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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Mackenzie's entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn't end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it's come back to haunt her. Derek is her first client as an official full-time sports agent and he's holding a grudge. Derek has set his sights on a little friendly revenge. If Nora Mackenzie, the first girl to ever break his...
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English
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"Crissy Dowling has created a world that suits her perfectly. She passes her days by the pool in a private cabana, she splurges on ice cream but never gains an ounce, and each evening she transforms into a Princess, performing her musical cabaret inspired by the life of the late Diana Spencer. Some might find her strange or even delusional, an American speaking with a British accent, hair feathered into a style twenty years old, living and working...
3) Neon prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Clayton Deese looks like a small-time criminal, muscle for hire when his loan shark boss needs to teach someone a lesson. Now, seven months after a job that went south and landed him in jail, Deese has skipped out on bail, and the U.S. Marshals come looking for him. They don't much care about a low-level guy--it's his boss they want--but Deese might be their best chance to bring down the whole operation. Then, they step onto a dirt trail behind Deese's...
4) Hot shot
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood is a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies have formed a top-secret organization with the same goals. When Lizzie Fox's husband, Cosmo Cricket, is critically injured in a shooting, the men of head straight to Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie and find the assailant. As the head of Nevada's Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies, but the shooting may be related to a private project: Happy...
5) Whiplash
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Series
Champions volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When Val Champion returns to the family ranch, she's ready to put her past behind her. Her dreams of a Hollywood acting career have become a nightmare of fear. But once she sees rodeo man Casey Bozeman facing down a bull in the arena, she knows she's no safer at home. Face to face with her first and only true love, Val can't deny her still powerful feelings for Casey. Val's the one who got away, the woman who broke his heart so hard he still feels...
6) High stakes
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Language
English
Description
"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor--a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between tow Russian mafia bosses...
7) To the nines
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Series
Stephanie Plum novel volume 9
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli ... oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure. But hey, she's from Jersey. Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she's pretty darn good at turning bad situations...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Seedy and glamorous, seductive and outrageous, Las Vegas attracts people of all kinds--especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to escape. It's the perfect place for Lester Olsen's one-of-a-kind business. He treats gorgeous young women to five-star restaurants, lavish shows, and limo rides--and then he teaches them how to kill. Private's Jack Morgan has been hired to hunt down two men on a gleeful murder spree. Jack thinks there could be...
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English
Description
"Mira Patel's got an accounting career, good friends, and a whole lot of distance between herself and her dysfunctional family. All that's missing is a stable romantic relationship. Armed with a spreadsheet and professional help, she sets out to find her partner in only legal activities, but much to her matchmaker's dismay, no one is quite right. Including Naveen Desai, the very first match, whom she unceremoniously rejected. Lately Naveen's been...
10) Stripped
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Series
Jonathan Stride novel volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"Two murders have shocked the neon city--a celebrity assinated during a fling with a prostitute, and a schoolboy killed in a brutal hit-and-run. Two victims with nothing in common, two deaths without a motive. Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial are detectives and lovers who are under pressure to get these crimes out of the headlines. But this is Vegas, where everyone keeps secrets, especially about murder. And soon there are more bodies on the Strip......
11) Blue skies
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English
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Nikki Burgess, Dixie McPherson, and Carlisle Bartlett--three people who have been hurt by past relationships--take a chance on changing their lives by joining a team that intends to start a new airline in Las Vegas.
12) Void moon
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English
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A novel about a casino robbery in Las Vegas carried out by professional thief, Cassie Black. The perfect heist goes very wrong and suddenly Cassie is on the run. Cassie Black is out after doing six years in prison, but she still has "outlaw juice" flowing through her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run -- with a near-psychotic...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Isaiah Quintabe has, against many odds, built a proper life for himself: a respected detective in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull (courtesy of his previous client). But something is wrong: the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago has sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to escape. RIGHTEOUS is the story of Isaiah's investigation...
14) Lick
Author
Series
Stage dive volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Waking up in Vegas was never meant to be like this. Evelyn Thomas's plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man in her room, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong. Now if she could just remember how it all happened. One thing is certain, being married...
15) Immoral
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
The disappearance of a beautiful teenage girl from the streets of Duluth, Minnesota, the second in a year, draws Lieutenant Jonathan Stride into a dark and dangerous conflict with the heart of evil as his search for a serial killer captures him in a web of secrets, lies, obsession, illict desire, and death that will transform his life.
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Series
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Murder has been easy for the butcher's boy until now: It's what he was raised to do. But when he kills the senior senator from Colorado and arrives in Las Vegas to pick up his fee, he learns that he has become a liability to his shadowy employers. His actions attract the attention of specialists in police agencies who watch the world of organized crime. All notice that something big is going on, but only Elizabeth Waring, a bright young analyst in...
17) Vegas heat
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Series
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Vegas Heat is the story of the Thornton dynasty ... of Fanny Thornton, who takes over Babylon, the family's magnificent Las Vegas casino, when her ex-husband Ash falls desperately ill ... of Fanny's twin sons, Sage and Birch, one content in his conventional life while the other's search for happiness leads to tragedy, and renewed hope ... of Fanny's daughter Sunny, betrayed her husband, fighting a battle no woman should ever have to face ... of her...
18) 'Round midnight
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Spanning the six decades when Las Vegas grew from a dusty gambling town into the melting pot metropolis it is today, 'Round Midnight is the story of four women--one who falls in love, one who gets lucky, one whose heart is broken, and one who chooses happiness--whose lives change at the Midnight Room. June Stein and her husband open the El Capitan casino in the 1950s, and rocket to success after hiring a charismatic black singer to anchor their nightclub....
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English
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"After a brush with death while chasing down a brutal murderer with the FBI, serial killer expert Dr. Charlotte Stone wants nothing more than to retire to her research on criminal psychology. But when a colleague, Special Agent Lena Kaminsky, suspects her missing sister has fallen prey to the vicious Cinderella Killer, Charlie rushes to her side. Along with Special Agents Tony Bartoli and Buzz Crane--and of course, Michael Garland, the ever-present,...
20) Nightwalker
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
P.I. Dillon Wolf is fascinated by gambler Jessy Spearhawk and by the single word a dying man spoke: Indigo. From the glitz of the Vegas strip to a desert ghost town, the unlikely pair forge ahead with an investigation that will risk both their lives.