of what makes Chinese food Chinese—the people, their stories, and their family traditions.
The Art of Being (affiliate link)
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