ZOEYThoughts on Treasured by the Hunter: It's Harb'k's turn to find his special someone and she's a nomad on the run trying to make her way to a notoriously unfriendly-to-aliens outpost. Which is problematic for Harb'k since he, you know, is an alien.
Years after the end of the world, my life is falling apart again. This time, I know exactly how to survive in the bugpocalypse. What I don’t know is what to do with the brawny purple alien following me around.
Harb’k isn’t just big and strong, with a protective streak a mile wide, but he’s funny as hell too. I agree to partner up with him at least until I get to my destination, a settlement called Sanctuary. But before we get there, we come across something that could make or break humanity’s future.
Will we be able to contain the threat? Even if we do, will Harb’k still want me if he finds out my secret?
HARB’K
Almost every hunter in my group found his mate but me. Desperate to get away from all the love in the air, I volunteer to scour the region for signs that the scourge—the abominations that brought us to Earth—are evolving. Instead, I discover a lone female navigating the ravaged landscape with enemies at her back.
I convince Zoey to travel with me. She doesn’t know it yet, but she is my mate, and the mate bond is never wrong.
I will move planets for her, but first, I must save this one. Can I convince her to love me before a deadly mutagen destroys everything?
Meg Dawson’s world is turned upside down when her Aunt Penny makes a surprise appearance at the Seattle apartment building she once called home. But beneath Penny's visit lies a mystery that could rock the very foundations of the Morrisey community.Thoughts on A Crime in 5C: We're back at the Morrisey with Meg and her gloriously eccentric neighbors and the group is competing (against one another) in a building-wide (and city-wide, for those who make it through the first round eliminations) scavenger hunt. While this all seems fine and dandy on the surface, there are TENSIONS underneath. Not because of the scavenger hunt (which does bring out some extreme competitiveness in certain residents), but because the building itself might be in danger of being sold.
During her visit, Penny breathes new life into the beloved Morrisey Masterpiece Classic, an annual building scavenger hunt. Tensions soar and rivalries ignite among the residents, including Meg and Laurie. But what starts as a friendly competition soon takes a dark turn when apartment 5C is ransacked and a body is discovered. Suddenly, the scavenger hunt transforms into a deadly game of cat and mouse, with Meg and her neighbors unwittingly caught in the crosshairs. As the stakes rise and suspicions mount, they must band together to uncover the truth before it's too late. Only one question Who will emerge unscathed from this twisted tale of intrigue and betrayal.
It’s a crisp autumn in Ripple Creek, and Scottie Ramone is busy baking pumpkin pies for the town’s pie eating contest. Business is great, but her social life is still in tatters. She’s avoiding one man and the other has left town for a very prolonged book tour. She knows definitively which way her heart is leaning, but is it too late?Thoughts on A Pie for a Pie: We're back in Ripple Creek with Scottie and (as you might expect) there has been some crime she needs to deal with. Since this crime is causing a dip in her bakery sales (thanks to the bad guy using her pie as the weapon of choice), Scottie has a VERY personal reason for figuring out who did the deed.
In the meantime, the pie contest ends in disaster when one of the contestants dies right after eating her pie. Scottie is desperate to find the killer and clear her name, but there are many directions to turn, and it seems everyone has a motive. Customers are canceling their holiday orders, and if Scottie doesn’t solve the case soon, her bakery will be ruined.
The whole dying thing sucked, but Frankie isn’t going to dwell. She’s focusing on the positive. She’s alive. Ish. Her family is safe. Her business is booming. She’s even got a boyfriend. Everything is coming up roses in Thunderbolt, Georgia.Thoughts on Midnight Auto Parts: Frankie hasn't had an easy life by any stretch of the imagination (I mean, the home she lived in as a child ATE kiddos who misbehaved, so, you know, YEAH), but things are getting even stickier than they were. Which is saying a lot. But I guess when one of your unknown parents was divine and you're just becoming aware of that AND you died recently that's to be expected.
Until a client decides she needs more time and makes a run for it in her loaner body. Too bad for the client, the last thing Frankie does before a loaner hits the showroom floor is microchip them for this very reason. Finding the runaway soul will be a piece of cake.
Or it would have been if she hadn’t bumped into Carter, who’s working a case that gets tangled up in Frankie’s repo. Missing women. Stolen cars. Alien abductions? The only way to get Frankie out of trouble is to help Carter uncover who’s behind it all. And pray the answer isn’t her client.
Chase Greenleaf made a promise: that he'd always take care of his best friend's widow. And he's kept it in the years since Todd's death. He quit his job as a firefighter, gave Violet a plum job on his peach farm; and plays super-dad to her two kids.Thoughts on Wild Goose Chase: Oh my goodness. Chase and Violet had so much history and baggage they needed to deal with. Chase has been in love with Violet forever and when her husband died under Chase's command he was eaten up with guilt. In fact, the only thing that kept in going was making sure Violet and the kids had everything they needed to keep going.
Nevermind the small matter of being in love with her. Coveting Violet is a shame he'll take to his grave. So he'll be her shoulder to cry on; her cool, quirky boss; her always-there-but-totally platonic friend.
But when Violet tenders her resignation for reasons she won't explain and new revelations come out about the fire that killed Todd, Chase's world is upended. Joining the investigation may help Violet win her battle against Todd’s insurance company but it will trigger Chase’s PTSD.
He’ll stop at nothing to find justice for Todd, but can he stop the woman he loves from leaving? And will he risk everything to tell her the real reason why he can’t let her go?
