THOUGHTS ON THIS 'n THAT

  Can Greta Kolbe evade a ruthless ex-boyfriend-turned Nazi before she can escape to freedom? VIENNA ON FIRE  (BlueDanubePress) by Don Gabor tells the compelling story of Greta Kolbe, an eighteen-year-old Jewish woman whose comfortable life is upended when Adolf Hitler’s German army storms into Austria on March 12, 1938. Greta is horrified by crowds of Viennese shouting anti-Semitic slurs as German soldiers herd crying Jewish families into military trucks. She joins the Austrian resistance, passes out anti-fascist leaflets, and paints “free Austria” slogans on walls. After a Gestapo officer threatens to arrest Greta for her role in a bloody prison break, she flees Vienna to the Netherlands for a ship bound for America while her archenemy trails close behind. Driven by courage, cunning, and determination on her treacherous journey, Greta smuggles diamonds for the German resistance, eludes Hermann Göring's crude advances at his drug-fueled orgy, and fights for her life in a shoo...

    THE BERLIN WIFE: BookOne, German Wives (BookOuture) is set during WWII. The Jews are being rounded up, and one woman is desperate to save her husband, who has been taken by the Nazis.  Germany, 1938. ‘No,’ she cries out as she falls to the floor, fear clutching desperately at her chest, ‘They can’t have taken him, they can’t have taken my husband.’ As her tear-filled eyes dart wildly around the empty room, she realises she has no one to turn to. She is his only hope. But how can she possibly save him? When shy, beautiful  Edith  first met Jewish-born  Julius  it was love at first sight. Julius swept her off her feet, whisking her from humble beginnings into the sparkling society and glittering ballrooms of Berlin’s powerful elite. It felt like all her dreams had come true. But her perfect world begins to crack with rumblings of the Nazi party growing in power and influence. Every day, there are new laws to strip Jews of their money and their freedo...

  From the  New York Times -bestselling author, Georgia Hunter,  a propulsive and heart-wrenching story, ONE GOOD THING (PamelaDormanBooks) of a young woman entrusted with a boy’s life as WWII rages in Italy. 1940, Italy. Lili and Esti have been best friends since they first met at university. When Esti’s son Theo is born, they become as close as sisters. While a war seethes across borders, life somehow goes on—until Germany invades Italy, and the friends suddenly find themselves in occupied territory. Esti, older and fiercely self-assured, convinces Lili to join the resistance efforts. But when disaster strikes, a critically wounded Esti asks Lili to take a much bigger step: To go on the run with Theo. Protect him while Esti can’t. Terrified to travel on her own, Lili sets out with Theo on a harrowing journey south toward Allied territory, braving Nazi-occupied villages and bombed-out cities, doing everything she can to keep the boy safe. A remarkable tale of friendship,...

  DIANA SAYS YES (DialPressTradePaperback) is the satisfying conclusion to the sizzling Dirty Diana series. Diana says yes to what she truly wants and sees just how hard she’ll have to fight for it. Diana Wood’s escape to Paris has ended. She’s traded her international sexual escapades for sharing a couch in therapy with her husband, Oliver. Dedicated to rekindling the spark they lost, Diana and Oliver are determined to follow whatever directives their therapist issues. But then they’re told, “absolutely no sex.” Diana begins dating the man who was once her husband. Much to her surprise, the therapist’s advice seems to be working: The emotional connection between Diana and Oliver deepens and their physical attraction becomes all-consuming. But Diana’s marriage isn’t the only thing in her life entering a new phase. Dirty Diana—the website she built in secret to celebrate women’s fantasies—has begun to attract celebrity attention. Soon enough, Hollywood is calling. Diana and Oliver s...

  BLESS YOUR HEART   (Crooked Lane Books)  is a fitting title for  Leigh Dunlap ’s twisty and complex thriller about a Southern upscale community where no one is really who they seem, and everyone is lying to each other.    Anderson Tupper, a member of one of Atlanta’s richest families, has been found murdered in the dugout of the Little League field where he was a volunteer coach, and it’s up to Detective Shay Claypool, a single mother from the other side of town, to find his killer. Accustomed to handling drug dealers and prostitutes, she must now contend with an even more sinister group: the Buckhead Betties, the insufferably entitled women of Georgia’s most affluent zip code.   Dunlap shares a particular moment that propelled her to write the novel: “One day, while watching my son play Little League baseball in Buckhead, a mother from the opposing team called one of our ten-year-old players an ‘a$$hole.’ The shock from that abhorrent behavior by a ...

  From  New York Times  and  USA Today  bestselling author Karen Rose comes another "intense, complex, and unforgettable”* novel. Officer Naomi Cranston was framed for stealing cocaine from the evidence locker and coerced—through threats to her young son—into not fighting the charges. After five years in prison, she has tried to put the ordeal behind her, but the crooks who framed her have returned, this time demanding she move drugs along with her flower shop’s deliveries. They threaten her son once again, but this time she’s not capitulating quietly. She hires Broussard Investigations to protect her and her son, to prove her innocence, and to put the real bad guys away. As a former cop, Burke Broussard is well aware of the corruption in the New Orleans police department. He had always believed Naomi Cranston to be guilty and isn’t inclined to take her case. Until he sits down to listen to her side of things. Until he sees her tortured innocence written all ove...