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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sara Hawthorne can't pretend the passionate night she spent with an anonymous stranger never happened...especially when Ian Ford shows up at her distillery. Keeping things strictly professional becomes impossible when they're snowed in together. The enigmatic journalist's past is cloaked in mystery. But as passion reignites, Ian and Sara must both lay bare their deepest secrets. Will shocking revelations shatter their idyll? Or give them a second...
42) Storm front
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"No one thought much about the storm. Experienced local weatherman Wally Wellman thought there might be trouble, but even he couldn't predict the natural disaster that was about to lay siege to the quiet suburb of Sheridan, Michigan. Sheridan police officer Mike Stuart must try to keep the town safe, but here is something deadly lurking in Sheridan. A pair of escaped convicts have been stranded in town. But they don't plan on laying low. As the death...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at...
44) The darkening
Author
Series
Darkening volume 1
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing that...
Author
Series
Haven Point volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been two rough years since Andrea Montgomery lost her husband, and all she wants is for her children to enjoy their first Christmas in Haven Point. But then Andie's friend asks a favor-- to keep an eye on her brother, Sheriff Marshall Bailey, who's recovering from a hit and run. Andie will do anything for Wyn, even park her own misgivings to check on her grouchy, wounded bear of a brother. Marshall hates feeling defenseless and resents the protective...
46) West heart kill
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"An irresistible murder mystery set at a genteel private club where everyone is a suspect, including the erratic detective on the scene-a remarkable debut that gleefully upends the rules of the genre and marks the arrival of a major new talent "The writer of murder, like all writers, must be a miser, conceding revelations bit by bit; for every novel is a puzzle, and every reader a sleuth." A remote, old-money hunting lodge. A raging storm. A locked...
47) Forever my hero
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dan Amos lost his wife and son years ago, when they inadvertently got in the way of a death threat meant for him. He's never had eyes for anyone since, and he doesn't want to. But fellow Blessings resident Alice Conroy sparks something inside him...Newly widowed, Alice was disillusioned by marriage and isn't looking to fall in love anytime soon. Then a tropical storm blazes a path straight for the Georgia coast, and as the town prepares for the worst,...
48) Nobody but us
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Steven Harding is a handsome, well-respected professor. Ellie Masterson is a wide-eyed grad student. Together, they are driving south from New York for their first vacation: three days in an isolated cabin, far from the city. Ahead of them, the promise of long, dark nights--and the chance to get to know each other better, away from prying eyes. It should be a perfect romantic getaway for two. But when a snowstorm strands them in the house, each realizes...
Author
Series
The Westmoreland legacy: the Outlaws volume 3
The Westmoreland legacy the Outlaws volume 3
Harlequin desire volume 2839
The Westmoreland legacy the Outlaws volume 3
Harlequin desire volume 2839
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a holiday blizzard traps him with his ex things really heat up! It's been ten years since she broke his heart, but Leslie Cassidy's elegance still stuns rugged Alaskan executive Sloan Outlaw. Now, thanks to a ruthless enemy targeting Leslie's company, Sloan can use his wealth and influence for something nice - and something naughty. He'll save her company - if she'll spend a week with him at his luxurious winter retreat! But when a snowstorm...
50) The sanatorium
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A chilling debut in which a detective must uncover the dark history of a luxury hotel in the Alps if she has any hope of stopping the deaths that won't let up. . . Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. Once a sanatorium treating tuberculosis patients, it was abandoned years ago and had fallen into disrepair. Long plagued by troubling rumours, it has recently been renovated into a...
51) In the dark
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The promise of a luxury vacation at a secluded wilderness spa has brought together eight lucky guests. But nothing is what they were led to believe. As a fierce storm barrels down and all contact with the outside is cut off, the guests fear that it's not a getaway. It's a trap. Each one has a secret. Each one has something to hide. And now, as darkness closes in, they all have something to fear--including one another. Alerted to the vanished party...
52) The rising tide
Author
Publisher
Scarlet
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a small fishing village on the Devon coast, Lucy Locke has built a life that anyone would envy. She and her husband, Daniel, own successful businesses and live with their two children in a picturesque home overlooking the harbor. But everything changes one morning when, following a monumental storm, the family yacht is found empty--and Lucy's husband is nowhere in sight. As the search for Daniel mounts, so does Lucy's sense of dread, raised to...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother's decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that she'll be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. It's her home away from home, but it's also a sanctuary for others who, like her brother,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It’s been twenty-five years since the shocking disappearance of a female student and the distinguished Creative Writing professor who died while searching for her. The Briarwood College community has never forgotten the double tragedy. Now, the college President is bringing together faculty, donors, and alumni to honor the victims from all those years ago. On a cold December weekend after the fall semester has ended, guests gather on the vacant...
56) Blindsided
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Productions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A decade after Cadence Lawrence accused the perpetrator in the brutal murder of her high school friend, she's finally put the nightmare to rest. But the ghosts of her past won't rest, and an unexpected encounter with the killer reawakens demons she thought were long dead. Gripped by paranoia, Cadence fears she's being stalked, and suspects that the murderer has invaded the sanctity of her home. Could her chance encounter have rekindled the savage...
Author
Series
(Emma J.).Osiris project volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Rising high above the frigid waters, the ocean city of Osiris has been cut off from the land since the Great Storm 50 years ago. Most believe that Osiris is the last city on Earth. Adelaide is the black-sheep granddaughter of the city's Architect. A jaded socialite, she wants little to do with her powerful relatives--until her troubled twin brother disappears mysteriously. Vikram, a third-generation storm refugee, sees his own people dying of cold...
58) Storm glass
Author
Series
Harbinger novels volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Theirs is a world of opposites. The privileged live in sky manors held aloft by a secretive magic known only as the Mysteries. Below, the earthbound poor are forced into factory work to maintain the engine of commerce. Only the wealthy can afford to learn the Mysteries and they use their knowledge to further lock their hold on society. Cettie Pratt is a waif doomed to the world below until an admiral attempts to adopt her. But in her new home in the...
Author
Series
County Cork mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Snow is a rarity in Maura Donovan's small village in County Cork, Ireland, so she wasn't sure what to expect when a major snowstorm rolled in around Sullivan's pub. But now she's stranded in a bar full of patrons--and a suspected killer in a long-ago murder. Maura's been in Ireland less than a year and hasn't heard about the decades-old unsolved crime that took place nearby, let alone the infamous suspect, Diane Caldwell. But the locals have, and...
60) Darkness
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Language
English
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Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards continues her penchant for "fantastic storytelling" (RT Book Reviews) with this next heart-pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life--and that of a handsome stranger--before they're swallowed up in darkness forever. BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist...
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