Bank Town

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.

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 ...

I can’t seem to keep my mind or my hands off my nanny. I thought things would stay professional, but the way Sophie Winters looks at me has me coming undone. After my sister’s death, raising my niece Lizzy has been chaos. All I want is a capable nanny who stays out of my way. But Sophie is everywhere I turn. Her laugh, her curves, the way she makes this house feel like home—living under the same roof makes it impossible to keep my distance. Between our late-night talks, stolen glances, and secret “meetings” at the stables, she’s become more than just the nanny. I’ve fallen all...

Kit’s a headstrong woman who’s just looking for a good time. Butch is a protective playboy who might finally be ready to settle down. When they’re forced together for a summer vacation in the small town of Blitzen Bay, sparks fly as the fiery couple tries to navigate their conflicting feelings toward each other. Kit There are two things you should know about me up front. First, my boyfriend broke up with me just minutes before I left on vacation, and second, I’m a huge fan of the rebound man. Someone so dangerously sexy that he’ll make me forget everything for a night. No feelings...

What if you could stop acting like a bank customer… and start acting like the bank itself? You’ve been taught to save, scrimp, and avoid debt. Meanwhile, banks take your money, multiply it, and earn profit 24/7—even when the economy’s uncertain. So here’s the question: Why aren’t you doing the same? In Bank Money: Mastering the Personal Finance Strategies Banks Don’t Want You to Know, author Larry Jones flips the script on traditional personal finance advice and shows you how to stop playing defense and start building wealth the way banks do. This isn’t another budget book. ...

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 ...

Holly Banks is on a desperate mission to have it all, but nothing in life goes according to plan. She’s quickly learning that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, especially when the women of Primm, her new neighborhood, seem to have it together all the time. With her husband’s job in flux, her daughter’s difficulty with learning to read, and her mother’s new zest for dating, Holly’s life is already anything but picture perfect. Then her dog digs up an old artifact in the village center, and the mishap draws the attention of local media.

Maverick Barnes is a broody, chiseled cowboy built for breaking hearts and riding rough. He’s my best friend’s brother—and the man who shattered me years ago with a single kiss. Now I’m jobless, homeless, and living in his kitchen with nothing but a duffel bag and a pile of old feelings. His reputation is ten feet wide and twice as hard as those biceps flexing beneath his t-shirt. Our accidental reunion is a slow-burning wildfire, fueled by forced proximity and sizzling nights in a too-small house. He grumps. I tease. The tension crackles hotter than a Wyoming sunset. I swore I’d ...

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...

Nash and Noelle from The Runaway Bride of Blitzen Bay are back and they're getting married. Well, they're trying to get married anyway. To make it to the altar, they'll have to get through Noelle's intrusive parents, a once-in-a-century blizzard, and an enormous bear that's stalking the adorable mountain town of Blitzen Bay. “Blitzen Bay is a magical place with beautiful people. I loved all the characters so much. I wish it was a movie or a series so we could dive deeper into each of their lives a little more.” Amazon Review “These characters are so freaking hilarious, witty and ...

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 things break clean. Some things take longer. Cal Dempsey doesn't need fixing. He works, he shows up, he keeps the buildings of Harlow Cove standing. Two and a half years after losing his wife to cancer, he has arrived at something that functions well enough — a life reduced to the dimensions where grief can't find him. He is not looking for anything to change. Then a nor'easter traps him at a stranger's cottage with a second storm stalled offshore, three hours of unexpected conversation, and a question nobody has asked him in a very long time: what was she like? Three Hours Between ...

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. ...

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.

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 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 ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide “The one economic book you must read...

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...

In the summer of 1951, Elmhurst, Ohio was shocked when the small town's war hero police chief, Lester Smeal, was killed putting an end to the bloody rampage of a rogue cop. It was the last violent act in a chain of events that began with the discovery of the body of Wanda Jean Reider, a beautiful young woman from the wrong side of the tracks. Fifteen years later the chief's son and daughter, and the sister of the murdered woman, are young adults, each living with the legacy of the past as they try to make their own way in a world torn by war and social change. Nick Russell, New York Times ...