Mystery & Suspense
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Aladdin’s Samovar by Lauren Sweet
A nice, normal, boring life—that’s all Amber Polaski ever wanted. One where she’s not unchaining her flaky New Age mom from endangered trees, bailing her out of jail, or getting dragged to naked pagan rituals. But when Amber finds a sexy genie in her antique brass samovar, any hope of normal goes up in smoke.
It’s just one tiny little wish—to find her long-lost father. What could go wrong?
Plenty. Dad shows up, all right—with a computer drive full of stolen data and angry mobsters hot on his trail. Now Amber has Fugitive Dad holed up in her Manville, NJ duplex, fending off the Mafia on one side and the FBI on the other. And she has Jasper the genie lounging in her blue plush recliner, conjuring chocolate chip cookies and passing himself off as her boyfriend. While Jasper is trying to tempt Amber with more disastrous wishes—and his seriously hot thousand-year-old body—Amber and her mom are forced to fight off Mafia assassins with nothing but chutzpah and household appliances.
It’s time for Amber to call in the B-team: Iggy the homeless dwarf, Tim the ecoterrorist, and Wanda the Fairy Dogmother with her pack of Happy Puppies. Together, they need to save Dad before the Mob makes him disappear again—permanently!
Patchwork Man by D.B. Martin
Have you ever met a patchwork man?
Lawrence Juste is one. The QC with a conscience – privileged, reputable and emotionally frozen. But Lawrence hasn’t always been who he is now. When he is glaringly in the public eye after his enigmatic wife is killed in an apparently random hit and run, he could do with his hidden past surfacing like a hole in the head.
Unfortunately his dead wife has helpfully left him a sinister resume of his, and she just keeps adding to it…
‘Patchwork Man’ is the first in the Patchwork series. The second, ‘Patchwork People’ will be released on 30th September 2014.
Kalki Evian – The Ring of Khaoriphea by Malay A. Upadhyay
Every choice we make leads to its own unique consequence. To change the consequence, therefore, one must travel back in time to change the choice. But what if such change, instead of altering our future, simply created another – one that came to exist simultaneously with our world?
This is a story of how one such moment of love led to two parallel futures; a story of how your choices have an impact far beyond the world you know; a phenomenon that we had sensed, and wished for, all along. Set in Italy, while one timeline scales a city of the future where not just people but also things like money evolve, the other cradles itself in an amalgamation of contemporary Europe with ingredients of a new age. Step by step, the story embarks on a journey in a parallel world that we all live in but rarely see.
Perfect Boyfriend by Scarlett Brooke
After the opening of her first solo painting exhibition in New York City, up-and-coming artist Penelope Wilde seems poised for success. But when she returns to her apartment and finds her long-term boyfriend in bed with one of her artistic rivals, her life begins to unravel. Alone, heartbroken, and without the financial support that helped sustain her, she considers giving up her artistic dreams and returning to her dreary Midwestern hometown. But just when she thinks all is lost, a seductive, mysterious black patron enters her life. She has never been involved with a black man before and his ambition, drive and passionate lovemaking overwhelm her. He sweeps her off her feet with promises to support her and provide her with a life of luxury and leisure. What she fails to realize is that he preys on young artists who are hungry for fame and fortune and she is merely a pawn in his chess game. Will she discover the hidden dark side of the man she has fallen in love with before it is too late? Or will her love blind her and lead to her death?
Malachy’s Unit by Claire Plaisted
Since Malachy Garrett inherited his father’s investigations business, he has hated the boring daily grind of the office, yearning for the days long-past and the excitement and danger of cases now handed over to his staff.
Those agents include the beautiful but deadly Ana Belaruski, whose current case threatens to expose a skeleton of family secrets that could destroy Malachy and everything he and his father created.
As the mystery deepens, they find themselves in a desperate race to uncover a double agent in their midst. Will Malachy’s
feelings for Ana cloud his judgement, and will he risk everything for a woman who may or may not share the same
feelings?
MAN UP ! BOY ! by KASEY TAYLOR
Fourteen year old Malik Fuller, nicknamed Tootie Boy, had many lessons to learn about growing up and hanging out with his seventeen year old brother Ty and his friends Corey Lee and Brent. Not only was Tootie Boy innocent to the fact that Ty and the guys were drinking, smoking and stealing, but he had no clue that his brother had a relationship Sasha, the most beautiful girl in the neighborhood, who Malik himself has loved all of his life.
Trouble came to light after Ty and Brent were arrested for stealing stereos from the boxcar of a parked train. Malik’s father Tyrone, the owner of a prominent construction business, made a back door deal with the judge to get Ty off, while Brent was sent away to the military instead of jail.
Later that year, armed with a basketball scholarship to Cornell University, Ty packed his bags and traded railroad tracks and swimming in the lake for the glitz and glamour of New York. As luck would have it, Ty just happened to be at an amateur runway model recruiting event and he was chosen to model for the renowned Western Jeans Company. Within two years, Ty’s good looks and southern charm had landed him the spot as top male model. His partner, Imani, Western’s top female model, introduced Ty to New York’s nightlife which in her world consisted of clubs, limo’s and fine dining.
One night in the well known, Club 99, Ty ran into his old friend Corey Lee Richardson, Brent’s cousin who was living in Harlem and conducting business at Club 99. Corey wasn’t in the modeling business though. Corey’s business was coke, girls and guns, but when Corey hooked up with Imani, his desire was to come up with enough illegal money to go straight.
No one could fathom the turns life would take for the guys in their new surroundings of the bright lights and street life of New York.
The Trouble With St. John: A Samantha Stone Novel by Katie Bloomstrom
“After all that work and sleuthing and investment in my great detective notebook, I had nothing. In fact, the only successful thing I’ve done since stepping foot on this island was successfully believe all the lies everyone told me. Oh, I’ve also successfully been kidnapped, successfully almost drowned, and successfully eaten more Xanax than I’ve ever eaten before in my life. And in two days I’m supposed to just leave and pretend none of this ever happened. If I can even leave after being framed for murder.”
When shy, medium-looking Samantha Stone winds up on the romantic tropical island of St. John after getting dumped at the altar, she’s faced with two options: (1) sit in her sweaty villa and cry over her un-marriage to her idiot ex-fiancé while watching Love Actually on repeat and mass-eating Oreos and Xanax, or (2) pursue a hot vacation sexcapade with the gorgeous travel god she meets at baggage claim. Really, what’s a girl to do?
But, after losing both her super spendy non-diamond engagement ring and her mysterious tropical island fling candidate in the same drunken night, Sam quickly learns that St. John isn’t quite what she bargained for. In fact, she’ll be lucky if she can make it back home alive.
Join breakthrough author Katie Bloomstrom as she takes you on a journey into a picture perfect paradise filled with men, money, and mystery where nothing – and no one – is quite what it seems.
Spend the Night I by Elizabeth Lee
Welcome to The Wellesley-Crawford…
Hannah Wellesley has spent her entire life running the halls of her family-owned hotel, the infamous and opulent Wellesley-Crawford. Noted as one of the city’s richest, most luxurious hotels in Chicago, the WC is what Hannah has devoted her life and career to.
The hotel’s Annual Masquerade Gala is the event of the year, but this year Hannah’s evening involves more than just handing out masks. After a mysterious rendezvous in a secluded stairwell with an irresistible and unidentifiable man, Hannah becomes consumed with discovering the identity of her masked lover. Just as she’s about to give up the search, two men blow back into her life with drastically different intentions. They both have secrets and uncovering them will lead Hannah down a darkly dangerous path.
Drawn to both of the intriguing bachelors, she’ll have to determine which one is after her heart and which one plans to do her deadly harm before it’s too late.
Episode One of the Spend the Night Series
Dominated by Duplicitous Desires by L. Law
Come enter into the world where one night of reckless abandon plunges Ann into a world of deception, intrigue, murder, and revenge where nothing is as it seems and she is the red flag in a tug-o-war of powerful businessmen who will dominate her, protect her, or strip her bare in order to unlock secrets from her past of which even she is unaware.
While attending the charitable event which she spearheaded with her stepfather last year in hopes of grounding herself after his death, Ann is knocked off her feet by billionaire businessman, Stephan Greystone. His steel eyes flare with fiery desire as they lock with her gray inflaming her core and igniting an insatiable hunger for a man she can never have. As a stunning woman places her fingertips on Stephan’s forearm, his eyes cool causing waves of self-doubt and insecurity to crash over Ann, prompting her to flee.
Just once, she wishes she could be a confident, sexual siren like her best friend, Alice, who arouses passion in every man caught in her sights. As Alice slips into the seat next to Ann smelling of sex and her latest conquest’s cologne, she begs Ann to experiment and enter into games of erotic seduction planned for later in the evening involving some of the guests. With that one word and a nod of her head indicating that Stephan will be one such entrant, Ann is consumed by an inexplicable need to try and win Stephan and engage in one night of unrestrained passion.
Never did she expect that her hopes of catching an impossible dream would lead her into the arms of a man who derives pleasure from inflicting pain and spurn her descent into a world of duplicity and vengeance where nothing is as it seems. Waking in the woods, she soon learns that Alice is dead and that the only people surrounding her are those with an agenda to unlock information from her past that even she does not know she has or strip away all that she has known.
The Cuneiform Caper by Roselyn Jewell
When Reese Walker finds what she suspects is a very valuable and career changing artifact, she is beyond elated! She seeks approval to fund further research and find the answers she so desperately seeks regarding her find. However, just as she gets that funding her world gets turned upside down when the artifact is stolen. With very few leads to go on, she embarks on a journey that turns out to be so much more than she bargained for, both professionally and personally.
