Summer Longing
Jamie Brenner
Jamie Brenner
When a baby is left on the doorstep of a Cape Cod beach house, an unlikely group of women risks all they hold dear to harbor and protect her in this "touching, nuanced summer yarn" (Publisher's Weekly).Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for her forever home. After years of hard work and making peace with life's compromises, Ruth is looking forward to a carefree summer of solitude. But when she finds a baby girl abandoned on her doorstep, Ruth turns to her new neighbors for help and is drawn into the drama of the close-knit community.The appearance of the mystery baby has an emotional ripple effect through the women in town, including Amelia Cabral, the matriarch who lost her own child decades earlier; Elise Douglas, owner of the tea shop who gave up her dream of becoming a mother; and teenage local Jaci Barros who feels trapped by her parents'...
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Milo March #12
Kendell Foster Crossen
Kendell Foster Crossen
A man disappeared seven years ago, and his large life insurance policies are ready to come due unless he is found alive. He's a union boss and gangster who was in the midst of testifying to Congress when he mysteriously vanished. Hoping to save the insurance company a million dollars, Milo March crisscrosses the country to find out if he's still alive, with a pair of professional killers on his tail, determined to stop the investigation.
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Devour
David Temple
David Temple
Master Chef Michael Rogan owns a world-renowned restaurant, is married to his college sweetheart, and has a daughter beginning college. His life is as picturesque as their mountaintop retreat overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.That is until Frederick Dalton, an old Army buddy turned Warden at San Quentin, drifts in from the past with an odd request. He will release Michael's estranged father—serving time on Death Row for the murder of his wife 30 years ago—in exchange for one small favor. Michael declines. Michael's life is once again disrupted when his estranged brother Scott arrives unexpectedly looking for a job. Michael reluctantly agrees and things soon head sideways. Scott is found dead in the restaurant's freezer, with a knife in his chest. Police want to believe Michael's alibi, but the facts say otherwise.Charged with murder, and facing his father's same nightmarish confinement, Michael must face his worst nightmare before...
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Christmas on Reindeer Road
Debbie Mason
Debbie Mason
Fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Debbie Macomber will love this USA Today bestselling author's latest holiday romance about two single parents whose holiday wishes come true in the small town of Highland Falls.Can the magic of mistletoe bring together two busy single parents?Mallory Maitland knows all too well what it's like to feel abandoned, which is why she's sworn never to give up on her two stepsons-her late husband's children. But when the teens land in hot water, she's got a whole new problem: how to resist the caring and incredibly hot Chief of Police Gabriel Buchanan. All Mallory wants is to give the boys a magical holiday. She doesn't need the distraction of wondering what it would be like to kiss Gabriel under the mistletoe.After his wife died, Gabriel left his job as an adrenaline-chasing New York City homicide detective to focus on raising his three sons. But back in Highland Falls, he doesn't have to go looking...
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Don't You Want Me
Liam Livings
Liam Livings
Looking for love in all the wrong places. Toe-curling, guilt-laden sex with 'married men seeking discreet fun'. Why doesn't anyone want a social worker by day, drag queen by night and a Human League fan all day long?He deletes the hook-up apps, swears off men. Mentoring Nick, they move beyond friendship. Forced to share a hotel room, Nick's mixed signals point towards one conclusion. (Hint: it's well beyond professional.)NickRecently single, he's trying to work out who he is without his ex-boyfriend, who told Nick he's too this, not enough that, being gay in the wrong way.His career gives him purpose, direction. Yet he wants more from Tony than an employee should from his boss. After their passionate night, he needs more than friendship—f**k buddies...or forever boyfriends. (Hint: it's well beyond physical.) Except Tony's sworn off men...Don't You Want Me is a friends-to-lovers, forced-proximity, boss/employee gay romance featuring more...
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