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The Unbroken
Alex Caan - 2020
The car door was pulled open and she was dragged out, her screams loud and raw, as she kicked and fought. She called out for Oscar, again and again, screaming for help.But he never came. It was the wedding of the year. Millie Beaumont marrying billionaire playboy Oscar Hayat, the eyes of the world watching.But the dream turns into a nightmare when Millie and Oscar are brutally abducted while on honeymoon. Millie is killed, her body dumped in London. Oscar is still missing…Enter DS Moomy Khan and DI Sarah Heaton - not your typical police officers. Moomy is running from her own troubled past, while Sarah is having to live with the hard choices she has made. Yet they will stop at nothing to find Millie’s murderers and track down Oscar. Only a family as high profile as the Hayats have enemies lurking in every corner - have they taken the ultimate revenge, or is someone else behind the death and kidnapping?And can Moomy and Sarah find Oscar - before time runs out and he suffers the same fate as his wife?The first book in the gripping, fast-paced new Khan and Heaton crime series, The Unbroken will thrill fans of A.A. Dhand, Angela Marsons and Robert Bryndza.Praise for Alex Caan:‘Wow!!...mysterious, suspenseful and full of delicious and devious surprises…Loved it!’ Angela Marsons, author of the D.I. Kim Stone seriesA chillingly authentic, bang-on-trend thriller - one you'd be a fool to miss Lisa Hall, #1 bestselling author of Between You and Me
The Truth about Eliza James: Romantic Suspense Single Mom Secret Billionaire (The Strong Brothers Trilogy Book 1)
Katina Gavin - 2019
A mother in trouble. Can he protect her long enough to earn her heart? Dante Strong grew up with far too many family secrets. After a childhood in witness protection, the heir to a substantial steel fortune took a job as a sheriff's deputy in a town where truth and justice reign. When he runs into a desperate single mother and her two young children, he can't deny his desire to help her overcome her own troubled past… and to become part of her future. Eliza James hasn't found much reason to trust her fellow man. Scared and alone, she doesn't expect the handsome lawman's kindness and she's not sure she can find the strength to trust him. After all, given her terrifying upbringing, she knows that everything comes at a price…As Eliza and Dante open up to one another, a family secret could send their romance tumbling down. Will they forge an unbreakable love, or will their deadly pasts come back to kill them?The Truth About Eliza James is the first book in the Strong Brothers trilogy of romantic suspense novels. If you like damaged heroes, broken but brave women, and sizzling chemistry, then you’ll adore Katina Gavin’s dark love story.
Buy The Truth About Eliza James to solve love’s puzzle today!
Flex
Ferrett Steinmetz - 2015
The most dangerous drug in the world. Snort it, and you can create incredible coincidences to live the life of your dreams.FLUX: The backlash from snorting Flex. The universe hates magic and tries to rebalance the odds; maybe you survive the horrendous accidents the Flex inflicts, maybe you don’t.PAUL TSABO: The obsessed bureaucromancer who’s turned paperwork into a magical Beast that can rewrite rental agreements, conjure rented cars from nowhere, track down anyone who’s ever filled out a form.But when all of his formulaic magic can’t save his burned daughter, Paul must enter the dangerous world of Flex dealers to heal her. Except he’s never done this before – and the punishment for brewing Flex is army conscription and a total brain-wipe.File Under: Urban Fantasy[ Magic Pill | Firestarter | Bureaucramancy | The Flex & the Flux ]
Tyler
Regan Black - 2020
After escaping her captors, her sole purpose is to destroy the gangs that prey on Native American women and make sure no one else suffers like she did. But she doesn't know the gangs are closing in and about to spring a trap.Can a helpful stranger save her from herself?A former airman, Tyler Vidro now works as behind-the-scenes support for the Guardian Agency bodyguards. He's been privately searching for Autumn since she disappeared after delivering testimony in an important trial against the violent gangs operating on tribal lands.After months of analysis Tyler knows the gangs are determined to stop Autumn permanently. To save her life, he must step out of his comfort zone and into the field. If he can't earn her trust, she'll never have a chance to truly heal.When hope is lost, truth is blurred, and your life is on the line, it’s time to call in the Guardian Agency.
COMEBACK GIRL: part 4 of 6
Stephanie Bond - 2018
In her attempts to clear her childhood home, she uncovers information about the disappearance of her best friend ten years ago. A small town family drama of humor, dysfunction, and mystery!This COMEBACK GIRL, Part 4 novella is a month's worth of daily segments: OCTOBERThe Part 1 novella is JULY, Part 2 is AUGUST, Part 3 is SEPTEMBER, Part 4 is OCTOBER, Part 5 is NOVEMBER, part 6 is DECEMBER.(In total there are 6 parts to COMEBACK GIRL.)
Don't miss out on this intriguing story everyone is talking about!
The One Who Got Away
L.A. Detwiler - 2019
You’ll die here…”Adeline Evans has recently moved into a home for the elderly. A safe space, where she can be cared for.When she begins to receive cryptic and threatening notes, she is certain that someone is out to get her.But the residents are warned against listening to a woman who is losing her memory. It would seem Adeline is tormented by the secrets in her past, and that the menace is all in her mind.Until danger comes down the corridor and starts knocking in the night…A compelling serial killer thriller from the bestselling author of THE WIDOW NEXT DOOR, perfect for fans of A.J Finn, K.L. Slater and Teresa Driscoll.
Seven Lies
Elizabeth Kay - 2020
But we all know that it never ends there. Because, of course, one lie leads to another…Growing up, Jane and Marnie shared everything. They knew the other’s deep-est secrets. They wouldn’t have had it any other way. But when Marnie falls in love, things begin to change.Because Jane has a secret: she loathes Marnie’s wealthy, priggish husband. So when Marnie asks if she likes him, Jane tells her first lie. After all, even best friends keep some things to themselves. If she had been honest, then perhaps her best friend’s husband might still be alive today…For, of course, it’s not the last lie. In fact, it’s only the beginning…Seven Lies is Jane’s confession of the truth—her truth. Compelling, sophisticated, chilling, it’s a seductive, hypnotic page-turner about the tangled, toxic friendships between women, the dark underbelly of obsession and what we stand to lose in the name of love.
Men of Moose Mountain: Series Boxed Set
Marley Michaels - 2020
And of course, there are lots of cameos by the original Moose Mountain men too.Mountain Seeking DoctorDr Judd Cooper moves back to his hometown to replace the town's retiring family doctor. When he mistakes the small town's sweetheart for a thief, the fight is on to get her to not just accept his apology, but also give him her heart.Mountain Seeking PilotHelicopter Pilot, Rhys Cooper, has spent his life flying to new heights in dangerous and daring rescues. Now he wants to settle down and build on his own little piece of paradise next to Moose Mountain. Except his plans fall foul of his new conservationist neighbor, Amber. Can butting heads turn to falling in love?Mountain Seeking HeroSearch and Rescue Coordinator, Max Cooper, has heard the mountain’s call. Now he’s returned to his birthplace to see whether the Moose Mountain legend is true for him. He doesn’t expect it to literally hit him in the back of the head though, or for the town’s sweet, shy librarian to be the one for him.Mountain Seeking Fire ChiefThe town’s new Fire Chief can run into a burning building, but put him near a cat and he has flashbacks to a near career-ending accident that he’s never forgotten. Enter Bree, Woodward Valley’s resident cat lady, who makes it her mission to win Kane Cooper over, one feline friend at a time.Mountain Seeking VeterinarianVeterinarian Trace Cooper has traveled the world working with animals, yet its Moose Mountain that has called him home to settle down, and the mountain isn’t making him wait for it. Not when the most beautiful woman he’s ever laid eyes on steps out of her car with her two gorgeous kids in tow and he has an instant vision of the family he’s always wanted.Mountain Seeking PrincessMoose Mountain has been calling her protectors back to the mountain for a reason—she’s under threat and needs to be saved. It’s time to call in a champion and crown a new queen, and the only Cooper sister is ready to help lead her family in the fight of their lives to save the mountain for generations to come.BONUS - Also includes Mountain Seeking Santa, a Moose Mountain Christmas novella featuring all your favorite Cooper family members.***The Men of Moose Mountain series is just like the Moose Mountain Brothers series before it. It includes the same sweet, flirty, instalove stories you love, but this time you'll get more big, gruff and tough Cooper men--and the one Cooper princess--living their lives on and near the mountain. The mountain has always provided for its keepers, and now it's time for more feisty women to warm up their cold mountain hearts and complete their mountain lives forever. Can we all say, awww.