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REVIEW: The Arsonist – A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper

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Dear Chloe Hooper,

On Saturday 7 February 2009, more than 400 separates bushfires raged in the Australian state of Victoria. 173 people lost their lives, over 2,000 homes were destroyed, countless animals, livestock and wildlife died in the blazes. According to Wikipedia, the fires affected 78 towns and left more than 7,500 people homeless. Some towns were almost completely destroyed. Some fires...

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The Boss of Her by Julie Cannon $ 9.99

From the Jacket Copy:
Going to work never felt so good. Three office romance novellas from talented writers Julie Cannon, Aurora Rey and M. Ullrich.

In For Your Eyes Only by Julie Cannon: Dress for success takes on a very different meaning. CFO Riley Stephenson finds herself in a particularly difficult position when the stripper she’s fallen for shows up at her office – as her new employee.

In Lead Counsel by Aurora Rey: Attorney Elisa Gonzalez is happy...

REVIEW: Mr Finchley Discovers His England by Victor Canning

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Mr Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor’s clerk, aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He decides to go to Margate. But Fate has other plans in store…

From his abduction in a Bentley by a cheerful crook, to his smuggling escapade off the south coast, the timid but plucky Mr Finchley is plunged into a series of the most astonishing and extraordinary adventures.

His rural adventure takes him gradually westward through the English countryside and back, via a smuggli...

DAILY DEALS: Sexy in Stilettos

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From the Jacket Copy:
You can call me a playboy if you want. After all, I love fast cars and faster women.
I’m only home to dig my wayward step-brother out of another mess. I have zero plans on staying. Until I meet little miss uptight, list-maker who’s never had any fun.

She needs a date to her ex-fiancé’s wedding…to her sister…and I’m just the kind of fake date she needs.

I know just how to make her loosen up and forget all her rules.

Looks like I’m f...

REVIEW: American Dreamer (Dreamers #1) by Adriana Herrera

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No one ever said big dreams come easy

For Nesto Vasquez, moving his Afro-Caribbean food truck from New York City to the wilds of Upstate New York is a huge gamble. If it works? He’ll be a big fish in a little pond. If it doesn’t? He’ll have to give up the hustle and return to the day job he hates. He’s got six months to make it happen—the last thing he needs is a distraction.

Jude Fuller is proud of the life he’s built on the banks of Cayuga Lake. He has a job he loves and good friends. It’s...

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From the Jacket Copy:
A BWWM Billionaire Romance Story

Deirdre doesn’t know what to make of the gorgeous man that seems to be interested in her.

***Due to sexually graphic content and language that some may find offensive, this book is intended for mature readers only***

His name is Parker Walters and he seems friendly enough. There is just something off about him that Deidre can’t figure out.

After she agrees to go on a date with him, Deirdre discovers wh...

REVIEW: A Conformable Wife by Alice Chetwynd Ley

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1814, Bath

“I promise you, she’s the most delightful creature, with a quirky sense of humour very like your own. As for the other qualities you mention – birth, breeding, experience of managing a household of consequence – she has them all, with amiability and common sense besides!”

So Henrietta Melville is described to the Honourable Julian Aldwyn, who is on the look-out for a wife who will prove restful after an earlier, disastrous love-affair.

But there’s much more to Miss Melville than...

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DAILY DEALS: Good Monday and Bad Weddings

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From the Jacket Copy:
Atlanta, Georgia, 1871

Someone has tried to assassinate Virgil Smithson. The Georgia State Legislature is not a safe place—if it ever was. To protect her growing family, Amanda wants to go home to Milford. Virgil is willing to serve out his term and return to life as a blacksmith, but first he has to know…who is trying to have him killed?
Meanwhile, Amanda works to resolve Milford College’s everlasting financial woes by...

REVIEW: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale

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My impromptu reread and review of Laura Kinsale romances continues with this, which I think might be her sixth (or seventh? somewhere in the middle of the pack) book. In any case, it has the distinction of having once been my favorite romance ever. I still have, in my decades-old Excel book log, a spreadsheet devoted to my top 100 that I probably created or last updated 15 years ago. Flowers from the Storm holds the top spot.

Of course, since the list hasn’t been updated in so long, it’s to...