Week of August 7, 2023
A former child starlet is plunged back into the dangerous glitter of Hollywood after discovering the body of a young actress.
Salma Lowe, progeny of Hollywood royalty and a once-promising child actor, now spends her days as a guide for the Stars Six Feet Under tour, leading tourists through Los Angelesโs star-studded avenues to haunting sites where actresses of the past met untimely ends. Salma knows better than anyone that a tragic death is the surest path to stardom. Her sister, Tawney, viciously dubbed the “Hurricane Blonde,” was murdered in the nineties, the case never solved and, to Salmaโs ire, indefinitely closedย .ย .ย . until she stumbles upon a dead body mid-tour, on the property where her sister once lived, at the precise scene of her sisterโs demise. Even more uncanny: the deceased woman also looks like Tawney.
The police are convinced this womanโs death was an accidentโbut Salma is haunted by the investigationโs echoes of her own past. What if this womanโs murder points to Tawneyโs killer? Desperate to track down the culprit once and for all, Salma launches her own investigation, plunging back into the salacious but seductive world of Hollywood. And what sheโll find is that old secrets may just be worth killing for.
Three young women make a pact in high schoolโ
to always be friends and to one day make it big in Manhattan.
Sheโs a high-tech boss who lost it allโฆ
Ivy Jensen was the darling of the tech world, right up until her company fell apart completely after she trusted the wrong person. Her reputation in tatters, she finds herself back in the tiny apartment she grew up in, living with her mom. When a group of angel investors offer her a meeting, she knows she has to come up with the new big idea or her career is over.
Heโs an up and coming coderโฆ
Heath Marino has always been fascinated with writing code. Heโs worked on a dozen games and apps and is considered one of the industryโs more eccentric talents. But now heโs back in New York to spend time with his grandmother. She was known as one of the cityโs greatest matchmakers, and he wants to know why. Surely thereโs some kind of code in his grandmotherโs methods, and heโs going to find them.
When Ivy meets Heath itโs instant attraction, but sheโs got a career to get back to and he just might be her on-ramp. It could be a perfect partnership or absolute heartbreak.
Theย New York Timesย bestselling YA author of the beloved Gallagher Girls series bursts onto the adult scene with a fast-paced, hilarious road trip rom-com about a woman with amnesia who discovers sheโs the identical twin sister of a rogue spyโฆ and must team up with a rugged, grumpy operative to stay alive.
Itโs the middle of the night in the middle of Paris and a woman just woke up with no memory.
She only knows three things for certain:
1. She has a splitting headache.
2. The hottest guy she has (probably) ever seen is standing over her, telling her toย run.
And oh yeahโฆ
3. People keep trying to kill her.
She doesnโt know who. Or why. But when she sees footage of herself fighting off a dozen men thereโs only one explanation:ย obviously. . .ย sheโs a spy!
Except, according to Mr. Hot Guy, sheโs not. Sheโs a spyโs identical twin sister.
Too bad the only person who knows sheโs not the woman theyโre looking for is this very grouchy, very sexy, very secret agent who (reluctantly) agrees to help her disappear. Which is easier said than done when a criminal organization wants you dead and every intelligence service in the world wants you caught.
Luckily, no one is looking for a pair of lovesick newlyweds on their honeymoon. And soon theyโre lying their way across Europeโdodging bullets and faking kisses as they race to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sisterโs name.
But with every secret they uncover, the truth shifts, until she no longer knows who to trust: the twin she canโt remember or the mysterious man she canโt let herself forgetโฆ
International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a witty, clever, emotional new novel about a woman whose life unravels spectacularly after her screenwriter boyfriend uses their relationship as inspiration for his new television show.
When Roisin and Joe join their friends for a weekend at a country house, itโs a triple celebrationโa birthday, an engagement, and the launch of Joeโs shiny new TV show. But as the weekend unfolds, tensions come to light in the group and Roisin begins to question her own relationship. And as they watch the first episode of Joeโs drama, she realizes that the private things she told himโwhich should have stayed between themโare right there on the screen.
With her friend group in chaos and her messy love life on display for the whole world to see, Roisin returns home to avoid the unwanted attention and help run her familyโs pub. But drama still follows, in the form of her dysfunctional family and the looming question: whatย otherย parts of her now-exโs show are inspired by real events?ย Lies? Infidelity? Every week, as a new episode airs, she wonders what other secrets will be revealed.
Yet the most unexpected twist of all is an old friend, who is suddenly there for Roisin in ways she never knew she neededโฆ
He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.
*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).*
Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she’s not about to start nowโeven if that means marrying Olympus’s enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep her deadly new husband off-balance, seducing the one person he seems to care about most in this world: Pandora, a woman as beautiful as she is sweet.
Two can play the seduction game, however, and Hephaestus is all too happy to put his new wife in her place. Her ex, Adonis, seems like he’ll do the trick. It doesn’t hurt that he’s gorgeous in the way of fallen angels, either.
The only problem with using seduction as a weapon? Hearts are all too quick to get involved. With Hephaestus and Aphrodite trading venomous strikes that feel a whole lot like foreplay, lines become blurred and emotions entangled.ย But a broken heart may be the least of their worries. With unrest in Olympus reaching new heights, these bedroom games may have deadly consequences for themselves, their city, and everyone they’ve come to love.
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