Week of February 7, 2022
Rio
Bryn Wallace had been the one bright spot in my life before my grandparents brought me to live with them. While living in the run-down trailer park my momma had moved us to the last few years of her life, Bryn had given me a reason to smile every day. After finding my motherโs dead body, my grandparents had picked me up and I started a new life in The Shores, Alabama. It had always bothered me that I never got a chance to tell Bryn goodbye.
Now, seven years later, my memories of the beautiful girl who I considered my first love were destroyed by the disappointment she had become.
Bryn
When life took another nosedive from bad to worse, which happened too often, I would tell myself thatย one day Iโd find Rio March. It got me through my darkest times and gave me hope.
When my sister had, once again, gotten us forced out of town, by sleeping with the local minister and turning everyone in the community against us, I took the money I had saved from working over-time and I made the decision on where we would move. However, fate was never on my side. Within two weeks of arriving in The Shores, Rio hated me and made sure everyone else in town did too. I couldnโt even take my nephew into the candy store.
It didnโt seem to matter where we moved, this would always be our outcome. Hated, looked down upon, and judged for sins I hadnโt committed. But I was done moving. The trashy Wallace girls were in town to stay.
New York Timesย Bestselling author Corinne Michaels returns to the Willow Creek Valley Series in this stunning small town/fake marriage romance.
My marriage started as a lie.
But some lies are worth telling.
My fatherโs dying wish was to walk me down the aisle, and Iโd do anything for him.
Even marry a man I donโt love.
So when my fiancรฉ jilts me only days before the ceremony, I turn to my college friend, Oliver Parkerson, and convince him to marry me.
My family hasnโt met either man, so Iโm confident we can pull this off.
But the feelings, our touches, the way my heart beats for him… none of it feels pretend. The way he holds me at night and carries me through loss tells me heโs not acting either.
I didn’t mean to fall for my fake husband, but real love was the one thing I couldn’t predict.
Except, nothing built on lies can lastโI know that better than anyone.
But the truth might tear us apart forever.
No longer an outsider, Bailey has a family and love that she never couldโve imagined.
Used to living in the shadows, Kash will now do anything to protect his family and his woman.
They will take on the world togetherโฆ
In the meantime, stunning motives, lies, and explosive secrets continue to unfold.
1. Quinn is in jail, awaiting trial.
2. Friends might actually be enemies.
3. Andย whatย is Calhoun plotting? More importantly, will Kash discover it before itโs too late?
Everything will come to a head as passion and danger ignite inย The Damaged.
Homicide detective Eve Dallas must untangle a twisted family history while a hostageโs life hangs in the balanceโinย Abandoned in Deathย byย New York Timesย bestselling author J. D. Robb.
The womanโs body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrongโlike the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note:ย Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
Eve Dallas turns to the departmentโs top profiler, who confirms what seems obvious to Eve: Theyโre dealing with a killer whose childhood involved some sort of traumaโa situation Eve is all too familiar with herself. Yet the clues suggest a perpetrator whoโd be roughly sixty years old, and there are no records of old crimes with a similar MO. What was the trigger that apparently reopened such an old wound and sent someone over the edge?
When Eve discovers that other young womenโwho physically resemble the first victimโhave vanished, the clock starts ticking louder. But to solve this case she will need to find her way into a hidden place of dim light and concrete, into the distant past, and into the cold depths of a shattered mind.
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