by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | General Nonfiction |
A true crime account of a brutal 1983 Texas murder and the ten-year hunt for the killer and the woman who placed a price on the victim’s head.“One of the most remarkable true crime books I’ve ever read.” —Ann RuleOn a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping peacefully in the next room when she was killed. Rozanne’s husband, Dr. Peter Gailiunas—and her lover, Larry Aylor—immediately fell under suspicion. Until a surprise informant identified the mastermind behind the murder as Aylor’s own wife, Joy—a woman so driven by jealousy and greed that she put out a contract on both Rozanne and later her own husband.On the run and managing to elude investigators for eight years, the two-year search for the socialite would eventually end in the south of France. There, authorities found the elusive femme fatale, living as comfortably among the world’s elite as she was among hired killers. At last, the authorities’ questions would be answered, to reveal a shocking insight into the heart of an unlikely killer, and a small-town Texas crime that made international headlines.“A masterpiece of murder and betrayal, Texas-style.” —Faye Kellerman, author of Grievous Sin“If Truman Capote invented the genre with In Cold Blood and Tommy Thompson improved on it with Blood and Money, Carlton Stowers has perfected the true crime story with Open Secrets.” —The Dallas Morning News“A must-read. Filled with more twists, surprises, and suspicious characters than even the most fertile imaginations could concoct . . . a difficult book to put down.” —Tulsa World
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Fantasy |
Keep your head down. Don’t make any enemies. And whatever you do, never let them see your wings.I’ve lived my whole life in a gilded cage, protected by my family but never able to show my true face to the world. So I did what any rebellious, hot-blooded teenage faery would do—I tricked them all and took off to live my own adventure.Too bad it ended in murder.Now I’m locked up inside the walls of Oberon Faery Reformatory, where no one knows my true identity. Well, almost no one. A note written by an anonymous author, calling me out for who I really am, wrecks my plans for escaping this awful place.Because if it gets out that Princess Aurora Finley Oberon was locked up for murder and has been Glamouring her true appearance her whole life, it could ruin the cohesive world my parents have worked so hard to build.So, until I figure out who wrote this note and neutralize the threat, I have to stay here. I have to keep my true self hidden, which means no one can see my power or my wings—both of which would be a dead giveaway that I’m not the normal faery I appear to be.I also have to keep my mind off a certain smoking-hot inmate with a huge chip on his shoulder who seems determined to knock me off my proverbial throne. Asher calls me Princess, like it’s the ultimate insult. If he only knew…There’s something off about this place and the archaic faery who created it. I just have to figure out what it is, who wrote that note, and find a way to escape, all while resisting the magnetic pull of Asher York.Easy, right?
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Contemporary Romance |
The job at Sunday Orchard was supposed to be temporary.A chance to gain some work experience. To have some fun. To get away from my overprotective brothers. To maybe, possibly encounter some lumberjacks in their natural habitat before moving on to the dream career that awaited me in the city. I had not expected to be welcomed into a family of gorgeous and weirdly efficient lumberjack-types myself. Or to find a purpose in the tiny Vermont town whose claim to fame seemed to be apple-based products and copious amounts of charm.And I most definitely hadn’t expected to fall for Knox Sunday, my grumpy, burly, fifteen-years-older, reluctant roommate, with his infuriating lectures, his hot-as-fire body, his superior attitude, his snarky humor, and his stealth cuddles.Now I find myself making excuses to delay my big dreams… just for a little while.But Knox has unfulfilled dreams of his own. A career he walked away from. A big city life in Boston he left behind when he returned to his hometown to help his family. He claims he’s not looking for anything permanent, and I’ve never been one to put down roots.My big life is waiting for me somewhere other than Little Pippin Hollow. So why does it feel like I’ve finally found the home of my heart?And how can I get Knox Sunday to… pick me?
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Fantasy |
The One They Fear is The Hero They NeedSorcery is dying out. No one misses it.Until a new god arrives in Dalriya. Unstoppable, Ezenachi brings only conquest and slavery. Sorcery is dying out, and now Dalriya needs a sorcerer more than ever.Feared and despised in equal measure, Sanc is only tolerated because he’s the son of the powerful Duke of Morbaine. But Sanc is more important than he knows. When there is an attempt on his life, he is forced to confront his true inheritance. Trained by the enigmatic sorcerer Rimmon, he has more questions than answers about his place in the world.Sanc’s brother Peyre knows nothing of magic. When he is exiled to the empire he meets Liesel, the beautiful daughter of the late emperor. He desperately wants to help her. But her brother is unstable. His minister is predatory and violent. And the witch, Inge, has her claws in them all.An Inheritance of Ash and Blood is the first book in the Heirs of War series. If you love riveting coming of age journeys, rich worldbuilding, political intrigue, brutal medieval battles, and dark sorcery, start Jamie Edmundson’s new series today!
by admin | Feb 26, 2025 | Advice & How-To |
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