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Wildfire #NewRelease with Gayla K. Hiss
I always enjoy letting you know about new releases from my publisher. I’m behind on my reading and have only read the first book in this series, but I’ve been told that each book keeps getting better. Here’s the back cover blurb and bit about Gayla and how you can find her on the internet. Will Rachael and Dylan escape the fire’s fury, or perish in the flames? Sparks fly when wildfire researcher Rachael Woodston clashes with firefighter Dylan Veracruz in Rocky Mountain National Park. The June fire season has just begun, yet a long-standing drought has already turned the national park into a tinderbox. Rachael’s computer data indicates the…
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Deadly Legacy The Inheritance with Margaret Daley
Legacy of Secrets. Threats and Danger. Second Chances. From USA Today Bestselling author, Margaret Daley, is another romantic suspense from her series Strong Women, Extraordinary Situations. Down on her luck, single mom, Lacey St. John, believes her life has finally changed for the better when she receives an inheritance from a wealthy stranger. Her ancestral home she’d thought forever lost has been transformed into a lucrative bed and breakfast guaranteed to bring much-needed financial security. Her happiness is complete until strange happenings erode her sense of well-being. When her life is threatened, she turns to her neighbor, Sheriff Ryan McNeil, for help. He promises to solve the mystery of who’s…
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Detection Mission
Detection Mission by Margaret Daley is the latest addition to the Texas K-9 Unit series. Below is the back cover copy. Who is she? While looking for a missing child in Sagebrush, Texas, K-9 detective Lee Calloway and his border-collie partner find someone else. A mystery woman running for her life, scared and injured. But she has no idea who she is—or why someone is after her. Lee’s unit suspects “Heidi” is a criminal who knows more than she’s saying, yet his gut instinct says she’s innocent. Lee vows to protect her until her memory returns, but now someone is desperate to ensure that never happens. I find myself in…
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Submerged
Submerged by Dani Pettrey is classified as a romantic suspense, but it doesn’t have the same feel as from this genre. It’s a little more easy going and focuses more on the relationships of the characters rather than imminent danger. That being said, I liked it.:) I don’t need heart-racing-suspense all the time. Baily is called back to Alaska after her beloved aunt is killed in a plane crash. The idea of returning to the small town where she has a reputation as a party girl terrifies her, but Agnes raised her and loved her unconditionally and she will honor her aunt. She returns to town ready to tie up…
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Accused
Accused, a suspense, by Janice Cantore had me hooked on page one. But before I tell you about it, the winner of last weeks drawing for Dying to Read, is Cynthia Lovely. Congratulations! Police officer Carly Edwards’ life takes a dramatic twist after her temporary partner kills an unarmed man. She’s stuck working a desk job and would do about anything to get back to her old job. On her birthday she gets the call she’s been waiting for. Her presence is requested at the scene of a murder. She believes this is her big break, but things aren’t always what they seem. Corruption within the police department threatens to…
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Cherry Blossom Capers
Cherry Blossom Capers is a four-in-one romance collection with threads of mystery and a little suspense.The stories all take place in Washington DC and follow the lives of four friends who live in the Cherry Blossom Estates. Book one State Secrets, by Lynette Sowell, finds White House chef, Tara Whitley, in the middle of FBI agent Jack Courtland’s investigation. In book two, Dying for Love, by Carra C. Putman, attorney Ciara Turner discovers the body of the judge she’s come to meet. Her former friend and co-worker Daniel Evans is determined to solve the murder. Book three, Buried Deception, by Gina Conroy has Archaeology intern Samantha Steele reeling when she…
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Double Exposure
Double Exposure,Susan Sleeman’s latest installment in The Justice Agency series is romantic suspense perfection. Photographer Jennie Buchanan’s life is in danger thanks to a picture she took that inadvertently caught a drug-cartel in the background. The Justice siblings work together to protect Jennie and to figure out who the threat is. Ethan Justice had his heart broken by Jennie years ago and doesn’t want to go there again, but while protecting her he realizes what she was really running from and it wasn’t him. I can’t express how much I enjoyed Double Exposure. Susan has a real talent for writing romantic suspense! To learn more about this book and others…
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Threat of Darkness
A while back I told you about book one in the Defenders series by Valerie Hansen. Book two, Threat of Darkness revisits the small town of Serentiy and Nurse Samantha Rochard. Abused as a child, Samantha has made it her life goal to help abused children. This desire gets her into more messes than you’d expect. When a young man brings in a small child that ingested his illegal drugs Samantha’s world is shaken. Someone believes the man passed off a package to her and they will stop at nothing to get it back. To complicate matters her former boyfriend Detective John Waltham has come back to town, and he…
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Nightwatch
Romantic Suspense, Nightwatch by Valerie Hansen grabbed me from the opening line. “Boom!” How great is that? I had to keep reading to see what had happened and then I was hooked. Fire captain Mitch Andrews saves three children from a raging fire, but is unable to save their parents. This is personal for him as these people were his friends. The kids even call him Uncle Mitch. Foster mother Jill Kirkpatrick is taking care of the children whose parents were killed by a bomb. When the youngest goes missing from her crib, best friends Jill and Mitch join forces to protect the children and in the process discover what…
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Race Against Time
Christy Barriett’s new romantic suspense Race Against Time has the perfect balance of romance and suspense. A serial killer is loose in a small Virginia town and he is fixated on widowed, single mother Madison Jacobs. But fortunately Police Detective Brody Philips was jogging by her house at just the right moment to save her life. Detective Philips thought he left big city crime behind him when he moved to York County, but when someone tries to kill his beautiful neighbor he realizes no place is safe from crime. From the start this book held my attention and I zoomed through it in two days. I would’ve finished Race Against…