On her twenty-fifth birthday, Emma Montrose decides it's time to show bad-boy investigator Jack Sullivan she's more than an efficient secretary. She's a woman with needs, and she needs him.Jack is a taniwha, a shifter, who requires women to satiate the sexual demands of the serpent within. Nothing more. Then work forces the reluctant Jack and ecstatic Emma undercover as a couple. Thrown together, pretence and reality blur, generating hot sex laced with risk...Publisher's Note: Story originally appeared in the Ellora's Cave anthology Men to Die For. Views: 97
A robot robbery suggests science fair foul play in this Hardy Boys Secret Files mystery.It's time for the annual Bayport Science Fair, and Frank, Joe, and their friend Phil are determined to have the winning entry. With their spiffy homemade robot, they are convinced they can finally top their classmate, Cissy Zermeno, who has won the past two years.But right before the boys are about to bring Mr. Roboto to the fair, Phil discovers that their prized creation has gone missing! Did town bully (and usual suspect) Adam Ackerman steal him out of jealousy? Or was Cissy worried she would have to settle for second place this year?It's up to the boys to figure out how Mr. Roboto found his way out of Phil's garage. Will they get him back in time to compete? Views: 97
An ex-con finds a new life and love in a place called Hope.
The boys from Ride 'em Cowboy are back! This time Royce and Parker are worried that their friend Brett Taylor has made a big, big mistake in hiring a new man to help run Hope Ranch. Joel Harper, the local sheriff, is especially concerned as he’s been notified by the authorities that the man has only recently been released from Wyoming State Penitentiary.
Josh Kenyon has spent eight years behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit, and that he was framed for. Brett believes him, and when the feelings they have for one another become much more than mere attraction, he is determined to find someone who can prove Josh’s innocence.
But his good intentions cause unforeseen chaos when a man from Josh’s past arrives with only one thing in mind—silencing Josh forever. Views: 97
This story takes place three years after Luke and Brina get married.Brina has been running the Kingston Foundation for two years now. The Kingston Foundation is a trust set up in her brother’s memory to ensure veterans get the mental health care they need. When Brina meets a guy who served with her brother and finds out he’s homeless, she invites him over for dinner.Will Brina’s need to help others get her in trouble with Luke again? Views: 96
Earl "The Pearl" Monroe is a basketball legend whose impact on the game transcends statistics, a player known as much for his unorthodox, "playground" style of play as his championship pedigree. Observers said that watching him play was like listening to jazz, his moves resembling free-floating improvisations. "I don't know what I'm going to do with the ball," Monroe once admitted, "and if I don't know, I'm quite sure the guy guarding me doesn't know either."Traded to the New York Knicks before the 1971-72 season, Monroe became a key member of the beloved, star-studded 1972-73 Knicks team that captured the NBA title. And now, on the 40th anniversary of that championship season--the franchise's last--Monroe is finally ready to tell his remarkable story.Written with bestselling author Quincy Troupe (Miles, The Pursuit of Happyness) Earl the Pearl will retrace Monroe's life from his upbringing in a tough South Philadelphia neighborhood through his... Views: 96
Sally Beauman's international bestseller sweeps across decades and continents to tell a spellbinding story of star-crossed loveEdouard's story begins in London in 1940. At fourteen, he's the son of a baron and second in line to a dazzling jewelry dynasty.H\u00e9l\u00e8ne's story begins in Alabama in 1950. An only child, she lives with her mother in a trailer park and dreams of escaping her hardscrabble life.Their paths cross in France, and a brief, passionate affair follows. They are separated by fate, and that seems to be the end. But Edouard cannot devote his life to business . . . not before finding H\u00e9l\u00e8ne again.Destiny is Sally Beauman's masterpiece about a man and a woman and their once-in-a-lifetime love. Views: 96
One hundred years of French history seen through the eyes of the Peniel family Views: 96
Book
Description:
Now for the first
time, the second set of three titles in the cozy coffeehouse mystery series,
Maggy Thorsen Mysteries, in a box set!
Brewed, Crude and Tattooed (Book 4):
A torrential spring snowstorm leaves
Maggy and her friendly (and not so friendly) neighboring tenants stuck in the
strip mall where her coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, leases space in Brookhills,
Wisconsin.
Shut up in her coffeehouse with little
light and no heat, Maggy looks for help from her neighbors in the plaza...but
while crossing the snow-filled parking lot, Maggy nearly trips over the mall's
landlord, Way Benson, who has a hatchet in his back and looks very, very dead.
Since Way's plan was to evict all the
tenants and sell the space to a superstore chain, the list of enemies and
suspects is hardly meager. Figuring out who had the means to do it...that was
going to be the tricky part.
But when Way's ex-wife is also killed,
the clear and obvious motive goes out the window. Then when there's another
death, Maggy is scrambling to pick up the pace and solve the murder...before
she's next...
From
the Grounds Up (Book 5):
When a freak spring snowstorm destroys
her beloved coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, Maggy Thorsen resolves to reopen.
With her best friend, Sarah, as an ally, they find the perfect spot right near
the train station – and lucky for Maggy that she’s just in time for the opening
of a new commuter route. Seems things are finally looking up for the amateur
sleuth and barista extraordinaire!
But then Sarah’s uncle dies under
suspicious circumstances…and Maggy’s instinct tells her that his death was no
accident. And when there are more suspicious “accidents,” Maggy must uncover
the link between the deaths…or she may just never be able to reopen Uncommon
Grounds!
A
Cup of Jo (Book 6):
Maggy Thorsen, cynic extraordinaire, has
a few things to feel optimistic about lately.
After her original coffeehouse, Uncommon Grounds, was destroyed in a
freak May blizzard, Maggy and her best friend, Sarah Kingston, have found the
perfect spot to relocate – right next to the new commuter train in Milwaukee.
After successfully securing the spot,
Maggy and Sarah plan to piggyback the city’s celebrations for the train and
re-open Uncommon Grounds on the same day.
In fact, Maggy’s feeling so positive, she even digs deep in her budget
and hires a giant inflatable coffee cup to attract more notice to her grand reopening.
All seems to be running right according
to plan…until Maggy’s event manager is found dead – and now Maggy must find the
killer before the killer finds her!!
About the Author
Sandra Balzo turned to mystery writing
after twenty years in corporate public relations, event management and
publicity. Triple Shot, her seventh Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery, was just
released, and Sandy's second series, Main Street Mysteries, debuted with
Running on Empty. The books, set in the popular vacation destination of North
Carolina's High Country, will alternate with the Maggy Thorsen mysteries. Heaven's Fire,
about a fireworks show gone badly wrong, was released directly to Kindle with
excellent reviews.
Balzo's novels have been nominated for
both the Anthony and Macavity awards and received starred reviews from Kirkus
and Booklist. In addition to her books about coffee-maven Maggy Thorsen and
displaced journalist AnnaLise Griggs, Balzo writes short stories, two of which
have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, winning the Macavity,
Derringer and Robert L. Fish awards. Those psychological thrillers, along with
a third original story, are available in The Grass is
Always Greener and Other Stories.
Balzo has handled publicity for three
Bouchercons (World Mystery Conventions), as well as the International
Association of Crime Writers, and has served a national board member of Mystery
Writers of America. A native of southeastern Wisconsin, she currently splits
her time between Florida and the High Country of North Carolina.
And roots for the Green Bay Packers.
www.sandybalzo.com
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Aadith Varma is the hottest guy in Bollywood-in keeping with his latest movie role, he is known as the ultimate romantic hero.Until his PR manager ruins his reputation by conveying him as the ultimate playboy! Aadith needs someone to help redeem his image fast,the movie's success depends upon it.That person has to be Nina Shah, she's the best PR person in the business, except he and Nina have a past...Nina doesn't want the job, she once lived next door to Aadith and had a crush on him,but devastatingly, he rejected her advances, thinking that she was too young. Nina was crushed,and has avoided bumping into him in the film industry. Now they are face to face again. Aadith sees that Nina is all grown up and absolutely gorgeous, but he is not interested in marriage. Nina knows that this time she needs to protect her heart from Aadith and she will certainly stand up to him.Sparks might fly between them,but resisting each other? That's impossible! Views: 96
