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  Publication Date:  May 10, 2022 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Contemporary Romance Publisher:  Penguin Publishing Group Length:   320 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the wa...

Publication Date:  November 18, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Horror  Publisher:  Poisoned Pen Press  Length:   298 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then... nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there's nothing she can do but wait. At least the stranger seems kind... but Clare doesn't know...

  Publication Date:  July 12, 2020 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Horror Publisher:  Tor Nightfire Length:  159 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. Review:  A modern retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe.  Roderick and Madeline Usher reside in a crumbling home on lands that are barren and the lake dark and murky.  Madeline...

Publication Date:  September 20, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Legal Thriller Narrators:  Helen Laser Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing  Length:  11 hours 41 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis For as long as Lucia Gomez has been the police chief in the city of Highland Isle, near Kindle County, she has known that any woman in law enforcement must walk a precarious line between authority and camaraderie to gain respect.  She has maintained a spotless reputation—until now. Three male police officers have accused her of soliciting sex in exchange for promotions to higher ranks. With few people left who she can trust, Chief Gomez turns to an old friend, Rik Dudek, to act as her attorney in th...

Publication Date:  July 24, 2012 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Science Fiction  Publisher:  Open Road Media Length:  356 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been destroyed by drugs, disease, war, and chronic water shortages. While her father tries to lead people on the righteous path, Lauren struggles with hyperempathy, a condition that makes her extraordinarily ...

Publication Date:  August 9, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir Narrators:  Jeannette McCurdy Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Audio  Length:  6 hours 50 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a star, and Jennette would do anything to make her mother happy. So she went along with what Mom called “calorie restriction,” eating little and weighing herself five times a day. She endured extensive at-home makeovers while Mom chided, “Your eyelashes are invisible, okay? You think Dakota Fanning doesn’t tint hers?” She was even showered by Mom until age sixteen while sharing he...

  Publication Date:  May 14, 2019 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Romantic Comedy Publisher:  Gallery Books  Length:  429 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion...she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, th...

  Publication Date:  January 11, 2019 Format:  Kindle  Genre:   Mystery Publisher:  Our Noir Publishing Length:  334  pages Buy:    Kindle Synopsis A LITTLE SEX. A LITTLE DEATH. Most people would kill to live in Palm Beach, with its beautiful women and dazzling coast. But most people don't know what goes on in the bedrooms of the rich and famous. Mark Durand did. But he was beheaded and left in an abandoned cattle pen, miles from the gilded mansions. Plunged into the gruesome homicide, PI Louis Kincaid agrees to help an aging 'walker', who may or may not have been the victims lover. As his investigation snakes through the privileged class, Louis uncovers shocking truths about a powerful lady senator whose husband collects dangerous weaponry...a silver-haired dowager with a taste for gossip...and a seductive socialite who tries to make Louis forget about his girlfriend Joe Frye by whispering three liottle words: "Come die with me." R...

Publication Date:  October 5, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Memoir Narrators:  Dave Grohl Publisher:  Harper Audio  Length:  10 hours 35 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ("It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!") I have decided to tell these stories just as I have always done, in my own voice. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the ...

  Publication Date:  August 4, 2015 Format:  ebook Genre:   Dark Fantasy Publisher:  Ace  Length:  304 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn’t remember why she’s in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood... Then, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago. Only some...

Publication Date:  June 8, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Psychological Thriller Narrators:  Lorna Bennett Publisher:  Dreamscape Media                 Length:  11 hours 20 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother's baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery - stacks and stacks of carefully preserved letters from notorious serial killer Michael Reave. The Red Wolf, as he was dubbed by the press, has been in prison for over 20 years, serving a life sentence for the gruesome and ritualistic murders of several women across the country, although he has always protested his innocence. The police have had ...