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  • Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up...
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    animals  family  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction
  • Big Game by Stuart Gibbs

    Big Game by Stuart Gibbs

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle's pregnant (and endangered) Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, the zoo steps up security measures in order to protect this rare animal and her baby.But the extra security isn't enough;someone is still getting too close for comfort...
  • Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Secret in the Santa by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
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  • Clover Cottage by Christie Barlow

    Clover Cottage by Christie Barlow

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A page-turning new cosy novel in the bestselling Love Heart Lane series – perfect for fans of Katie Fforde, Phillipa Ashley and Milly Johnson! Love Heart Lane – where friends are there for you no matter what. When Vet Rory Scott inherits ramshackle Clover Cottage in the quaint village of Heartcross, Allie MacDonald just knows this is their happy ever after...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  dogs  fiction  holidays
  • The Mother's Day Mishap by Kathi Daley

    The Mother's Day Mishap by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this new mystery series by Kathi Daley, author of the popular Zoe Donovan Cozy Mystery Series. It's Mother's Day in White Eagle Montana and spring has come to the small foothills community...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime  culinary
  • The Christmas Clause by Kathi Daley

    The Christmas Clause by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this cozy mystery series. With just two weeks until the highly anticipated Christmas on Main event, the tiny town of White Eagle Montana is all decked out for the season...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  holidays
  • Vegetables and Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Vegetables and Vengeance by Agatha Frost

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Julia South-Brown is busy. Between trying for a baby, having her adopted daughter move out, renovating her beloved cafe, and training for the annual Peridale marathon, she doesn't have much time for anything, especially solving the recent murder of local farmer, Ted Coleman...
  • Revenge in the Roses by Dale Mayer

    Revenge in the Roses by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Riches to rags. ... Bullets start flying. ... Rage is rising, ... especially for some!When the journey to Rosemoor for a celebratory evening turns deadly, Doreen’s life is flipped on her head. She can only watch in horror as Mack is shot right in front of her. Horrified, she vows to solve this case and fast, before the shooter realizes he failed and comes back for a second attempt...
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    animals  family  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  cats  contemporary  cozy
  • The Wedding Plan by Kathi Daley

    The Wedding Plan by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    If you love small towns, endearing relationships, food, animals, and a touch of murder, you will love this mystery series set in the small town of White Eagle Montana. In book 10 in the series, Tess and Tony plan a secret wedding ceremony, Nona plans a visit, and Tess and Mike plan a face to face meeting with their father. Of course you know what they say about the best laid plans...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  dogs  fiction
  • Thea Stilton and the Legend of the Fire Flowers by Thea Stilton

    Thea Stilton and the Legend of the Fire Flowers by Thea Stilton

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Join Thea Stilton and the Thea Sisters in this adventure packed with mystery and friendship!The Thea Sisters are in Hawaii to compete in an international hula festival. The mouselets are having a great time -- until they learn that the festival is located on the side of a volcano that is about to erupt! No one else seems know about the danger...
  • Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Whiplash by Janet Dailey

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Fans of edge of your seat romance and readers of B.J. Daniels, Lindsay McKenna, and Diana Palmer won’t want to miss this electrifying and genuine new page-turner from the bestselling romance legend. When Val Champion returns to the family ranch, she’s ready to put her past behind her. Her dreams of a Hollywood acting career have become a nightmare of fear...
  • The Last Thing She Said by Lauren Carr

    The Last Thing She Said by Lauren Carr

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I’m working on the greatest mystery ever,” was the last thing noted mystery novelist Mercedes Livingston said to seven-year-old Chris Matheson before walking out of Hill House Hotel never to be seen again.For decades, the writer’s fate remained a puzzling mystery until an autographed novel and a letter put a grown-up Chris Matheson on the trail of a cunning killer...
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    animals  horses  family  romance  mystery  fiction  dogs  contemporary
  • Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Good Vibes Only by Gregory Ashe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Just vibing. Good Vibes Only is a collection of short stories from Iron on Iron. It includes the “All the Feels” Jem and Tean get settled in their temporary new home. This story is set after The Face in the Water . “Add Me Back” Theo and Auggie (especially Auggie) spend time with their new friends. This story is set before The Girl in the Wind . “Adulting is Hard” North and Shaw are..
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    family  animals  romance  mlm  contemporary  mystery  crime  suspense
  • Handcuffs in the Heather by Dale Mayer

    Handcuffs in the Heather by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Riches to rags. ... Everything is under control, ... until it isn’t. And Doreen’s in the middle of it!The four boxes of files Doreen inherited from journalist Bridgeman Solomon have already helped her solve one crime, and Doreen hopes they’ll continue to assist her as she sticks her nose into future cases...
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    animals  family  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Yukon Justice by Dana Mentink

    Yukon Justice by Dana Mentink

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sabotage on a family ranch…this K-9’s on the case.When her estranged uncle attempts to sabotage her family’s reindeer ranch, K-9 team assistant Katie Kapowski heads home to help save it—and becomes his target. With their rocky past, Alaska State Trooper Brayden Ford and his furry partner are the last team Katie wants assigned to protect her...
  • The Body on the Barstool by Lolli Powell

    The Body on the Barstool by Lolli Powell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    2016 WISHING SHELF INDEPENDENT BOOK AWARDS BRONZE WINNER!New Yorker Erica "Ricki" Fontaine's n'er-do-well uncle has dropped dead and left her a dive bar in a small Ohio River town. With a lousy apartment, less-than-promising job prospects, and even worse romantic ones, the inheritance comes at just the right time. Ricki packs up her cat and heads for the Buckeye State...
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    animals  mystery  cozy  fiction  cats  contemporary  humor
  • Heavenly Honeymoon by Kathi Daley

    Heavenly Honeymoon by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In true Zoe Donovan fashion, Zoe ends up in jail on the second night of her honeymoon after she finds herself the only suspect in the first murder Heavenly Island has seen in a decade. Although she has been ordered to leave the investigation to a man known only as Toad, she can't help but snoop around just a bit while enjoying the tropical paradise with new husband Zak...
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    animals  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  fiction  mystery
  • Lethal Lobster by Hope Callaghan

    Lethal Lobster by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ~~ Click the “Buy now with 1 click” button at the top of the page OR Read it for FREE with Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime ~~ Lethal Lobster Is Book 3 In The Cruise Ship Christian Cozy Mysteries Series BONUS: Recipe Included! Assistant Cruise Director, Millie Sanders' day is off to a shockingly bad start when her boss “volunteers” her to be his Guinea pig for a stun gun self-defense class in...
  • The Halloween House by Kathi Daley

    The Halloween House by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Every town has one. The big old house which has stood empty for so long that no one really remembers anyone living there. The iconic subject of lore and folktales which hints at supernatural occurrences, tragedy, and family curses, that can be neither confirmed nor denied...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime  fiction
  • The Thanksgiving Trip by Kathi Daley

    The Thanksgiving Trip by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The entire Thomas family takes a Thanksgiving trip to a mountain cabin after Tess learns that her father visited the area every autumn to hunt and fish before his supposed death in a fiery truck accident...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime  fiction
  • Dagger in the Dahlias by Dale Mayer

    Dagger in the Dahlias by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Riches to rags. … Chaos quiets. … Crime is circling. … And cold cases never cease …After almost a month in picturesque Kelowna, Doreen Montgomery still can’t keep her notoriety to a minimum or her nose out of other people’s business. Now those suffering from the loss of a loved one seek her out, wanting her help...
  • Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! by Donna Andrews

    Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! by Donna Andrews

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    'Tis the season for sleuthing in Donna Andrews' cheery new addition to the New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow series.Meg has been roped into participating in a weaponsmithing competition, a Forged in Fire wannabe organized by a blacksmith friend...
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    animals  family  mystery  cozy  fiction  humor  audiobook  killer
  • Her Guarded Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Her Guarded Hero by Caitlyn O'Leary

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can He Save Her Life? Can She Save His Soul?Navy SEAL Dalton Sullivan, once again, seeks solace in the wilderness. As he treks through the forests surrounding Lake Tahoe shots ring out, and he watches in horror as a woman is thrown off her horse and lands unconscious at his feet.Aurora Chance has no idea why someone wants her dead...
  • Kickback by Damien Boyd

    Kickback by Damien Boyd

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Trainee jockey, Noel Woodman, has been kicked to death by an aggressive stallion at a horse racing stables near Bridgwater. Everyone is convinced it was an accident, except his brother, Jon, home on leave from Afghanistan...
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    animals  family  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Shadow Horse by Alison Hart

    Shadow Horse by Alison Hart

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Thirteen-year-old Jasmine Schuler must prove that the man she attacked killedher horse...
  • Chicken Culprit by Vikki Walton

    Chicken Culprit by Vikki Walton

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Check Out the First Book in the New Backyard Farming Mystery Series CHICKEN CULPRIT Finally healing after her heart-breaking divorce, Anne Freemont is ready to put the painful past behind her. Discovering an old Victorian for sale in the small mountain town of Carolan Springs may be just what she needs. The beauty of Colorado beckons, so Anne heads west to start her new life...
  • Mystery on Main Street by Dianne Harman

    Mystery on Main Street by Dianne Harman

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Secondhand Treasures.Gino’s Pizza Parlor.Barney’s Antiques.Sure, everybody could use a little extra cashBut is stealing from a business worth the risk of getting caught?Someone thought so.Someone is going to prison...
  • A Scandalous Husband by Bev Pettersen

    A Scandalous Husband by Bev Pettersen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    PRISON CHANGES EVERYTHING. It’s been two rough years since Dani Tattrie has seen her husband. She didn’t plan on running their California ranch by herself, but she’s scraped by. Now though, a string of bad luck has left her reeling and ready to sell. Training horses is still her dream job but she’s never recovered from her husband’s bewildering incarceration...
  • A Home for Haley by Mary Jane Morgan

    A Home for Haley by Mary Jane Morgan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Haley Donahue’s husband has been missing in action for more than a year, a year of waiting and pain as she watches other soldiers return home to their families. Determined to build a better life for her toddler Ryan, Haley relocates to Nashville and takes a job as nanny to a little girl learning to live without her mother...
  • Ours by Fiona Quinn

    Ours by Fiona Quinn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ours is but to do or die.A novella from Fiona Quinn’s bestselling Kate Hamilton SeriesScience teacher Kate Hamilton is moving to Washington D.C. to be closer to her disabled SEAL husband.Her marriage is held together by a thread. Her baby is due very soon…too soon...
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    animals  mystery  military  contemporary  murder  fiction
  • Chancing Hope by Lisa Slater

    Chancing Hope by Lisa Slater

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In "Chancing Hope," readers are introduced to Kerwyn Bartel, a skilled young horse trainer with an uncanny ability to recognize a horse's potential and help them overcome their fears. However, applying these same instincts to his own life proves to be much more challenging...
  • Whirlwind by Alison Hart

    Whirlwind by Alison Hart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Here is the much-begged-for sequel to Shadow Horse. With a feisty female protagonist, a little romance, a lot of mystery, and a barnful of animals just waiting to be loved, this young adult horse mystery novel will have young girls galloping to the bookstore to grab their copy...
  • Gun in the Gardenias by Dale Mayer

    Gun in the Gardenias by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery—and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot—as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime  female-mc
  • Killer in the Kiwis by Dale Mayer

    Killer in the Kiwis by Dale Mayer

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Riches to rags. ... Chaos again. ... Winning is important, ... at least for some!Doreen is overwhelmed with joy when she sees all the volunteers who show up to help get her deck addition built. Most of the men are cops, friends of Corporal Mack Moreau’s, and are happy to help Mack’s special friend and the lady who has helped solve so many crimes for them with a spot of home renovation...
  • To Kill a Labrador by Kassandra Lamb

    To Kill a Labrador by Kassandra Lamb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Marcia (pronounced Mar-see-a, not Marsha) likes to think of herself as a normal person, even though she has a rather abnormal vocation. She trains service dogs for combat veterans with PTSD. Then the ex-Marine owner of her first trainee is accused of murdering his wife, and Marcia gets sucked into an even more abnormal avocation–amateur sleuth...
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    animals  family  romance  mystery  cozy  fiction  dogs  audiobook
  • Owl Be Home for Christmas: A Meg Langslow Mystery by Donna Andrews

    Owl Be Home for Christmas: A Meg Langslow Mystery by Donna Andrews

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews returns with another Meg Langslow mystery written "firmly in the grand tradition of Agatha Christie's Christmas books" (Toronto Globe and Mail)...
  • Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague

    Dear Mrs. LaRue: Letters from Obedience School by Mark Teague

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A dog laments his fate at obedience school through a series of hilarious letters home.When Ike LaRue is "imprisoned" at the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy, he tries everything to get sent home -- from weepy letters to his owner to illness. In reality, Brotweiler is more like camp than prison, but still, Ike's not cut out for life without Mrs. LaRue...
  • Mink River by Brian Doyle

    Mink River by Brian Doyle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Like Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle’s stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people...
  • A Dog's Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron

    A Dog's Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel A Dog's Purpose, which is now a major motion picture!Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn't allow dogs, Lucas can't resist taking Bella home...
  • Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

    Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town...
  • Harlow by Kathi Daley

    Harlow by Kathi Daley

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Hathaway Sisters is a new mystery series by USA Today Bestselling Author Kathi Daley. In book 2 of the series, bookstore owner Harlow Hathaway buys forty boxes of books, some rare and some not, at the estate sale of a man who recently died...
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    animals  family  adult  amateur-sleuth  book  contemporary  cozy  dogs
  • Death Comes to Cornwall by Kate Johnson

    Death Comes to Cornwall by Kate Johnson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The perfect holiday destination. The perfect place for murder... Molly Higgins never expected to be caught up in a murder investigation. All she'd hoped for this year was to work hard, save enough money to open her very own café on the Cornish coast and avoid her ex, Conor Blackstone, who has just arrived back in the village...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime  culinary
  • Christmas Ranch Rescue by Lynette Eason

    Christmas Ranch Rescue by Lynette Eason

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    HER CHRISTMAS PROTECTOR When his former crush is suspected of funneling drugs through her ranch, it’s DEA agent Nathan Williams’s job to find out if Becca Price is guilty. But after Becca is attacked, his top priority becomes protecting her. Convinced she’s innocent, Nathan is determined to find the real culprit before the escalating threats become deadly...
  • The Inn at Misty Lake by Margaret Standafer

    The Inn at Misty Lake by Margaret Standafer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Susan Taylor needs a fresh start. Tired of Chicago and especially of her job at a posh hotel, she figures she’s found the perfect solution to her problems in Misty Lake. Converting an abandoned farmhouse into a bed and breakfast means she will finally have the chance to be the one calling the shots. Riley McCabe has his doubts about the project Susan proposes...
  • Misty Lake in Focus by Margaret Standafer

    Misty Lake in Focus by Margaret Standafer

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For Cassie Papadakis, a lonely childhood inevitably led to a lonely life. Trusting no one, she threw herself into her work and avoided relationships at all costs. Until she met Frank McCabe and everything changed. Two weeks with him taught her what happiness was. But then, in an instant, her world was shattered. Frank never understood why Cassie disappeared so suddenly from his life...
  • Te-Kill-Ya Sunrise by Patti Larsen

    Te-Kill-Ya Sunrise by Patti Larsen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tequila is a terrible way to go…The young woman who’d ordered the double shot margarita took it with wide eyes and a thumbs up as she sampled it through the straw, walking back toward her table in the sand on wobbling platform sandals unsuited to the footing...
  • Discord by Drethi Anis

    Discord by Drethi Anis

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Brandon: The unthinkable happened; a possibility I had been avoiding my entire life. I should give her up but leaving her behind was no longer an option. Mia: Brandon Cooper was bad news; plain and simple. I should have been scared straight and sworn off my previous obsession. Instead, I turned to him during a vulnerable moment, only to spark his sinful ways all over again...
    Categorized as:
    family  contemporary  dark  fiction  gothic  mystery
  • Cupid's Christmas by Bette Lee Crosby

    Cupid's Christmas by Bette Lee Crosby

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a fun Christmas Romance, Cupid is charged with making certain an older couple gets the love they've been waiting for and a young woman who’s far too attracted to handsome men with sexy eyes finds her perfect match. And, he has to make it happen by Christmas...
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    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  epic  female-mc  fiction
  • Iced Spy by A. Gardner

    Iced Spy by A. Gardner

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The small town of Bison Creek has been chosen to host the highly-anticipated Sugar Mountain Bake-Off. But as a new snowstorm rolls in, Essie Stratter finds a frozen body near the lake - the body of her former client. As Essie joins in the murder investigation she discovers that her tiny hometown is tangled in a web of secrets. Secrets that could stab her in the back like a deadly icicle...
    Categorized as:
    animals  family  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  female-mc  fiction
  • Waiting for Ru by Barbara Elsborg

    Waiting for Ru by Barbara Elsborg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ruari Byrne may not have had an easy life, but now he’s determined to live in the present, not his past. Trouble is, it’s hard to be independent when you’ve no money and no qualifications. All Ru knows is horses, and when he finds out that his beloved Joni and Cookie are off to auction, his heart is in his throat...
    Categorized as:
    animals  family  horses  abuse  adult  age-gap  angst  book
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