by Donna Baier Stein

4.7 stars – 82 reviews

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The Silver Baron’s Wife traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie). This fascinating heroine worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages, one to a philandering opium addict and one to a Senator and silver baron worth $24 million in the late 19th century. A divorcée shunned by Denver society, Lizzie raised two daughters in a villa where 100 peacocks roamed the lawns, entertained Sarah Bernhardt when the actress performed at Tabor’s Opera House, and after her second husband’s death, moved to a one-room shack at the Matchless Mine in Leadville. She lived the last 35 years of her life there, writing down thousands of her dreams and noting visitations of spirits on her calendar. Hers is the tale of a fiercely independent woman who bucked all social expectations by working where 19thcentury women didn’t work, becoming the key figure in one of the West’s most scandalous love triangles, and, after a devastating stock market crash destroyed Tabor’s vast fortune, living in eccentric isolation at the Matchless Mine. An earlier version of this novel won the PEN/New England Discovery Award in Fiction.

by Zanna Mackenzie

4.2 stars – 122 reviews

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He’s a top secret agent. She’s a wannabe astrologer. Will opposites attract when they’re forced to team up to catch a killer? Addictive, clean, fun & flirty series!

Amber Reed is a newspaper admin assistant tasked with making up the horoscopes. Her imaginary predictions seem as close as she’ll ever get to excitement. Until a desperate phone call plunges her into the middle of a celebrity murder investigation.

Battling to convince the scarily handsome special agent assigned to solve the case that she can help him catch the killer, Amber’s fighting something far more dangerous than she could ever have imagined – and it has nothing to do with the equally scary chemistry fizzing between her and special agent Charlie Huxton!

Has Amber’s wish for more excitement in her life landed her in big trouble – or is her fate written in the stars?

by Dizzy Hooper

4.2 stars – 47 reviews

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My body wants a mate. But I sure wasn’t counting on three…

It’s the most embarrassing time of any female shifter’s life. My body is desperate to be mated, and it’s willing to do whatever it has to to get the job done.

I have no home to go to, no place on this earth that feels safe.

Intent on riding out my mating season alone, I travel into the wilderness, when a freak blizzard leaves me stranded.

Of course, the only house around for miles is home to three ripped, wolf-shifter guys. They take me in—no strings attached.

by Whitney Dineen

4.3 stars – 364 reviews

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Catriona Masterton’s fiancé, Ethan, is Normal.

He plans trips six months in advance and arrives at the airport a minimum of three hours early. He purchases life insurance, luggage insurance, and always opts for the extended warranty. He’s responsible, reliable, and would make any woman a wonderful life partner.

In other words, he’s the exact opposite of the Masterton clan.

Cat’s mother has a kitchen gadget fetish, a father whose best friends are taxidermied field mice, and a super stoner man-child brother who lives–where else?–in the basement. Then there’s Nan, her proud Scottish grandmother with a proclivity for profanity and mischief.

What on earth will Catriona’s Normal fiancé think when he comes home with her to meet her parents? What will he think when he discovers his soon-to-be in-laws invited Cat’s ex to join them for a holiday dinner?

Find out in a laugh-out-loud journey of self-discovery, familial pandemonium, and love. A must read for fans of a true romantic comedy!

by Ann Minnett

4.3 stars – 213 reviews

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Hannah Dyer’s estranged mother was abusive and an alcoholic. At the age of sixty she adopted an infant, but she dies, and Hannah must assume guardianship of her unknown adopted sister. Can Hannah overcome her own emotional and physical scars to do what’s right by the child?

Burden of Breath alternates between Hannah’s childhood and her adult struggles to separate from her mother’s crippling influence, even from the grave. Anger and isolation force Hannah to confront her traumatic past, and she transforms her life in ways she could never have imagined.