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Release Date:  August 7, 2018 Publisher:  St. Martins Press Format:  ebook Pages:  368 pages Genre:   True Crime Fiction Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old Frank LaSalle, fresh out of prison, is watching her, preparing to make his move. Accosting her outside the store, Frank convinces Sally that he’s an FBI agent who can have her arrested in a minute—unless she does as he says. This chilling novel traces the next two harrowing years as Frank mentally and physically assaults Sally while the two of them travel westward from Camden to San Jose, forever altering not only her life, but the lives of her family, friends, and those she meets along the way. Based on the experiences of real-life kidnapping victim Sally Horner and her captor, whose story shocked the nation and inspired Vladimir Nabokov to write his controversial an

Release Date:  August 28, 2018 Publisher:  Harlequin Teen Format:  ebook Pages:  352 pages Genre:   YA Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover   Synopsis:  Scorn the witch. Fear the witch. Burn the witch. History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge.  Toil & Trouble  features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure—and to kill. A young witch uses social media to connect with her astrology clients—and with a NASA-loving girl as cute as she is skeptical. A priestess of death investigates a ritualized murder. A bruja who cures love sickness might need the remedy herself when she falls in love with an altar boy. A theater production is turned upside down by a visiting churel. In Reconstruction-era Texas, a water witch uses her magic to survive the soldiers who have invaded her desert oasis. And in the near future, a group of girls accused of wit

Release Date:  August 2, 2018 Publisher:  Berkley Format:  ebook Pages:  416 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  There's nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91 Trinity Avenue. Except it's her house. And she didn't sell it. When Fiona Lawson comes home to find strangers moving into her house, she's sure there's been a mistake. She and her estranged husband, Bram, have a modern coparenting arrangement: bird's nest custody, where each parent spends a few nights a week with their two sons at the prized family home to maintain stability for their children. But the system built to protect their family ends up putting them in terrible jeopardy. In a domino effect of crimes and misdemeanors, the nest comes tumbling down. Now Bram has disappeared and so have Fiona's children. As events spiral well beyond her control, Fiona will discover just how many lies her husband was weaving and how little they

Release Date:  October 17, 2017 Publisher:  Thomas Nelson Format:  Audio Length:  5 hours 7 minutes Narrator:  Chip Gaines Genre:  Biography/self help Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  The funny and talented Chip Gaines is well known to millions of people as a TV star, renovation expert, bestselling author, husband to Joanna, and father of five in Waco, Texas. But long before the world took notice, Chip was a serial entrepreneur who was always ready for the next challenge, even if it didn’t quite work out as planned. Whether it was buying a neighborhood laundromat or talking a bank into a loan for some equipment to start a lawn-mowing service, Chip always knew that the most important thing was to take that first step. Now a #1  New York Times  bestselling book,  Capital Gaines  offers readers a ringside seat as Chip relives some of his craziest antics and the lessons learned along the way. His mentors taught him to never give up and his family showed him what it meant to

Release Date:  August 7, 2018 Publisher:  Del Rey Format:  ebook Pages:  352 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Sci fi & Fantasy Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover |  Audio Synopsis:  Welcome to The Point, future leaders of the Posthuman Age. New Cadets, society is not ready for you. The oldest, fiercest fear is ignorance. The general population would burn you at the metaphorical stake. Here, you will train alongside other posthumans. You will learn to control and maximize your powers and to use them for the greater good. You will discover camaraderie and purpose. You will become a part of something bigger than yourselves: the Long Gray Line.  Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only because she’s a hardcore daredevil and born troublemaker—she has been hiding superhuman powers she doesn’t yet understand. Now she’s been recruited by a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities. Scarlett and her fellow students are learning to hone their sk

Release Date:  June 15, 2017 Publisher:  Sloane Kennedy Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 3 minutes Narrator:  Joel Leslie Genre:  Romance/ Suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Ex Special Forces soldier Michael "Hawke" Hawkins has spent every day of the last ten years waiting for the moment he would get to watch the life fade from the eyes of the men who brutally murdered his wife, but when he finally gets the break he's been waiting for, the trail leads him to someone he wasn't expecting. After nearly two years of running, 24-year-old Tate Travers has become an expert at hiding...until the day a dangerous stranger shows up looking for vengeance and threatens to destroy the fragile life Tate has managed to build for himself and his five-year-old son. Except the life Tate has been struggling to hold on to started unraveling long before Hawke showed up looking for the same men Tate has been running from...his own father and older brother.

Release Date:  May 1, 2017 Publisher:  Sloane Kennedy Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 56 minutes Narrator:  Joel Leslie Genre:  Romance/ Suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  "I lifted my gaze to tell Seth no but then I saw it. The thing I'd feared I'd lost. It wasn't hero worship or the wayward emotions of an innocent child. And it wasn't some distorted reflection of a man who no longer existed. All I saw was me...the way he saw me." (Ronan)  Trauma surgeon Ronan Grisham lost everything the day the man he loved was stolen from him in a brutal attack. Driven by a thirst for vengeance, he turns his hatred into building an underground group that can do what he couldn't that fateful day...take the lives of the guilty to save the lives of the innocent. But years later, he's forced to confront the one link to his past that he can't sever.  Seven years after the loss of his parents in a violent home invasion that left hi

Release Date:  August 19, 2016 Publisher:  Sloane Kennedy Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 16 minutes Narrator:  Joel Leslie Genre:  Romance/ Suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  After four years abroad, artist Jonas Davenport has come home to start building his dream of owning his own art studio and gallery. But just as he's ready to put the darkness of his past behind him forever, it comes roaring back with a vengeance. The only thing keeping ex-cop Mace Calhoun from eating his own gun after an unthinkable loss is his role in an underground syndicate that seeks to get justice for the innocent by taking the lives of the guilty. Ending the life of the young artist who committed unspeakable crimes against the most vulnerable of victims should have been the easiest thing in the world. So why can't he bring himself to pull the trigger? After years of fighting in an endless, soul-sucking war, Navy SEAL Cole Bridgerton has come home to fight another

Release Date:  August 14, 2018 Publisher:  Berkley Format:  ebook Pages:  352 pages Genre:   Mystery/ Thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Audio Synopsis:  As the only vampire child ever born, some believed Elisa Sullivan had all the luck. But the magic that helped bring her into the world left her with a dark secret. Shifter Connor Keene, the only son of North American Central Pack Apex Gabriel Keene, is the only one she trusts with it. But she's a vampire and the daughter of a Master and a Sentinel, and he's prince of the Pack and its future king. When the assassination of a diplomat brings old feuds to the fore again, Elisa and Connor must choose between love and family, between honor and obligation, before Chicago disappears forever. Review: I haven't finished the Chicagoland Vampire series but really enjoy it and didn't want to let the first book in this new series pass me by.  Even though I haven't finished the other series I was still able t

Release Date:  July 25, 2017 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 7 minutes Narrator:  Alexandra Shawnee & Aiden Snow Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  New York Times  best-selling author Tatum Longley is being forced out of her comfort zone. Her publisher needs her to change from hard-hitting nonfiction to romance. But first, she must find a muse. Angelo has no desire to form relationships, when a very persistent Tatum makes him an offer that nearly knocks this six-foot-five, long-haired, tattooed, dangerous-looking man on his ass.  Will he be able to resist the temptation? Or will he allow her to use him? Review: This is a great series.  Kid was a bit of a mystery when he was introduced but he is angry, and has been handed a crap deal from life. In walks Tatum who wants to use him as a muse. Writing a romance novel for the first time after making a name for herself writing non-fiction, Tatum struggles with finding the mal

Release Date:  September 27, 2016 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 6 minutes Narrator:  Joe Arden & Maxine Mitchell Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Jagger Caldwell is no one's hero. With a reputation for busting heads and breaking hearts on the underground MMA circuit, he lives for easy cash and easier women. But when he stumbles upon an all-too-familiar scene, painful memories awaken Jagger's sensitive side and compel him to act. As a kid, he stood by helplessly as his old man beat his mom. Now, Jagger won't let 17-year-old Tatiana Rand suffer the same fate. Nothing matters except saving her. Tatiana is a prisoner in her own home, at the mercy of her violent father - until an unlikely savior bursts through her door and into her life. Six-feet-plus of tattooed muscle and raw power, Jagger is no prince charming, but Tatiana stopped believing in fairy tales long ago. Despite their differences in age and, well, every

Release Date:  August 23, 2016 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours Narrator:  Elizabeth Hart & Jeremy York Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  For Morrison Caldwell, life is a game of chance. A high roller with a legendary poker face, he’s the wild card of the family, always chasing the next thrill and never staying put for long. The one place that always lures him back is Las Vegas, with its hot tables and even hotter women. He’s perfectly content to live his life as a series of one-night stands. But when a parking lot confrontation with a cocktail waitress takes a naughty turn, she leaves Morrison aching for another round. After a long losing streak in Sin City, Hailey Poe is ready to get lucky. A steamy tryst with a cocky, mysterious stranger is the kind of no-strings encounter she’s been craving . . . until Morrison Caldwell asks for more than she’s willing to offer. But when Hailey’s controlling, soon-to-be ex-husband tries to ta

Release Date:  July 5, 2016 Publisher:  Tantor Audio Format:  Audio Length:  6 hours 55 minutes Narrator:  Lidia Dornet & Guy Locke Genre:  Romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Hendrix Caldwell wants nothing more than to revitalize the family bar—and tear down every last reminder of his no-good father. But business isn’t the only thing on his mind. An explosive encounter with a stranger at a charity masquerade is just the distraction he craves, with no names and no strings attached. For Hendrix, sex is casual, and love is a four-letter word. His commitment is to his brothers, his bar, and his bike. So why can’t he stop thinking about the naughty Cinderella who rocked his world, then left him—and her panties—behind? Olivia Hemmingway knows fairytales are for little girls. Drowning in debt and hiding a shameful secret, she won’t be saved by a knight in tattooed armor, no matter how mind-blowing their one-night stand may have been. Olivia never expects to meet her ma