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61) The girlfriend
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Laura has it all. A successful career, a long marriage to a rich husband, and a twenty-three year-old son, Daniel, who is kind, handsome, and talented. Then Daniel meets Cherry. Cherry is young, beautiful and smart but hasn't led Laura's golden life. And she wants it. When tragedy strikes, a decision is made and a lie is told. A lie so terrible it changes their lives forever... -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Raines of Wind Canyon volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Some women find trouble wherever they go. And some men are their only protection against it. Redheads like Maggie O'Connell are nothing but trouble. But Trace Rawlins, an army-ranger-turned-private-investigator, takes her case anyway. After all, he knows how to deal with women. Trace can sense that something's wrong - Maggie isn't telling him everything. If these menacing calls and messages are real, why won't the police help her? Bestseller
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exits. Indira doesn't like Jude. Jude doesn't like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they can rely on is each other? On paper, Indira has everything together. An amazing job, a boyfriend, and a car. What more could a late twenty-something ask for? But when she walks in on her boyfriend in an amorous embrace with a stranger, that...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mia wants to keep her head down -- not get distracted by handsome billionaire Dylan Fairweather! Asked to plan his sister's wedding, she can't say no to his other outrageous proposition: pose as Dylan's girlfriend so he can assess his future brother-in-law's intentions! Shy Mia doubts anyone would believe he's dating her . . . especially if they discovered the secret past she's worked so hard to leave behind. But as she grows closer to Dylan, Mia...
65) The liar
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Liar is one of Danish novelist Martin A. Hansen's best known and popular fictions. Published in 1950, the story, which takes place shortly after World War II, is told in the first person and concerns the inhabitants of a tiny island in the Danish archipelago"--
Author
Series
Brides for billionaires volume 3
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The playboy sheikh's last temptation... Thanks to a recent scandalous expose, the damage to Sheikh Zayn Al-Ghamdi's reputation is threatening his family's future. So when fiercely independent Amalia Christensen has the gall to blackmail him with further ruination, to ensure her innocent brother's freedom, Zayn choses to keep his enemies close...and make Amalia his temporary fiancee! Zayn's only duty is to his country. He can't allow himself any emotional...
67) Providence
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Lausson has everything he thought he wanted: a coveted job at elite Sawyer College in Ohio. But at the start of his second year, stuck in a small town with deadlines piling up and paychecks falling short, Mark can already feel the fantasy crumbling. And then, a few weeks in, sophomore Tyler Cunningham shows up in class. In Tyler--confident, mysterious, and popular--Mark glimpses another way of being in the world. He finds Tyler's self-possession...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Cat Winthorpe has worked hard to get what she has: a gorgeous home; social standing; and William, her successful, handsome husband. Then a friendly new couple moves into the estate next door. While cautious, a good neighbor like Cat greets them with open arms and warm hospitality. Neena Ryder isn't a fellow lady of leisure. A life coach with off-the-rack dresses, personal issues, and a husband who hasn't delivered, she's anxious to move up in the...
69) Hybrid
Author
Series
The hybrid volume 2
Publisher
Enclave Escape
Pub. Date
[2024].
Language
English
Description
After narrowly surviving several attempts on her life, Lee Urban retreats into hiding, seeking refuge with her family for the Lunar New Year. But the relaxing holiday turns into a heist when someone crashes the party with intel on the hybrid’s identity. Driven by desperation, Urban accepts a position within the elite Dragons AI team, a high-stakes gamble that will propel her into the heart of the turbulent West. As she follows the elusive...
70) City of lies
Author
Series
Poison wars volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
I was seven years old the first time my uncle poisoned me... Outwardly, Jovan is the lifelong friend of the Chancellor's charming, irresponsible Heir. Quiet. Forgettable. In secret, he's a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellor's family from treachery. When the Chancellor succumbs to an unknown poison and an army lays siege to the city, Jovan and his sister Kalina must protect the Heir and save their city-state. But treachery...
Author
Publisher
Cozy Cat Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the owner of a traveling carnival is strangled--not once but twice--on opening night of the summer fair in Hollydale, the police surmise he was not well liked. As the head of Hollydale's citizens' association and local liaison with the carnival, Damon Lassard feels obligated to help his dear friend, Detective Gerry Sloman, solve the crime. Damon is determined to bring the killer to justice, to the fascination of his mother, best gal pal Rebecca,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge (including one previously unpublished) showcases heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit. These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly. The novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't...
Author
Series
Blackwater brides volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Long ago, young Viscount Bradley's prudish family forbade him to marry his beloved. Now, the aging lord has plotted a subtle revenge. His three nephews can split his fortune, but only if each marries a fallen woman. Two have found brides who meet the terms and all depends on the youngest, Peregrine Sullivan... Only desperation would drive a lady to disguise herself in hopes of employment, but the twenty thousand pounds that their father promised beautiful...
75) City of lies
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"John Harper has just made a discovery: the father he believed to be dead for more than thirty years is alive, though lying in a coma in a Manhattan hospital. Returning home to New York brings with it memories of childhood, many of them painful, and yet Harper could never have prepared himself for the truth. Confronted with the reality of his father's existence, Harper finds himself seduced by a lifestyle that he seems to have inherited--an underworld...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Terry Painter enjoys her quiet life in tranquil Delray, Florida, where the single, forty-year-old nurse lives alone in the house she inherited from her mother. When young, vibrant Alison Simms rents the cottage on her property, the two women strike up a fast friendship -- and Terry is swept into a fantastic new life: dinners out, shopping, makeovers, even flirting with the handsome son of one of her elderly patients. But nothing about her newfound...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Violet Young is a hugely popular journalist-turned-mummy-influencer, with three children, a successful husband and a million subscribers on YouTube who tune in daily to watch her everyday life unfold. But one day she disappears from the online world -- her entire social media presence deleted overnight, with no explanation. Has she simply decided that baring her life to all online is no longer a good idea, or has something more sinister happened to...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When shy, lonely Ivy meets a woman who claims to be her long-lost sister, she knows it's too good to be true. She decides to trust Kate anyway. She wants a family. She wants someone to love.She's making a mistake. Ivy enters Kate's fairytale cottage, deep in the heart of Scotland . . . and she doesn't come out. She's the first to go missing.She won't be the last. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Tash's journey is just beginning . . ."--Publisher....
79) The catch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? The burly and bearded B and B owner and fisherman, Evan Whaler--who single-handedly disproves the theory that Canadians are "nice." After a boating accident lands Evan unconscious in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his...
80) Out of her depth
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the lush green hills beyond Florence sits the Villa Medici—a graceful pensione surrounded by manicured gardens. Rachel, a college student from an unfashionable London suburb, can’t believe her luck in landing a summer job here. Especially when she’s drawn into a circle of privileged young sophisticates, including her glamorous coworker Diana, who promises to help Rachel win the affections of handsome, confident Sebastian. But as champagne...
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