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Sixteen-year-old Caitlin Dale died unexpectedly on the Fourth of July. Like other affluent families of Briar’s Green, Caitlin joined hers at the country club’s annual party. They say she slipped by the pool. A tragic accident. But her cousin Alice knows the truth. Caitlin was murdered. And...

Discover where it all began—the first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air” (The Washington Post), from Janet Evanovich, #1 New York...

Most people can’t tell a good wine from a bottle of Two-Buck Chuck. At least that’s what best friends Reggie and Audrey decide one night while celebrating their daughters’ election to the elite Mohave High Tigerette Pom Squad. But cheerleading in Scottsdale doesn’t come cheap, and both women are strapped for cash and going through a rough patch. Reggie’s husband has announced he’s gay and wants a separation. Audrey’s husband is entering rehab. But what if they could earn money by selling cheap wine in fancy bottles? How hard could it be?

Discover where it all began—the first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air” (The Washington Post), from Janet Evanovich, #1 New York...

What is it about turning 30 that sends rational women into a tailspin? Suddenly going from having all the time in the world, to cringing at the ticking of her biological clock, Poppy is drowning under the strain of trying to get pregnant. With a dad in the throes of a mid-life crisis, a crazy mother-in-law, and time racing towards Lilly's wedding, will she be able to cope with it all...and give Ryan the baby they so desperately want?

I never knew the cost of being Black in Corporate America. The price I would pay with my dignity and fundamental rights as a human being just to have a job that wasn't in a low-income sector. A job that had a satisfying career path and gave me and my family a chance to live the American Dream. Although the last five years of my employment were horrific and I suffered in ways most people cannot imagine, that's all behind me now because I proved systemic racism in my workplace, kept my job, and was offered a six-figure settlement, among other things.

Stuck working in a run-down thrift shop, Val yearns for a way out—a destiny that doesn’t involve sorting used clothes by how repulsive they smell. The only problem is, Val is in debt to her boss all the way up to her sweaty armpits. Desperate to find a way out of her dead-end job, Val decides to clean up her act, even if it means giving up her most precious possessions. But her attempt to turn over a new leaf won't be easy. And Val is about to find out that one good deed doesn’t necessarily lead to another.

Dr. Rebecca Matthews is the queen of daytime talk. Her fairy-tale marriage, nine Emmys, and twelve years as the top-ranked show prove there’s nobody better at fixing a broken relationship. But when her ratings slip and her biggest sponsor bolts, the network pressures Becca to spice things up. The suits want their money shot. Making matters worse, Becca uncovers a troubling secret about her husband, Ryan, thrusting her into a crisis that threatens not just her marriage, but her show and career.

It begins on graduation day in Berkeley. The story of three women, friends for life, whose passions and ambitions are fueled by love, sex, and money, and whose dreams are shaped by the torrent of history that changed women’s lives forever.

The bling is brighter, the drama is amped up, and the delicious beauties from Tu-Shonda L. Whitaker’s Millionaire Wives Club are back for a second season of backstabbing, divorce parties, and family sagas. Lights, camera, action! Milan, Jaise, and Chaunci are the gorgeous, high-rolling...

Hail Gin's taxi and take a seat for the ride of your life! When we first meet Jindriska/Gin, she is a New York cabbie, a struggling Czech immigrant alternately buoyed-up or battered by life in the guts of the great city. Though married to Talibe, a legal immigrant from West Africa, she lives with Gloria, a Cuban lesbian artist and tiny Josito, the baby of Gloria's jailed friend. Through Alex, the Russian owner of the garage on 47th Street, Gin rents a succession of yellow taxis of dubious reliability and origin.

I loved being a con man. Especially using my IT background to rig online poker to make money. But my dad got in trouble with the mafia, and now the head of the mafia, Frank Sputafuoco, wants me to do his dirty work. If I don't get him the millions of dollars he wanted by the end of the week, he said he'll kill my dad and rat me out to the feds. He sent Destiny to me to make sure I stuck to the plan and didn't try to pull one over them. I didn't know what she looked like when they first mentioned her to me. But after one look, I knew she had to be mine.

Savannah Martin has always been a good girl, doing what was expected and fully expecting life to fall into place in its turn. But when her perfect husband turns out to be a lying, cheating slimeball - and bad in bed to boot - Savannah kicks the jerk to the curb and embarks on life on her own terms. With a new apartment, a new career, and a brand new outlook on life, she’s all set to take the world by storm. If only the world would stop throwing her curveballs...

Jen's stable relationship, steady job as a press officer for the police and mapped-out future is thrown into turmoil after she confronts her fiancé about a telephone call from a mysterious woman. In sadness and revenge she picks up a stranger in a bar. When videos and demands for money start to arrive, Jen has to find her blackmailer and rescue her relationship with Dan. As she emulates her police colleagues to find her evil extortionist darker secrets emerge.

A young lady caught in the middle of a nightmare. Her life is filled with twist and turns and a lot of surprises. She is also involved with the street life filled with love, sex, money, and drugs.

Three friends. One slim chance to beat the streets. But even when you fight your way out by any means necessary, cold hard cash is still no guarantee you'll escape....

This captivating lifetime experience is about a young woman from the hometown of Harper Lee and Truman Capote in rural Alabama. She hates conflict even though she is habitually involved in it. Her frantic fight with debt tops the list. Debt is wildly chasing her like a cheetah running after a deer. Her peculiar solutions threaten her sanity and self-respect. Suffering one setback after another keeps her emotionally exhausted. She does not quit because this basic truth keeps her motivated. The alternative of returning to her hometown is demoralizing. She does not belong there.

Red-haired El Casey is a project manager a few years into her career who never seems to have enough money and desperately desires a promotion. Her boyfriend, on the other hand, seems to skyrocket in his career endeavors, as does El's entrepreneurial food truck king brother, Jack. After years of commiserating with her female friends, El meets PJ, Empowerer of Women, when they are seat mates on a flight to Florida, and El's life is forever changed.

Chris Jones, a small-town mayor who was once a nobody, rises to the top of the financial world and finds himself becoming obsessed with power, thinking that he has the invincibility to shut down anyone who comes in his way. With money, power, and greed, Chris sets a foundation that leads a once dark and unsuccessful town back into a path of destruction. The Directors is truly a powerful novel, one that elaborates on how some people can become entrenched in the depths of money, power, and greed that they lose sight of what really matters.