Week of October 11, 2021
Fromย New York Timesย bestselling author Donna Grant comes another gripping story in her Reaper series featuring a brotherhood of elite assassins who wage war on the Fae at Death’s behestโand the women who dare to love them.
There is no escaping a Reaper. I am an elite assassin, part of a brotherhood that only answers to Death. And when Death says your time is up, Iโm coming for youโฆ
The latest threat uncovered, it is my honor and duty to oust those responsible for the slaughter of so many and make the Fae Others pay for their crimes. However, nothing could have prepared me for the stunning and curious female that crosses my path. Sheโs an enigma: equal parts strength and vulnerability. She quiets the rage Iโve carried within me for so long and makes me question Deathโs directives for the first time ever. Her tragic, emotional story touches something deep within me, and her bravery is awe-inspiringโwhich makes it doubly hard to let her return to the enemy and the dangers that await. I never expected her, but Iย needย her. She is everything to me, and I will do whatever it takes to make sure sheโs safe and by my side. Forever.
From the #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author ofย Love Your Lifeย comes a humorous and heartwarming novel about family, set against the backdrop of the most fabulous party youโve ever snuck into.
Itโs been over two years since Effieโs beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, sheโs become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been sold.
When Krista decides to throw a grand โhouse coolingโ party, Effie is originally left off the guest listโand then receives a last-minute โanti-invitationโ (maybe itโs because she called Krista a gold-digger, but Kristaย totallyย deserved it, and it was mostly a joke anyway). Effie declines, but then remembers a beloved childhood treasure is still hidden in the house. Her only chance to retrieve it is to break into Greenoaks while everyone is busy celebrating. As Effie sneaks around the house, hiding under tables and peeping through trapdoors, she realizes the secrets Greenoaks holds arenโt just in the dusty passageways and hidden attics she grew up exploring. Watching how her sister, brother, and dad behave when they think no one is looking, Effie overhears conversations, makes discoveries, and begins to see her family in a new light. Then she runs into Joeโthe love of her life, who long ago broke her heart, and whoโs still as handsome and funny as everโand even more truths emerge.
But will Effie act on these revelations? Will she stay hidden or step out into the party and take her place with her family? And truthfully, what did she really come back to Greenoaks for? Over the course of one blowout party, Effie realizes that she must be honest with herself and confront her past before sheโll ever be able to face her future.
From theย #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertiseโState of Terror.
After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyoneโs surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state.
There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But itโs a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate.
As the new president addresses Congress for the first time, with Secretary Adams in attendance, Anahita Dahir, a young foreign service officer (FSO) on the Pakistan desk at the State Department, receives a baffling text from an anonymous source.
Too late, she realizes the message was a hastily coded warning.
What begins as a series of apparent terrorist attacks is revealed to be the beginning of an international chess game involving the volatile and Byzantine politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran; the race to develop nuclear weapons in the region; the Russian mob; a burgeoning rogue terrorist organization; and an American government set back on its heels in the international arena.
As the horrifying scale of the threat becomes clear, Secretary Adams and her team realize it has been carefully planned to take advantage of four years of an American government out of touch with international affairs, out of practice with diplomacy, and out of powerย in the places where it counts the most.
To defeat such an intricate, carefully constructed conspiracy, it will take the skills of a unique team: a passionate young FSO; a dedicated journalist; and a smart, determined, but as yet untested new secretary of state.
Meg Cabot,ย #1ย New York Timesย bestselling author ofย The Princess Diaries, returns to Little Bridge Island with a new story about a childrenโs book author with a case of writerโs block and an arrogant novelist who have to set aside their differences as they get through a weekend long book festival that just might change everythingโincluding their feelings for each other.
Donโt Judge a Book by Its Author…
Welcome to Little Bridge, one of the smallest, most beautiful islands in the Florida Keys.
Jo Wright always swore sheโd never step foot on Little Bridge Islandโnot as long as her nemesis, bestselling author Will Price, is living there.
Then Joโs given an offer she canโt refuse: an all-expense paid trip to speak and sign at the islandโs first ever book festival.
Even though arrogant Will is the last person Jo wants to see, she could really use the festivalโs more-than-generous speaking fee. Sheโs suffering from a crippling case of writerโs block on the next installment of her bestselling childrenโs series, and her father needs financial help as well.
Then Jo hears that Will is off-island on the set of the film of his next book. Hallelujah!
But when she arrives on Little Bridge, Jo is in for a shock: Will is not only at the book festival, but seems genuinely sorry for his past actionsโand more than willing not only to make amends, but prove to Jo that heโs a changed man.
Things seem to be looking upโuntil disaster strikes, causing Jo to wonder: Do any of us ever really know anyone?
USA TODAYย Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa brings us a snarky and sassy small-town romantic comedy full of a swoon-worthy billionaire, a second chance romance and big laughs.
Sometimes what you’re looking for is right where you left it.
Every summer Mane Cantรบ came to Luna Harbor to visit his grandfather.
When we were teenagers we fell in love.
We promised to be each otherโs forever.
He promised to come back for me.
Spoiler alert: he broke all of the promises.
I grew up, but that big heartbreak was it for me. I built a successful lavender farm and a shop and thatโs now my only priority.
All is well until Maneโs grandfather falls ill and all the Cantรบ family comes back to Luna Harbor. For good.
Whatโs worse is that Maneโs now famous. Like, real-life famous, not Luna Harbor famous. He made a name for himself with his band and he and his perfect face dare to open a bar next to my store with his bandmates.
Well, he may have started the war, but I plan to finish it.
Except now weโre seeing each other everywhere, and Iโm starting to remember the way we used to be.
Still, Iโm sticking to my guns. Iโm not falling for the prodigal son.
Until one kiss changes everything.
Diana Biller’sย The Brightest Star in Parisย is a thrilling story of first loves and second chances.
She never expected her first love to return, but is he here to stay?
Amelie St. James is a fraud. After the Siege of Paris, she became โSt. Amie,โ the sweet, virtuous prima ballerina the Paris Opera Ballet needed to restore its scandalous reputation, all to protect the safe life she has struggled to build for her and her sister. But when her first love reappears looking as devastatingly handsome as ever, and the ghosts of her past quite literally come back to haunt her, her hard-fought safety is thrown into chaos.
Dr. Benedict Moore has never forgotten the girl who helped him embrace life after he almost lost his. Now, years later, heโs back in Paris. His goals are to recruit promising new scientists, and maybe to see Amelie again. When he discovers sheโs in trouble, heโs desperate to help herโand hold her in his arms.
When she finally agrees to let him help, they disguise their time together with a fake courtship. Soon, with the help of an ill-advised but steamy kiss, old feelings reignite. Except, their lives are an ocean apart. Will they be able to make it out with their hearts intact?
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Heather Graham comes a new story in her Krewe of Hunters seriesโฆ
Halloween! Strange things are going to happen and every year, while loving the holiday, members of the Krewe of Hunters also dread it.
Something somewhere is bound to happen.
And it does.
Krewe member Jon Dicksonโs fiancรฉe Kylie Connelly is contacted by an old friend who has just moved to Salem, Massachusetts, when the unimaginable happens as the holiday approaches.
Jenny Auger has just managed to buy the historic home of her dreams. But it comes with far more history than she ever imaginedโthe skeletal remains of seven victims interred in the old walls of the house years and years beforeโalong with a threatening curse.
And strange things are happening in the city. Bizarre attacksโฆmurders that mimic days of old.
With Halloween on the way.
Kylie has a history with the city of Salem, and her strange talent for being within the minds of those under attackโfirst realized in the cityโremains sharp.
But the situation is far more dire than what they have discovered, with strange events and attacks occurring.
And with all their talent for crime solvingโwith help from the living and the deadโit still remains to be seen if they can solve the murders of the past before Halloween, and the bloodbath that just might occur if the sins of a time gone by cannot be brought to light.
Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, itโs an introduction to an authorโs world. And for fans, itโs a bonus book in the authorโs series. We hope you’ll enjoy each one as much as we do.
A witch and a Fae arenโt supposed to fall in love, nonetheless be soulmatesโฆ
New witch and midwife Cassie Strega helped a human mother through the tumultuous birth of the queen of the demons, and now Cassie and the baby have been kidnapped by one of the four demon princes fighting each other to lay claim to their new queen. Cassie hopes she can appeal to the human side of the child in order to save humanity, but as the child feeds upon her soul, Cassie must also battle the four demon-prince-uncles who intend for the infant to fulfill her dark destiny.
The love of Cassieโs life, the sultry Fae warrior and heir to the Fae kingdom, Orion, is still searching for the Fae queen heโs been tasked to find, but he is also desperate to save Cassie from his archenemies. He is torn between his heart and his duty, but if he doesnโt save Cassie by Beltane, the blood bond that connects Cassie to Orion will forever be severed and she will be marked as an enemy to the Faeโone he is sworn by oath to kill.
Fate was cruel when it linked Cassie and Orion together. Their attraction to each other is undeniable, their love assured, but these fated lovers are doomed by a curse that threatens to keep them apart. Every touch during every shared dream, every kiss during every cherished moment together is driving them closer to what will either be a victory of humanity or an end no mortal will be able to survive. Will love, in the end, truly conquer all or will it destroy them all?
Her name was Chance, and Iโd give anything for a second one with herโฆ
She swept into my life like a hurricane, annihilating everything that came before her. Football, fighting, girls, none of it mattered anymore. The nerdy chick with a camera around her neck somehow managed to soothe the rage that thrummed beneath my skin.
I should have stayed away, but I didn’t and Chance quickly became my center. Sparking something in me I didnโt even know I was capable of.
Then she learned her familyโs dirty little secret. And slowly, but surely, she began to pull away from me.
Without her, my demons returned in full force. I needed her back… I just had no idea how to make that happen.
Itโs been five years since Iโve seen him. An unexpected event takes me back to the place where it all began.
But Iโm no longer the naive young woman he once knew. And heโs no longer the man who took nearly everything from me.
Can this be our time? Or is it too late? Did I find myself only to lose him?
June Mabee is a lot of things.
She’s the girl next door.
She’s the best friend I ever had.
She was my first kiss, as awkward as it was.
And she’s the last person I should have feelings for.ย Ever.
Two years ago, I cut all ties with her because I had no choice. No more late night phone calls, no hellos or goodbyes, not even a passing smile. I left her to wonder what happened to the us we used to be. We were best friends, and then suddenly…we weren’t. And I know it hurt.ย But the truth would have hurt her more, and being anything with June would have destroyed my family.
For a while, we managed to exist a hundred feet apart with no connection at all. She changed schools. I kept busy. We existed, apart.ย But no matter how hard I tried to not think about her, I just couldn’t stay away from the funny, adventurous, steadfast girl with wild green eyes.
She’s back. We’re seniors now. We’ve grownโall of us. And while I might be different, she’s different too. She takes risks, stands up for herself and doesn’t back down. The more we’re forced together, the more I miss her. But for June to be a part of my story, I need to tell her the whole truth. And I’m not sure any of us are ready for that.
My approach to dating has served me well.
No hassles.
No strings.
No heartache.
As a prominent divorce attorney and Manhattanโs most eligible bachelor, Iโm as sought after in the courtroom as I am in the bedroom. Winning in both arenas is my specialty.
The only thing I ever lost was the nerve to tell the girl of my dreams how I felt about her. Seven years later, I might be getting the opportunity when she moves into my spare bedroom.
Though I used to laugh at the notion of love, her bright blue eyes, soft heart, and quick wit has me . . . feeling things.ย New emotions.
And Iโm starting to realize that if thereโs one woman who can change my confirmed bachelor ways, itโs Tealey Bell, aka my Achillesโ heel.
So when did it all go wrong?
For that answer, we must go back to beginning when I promised one friend a favor and fell head over feels for another.
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