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Pretty Killerby Johnny B. Truant

Revenge is served…

Twelve people bound by a secret arrive for an exclusive dinner only to find that the other guests are familiar in the most troubling of ways.

Ella Boyer isn’t looking forward to attending the Bayshore alumni dinner with her husband, Noah. There aren’t enough pills in the world to numb her fears of seeing her classmates again … especially after what she did all those years ago.

Her sorority sister Heidi Blanchard, equally guilty, will be at the same exclusive restaurant that night. In the aftermath of their secret shame, Heidi’s turned lying into a sport and has lost her compass for truth. She’s there for a job … or so she thinks.

Bindi Bridges, former guidance counselor at Bayshore, has no idea about the alumni dinner or Heidi’s job offer. She’s at Crave to learn who her husband’s been sleeping with, tipped by an unknown source.

Mason Pace is there to meet a headhunter. His life is about to turn around — a relief, after the horror that happened eleven years ago.

Seven others — each seeking their own redemption and hiding their own sordid sins — are just as ignorant of the sinister purpose behind this elegant event.

Their host? A Hollywood star with glamour to spare and all the money in the world to spend on that most useful of hobbies: revenge and the extraction of secrets.

The only guest not in attendance is the one who deserves to be there most: Casey Davis.

What happened to Casey? And who’s to blame?

Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdityby Iliza Shlesinger

From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on the secret genius of irrational behavior.

Have you ever been pissed because you're not pretty enough, and then gotten even more pissed that someone didn't find you as pretty as you think you are? Have you ever obsessed over the size of your thighs while eating dessert, all the while saying you'll work out extra tomorrow? Or spent endless hours wondering why you have to bear the brunt of other people's insecurities? I mean, after all, I'm pretty great. Why cope with insecurities I don't already have?

That last one's just me? All right, then.

But if the rest sounds familiar, you are experiencing Girl Logic: a characteristically female way of thinking that appears contradictory and circuitous but is actually a complicated and highly evolved way of looking at the world. You end up considering every repercussion of every choice (about dating, career, clothes, lunch) before making a move toward what you really want. And why do we attempt these mental hurdles? Well, that's what this book is all about.

The fact is, whether you're obsessing over his last text or the most important meeting of your career, your Girl Logic serves a purpose: It helps push you, question what you want, and clarify what will make you a happier, better person. Girl Logic can be every confident woman's secret weapon, and this book shows you how to wield it.

Let Freedom Inby Weston Parker

I’m falling for the one guy my father absolutely hates.

A Navy SEAL with thick shoulders, dimples, and a wicked grin.

Too bad he’s a complete alpha-hole.

I shouldn’t be spending my time daydreaming about all the ways he could make me blush, but I can’t help myself.

Besides, it’s finally summer. My pre-med classes are done, and the beach in Cali is calling my name.

The issue with my new love interest is that my strict father thinks “the boy isn’t going anywhere.”

I don’t care about any of that, thanks to the fireworks I feel when he’s around.

Dad’s retiring from the Navy soon anyway.

It’s not like he’s going to throw my new beau in the brig or send him off to war, right?

It’s my life. I’ll do what I please.

Let Freedom Ring.

Every good girl deserves a bad boy. ~ Weston

Three Men in a Boatby Jerome K. Jerome

The novel, narrated by Englishman J., tells of a boat trip along the Thames, with his friends George and William Samuel Harris. The three, together with the dog Montmorency, travel for days, they cross the English countryside and live unexpected and amusing adventures. The trip is dotted with a series of comic gags on the joys and pains of life on the boat, combined with funny digressions that invent stories in their own right, in the best style of English humor. All this seasoned with realistic descriptions of the regions crossed by the three friends and brief notations of philosophy for the non-professionals.

Tell Me No Liesby C. Morgan

It was supposed to be one night in Vegas.

But it never works out that way, does it?

Love has a backseat, and I intended to keep it that way.

My main focus in life is my little girl.

With her mom in jail and my life in shambles more often than not, it’s about all I’ve got time for.

So a vacation with the guys was in order. Parties, girls, and fun. Oh my!

And then the most beautiful girl I’ve ever laid eyes on shows up, and she’s out for the same thing I am–a good time.

Seems there is someone else in the world who’s forgotten to live.

As much as I shouldn’t, I’m all in for making this woman mine–every part of her.

Both of us are waking up to a truth that isn’t so fun to hear, but it’s better than living a lie.

Love is all that matters.

Poison Orchidsby Sarah A. Denzil and Anni Taylor

A compelling novel from bestselling authors Sarah A. Denzil and Anni Taylor 

A dark, medical thriller. An enigmatic chemist tends his prized orchid collection on a remote farm. International backpackers find their way there each season, desperate for work. The Chemist welcomes them all in with open arms. But what chilling, twisted secret is he hiding?

Young backpackers Gemma and Hayley arrive at the farm one summer. The farm’s handsome owner, Tate Llewellyn, seems eccentric but kind, running his hobby farm and cultivating rare orchids in his greenhouse.   
The weeks go on, a blur of fruit-picking, parties, campfires and wading beneath waterfalls in the nearby hot springs. Tate calls the girls his orchids…his pretty orchids. 

Until the night the girls find themselves on a dark highway, bruised and bloodied.

How did everything go so wrong? 

Senior Detective Bronwen McKay and psychologist Megan Arlotti question the terrified girls. But Hayley and Gemma are telling two very different stories of what happened to them over the past three months. 

Which story is the truth and what are the girls covering up?

HARRY HUNTER MYSTERY SERIES 1-3by Willow Rose

This is the first three books in Willow Rose’s electrifying new Harry Hunter Mystery series.

Mystery, love, and action this series has it all.

BOOK 1: ALL THE GOOD GIRLS:

Detective Harry Hunter of Miami PD’s homicide squad throws himself into a case no one asked him to solve.

Four teenagers from one of Miami’s affluent neighborhoods are murdered on a boat. Another is found dead in a dumpster. All five of them go to the same school and are on a list of witnesses to another crime.

Because he’s in bad standing with his boss, Harry is given the task of protecting a possible future victim, but Harry isn’t always known to follow his boss’s orders.

Soon, he’ll risk everything while racing to stop a killer who has left everyone else in the homicide squad shaking in terror.

BOOK 2: RUN GIRL RUN:

When a mother and her child are pulled out of the harbor in their car, the case seems pretty straightforward for Miami PD and Detective Harry Hunter.

Everything points to a murder-suicide.

They were homeless, living in their car, and the mother decided to end it all for them both by driving into the water.

But the case is not what it looks like, Detective Harry Hunter soon realizes.

Harry’s daughter is carrying devastating knowledge about their deaths, and soon she becomes the killer’s next target.

As Harry races to protect her, he is betrayed by someone he thought he knew, leaving him terrified of trusting anyone in a town filled with liars.

BOOK 3: NO OTHER WAY:

Three women went on a road trip to Key West. Only two returned. When asked what happened, their stories don’t completely match.

Who is telling the truth?

Detective Harry Hunter of the Miami PD is in church on a peaceful Sunday morning when a young teenager pulls out a gun and shoots his own father.

Once the shock is gone, Harry starts to ask himself the question no one else seems to care about: What makes a young boy want to kill his own father?

When more blood is shed, Harry suspects there’s a secret buried in this town that no one wants unearthed. What are the people around him not telling him?

Déjà Deadby Susan Kiernan-Lewis

Claire Baskerville is a sixty-something American who finds herself alone in Paris when her husband is brutally murdered. Reeling from the devastating secrets he left behind, Claire only knows she can’t move forward until she finds out the truth behind who killed her husband. Unfortunately, the closer she gets to the truth, the more determined that killer is to make sure she never leaves Paris alive.