the setup… Cora Atkin is on her way to register the name of her newborn son. Her husband Gordon wants him named after him; nine-year old daughter Maia suggests Bear, and Cora likes Julian. Whichever her choice will have a consequence, both for the child and her family. Over the next 35 years, the story… Continue reading The Names by Florence Knapp @florenceknapp_ @florenceknapp.bsky.social #dervlakirwan @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheNames
the setup… Rowan Gallagher is an architect and single mother with a 16-year old daughter, Natalie. She lives in Portland, Maine and is working on a two-year contract to restore an historic mansion for the influential Wincott family. She loves the project but her personal life just hit the skids. The man she’s been dating… Continue reading Dying to Meet You by Sarina Bowen @sarina.bowen @sarinabowen.bsky.social @kathleenearly @caitlinkellyvo @caitlinkellyvo.bsky.social @sarahmollo @harperaudio #DyingToMeetYou
the setup… Rayna Dumont is an American expatriate living in Amsterdam and working as a freelance travel writer. Licking her wounds following a brutal and scandalous divorce, she decides to throw caution to the wind one evening and go home with Xander, her Tinder date. She wakes the next morning to find him murdered in… Continue reading The Expat Affair by Kimberly Belle @kimberlybellebooks @jenniferjill.araya @jenniferjillaraya.bsky.social @theladyhamlet @theladyhamlet.bsky.social @harlequinbooks #TheExpatAffair
the setup… Bud Stanley is stuck. He’s a middle-aged obituary writer living in Brooklyn, divorced from a woman who left him for someone unremarkable. Bud is going through the motions of life and even his writing has gone stale. One night after too much to drink, he pens his own obituary and accidentally publishes it.… Continue reading I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney @johnkenneywriter @seanpatrickhopkins @zibbypublishing @librofm @libro.fm #ISeeYouveCalledInDead
the setup… Game commission officers discover two bodies while out on inspection and contact both the Lenore County Sheriff and the Denton Police Department as jurisdiction isn’t clear. Josie and Noah determine it’s theirs but coordination with Lenore County is still required depending on where the investigation leads. Valerie and Tyler Yates appear to have… Continue reading Cold Heart Creek by Lisa Regan @lisareganauthor @lisaregan.bsky.social @katehandford @hachetteuk @hachetteuk.bsky.social #DetectiveJosieQuinn #ColdHeartCreek
the setup… Christine (Pris) Greene has crushed on Tagger Grange since she was sixteen but to him she was his best friend’s little sister and off limits. He left Peachtree Pass, Texas to find his fortune and did so, now an investment manager in New York. Tagger is also a divorced single father to six-year… Continue reading Long Time Coming by S. L. Scott @s.l.scott @samanthareadsromance #RyanHudson @hambright_pr #LongTimeComing
the setup… Detective Tracy Crosswhite is known for her professionalism, maintaining her cool under pressure and her championship shooting skills. It’s when she’s interviewing murder suspect Erik Schmidt that it all comes to a crashing head. See, Schmidt was a close friend in prison of the man who murdered her sister. When he viciously taunts… Continue reading A Dead Draw by Robert Dugoni @robertdugoni @emilysuttonsmith @brilliance.publishing #TracyCrosswhite #ADeadDraw
the setup… Charlotte Sitterly’s idyllic world in the beachfront town of Juniper Shores, North Carolina is turned upside down overnight when her husband Bill is arrested for financial crimes. She and her teenage daughter Iris find themselves barred from their home, almost penniless with bank accounts frozen and nowhere to turn. But an angel in… Continue reading Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey @kristywharvey @cassandracampbell @miahutchinsonshaw @suehylaeyoung @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #BeachHouseRules
the setup… Ruby Tate has always lived a sheltered life even though she excelled at everything she set her mind to. But she’s now a thirty-year old librarian living alone with her dog Bruiser in Wellsprings, Colorado and has never been in a relationship. Ruby struggles with intimacy and with the urging of her much… Continue reading Lessons in Heartbreak by Karla Sorenson @karla_sorenson #SamanthaBrentwood @aidensnowvoice @brilliancepublishing #LessonsInHeartBreak
the setup… Phillip Brown is a floor manager at the Wiest Oyster Cannery in 1867 Baltimore. He and his sister live nearby with the uncle that raised them following the death of their parents. It’s frigidly cold outside on a November morning when he discovers a woman lying unconscious and nearly frozen on the front… Continue reading Kidnapped by Holly Bush @hollybushbooks.bsky.social #TheBrownsOfButchersHill #Kidnapped
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