It's a Trust Thing

It's a Trust Thing

Peggy Jaeger

Romance / Contemporary / Mystery

Nell Newbery has trust issues. It's hard to trust when you're the daughter of a fallen financial scion who bilked people out of billions. Nell's done everything in her power to keep away from men who see her as their ticket to fortune and fame. All she wants to do is run her ultra-successful business, HELPFUL HUNKS, in peace.But it wouldn't hurt to find a guy who doesn't know a thing about her father's felonious past; one she can give her heart to and trust it won't come back to her battered, bruised, and broken. Is Charlie Churchill that guy? On the surface he seems perfect, all polished manners and quiet mirth. Nell's convinced he knows nothing about her, other than she likes superhero movies and views junk food as a food group. Can she trust him to be what he appears to be? Or is he just pretending? For Nell, trust is everything in life...and in love.
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I am the Sea

I am the Sea

Matt Stanley

Matt Stanley

1870. Apprentice lighthouseman James Meakes joins two others at the remote offshore rock of Ripsaw Reef – replacement for a keeper whose death there remains unexplained.Meakes' suspicions grow as he accustoms himself to his new vertical world. He finds clues, obscure messages and signs that a fourth occupant may be sharing the space, slipping unseen between staircases.With winter approaching, the keepers become isolated utterly from shore. Sea and wind rage against the tower. Danger is part of the life. Death is not uncommon. And yet as the storm builds, the elements pale against a threat more wild and terrifying than any of them could have imagined.'Unsettling and outstanding in equal measure' Kerry Hadley-Pryce'An ingenious and unsettling work full of knowledge, imagery and really unpleasant surprises' Jean Levy
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The King's Cowboy

The King's Cowboy

Madeline Ash

Madeline Ash

He's the reclusive king no one expected—in love with the cowboy he left behind. Prince Tommy Jaroka's social anxiety rules his life. And it weighs heavier than the crown when an attack drives him to step up and lead. A king can't hide from his people. Disguised, he throws himself into local nightlife in a bid to confront his demons, and is blindsided by an entirely different pain—his best friend of twenty years and secret love, Jonah Wood. Battling public duties and a threat to the throne, Tommy has no fight left to hide from the sweetest man this side of the sun. Jonah has spent his whole life not belonging. Not with his family, not in small-town Montana, and—he learned when Tommy ended their friendship with a royalty bombshell—not by Tommy's side. Now, half a world away in a city like a rainbow, he can finally be himself. Until Tommy appears, intense in his true royal power, with a confession that changes...
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Stories My Grandmother Told Me

Stories My Grandmother Told Me

Gabriela Maya Bernadett

Gabriela Maya Bernadett

The illuminating and deeply personal debut from Gabriela Maya Bernadett, Stories My Grandmother Told Me explores culture, race, and chosen family, set against the backdrop of the twentieth-century American Southwest.In a hilly Southern California suburb in the late twentieth century, Gabriela Maya Bernadett listens as her grandmother tells her a story. It's the true story of Esther Small, the great-granddaughter of slaves, who became one of the few Black students to graduate from NYU in the 1940s. Having grown up in Harlem, Esther couldn't imagine a better place to live; especially not somewhere in the American Southwest. But when she learns of a job teaching Native American children on a reservation, Esther decides to take a chance. She soon finds herself on a train to Fort Yuma, Arizona; unaware that each year, the Bureau of Indian Affairs kidnaps the native Tohono O'odham children from the reservation and forces them to be educated in the...
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All or None

All or None

Tara Sue Me

Romance

Conquer. Control. Command. They have. They are. They will. They are the Wall Street Royals, men at the top of their game who are about to be mastered by the one thing they never counted on: love. Don't miss the third and final book in the seductively sexy series by New York Times bestselling author Tara Sue Me. All-Or-None: An order that must be followed immediately and to the letter or not done at all. Ty and Lillian Bancroft had the life everyone wanted. They were young, wealthy, and beautiful. Deeply in love, everyone said they were a match made in heaven. Until one night shot their whole world straight to hell. Now divorced, Ty and Lillian get along just fine. As long as they live on separate continents. When changes at the company they both work for send Ty back to the United States, Lillian submits her resignation. To ensure Ty doesn't follow, she signs up to volunteer in the hurricane ravaged Florida Keys. Ty isn't going to...
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Floridian Nights

Floridian Nights

Lance Ringel

Lance Ringel

August, 1988 – the hottest summer in more than a century in New York, a city shadowed by the AIDS epidemic. Gary Gaines is 35 years old and three years past losing, in the most sudden, unexpected, terrible way, the love of his life, Becker Barnes. And then again, he is not past it at all. One night, to forget their mutual pain, Gary and his best friend Julia Stern, an even more recent widow, venture out to a funky East Village restaurant. There Gary meets, in the most unlikely circumstances, Rick Fennell, a 22-year-old waiter freshly moved from the Midwest. Despite the generation gap between them, a relationship slowly begins to develop. But Gary cannot bring himself to take Rick seriously, and his tight circle of family and friends, all of whom adored Becker, share his skepticism. Abruptly, circumstances cause Gary to decamp from New York to his parents' home in Florida. As the days and nights pass, he is forced to face the consequences of his paralyzing grief, and make...
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Tracking Concealed Evidence

Tracking Concealed Evidence

Sharee Stover

Sharee Stover

Unearthing clues in a murder could be the last thing they do... To salvage his reputation, former forensic entomologist Jamie Dyer and his cadaver dog search for clues in a dismissed homicide—and find the victim's sister, Detective Shaylee Adler, buried alive. Convinced her senator brother-in-law is behind the attack on her and her sister's disappearance, Shaylee needs Jamie's expertise. But can they uncover a deadly conspiracy before the killer buries the case—and them—for good?From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
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Lich Hollow: An Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure (Fae Nexus Book 2)

Lich Hollow: An Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure (Fae Nexus Book 2)

Nathan Ameye

Nathan Ameye

A lich, a storm dragon's claws, and a battle for freedom.Gage has a week to rescue his loved ones before they're sacrificed, but if he's going to fight through an army of demons to get them out of the prison camp, he's going to need a powerful weapon.An ex-Demon Hunter turned lich is rumored to have just the thing: the claws of an ancient storm dragon that will give Gage the powers of a Storm Lord. But the lich was banished into the Dreaming a century ago, so tracking him down won't be easy.Stealing treasure from a lich is no simple task, but if he has to, Gage will pry the weapon from the monster's cold, undead hands.
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