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  Publication Date:  March 20, 2021 Format:  ebook Genre:   Dark Fantasy/LGBTQ Publisher:  Independently Published  Length:  176 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Would you like to know? Would you like to know the answer to any question?  Anything. Ask away. One question, though. So what would your question be?But be warned...the price for such knowledge is steep. The answer to any question you have.  And all it will cost you is your face. Your mouth. Your nose. Your ears and your eyes. You will still live. But I will take your face. So what is important enough to you that you would give up so much? What question is worth the price? Anto did not have an easy life. He was ignored and beaten as a chi...

Publication Date:  February 24, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Richard Burnip, Sarah Durham Publisher:  Bookoutore Length:  10 hours 47 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis A totally gripping mystery thriller inspired by a true story: an innocent young girl holds the key to unlocking a long-buried crime.  Perfect for fans of Gregg Olsen, Catherine Ryan Howard and  I’ll Be Gone in the Dark . Pulse-pounding, heart-wrenching and unforgettable.   Manchester, England 1965:  Little  Kathy Openshaw  is waiting in the car with only her toy doll for company. Whilst her mother  Connie  visits close friends Myra and Ian, Kathy gazes out at the surrounding moorland and dreams of a happier life.  But when Con...

Publication Date:  February 9, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Police Procedural Narrators:  Therese Plummer Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  10 hours 46 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. It seems like something bigger is happening in the small town they call home. When an injured hiker stumbles from the woods, someone who seems to have come to the Yukon for a wilderness vacation but instead is now fighting for her life, it’s all hands on deck. What – or who – attacked this woman, and why?...

Doll Parts Cara Dee (The Game, #4) Publication date: February 18th 2022 Genres: Erotica, Romance I won’t tell my boyfriend this, but I don’t believe in absolute happiness. Not with the cards I was dealt. We were dealt, I should say. While he’s been pining after Lucian, one of the Masters in his kink community, for several years, I’ve been depressingly in love with my former stepdad, KC, who happens to be a sadistic Daddy Dom. It’s complicated, to be honest. I try not to think about it too much. I have Cameron, and I love him so damn much. Why can’t we try to make it on our own? Why does he want us to find a Top that’s just ours? It won’t work. Our stupid hearts refuse to move on. What’s even stupider is that Cameron insists we seek out a Dom for our relationship in the very kink community where we can find both KC and Lucian. Crap. I think he’s got a plan. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: I couldn’t go up there, could I? I squinted for the sun and peered up at the pal...

  Publication Date:  February 1, 2022 Format:  ebook Genre:   Historical Fantasy Publisher:  47 North  Length:  267 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis After a nearly fatal blow to the skull, traumatized private detective Ian Cameron is found dazed and confused on a muddy riverbank in Victorian London. Among his effects: a bloodstained business card bearing the name of a master wizard and a curious pocket watch that doesn’t seem to tell time. To retrieve his lost memories, Ian demands answers from Edwina and Mary Blackwood, sister witches with a murky past. But as their secret is slowly unveiled, a dangerous mystery emerges on the darkened streets of London. To help piece together Ian’s lost tim...

Publication Date:  July 27, 2021 Format:  ebook Genre:   Police Procedural Publisher:  St. Martins Press Length:  410 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff—and even fuller-time coffee guzzler—Sunshine Vicram, didn’t get that memo.  All Sunshine really wants is one easy-going day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that’s about as easy as switching to decaf. (What kind of people do that? And who hurt them?) Before she can say  iced mocha latte , Sunny’s got a bar fight gone bad, a teena...

Publication Date:  July 13, 2021 Format:  Hardcover Genre:   Thriller Publisher:  Berkley Length:  352 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives...but what happens after? Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade, she’s been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized - someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece. But t...

Big Bad Beast Grace Goodwin (Interstellar Brides Program: The Beasts, #4) Publication date: February 11th 2022 Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Science Fiction An Atlan Warlord in hiding. In pain. In danger of succumbing to a horrible fever. Only one woman can save him. One. All he has to do is find her before he becomes a Big Bad Beast … Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: Vivien: I scrambled down from the back of the ambulance and moved out of the way so the sexy, bleeding fighter could step up and climb inside. His weight caused the rig to dip. He sat down on the stretcher, his head nearly touching the ceiling, and lifted an arm to inspect his wounds on that side. By my count, there were at least four large gashes that would require stitching. Which meant I got to touch. I looked from his torso to his face and forgot how to breathe. He was staring at me now, but his eyes didn’t look human. Were they glowing silver? Frozen like a deer in the headlights, we stared ...

Publication Date:  March 15, 2019 Format:  ebook Genre:   BDSM romance  Publisher:  St. Martins Press Length:  346 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis SHE’s a good girl, or at least she tries to be. People think Samantha Hunter lives a fairytale life. Only this young, wealthy American in Paris has a secret. If she lets it free, there’s no telling what she’ll do. Being the wild child is one thing. Letting her dark fantasies run wild is quite another. How could she? The better question is…how could she not? HE wears a suit, but he is not entirely civilized. Oleg Balashov is often hungry for something he'll probably never find. His closest friends have similar appetites and the private club they own is the perfect place to fee...

Publication Date:  January 11, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery/Thrillers Narrators:  Whitney Dykhouse Publisher:  Dreamscape Media Length:  6 hours 27 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis It's mid-May in the tiny northwoods Wisconsin town of Loon Lake, and the fish are biting. But walleye isn’t the only thing on the hook. There are rumors that a precious vein of nickel and copper is buried on the property of wealthy Grace McDonough, and the drilling is about to begin. But not if environmentalist Pete Ferris can help it. When Grace's twenty-four-year-old son, Noah, is caught in a sordid sex crime, police chief Lew Ferris makes the arrest. But a day later, Lew is stricken when her brother, Pete, turns up dead, a bloody pry bar found in ...

Publication Date:  April 6, 2021 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Southern Fiction Publisher:  Sourcebooks/Landmark Length:  388 pages Buy:  Kindle | Paperback Synopsis Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two teenage girls cast in an unlikely partnership through murder—perfect for readers of  Where the Crawdads Sing  and  If the Creek Don't Rise . Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her hard life on the swamp and her harsh father. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. And she knows there will be a price to pay with her father. Matilda, daughter of a sharecrop...

Publication Date:  February 5, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Memoir Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing Length:  352 pages Buy:    Audible |  Paperback  Synopsis A powerful new memoir about growing up with a hard father in a hard land Atz Kilcher learned many vital skills while helping his parents carve a homestead out of the Alaskan wilderness: how to work hard, think on his feet, make do, invent, and use what was on hand to accomplish whatever task was in front of him. He also learned how to lie in order to please his often volatile father and put himself in harm's way to protect his mother and younger, weaker members of the family. Much later in life, as Atz began to reflect on his upbringing, seek to ...

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Unmeasured Alyssa Turner (Unmatched, #1) Publication date: March 15, 2019 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance SHE’s a good girl, or at least she tries to be. People think Samantha Hunter lives a fairytale life. Only this young, wealthy American in Paris has a secret. If she lets it free, there’s no telling what she’ll do. Being the wild child is one thing. Letting her dark fantasies run wild is quite another. How could she? The better question is…how could she not? HE wears a suit, but he is not entirely civilized. Oleg Balashov is often hungry for something he’ll probably never find. His closest friends have similar appetites and the private club they own is the perfect place to feed their desires. Oleg is ready to pay an old debt with an arranged marriage, mafia style. Then Samantha appears on a bar stool with just enough curiosity to get her into trouble. She’s in way over her pretty head. Or is it the other way around? The Masters of Club Duval have a new pet and she isn’...

Publication Date:  January 30, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Athena Karkanis Publisher:  Bespeak Audio Length:  9 hours 43 min Buy:  Kindle  | Audio Synopsis The latest novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series opens in the month of May, a time of beginnings when all things seem possible. Joanne’s husband, Zack, recently elected mayor of Regina, is optimistic that he can garner the public support necessary to make Regina a city that works — not just for the few, but for the many. Their oldest son Peter is marrying Maisie Crawford, a woman as clever and forthright as she is lovely. Their lakeside wedding is a dream come true, but when a former lover of a member of the bridal party shows up, the dream becomes a nightmare. Before t...

Publication Date:  October 3, 2017 Format:  Audio Genre:   Historical Fiction Narrators:  Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio Length:  15 hours 16 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. O...

The Cruiser Rowan Rossler (The Hustlers Trilogy, #1) Publication date: March 7th 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance Morgan de Rohan-Chabot is Monaco’s most notorious yacht designer. A maverick playboy with a reputation for leaving a trail of broken hearts in his wake. Young, talented, not to mention sexy AF, he’s also got a boatload of attitude. In other words, he’s my perfect public relations challenge. So what if he’s trouble with a capital T? I’m a pro. Vandana Hillman: The Queen of Luxury PR. My life’s just blown up, I need a distraction, and Morgan wants me to join him on the glittering shores of Monaco to help him land a conservative Saudi Prince as a client. Ten days. In, out. No biggie, right? What could possibly go wrong? Goodreads / Amazon BOOK TRAILER: Author Bio: An award-winning storyteller whipping up contemporary romance tales. Every writer sprinkles their own brand of DNA magic into stories and my ingredients are: glamorous destinations, br...