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Murder Mystery Book Club (Florida Keys Bed & Breakfast Book 1) (affiliate link)
The Grimm Curse (Once Upon A Time Is Now, Book 1) (affiliate link)
Fifteen year-old Jake Grimm is the last living descendent of the Brothers Grimm, who wrote the famous fairy tales in the 1800’s. But Jake grew up never knowing his true destiny until he ran away from his unhappy foster home, to the place of his birth–Woodland–a small town nestled deep in a Northwestern forest. In Woodland, Jake discovers that the fairy tales are real, and they are happening today. And Jake, as the last living Grimm, is the only one who can stop the witches, big bad wolves, and evil stepmothers who are all alive and well, and about to wreak havoc in the small town of Woodland. Because once upon a time is now.
Cookies, Crumbs and Crime (Lucy Blackstone Book 1) (affiliate link)
In the charming town of Brentwood Falls, books and baked goods are a recipe for murder.
Lucy Blackstone loves three things: her job as town librarian, her collection of mystery novels, and the melt-in-your-mouth shortbread cookies from Sweet Delight Bakery. But when beloved baker Winnie Baxter is found dead beside a shattered cookie jar, Lucy’s passion for puzzles pulls her into a real-life whodunit.
Everyone loved Winnie’s cookies—but someone wanted her secret recipe badly enough to kill for it. Was it her assistant Sadie, set to inherit the bakery? Her estranged sister Marnie, suddenly back in town with claims to the business? Or Earl Lattimore, whose competing café was losing customers to Winnie’s delectable treats?
As Lucy investigates, she uncovers a recipe laced with blackmail, stolen formulas, and decades-old grudges. With the skeptical Sheriff Hank Pritchard reluctantly accepting her help, Lucy must sift through a town full of suspects before the killer strikes again.
Butterfly Islands (Chronicles of the Twenty-One Butterflies Book 1) (affiliate link)
Casey is only fifteen years old when her stepfather tries to marry her to a perverted and brutal man twice her age. However, minutes before the wedding, Casey flees into the jungle where she is rescued from her pursuers by a mysterious woman who sets the terrified young girl on a path to becoming a pirate – a path full of adventure, danger, personal struggles, and self-discovery.
Struggling with her own fears and desires, Casey hovers between being an innocent teenage girl confused about love and her own sexuality, and becoming a ruthless pirate seeking revenge on those who have taken all she cherished away from her.
Casey strives to win the trust of the Twenty-One Butterflies, a group of female pirates living on Butterfly Islands, a mystic place filled with dazzling butterflies by day and swarms of moths carrying terrifying parasites by night.
Renegade (Tin Star K9 Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
Caitlyn Reed and her dog, Renegade, are thrown into the midst of murder and intrigue when they discover a dead body while on a trail ride in the black hills of Wyoming.
The local sheriff is hell bent on a conviction, and Caitlyn’s brother, Dylan, is in his crosshairs. Desperate to prove his innocence, Caitlyn turns to Deputy Colt Branson for help, but she must grapple with their rocky romantic past to gain his aid.
As Caitlyn and Renegade pursue the killer, the investigation catapults their lives in a dangerous new direction, one with mysterious strangers, convoluted clues, and deadly violence. In a whip-cracking turn of events, Caitlyn finds herself under suspicion. When all the chips fall, Caitlyn uncovers shocking evidence that rocks their small-town community to its core.
The Pearl of Penang (The Penang Series Book 1) (affiliate link)
As World War Two looms closer, a young woman travels to a far-off tropical paradise on the promise of a new life, in this powerful and emotionally gripping love story.
Penang, 1939: As Evie steps off the boat, the tang of exotic scents in the air almost overwhelms her. Her heart beating wildly, she looks out over the lush landscape she will now call home, and prays she hasn’t made a terrible mistake.
What was she thinking, accepting a proposal of marriage from a man she met only once, years ago? The truth is, Douglas Barrington made an indelible impression on her, and Evie’s adventurous spirit couldn’t resist the chance to travel to this far-flung paradise to marry him. But as Evie adjusts to the sultry heat and explores the island, swimming in its cooling waters and learning who she can trust among the gossiping ex-pat crowd at the tennis club, she wonders why Douglas invited her here only to desert her? And why won’t he let her visit the plantation where he spends all his time?
Space Series Box Set: Houston, Get Ready to Binge Read (affiliate link)
Binge-Read about the men and women of NASA and their hilarious and sexy happily ever afters.
Book 1- Space Junk: Houston, We Have a Hottie
NASA engineer Dr. Jackie Darling Lee is a genius about many things… the male species is not one of them. Secret billionaire Flynn West wants to teach her.
Socially Awkward Engineer + Smooth talking Mechanic = Opposites Attract
Book 2- Space Cowgirl: Houston, All Systems Go
NASA astronaut Julie Starr lives life at light speed, breaking records and hearts as she goes. Billionaire cowboy Holt West isn’t about to get in her way… or is he?
Alpha female Astronaut + Grumpy Cowboy = Enemies to Lovers
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (affiliate link)
The phrase ‘radical chic’ was coined by Tom Wolfe in 1970 when Leonard Bernstein gave a party for the Black Panthers at his duplex apartment on Park Avenue. That incongruous scene is re-created here in high fidelity as is another meeting ground between militant minorities and the liberal white establishment. Radical Chic provocatively explores the relationship between Black rage and White guilt.
Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, set in San Francisco at the Office of Economic Opportunity, details the corruption and dysfunction of the anti-poverty programs run at that time. Wolfe uncovers how much of the program’s money failed to reach its intended recipients. Instead, hustlers gamed the system, causing the OEO efforts to fail the impoverished communities.
The Husband Killer (affiliate link)
Five families. Perfect from the outside. Broken on the inside.
Joslyn has it all. Gorgeous husband, adorable blue-eyed, blonde twins. When he greets her with a pinch under the ribs, she knows she can expect worse later.
Crystal left her life as an exotic dancer behind when she married the man who owned the club. She pays the price every time another man looks at her.
Lexi’s husband is a great father, her three kids think he’s the best dad in the world. He’s always sorry, afterwards. There are always flowers.
Maureen married young when she got pregnant. He could never stand the baby crying.
Shara’s husband is a surgeon, a pillar of the community. But at home he’s a monster.
Now all their husbands are dead.
Transforming Grace (affiliate link)
Too many of us embrace grace for our salvation but then leave it behind in our everyday lives. We base our relationship with God on our performance rather than on His love for us. But our performance can never earn us the love we so desperately crave. Renowned author Jerry Bridges’s Transforming Grace is a fountainhead of inspiration and renewal that will show you just how inexhaustible and generous God’s grace really is. Live confidently in God’s unfailing love, as you learn about:
The sufficiency of grace
Holiness as a gift of God’s grace
What it means to appropriate God’s grace
Our calling to be free
Now with an added study guide for personal use or group discussion so you can dive deeper into this staple of Jerry Bridges’s classic collection. Abandon the treadmill of performance and step into a daily life of guilt-free intimacy with our Creator.
The Highlander’s Fury: Faolan’s Story (affiliate link)
An immortal Fury nearing burnout from vanquishing evil. A raging Highlander determined to remain miserably alone. The goddesses’ plan to save them both with the greatest magic of all.
An average day in the life of an immortal Fury: flex powers, locate evil, administer justice. Until Ciara’s goddess mothers convince her to seduce a brooding mortal. All she must do is swap places with his betrothed. Her assignment is simple: become the seductive wife, bear the man a child, and train the young one in the Ways. Once the boy reaches seven years of age, they’ll swap her back with the wife he thinks he selected and Ciara can resume her job of rousting wickedness from the realities.
Chieftain Faolan MacKay’s advisors plague him daily about his matrimonial duties, dragging prospects from across the Highlands: plump dowries attached to each one. Faolan has lost everyone he has ever loved.
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