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By Amanda Quick. 2017
When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel. It's where reporter Irene Glasson…
finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool. The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't resist. But now Irene's investigation into the drowning threatens to tear down the wall of illusion that is so deftly built around the famous actor, and there are powerful men willing to do anything to protect their investment. Seeking the truth, Irene finds herself drawn to Oliver Ward, once a world-famous magician, now the owner of the hotel. With Oliver's help, Irene soon learns that the glamorous paradise of Burning Cove hides dark and dangerous secrets. And that the past--always just out of sight--could drag them both under. 2017.By Gwendolyn Womack. 2017
Semele Cavnow discovers a manuscript written in the time of Cleopatra, she knows it will be the find of her…
career. Its author tells the story of a priceless tarot deck, now lost to history, but as Semele delves further she realises the manuscript is more than it seems. 2017.By Beverly Barton. 2018
Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. Deep in the Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar-the gruesome work of a…
killer who has evaded the authorities in state after state. FBI agent Dallas Sloan knows the scene all too well-just as he knows the killings won't stop until there are four more bodies. 2018.By Dee Henderson, Lynette Eason, Dani Pettrey. 2018
In Dee Henderson's novella "Betrayal," Janelle Roberts is freed--thanks to people she doesn't know--after serving six years of a twenty-year…
sentence for a murder she did not commit. But a murderer is still at large, and Janelle needs to be somewhere safe with someone she can trust. She may not survive another betrayal. In Dani Pettrey's "Deadly Isle," Tennyson Kent is trapped on the isolated island of her childhood by a storm surge, and she is shocked when the typically idyllic community turns into the hunting grounds of a murderer. Cut off from any help from the mainland, will she and first love Callen Frost be able to identify and stop a killer bent on betrayal before they become the next victims? In Lynette Eason's "Code of Ethics," trauma surgeon Ruthie St. John saves the life of Detective Isaac Martinez. After a betrayal leads to him getting shot and then attacked while in recovery, Isaac is now a key witness determined to testify. But someone is intent on silencing him--and those around him--forever. Together, Ruthie and Isaac go on the run, desperate to escape the killers hunting him. 2018.By David Robertson. 2014
Alice, a single mother raising her three young daughters on the rez where she grew up, has never had an…
easy life, but has managed to get by with the support of her best friend, Gideon, and her family. When an unthinkable loss occurs, Alice is forced onto a different path, one that will challenge her belief in herself and the world she thought she knew. 2014.By Iris Johansen. 1998
When the man who murdered Eve Duncan's daughter was executed, Eve lost the chance to find her daughter's body. Now,…
as a forensic sculptor, she reconstructs faces to identify juvenile skulls. When a billionaire wants to hire her to work on a mysterious adult skull, she reluctantly agrees. Strong language and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 1998. (The Eve Duncan series ; 1)By Sandra Brown. 1987
When Kerry Bishop needs help getting nine orphans out of Montenegro, she decides to seduce a mercenary. Picking the most…
dangerous-looking drunken man in the cantina, Kerry lures him home only to learn he is American photojournalist Linc O'Neal. After Linc reluctantly agrees to escort the group through fifty miles of jungle, he mistakenly concludes that Kerry is an American nun. Strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1987.By Gena Showalter. 2014
Fierce immortal warrior. Host to the demon of Disease. Torin's every touch causes sickness and death. Carnal pleasure is utterly…
forbidden, and though he has always overcome temptation with an iron will, his control is about to shatter. She is Keeley Cael, the Red Queen. When the powerful beauty with shocking vulnerabilities escapes from a centuries-long imprisonment, the desire that simmers between her and Torin is scorching. 2014.By Jennifer Manuel. 2016
Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery…
of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing. Winner of the 2017 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. 2016.By Gena Showalter. 2015
After a devastating loss, millionaire playboy Beck Ockley moves to the small town of Strawberry Valley, Oklahoma to start a…
new life, where he is drawn to Harlow Glass, who is searching for redemption for her troubled past. 2015.By Jayne Castle. 2014
Halloween - with its tricks and treats - is a dust bunny's dream come true. Just ask Lyle, Sedona Snow's…
faithful sidekick. But for Sedona, it's a nightmare. Though her new job managing a small hotel and tavern on Rainshadow is helping her move on from her tragic past, a bizarre disaster down in the catacombs has brought a pack of rowdy ghost hunters to her inn. And now, Sedona's ex has arrived on the island, claiming he wants to get back together, just as a newcomer appears to have a strong interest in her. Sequel to “Deception Cove”. 2014.By Stephanie Laurens. 2017
A nobleman devoted to defending queen and country and a noblewoman wild enough to match his every step race to…
disrupt the plans of a malignant intelligence shaking England to its very foundations. Sequel to "An irresistible alliance". 2017.By Karen Swan. 2018
Running from heartbreak, Chloe Marston leaves her old life in London for a fresh start in New York, working at…
a luxury concierge company. Client Joe Lincoln asks her to find him a secluded holiday home in the Greek Islands, but when Tom, her ex, unexpectedly shows up in Manhattan, Chloe jumps at the chance to help Joe inspect the holiday house. Escaping to Greece will give her the time to decide whether her future lies with Tom or Joe - there's an undeniable chemistry between them that she can't resist. But whatever her heart is telling her, she's in over her head - another client's wife has mysteriously disappeared and serious allegations about Joe threaten more than just her happiness. Who can she trust? And will Chloe uncover the truth in time? 2018.By Joan Wolf. 1997
When the earl of Weston dies in Regency England, his will surprisingly names his brother Stephen guardian to his young…
son. The earl's widow, Annabelle, who was raised as the brothers' stepsister, had loved Stephen until he fled to Jamaica in disgrace five years earlier. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1997.By Mary Higgins Clark. 1980
While in Westlake Hospital, Katie DeMaio sees a woman's body being carried to a car in the middle of the…
night. The next day the woman is found dead and declared a suicide. 1980.By Katherena Vermette. 2016
When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break…
- a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night. Lou, a social worker, grapples with the departure of her live-in boyfriend. Cheryl, an artist, mourns the premature death of her sister Rain. Paulina, a single mother, struggles to trust her new partner. Phoenix, a homeless teenager, is released from a youth detention centre. Officer Scott, a Métis policeman, feels caught between two worlds as he patrols the city. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. Winner of the 2017 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the 2017 Evergreen Award and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award. 2016.By Kristen Heitzmann. 2013
Morgan Spencer is shattered in the wake of his wife's death. After two years of mourning on his brother's ranch,…
Morgan meets Quinn Riley, and hope blossoms that he could love again. But Quinn is fleeing a dangerous man bent on revenge, and she won't risk the Spencer family's safety by sticking around. If Morgan is going to win Quinn's heart, he'll first have to keep her safe. Sequel to "The still of night". 2013.By Éric Plamondon. 2017
Il avait démissionné, une jeune Mi'gmaq se trouvait sous sa protection, deux hommes étaient morts et une partie du Québec…
voulait qu'on en finisse une fois pour toutes avec les Indiens. Cette histoire commence en Gaspésie, le 11 juin 1981. Cette histoire commence il y a des millénaires, avant les Vikings, avant les Basques, avant Cartier. Cette histoire commence avec les Mi'gmaq. Pour eux, c'est la fin des terres, Gespeg. Pour d'autres, c'est le début d'un nouveau monde. Alors que trois cents policiers de la Sûreté du Québec débarquent sur la réserve de Restigouche pour saisir les filets des pêcheurs mi'gmaq, un agent de la faune change de camp, une adolescente affronte ceux qui ont humilié son père, un vieil ermite sort du bois, une jeune enseignante s'apprête à retourner dans son pays - pendant que le saumon devenu taqawan, au retour de son long périple en mer, remonte la rivière jusqu'au lieu de sa naissance. 2017.By Helen Van Slyke. 1976
By Carla Neggers. 2008
Folklorist Keira Sullivan is convinced that an isolated ruin on the Irish coast conceals the ancient Celtic stone angel for…
which she has been searching. But then the ruin collapses on her, and the man who rescues her must soon protect them both from a depraved killer. 2008.