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Things you save in a fire by Katherine CenterWhen a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter. By the New York Times best-selling author of How to Walk Away. Available in the library Audiobook on RB Digital Audiobook and eBook on Overdrive
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| Side Chick Nation by Aya De LeónWhat it's about: Pausing only to steal her abusive boyfriend's cash stash, Dolores "Dulce" Garcia flees Miami for Puerto Rico, where she gets involved with journalist Zavier Mendoza -- and gets caught in Hurricane Maria and its even more devastating aftermath.
Is it for you? Dulce's rocky road to love and happily-ever-after involves some trial and error with several men, as well as some illicit activities.
Series alert: Side Chick Nation is the 4th book in the Justice Hustlers series, which features a predominantly Afro-Latinx cast of sex workers and women's health advocates redistributing wealth through heists. eBook on Hoopla |
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| Unbreak Me by Michelle HazenIntroducing: LJ Delisle, a black cowboy from New Orleans who dreams of making it on the exclusive horse-showing circuit; and Andra Lawler, the privileged white equestrian who hires LJ as a trainer on her family's Montana ranch.
Why you might like it: Unbreak Me features sympathetic leads, both recovering from personal trauma, who face realistic challenges in their budding relationship.
For fans of: Jamie Pope's emotionally intense yet uplifting stories of finding love and healing after tragedy, such as Mostly Sunny or One Warm Winter. Audiobook and eBook on Overdrive |
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Evvie Drake starts over : a novel by Linda HolmesYoung widow Evvie Drake and major league pitcher Dean Tenney, who has lost his game and needs a chance to reset his life, form an unlikely relationship when Dean moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie's house. Available in the library Audiobook on RB Digital Audiobook and eBook on Overdrive
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| Dead Girl Running by Christina DoddThe situation: As if surviving a gunshot wound to the head wasn't hard enough, army veteran Kellan Adams must hide from her abusive husband while dealing with a year's worth of missing memories and the corpse that just turned up at the hotel she manages.
Read it for: a sympathetic heroine, an atmospheric Pacific Northwest setting, and a twisty, Gothic-tinged murder mystery plot.
Crossover alert: This opening installment of the Cape Charade series includes appearances by characters from the author's Virtue Falls novels. Available in the library Audiobook on Hoopla Audiobook and eBook on RB Digital |
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| The Conspiracy by Kat MartinWhat happens: When her brother Michael goes missing in the Caribbean, heiress Harper Winston enlists Michael's former best friend (and Harper's longtime crush), PI Chase Garrett, to assist in the search.
Why you might like it: Unfolding at a breakneck pace, this 1st Maximum Security novel blends romance and action-adventure as Harper and Chase battle drug lords, mercenaries, and their own mutual attraction. Audiobook on Hoopla Audiobook and eBook on RB Digital |
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| Every Last Breath by Juno RushdanThe mission: Maddox Kincaid, an operative for the CIA-affiliated Grey Box, must recruit Cole Matthews as an asset in order to infiltrate an arms dealers' auction and obtain a deadly bioweapon.
The problem: Cole is actually Nikolai Resnikov, Maddox's Russian mafia-connected former fiancé who faked his own death and left her broken-hearted.
A race against time: The tension never lets up in this action-packed opening installment of the Final Hour series, which follows reunited ex-lovers as they dodge assassins while trying to save the world. eBook on Hoopla |
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| The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda QuickThe situation: Adelaide Blake escapes from a sanitarium and, assuming a new identity, settles in Burning Cove, California, where she attracts the notice of enigmatic businessman Jake Truett.
And then: Celebrity psychic Madame Zolanda successfully predicts murder most foul, sending Adelaide and Jake on a quest to find the killer.
Why you might like it: This 2nd installment of the Burning Cove series, after The Girl Who Knew Too Much, infuses Hitchcockian suspense with old Hollywood glamour. Audiobook and eBook on RB Digital |
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