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"When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the… Continue reading Two Girls Down (Alice Vega #1) by Louisa Luna
It’s never too late to follow your dreams… Forty-year-old air stewardess, Emily Forsyth, thought she had everything a woman could wish for: a glamorous, jet-set lifestyle, a designer wardrobe and a dishy pilot boyfriend. Until he breaks up with her... Catapulted into a mid-life crisis she wishes she’d had earlier, she decides to turn her… Continue reading The Start of Something Wonderful by Jane Lambert
Made to Break Your Heart is a family saga, set in a gossipy suburb, that explores the complexities of raising a child, holding a marriage together, and maintaining your sanity in the cutthroat world of Little League baseball. It’s 2008, and Nick Marhoffer is a stressed-out dad who finds himself flirting with thoughts of infidelity.… Continue reading Made to Break Your Heart by Richard Fellinger
My father created Mister Tender, and Mister Tender nearly killed me. How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender? At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be… Continue reading Mister Tender’s Girl by Carter Wilson
"He wonders if other people look at their partners at night, peacefully dozing, and imagine killing them...when he finally falls asleep, it's to the image of cutting her open and bathing his face with her blood." A serial killer is chopping up bodies and has a vendetta against sarcastic Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels, highest ranking female… Continue reading Bloody Mary (Jack Daniels #2) by J.A. Konrath
"No one had ever been there when she needed them." 1917. Copper Camp of Butte, Montana. Growing up as an orphan and losing her twin sister to a murder at the age of 10, Kaly Shane had a lot of ghosts and a lot of secrets. Over the years she tried to live a decent… Continue reading Copper Sky by Milana Marsenich
ABOUT THE BOOK Genre:Â Suspense, Thriller, Romance, Series Release Date:Â February 2012 Pages:Â 311 Beginnings is a romantic thriller set in the criminal underworld of 1970s London. Eleanor Chapman is 16. She has no idea her father is employed in a world of organised crime until the day he is forced to go on the run, leaving… Continue reading Beginnings (Same Face Different Place #1) by Helen Christmas
"Always watch your step or you might land in something you can’t wipe off - Nanny James" Kansas at the end of the Civil War. It's her twentieth birthday and Cara Calvinia James is alone after the death of her family. Her wish is about to come true...to go to California and start a new… Continue reading Until Tomorrow by Jill Marie Landis
When ordering books for the new year it is hard to choose which booksellers to buy from and after some discussion with fellow bookaholics I was referred to Better World Books. Now, I'm not a stranger to Better World Books because the academic library I work in donates their books to them. Why didn't I… Continue reading A Shout Out to Better World Books: Making a Difference Around the World