The plan was simple: pretend to be in love. Do not actually fall in love.When I kiss a stranger in the middle of Hunter’s Creek, it seems like the perfect solution to a temporary problem. Now Christopher Young—city guy, expensive suit, and completely out of place in my small town—is pretending to be my boyfriend, and the entire town is completely invested in our relationship.Which would be fine, except for a few things:He’s only in Hunter’s Creek ...

A cop finds the body of the man who abused him long ago, in this “dark, noir thriller echoing the best works of Hammett and Lehane, [yet] altogether original” (Stephen J. Golds, author of Always the Dead). Marcus Kemp is a beat cop living a normal life in San Diego, California—until the day he makes a shocking discovery: a dead body in the trunk of a stolen car. Worse, the victim turns out to be the man who abused him as a child. Marcus instinctively wants to help the killer get away with ...

From the acclaimed author of Shackling Water comes the first great race novel of the twenty-first century, an incendiary and ruthlessly funny satire about violence, pop culture, and American identity.Macon Detornay is a suburban white boy possessed and politicized by Black culture, and filled with rage toward white America. After moving to New York City for college, Macon begins robbing white passengers in his taxicab, setting off a manhunt for the Black man presumed to be committi...

Duster Raines has demons. Some visit him in his dreams, reminding him of the choices he made in combat to survive. Others visit him while he's awake, demanding he pay penance for those sins. But lately, he's started seeing an alternate version of reality where he leads a life of importance, wealth, and power. Visions so vivid they seem more real than the life he lives as a PI, scrounging the gutters of Los Angeles for an easy buck. It's enough to drive anyone insane. Pulled into a missing ...

She walked out after one final argument with her arranged husband, not knowing it would be the last time she'd walk free.Charlotte thought marrying Cassian was the price she had to pay to honor her grandfather's dying wish. What she didn't expect was a husband who mocked her scars, chained her body, and turned her vows into a prison. Until she finally had enough and left.But before she could start over, her father found her first. He had her quietly committ...

A man's pilgrimage becomes something from his darkest nightmares when secrets arise and ghosts haunt his path.A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife, Petra’s, ashes, along with the damning secret of how she really died.When he teams up to walk with vibrant California girl Ginny, she seems like the perfect antidote f...

**A celebrity fitness instructor faces off against a jaded journalist in this sizzling, slowburn romantic comedy."Charming, witty, and tender." ―Abby Jimenez, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer**Jo De La Cruz should be on top of the world. As one of spin’s hottest instructors, her workouts stream into thousands of living rooms, her waiting list is harder to access than Area 51, and even her hair has its own social media page. But J...

Charlotte had just undergone a mastectomy. Marriage was the last thing on her mind.But to honor her grandfather's dying wish, she agreed to marry the second grandson of New York's most powerful mafia family.It was supposed to be cold. Strategic. Loveless.Until the veil lifted at the altar—and it wasn't her fiancé standing there.It was Cassian Moretti. Her fiancé's older brother. The man she kissed once to escape danger. The man who never for...

I'm not the kind of girl who expects happily ever after. In fact, I prefer my partners don't get too clingy. Don't get me wrong. I like a good night of loving, but beyond that, I’m happy to see them leave inthe morning, without my number.Then I met him.Quinn is a big bear of a man, with massive hands and amazing...staying power. Like all night long and the next morning kind of staying power. So when he asks me to spend the next day with him, I do. The only reason I give him...

In the late ’90s and early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were one of the hottest teams in the NBA. For almost a decade, they won 60 percent of their games while making it to the Western Conference Finals twice. However, what happened off-court was just as unforgettable as what they did on the court.When someone asked Blazers general manager Bob Whitsitt about his team’s chemistry, he replied that he’d “never studied chemistry in college.” And with that, the “Jail Blazers” were ...

Return to Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, with this feel-good, emotional story about family, healing, and second chances from a New York Times bestselling author!Genevieve Prentice is learning that reinventing herself is a bit like downsizing a house. Deciding what to keep and what needs to go gets complicated. After settling into life in Lake in the Clouds, Colorado, with her sister’s help, she’s finally finding her balance. But Genevieve’s newfound steadin...

Moscow Nights Return, book one of the Moscow Nights Series, is a gripping spy suspense/thriller that brings alive flawed characters and interweaves their lives in a high-speed chase through Moscow, St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Amsterdam, the UK, and the USA. When veteran intelligence operative Elda Ainsworth is called out of retirement to extract a trusted friend from Moscow, she knows she's stepping back into a world where trust is deadly and every move is being watched. As Russian operatives...