Bank Town

She’s looking for a rebound. He’s looking for forever. Unfortunately, they keep looking at each other. Kit Clark made one rule after getting dumped minutes before her vacation: absolutely no moping. Which is why she arrives in the summer retreat of Blitzen Bay determined to find the perfect rebound guy—someone fun, temporary, and hot enough to obliterate her ex from memory. Sounds easy enough. Until she meets Butch Harrison. With his wicked grin, rough-around-the-edges charm, and wet, clingy swim trunks that should really come with a warning label, he’s exactly the kind of man Kit ...

A wedding. A blizzard. A bear on the loose. What could possibly go wrong? Nash Young and Noelle Clark survived a runaway wedding and the well-meaning meddling of townspeople to fall hopelessly in love in the snowy mountain town of Blitzen Bay. Now it’s finally time for their happily ever after. Assuming they can make it to the altar in time. Because between Noelle’s intrusive parents hijacking the wedding plans, a once-in-a-century blizzard barreling toward town, and a very large bear apparently determined to become part of the guest list, their wedding week is turning into a full-blown...

When Maggie Banks arrives to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to the small-town clientele. But with the town on the map as a top literary destination and the tourist society bent on keeping businesses historic, Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat. And in Maggie's world, bookish rules are made to be broken.

He’s a storm rolling through my sunshine life. That broody rancher is almost twice my age and three times as stubborn. But I’m here to save his ranch, not catch feelings for my best friend’s dad. Except the line between business and pleasure gets blurry every time he looks at me. Everett Riggs keeps his grief locked up tighter than the barn at midnight. He grunts. He glares. He smells like leather and rain. I pitch marketing, he pitches resistance, but sparks keep flying across the dusty stables. Then his daughter—my old college roommate—waltzes back and the air goes thick as ...

Some things wash in. Some things stay. June-Bug Patterson has lived in Harlow Cove her whole life, and she has made her peace with that — genuinely, deliberately, without apology. She loves her library, her town, her place in it. She is not waiting for anything. Then a traveling photographer arrives with a letter of introduction, a week's worth of work, and the particular quality of attention that makes a person feel, for the first time in a long time, like they are being looked at clearly. Ellis Crane is leaving Sunday. June-Bug knows this. It doesn't help as much as it should. What the ...

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After years away, Cole returns to the Texas ranch he once called home—and to the man he was never able to forget. Edgar Boone raised him like a son, taught him how to work, how to survive . . . and how to keep his mouth shut. But time has changed things. Cole isn’t a kid anymore, and the tension between them isn’t something either of them can ignore. Out on a stretch of land where no one is watching, boundaries blur, and fresh desire pushes past everything that once kept them in line. In Dad’s Ranch, the past and present collide in a story of temptation, secrets, and the dangerous ...

Survival Guide provides bank directors and bank executives with the tools required to navigate the unique challenges faced by bank board members. Service as a bank director may have been considered an honor in the past - but times have changed. Today, bank directors assume more personal liability and face greater regulatory requirements than other board positions. Strong banks are the lifeblood of a healthy, growing community. When you serve as a bank director you have an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to the economic health of your community by helping local businesses grow and ...

From the author of The Strain comes a tense, psychologically gripping, Hammet award-winning thriller. Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault...

When Caleb first sees Maren standing barefoot on the Beaufort pier—her hair caught in the wind, her canvas turned toward the Cape Lookout Light—he feels something shift inside him. She paints the sea like she’s listening to it, like she understands its secrets. And from the moment the wind carries her name across the water, Caleb knows his life will never be the same. Maren drifts along the Carolina coast searching for light, color, and the pieces of herself she lost long ago. Caleb is steady as the tides, rooted in the waters that raised him. Their worlds collide in a summer of wild ...

A Goodreads Most Anticipated Horror Novel Four unlikely allies in a small town investigate a local teen's disappearance, and what they discover festering at the core of their community is far more sinister and ancient than they could’ve ever imagined. For fans of She is a Haunting, True...

Some cases don’t fall apart… they just don’t line up. When human remains are discovered beneath the quiet grounds of Manteo’s Festival Park, the town is forced to confront a question no one wants to ask: How did this happen without anyone noticing? Special Agent Reece Roy is called in to investigate what appears to be an isolated case—but the deeper she looks, the less it behaves like one. Timelines blur. Small details refuse to settle. And the more she uncovers, the more it feels like something important has already been missed. In a town where everyone knows each other—and ...

When a Manhattan art curator steps off a ferry in Morehead City, she expects a quiet escape — not a cowboy with salt on his boots and the Carolina coast in his blood. Isabella Hart arrives on the Crystal Coast searching for space, clarity, and a breath of air untouched by deadlines and city noise. What she finds instead is Cole Maddox — a rugged, soft‑spoken coastal cowboy whose life is shaped by tides, storms, and the stubborn horses on his family ranch. Their worlds collide on a weathered dock at sunrise, and nothing about the moment feels accidental. As Cole introduces Isabella to ...

I'm a man who knows what he wants and what I want is Birdie. It hurt like hell to watch her leave our small town to set off and chase her college dreams. I let her go once, I'm not letting it happen again. Now she's home for good, and I'll stop at nothing to keep her with me, always. Even if that means tying her to me in every way possible.

Holly Banks could not have made a worse first impression on the seemingly perfect moms in her new affluent community, the Village of Primm. Turns out wearing pink piggy pajama bottoms while dropping off her kindergartener late to the first day of school wasn’t her best look.

TIDES OF THE HEART: Love Along the Outer Banks A Novella by Sylvester Murray When Claire Bennett escapes to the quiet shores of Atlantic Beach, she isn’t looking for love — only a place to breathe again. The Outer Banks offers her salt‑washed mornings, long walks along the pier, and the kind of peace she hasn’t felt in years. But the sea has a way of pulling people toward what they need most. Daniel Lawson has spent his life anchored to these waters — a man shaped by storms, loss, and the tides that never stop changing. He isn’t expecting Claire, and he certainly isn’t ...

Two pink lines. That’s all it takes to knock me flat. I came back to Black Spruce Ranch with my tail between my legs—no job, no law license, no clue what the hell comes next. The plan was simple: keep my head down, survive my old man’s temper, and try not to screw up again. Then there’s Katie McArthur. The quiet vet I used to give a hard time in high school—except now she’s hot as hell, confident, and doesn’t take an ounce of my bullshit. One night with her was supposed to shut off the noise in my head, not tie me to a future I’m scared to want. Now she’s carrying my kid, ...

Some places find you. The smart ones stay. Twenty-two-year-old Marisol Reyes arrives in Harlow Cove, North Carolina with eighty-three dollars, a duffel bag, and a one-way mistake named Rodrigo in her rearview mirror. She plans to be gone in six days — just long enough to earn her bus fare home and put this particular chapter of poor judgment behind her. Harlow Cove has other ideas. The Last Breakfast is a standalone short story set in the world of the Harlow Cove series — a prequel to The Drift Back that introduces the town's most beloved resident thirty years before readers meet her. ...

In Matthew Lyons' pulse-pounding crime horror, A Mask of Flies, a criminal on the run after a failed heist must confront dark family secrets and demons from her past made flesh. THE PAST HAS TEETH In the grisly aftermath of a botched bank heist, career criminal Anne Heller has no choice but to...

Edgewood Rectory may be set in an ancient landscape, but the Grantly family are very much of their time. Caught up in the uncertain world that has emerged since the outbreak of peace, the Rector and Mrs Grantly are bewildered by the challenges facing their eldest children: Eleanor, longing for more excitement than can be found in the Red Cross Library; and Tom, struggling to readjust to student life at Oxford after his military service.