New York’s FinestBlogging as *The Socialmedialite*April 22LADIES AND GENTS! I have an announcement!You know that guy I featured on my blog a few months ago? The really, really hot Irish rugby player who plays the position of ‘hooker’ in the RLI (Rugby League International)? The one with the anger management issues, the body of a gladiator and the face of a movie star? The one with the questionable fashion choices leading me to ask whether he was the lovechil...

Step right up and meet Jay Fields: Illusionist. Mentalist. Trickster.When Jay Fields, world-renowned illusionist, walks into her dad’s law firm Matilda is struck speechless. Not only is he one of the most attractive and charismatic men she’s ever met, he’s also a mystery to be solved.Jay wants to sue a newspaper for defamation, but all is not what it seems. Matilda is determined to discover the true story behind Jay, however, when he becomes an une...

Life used to be simple.I was a city girl with humble dreams. Then Dylan O’Dea broke into my flat, held me against the wall and told me to stay quiet.It was like in the movies, where the universe zeros in on a single scene. I looked into his eyes and knew he was going to change me.For Dylan, the sky was always falling. He showed me how our world is a contradiction of beauty and ugliness. How we choose to ignore the awful and gloss over it with the palatable. How you ...

Spending a month filming a reality TV show with your ex is no picnic.Especially when you’ve signed a contract stating that the two of you will not, under any circumstances, have romantic relations while filming.Leanne Simmons and Callum Davidson never had an easy relationship. From enemies to lovers and back to enemies, they’ve been on again/off again for years. Things come to a head when Callum gets into an altercation with a rival for Leanne’s affections. Their management...

Leanne Simmons and Callum Davidson are complete opposites. As soon as they meet they know they won’t get along. However, for the sake of their TV show they agree to put their differences aside, but it’s not as easy as they think.For one, there’s the unexplainable physical attraction they can’t seem to shake. And for two, everything out of their mouths seems to rub the other the wrong way.Leanne wonders how she can be attracted to such a careless, narcissistic playboy.

By night Jack McCabe captivates audiences. He is a fire-breather, a spectacle desired by women and envied by men. But by day Jack is a loner few people truly know.When wide-eyed dreamer Lille decides to leave her humdrum life behind and run away with the circus, she never expects to meet someone like Jack. He is moody and distrustful, and he definitely doesn’t want to be her friend. He tells her the circus isn’t the place for her, that there are dangerous people who will try to tak...

"An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering." — WYPRThe story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy.From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimat...

‘Dark and dramatic, with an explosive ending’ Diane SaxonA woman on the run…Madeleine Frost knows she has to get away from her partner Liam. His behaviour has become increasingly controlling and Maddie fears for her safety and that of her young daughter Poppy.Desperation leads Maddie to the hotel owned by her estranged father – the extraordinarily beautiful Wrea Head Hall. The reunion is tense, but Maddie’s father agrees to her staying as...

Some fires you don't survive. This one, she doesn't want to.Brooklyn was supposed to be a fresh start, a way to bury the past somewhere it couldn't follow her. Then she met him. Dangerous in a way that had nothing to do with the tattoos or the reputation that walked into a room before he did. He was the kind of trouble that felt like coming home, and that terrified her more than anything.He wasn't looking for her. He wasn't looking for anyone. But the moment their worlds co...

An addictive psychological thriller with jaw-dropping twists! Meet a family with dangerously dark - even deadly secrets. Perfect for fans of Frida McFadden, Claire Makintosh and Lisa Jewell from the BESTSELLING author of The Fake Date, L. H. StaceySome daughters are cherished.Some are deceived.Other's are simply erased.When Jessica inherits her family's converted chapel, the will comes with one unbreakable condition: she must live t...

He came back to me 16 minutes and 59 seconds into Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7.We parted amid tragedy, so it seemed poetic. Dylan O’Dea, my childhood sweetheart, had once meant everything to me. Now we were strangers, and honestly, after eleven years I never thought I’d see him again.I lived in the world of the average, of getting paid by the hour and budgeting to make ends meet. But Dylan, he lived in the world of wealth and success. He’d achieved the great things I always s...

'Captivating and chilling, with an ending I didn’t see coming!' Alex StoneNine hours and eleven minutes ...That's how long it's been since Ella Hope was left for dead. She lies, unable to move and praying for somebody to find her, as she counts down the minutes and wonders who could have hated her so much to have hurt her so badly.Was it the man she went on a date with the previous evening, the man linked to the deaths of two other women?...