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When Alice receives a call about an unexpected windfall, she’sstunnedtolearnthe gift is a falling-apart-at-theseams old Wild West B&B she once considered home, and she’s inherited it along with two strangers. Except they weren’t always strangers. Once upon a time, they were friends.

Oneisherex-BFFLauren. The other is Knox, the only guy to ever break her heart, all while never even knowing she existed. It turns out their lives are unknowingly entangled because they once separately helped the same woman without expecting anything in return.

Years later, Alice, Lauren, and Knox are broken in their own way, with their own history andsecretscausingthem to start out on the wrong foot with each other. But according to the will, they must renovate and be partners in the inn for one year or else lose their inheritance.

Stuck together, they make a list of rules to keep the peace, rules that end up doing the opposite, but by some miracle they find what they didn’t even know they were looking for, acceptance, true friendship, and in a case (or two!), true love.

Jill Shalvis returns to Sunrise Cove with T he Backup Plan a heartwarming tale of three people who are brought together when they’re bequeathed an old Wild West inn that has the potential to pull their lives apart, but instead turns into the gift of a lifetime.

It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway.AndnowEveDallas has made her entrance, but not as a guest.

After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died,withphysicalsymptoms pointing to cyanide, and the policehavecrashedtheparty. From all accounts, he wasn’t the kind of star who made enemies.

Everyone loved him, even his ex-wife. And since the champagne cocktail that killed him was originally intended for Eliza, it’s possible she was the real target, with a recently fired assistant, a bitter rival, and an obsessed fan in the picture.

With so many attendees, staff, and servers, Eve has her work cut out determining who committed murder in the middle of the crowd and what was their motivation. As one who’s not fond of the spotlight herself, she dreads themediacircussurrounding a case like this.

All she wants is to figure out who’s truly innocent, and who’s only acting that way.

Encore in Death is the latest in J. D. Robb’s captivating crime thriller series.

Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the wealthy coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. That shadow world and the violence it breeds draw brilliantpsychologistDr.Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning, a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She’s the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome, wealthy photographer and is ready to greet her boss with coffee and good cheer.

Instead, she finds him slumped inbed,shot to death. The victim had recently received rave media attention for his latest project: images of homeless people in their personal “dream” situations, elaborately costumed and enacting unfulfilled fantasies.

There are some, however, who view the whole thing as nothing more than crass exploitation, citing token payments and the victim’s avoidance of any long-term relationships with his subjects. Has disgruntlement blossomed into homicidal rage?

Or do the roots of violence reach down to the victim’s family--a clan, sired by an elusive billionaire, that is bizarre in its own right? Then new murders arise, and Alex and Milo begin peeling back layer after layer of intrigue and complexity, culminating in one of the deadliest threats they’ve ever faced. Unnatural History by Jonathan Kellerman is an electrifying thriller of art and brutality in his Alex Delaware series.