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1) Vegas heat
Author
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...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When two young sisters disappear from a strip mall parking lot in a small Pennsylvania town, their devastated mother hires an enigmatic bounty hunter, Alice Vega, to help find the girls. Immediately shut out by a local police department already stretched thin by budget cuts and the growing OxyContin and meth epidemic, Vega enlists the help of a disgraced former cop, Max Caplan. Cap is a man trying to put the scandal of his past behind him and move...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A Powerful Legacy That Can Unite--Or Divide. . .
Fanny Thornton Reed, proud matriarch of the Thornton dynasty, chooses her first husband's illegitimate son Jeff to run Babylon, her family's successful Las Vegas casino. For Jeff, this is a chance of a lifetime. For Fanny, it is a decision she will come to regret as it turns her children against each other. For the rightful Thornton heirs, it is their worst nightmare come true. Will jealousy and betrayal...
4) Vegas rich
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
522 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What Happens In Vegas Lasts Forever
When Sallie Coleman abandons Texas to follow her dreams in Las Vegas, she never imagines she'll win so soon--and so big. But a stroke of luck makes her the richest, most powerful businesswoman in Nevada, and in no time at all her transformation is complete--when she marries Philip Thornton and becomes Vegas's most elegant first lady.
Like her future mother-in-law before her, Pennsylvania beauty Fanny Logan makes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From Rachel Hauck, the award-winning author of The Wedding Dress, comes Nashville Sweetheart, the story of a talented young woman with a gift, a dream, and something to prove in the most musical-and competitive-city in America. The media mystery that is superstar Aubrey James is about to be unraveled-one memory at a time. At thirty years old, Aubrey James has been at the top of country charts for over a decade; but as the daughter of gospel icons...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Santiago "Saint" Vega gets a second shot at love with Lola Le̤n, but when duty to his family forces him to do something she'll never forgive, will everything he's built come crumbling down? Years ago, Saint walked away from the girl he loved to fulfill his duty. Now he's struggling to build bridges between his drifting family, take on more responsibilities at his uncle's construction company, figure out why his daughter refuses to talk at school...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo: her blackmailing abuelo says if she wants to change anything in his restaurant, she'll have to marry the one man she can't stand: his friend's grandson. Liam Kane spent a decade working to turn his family's...
9) The Janes
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach out to Alice Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing, for help in finding out who the Janes were--and finding the others who are missing. Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect,...
10) Long gone
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chicago detective Annalisa Vega shattered her life, personally and professionally, when she turned in her ex-cop father for his role in a murder. Her family can't forgive her. Her fellow officers no longer trust her. So when detective Leo Hammond turns up dead in a bizarre murder, Annalisa thinks she has nothing to lose by investigating whatever secrets he hid behind the thin blue line. Annalisa quickly zeroes in on someone who had good reason to...
11) Hideout
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alice Vega has made a career of finding the missing and vulnerable against a ticking clock, but she's never had a case like that of Zeb Williams, missing for thirty years. It was 1984, and the big Cal-Stanford football game was tied with seconds left on the clock. Zeb Williams grabbed the ball and ran the wrong way, through the marching band, off the field, and out of the stadium. He disappeared into legend, replete with Elvis-like sightings and...
12) Dead and gone
Author
Series
Detective Annalisa Vega novel volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran's death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest that suggests someone holds a murderous grudge against the police. Annalisa suspects the real answer lies in one of Tran's open cases. She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations and someone killed him to keep him quiet. Her own family harbors plenty...
13) The finisher
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vega Jane has never left the village of Wormwood. But this isn't unusual, nobody has ever left the village of Wormwood. At least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just leave, but that he was chased. And he's left behind a very dangerous trail of clues that only she can decode. The Quag is a dark forest filled with terrifying beasts and bloodthirsty Outliers. But just as deadly are the threats that exist...
14) Gone for good
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers. Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe that he's gone for good. Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods...
15) Nashville Dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From Rachel Hauck, the award-winning author of The Wedding Dress, comes Nashville Dreams, the story of a talented young woman with a gift, a dream, and something to prove in the most musical-and competitive-city in America.The best songwriter in Freedom, Alabama, is about to go pro in Nashville-or go down in flames.Robin Rae is never more herself than when she's singing one of her songs on the front porch . . . but she's never more terrified than...
16) The keeper
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed." -- Provided by publisher.
17) Lucky bastard
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lucky O'Toole--head of customer relations at The Babylon, premier mega-resort on the Vegas Strip--thinks it's just another night in Las Vegas. Her employer is hosting a big car show, supposed to be a fun event with her honey. But Lucky's day takes a turn for the worse when a beautiful woman with a stiletto heel embedded in her carotid artery is found on the hood of the featured red Ferrari going around on the display. On the personal front, Lucky...
18) Sucker bet
Author
Series
Vegas vampires volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
When vampiress Gwenna Carrick falls for handsome Vegas detective Nate Thomas, complications set in--the least of which is notorious vampire and ex-hubbie Roberto Donatelli.
19) The stars below
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the beginning, the fight was coming. Vega Jane fought her way out of the village where she was born, crossed a wilderness filled with vicious creatures, and raised a ragtag army behind her. But each triumph earned through grit and pain only brought her closer to him. Necro. A sorcerer whose unspeakable evil is matched only by his magical power. Vega and Necro are on a collision course. The clash between his awesome power and her iron will is...
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having discovered the truth about the town of Wormwood before surviving the dangerous wilderness of the Quag, heroine Vega Jane, who has endured more than anyone before her, is confronted by devastating forces unlike any she has ever encountered.