Book Club

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The Free Friday selection for July 1 is 

How To Train Your Viscount by Courtney McCaskill

The only one who can help her is the man who broke her heart.

Four years ago, Lady Caroline Astley took one look at Henry Greville, Viscount Thetford, and fell horribly in love, in that particular way you can only fall in love at the age of fifteen.

He didn't just reject her.

He humiliated her.

But now, in a stroke of rotten luck, he's the only one who can help her.

It turns out that the "paste" pendant she borrowed from her sister, Anne, was no fake. It's actually an ancient Egyptian amulet, and now Anne wants to auction it off to save hundreds of widows and orphans. What Caro can't bear to tell her sister is that the necklace was stolen from right around her neck.

Caro has a few clues, but she doesn't know an amulet from an obelisk, and the trail has gone cold. Guess who grew up in a house stuffed with Egyptian artifacts? Caro may despise Henry, but she needs him if she's going to track down the thieves. Which begs the question of which is worse: letting down the orphans or risking her heart all over again.

If you like sizzling Regency romance that makes you laugh and makes you swoon, give How to Train Your Viscount a try!

Note: How to Train Your Viscount falls on the comedic end of the Regency spectrum; you might call it a Regency rom-com. The love scenes are red hot. Our hero's mother wishes to regretfully forewarn the reader that her son utters several shocking obscenities during the course of the novel.

Enjoy your Fourth of July weekend!  

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They are "switching it up" today by giving us an AUDIOBOOK as our selection for July 8!

Not Me (A Camille Grace FBI Suspense Thriller - Book 1) by Kate Bold 

Narrated by Katia Vannoy - 6 hours, 24 minutes 

In this new series by #1 bestselling-and critically-acclaimed-mystery and suspense author Kate Bold, Camille Grace, a rising star in the FBI's BAU unit, is dispatched to the one place she vowed to never return: the deep South. A string of murders by a suspected serial killer outside New Orleans forces Camille to face her Creole roots, her tortured past, estranged family-and her buried secrets.

“Phenomenal debut with a huge creep factor¿ So many twists and turns, you'll have no idea who the next victim will be. If you love a thriller that will keep you awake well into the night, this book is for you.”
-Reader review for Let Me Go

Camille's frustrations mount as she struggles to connect with her newly-assigned partner and as clues don't add up. To make matters worse, Camille is haunted by memories of her sister's disappearance years ago-and this new killer's victims seem to fit the same description.

Could it be the same killer?

Camille knows she must enter this killer's twisted mind if she has any hope of stopping him in time.

But will he take her down with him?

A riveting psychological crime thriller full of mystery and suspense, the CAMILLE GRACE mystery series will make you fall in love with a brilliant new female protagonist. Packed with twists and turns, her story will keep you flipping pages late into the night.

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The Free Friday selection for July 15 is 

The Cornish Princess by Tanya Anne Crosby 

Long before there was a Winter King, there was a Summer Queen—Gwendolyn of Cornwall, a fierce warrior princess who raised an army to unite a nation.

Said to be a changeling child left to the King and Queen of Cornwall, Gwendolyn is "blessed" at her cradle by three Fae gifts: a prophecy for her future, a gift of "Reflection," and a golden mane—quite literally. Every lock of her hair will turn to gold, only provided it is cut by her one true love.

But no one understands more than Gwendolyn that her blessings are truly curses. Because any man who gazes upon her will see his own heart reflected in her countenance, and depending upon his virtue, she is either the loveliest woman in all the land... or the most hideous. It's a cruel jest of the capricious Fae, for unless a man's heart is true, she is destined to be coveted for her crown, and despised for her face.

To make matters worse, Gwendolyn's aging and ailing father is desperate for an alliance with King Brutus of Loegria. "The Romans are coming," and according to the Goldenchild Prophecy, only by uniting their dragon banners can they stem the Red Tide. Offered to Brutus's ambitious son, Prince Locrinus, Gwendolyn's heart is nevertheless tempted by a mysterious, maddening half-blood Fae whom she can never wed if she is to fulfill her crib side prophecy.

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