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It can be dangerous to hide
Her husband has hurt her for the last time. Battered and bloodied, Wendy flees for her life into the night. She finds refuge at the beautiful Magnolia House bed and breakfast where she lets twins Millie and Maude hide her to keep her safe. She’s given a job and a room and even a new friend, Griffin.
She tries to build a new life, but soon finds her idyllic escape isn’t what it seems. Danger lurks in the corners of the old house. She must face the darkness inside herself or die trying.

Girls, guys, robots, teleportation; spaceships, space battles, space pirates – it’s all mashed-up, along with a deeper understanding of Tarzan’s thought process when he first met another human being, then seasoned with just the right amount of humor and wit and served up with a liberal amount of alcohol throughout the Small Universe series.

Teleport This is a fast-paced, science fiction adventure without the extra heavy baggage found in hardcore space operas or the ultra-wackiness found in satirical sci-fi novels. The story starts off in a contemporary Earth setting, add in a couple guys and a girl, turn on the teleport and away they go, tripping and stumbling into and across a larger universe.
As they travel about, our heroes become hopelessly entangled in the universal forces of confusion, desperately trying to find their way back to Earth in one piece while possibly purchasing a working lightsaber or two along the way. An enjoyable read not only for sci-fi fans, but for anyone that likes witty dialogue and interesting characters coupled with an absorbing storyline.

So let’s go and don’t forget the tequila and chips.

Olivia Baker left behind her cheating boyfriend and her career as a pastry chef in one of the finest restaurants in Houston. Arriving in the quirky town of Crawdad Beach, Olivia is given the incredible gift of starting her own bakery and living a dream come true. However, gifts and blessings haven’t stopped her anger at God or fixed her wounded heart.

Cybersecurity expert Marcus Patterson is grateful his job keeps him busy and out of trouble. However, his culinary incompetence puts him at risk when he hires the town’s new baker as his personal chef. Marcus knows how to stop a computer hacker, but he’s not sure he can handle the temptation Olivia brings.

Will their friendship cook up love or be a recipe for disaster?

Each book in the Crawdad Beach series can be read as a standalone.

After a lifetime of abuse, 16-year old Hezekiah, a slave in Mississippi rises up to kill his owner and escape North to supposed freedom. On the run, he tries to find a way to access the ‘underground railroad’ but is duped by a wily slaver hoping to claim a bounty on the runaway. The slaver’s wife becomes an unlikely ally, and the two work together to plan their escape.
But just when things seem to be getting better for the runaways, a deadly saloon argument sets the ex-slave on the run again, this time to the western frontier where he encounters Nate Grisham, an ex-slave himself. Join Nate, Cotton, Deacon, Bear and One-Eye Jack in this blazing, action-filled western tale of gun smoke and knife fights on the wild western plains. You won’t be disappointed with this new addition to the bestselling Nate Grisham chronicles!

What happens when dementia, depressed dipsomania and downright dottiness decide to uproot from the UK and move to France together.

Worried by the lack of care for her frail elderly mother in the UK, Tottie decides a new life elsewhere might be the answer. Sell the Pig is a travel tale with a twist, describing with alternating humour and poignancy how a somewhat dysfunctional family decide to uproot and move to rural France.

Eccentric Tottie, her manic depressive alcoholic brother, their mother, whose dementia has given her an obsession with bums, and an equally elderly border collie, decide France’s Auvergne is to be their new home.

This book will answer your questions like ‘Did it all work out?’ ‘Why the Auvergne region?’ and ‘Where IS the Auvergne region?’

In “The Pawn,” FBI Special Agent Clara Strong finds herself at the centre of a chilling game of forensic investigations and a race against time with a cunning serial killer. Teamed up with Special Agent in Charge Adam Perez, a seasoned profiler from the BAU, Clara is determined to stop the murderer before they strike again. However, the stakes are raised as Clara battles her own demons, struggling with an alcohol addiction that threatens to derail the investigation.

As Clara and Adam delve deeper into the twisted mind of the killer, they encounter mind-bending detective puzzles that challenge their every perception. Each clue leads them closer to unraveling the killer’s motives and methods, but the truth remains elusive as they navigate a labyrinth of twists and turns.

Clara’s relentless pursuit of the truth takes a toll on her, pushing her to the brink of sanity as she grapples with the darkness lurking within her own mind about her past. Meanwhile, Adam is forced to confront his own past as he is called away on personal grounds, leaving Clara and the local sheriff’s department to continue the investigation without him.

As the tension mounts and the body count rises, Clara and her team try to unearth the killer’s past before they claim their next victim. But with every new revelation comes a new layer of deception, and the true identity of the killer proves to be more unpredictable than anyone could have imagined.”The Pawn” is a heart-stopping psychological thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page, as Clara and Adam’s desperate hunt for a killer takes them to the darkest corners of the human psyche.

In the fall of 1963, Danny Prescott is focused on his school, football, and finding a date for Saturday nights. However, his peaceful life is shattered one fateful Sunday when he offers a ride to Brent Arrington, the town’s celebrated star athlete. This seemingly innocent gesture changes everything for Danny and everyone in Banning, Iowa, when a horrifying act shakes the town’s very foundation. A girl is brutally assaulted, and the news spreads, igniting rumours and accusations that consume and divide the close-knit rural community.

In the aftermath, many are reluctant to point fingers at Brent, who has led the school to two regional titles, despite the mounting evidence against him. Instead, Danny — a farm boy from a family with little influence and a tarnished reputation — becomes an easier target. Trusted friends turn their backs on him and his family, caught up in the town’s rush to judge and condemn. Left with few allies, Danny faces an unimaginable choice that jeopardizes not only his future but could cost him his life.

No-Stress, No-Mess One Pot Dinners – Spend More Time Enjoying Your Meal And Less Time Cleaning Up

In a world where food is full of frightening artificial additives and flavorings, there is one simple and easy way to adopt a healthier lifestyle – the more unprocessed and real food you eat, the better. While it may look and sound difficult to cook real food at home you will soon realize you can throw together a healthy one-pot family dinner in the same amount of time you’d need to order a takeout.

Homemade one-pot cooking is the easiest and stress-free way of preparing fast, yet healthy dinners for the family. When time is short and all you want is to spend more time with your family, one-pot soups, stews, casseroles and chillis are just the thing to cook. All you need to do is cut up your favorite vegetables, meats and legumes, throw them together with your favorite spices in a single pot, skillet or slow cooker, and you will have a quick weeknight supper or a delicious weekend dinner – it doesn’t get any easier than that!

At the end of a busy day, one-pot cooking is just what you need to prepare delicious family dinners which are sure to please everyone at the table and to become all-time favorites.

If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret — even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way… until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance — along with two half siblings.

Fiona travels to Italy, where the family is shocked to learn of her existence and desperate to contest her share of the will. While the mystery of her mother’s affair is slowly unraveled, Fiona must navigate through tricky family relationships and tense sibling rivalries. Fiona both fears and embraces her new destiny as she searches for the truth about the fateful summer her mother spent in Italy and the father she never knew.

Spilling over with the sumptuous flavors and romance of Tuscany, These Tangled Vines takes readers on a breathtaking journey of love, secrets, sacrifice, courage — and most importantly, the true meaning of family.

From NY Times and USA Today bestselling author M A Comley who has sold over five million copies to date worldwide.
The headless body of a wealthy widow is discovered decomposing in her garden shed. DI Lorne Simpkins is tasked with tracking down the twisted killer — but this case is about to cut closer to home than she ever expected.

With her teenage daughter slipping away, a volatile colleague shadowing her moves, and a rising body count, Lorne must fight to hold everything together. The killer taunts her, always one step ahead, and when the case turns personal, it becomes a race against time.

This is justice — but not as you know it.

Bullets fly from the first sentence in this fast-paced, pulse-pounding novel of suspense and romance from nationally bestselling and award-winning author Ann Voss Peterson.

A RELUCTANT HUNTER… Desperate to provide for her young daughter, accountant Shanna Clarke accepts an invitation to go on a company hunting trip in the Wind River Mountains, even though she’s never shot anything in her life. If she can get through it without embarrassing herself, maybe that sought-after promotion will be hers.
But then her boss starts shooting… at her.
… BECOMES THE PREY
Dodging gunfire and struggling to survive in the Wyoming wilderness, Shanna stows away in the back of a rancher’s truck. A snowstorm, a grizzly bear, and a murder rap can’t keep Shanna and her rescuer, Jace Lantry, from discovering why she was targeted. But knowing the reason is only half the battle… the rest has a good chance of killing them both.

Lina had the idyllic childhood — until descending into mental chaos.

Caught in a chaotic world of her own making, Lina resorts to recording her teenage thoughts to make sense of her anguish. She shares the details of her life obsessively with her sister and her friends, in millions of words eventually found by their father.

Lost in the dark, Lina navigates the childhood evidence later found in her archives. But will her research open a pathway to love — or help her continue down the path of blame, false memories, and spite?

The past and present events are Lina’s direct experience through her eyes and words, faithfully condensed by her father. The future events — Lina’s therapy and mature reflections — were projected by the author and a senior psychologist with access to the source material.

Love her or hate her, through Lina’s own heart-wrenching language the reader steps into her broken inner world to experience firsthand the emotions, depression, obsessions, irrationality, and ruthlessness of teenage borderline personality disorder.

Emo Reality shines a light into the dark corners of adolescent mental illness, proving this disorder is not just a phase and demonstrating its ravages not just upon an individual, but also upon a whole family.

Grab your beach hat and a towel and prepare for a brand new series brought to you by twelve New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors…

Beach Brides! Fun in the summer sun! Twelve heartwarming, sweet novellas linked by a unifying theme.
You’ll want to read each one!

BEACH BRIDES SERIES (Tara)

Twelve friends from the online group, Romantic Hearts Book Club, decide to finally meet in person during a destination Caribbean vacation to beautiful Enchanted Island. While of different ages and stages in life, these ladies have two things in common: 1) they are diehard romantics, and 2) they’ve been let down by love. As a wildly silly dare during her last night on the island, each heroine decides to stuff a note in a bottle addressed to her “dream hero” and cast it out to sea!

Four months later, a bottle washes up on a beach near Savannah, Georgia, where billionaire banker, Heath Wellington, is primed to propose to his socialite girlfriend. Pragmatic Heath has never believed much in signs, but the timing of this mysterious missive’s arrival is too uncanny to ignore. Can Heath disregard the compelling “message in a bottle” from a sassy bookstore owner in Beaumont, Maine? Or will her heartfelt plea change the course of his life forever?

Would you have the strength to get back up after losing everything?

Chii’s peaceful life is shattered when a dark mist engulfs her village, turning everyone into shadowy specters — except for her. As she finds her strength from unexpected allies, she embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the mystery behind the shadowy fog that stole her life. Yet little does she know, the eerie mist — and her own self — harbors a far more sinister secret than she could have ever imagined…

An epic fantasy tale of a charming, resourceful heroine, featuring strategic combat scenes, an intriguing cast of characters, and shocking revelations. The outcome of the action-packed battles hinges on clever tactics and teamwork, as each individual — friend or foe — possesses their own unique abilities and weaknesses. And with stunning illustrations scattered throughout, the world and its diverse characters truly come to life.

Don’t miss out — begin your adventure today!

Enjoy this heartwarming collection of 16 sweet, clean Amish romance stories full of faith, overcoming adversity, and love.

Thomas Hardy’s classic tale of a woman brave enough to defy convention: Now a major motion picture starring Carey Mulligan
Spirited, impulsive, and beautiful, Bathsheba Everdene arrives in Wessex to live with her aunt. She strikes up a friendship with a neighbor, Gabriel Oak, and even saves the young shepherd’s life. But when he responds by asking for her hand in marriage, she refuses. She cannot sacrifice her independence for a man she does not love.
Years later, misfortune has bankrupted Gabriel, while Bathsheba has inherited her uncle’s estate and is now a wealthy woman. She hires Gabriel as a shepherd but is interested in William Boldwood, a prosperous farmer whose reticence inspires her to playfully send him a valentine. William, like Gabriel before him, quickly falls in love with Bathsheba and proposes. But it is the dashing Sergeant Francis Troy who finally wins her heart. Despite the warnings of her first two suitors, Bathsheba accepts his proposal — a decision that brings long-buried secrets to the fore and leaves everything for which she has fought so hard hanging in the balance.
Published a century and a half ago, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy’s first major success and introduced the themes he would continue to explore for the rest of his life. A love story wrapped in the cloak of tragedy, it is widely considered to be one of the finest novels of the nineteenth century.