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Stalked by Mia Jones

Moving to this town was way more than Kiera bargained for. Meeting Daniel is earth-shattering and exciting. He is someone she can see having a future with. But along with Daniel's attraction, which fuels her desires, she also attracts someone who is out to terrify and destroy her sanity.

 

Keira starts to figure something is wrong when things in her house get misplaced and then go missing altogether. Soon after, bruised and beaten, she barely breaks away from the person out to destroy her. But how could she have caused someone to become this angry and filled with hatred toward her when she only moved to town a short time ago?

 

Can she find the courage to trust others to help her? Will the past prevent her from asking for the desperately needed support she needs, or will she deny there's a problem, ultimately causing her downfall?

 

Daniel is on a mission to help this woman, and as a security specialist and an ex-cop, he knows a thing or two about how to deal with the harsher side of life. His attraction to Keira is immediate and quickly grows. His rapidly intensifying desire should scare him, but it just gives him more resolve to keep and protect her.

 

As they spend more time together, he starts to suspect something is very wrong with Keira and wonders why she hasn't confided in him. When he finds out she's being stalked, he's determined to help her even though she fights it, but will it be too late?

 

02

My Kid Is an Asshole, and So Is My Dog by Diana Stefano

My Kid Is an Asshole, and So Is My Dog -- a comedic look at the drama of raising a teenage girl I just returned from the mall after school shopping with my soon-to-be sophomore and her friend. I now understand why fathers opt to go camping, roll around in elk urine, and shit in a hole rather than go to the mall three days before school starts. As if the crowds weren’t bad enough, my girl decided to wear a flannel that hung lower than her shorts, making it appear that she was walking around naked from the waist down. She was flocked by sales people, who, I am sure, were calculating their commissions in their heads. I mean, why not? Everybody wants to help the girl who arrives pant-less. Obviously, she needs clothes. We’re not home half an hour and the vodka I poured for myself is only half gone when she yells down from her room, “Mom, have you seen my push up bra? Maybe we need to go back to the mall.” It’s the moments like these where I’m convinced raising a teen is bullshit, and I wonder if we’ll ever come out on the other side even speaking to one another. Pass the vodka. There aren’t enough warnings in the world for raising teenage girls. Although my mom swears my daughter takes after me, so it’s karma. Is it karma that I’ve got two barking dogs? It must be. Have you ever heard a shiu-tzu bark? I have. Over and over. They think they’re coyotes. I swear. And right now, they’re wrestling over some stuffed animal, which is surely about to fling open, so I can pick up little beads all over the carpet while drinking my vodka. No wait. They stopped. One of them had to drag its ass across the floor. Epic. It’s in the little moments where I earn my parenting badges—the faded stretch marks. Ruff, ruff! If this is my karma for being such an asshole to my mom, maybe we can get through this too. And if she pays attention in English, instead of scouting for a prom date, she can learn to write her own book—the sequel to this: My Mom Is an Asshole, but Not My Dog.

 

03

Summer Storm  (Southern Charm Series Book 1) by ML Preston 

A Georgia journalist is in the middle of a Texas drought, what's the worse that could happen? Follow this short story about how Nicole Wilson's version of Murphy's Law ends with thunder, lightning, and a man named Brian.

 

04

The Witches of Dark Hollow Ridge by Rena Marin

Growing up a witch can be fun. Learning spells, making potions, and discussing the future is all part of that fun for Sadie and her friends Daria, Naomi, and Willa—that is, until tragedy strikes the little town of Dark Hollow Ridge. Sadie’s aunt, Vivian, is found murdered. Determined to find out what happened to their mentor and friend, the girls find themselves caught up in a world of secrets and lies, all revolving around the coven they are soon to join and its intimidating leader, Cleo. While their worlds seem to be unraveling, a revelation involving Dorian, a boy from their pasts, leaves them with more on their plates than they can handle. Now the girls must choose who they can trust while trying to piece together the clues to Vivian’s murder, all while the threat of war looms over their heads. Will they join a coven they can’t trust, or will they stand on their own as The Witches of Dark Hollow Ridge?

 

05

Hale by K. Webster 

He’s my everything.
I would die without him.

Because he infects me.
My brother.
He’s inside my mind.
My thoughts are black and bruised.
Twisted and wrong.
A secret that eats me alive, but one I’ll take to my grave.

And then it happens.
He sees inside me.
Understands the darkness.
Loves what he finds.

I’m contagious.

It’s true.
Now, he’s sick too.

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