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701) Dangerous Games
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'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime.' Bestselling author Kerry Kaya.
Young, blonde, beautiful and bored, Annette Lambrianu is tired of life on the family vineyard with her husband and young son, Antonias. Yearning for excitement, she flees in the night with the small boy, swapping the safety of Italy for the dangerous streets of London. But she quickly discovers the streets are not paved with gold...
Since that fateful...
702) Lump: a novel
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"A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos. In a single day, Cat finds out that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably creepy. Her life is stressful enough as it is: her career is stalled and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. Cat responds by falling apart...
703) Uptown on Saturday
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These are fictional representations of clients I have known before, during, and after addiction. Relish the depth of profound experiences shared by those who have survived and thrived. Plus, there's a memorial to a dear friend who passed and left me with a mountain of good to always cherish.
704) Long Time to Sunset
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This counselor recalls his time in the streets to get an accurate assessment of his past. The truth won't necessarily set you free, but you can learn a lesson or two!
705) Little Criminals
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An Irish thug's scheme for success flies dangerously off the rails in this crime novel by the author of The Midnight Choir.
Frankie Crowe is not one of the great criminal masterminds. He's a small-time thug who thinks that kidnapping one of Dublin's newly rich businessmen just may be the low-risk fast track to the status and money he's certain he deserves. When the local crime boss won't let him make the snatch, he shoots the boss and commences with...
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Meet Tom. Or Dr. O'Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don't even give him a second glance. You see, Tom isn't living his best life. Burdened by grief, he's only got his loyal dog, Bette Davis, for company and a rucksack containing his whole world.
Then there's Ruth and her son, DJ, who no longer have a place to call home.
But Ruth believes that you can change the world by helping one person at a time -...
707) Ahead of the Shadows
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When a photographer witnesses war crimes, will she have to abandon her calling to save herself? As Lena and Kojo work in conflicts across East and Central Africa, there is immense psychological pressure, and it's not certain if theirrelationship will survive. Eighteen years later, Bene walks the gritty back streets of Paris for one night in a music festival. He is on his way to meet his father in Kenya,a man he's never met. Ahead of the Shadows is...
708) My Time in the Sun
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Kari's perfect life comes to a screeching halt when her husband's enemy stands and tells the entire congregation, "Our first lady was a fourteen-year-old prostitute ..."
She barely survived a horrific experience when she was forced to take drastic measures to protect an innocent child. Years later, she's finally put the past behind, owns a successful business, and is married to a wonderful man who loves her like no other. All the sordid secrets that...
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After a makeover, he went from scruffy to spectacular…to wanting a little payback in the first book of Katherine Garbera's The Image Project series.
"Just smile and do that brooding-stare thing."
For this makeover, good looks only go so far…
As CEO of Inferno Brewing, Dante Russo has quite the casual image. Now, with sudden celebrity, he's forced into a makeover. In comes image specialist Olive Hayes-the same Olive who'd ruthlessly rejected...
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Most Anticipated Books of 2022: The Millions, Electric Literature, Brittle Paper, Open Country Magazine, Ms. Magazine
Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Ethiopian American author Meron Hadero's gorgeously wrought stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times offer poignant, compelling narratives of those whose lives have been marked by border crossings and the...
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As war is declared can The Variety Girls keep smiling through…
Cleethorpes – September 1939
Struggling to keep their spirits up as the reality of war hits home and theatres are closed, friends Jessie Delaney and Frances O'Leary search for work to see them through until they can sing and dance again.
Frances, once upon a time followed her dreams of becoming a dancer but soon found herself with a broken heart and a precious secret when her...
712) The Rules
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Holed up in prison, Mike Regan is offered a deal - his freedom in exchange for his firm taking down the gang that is supplying a new dangerous drug that has hit the streets. What starts as a game soon becomes a shocking revelation with devastating consequences. Meanwhile, Mike's fiancé, Zara Ezra, has her own firm to run. But when the so-called Governor is out to take her down, she has her own decision to make - either fight, run, or write her own...
713) Death in Bacton Wood
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Preorder the new instalment in the bestselling Norfolk Murders series!
A family's secrets lie buried. The time has come to uncover the truth…
When a mud-splattered man staggers from Bacton Wood with a terrifying tale about being buried alive, DS Ashley Knight and her team are called in to investigate. Soon, another victim is found, and more men are missing – all with connections to the well-known Vialli family.
The Major Investigation Team...
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Will it be tears or triumph for the Hat Girl from Silver Street?
It's been five years since Ella Bancroft lost the love of her life, Harper Fortescue, and despite her friends' encouragement, she's still not been able to move on. The one thing keeping Ella smiling is the success of her hat shop, Ivella. Her beautiful designs and fabulous creations are the first choice for the fashionable Edwardian ladies of Walsall, and her fame is spreading far and...
715) The Hard Stuff
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In this humorous, action-packed crime thriller, a strip club bouncer working for a coalition of mob bosses must steal $4 million in diamonds-twice.
Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its "sheriff." In the straight world, when you "see something" you "say something" to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe.
Still reeling...
716) Deceit
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Someone's watching you… Living in a beautiful home on the edge of a council estate, Kara Bannon can't imagine what it's like to have nothing. An eerie phone call plays on her mind and within three days she loses everything – her job, her home and Justin, the only person she thought she could trust. Alone and terrified, she makes a decision that will change her life forever. Suddenly she has to enter a new world – Prison. Revenge is not always...
717) The Choice
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The wrong choice may just get you killed…
Mike Regan and Zara Ezra believe the so-called Governor is safely locked away – in Zara's hangar. But less than twenty-four hours later, the Governor is loose and out there, wreaking havoc. After what Zara made him do to his own son, she knows he'll be back with more than murder on his mind. Moving the families to a safe place was all the firm could do to protect them. But now one of the boys goes missing....
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Sometimes the first novel is the best of the lot! Mystery, suspense, and the interplay of man, machine, and dignity. Grow along with these characters from the last part of the twentieth century to now. Larry Fleming is a drug counselor who knows from whence he speaks! This is the urban legend version of The Case for Larry Fleming. A similar version was published as Please Don't Bury Me in the Rain.
719) Yes, daddy
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"Jonah Keller moved to New York City with dreams of becoming a successful playwright, but, for the time being, lives in a rundown sublet in Bushwick, working extra hours at a restaurant only to barely make rent. When he stumbles upon a photo of Richard Shriver--the glamorous Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and quite possibly the stepping stone to the fame he craves--Jonah orchestrates their meeting. The two begin a hungry, passionate affair. When...
720) Nightingale Point
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On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries.
Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after.
Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years.
Tristan wishes Malachi would stop pining for Pamela. No wonder he's falling...
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