Category: Hot Books

Susan, A Jane Austen Prequel

Susan is a Jane Austen Prequel (or Pride and Prejudice Variation) brilliantly capturing Austen’s own Lady Susan as a young girl. As the BookLife review put it for Publishers Weekly: “McVeigh’s prose and plotting are pitch-perfect. Emma mingles with Pride and Prejudice in a delightful confrontation between the two books’ worlds… This Austen-inspired novel echoes the master herself.” Familiar characters abound – Frank Churchill, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, ... [Read More...]

Echoes of Silence

She knows her humanity is more than skin-deep. Now she has to prove it—and risk losing everything. Betrayed, injured, and alone in an unfamiliar city, newly awakened cyborg Treeka needs to escape her captors. They left Meeka, her wounded twin sister, to die in the streets. Treeka will do anything to prevent that outcome… even bargain empty-handed with the local mob. $0.99 on Kindle ... [Read More...]

Refined Suga: Memoir of a Storyteller

An unwanted child, nicknamed ‘Suga’ is abandoned in New Orleans. Her story offers a glimpse into the life of an overprotected child who is reminded regularly by her benefactor that she must be grateful because nobody wanted her. She struggles to overcome the stigma and evolves into an accomplished and beloved mother of six children. Through years of challenges, including a horrendous accident, a nomad lifestyle, and a husband with a wandering eye, she dusts off an old skill, learns ... [Read More...]

The Arrogant Wolf

A murder on a boulevard of Los Angeles turns out to be life-changing for Jared Walker, the senior detective of the LAPD. When he makes his first move on the blowhard killer and makes him run from his apartment, the killer makes a comeback with mind-boggling games to take revenge. The serial killer is an arrogant genius who can’t think of anyone more quick-witted than himself. Instead of hiding, he bemuses and boldly challenges the police. In between the games, it is revealed that the killer h... [Read More...]

Above the Law (Billy Jo McCabe Mystery Book 5)

His crime was unforgivable, but the law protects him. If an alleged crime is reported to you, but no victim can be found, has a crime been committed? This is exactly the question Billy Jo McCabe asks Detective Mark Friessen when an anonymous woman approaches her and tells her about an unspeakable crime taking place right under the watch of the chief of police, in his own family. When Billy Jo reaches out to Mark with the story, he just can’t look away. They soon learn family is family, and the... [Read More...]

Grumpy Chef

I need a job. Notorious celebrity chef Maxwell Dylan needs an employee who can put up with him. It’s a match made in Hell’s kitchen. Like…the actual kitchen, in actual Hell. But I’m in no position to be picky, despite the fact that I’m still holding a grudge after he made me lose my last stable sous chef position. Turn up the heat, and tempers are bound to flare. But something else happens that I’m not prepared for. There’s more to Chef than meets the eye. Verbal sparring soon ... [Read More...]

Faux Friends

  Chantal Pouliot, of the Quebec police force, is relegated to mind-numbing desk duty because of a case that went wrong six months earlier. A break comes her way in the form of a white-collar cyber-crime case, something she hopes will help restore her status as an undercover detective. The downside is having to collaborate with an RCMP team that will join her in Quebec City. When the safe, tedious job she envisaged turns to murder with a possible link to organized crime, Chantal is thrown ... [Read More...]

The Woman in Purple Armor

Captain Mike Casey, Land Warfare Exploration Corps, signed up for a chance of a lifetime – first human boots on Mars. The mission – explore, scout the land and take notes for future colonization, and get home safe. The thing is, he never got home. Instead, he found the planet’s hidden evil – the dark side of Mars. Taken prisoner by a reptilian, highly intelligent race, turned into a slave, thrust between a civil war – each day she haunts his curiosity. The woman in ... [Read More...]