Books 12-14
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lavendersparkMy name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States.
When I was a girl, I received a warning: Keep your kisses to yourself.
Twice I ignored it, and twice my heart was utterly, miserably broken. I didn’t need to learn my lesson a third time. Instead, I swore off love forever.
But President Colchester hasn't sworn me off—not by a long shot.
I knew him as Ash, the soldier I once kissed in a circle of broken glass. I haven’t forgotten his broken promises and forbidden desires. But the country knows him as the leader of the free world, all that stands between us and war.
Desperate to have me, Ash sends his best friend Embry to bring me to him. He doesn’t know about the secrets we also keep. Our own tragedies. Our own cravings. The second kiss. Soon, I find myself caught between past and present, pleasure and pain—and the two men who long for each other as much as they long for me. And as war and betrayal press ever closer, we tumble headlong into a passionate love affair that will change the world. This book had so many problems for me. The promise of Camelot, but no magic, just names pulled from the lore. The MMC is awful and his obsession with the FMC is 100% grooming. I *did* like the other male MC and the romance between him and the FMC was good. Overall, I did not like this book.
Needing a change in life, the last thing I wanted to do was solve a murder. When a lawyer approached me regarding inheriting a grand estate in a small town across the ocean, I didn't want to believe him. But then he said my mother's murder needed solving. What was he talking about? The only thing I knew about my mother's death was that it was an accident.
In Provence, where everyone knew everyone, I found myself drawn to the intricacies of the daily lives of the townsfolk, a hidden, abandoned cottage and a stray cat. I knew this wasn't going to be easy, but the more I investigated my mother's murder, the more my life was at stake, until a motorcycle accident had me down on my knees begging for my life – just like my mother's last moments. I enjoyed this one, though it was a bit confusing on some parts. It was an easy read with good characters.
Don't Deny the Dead
A woman, clad only in a white nightgown, is dead - her body discovered on the banks of Black River. Her unsolved murder, and her ghost, still haunt the small town where she lived and died.
Twenty-five years later, Detective Gordon Daniels inherits his estranged grandfather’s home on the property where the body was found. Anxious to sell it, Daniels invites his partner, Detective Aaron Remalla to help him clean it out and enjoy some time off from their high-pressure job. But their getaway is interrupted when a second woman’s body is found on the river, clad in a white nightgown, and they are unwittingly thrown them into an investigation they would prefer to avoid.
Their scrutiny of the nearby town uncovers colorful suspects, including a cranky elderly woman and her entitled grandson, two fortune-telling sisters, a paranormal-investigating sheriff, a drifter with a dubious past, and Daniels’ own grandfather. As strange occurrences, frightening dreams, and spectral encounters stack up, Daniels and Remalla are forced to confront the town’s ghosts and will uncover a sinister secret so shocking that someone is prepared to kill to keep it hidden.
Can the specters of the past help them find a killer before the killer gets to them first? I enjoyed this story. There were a few twists that I didn't fully see coming and the camaraderie between the main characters was good.
When I was a girl, I received a warning: Keep your kisses to yourself.
Twice I ignored it, and twice my heart was utterly, miserably broken. I didn’t need to learn my lesson a third time. Instead, I swore off love forever.
But President Colchester hasn't sworn me off—not by a long shot.
I knew him as Ash, the soldier I once kissed in a circle of broken glass. I haven’t forgotten his broken promises and forbidden desires. But the country knows him as the leader of the free world, all that stands between us and war.
Desperate to have me, Ash sends his best friend Embry to bring me to him. He doesn’t know about the secrets we also keep. Our own tragedies. Our own cravings. The second kiss. Soon, I find myself caught between past and present, pleasure and pain—and the two men who long for each other as much as they long for me. And as war and betrayal press ever closer, we tumble headlong into a passionate love affair that will change the world. This book had so many problems for me. The promise of Camelot, but no magic, just names pulled from the lore. The MMC is awful and his obsession with the FMC is 100% grooming. I *did* like the other male MC and the romance between him and the FMC was good. Overall, I did not like this book.
Needing a change in life, the last thing I wanted to do was solve a murder. When a lawyer approached me regarding inheriting a grand estate in a small town across the ocean, I didn't want to believe him. But then he said my mother's murder needed solving. What was he talking about? The only thing I knew about my mother's death was that it was an accident.
In Provence, where everyone knew everyone, I found myself drawn to the intricacies of the daily lives of the townsfolk, a hidden, abandoned cottage and a stray cat. I knew this wasn't going to be easy, but the more I investigated my mother's murder, the more my life was at stake, until a motorcycle accident had me down on my knees begging for my life – just like my mother's last moments. I enjoyed this one, though it was a bit confusing on some parts. It was an easy read with good characters.
Don't Deny the Dead
A woman, clad only in a white nightgown, is dead - her body discovered on the banks of Black River. Her unsolved murder, and her ghost, still haunt the small town where she lived and died.
Twenty-five years later, Detective Gordon Daniels inherits his estranged grandfather’s home on the property where the body was found. Anxious to sell it, Daniels invites his partner, Detective Aaron Remalla to help him clean it out and enjoy some time off from their high-pressure job. But their getaway is interrupted when a second woman’s body is found on the river, clad in a white nightgown, and they are unwittingly thrown them into an investigation they would prefer to avoid.
Their scrutiny of the nearby town uncovers colorful suspects, including a cranky elderly woman and her entitled grandson, two fortune-telling sisters, a paranormal-investigating sheriff, a drifter with a dubious past, and Daniels’ own grandfather. As strange occurrences, frightening dreams, and spectral encounters stack up, Daniels and Remalla are forced to confront the town’s ghosts and will uncover a sinister secret so shocking that someone is prepared to kill to keep it hidden.
Can the specters of the past help them find a killer before the killer gets to them first? I enjoyed this story. There were a few twists that I didn't fully see coming and the camaraderie between the main characters was good.
