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The Golden Child
Lucinda Berry
One lie to save her future. One decision to destroy his.
Ella and Bentley are Irish twins—eleven months apart, inseparable since birth. Ella is the golden disciplined, driven, bound for success. Bentley is the reckless, restless, always one bad choice away from disaster.
Until the night Ella makes a mistake that can't be undone.
After a wild party, Ella gets behind the wheel—and hits a classmate. Panicked and terrified that her future will implode before it begins, she calls the one person who has never failed Bentley.
He's there in minutes. He sees the blood. The fear in his sister's eyes. And he makes a split-second decision that will change all their lives.
He tells Ella to go home.
He takes the blame.
But secrets never stay buried. And when someone discovers the truth, their family must make an impossible protect their brilliant, promising daughter… or save the son whose future has always teetered on the brink.
A gripping psychological thriller about favoritism, ambition, and the lethal cost of family loyalty, The Golden Child asks one haunting
If you had to choose, which child would you save?
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Nothing’s worse than being madly in love and married, only to witness your spouse have a medical emergency that leaves them waking up in the hospital with no recollection of the past few years. Even worse, it’s six years prior to you even existing as a couple, back to a time when you were both academic rivals. That’s Aster’s reality when his wife, Molly, finally wakes up in the hospital.
Aster is such a patient and loving husband because I definitely would lack the patience to work through a situation like this. Aster, with his sensible, level head, doesn’t give up on Molly. He does everything in his power to acclimate her back into their home and back into her routine. They both have such a supportive and loving circle of friends. I was totally jealous of that. I loved their gatherings and their game nights. I also loved how they all equally supported both Molly and Aster. I loved watching Aster be such a protective and loving husband. He was dead serious about the whole “until death do us part” thing.
I think I expected a bit of a different ending, but it wasn’t totally disappointing. I kind of wish there was a little more at the end, but that’s because it was that good!
Thank you, Avon Books, for the ARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Revived (The Westin Legacies Book 2)
Bree L. Mina
Grief is a fickle thing.It can be as small as a teardrop racing down your cheek, or as vast as the ocean swallowing you in its depths. Grief is constant.It ebbs and flows with the tide, but you never truly find your way to calm waters. You either choose to fight the current and swim to the top, or let the waves take you under and drown you in your sorrow. Some say grief is a price we pay. That it’s the cost of loving someone with all of your heart. And once they’re gone, it’s time to settle the bill.But what happens when you can no longer afford the toll? What happens when your grief becomes mixed with anger that is so consuming, you begin to resent the ones who left you behind?What do you do when your tears run out and you no longer want to swim? When you find yourself traveling down the same road as the ones who raised you?I didn’t ask to be weaved into their web of lies. I didn’t want to raise a child who is the living embodiment of their betrayal. And I certainly didn’t want to fall in love with my dead fiancé’s brother. But what do you do when he becomes your reason to swim again?
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Beneath a Midnight Moon (Starlight Grove, #3)
Catherine Cowles
Book 3 in the Starlight Grove series. More details coming soon!
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Beg Me (Play Me #5)
Adriana Locke
Markie St. James is officially done with men.
Unfortunately, she needs one to defend her pickleball championship title against her cheating ex-boyfriend.
Her solution comes in the form of Jory Plath, her brother’s best friend, a single dad, and a professional rugby player. He’ll help her defend her title if she helps tutor his son. It’s a simple arrangement. Everybody wins.
Until they don’t.
Somewhere between practices, late nights, and giving the town something to gossip about, Markie and Jory go from pickleball partners to fake dating. And the more time she spends with him, the more she realizes he’s exactly the kind of man she swore off.
Now she’s not sure what’s worse—losing her title, losing the man, or losing her heart.
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* Single Dad
* Fake Dating
* Small Town
* Brother's Best Friend
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The Golden Child
Lucinda Berry
One lie to save her future. One decision to destroy his.
Ella and Bentley are Irish twins—eleven months apart, inseparable since birth. Ella is the golden disciplined, driven, bound for success. Bentley is the reckless, restless, always one bad choice away from disaster.
Until the night Ella makes a mistake that can't be undone.
After a wild party, Ella gets behind the wheel—and hits a classmate. Panicked and terrified that her future will implode before it begins, she calls the one person who has never failed Bentley.
He's there in minutes. He sees the blood. The fear in his sister's eyes. And he makes a split-second decision that will change all their lives.
He tells Ella to go home.
He takes the blame.
But secrets never stay buried. And when someone discovers the truth, their family must make an impossible protect their brilliant, promising daughter… or save the son whose future has always teetered on the brink.
A gripping psychological thriller about favoritism, ambition, and the lethal cost of family loyalty, The Golden Child asks one haunting
If you had to choose, which child would you save?
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Once, Again, Always
Amanda Gayle
A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can’t stand—her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival.
Molly Graham’s day can’t possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and amnesia. But then Aster Bishop—the Aster Bishop who made her life hell at boarding school—storms into her room calling her his wife.
To Molly’s shock, in the six years she no longer recalls, she somehow fell in love with a man she once despised. Persuaded by her lifelong friends to give her new reality a chance, she reluctantly returns to the home she and Aster share to try and piece together her life.
So much has changed, not least the considerate and devastatingly handsome man who spends every night sleeping on the sofa to avoid making her uncomfortable. This Aster is nothing like the entitled boy she once knew. Their chemistry is undeniable, but he’s distant with her, infuriatingly so. It’s clear he has secrets, and Molly can’t stand it. Especially knowing that she might never regain her memories.
That she fell in love with Aster Bishop once is hard enough to believe. But to fall in love again? To promise a future, always, when she can’t remember her past? It feels impossible when faced with a man she hardly knows and isn’t sure she can trust.
And yet…
Tropes Rivals to lovers, Forced proximity, Slow burn, Yearning (so much yearning), Found family, Second-chance romance, Memory loss, There’s only one bed and he takes the sofa like a boring, sensible man
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Tangled Flames (Ember Hollow Romance Book 4)
Abbey Easton
I came to Ember Hollow to do my job—defend a client in court everyone wants to see burn. What I didn’t plan on was him.
Dr. Graham Ramsey is brilliant, calm, and infuriatingly observant. He sees too much—every lie I tell, every mask I wear to keep my past buried. I should stay away from him. I’ve spent years building walls thick enough to keep anyone out, yet somehow not him.
When someone attacks me outside the library, Graham is the one who finds me. The one who refuses to let me push him away. The one who makes me feel something I haven’t felt in years—safe.
Now, danger is closing in, and so are my feelings for him. Every touch, every look, every moment we spend together burns hotter than the last.
I know I shouldn’t let my guard down. I know trusting him could destroy everything I’ve worked for.
But some fires can’t be contained.
And Graham Ramsey might be the one person willing to burn with me.
Tangled Flames is book four in the Ember Hollow Romance series—full of slow-burn tension, healing, and two guarded hearts learning how to trust again.
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Splintered Memories: A Suspenseful Small Town Romance (Ember Hollow Romance Book 2)
Abbey Easton
She needs to catch a serial killer. He's hired to protect her. They weren't supposed to fall in love, but with danger lurking around every corner of their small town, you never know what to expect next... I am determined to bring a serial killer to justice. I take my job as a true crime podcaster seriously, not only because it’s important to bring awareness to lesser known cold cases, but because I have a personal connection to the local killer who abducts and tortures young women. No one can hide in the shadows for long if enough eyes are looking for them.
When I’m shot at on the streets of my small town, the last person I expect saves me…August Ramsey. He’s the treasured son of the Ramsey clan—the Marine who gallantly came back home after being injured in the line of duty to start a security company—but I’m not convinced of his heart of gold. August makes me feel things I don’t want to acknowledge, things that make me feel dangerously out of control. I hate it.
But when my father hires August as my personal bodyguard, it makes it hard to avoid the infuriatingly handsome Marine. Trapped with a man I want nothing to do with, August falls with ease into my daily life…constantly looking out for me, protecting me. As my icy heart begins to melt, danger threatens not only my life, but the ones I love most.
Together, August and I must find the truth about who is after me before it’s too late, and everything I’ve ever cared about burns to ashes.
Splintered Memories is book two in a small town, suspenseful romance series. Each book in the Ember Hollow world stands alone, but are connected by the Ramsey brothers. Follow each brother as they heal past wounds and find their happily ever after!
**All Ember Hollow Romances have plenty of sizzling kisses and intimacy, but the spice is not explicit.
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Lovely Shattered Secrets (Cypress Falls, #1)
Abbey Easton
I only want to start over after my life falls apart into bloody pieces. When the bus stops in Cypress Falls, I can’t think of a more beautiful place to find myself again.
The last thing I expect is to literally fall into the arms of the devastatingly handsome, broody small town cop.
Atlas Ranes has his own story of tragedy. Always feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders, I want nothing more than to make him see that he deserves everything he wants in life: Love. Happiness. Family.
But when our pasts catch up with us, the secrets we keep threaten everything…Including the lives we’ve worked so hard to put back together.
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The Witch
Freida McFadden
Some secrets don't die―they wait.
When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family's sprawling seventeenth-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Officially, she's there to check in on her aging grandmother. Unofficially, she's hoping the old house will give her a place to disappear.
Instead, Pemberton begins to unravel her.
Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia's bedroom door.
As Julia digs into the house's dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692―and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet. When decades of family lies begin to surface, Julia must confront a terrifying truth: Pemberton may be haunted by women whose voices refuse to stay silent.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes The Witch, a chilling, twist-filled thriller about secrets―those we inherit, those we bury, and those people will burn to keep silent.
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Speechless
Jordan Sawyer
In this voicy, inventive, shocking thriller, a coma patient who learns to communicate again begins sharing increasingly chilling messages about the accident that caused his injuries--and who may have been responsible.As a communication facilitator, Leah Andrews has trained to help brain-damaged individuals who can no longer communicate for themselves. She assists their hands to type out words on a computer, bringing the messages trapped inside their heads to light. When she's hired by a desperate wife whose husband has been in a vegetative state for over a year after falling down a marble staircase in their home, Leah is determined to reach the man inside. She's new to this therapy practice, having taken it on as her new career after a bad breakup left her wanting a fresh start. Now she’s taken on Eliot’s case, hoping to help him heal and bring him back to his wife and two daughters.For weeks, with Leah's coaching, Eliot makes small steps of progress until finally they have a real breakthrough and he presents his first direct HELP ME. And the stronger he gets, the more chilling each subsequent message becomes, and Leah feels compelled to look more closely at what happened to Eliot, and at this family who seems from the outside to be close and caring. But the more she learns, the more certain she becomes that Eliot's accident might not have been so accidental at all....With a totally compelling main character in Leah and an irresistible high-concept premise, Speechless is a twisty, shocking thrill ride from start to finish and the introduction of a bold new voice in psychological suspense.
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Once, Again, Always
Amanda Gayle
A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can’t stand—her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival.
Molly Graham’s day can’t possibly get any worse after she wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and amnesia. But then Aster Bishop—the Aster Bishop who made her life hell at boarding school—storms into her room calling her his wife.
To Molly’s shock, in the six years she no longer recalls, she somehow fell in love with a man she once despised. Persuaded by her lifelong friends to give her new reality a chance, she reluctantly returns to the home she and Aster share to try and piece together her life.
So much has changed, not least the considerate and devastatingly handsome man who spends every night sleeping on the sofa to avoid making her uncomfortable. This Aster is nothing like the entitled boy she once knew. Their chemistry is undeniable, but he’s distant with her, infuriatingly so. It’s clear he has secrets, and Molly can’t stand it. Especially knowing that she might never regain her memories.
That she fell in love with Aster Bishop once is hard enough to believe. But to fall in love again? To promise a future, always, when she can’t remember her past? It feels impossible when faced with a man she hardly knows and isn’t sure she can trust.
And yet…
Tropes Rivals to lovers, Forced proximity, Slow burn, Yearning (so much yearning), Found family, Second-chance romance, Memory loss, There’s only one bed and he takes the sofa like a boring, sensible man
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This story drew on some true life events, with overarching themes of The Odyssey and the Titanic, which made it interesting and unique.
Nine guests board The Black Orchid, a luxury ship on its very first voyage. Each passenger has their own story, and some have hidden agendas. There’s a cat and mouse chase, people making bad decisions that result in deadly consequences, and unexpected realizations as hidden secrets and lies come to light. You also get little aspects of a true crime documentary as the story documents The Black Orchid underwater, which reminded me so much of the Titanic movie.
The first half starts out a bit slow, but keep going because once it gets going, it’s going! The suspense did not disappoint, and neither did the ending. This was a great summer mystery thriller! At first, you may feel like you’ll get lost because of how many characters there are to follow, but it all truly comes together.
Thank you to Valentine PR for the ARC! All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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