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81) What Rose forgot
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In New York Times bestselling author Nevada Barr's gripping standalone, a grandmother in her sixties emerges from a mental fog to find she's trapped in her worst nightmare Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. With no memory of how she ended up in this position, Rose is sure that something is very wrong. When she overhears one of the administrators...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four-year-old Jesse Welles doesn{u2019}t know how long it will be before Water gets her memory back. For her sake, Jesse hopes the answer is never. He knows that she{u2019}ll stay so much safer{u2014}and happier{u2014}that way. And that{u2019}s why, as hard as it is, he needs to keep his distance. Because getting too close could flood her with realities better left buried.
83) Left to die
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When she's discovered by ranger Fletch Maverick as she's fighting for her life in a blizzard, she has no memory of who she is or how she got there. But according to Fletch's lawman brother, Jane Doe might be involved in a case that just landed on his desk. As Fletch struggles to figure out who this mystery woman really is, he and Jane first have to survive in the wilderness. But can they also resist the magnetic pull between them before it's too...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Calladia Cunnington knows she's rough around the edges, despite being the heir to one of small-town Glimmer Falls' founding witch families. While her gym obsession is a great outlet for her anxieties and anger, her hot temper still gets the best of her and manifests in bar brawls. When Calladia saves someone from a demon attack one night, though, she's happy to put her magic and rage to good use . . . until she realizes the man she saved is none...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When he finds a half-dead woman stranded in his barn, rancher Leo Slattery feels his blood run cold. Though she can't remember who she is, she insists someone is trying to kill her. With his strong protective streak, Leo brings her into the fold and helps her heal. As they begin to solve the mystery of Jane Doe's identity, a would-be killer works to eliminate her--forever."--Back cover
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. With no recollection of how he got there or even his own name. He's a dead man walking, until he stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son, who nurse himback to health. In the desert good deeds come at a cost. The amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn't have. First a group of gunslingers then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family. Their only hope os...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Desire
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Lone Rock. Oregon's Wild West. Chance Carson is the one man in Lone Rock who gets Juniper Sohappy all riled up. His family is ranching royalty. He's arrogant, insufferable, and obnoxiously charming -- she'll keep her distance, thanks. But when Juniper finds him on her property, injured and without his memory, she saves his life...and sort of lets him believe he's her ranch hand. Making the entitled rancher work a little is one thing...but...
88) Red River seven
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of who or where he is. He's not alone - there are six others, each with a unique set of skills. None of them can remember their names. All of them possess a gun. When a message appears on the onboard computer - Proceeding to Point A - the group agrees to work together to survive whatever is coming. But as the boat moves through the mist-shrouded waters, divisions begin to form. Who is directing them and...
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Clementine wakes up in a hospital after being the only survivor in an airplane crash and discovers she cannot remember anything, she runs off with a stranger to avoid dealing with a father she does not recognize and the press coverage of the crash.
When Clementine wakes up in a hospital after being the only survivor in an airplane crash, she discovers she has complete amnesia. She cannot remember anything, and doesn't even recognize the man...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Stranded for eighteen years since the 1990s, time-traveling agent Kin Stewart, suffering from memory loss, has started a new life, but when rescuers from the year 2142 finally arrive, he must choose between his current family and the one he left behind in the future.
Author
Series
Cape Charade volume 1
Language
English
Description
I have three confessions to make: 1. I've got the scar of gunshot on my forehead. 2. I don't remember an entire year of my life. 3. My name is Kellen Adams ... and that's half a lie. Girl running ... from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear. Tough, capable Kellen Adams takes a job as assistant manager of a remote vacation resort on the North Pacific Coast. There amid the towering storms and the lashing...
Author
Series
Rules for the reckless volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Trapped in the countryside, facing an unwanted marriage and the theft of her fortune, Jane Mason is done behaving nicely. To win her freedom, she'll strike a deal with the most dangerous man she knows, a rising star in politics, whose dark good looks mask an even darker heart. The bitter past has taught Crispin Burke to trust no one. He'll gladly help a lovely young heiress, provided she pays a price. Yet when a single mistake shatters his life, it...
93) Black and blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The next exciting installment in bestselling David Rosenfelt's Doug Brock series. Doug Brock hasn't had it easy since his getting shot in the line of duty as a New Jersey state police officer. Between the amnesia and having to solve two murder cases, it hasn't been the most restful recovery. Now, the cold case department is checking evidence from a murder case Doug was investigating before the accident, but the DNA points to a man Doug eliminated...
94) City of orange
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time. Here lies a pipe, there a reed that could be carved into a weapon, beyond a city he once lived in. He could swear his daughter's name began with a J,but what was it, exactly? Then he encounters an old man,...
95) Dandelion moon
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"On Christmas Eve, a woman stumbles through a cemetery in Juliet, Missouri, not knowing where or who she is. While her friends try to help her regain her memory, they are concerned that some unknown trigger could plunge her more deeply into her fugue state"--
Author
Series
House of secrets (Brad Meltzer) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her that mysteries need to be solved. He should know. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Even as a child, she loved hearing her dad's tall tales, especially the one about a leather book belonging to Benedict Arnold that was hidden in a corpse. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing, not even her own...
97) Good Friday
Author
Series
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"March, 1976. An IRA bombing campaign strikes terror across Britain. Nowhere and no one is safe. Minutes before a deadly tube station blast, Detective Constable Jane Tennison spots the bomber. Too traumatised to identify him, she is nevertheless a key witness. As they battle to unmask the terrorists, the police are determined nothing will disrupt their annual Good Friday dinner dance. Hundreds of detectives and their partners will be there--Jane among...
Author
Publisher
Suma Internacional
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
A suspicious accident, a wife who can't account for herself, and unsettling questions that threaten to tear the couple apart. You're home making dinner for your husband. You expect him any second. The phone rings--it's the call you hoped you'd never get. You jump in your car and race to a neighborhood you thought you'd never visit. You peer into the dark, deserted building. You brace yourself for the worst. And then, you remember nothing else. They...
99) Out of the storm
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
One look at his warm brown eyes and Kate Jackson knows she's found her husband. It's been twenty years since Daniel went missing in a refinery explosion and was finally declared dead, but Kate never gave up hope, convinced he was somewhere out there, suffering from amnesia. Then, on a trip to Buckhorn, Montana, she sees him--working as a carpenter, scarred, but still her Danny. Yet Jon Harper, as he calls himself, insists he's a stranger. Jon is certain...
100) Destroy all monsters
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ash does not remember the day she fell out of her friend Solomon's tree house, but ever since that day Solomon has retreated into a dark fantasy world and Ash believes the key to saving him is recovering her lost memory.
When they were twelve, Ash fell from Solomon's tree house. She's lost all memory of the events leading up to the fall but since then Solomon has retreated further and further into a world that he seems to have created in his own...
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