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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Nicki Pearl is the perfect daughter--every parent's dream. And that of strangers, too. Wherever she goes, she's being watched. Each stalker is different from the last, except for one thing--their alarming obsession with Nicki. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Nicki's father is turning to someone who can protect her: retired private detective and ex-Navy SEAL Jon Lancaster. Teaming up with FBI agent and former abduction victim Beth...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Amy Dowell had always considered herself a very good mother. But when she loses her husband to illness and her home to debt, she finds herself and her young daughter Kimberly living on the streets as she struggles to find a job that will get them back on their feet again. When Amy meets Lucy Watts, the pastor in charge of the church program that fed Amy and Kimberly their latest meal, Lucy sets them up in temporary housing and gives her a lead on...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Inheriting her great-uncle Louis's bayside souvenir shop should have been a breeze for Glory. Instead it's been one headache after another--with a lot of them generated by Bluebeard, a parrot with a mouth like a sailor and a personality a lot like her late great-uncle. But Glory's troubles pale in comparison to those of her best friend Karen, whose ex may still have the personalized key chain to her heart, but whose brother-in-law is about to get...
644) Up in flames
Author
Series
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"They were the band who had it all--fame, critical acclaim, riches, talent. On the night Blue Heron's handsome, troubled drummer, Keith Duncan, dies in a mysterious fire, all of that begins to unravel. So does the marriage between bandmates Jordan and Kathy Treveryan. Ten years later, Kathy has a satisfying life away from the spotlight, one she's reluctant to jeopardize for a one-off charity benefit. But Jordan wants the band to reunite at his Florida...
645) Sugar cage
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
This first novel explores the stickily enduring bonds of love. Nine characters speak in alternating chapters: a reluctant psychic; a selfish, philandering husband; a sensitive, eccentric one; a finicky undertaker; a young soldier; an unhappy little girl; a Haitian migrant; and two widows, one merry, one grief stricken. This unlikely cast inhabits a narrative spanning 30 years. Some, like Soleil Marie, a sugarcane laborer, or Inez, who can't avoid...
646) Barefoot in the sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Caught between fight and flight, Zoe Tamarin has always picked flight. Since she was rescued from a nightmare childhood by her great-aunt Pasha, they've been on the move, never staying in one place long enough to risk exposing their precarious past. But now that they've reached the sun-baked shores of Barefoot Bay, Zoe may have to stay and fight--for her aunt's life...and for a love she ran from years before. Oliver Bradbury came to Florida to start...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After a long career as a police officer, Moira hopes a move to a luxury retirement community will mean she can finally leave the detective work to the youngsters and focus on a quieter life. But it turns out The Homestead is far from paradise. When she discovers the body of a young woman floating in one of the pools, surrounded by thousands of dollar bills, her crime-fighting instinct kicks back in and she joins up with fellow ex-cops--and new neighbours--Philip,...
648) Hard aground
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
From James W. Hall, best-selling author of Bones of Coral, comes a haunting new novel that sizzles with greed, lust, and murder, as it brilliantly evokes the secrets, betrayals, and family legacies that can either destroy or redeem. Set in the crime-ridden waters of southern Florida, Hard Aground tells the story of Hap Tyler. A tour guide and part-time sailboard builder, Hap is a man without direction, adrift in the teeming sea of life - until his...
649) A land remembered
Author
Publisher
Pineapple Press
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in the Florida wilderness to start a new life with his wife and infant son, and ends two generations later in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that...
650) Deadly waters
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Florida journalism undergrad Rebecca Sorley is like any other college student. She tries to keep up with her studies, her friends, and her hot-tempered roommate, Ellie, who regularly courts trouble with the law. When a male student's remains are found in alligator-infested waters, the university warns students to stay away from the reptiles. But then a second body shows up, and the link is undeniable. Both men belonged to the same fraternity and...
651) Fool's moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Aphelia and Brandon are magical, psychic tarot cats who live with the owners of a new age shop in south Florida. Their tenderhearted human, Ruby Sparks, finds the shop--a nd her growing menagerie of mystically inclined pets-- a challenge. When a customer wants Ruby to divine the truth about the murder, it's up to the cats-- and a feisty pitbull friend-- to collar the culprit... before Ruby takes her final cat nap! -- adapted from back cover
"Most...
652) Mercenary in love: 2
Author
Publisher
Good2Go Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Mercenary Sean Carter has quickly gained the trust of his new boss, the infamous Luther Simmons, and become an integral part of his team. However, Sean finds it hard to keep up the act of loyal employee while watching his undercover FBI agent girlfriend, Mia, and Luther--who thinks Mia is his girlfriend, Tiffany--getting hot and heavy. At the same time, Mia has to endure as Sean and her own friend, Jennifer, getting closer as Jennifer and Sean pretend...
653) Still waters
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Island by Heather Graham : Reclusive collector Cutter Merlin is seldom seen in Key West - lately, not at all. Officer Liam Beckett visits Merlin's curious house and discovers the gentleman in his study. In his death grip: a volume of occult lore and a reliquary. His eyes are wide with fright, his mouth a horrified rictus where spiders now dwell. Kelsey Donovan returns to the old house to catalog her estranged grandfather's collection, and cannot...
654) When we were young
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Three generations of women come together in this page-turning debut full of family secrets, heart-wrenching drama, and the promise of second chances. Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger-of far greater threat is the opposing needs of her heart and her people. Tradition demands that Sarah marry a Jewish man. Only Sarah has fallen in love with a fisherman outside their community. And when the Nazis invade, Sarah...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Una banda de ladrones consigue robar algo que, pese a no tener precio, está asegurado en veinticinco millones de dólares: los cinco manuscritos originales de las novelas de Francis Scott Fitzgerald, que hasta hacía poco yacían en una cámara acorazada bajo la biblioteca de la Universidad de Princeton. Un botín imposible de resistir. Bruce Cable regenta una prestigiosa librería en la ciudad de verano de Santa Rosa, en Camino Island. No obstante,...
656) Angel of mercy
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Angel of mercy: Brad McKenna is a DEA agent running from lethal enemies, each painful step drawing him deeper into the tangled Everglades. But he can't run forever, and when he is shot and left for dead, the last thing he expects is to wake up facing a silver-eyed angel. Wendy Hawk is no angel, but when she finds Brad wounded and unconscious, she acts instinctively to save him. Wendy is cautious by nature, and her reclusive existence is rocked by...
657) Mercenary in love
Author
Publisher
Good2Go Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sean Carter was born in Miami but raised most of his life in Jacksonville, Florida, after his mother decided to relocate. He ends up getting into a fight with a young crew of boys in the new neighborhood, but is rescued by an older white man who later befriends him. Sean gets to know the white man and finds out that not only is he Russian, but also he is an ex-Russian mercenary. He then learns how to defend himself, as well as the ways and laws of...
658) Barefoot at midnight
Author
Series
Publisher
South Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Lawson Monroe is a chef without a restaurant ... but his friend and mentor makes a deathbed promise to leave Law the only dive bar on Mimosa Key. Law has big plans for the place, until he walks directly into the luscious body and gorgeous face of Libby Chesterfield and her outrageous claim that the Toasted Pelican should come to her. When Libby learned that the man who once owned the crappiest watering hole on the island was actually her biological...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Journey with the bestselling Brunstetter authors to the unique tropical Amish community in Sarasota, Florida, along with four young sisters originally from Indiana. The Seashell Cake by Wanda E. Brunstetter Leora Lambright is the first to leave home, seeking a warmer climate for health reasons. While on a winter holiday, roofer John Miller meets Leora in the bakery where she is enjoying expressing herself through cake decorating. They are instantly...
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