Joyce Bean
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Bethanne Hamlin takes a road trip with her daughter, Annie, and her former mother-in-law, Ruth. They're driving to Florida for Ruth's 50th high school reunion. A long-time widow, Ruth would like very much to reconnect with Royce, the love of her youth. Bethanne's ex-husband, Grant, would like to reconcile, so she also has a major life decision to consider. And Annie is out to prove to her onetime boyfriend that she can live a brilliant life without...
2) Blue Smoke
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Reena Hale at 12 is almost raped, her family restaurant burned to the ground. In university, her boyfriend burns in his apartment. She becomes an arson investigator, haunted by obscene phone calls and horrific crimes. On the good side is Bo Goodnight, who sought Reena for years, and will not let her go.
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Vowing to make a fresh start, Sarah McAdams has come home to renovate the old Victorian mansion where she grew up. Her daughters, Jade and Gracie, aren't impressed by the rundown property on the shores of Oregon's wild Columbia River. As soon as they pull up the isolated drive, Sarah, too, is beset by uneasy memories--of her cold, distant mother; of the half-sister who vanished without a trace; and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found on the widow's...
4) The Rope
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 17
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"In The Rope, the latest in Nevada Barr's bestselling novels featuring Anna Pigeon, Nevada Barr gathers together the many strings of Anna's past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes...
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 9
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Sonnet Romano drops everything and heads home when she learns that her mother is, against all odds, pregnant, and her plans are to go back to her wonderful life once the baby comes and things settle, but, when her mother receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet is forced to make the hardest decision of her life.
6) Betrayal
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Kate and Alex Rocket are blessed with a wonderful, though childless marriage. Sara and Emily, the affectionate daughters of the Rocket's good friends seem part of the family until Sara accuses Alex of a heinous act. Alex is convicted and sent to prison. But, an even greater tragedy strikes and Kate has no choice but to turn her grief into anger against those who destroyed everything she and Alex shared.
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James Shelby has been unjustly convicted of his wife's murder. In order to save him from prison or death, Jane orchestrates his escape from the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. But the price of Shelby's freedom is higher than Jane ever could have imagined. Within minutes, imposters posing as police officers shoot Jane, take her away, and tie her to a mattress in a small, dark room. Jane's captors are employees of the...
8) Obsession
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Katherine Lawrence is in real trouble. Two men have bound her and her friend with duct tape in the kitchen of her upscale Washington, D.C., townhouse. They keep asking about the location of a safe she knows nothing about, and they seem willing to kill. When Katherine regains consciousness, her neighbor, Dr. Dan Howard, is in the hospital room. Her memories are vague. She recalls that her boyfriend, Ed, a very powerful and scary man, is also her boss...
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When Jenner Redwine wins the lottery, she never imagined how much it would cost her. Luckily she finds an ally-and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege in a shy, kind-hearted heiress who invites Jenner on a charity cruise. But what should have been a "Love Boat" cruise suddenly turns into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger, and Jenner finds herself taken hostage by a menacing stranger--a stranger that helps her rediscover feelings...
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Daisy Bellamy struggled for years to choose between two men, and then, one fateful day, the decision is made for her. Now busy with a thriving business on Willow Lake, Daisy knows she should be happy with the life she's chosen for herself and her son. But she still aches for the one thing she can't have, until the man once lost to her reappears, resurrected by a promise of love. Now the choice Daisy thought was behind her is the hardest one she'll...
11) Fireside
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Bo Crutcher, a professional baseball player, gets help from Kimberly van Dorn, a public relations expert, in dealing with both the media and his long-lost son, AJ. It's while spending the winter with Bo and AJ at Willow Lake, Kimberly begins to fall in love with her client
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"Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her. She settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming - temporarily, at least - and takes a job at a local diner. And now she's hiked this mountain all by herself. It was glorious, she thinks, as she peers through her binoculars at the Snake River churning...
13) Summer Island
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Forced to learn things about the mother she's hated for years, Ruby Bridge learns some tough lessons about love, forgiveness, and understanding. But it's a lesson that comes at a painfully high cost.Nora Bridge has built a highly successful career as an advice columnist valued for her frank honesty and high moral standards. She is nationally syndicated in the newspapers and has a radio talk show on a Seattle station. But when a devastating scandal...
14) Murder list
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At a gathering a shady self-help guru, who may be responsible for the death of one of his devotees, persuades his guests to partake in an innocent little "cleansing game". He asks the people to make a list of the people who have hurt them over the years and poses the question "Would your world be a better place if these people ceased to exist?". Regan Hamilton Madison, a hotel heiress plays along. Later, the first person on her list turns up dead.......
15) Killjoy
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In this breathless new novel, Julie Garwood has written her most electrifying thriller to date.
Avery Delaney has always tried to put the past far behind her. Abandoned by her rapacious, conniving mother when she was only three days old, Avery was raised by her grandmother and beloved aunt Carolyn. Then, when she was eleven, she witnessed her grandmother’s violent death, before Avery herself was shot and left for dead. Miraculously...
Avery Delaney has always tried to put the past far behind her. Abandoned by her rapacious, conniving mother when she was only three days old, Avery was raised by her grandmother and beloved aunt Carolyn. Then, when she was eleven, she witnessed her grandmother’s violent death, before Avery herself was shot and left for dead. Miraculously...
16) Hidden Salem
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"A town shrouded in the occult. An evil that lurks in the dark. The SCU returns in a hair-raising novel from New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper. Nellie Cavendish has very good reasons to seek out her roots, and not only because she has no memory of her mother and hardly knew the father who left her upbringing to paid caregivers. In the eight years since her twenty-first birthday, very odd things have begun to happen. Crows gather near her...
17) The island
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Modern-day piracy, decomposing human remains and a swanky Miami yacht club set the mood for this thriller when, during a weekend camp-out on isolated Calliope Key, Beth Anderson and her 14-year-old niece, Amber, stumble on a half-buried human skull
18) Fired Up, book 2
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More than three centuries ago, Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsessionfueled competition with alchemist and Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Driven to control their psychic abilities, each man's decision has reverberated throughout the family line, rewarding some with powers beyond their wildest dreams, and cursing others to a life filled with madness and hallucinations.
Jack Winters, descendant of Nicholas,...
19) Light in Shadow
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Suspecting that a new client is hiding a dark secret, home decorator Zoe Luce enlists the help of investigator Ethan Truax, with whom she falls in love despite the dark secrets of her past that could destroy their budding romance.
20) Borderline
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Hoping the adventure of a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Paul takes Anna to southwest Texas. Instead of the soul-soothing experience they'd longed for, the couple finds a pregnant woman--more dead than alive--and soon they are sucked into a labyrinth of intrigue that leads from the Mexican desert to the steps of the Governor's Mansion in Austin.