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Megan Cyrulewski is an ordinary person who has faced extraordinary challenges and now wants to inspire people and show them that hope gives them the power to survive anything. Who Am I? is about her journey into post-partum depression, anxiety disorder, panic attacks, visits to the psych ward, divorce, domestic violence, law school, and her courageous struggle to survive with her sanity intact-and how a beautiful little girl emerged from all this chaos.

Danielle thinks that the worst is behind her, but she couldn't have been more wrong... As a beauty editor of Denver's hot new High Life magazine, Danielle Starkey didn't have becoming a widow on her to-do list. Then nine months after her husband's death, she discovers he booked a vacation with another woman. Suddenly, Danielle sees Adam's death in a whole new light and has to get over it - for the second time. Hit with the truth when she least expects it, Danielle brings a fresh, funny, and honest approach to the grieving process as she struggles through online dating, stalking her dead husband's mistress, and, hopefully, finding the man of her dreams. With her stubborn and sassy best friend April by her side. Danielle refuses to let sleeping dogs lie. Will she finally face the truth about herself and her marriage? Or will she succumb to one of the five stages of grief?

Welcome to the quiet town of Harrow, a picturesque community found in New Hampshire's White Mountains. To the outside world, this charming little town was a dreamland vacation spot. UNTIL SORROW FELL UPON IT... Hidden deep within the Harrowing Hills is a secret pathway to the realm of mist and darkness-an unsanctified land where a dark enemy seeks to destroy everything in existence. NOW ALL MAY BE LOST... What can this normally-sleepy village harbor that could not only devour this close-knit community, but the universe itself?

At the celebration of his hundredth birthday, local billionaire Francis Hearty Withers announces to the people gathered on the front lawn of Witherston Baptist Church that he has finalized his will. In it he bequeaths $1 billion to his north Georgia hometown of Witherston and another $1 billion to be divided up equally among the town's 4,000 residents-in recognition of their support of a Senextra pharmaceutical factory. Senextra is a drug that enables individuals to lead healthy lives well into their second century, but it has some unanticipated consequences. The group assembled to hear Withers's announcement do not all applaud. One person carries a sign that says SENEXTRA VIOLATES MOTHER NATURE. Another, KEEP SENEXTRA OUT OF OUR SYSTEM. A third, WE DON'T NEED MORE OLD MEN. Withers flies into a rage. He vows to change his will and disinherit the community. Two days later he is found dead. In Betty Jean Craige's first murder mystery a few humans die in unusual circumstances. A few others live in unusual circumstances. Who dunnit?

She'd saved his life... Rafe Hawk refuses to accept the inheritance, of a large English estate, and the title that goes with it, after his birth father's death because the man chose duty over the woman he loved and their son. And when he finds himself temporarily living at Kinsale Hall, he's not prepared to trust anyone associated with the place, including Trudi Delaney and her daughter. So why, when he looks into their eyes, does he suddenly remember a woman who vanished without a trace after saving his life one stormy night ten years earlier? Now he could destroy hers. Something more than the handsome American's instant dislike of her, disturbs Trudi Delaney. Why, when he'd come to design some chalets for her, does he spend so much of his time in areas of Kinsale Hall off-limits to visitors? Trudi, who is still plagued with nightmares of her entrapment in a brutal five year marriage where she was held a prisoner of her cruel and psychotic husband, has been a single parent for more a decade. Eleven years after the night she and an unidentified man barely escaped with their lives, Trudi is still unable to remember the hours she spent with this stranger-the hours in which her beautiful daughter was conceived. Now, more than a decade later, she is confronted by another stranger. Will this one destroy everything she holds dear?

Following a worldwide economic collapse, a tyrannical administration has taken control of the United States government and nullified the Constitution. Joan Bowman, a highly skilled veteran and patriot, joins an underground resistance group to restore America's beloved freedoms. Too late, she realizes that the group she so idealistically joined is just as corrupt as the administration in Washington. However, since she knows too much to ever leave the group alive, she turns State's evidence. But when the task force demands she go back to the group to obtain one last piece of crucial information, Joan knows she faces certain death. Dispirited, exhausted, and paranoid, she's hardly on top of her game-and she needs to be or, this time, she'll pay with her life.

When sheriff's department office assistant Christy Bristol takes a long weekend to visit her friend, Lennie, in the Sierra Nevada foothills, it's not the vacation she anticipated. A murder has just occurred and Christy is conscripted by the homicide team to handle the reports. To add to her frustration, she gets in a fight with Lennie over her friend's arrogant boyfriend and has no place to stay. The detectives put her up in a forest ranger's cabin while he is away fighting fires. As the body count grows, it becomes apparent the killer is targeting undesirables in the town of Burlap. One victim's girlfriends calls Christy and accuses a deputy of the murders. Christy doesn't know whether to believe the snitch or not. Could a killer really be hiding behind his badge? Using astrology, she casts a reverse horoscope to profile him, but puts her own life at risk. And time is running out.

She believes she's made a good marriage-but she never experiences the happiness and joy she'd expected... Her harsh, forbidding husband makes Amanda Bradshaw feel more like a brood mare than a wife, and she never experiences the happiness or joy she expected. Though she's nine-months pregnant with her second child, he orders her to have a boy this time and leaves to go on a cattle-buying trip. Her labor begins, her small daughter is in danger, and Amanda prays desperately for help. When a dusty, trail-worn stranger rides up, she sees the kindness in his eyes and faces the fact that he's all she has. But will he stay to help? He's an escaped convict-and her only hope... Reed Twining spent several years playing cowboy until wrongly convicted of murder and sent to Yuma Prison. In 1893, he escapes and heads north to safety, until he finds a dying man who begs him to tell his wife he was robbed and murdered. A man who is honor bound to do the right thing, Reed rides in to find Amanda in trouble. Many men would turn and run-but not Reed. Still, when Amanda finds out who and what he is, will she order him to go?

In ancient Alaska, before it was known to anyone but the Inuit people, a child Umiak is the only survivor of a starving clan who ventured too far onto dangerous, unknown waters to find food. Washed ashore with nothing but her raven-feather talisman, she is discovered by strangers, taken to their village, and forced to serve the elderly shaman. During her lonely, perilous ordeal with the hostile tribe, Umiak is visited by the Raven Mother, who bestows upon her the spirit of the Raven Woman, a power that is to be passed down through the generations to come. Now Umiak must find the strength to survive and pass on her influence and power to her own daughter when the time comes. Pinkie Paranya gives the reader a magical, mystical journey, blended with humor, adventure, and heartbreak, but always with a faith in the future, in this first award-winning book of the trilogy, WOMEN OF THE NORTHLAND.

He didn't do short term relationships... American ad exec, Thane Aleksander, doesn't date co-workers either-until business takes him to Ghana, West Africa, and he meets Naaki. Now he's at risk of breaking all the rules. Can he stop this headlong fall before it's too late? Until he met her! Naaki Tabika has a burning need to prove, to herself and to others, that she's more than wife and mother material. To do so, she's prepared to give up everything for her job. Meeting Thane, however, makes her want to get personal. But falling for her boss could destroy her career. Will she be willing to risk it all for the one thing that can make her truly happy? Two divergent cultures, two different races, two career-driven professionals, only one chance at true love-will they find the faith to take it, or will their hearts be sacrificed on the altar of financial success?

Cody isn't like other little boys...he sees things he shouldn't. Vivian Carmichael has been hiding in the San Bernardino Mountains for more than a year now. Far from cell towers and video cameras, she's finally found a safe place to raise her four-year old son Cody. Until the night he crawls into bed and whispers two words that fill her with terror. "Daddy's home." Now running for her life, she's horrified to learn that her estranged husband Jarod is not quite human anymore. Can she unravel the mystery of her family's dark secret before he can steal her son, claiming her as his next victim?

As the only black student at an all-white school, Monique Robinson has always had to prove herself. When her best friend, Victoria is left brain dead, Monique fights to bring her back. But she soon realizes that blurring the lines between life and death has its own price. Can Monique save her best friend before she heads down a path from which no one will return?

Time is running out for Armend Zogu. The 250-year-old family curse on his head will claim his life on his 30th birthday, the winter solstice. Sofia Palmalosi might be just the Strega who can save him. A descendant of a long line of powerful Italian witches, her family's magic was a gift from the Goddess Diana. Together Sofia and Armend embark on a journey from New York, to Sicily and the ancient ruins of Diana's temple, and back to New York, all the while fighting a battle of magic and wits with a psychopath who wants them both dead and the curse intact. If the curse doesn't kill Armend, breaking it just might.

She's a quiet, unassuming bookstore owner by day, but by night... Kristen has a deadly secret-when she smells a vampire, she turns into Jai, a beauti-licious babe who makes vamps permanently dead. To a vamp, Jai is like ambrosia. They can't resist her. She uses this attraction, plus her super strength and her trusty blade, Mr. Sticky, to end their undead lives. The thrill of wearing miniskirts without worrying about cellulite stifles any qualms Kristen might have about killing the undead. Being Jai is the most fun she has ever had-until they come up against the one vampire Jai can't kill. If he and Jai have a history, as he claims, Jai can't remember it...or him. But when her work catches the attention of some old enemies-who won't hesitate to destroy Kristen if it also means the end of Jai-this vampire may be their only hope. Can Kristen and Jai learn to tell the difference between good and evil in time to defeat Jai's ancient nemesis? Or will being Jai's hostess cost Kristen more than just a little sleep?

She should have grown up in a life of luxury and ease-instead, she was thrust into one of danger and deception... Forced by her scheming mother to pretend that she was a boy, Vanessa Fordella becomes Van, the Dark Knight, in twelfth-century England. But when her now-dying mother demands that she leave behind her charade and marry, Van embarks on the most difficult journey of her life. And if her new husband ever finds out the truth... After years of war, all he wants is peace and the simple life... Peter Lawston, Lord Grayweist, hopes for a shy and controllable wife to run his castle and bear his children. What arrives, instead, is a hell cat, who doesn't know the first thing about being docile or obedient. There's something familiar about his unconventional wife, but Peter can't put his finger on it. As Van struggles to let go of the knight she has been and become the wife she is expected to be, events unfold that threaten to destroy everything she holds dear, including her very life.

He'd finally made it to retirement, but how could he know that a flat tire would lead him to an ominous discovery-throwing him back into a life of violence? After thirty years of being a cop, Jason Douglas thinks he's through with dead bodies, bloody victims, and nightly gunfire. So when he stops to fix a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, the last thing he ex-pects is to find skeletons in the desert. Nor does he expect to be pulled into a small West Texas sheriff's office as the only available CSI man. Still, he reluctantly agrees to help the deputies process the crime scene. But when people around him start dying brutal deaths, Jason knows things aren't what they seem. Can he find the killer before it's too late, or will he and his wife Sonya become the assassin's next victims?

She thinks she's going crazy-the rest of the world thinks she's a hero... After her grandson, Will, is molested and the predator released on a technicality, Martha Lavery, a practicing R. N., notices a great increase in anger, lost time periods, and things in her possession that she would never buy. Terrified she is losing her mind, she seeks the care of a psychiatrist. Add to that, unsolicited notice from a handsome, older, male nurse who sees her distress and wants to help and her life rapidly becomes a hopeless, dilemma. Can she handle what is happening, and save her sanity, while being forced to face a vile, horrendous secret, about her own childhood?

He makes her feel safe-when he isn't accusing her of murder... Hettie Jamison lost her husband in 1892 and now, two years later, her ranch hand has been murdered and her cattle are being rustled. When the sheriff of Flagstaff, Arizona, Jake La Force, comes to investigate, Hettie's foreman hints at her guilt and Jake interrogates her. Hurt and angry, Hettie tries to deny the attraction between them and orders Jake off her property. But he won't stay away, using every excuse to come back and continue his assault on her heart. He's determined to make her love him-but she's putting up one hell of a fight... A tough, no-nonsense lawman, Jake is surprised to find himself falling deeply in love after just one look into Hettie's fiery, golden eyes. While trying to solve the murder and rustling on her ranch, he must deal with suspicion, jealousy, and horse theft-not to mention a troubled young girl who'll stop at nothing to have Jake for herself. Jake knows he must overcome nearly insurmountable odds to claim Hettie for his own...he also knows this feisty and fiercely independent widow just might be the death of him.

A psychic leaves her a present-but is it a blessing or a curse? When Mandy Ruhe receives a sacred amulet from a mysterious woman she's never met, she is suddenly swept back in time to Texas 1845 and wakes up in the body of Carmena Luebber, owner of the Holiday Ranch. Until she can return to her own time, Mandy must assume Carmena's role. As she endeavors to discover why she was sent into the past, Mandy is caught up in the lives of the people who work for Carmena-their struggles, hopes, and dreams-and ends up torn between the two men in love with the woman she portrays. But Mandy is forced to admit that she can't have either one of them, no matter how much her heart wishes otherwise. Trapped in the past, she must complete an unknown task and return to the present-before she screws up the future.

She thought life was perfect now that her ex-boyfriend was back...until she saw what landed in her backyard. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lawrence thinks her junior year in school is complete when her ex-fling Trevor asks her out again. But, oh, how wrong she is. She comes home from school to find Darrton, Death of The Four Horsemen, in her backyard. Darrton is arrogant, rude, self-centered, dangerously gorgeous, and out to kill. She takes care of him while he is healing from being damned to Earth, but that has consequences she can only imagine. Will their growing love for one another be enough to break the promise Lizzie makes to save Darrton's life, or will she be damned just the same?

She traveled millions of miles to Mars, only to be left behind on the ship... Confined to a spaceship orbiting Mars in 2050, astrogeologist Morgan Zeller watches the main lander descend toward the red planet without her. Her disappointment would be less painful if the crew didn't resent how she had ruined their mission. Because she turned up pregnant, NASA canceled their experiments so that Morgan can return to Earth before her child is born. But when the lander crashes, endangering the baby's father, Medical Officer Randall Arnold, and her other crewmates, which include Randy's ex-lover, Morgan takes off in the emergency lander to rescue them. During the descent, she sees a mysterious flash of light in the Columbia Hills and later discovers alien artifacts there. Her discovery triggers a colonization race among countries that are fighting over territory on the moon. How can Morgan stop them from bringing war to Mars while she copes with pregnancy and a jealous rival?

She hadn't expected anyone to read the love messages she tossed away...but he did. Recuperating from an abusive marriage, Casey Nichols flees with her asthmatic, six-year-old son Jake to Colorado, hoping to improve his health. She moves them into an isolated cabin on a remote ranch. It's a lonely life, and Casey resorts to putting notes in the ever-present tumbleweeds, casting them to the winds in an effort to ease some of the pain in her heart. But when the poems she thinks will never be read are found by the one person she doesn't want to see them, her whole world is turned upside down. He hadn't expected anyone to get close enough to hurt him again...but she did. Matthew Tyree is a reclusive rancher who lost his wife and unborn son in a car accident. Devastated, he has vowed never to love again-a vow he keeps until Casey and Jake worm their way into his heart. But his hopes for a second family are dashed when Casey mistakes his marriage proposal as nothing more than a convenient business arrangement. Unable to express his feelings in the words Casey needs to hear, Matt watches his chance for love crumble like the mysterious poems he's been finding inside the tumbleweeds. Can these two wounded souls learn to trust again or will their only chance for happiness fade away like love letters cast to the winds?

His life is about to change... A utility player for the San Francisco Giants, Navo Lejeune finds himself in the unlikely position of challenging Joe DiMaggio's hallowed hitting streak. And then he meets Melanie... Her life is about to change. A prominent art dealer has picked her for international fame and Melanie Blake's days as a barefoot bar artist in Oakland are numbered. And then she meets Navo... The history of baseball may be about to change... The world holds its breath as Navo hits his way closer to DiMaggio's record. Will he make it? Or will his dark family secrets destroy his success even as they threaten his life? Go beyond the batter's box into a world of betrayal, strife, family pride, and a love affair as surprising as the streak itself.

A record spinner's memoirs... The true story of the day-to-day, play-by-play adventures of a young, insecure, teenage wallflower, from a small Midwestern factory town, who dives head first in to the rabbit hole of psychedelia, flaxen, waxen, sex, drugs, and rock and roll. In the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Sean Conrad experiences the ups and downs of having just too damn much fun-and the consequences that come with it. From hanging out with rock stars to being homeless...and back again. From Porsches to the potholes of life. From scribbling autographs to signing divorce papers. Can there possibly be a happy ending?

Living in a self-imposed prison is not easy for a teenager, and the chance to escape has never been so seductive-or more dangerous... On a rare night out, shy, seventeen-year-old, Laura Stanton uncharacteristically throws caution to the wind and lands herself in an embarrassing predicament. Fate brings her a rescuer in the form of enigmatic, yet alluring, seventeen year-old, Tristan McLellan. Then for her senior year of high school, Laura is awarded a coveted scholarship and attends the prestigious Danvers Preparatory School where she comes face to face with Tristan. Here, in an unfamiliar world of perfection and ancient secrets, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery and forbidden love, only to learn that not everything is as it seems. Caught between two feuding Elders, these two twin flames must put their love to the test and change an age old prophecy or be separated forever. Their relationship becomes the catalyst in a chain reaction of unexpected passions, friendships, and a heinous betrayal with life-altering consequences.

What happened to Jesus during the "silent years"? While we can never know for certain, Rehearsal follows the young Jesus through fictional, but very plausible, events as he builds a table-that will later be used for the last supper-and then transports it from Nazareth to Jerusalem, dealing with many obstacles. Travel with him and his friends as they fend off antagonists hired by a jealous local carpenter, fight a raging river, and struggle to get their precious cargo to its destination safely.

Sixteen-year-old Australian, Killara Jones, is the chosen one-for all the wrong reasons. A lone psychic in the sleepy town of Khalija, North Dakota, he is a self-proclaimed freak who can see angels, demons, and a lot of other things in between. Unbeknownst to him, his talents are a means to an end. His death has been foretold-he is a crucial element in the war between Heaven and Hell-until a fallen angel named Sullivan steps in. With Killara very much alive, he and Sullivan must break an ancient pact, stop Killara's classmates from selling their souls, and prevent the Gates of Hell from opening again. Bad angels, good demons, and a teenager who just wants to survive. Only by believing in themselves and working together, can this team of misfits restore the balance and save their town. Will they succeed? Or watch as all hell breaks loose, forcing them into a Showdown at Evil High?

Most people don't communicate well in personal and business situations. Without solid skills people flounder, time is wasted, and opportunities are lost. Decades of coaching, teaching, and observing have contributed to the substance of J. Robert Parkinson's You Can't Push a String. This book explores some of the problems and common misconceptions about interacting with others in business, social, and civic situations. Crammed with ideas and techniques that can be used immediately, the book is filled with personal stories about good and bad techniques and habits and highlights appropriate correct actions and reactions.

She came to the woods to heal and found evil lurking among the trees.... Upon her grandmother's death, Kendra inherits a cottage deep within the sequoia forest, along with the powers given only to certain women in her family-powers she doesn't know she has. Recovering from a vicious attack in Phoenix, Kendra returns home to the remote cabin determined to heal both her body and her spirit. But the forest is ailing, too. Evil lurks in its dark places, turning its quiet glades into a battlefield. When a strangely beautiful man appears at her cabin intent on punishing her for a crime she didn't commit, Kendra needs all her strength to protect her forest, her life... and her heart. Can she learn to use her powers and to trust Mykhael in time to save the ancient forest? He came to the woods to redeem himself and found innocence that would be his undoing.... Throughout his long life, Mykhael has struggled, often in vain, to please the Atrahasis, immortal overlords of the sacred places in the universe. Now they have given him one last chance to redeem himself. He must punish the person they think desecrated an ancient forest in Northern California. But when he meets Kendra, he realizes he's doomed to disappoint them yet again. Not only is she innocent of the crime the Atrahasis have accused her of, Kendra is the missing part of the soul he didn't know he still possessed. Can he defy the Atrahasis yet again and live long enough to save the only thing in his life that matters?

Nehmer Delarosa has been cursed ever since her mother sold her soul to Satan to keep her from drowning when she was six. Eleven years later, and now a junior in high school, Nehmer has been forced to take the job of a Soul Taker as her punishment. When Nehmer's reclusive lifestyle is challenged by the new boy, Eric, she finds herself opening up for the first time in years-until she is faced with a decision that has deadly consequences.