Tag: Romantic Suspense

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    Romance, Mystery, Romantic Suspense, Fantasy, Young Adult, Nonfiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Historical Romance, Contemporary Fiction… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    All I Want for Christmas Is You: Two full books for the price of one (Angel Falls Book 3)
    📚 2-Books-in-1 📚
    Over 200 5-Star Reviews!

    Just when Kaitlyn Barnes vows to get over her longtime crush on Rafe Langdon, they share a sizzling evening that delivers an epic holiday surprise: Kaitlyn is pregnant.

    And if that weren’t life-changing enough, everyone assumes they’re engaged — a charade they must keep alive through the holiday season. But Kaitlyn knows Rafe better than anyone, and Rafe settling down is about as likely as Santa skipping Angel Falls this year…

    Rafe would rather Kaitlyn believe a lie — that their night together was a fling — than face his own dangerous truth: he’s falling for her, hard. After a devastating loss, Rafe swore he’d never risk his heart again. Yet the longer they pretend to be engaged the more Rafe starts to want the real thing. But now he has to convince Kaitlyn he wants to be by her side — and their baby’s — for all the Christmases to come.

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    The Look of Love: A Piper Donovan Mystery (Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake Mysteries Book 2) Piper Donovan accepts when the owner of Elysium, an exclusive spa and plastic-surgery center, offers her an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to create a dazzling and unique wedding cake. The job also gives Piper the time and distance she needs to sort out her feelings for handsome FBI agent Jack Lombardi.

    The ultra-luxurious spa caters to the rich and famous in need of a little “refreshing” – a nip here, a tuck there, a little Botox, a little detox. Nestled in the Hollywood Hills, Elysium seems picture-perfect: the grounds, the staff, even the guests. But no sooner does Piper arrive than a guest is brutally murdered in one of the private bungalows. Someone, it seems, wants to make sure Elysium’s beautiful director, Jillian Abernathy, never gets to walk down the aisle…

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    Forged in Desire (The Protectors Book 1) Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Strong enough to protect her. Bold enough to love her.

    When good girl Margo Connelly becomes Lamar "Striker" Jennings’s latest assignment, she knows she’s in trouble. And not just because he’s been hired to protect her from an underworld criminal. The reformed bad boy’s appeal is breaching all her defenses, and as the threats against her increase, Margo isn’t sure which is more dangerous: the gangster targeting her, or the far too alluring protector tempting her to let loose.

    Though Striker’s now living on the right side of the law, he’s convinced his troubled past keeps Margo out of his league. But physical chemistry explodes into full-blown passion when they go on the run together. Surrendering to desire could be a deadly distraction—or finally prove that he’s the only man qualified to keep her safe, and win her love.

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    All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother In the vein of Wicked and The Woodcutter, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella’s "evil" stepmother.

    We all know the story of Cinderella… Or do we?

    As rumors about the cruel upbringing of beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story.

    A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated from her family and forced into servitude as a laundress’s apprentice when she is only ten years old. Using her wits and ingenuity, she escapes her tyrannical matron and makes her way toward a hopeful future. When teenaged Agnes is seduced by an older man and becomes pregnant, she is transformed by love for her child. Once again left penniless, Agnes has no choice but to return to servitude at the manor she thought she had left behind. Her new position is nursemaid to Ella, an otherworldly infant. She struggles to love the child who in time becomes her stepdaughter and, eventually, the celebrated princess who embodies everyone’s unattainable fantasies.

    The story of their relationship reveals that nothing is what it seems, that beauty is not always desirable, and that love can take on many guises…

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    Crownchasers A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire.

    This explosive first book in a duology jam-packed with tension and thrills is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Aurora Rising, and Three Dark Crowns.

    Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the Kingship and her uncle, the emperor, for a life of exploring.

    But when her dying uncle announces a crownchase—a search for the royal seal hidden in the empire that will determine the next ruler—Alyssa is thrust into her greatest, most dangerous adventure yet.

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    Card Games Properly Explained: Poker, Canasta, Cribbage, Gin Rummy, Whist, and Much More Do you turn down invites to poker games because you don’t know the rules? Then Card Games Properly Explained is the book for you.

    Arnold Marks’s handbook will teach you not only what you need to know to play the game, but how to play to win. He will teach you Whist and its variations: Solo and Napoleon; Poker and its variations like Seven Card Stud and Deuces Wild; Cribbage; Rummy—the forefather of Gin Rummy and Canasta, among others; and more.

    Written for the novice player and to help players looking for a book to decisively settle arguments with clear, understandable rules, Card Games Properly Explained is a great book to have on hand in any game room.

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    The Captain's Oath (Star Trek: The Original Series) Over 250 5-Star Reviews!

    An all-new Star Trek adventure set during The Original Series era and featuring James T. Kirk!

    The saga of James T. Kirk’s historic command of the U.S.S. Enterprise is known throughout the galaxy. But one part of the legend has barely been touched upon until now: the story of Kirk’s first starship command and the remarkable achievements by which Starfleet’s youngest captain earned the right to succeed Christopher Pike as the commander of the famous Enterprise.

    From his early battles with the Klingons to the rescue of endangered civilizations, Kirk grapples with difficult questions: Is he a warrior or a peacemaker? Should he obey regulations or trust his instincts? This thrilling novel illustrates the events and choices that would shape James T. Kirk into one of the most renowned captains in Starfleet history.

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    The Deal Goes Down A legendary, Edgar-Award winning writer returns, and so does his legendary detective, with a gripping thriller about marital discord, contract killing, off-piste skiing and the deep state…

    Ex-private eye Tony Casella lives in the Catskill mountains, a lonely old tough guy whose body can no longer do what it once did. His wife and son are dead; his daughter barely talks to him; his bank is in the process of foreclosing on his home.

    But a chance encounter with a rich young woman on a train changes everything. He is hired to take care of her superrich, sexual predator husband. That job leads to others and he joins a small start-up whose mission is to save women from abusive marriages. Provided their spouses are in the top 0.01%. It’s a luxury service destined to make great profits.

    Tony’s problems seem to be over, but are they? An old, angry associate is determined to get his cut of Tony’s earnings, murky government agents start to tail him, and when he is sent to the Austrian alps to kill a Russian oligarch and rescue his American wife, all hell breaks loose…

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    The Matchmaker's Request: A Regency Romance (Larkhall Letters Book 4) Over 1,200 5-Star Reviews!

    At odds with love, Matthew Northcott has firmly decided that he will never marry, much to the dismay of his relatives…and nearly every young lady he meets.

    Rather than seek a marriage for himself, he attempts to find matches for others, grateful to see that love is not entirely cruel—just cruel to him.

    When a letter arrives from Matthew’s friend Jack, asking an immense favor from him, Matthew undertakes a new challenge: Find a husband for Jack’s spinster sister, Miss Cassandra Warwick before the end of the season. Though a strange request, Matthew is determined to help his friend. But as he comes to know Cassandra and the circumstances which placed her in his path, he begins to wonder who the matchmaker truly is.

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    Love Me Like a Love Song (The Storyhill Musicians Book 1) What would you do if the only way to save your career was to partner with a sexy, surly musician who wants nothing to do with you?

    Unable to compose since the death of her rock star husband, Grammy-award winning songwriter Grace O’Connor is terrified the tabloids are right: she’s nothing without her famous husband. But when a powerful music executive issues an ultimatum—cowrite a new album or be blacklisted—Grace must push past her writer’s block to save the only career she’s ever known.

    Andrew Hayes is crumbling under the weight of his ambition. Determined to prove himself to his family and the industry, his attempts to write the songs for his band’s new LP are rapidly unraveling. When his record label sticks him with a washed-up celebrity his future seems clear: he’s going to let the band down and finally prove his father right.

    Forced into an unwilling partnership, Grace and Andrew can’t be in the same room without the gloves coming off. With a looming deadline, they agree to a temporary truce, only to uncover a far more dangerous threat to their budding partnership—a crazy-hot attraction that can’t be denied.

    Before the album wraps, can Andrew convince Grace that a duet of the heart is the sweetest melody? Or will Grace write the final note, believing that love with another musician hits all the wrong chords?

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    Painting the Moon (Chilton Crosse Book 1) Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    When Noelle Cooke inherits a quaint English cottage and an art gallery from her famous Aunt Joy, she welcomes a departure from her San Diego routine. But the lure of the Cotswolds, combined with a locked cottage room and a revealing journal, entice her to stay and discover more, including a way to save the gallery from financial ruin. And that means remaining in England.

    When her childhood sweetheart, Adam Spencer, begins work on a restoration project in Noelle’s village, their friendship blossoms. But as her feelings for Adam deepen, she struggles with memories of what might have been and yearns for a future once thought lost. Faced with a life-altering revelation Aunt Joy took to her grave and a wrenching choice regarding the man she loves, Noelle could lose far more than her heart.

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    Romance, Action & Adventure, Romantic Suspense, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Thriller, Romantic Comedy, Mystery… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Love Always, Christmas: A feel-good Christmas romance from writer of Netflix's A Christmas Prince Libby is planning to spend the holidays alone until a mysterious Christmas card takes her on a life-changing journey where she discovers a family she didn’t know she had and a love she was never expecting to find…

    Libby Larson’s Christmas wish is to get the holidays over as fast as possible. After losing her mom, her only family, she’s bah humbugging Christmas, while desperately trying to save her childhood Seattle home.

    But when Libby finds a twenty-year-old unopened Christmas card addressed to her mom, what she discovers inside takes her to the snowy mountain town of Holly Peak.

    As family secrets start to unravel, Libby must rely on Holly Peak’s handsome town manager, Adam Thompson, to help her find answers while reluctantly participating in the town’s quirky Christmas traditions.

    In the midst of merrymaking and mistletoe, Libby’s life is forever changed when this Christmas brings her the gift of a family and true love.

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    Kingdom of Bones: A Thriller (Sigma Force Novels Book 16) Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    A United Nations relief team in a small village in the Congo makes an alarming discovery. An unknown force is leveling the evolutionary playing field…

    Men, women, and children have been reduced to a dull, catatonic state. The environment surrounding them—plants and animals—has grown more cunning and predatory, evolving at an exponential pace. The insidious phenomenon is spreading from a cursed site in the jungle — known to locals as the Kingdom of Bones —and sweeping across Africa, threatening the rest of the world.

    What has made the biosphere run amok? Is it a natural event? Or more terrifyingly, did someone engineer it?

    Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force are prepared for the extraordinary and have kept the world safe, vigilance for which they have paid a tragic personal price. Yet, even these brilliant and seasoned scientific warriors do not understand what is behind this frightening development—or know how to stop it. As they race to find answers, the members of Sigma quickly realize they have become the prey.

    To head off global catastrophe, Sigma Force must risk their lives to uncover the shattering secret at the heart of the African continent—a truth that will illuminate who we are as a species and where we may be headed…

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    Public Secrets: A Novel Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    Emma. Beautiful, intelligent, radiantly talented, she lives in a star-studded world of wealth and privilege. But she is about to discover that fame is no protection at all when someone wants you dead…

    All she has to do is close her eyes and she remembers the day Brian McAvoy swept into her life. A frightened toddler, she didn’t know then that she was his illegitimate daughter or that he was pop music’s rising new star. All she knew was that with Brian, his bandmates, and his new wife, she felt safe. And when her baby brother arrived, Emma thought she was the luckiest girl in the world…until the night a botched kidnapping attempt shattered all their lives…and destroyed Emma’s happiness.

    Yet now, even though Emma is still haunted by flashes of memory from that fateful night, she has survived. She’s carved out a thrilling career and even dared to fall rapturously in love. But the man who will become her husband isn’t all that he seems. And Emma is about to awaken to the chilling knowledge that the darkest secret of all is the one buried in her mind–a secret that someone may kill to keep.

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    Pie School: Lessons in Fruit, Flour & Butter Pie baking has never been easier with this gorgeous cookbook full of swoon-worthy recipes and expert advice on baking the perfect pie crust.

    Here are recipes for fifty perfect pies, including apple (of course), five ways with rhubarb, lemon chiffon, several blueberry pie variations, galettes, and more.

    Learn the tricks to making enviable baked goods and gluten-free crust while enjoying Kate Lebo’s wonderfully humorous, thoughtful, and encouraging voice. In addition to recipes, Lebo invites readers to ruminate on the social history, the meaning, and the place of pie in the pantheon of favorite foods.

    When you have mastered the art, science and magic of creating the perfect pie in Pie School, everyone will want to be your friend.

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    In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex Over 2,000 5-Star Reviews!

    From the author of Mayflower comes a new riveting bestseller that tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick.

    Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick’s book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.

    In 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale, leaving the desperate crew to drift for more than ninety days in three tiny boats. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little-known documents and vivid details about the Nantucket whaling tradition to reveal the chilling facts of this infamous maritime disaster.

    In the Heart of the Sea, recently adapted into a major feature film starring Chris Hemsworth, is a book for the ages.

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    Martha Stewart's Very Good Things: Clever Tips & Genius Ideas for an Easier, More Enjoyable Life Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    Hundreds of clever tips, solutions, and easy ways to elevate every day, from America’s most trusted lifestyle authority, in one must-have handbook.

    Inside these pages Martha shares all her best good things—the original life hacks for the home—to make your life easier, more fun, more delicious, and more efficient. These practical tricks cover all areas of Martha’s domestic expertise, including decorating, organizing, homekeeping, cooking, entertaining, and celebrating. From clever ways to solve common problems (use file folder dividers to organize cutting boards and sheet pans in your cabinets) to time-saving tricks (keep a pail stocked with cleaning supplies for easy access and portability to stress reducers (color-code kids’ bathroom gear to make mornings less hectic), every one of these ideas will make you wonder, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

    Also included are ways to use what you have (a Parmesan cheese rind will add great flavor to soup), streamline your stuff (use certain kitchen tools for many different purposes), or just make life a little more luxurious (add elegance to your table with DIY place cards). Whether functional, delightful, or a little bit of both, these are the details that enliven and inspire every day—that’s a good thing!

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    Out of the Shadows: EMP Survival in a Powerless World When Sam was forced to retire from a long storied career with the NYPD, he hoped for the best but prepared for the worst…

    The worst came one dark day when an EMP decimated the nation’s power grid, plunging the entire country into darkness and stranding his wife and teenage son in the middle of Manhattan.

    Now Sam must fight his way into the city alongside his best friend Joe, a retired US Marine, to rescue his family from a lawless post apocalyptic metropolis. But when an old enemy hell bent on revenge rears his head, Sam’s entire family will be placed in the line of fire.

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    All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” testament to people who are left out of the archives.

    In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language.

    Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today.

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    The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    "An entertaining quest to trace the origins and implications of the names of the roads on which we reside." —Sarah Vowell

    When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class.

    In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London.

    Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.

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    Wedding of the Century (Marry Me series, Book 1) Annette Trevetti felt like a modern-day Cinderella as she walked down the aisle towards her first love and the heir to a small fortune. But her wedding day bliss screeched to a halt when an extremely pregnant woman crashed the ceremony claiming her prince charming was the father.

    Devastated, Annette shakes the dust of her small town off her boots and starts a seven-year climb up the corporate ladder to claim her own fortune. But when her brother gets injured on the job, she has no choice but to return to her hometown and risk exposing the feelings she still has for the man who broke her heart.

    Single dad Steve Corbett’s biggest regret is tied up with his greatest joy. When Annette returns to town seven years after she left him at the altar, his love for her hasn’t changed one bit. And if his match-making daughter and their one-of-a-kind elderly relative have it their way, they’d pick the romance up right where it left off. Working alongside Annette on her brother’s construction project, Steve senses the flicker of their old flame. But he knows it will take a lot of sweat and tears to rebuild the crumbling trust for a second chance at happily ever after.

    With years and heartache between them, can Annette and Steve learn to have faith in each other and rebuild a new future together?

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    Let Me Out (An Ashley Hope Suspense Thriller—Book 2) Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged—until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart…

    On track to join the state police’s violent crimes division, Ashley is assigned to a case near her hometown: a female, 22 year-old meth addict has been found murdered. Can it be the work of a serial killer?

    While Ashley embarks on hew new life, going through the police academy, hazed by fellow recruits, the state police summon her, as they realize they need to make a rare exception and enlist her help on a case immediately. The murdered victim has been found in the backwoods, in a small, rural town neighboring Ashley’s own Grundy County. The locals are hostile to outsiders and police, and only Ashley stands a chance of getting through to its hardened folk.

    At first glance, the victim seems like just another meth addict-turned prostitute, caught up in a routine drug murder.

    Ashley digs deeper, refusing to put the case to bed. But if she digs too deep, Ashley, herself, may become the target…

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    Realtor Rub Out: A Lily Sprayberry Cozy Mystery (The Lily Sprayberry Cozy Mystery Series Book 8) Welcome to Bramblett County Georgia where the tea is sweat and murder is the daily special!

    Every realtor wants their new listing to be the place everyone wants to see. They just don’t want it to be because there’s a dead body inside. Unfortunately, that’s how I seem to roll. Now I’ve got a week to uncover how this realtor wound up dead in my client’s home, and who killed her.

    Why a week?

    Because in a week I’m getting married. At a beautiful, tropical destination venue…and I will not let the sheriff, who happens to be my fiancĂ©, postpone the wedding to solve the case.

    Call me a bride on a mission, or call me bridezilla, just don’t let the killer know what I’m up to… I’ll take care of that myself.

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  • Book of the Day: Southern Comfort

    Southern ComfortSouthern Comfort by Fern Michaels

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    Over 700 5-Star Reviews!

    A DEA agent in Florida encounters a seductive suspect in this romantic and emotional thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.

    Atlanta homicide detective Patrick "Tick" Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. Holed up in a beach shack on Mango Key, Florida, he drowned his grief in Jack Daniels. Now sober and a bestselling author, Tick would gladly stay a recluse forever if his brother Pete didn’t keep trying to drag him back to the land of the living.

    After years of sacrificing her personal life in favor of her DEA job, special agent Kate Rush resigned and moved back to her native Miami. But the unofficial assignment that has just come her way is too intriguing to pass up. She and a fellow ex-agent are relocated to Mango Key to keep an eye on an imposing, mysterious fortress believed to be at the center of a human trafficking ring. At first, the Kelly brothers are suspected of involvement, but Kate is sure Tick poses no danger–except for the slow-burning gaze that makes her breath catch and her heart race…

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