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Oathkeeper
Troy Grice - 2015
Beleaguered Sheriff Bear Ellison finds himself outnumbered, over-matched, and increasingly isolated as he is forced to decide between risking his life protecting a local hero, or reneging on his oath and handing him over to federal prosecutors.
A Beverly Jenkins Romance Collection
Beverly Jenkins - 2018
And when Jamal Watts hears the stunning songbird, he’s ready to sign her to his label. The love-burned producer isn’t prepared for the passion Regina unleashes in him. Suddenly they’re both hitting all the right notes. But Regina isn’t ready to trust her heart—unless this gorgeous, caring man can show her how, together, they can make the most beautiful music of all….
Holiday Heat
For Eve Clark, winter usually means long cold nights spent alone, until she’s persuaded to attend a masked ball. Abandoning her inhibitions, she shares a blissful tryst with a mysterious partner. Though she runs from their hotel room the next morning, Leyton Palmer is determined to track Eve down and show her that the night neither can forget was only the start of something sensational….
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Three years ago, Broadway star Dina Caldwell and celebrity chef Morgan Caldwell were passionately in love. Now America’s onetime favorite couple are about to be reunited in Morgan’s Detroit hometown for the holidays. Is this the season for forgiving and forgetting? With sizzling kisses under the mistletoe, Morgan vows to make this a Christmas Dina will never forget!
Hawaii Magic
Workaholic attorney Anita Hunt is on the job 24/7. She’s looking to make partner, not party. While on a forced vacation in Hawaii, she meets gorgeous pilot Steve Blair. When engine trouble forces them to make a crash landing, the seductive airman shows her a side of the exotic island and herself she never expected—and a passion that could make them partners in paradise forever.…
Overtime Love
Drew Davis’s goal is to buy the semipro football team where he is general manager. But the owner’s grandaughter, Tasha Bloom, unexpectedly inherits it first. Still, Drew’s not brokenhearted, since their mutual passion for football runs second only to their attraction to each other. But can the team and their budding romance make it to the New Year’s Day championship?
Silver Bells
Lyz Kelley - 2020
She’s stuck there and haunted by memories until she meets Tim, Christmas present. He opens her eyes and heart.If you love small town second chance romances, read this heartwarming novella and fall in love today.
From Condos to Castles: A Medieval Time Travel Romance (The Time Orb Series Book 5)
Callie Berkham - 2021
Up Sticks: Spain: Book two follows the happy go lucky couple as they discover the Costa Brava
Tim Thomas - 2015
The plan now was to gradually work their way down the Mediterranean coast over the rest of the summer before finding somewhere nice and warm in the South of the country to spend the winter months. More rib tickling escapades unfold on their road trip as they find themselves in often hilarious, sometimes scary and sometimes toe curling predicaments. So why not travel along with them now as they realize their dreams of a life in the sun, exploring the beautiful Spanish countryside. 'Having met this couple in person, I know they are the real deal ! I have had the privilege of hearing their true life stories, warts and all, for real, and yet reading them all over again still brings laughter! If you are thinking of travelling, or not, read THIS, if it does not bring a smile to you face...nothing will.' by Squidly. 'These two and their dogs!!!! I don't know how or why they're still alive??? Absolutely hilarious exploits by this crazy couple. Love it !!!' by Mr. J. Radcliffe.
The Noble Widow: A Lodero Western Adventure
Robert R. Peecher Jr. - 2018
A widow trying to save the ranch she inherited. Lodero is no ordinary drifter. He is fast and deadly accurate with his Colt Peacemakers. And now he is on the trail to discover why his father left for the gold fields and all that returned home was an empty trunk. Maria Noble is no ordinary rancher. The widow of a wealthy man, Maria’s future is threatened by her dead husband’s son who believes he should have rightful claim to his father’s ranch. When their paths cross, Maria Noble can give Lodero a glimpse of his future, but he’ll never live that future if he cannot first resolve the past. And if she is going to protect her ranch, Maria must look to the Peacemakers on the gun belt of her new cowpuncher. Joined by his Tejano friend who served with the Texas Rangers, Lodero is on a quest to discover the truth of what happened to his father. But he is bound by honor to do what he can for The Noble Widow. If you enjoy high-action Westerns set on the high plains, rich characters who are haunted by their pasts but with great aspirations for their futures, and a mystery unfolding against the backdrop of the American Southwest, then you will love the Lodero Western series. So check that your Peacemakers are loaded, cinch up your saddle, and join the ride with Lodero and Juan Carlos Baca in The Noble Widow, Book 1 of the Lodero Western Series. Click "Buy Now" and start this epic Western with Lodero and Juan Carlos Baca today.
Keep Swinging (Kindle Single)
Rick Marin - 2012
Until his 6-year-old son utters the four most powerful words in the English language: “Dad, will you coach?”Keep Swinging chronicles the rookie season of an indoorsy TV writer raising two alpha boys whose life turns around when he gets off the sidelines, puts on a jersey that’s three sizes too big and and throws himself into the world of kids sports. An inspiring, funny, at times gut-wrenching tale for every father and son who’ve ever picked up a bat, ball or hockey puck, it’s also a story about marriage, career, surviving life’s slumps and how you’re supposed to make men out of your boys, but they end up making a man out of you. The author of the bestselling memoir Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor writes his next chapter.
Gott Heard My Cry
Naomi Troyer - 2021
Fighting pain and nausea, she makes her way to a nearby farmhouse, looking for help.She does not know who she is.When she is dubbed ‘Leah’ by her openhearted benefactors, she begins the arduous journey of trying to find out about herself and whether she has a family desperately searching for her. What Leah doesn’t expect are the feelings that stir in her heart every time she looks into the deep, kindly brown eyes of Adam Yoder.Adam is a carefree bachelor, working his deceased father’s crop farm. He has avoided getting hitched with eligible widows and daughters of his community, but deep down he longs for a companion who would be more than just a housewife and childminder.When a disoriented woman stumbles into his life, everything changes.Intensely drawn to Leah, Adam is in turmoil. Could she already be married?Will Leah be able to discover her identity? Can Adam put aside his own hopes and desires and take care of another man’s wife until they are reunited? Will they both be able to trust in the wisdom and providence of the God they serve, knowing that he is in control of all things.Enjoy this sweet Amish romance, as Leah discovers that Gott heard her cry.
SORROW - The Sighted Sister (The Revenge Series)
Ann Robbins-Phillips - 2013
Enticed by promises of work with good pay, people flock to textile mills in the South. Many leave their beloved mountains for what they hope is a step up from their grinding poverty. It’s guaranteed pay and housing. Being the sighted sister of the Hooper/Watson family, Lottie is grieved by a dream that sorrow will come to her home. Yet, she leaves Cocke County, Tennessee, with Beck Radford, her new husband, and her four children from a previous, abusive marriage, and goes to Clifton, South Carolina. Lottie is a stranger to village life and close neighbors. Life is harder than any of them imagined. In spite of hard work, widespread poverty remains a fact of life for everyone in the mill town. Lottie’s “gift” of second sight into the future is not an ability she would’ve chosen. One event she didn't see coming, yet someone else did, rips apart their life, as well as everyone’s around them.
The Alliance Trilogy
Michael Wallace - 2019
The aliens are Adjudicators, an ancient race whose ethos is to judge other species and reduce their survivors to a stone age existence.Tolvern sends a desperate message back to headquarters and retreats with her damaged ship to friendly systems. By the time she returns, the aliens have already invaded Alliance territory with a powerful fleet of star fortresses and accompanying dragoon ships, trapping and laying siege to the allied fleet.While repairing her ship, Tolvern cobbles together a squadron of damaged allied warships, former raiders, and the local survivors of an Adjudicator attack to drive off the alien fleet.The following books are included in this set:Alliance StarsAlliance ArmadaAlliance Insurgent
Apache Snow
William L. Casselman - 2015
While the characters are fictional, the battle was very real and when it was over 70 Americans were killed in action, 420 were wounded and 633 North Vietnamese were confirmed dead. Matthew Kendal, a pastor’s youngest son from a white middle-class California background, enlists in the army and volunteers for service in Vietnam to avenge his brother’s death; a Green Beret sergeant killed in 1968. During training Matthew becomes close friends with John Adams, a tough-skinned Afro-American youth from the poorer neighborhoods right outside our nation’s capital, and Jose Martinez, a street wise Chicano from East Los Angeles. Together they experience the rigors of Airborne training and journey to Vietnam to become Screaming Eagles, of the 101st Airborne. Placed in 2nd Squad, the story follows the actual events surrounding D Company during the intense battle for Hill # 937, which would later be known as the “Battle for Hamburger Hill”.
The Quilting Bee
De-ann Black - 2019
She plans to bake cakes and sew quilts.Romance isn’t on her agenda, especially as she’s been unlucky in love in the past. But when she joins the ladies quilting bee, they encourage her to believe that romance is brewing when a couple of the local men take an interest in her.While setting up her quilting and baking business in the cottage, Abby becomes a busy bee, but will she make time to take a chance on love?
The Crossroads Brotherhood Trilogy
Robert Fabbri - 2014
In each of these exclusive e-novellas, Marcus Salvius Magnus, leader of the Crossroads Brotherhood, must overcome his own problems whilst battling his way through Rome's savage and corrupt political arena.
Blood on the Island
Stewart Giles - 2020
There is no indication of where the man came from - his hands and teeth have been removed and he has a crude tattoo of a dragon on his back.When another similarly mutilated body is found, O'Reilly and his new team realise they're on the hunt for a deranged killer.O'Reilly is getting closer to the truth when the case is suddenly taken away from him. The Guernsey Border Agency, headed up by the arrogant DCI Franklin Urban has their own ideas as to who is behind these brutal murders and argue that the jurisdiction is now theirs.O'Reilly left Dublin behind but his past soon catches up with him in the form of a Belfast thug employed by a man O'Reilly owes money to. When O'Reilly's daughter is threatened by these people he persuades her to join him on the island so he can keep an eye on her. Soon he's faced with a choice - he can either do what these people tell him and risk everything he has, or he can defy them and spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder.Meanwhile, as DCI Urban and the Border Agency believe they're getting closer to the truth, O'Reilly has his own theories and as these suspicions are proved correct he comes face to face with one of the most depraved killers he's ever come across.BOOKS BY STEWART GILESDS JASON SMITH SERIESBook 0.5-PhobiaBook 1-SmithBook 2-BoomerangBook 3-LadybirdBook 4-Occam’s RazorBook 5-HarlequinBook 6-SeleneBook 7-HorsemenBook 8-UnworthyBook 9 – VenomBook 10 – SeveredBook 11 – DemonsBook 12 - DeadeyeDC HARRIET TAYLOR SERIESBook 1-The BeekeeperBook 2-The Perfect MurderBook 3-The BackpackerTrotterdown a box set of DC Harriet Taylor books 1-3DS JASON SMITH &DC HARRIET TAYLOR SERIESBook 1 - The EnigmaBook 2 – DropzoneBook 3 – The Raven Girl (coming soon)PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERSMirandaMistressMedusa (coming soon)STANDALONE HORRORThe DivideDI O’REILLY MYSTERIESBlood on the Island