Teaching Ms. Riggs

Teaching Ms. Riggs

Stephanie Beck

Stephanie Beck

It’ll take a special man to teach her to live again. Benfri ëBení Riggs has come home to Flatthead Falls, Missouri to heal. After her husband’s murder, secrets behind the peaceful, successful life she thought they’d shared emerge to leave her deep in debt, infertile, and afraid for her life. Teaching chemistry in her old hometown is her shout of independence, even though she wants to crawl under her bed in fear when the terrorizing phone calls begin. Mark Dougstat works the land, makes things grow, and isn’t ashamed of the occasional mess his shoes cause. Busy making his farm pay enough to support his niece and nephew, he hasn’t found the time or inclination to make the time, to find a good woman. Ben Riggs’s humor and compassion change that fast. But they’re going to have a battle on their hands. Ben’s stalker won’t quit. What is between Ben and Mark grows and they push forward in their relationship, learning more secrets along the way. Before they can settle into life together, the stalker will strike again. Blood will be shed and lives changed forever in the blink of an eye. Can they trust each other enough to get them through? No chickens were harmed in the writing of this book.69,000 Words
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Unrevealed

Unrevealed

Laurel Dewey

Laurel Dewey

"Laurel Dewey has definitely earned a place in any discussion of the top mystery authors of the present day."– Bookreporter"I don't know if Laurel Dewey is as widely known as Dean Koontz or James Patterson, but if she isn't she is definitely able to hold her own against the big boys."– Literary R&R“I really enjoy the style of Laurel Dewey’s writing. Her characters are strong and interesting, and her protagonist, Jane Perry is just plain gutsy."– BlogcriticsLaurel Dewey’s Detective Jane Perry is quickly becoming one of the most distinctive, dynamic, and unforgettable characters in suspense fiction today. She’s rock hard, but capable of extraordinary tenderness. She’s a brilliant cop, but she’s capable of making life-altering mistakes. She’s uncannily talented, and she’s heartbreakingly human.In Unrevealed, Dewey gives us four indelible portraits of Jane Perry:ANONYMOUS: One of Jane's first AA meetings leads her to an encounter with a woman in need of her detection skills...and a secret she never expected to uncover.YOU CAN'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER: Forced by her boss to speak at a high school career day, Jane meets a troubled boy and finds that his story is only the beginning of a much more revealing tale.YOU'RE ONLY AS SICK AS YOUR SECRETS: An early-morning homicide call introduces Jane to a mystery as layered as it is unsuspected.THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM: Jane finds herself sharing a 2:00 am conversation at a downtown bar with an old acquaintance. Will the bloody night that proceeded this moment complicate Jane's intentions?Filled with secrets disclosed and others desperately covered, Unrevealed is an absolute treat for all Jane Perry fans – four stories, all told from Jane's distinctive and unparallelled perspective.About the AuthorLaurel Dewey was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is the author of two nonfiction books on plant medicine, a Silver Spur-nominated Western novella, hundreds of articles, three Jane Perry novels, Protector, Redemption, and Revelations, and two Jane Perry novelettes, An Unfinished Death and Promissory Payback. She lives in Western Colorado with her husband, where she is at work on her latest novel.
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Love in the Years of Lunacy

Love in the Years of Lunacy

Mandy Sayer

Mandy Sayer

A moving, tender and compelling story of forbidden love set amid the devastation of war from the award-winning author of Dreamtime Alice. Sydney, 1942. Pearl is eighteen, beautiful and impetuous. She plays saxophone in an all-girl jazz band at the Trocadero and occasionally sits in on underground gigs with her twin brother Martin, who also plays the sax. On one such evening black GI and jazz legend James Washington blows into her life, and nothing is ever the same again, especially not Pearl. A love story begins to unfold against the blacked-out nights and rumour-filled days of a city in the grip of war.But public events are closing in on Pearl's private world. When James is shipped out to fight in New Guinea, she hatches a breathtaking plan to reunite with him. And then all hell breaks loose.Moving, tender and audaciously original, Love in the Years of Lunacy is a love story with a haunting jazz soundtrack and a war story like no other.
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La Fleur de Blanc

La Fleur de Blanc

Sean Platt

Horror / Humor and Comedy / Science Fiction

A young woman with a little girl's dream. Two handsome suitors. And an adversary determined to crush her before she stands a chance. Lily Whistler has a dream, birthed from the fanciful Parisian memories of her late mother: to open a floral shop called La Fleur de Blanc, selling only white flowers. Back home in Kansas, such a fairy tale notion could never survive ... but in the fashionable seaside town of Cielo del Mar, Lily has gambled her inheritance that it will. At first, the lavish Palms Couture shopping center seems like the perfect place to start again. The weather is beautiful; the vistas of the ocean are breathtaking; the customers are elegant and wealthy. There are even two men who'd suit Lily's fancy if she had time for romance: charming Len, who operates a fine food cart, and the dark and brooding Matthew Vitale, who runs Bella by the Sea — an elite restaurant that hosts only a few couples per night at an exorbitant...
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No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (No Such Thing As...: A Brandy Alexander Mystery)

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (No Such Thing As...: A Brandy Alexander Mystery)

Shelly Fredman

Shelly Fredman

It’s the new year and puff piece reporter Brandy Alexander has the best of intentions to keep her life safe, sane and simple… but she is having one tough week! It seems everyone at her new job at TV station WINN hates her, except co-worker Tamra Rhineholt. But when their budding friendship is cut short by Tamra’s apparent suicide, Brandy suspects foul play and she sets out to prove it. Soon Brandy is up to her neck in kidnappers, convicts and conspiracies, all the while battling her growing feelings for sexy mystery man, Nicholas Santiago. Of course the amorous advances of her hunky ex-boyfriend, Detective Robert DiCarlo complicate matters even more. Toss in a visit with her well-meaning but overbearing parents, her total denial of her own emotional exhaustion and the free lunches she’d been promised but never quite materialize and you have the recipe for the newest Brandy Alexander mystery.
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Child Of The Night

Child Of The Night

Lee Karr

Lee Karr

A LITTLE GIRL'S LOVE... Child psychologist Tyla Templeton realized Cassie Archer had an unwanted gift: she had visions that always came true. And something the adorable four-year-old had "seen" had made her fearful of her beloved father. A FATHER'S ONLY HOPE... Widower Clay Archer loved his daughter more than anything. But he was losing her. In desperation he turned to Tyla for help. The beautiful doctor's methods involved not only his daughter's feelings, but soon his own heart, as well. Somehow, they had to discover the secret that separated Clay from his daughter--or abandon their own growing love.
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The Loved and the Lost

The Loved and the Lost

Lory Kaufman

Young Adult / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Historical Fiction

They are three time travelers desperate to return to 14th-century Verona to reclaim their medieval family's shattered lives. It is a mission fraught with danger and the risk of unexpected consequences for themselves and for their worlds. For all three, it is a matter of the heart. For one, though, it is truly the only thing that matters, as the fate of his eternal love and the life of their unborn child is the prize to be won – or lost forever.In this, the final book of THE VERONA TRILOGY, Hansum, Shamira and Lincoln go on the boldest adventure of their lives. They will face hardship, tragedy, and threats from sources they couldn't have imagined – all in an effort to wrestle a future from the steely grip of an unforgiving past.
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