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At thirty-nine, Peyton Somerset has an enviable life, with a thriving advertising career and a beautiful Manhattan apartment. And now she's going to have the one thing she wants most-a baby. Peyton's biological clock went off just as her fiance took off, leaving her at the altar. So Peyton's going it alone.
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Heloise lives in a suburb where she's just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capitol, she's the redheaded lobbyist with a good cause. But in discreet hotel rooms throughout the area, she's the woman of your dreams, if you can afford her hourly fee. Her secret life, a life she was forced to build after the legitimate world turned its back on her, is under siege. One...
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It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
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"It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress--wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth. As police investigate the...
5) In close
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When her husband dies in a freak accident after launching his own investigation into her mother's strange disappearance fifteen years earlier, Claire O'Toole will stop at nothing to find the truth even though someone in Pineview, Montana is prepared to kill to keep her from finding the answers.
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"Vowing to make a fresh start, Sarah McAdams has come home to renovate the old Victorian mansion where she grew up. Her daughters, Jade and Gracie, aren't impressed by the rundown property on the shores of Oregon's wild Columbia River. As soon as they pull up the isolated drive, Sarah too is beset by uneasy memories--of her cold, distant mother, of the half-sister who vanished without a trace, and of a long-ago night when Sarah was found on the widow's...
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Moving to the coastal town of Echo, Washington, divorcée and single mother Caitlin Stoller begins receiving unsettling messages hinting at her new home's dark past, messages that escalate into terrifying events orchestrated by a killer who is about to plunge her family into a nightmare from which there is no escape.
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The USA Today–bestselling author returns with a pulse-pounding tale of romantic suspense as a firefighter risks everything to find a desperate woman's son.
After escaping a world of ruthless crime with her child, Shannon Nolan finally thought she'd left her nightmares in the past. Then the worst thing she could imagine happens: her son is kidnapped! With nowhere else to run and no one else to trust, she puts her life in the hands...
After escaping a world of ruthless crime with her child, Shannon Nolan finally thought she'd left her nightmares in the past. Then the worst thing she could imagine happens: her son is kidnapped! With nowhere else to run and no one else to trust, she puts her life in the hands...
10) Look both ways
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The residents of Garrett Island are part of a visionary experiment. Their cars have been sent to the mainland and now, for one month, they've got self-driving vehicles called Arrivals. With a simple voice command, an Arrival will take you wherever you want to go, and because these cars are networked and aware of each other, road mishaps are a thing of the past. As the world's press arrives for a glimpse of this driverless future, islander and single...
11) Wicked ways
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Suburban wife and mother Elizabeth Gaines Ellis worries that she is somehow the cause of a series of brutal deaths, but no one will take her fears seriously except the private investigator digging into her past.
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Amid several personal and professional crises, public defender Julia Geary is removed from her first murder case defending a local denizen in the killing of a homeless man, but with rising suspicion that this murder and another may be linked to the death of a state legislator, Julia launches her own investigation, resulting in anonymous threats against her.
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Stuck in a raging snowstorm, Laura Colins can't refuse shelter in Rico Metez's Colorado mountain cabin. She's been on the run with a child and will do anything to save her. But as he puts everything on the line to protect Laura, Rico senses she's got deeper secrets that involve the little girl. Can he learn the truth before his own past gets them killed?
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It is 5:30 am on Clio's forty-fifth birthday and her hated ex is lying dead on her doorstep. Even worse, this is no accident. Someone's killed him...When single mum Clio's ex Gary turns up dead on the doorstep of her caravan - the one she's been forced to live in ever since he stole every penny she had - there's only one suspect. Her.What's more, she doesn't remember much about the night he was killed - not just because of the forgetfulness that's...
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The Precinct: Cold Case volume 3
The Precinct Cold Case volume 3
Harlequin intrigue volume 1606
Precinct cold case
The Precinct Cold Case volume 3
Harlequin intrigue volume 1606
Precinct cold case
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His protection instincts on high alert, KCPD detective Trent Dixon knew something was wrong with Katie Rinaldi. The special investigator had obviously uncovered a dangerous piece of evidence while looking into a cold case. So dangerous, in fact, that the single mother's life was now in jeopardy. But as much as Trent told himself he was keeping tabs on Katie and her young son as part of his job, he couldn't ignore the very real feelings he had for...
16) Cavanaugh strong
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Why are too many healthy seniors dying in nursing homes? Vice detective Noelle O'Banyon can't let the mystery go. And though she has no business working a homicide case, the love-shy single mom draws partner Duncan Cavanaugh into her rogue investigation. He's a notorious player she thoroughly disdains--and the feeling's mutual. Duncan considers Noelle too straightlaced for his taste. But as they uncover the shocking scandal behind the mysterious deaths,...
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"Iris,a single mother and lawyer uncovers by accident that she has an autistic brother who is in prison for brutally murdering her neighbor and her daughter. Visiting Ray, she meets an odd man who looks heartbreakingly like her own son, but unable to communicate like the rest of us. Is he really a killer?" -- Provided by the publisher.
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When security expert Cody Samuels finds fugitive Viktoria Mateev in hiding, he can't believe his luck. Turning her in will be the perfect revenge on the crime family who destroyed Cody's DEA career. But to his surprise, Cody is just in time to rescue Viktoria from assassins. He soon finds himself tracking her son's kidnappers--and trying to resist his deepest desires. To keep her son from her ruthless in-laws, Viktoria went on the run. Now she's teaming...
19) So pretty
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A young man arrives in a small town, hoping to leave his past behind him, but everything changes when he takes a job in a peculiar old shop, and meets a lonely single mother... A chillingly hypnotic modern-gothic thriller and a mesmerising study of identity and obsession. When Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets...
20) Better the blood
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"A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to a historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal...
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