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Featured Book: The Burden of Hate by Helen Starbuck

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How far would you go for someone you love? How much hate would you need to commit murder?

Revenge. Hate. Fear. Not exactly traditional wedding gifts. But when convicted killer Ian Patterson escapes from prison, operating room nurse Annie Collins and fiancé assistant district attorney Angel Cisneros are forced to confront these realities head on.

Will Ian Patterson’s quest for revenge toward the two people responsible for sending him to prison—Annie Collins and Angel Cisneros—bring them face to face to settle the score once and for all?

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First Strike: Keepers of the Universe Book 1 by Angela Haas

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First Strike: Keepers of the Universe Book 1 by Angela Haas

Stella Jayne Walsh, New York City’s top-rated trauma surgeon, holds an astounding record. She’s never lost a patient—until the day she does. In that moment, her world shatters, and she’s swept into an adventure that launches her from Manhattan into alien worlds in the far reaches of space.
John “Ryder” Alexander is a handsome rogue and one of the most decorated soldiers in the galaxy—until he turns unwilling mercenary, blackmailed into committing heinous crimes.
Stella is targeted by a woman hell-bent on creating a universe where other women don’t exist and all men bend to her will. Stella and her crew of misfits must stop this villain before she helps awaken a slumbering force of evil.
Can Stella let go of the life she knew and learn to trust her unlikely new team to save everyone—and everything—she loves?

Featured Book: FATE: Did FATE reunite Jake and Sam to save each other’s lives? by Richard P. Ley

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About Featured Book: FATE: Did FATE reunite Jake and Sam to save each other’s lives? by Richard P. Ley

His anguish is too much to bear. But when he reconnects with a bright spark from his youth, can he find his way back to hope?

Jake Clark is fighting a losing battle against depression. And with personal tragedy clawing at his fraying resilience, he’s devastated by the impossible task of saving his ailing toy company from bankruptcy. So, on a flight to an industry convention, he’s one swig away from taking a lethal dose of pills… until he looks up and sees Samantha, his first love, standing in the aisle, looking down at him.

Eager to catch up after years apart, Sam shoves Jake into the airplane’s lavatory as they ride out extreme turbulence, bouncing together in close quarters for the rest of the flight. The spark between these childhood sweethearts immediately rekindles and Sam would dump her fiancé in a flash for her first love, Jake, until she sees his wedding ring, and confirmation that he loves his wife.

Unaware that she may have saved Jake’s life, her fiancé’s shady business connections drag both into dangerous waters and gives Jake a chance to return the favor and become Sam’s life preserver.

Did fate reunite Jake and Sam to save each other’s lives and can they live without each other?

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The Trash Harem by Marilyn Meredith

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The Trash Harem by Marilyn Meredith

Now retired from her job as a sheriff’s deputy, she receives a message from friends who once lived in Bear Creek and attended her husband’s, Pastor Hutch, church. The friend, Jonathan, is a suspect in a murder of one of the residents in a retirement community in Temecula where he and his wife now live. The retirement community includes many quirky individuals who might have had a better motive than Jonathan While attempting to solve the mystery; Tempe has several visitations by Earle Stanley Gardner, the famous mystery writer who gives her some suggestions. A bit of history of the Pechanga Indians is woven in including the revered Pechanga Old Oak. You’ll have to read the book to find out what a trash harem is.

Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope by D. I. Hennessey

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Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope by D. I. Hennessey

An ancient mystery…
A skeptical genius…
Powerful evil ancestors…
A dangerous underworld Crime Syndicate…
A horde of disembodied offspring of fallen angels who threaten the entire world!

Niergel Chronicles – Last Hope describes a journey of discovery, danger, and extraordinary mysteries. It follows the fantastic adventure of a young man with a surprising heritage as he uncovers the astonishing truth about his family history and the earth’s past. He finds himself facing dangerous perils and shocking supernatural threats. All while contending with unsettling truths that upend his understanding of science and the world, forcing him to face the reality of a Creator whose existence he has adamantly denied.

While following the evidence all around him, Jeff’s most profound discovery is the one he least expects — the proof of God’s creative hand.

Featured Book: Sassy Senior Sleuths Return by P.C. James

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In Sassy Senior Sleuths Return, Pauline and Nona are once again vacationing and solving mysteries wherever they go.
Where they go this time is Vancouver and Sudbury in Canada, Wisconsin, Death Valley, and a cruise in the Caribbean. All wonderfully peaceful spots until our senior sleuths arrive and things start to happen.

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Featured Book: Star Tangled Murder by Nancy J. Cohen

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Hairstylist Marla Vail and her husband get tangled up in murder when their Fourth of July visit to a living history village ends with a bang—and a body.

Salon owner Marla Vail and her detective husband Dalton are having a blast visiting a Florida living history village over Fourth of July weekend. But when a Seminole battle reenactment turns up a real dead body, it sets off fireworks among the villagers. One of the cast members has gone off script to murder the town marshal with a tomahawk in his head.

As Dalton gets involved in the investigation, Marla determines to help him solve the case. Her flare for uncovering secrets reveals that everyone in the village is a suspect. Instead of celebrating the holiday with red, white, and barbecues, she discovers secrets, lies, and false avenues. Did the marshal’s murder have anything to do with a lost Confederate payroll, or did his plans to renovate the park light a fuse that he couldn’t snuff out?

In a place where history comes alive, the dead bodies are piling up. Marla would rather be chilling and grilling, but somebody’s mind is on killing. If she’s not careful, her sleuthing might blow up in her face like a faulty firecracker and she’ll become the next victim. Recipes Included!

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Featured Book: Silence in the Land of Gold by James Finch

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George Wilford is a long-time foreign lawyer in Burma and has been hired by a new firm in town headed by Seth Drake. When George is tasked by Seth to fix a mistake that threatens to bring down the firm, he is led to an intrigue over a fortune lost in an air crash involving the Burmese military and the Kachin Independence Army. With the help of Molly Durberville, another lawyer in the firm, George must solve the mystery of the air crash in order to save his own life—and Molly’s.

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Empire: Capital by Tim Goff

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Empire: Capital by Tim Goff

The Solarian Empires decades long war against demon ruled Traag ended in a pyric victory. Now, the nation teeters on the brink of collapse. Worse, the demons are still out there.

Tia traveled to the imperial capital to testify at the trial of a traitor tied to eldritch abominations. She remained to court the rowdy knights roaming the palace halls. But strange dreams plague her, and the intrigues are turning deadly…

Rebecca is ‘playing the palace’ when not acting as Tia’s maid – but there’s something wrong with her music…

Sir Peter Cortez enjoys hanging out with his old comrades – but some of them are up to no good…

Kyle marks time while confronting his past and pondering his future.

Together and apart, they find peril and opportunity.

Reliance by Paul McMurrough

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Reliance by Paul McMurrough

An eruption on the Sun leaves the Earth powerless, but is it a temporary inconvenience or the start of a spiral into anarchy?
Belfast Professor Martin Monroe knows the answers, but once branded a conspiracy nut, he struggles to get anyone to listen to his warnings of the impending disaster. His only friend, Simon Wilson, still coming to terms with the loss of his wife, is the only person who will listen.
Fighting against bureaucracy and her own lack of confidence, Government Communications officer Lisa Keenan struggles to get the word out. Despite the protests of her colleagues, she enlists the help of the professor.
With a wife and new-born child to think of, Prison supervisor, Derek Henderson, must weigh duty against family, and live with the consequences of an impossible decision.
Will the world’s total reliance on technology, and the electricity that powers it, lead to the irreversible disintegration of society on a global scale?