Fridays Are the BEST!

“I want to make you smile like you mean it.”

The day Cole Lannington says those words to me, I already know I’m falling. Hard. For a man I can never have. Because there’s no way in hell I’ll ever deserve a man like him.

Annie
All I need to do is keep my head above water. Push a little harder. Keep that smile plastered on my face for my son as we try to wade through the new life that’s threatening to drown us both.

But on the first day I can’t seem to hold it all together, I meet him. And for some reason, he comes to my aid. Before I know it, Cole steps in and becomes an important part of my life. Our lives. Fills a void left vacant by a man who never wanted to fill it in the first place.

Too bad he can never be more than a friend.

Cole
All I need to do is be a nice guy to my new neighbor. Make her smile a little bit. Find space in my tidy, structured life to ease the burden she carries so she and her son can enjoy life without the bastard who treated them like they were insignificant.

I don’t expect to talk and laugh and feel a warmth in my chest I didn’t know was missing until she showed up at my door. Somehow I end up caring about her more deeply than I should. But my friendship with Annie opens my eyes to what it could be like to have something deeper. To feel something stronger.

To fall in love like I mean it.

A new year, a new town, and a mysterious murder…
Traveling bakers, Ruby and Bee, are ready to start their next adventure, in the quaint town of Muffin, Massachusetts. Their food truck is set up in front of the lake, peddling donuts, cakes, and cookies when they’re confronted by the less-than-friendly owner of the local bakery, Misty Murphy.

When Ruby goes to see her with an offering of peace — strawberry glazed donuts — she finds Misty’s dead body instead. Once again, Ruby’s suspect number one in the murder case. The local detectives are convinced that she had the motive, the will, and the way.

Can the baking duo figure out whodunit before it’s too late? Grab your copy and find out!

Trajan’s second Dacian war.
105 A.D. King Decebal of Dacia stubbornly defends the freedom of his people and continues to defy the rule of the Roman Empire. Emperor Trajan marches north again to invade Dacia with the largest army in the history of Rome. Their legendary personal and military conflicts reach a dramatic climax beneath the walls of Sarmizegetusa, the holy city of Dacia and the most formidable mountain fortress of the ancient world.

Decebal Defiant concludes the narrative of Decebal and Trajan, towering historical figures and military masterminds of their age. Their story is an epic clash of cultures, political intrigues, assassination attempts, betrayal, and a fierce struggle for power and survival. The outcome of the Roman – Dacian wars profoundly shaped the futures of both Dacia and Rome.

Grace Hooper’s quiet life in New York takes an unexpected turn when she witnesses something no one was supposed to see. In a moment of panic, she takes her sister’s place as a mail-order bride and gets on the train to Colorado. Desperate to buy some time until it is safe to return home, Grace tries to win over the man her sister was meant to marry. This will prove to be easier said than done though, as he seems to be colder than stone. Yet she is determined to endure anything to get her life back…

All Grace was looking for was a place to hide; falling in love was never part of the plan…

Three years after the loss of his first love, Shawn Harrington still refuses to so much as look in the direction of another woman. Worried about his future, his family keeps urging him to move on and live his life, despite the tragedy that changed it. So when they present him with a surprise mail-order bride Shawn is anything but excited. Despite his stubborn resistance though, he soon realizes that being around this woman has his heart fluttering for the first time in years…

Can past hurts truly be overcome in the face of a newfound love?

When Grace’s secrets come back to haunt her, everything she has built with Shawn starts to fall apart. Can they find a way to defeat evil together? Will they manage to finally make peace with their pasts and find a happily-ever-after with each other?

Winner of the 2020 AudiobookReviewer Best Mystery Award and Finalist for the 2020 Indies Today Award, Catch Handle is an enticing cozy mystery. Arabian horses are admired for their strength, grace, and athleticism. They are beautiful, intelligent, and remarkable animals. As a newly minted veterinarian, Vivian Anderson knows and loves horses better than most. With an important horse show on the line and the search for a full-time vet job fast-approaching, Vivian is fully occupied at her Aunt’s Arabian horse ranch and her equine medical externship. Vivian’s world is abruptly shaken by a shocking murder that casts suspicion on the people she thought she knew best. Stolen medications, fatal “accidents,” unsavory horse handling, and a handsome newcomer have Vivian reeling. She cannot shake the feeling that the seemingly random events are all part of the same puzzle, but who can she trust? Vivian is about to learn just how dangerous her world of horses can be.

Jack Fogel had always wanted to work in TV, not run the family business. He thought he’d escaped, until his father’s heart attack saddled him with Fogel’s Kosher Chickens, an operation built by his grandfather and mired in the past. Years later, his wife is long gone, his two teenage daughters perpetually disappointed and his mother insistent that he fund her expensive lifestyle. Even worse, he finds himself at war with business rival Lionel Gutterman, a former employee now prepared to use the most unethical tactics to exact revenge. Lonely and miserable, he meets Sonia Lewis on a blind date. When she reveals she owns a vegan cafe, Jack panics and doesn’t quite tell the truth about what he does. As their relationship blossoms, the lie becomes more difficult to sustain. With increasingly unpredictable attacks from Lionel, he faces personal and professional destruction unless he works out how the truth can save him. Chicken Wars is a romantic comedy about the conflicts we must overcome to accept who we are. For Jack, the prize is love or poultry. Can it be both?