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  Keane

  Dale Mayer

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  Book 9: The MavericksHeading out on a last-ditch rescue mission to Puget Sound one day after two women go overboard in a sailing accident isn’t exactly what he’d expected …But Keane is nothing if not adaptable. He can only hope the two women are alive and doing everything they can to stay that way. Hearing from the local coast guard that more may be involved than just a rescue mission, he and his partner load up and head out to search the waters around the smaller islands off the coast. They have the GPS of the missing women’s last-known location, but storms could have sent them anywhere …Lost, alone—except for her best friend, who’s unconscious with a head wound—Sandrine wakes up in a small shelter to find they are locked in. When the door is finally opened, an armed stranger dressed in fatigues dumps a small amount of food and says they are on their own.Finding the women was one thing, keeping them safe something else again. More is going on in this small island that any of them were expecting … or had planned for …

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  The Judge's House - One of the...

  Bram Stoker

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  Born in November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, Abraham Stoker was the third of seven children. Bed ridden with health issues until aged 7 he made a complete recovery on being sent to school.  He was an excellent student excelling in maths and with a keen interest in Theatre.   
   
  He began his career as a theatre critic and after a favourable review was invited to meet the most important actor of the day, Henry Irving.  They became great friends.  After marriage to Florence Balcombe in 1878 they moved to London where he worked for Irving at his Lyceum theatre.  It was here he started to write and then to travel extensively with Irving as he toured. Many of his novels are set from the places he visited though he never did go to Eastern Europe.  He wrote many novels during his career but of course Dracula rises above all else.  
   
  In those last few moments drifting from wake to sleep we sometimes delve into thoughts of a very unpleasant kind. The hint of a shadow moving across the room can give rise to all sorts of troubling, unsettling ideas. Bram Stoker was a master of this effect. Who can forget the masterful creation of Dracula? Its realism built on diary entries, letters, newspapers clippings, ships log’s was very clever and contributes to its lasting and pervading impact. Here, his sinister tales saturate your soul and hit your heart with untold fears that, layer by layer, reveal their true unutterable horror.

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  Seizing Power

  Janet MdGiffin

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  This gripping third installment of the Empress Irini Series is set in the cutthroat world of 8th-century Byzantium, where power, betrayal, and ambition collide in a deadly game for the throne. 
  When Constantine’s father dies unexpectedly, the nine-year-old is thrust onto the imperial throne, with his mother, Irini, assuming the role of Regent. But as Irini consolidates power and ruthlessly blocks her son’s attempts to rule, Abbess Thekla finds herself torn between loyalty to the ambitious empress and a growing allegiance to the rightful emperor, Constantine. 
  Irini forces Constantine into an unwanted marriage to the unpopular Maria, prevents him from gaining his full authority at eighteen, and has him imprisoned when he dares to challenge her dominance. But Constantine’s loyal army rallies to his side, freeing him and overthrowing Irini’s reign. Now, the battle for the throne intensifies as a resourceful and relentless Irini vows to stop at nothing to reclaim her power. 
  Thekla must navigate a dangerous web of deception and intrigue—can she prevent the mother and son from destroying each other, or will Irini’s savage ambition tear the empire apart?

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  The Dream - Compass Key Book 3

  Maggie Miller

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  Second chances do exist. 
   
  Five former sorority sisters, all in their 50's, undertake the adventure of a lifetime when a mysterious invite reunites them at an exclusive resort set on a private island. 
   
  Olivia was the quiet one. Her divorce from her alcoholic husband freed her in many ways but caused a rift with her daughter that seems impossible to heal. 
   
  Amanda was the perfect one. Widowed and desperately broke but hiding it, she needs a new start more than anyone can imagine. 
   
  Leigh Ann was the cheerleader. Her ongoing divorce is completely amicable, or so she’d like everyone to believe. The truth isn’t quite as rosy. 
   
  Grace was the party girl. And she still is, much to the dismay of her husband, who’s struggling to keep their restaurant afloat. Grace hopes her time away will give them both the space she thinks they need. 
   
  Katie was the brains. Now she’s incredibly successful but hiding secrets that could change her life if they were to get out. 
   
  When their beloved house mother invites them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, then drops a huge surprise on them, the five friends face a major decision. Can they overcome their pasts in order to take advantage of the amazing future being offered? 
   
  Take the journey to Compass Key with them and find out.

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  Dragon Forged

  Donna Grant

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  He is fire and fury. I am forbidden to want him. But some fates refuse to be denied. 
   
   
   
  I have seen the war that will tear our realm apart. As a seer, it is my duty to stop it, and the path to peace is clear—until him. 
   
   
   
  The Dragon King is dominance and destruction, a force of nature my gift didn't foretell . . . and one I cannot escape. 
   
   
   
  He is dangerous—untamed, possessive. And the one man I cannot afford to want. Yet every glance, every searing touch, threatens to unravel the future I'm fighting to protect. 
   
   
   
  Loving him could mean my ruin. Wanting him could mean the end of everything. But when betrayals rise and destiny shifts, one truth becomes clear: I saw the war. I never saw him. 
   
   
   
  And now, I don't know if I can stop what's coming . . . or if I even want to. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Witches of Bellinas

  J. Nicole Jones

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  A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, only to be swept up in a hedonistic cult that isn’t what it seems 
   
  Tansy and her husband, Guy, are the newest arrivals in Bellinas, a lush oasis tucked into the coast of northern California where a reclusive, creative community is beginning to take shape. Helmed by Guy’s cousin Mia, a famous model turned wellness luminary, and her tech mogul husband, the group renounces the outside world in pursuit of purity, fashioning their own rules about what to eat and how to live. 
   
  Everything seems perfect in Bellinas: food is abundant, flowers are always in bloom, and nearby wildfires leave the town remarkably unscathed. While Guy is happy in their new life, Tansy becomes more and more suspicious of the community and increasingly desperate to save her already-fragile marriage. And as lonely women have throughout the ages, she wants to believe in what may only be a beautiful lie.  
   
  The Witches of Bellinas unfolds as a confession from Tansy, filled with anguish over the life and sense of self she’s surrendered in her desperation to belong. In J. Nicole Jones’s clever reimagining of cult power and groupthink, the question isn’t Why join, but rather, What happens when you understand the danger but can’t conceive of a way out? 
   
  “The Witches of Bellinas is like the eerie technicolor love child of Midsommar and Rebecca. I loved being inside Tansy’s mind as she learns to decode the sun-soaked, menacing world of Bellinas—and as she learns to decode herself, too. Myth and magic, gender and power, desire and death all swirl together in this novel to make a heady brew.”—Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson

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