Brooke Haskell and her promising Thoroughbred mare Roxie are eventing. Brooke’s parents are paying for her college while she boards Roxie with her Aunt Pickle and participates in the Virginia horse trials. THE JUMP to working in the expensive equestrian world happ...
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THE NIGHT WE MET by Abby Jimenez is the popular author's latest title. Before I tell you what the story is about, let me tell you why I love the author's books, the ones I've read. The characters, to be specific, the couple in her books, present an intimate atmosp...
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During the early 1920s, Egypt was just one more of the British Empire’s nations trying to achieve independence. The polite title of a protectorate, instead of a colony, was bestowed, and archaeologists continued the work that had been interrupted by the Great War....
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YOU DID NOTHING WRONG by C.G. Drews is a domestic horror novel that sinks its teeth into you right from the beginning. A newly married couple, a promising life, a crumbling haunted house, and a darkness that won’t stay hidden. Will this family survive, or are the ...
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Daisy Connelly inherited land and on it, discovered a few veins of a semiprecious gemstone called watermelon tourmaline. She now runs the mine in Newry, Maine. However, in MINING FOR LOVE, the disadvantage of being a single lady becomes clear. I was laughing quite...
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Fantasy stories have long suggested that wizards can’t have marriages or children, or not at the same period as when they use magic. In order to continue their line, which is not altogether human, a Fertility Festival is held annually in FIRE WIZARD, set in and ar...
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Lucy Score writes small-town romance with a little bit of spice and lots of quirky characters. I started reading MISTAKES WERE MADE without realizing it was the second book in the Story Lake series. I felt I was missing too much of the backstory, so I stopped a co...
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Meghan Quinn’s JUST FOR THE CAMERAS is the first in a new series, Bay Area Players, about star athletes chosen to help their teams revive their public images. Graydon St. John is a defensive end for the often-losing San Francisco Foghorns assigned to work at the z...
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For the first time in years, Vanessa returns to New York City. She’s there for work, but she’s also using this time to reconnect with her family and help out at the family bodega.

While having dinner with her sister, Vanessa runs into an old college friend....
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Theodosia, Haley, and Drayton are excited to host a Firefly Tea at the Tangled B&B. The fireflies create a majestic atmosphere amongst the cherry and azalea trees. It’s been a perfect evening so far, and the final course is a flambéed dessert, but when a guest cho...
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I love adventures starring working dogs, and this romance certainly features the great outdoors for our heroes with two smart K9 partners. DANGER ZONE sounds just right for avalanche rescue teams.

Lily Alton has joined a Colorado ski resort’s avalanche team...
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A young man comes home to find his girlfriend, Nellie Thorne, is missing. But this is not the first time a Nellie Thorne has gone missing, and there are historic cases dating back to the 1970s through the 1990s to prove it. When Jane Pye and Simon Mash are assigne...
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Having not read but watched the Apple series of the first book in this series, I was accustomed to holding my breath. The first book, THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME, was nonstop action practically from the start. I won’t disclose much about THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME si...
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Set in Greece, on one of the rural islands, this lively tale explores the lives of street cats Silva, Theo and Lila. These charming young tabbies live by begging from tourists, but right now they are hungry. A TALE OF THREE TABBIES occurs just as the coronavirus i...
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The first book in the Colinas County Mystery series has a lot of work to do; we need to be introduced to the place, characters and even the times. A QUIET LITTLE TOWN is set during the Eisenhower era, when the Dust Bowl is driving farmers off the overworked land, ...
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All her life, Sophy Harper has heard about the feud her family has with the Wells family. So when she discovers that her Aunt Bea has been having a love affair with Deke Wells, and now they’re both missing, she’s more than a little shocked. Using her psychic abili...
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Braedyn Winslow will do anything to find her best friend, Nova, who vanished without a trace during their hike a year ago. Her search leads her back to the quiet, mysterious town of Starlight Grove. Local law enforcement offers little help, her eight-year-old son ...
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I always enjoy Deanna Raybourn's stories, so I was excited to pick up A GHASTLY CATASTROPHE, book 10 in the Veronica Speedwell series. Social media was all-a- flutter when this book was announced, and Raybourn fans were ecstatic to describe this as a cros...
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Fredia McFadden is known for her mind- twisting psychological novels, and WANT TO KNOW A SECRET?, will keep you on the edge until the end.  McFadden is always great at describing her characters, who make you feel like you are really reading about one of the ladies...
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This 1890 woman sleuth story explores one of the earliest organised franchise hospitality jobs open to women, and one of the earliest crime-solving jobs. Neatly combining waitress and detective is THE HARVEY GIRL. The expanding frontier is sometimes lawless, but i...
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TEA ON SUNDAY is an engaging character- driven detective story that asks the question - who is the most likely suspect in an elderly woman’s circle of acquaintances to wish her dead? Part of the British Library Crime Classics series and written by Lettice Cooper, ...
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A member of the town council is threatening the library’s funding. Lindsey isn’t going down without a fight. Inspired to get more people caring about the library, she has the brilliant idea of having a boat book mobile so she can deliver books to people on the sur...
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466 pages in hardcover, CROWN OF WAR AND SHADOW is the first in a new series, Kingdoms of the Compass, by NY Times bestseller author J.R. Ward.  I am a huge fan of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by Ward, but most of her other series don’t work for me...
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A lively historical romance is conjured for us in the lush setting of Osaka, Japan, in 1590. Samurai Nishioji Tomi strides around wearing silk and carrying swords. THE SAMURAI’S SOUL concerns his unusual Christian faith, which was not officially approved since an ...
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