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Hometown Girl After Allby Kirsten Fullmer

Julia lost everything while she was ill. Self-conscious and alone, she’s moved to Smithville, determined to hide away in her rundown Victorian house. Little does she know, she can’t hide anything in a small town, including her interest in the deliveryman.

Resolved to keep his life simple, Chad has his hands full running his delivery business and supporting his adopted family. So why can’t he get that withdrawn city girl, Julia, off his mind?

Will the eccentric but well-meaning Smithville folk push Julia and Chad to open up, or will the emotional toll drive them both back into seclusion?

Life At 40: A Novel by John Minx

When Love comes knocking later in the day . . .

Newly divorced, and freshly returned to her home town, it’s all change for Deborah Peters and her teenage daughter, Martha. Even more so when her plans to rent out the tiny house at the bottom of her garden do not go according to plan.

Enter James Redrow, another native of the area, who’s just got back from his world travels. A man in his fourties, but with more than a touch of the Peter Pan about him. Not someone who fits Deborah’s ideal tenant profile, let alone anything more romantic in nature. But as the pair strike up an easygoing friendship, and start working together on a small business venture, a certain intimacy starts to creep in.

Life at 40 is a funny and moving examination of the choices we make in life and our tendency to stick with them long after their usefulness has faded. It’s a story about families, property, and the mixed emotions we invest in both of them. It’s about mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and the awkward romance that springs up between two fortysomethings even as they try to push it away.

The Disappearedby Sibel Hodge

The Widow. The Secret. The Liar.

The Disappeared…

On a routine flight from Africa to England, Dr Mason Palmer is tragically killed when the light aircraft he’s travelling on crashes and disappears in dense bushland.

The Widow…

Ten months later, Nicole Palmer is still trying to block out the grief of her husband’s sudden death. Until one morning she receives a photo of Mason through the post, along with a cryptic message. A message only he could’ve written.

The Secret…

But when Nicole tries to find out if Mason is really alive and what actually happened to him in Africa, everyone she turns to for answers ends up dead.

Determined to find the truth, Nicole uncovers a conspiracy that spans the globe and discovers there are powerful people who are prepared to kill to keep her silent.

Who’s lying? Who’s watching Nicole? And can she expose their murky secrets before they catch up with her?

Mortality Bites – Boxed Set (Books 1 – 6): An Urban Fantasy Epic Adventureby Ramy Vance

Six books and over 1200+ pages of magic and mayhem, action and humor fill this snarky urban fantasy boxed set.

Mortality bites. Especially after three-hundred years of being a vampire.

Meet Katrina Darling, a nineteen-year-old freshman who–four years ago–happened to be a blood-sucking, evil vampire. Then the gods left, exiling all manners of mythical creatures to Earth and turning half-breed demons back to their former human selves.

Trouble is, after three-hundred years of being a vampire, Kat has forgotten what it means to be human. So she decides to do what any nineteen year old would do: enroll in college.

But the world is only starting to get used to the fact that mythical creatures are real and discovering that your neighbor was once an evil, blood-sucking fiend tends to end with pitchforks, torches and lynchings … so hiding her past is high on Kat’s ‘I’m just a normal human girl’ to-do list.

The thing about to-do lists is some items refuse to get scratched off.

Especially when a mysterious boy somehow knows exactly what she was and there are forces at play that want to use Kat to gain control over this new, godless world.

Kat didn’t like being used as a demon and she hates it even more as a human. Looks like she’s going to have to dust off her vampire huntress skills and test them out in this human body.

And to think, all Kat wanted to do is grow up for real this time. Too bad her past has other plans.

If you like the Dresden Files, Mercy Thompson series or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you’ll be helplessly addicted to the Mortality Bites series.

Forgotten Bodyguard 1 by Ali Parker

It’s hard to tell a bad boy to keep his hands off the hottest asset under his watch… especially when she wants those hands all over her.

Chloe Moore has money, status and popularity, but she yearns for the missing piece – freedom. Her father is the governor of California and has decided to run for President of the United States. Due to some of his political positions, he’s receiving death threats. With no choice, Chloe is given a shadow, a bodyguard that has been instructed to never leave her side as she attends school at UCLA. Her life before her father’s decision to run was restrictive, now it’s unbearable.

Ian Matthenson has worked himself up from the shitty start he got in life. Coming from the wrong side of the tracks and spending more time in jail than not, he’s finally cleaned up and proven himself to the right people. His older brother gets him a gig he can’t refuse – protecting the college-aged daughter of a political icon, a man even he looks up to. He has no concern over his ability to keep the pretty little tease safe, but keeping his hands off of her is going to be the feat of his existence.

Things heat up as Chloe pushes Ian to the edge, both physically and mentally. It’s only when her life is in danger that he realizes that perhaps it’s not just his paycheck that causes him to protect the girl’s body so closely…

This is book 1 of a series. A cliffhanger is inevitable. All 3 books are available.

Bad Boy Blues by Saffron A. Kent

Cleopatra Paige hates one thing in this world – just one – and his name is Zachariah Prince.
In grade school, he pulled at her pigtails. In middle school, he spread false rumors about her. And in high school, he ruined her prom.
She hates that his smirks are unfairly sexy. And she definitely loathes that his dark eyes seem to follow her everywhere. Sometimes, even in her dreams.
It doesn’t matter that he’s rich and popular or that he lives in a freaking mansion full of butlers and maids. He’s rude and arrogant, and she wants to stay as far away from him as possible.
But unfortunately for Cleo, she lives in the same freaking mansion as Zach.
Only he’s the prince and she’s the lowly maid who serves him.