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Author
Series
Men of the sisterhood volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"With the women of the Sisterhood away on a covert assignment, their significant others could be expected to kick back and enjoy a little drama-free downtime. But that's not the way Jack, Ted, Harry, Charles, and the rest of their comrades roll. An urgent call has come to the headquarters of their organization, BOLO Consultants. Bert Navarro, head of security for Countess Anna de Silva, suspects that Annie's deluxe casino, Babylon, is being stealthily...
2) Private
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Former Marine pilot Jack Morgan runs Private, a prestigious investigation company. But the world's darkest secrets can only stay private for so long . . .
Private: it's where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily-and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases.
Jack is already...
Private: it's where you go when you need maximum force and maximum discretion. The secrets of the most influential men and women on the planet come to Jack daily-and his staff of investigators uses the world's most advanced forensic tools to make and break their cases.
Jack is already...
Author
Series
Blackwater brides volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An eccentric uncle promises three noble brothers a lavish inheritance, but only if each marries-- thus redeeming-- a fallen woman. Fortune's whim placed Lady Serena Grantley in the control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her to lure men to his gambling tables. Serena dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather's command. But when he attempts to force her into a liaison with a dissolute earl, it is to Sebastian...
Author
Series
Private Detective Agency novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, an international investigation company involved in solving important cases around the world. When he learns that his best friend's wife and Jack's former lover has been killed, Jack devotes all of the company's resources to tracking down her killer, while navigating a workplace romance that threatens to disrupt his plans.
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
It seems like just another quiet night at Elaine's. Stone Barrington and his former cop partner, Dino, take on client Herbie Fisher who claims to have won $14 million on a lucky lotto ticket. Herbie says he needs a lawyer--but a single gunshot aimed at Herbie convinces Stone and Dino that Herbie might need a bodyguard and a private investigator, too.
6) Even money
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ned Talbot has worked all his life as a book-maker so he knows not to expect any sympathy from the punters as they count their winnings at Royal Ascot. When a man steps forward from the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned is thrown into turmoil. He'd been told that both his parents died when he was a baby. Barely an hour later, his father stabbed by an unknown assailant. Before dying, he warns Ned to "be very careful." But of whom? Of what? Ned finds...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love or soulmates and a hopelessly romantic divorce attorney who does, are forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their messy breakup and who, during a charged exchange, make a bet on the outcome of five relationships--including their own--over the next five years with the winner to be declared the ultimate authority on true love"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, the Marquess of Bourne was cast from society with nothing but his title. Now a partner in London's most exclusive gaming hell, the cold, ruthless Bourne will do whatever it takes to regain his inheritance -- including marrying perfect, proper Lady Penelope Marbury. Bourne may be a prince of London's illicit underworld, but he vows to keep Penelope untouched by its wickedness -- a challenge indeed as the lady discovers her own desires,...
10) Queen of volts
Author
Series
Shadow game trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Return to the City of Sin, where the perilous final game is about to begin...The players? Twenty-two of the most powerful, most notorious people in New Reynes. With no choice but to play, Enne and Levi are desperate to forge new alliances and bargain for their safety. But any misstep could turn deadly when a far more dangerous opponent appears on the board-- one plucked straight from the city's most gruesome legends. While Levi hides behind a mask...
11) Red on the river
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which she heads up. Out in the backcountry there's no time for hesitation when lives are on the line. Vienna prides herself on being tough and decisive. She's not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy, especially one who left her high and dry without...
12) High stakes
Author
Series
Logan Tanner volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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 two Russian mafia bosses...
Author
Series
Disgraceful dukes volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In order to honor his father's gambling debt--or lose the family estate--Lord Hatherly is forced to marry Miss Alice Tombs, an independent beauty who longs to explore the world on her own, and makes her an offer she cannot refuse--one summer to prove the legitimacy of their union, then she is free to travel.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Some people join chess club, some people play football. Jack Shannon runs a secret blackjack ring in his private school's basement. What else is the son of a Las Vegas casino mogul supposed to do? Everything starts falling apart when Jack's mom is arrested for their family's ties to organized crime. His sister Beth thinks this is the Shannon family's chance to finally go straight, but Jack knows that something's not right. His mom was sold out,...
Author
Series
Gentleman bastard novels volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2008, ©2007.
Language
English
Description
Wily con artist Locke Lamora has come up with an ingenious scheme targeting Sinspire, a nine-story palace of gambling and all forms of debauchery in the exotic city of Tal Verrar, but somehow the con does not go as planned.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After finding out their husbands are not the men they thought they were--one has a gambling addiction and the other is unfaithful--best friends Regina Moore and Karen Jackson decide to start their lives over and realize how much true friendship, honesty, and love are worth.
Author
Series
Wild wicked Highlanders volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miranda Harris is known for her charm, wit, and ability to solve any problem she encounters. But when her brother lands neck-deep in gambling debt to a crafty villain and Miranda is subsequently blackmailed into marrying him, she must enlist the help of the devil himself to save the family honor--and herself. Devilishly handsome Highlander Aden MacTaggert knows next to nothing about the ways of the ton, but he most certainly knows his way around...
18) The bingo palace
Author
Series
Love medicine volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Louise Erdrich's brilliant novels of contemporary Native American and Midwestern life have brought her legions of fans and great critical acclaim. Here, in her latest and most luminescent work in the series begun with Love Medicine, the central character is Lipsha Morrissey, the illegitimate son of June Kashpaw and Gerry Nanapush. Lipsha brings together in his birth, rearing, and inheritance all of the major families from Erdrich's previous books,...
20) Betting on you
Author
Series
Betting on you volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Bailey starts a new job at a hotel waterpark, she is less than thrilled to see an old acquaintance is one of her coworkers. Bailey met Charlie a year ago on the long flight to Omaha, where she moved after her parents' divorce. Charlie's cynicism didn't mix well with Bailey's carefully well-behaved temperament, and his endless commentary was the irritating cherry on top of an already emotionally fraught trip. Now, Bailey and...
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