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The Dirty Angels Trilogy by Karina Halle (Available Now) β 99Β’
Deep within the steamy jungles and unforgiving deserts of Mexico, amid the sordid dealings and gruesome violence of the drug cartels, comes a dark love story unlike any other.
When twisted drug lord Javier Bernal kidnaps beauty queen Luisa Reyes, the abused yet feisty wife of a rival cartel leader, he thinks heβll have an easy job. Torture the trophy wife until he gets what he wants, then kill her. Business as usual. But the longer Javier has Luisa in his clutches, the more he ends up falling under Luisaβs spell. And the more that Luisa is subjected to Javierβs cruel whims and kinky desires, the more she changes into somethingβ¦darker. Something just like Javier. Something she can never come back from.
Sometimes, in order to survive, you have to give up your soul.
The Dirty Angels Trilogy takes brave readers on a wild ride through sex, lies, torture, murder, even love, until theyβre left with a pounding heart, gasping for air, wanting to do it all over again.
The trilogy consists of:
The Dirty Angels trilogy is a spin-off of the USA Today bestselling series, The Artists Trilogy, however you do not need to read TAT in order to enjoy this trilogy. It stands alone.
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Luck, Love and Lemon Pie by Amy E. Reichert (Available Now)
When Milwaukee-area wife and mother MJ Boudreaux notices her husband Chris seems more interested in the casino than her, sheβs more bothered that she isnβt upset than by her husbandβs absence. She picks up poker as a way for them to spend more time togetherβand reignite their marital flame.
Although the game doesnβt give her the quality time with Chris that sheβd hoped, MJ finds she has a knack for it. Increasingly unhappy at home, she turns to the felt top of the poker table for comfort. Intoxicated with newfound freedom, MJ begins spending more time at the gambling tables and less with her family, finally carving out for herself a place outside her role of wife and mother.
After a string of great wins, MJ finds herself in Vegas, attracting the attention of a certain magnetic poker star. But when sheβs forced to choose between her family and her new exciting lifestyle, the stakes may be higher than she thought and MJ will have to play her hand carefullyβ¦or risk losing it all.
Standalone novel.
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Bossman by Vi Keeland (Available Now)
The first time I met Chase Parker, I didnβt exactly make a good impression.
I was hiding in the bathroom hallway of a restaurant, leaving a message for my best friend to save me from my awful date.
He overheard and told me I was a bitch, then proceeded to offer me some dating advice.
So I told him to mind his own damn businessβhis own tall, gorgeous, full-of-himself damn businessβand went back to my miserable date.
When he walked by my table, he smirked, and I watched his arrogant, sexy ass walk back to his date.
I couldnβt help but sneak hidden glances at the condescending jerk on the other side of the room. Of course, he caught me on more than one occasion, and winked.
When the gorgeous stranger and his equally hot date suddenly appeared at our table, I thought he was going to rat me out.
But instead, he pretended we knew each other and joined usβtelling elaborate, embarrassing stories about our fake childhood.
My date suddenly went from boring to bizarrely exciting.
When it was over and we parted ways, I thought about him more than I would ever admit, even though I knew Iβd never see him again.
I mean, what were the chances Iβd run into him again in a city with eight million people?Then againβ¦
What were the chances a month later heβd wind up being my new sexy boss?
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No Falling Allowed by Melissa West (Available Now)
Twenty-four hours. Thatβs how long it took my life to flip upside down.
Wake up in bed alone after the best night of my life? Check.
Get fired instead of the promised promotion? Check.
Wealthy parents cut me off when I refuse to follow their path for my life? Check.
Now Iβm in Cricket Creek, SCβa place where no New Yorker belongsβdisowned and broke, with a new job that I canβt mess up. Oh yeah, and staring at my one-night stand, who happens to be the complete opposite of my type.
Southern.
Cocky.
Bartender.
Noah Hunter never should have made it back to my apartment in NYC, and I definitely shouldnβt be in his small town. But fate had another plan. Or a horrible sense of humor.
Who knew Mr. Wrong could feel so rightβ¦
Standalone novel.
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Torn (#2, Wicked) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (Jul 19)
Torn between duty and survival, nothing can be the same.
Everything Ivy Morgan thought she knew has been turned on its head. After being betrayed and then nearly killed by the Prince of the Fae, sheβs left bruised and devastatedβand with an earth-shattering secret that she must keep at all costs. And if the Order finds out her secret, theyβll kill her.
Then thereβs Ren Owens, the sexy, tattooed Elite member of the Order who has been sharing Ivyβs bed and claiming her heart. Their chemistry is smoking hot, but Ivy knows that Ren has always valued his duty to the Order above all elseβhe could never touch her if he knew the truth. That is, if he let her live at all. Yet how can she live with herself if she lies to him?
But as the Fae Prince begins to close in, intent on permanently opening the gates to the Otherworld, Ivy is running out of options. If she doesnβt figure out who she can trustβand fastβitβs not only her heart that will be torn apart, but civilization itself.
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His Royal Secret by Lilah Pace (Jul 19)
The first in an enchanting new male/male romantic duology from Lilah Pace, author of Asking for More and Begging for It β¦.
James, the handsome, cosmopolitan Prince of Wales, is used to being in the public eye. But heβs keeping a king-sized secretβ¦James, next in line for the throne, is gay.
Heβs been able to hide his sexual orientation with the help of his best friend and beard, Lady Cassandra. Sometimes he feels like a coward for not coming out, but he darenβt risk losing the crown. If he did, the succession would fall on his deeply troubled younger sister, Princess Amelia. To protect her, James is willing to live a lie.
While on holiday, he meets Benjamin Dahanβa rugged international reporter with a globe-trotting, unattached lifeβwho catches far more than Jamesβs eye. And when Ben is transferred to London, it seems fate may finally be smiling on James.
But what began as a torrid fling grows into something far more intimate and powerful. Soon James will have to decide who he is, what he wants from life and love, and what heβs willing to sacrifice for the truthβ¦
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A World Without You by Beth Revis (Jul 19)
Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that heβs actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have βsuperpowers.β
At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age.
But even the strength of their love isnβt enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that sheβs not actually dead. He believes that sheβs stuck somewhere in time β that he somehow left her in the past, and now itβs his job to save her.
Not since Ned Vizziniβs Itβs Kind of a Funny Story has there been such a heartrending depiction of mental illness. In her first contemporary novel, Beth Revis guides readers through the mind of a young man struggling to process his grief as he fights his way through his delusions. As Bo becomes more and more determined to save Sofia, he has to decide whether to face his demons head-on, or succumb to a psychosis that will let him be with the girl he loves.
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The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware (Jul 19) β Read my review
Recommended Thriller
In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christieβs works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Loβs stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted forβand so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Loβs desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrongβ¦
With surprising twists, spine-tingling turns, and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another taut and intense read in The Woman in Cabin 10βone that will leave even the most sure-footed reader restlessly uneasy long after the last page is turned.
Standalone thriller.
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Anything But Love by Daisy Prescott (Jul 19)
For the past year, Iβve been working my butt off to start my own coffee company on Whidbey.
A weekend in Cabo with sun, tiny bikinis, and vacation hook-ups is exactly the kind of tension relief I need.
What I donβt need is a bruised jaw, having to bribe my way out of jail, a hellion set on ruining my life, and my mother seeing a picture of my assets on βThe Twitter.β
Caribou Caldwell is my worst nightmare.
Unfortunately, sheβs also the star of my sexiest dreams.
What happens when a small town guy becomes the focus of a million fantasies? As Erik Kelso navigates his sudden notoriety, will his feelings for Cari turn out to be anything but love?
Standalone romantic comedy.
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Maybe Forever by Keyanna Butler (Jul 19)
Family. Harper Montgomery has been trying to define the term for yearsβ¦
When Harper got pregnant at fourteen, her family abandoned her to be a single mother with no support system. She survived the only way she knew howβhard work and determination. Now she is a nurse in her early thirties, and her son Jamie is ready to embark on high school. Harper can finally say theyβve made it. She canβt take all the credit, though.
Dakota Daughtry isnβt family, but when he signed on to be a Big Brother to Jamie, he finally felt at homeβ¦
Joining the Big Brother community program was only meant to boost Dakotaβs resume while working on his GED. Once he met Jamie and his mother Harper, he finally found a place where he belonged. Years later, Jamie is graduating the program, and his obligation to hang around is over, but he canβt make himself leave. Jamie is more like a son than a little brother now, and Harperβ¦well, heβs been trying to deny his feelings for her all along.
Jamie is thrilled about the blossoming relationship between his mother and Dakota. His birth father Aiden, not so muchβ¦
Aiden doesnβt want Harperβheβs too focused on his career for thatβbut he doesnβt want Dakota to have her either, and heβs willing to play dirty to ruin Harper and Dakotaβs chances at becoming a real family. But things get complicated when Aiden starts to develop actual feelings for Harperβs best friend, and a secret is revealed about Dakotaβs past that could change everythingβ¦
Harper must chooseβ¦family or love? Or can she finally have both?
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Rock Wedding by Nalini Singh (Jul 19)
After a lifetime of longing for a real family, Sarah Smith thought sheβd finally found her home with rock star Abe Bellamy, even if she knew Abe didnβt love her the way she loved him. But their brief relationship, filled with tragedy and heartache, nearly destroyed her. Alone, emotions in turmoil, and already shaky self-esteem shattered, Sarah struggles to pick up the pieces in the wake of their divorce.
Abe knows heβs to blame for the end of his marriage. Caught in a web of painful memories, he pushed away the best thing in his life β the sexy, smart woman he adores β breaking them both in the process. Then fate throws him a second chance to get things right, to prove to Sarah that she means everything to him. Abe desperately wants that second chance at loveβ¦even if he knows he doesnβt deserve it.
But can he convince Sarah β now strong and independent without him β to risk her wounded heart one more time?
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Hitched (#2, Imperfect Love) by Kendall Ryan (Jul 19)
Cocky new husband? Check.
Itβs a marriage of convenienceβone Iβm determined to keep strictly professional. I canβt be stupid enough to fall for this sexy playboyβs charm or advances. I have to be strong, even if he is my husband.
Except he has a huge cock with an even bigger ego, and his main goal in life seems to be getting me to stroke both. The arrogant bastard is like sweet, sugary candy for my libido. I know heβs bad for me.
But I want to devour every wicked inch of him.
With his sexual prowess and experience, I know heβll be explosive in the bedroom. And since weβre stuck together for the foreseeable futureβkeeping up this marriage charade long enough to turn the company profitable againβI deserve something to look forward to at the end of a long workday, right?
What could one little taste hurt?
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The Secret Language of Stones by M.J. Rose (Jul 19) β Read an excerpt
As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M.J. Roseβs βbrilliantly craftedβ (Providence Journal) novel The Witch of Painted Sorrows.
Nestled within Parisβs historic Palais Royal is a jewelry store unlike any other. La Fantasie Russie is owned by Pavel Orloff, protΓ©gΓ© to the famous Faberge, and is known by the cityβs fashion elite as the place to find the rarest of gemstones and the most unique designs. But war has transformed Paris from a city of style and romance to a place of fear and mourning. In the summer of 1918, places where lovers used to walk, widows now wander alone.
So it is from La Fantasie Russieβs workshop that young, ambitious Opaline Duplessi now spends her time making trench watches for soldiers at the front, as well as mourning jewelry for the mothers, wives, and lovers of those who have fallen. People say that Opalineβs creations are magical. But magic is a word Opaline would rather not use. The concept is too closely associated with her mother Sandrine, who practices the dark arts passed down from their ancestor La Lune, one of sixteenth century Parisβs most famous courtesans.
But Opaline does have a rare gift even she canβt deny, a form of lithomancy that allows her to translate the energy emanating from stones. Certain gemstones, combined with a personal item, such as a lock of hair, enable her to receive messages from beyond the grave. In her mind, she is no mystic, but merely a messenger, giving voice to soldiers who died before they were able to properly express themselves to loved ones. Until one day, one of these fallen soldiers communicates a messageβdirectly to her.
So begins a dangerous journey that will take Opaline into the darkest corners of wartime Paris and across the English Channel, where the exiled Romanov dowager empress is waiting to discover the fate of her family.
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A Gift of Time by Beth Flynn (Jul 19)
Are some secrets meant to stay buried?
Three months have passed since Jason βGrizzβ Talbot was put to death by lethal injection for crimes he committed. His former wife, Ginny, whom he had abducted from a convenience store when she was a teenager and became the love obsession of his life, has spent more than the last decade trying to carve out a life of normalcy in the bustling suburbs of Fort Lauderdaleβincluding a thriving and happy marriage to Tommy βGruntβ Dillon, a former member of Grizzβs gang.
Tired of the secrets and the lies, Ginny and Tommy thought the final piece of their past could be left behind forever with Grizzβs execution. However, the past comes crashing around Ginny and Tommy when a newly discovered secret threatens to destroy their marriage.
When tragedy strikes, Ginny is forced to reach into her heart and decide, once and for all, what she really wants.
In this third book in the Nine Minutes trilogy, A Gift of Time takes readers from the busy tropical metropolis of South Florida into the serenity of the North Carolina Blue Ridge mountains as Ginny chases down the answers she needs.
Will she have the strength to confront the secrets of her pastβ¦and her heart?
A Gift of Time is the third installment in the Nine Minutes Trilogy. It is not intended to be a standalone novel, but could be read as one.
Reading Order: Nine Minutes $1.99 | Out of Time | A Gift of Time
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Stroked by Meghan Quinn (Jul 20)
Reese King: Olympic medalist, underwear model, Greek god.
His body is chiseled from rock, sculpted by the weight room, and refined by water.
On a daily basis his skin is completely bare for everyone to see, tan and defined, only covered up by a minuscule piece of spandex. There is no denying his sex appeal.
I hate to admit it, but Iβm head over heels infatuated with him.
There is one HUGE problem though. His achingly gorgeous abs, inked up arm, and cocky swagger belong to my boss, the high-profile, reality star bitch from hell and certified heinous human being, Bellini Chambers.
What I think is going to be an easy job assisting a glorified wench turns into a cluster f*ck of epic proportions.
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Pennies (Dollar Series) by Pepper Winters (Jul 20)
βAt 18 I had pennies, but money didnβt make me bold. At 19 I had dollars, but it didnβt dull the pain of being sold. At 20 I had hundreds, but then I met him and was found. At 21 I had thousands, but all I wanted was to be bound.β
βAt 23 I had dollars, but life changed and made me rich. At 25 I had hundreds, but it wasnβt enough to stop my killing itch. At 27 I had thousands, but my reputation didnβt set me free. At 29 I had millions, but I met her and could finally see.β
Tasmin was killed on her 18th birthday. She had everything planned out. A psychology degree, a mother who pushed her to greatness, and a future anyone would die for. But then her murderer saved her life, only to sell her into a totally different existence.
Elder went from penniless to stinking rich with one twist of fate. His lifetime of crime and shadows of thievery are behind him but no matter the power he now wields, itβs not enough. He has an agenda to fulfill and he wonβt stop until itβs complete.
But then they meet.
A beaten slave and a richly dressed thief. Money is what guided their separate fates. Money is what brought them together. And money is ultimately what destroys them.
She was poor.
He was rich.
Togetherβ¦they were bankrupt.
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Twirled Bond by Emma Hart (Jul 21)
If I thought Holly Woods was crazy before, I was wrong.
Devin is finally married. Nonnaβs on the wedding warpath. Drake might be getting ideas. His mom just dropped a bombshell, and Bek is caught between a hot as hell FBI agent and my super-sweet little brother.
And I still donβt have the shoe closet Drake promised me when he moved in six months ago.
At least thereβs one positive: the old, abandoned Holly Woods Theater is about to reopen, and thereβs nothing like a theater opening to bring people togetherβ¦ And make crazy grandmothers forget proposal agendas.
Until that theater comes with a dead body. A very, very, very dead body.
Chaos is coming to town.
Everything Iβve ever known about Holly Woods might just be about to change.
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