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Fancy Lady & the Desperadoes by Dee Dawning
Well-bred and genteel, Valerie Johnson travels from Boston three thousand miles by train and stagecoach to join her husband in Virginia City, Nevada, only to discover she is a widow. Out of money, unable to find respectable employment, she accepts a temporary position as a courtesan at Rosie’s Parlor—an elegant Virginia City brothel.
Ultimately she is rescued from the ‘Sporting Life’ by Duke Dugan, a rebel captain who, along with his two brothers, is on a desperate mission for the despised Confederacy.
She would tell the authorities, except there’s one problem—she’s fallen in love with him. Escape to Osprey Cove by Luisa Marietta Gold
The mystery begins with an unusual find in the secret compartment of Doug’s new Corvette. It will change his and Catherine’s life forever, forcing her to find escape at The Osprey Cove Lodge.
Shattered Innocence Trilogy: Boxed Set by A.L. Long
A romantic story of suspense and mystery begins to unfold the minute Rade Matheson, a handsome billionaire, meets Dylan Adams, a simple girl. Rade’s obsession to catch the man who stole from him, ends up costing him the one thing he never thought he had. One wrong decision could cause him to lose her forever. Will the power of love prevail or will his secrets destroy the one thing he has only ever wanted, her.
Avarice and Charity (Sins of the Virtuous Book 3) by Faye Hall
Would you risk everything to protect the one you love from relentless greed?
After the death of her mother, Charity Bohdan vowed to carry on her work—providing free treatment to those who are sick or injured. What started off as patching up wounds soon took a very different direction when she was being called to treat young women who’d been brutally raped and left pregnant. She knows the risks involved with treating and re-homing these women, but she can’t turn them away.
When Charity is called to treat a drunk’s wounded hand, she expects to find some elderly station hand. Instead she finds a handsome, young man, who isn’t drunk at all. As she tends to his injury, she can’t ignore the feelings he stirs inside her when their skin touches.
Avarice Licciardi has spent his life working for his father—a greedy, loveless man who has destroyed everyone in his way. But when Avarice meets Charity, a woman with the touch of an angel, he discovers there’s something he craves much more than his father’s money. He wants this woman to be a part of his life.
As they spend time together, talking of Irish legends and going on picnics, Avarice begins to win the beautiful woman’s heart. But then his father orders him to retrieve some hidden papers at Charity’s estate. He refuses…until his father threatens to go get the papers himself. Avarice is determined to protect Charity from this brutal man—even if that means deceiving her.
What Avarice finds at her estate is a hidden tunnel with incriminating mysteries far greater than hidden papers. Together Avarice and Charity uncover secrets from the past that sicken their souls as an evil, greedy man threatens to tear them apart in his search for the evidence hidden at the Bohdan estate.
The Skeleton Lady by Tori L Wilson
Oliver Adams and Kayte Westin have been best friends since the first grade, when Kayte stood up against Oliver’s bully, earning his undying loyalty. The two are neighbors and are now attending their small town of Adairsville, Georgia’s local high school together, counting down the days until summer vacation. Oliver and Kayte both have feelings for one another besides simply friendship, however neither of them have been able to summon the strength required to confess their true feelings.
One day, when the two friends are walking home together after school, they hear a chilling scream from a nearby alley. Kayte rushes to investigate the noise and Oliver follows behind her, making sure Kayte doesn’t get into any trouble. As they come to the alley, Oliver and Kayte notice something strange- there is no one around, and the alley is completely desolate.
Suddenly, everything goes black and Oliver and Kayte awake in separate rooms, chained to old beds and surrounded by concrete walls, floors, and ceilings.
The Skeleton Lady, a terrifying woman with brilliant red eyes and an extremely thin, skeleton-like figure, has captured the two friends. The Skeleton Lady, along with her sidekicks, Sally and Button, torment the two friends, giving them new names and makeovers, slowly turning them into her own creations, dragging them further and further away from humanity and into her own sick and twisted world of selfishness and pain.
All of this changes, however, when on Oliver’s birthday, the Skeleton Lady allows him to see Kayte for the first time since they were kidnapped. Having all but forgotten their previous lives, it takes the two a moment before they even recognize each other. Once their memories come flooding back and they finally confess their attraction for one another, Oliver and Kayte realize they must escape The Skeleton Lady’s lair.
Driven by their love for each other, the two must use their mental and physical strength to escape the clutches of their captors.
Will their love be enough to break the grasp of their tormentor’s clutches, or will they die trying? Find out in this exciting tale filled with twists and turns at every corner. A Dangerous Liaison Descent Into Chaos by Leslie LeBlanc
Accustomed to simple security work, Cassidy Macayla finds herself in over her head, coerced by difficult circumstances and a well-meaning employer to accept an unusual proposition: Help Special Agent Chase Averey during his recovery, and hope they don’t die in the process. Danger lurks around every corner, and she has enough to worry about without the handsome, dangerous blast from the past who insists on adding to an already complicated set of circumstances.
Chase Averey suffers from several injuries, including amnesia, the result of a devastating attack while returning from an intelligence mission. It was a double-cross, but by who? During the chaotic event he hid the information, but due to amnesia, can’t remember where. It’s a race against time as they try to outwit an enemy out to find out what he knows and destroy him in the process.
The last thing he expects is Cassidy, the woman that disappeared long ago without a word, and left him with more questions than answers. Not only must he survive long enough to remember the vital aspect of his mission, but discover what she’s hiding. Each layer of secrets peeled away only begs more questions and pulls him into a dark world he isn’t ready to see. One filled with pain, danger, and fear that threatens to tear her apart.
The simmering build up of attraction pulling them together is unstoppable, but when difficulties with trust and pain mix with danger, there’s no telling the outcome. Can they survive and build on the underlying connection that’s always been there, or will they lose everything, including his memory – and their lives?
Dancing with Air by Uvi Poznansky
Fooling Nazi intelligence may cost Lenny the trust of the girl who captured his heart back home. Will Natasha discover his secret reports, disguised as love letters to another woman, in which he gives the enemy misleading information about allied plans for D-Day?
Once she arrives in London, Lenny takes her for a ride on his Harley throughout England, from the White Cliffs of Dover to a village near an underground ammunition depot in Staffordshire. When he is wounded in a horrific explosion, Natasha brings him back to safety, only to discover the other woman’s letter to him. He wonders, will she trust him again, even though as a soldier, he must keep his mission a secret? Will their love survive the test of war?
In the past Natasha wrote, with girlish infatuation, “He will be running his fingers down, all the way down to the small of my back, touching his lips to my ear, breathing his name, breathing mine. Here I am, dancing with air.” In years to come, she will begin to lose her memory, which will make Lenny see her as delicate. “I gather her gently into my arms, holding her like a breath.” But right now, during the months leading up to D-Day, she is at her peak. With solid resolve, she is ready to take charge of the course of their story.
Where I Found You by Brooke O’Brien
How do you protect your heart?
Build a wall.
Lock it away.
Let no one in.Everyone should have a childhood worth remembering. Only I remember mine for all the wrong reasons. Starting over in a new town is hard enough. When you are running from your past, it doesn’t get any easier.
I was ready to say goodbye to the burdens I have carried. The pain I’ve experienced is more than anyone should have to face.
Then I met him…
He takes my breath away. I can’t ignore the way he makes me feel. I know he has the power to destroy me.
And that’s what scares me the most.
Run to You (Run Series #1) by Kandice Michelle Young
He wanted my complete surrender, I wanted his everything…
Dark. Raging. All-consuming.
Sebastian Black was guaranteed to leave destruction in his wake. From the moment our eyes met, he had a hold on me. I knew what he was proposing would destroy me. What I hadn’t planned on was his ability to make me crave destruction.
I wanted, craved, and needed him like nothing I had ever desired before. Running from the shadows of my past, I lost myself in him. I knew my darkness could ruin us, but I didn’t understand the power of his to do the same.
My dark, brooding, impeccably-sexual, alpha-male had his own crosses to bear. I wasn’t sure I was strong enough to handle them, or the woman who helped chain him there.
KAYOS: The Bad & The Worse by Tracy A. Ball
Lareina Elliot discovered her idea for making students loyal to the government is being implemented to further the war. It has become her life’s work to undermine that effort.
Agent Christian Deverell promised to protect Lareina, always. But, that was before he flipped sides, before their history got dirty, before he commissioned her adopted brother to assassinate her.
Cpl. Silas McKade never misses. He has a death warrant for Lareina—the woman who means everything to him—and a soul full of hatred for Christian—the man he wants to be. He’s either going to break Lareina’s heart or stop it altogether.
