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Release Date:  March 26, 2014 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 16 minutes Narrator:  Nicol Zanzarella Genre:  lgbt fiction, romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  The fifth in the saga of the Provincetown Tales. The winds of fortune are fickle guides...and happiness or heartbreak may be the destination. For Provincetown local Deo Camara, the only winds that have ever blown her way have been cold and lonely, and she doesn't expect things to improve when she is drawn into a family crisis against her will. Despite a decade of estrangement, however, Deo can't turn her back on the call of blood, no matter how high the price in heartache. Dr. Bonita Burgoyne is pleased with the changes she's made in her life...she has a rewarding new job and is looking forward to renovating the historic sea captain's house she has just purchased. She's content, and that's all she needs to be, or so she thinks...

Release Date:  February 28, 2014 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  10 hours 25 minutes Narrator:  Nicol Zanzarella Genre:  lgbt fiction, romance Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Amidst war abroad and upheaval at home, Reese Conlon and Tory King face their gravest challenge to their life together. Can love and passion survive the unforgiving storms of change? In the continuing saga of the Provincetown Tales, Reese Conlon’s obligations to family and country are put to the test as war engulfs the Middle East, while her partner Tory King must chose between her career and motherhood when her family is disrupted. While friends and family struggle with the fears and uncertainties of a world in strife, the small seaside town is rocked by a series of crimes that suggest newly arrived real estate entrepreneur, Ricarda Grechi, may have connections to more than just the business world. State Police Detective Carte...

Release Date:  February 7, 2017 Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  13 hours 35 minutes Narrator:  Therese Plummer Genre: Mystery/thriller, police procedural Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She knew living in Rockton meant living off the grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. What she didn't expect is that Rockton comes with its own set of secrets and dangers. Now, in  A Darkness Absolute , Casey and her fellow Rockton sheriff's deputy Will chase a cabin-fevered resident into the woods, where they are stranded in a blizzard. Taking shelter in a cave, they discover a former resident who's been held captiv...

Release Date:  May 3, 2016 Publisher:  MacMillan Audio Format:  Audio Length:  13 hours 42 minutes Narrator:  Therese Plummer Genre: Mystery/thriller, police procedural Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  Synopsis:  Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows that someday this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, and living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Int...

Release Date:  February 24, 2014 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 7 minutes Narrator:  Nicol Zanzarella Genre:  lgbt fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  No matter how much we plan, life - and people - have a way of surprising us. For Doctor KT O'Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she thought she knew about herself and her future. Battered and nearly broken, she turns for solace to the one woman who knows her best, her ex-lover Doctor Tory King. Their unexpected reunion in Provincetown uncovers old wounds, forges new bonds, and awakens long-buried passions. While Tory's lover Sheriff Reese Conlon struggles to uncover a deadly drug ring and Officer Bri Parker navigates the torturous path between friendship and desire, Tory and KT - and those who love them - are forced to examine the boundaries of love, friendship, and the ties that transcend time. Revie...

Release Date:  February 5, 2019 Publisher:  Celadon Books Format:  ebook Pages:  336 pages Genre:   mystery/thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis: Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has wait...

Release Date:  February 5, 2019 Publisher:  Minotaur Books Format:  ebook Pages:  368 pages Genre:   mystery/thriller Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis: The secret town of Rockton has seen some rocky times lately; understandable considering its mix of criminals and victims fleeing society for refuge within its Yukon borders. Casey Duncan, the town's only detective on a police force of three, has already faced murder, arson, and falling in love in the several months that she's lived there. Yet even she didn't think it would be possible for an outsider to locate the town and cause trouble in the place she's come to call home. When a US Marshal shows up demanding the release of one of the residents, but won't say who, Casey and her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are skeptical. And yet only hours later, the marshal is shot dead and the only possible suspects are the townspeople and Casey's estranged sister, smuggled i...

Release Date:  February 12, 2014 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 8 minutes Narrator:  Nicol Zanzarella Genre:  lgbt fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  Beyond the Breakwater,  the sequel to  Safe Harbor, Sheriff Reese Conlon and Doctor Tory King face the challenges of personal change as they define their lives and future together. Dr. Tory King's pregnancy forces her to examine her personal needs and goals while her partner, Sheriff Reese Conlon, struggles with her escalating anxieties over conditions she cannot control. Twenty-year-old Brianna Parker makes a sacrifice for love that threatens not just her happiness, but her life, when she returns home as the newest member of the Sheriff's department. A life-threatening accident, a suspicious fire, and the appearance of more than one woman vying for Bri's attentions makes one Provincetown summer a time of transformation as each...

Release Date:  January 29, 2019 Publisher:  Brilliance Audio Format:  Audio Length:  12 hours 49 minutes Narrator:  Scott Brick Genre: Thriller/suspense Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  | Paperback Synopsis:  Taken from a group home at age twelve, Evan Smoak was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets—i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man, a man who helps the truly desperate when no one else can. But now Evan's past is catching up to him. Someone at the very highest level of government has been trying to eliminate every trace of the Orphan Program by killing all the remaining Orphans and their trainers. After Evan's mentor and the only father he ever knew was killed, he decided to strike back. His target is the man who started the Program and who ...

Release Date:  January 29, 2019 Publisher:  Ballantine Books Format:  ebook Pages:  342 pages Genre:   Memoir Buy:  Kindle  |  Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis: As an African American growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the 1970s, when neighborhoods defined people, Jodie Patterson learned early on to engage with her community for strength and comfort. But then in 2009 this mother of five had her world turned upside down. Realizing that her definition of community wasn’t wide enough for her own child’s needs, Patterson forced the world wide open. In  The Bold World,  we witness a mother reshaping her attitudes and beliefs, as well as those of her community, to meet the needs of her transgender son, Penelope— and opening the minds of everyone in her family who absolutely, unequivocally refused to conform. As we walk alongside Patterson on her journey, we meet   the Southern women who came before her—the mo...

Release Date:  August 28, 2018 Publisher:  Scholastic Audio Format:  Audio Length:  5 hours 2 minutes Narrator:  Reba Burh Genre:  fiction, middle school, ghosts Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  | Paperback   Synopsis:  Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead...and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost. So things are already pretty strange. But they're about to get much stranger. When Cass's parents start hosting a TV show about the world's most haunted places, the family heads off to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here, graveyards, castles, and secret passageways teem with restless phantoms. And when Cass meets a girl who shares her "gift", she realizes how much she still has to learn about the Veil - and herself. And she'll have to learn fast. The city of ghosts is more dangerous than...

Release Date:  October 29, 2013 Publisher:  Audible Studios Format:  Audio Length:  8 hours 14 minutes Narrator:  Nicol Zanzarella Genre:  lgbt fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   Synopsis:  A mysterious newcomer, a reclusive doctor, and a troubled gay teenager learn about love, friendship, and trust during one tumultuous summer in Provincetown. Reese Conlon, Lt Col USMCR, is the new sheriff who has heads turning amidst speculation as to who will be the first woman to capture her attentions. Doctor Victoria King has been betrayed by love once and refuses to risk heartbreak again. Brianna Parker, the teenage daughter of Reese's chief, fears her father's wrath when he learns that she loves another girl. As these three women struggle to live and love in freedom, they risk their hearts and souls to give one another a safe harbor. Review: I couldn't resist reading this. There is no place like P-town (Provincetown) in summer. R...