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![True to the Game II by Teri Woods]()
True to the Game II by Teri Woods
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena... -
![The Ones We Leave Behind by Deanna Lynn Sletten]()
The Ones We Leave Behind by Deanna Lynn Sletten
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDiane picked up her mother’s phone. “How do you feel about your mother being let out of prison today after sixty-five years?” the reporter asked. Diane stared at her mother. “My grandmother is alive?” That one phone call hurled shock waves throughout the entire family.1955 – Anna Bergman Craine’s life changes in an instant when she commits a crime of passion and is sentenced to life in prison... -
![A Valentino Reunion by Kylie Kent]()
A Valentino Reunion by Kylie Kent
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen life throws you a grenade, you take cover, wait for detonation, and evaluate the ensuant damage. In this life, the one we live, those grenades never stop coming. But no matter the destruction in our midst, there is one thing that will never crack or shatter. And that’s our loyalty, love, and faith. To each other. To the family... -
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![房思琪的初戀樂園 by Lin Yi-Han, 林奕含]()
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![Seaside Embrace by Melissa Foster]()
Seaside Embrace by Melissa Foster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsYou can always rely on Melissa Foster to deliver a story that's fresh, emotional and entertaining. Make sure you have all night, because once you start you won't want to stop reading. Every book's a winner!" --New York Times Bestselling Author Brenda Novak "Like Nora Roberts, Melissa Foster has captivated me with her fantastic, sexy, romantic stories." --Kimberly Winning, avid reader... -
![Dan Brown Inferno (Robert Langdon) Unofficial Guide by Stephen Eastment]()
Dan Brown Inferno (Robert Langdon) Unofficial Guide by Stephen Eastment
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Dan Brown Inferno Unofficial Guide will allow you to decode the masterful and clever codes, symbols and art history of Dan Brown's fourth international blockbuster, Inferno and follow in the footsteps of the great puzzle solver Robert Langdon. Dan Brown's new international blockbuster, Inferno, will be his fourth book fusing history, art, codes and symbols... -
![Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes]()
Martin Swans Diary: Black Water Crossing by Kyle Keyes
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMartin Swan was not a terrorist, nor a truck driver. He only replied to the want-ad because the wording linked Florida with Washington DC and wanted someone who could speak Arabic. The year was 2008. Jobs were scarce, gas prices high. The back page ad called for a big rig driver with a clean record, who could be at Black Water Crossing the day before Halloween... -
![The Wrong Side Of Love: A Hood Love Story by Charmanie Saquea, McIntire Edits]()
The Wrong Side Of Love: A Hood Love Story by Charmanie Saquea, McIntire Edits
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCoco has her head on straight and is deeply rooted in work and her studies. After breaking up with her manipulator of a boyfriend Trae, all she wants to do is focus on becoming a RN. Things change when the king of Detroit, known as Zeek enters her life. Dealing with Zeek brings some drama to Coco’s life that she never saw coming... -
![Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes by M.R. Noble]()
Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes by M.R. Noble
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBlindsided by an attack that destroys her home and blamed for murder, Karolina Dalca, a half-vampire, escapes, only to plunge into the magical societies from which she was sheltered.Betrayed by those around her, she abandons her dreams of becoming an investigator and flees, trusting only herself. Her police internship would never prove more useful... -
![Slow Brewing Tea by Randy Loubier]()
Slow Brewing Tea by Randy Loubier
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSlow Brewing Tea is an epic spiritual adventure and a touching love story that will compel you to look deeper at your relationships with your God, your spouse and the path beneath your feet.Isaiah set off on a ten day motorcycle adventure in northern, rural Japan... -
![Matching Configurations by Kyle Keyes]()
Matching Configurations by Kyle Keyes
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMatching Configurations is the second sequel to Quantum Roots, a light Sci-Fi adventure story that features everyday Olan Chapman as a hero vigilante who defends the weak and helpless victims of today's society. Like the first two editions of Quantum Roots, Matching Configurations is based on a growing belief that creation forms from recycled energy, and people evolve from recycled quarks... -
![The Arbitrator by Max Nowaz]()
The Arbitrator by Max Nowaz
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGREAT 5* REVIEWS on GOODREADS WAS THERE A PANG OF REMORSE FOR HIS ACTIONS? POSSIBLY, BUT WHAT CHOICE DID HE HAVE? HE HAD NO ROOM FOR WEAKNESS, IF HE WANTED TO SURVIVE. Jim Brown, formerly a highly successful, but ruthless, troubleshooting Administrator for the EPA, The Earth Policy Administration, was rotting in prison, dying of an incurable drug habit that he had acquired whilst in there... -
![Death Leaves a Shadow: A Marlowe Black Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch]()
Death Leaves a Shadow: A Marlowe Black Mystery by Gabriel F.W. Koch
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThen comes the brutal announcement that his pregnant fianc�e has committed suicide. Marlowe simply cannot accept the official verdict, and as anguish and rage replace the love he once felt, he is driven by a madness that forces him to question his own integrity while he hunts an elusive killer."Koch is an author who has his priorities in order... -
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![Supreme Betrayal by Mark M. Bello]()
Supreme Betrayal by Mark M. Bello
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAward-winning author Mark M. Bello presents another headline-inspired Zachary Blake legal thriller.Hayley Larson isn’t a party girl, but she is tired of always doing everything her parents say. She decides to finally attend a Wilkinson party and see what all the hype is about... -
![Body In The Woods by Behcet Kaya]()
Body In The Woods by Behcet Kaya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAward-winning author Behcet Kaya has once again brought his PI protagonist Jack Ludefance to life in a novel of suspense and mystery, filled with indelible characters, and laced with threads of credible circumstances, in his latest book titled Body in the Woods... -
![Murder on the Naval Base by Behcet Kaya]()
Murder on the Naval Base by Behcet Kaya
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMurder on the Naval Base begins with a blurry account of a cold-blooded shooting of a couple, singled out while having dinner at an Officer's Club. The prime suspect is apprehended hours later while apparently attempting to flee the state... -
![Hillary's Back! by Faith Martin]()
Hillary's Back! by Faith Martin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsONE OF THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE DETECTIVES RETURNS. A BRAND NEW MYSTERY IN THE MILLION-SELLING SERIES. DETECTIVE HILLARY GREENE IS BACK! Eighteen months after Hillary suffered a personal tragedy, she is throwing herself into her work to try to get over it. Former soldier Gareth Proctor joins her team and finds himself quickly growing to enjoy his new environment... -
![Two of a Kind: Return to Lighthouse Point by Kay Correll]()
Two of a Kind: Return to Lighthouse Point by Kay Correll
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes all you need is to believe in yourself… Charlotte finds herself living back on Belle Island, struggling to make a living in her now floundering art career. She moves in with her life-long friend, Robin, and attempts to find her love of painting again and prove to her family that she’s a successful artist... -
![How Much I Want by Marie Force]()
How Much I Want by Marie Force
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Force comes a steamy new contemporary romance in her Miami Nights Series that brings two people together who have nothing in common except their feelings for each other…NicoMy reputation with women stinks. I’ll admit I haven’t always treated them with the respect they deserve. That’s not to say I’m a bad guy or anything... -
![Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand by Andri E. Elia]()
Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand by Andri E. Elia
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn the planet Yand orbiting Yildun, the second star on the tail of Ursa Minor below the Polaris tertiary, lives a peaceful but fierce species of empathic, winged humanoids. Yanara’s worldmaker power is her planet’s last defense against the K’tul, a savage intergalactic invader... -
![Arminius and Thusnelda Versus Rome by Michael G. Kramer]()
Arminius and Thusnelda Versus Rome by Michael G. Kramer
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEmperor Augustus sent General Varus to complete the conquest by Rome of Germania. Instead of that happening, Armininius and Thunelda who were helped by some German warriors wiped out three entire Roman legions as well as all of their supporting units. Due to family jealousies and betrayal, Thusnelda was made a slave and her son called Thumelicus was made a gladiator who had some successes... -
![Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals by C. Toni Graham]()
Crossroads and the Himalayan Crystals by C. Toni Graham
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAn ordinary school day in Middlefield turns into a mystical tale filled with endless adventures of magic, fairies, flying horses, and danger. A modern-day saga of four young teens who find themselves trapped in another realm-"The Otherworld"-where they must abide by an evil druid's bidding or risk endangering the lives of their loved ones and the magical beings they have befriended... -
![Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence by Gabriel F.W. Koch]()
Paradox Effect: Time Travel and Purified DNA Merge to Halt the Collapse of Human Existence by Gabriel F.W. Koch
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 2554, the World is Coming to its End, unless an impossible mission through 600 years of time travel succeeds. Maternal instinct knows no boundaries, including the nano-neural-net intravenously installed in Dannia Weston's mind to repress her identity, allowing her to perform a mission 300 years before her time... -
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![Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko]()
Eye for Eye by J.K. Franko
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat would YOU do if someone hurt the one you love?Roy and Susie are the perfect couple, an ideal family living a fairy-tale life... until their teenage daughter is senselessly killed.Just as they’re managing to put that tragic loss behind them, a complete stranger approaches Roy in a bar with a drunken proposal—he invokes their daughter’s memory to ask Roy to kill a man... -
![Night of the Rat by Tanya Thompson]()
Night of the Rat by Tanya Thompson
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThere are just some men you can’t send from the house at midnight with a live rat in a trap and expect them not to somehow get the police involved. Granted, it sounds like an exaggeration, but Silas was more panicked about leaving the house than even the rat. Neither wanted to go. One had a family, the other had social anxiety... -
![Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy) by Maria Nhambu]()
Africa's Child (Dancing Soul Trilogy) by Maria Nhambu
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman Africa’s Child is an unforgettable and searingly personal book….In the face of repeated obstacles and injustices, Nhambu continued to analyze the world around her with wit and a sharp sense of humor... -
![Get Rich or Get Lucky by Max Nowaz]()
Get Rich or Get Lucky by Max Nowaz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSee Great 5* Reviews on GOODREADS A MAGIC HE NEVER KNEW EXISTED, YET WHICH HE MUST SOMEHOW CONTROL.... After a string of disappointments with his literary career, Adam decides to embark on a get-rich-quick scheme by renovating rundown houses. Then by chance, he discovers a book of magic in a hidden basement of the latest derelict property he has acquired for renovation. Adam can' believe his luck... -
![UNDER THE BUS by Kyle Keyes]()
UNDER THE BUS by Kyle Keyes
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHomicide detectives, Donde Clark and Juanito Lewis moved to Hobbs Creek just days before banker, Richard Ghetti was gunned down in the front room of his Lake Powhattan, water front cabin.Barbershop talk had it that divine providence played some part in transferring the two NYC lawmen from the Big Apple to this backwater town in South Jersey... -
![Back To You by Steve Bates]()
Back To You by Steve Bates
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSearching for history’s greatest pastrami on rye, Chris arrives from 1,000 years in the future and hides his time machine in an alley. But Eddie sees through the disguise, takes an unexpected ride, and demonstrates it to his boss at a failing cable TV network... -
![Feeling Lucky by M.S.M. Barkawitz]()
Feeling Lucky by M.S.M. Barkawitz
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSome characters and situations are fictitious. Others are only too real in this modern-day thriller set amid the chaos of a global epidemic and a cultural uprising that set the world ablaze. She's Lucky one day-Jackie the next. Actress or con artist? Avenging angel or gold-digger? Hunter or prey? Straight or lesbian? Black Lives Matter activist? Only she knows the truth... -
![The Ancestor by Lee Matthew Goldberg]()
The Ancestor by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike... -
![Problems at the Pub by Kirsten Fullmer]()
Problems at the Pub by Kirsten Fullmer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s another charming and madcap mystery! The enchanting tourist town of Sugar Mountain, NC is rewriting its tax codes, and no one knows why. Mayor Winslow is up to no good, and he doesn’t seem to care what happens to the local business owners; at least that’s how it feels to Monique Brewer, the local tavern owner... -
![Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko]()
Tooth for Tooth by J.K. Franko
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat would YOU do?What would you do if you got away with murder? Would you stop there? Could you?Susie and Roy thought that they committed the perfect crime.Their planning was meticulous. Their execution was flawless. But, there is always a loose end, isn’t there? Always a singing bone.Now, while enemies multiply and suspicions abound, their perfect world begins to crumble... -
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![Where There's Smoke by Kirsten Fullmer]()
Where There's Smoke by Kirsten Fullmer
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA picturesque mountain town, sparks of romance, a threatening mystery, and a secret society of devious women…“Wonderful characters, a real mix of women with varied strength and foibles” -Goodreads review 5 stars“I loved the first book in the Sugar Mountain series so I was really second to read the second installment and get back to investigating with the Sugar Mountain Ladies Historical Society”... -
![Westwind Secrets by Marilyn Dalla Valle]()
Westwind Secrets by Marilyn Dalla Valle
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDevastated by her husband's infidelity, romance writer, Mysti Wade, loads her personal possessions into a rented trailer and sets off to claim her unseen inheritance with her rescued hound, Zak. Left by her estranged grandmother, the Second Empire Victorian mansion on Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay is thirty years past prime condition. The estate has no money for maintenance and repairs... -
![Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller]()
Gulf Coast Cottage by Maggie Miller
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEscape to the Gulf Coast of Florida with Georgia Carpenter as she gets a second chance at life, love, and happiness. In the middle of an awful divorce, fifty-three-year-old Georgia Carpenter finds herself out of luck, time, and money. Then her phone rings with the news that her great aunt has died and left her a cottage in the Gulf Coast town of Blackbird Beach... -
![The Sacred Well Murders by Susan Rowland]()
The Sacred Well Murders by Susan Rowland
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA simple job turns deadly when Mary Wandwalker, novice detective, is hired to chaperone a young American, Rhiannon, to the Oxford University Summer School on the ancient Celts. Worried by a rhetoric of blood sacrifice, Mary and her operatives, Caroline, and Anna, attend a sacrifice at a sacred well. They discover that those who fail to individuate their gods become possessed by them... -
![Tempting Fate by Kylie Hillman, Judi Perkins]()
Tempting Fate by Kylie Hillman, Judi Perkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRevenge or the love of his life? Her soul mate versus her family? Whatever they chose, someone loses. Mik and Maddi. Mad Dog and his Angel. Mikhail Kennedy and Madelaine O'Brien. One without the other just doesn't seem right. They're made for each other; soul mates who've survived every obstacle thrown in their way. It should be smooth sailing from now on... -
![A Woman to Blame by Vincent Panettiere]()
A Woman to Blame by Vincent Panettiere
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHours after a thoroughbred racehorse collapses and dies after finishing last in a race he was favored to win, his trainer—a young woman with a promising career—is found dead on a suburban Chicago beach. To the police, it's a simple case of murder-suicide. But Mike Hegan, veteran police detective, refuses to believe the official story... -
![Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel by John M. Vermillion]()
Awful Reckoning: A Cade Chase and Simon Pack Novel by John M. Vermillion
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the heart of Silicon Valley, antifa kidnaps a Stanford student, the daughter of Wil Chambers, a man of exceptional wealth. Long ago, as football teammates at LSU, Wil and Cade Chase pledged mutual in extremis assistance. Cade drops his plans for transforming American secondary education and leaves Rockledge, not knowing when or if he will return... -
![The Well House III: The Redemption by M.S. Matassa]()
The Well House III: The Redemption by M.S. Matassa
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Well House III: The Redemption: The ultimate evil now roams the earth in a human body in order to set up his kingdom and rule the world. The year is 2016, and Ben Carson has fallen into a deep depression because his son, Taylor, has been held hostage for more than a year and Ben is unable to save him. Disturbing dreams are back, which give Ben clues on how to defeat the evil power... -
![Samantha's Revenge by Andrew R. Williams]()
Samantha's Revenge by Andrew R. Williams
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter changing shape several times, the ball eventually turned into a huge face. It floated alongside the air-car. This time, time instead of sending him mental message, the face spoke out aloud and the whole air-car vibrated with its intensity. "If you are foolish enough to renege on your contract, you will be severely punished. For your sake, I hope you wouldn't do such a thing... -
![Another Tear by Traci Bee]()
Another Tear by Traci Bee
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKevin Kennard gazed into the precious face of his newborn son, the offspring of the intoxicating love he shared with his wife, Simone. Closing his eyes, Kevin whispered a prayer of thanks. Life had given him a second chance at happiness far greater than anything he'd fathomed from inside the concrete walls of his prison cell... -
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![Brownout - 666: or the Real Meaning of the Swastika by John Richard Spencer]()
Brownout - 666: or the Real Meaning of the Swastika by John Richard Spencer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the land of flaunted sex, money, and flexible rules, an ambitious but lonely Rick Daly faces his demons. Rick Daly has established a business in the exotic surroundings of the Philippines, while simultaneously discovering Marilyn Delgado, the woman of his dreams. However, a clash of cultures and his own naiveté lead to disaster... -
![The Lazarus Men by Christian Warren Freed]()
The Lazarus Men by Christian Warren Freed
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt is the 23rd century. Humankind has reached the stars, building a tentative empire across a score of worlds. Earth’s central government rules weakly as several worlds continue their efforts toward independence. Shadow organizations hide in the midst of the political infighting. Their manifestations of power and influence are beholden only to the highest bidder... -
![A Gracious Enemy by Michael G. Kramer]()
A Gracious Enemy by Michael G. Kramer
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe full story of the three Indochina wars, told from both sides and including the plight of civilians caught up in the fighting. Of necessity, the politics of Australia, New Zealand, Britain, France, and the USA towards the push for independence and freedom by Vietnam and Laos are examined. The region known as Indochina is made up of the countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam... -
![Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook]()
Pleasant Day by Vera Jane Cook
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWITH MURDER IN COMMON FRIENDSHIP IS INEVITABLE. In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell. As Pleasant Day struggles with her mother's distance, her father's infidelity and the death of her best friend, she draws closer to Clarissa, an older woman with the secrets to heal her... -
![Betrayal of Justice by Mark M. Bello]()
Betrayal of Justice by Mark M. Bello
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis very topical, controversial, and prophetic novel is set in Washington D.C. and Dearborn, Michigan. In Washington D.C., a newly-elected president promises, in his inaugural speech, to “make America pure again... -
![Life for Life by J.K. Franko]()
Life for Life by J.K. Franko
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat would YOU do if someone threatened your family?Roy Cruise and his pregnant wife Susie barely survived an assassination attempt in their own home. The police now have them under surveillance. Meanwhile, Kristy Wise is a loose cannon—she knows too much and is trying to “set things right.”What goes around comes around. And in this case, Roy and Susie may have pushed things too far...
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