Books

Dive in Deepby Ali Parker

Tall, dark, and gorgeous with cobalt-blue eyes.

It doesn’t hurt that he’s the billionaire owner of the resort we’re staying at.

And all of it is just what I needed for my celebration weekend after graduating with my master’s.

It’s our last girls’ weekend before my friends and I go our separate ways, and it’s going to happen with a bang.

Literally. Hopefully.

It would be a first.

The desire was to keep things casual, but our connection is far too deep for that.

Him being ex-military and me being an Army brat.

The rules we each set up are shattered thanks to the raging passion between us.

But eventually, I have to go home.

What I never expected in a million years was that he might follow me.

Enough swimming in the shallow end of the pool.

We’re diving in deep.

This is book 1 in a 3 book series. You will have to read books 2 and 3 to complete the story.

The Body Keeper (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Book 3) by Anne Frasier

The Thriller Award–winning series continues as Detective Jude Fontaine finds a decades-old connection to missing children that will freeze her blood.

A boy’s frozen body is found trapped in the ice of a Minneapolis lake. The horrifying discovery leads Detective Jude Fontaine and her partner, Uriah Ashby, to more bodies in the ice, all of twelve-year-old boys missing for twenty years.

Then, in one of the worst blizzards the city has ever seen, a four-year-old is abandoned on Jude’s doorstep. The child can’t tell them where he’s from, who his parents are, or how he got there. He doesn’t even know his name.

But in his unspoken language, Jude reads something horrifying–a connection to the dead boys. Now a four-year-old with no name may be the only key to a twenty-year-old, very cold case.

Man From Texas by Hank Madison

A Texan rides in…

Stopping over in Plainstown, Kansas, Brad Manning has got only one thing on his mind – revenge.

His father was killed only a few months back and he aims to capture or kill those who murdered his old man,

Dell Rio, Judd Kenaz and Russ Grayson are the men in question. The latter of which is Manning’s yellow-bellied cousin, who sold out his father in the first place.

Dell Rio and Judd Kenaz are already known and feared by the folk of Plainstown, as the two gunslingers call Sarbo county their stomping ground.

And as Manning soon discovers, the town’s marshal, Faro Clayton, might have something to do with their continued freedom.

Catching Clayton trying to intimidate the local hotel owner, Dora Vail, both men take an instant disliking to each other.

Moreover, as an ex-Texas Ranger, Manning doesn’t like Clayton’s attitude to bending the law to his liking.

But Manning realises there are more problems than just cold-blooded killers and corrupt marshals in Plainsview.

The O Bar Ranch and the HT Bar Ranch are fighting over the tiny 4B Ranch run by Annie Baxter, a widow whose husband was recently shot and killed in an ambush.

And just when Manning least expects it, he’s almost gunned down in his own surprise ambush.

Revenge may be burning in his bittered heart but Manning wants answers.

He’ll get to the bottom of what’s going on in Plainsview and perhaps along the way, he can meet the trio of killers and finally avenge his father…

Man From Texas is a gun-toting tale of revenge, loyalty and love, perfect for fans of Zane Gray.

Praise for Hank Madison

‘A classic of the genre.’- Tom Kasey, bestselling author of Trade Off.

Hank Madison is a prolific writer of over 500 novels in a wide range of genres, from classic westerns, to historical thrillers. He wrote under many pseudonyms throughout his career.

Simple Soulful Successful: A Mum-preneur’s Journey to Daily Happiness through Business, Balance and Rituals by Marie Temby

In 1995, Marie Temby and her husband Kym began the lifelong adventure of working with the Bakers Delight franchise in Australia. By 2000, they opened two locations, one in Mitcham, and the other in Glenelg. Over the course of their hard work, they also started a family together.

As they did their best to achieve work-life balance, they were guided by the following values: family first, passion, gratitude, health, learning, positivity, rituals, improvement, honesty (promise and loyalty), and spirituality. Managing a business can be tough, but with their priorities in place, they were able to focus on ensuring work was well organized in the interest of keeping family first. From their solid foundation, the rest of their values could flow into ongoing, daily happiness.

In this book, Marie shares the wisdom garnered as she researched and implemented her approach to paperwork, customers, staff, management, and of course, personal life. Through the holistic power of rituals, she accessed simplicity and soul, and this naturally led to success. In the hopes of guiding others to the same fruition, she wrote her story and officially began her next adventure of becoming an author.

Work and family are both important. As a mum-preneur, Marie found a way to keep love, passion, and parenthood a part of that balance. It’s not impossible. It’s a matter of effort and intention. Embrace simplicity. Express your soul. Achieve success as you see it.

Immigrant Millionaire : The Story of One Asian Woman Obsessed to Succeed in the Land of Opportunity by Kelli Nguyen-Ha

Immigrant Millionaire: The Story of One Asian Woman Obsessed to Succeed in the Land of Opportunity by Kelli Nguyen-Ha.

Think Again: My Seven Stage Journey from Self-Sabotage to Success by Rebecca Mountain

How long have you been chasing happiness and success, only to have it move away from you at the same velocity?

I called that “my black cloud”; that feeling that I should be happy, even after freeing myself from an isolating and fundamentalist church (think Amish – but with cars), leaving a sad marriage, starting my own successful business and finding true love… and yet I was miserable. I felt I should be “more” – whatever that meant!

I tried to escape my past, with all its fear, rejection and judgement. Turns out it was like attaching a ribbon to a cat – no matter how fast I ran, where I hid, or new happiness I created around me, that black cloud was always there.

In Think Again, I show you what it took for me to realize that I was constantly being re-triggered by my past, and how this was the only thing keeping me from the brain-exploding success I craved. Every time I retold my story, I relived it, and re-anchored it as my current identity. That had to stop or I’d be stuck being frustrated forever.

Thus began my 7-stage journey to rid myself of the ties that bound m. I finally found that deep, solid inner contentment that I was enough, but even more so, that I had an opportunity to teach people who may also appear to be successful on the outside, but are miserable and frustrated on the inside.

Think Again challenges you to rethink your situation, reframe your relationship with your past, and to put it behind you once and for all.

By the time you’re done reading Think Again, you’ll be able to:
– Create a new relationship with difficult situations from your past (or present)
– Stop the drama in your head about what others may or may not think or say of you. Most often, it’s not true. But the drama you imagine makes it feel real.
– Discover paths to getting rid of toxic people
– Get the blueprint for a plan to move you to the life you really want
– Tips on how to re-think your business or career so you can wake up every Monday actually wanting to go to work!
– Create a distraction-free world so you get the most out of every minute of every day, finding joy even in the hardest of times.

If you’ve ever felt that you weren’t good enough, or smart enough, or deserving of true success and happiness – you’re about to think again and find that you’ve had what it takes all along. It’s just been covered by your own “black cloud.”

So come with me on my journey – and clear your skies once and for all.