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He's her best friend's brother, and as of this summer he's the competition ...As a woman already living the dream, elementary school librarian Kathleen Hart never intended to become a contestant on Greece's favorite competition game show this summer. Unlike her estranged mother, she has never needed to be the center of attention. But when a chance encounter leads to an offer to compete, she realizes she can't say no. Not when there's a mountain of money at stake and she could do a lot of good with the prize.Construction worker Nick Merrick also needs that cash. He's got everything Kathleen doesn't: strength, stamina, six-pack ... and a brand-new crippling fear of heights that he's struggling to keep hidden from his intrusive Greek family.Normally Greece's Top Hoplite isn't a show about finding love, but this season, unbeknownst to Kathleen and Nick, the producers are switching up the formula in an attempt to grab a bigger share of the international market. They want love! They want drama! And they'll do anything to put on an explosive show-even if it means exploiting Kathleen and Nick's undeniable chemistry ... and their tragic pasts.The Summer Show is a closed-door romantic comedy, with a touch of steam and some mild language. This romcom is packed with laugh-out-loud banter, kooky Greek families, and a whole lot of heart.

A temperamental labyrinth, a deranged siren, and hundreds of howling cult members are out for blood-Penny's blood. Which is a problem because she's using all she's got.Penny Post is-finally!-getting the hang of this whole myth agent gig, and she's this close to affording a killer attorney to help get custody of her cat. On the downside, her boss is out of his mind if he thinks she's qualified to apprehend the cult leader of the Sirentologists, a delusional siren who has her hooks in a growing number of the city's men.Good news: As a woman, she's immune to the siren's caterwauling.Bad news: Luke Remis, Penny's first love and current co-agent, is the newest member of the siren's cult.Worse news: Guess what the siren eats. Go on, guess. (It's people, which means Luke is on the menu.)When Penny's one shot at apprehending the siren goes sideways, the Sirentologists decide she's public enemy numero uno. They've got pitchforks and picket signs and a whole lot of toilet paper, and they intend to use them.Complicating matters-like Penny needs that-is the goddess of love and beauty herself. Furious that the siren has the audacity to amass worshippers, Aphrodite slams Salem, Oregon with an unusual curse, and soon the city is falling out of love.Penny has two days to save the city and kick the siren back to her own world, otherwise the unthinkable will happen: she'll be on the hook for escorting Luke Remis's terrifying grandmother to church this Sunday.This laugh-out-loud mystery series is for readers who enjoy witty banter, kooky families, Greek Mythology, and clashing cultures. SIRENTOLOGY comes smothered in tzatziki sauce and served with a Pacific Northwestern IPA.

Zombies. Why did it have to be zombies?As the owner of Finders Keepers, a business dedicated to finding solutions, gifts, and information that wants to remain buried, Allie Callas has been desperate for a shot at playing Indiana Jones. Today is her lucky day. She's got the hat. She's got the backpack. She's got the map with an X on it. And now she's rummaging around in the bushes on a remote and nameless island for a clay artifact that resembles a pineapple. The job is a dubious success until the handover. One slip of a foot and the Greek island of Merope suddenly has a growing zombie problem.If zombies aren't enough to keep Allie busy, she's been hired to clear a serial killer's name. All evidence points to Greece's favorite weatherman's guilt, but his annoyingly attractive conman cousin insists she can find anything-even if that anything is nothing. His logic is excruciating. Allie might have an uncontrollable eye twitch, but she's determined to enjoy the Christmas lights with her honey, hot cop Detective Leo Samaras-and to find a home for the enormous dog that's taking over her home and heart.

Kat sidesteps authority, flips off disaster, argues with nuns, and eats too much pie in the newest entry in the Kat Makris series. The Kat Makris series is part Godfather, part Stephanie Plum, and all-well, mostly-Greek.For one perfect day, everything is going to plan in Kat Makris' life. The groom has a pimple, but she penciled pre-wedding drama into her schedule. The bride has her own pimple; but again, it's all in the schedule. Kat even accounted for the time she's planning to spend ignoring Xander, the hot henchman-slash-secret agent, after their disastrous rendezvous in Portland.Before the wedding reception is over, and Kat has successfully dodged all the questions about what happened in Portland, her perfect day turns into a nightmare. It starts with the dying man in the subterranean tunnels beneath the family compound, and escalates when a device encircling his neck explodes. Voila! Instant decapitation.Turns out the mystery man is not the only one who has lost his head recently. A spate of similar decapitations around the world lead Kat to discover a pattern to the murders. But before she can investigate, she's thrown into a van with a gang of crazy Kiwis, who hook her up with her own exploding collar and specific orders: locate the painting of the Seven Sisters, or it's bye-bye Kat.

Mythology won't be the same now that Penny Post is on the job.Growing up as a Greek-American kid in Salem, Oregon, Penny Post is used to being yanked in all directions. Her life of not being quite good enough has left her recently divorced and on the hook for cat support; but there's still oodles of sass and can-do attitude left to drag herself home for cake after her hairstyling gig ends in a blazing bonfire. (She did warn her client that hairspray and cigarettes don't mix; she even jabbed her brush at the No Smoking sign.)Good news: Her Greek grandmother has a lead on a new job.Bad news: She'll be rubbing elbows with her first love, Luke Remis, the man who vanished for six months before reentering her life with a wicked tan, a snake tattoo, and an excessive amount of audacity.More good news: The money means her mommy's boy ex won't be calling her a loser for late cat support payments.Weird news: Her new boss is a nameless disembodied voice; an alarming number of business owners in Salem aren't fully human; Greek mythology is real; a complex treaty keeps the worlds separate; and there's a minotaur rampaging around the city, scoffing people like chips.Penny's position as a myth agent for the Labyrinth Agency means she'll be hunting for Luke Remis (missing myth agent and Penny's former squeeze), who was last seen pursuing the runaway minotaur. Should be a basic wellness check for the fledgling agent-until the minotaur is assassinated and suddenly Luke is on the hook for its murder. Penny's simple assignment quickly gets a whole lot more complicated when her new orders involve apprehending Luke before the treaty between worlds disintegrates.This new laugh-out-loud mystery series is for readers who enjoy witty banter, kooky families, and clashing cultures. SO MUCH BULL comes smothered in tzatziki sauce and served with Pacific Northwestern IPA.

Two households, both alike in lacking any dignity or self-restraint ...As a member of the Stamou family, Ana Merrick, fourth grade teacher, dreads summers on the Greek island of Nera and the inevitable torrent of insults and rotten vegetables hurled across the wall separating the Stamous from their mortal enemies, the Roussos family. The only thing more irritating than the relentless bickering-and flying food-is having to spend time in close proximity to Thanos Roussos, the man who once used her sports bra as a slingshot. Ana's most prominent childhood memories all involve Thanos and the pranks they used to inflict upon each other.Unfortunately, this summer won't give Ana the option of keeping her distance from her alarmingly attractive nemesis.When Ana's interfering family volunteers her for what appears to be the perfect summer job-teaching English to summer school students-what they don't realize is that it's a two-person project. And here is Thanos Roussos, middle school PE teacher, conveniently ready and able to swoop in and wrangle teenagers alongside Ana. They'll be breathing the same air. Inhaling the same eye-watering BO and cologne. Begging their students to put down their phones with the same exasperated tone. And they'll have do it while fighting their natural urge to strangle each other, figuratively speaking.The only solution is a secret and temporary truce, in a place where a secret is no secret at all. Complicating matters, Ana is alarmed to discover that her time in the classroom, teaching alongside her sworn enemy, is fast becoming the most fun she's ever had in Greece. And yet hanging over her head is the possibility that their forbidden attraction might be nothing more than another one of Thanos's pranks.