Mysteries
Tuesday’s Mystery eBooks
When the Carny Comes to Town
by Elaine Orr
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Though she never liked the idea of sitting on the plank above the dunk tank for the food pantry’s fundraiser at the carnival, Jolie never dreamed what Scoobie saw that day would leave him battling for his life. Scoobie’s ex-con mother shows up and there’s a murder to add to the mix. Soon Jolie is doing a lot more than appraising real estate, though even that is complicated by home burglars. Jolie grudgingly seeks help from her nemesis–reporter George Winters–and tries to stay a step ahead of a kidnapper and murderer so she can take charge of her world again…
The Kill-Off
by Jim Thompson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
The legendary author of The Getaway delivers a suspenseful tale of an ailing woman who awaits her own murder—until she turns the tables on her would-be assassins.
Luane Devore’s days are numbered. All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the thousands of dollars she keeps hidden under the mattress she spends her days resting on. Others want her to stop her malicious gossip—some of which could ruin lives…
The Innocent Wife
by Lisa Regan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Candles are lit and their rich vanilla scent twists its way through the cabin. The table is set for a romantic anniversary dinner with fresh roses dropping crimson petals on crisp white linen. But the woman seated at the table is cold to the touch, and there’s blood trickling down her neck…
When Denton’s most loved TV presenter returns home to find his wife dead at the dining table, it shatters the close-knit community. Beautiful and absolutely besotted with each other, Beau and Claudia Collins were idolized for being the perfect couple. But the devastating scene Detective Josie Quinn finds in their remote hideaway has her asking what dark secrets lurk beneath the surface of this seemingly flawless marriage?
Ghost Camera
by Darcy Coates
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
When Jenine finds an abandoned polaroid camera, she playfully snaps a photo without a second thought. But there’s something wrong with the image: a ghostly figure stands in the background, watching her. Fixated on her. Moving one step closer with every picture she takes.
Desperate, Jenine shares her secret with her best friend, Bree. Together they realize the camera captures unsettling impressions of the dead. But now the ghosts seem to be following the two friends. And with each new photo taken, a terrible danger grows ever clearer…
The Retired Assassin’s Guide to Country Gardening
by Naomi Kuttner
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Dante has come to the small coastal town of Te Kohe, New Zealand, for a fresh start in life. But he doesn’t want to open a BnB, or save a charming bookshop, or start a romance with a single mother in need of rescuing.
He just wants to forget about his past career (which involved a lot of dead bodies) and have everyone leave him the heck alone. Unfortunately for Dante, life has other plans…
SHADOWFIRES
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Rachel’s request for a quick and clean divorce enraged her husband. She’d never seen Eric so angry, so consumed by pure and terrifying hatred. Then, in the heat of the moment, Eric was killed in a traffic accident. Shocked and relieved, Rachel had nothing left to fear. Until Eric’s body disappeared from the morgue—and suddenly, Rachel is being stalked by someone who looks just like her dead husband.
Daybreak
by Daniel Zeigler
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
A century of turmoil. A shocking murder. A chance for redemption.
Nigel Baskervell has been hit by everything 14th-century England has to offer—war, revolution, plague. He’s still standing. Barely.
Now a county sheriff in England, Nigel is trying to carve out a future for himself and his seven-year-old son. A religious reform movement that is stirring up the countryside may even offer Nigel the hope he desperately needs.
But then a horrific murder at a wedding shatters Nigel’s quest for peace. Now he must solve the crime before the rich and powerful pin the blame on a man Nigel believes is innocent. Danger stalks him as he races the clock to find the culprit.
Landon Falls
by Shannon Elliott
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.9 #ad
When seventeen-year-old Chase Allen touches someone, he is inundated by every sin they’ve committed. To minimize human contact, Chase keeps to himself at home and school. But when his mother’s death abandons him to the cruel despotism of his abusive grandfather, he follows an inexorable calling by an unknown power to seek out his destiny in a world he doesn’t understand. Led to the seemingly bucolic small town of Landon Falls, he encounters an ancient evil that holds the town in its grasp and meets the town’s new preacher, Frank Williams, who is oddly immune to Chase’s sixth sense.
Addison Landon recently arrived in Landon Falls with her husband Turner, heir to the Landon Mining Company fortune. Pregnant with their first child, Addison is excited to make such a wealthy, powerful, benevolent family her own. But a price must be paid for the Landons to continue their powerful hold on the town, and Addison’s unborn child is the fee…
Local Girl Missing
by Lisa Regan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
Through swirling dawn fog, they follow the trail of discarded items at their feet: a tube of glittery lip gloss; a cell phone; a cracked make-up compact, broken chunks of ivory powder spilling into the grass. Then the mist parts—just for a second—to reveal a beautiful young girl on the ground, her pale lips frozen forever in a silent scream…
On a winding mountain road into the small town of Denton, Pennsylvania, Detective Josie Quinn finds the body of a local teenage girl, Dina Hale. The sight of plum-colored bruises gathering around the girl’s neck pierces Josie’s heart, but the discovery of a second girl’s empty purse in the dirt nearby gives her a flicker of hope that one person, at least, made a lucky escape…
The Dead Children’s Playground
by James Kaine
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
AT THE EDGE OF THE CEMETERY RESTS A PLACE FOR CHILDREN TO PLAY. BUT NOT ALL SOULS THAT PLAY ARE AT REST.
Nine-year-old Kylie Macklin defied the odds in conquering cancer. Now she wants nothing more than a fresh start at her new home in Huntsville. Soon, an enigmatic new friend introduces her to a playground unlike any other. Set next to Maple Hill Cemetery, the park is a sanctuary for the spirits of local children who died in the Spanish Flu and fell victim to a twisted serial killer.
Overboard
by Sara Paretsky
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago’s weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky
On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski’s dogs lead her on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word. V.I. helps bring her to a hospital, but not long after, she vanishes before anyone can discover her identity…
Desert Star
by Michael Connelly
Kindle $3.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale” – a man responsible for the murder of an entire family.
A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division…
Rage
by Linda Castillo
Kindle $14.99 Rating: Brand New Release #ad
In this gripping installment of the Edgar Award winning series, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a brutal double murder that takes her into the dark underbelly of society and exposes the dangers of Amish lives gone wrong.
Summer has arrived with a vengeance in Painters Mill, and a macabre discovery by three Amish children brings the quiet to a grinding halt. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder arrives on scene to find the dismembered body of 21-year-old Samuel Yutzy, a local Amish man who owned a successful landscaping business. What twisted individual murdered him in such a sadistic way?
Monday’s Mystery eBooks
Midnight at Malabar House
by Vaseem Khan
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Bombay, New Year’s Eve, 1949
As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city’s most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after joining the force she remains India’s first female police detective, mistrusted, sidelined and now consigned to the midnight shift.
And so, when the phone rings to report the murder of prominent English diplomat Sir James Herriot, the country’s most sensational case falls into her lap…
Shoot Down
by Mark A. Hewitt
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
“A great technothriller with political intrigue, part of a series, but standalone so you don’t have to have read every preceding volume to follow the action.” – Pat Ingram Reviews, on Shoot Down
Shortly after takeoff, a jumbo jet explodes over the waters of Long Island. Witnesses claim the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile; the government insists a mechanical malfunction brought down the airplane. An old CIA file is uncovered which details the President was warned-to preclude commercial airliners from being shot out of the sky either pay a ransom or suffer the consequences…
The Couple at Number 9
by Claire Douglas
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.2 #ad
The internationally bestselling author of Do Not Disturb and Just Like the Other Girls delivers a heart-pounding psychological thriller about a couple who inherit what seems to be their dream home, until they make a horrifying discovery—and the danger begins.
The Victims . . .
When pregnant Saffron Cutler moves into 9 Skelton Place with boyfriend Tom and sets about renovations, the last thing she expects is builders uncovering human remains. The remains of two bodies, in fact.
The Investigation . . .
Stilettos and Outlaws
by Gail Koger
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
My name is Gemma Stone and I’ve been a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy for five years and nothing has prepared me for the return of the wild, wild West. A bloodthirsty outlaw gang straight out of the 1850’s is rustling cattle, robbing trains and killing people. These two-legged varmints are also linked to a dangerous enemy from my parents’ past who is determined to destroy our family.
My personal life got even more complicated. Off duty, I’m a ballroom dancer and my dad has always been supportive of my dancing, but to discover the reason why was jaw dropping. What other secrets was he hiding?
McNally’s Gamble
by Lawrence Sanders
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
At first, Archy McNally was unofficially enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Fabergé Imperial egg, created exclusively for the doomed Czar Nicholas in 1917. But when Edythe Westmore’s son and daughter become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally is asked to deep-six the whole deal. He gets more than he bargained for when Natalie Westmore and her brother’s wife, Helen, both try to seduce him. The Palm Beach detective will need to employ some fancy footwork as he reveals a mess of lust, greed, and murder that smells worse than a rotten egg…
Safe Haven
by Peter Hargraves
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
Margaret was afraid of her murderous husband. She never knew that her fate would lie with the genetically modified cougars and their human agents that occupied the land to the far north. A chance encounter with an enigmatic man gives her the confidence to take matters into her own hands and she embarks on a perilous journey she never imagined she’d take.
In the distant future human fertility is much reduced and the remaining human population makes do with early twentieth century technology. Margaret and Wolfe fall victim to her husband’s almost supernatural reach into the halls of power and are forced to flee across Europe. In a final flight across the frozen north they finally confront their pursuers.
God Save the Child
by Robert B. Parker
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers – Book 2 in the series –
Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he’s run away – until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn’t take Spenser long to get the picture – an affluent family seething with rage, a desperate boy making strange friends…friends like Vic Harroway, body builder. Mr. Muscle is Spenser’s only lead and he isn’t talking…except with his fists. But when push comes to shove, when a boy’s life is on the line, Spenser can speak that language too…
Remains to be Seen
by J. M. Gregson
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
The London detective returns to see a criminal kingpin put behind bars—only to discover that his nefarious deeds are from over.
Northumberland’s usually unflappable Det. Chief Inspector Percy Peach has suddenly found himself on the anxious side. It’s not that the bust didn’t go as planned. The raid on the sprawling country manor of a drug baron rounded up all the usual suspects. But only hours later, a converted stable on the grounds goes up in flames. In the ashes is the charred body of unassuming carpenter, Neil Cartwright. Peach can’t help but think the fire is too well-timed and highly suspicious. So does his fiancée, Det. Sergeant Lucy Blake.
Blind Eye
by Vanessa Luther
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
After enduring years of infidelity and a painful divorce, Rachel Davis has finally reclaimed her life. Gorgeous, intelligent and now with a tenacity to survive whatever life throws at her, Rachel feels better than she has in a long time. With two wonderful children, a successful career and a newfound strength, life is good.
At least until she gets involved with Eric Sinclair, a handsome but mysterious colleague in the throes of a nasty divorce. What starts off as a harmless friendship catapults into a sensuous affair filled with sex, lies and murder…
Rainbow’s End
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.3 #ad
When three women die of “natural causes” in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection—or reason to suspect foul play. But Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury has other ideas, and before long he’s following his keen police instincts all the way to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
There, in the company of a brooding thirteen-year-old girl and her pet coyote, he mingles with an odd assortment of characters and tangles with a twisted plot that stretches from England to the American Southwest…
Sunday’s Mystery eBooks
Death Speaks
by Stephanie Parker McKean
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Cordelia McNibbs leaves London, England, for the desert town of her childhood, Quartzsite, Arizona. She is prepared to make a decision about the future of the museum that her late aunt, Maybelle Peterson, left her. She is not prepared to solve the 30-year-old murder of Abel, her aunt’s best friend’s son, or to face Dorrie—a shrunken head in the museum that “speaks” and holds a clue to the murderer. She most definitely is not prepared to fall in love all over again with childhood friend Jacy Blackbird.
MB, as the town people affectionately called Cordy’s aunt, has left a directive: Cordy must solve the mystery of Abel’s death and she must not fall in love with Jacy – because he could be the killer…
You Don’t Know Me
by Theo Baxter
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Welcome to the family. Now run for your life.
Annabelle Marconi thought she’d already lost everything—first her father to cancer, then her mother in a brutal hit-and-run. But the worst blow comes at their double funeral, when a woman named Mary steps forward… with Annabelle’s half-brother, David.
The revelation of her father’s secret life shatters the family. Still reeling, Annabelle’s siblings make a reckless decision: they invite Mary and David to stay at the family ranch while the estate is settled…
The Knowledge
by Martha Grimes
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
As the New York Times–bestselling series continues, a double murder in front of an exclusive club takes a London detective on a wild ride.
Robbie Parsons is one of London’s finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand—a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. As the criminal eventually escapes to Nairobi, Detective Superintendent Richard Jury comes across the case in the Saturday paper…
Zombie Apocalypse
by Michael K. Clancy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
Three Standalone Novels From the Zombie Apocalypse Series
Clancy’s meticulous research and attention to detail make the outbreak chilling plausible, grounding the horror in scientific possibility. Prepare for sleepless nights and racing hearts as you follow the interconnected stories of soldiers, scientists, teenagers, and ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances. With cinematic action and deeply human characters, Michael K. Clancy reimagines the zombie genre for a new generation.
A Guilty Thing Surprised
by Ruth Rendell
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
“The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.” – The Boston Globe
Elizabeth and Quentin Nightingale. A happy couple who lived quite graciously at Myfleet Manor in the gentle English countryside.
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods…
First Frost
by Craig Johnson
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.6 #ad
The past and future collide in this gripping new addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.
It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden storm assaults the shores and capsizes a nearby cargo boat. Walt and Henry jump to action, but it’s soon revealed by the police who greet them ashore that the sunken boat carried valuable contraband from underground sources.
FIRE
by Linda K. Rodante
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
When a violent gang re-organizes, an undercover cop could lose everything…including the woman he loves.
Following a gang war, the undercover cop known as Patriot is forced to flee his hometown and assume a new identity. When the gang re-organizes and threatens a friend, Patriot—now a firefighter—returns to face them.
Chloe Swearingen confines herself to the fast pace of the ER and away from interpersonal relationships—for a reason she keeps to herself. But when she helps save a gangster’s life, she’s thrown into a cauldron of relationships from which she can’t escape.
A Taste For Lies
by LC Whitehouse
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Beauty and the Beast meets Netflix’s Bridgerton in this seductive fantasy romance! The best lies are mostly true.
Alora knows the Guild’s Ten Rules of Spy Craft and Thieving better than anyone. But none of them prepare her for being caught by the terrifying yet undeniably alluring beast prince.
She can’t believe it when instead of devouring her whole, he recruits her for an impossible heist.
The mark? His father, the king.
Saturday’s Mystery eBooks
Double Fudge Brownie Murder
by Joanne Fluke
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
New York Times Bestseller: A judge is executed with his own gavel in this mystery with “[a] big surprise ending…fans will be more than satisfied” (Publishers Weekly).
Hannah Swensen has a hard time focusing on her bakery at the moment, considering an unexpected trip to Las Vegas and a longstanding love triangle that may soon turn into a quadrangle—let alone the nerves she’s experiencing over the upcoming trial for her involvement in a tragic accident. When she gets back to Lake Eden, Minnesota, she’s eager to clear her name once and for all, but her troubles only double when she finds the judge bludgeoned to death with his own gavel—and Hannah is the number one suspect…
Battleforged: Survivor
by M.H. Johnson
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
To do list for the post apocalypse: 1. Survive the orcs rampaging through your city. 2. Survive the pod trying to steal your mind. 3. Pull off the greatest heist of all time.
Eric was as shocked as everyone else when the apocalypse struck, but unlike his mother’s movie, there were no chosen heroes destined to fight the beast hordes now overrunning the planet. Just people trying desperately to survive.
Yet there was a glimmer of hope that humanity could hold on to. A chosen few really could level up in this brave new world, and embrace magic, adventure, and the potential for limitless power!
Bone Deep
by Kendra Elliot
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
From bestselling author Kendra Elliot comes a riveting installment in the Widow’s Island Novella series about an ex–FBI agent’s race to save the man she loves from a trio of bank robbers.
When two men kidnap former FBI agent Cate Wilde’s fiancé, the boldness of the crime rattles the community. Desperate to find the man she loves, Cate joins forces with the FBI and the local sheriff’s department to launch an investigation and bring Dr. Henry Powers home.
Wonders in the Deep
by Columba Booth
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
A career woman haunted by her father’s rejection. A hurting child who misses his parents. A choice that can heal them both.
Attorney Audrey Beach is about to overcome the memory of her father’s contempt, once and for all. Making partner is right around the corner – plus, she has an interview with California’s biggest personal injury outfit. Meanwhile, she anticipates holding the arrogant Dr. Taylor accountable for the mistake that almost killed a friend’s daughter.
But when her brother goes to prison and she becomes guardian of his children, the validation she craves may elude her. Kids, it turns out, are a lot of work…
Beyond Boundaries
by George Carter
Kindle $4.99 Rating: 5.0 #ad
A story about how love has no limits and can do the impossible to protect the person you would do anything for – With constant twists and secrets around every corner.
As a child, Milo’s imaginary friend Henry was his only escape—a guardian shielding him from a harsh reality. But when danger struck, Henry became more than make-believe. Years later, Milo is an adult, and Henry is back—real, powerful, and discovering the secrets of his own past. Can Henry once again save Milo from the darkness closing in?
Long After Midnight
by Iris Johansen
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.5 #ad
She wanted to save lives. The killer wanted to end hers. The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away. The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood. Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth: She is somebody’s target.
Danger has arrived in Kate’s backyard with a vengeance. And the gifted scientist is awakening to a nightmare world where a ruthless killer is stalking her…where her innocent son is considered expendable…and where the medical research to which she has devoted her life is the same research that could get her killed.
The Vampire’s Curse
by Jade Christy
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
A haunted manor. A deadly secret. A vampire who should be her enemy.
Charlotte Marlowe has spent her career fighting the guilty. She’s not afraid of the darkness – until she inherits Blackthorn Manor.
Hidden within its walls are more than just ghosts. A seductive yet cursed vampire with centuries of secrets. A power in her blood she never knew existed. And horrifying entities contained beneath the manor that are… waiting and wanting.
Now, Charlotte must navigate a dangerous new world where witches, vampires, ghosts and ancient magic collide. But the greatest danger of all? The undeniable pull toward Adrian de Lanier, the vampire who might be her only ally… or her greatest threat.
Project Sentinel
by Elle E. Kay
Kindle $0.99 Rating: 4.8 #ad
Under the all-seeing eye of Project Sentinel, the truth is a memory away—and a love she forgot is their only hope.
Her memory is gone. But Faith Flanagan is about to learn what she believed about her past was a lie, and the truth could kill her. Two years after the accident that shattered her world, Faith is haunted by unsettling dreams and the growing suspicion that she’s not who she thinks she is.
When Elijah Knight, a dangerously attractive operative from a life she can’t recall, crashes back into her existence, he brings a chilling warning: her husband was murdered…
Quicksilver
by Dean Koontz
Kindle $2.99 Rating: 4.1 #ad
A #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz takes a surprising and exhilarating road trip with a man in pursuit of his strange past – mile by frightening mile.
Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery – abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of “strange magnetism.” It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life…
The Way Station
by Multiple Authors
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.7 #ad
Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain—and the world of the Dark Tower—presented in a stunning graphic novel form unlocking the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.
Roland has barely escaped the frightening and deadly trap set for him by the elusive Man in Black in the sleepy little town of Tull—a place centered in the apotheosis of all deserts, and where the sinister sorcerer’s power had taken hold. Leaving death and despair in his wake, Roland soon arrives at a mysterious way station…and meets a young boy, Jake Chambers, who has seemingly appeared out of nowhere from another place and time. But who is this sophisticated child, and what is his connection to Roland’s quest and the Man in Black himself?
Waiting for Nick
by Nora Roberts
Kindle $1.99 Rating: 4.4 #ad
Don’t miss the next book in the classic Stanislaskis series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Frederica Kimball has three goals now that she’s moved to New York City: find her own place, become a Broadway lyricist and get Nick LeBeck to fall desperately in love with her. Though Nick has always treated Freddie like a little sister, he can’t help but notice the strong, passionate and head-to-toe-gorgeous woman now standing in her place. Perhaps everything he’s ever wanted is closer than he could have imagined…