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Title: Untamed
Author: Nora Roberts
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: April 16, 2013
Publisher: InterMix
ASIN: B00AVA4NF2
After his father’s death, lawyer Keane Prescott finds himself the new owner of a circus. Keane has no interest in running the show, until he meets Jovilette Wilder. The fierce lion tamer had a special bond with Keane’s father, and has made it clear she wants him to leave her and the circus alone. Yet Keane finds Jo impossible to resist—and knows he must find a way to tame her heart.
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Title: What the Dead Know
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: December 28, 2015
Publisher: Cedar River Press
ISBN: 0990660710
ISBN-13: 9780990660712
When Keira Saxon’s father was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, she quit her job as a Chicago homicide detective to head home. But she hadn’t been back on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula long before Danny Saxon was dead, killed in a deadly bear attack. Keira bowed to public pressure and agreed to run in the special election to fill the rest of her father’s term as sheriff. Although doubts about the circumstances of Danny's death lingered, doubts were all she had. Until she received a grisly delivery and learned that her father’s death wasn’t an accident at all.
Finn Carstens agrees to partner with Keira’s department to solve the murder. When proof of a second victim comes to light, he realizes that the killer is engaging them in the deadliest of contests. Together they must unmask a man who lives—and kills—in the shadows. As they begin to discover his secrets they realize the chilling truth that only the killer's former victims knew: of all the predators lurking in the Michigan forests, man is the most lethal of all.
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Title: Secrets of the Dead
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: June 30, 2015
Publisher: Cedar River Press
ISBN: 099066077X
ISBN-13: 9780990660774
Eve Larrison has a unique gift: as a hyper-polyglot she speaks over sixty languages. She’s uniquely qualified to assist in an attempted kidnapping case that has international overtones. But this assignment is exceptional. The target of the abduction is Royce Raiker, stepson of the head of The Mindhunters. And she’ll be going into deep cover with Declan Gallagher—as his “wife". She never suspected that the pretend marriage would be the toughest part of the assignment.
Declan knows he can ill-afford distractions on this assignment, and Eve Larrison provides one hell of a distraction.They realize that Royce will never be safe until the people who targeted him are brought to justice. But as Declan and Eve infiltrate the group responsible, it quickly becomes apparent that to solve the case they’ll need to unravel the mystery of the boy’s birth. The only ones who knew those secrets are dead. And digging into the old mystery has them both marked for the same fate...
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Title: Dark in Death
Series: In Death
Author: J.D. Robb
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: January 30, 2018
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ASIN: B071ZZN5BW
It was a stab in the dark.
On a chilly February night, during a screening of Psycho in midtown, someone sunk an ice pick into the back of Chanel Rylan’s neck, then disappeared quietly into the crowds of drunks and tourists in Times Square. To Chanel’s best friend, who had just slipped out of the theater for a moment to take a call, it felt as unreal as the ancient black-and-white movie up on the screen. But Chanel’s blood ran red, and her death was anything but fictional.
Then, as Eve Dallas puzzles over a homicide that seems carefully planned and yet oddly personal, she receives a tip from an unexpected source: an author of police thrillers who recognizes the crime—from the pages of her own book. Dallas doesn’t think it’s coincidence, since a recent strangulation of a sex worker resembles a scene from her writing as well. Cops look for patterns of behavior: similar weapons, similar MOs. But this killer seems to find inspiration in someone else’s imagination, and if the theory holds, this may be only the second of a long-running series.
The good news is that Eve and her billionaire husband Roarke have an excuse to curl up in front of the fireplace with their cat, Galahad, reading mystery stories for research. The bad news is that time is running out before the next victim plays an unwitting role in a murderer’s deranged private drama—and only Eve can put a stop to a creative impulse gone horribly, destructively wrong.
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Title: Scene of the Crime: Bachelor Moon
Series: Scene of the Crime
Author: Carla Cassidy
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 1, 2011
Publisher: Harlequin
ASIN: B004JF6DDA
FBI profiler Sam Connelly had come to Daniella Butler's remote Louisiana bed-and-breakfast to escape the consuming horrors of his job—and the dark demons he fears lurk in his own soul. But finding a dead body on her property changes everything. There's no room in his life—in his heart—for a family. Or so he thinks, until a killer's threat places his irresistible innkeeper and her young daughter under his protection. Now, as the obsessed psychopath inches closer to possessing Daniella, Sam must call upon his elite skills to track his target and keep the beautiful blonde and her child safe. Defending them becomes his greatest challenge. Losing them is not even an option.
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Title: Scene of the Crime: Bridgewater, Texas
Series: Scene of the Crime
Author: Carla Cassidy
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: November 24, 2009
Publisher: Harlequin
ASIN: B002WEPENK
When Sheriff Matt Buchanan discovers FBI profiler Jenna Taylor snooping around his crime scene, he isn't pleased. The last thing he needs is the FBI meddling. But Jenna is determined to find her best friend's murderer, and she won't be bullied out of town. Then the madman strikes again. His calling card? A red rose.
Realizing they're dealing with a serial killer, Matt accepts Jenna's help. But when Jenna becomes the madman's target, the danger—and their unrelenting attraction--is imminent. Will Jenna find safety in Matt's arms—or will the next rose she receives be her last?
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Title: Loving an Ugly Beast
Series: Fairy Tales & Ever Afters
Author: Danielle Monsch
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: February 13, 2013
Publisher: Romantic Geek Publishing
ASIN: B00BFKBB3Y
Once upon a Time, in a Kingdom that was just a little twisted (oh yeah, and kinda far away), Fairy Godmothers Rule! Elf Kings drool, and two people were pondering the question—What makes a Beauty, and what makes a Beast?
Too bad they didn't bother to share their answers with each other...
Known as Beast in his village for both his hulking size and multitude of scars, Benton long ago resigned himself to a life without love. He was content with his solitary existence—that is, until Nissa entered his life, and suddenly this beast wanted to become a beauty.
Plain and plain-spoken, Nissa came to the village three years ago looking for a fresh start and a quiet life. She had both until the day her friend Benton disappears and a new man arrives at the village—handsome, charming, and intent on courting her. Which is very strange, because since when does a beauty want a beast?
A Fairy Godmother comes a'callin and grants Benton his wish. Now the Beastly Benton is the Beautiful Byron, and our B intends to use this new identity to make Nissa fall in love with him. However, scars don't have to be visible to exist. Will Nissa's past destroy any chance of their Happily Ever After?
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