October 7th, 2022 by Melanie3101

Edited in July 2021, this gripping story is full of twists and turns.

You paid the price for wanting what you couldn’t have. Now DNA tests threaten to expose what you spent a lifetime hiding…

As an ambitious young woman in the years following the Second World War, Barbara made some hard choices, decisions changing everything that came after. She had to fight for what she wanted; then the stakes got so much higher.

A continent away, and decades later, Barbara’s daughter hires genealogist Karen Copperfield to make sense of the family’s DNA tests. Nothing about the results ties in with what Barbara’s children believed, and the shock is tearing the family apart. Barbara seems to prefer death to revealing the truth, and Karen soon discovers there is more than one secret she intends to take to her grave.

But when threats start to come from both sides of the Atlantic, it soon becomes clear that Barbara is not the only person who wants the past to stay that way.

DNA Never Lies is the first in a series of novels featuring Karen Copperfield, investigative genealogist. Karen helps people make sense of sometimes dark family secrets revealed by DNA tests as they ask: ‘what happens when nothing you believed is true?’

DNA Never Lies – Sue George

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October 7th, 2022 by Melanie3101

Edited in July 2021, this is the second in this steamy romance series.

When Colleen visits her sister, Nora, in London, she expects her to be living the high life; just one mad social whirl is how she pictures it.

Instead, she finds Nora sick and living in squalor in a cold and damp flat. And who is the man they call Maggot and what does he want with her sister?

Adam Turner, CEO of Meredith Motors is the best man for his friend, Jeremy, and as such arranges his stag night. Adam has plans for a civilised, pleasant evening with none of the normal high jinks such as schoolboy pranks, drunken antics and definitely no naked women.

Life doesn’t always give you what you want but can often give you what you need.

It all starts with a cardboard box…

Touch Me Again – Jax Burrows

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October 7th, 2022 by Melanie3101

Edited in July 2021, this is the first in the series.

 

A fallen aristocratic teenager is forced to live on the violent streets of Tudor London. Facing betrayal, famine, freezing weather, and the vicious street gangs that terrorise the city, John Howard faces the fight of his life in order to survive and prove his innocence.

England, 1536. As the son of a rich earl, hardship is something sixteen-year-old John Howard has never known. But his privileged life descends into chaos when his vindictive stepparent accuses him of poisoning her older child. And when his father declares him guilty and prepares to banish him to France, John flees his punishment into the capital’s cutthroat alleyways.

With his fortunes turned, the now disgraced aristocrat spends his time dodging brutal gangs and evading execution in the shadows with a lowly group of exiled misfits. But the runaway young man must rise up from his dark existence to lead an attack for vengeance when two of his friends are hunted down and murdered.

Can this exiled noble save his outlawed crew from a cruel death among the cobblestones?

John Howard and the Underlings – J.C. Jarvis

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October 6th, 2022 by Melanie3101

Edited in July 2021, this is the second in the Imperfect Shifter series.

 

There’s only one problem with running away from your past – it has a nasty habit of catching up with you……

Lizzy Elliott is determined to lead a quiet life, away from all that she’s ever known because her past tried to destroy her. Barely recovered, she’s finding it more difficult to stay on the path she’s chosen, especially when tiger shifter Charlie comes to the village she’s hiding out in. She’s drawn to him but needs to remember how cruel shifters can be. She can’t afford to forget that, no matter how strong the attraction.

Charlie Harker is a Navy SEAL, returned from the type of duty a tiger shifter was a useful asset. Unfortunately, his scars are not easily healed by his shifter ability, some scars go too deep. He is forced to live life without relationships for fear that if his beast strikes out he could kill. Lonely he might be, but this way he is safe.

A quiet English country village should be the perfect place for two people to heal and recover, but sometimes trouble comes looking no matter how hard you try to hide.

Taming the Beast is the second book in the thrilling Tiger Shifter Trilogy. If you like twisty mysteries, gorgeous men and smart, compassionate heroines, then you’ll love Amelia Hopegood’s shifter series.

Taming the Beast – Amelia Hopegood

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October 6th, 2022 by Melanie3101

Edited in April 2021, this is the second in the Oz Garrett series.

 

Oz Garrett thought his past defined him … He’s about to discover he was wrong!

In the 25th century,1,000 gigantic Project Exodus Arks, with 1,000,000 humans in cryo-stasis, departed Earth. Each carried the last hopes of a dying world. Their destination was the Stellar Cluster. Less than 800 arks completed the two-hundred-year journey. No one discovered what happened to those that disappeared. Until…

Two millennia later, a grieving and jaded Oz Garrett stumbles upon Britannic, the final Ark to leave Earth, tumbling out of control on the very edge of the Stellar Cluster. Within the derelict behemoth lurks a secret that will shock him to his core and a precious cargo that will alter his life forever.

Not everyone is thrilled by the reminder of humanity’s dark past. Federation President D’Angelo knows her political opponents are circling. If they discover Britannic, her plans to create a legacy for her children will be gone. Britannic must be destroyed.

Garrett finds himself in a battle to save Britannic. Outgunned, outnumbered and outflanked, can he outsmart the president’s elite squad hunting him down before they complete their mission?

Yesterday’s Tomorrow is the second instalment in Paul Rix’s Oz Garrett series, a military sci-fi space opera. If you like Rick Partlow, Jasper T Scott and Marko Kloos then you’ll love a series that combines all of their best traits in a fast-paced, thrilling intergalactic adventure.

 

Yesterday’s Tomorrow – Paul Rix

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