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A Younger Man by Cheryl Barton $ 2.99
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Judge Sage Barr is coming up on her fortieth birthday and while her sisters and friends are all married with children, she still struggles with being a single woman who longs for the love and life with the man of her dreams.
Dr. Cordell Richie has always been a successful overachiever but not when it comes to his personal life. The moment he sets his eyes on the lovely Sage Barr, the immediate spark leads him on a path to the love he’s always wanted, but it’s not without issues. Though he and Sage have a perfect connection, she has problems with him being seven years younger than her.
Sage is caught off-guard by the strong connection she feels with a much younger, Cordell, but she can’t allow herself to forget about their age difference, an issue that only bothers her.
Luckily for Sage, Cordell won’t let his age keep them from the kind of happiness he knows they could have if she would give them a chance.
When a Warrior Woos a Lass by Julie Johnstone $ 0.99
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The past haunts them. Treachery awaits them. Love will save them.
A shattered lass…
Scarred by the cruel whims of her late husband, Lena MacLeod lives in fear of men and marriage. So when the king’s edict obliges her to wed Scottish warrior Alex MacLean, she never expects to feel safe, let alone happy. But behind Alex’s fierce exterior lies a gentle, gallant highlander who renews her soul, emboldens her, and offers her the one thing she never thought she would possess—true love. Now that Alex has her whole heart, she’ll settle for nothing less than all of his.
A tortured highlander…
Haunted by violent nightmares of his dark past, Alex MacLean has put off getting married for as long as possible. But now he finds himself the husband of the fragile, beautiful Lena, and he’s drawn to her as he has never been to another. He vows to protect and heal her, and as she grows stronger, so does his love for her. Yet, his horrible memories and a treacherous task are preventing him from giving himself to her entirely, and the secrets he harbors threaten to destroy their life together.
A union…
When Lena uncovers a dangerous scheme involving Alex, she embarks on a desperate journey to save the man she loves. But Alex still hasn’t let her in, and he runs the risk of losing her—and his life—unless he can accept that his once delicate wife is now an ally strong enough to light his way.
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan $ 1.99
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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers, each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change their lives.
In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright.
Drawing on years of research, Horan weaves little-known facts into a compelling narrative, vividly portraying the conflicts and struggles of a woman forced to choose between the roles of mother, wife, lover, and intellectual. Horan’s Mamah is a woman seeking to find her own place, her own creative calling in the world. Mamah’s is an unforgettable journey marked by choices that reshape her notions of love and responsibility, leading inexorably ultimately lead to this novel’s stunning conclusion.
Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Nancy Horan’s Under the Wide and Starry Sky.
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith $ B000URWYTS
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The Cuckoo’s Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.
A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel’s suicide.
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, thelegendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
You may think you know detectives, but you’ve never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you’ve never seen them under an investigation like this.
It Takes One by Kate Kessler $ 1.99
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Criminal psychologist Audrey Harte is returning home after seven years.
Less than 24 hours later, her best friend is murdered.
Now, Audrey is both the prime suspect and the only person who can solve the case. . .
It Takes One is the opening to a thriller series where a criminal psychologist uses her own dark past to help law enforcement catch dangerous killers.
Bodywork by Marie Harte $ 0.99
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Their first meeting could have been better. He ran into her and her hot coffee, and raced off with a burn and a snarl.
Their second meeting should have been better. He lay naked, face down on her massage table while she stared at him in horror.
Being attracted to Mr. Tall, Dark and Rude hadn’t been on her agenda. Shelby just wants him out of her massage clinic before he recognizes her or she says something obnoxious before jumping that sexy body. Not professional. Not at all.
But when Shelby Vanzant and Shane Collins meet again, the third time’s the charm. Shane has found his match, a sexy, intelligent woman he can’t stop thinking about. Shelby is scared, because she might grow to like this guy. The last guy she liked dumped her for his cuter, blonder secretary. She’s willing to take a chance–maybe–if her flamboyant mother, Shane’s macho best friend, and his Casanova of a younger brother don’t screw things up. With fate on their side, they might both have a shot at a love they’d stopped looking for.
I love the Robert Galbraith series and was able to see a few episodes of the TV series last fall. A fourth book is due soon, can’t wait to find out where things stand.
At 33 and 40, that’s more like a June – late-July romance.
@Kris Bock: When the man is seven years older, it’s perfectly natural. When the woman is older, every year might as well be a century.