the setup… Victoria (Torie) Nash is a seventeen-year old young girl living with her father, disabled Uncle Ogden and younger destructive brother Seth in Iola, Colorado. After her mother died when she was twelve, it was expected that she would fulfill the domestic responsibilities. It’s not a path she would have chosen but it’s the… Continue reading Go as a River by Shelley Read #ShelleyRead #CynthiaFarrell
the setup… Now that Melvin Royal is dead and his “army” dismantled, Gwen Proctor and her family can start to move on, though that doesn’t mean that life is easy. She and Sam Cade still feel the need to protect daughter Lanny and son Connor. Gwen is now a private investigator working for a woman… Continue reading Bitter Falls by Rachel Caine @rachelcaine @esuttonsmith @danjohnmiller @HelloMLC @SingleWithFries @willropp @BrilliancePub #StillhouseLake
the setup… Layla Dupree owns the bakery at Lovelight Farms and it is her passion. She’s good at it and is living her dream, except for affairs of the heart. Now out on her latest dud of a date arranged online, she runs into Caleb Alvarez, the former deputy sheriff now teacher, who’s out celebrating… Continue reading Mixed Signals by B. K. Borison @authorbkborison @pippallicious #JulioMaxwell @Dreamscapeaudio
the setup… The careful investigating and planning for the capture of Michael Bekker, the insane pathologist who slowly killed his victims and then removed their eyes, was the successful end to Detective Lucas Davenport’s career in the last story. Even though he lost his job in the process, he was satisfied that he brought this… Continue reading Silent Prey by John Sandford @recordedbooks
the setup… After years of numbing his pain with chloroform, Dr. James Madison has finally shed the drug addiction but not the demons from the war that continue to plague him. He continues to live at Delilah’s, the town bordello, still struggling to regain the man he once was, when former Confederate Charles Park arrives… Continue reading Redeemed by Molly O’Keefe @MollyOKwrites
the setup… Will Trent goes undercover to find a cold case murder suspect. This time he’s in Fort Knox…yes, the site of the US gold vault. The man he’s hunting? Jack Reacher. the heart of the story… It’s Will Trent meeting Jack Reacher! Both are on a mission and when Will’s ready to “confront” Reacher,… Continue reading Cleaning the Gold by Karin Slaughter & Lee Child @SlaughterKarin @LeeChildReacher @ericjasonmartin #JeffHarding @HarperAudio
the setup… Ellen Truesdale is a well driller, a very much male-dominated field but she’s got eyes for only one competitor, Fetterman Well Services…owned by her father. She’s returned to Coyote Canyon after having left at age ten with her mother when Scott Fetterman divorced both her and her mother, beginning a new family. His… Continue reading The Talk of Coyote Canyon by Brenda Novak @Brenda_Novak @amymcnarrator @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Lewis and Wren Woodard are newly married, both realizing they truly are each other’s soulmates. But shortly after their wedding, Lewis gets a devastating diagnosis…his physical body is transforming into a great white shark. While these kinds of transformations aren’t unheard of, his particular type is rare. He will still have his memories… Continue reading Shark Heart by Emily Habeck @EmilyHabeck @KarissaVacker @ShaunTaylorC @Soneela @SimonAudio
the setup… It’s postwar 1869 and Anne Denoe finally has the independent life she always dreamed of having. She’s living in Denver, owns a boarding house and is the assistant to a doctor who is fighting his own demons. But that allows her to do more doctoring when he’s incapacitated. Steven Baywood has made something… Continue reading Tempted by Molly O’Keefe @MollyOKwrites
the setup… It begins with the murder of Stephanie Bekker, the wife of a doctor, was killed in their home while husband Michael was out of town. But unknown to the killer (and her husband), she wasn’t alone. Her lover was upstairs and later walked in on the scene while in progress. He runs out… Continue reading Eyes of Prey by John Sandford @J_Sandford #RichardFerrone @recordedbooks
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