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1) The trap
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One year ago, Lucy's sister, Nicki, left to meet friends at a pub in Dublin and never came home. The third Irish woman to vanish inexplicably in as many years, the agony of not knowing what happened that night has turned Lucy's life into a waking nightmare. So, she's going to take matters into her own hands. Angela works as a civilian paper-pusher in the Missing Persons Unit, but wants nothing more than to be a fully fledged member of An Garda Saiochaana,...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sister’s fate as a teen: kidnapped, trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. With no evidence to go on but a few scattered memories, the case quickly goes cold. Now an adult, Iris wants one thing—proof. And if the police still won’t help, she’ll just have to find it her own way; by interning at the isolated Shoal Island Hospital for the criminally insane, where secrets lurk...
3) Hard girls
Author
Series
Jane and Lila Pool volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating mother-in-law,) and a quiet-if-unfulfilling administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents’ secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life. When her estranged twin, Lila, makes contact, claiming to know where their mother...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style twenty years old, living and working...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A fact-checker for a popular magazine, Gabby DiMarco, takes a DNA test and discovers she has a sister in Puerto Rico who has been desperately trying to find her for 25 years, despite her parents saying it is impossible.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning...
Author
Series
Hudson sibling solutions volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Palmer Hudson is considered the bad boy of the family. But he never allows his roving eye to wander in Louisa O'Brien's direction. Because his sister's best friend is off-limits. Then Louisa begs Palmer to secretly investigate her hidden past, and their search triggers a series of attacks. How can Palmer unearth the truth and protect Louisa, while keeping his desire for her under control.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Andrea Rodriguez has had a tough life. She tells her story, starting with the moment her mother tries to escape their company town by very nearly driving Andrea's dad's car off a cliff. Luis moved his family to the small town of Woronoco, Massachusetts, following the 1950s promise of prosperity. At that time and in that place, Mr. Rodriguez's pursuit of the American dream signifies an alienating pesadilla (nightmare) for Mrs. Rodriguez, making her...
Author
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Phoebe is a volunteer nurse at a Base Hospital in Étaples, France, treating men who’ve served on hte Western Front. Their courage and resilience inspires her, and though she’s meant to keep her distance, Captain Archie Bailey soon captivates her heart. Her younger sister Celia is a nurse at a POW camp on the island of Jersey. These men fight for the forces that bombed her brother and parents, but long hours spent healing them shows her they aren’t...
Author
Series
Westward chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The plan seemed simple enough. But Jillian Danvers soon finds that assuming the identity of her identical twin sister is anything but easy. Not only are her attempts to perform her sister's job routines amid the strict regulations of the Harvey House feeble at best--she also must fend off her mother's well-meaning attempts at matchmaking. Inadvertently stumbling upon her secret, Dr. MacCallister is drawn to Jillian and her sweet innocence. When he...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Light and dark--this is the destiny placed upon Natasha and Clara, the birthright bestowed by their godfather, the mysterious sorcerer Drosselmeyer. Clara, the favorite, grows into beauty and ease, while Natasha is cursed to live in her sister's shadow.But one fateful Christmas Eve, Natasha gets her chance at revenge. For Drosselmeyer has brought the Nutcracker, an enchanted present that offers entry into a deceptively beautiful world: the Kingdom...
Author
Series
Walker Beach volume 4
Publisher
Blue Aster Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Shannon Baker likes the one man she can't have. To be fair, the day she meets her sister's boyfriend on the California beach, she thinks he's a tourist--a really charming tourist who understands more of her heart than people she?' known her whole life. But Marshall has a secret. He's actually single. He's only pretending to date Shannon's sister--his co-worker--because her ex dumped her hours before a family reunion. In return, she's promised to recommend...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eddie Grant is happy with her life and her work as a personal assistant to Dinah Lavender, one of the most famous and renowned romance authors in the business. But being a spectator to notoriety and glamour isn't as fulfilling as she once thought. Thankfully, Eddie has the perfect excuse for a vacation: Her hardworking younger sister, Barrett, is opening her gift shop on Memorial Day weekend, and could use all the help she can get. But going home...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she had been forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
Author
Series
(Anthony M.)Patterson Blake thriller volume 5
Publisher
West Street
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After following her missing sister's trail from Oklahoma City to Dallas, and then on to Amarillo, Patterson Blake finds herself in Santa Fe looking for a man who might hold the key to unraveling the mystery of Julie's disappearance. But instead, she uncovers a sixteen year old cold case murder that might provide an answer no one wants to hear. To make things worse, previous events are coming back to haunt her in the form of a man who wants revenge,...
16) A fatal groove
Author
Series
Record shop mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's springtime in Cedar River, Texas. The annual Bluebonnet Festival is brewing and the whole town is in harmony. Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie thought opening Sip & Spin Records was going to be their biggest hurdle, but the Frappuccino hits the fan when the mayor drops dead--poisoned by their delicious coffee. Since Tansy was the one to brew the coffee, and Juni was the unfortunate citizen who stumbled upon the mayor's body, the sisters...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos. That ruthless act of sabotage is the opening salvo in a battle between the man and woman who own Mockbeggar's largest mercantile firms, each fighting for the scarce resources of the north Atlantic fishery, each seeking...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall--until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes comic,...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As bombs fall across Europe, fourteen-year-old Lien Vinke fears that the reality of war is inescapable. Though she lives a quiet life with her mother and older sister, Elif, in their small town of Haarlem, they are no strangers to heartache, having recently suffered an immeasurable loss. And when the Nazis invade the Netherlands, joining the Dutch resistance with Elif offers just the atonement Lien craves. Trained to shoot by their late father, the...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Dahlia Weathersby's sister disappears on what should have been a simple day hike, Dahlia immediately heads deep into the Colorado Rockies to find her. Knowing she'll never survive the mountains alone, she convinces the local hermit--adorably grouchy survival expert Winston Dane--to be her guide. All it takes is a good helping of Dahlia's charm...and just the teeniest bit of blackmail...before she's got all six-foot-something of him wrapped around...
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