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This week’s topic is Books with numbers in the titles

I will be honest here, I have over 3000 books on my Want to Read shelf on Goodreads. For this week, I am going showcase books that have numbers in the title of books I want to read, they are all on my Netgalley backlist as well. Maybe highlighting them today will get them out of my pile and onto my weekly It’s Monday post. Not sure if they will, but it is a thought. 

Fifteen Minutes to Live by Phoef Sutton

Published May 5th 2015 by Brash Books (Added to my WTR 2015/04/29)

It was good sex. Carl hadn’t seen Jessica in twenty years… not since high school… and they passionately ravaged each other as if it was yesterday. There’s just a couple of little problems with their hot encounter. For one thing, Jessica thinks that it is yesterday and that they are still teenagers. And Carl discovers that she was killed three weeks ago.

Is she insane? An imposter? A ghost? Finding the shocking answer could cost Carl and Jessica their lives in this wildly inventive, exhilarating, sexually-charged thriller from Emmy-award winning writer Phoef Sutton that critics are already hailing as “Elmore Leonard on crack.”

One Among Us by Paige Dearth

Published December 12th 2014 by CreateSpace (Added to my WTR 2015/04/29)

Kidnapped and forced into human sex trafficking, Maggie has only one way out.

Eleven-year-old Maggie Clarke is an average suburban girl known for her intelligence and beauty. Suddenly, her life’s path is tragically altered when Maggie is ripped from her family and thrust into the horrific underworld of human sex trafficking. In captivity, Maggie watches over a young boy, who gives her a reason to live. Robbed of her innocence and freedom, Maggie does whatever it takes to survive.

With the help of Detective Rae Harker, the Clarkes’ frantically search for their daughter. Haunted by his own demons, Detective Harker vows to find Maggie—dead or alive. Meanwhile on the vile streets of Philadelphia, a strange man approaches Maggie with a dangerous proposition, and she risks everything to break free of the network of unsavory characters that control her. Not even she can know how far she will go to get even with the people who ruined her life.

Raw, edgy, and intense, One Among Us ultimately offers hope through Maggie, who grows stronger and more resourceful through her experiences. You’ll be on the edge of your seat, rooting for Maggie as she fights for her life.

**WARNING**18+ Readers Only. Graphic content and subject matter.

The House on Seventh Street by Karen Vorbeck Williams

Published July 26th 2015 by Booktrope Editions (Added to my WTR 2015/08/24)

Winna returns to her Colorado hometown to settle her father’s estate and sell his last residence, the grand Edwardian house built by her grandfather. She shares childhood memories with her married daughter as they clean and sort through both trash and treasure. Winna hopes to reconcile with her disinherited sister Chloe, and resumes relationships with her best friend and her high school boyfriend.
As the house gives up its secrets—a handwritten will, old love letters, an unfinished story in a notebook, and a diamond ring hidden among her childhood marbles—Winna calls into question everything she ever knew about her beloved grandmother. Then in the dark of night come footsteps on the stairs and numerous break-ins. Valuable art and jewelry go missing, her car’s brakes fail on a mountain road. Winna has an 80-year-old mystery to solve and needs to stay alive long enough to do it.

The House on Seventh Street was inspired by the Nancy Drew Mysteries the author read as a girl. Readers of both literary and women’s fiction and old fashioned mysteries will enjoy this book.

The Three Deaths of Magdalene Lynton Ngaire Blakes #1 by Katherine Hayton

Published March 29th 2016 by Katherine Hayton (Added to my WTR 2016/05/02)

Forty years ago Magdalene Lynton drowned in a slurry. She choked to death as her hands scrabbled for purchase on the smooth concrete walls. A farmhand discovered her bloated body three days later.

Or she didn’t.

Paul Worthington just confessed to her murder.

Forty years ago Magdalene Lynton died in a dirty shed. He smothered her life along with her cries for help and tossed her defiled corpse into a river when he was done.

Or he didn’t.

As Detective Ngaire Blakes investigates the death, she discovers clues that won’t piece together with either version. Gaps, inconsistencies, lies. And forty years have eroded more than memories.

Is it possible to uncover the third death of Magdalene Lynton when time has eaten away at the evidence? And will the person responsible let Ngaire live long enough to try?

God Bless Us Every One by Eva Marie Everson

Published September 6th 2016 by Abingdon Press (Added to my WTR 2016/05/09)

Charlene Dixon–called Charlie by family and friends–is devastated at the recent loss of her job. For the last five years, the twenty-seven-year-old has blossomed as the activities director of an exclusive all-girls school. But when a misunderstanding with the headmistress leads to a pink slip right before the holidays, Charlie packs up her dreams and returns to her grandmother, Sis, who raised Charlie as her own in the mountains of North Carolina.

When Charlie arrives–broken and confused–Sis immediately puts her granddaughter to work behind the scenes of the local school’s Christmas play, A Christmas Carol. Charlie doesn’t always like working with Dustin Kennedy, the drama teacher, but Sis encourages her to take a deeper look at why the book by Charles Dickens had been written in the first place and what it could teach Charlie about the needs of people in their own community.

There you have it, 5 books with numbers in the title. Have you read any of these books, if so, what did you think? Any suggestions of the one I should read first? What books would be on your list?

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