**Best Books of August ~ Apple Books**“Coauthors Steve Berry and M.J. Rose take lots of hairpin turns, making for an intense, suspenseful, and action-packed read. The Lake of Learning is the kind of page-turner that makes you crave a big bowl of popcorn—we just wanted it to keep on going.”~ Apple BooksFor over a decade Cassiopeia Vitt has been building an authentic French castle, using only materials and techniques from the 13th century. But when a treasure is unearthed at ...

** 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION** INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER; NOW TRANSLATED IN OVER 25 LANGUAGES WORLDWIDEHas the "settle-for-less" financial plan become your plan for wealth? It sounds a little something like this:"Graduate from college, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to an indexed-fund peddled from...

Months have passed since the earthquakes unleashed hell on Earth, and it's a miracle has Apryl survived each one. Without her glasses, she can't see a thing. She's a walking liability. Thankfully, she's the only one who knows it…for now.When she's kicked out of her home for being "lazy," she receives an offer from a man willing to take her in even though she had no experience with gathering supplies. It's an opportunity she can't pass up and accepts without even asking his name. Or...

Grab this boxset of the first three books of the TechWitch series exciting dark and sexy futuristic urban fantasy series from RITA® Award nominated author M.J. Scott.Wicked Games (Book 1)My mother was a wicked witch. Her spells brought nothing but trouble. Since her death, with no power of my own, I’ve stayed far away from magic . . .Maggie Lachlan thinks she’s just a really good computer geek. Until a job with the gorgeous...

Shanghai, 1928. The body of a blonde is washed up on the Beach of Dead Babies, in the heart of the smog-filled city. Seemingly a suicide, a closer inspection reveals a darker motive: the corpse has been weighed down, it’s lower half mutilated…and the Chinese character for ‘justice’ carved into the chest.The moment Inspector Danilov lays eyes on the dismembered body, he realises that he has an exceptional case on his hands. And when the first body is followed by ano...

Suspects abound when a much-despised neighbor is killed, perfect for fans of Only Murders in the Building and Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club.Retired librarian Neeti Shah was hoping for a restful life with her chai-loving friends, but when the body of a neighbor, a childhood friend of Neeti's, turns up dead and the killer’s MO is similar to that of Neeti's most recent book club read, things start to get out of control.When Neeti h...

Is the financial plan of mediocrity -- a dream-stealing, soul-sucking dogma known as "The Slowlane" your plan for creating wealth? You know how it goes; it sounds a lil something like this:"Go to school, get a good job, save 10% of your paycheck, buy a used car, cancel the movie channels, quit drinking expensive Starbucks mocha lattes, save and penny-pinch your life away, trust your life-savings to the stock market, and one day, when you are oh, say, 65 years old, you can retir...

Have you prostituted your Monday through Friday for the paycheck of a weekend? Hope aboard the expressway to extraordinary wealth and make everyday your weekend.There's a Fastlane to millions, a short-cut paved by entrepreneurial mathematics where you can LIVE RICH NOW versus DYING RICH LATER.Instead, you've been brainwashed by an army of financial "experts" who pitch a dream-killing dogma known as "get rich slow".Their lifelong, suffocating plan of mediocrity promi...

From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller M.J. Rose comes a provocative and moving story of a young female architect in post-World War II Manhattan, who stumbles upon a hidden treasure and begins a journey to discovering her mother’s life during the fall of the Romanovs.Sophia Moon had always been reticent about her life in Russia and when she dies, suspiciously, on a wintry New York evening, Isobelle despairs that her mother’s secret...

*A RITA finalist for Best Historical RomanceNew York Times bestselling author Mary Jo (M.J.) Putney is acclaimed by critics and readers alike for unforgettable storytelling and arresting characters. Now she introduces a Regency England you’ve never seen before, where dazzling magic is practiced in all but the highest reaches of Society, and where desire is the most mysterious and seductive force of all.One of the Duke of Wellington...

The system is broken - and it wants you dead.An elderly ex-soldier is found dead in his home starved, alone and long forgotten. No one notices. No one cares.The same day, a man walks into a Manchester police station and calmly confesses: I just killed my father.DI Thomas Ridpath is called to investigate both cases. But what begins as two unconnected deaths soon unravels into something far more chilling. Behind the polite do...

The start of a BRAND NEW, epic adventure series from MJ Porter ⚔️ Must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Matthew Harffy!After the legends of Arthur, yet before the Saxon kingdom of Mercia, a tribal age of iron and rust ruled.Britain AD540.In the western hinterland of Roman Britannia, Meddi, the seeress of the Eorlingas tribe, can only obtain vengeance when her husband’s dead and her ancestral villa returned to her.With...