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  The Stepmother

  Diana Diamond

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  When Steven Armstrong tells his children he has fallen in love, he expects them to be happy that his life as a lonely, sixty-five year old widower is over. Instead their father's intended thirty-three year old personal trainer Charlene Hendricks is exactly the kind of woman they fear. Through marriage she becomes not only the stepmother to his three grown children, but their rival for their father's world class fortune. Suddenly an attack is made on her life. All the children are suspect, but which one has the best motive? Then a second attack backfires and mistakenly kills her husband, making the stepmother a wealthy heiress. Now, it is the children who accuse her of murdering their father. Only by finding the real killer can she prove her innocence.

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  Taming Deputy Harlow

  Jennifer Morey

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  The Cold Case Detectives series continues with a sizzling attraction between a fiercely independent deputy and the security expert who loves herTo solve a forty-year-old murder in her remote mountain town, sheriff’s deputy Reese Harlow needs advice from the best. That means finally meeting her biological father, the founder of Dark Alley Investigations. But after one passionate night with her dad’s sexy head of security, Reese finds that her heart is at risk…Jamie Knox has never met a woman quite like Reese. Determined to open her eyes to just how good they’d be together, he volunteers to help her crack this cold case. He can almost sense the wedding bells in the distance, but someone is dead set on stopping them from solving the murder…or getting anywhere near the altar!

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  The Ghostly Quilts on Main

  Ann Hazelwood

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  “A light, fun read . . . Hazelwood does a great job of keeping your interest as you wonder what each ghost might do. Her characters are well developed.” —Journal-Advocate 
   
  In this fifth novel of the Colebridge Community Series, busy flower shop owner Anne Brown Dickson takes on the task of helping fellow shop owners on Main Street. A unique quilt show develops that impacts the street throughout the fall and winter season. In the process, Anne is reluctantly assisted by a host of ghostly participants. On the home front, Grandmother initiates some activities of her own that may reap some harmful results. All is not gloom and doom, however, as Anne makes changes to her business and best friend, Nancy, has some upcoming changes of her own. 
   
  Praise for Ann Hazelwood and the Colebridge Community Series 
   
  “I found myself immersed in the tale of this extended family and this wonderful quaint town . . . You will laugh, cry and share in their hopes and dreams.” —Community News 
   
  “Ann Hazelwood knows a few things about the human spirit, family and dreaming big. Add a mixture of the love of quilting and all the things Missouri historic and otherwise; you will experience the words and passion of this unique and gifted author. Enjoy the experience!”—StreetScape Magazine

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  The Midnight Child

  J. A. Baker

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  A long-ago trauma and a family mystery may shed light on her troubled sleep—or pull her into the darkness once and for all . . . As a child, Grace Cooper suffered from bouts of sleepwalking. Now, after the unexpected death of her husband, she’s moved back to Woodburn Cottage, her childhood home—and the sleepwalking returns. It’s all stirring up dark memories—memories that involve the disappearance of her brother Simon, who vanished one night when he was a child, and the death of her father, who fell from an upstairs window. With her mother in a care home with dementia and her sister living in a nearby village, Grace tries to settle in—but with the passage of time, the sleepwalking only becomes more regular and the blurred memories of the past only become more disturbing. Spurred on by these hazy dreamlike recollections, Grace becomes determined to find out what happened to Simon that fateful night. But digging up the past isn’t always a good idea, because you never know what skeletons you might unearth . . .

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  Dirty Little War - A Crime Novel

  Dietrich Kalteis

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  For readers of Elmore Leonard and George Pelecanos, a tense crime novel set in mob-filled Chicago during the 1920s Prohibition
  		 
  It’s 1920 and the start of Prohibition. Circumstances beyond his control find a young man, Huckabee Waller, involved in the death of a gangster in his hometown of New Orleans. Fearing repercussions from the gangster’s associates, Huck hops a northbound freight and heads for the promise of Chicago.
  		 
  Expecting to make an honest living, he’s surprised to find that he’s arrived at the epicenter of crime, corruption, and commerce. Unable to find legitimate work, he gets mixed up in bare-knuckle fights run by the notorious North Side Gang. Reviving his skills as a club fighter, Huck quickly becomes a crowd favorite and makes enough to get by. When it becomes apparent to him that the gang is also heavily involved in running illegal whiskey, a very profitable enterprise, he’s drawn into their world by the desire for more.
  		 
  As Huck starts running booze across the Canadian border for the North Side Gang and gets tangled up in Chicago’s taxi wars, tensions between them and the South Side Gang flare up, and soon he’s in the crosshairs of enforcer Al Capone. The smart thing to do would be to get out of Chicago — fast — that is if the life he wants to leave behind doesn’t kill him first.

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  Vintage Death

  Lisa Jackson

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  In this domestic thriller short story by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, a grieving mother plots revenge for her son. 
   
  When a five-year-old boy is found dead and presumed thrown from a window, his mother must live with the loss, reminded each day of his death, all while she plots revenge on the person who killed him. But revenge is never simple, especially when wealth and power are used to hide the truth . . . 
   
  “Lisa Jackson’s story ‘Vintage Death’ keeps the reader guessing and on tenterhooks from start to finish.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  Originally published in Thriller 2 (2009), edited by #1 New York Times–bestselling author Clive Cussler. 
   
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