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21) Dough or die
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When murder interrupts the filming at their Yeast of Eden bakery, which is reality TV bound, Ivy Culpepper must move quickly to solve the crime before her business collapses.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In The Lightkeepers, we follow Miranda, a nature photographer who travels to the Farallon Islands, an exotic and dangerous archipelago off the coast of California, for a one-year residency capturing the landscape. Her only companions are the scientists studying there, odd and quirky refugees from the mainland living in rustic conditions; they document the fish populations around the island, the bold trio of sharks called the Sisters that hunt the...
23) From a distance
Author
Series
Timber Ridge reflections volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Determined to establish herself as a photojournalist, Elizabeth Westbrook travels from Washington, D.C., to Timber Ridge, Colorado. But when one of her pictures is used as evidence in a murder trial, she finds her life in peril. Meeting Confederate sharpshooter Daniel Ranslett teaches Elizabeth something surprising about herself---but what she learns about Daniel is life changing!
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Language
English
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Description
"Harriet Hatley is the most in-demand wedding photographer in town, but she doesn't believe in romance, loathes the idea of marriage, and thinks chocolate fountains are an abomination. Which is why, when her long-time partner proposes, she panics. Suddenly Harriet is single... and living down the hall from her ex. She needs a new apartment, like, yesterday. Enter Cal Clarke, a hopeless romantic who just experienced his own wedding-related disaster....
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sophie Chesterton is a girl about town - she knows all the right people, goes to all the right parties, and wears all the right clothes. But deep down she suspects that her best friends are actually rather nasty, and that her lifestyle doesn't really amount to much. Her father wants her to make her own way in the world, to make him proud. But after one shocking evening her life is changed forever. Scraping a living as an assistant to a 'glamour' photographer;...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Leaving her successful job after the unexpected death of her famous father, photojournalist Serena Stone risks her life to save a former lover and discovers an archive of her late father's work in war-torn Libya that reveals a shocking truth about her parents' marriage.
Author
Series
Cass Neary novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Fleeing for her life after she is shown photographs of ritual killings during a mysterious job in Helsinki, Cass Neary encounters a former lover and exiled musician in Iceland only to be inundated by a series of unsolved murders.
28) The photographer
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Delta Dawn comes from humble beginnings, but in her work as a photographer for the children's parties of New York's elite she is used to moving, unnoticed, through their luxurious homes. As she observes their seemingly perfect lives, she adds to this veneer by transforming the images of their crying children, stiff hugs and unsmiling faces-editing the images to make sure the parents see the party they want. The party they may later, looking at the...
29) After the rain
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Freelance photographer Suzanne Paris has been on her own since the age of 14, and she has no intention of settling down in tiny Walton, Georgia. But to her surprise, Walton residents have a way of making even reluctant guests feel right at home. And the new connections she builds come in handy when a dark figure from her past returns, determined to ruin her life.
31) Fool me once
Author
Language
English
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Description
Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth. Then she learns that her mother has just died, leaving her a fortune, with the request that Olivia find two accomplices in a long-ago crime and persuade them to come clean. Feeling betrayed, and unsure she even wants the inheritance, Olivia must decide if she can handle the secrets of the past.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discovering old photos in which she sees what her work is missing, Manhattan photographer Dani Campbell searches for their source, which leads her to eighty-year-old Lawrence Sinclair who agrees to mentor her until his estranged grandson arrives believing she's a fortune hunter.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Graduating from Yale during the political heyday of the late 1980s, Kate accepts a seemingly unbelievable job offer to work as an assistant to a famous American photographer in Paris, where she spent her early childhood and where she becomes surrounded by the artist's pretentious family, her flamboyant cousin and a band of weathy men with royal ties.
34) Photo finished
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While covering the most exclusive socialite event of the year, Liv Spyers, along with Regina, an elite events photographer, must put things into focus after a billionaire is murdered and Regina is framed for murder, forcing her to turn her lens on an overexposed world of high society to find the truth
Author
Series
Rose Bend novels volume 5
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When her hot one-night-stand turns out to be the man leading the restoration project she's been hired to photograph, and his sweet little girl has decided she's her new bestie, Flo Dennison, as things become complicated, must decide if one wild night can become so much more.
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Bellamy has struggled for years between two men: Logan, the handsome, steady father of her child; and Julian, the dangerous but adoring adrenaline junkie. Now busy with a thriving business, Daisy knows she should be happy with the life she has made, until the man once lost to her reappears. Now the choice Daisy thought was behind her is the hardest one she'll ever face.
37) Map of the heart
Author
Language
English
Description
Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter, Julie, in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform her. Camille, Julie, and Camille's father return to the French...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Hired by wealthy banker, Sir Gerald Mariner, to find his missing son, photographer and private eye Sarah Bain must figure out if the kidnapping is a cover-up for murder, especially when the case intertwines with her search for her father who disappeared 20 years earlier.
39) Remember me
Author
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by heartbreak and betrayal, Addie Bryant escapes her terrible circumstances with the hope she can forever hide her past and with the belief she will never have the future she's always dreamed of. When she's reunited with her lost love, Addie must decide whether to run or to face her wounds to embrace her life, her future, and her hope in God"--
1902. Addie Bryant's beau, Isaac Hanson, left the Yukon, and she made a vow to wait for him. When...
40) Feast your eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school's photo club, Lillian rejects her parents' expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter, Samantha, Lillian is arrested, thrust into the national spotlight, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter's sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their...
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