A Stranger's Game by Colleen Coble

 A wealthy hotel heiress.

Even though Torie Bergstrom hasn’t been back to Georgia since she was ten, she’s happy to arrange a job for her best friend at one of the family properties on Jekyll Island.

A suspicious death.

But when Torie learns that her best friend has drowned, she knows it is more than a tragic accident: Lisbeth was terrified of water and wouldn’t have gone swimming by choice.

A fight for the truth.

Torie goes to the hotel under an alias, desperate to find answers. When she meets Joe Abbott and his daughter rescuing baby turtles, she finds a tentative ally.

The more Torie and Joe dig, the more elusive the truth seems. One thing is clear: someone will risk anything—even more murder—to keep their secrets buried.

Torie just can't believe that her friend drowned.  She was terrified of water so how could she drown.  She arranges to go to the hotel to get some answers.  There she meets Joe and his daughter.  Torie doesn't want anyone to know she is there to investigate her friends death.  Her dad, the owner of the hotel, arrange for her to get and job in the IT department.  Of course she solves the mystery, along with Joe's help.  I enjoyed this book and recommend to all who like a good mystery.

I was given this book by Thomas Nelson Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

Proposing Mischief by Regin Jennings

Maisie Kentworth is being forced to stay on her parents' ranch. After a short-lived relationship with the wrong man, she's worried about inflaming things further between her former beau and her protective family. Left to rue her mistakes, she keeps busy exploring the idle mine at the edge of their property, where she discovers a great treasure.

Boone Bragg is also stuck. With his parents on vacation, the management of Bragg Mining falls on him, and one of his advisors wants him as a son-in-law. One wrong move, and Boone will end up either offending an associate or marrying a woman he can't endure.

While closing up a spent mine, Boone gets two surprises. One is a spitfire farm girl who's trespassing with a pickax, and the other is the amazing crystal cavern that she's discovered. Suddenly Boone sees a way to overhaul the family business. With part of the cavern on Kentworth land, Boone makes Maisie a proposal that he hopes will solve all of their problems. Instead it throws Joplin into chaos, and it will take all of Maisie's gumption to set things right.

I found this to be a good lighthearted read.  Maisie is a down to earth girl who manages to get herself into mischief wherever she goes.  She goes exploring and discovers a crystal cavern.  Boone finds her there and the fun begins.  Boone wants to save his business and the only way he sees to do that is to marry Maisie.  Maisie wants to escape her family farm so they make a deal.  Along the way they discover that someone is sabotaging the mine so it won't be able to open.  

I recommend this to all who enjoy a good light hearted mystery.  

I was given this book by Bethany House Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.

Lights Out by Natalie Walters

CIA analyst Brynn Taylor developed a new program to combat terrorism, and she invited members of foreign intelligence agencies to America to foster cooperation between countries. Now one of them, Egyptian spy Remon Riad, is missing.

Jack Hudson has been working for the Strategic Neutralization and Protection Agency (SNAP) for almost nine years and takes the lead in hunting down the missing spy. But he isn't at all pleased to find out Brynn is involved. It's hard to trust a woman who's already betrayed you.

Every lead they follow draws them dangerously deeper into an international plot. Kidnapping, murder, explosions, poisoning--the terrorists will do anything to accomplish their goal of causing a digital blackout that will blind a strategic US military communications center and throw the world into chaos.

Jack and Brynn met years ago when they were both in CIA training.  It was because of her that he didn't make into the CIA.  He has bitter feelings about her that he has overcome in order to work with her to stop a terrorist attack against the US.  

This book was full of suspense and kept me reading.  I recommend this book to all who like a good mystery.  I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

I was given this book by Revell Publishing via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.  I was not compensated in any way.