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Publication Date:  June 1, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   AA Literature/ Romance Narrators:  Mela Lee Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Length:  10 hours 32 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Seven days to fall in love, 15 years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again... Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award‑winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that 15 years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid ...

Publication Date:  August 24, 2021 Format:  ebook Genre:   Suspense Publisher:  MIRA Books  Length:  248 pages Buy:    Kindle  |  Paperback  Synopsis From the author of  When I Was You  comes a spine-tingling new thriller about a mother’s worst nightmare come true, when her teenage daughter goes to a sleepover and doesn’t come back. Whitney had some misgivings when she dropped her increasingly moody teenage daughter, Amelia, off at Lauren’s house. She’d never met the parents, and usually she’d go in, but Amelia clearly wasn’t going to let something so humiliating happen, so instead Whitney waved to her daughter before pulling away from the little house with the roses in front. But when she goes back the next day, an elderly couple ans...

Publication Date:  January 30, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   Mystery Narrators:  Athena Karkanis Publisher:  Bespeak Audio Length:  9 hours 43 min Buy:  Kindle  | Audio Synopsis When, at the age of sixty, Joanne learns that Douglas Ellard, the reserved general practitioner whom she had grown up believing to be her father was, in fact, the best friend of her biological father, the brilliant visual artist Desmond Love, she begins to question not just who she is but what factors play a role in shaping all of us and in making us who we really are. Joanne is offered the chance to revisit her family history, when writer Roy Brodnitz, author of  The Happiest Girl , a Broadway mega-hit inspired by a Desmond Love painting, approaches her wi...

Violet Spark Elsa Jade & Erin Kellison (Butterfly Witch, #1) Publication date: January 24th 2022 Genres: Adult, New Adult, Urban Fantasy Imogen Taylor: Artist. College dropout. Gamer. Screwup. I had big plans for art school in California, but when the best mom in the world—mine—needed help, I came home to Arbolito, Arizona instead. I even got my old high school job back, making smoothies at the Desert Freeze…in winter. So, yeah, by day, my life is a cold, tropical-hued hell. But at night, I escape reality by plugging into my favorite video game, Legendelirium, to become a powerful, sexy witch, going on epic quests while vanquishing baddies. Until a cute guy from my gaming world shows up at work, gives me the worst kiss ever, and my reality and fantasy lives get blended by purple goo laced with lethal, nanorobotic technology. Now, I’ve got powers—strange, witchy ones. Scary people are after me, and I don’t know who to trust. And, get this. Somehow, it’s up to me to defea...

Publication Date:  July 14, 202 Format:  Hardcover Genre:   Fiction Publisher:  Grove Press Length:  240 pages Buy:   Paperback  | Kindle Synopsis It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church – a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Review:  I loved the description of this book but was sadly disappointed after reading it.  Each chapter is a leap in time making the book feel a bit disjointed...

Publication Date:  February 1, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   AA Fiction/historical fiction Publisher:  Ballantine Books  Length:  400 pages Buy:   Kindle | Hardcover  Synopsis We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. In her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. The heartbreaking tale Eleanor unfolds, the secrets she still holds back, and the mystery of a long-lost child, challenge everything ...

  Publication Date:  October 4, 2005 Format:  Paperback Genre:   Fiction Publisher:  Mariner Books Length:  265 pages Buy:   Paperback  Synopsis Andrew, after many years, returns to his hometown to attend his mother's funeral. Planning to remain only a few days, he is drawn into the tragic legacy of his childhood friend and beautiful girl next door, Eden Close. An adopted child, Eden had learned to avoid the mother who did not want her and to please the father who did. She also aimed to please Andrew and his friends, first by being one of the boys and later by seducing them. Then one hot night, Andrew was awakened by gunshots and piercing screams from the next farm: Mr. Close had been killed and Eden blinded. Now, seventeen years later, Andrew ...