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#1 Most Sold Fiction on Amazon

10/27/2020

A New York Times Bestseller

"This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet...its own kind of masterpiece." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

A "taut, chiseled and propulsive" (Vogue) new novel from the bestselling mystery writer who "is in a class by herself." (The New York Times)

Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small towns shelter dangerous secrets.

"One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) weaves a masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking what we sacrifice in our search for truth and justice, and what we risk if we don't.

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Halloween Cheesecake Bars

10/20/2020

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Halloween Cheesecake Bars

Course: Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 50 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Servings: 16 Portions

Calories: 434kcal
Author: Heather - A Wicked Whisk

Ingredients Cookie Crust

▢ 20 - 25 chocolate sandwich cookies
▢ 1/3 cup sugar
▢ 2 tablespoons butter melted

Cheesecake Filling

▢ 3 8 ounce packages of cream cheese softened
▢ 3/4 cup sour cream
▢ 3/4 cup sugar
▢ 3 large eggs
▢ 2 teaspoons vanilla
▢ 1/2 teaspoon salt
▢ Orange and Black Food Coloring

Instructions

To make Halloween Cheesecake Bars, start by preheating your oven to 325 degrees and adding a large pan of water to your bottom oven rack.
Begin your cheesecake bars by adding your chocolate sandwich cookies to a food processor and pulse until pulverized. If you do not have a food processor, no worries, simply add them to a large zip top bag, push out the extra air and then seal up the bag. Gently beat the cookies with something heavy like a pan or a rolling pin until they are reduced to crumbs.
Combine the cookie crumbs, melted butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl and then pour the cookie mixture into a 9 x 13 baking pan lined with parchment paper. Using your fingers or a spoon, firmly press the cookies evenly on the bottom and sides of the baking pan to make your crust. Set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat softened cream cheese until creamy and then add in sugar and salt and mix well. One by one, add in eggs and beat until each is incorporated before adding in the next one. Add in sour cream and vanilla and continue mixing until you have a creamy filling. Transfer 1 1/3 cup of cheesecake filling evenly into two separate bowls and add orange food coloring to one bowl and black to the other. Mix the food coloring in to combine.
Pour the white cheesecake filling on top of the cookie crust crust and smooth until even. Using a spoon, pour alternating lines of black cheesecake filling and orange cheesecake filling down the length of the cheesecake. Swirl the colors into the cheesecake filing using the back of knife (or a chopstick!) to create a beautiful swirl pattern. The more swirls, the better..
Bake in oven for 50-55 minutes or until center is no longer wobbly. When baking time is done, turn off oven, open oven door and let your Halloween Cheesecake Bars sit for one hour in the open oven. Remove from oven and refrigerate overnight before pulling up on parchment paper and removing from baking pan. Cut into squares and serve!

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PULL ME UNDER

10/13/2020

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Callie Johnson escapes from her cheating fiancé and the rest of the world when she takes a girl’s trip to Hawaii with her best friend, but she’s thrown into a riptide when professional surfer Lucas Slater saves her from drowning. Against her better judgment, she agrees to take him out for a drink to thank him, which turns into much more than she imagined.

Should she face her demons and take a chance with the playboy surfer or is her heart destined to be pulled under?

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A New NICHOLAS SPARKS Release

10/6/2020

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In the romantic tradition of Dear John, Nicholas Sparks returns with the story of an injured Navy doctor -- and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this #1 New York Times bestseller.

Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any.

Tending to his grandfather's beloved beehives, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local . . . yet, from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson that he can't ignore. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding.

Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road. Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues -- until a crisis triggers a race to uncover the true nature of Callie's past, one more intertwined with the elderly man's passing than Trevor could ever have imagined.

In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness . . . and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began.

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