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Havana Girls : A gripping tale of family secrets and Cold War intrigue across Cuba and Florida by L.L. Kirchner

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Havana Girls : A gripping tale of family secrets and Cold War intrigue across Cuba and Florida (The Queenpin Chronicles) by L.L. Kirchner
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Genre – Historical Women’s Crime Fiction
Synopsis –
Dangerous secrets unite two women across generations in this immersive historical thriller.
Like the gripping intrigue of The Nightingale and the dual-timeline suspense of The Forgotten Garden, L.L. Kirchner’s novel reveals a shadow world where determined women outmaneuver the mobsters and g-men who never saw them coming.
Havana, 1950. Thelma Miles has carved out a precarious independence running a Havana nightclub and raising her niece when she learns her reporter friend’s car has gone over the cliffs off the Pacific Coast Highway. The woman had been on the verge of publishing a groundbreaking exposé. Only Thelma knows the deadly secrets she took with her – secrets powerful men would kill to keep buried.
Miami, 1978. Sam Fontana is still reeling from divorce when her father’s death leads her to a mysterious envelope left by her mother – investigative reporter Imogene Fuchs – who died in a suspicious “accident” nearly thirty years earlier. What begins as a personal quest to understand her mother’s past soon plunges Sam into a shadowy world where the glittering nightclubs of pre-revolution Cuba collide with the corrupt underbelly of 1970s Miami.
As their timelines merge, Sam and Thelma find themselves battling the same sinister forces – a lethal mix of organized crime, government conspiracy, and family betrayal. But can they trust each other? Should they?
With the stakes escalating, these two fiercely independent women must find a way to work together and expose the truth before the same powerful forces that silenced Imogene Fuchs return to finish the job.
Perfect for readers who love their heroines formidable and flawed.

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L.L. Kirchner is an award-winning screenwriter and Pushcart-nominated author whose expatriate adventures spawned two memoirs—described by NPR as “like Eat, Pray, Love, but funny.” Drawing on her eclectic background as a religion editor, dating columnist, and bridal editor, her writing explores feminist narratives with wit and “her discerning eye” (Foreword Reviews). Her debut novel FLORIDA GIRLS launches the Queenpin Chronicles trilogy, following an unconventional heroine through 1940s Florida’s criminal underworld. When not writing books about fierce women making trouble, she blogs about them at IllBehavedWomen.com. She lives in Florida with her favorite husband and their best boy Hartley.

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Ryder (Men of Syn Book ) by Anise Storm

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Ryder (Men of Syn Book 4) by Anise Storm
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Genre – Dark Romance
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Fugitive. Trouble. Seductive.
I thought I’d escaped Hell only to find myself in a new one.
He wasn’t supposed to be here. Only, Ryder is and he wants me gone.
Because the years apart have made him hate me even more.
He was the only one to have seen beyond my shattered pieces.
And now he is determined to break me into even more of them.
Obsessive. Suspicious. Dominant.
When a Ghost from my past reappears, I know she’s up to no good.
Nothing has changed in all of these years, only no one else sees it.
I’m determined to protect my friends and all they’ve built in Denver.
Because Addison’s a threat to more than just the others. She is one to me.
If I’m not careful, I’ll find myself caught in her web of deceit again.
Dangerous. Infuriating. Deadly.
She throws my entire life into chaos as she makes me question my motives.
And as old sparks ignite between us, I’m left questioning my heart as well.
Will I be able to let go of the pain and put our history behind us once and for all?
Or will her past finally catch up to her and take away any chance we have at a future.

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Anise Storm is a USA Today Bestselling author of Contemporary and Dark Romance.

A Southern transplant, Anise is married with children. She has a love of football, shoes, and tall, dark heroes. When not spending time with family or traveling, she can be found either curled up with a good book or writing.

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108: An Eco Thriller by Dheepa R Maturi

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Can one woman stop a chemical magnate from destroying life on Earth?
While working the night shift at a San Francisco news agency, Bayla Jeevan has a shocking out-of-body experience. Her consciousness is transported deep into an Indian forest, where she witnesses a noxious liquid spreading through the soil. At the same time, she receives a message from her father, presumed dead for fifteen years, warning her of imminent danger. Coincidence? Unlikely.
Halfway around the world, agrochemical corporation ZedChem – led by billionaire Krakun Zed – tests its latest innovation, a product heralded as the solution to topsoil erosion. But the data reveals something else entirely.
As Bayla sets out looking for answers, she learns more about her past – and her family’s connections to a secret organization with ancient roots and to Zed himself. Will Bayla be able to stop the corporation from ruining global agriculture and devastating human existence forever?
In this action-packed eco-thriller, the bonds of family – and the power to save Earth – are put to the test.

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Dheepa R. Maturi is an Indian-American writer who explores ecology, culture, identity, and how they intersect. Her essays, poetry, and fiction have appeared in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Literary Hub, PANK, The Fourth River, Sequestrum, Tiferet, and How to Write a Form Poem. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, and she is the author of 108: an Eco-Thriller, to be published by GFB in June of 2025.

In the past, Dheepa has worked as a lawyer, consultant, and education grant director. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago and now lives with her family in Indianapolis. To read some of her work, visit DheepaRMaturi.com.

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