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  Mind Your Manors (A Flamingo Realty Mystery Book 1)                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Meet Stella O'Neil, retired FBI agent Oscar O'Neil's granddaughter. She's got a lot on her plate, trying to figure out her crazy, stubborn family, the hidden secrets that caused her grandfather's estrangement from her dad, and starting out as a real estate agent. Throw in a dead body found in what used to be the town's royalty family manor, and she's neck deep in a mystery.She may be sweet, but she's pretty stubborn herself.As Stella's curiosity leads her from one town resident to the next, a dramatic tale of family secrets starts to appear, but is she getting too close to the truth? A scary car chase in the dark has her nerves on edge, but she won't give up until she finds out who the skeleton once was. She's so close... but someone... maybe more than one person... will do anything to stop her. READING BOOK                               

  Rags to Witches (A Westwick Witches Cozy Mystery): Westwick Witches Cozy Mysteries Series                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW A Westwick Witches Cozy Paranormal Mystery Win, lose, or draw… Cendrine West can’t catch a break. She’s close to landing a new job, and things are getting cozy with sexy sheriff Tyler Gates. All that changes when she is kidnapped by renegade witch Aunt Pearl, who is hell bent on avenging a friend’s untimely death. Its Las Vegas or bust…for all the wrong reasons. Rocco Racatelli is a hunky Vegas kingpin—and the next mob target. Lady Luck has dealt him a losing hand and he wants revenge. When Aunt Pearl is a little too eager to help, project Vegas Vendetta quickly escalates into an all-out mob turf war. As the witches are thrust into Sin City’s seamy underworld, bodies pile up and secrets are exposed. It’s not just the Las Vegas heat that’s scorching...Rocco is intent on winning Cen’s heart. But she only wants the man she left behind in

  Night of the Living Deed (A Haunted Guesthouse Mystery Book 1)                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to transform a Victorian fixer-upper into a charming--and profitable--guest house. One small problem: the house is haunted, and the two ghosts insist Alison must find out who killed them. READING BOOK                                  DOWNLOAD BOOK 1. Mental Stimulation Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of (or possibly even prevent) Alzheimer’s and Dementia,[1] since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase “use it or lose it” is particularly apt when it comes to your mind. Doing puzzles and playing games such as chess have also been found to be he

  Dressed in Chianti: Misadventures in the Wine Country                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Tuscany, the land of robust wine and gorgeous men. Jessica vacations in Chianti while investigating a winery. She wines and dines with a charismatic playboy, tours Florence, and discovers a secret. This short romp is a novelette for lovers of Misadventures in the Wine Country books. READING BOOK                                  DOWNLOAD BOOK 1. Mental Stimulation Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of (or possibly even prevent) Alzheimer’s and Dementia,[1] since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase “use it or lose it” is particularly apt when it comes to your mind. Doing puzzles and playing games such as chess have also been found to be helpful with cognitive stimulation.[2] 2. Stress Reduction No ma

  Decaf & Death (Connie Cafe Mystery Series Book 5)                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Drinking Decaf Could Be MurderConnie can't remember the last time she slept through the night.She's tired of being cranky, and it's starting to get on the nerves of those around her.A trip to the doctor's might just be the trick.Or it might just lead to more sleepless nights...This is the fifth book in The Connie Cafe Mystery Series, a perfect series for lovers of clean small town mysteries that feature coffee and an amateur sleuth who’s in way over her head. READING BOOK                                  DOWNLOAD BOOK 1. Mental Stimulation Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of (or possibly even prevent) Alzheimer’s and Dementia,[1] since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase “use it o

  The Big Kill (Matchmaker Mysteries Book 9)                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Progress is being made on Gladie’s house and her impending wedding. Meanwhile, her best friend Bridget is ready to give birth. But all of that takes a backseat to Gladie’s discovery in her grandmother’s attic about her father. It looks like her father’s motorcycle accident when she was a child was no accident, and now Gladie is thrust into her father’s world, where his best friends could have been his murderers. Will Gladie find the killer before she’s next?Matchmaker Mysteries… Sometimes love comes with a few dead ends. READING BOOK                                  DOWNLOAD BOOK 1. Mental Stimulation Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of (or possibly even prevent) Alzheimer’s and Dementia,[1] since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong

  Damaged Goods                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW When Joanna Lucas moves to a small town to escape a scandal and a scoundrel, she finds herself in trouble again when she befriends a stripper-turned-Mormon, a one-legged woman thanks to a loose tiger, and a dirty-minded troublemaker with a love of inane questions, and they take on an industrial town. Erin Brockovich has nothing on these ladies!Prepare to laugh out loud and cheer them on as they set out to right a terrible wrong . . . no matter how outlandish things get. READING BOOK                                  DOWNLOAD BOOK 1. Mental Stimulation Studies have shown that staying mentally stimulated can slow the progress of (or possibly even prevent) Alzheimer’s and Dementia,[1] since keeping your brain active and engaged prevents it from losing power. Just like any other muscle in the body, the brain requires exercise to keep it strong and healthy, so the phrase “use it or lose it” is particularly apt when it comes

  Intensity: A Novel                               READ or DOWNLOAD NOW Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twenty-six, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed homicidal adventurer, Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive--until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to