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One S’more Summer (The Campfire Series Book 1)by Beth Merlin

“If HBO’s Girls went to summer camp, this would be their story. A fast-paced, enjoyable read!” — Kristin Harmel, international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting

For twenty long years, Gigi Goldstein has been pining away for her best friend’s guy. She knows it’s wrong and it has to stop, but she hasn’t been able to let go ever since they all met on the bus to summer camp back when they were seven years old. The same week that her best friends finally announce their wedding date, Gigi loses her high-profile design job. With all of her dreams unravelling, she runs to the last place she remembers being happy.

Taking the Head Counselor position at Camp Chinooka, Gigi hopes to reclaim the joy she felt as a camper, but the job isn’t all campfire songs and toasting marshmallows. Gigi’s girls are determined to make her look bad in front of the boys’ Head Counselor–the sexy but infuriating Perry–and every scrap of the campground is laced with memories.

When Gigi finally realizes she can’t escape the present by returning to her past, she’s forced to reexamine her life and find the true meaning of love. But will she be able to mend fences and forgive herself before she loses her one real shot at happiness?

If you love Sophie Kinsella and Emily Giffin, you’ll love this heartwarming debut from a fresh voice in contemporary chick-lit that offers a lighthearted and fun take on friendship, love, and how to recover from past mistakes.

The Campfire Series
1. One S’more Summer
2. S’more to Lose–Coming December 2017!

“I’m reading One S’more Summer… ❤️ Great read!” – Ariel Winter, Alex Dunphy on the hit show Modern Family

Saving Noahby Lucinda Berry

We forgive murderers, not pedophiles.

Not since Lionel Shriver brought us We Need to Talk About Kevin has a writer delved into the complexities of a disturbed mother/son relationship. Until now.

Meet Noah–an A-honor roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren’t any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim team practice. He’s sentenced to eighteen months in a juvenile sexual rehabilitation center.

His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won’t allow Noah back into their home. In a series of shocking and shattering revelations, Adrianne is forced to make the hardest decision of her life. Just how far will she go to protect her son?

Saving Noah challenges everything you think you know about teenage sexual offenders. It will keep you up at night long after you’ve read the last page, questioning beliefs you once thought were true.

Vampire’s Questby Alexa Dare

A Vampire’s Quest. A Healer’s Destiny. Tension at its peak in the Appalachian Mountains between a vampire on his final mission and a nurse with mystifying healing powers

A vampire’s quest leads him to his greatest challenge, a defiant traveling Appalachian nurse targeted for her supernatural healing abilities. In the middle of his final mission, Ryderholt Judson’s desire for the sexy healer burns deep and fierce. Yet, as his duty to the Dark Knights comes to an end, the last person he wants anything to do with, despite a centuries-old prophecy, is a potential fated mate.

Hidden away in the Appalachian mountains, Jess Willowbrook shares her supernatural abilities. No time for romance, she struggles to stay under the radar as the news of her success in healing supposed untreatable illnesses spreads. Danger on her heels, she encounters an injured man whose true nature defies reality.

Passion entwined with peril, Jess must join forces with Ryder to battle the unexpected evil that plagues the mountain community in Vampire’s Quest, Knight Fever Book 1.

A one true mate paranormal romance.

Each one of a contingency of Dark Knights sets out on his final quest. After a millennia and a half of celibacy, each must find his one true mate to end Merlin’s curse. A vampire, a wolf shifter, a sorcerer, a shape shifter, a dragon shifter, a wraith, a gargoyle shifter, a phantom, a cougar shifter, a raven shifter, a demon, a specter, and the reaper search for their fated mates.

As are each book in the Knight Fever Series, Vampire’s Quest is a standalone romance featuring a Dark Knight created to battle the evil that rose up against the Kingdom of Camelot, and a member of a modern-day coven of supernaturally talented women.

The books in the series may be read in any order; however, the series might be best enjoyed as follows:

– Vampire’s Quest
– Wolf’s Pursuit
– Sorcerer’s Conquest

Deep South Dead (A Hunter Jones Mystery Book 1)by Charlotte Moore

Start reading the first in this series, and you’ll wind up getting to know a whole town and following a cast of characters through mysteries, romances, marriages, babies, new houses and more. In Deep South Dead, Hunter Jones takes a job at a weekly newspaper in Merchantsville, Georgia, and quickly learns that in small towns gossip travels faster than the press can run. She’s a bit of an outsider looking in until she goes to a grand old mansion for an interview with the president of the historical society, only to find that a murderer got there first.
Now, if she can only get the best looking sheriff in Georgia, Sam Bailey, to take her hunches seriously…
Charlotte Moore is a lifelong mystery reader who has retired from a career in community journalism, having won numerous awards for both feature and news writing. She lives in Perry, Georgia with her two cats, Pepper and Mr. Darcy. She has written eight books in the Hunter Jones series, and four in the Kate and Kylie series.

Mother Landby Paul Theroux

“Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor.” — Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
 
To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is a selfish, petty tyrant. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died in childbirth; only Angela really understands her, she tells the others. The others include the officious lawyer, Fred; the uproarious professor, Floyd; a pair of inseparable sisters whose devotion to Mother has consumed their lives; and JP, the narrator, a successful writer whose work she disparages. As she lives well past the age of one hundred, her brood struggles with and among themselves to shed her viselike hold on them.
                  Mother Land is a piercing portrait of how a parent’s narcissism impacts a family. While the particulars of his tale are unique, Paul Theroux encapsulates with acute clarity and wisdom a circumstance that is familiar to millions of readers.
 
“Paul Theroux ladles a steaming cup of dysfunctional-family chowder in Mother Land.” — Vanity Fair
 
“An engrossing, emotionally tangled and often merciless examination of family and self . . . Mother Land is a bittersweet, brutally frank family saga that offers enough redemption to make the journey worth it.” — Shelf Awareness

Wolf’s Pursuitby Alexa Dare

A Wolf’s Pursuit. A Seer’s Path. A wolf on the prowl and a clairvoyant in the know, yet no one can truly discern what fate and desire might bestow.

A wolf’s pursuit to lay claim to the ruby from Merlin’s staff and to end an ancient curse once and for all leads him straight to a local seer. Never would Dark Knight and wolf shifter Gideon Saint-Valeri court a woman who wields magic, yet his yearning for her surges with the approach of the Mage’s Moon. Wronged by the greatest soothsayer of them all in medieval times, he battles his inner beast to accept a witch as his potential fated mate.

Harboring too many secrets, Olivia Trudeau uses her clairvoyant abilities to raise funds and gather resources for her Appalachian community. Always burdened by the need to control, which comes with her gift of knowing, she faces her greatest revelation when destiny delivers a knight–not true boyfriend or one true mate material at all–to her in the form of a shifter.

Danger interwoven with desire, Olivia and Gideon fight both supernatural and local forces bent on collecting those of her kind and capturing the Dark Knights in Wolf’s Pursuit, Knight Fever Book #2.

A one true mate paranormal romance.

Each one of a contingency of Dark Knights sets out on his final quest. After a millennia and a half of celibacy, each must find his one true mate to end Merlin’s curse. A vampire, a wolf shifter, a sorcerer, a shape shifter, a dragon shifter, a wraith, a gargoyle shifter, a phantom, a cougar shifter, a raven shifter, a demon, a specter, and the reaper search for their fated mates.

As are each book in the Knight Fever Series, Wolf’s Pursuit is a standalone romance featuring a Dark Knight created to battle the evil that rose up against the Kingdom of Camelot, and a member of a modern-day coven of supernaturally talented women.

The books in the series may be read in any order; however, the series might be best enjoyed as follows:

– Vampire’s Quest
– Wolf’s Pursuit
– Sorcerer’s Conquest

UnCaged Destinyby Lisa Farrell

Cage spends her days inside the emotional walls she’s so carefully built as her only defense against old memories of rejection and abuse. Cage patches together a life out of an incompatible mixture of religious traditions and fleeting moments of physical contact, as she tries to ignore the emptiness inside.

Cage simply does not know how to let go of her past on her own. Then she meets Pyrs. From the beginning, their friendship allows Cage to escape the burden from her past experiences and choices that left her scarred and broken. But after lines are crossed during one emotional and eye-opening night at the beach, decisions must be made. Should hidden secrets be revealed or kept hidden?

Now that Cage has learned to trust Pyrs, does their relationship stand a chance? As she figures out her direction, Cage soon must face the fact that her voluntary cage may be a reflection of her strained and under-developed relationship with God.

This inspirational romance presents love with all its real-world faults. If Cage can just extricate herself from her self-imposed jail, she may just discover that her future is full of promise.

The Great Game (The Counterpoint Trilogy Book 2)by D.R. Bell

After years of patient preparation, a block of countries led by China and Russia stages an overnight financial coup to unseat the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Fortunes are made and lost in a matter of hours. But some have more far-ranging plans than financial gain.
Computer engineer David Ferguson has no idea that a chance meeting with a friendly stranger in the airport will change everything. Suddenly, he is running for his life, without knowing why or from whom. In trying to evade his pursuers, David accidentally involves Maggie Sappin, a graduate student and a transplant from Kiev. To save themselves, they have to uncover the reasons behind a financial crisis and political upheaval that followed. From Los Angeles to Texas, Kiev, Moscow, and New York, the body count mounts along with the layers of deception as two innocent people become key players in–The Great Game.
This is a work of fiction. But what are presented in the story as facts of the time of writing are indeed facts in real life. And if some elements look hard to imagine, back in the early 1980s one would have been laughed at for suggesting that in a few short years people would be dancing on top of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union would be no longer.

You Must ‘C’ Your Way Throughby C. Ray Calhoun

C. Ray Calhoun gives us a real gem in his sophomore book “You Must ‘C’ Your Way Through”. He lays out more practical, relatable life-transforming nuggets that when applied can take the ordinary person to extraordinary heights as well as elevating to greater heights those persons who are already on a path to success. C. Ray uses the alpha letter C to illustrate the pieces of life’s puzzle that the reader must “see” in order to elevate their lives. Each chapter in the book is dedicated to a word that begins with the letter C and C. Ray outlines in a telescopic way how “seeing” each word in the context of life’s obstacles and opportunities can help us reach our highest potential. With real-life examples and personal testimonials, he describes how to overcome day to day challenges that exist only to try and deter us from becoming our greatest self. He speaks to the reader with candor, humor, and heart. Sincerely sharing information and notable quotes, he takes us on a journey step by step to develop, apply and achieve the goals and dreams we aspire to. We are in a historic and unprecedented time in 2017. “You Must ‘C’ Your Way Through” is a book that allows us to see how to successfully navigate the sea of life – practically, simplistically and productively.