The Frankenstein Candidate: A woman awakens to a web of deceit

By Vinay Kolhatkar / Genre: Political, Mystery & Thrillers / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (41 reviews)

It’s November 2019, and another U.S. presidential election season approaches.

Senator Olivia Allen—brilliant and beautiful—signs onto the Democratic presidential ticket, unaware of powerful forces that seek either to control her or destroy her.

Her opponents are Frank Kenneth Stein, a billionaire who would rather be forthright than President, and Quentin Kirby, the power-hungry, Republican vice president. As the campaign advances toward an electrifying climax, their brutal maneuvers play out against a backdrop of national crises. Hyperinflation looms and bloody riots sweep the country.

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Love and Truth

By Kathryn Vance-Perez / Genre: Coming of Age / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (21 reviews)

Eighteen-year-old Nicole Harrison has spent her high school years devoted to academics and dance, leaving no time for a boyfriend and a life. Her parents’ shocking divorce causes Nicole to believe that true love is impossible to find. After spending her life in a small Texas town, Nicole joins a foreign exchange student dance program in the country where she was born. After years dreaming about her birthplace, she boldly leaves her world behind and moves in with a host family on the island of Okinawa in Japan. She anxiously awaits a year of improving her dance technique while enjoying a world of new experiences.

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Ruby Blue (The Ruby Blue Series)

By Julie Cassar / Genre: Fantasy / Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (138 reviews)

Meet Ruby. She’s your average (somewhat dorky) ice-cream eating, garden-loving teenager, who is constantly being annoyed by her little brother, is best friends with possibly the only Goth kid in town and, oh yeah…she sees fairies.

After Nick Martino (possibly the hottest guy she’s ever known) finally asks her out, she can barely manage a two-word sentence when a bizarre incident strikes their lakeside town.

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A Perfect Evil

By EC Sheedy / Genre: Romantic Suspense, Romance / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (37 reviews)

Old sins leave lasting scars…
Hannah Stuart thinks she’s safe within the dark and private rooms of Kenninghall, her friend Milo’s rambling and secluded Washington estate. Here she hides from the outside world, nurturing her depression, and lost in a past and painful tragedy she can’t let go. To hold on–to survive–she lives her days by rote, each day the same as the one before.
But change, for good or ill, is relentless and inescapable.
Milo dies, leaving Hannah a fortune and three letters. Letters telling of old sins and ugly lies, now tangled anew in shocking depravities. Letters the rich and powerful will kill to suppress. Letters Hannah is driven and honor bound to expose–and time is running out.

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The Burning of Isobel Key (The Key Legacy)

By Jen McConnel / Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (88 reviews)

When Lou travels to Scotland, she’s a mess. She’s twenty-six, unemployed, and unsure of herself. It doesn’t help that she’s traveling with Tammy, her best friend, who is everything Lou is not.

At first, the trip pushes Lou towards the brink of depression, but then she meets Brian, a handsome local tour guide. When Brian tells the tourists about the countless witches burned in Scotland, Lou starts to listen. And when she discovers information about Isobel Key, one of the victims of the seventeenth century, Lou finds renewed purpose.

She sets out to learn the truth of the condemned witch, but she isn’t prepared for the knowledge that waits for her. Lou must face her demons if she has any hope of righting the wrongs of the past.

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