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  Safe at Home

  by Richard Doster

  The spring of ’53 started out like any other for sports columnist Jack Hall, as he and the rest of his small southern town, Whitney, eagerly awaited the magical first pitch that would open the Bobcat’s season. But when ticket sales wane with the new distractions of air conditioning and I Love Lucy, the Bobcats face an early end not only to the season but to their careers as well. The team needs a white knight to... (more)
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  Billionaire Games: Book 1

  The Marriage Bargain

  by Sandra Edwards

  Camille Chandler is a career-driven tabloid journalist who's barely a year out of college and shouldering a mountain of student loans that are coming due soon. Her internship at Disclosure Magazine in Los Angeles is ending and she's anticipating a permanent offer of employment with the publication. Camille's plans for the future are right on track-until her boss sees a curious ad in the L.A. Trades. Wanted: single... (more)
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  The Mill River Recluse

  by Darcie Chan

  Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, and suffering her entire life with severe social anxiety disorder, the widow Mary McAllister spends almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the mail, the media, an elderly priest with a guilty habit of pilfering spoons, and a bedroom window with a view of the town... (more)
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  Jungle Of Deceit

  by Maureen A. Miller

  Mitch Hasslet, a war photojournalist relegated to a desk job, is the sole witness to a heist of Mayan artifacts. Recruited by the enigmatic director of the Museum of Art and Antiquities, Mitch is sent to Guatemala, the last location the shipment was tracked to. Acting as the museum staff photographer, Mitch joins a group of archaeologists. His goal is to locate the artifacts as swiftly as possible so that he can... (more)
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  Double Dare

  by Rhonda Nelson

  Runaway bride Louisa Honeycut is looking for a quick escape when she passes the Double Dare, Inc sign and the slogan "Are you ready for the time of your life?" seems like divine intervention. Sheltered by her overbearing father, Louisa has years of catching up to do and can think of no better person than gorgeous Sam Rawlins to show her. Is she ready for the time of her life? Hell, yes. Ordinarily unflappable... (more)
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  The Gauntlet Assassin

  by L. J. Sellers

  This book was formerly titled The Arranger.
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  Liars, Cheaters & Thieves: A Detective Jackson Mystery

  by L.J. Sellers

  Thursday night, a young veteran’s throat is slashed in a parking lot. Friday morning, an older women dies of a heart attack when she realizes her bank account has been cleaned out. The homicide-scene evidence points to the man’s cheating wife, but when Detective Jackson finds bizarre materials in their home and a link to a phony charity, the case gets complicated. When another man is killed, Jackson and his team... (more)
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  Family by Choice: Book 2

  If Only

  by Robin Nadler

  Can one moment in a life truly define it? Is it possible to move beyond that defining moment and create something meaningful? What if that moment is so horrifying it can’t be overcome, just survived? How do you learn to live again after your life is torn apart and all you knew to be real and true wasn’t? You ask yourself the questions we all wonder. If only I had done something different If only I was more... (more)
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  Family by Choice: Book 1

  Nothing Matters

  by Robin Nadler

  Dr. Jack Stephens didn’t care. Nothing mattered to him. He didn’t care about feelings. He didn’t care about love. If it wasn’t on the operating table, he never cared about the heart. For a world-class cardiac surgeon, he was as closed off to love as they come, the living definition of irony. It wasn’t until he took a minute for himself on the hospital roof and saw a woman standing on the ledge that he realized... (more)
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  A Slice of Life

  by Margaret Lake

  Originally published in the anthology, A Walk in the Woods, with six other stories.Grace Coulter has been hiding in the kitchen of her family restaurant since she was eight years old. That’s when the name-calling began. Stretch, skinny-minny, boy in girl’s clothes, all because of the slender height that had her towering over even the tallest boys in the class.Now, nearly thirty years later,... (more)
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  Trading Up

  by Sandra Edwards

  A high school reunion... A weekend husband... Finally, a chance to save face! Tiffany Pearson hasn’t been home in eight years, not since her ex-fiancé left her standing at the altar—literally. Not even a ten-year reunion can induce Tiffany to chance a trip back home when the gossip is alive and kicking in her small hometown of Driftwood, CA—not unless she can waltz in on the arm of some hottie she’s convinced to... (more)
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  What the Dog Ate

  by Jackie Bouchard

  "The vet handed Maggie Baxter a plastic specimen bag containing a pair of size-tiny lavender thong panties extracted from her dog; but they were not hers. Or rather, they were hers now since she’d just paid $734 to have Dr. Carter surgically remove them from Kona’s gut." This is how Maggie Baxter, a practical, rule-following accountant, discovers that her husband of seventeen years is cheating on her. All her... (more)
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  Family by Choice: Book 3

  Love Endures (Family by Choice)

  by Robin Nadler

  How much is too much for a human being to handle? What is it about the human spirit that enables us to push on through insurmountable odds? When it is easier to simply give up? For Julie and Bill, that question loomed over their heads. Serving his second tour in Iraq left Bill with more questions than answers and the possibility of never seeing his wife or newborn son again was an ache he felt every minute of... (more)