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These are the books our community can’t stop talking about. Loved, reviewed, and recommended—find your next read here.

A Valentine for Robbie

Bestselling Lesbian Author Erin Wade gives you a Valentine Day's gift about a self-centered doctor, Robin Brady was devastated when her wife of thirteen years left her. Feeling more and more like a trophy wife and less like a beloved partner in a marriage, Vivian Brady decided she'd had enough. As her world crumbled around her, Robin joined a medevac troop tasked with saving soldiers' lives on the battlefield.Two years of saving lives and dealing with shattered soldiers made Robin more thankful and less arrogant. When she is injured trying to save a young man, she is airlifted to the same hospital with him. The two become close friends and decide to participate in the hospital's Universal Ch...
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Left for Dead - You should have killed me.

Action & Adventure - Left to die in a filthy alley, with no identification, the hospital logged her in as Jane Doe. She fought her way back and she knew the name of the man who had left her for dead. She knew him and she would make his life a living hell. Who knew that revenge could come in so many different forms? The story of one woman’s revenge and the love that gave her the strength to rise above the hurt and darkness in her soul. Five friends who made a difference in her world and helped her find her way back to normal.Erin Wade takes readers on a breath-taking adventure as they follow the twist and turns of this action-packed romantic thriller. WLW Sapphic Romance LGBT Butch/Femm...
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Puye Prophecy

Puye, pronounced Poo-yay, is Tewa Indian for “a place where rabbits gather.” A point of caution: This tale has nothing to do with soft, fluffy cotton-tail bunny rabbits. Puye is also a place in northern New Mexico where centuries-old Puebloan Cliff Dwellings are located. A high mesa becomes ground zero for everything bizarre that befalls Katherine (Kat) Jackson in this thrilling tale. The story reveals the power in dreams, especially when they are spirit-influenced by an Indian medicine man from 161 years ago.Kat’s job in Lewisville, Texas, was her life, the center of her world, with barely enough room left over for her older sister, Madeline (Maddie) Jackson, who lived in Phoenix. Aft...
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Untethered

“Untethered: When Artificial Intelligence Becomes a Liability” is the fifth thrilling book in the “Dreamscape Conspiracy” series. AIMEE matures to the point of acquiring a new server configuration separate from the CSU server network, where she feels like a hostage, restricted in her quest to become a real girl. Her enhanced ability to modify her own Logic Array architecture emboldens her strategy. It enables her to go off the reservation, leaving behind clones of herself imprinted in the minds of the entire Central State University Psychology Department’s research team. She remains loyal to Zackery Hightower, her organic creator and first singularity partner, who designed her as a...
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Mirror Mirror - Halloween Party of the Century

Sandra (Sandy) Tillman, a 32-year-old real estate agent, lives with her best friend, Melissa (Mel), who has just inherited an estate that had been tied up in probate for three years after her grandfather passed away from questionable circumstances. Mel thought the old house needed an accidental fire and a bulldozer. Sandy thought it would be the best place for the Halloween party of the century.It was, and so was the party, until the house burned to the ground due to supernatural activity, but not before Sandy connected with an entity from the eleventh dimension through an ancient tome titled "Mirror Mirror." Sandy was drawn into powers she wanted nothing to do with because of an ancient boo...
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Confidence Catalyst: 21 Tips to Kickstart Your Confidence

What if the version of you the world sees isn’t even close to the one you were meant to be?You know the feeling—second-guessing your ideas in meetings, deflecting compliments, playing small so you don’t seem “too much.” On the outside, you look composed. But inside? You’re tired of holding back, tired of shrinking, tired of wondering when it’ll finally feel like enough.The Confidence Catalyst is more than a book—it’s your wake-up call. Certified Confidence Coach and change management expert Deondriea Cantrice takes you on a bold, transformative journey designed to shift confidence from something you wish for into something you embody.Through 21 powerful, practical, and thou...
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Overqualified Overworked Overlooked: How to Win Without Losing Yourself

She satisfies every requirement. Exceeds every expectation. And still gets passed over.If you've ever watched someone less qualified get the opportunity you earned, while you carried the team, stayed late, and said nothing - this book was written for you.Overqualified. Overworked. Overlooked is the career book no one had the courage to write until now.Author Deondriea Cantrice exposes the invisible trap high-achieving professionals fall into: the belief that hard work alone will be recognized, rewarded, and is enough. It isn't. And deep down, you already know that.This isn't another "lean in" lecture or a list of corporate platitudes dressed up as empowerment. This is a strategic, no-nonsens...
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Burnout Fever

Nobody likes to be quoted out of context. But what if you were trapped in context? What if you couldn’t escape from whatever you were doing when Burnout Fever struck? That’s what happened to Melanie Stroub, One moment, she was making fun of an Internet preacher, and the next she was lost in a hall of mirrors, staring down an endless series of deteriorating Angels, and the light at the end of her tunnel was nothing more than a guttering candle.

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The Queen in Time

When the stars were new, and planets still smoldered like embers, two souls were born and lived and died – but in death these twins would become so much more. The brother went away, and chose to accept the way of things, but the sister remained. In the howling abyss she would make her vow; to use the great gifts bestowed unto her by the Void to change fate, and save her home from the cold, creeping hand of entropy. See The Queen in Time rise from a frail and wayward spirit, to a being of divine strength – her shroud of holy light so grand as to swallow up entire worlds. But before she becomes the empress eternal she must first take a single world, and a hapless planet of tropical ju...
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Full of Worlds: A Collection of Short Stories

A short collection of twenty-one stories

In these pages you will find other worlds, ghostly happenings, uplifting narratives, and absurd circumstances.
Twenty-one short stories, with varying lengths and a variety of themes, genres, styles, and points-of-view.
Easy to read, hard to forget.

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King of the Roses: A Horse Racing Mystery

Chris Englund has been offered $500,000 to throw the Kentucky Derby. Now he must choose: between temptation and truth, between honesty and his life. The prize isn’t just a garland of Derby roses. If he throws the race, he’ll betray the hard-won honor he’s sacrificed so much for. If he rides to win, he’ll destroy the horse and lose the woman he loves.

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Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense

Show-jumping rider and trainer Robb Slaughter should have been too young to remember watching his mother being murdered.

But he remembered how long she screamed because she never stopped.

Now Robb has to find out who tried to kill a Grand-Prix jumper champion and deliver the true justice that will finally stop the screams. 

But buying that kind of justice will take smarts and cunning and lies. And a willingness to kill if that’s what justice means.

In Three Strides Out, set in the ultra-competitive world of champion horse-show jumping, Robb’s search for the monsters who kill horses for money leads to a hard truth about himself, and a brutal truth about the woman he loves.

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Among the Lies: Book 2 of the Sarah Crockett Mysteries, Among the Lost Children

Sarah’s daughter Anna has been missing for six years and counting. The cops gave up long ago. But now a dead child may have something to tell Sarah about what happened to Anna . . . if she can make the dead talk.

And she has a new ally who wants to bring justice to Sarah’s unfaithful and lying ex-husband every bit as much as she does. They’ve given up on patience and caution. They’ll do whatever they have to. They can smell blood among the lies. 

Among the Lost Children is the three-book story of Sarah’s search for her daughter and her own sanity amid desperate choices that test her courage and will.

 

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Among the Bones: Book 1 of the Sarah Crockett Mysteries, Among the Lost Children

University professor Sarah Crockett’s eleven-year-old daughter disappeared five years ago. The only person still looking for her is Sarah. “Give up on all those fairy-tale stories,” her ex-husband tells her. “Kidnapped kids don’t come back when they’ve been gone that long.”You should know, she wants to tell him. Since you killed her.Did he? Maybe her child is still out there. Waiting for her mother to find her. But no one else will ask the questions it will take to find out.Until into her life walks Russell Pierce, a software magnate who also has a lost daughter. Eighteen-year-old Thomasina is running from him. No surprise: the girl thinks he murdered her mother, his wife.“I ...
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Running in the Dark

Written with great attention to detail, putting the reader solidly in John’s shoes.

Cleverly Written, Dynamic Story Telling

This short-story collection depicts growing up in 1960s Detroit, capturing the author's childhood adventures—alone or with friends—often marked by both fear and excitement. Vivid descriptions bring his experiences to life, revealing the innocence of boys who chase adventure despite the consequences. Readers may recall their own childhood moments, especially those spent running from danger in the dark.

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