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📚 Happy release week to THE WINGS OF POPPY PEND

📚 Happy release week to THE WINGS OF POPPY PENDLETON by Melanie Dobson! 📚
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This new time-slip novel centers around the disappearance of a young girl—the titular Poppy Pendleton—from her family's Thousand Islands castle in 1907. At the time, it scandalized the New York elite. Decades later, an island resident digs into her own past and is shocked to find a family connection to the missing Poppy Pendleton.
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Read the full summary of this Gilded Age novel below ⬇️
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THE WINGS OF POPPY PENDLETON is available online and wherever books are sold. Find your copy in the link in bio.
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Full synopsis:
In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family’s castle in the Thousand Islands of New York. Eighty-five years later, a journalist teams up with a woman living on Koster Isle to find out what happened to Poppy, once and for all.
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1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed, listening to her parents entertain New York’s gilded society in their Thousand Islands castle; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead in his smoking room.
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1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy’s castle, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving the island she inherited from her grandparents and reviving their vintage candy shop. Until the day a girl named Emma shows up on Chloe’s doorstep, with few possessions, save a tattered scrapbook that connects her to the Pendleton family.
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When a reporter arrives at Chloe’s store, asking questions about her grandfather, Chloe decides to help him dig into a past she’d thought best left buried. The haunting truth about Poppy, they soon discover, could save Emma’s life, so Chloe and Logan must work together to investigate exactly what happened long ago on Koster Isle.
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✨A happy release day to UNTIL THEN by Cindy Wood

✨A happy release day to UNTIL THEN by Cindy Woodsmall and Erin Woodsmall! ✨
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One couple must trust in God’s will to bring them back together. Knowing they could be shunned, Celeste is upset when she discovers Vin, her husband, has been secretly sketching her and their sons. After an argument, Vin disappears . . . but something has happened that neither of them could imagine.
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Read the full summary of this Amish novel below. ⬇️
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UNTIL THEN is now available online and wherever books are sold. Find your copy in the link in bio.
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Full synopsis:
Until then may I use my time as you desire . . .
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In 1985, Old Order Amish couple Celeste and Vin Lantz have been married for six years. Vin is a carpenter by trade but an artist in his heart. He is especially captivated by drawing portraits, which the Amish consider idolatry.
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Knowing they could be shunned, Celeste is shocked to discover that Vin has secretly been sketching her and their sons. When she confronts Vin, they argue and Vin storms off . . . and seems to disappear, leaving Celeste to wonder if he chose his art over his family.
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When he leaves the house that night, Vin seeks peace on his favorite mountain overlook. But he takes a fall and wakes to find himself injured and lost. Vin soon realizes just how far he has traveled—not only in distance but back in time, to 1822 Ohio, a place that provides the freedom he craved but where he is separated from his beloved wife and children. Vin is saved by the kindness of strangers and gradually learns to survive and even to use his skills to help his new friends in this unfamiliar time and place.
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But all the while he prays desperately for God to return him to his family, before Celeste makes a new life without him.
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For fans of Amish romance and time-slip novels comes a gripping story of faith, freedom, redemption, and the truest desires of the heart by New York Times bestselling author Cindy Woodsmall.
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📣 New release Tuesday! 📣 FACING THE ENEMY by

📣 New release Tuesday! 📣 FACING THE ENEMY by DiAnn Mills is now available!
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In DiAnn Mills’s latest romantic suspense, an FBI agent teams up with her former partner to work a case close to her heart and on that could put her loved ones in danger. In Risa’s search for truth, she’ll need to face the enemy. Full synopsis below. ⤵️
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FACING THE ENEMY is available in bookstores and online. Order today; link in bio.
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And check out our stories to see photos from DiAnn’s event from over the weekend. Looking for more opportunities to meet DiAnn? Check out the events page on DiAnn’s website; link in bio!
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Full summary:
For the past five years, FBI Special Agent Risa Jacobs has worked in the violent crimes against children division of the Houston FBI. She’s never had reason to believe there’s a target on her back . . . until now.
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When the long-awaited reunion between Risa and her brother, Trenton, ends in tragedy, Risa is riddled with guilt, unable to cope with the responsibility she feels over his death.
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On leave from the FBI, Risa returns to her former career as an English teacher at a local college, only to see her past and present collide when one of her students, Carson Mercury, turns in an assignment that reads like an eyewitness account of her brother’s murder, with details never revealed publicly.
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Alarmed by Carson’s inside knowledge of Trenton’s death, Risa reaches out to her former partner at the FBI. Special Agent Gage Patterson has been working a string of kidnappings, but he agrees to help look into Carson’s background.
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Risa and Gage soon discover their cases might be connected as a string of high-value thefts have occurred at properties where security systems were installed by Carson’s stepfather and children have gone missing. There’s a far more sinister plot at play than they ever imagined, and innocent lives are in danger.
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🔥 Matthew Redd is back in LETHAL RANGE by Ryan

🔥 Matthew Redd is back in LETHAL RANGE by Ryan Steck, which releases today! 🔥
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Trouble follows elite soldier and cowboy Matthew Redd wherever he goes, even to his hometown in Montana. After an international mission gone wrong, Redd discovers a gang of outlaws has a vendetta against him and his beloved ranch is facing ruin. What happens when a good man is pushed too far?
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Available wherever books are sold, link in bio. 🖋️ Signed copies available from Baker Book House; link in bio!
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Full synopsis ⤵️
On an island off the coast of Spain, Matthew Redd and his FBI fly team surveil a luxury villa in hopes of catching a high-value fugitive. But when Redd leads an unauthorized raid on the villa, he discovers they’ve been set up, and he is sent home to face the consequences of defying orders.
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Meanwhile, Redd’s wife, Emily, is on a remote stretch of Montana road driving their sick baby to the doctor when she finds her SUV surrounded by a biker gang intent on harassing her. As the bikers pound her fenders and her infant son screams, Emily fights to keep the SUV on the road . . . and then suddenly the bikers back off, leaving her safe but shaken.
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Redd returns home, suspended from his team and certain that he is to blame for Emily’s harassment after his run-in with the local biker gang the year before. Fearing that there is more to come, he prepares to defend his family.
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But Redd soon learns the gang is stronger in numbers than he could’ve imagined, and there is more behind their vendetta than he could’ve guessed. As his son’s condition worsens and his beloved ranch faces financial ruin, he finds himself fighting a war on multiple fronts—one he can’t win on his own.
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📣 Extra! Extra! Read all about it! THE GIRL FRO

📣 Extra! Extra! Read all about it! THE GIRL FROM THE PAPERS by Jennifer L. Wright releases today! 📣
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Find out why Library Journal calls THE GIRL FROM THE PAPERS a “Bonnie-and-Clyde tale with a redemptive twist”: When Jack offers Beatrice a fast way out of poverty and the fame she’s looking for. She follows him right into a life of crime that looks more and more like it will destroy her rather than become the solution to her family’s Depression-era struggle.
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Get your copy of THE GIRL FROM THE PAPERS wherever books are sold. Link in bio!
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📘 Full summary:
Inspired by one of America’s most notorious couples, Bonnie and Clyde, Jennifer L. Wright delivers a riveting tale set during the public enemy era of the Great Depression.
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Beatrice Carraway has dreams. Although she’s aged out of the childhood pageant circuit, she’s intent on carrying her talents all the way to the big screen—if only she can escape the poverty of West Dallas first.
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But as the Great Depression drags the working class further and further under, Beatrice struggles just to keep herself, her mother, and her younger sister afloat. After a string of failed auditions, she feels defeated.
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And then in walks Jack Turner. Though Beatrice is determined to pull herself up by her bootstraps, Jack has decided on a different path out of the gutters. It isn’t long before Beatrice is swept into an exciting and glamorous life of crime beside the man she loves.
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Keeping one step ahead of the law, she sees her dreams of fame come true when her name and picture are plastered in newspapers across the country. Yet as their infamy grows, the distance between them widens.
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While Jack begins seeking bigger payouts and publicity, Beatrice starts to long for a safe, quiet life and something deeper to fill the emptiness in her soul. But when the danger of Jack’s schemes ratchets up, Beatrice fears her dreams—and her future—will end up going down in a hail of bullets.
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Happy release day to Cathy Gohlke and LADIES OF TH

Happy release day to Cathy Gohlke and LADIES OF THE LAKE! Whether you’re reading by the lake, a pool, or wish you were, this is a great summer read.
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✨ A Barnes & Noble Bookseller Favorite ✨ See what booksellers are saying about this historical novel: “If you like fictional stories based on real events, this one is for you. Bonus: A story of female friendship set on Prince Edward Island, of course, evokes Anne of Green Gables.”
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📘More about the novel:
When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits. The “Ladies of the Lake,” as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever life takes them, they will always be there for each other.
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But that is before: Before love and jealousy come between Adelaide and Dorothy, the closest of the friends. Before the dawn of World War I upends their world and casts baseless suspicion onto the German American man they both love. Before a terrible explosion in Halifax Harbor rips the sisterhood irrevocably apart.
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Get your copy of LADIES OF THE LAKE in the link in bio!
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☀️ Happy first day of summer, readers! ☀️

☀️ Happy first day of summer, readers! ☀️
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If you’re looking for some entertaining books to pack for summer vacation, a fun day at the beach, or lounging by the pool, check out these romances!
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What books do you have on your summer reading list?
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INDIGO ISLE is a grumpy/sunshine romance that’s also a Beauty and the Beast retelling, set on the South Carolina coast.
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DEAR HENRY, LOVE EDITH is a funny mistaken identity rom-com for fans of You’ve Got Mail.
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THE BACHELOR’S BARGAIN is a historical romance set in Regency England in which a rake and a maid enter into a hasty marriage of convenience.
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BEACH HAVEN is the first in the Carolina Coast series in which three friends look for love in their small town.
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WHAT MATTERS MOST is a Nantucket-set romance in which two people search their second chance.
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Learn more with the links in bio!
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🥳 INDIGO ISLE by T. I. Lowe is now available! 🥳
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T. I. Lowe returns with another Southern tale, a romance set on a South Carolina island.
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Sonny is a ghost of her true self as she navigates her Hollywood job and avoids her demanding boss. But when she meets the reclusive owner of Indigo Isle, she starts to come alive again.
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In a world full of takers, Sonny has finally found someone who will give her what she truly longs for—a second chance.
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Longer summary below ⬇️
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Check out T. I.'s page for info on her summer book tour: @tilowe
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Get your copy of this perfect summer romance wherever books are sold. Link in bio!
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INDIGO ISLE synopsis:
Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she’s a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world. Home is wherever she lands, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her boss’s demands, she has little time to think about the past . . . until her latest gig lands her a stone’s throw from everything she left behind.
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Searching off the coast of Charleston for a secluded site to film a key scene, Sonny wanders onto a private barrier island and encounters its reclusive owner, known by locals as the Monster of Indigo Isle. What she finds is a man much more complex than the myth.
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Once a successful New York attorney, Hudson Renfrow’s grief has exiled him to his island for several years. He spends his days alone, tending his fields of indigo, then making indigo dye—and he has no interest in serving the intrusive needs of a film company or yielding to Sonny’s determined curiosity. But an unlikely friendship forms between the two damaged souls. Soon the gruff exterior Hudson has long hidden behind crumbles—exposing the tender part of him that’s desperate for forgiveness and a second chance.
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A story of hanging on and letting go, of redemption and reconciliation, and of a love that heals the deepest wounds.
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🎉 Congratulations to the 2023 Carol Award semi-

🎉 Congratulations to the 2023 Carol Award semi-finalists, hosted by @acfwcommunity! 🎉
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THE HIDDEN PRINCE by @tessaafshar
A thrilling tale of a woman who feels she has no future but soon discovers the fate of nations may rest in her hands.
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THE WINTER ROSE by @melbdobson
A gripping time-slip about an American Quaker who works tirelessly to rescue Jewish children by crossing the Pyrenees.
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Come Down Somewhere by @jennwright82
A powerful WWII novel about two young women coming of age during the Trinity test in 1945.
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Which of these have you read?
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Link in bio for all three!
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The wait is over! THE LIBYAN DIVERSION by Joel C.

The wait is over! THE LIBYAN DIVERSION by Joel C. Rosenberg is now available in stores!
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The fifth novel in the Marcus Ryker series is another high-stakes international political thriller from Joel C. Rosenberg.
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The world’s most wanted terrorist is dead and Ryker recommended the air strike himself. The intelligence was rock-solid, but a disturbing report from Libya suggests all may not be as it seems.
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With Ryker on the sidelines when the country needs him the most, can Ryker clear his name in time to stop a secret terror organization once and for all?
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Find out in this fast-paced thriller that bestselling author Don Bentley says has “a taut plot, riveting action, and characters that will make you stand up and cheer.”
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Find it in hardcover or e-book wherever books are sold. Link in bio!
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🔥FIELDS OF FIRE by Ryan Steck is now available

🔥FIELDS OF FIRE by Ryan Steck is now available as a softcover! 🔥
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Enjoy the military thriller that C. J. Box says “busts out of the chute with nonstop action, and it never lets up until the final page.”
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Former Marine Raider Matty Redd returns home to Montana to find out the truth about his adoptive father’s death.
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What Redd uncovers is a global conspiracy in the heart of his hometown—one only he can stop.
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Get your copy of this fast-paced thriller wherever books are sold. Link in bio!
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day, readers! 📚 •

Happy Independent Bookstore Day, readers! 📚
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Where will you be spending the day: at a bookstore you know and love or a new-to-you store that you’ll explore?
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Leave a comment below to tag your favorite local bookstore and use #crazy4fictionindiebookstoreday to share photos as you’re out and about!
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#independentbookstoreday #indiebookstoreday #indiebookstoreday2023 #shopsmall #shoplocal #crazy4fiction

📣 SPECIAL DEAL ALERT 📣 • The softcover edi

📣 SPECIAL DEAL ALERT 📣
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The softcover edition of Tessa Afshar's THE HIDDEN PRINCE is now available at @christianbook for only $10.99!
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Plus, now through 4/30, not only will you get this incredible price, you'll also receive a PDF download of "Seven Days of Scripture and Prayers" featuring prayers by Tessa inspired by THE HIDDEN PRINCE with your purchase.
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The beautiful download also includes recipes by Tessa inspired by ancient recipes, perfect for a night in or a book club discussion. And Tessa also recorded audio version of the prayers included in the download, so you'll be able to pray along with Tessa as you go about the seven daily devotionals.
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Get your copy of the book and the download from the link in bio!
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Who else is in love with this cover? 😍🙋🏻‍♀️
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This Regency romance is the perfect read for the spring. THE BACHELOR’S BARGAIN has what Regency romance readers have come to expect in their books:
✅ banter
✅ marriage of convenience
✅ a gossip column
✅ a smart heroine
✅ a roguish hero
But will it have the hard-won happily ever after? Start reading chapter one to find out! Link in bio.
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THE BACHELOR’S BARGAIN full summary
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For fans of Regency romance in the vein of Sanditon or Bridgerton comes a marriage of convenience story that will keep you smiling long after the last page.
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Housemaid Anne Webster will stop at nothing to save her family from their dire circumstances. Even if it means accepting the proposal of the roguish Marquess of Blackthorne, who just returned to England from the Americas under a veil of mystery.
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Both have their own agenda—she to use his riches and he to use her lace-making skills—but neither could have dreamed what they would discover on the other side of their scheming.
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As always, society tattler Miss Pickworth has a thing or two to say about this scandalous union. Unless they want their plans aired in her column, Ruel and Anne must keep their banter to a minimum and play the role of the happy couple.
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He’s handsome and arrogant; she’s smart and obstinate. But can Anne and Ruel put their differences aside to fend off an unexpected foe?
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🥳 THE YEAR OF JUBILEE by Cindy Morgan is releas

What are you currently reading? • If you’re lo

What are you currently reading?
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If you’re looking for some suggestions, check out our latest releases: THE LADY’S MINE softcover edition, BROKER OF LIES, and THE YEAR OF JUBILEE (out on Tuesday!).
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Links in bio.
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🎉 Happy Release Day to BROKER OF LIES by Steven

🎉 Happy Release Day to BROKER OF LIES by Steven James! 🎉
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BROKER OF LIES introduces readers to an unlikely hero in Travis Brock, a Pentagon redactor. Travis will risk everything when he finds a clue to solving the tragic arson that took his wife from him. Read the full synopsis below ⤵️
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Get your copy of this new thriller wherever books are sold. Link in bio!
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Celebrate with Steven James at @opendoorscoffeehouse in Johnson City, TN on Saturday, April 14 from 6pm-8pm. You won’t want to miss it!
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BROKER OF LIES synopsis:
The man who knows all our secrets has a secret of his own.
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When Travis Brock, a high-level Pentagon redactor with an eidetic memory, finds a clue to solving the tragic arson that took his wife from him, he risks everything to find the truth—and chances losing himself in the process.
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With a terror attack looming on the horizon and a pair of assassins on his tail, Brock drops off the grid and joins forces with a disavowed Homeland Security operative. Together they race to stop the attack before Brock is neutralized by the people he trusts the most.
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From critically acclaimed, bestselling novelist Steven James comes a smart, wire-tight, and emotionally resonant thriller that asks just how far across the line we might go to see justice carried out.
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🚨 RELEASE ALERT: This New York Times bestsellin

🚨 RELEASE ALERT: This New York Times bestselling historical romance is now available in softcover!
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THE LADY’S MINE is internationally bestselling author Francine Rivers’s return to the California frontier. It’s a sweeping romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save.
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Part Taming of the Shrew, part Oklahoma!, THE LADY’S MINE is a delightful western romance you won’t want to miss!
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The softcover is available wherever books are sold. For a limited time, purchase the softcover on Tyndale.com for 20% off! Link in bio.
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Listen to a sample of the Audie Award-winning audi

Listen to a sample of the Audie Award-winning audiobook DARK ANGEL, available wherever audiobooks are sold!
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🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to the DARK ANGEL audiobook f

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to the DARK ANGEL audiobook for winning an Audie Award! 🎉
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The DARK ANGEL audiobook is narrated by MacLeod Andrews, who immerses readers into this high-octane supernatural thriller.
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Former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson returns to Nashville ready to begin his training with the elite warriors known as the Shepherds. He thinks he knows what to expect when he arrives on the sprawling, state-of-the-art facility but quickly realizes he’ll have to find his place as the rookie leader of a new team. Then he starts having visions of an imminent attack overseas, and with the clock ticking, Jed and his team are dispatched to neutralize the threat. All the while, Jed hears whispers of another threat . . . a name that raises unexplained fear and anger throughout the Shepherds organization.
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Once a military man, Nicholas Woland betrayed the Shepherds and all they stood for when he joined their enemies. After years in prison, Woland is eager to get back in action spreading chaos and death. And he has been freed for a purpose: a sinister plot that will result in hundreds of casualties and incite worldwide religious warfare for years to come.
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As Woland and the Shepherds race toward a collision, Jed must rely on his gifts, his training, and his untested team to make critical decisions on a global stage—never realizing that a secret servant of the enemy is growing closer and closer to him.
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Check out the DARK ANGEL audiobook or any of the other audiobooks in the Shepherds series in the link in bio!
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