the setup… Emmaline (Emmy) Darling runs a bookstore and helps take care of her younger sister, brother and niece. But she’s now in a desperate situation in a seedy motel called the Iguana somewhere in the Arizona desert. She’s running from her abusive ex-boyfriend Kian and now is being threatened by an over amorous motel… Continue reading My Darling Bride by Ilsa Madden-Mills @ilsamaddenmills #sebastianyork @savannahpeachwood @brilliancepublishing #TheDarlings #MyDarlingBride
the setup… Lady Portia Frain is the youngest of the three sisters and the last still at home with their theater obsessed father. Her life cause is the rescue and care of animals in distressful circumstances. During one nightly escapade to free a dog from the owner using him in illegal dogfights, Portia finds herself… Continue reading The Duke Says I Do by Anna Campbell @annacampbelloz @annacampbelloz.bsky.social #ScoundrelsofMayfair #TheDukeSaysIDo
the setup… This story opens one minute after the end of the final book in the Fatal series…when Vice President Nick Cappuano receives the call that the President has died. In that one moment, everything changes for him and his wife, Metro Police Lieutenant Samantha (Sam) Holland. The Secret Service detail doubles, they’re hustled to… Continue reading State of Affairs by Marie Force @marieforceauthor @evakaminskyaudiobooks #FirstFamily #StateOfAffairs
the setup… Sami Kierce is now a private investigator in New York City, married to Molly and father of their infant son Henry. A former police detective forced to leave in disgrace, he’s working off debts by doing low level surveillance assignments for a law firm and teaching a criminology class to a small group… Continue reading Nobody’s Fool by Harlan Coben @harlancoben @harlancoben.bsky.social @vikasadam @vikasadam.bsky.social @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social @netgalley @netgalley.bsky.social #SamiKierce #NobodysFool
the setup… Travis Devine is a former Army Ranger Captain who inexplicably left a brilliant military career and then joined Cowl and Comely, a prestigious New York investment bank. At 32-years old, he’s older than his other entry level analysts and an anomaly. He shares an apartment with three others, taking the 6:20 train from… Continue reading The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci @davidbaldacciauthor @davidbaldacci.bsky.social @webberesque @yolakin @themelalee @themelalee.bsky.social @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social #The620Man
the setup… Homicide Detective Vincent Ruiz suddenly gains consciousness, finding himself in the Thames, at night with a bullet in his leg, hanging onto a buoy. He has no memory of how he got there or what happened to him. He’s rescued, taken to the hospital and grilled by colleagues who don’t believe his amnesia.… Continue reading Lost by Michael Robotham @michaelrobotham @michaelrobotham.bsky.social #raylonnen @recordedbooks @recordedbooks.bsky.social #Lost #JosephOLoughlin
the setup… Giovanni Rossi arrives in New York from Rome, excited to reconnect with an old friend who sent him an urgent message asking him to come. He’s greeted by the limo driver, completely in keeping with what his friend would arrange. Within minutes of getting in the car he’s dead. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas… Continue reading Bonded in Death by J. D. Robb @jdrobbauthor @stmartinspress @stmartinspress.bsky.social #BondedInDeath #InDeath
the setup… Detective Kara Quinn and the Mobile Response Team are dispatched to a crime scene in Oregon where a female college student is found murdered, her throat cut and red poppies covering her body. At the same time, Special Agent Matt Costa is in Virginia at another crime scene, this time an older man… Continue reading See How They Hide by Allison Brennan @abwrites @suzanne_t_fortin @suzannefortin.bsky.social @harlequin_audio #SeeHowTheyHide
the setup… Claire Mason returns home from work late at night and finds an unbelievable scene. Her parents lay murdered in their bed, shot to death. Sheriff Bree Taggert arrives to find the seventeen year old traumatized and alone. What first looks like a burglary gone wrong soon morphs into so much more as she… Continue reading Track Her Down by Melinda Leigh @melindaleigh1 @melindaleighbooks.bsky.social @fightingfrau @brilliance.publishing #TrackHerDown
It’s back for another year! This challenge is focused on finally finishing those series that you’ve started but not yet completed. It was previously hosted by Bea’s Book Nook, then by Celebrity Readers since 2018. Now we, Carla Loves to Read & Blue Mood Café, are the new host for this year and excited to… Continue reading 2025 Finishing the Series Challenge! #FinishingTheSeries2025
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