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The Rose of Florence Angela M. Sims Publication date: March 23rd 2023 Genres: Adult, Historical, Romance Prologue (1460): Gianetta is born in a farmhouse in Fiesole. Her mother dies in childbirth. The unnamed father is distraught but leaves her in the care of her grandmother and returns home. The Story (1478): Gianetta grows up and moves to Florence, where she is in service to a wealthy family of textile merchants – the Rosini. They are friends to and supporters of the powerful Medici clan. In the small, tight-knit group of staff, we meet Eleonora (cook), Luigi (Signor Francesco Rosini’s private assistant), Antonio and Lucia and our hero, Matteo. Gianetta and Matteo are in love and have a happy, peaceful life with the kind and generous Rosini family. They enjoy entertaining at Palazzo Rosini, where the Medici and Botticelli are frequent visitors. Following the suspected poisoning of Lorenzo de’ Medici and near death of Giuliano de’ Medici, both within the Rosini family home, ther...

  In this twisty new Victorian detective thriller from the author of The Darwin Affair , Inspector Charles Field hunts a serial killer with a sinister signature targeting Florence Nightingale’s nurses in Crimea and women in London. Who is stalking Florence Nightingale and her nurses? Is it the legendary Beast of the Crimean, or someone closer to home? In 1855, Britain and France are fighting to keep the Russians from snatching the Crimean Peninsula from the Ottoman Empire, and Nightingale, a wealthy young society woman, has made it her mission to improve the wretched conditions in the British military hospitals in Turkey—despite fierce objections from the male doctors around her. When young women start turning up dead, their mouths sewn shut with embroidered fabric roses, Inspector Charles Field (the real-life inspiration for Charles Dickens’s Inspector Bucket in Bleak House) is sent from England to find the killer among the doctors, military men, journalists, and others swarming T...

"Soon, but not yet, Nora will look up and she will see me, sitting at a distance.  In the wet grass, the imprints of Nora’s shoes will fill back slowly, and I won’t suspect that she is walking towards me.  After Nora meets me on the bench, it will be difficult to recall that in the beginning, when I first arrived at school, there were moments so plain and unconsumed that I felt I could watch them like a distant view. Like hills rolling away. Once she holds out her hand and asks, do you mind if I sit, it will be impossible for any other memory to exist without touching backwards or forwards over the view of her eyes looking down at me. The soft and penetrable skull of the world will suddenly harden and everything will be seen through the damp and willful light of our first meeting." Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first year of university in Toronto, leaving her remote, forested hometown for the big, impersonal city. Everyone she encounters seems to know exac...

  Four years ago, a scandal cost Miss Katrina Denby everything. Now, companion to the irascible Lady Tesh and in possession of wonderful friends, she believes her luck has finally changed. Until the man responsible for her ruination returns to England and promptly dies in a fall from her bedroom window. Now the life she had begun to build for herself is in shambles. And not only is she ostracized and vilified, but her friends are suffering as well because of their association with her. Katrina will do anything to gain respectability again and protect those she cares for. But her plans to marry one of the few men who will still have her despite the stain on her name and lack of fortune are thrown into turmoil with the arrival of the only man Katrina ever loved. A man who is now about to become engaged to another. Sebastian Thorne, Duke of Ramsleigh, was a carefree rogue when he first met and began to fall in love with Katrina. But his father’s horrible actions forced him to give up ...

  Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses… When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house in an exclusive DC suburb, they are ecstatic. Sam is on the cusp of making partner at his law firm, Alexis is pregnant with their second child, and their glamorous neighbors welcome the couple with open arms. Things are looking up, and Alexis believes she can finally leave her troubled past behind. But the neighborhood’s picture-perfect image is shattered when their neighbor Teddy – a handsome, successful father of three – is found dead on the steep banks of the Potomac River. The community is shaken, and as the police struggle to identify and apprehend the killer, tension in the neighborhood mounts and long-buried secrets start to emerge. In the midst of the turmoil, Alexis takes comfort in her budding friendship with Teddy’s beautiful...

      STOLEN EMPIRE TRILOGY BY EVA WINNERS     Genre/Tropes:   Mafia / Coming of Age / Second chance / Secret Pregnancy / Forced Proximity / Triangle     CHECK OUT THESE CAPTIVATING COVERS!! 📚 Dive into the captivating world of the STOLEN EMPIRE trilogy by Eva Winners!     Preorder now and embark on an epic journey filled with intrigue, passion, and forbidden romance.     Follow the gripping story across three books: Bitter Prince, releasing on August 17th Unforgiving Queen, releasing on September 14th Wrathful King, releasing on October 5th   Don't miss out on this addictive series that will leave you breathless until the very last page.     Preorder your copies today! https://amzn.to/3rwmAGM     Add to your TBR https://www.goodreads.com/series/371042-stolen-empire       BOOK 1: BITTER PRINCE     Preorder today https://amzn.to/3XK3sRX   Add to your...

  Jagger Cole has revealed the gorgeous cover for Twisted Hearts! Releasing: August 3, 2023 Photographer: Wander Aguiar  My enemy. My monster. My dark fantasy. He holds my debt and my fate in his hands. But what does the man who can have anything want with me? Everything. A standalone dark mafia romance from Jagger Cole. Enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, a smart, untamable heroine, and an ultra possessive hero with "look at her and I'll unalive you" energy. Coming August 3rd. Pre-order your copy today! Amazon: https://bit.ly/3OM9Xkv Amazon Worldwide: https://mybook.to/TwistedHeartsJC Add to Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3Nf92b6 Meet Jagger Cole   A reader first and foremost, Jagger Cole cut his romance writing teeth penning various fan-fiction stories years ago. After deciding to hang up his writing boots, Jagger worked in advertising pretending to be Don Draper. It worked enough to convince a woman way out of his league to marry him, though, which is a total win. Now, Dad...

Heartless Grace Goodwin Publication date: June 27th 2023 Genres: Adult, Romance, Science Fiction Warrior. Doctor. Spy. I am Commander Helion, a heartless terror, relentless and unforgiving. Merciless. My destiny is not to claim a female, to have a family, to be rendered helpless by love. Despite this, I am matched. A beautiful human female is now mine. Despite my warnings, she is determined to leave her mark on me, body and soul. Honor demands I resist. I tell her the truth. I will not place a mating collar around her neck. I cannot protect her—especially from me—my choices—the horrors I face every day. Just one moment of weakness and she gets under my skin, makes me want things I cannot have. She is everything I am not—and the most dangerous creature I have ever faced. Claiming her— keeping her —is not possible with my pivotal role in this never-ending war. There is no place in my duties for desire. For need. Too many innocents count on me for protection. Too many lives are at ...

Title: The Scout Author: Carina M. Rose Genre: Contemporary Romance Tropes: Single Mom/Second Chance/Small Town Cover Design: Sommer Stein,  Perfect Pear Creative Covers Photographer: Wander Aguiar Model: Tommy Release Date: September 20, 2023 BL URB From Carina M. Rose comes a sexy second-chance, single-mom romance. Hannah I suppose it was unfair of me to assume Cash Jameson would be my forever. The golden boy of Blossom Berry Falls went from high school baseball star to the major leagues. Then he broke my heart. So many times I wanted to tell him about our son, but fate stepped in, and years went by. Being a single mom has been my biggest accomplishment. Though it hasn’t always been easy, the joys of being a mom have granted meaning to the pain of losing Cash. Now, fifteen years later, we meet again thanks to our high school reunion's alumni baseball game. Cash had no way of knowing that the young pitcher who struck him out was his son. But after he showed up at the door sc...

  Still Beating by Jennifer Hartmann is now live!  He puts his hand against my chest. “It’s still beating,” he whispers, his words a soft kiss against my lips. “As long as it’s beating, you’re okay.” When Cora Lawson attends her sister’s birthday party, she expects at most a hangover or a walk of shame by the end of it. She doesn’t anticipate a stolen wallet, leaving her stranded and dependent on her sister’s fiancé, Dean Asher—her archnemesis and perpetual thorn in her side. And she really doesn’t anticipate getting knocked out and waking up chained in a madman’s basement, Dean in his own shackles beside her. After fifteen years of teasing, insults, and never-ending pranks, the ultimate joke seems to be on them. The two people who always thought they’d end up killing each other must now work together if they want to survive long enough to escape. But Cora and Dean don’t know that their abductor has a plan for them. A plan that will alter the course of their relationship, blur...