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Royal King is pure mischief wrapped in a cocky smirk and a heated stare.Five minutes in his small town and I knew he was going to be nothing but trouble. He’s an arrogant, tattooed playboy with a secret, and I’m the woman tasked with quietly cleaning up his family’s mess.I never dreamed he could be the mysterious stranger behind my hidden, late-night messages.It doesn’t matter what he says or how hard he tries to get under my skin. I won’t...

"In this debut novel, a new mother--a scholar steeped in fairy lore--wrestles with the legacies and madness of motherhood."-- Provided by publisher. "Madeleine is young for motherhood, a promising grad student in Victorian and Modernist literature, twenty-three and not long married. Even her mother worries about the timing. But Madeleine's ambivalence is pushed aside by Tom's elation and her own joy at bringing new life to the world. Then comes Maud,...

"The celebration of the thirty-fifth wedding anniversary of Russell Calloway's best friend, Washington Lee--the least likely monogamist of his acquaintance somehow having become over the years a model husband and father--at the Odeon in the spring of 2020 sparks an at once funny and moving autumnal reckoning with mortality for Russell and his wife, Corinne, as the specter of the COVID-19 virus spreads. In this moment of unprecedented upheaval--frantic...

"Signing up for an ancestry report starts as a fun diversion for Ashley Chandler, but the results throw her life into upheaval. Ashley is not biologically related to the people she's always assumed were her parents. Finally, the truth emerges--Ashley was adopted, and her real birth family is in England. She's due to travel there soon to start a research position at Oxford, but first, she'll take time to try and answer the questions that matter most....

Dorothy is thrilled that her attorney son Jacob is moving back to their hometown and wonders if he might help Katie Durbin with more than legal matters. Meanwhile, Partonville's mayoral elections have just heated up. Incumbent Gladys McKern is being challenged by Sam Vitner, owner of Swappin' Sam's, whose campaign slogan is "McKern's had her turn! Time to SWAP! VITNER for Mayor!" And the contest to name Katie's new mini-mall incites competition and...

"If Lucy's life had a soundtrack, it currently would be "stressed girl summer". Due to her mom's accident, Lucy is running their cat café. The Tiny Tiger is suddenly short on customers and money, and if things don't change soon, the business will go under on Lucy's watch. Desperate, she reaches out to her ex-best friend (and once-crush) Jake Moody, now part of the hit band the Usual Suspects. He used to love the café--that is, before he kissed Lucy...

"When three generations of powerful Valentini women find themselves living under one roof in the old family home for the first time in years, they're forced to reckon with not only each other, but with womanhood itself. Named after a statue in a country two of them have never seen, and one refuses to return to, they must finally come face to face with the secrets and tensions that have been dictating their lives for as long as they can remember."--...

"What if your own family history turns out to be a terrifying lie? Every family has its story, and this one's deadly. Two sisters. One secret. And a race against time to find the explosive truth in this twisty and captivating thriller by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan. The sole survivors of the fiery plane crash that killed their parents, Eliza Ramsey and her sister Bea share an unbreakable bond. But now, on the eleventh anniversary...

Peter and his half brother Adrian's father is at his wits' end renovating Old Splinter, a formerly lavish estate now in ruins, the brothers turn to a mysterious local legend, the wishing claw, to help, but Peter soon learns that every wish comes with a dark and dangerous price hidden within the crumbling estate.

From the moment Scharisse Freeman ditched her humble roots and married a megachurch pastor fifteen years her senior, she's been labeled too brash and too "of the world" by church folks who grudgingly accepted her into their fold, and too holy by her estranged childhood bestie Petra. Schar doesn't have many allies, but that hasn't stopped her from building an enviable business empire spanning books to clothing to branded products, and living the comfortable...