The birthday cake I baked for my baby basset’s 14th birthday party he is having with a friend today is sitting in the refrigerate looking like a sad blob. I keep thinking there is still hope for it. Maybe there is something I could do to make it look more like a cake and not so much like a sad entity pleading for death. It started leaning too much so I set it up against the wall for support. Hopefully the frosting will firm up and make it sturdier. I think I am going to try and square it off a bit. Really show off the colors. I also might go to the store and buy a cake. Not sure. After my cake misadventure, I went on to YouTube to figure out what I did wrong, besides everything. I discovered a scarf that you put around the pan when you bake it to prevent it from sticking and it keeps it flat as well. I have a few more packets of cake mix. Maybe I will try a new cake. I can only get better at this, right??
Capture
by Roger Smith
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Crime Fiction | Mystery | Psychological
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Devastated by the death of his toddler daughter, a tech guru befriends a sinister rent-a-cop and ends up fighting for his sanity and his life.
As four-year-old Sunny Exley drowns in the icy waters off a luxury beach house, her father, Nick, smokes weed on the shore and her mother, Caroline, is lost in the arms of a lover. Hidden on nearby boulders, rent-a-cop Vernon Saul watches the child die and chooses to act only when it is too late.
In the days following Sunny’s death, gutted by grief and guilt, Nick falls under the spell of Vernon who presents himself as a friend in time of need. When the sinister Vernon’s true motives are revealed, Nick is drawn into a spiral of manipulation and murder that leaves him fighting for his sanity and his life.
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Securing Caite: A Navy SEAL Romance (SEAL of Protection: Legacy Book 1)
by Susan Stoker
Genre: Romance | Foreign Languages
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Caite McCallan is a Department of Defense admin working in Bahrain when a glitchy elevator, of all things, leads to an unexpected invitation to dinner by a gorgeous Navy SEAL. When he later stands her up, Caite’s understandably upset… until she overhears a plot that confirms Rocco didn’t blow her off. Instead, he and two fellow SEALs are in danger — and Caite is forced to put her career and her life on the line to save them.
Blake “Rocco” Wise never expected his routine mission to go sideways, but he was even more surprised to find himself and his teammates rescued by the adorably shy woman he met in a stalled elevator. Caite’s selfless act saved his life, but when attempts on her own make it clear someone wants her gone, it’s Rocco’s turn to protect the brave, sweet, sexy woman. The longer he knows her, the more he wants her… but keeping Caite close could bring her nearer to the enemy than ever before.
** Securing Caite is the 1st book in the SEAL of Protection: Legacy Series. Each book is a stand-alone, with no cliffhanger endings.
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GREED: Sixty-Sixth in a Series of Jess Williams Westerns (A Jess Williams Western Book 66)
by Robert J. Thomas
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Westerns | Action & Adventure
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Jess is on the hunt for another wanton killer by the name of Ty Fulton. Along the way, he comes across an old man, his daughter and granddaughter. They were on their way to a town called Carrington to start a new business. Jess camps at their site, but the old man passes away during the night.
Not wanting to leave a woman and her young daughter riding the trail alone, he decides to escort them to their destination safely. Luckily, he ends up finding his wanted man while doing so. He’s ready to head back out on the hunt for the next man on his list, but a call from United States Marshal Frank Reedy makes him change course.
He heads to a town called Arville to meet with John Bodine. Jess has to pin his federal badge on again and join Bodine on a special assignment. A man rich enough to buy the entire state of Texas wants an entire town under his thumb, but Jess and Bodine have other ideas.
Blood is spilled and graves are filled as a struggle ensues between them and a rich and powerful man.
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Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mystery Series (Books 1-5)
by Anna Celeste Burke
Genre: Crime Fiction | Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Bestselling Jessica Huntington Mystery Series In One Box Set!
USA Today and WSJ bestselling author, Anna Celeste Burke, brings you all of her thrilling Jessica Huntington Desert Cities Mysteries in one box set.
>>>A Dead Husband
Jessica Huntington is an amateur sleuth who would rather be shopping, but she soon finds out that money can’t buy happiness or save your neck. While hiding out in sunny California, her best friend’s husband is murdered. Roger Stone had something that got him killed. What was it and what will they do to get it back?
>>>A Dead Sister
A cold case heats up when the handsome detective, Frank Fontana, asks for Jessica Huntington’s help. Who killed his cousin Kelly? Does Jessica want to know the truth about her high school friend’s tragic death? Can she handle what digging into the past might reveal?
>>>A Dead Daughter
Jessica Isn’t sure what to expect when Libby Van Der Woert, the disturbed daughter of Jessica’s wealthy clients, asks to meet at the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Trouble begins the moment Jessica greets Libby in the Mt. San Jacinto Wilderness. Wild, manic, and sure she’s being followed, Libby’s got a gun. All hell breaks loose when Libby’s Beverly Hills shrink shows up with a gun of his own. What’s up with the missing and misguided daughters of wealth and privilege in Dr. Carr’s care? Getting to the bottom of things Jessica-Huntington-style, sets off a whirlwind tour of fashionable enclaves, upscale rehab clinics, shops, restaurants and other haute hangouts. Behind all the glitz and glam: secrets, lies, corporate wheeling and dealing.
>>>A Dead Mother
Jessica’s ex-husband, James Harper, and her mother, Alexis, are in big trouble in A Dead Mother. Family dysfunction, infidelity, murder, and mayhem — what else can you expect from members of the rich and famous who move in Jessica Huntington’s circles? An arraignment in court goes off the rails after Jim Harper’s Bel Air mansion is trashed and a man is left fighting for his life. Jessica’s love life almost veers off track, too, as she struggles to balance job, family, sleuthing, and her attraction to Attorney Paul Worthington and Detective Frank Fontana. When the body of a prominent member of the Palm Desert community is found dead on the side of the road, Jessica gives up hope that this year will be better than the last.
>>>A Dead Cousin
A frantic call for help has Jessica on the run. Taken from his home while his daughter hides upstairs, Detective Frank Fontana is gone. Jessica’s out to save him, but what if he doesn’t want to be found? Has he been abducted or is he on the run? When a body turns up, the identity of the victim only fuels the controversy. Good cops. Bad cops. Missing money. Undercover operations that may or may not have ended. Jessica and her friends soon become entangled in a web of secrets and lies that make it hard to know who’s on which side of the law.
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PRIMAL 2055 – Escape
by Jack Silkstone
Genre: Science Fiction | Science Fiction & Fantasy | Teen & Young Adult
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She never knew her name, only the number they used to define her. A possession of Sakkin Industries, she is being honed into a surgical weapon, trained to infiltrate and exterminate. Slowly, day-by-day, they try to erode her humanity and replace it with blind obedience and determination.
For operative Eight Two, Sakkin is a second chance at life. Rescued from a massacred village, she’s given a new home among their deadly trainees at the Institute. But as she’s indoctrinated, the brutal training reveals she’s not like them. Conflicted, she’s torn between graduating to join Sakkin’s elite ranks or lashing out against the injustice they bring to the world.
Part 1 in a new series, 2055 – Escape follows on from the PRIMAL books of hard-hitting global vigilantes. It gives a glimpse into a not so distant future where security conglomerates protect the privileged few, Lascar has evolved into a sophisticated humanitarian aid outfit, and a shadow war is looming.
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