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A Memorable Man

The Memorable Man: Adam Grainger had never met the beautiful woman named Sunny until now, yet she claimed they knew each other intimately.The Woman He Forgot: Strong, tough men from Wyoming didn't forget women they'd been involved with—it was the code of the West.Their Supposed Passion: She did seem privy to his every desire....If Adam Grainger had ever made love to Sunny, let alone ever seen her, he would have remembered. The lovely lady had delusions of a love that had never existed. Yet Adam couldn't deny she had impossible knowledge of his innermost soul....
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Falling for the Ghost of You

Seventeen year old Violet Mercer returns home from her summer vacation in Hawaii to discover her boyfriend's cheating on her with a friend. As if that wasn't bad enough, her mother's marrying a man she just met.Things take an awkward turn when Violet meets her rich new stepfather, and his gorgeous son--the hot guy whom she made a fool of herself in front of earlier that day! Zane O' Connor is sexy and charming, and way out of her league. He makes her forget her ex-boyfriend even existed. But there's no way she'd ever have a chance with him...right?Through a strange turn of events, Violet finds herself living with Zane for a month. Somewhere between the fighting and flirting, they become friends. And it isn't long before that friendship blooms into something else...something more powerful than Violet anticipated. But Zane is hiding something from her--something big enough to tear them apart if Violet ever discovered the truth about him. Her suspicions keep her from trusting him completely. She's been burned before--is she willing to take that risk again?As she and Zane spend more time together, Violet realizes it's too late: she's fallen for the beautiful boy with the big secret. Will she get her heart broken twice in one year--or will her love survive the truth?For readers seventeen and older due to sexual situations and [email protected]
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The Clue in the Embers

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
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The Twenty Days of Turin

Written during the bloodiest phase of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English language debut.In the spare wing of a church-run sanitarium, some fervent youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another's private diaries and connect with like-minded types. But does this pre-Internet experiment in social media attract anyone normal? Is the Library an answer to isolation or a honey-trap for antisocial content that drains its contributors' souls? As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis," climaxing in nighttime massacres, the Library is shut down and erased from history. That is, until a self-driven investigator suspects that the unnamable forces behind these unexplained events have continued in the shadow of public amnesia. His inquiry leads him through the city's netherworld of occultists and to a singular reward for his stubborn curiosity....
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Zombie Girl

WARNING: contains swearing, and some moderate gore and violence.Imagine waking up to find the world has ended, but unfortunately you're not alone...For Connor Innis, awakening from a year-long coma with no memories, no ability to move, and unable to speak was bad enough. Then he learns that a bioweapon set off a zombie apocalypse—for real—while he was sleeping, and the world he can't even remember no longer exists.Rehabilitation might be torture, but far worse awaits him outside. All too soon, the hospital Mentor declares him fit to leave with nothing to go home to except a city full of mindless, flesh-eating monsters. That is, until he forms a strange relationship with the one he nicknames 'Zombie Girl'.Previously published by Lycaon Press, 22nd April 2015.
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The Mystery off Old Telegraph Road

Trixie walked over to her friend and grabbed her by the shoulders, forcing Honey to look at her. “What is it, Honey?” she asked. “What happened?” “Oh, Trixie,” Honey wailed, “I just got the most horrible phone call. H-He said I should call off the bikeathon. He—he said if 1 didn’t— if the bikeathon went on as scheduled next Saturday— that something awful would happen. ‘You can be sure of it,’ he said... 73-505-111978 0-307-21591-1
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Can’t Say No

After tragedy strikes, Bree Penoyer’s feelings of guilt leave her speechless-literally. Tired of always being the good girl and just letting things happen to her, Bree decides it’s time to take life into her own hands. She dumps her lucrative but uninspiring career and her sweet but boring fiancé, and escapes to her late grandmother’s rustic cabin in South Carolina to find herself again. Her solitude is immediately disrupted by her new neighbor, Hart Manning, a sexy but arrogant rogue who doesn’t seem capable of taking no for an answer. The last thing Bree wants is an affair, especially with a self-proclaimed womanizer like Hart. But she can’t deny he arouses her as no man ever has, and when at last she finds her voice, she’s very ready to say yes!
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Bellows Falls

Joe Gunther is seconded to the neighboring town of Bellows Falls to investigate harassment allegations against a fellow officer. What begins as a seemingly open-and-shut case comes to look more and more like a frame job as Gunther doggedly pursues the truth, and soon he finds himself feeling around the edges of a statewide drug distribution network. As always, Vermont itself is a major character in Mayor's writing, with Bellows Falls standing in for any number of slowly decaying once-proud mill towns. 
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Strange Brain Parts

Strange Brain Parts is a collection of four dark and somewhat absurd short stories. How would you react if your sister was having an affair with Frankenstein’s monster? Is there a reason why aliens only abduct certain people? How do you attend a concert that took place three days prior? What would you say if you were offered immortality but you were required to become a serial killer?
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Bound to Fate (Bound Series, #1)

Lara Johnson is coping with the emotional scars of losing both parents in a tragic incident and facing the challenges of starting a new school. Getting involved in a relationship isn't on her priority list. Certainly not this illicit desire for a man, who demands the best from her, yet leaves her breathless in his presence.All Ike Thomas wants to do is to keep out of trouble and get through the one year internship required for his degree program. But trouble finds him, in the form of an intelligent and brave girl who turns his world upside down. Falling in love is forbidden. So why does it feel so right?A love like theirs cannot be denied. But catastrophe lies in wait and one night changes their lives forever.Bound to Fate is a story about surviving tragedy, forgiveness and the overwhelming love that pulls through against the odds.Content warning: This book contains scenes that might be triggering for some readers.
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