Warm Up The Cauldron

She’s my sister’s best friend, my daughter’s new nanny, and the one woman I can’t have.

My life runs on responsibility and routine. Running my restaurant. Showing up for my sisters. Raising my six-year-old daughter.

I don’t make reckless decisions, which is exactly why hiring Poppy Golightly is a terrible idea.

She needs a job. I need help. Simple.

At least, it should be.

But the Poppy in my kitchen is nothing like the girl I thought I knew. She’s all bright smiles, a clever mouth, and a laugh my daughter instantly loves. She’s sunshine wrapped around old hurts, and the more she brings warmth back into my home, the harder she is to resist.

My sister made one thing clear. Poppy is off-limits.

I can’t risk my daughter getting attached. I can’t risk my own heart. But somewhere between bedtime stories, stolen glances, and dancing in the kitchen, Poppy becomes more than a complication.

She becomes everything.

And when the life she’s trying to rebuild collides with the one we’ve started to make, I have to choose between playing it safe…
Or fighting for the woman who already feels like home.

HIS REVENGE IS PERSONAL. THE STAKES ARE GLOBAL.

California — A foreigner sets a deadly plan in motion.

Tehran — An abused military cadet uncovers a secret auction where the balance of world power is for sale.

Langley — A senior intelligence chief knows only one man has any chance of stopping it.

But Jack Mercer isn’t that man anymore. He’s done with the military. Done
working with the CIA. He doesn’t trust the intel — not after his last mission cost him everything.

He knows he was betrayed. He just doesn’t know by whom.

When the conspiracy behind the threat collides with his search for the truth — and promises to expose those responsible — Mercer’s justice is
unforgiving.

Never Forgive, the explosive debut in the breakout Jack Mercer series, is a thriller of layered betrayal and deception — where loyalty is fragile, truth is weaponized, and knowing who to trust is the only way to stay alive.

A gripping and epic saga of the most notorious man in the Bible.

Rome is at the height of its power and cruelty. Insurrection is punishable by death. While the Jews hope for their long-awaited messiah, a zealot hides in the belly of a ship, his hand forced in a rash and devastating event. He is hunted by Roman forces. He is plagued by supernatural hordes. Over land and sea, Barabbas will face his demons and journey towards an unimaginable destiny.

The Lost Gospel of Barabbas not only reveals a detailed history of ancient Israel and Jewish customs, but undertakes a sweeping exploration of the criminal – from childhood to manhood – that history has told so little about, along with the times he lived in. With grit and humanity, Kevin Brooks asks the what if’s and takes the reader on a very plausible road leading Barabbas from childhood tragedy to revenge to redemption.

When a billionaire’s assistant drops dead clutching a cup from Brewed Awakening, Hattie Calder’s cozy coffee shop becomes the scene of Maplewood’s biggest scandal.

A friendly note on the cup — her signature smiley and heart — turns from charm to evidence overnight, painting her as the town’s prime suspect.

Determined to clear her name, Hattie follows a trail of gossip, greed, and poisoned secrets to the doors of Maplewood Manor, where eccentric tycoon Graham Larken offers her an impossible deal: help solve his assistant’s murder, and earn ten million dollars in the process.

With her sarcastic sister Sam, tech-savvy best friend Liam, and her loyal cat Beans, Hattie dives headfirst into a maze of motives — conniving small town players, bitter heirs, and one very unlikable victim. Every clue brews more suspicion, and every red herring moves the pieces closer to home.

As lies unravel and loyalties are tested, Hattie learns that justice — like coffee — is best served strong.

And in Maplewood, the truth always leaves a bitter aftertaste.

Twenty-three-year-old John Wainwright was pretty much a loner. He was purely content to happen around the mountains, tending his traps and living the loner existance the Lord had steered him to.

But all that was tossed by the wayside the day a couple of strangers showed up needing his help with finding a pair of wagons the Utes had made off with from their wagon train. It wasn’t so much just the wagons that needed finding, as it was the folks who had been caught up in the ruckus.

It doesn’t take long before the ensuing undertaking turns out to be one of locating and freeing the beleagured captives before it’s too late. However, John’s efforts to get them back gets a mite complicated after a duo of scoundrels show up and shoot one of the Utes in the process.

With the captives eventually managing an escape on their own, and while trying to find their way back to the wagon train, they have a run-in with the lowlifes, and a vengeful need takes ahold of one of the gunmen that can wind up only one way.

By this time, and with John having gotten himself clean up to his eyeballs in the whole thing, an arm’s length relationship develops between him and one of the young women he’s trying to get safely back to the wagon train.