John O'Malley's sister is missing. All the clues of her disappearance lead to Hayward County, Wisconsin and the crooks and questionable sheriff that reside there. Pretending to be one of them, John takes a job as bodyguard for the sheriff's beautiful sister, Grace. It seems like the perfect way to investigate their crimes and corruption, but when someone threatens to kill Grace, the job proves harder than he thought. Is she an innocent witness to a crime, or just as guilty as everyone else...

Vivian Flynn was born to be a star. Already the pride and joy of her family, she's even turned her gangster grandfather into a fan. Her dream is to make it big in Hollywood, and there is no time to waste. When she loses her possessions on her way to California, Vivian finds herself stranded in the rough, glittering gulch of Las Vegas. Taking a job as a showgirl, isn't her dream job - yet her Italian boss is just plain dreamy. One kiss from him, and she's seeing stars of another kind. But t...

A Romantic Galena AnthologyVolume FiveEleven award-winning and best-selling authors have once again joined forces and their writing skills to create the next compilation of stories set in Galena, IllinoisWelcome to "Passion and Pumpkins,' the fifth volume of Romantic Galena Reads AnthologiesAs with the previous anthologies, the authors were given a subject for their stories. This year's theme is Halloween, hence the title, "Passion...

Cassie Meyers yearns of finding her knight in shining armor on a Valentine’s getaway vacation. It’s also a chance to forget about the mysterious black orchids that seem to follow her everywhere. Her fantasy comes even closer to reality when a handsome stranger arrives on the scene but is he her dream man or a nightmare about to happen?Niko Bauer should be enjoying his time at the island bed and breakfast but it is all work and no play. All work, that is, until he catches sight of th...

Now that prohibition was over, FBI agent Michael Flynn hoped to enjoy the quiet life and a chance to finally concentrate on finding his best friend’s sister. He’d been in love with her since he first laid eyes on her picture. Unfortunately, the more he searched the more he realized she wasn’t just missing. Eryn was hiding from one of the most notorious gangsters around. One who wouldn’t rest until he knew she was dead.Eryn O’Malley had been moving around for years, doing whatever le...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR‘Don’t wait for the storm to pass; learn to dance in the rain…’If you feel like everything is falling apart, sometimes the only thing to do is escape to the summer.Laura has been married to the man of her dreams for seven months. But, she now discovers, a week before the wedding Matthew made a terr...

A landmark in women’s empowerment—as relevant as ever in the age of #MeToo—that honors female sexuality in all its complexityIt’s been more than twenty years since Eve Ensler’s international sensation The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, the radical, global grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls. This special edition features six never-before-published monologues, a new foreword by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, a...

From subway to Broadway to happily ever after. Love in all its thrill, hilarity, and uncertainty has never been so compulsively readable as in this “fresh, modern” (Entertainment Weekly) romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners and Love and Other Words.Marriages of convenience are so*...inconvenient.*For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her...

From the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO crime series True Detective, comes a dark and visceral literary debut set along the seedy wastelands of Galveston.On the same day that Roy Cady is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he senses that his boss, a dangerous loan-sharking bar-owner, wants him dead. Known “without affection” to members of the boss’s crew as “Big Country” on account of his long hair, beard, and cowboy boots, Roy is alert ...

A LOVE STORY ABOUT AN ALPHA MANWHORE AND A GOOD GIRL BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR HM WARDMoney. Power. Sex.Some people enter your life for a reason, and Pete Ferro has changed mine forever. I've known since I met him we were fated. I can't say how I know, but I can feel it. Our destinies entwined the night of the rave--a union no contract can sever and so much stronger than a ring.Genre: New Adult Contemporary RomanceThis story un...

Sometimes you can’t change—and sometimes you just don’t want to. Read Ben’s side of the Ten Tiny Breaths story in this romantic coming of age novel by the beloved, top-selling indie author praised for her “likeable characters, steamy liaisons, and surprising plot twists” (Kirkus Reviews).Purple-haired, sharp-tongued Reese MacKay knows all about making the wrong choice; she’s made plenty of them in her twenty-odd-years. So when her impulsive, short...

James Lee Burke’s most beloved character, Dave Robicheaux, returns in this New York Times bestselling mystery set in the towns and backwoods of Louisiana: an “enthralling yet grim novel that…will captivate, start to finish” (Publishers Weekly).Dave Robicheaux is a haunted man. From the acts he committed in Vietnam, to his battles with alcoholism, to the sudden loss of his beloved wife, Molly, his thoughts drift from one irreconcilable memory to th...