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Far From Home (The Home Series: Book Two)by Megan Nugen Isbell

When Riley Regas moved from Boston to the small town of Carver, Kansas, she never expected the turn her life would take. She never thought she could be happy in Carver, especially after the betrayal she endured at the hands of someone she thought she loved. She was wrong.

It’s been six months since everything changed. Six months since Jesse stepped in and saved her. Six months since she realized she’d been in love with Jesse all along. Six months of happiness and Riley can’t wait to take the next step in her life with Jesse at her side.

But one night changes everything and the life she envisioned with Jesse is turned upside down. Jesse has always been there for Riley, and now it’s her turn to be there for him. Will the love they fought so hard to find be strong enough to see them through this or will it ultimately tear them apart?

Bright Smoke, Cold Fireby Rosamund Hodge

Sabriel meets Romeo and Juliet in this stunning and atmospheric novel—the first in a duology—from the author of Cruel Beauty and Crimson Bound.

When the mysterious fog of the Ruining crept over the world, the living died and the dead rose. Only the walled city of Viyara was left untouched.

The heirs of the city’s most powerful—and warring—families, Mahyanai Romeo and Juliet Catresou, share a love deeper than duty, honor, even life itself. But the magic laid on the Juliet at birth compels her to punish the enemies of her clan—and Romeo has just killed her cousin Tybalt. Which means he must die.

Paris Catresou has always wanted to serve his family by guarding the Juliet. But when his ward tries to escape her fate, magic goes terribly wrong—killing her and leaving Paris bound to Romeo. If he wants to discover the truth of what happened, Paris must delve deep into the city, ally with his worst enemy . . . and perhaps turn against his own clan.

Mahyanai Runajo only wants to protect her city—but she’s the only one who believes it’s in peril. In her desperate hunt for information, she accidentally pulls Juliet from the mouth of death—and finds herself bound to the bitter, angry girl. Runajo quickly discovers Juliet might be the one person who can help her recover the secret to saving Viyara.

Both pairs will find friendship where they least expect it. Both will find that Viyara holds more secrets and dangers than anyone ever expected. And outside the walls, death is waiting. . . .

Old Faithful: Dogs of a Certain Ageby Pete Thorne

A stunning and indelible collection of portraits and stories that capture dogs of a certain age in all their patchy, scruffy, jowly, and devoted glory—an homage to man’s best friend, based on the popular international photography project.

The dogs in Old Faithful are well worn, well loved, and well on in years. After his grandmother’s 100th birthday party, photographer and dog lover Pete Thorne found himself taking photos of elderly dogs. In their aged, imperfect faces, he saw a depth of life, joy, and wisdom missing from more youthful subjects. He gathered these rich and powerful portraits into a web series he called “Old Faithful.”

The reaction was instant—and astounding—from media outlets as diverse as Huffington Post and BuzzFeed to Esquire and ABC, to thousands of people around the globe who reached out to Thorne with their heartwarming stories of their own faithful companions. The photos triggered a wide variety of emotions, eliciting smiles and tears, and unleashing a flood of anecdotes and memories. “Old Faithful” became a shared platform for dog lovers all over the world.

Based on his web series, Old Faithful features dozens of color photographs that bring these dogs vividly into focus, accompanied by poignant descriptive sketches that capture the spirit and personality of each, illuminate his life and experiences, and celebrate the shared relationship with a beloved human companion.

A sweet and moving keepsake, Old Faithful demonstrates that aging can be beautiful, and offers profound lessons for all of us, no matter our age. 

The Writer (San Juan Islands Mystery Book 1)by D.W. Ulsterman

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
-Oscar Wilde

College journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from the world following the tragic death of his young wife twenty-seven years earlier. Adele ventures to the writer’s remote, private-island home in the beautiful San Juan Islands, and there begins a journey of dangerous discovery that will have her scrambling to unravel a mystery far more shocking and deadly than she could have ever imagined.

“RIVETING!”

A 2016 Kindle Scout Selection

Worth the Riskby Weston Parker

Research is my passion.
And after my time in the city, I need the wilderness to settle my nerves.

But Park Ranger Caleb Hunt has something else in mind.
Settling my nerves is definitely not on his to-do list.

Tall, handsome and cocky as hell. He's everything I've ever wanted.
In my world.
In my bed.

But something in his past is holding him back.
One second he's hot as the surface of the sun.
The next, he's cold as the ice on a mountaintop.

I want to tame his heart, but he's wild as the wilderness he ranges.
But I'm willing to take a chance.
I just hope like hell he's worth the risk.

Every Good Girl Deserves a Bad Boy. ~Weston Parker

Mason’s Foolby Cynthia J Stone

Alice Morehead’s family calls her the “Go-To Girl” because she obediently fixes all their problems. When she discovers her husband’s affair, Alice dumps him and goes in search of what she’s been missing her whole life: herself.
Her exciting new job places her as personal assistant to England’s sexiest rock star, newly escaped from rehab and transformed into a country-and-western singer for Austin City Limits and MTV. Alice proves her worth when Oliver Goodknight can’t sing a note unless she’s on stage with him.
Before long, Alice must accompany Oliver to England to tackle threatening drug dealers. Oliver’s half-brother Simon, heir to the title and the kingdom’s stymied Poet Laureate, allows Alice to coax him into writing again.
While the brothers battle each other for her attention and affection, Alice wonders if she’s a fool for falling in love with one of them.
The problem is: Which one?

Sessionsby B.J. Thompson

Would you sacrifice your soul to see into the mind of a serial killer for seven days?

Justice will be served, but never before like this.

Sessions, a mind-bending psychological noir, delves into the minds of two women as they go head-to-head in seven therapy sessions, taking the terms “treatment” and “killer” and flipping them on their heads.

Is there a real life family connection to the killer’s evil?
And if she has never been caught, is there someone infamous in her life who has?

The “Entity” marks its territory through the pastoral environs of Vermont; Mount Mansfield, a Burlington art gallery, a sugar maple farm and inside the psychiatrist’s office, housed within a majestic Victorian mansion eerily familiar to more than one soul.

This is not a police procedural, my friends…

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Are you game to be a fly on this therapy wall?
Well, have a seat in the waiting room, won’t you?
Your Sessions are about to begin…

~ If you like tales that leave you disturbed long after you read The End, buy Sessions.
What have you got to lose but your mind? ~

Wolfheartby Paul DiPersio

Single dad David Holtz needs a new heart.And if he doesn't find one soon, his six-year-old daughter, Chloey, will end up in a foster home.

Turns out, the biotech company he used to work for, Gentax Corporation, has a brand new genetically engineered heart waiting for him at its secret research facility, somewhere in the jungle of southeast Mexico.

But there's a catch. The new heart was harvested from a wolf. And the stem cell infusion he must undergo to prevent rejection–well, that's from a wolf as well.

With time running out, Gentax's brilliant and eccentric Chief Scientist, Doctor Knochenmus, makes David an offer he can't refuse: volunteer for the experimental heart transplant, and his daughter gets a six-figure trust fund.

And as an added bonus, David's personal nurse, Amiya, is the most beautiful woman he's ever laid his eyes on.

But there's another catch; his new Wolf Heart has a mind of its own, and doesn't like being trapped in the body of a human.

It yearns to break free, to hunt, to kill … and it's very hungry.

The Vampire’s Reckoningby Cynthia Cooke

Emma McGovern has lived her life in fear. A centuries old curse has plagued her family for generations. If she finds love, and consummates that love, Asmos a demon from the 7th realm, will claim her as his own. To remind her of his power, Asmos sends demon wolves for her each year on the night of the equinox. This year is no different, except the Cadre has sent an agent to help her. But he might just be her undoing.
Damien has one job–capture and contain the demon Asmos. He knows how powerful Asmos is, but what he didn’t bargain for is the affect Emma would have on him. He cannot fall in love with her. He knows the risk, and yet, they can’t stop the pull they feel toward one another. Not even when Emma learns he’s a vampire, and might just be as big a danger to her as the wolves waiting at her door. Will the love they have find be strong enough to fight a demon, or will it cost them both their lives?

Air Force Heroby Weston Parker

There’s only been one woman for me, and she’s never truly been mine.

But I don’t have much time for anyone anyway, with my focus on my career.

I’m a military man through and through, from generation to generation.

This one girl, though. She stole my heart when we were kids, but it’s taboo, forbidden.

She’s my best friend’s little sister, and he’d kill us both.

After my mom recently lost my dad, a quick trip home to help her brings me face to face with the past.

It was just one wild night years ago, but I can’t shake it.

She left before the break of dawn, going back to the sea, and I took my place up in the air once again.

But she’s never left my mind. Her soft curves and sweet heart haunted me.

And now that we’re back in the same small town for two weeks, I find out she’s in a bad relationship and hiding a secret from me.

A four-year-old little man with my smile and her eyes.

My dream was to stay in the Air Force until retirement, but that dream has changed.

So have I.

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~Weston