Week of July 17, 2023
The food critic…
Miranda Storme once gave her body and soul to Gavin Luciano, but he took her love and walked away without a word. Now heโs back. He may look even sexier than he did three years ago. His kisses may still burn in her memory. And his arrogance hasnโt changed since he states his intentions to reclaim her. In his bed. Still, as an established food critic who ends up in his restaurant, thereโs only one thing on her mind. Revengeโฆ
The restaurateurโฆ
Gavin Luciano walked away from the family business and his lover years ago. He thought power and money would make him happy. Now he realizes his mistake and comes home to right his wrongs. He has three months to make his family’s struggling Italian restaurant successful, and a bad review is Gavin’s worst nightmare. But this isn’t just about the meal. He’s finally realized what he left behind and is determined to spend the next eight weeks proving himself to Miranda in the kitchen…and in the bedroom. This is one dish she won’t be able to refuse.
But when he learns about Miranda’s secret, will a second chance at love be too late?
Only his memories can save herโฆ
A great primal power has risen. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Boneโthe true Primal of Life and Death. And the battle Casteel, Poppy, and their allies have been fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come.
But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could take her away from him. Casย isย given some advice, thoughโsomething he plans to cling to as he waits to see her beautiful eyes open once more: Talk to her.
And so, he does. He reminds Poppy how their journey began, revealing things about himself that only Kieran knows in the process. But itโs anybodyโs guess what sheโll wake to or exactly how much of the realm and Cas will have changed when she does.
#1ย New York Timesย bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout revisits Poppy and Casteelโs epic love story in the next installment of the Blood and Ash series. But this time, Hawke gets to tell the tale.
Where are the broken?ย That is the propulsive question that unleashes a world of secrets inย New York Timesย bestselling author Nalini Singhโs Resonance Surge . . .
StoneWater bears Pavel and Yakov Stepyrev have been a unit since birth, but now Pavelโs life is veering in a new direction, his heart held in the hands of Arwen Mercant, a Psy empathโand the only man who has ever brought Pavel to his knees.
This is it. A point of irrevocable change. For Pavel . . . for Arwen . . . for Yakov . . . and for another pair of twins whose bond has a far darker history.
A low-Gradient Psy, Theodora Marshall is considered worthless by everyone but her violently powerful twin, Pax. She is the sole person he trusts in their venomous family to investigate a hidden and terrible part of their family historyโan unregistered rehabilitation Center established by their grandfather.
Places of unimaginable pain designed to psychically wipe minds, leaving the victims shells of their former selves, the Centers are an ugly vestige of the Psy raceโs Silent past. But this Center was worse. Far,ย farย worse. And now Theo must uncover the awful truthโin the company of a scowling bear named Yakov, who isnโt about to take a Marshall at face value . . . especially a Marshall who has turned his dreams into chilling nightmares.
Because Yakov is the great-grandson of a foreseer . . . and he has seen Theo die in an unstoppable surge of blood. Night after night after night . . .
From theย New York Timesย bestselling author ofย The Daughter of Doctor Moreauย andย Mexican Gothicย comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost filmโand awakens one womanโs hidden powers.
Montserrat has always been overlooked. Sheโs a talented sound editor, but sheโs left out of the boysโ club running the film industry in โ90s Mexico City. And sheโs all but invisible to her best friend, Tristรกn, a charming if faded soap opera star, though sheโs been in love with him since childhood.
Then Tristรกn discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their livesโeven if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.
Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristรกn to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristรกn begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.
As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristรกn may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.
From the bestselling author ofย My Lovely Wifeย comes a reckless, delicious thriller that gives a whole new meaning to the dangers of modern dating.
Wes and Ivy are madly in love. They’ve never felt anything like it. It’s the type of romance people write stories about.
But what kind of story?
When it’s good, it’s great. Flowers. Grand gestures. Deep meaningful conversations where the whole world disappears.
When it’s bad, it’s really bad. Vengeful fights. Damaged property. Arrest warrants.
But their vicious cycle of catastrophic breakups and head-over-heelsย reconciliations needs to end fast. Because suddenly, Wes and Ivy have a common enemy–and she’s a detective.
There’s something Wes and Ivy never talk about–in good times or bad. The night of their worst breakup, when one of them took things too far, and someone ended up dead.
If they can stick together, they can survive anything–even the tightening net of a police investigation.
Because one more breakup might just be their lastโฆ
Elle Kennedy’s next spicy and emotional romance in the blockbuster Avalon Bay series.
College student Cassie Soul hasnโt spent an entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her parents divorced and her mother spitefully whisked her away to Boston. Now that her grandmother is selling the boardwalk hotel thatโs been in their family for five decades, Cassie returns to the quaint beach town to spend time with family, ring in her twenty-first birthdayโฆand maybe find herself a summer fling.
On her first night in town, she finds the perfect candidate: Tate Bartlett, Avalon Bayโs fun-loving golden boy.
Tate, sailing instructor and lovable player, is no stranger to flings. In fact, heโs always down for a good time. But the moment he meets Cassie, he knows sheโs not the girl you play games with. Cassie is gorgeous, hilarious, and, frankly, the coolest person heโs ever met. The last thing he wants to do is risk breaking her heart, and so he reluctantly puts her in the friend-zoneโฆonly to realize he made aย hugeย mistake. Soon, his attraction to Cassie becomes impossible to ignore. He wants that fling now. Big-time.
And maybe even something more.
As Cassie and Tate walk the line between friends and lovers, theyโre about to discover that their situation is the least complicated part of this equation. Because Avalon Bay is full of secretsโand their relationship might not survive when those secrets come to light.
Fromย New York Timesย bestselling author Kristen Proby comes an all-new novel, The Setup, in her Single in Seattle series, featuring Keaton Williams!
Iโm a sucker for pretty things. Give me a roaring engine in a souped-up vintage muscle car with cherry red paint and brand-new leather interior, and thatโs about as pretty as anything I could ask for. Iโm a simple man, who doesnโt need or want the kind of wild celebrity that my father has. I restore one-of-a-kind vehicles and sell them to the highest bidder. Usually, that bidder just also happens to be a celebrity.
But no matter how often my cars steal the spotlight, staying out of it is my number one priority.
Which is why Sydney Sterling is absolutely out of the question.
Sheโs a country music superstar. Sheโs in the spotlight. People canโt get enough of her.
It doesnโt matter that our one night together was hotter than a full throttle muscle car, or that sheโs the most incredible woman Iโve ever met.
I. Need. To. Stay. Away.
And I was doing a great job of just that until our friends set us up on a blind date, and now here I am, sitting across from the only woman who made me want more. How am I going to handle the fact that the rest of the world wants her almost as much as I do?
And do I even have a choice in the matter?
29-year-old Paul Donnelly has been many things in his life. Son of addicts, high school dropout, tattooist, the shameless bodyguard to Beckett Cobalt, the โbodyguard camp counselorโ to the rookies of SFO, Loren Haleโs nemesis, and Xanderโs wise one.
But nothing means as much without Luna Hale. The sci-fi-loving writer. A weirdo. Sister to his client. The only one heโs fallen for.
To be with Luna, he has to ensure itโs totally, completely, unmistakably safe. That starts with taking care of his familyโthe family he walked away from as a teenager.
He knows heโll survive. He can survive anything. But this time, he just wants to survive with her.
Take an epic cosmic journey with Luna & Donnelly through heartache, hope, darkness, love, and an unceasing lightโwhere the bonds we make are what power us through time.
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