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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy. Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it's a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she's desperate when she finds a too-good-to-be-true apartment in a beautiful Chicago neighborhood. Cassie knows there has to be a catch-only someone with a secret to hide would rent out a room for that price. Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal....
Author
Series
Code of honor novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Trish Bailey is on overload trying to deal with a demanding job, an ailing mother, and a healing heart. When a series of unsettling memory lapses leads to a tragic death--and puts Trish under police scrutiny--her world is once again thrown into turmoil. Detective Colin Flynn isn't certain what to think of the facts he uncovers during his investigation. Did Trish simply make a terrible mistake or is there more to the case than meets the eye? As he...
4) Hidden peril
Author
Series
Code of honor novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
As teenagers, Kristin Dane and her two best friends took a vow to make the world a better place. Twenty years later, she's fulfilling that pledge through her fair trade shop that features products from around the world. All is well until, one by one, people connected to the shop begin dying. Detective Luke Carter, new to the St. Louis PD, wants to know why. Before he can answer that question, however, the FBI weighs in and Kristin suddenly finds herself...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Running her own lending library out of her sunroom after Chatsworth's own library closes, art teacher Dodie Fairisle finds herself considering a much bigger life-changing decision, as she learns of the chance to adopt an orphaned child.
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Language
English
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Description
After teenager Sarah Crane is seriously injured by her alcoholic father, she is sent to live in a foster home. But it quickly becomes clear that this family has taken her in only for the money they get from the county. When Sarah starts school, the limp left over from the accident sets her apart from the rest of the students, and she makes only one friend: Nick Dunnigan, who has problems of his own, and has recently been released from a mental hospital....
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Riley Madigan moves to Miracle Creek to nurse a broken heart, but when she meets Mark Rivers, a former firefighter who was badly burned during a rescue operation, she must decide if she is willing to risk loving again"--
When Riley Madigan moves to the sleepy mountain town of Miracle Creek, she hopes her new job as a high school art teacher will help her mend her recently broken heart. Former firefighter Mark Rivers has spent the last year recovering...
Author
Series
Albin Academy volume 2
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Rian Falwell has a problem. And his name is Damon Louis. Rian's life as the art teacher to a gaggle of displaced boys at Albin Academy should be smooth sailing - until the stubborn, grouchy football coach comes into his world like a lightning strike and ignites a heated conflict that would leave them sworn enemies if not for a common goal. A student in peril. A troubling secret. And two men who are polar opposites but must work together to protect...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Richard doesn't have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage to Tamara, a first chance at fatherhood to her son Elijah, a quiet but pleasant life as an art teacher at Elijah's elementary school, and the dream of becoming a real artist some day. Then the body of a rabbit, ritualistically murdered, appears on the school playground with a birthday card for Richard tucked beneath it. Richard is shocked; he doesn't have a birthday......
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A debut thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Liz Moore, Dark Things I Adore is a stunning Gone Girl-esque tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees. Three campfire secrets. Two witnesses. One dead in the trees. And the woman, thirty years later, bent on making the guilty finally pay. 1988. A group of outcasts gather at a small,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Having grown up the privileged daughter of artists, Vincent has a life that is lovely in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she's even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her Irish husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about his...
Author
Series
Carolina girls volume 5
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Annalise Haverford, Shauna Myer, and Meghan Banks have little in common, and even some bad blood, but when life's complications threaten to drown them, they'll have to rely on each other to stay afloat.
13) Lone wolf cowboy
Author
Series
Gold Valley novels volume 7
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As a former EMT and a wildland firefighter, there's no one Jacob Dalton can't rescue - except himself. Since his best friend's tragic death, Jacob has isolated himself... until Vanessa Logan returns to Gold Valley. He saved her life during a medical years ago, and he's never forgotten her. The instant jolt of heat between them takes him by surprise, but he knows that giving in to it would only end in disaster. ... For Vanessa, returning home was...
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