Holiday’s Got You Down? Read Some Great Books

Start your weekend off right with one of today’s Fantastic Finds.

Don’t let the holiday’s wear you down. Snuggle up for a little “me” time with one, or ALL, of the following great books:

A compilation of Award Winning author Bronwen Evans’s, fabulous Regency historical romances. Wicked Wagers trilogy, the complete set. Three notorious rakes, and three determined ladies, collide in this set of three linked Regency romance stories, all based around a series of scandalous dares, wagers, and challenges.

Vigilante detective Emily Stone hunts serial killers and child abductors, covertly and under the law enforcement radar, with her intrinsic skills of criminal profiling and forensic investigation. With Stone’s toughest case yet, the arson serial killer immediately crosses her radar and sends her into the dark territory of a lethal pyromaniac’s mind – to the point of no return.

For fourteen years, street-urchin Paul’s miserable existence has kept him safe from an ancient law that sentences all second-born twins to death. When he learns he is the younger twin of the mentally handicapped Crown Prince who’s in danger of being killed for his disability, he agrees to play the role of the miraculously healed royal heir.

The problem with being reborn from the ashes is, you have to die first. After the loss of his wife and child in a plane crash, former NYC firefighter Sebastian Martin is nearing alcoholic oblivion when his brother offers him a last-chance job opportunity as an insurance fraud investigator. Despite his reservations, he soon discovers he has an instinct for the job. A move to Dallas, where he learns it’s okay to be alive, proves to be his salvation. Investigating fraudulent claims for a dead child and another for a missing husband, in Honduras, leads him to murders, international car thieves, and torture at the hands of a former KGB agent.

An engaging Anglophile mystery romance.

Most good daughters would say they owe their fathers everything. Marisa Peruzzo, Mafia princess, would. She owed him for killing her fiancé. She owed him for destroying her mother. She owed him for chaining her to the ‘family business’. And she owed him for taking away her lifelong friend. Payback’s a bitch.

Sick and alone with her three-year-old daughter at Christmastime, Belle Foster needs help. When her neighbor’s brother gets involved, she welcomes the soft-spoken good-looker into her world. Rescuing her kidnapped daughter isn’t part of the deal, but any man willing to babysit his sister’s menagerie of pets and cares that much about a stranger’s baby is a guy she wants to get to know much better.

Haunted by the death of her soldier husband in Afghanistan, Abby Palmer doesn’t believe in happily ever afters. All she has left in the world is her daughter Rosie, and she will do anything to keep her safe, even if it means fleeing to another country.

Michelle Sandoval’s collection of humorous short pieces are not for those afraid to laugh out loud. Filled with stories, lists, skits, and other raucous pieces, The Archibald Review delivers the funny.

**Pick up a great book today…or grab them all.