by admin | Apr 20, 2025 | Historical Romance |
A heartbroken man, a frustrated spinster, and a marriage of convenience that proves quite inconvenient.Simon Kingsley is in desperate need of a wife. After years of searching, he finally found love. Unfortunately, she wed another, and now, it’s time to settle for someone with whom he can share his life. Love is no longer an option for a man whose heart is irrevocably broken.Mina Ashbrook longs to marry for love but knows she’s too old, too plump, and too plain to catch a gentleman’s eye. And a marriage of convenience is better than being a spinster sister living off her brother’s charity. Simon may not love her now, but Mina knows there’s hope—if she can convince him that love comes in many forms.Will Mina find a way to heal Simon’s heart? Or will the shadows of the past keep them from finding happiness together?
by admin | Apr 20, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
The gloves are off for Secret Service agent Rob Stone as his hunt for an assassin leads him to a deadly agenda too terrible to contemplate.”Smarter than Bond, tougher than Reacher…” USA Today”A P Bateman writes cracking thrillers…” Stephen Leather, Sunday Telegraph bestselling author”A master of the action adventure genre…” The Midwest Book Review”One of the best thriller writers out there…” The Daily Mail
by admin | Apr 20, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
USA TODAY BESTSELLER In the vein of Big Little Lies and Reconstructing Amelia comes an “atmospheric, absorbing page-turner” (Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author) about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. And pregnant.A search for the truth. A lifetime of lies. In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she’s pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia’s wrists. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia’s fall an accident, Abi decides to find out what really happened that night. Heartbroken and grieving, she unravels the threads of her daughter’s life. Was Olivia’s fall an accident? Or something far more sinister? In this “complex, emotionally intense first novel” (Publishers Weekly), USA TODAYbestselling author Christina McDonald weaves a suspenseful and heartwrenching tale of hidden relationships, devastating lies, and the power of a mother’s love. With flashbacks of Olivia’s own resolve to uncover family secrets, this taut and poignant novel asks: how well do you know your children? And how well do they know you?
by admin | Apr 20, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
In a forest of secrets, every monster leaves a trace.After years hunting killers in the city, happily divorced Detective Rose Landgreen retreats to her childhood farm in upstate New York—ready for quieter cases, fresh air, and time with her aging mother. But peace is short-lived when a local dog walker uncovers a shallow grave in the woods behind her family’s land.As Rose digs deeper, the case unearths more than bones: a long-cold disappearance, whispers of a gruesome local legend, and the kind of secrets that twist a town in on itself. With a rookie partner too green to trust and a community convinced something monstrous stalks the forest, Rose must rely on her instincts and confront the ghosts of her past—before history repeats itself.Gripping and atmospheric, this character-driven police procedural is perfect for fans of small-town mysteries with a dark, psychological edge.
by admin | Apr 20, 2025 | Crime Fiction |
“A gripping mystery starring a fascinating female detective . . . an exciting debut procedural that will leave readers wanting more from Caz Frear.” —BustleTwenty-six-year-old Cat Kinsella overcame a troubled childhood to become a Detective Constable with the Metropolitan Police Force, but she’s never been able to banish these ghosts. When she’s called to the scene of a murder in Islington, not far from the pub her estranged father still runs, she discovers that Alice Lapaine, a young housewife who didn’t get out much, has been found strangled.Cat and her team immediately suspect Alice’s husband, until she receives a mysterious phone call that links the victim to Maryanne Doyle, a teenage girl who went missing in Ireland eighteen years earlier. The call raises uneasy memories for Cat—her family met Maryanne while on holiday, right before she vanished. Though she was only a child, Cat knew that her charming but dissolute father wasn’t telling the truth when he denied knowing anything about Maryanne or her disappearance. Did her father do something to the teenage girl all those years ago? Could he have harmed Alice now? And how can you trust a liar even if he might be telling the truth?Determined to close the two cases, Cat rushes headlong into the investigation, crossing ethical lines and trampling professional codes. But in looking into the past, she might not like what she finds . . .“A gripping mystery.” —People“A dark and smart page-turner.” —The New York Times“Outstanding . . . a confident first novel that successfully melds the police procedural with the psychological thriller.” —South Florida Sun Sentinel
