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  Catherine’s Dream - A Story of...

  Roxanne Bocyck

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  Inspired by real events, Roxanne Bocyck’s debut novel Catherine’s Dream is a testament to the power and possibility of nurturing one’s dreams against all odds and overcoming fear and doubt with faith and determination. Catherine Soból is a Polish peasant woman in the early 1900s, who lives on an orchard outside of Kraków, Poland, and dreams of being an artist. Raised by an iron fist, Catherine is an old-world girl with new world aspirations. But how will she pursue her dreams of artistry when she must conceal her drawings from her father, a pragmatic peasant-farmer, who demands she work to support the family? In fact, much to Catherine’s dismay, he plans to marry her to a local village boy and settle into a life of security on the small apple orchard that is her dowry.Over and above her personal turmoil, the Great War has ended but the fighting over Poland’s border with Ukraine continues. Tension rises in Catherine’s family when she falls in love with Józef, a young, local blacksmith who creates beautiful jewelry and encourages her to follow her heart despite her family’s resistance to her artistic dreams. But the plans others force upon her, along with Józef’s disappearance - and probable death - on the war front, send her life skidding in a direction she must now tolerate but is unable live wholeheartedly.Sold as a “bride” to a crude lout of a man and shipped off to a mountain town in backwoods America, Catherine faces the cold winds of bad chance and other forces that seek to control her destiny, and learns that knowing what she wants, taking risks, and having faith are the keys to unlocking any obstacle that stands in the way of her living the life of her dreams.

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  A Christmas Case - A Posie...

  L.B. Hathaway

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  Snow falls, ghost stories are told by the roaring castle fire. It’s a cozy Christmas for sure, but a murderer hides, even here… A stand-alone Posie Parker novella, perfect for Agatha Christie fans!  
  Yorkshire, Christmas Eve, 1923. 
  Posie Parker, London’s premier female Private Detective, and Chief Inspector Lovelace of Scotland Yard have been invited to spend Christmas at Rebburn Abbey, ancestral home of the Earl and Countess of Cardigeon. It’s Christmas Eve and Rufus Cardigeon holds court, as each house guest is invited to share a personal mystery, but what unfolds turns out to be less a cozy cornucopia of fire-side Christmas cheer than a series of curiously interlinked and unsettling mysteries. But then, who promised that any of the tales had to be cozy? 
  Prepare for tales of unexplained murders, long-concealed mysteries, strange visitors in the night, and a secret in Posie’s own past, about her parents, which haunts her to this very day… 
  But something is afoot. Several of the guests are acting shiftily, and when a sparkling Christmas gift under the tree is revealed to be a ticking time bomb, designed to cause multiple murders and mayhem, Posie and Lovelace have to locate the perpetrator, fast. Who would want to cause such untold misery, and why? 
  Could it be, even at Rebburn Abbey on Christmas Eve, that the past can overshadow the present? Does the presence of evil lurk here? And what is wrong with the usually effervescent Dolly, Countess Cardigeon? Can the spirit of Christmas, or anything else, pull her from whatever ails her? 
  A delightfully twisty and stylish Christmas golden-age style mystery novella that fans of Agatha Christie, Downton Abbey and Lee Strauss will adore. 
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  Crazy for You

  Heatherly Bell

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  He needs a break. She needs a date. 
   
   
   
  What do a washed-up Los Angeles cop and a celebrity hair stylist have in common? Christmas magic. 
   
   
   
  Fallon McQueen needs a date to a wedding. The pickings at the speed dating events she's attended are slim indeed, and it doesn't help that she has someone specific in mind . . . Then she meets . . . Santa Claus. 
   
   
   
  Jack Cooper is tired of the big city. He needs a break from the streets of Los Angeles. But when he stops a deadbeat from breaking and entering, he's simply trying to do a good deed. Now he has a hot but crazy blonde asking him to be her date to a destination wedding. 
   
   
   
  If Jack is going to help, they're going to do it his way, and faster than you can say "road trip" Fallon McQueen is on the trip of lifetime . . .

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  Dessert Flirt Repeat

  Sarah Smith

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  I just slid into the DMs of the hottest guy on TikTok and asked him for the most outrageous favor . . . 
   
   
   
  Desperation makes you do crazy things . . . like slide into the DMs of TikTok hunk Gage Grant. That's exactly what I do after my cheating ex empties my bank account. I DM Gage and ask if I can film sexy TikToks of him and post them to the account of my struggling ice cream shop, Sweet Cheeks, so I can go viral and make more money. 
   
   
   
  To my shock, he says yes. But there's a catch: I have to star in the videos with him. 
   
   
   
  One problem: We're complete opposites. I'm a plain Jane girl next door. He's a TikTok bad boy with Adonis abs and a devilish smirk who films himself preparing gourmet recipes shirtless. 
   
   
   
  But I'll do anything to save my business. Soon I'm covering Gage's washboard abs in whipped cream, he's licking hot fudge off my stomach, and Sweet Cheeks' TikTok followers are loving it. 
   
   
   
  Business is on fire . . . and so are things between Gage and me. Soon we're hooking up. It's the hottest workplace romance ever. But am I brave enough to take another chance on love with a guy I never, ever thought I could have? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Quantum Jump - Exploring the...

  Robert Wicks

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  The Quantum Jump by Robert Wicks - Captain Brandon was a pioneer. He explored the far reaches of space and reported back on how things were out there. So it was pretty disquieting to find out that the “far reaches of space” knew more about what went on at home than he did. 
  BRANDON was looking at the Milky Way. Through his perma-glas canopy, he could see it trailing across the black velvet of space like a white bridal veil. Below his SC9B scout-ship stretched the red dust deserts of Sirius Three illuminated by the thin light of two ice moons. He looked at the Milky Way. 
  He looked at it as a man looks at a flickering fireplace and thinks of other things. He thought of the sun, 52 trillion miles away, a pinpoint of light lost in the dazzle of the Milky Way—the Earth a speck of dust in orbit just as this planet was to its master, Sirius. 
  Nine light years away. Of course, thirteen years had passed on Earth since they had left, because the trip took four years by RT—relative time. But even four years is a long time to be shut up in Astro One with five other men, especially when one of them was the imperious Colonel Towers. 
  “A quantum jump—that’s the way to beat the Reds,” the colonel had said a thousand times. His well-worn expression had nothing to do with quantum mechanics—the actual change in atomic configuration due to the application of sufficient energy. Rather, it was a slang expression referring to a major advance in inter-planetary travel due to a maximum scientific and technological effort. 
  “Let ’em have Mars and Venus,” the colonel would say—“Let ’em have the whole damn Solar System! We’ll make a quantum jump—leap-frog ahead of ’em. We’ll be the first men to set foot on a planet of another solar system.”

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  The House by the Cemetery

  Lisa Childs

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  In Gold Creek, Michigan, legend has it that the ghost of a local grave digger still walks the cemetery, swinging his shovel, looking for his next victim to bury. But when the town’s wealthy undertaker dies, his estranged daughter must contend with the ghosts that haunt her own family …  
   
  After she left home at seventeen, River swore she would never return to Gold Creek.  
   
  Growing up at the Gold Funeral Home and Memorial Gardens was a nightmare. Classmates constantly teased her for being part of the “Ghoul” family, while her own family denied that she was actually one of them. Her father, undertaker Gregory Gold, certainly never acted like a loving parent. He was far more interested in profiting off other people’s tragedies. But now Gregory has died. And River has surrendered to the pleas of her mother, Fiona, that she come back for his funeral. 
   
  But the mourning period is cut short when it’s revealed that Gregory died of poisoning—and Fiona is the number one suspect in his murder. Clearly, Fiona, his third wife and the funeral home’s cosmetologist, is being framed. There are plenty of more-likely suspects, and River is determined to prove her mother’s innocence. That she’ll have to work with the sheriff—her high school enemy—is a small price to pay. 
   
  With a fortune at stake, River is sure the killer lies among Gregory’s first two wives and their children and grandchildren. Yet soon, other discoveries will be made, and longstanding secrets unearthed. But when more people are murdered, the danger hits closer to home than River imagined possible. Drawn back into the lives—and lies—of the Golds, she’ll have to use her every resource to keep herself, and her loved ones, safe.

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