Some summers change everything. This one brought him back.Franny Dawson is excellent at two things. Baking the perfect chocolate torte and making a mess of everything else. She's the family disappointment, the girl who hides, the sister who lives in the shadow of perfection.Mitch is a famous director who could have anyone. But he's offering her flirting lessons and fake dating to help her snag her crush. There's just one problem. Her crush is him. And every...

**A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife's present life on a collision course with her secret past in this New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year.“Blazingly intense” —A. J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window**The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes ...

Book 1 in the Billionaire Blind Dates SeriesFive successful businessmen make a pact to find love the only way they can. Anonymous blind dates where money, status, and fame stay hidden until the connection comes first.After his last girlfriend only wanted him for his money, billionaire Jake has sworn off dating. When his friends convince him to try a new blind dating service where every date begins in near darkness, he agrees. Maybe if no one knows who he is...

Book 1 in the Guardian Legion Security SeriesLeaving the military wasn't part of Carter's plan. But when he joins Guardian Legion Security, he expects protecting clients to be an easy transition.He couldn't be more wrong.Ashley doesn't need a bodyguard, at least that's what she keeps telling her overprotective brother. Unfortunately for her, he's already hired one. Carter is determined to do his job, while Ashley is equally determined to prove she c...

She opened the box.After her ex took everything, Cory moved to Connecticut for a fresh start. She got a cursed inheritance, an immortal enemy, and a mechanic who refuses to leave her alone.Finn is the most aggravating man she has ever met. He is also the only person who sees through every wall she has built.Discovering she's a witch and learning to control her powers is only the beginning of her problems.An immortal evil hunts her and threat...

Patra's rule has always been simple: the client relationship comes first, and whatever happens after hours stays exactly where it happened. Osaka was supposed to be easy — five days, one telecom account, and a city she's always loved for exactly the reason Tokyo people warn you about: it doesn't take itself too seriously.Then there's Ashish — a stranger from the hotel gym, uncomplicated in all the right ways, exactly the kind of distraction Patra usually knows how to keep in its la...

Unflinching, taut and masterfully plotted, Blood, Salt, Water is the brilliant fifth novel in the Alex Morrow series from Denise Mina, two-time winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year AwardA missing persons case leads Alex Morrow to investigate the dark underbelly of a seemingly peaceful seaside town.A wealthy businesswoman disappears from her Glasgow home without a trace, leaving her husband and children pani...

It’s the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two.Detective Alex Morrow, just returned to work after the birth of her twins, arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had bee...

Power, abuse, love gone horribly wrong--and a crime that stretches back two decades. The Red Road is the brilliant new novel from two-time Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award–winning author Denise Mina.31st August, 1997: Rose Wilson is fourteen but looks sixteen. Pimped out by her "boyfriend" and let down by a person she thought she loved, she has seen more of the darkness in life than someone twice her age. On the night of Princess Dian...

Today's workforce is diverse and unique compared to previous generations, a collage of various generations, experiences, backgrounds, and career paths. Degrees of differences between work ethics, work experience, and expectations of how to operate and interact in the workplace (workplace social diplomacy) exist. Unfortunately, these differences are not creating beautiful masterpieces but rather frustrations, anxieties, fears, low morale, and anger.Organizations find themselves push...

When a wedding reenactment turns real, Shay finds she’s an accidental bride.Shay Brandenberger is raising her daughter in Moose Creek, Montana, on her childhood ranch, nestled against the Yellowstone River. Despite the hard work, she can’t seem to keep her head above water—and now the bank is threatening to foreclose. She prays for a miracle, but the answer she receives is anything but expected.Having agreed to play the bride in the Founders’ Day wedding re...

An airport pet groomer meets her frequent flier crush in this captivating romance novella from the acclaimed author of How to Fail at FlirtingOllie Wright loves the thrill of taking chances, like opening a pet grooming salon in an airport where every day is a little unpredictable. The one thing she won't risk is her heart, so catching glimpses of a cute stranger from afar is enough romantic entanglement for her.Bennett Baker is a professio...