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A plethora of subplots unnecessarily complicates a convincing romance in this standalone contemporary romantic thriller from bestseller Krentz (When All the Girls Have Gone). After the mysterious death of eccentric artist and cult survivor Hannah Brewster, art gallery owner Virginia Troy-a fellow survivor who believes Hannah was trying to warn and protect her-tracks down private investigator Cabot Sutter. As children, Virginia and Cabot survived a...
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TV producer Farrell Slater just stumbled on a story that might save her career...or get her killed. A prestigious New York auction house just sold a Fabergé Egg for six million dollars. But, Farrell knows it is a fake. So does a college student who promised never to tell the location of the real one. And so, does a cunning murderer who has already dismembered one victim...set fire to another...and strangled still another in order to carry off the...
4) Untouchable
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"Quinton Zane is back. Jack Lancaster, consultant to the FBI, has always been drawn to the coldest of cold cases, the kind that law enforcement either considers unsolvable or else has chalked up to accidents or suicides. As a survivor of a fire, he finds himself uniquely compelled by arson cases. His almost preternatural ability to get inside the killer's head has garnered him a reputation in some circles--and complicated his personal life. The more...
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"As a little boy, I had a dream that my father had taken me to the woods where there was a dead body. He buried it and told me I must never tell. It was the only thing we'd ever done together as father and son, and I promised not to tell. But unlike most dreams, the memory of this one never left me. And sometimes...I wasn't altogether sure about one thing: was it just a dream?"
When Augusten Burroughs was small, his father was a shadowy presence
6) You will pay
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It starts as a prank -- a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors, tensions and hormones are running high. No wonder the others agree when Jo-Beth Chancellor suggests they scare Monica O'Neal a little--or a lot. Monica has it coming, and no one will really get hurt. What could go wrong? Twenty years later, Lucas Dalton, a senior detective with the sheriff's department, is investigating the discovery of...
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Madeline and Daphne were once as close as sisters--until a secret tore them apart. Now it might take them to their graves. They knew his name, the man who tried to brutally attack twelve-year-old Madeline in her grandmother's hotel. They thought they knew his fate. He wouldn't be bothering them anymore...ever. Still their lives would never be the same. Madeline has returned to Washington after her grandmother's mysterious death. And at the old, abandoned...
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While parked at a gas station, Rhonda sees something so incongruously surreal that at first she hardly recognizes it as a crime in progress. She watches, unmoving, as someone dressed in a rabbit costume kidnaps a young girl. Devastated over having done nothing, Rhonda joins the investigation. But the closer she comes to identifying the abductor, the nearer she gets to the troubling truth about another missing child: her best friend, Lizzy, who vanished...
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"The superheroes of Split Rock are hunkering down, which is really just a fancy way of saying they're hiding. Ever since those supervillainous Joneses took away their real powers, the Baileys and the Johnsons have been living in fear. But Rafter has had a taste of what saving the day feels like, and now he's desperate to do something important. So when he gets an opportunity to fight with a real superpower - as long as he promises not to tell his...
11) The book of lies
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On the English Channel island of Guernsey, a teenage girl's Mean Girls-like experience pushes her to murder her best friend in a scandal, she will discover, that mirrors her uncle's previously unknown story from the days of the island's Nazi occupation during WWII. Told through the voices of fifteen-year-old Cat Rozier and her long-dead Uncle Charlie-known to Cat only by the audio recordings he left behind-The Book of Lies lucidly illuminates the...
12) Jealous Earth
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When Jilly Acton stopped at a country pub for the night, she was told the story of his life by Dan Randall. But, could it really be true or was he just a good narrator? Bill the landlord, swore that every word was the truth, and made Jilly promise not to tell anyone else about it.
13) The Secret Trail
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Aria Wilder has a secret ... One she promised not to tell. But when her mother goes missing and she winds up lost in an ancient world — inhabited by powerful Elementals, and danger lurking around every tree-guardian, everything changes. Joined by her best friend, Ethan; Aria embarks on an action-packed quest and discovers her true destiny — to fulfil the legacy of the Earth Keepers legend. But with a new enemy waiting in the shadows, and his sinister...
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A Magazine Celebrating RomanceISSUE 7: FEBRUARY 2018Lezli Robyn & Tina Smith, EditorsShahid Mahmud, PublisherHeart's Kiss is a bi-monthly romance magazine published by Heart's Nest Press, the romance imprint of Arc Manor, an award-winning independent publisher based in Maryland.The magazine has a mix of original and reprint stories, excerpts, serializations, columns and non-fiction, book recommendations and interviews with prominent personalities...
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"Don't Breathe a Word is a haunting page-turner that kept me up, spine shivering and enthralled, way past my bedtime."
-Joshilyn Jackson, author of Gods in Alabama and Backseat Saints
"Jennifer McMahon never flinches and never fails to surprise…as [she] weaves a young couple into a perverse fairyland where Rosemary's Baby could be at home."
-Randy Susan Meyers, author of The Murderer's Daughters
Two young lovers find themselves ensnared in a...
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In the gossip rags, socialite Lizzie Denton's situation looks pretty ugly… Lizzie meets boy, Lizzie dumps boy, brokenhearted boy dies in horrific car crash. Suddenly she's public enemy number one. And a disinherited heiress, to boot. No job, no home and only a designer wardrobe to keep her company. But the worst part is that the papers got it wrong, and Lizzie promised not to tell anyone the truth. Devastated by the death of his half brother, Greek...
17) Dismantled
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Island of Lost Girls, Jennifer McMahon returns with Dismantled-a stunning and chilling thriller that further burnishes her reputation as one of the brightest new stars of literary suspense. Expect comparisons to The Secret History. Readers of Laura Lippman, Tana French, and Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones will not be able to shake this breathtaking tale of the dark consequences of a group of college friends'...
18) Trust no one
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"Following up on the incredible success of River Road, New York Times-bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz delivers another masterpiece of romantic suspense. It's no coincidence when Grace Elland finds a vodka bottle next to the lifeless body of her boss, motivational speaker Sprague Witherspoon. The bottle is a terrifying-and deliberate-reminder of the horrors of her past. Grace retreats to her hometown to regroup and tries to put everything she's...
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The Arabian Mistress Faye Dawson dreaded the idea of begging for Prince Tariq Shazad ibn Zachir's mercy. A year had passed since she'd last seen the man…on their wedding day! But Faye's brother has been imprisoned in her estranged husband's homeland and only Tariq could grant his release. Though Faye didn't expect her meeting with the sheikh to be easy, Tariq's ultimatum took her breath away-become his mistress and her brother would have his freedom!...
20) Crystal
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Crystal is about a young mermaid who will do anything in her power to learn about the land creatures, even if it means putting her loved ones and herself at risk. In spite of the king's orders that all merpeople must stay away from the forbidden surface, she deliberately disobeys his orders by returning to the surface, where she befriends a seagull named Getaway, who tells her that the land creatures are just humans, not some flesh-eating monsters...