High Heels in the Laundry Room is about believing in yourself and learning to trust your instincts. Michelle Cully's courageous story is a must-read for anyone with a wild dream, and who dares to hope a better life is possible.

"This is what really happened… reported by a free press, to a free people…" When Julia Bancroft discovers that her gorgeous, irresistible editor, Wes, is actually her boss and the secret owner of The Golden Mail, she's furious. As a respected journalist at the paper, it's Julia's job to uncover secrets. But this secret is a betrayal after the hot, steamy nights she's shared with him. Julia knows she's in danger of losing her heart to him, and she's caught between the agonizing betrayal and the attraction she still feels. If she tells him that she knows the truth she could lose him forever, but keeping his secret could cost her the career she's worked so hard to build. Wes Shaw has never worked with a woman as infuriating, exciting, and tempting as Julia. He thought he had finally knocked down the wall around her heart, but now he can feel Julia pulling away from him. When they go undercover as husband and wife to take down a notorious drug smuggler, Wes knows he has the chance to win her back. Pretending to be happily married is a challenge he's more than ready to accept. All Wes and Julia have to do is make it through this dangerous assignment without killing each other first. The Golden Mail Series Hot Off the Press – Book 1 Extra! Extra! – Book 2 Read All About It – Book 3 Stop the Press – Book 4 Breaking News – Book 5 This Just In – Book 6 SEARCH TERMS: contemporary romance, new adult, romance, hot doctors, famous actor, true l, billionaire obsession, contemporary romance and sex, romance billionaire series, free kindle romance, melody anne billionaire bachelors series, billionaire romance, true love, coming of age, overcoming, women's fiction, drugs, fake girlfriend, billionaire, Alpha male romance, Alpha Bad Boy, bad boy, hot romance, hot and steamy, happily ever after, billionaire romance, billionaire romance, new, bbw, FICTION / Romance, suspense, romantic suspense, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Romance / New Adult FICTION / Romance / Romantic Comedy F, action romance, action adventure romance, Action & Adventure Romance Fiction

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling series! It's springtime in California! The flowers are in bloom, the fashion week runways are fierce, and fans of America's favorite pastime are filling the baseball stadiums to root for their favorite team. But when the girlfriend of the L.A. Stars rookie MVP winds up dead at a chic Beverly Hills salon, it's suddenly up to fashion designer Maddie Springer to track down the "Tanning Salon Killer." Armed with the help of her wacky cast of friends and family, Maddie finds herself with a list of suspects that includes the cast of the reality TV show Baseball Wives, a desperate blackmail victim, and an entire baseball team! If Maddie can brave the hot dogs and cat fights, she just might be able to catch a killer...before he strikes again! Other Books in the High Heels Series: #1 Spying in High Heels #2 Killer in High Heels #3 Undercover in High Heels #3.5 Christmas in High Heels (short story) #4 Alibi in High Heels #5 Mayhem in High Heels #5.5 Honeymoon in High Heels (short story) #5.75 Sweetheart in High Heels (novella) #6 Fearless in High Heels #7 Danger in High Heels #8 Homicide in High Heels #9 Deadly in High Heels What critics are saying about The High Heels Mysteries: "A saucy combination of romance and suspense that is simply irresistible." - Chicago Tribune "Stylish... nonstop action...guaranteed to keep chick lit and mystery fans happy!" - Publishers’ Weekly, starred review "Smart, funny and snappy…the perfect beach read!" - Fresh Fiction "A roller coaster ride full of fun and excitement!" - Romance Reviews Today "Gemma Halliday writes like a seasoned author leaving the reader hanging on to every word, every clue, every delicious scene of the book. It’s a fun and intriguing mystery full of laughs and suspense." - Once Upon A Romance

I'm Lily, a New York newspaper columnist, mother of two, divorcee of one and partner in crime to Michael, English professor, novelist and best friend extraordinaire. We've been friends forever -- well, since I nearly burned down our apartment building while trying to cook. Michael and I have weathered disco, bad fashion, bad perms, bad boyfriends -- for both of us -- my failed marriage, parenthood and writer's block.ÿ Laughter has helped -- and so have the martinis.ÿ But now we face our biggest challenge: the C word. And if I have my way, Michael will be giving up his freewheeling bachelor ways and settling down once and for all. Because I have some very specific wishes for who should take over parental duty when I'm gone. Of course, I refuse to take this lying down -- even when the doctors tell me to lie down and shut up. Because although I'm sick, I'm determined to wear my high heels and lipstick. I'm gonna look good or die trying, dammit.

Offering gentle tools and strategies, Conners supports women's decisions to personally care for their children with compelling new research on childcare and its potentially negative effects on young children.

This anthology brings together twenty-seven authors from a wide range of experiences that offer new perspectives on the Iranian American story. Altogether, the narratives capture the diversity of the Iranian diaspora and complicate the often-narrow view of Iranian culture represented in the media. The stories and novel excerpts explore the deeply human experiences of one of the newest immigrant groups to the United States in its attempts to adjust and assimilate in the face of major historical upheavals.

Have you ever had a dream but needed the courage to take that first step? Discover how God worked through one womans talents to turn her dreams into reality. Life has often been a series of hurdles and obstacles for Brenda Scott that could only be overcome with her unwavering faith and constant determination for continuous improvement. This self-taught artist found her way through many art mediums with no formal training but was instead empowered by many strong, creative women along the way. Learn lessons of humility, gratitude, patience, and forgiveness as she takes us on a journey of her lifetime path of art and creativity. Discover how her goal to become a successful artist led to the biggest project of her life: renovating her old country Victorian home. It became a major undertaking that would test both her spirit and her resolve to see the process through to the very end. Savoring country life while taking on the challenges of that renovation taught her the beauty to be found in the ordinary, everyday life all around her on the acreage. Through this endeavor she began to realize that she was on a course that would determine who she was as an artist and that the real restoration project was within herself.

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds. Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house; for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life. A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them. Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Eerily plausible,” they said. “Too close to reality...” Originally published six years before the real 2019 coronavirus outbreak, The ChinaPandemic is USA Today best-selling author A.R. Shaw’s strikingly foreboding post-apocalyptic thriller novel, which plunges readers into an all-too-realistic alternate history doomsday event that occurs after a weaponized super-virus is unleashed from a lab in China and wipes out most of the world’s population. To limit exposure to infected victims of the virus, a kind and empathetic Seattle math professor with limited survival skills escapes deep into the forests of northern Washington State. In his last words to an infected and fading man, Graham promises his dad that he will forego his thoughts of giving up and try to survive, despite the hopelessness and despair that surrounds him. From Graham’s rustic family cabin in the woods, he starts drawing strong and determined survivors to him – an orphaned 4-year-old Korean American boy, a strong Native American woman named Tala, an elderly African American retired police officer with a gift for understanding people… and a group of gritty survivalists without immunity to the killer virus. The China Pandemic is the epic first volume of the imaginative and immersive ‘Graham’s Resolution’ apocalypse survival series, which features a terrifying virus pandemic, compelling and diverse and complex characters, and a powerful battle of good vs evil in a dystopian world of desperation and corruption. "This is a story of hope when humanity is at its worst. Post-apocalyptic fiction at its best!" – Amazon Review Page Up and Order Now. Get the first 4 books in the Graham's Resolution series in one Box Set! Includes: The China Pandemic (Published in 2013) The Cascade Preppers The Last Infidels The Malefic Nation Does not include: Book 5 - The Bitter Earth Book 6 - The Wild West Book 7 - The Long Goodbye