The Lies I Tell Myself

SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY WITH A SMIDGEN OF HOMICIDE

Welcome to the Bean Hive Coffeehouse where the coffee is as hot as the gossip!

Meet Roxanne Bloom, ex-lawyer and who likes to be called Roxy by her close friends. She’s the owner and operator of The Bean Hive coffee shop in Honey Springs. Kentucky. But when a dead body is dumped on her doorstep like a sack of coffee beans, the cozy coffee shop becomes an all-out crime scene and everyone in the small town is hankering for some good gossip. Sheriff Spencer warns her to be careful because everyone is a suspect. Roxy’s snooping lawyer skills are on alert and she can’t help but brew up a few clues to help find the cold blooded killer.

Killer Coffee Cozy Mystery is a series about small town gossip, family, friends, and putting differences aside when troubles brews.
Do you love to read about family and friendships?
Do you enjoy holidays, festivals, and celebrations?
What about when life isn’t always rosy?
This series has all of that and more along with twisty turn mysteries that will have you rooting for the entire town of Honey Springs.

Ben Ashwood is losing at life — big time.

He’s broke, has no girlfriend, and is stuck with the worst boss of all time. But when his endearingly obnoxious friend lands golden tickets to the planet’s most advanced VR beta, Ben hesitates. Hey, change is scary, okay?

In the beta, things go from bad to worse. Denied a starting class, he must rely on his wits alone to survive a brutal world filled with relentless undead, dim-witted hill giants, and one huge jerk of a Bloodknight.

Can Ben outsmart the system and rise above his handicap, or is he doomed to a virtual life of spawn-killing grief?

When fashion columnist April May inherits her grandmother’s lake house, she vows to sell it in one week.

To her surprise, the small-town charm and mysterious local occurrences pique her interest.

A missing heirloom, threatening letters, and a string of local deaths are just the beginning of the mystery.

With the help of the handsome local vet and new friends in town, April learns to crochet (badly), starts wearing hideous rubber boots, and digs into her grandmother’s mysterious past.

Only someone in town doesn’t want her digging.

When a poisonous plant is left in her living room and another local almost dies, April has to race against time to discover the true culprit.

Unless she finds who it is quickly, her high heels won’t be the only thing to die in Laurel Lake.

Have you ever wanted to escape your reality?

Nole is your average awkward middle schooler. Shy. Nerdy. Overlooked. The kind of boy girls ask out on dares while his crushes date his friends.

Everything changes when his dad brings home a copy of Enix, an online fantasy game full of swords, magic and monsters. In Enix, every day is an exciting adventure, the kind of place you never want to leave. But for Nole, it’s something more: a chance to start over.

Online, Nole transforms into someone new: a leader, a hero, and someone surrounded by friends. In Enix, he’s everything he’s not in the real world. For the first time, he feels like he belongs.

But no matter how amazing Enix is, it’s just a game. And at the end of the day, Nole has to log out.

What happens when the lines between two worlds blur? And how do you choose where you truly belong?

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A boy’s search for truth and what it means to be a man.

Kansas Territory, 1859

Ambrose Pierce has been doing a man’s work in his father’s blacksmith shop since he was ten. At fifteen, he is tired of being seen as a boy. As he struggles toward manhood, his new stepmother’s lies about inappropriate actions toward her result in Ambrose being beaten and disowned by his father.

While recovering from his injuries, Ambrose overhears a brief mention of something scandalous in his stepmother’s past. With little beyond a place, New York City, and a name, Gerald Ward, Ambrose and half-sister Cordelia travel cross country in search of the truth. Ambrose hopes the truth will free his father from his stepmother’s influence and they can be father and son again.
Before embarking on his journey, Ambrose visits his mother’s grave to say goodbye. Throughout his travels, he consults the book of Aesop’s fables she made for him, remembering her love and being guided by the life lessons she taught him.

Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a heart-wrenching exploration of love, war, and the profound ways they shape the human soul. Set during the harrowing days of World War I, the novel follows Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver serving in the Italian army, as he confronts the brutal realities of combat and discovers an unexpected, life-altering love.

Amidst the chaos of the front lines and the disillusionment of war, Frederic meets Catherine Barkley, a British nurse haunted by her own past. Their romance begins tentatively, built on moments of solace in an otherwise shattered world. But as their connection deepens, it becomes a beacon of hope and escape — a fragile sanctuary from the horrors around them. Their love story is passionate yet fraught with obstacles, as both the war and their inner struggles threaten to pull them apart.

Hemingway’s stark, unadorned prose cuts to the core, rendering every moment vivid and deeply felt. He weaves a narrative that not only captures the grit and terror of battle but also illuminates the tenderness and vulnerability of two people daring to love in an unforgiving world. Themes of loyalty, sacrifice, disillusionment, and the unyielding passage of fate are woven seamlessly into a story that is as gripping as it is profoundly human.

As Frederic grapples with the meaning of duty, honor, and personal survival, A Farewell to Arms confronts the universal questions that arise in times of conflict: How do we hold onto our humanity when surrounded by inhumanity? And can love truly triumph in a world overshadowed by death and despair?

A handsome widower. A woman who doesn’t trust second chances. What will it take to open their hearts to love?

Porter Matthews knows grief. He’s worked hard to rebuild his heart after becoming a widower eight years ago. Finding true love once in a lifetime is rare. Finding it twice? That would be a miracle. When a feisty woman catches him trespassing on her llama ranch, she doesn’t appreciate his help. He was trying to free the llama from a thicket, but will the llama’s beautiful owner be the one to free his heart?

After being let down in the past, Emily Hutchings is determined to achieve her dreams on her own. She’s working hard to open a llama therapy center, but the handsome cowboy up the road is becoming a major distraction. With looming deadlines, does she have time in her life to trust a new man?

When Porter doesn’t show up for their first date, Emily decides she didn’t need the distraction anyway. Too bad her heart has other plans.