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Restraining Order (Alexis Fields Thrill Series Book 1)by Alex Dean

Alexis Fields is in the prime of her life, has just finished medical school and is celebrating her dream of becoming a doctor. But things go terribly wrong when she ends a volatile relationship with a disturbed man, Wilfred "Will" Bachman. Unable to handle the rejection, he develops a twisted obsession and promises to turn her life into a living hell.

After a vicious assault and a neighbor is found brutally murdered, the city of Madison is on edge. Top Madison Police Detective Lou Haney arrives on the scene and makes every effort to discover who the murderer might be. The city known as one of the best places to live has been thrown into chaos. Now Alexis has become a critical target as Bachman goes hell-bent on "revenge" before the police can find him.

Will Alexis be able to escape her deranged ex? Will the police be able to solve the gruesome murder?

Seven Women: And the Secret of Their Greatnessby Eric Metaxas

In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history’s greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God’s call upon their lives—as women.

Each of the world-changing figures who stride across these pages—Joan of Arc, Susanna Wesley, Hannah More, Maria Skobtsova, Corrie ten Boom, Mother Teresa, and Rosa Parks—is an exemplary model of true womanhood. Teenaged Joan of Arc followed God’s call and liberated her country, dying a heroic martyr’s death. Susanna Wesley had nineteen children and gave the world its most significant evangelist and its greatest hymn-writer, her sons John and Charles. Corrie ten Boom, arrested for hiding Dutch Jews from the Nazis, survived the horrors of a concentration camp to astonish the world by forgiving her tormentors. And Rosa Parks’ deep sense of justice and unshakeable dignity and faith helped launch the twentieth-century’s greatest social movement.

Writing in his trademark conversational and engaging style, Eric Metaxas reveals how the other extraordinary women in this book achieved their greatness, inspiring readers to lives shaped by the truth of the gospel.

Why You Do the Things You Do: The Secret to Healthy Relationshipsby Tim Clinton

In this transformational book, the authors have used ground-breaking research to develop four primary patterns of relating to one another that shed light on our actions–and how we can learn to love and be loved even better.

Chicago Blood: Detective Shannon Rourke Book 1by Stewart Matthews

You can’t bury the dead without digging up the past.

What was another murder in Chicago?

A dead man clutching a pint of whiskey on the Ashland Avenue sidewalk wasn’t new. It shouldn’t have been enough to keep troubled Detective Shannon Rourke and her brother from making their escape to Sweden.

Shannon’s plan to put half a world between herself and her checkered past in Chicago is already rolling when she arrives at the crime scene, ready to pass the case off to another detective.

But she didn’t expect the victim to be her brother’s best friend.

When her ex-mobster brother hears about it, he gives her an ultimatum: stay and solve the case or he will. Now, Shannon is determined to leash her inner demons and finish the job, but if she fails, her brother will be the one to pay the price.

In the Silenceby Lorhainne Eckhart

When a young woman searches her dark past for answers, she realizes that some secrets are best left unrevealed.

In this touching Friessen family novel, as Cat searches for answers from a past that still haunts her, she unexpectedly meets a man hired to keep her safe, a man who reaches her in a way no one else has. When a dangerous flirtation ensues, and secrets are revealed, the ultimate cost could be her first love.

Growing up, Cat Friessen didn’t always know who she was. In fact, her earliest memory is of being alone in a silent world, terrified and misunderstood, left like garbage in a Mexican orphanage. The memory haunts her, and it’s one she’s never shared with her parents, Neil and Candy Friessen, who have given her their name, their love, and a surgery that changed her life for the better. Now nineteen, Cat struggles with her sheltered existence and the fact that she doesn’t really fit in. Her identity lies somewhere between deaf and hearing, and even though she now has a life she’s grateful for, she can’t help feeling as if this world belongs to everyone else, as her past continues to follow her like a dark cloud of secrets.

Desperate to find answers, Cat can’t share with anyone what she’s thinking or feeling, but all that changes when she meets Xander Jennings, a man who takes tall, dark, and dangerous to another level. When the house almost burns down one night and Cat sleeps through the alarms, Neil hires Xander to make sure it can never happen again. Only Xander has secrets of his own, ones he doesn’t share with anyone. He sets one strict rule for his jobs: No getting involved with the client. That is until he meets Cat, who leads him into a dangerous flirtation and forces him to choose between doing the job he’s been hired to do or coming clean with her about everything he’s hiding, which could cost him this opportunity for love.

Secrets: The Hero Chroniclesby Tim Mettey

–This book was written for junior high/high school age readers as well as all who are young at heart–The Midwest lies in complete ruins after a catastrophic disaster kills tens of thousands and leaves hundreds of thousands injured. Nicholas Keller emerges out of the devastation as a shining light of hope for all. But his newfound fame comes with a price that his aunt will not let him pay. They flee into the shadows in order to protect his secret. However, as Nicholas begins his sophomore year at his fifth school in five years, strange and unexpected things begin to happen. He soon tumbles into a web of doomed love, extraordinary talents and a secret past, which threatens the lives of everyone he cares about. It’s up to Nicholas to confront the truth, even if it means his own death.

Don’t Leave Meby Lorhainne Eckhart

One moment in time could change her future forever.

From a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author comes a riveting and edgy romance about a young love driven to the breaking point.

Even though Claudia is part of the McCabe family, with four older brothers she barely knows, she has a dark side no one in their right mind would mess with, and she still sees herself as alone. That is until one night, when she witnesses an unspeakable crime that blurs the lines of morality. Her first instinct is to run, but when a mysterious handsome man enters her life, promising to keep her safe, she’s caught up in a web of secrets, not knowing who to trust. When her brothers unite, will they expose the truth or destroy any hope Claudia has of finding love?

The McCabe Brothers, a spinoff of the big family romance series The Friessens from a Readers’ Favorite award–winning author and “queen of the family saga” (Aherman)

I Did Inhale: Memoir of a Hippie Chickby W. M. Raebeck

In this chronicle about life on the hippie trail, W. M. Raebeck provides a funky flashback to what now seems an easier era. Through her marginal feats and misadventures, you’ll always be siding with the bad guy. Questionable conduct here takes a back seat to innocence, naiveté, rites of passage, and even desperation. The author’s exploits reveal, too, that perennial determination of the young–every generation’s instinct to define itself and its time.

In a kaleidoscope of back roads, airplanes, boats, and trains, this is a sometimes funny, sometimes edgy story of a saucy young woman finding her way. Packed with punchy dialogue, outlandish schemes, and eclectic love affairs, this could only be that one breathless moment of history–now fading into our past–that is great fun to revisit.

Boomers will grok these free-wheelin’ recollections of long-haired days when hitch-hikers had to wait their turn for space on the on-ramp. And readers of every age will be reminded that the youthful spirit is timeless, and harrowing ordeals are just bends in the road.

Hippie freaks, where are you now?

Lifetime Journeys: Explore French Polynesia / Bora Boraby Kim Heinbuch

Discover exotic Bora Bora and take the trip of a lifetime! Experience the overwater bungalows with breathtaking ocean views. Get swept away in a surprise romantic wedding proposal dinner. You’ll have an amazing adventure with black-tipped reef sharks in their own native habitat. And later you’ll catch a feast for lunch while deep sea fishing! Take advantage of the complete 11-day Trip Summary and “Best Of” review of all 3 French Polynesian islands we visited. Includes 70 vivid photos!

Ending BIGby Greyson Bryan

“Readers will root for the sympathetic Duncan as he morphs into a more grounded version of James Bond or Jason Bourne.” –Publishers Weekly

Arms Smuggling, Terrorist Attacks & CIA Spycraft in the North African Desert

Duncan Luke has a bad feeling about his next job for the Bingham Intelligence Group or “BIG.” Ghislaine Bingham wants him to fly to Niger to investigate soon-to-be partner Ismail Salah’s uranium concession near the border with Libya. Duncan suspects Salah is secretly dealing arms, but can he prove it when the Arab Spring’s violent turn threatens his mission and his life?

Action-packed, ENDING BIG delivers the biggest punch of the series.

“International lawyer Bryan puts his professional experience to good use in his engrossing first novel and series launch.” –Publishers Weekly

“I’m glad Duncan Luke is back in my life. I’ve missed him. In [the] second book, we follow Duncan on an even faster, more perilous ride, both personally and professionally. A ride brim-filled with international corporate/government intrigue–the kind of plot that should be on our front pages…”
–Richard Kletter, film and TV writer and adjunct professor at USC Film School

Lifetime Journeys: Explore French Polynesia / Bora Boraby Kim Heinbuch

Discover exotic Bora Bora and take the trip of a lifetime! Experience the overwater bungalows with breathtaking ocean views. Get swept away in a surprise romantic wedding proposal dinner. You’ll have an amazing adventure with black-tipped reef sharks in their own native habitat. And later you’ll catch a feast for lunch while deep sea fishing! Take advantage of the complete 11-day Trip Summary and “Best Of” review of all 3 French Polynesian islands we visited. Includes 70 vivid photos!

I Did Inhale: Memoir of a Hippie Chickby W. M. Raebeck

In this chronicle about life on the hippie trail, W. M. Raebeck provides a funky flashback to what now seems an easier era. Through her marginal feats and misadventures, you’ll always be siding with the bad guy. Questionable conduct here takes a back seat to innocence, naiveté, rites of passage, and even desperation. The author’s exploits reveal, too, that perennial determination of the young–every generation’s instinct to define itself and its time.

In a kaleidoscope of back roads, airplanes, boats, and trains, this is a sometimes funny, sometimes edgy story of a saucy young woman finding her way. Packed with punchy dialogue, outlandish schemes, and eclectic love affairs, this could only be that one breathless moment of history–now fading into our past–that is great fun to revisit.

Boomers will grok these free-wheelin’ recollections of long-haired days when hitch-hikers had to wait their turn for space on the on-ramp. And readers of every age will be reminded that the youthful spirit is timeless, and harrowing ordeals are just bends in the road.

Hippie freaks, where are you now?

Don’t Leave Meby Lorhainne Eckhart

One moment in time could change her future forever.

From a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author comes a riveting and edgy romance about a young love driven to the breaking point.

Even though Claudia is part of the McCabe family, with four older brothers she barely knows, she has a dark side no one in their right mind would mess with, and she still sees herself as alone. That is until one night, when she witnesses an unspeakable crime that blurs the lines of morality. Her first instinct is to run, but when a mysterious handsome man enters her life, promising to keep her safe, she’s caught up in a web of secrets, not knowing who to trust. When her brothers unite, will they expose the truth or destroy any hope Claudia has of finding love?

The McCabe Brothers, a spinoff of the big family romance series The Friessens from a Readers’ Favorite award–winning author and “queen of the family saga” (Aherman)

Secrets: The Hero Chroniclesby Tim Mettey

–This book was written for junior high/high school age readers as well as all who are young at heart–The Midwest lies in complete ruins after a catastrophic disaster kills tens of thousands and leaves hundreds of thousands injured. Nicholas Keller emerges out of the devastation as a shining light of hope for all. But his newfound fame comes with a price that his aunt will not let him pay. They flee into the shadows in order to protect his secret. However, as Nicholas begins his sophomore year at his fifth school in five years, strange and unexpected things begin to happen. He soon tumbles into a web of doomed love, extraordinary talents and a secret past, which threatens the lives of everyone he cares about. It’s up to Nicholas to confront the truth, even if it means his own death.

Beautiful Disasterby Rye Hart

He’s my boss.
Famous heartthrob.
Complete and utter disaster.
Apparently, he doesn’t like that I’m here to clean his act.
But the way he’s undressing me with his eyes makes me wonder how he really feels.

I’m Drake Blackthorn’s personal assistant.
The Drake Blackthorn.
‘King of Country’.
He’s been a train wreck since his late wife and daughter passed away.
He assumed I was hired to babysit him – he assumed right.
My job: follow him and his rowdy band around for an entire tour.
But there’s one problem: there’s more to Drake than meets the eye.
And I’m completely and utterly infatuated with him.

The hardest part in all this? Trying to hide my growing baby bump.

Giant Journeys: Becoming an Ironmanby Douglas W. Thomson

Ironman finisher Douglas Thomson shares his incredible journey of preparing for and completing an Ironman race in honor of his brother-in-law, Stu Mills. Stu was diagnosed with cancer while in his twenties and fought his own “giant journey” to overcome this life-threatening illness. Stu’s odyssey inspired Thomson to attempt something far beyond his own physical limits. Giant Journeys: Becoming an Ironman is a compilation of Thomson’s competition, Mills’ battle and universal life lessons.

Axelby Ali Parker

From USA Today Best Selling Author, Ali Parker…

They wanted to attack my house. My family. My MC.

And for that, I brought hell to their doorstep.

An eye for an eye.

Little did I know that the favor would be returned in full.

Everything I hold dear is threatened, including the beautiful girl who holds my heart and doesn’t know it yet.

Shit gets serious when the cops show up with a little one that’s supposedly mine?

My MC has always been the only family I’ve ever had, but times are changing.

There’s nothing I won’t do to protect what’s mine from The Black Hearts.

Even kill – every last one of them.

Axel is book 2 in my Lost Breed Biker series. It’s a standalone, and you don’t need to read book 1 to enjoy book 2, but it’s advised just for the overhanging drama between the MC’s included in the stories.