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Susan Mallery –

There’s nowhere better to spend the holidays than with New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery in the town of Fool’s Gold, where love is always waiting to be unwrapped… Noelle Perkins just got a second chance at life, and she intends to make the most of every minute. That’s why she ditched a frustrating legal career to open her own store in Fool’s Gold, California.

The Christmas Attic celebrates everything that’s magical about her favorite season. Business is booming, and as a bonus, gorgeous army doctor Gabriel Boylan has offered to help out during the holiday rush.  Gabriel’s memories of Christmas past contain more sour grapes than sugar plums, thanks to a drill sergeant father who ran his home like a boot camp. Spending the holidays with his family while he recuperates from injury sounds as appetizing as last year’s eggnog.

Still, there are some enjoyable distractions in town, including sunny, sexy Noelle…and the red-hot mistletoe kisses they can’t stop sharing. Gabriel didn’t think he was made for happily-ever-afters. But when fate hands you a love as sweet and surprising as this, only a fool could refuse….
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Iris Johansen –

(Eve Duncan #8). Is she dead or alive? That is the question on everybody’s lips. Eve appears to have been killed — that’s what everyone attending her funeral thinks, at least. But not even some of her top-brass colleagues know for sure whether her death is a hoax — a way to ensnare her brutal captor, Jim Doane, once or for all. But even if Eve really is still alive, how much longer can this charade continue before she falls into even greater danger? CIA agent Catherine Ling will waste no time trying to find out. Years ago, Eve risked everything to help Catherine find her missing son. Now Catherine, along with Eve’s beloved Joe Quinn and Jane MacGuire, will go to the ends of the earth to save her…

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J.A. Johnstone –

: The Loner # 8. Conrad Browning had money, a manservant, and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He’s come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against Race McKinney, a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own — to take this city slicker into the wilderness and hunt him like an animal. But Rance McKinney doesn’t know who he’s facing.

The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad goes by the moniker of The Kid. Now it’s The Kid against McKinney, the hunter and the hunted. And when he’s cornered, The Kid is the most dangerous beast of all.

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JoAnna Carl –

: a Chocoholic mystery #13. In this installment of the Chocoholic Mysteries, we meet new library director, Henry ‘Butch’ Cassidy. Our protagonist, Lee McKinney Woodyard, has been asked to serve on the library board so she decides to attend a meeting before she commits herself. Before the director can even start to talk about his proposed changes for the library the meeting is interrupted by someone’s terrified screams.

One of the library staff has found the lifeless body of Abigail VanRoostock at the bottom of the basement stairs. Abigail is the woman Lee has been asked to replace on the board due to her decision to retire. Lee soon determines this was no simple fall – it was murder and everyone in the meeting including her is now a suspect. It’s going to take more than a truffle or a bon-bon to solve this mystery.
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Max Von Kreisler –

It is the fall of 1864 and the Civil War is dragging on in its last bloody, agonizing months. In the West, Indian uprisings have turned the Colorado Territory into a crimson nightmare. Colonel Kurt Marlin, a brilliant West Point cavalryman, is dispatched by President Lincoln as a special undercover agent to investigate a rumor that the Indian raids are in fact part of a Rebel conspiracy to win the West over to the Confederacy and win the war. His assignment is to put an end to the insurrection and the persons responsible. When Marlin arrives in Julesburg, Colorado, posing as a trouble shooter for the Overland Stage Line, he finds enough low life, greed, and chicanery to supply him with a number of possible culprits. Thousands of lives are hanging in the balance of Marlin’s dangerous mission—including his own
Prairie Empire. Lauran Paine. Seward City was in roughshod, chaotic Dakota Territory. The day he arrived by stage, Jud Parker looked impressive, physically a big man, dressed in the best clothing with a tall silk hat. Despite appearances, however, in his pocket he had less than $100. Renting a dingy room for $10 a week seemed like a fortune to Jud. Yet there was a restlessness here that Jud had noticed imbued the entire countryside. Everyone had something to do, some place to go, some means of making money. Banker Heber Caldwell had accumulated the most money and lived in a house that had cost $100,000. Jud knew that nothing compared to the mansions he had seen back East, but the Caldwell home was what he wanted for himself, and using his ingenuity and his physical prowess he intended to have it.
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Robert J. Horton –

W. Originally published in 1924. After a long train ride from Connecticut, Hope Farman was on the last leg of her journey to her Uncle Nate’s Rancho del Encanto. Bouncing along in the buckboard driven by Jim Crossley, one of her uncle’s hired hands, Hope is full of questions about the place where she plans to spend the summer. But anticipation turns to fear as they find themselves in the path of stampeding cattle. Jim’s attempt to get them to safety seems to working until Hope is thrown from the buckboard. She is rescued by Channing, a somewhat mysterious man who was born in the desert, has lived there ever since, and knows its secrets. After seeing her safely to her uncle’s ranch, Channing leaves her with these parting words, “If you should get into a mess, and you probably will, and need a friend, remember my name.”
It turns out that the stampede was started by Brood, the foreman at Rancho del Encanto. When Nate fires him, Brood swears to return — which he does presently with an offer to buy the ranch. He has a gang with him and the offer comes from Mendicott, a notorious outlaw in the region. When Nate rejects the offer, Brood and his gang boldly kidnap Hope and deliver her to Mendicott, who hopes to use her to convince Nate to sell the Ranch. Hope is in a mess and Channing’s words come back to her when he shows up at the outlaw hideout. Is he there to rescue her or is he part of the gang?
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Lee E. Wells –

(Western). Lawrence E. Crane, troubleshooter for the Chicago & Far Western Railroad, rode into Warbow prepared for the worst. Crane found the town on the brink of violence. A troop of cavalry stationed there refused to heed the local lawman and there were clashes between soldiers and civilians. Tempers were further strained by a recent rash of rustling which threatened to ruin the local ranchers. When the rustlers’ trail led Crane to the soldiers’ camp, Crane was in the position of being the spark that threatened to explode Warbow right off the map..
Snow Hunters. Paul Yoon. The extraordinary journey of Yohan, who defects from his country at the end of the North Korean war, leaving his friends and family behind to seek a new life in a port town on the coast of Brazil. Yoon proves that love can dissolve loneliness; that hope can wipe away despair; and that a man who has lost a country can find a new home. This is a heartrending story of second chances, told with unerring elegance and absolute tenderness.
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Charles Todd –

(Inspector Ian Rutledge #16).  A dangerous case with ties leading back to the battlefields of World War I dredges up dark memories for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, a gripping and atmospheric historical mystery set in 1920s England. A society wedding at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire becomes a crime scene when a man is murdered. After another body is found, the baffled local constabulary turns to Scotland Yard. Though the second crime had a witness, her description of the killer is so strange it’s unbelievable.
Despite his experience, Inspector Ian Rutledge has few answers of his own. Nothing logically seems to connect them—except the killer. As the investigation widens, a clear suspect emerges. But for Rutledge, the facts still don’t add up, leaving him to question his own judgment.
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RaeAnne Thayne

(Hope’s Crossing #5). Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine knows temptation. To reboot her life, shed weight and gain perspective, she’s passing up sweet enticements left and right. But willpower doesn’t come so easily when hell-raiser Spencer Gregory comes back to Hope’s Crossing, bringing with him memories of broken promises and teen angst. A retired pro baseball player on the mend from injury and a damaging scandal, he’s interested in his own brand of reinvention.
Now everything about Spencer’s new-and-improved lifestyle, from his mission to build a rehab facility for injured veterans to his clear devotion to his preteen daughter, Peyton, touches Charlotte’s heart. Holding on to past hurt is her only protection against falling for him again. But if she takes the risk, will she find in Spencer a hometown heartbreaker, or the hero she’s always wanted?
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R.W. Stone –

(Western).  The Don is planning a horse drive to California where his brother-in-law has a ranch. Owen knows those trails and hopes the Don might be in need of a guide. Arriving at the Don’s ranch, he impresses the Don and his daughter, Rosa Maria. However, the ramrod, Chavez, who is suspicious of gringos in general and also guards Rosa Maria jealously, is not impressed. Despite Chavez’s mistrust, Owen is hired as a guide for the drive.
While scouting ahead on the drive, Owen is ambushed and left for dead. His attacker then leads a band of rustlers who drive off the horses. Because the leader resembles Owen and is riding his horse, Chavez believes the leader is Owen and vows to get even with him for leading them into a trap. With Chavez and his vaqueros pursuing him, Owen sets out to find the thieves, recover the horses, and clear his name. But first, he needs a horse.
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