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1) Play dirty
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Disabled after a tragic accident, an eccentric millionaire hires a disgraced football hero to impregnate his wife, a plan that results in an obsessive love affair and life-threatening consequences.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lisa Wingate has been favorably compared to authors Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans. In A Month of Summer, Hanna Beth has been caring for her aging husband-who suffers from Alzheimer's-and her developmentally challenged adult son for years on her own. But when she suffers a stroke, estranged stepdaughter Rebecca must take the reins. As she cares for her father and the step-brother she's barely met, Rebecca slowly begins to heal both herself...
3) The dime
Author
Series
Detective Betty Rhyzyk volume 1
Language
English
Description
Betty Rhyzyk, Brooklyn's toughest female police detective, relocates to rough-and-tumble Dallas, Texas, where she must contend with a group of unruly subordinates, a persistent stalker, a formidable criminal organization, and an unsupportive girlfriend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Dallas socialite Cissy Blevins Kendricks wants her sometime-sleuthing daughter Andrea to look into the mysterious death of her friend Bebe, who died soon after moving into a swanky retirement community. Andrea wants no part of her mother's social whirl, but she has no choice when more well-heeled widows turn up dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
When soon-to-be college student Tam Lambert learns that her family's finances are collapsing, the privileged life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move to a tiny house owned by her father's company, Householders, in the Dallas neighborhood of Blue Sky Hill. Shasta Reid-Williams and her husband have just purchased their first home in Blue Sky Hill, and it's the perfect place to raise her children. Even better is having a great...
6) Confess
Author
Language
English
Description
Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. Her goals are in sight and there's no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover Owen is keeping major secrets from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important...
7) The season
Author
Publisher
Viking/Speak
Pub. Date
2016, 2017.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her mother enters her and her twin sister as debutantes for this year's deb season in Dallas, soccer star Megan McKnight is furious. She has no interest the dress-filled life of a socialite deb, but her season turns out to be one full of twists and turns - and more than one dashing suitor!"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alba Duarte is the queen of the side hustle. As the eldest daughter in her crisis-prone family, she's always stepped up to help. Her favorite gig is doing Instagram-worthy, bookish-themed bedroom makeovers for friends. Her most hated? Working as the assistant to the most gorgeous--and most infuriating--man on earth. Theo Ganas is a former Olympic swimmer and heir to a bona fide real estate empire. He's also about as warm and fuzzy as a New York City...
9) Here to stay
Author
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Julia del Mar Ortiz is not having the best year. She moved to Dallas with her boyfriend, who ended up ditching her and running back to New York after only a few weeks. Left with a massive--by NYC standards, anyway--apartment and a car lease in the scorching Texas heat, Julia is struggling...except that's not completely true. Running the charitable foundation of one of the most iconic high fashion department stores in the world is serious #lifegoals....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris’s “addictively entertaining” (Locus) Sookie Stackhouse series—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood.
Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for her—her red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Compton—she has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life. So when one of...
Even though Sookie has her own vampire to look out for her—her red-hot, cold-blooded boyfriend, Bill Compton—she has to admit that the bloodsuckers did save her life. So when one of...
11) The burn
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's not much that can make Detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But her wounds are still fresh from an encounter with an apocalyptic cult known as The Family, and she's having trouble readjusting to life as it once was. She's back at work as a narcotics detective, but something isn't right--at work, where someone has been assassinating confidential informants, or at home, where she struggles to connect with her loving wife, Jackie. To make matters...
12) The pledge
Author
Series
Detective Betty Rhyzyk volume 3
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Things are looking up for Detective Betty Rhyzyk. She's settled into a happy marriage and been promoted...But when a hostage stand-off puts her on the phone with legendary cartel leader The Knife, things take a turn. The Knife has heard a rival is making a play for the streets of Dallas, none other than Evangeline Roy. The matriarch of a ruthless cult, Evangeline also happens to hold a personal vendetta against Betty. So who better to draw Evangeline...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The fourth fun installment in the Debutante Dropout series finds ex-debutante Andy Kendricks following a cold lead into a hot Dallas strip club. Renegade rich girl Andy Kendricks isn't the belle of any Dallas ball-and that's just the way the debutante dropout likes it! She's got a good life and a great man: her defense attorney boyfriend, Brian Malone. Brian's such a straight arrow that he had to be dragged kicking and screaming to a close friend's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
[Book club ed.]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Unwillingly dragged back into her upper-crust mama's social whirl, Andy Kendricks sets out to find a killer when a body turns up in the rubble of the torched studio of an intolerable TV show hostess.
15) Sarah's child
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tragic accident took Rome Matthew's wife Diana and it robbed Sarah Harper of her best friend. Sarah has wanted to reach out to Rome, but she knew she needed to stay away, guarding the secret she had kept from him and Diana -- that she was in love with her best friend's husband. But now Rome needs her. Sarah agrees to be his wife, and something totally unexpected rekindles her hidden hope that a marriage of convenience will become a union of...
16) The burial place
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the 19-year-old daughter of the mayor of Dallas suddenly goes missing at the height of election season, the Chief of Police has a potential political firestorm on his hands. He assigns senior detectives Rob Soliz and Frank Pierce--partners known for their unorthodox approach to investigations--to investigate quickly and quietly. The girl's family thinks she's out on an irresponsible lark, but things start to escalate quickly when Rob and Frank...
17) Dandelion summer
Author
Series
Blue sky hills volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
J. Norman Alvord's daughter hires teenager Epiphany Salerno to stay with him in the afternoons. Widowed and suffering from heart trouble, Norman wants to be left alone. But in Epie's presence, Norman discovers a mystery--memories of another life and a woman who saved him.