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When Tessäs husband¿s obsession resurrects a trauma from her childhood, he insists to her that their livelihood depends on her silence. Everyone thinks she¿s living the perfect life—but she's really living the perfect lie.

When Shelley, who has always believed that her husband is a mild-mannered management consultant, discovers that he is actually a deep-cover CIA officer, the news sends her reeling-and that's just the first of many shocking surprises, and unexpected adventures, to follow.

In this collection of imaginative short stories that depict poignant moments in the life of a woman on a journey of self-discovery, the heroine, Grace, garners insight and spiritual wisdom from mythical characters—guidance that ultimately helps her to make an independent, authentic life for herself.

In this collection of imaginative short stories that depict poignant moments in the life of a woman on a journey of self-discovery, the heroine, Grace, garners insight and spiritual wisdom from mythical characters—guidance that ultimately helps her to make an independent, authentic life for herself.

When migrant worker Maria Puente stumbles across a human trafficking ring on her way to a new job in North Carolina and ends up kidnapped, sheriff Will Moser sets off on a race to find her before she disappears forever-and has to enlist some unlikely allies along the way.

When a magical history book from the future falls out of time and space and into the home of the Denzell family they each get a peek into the future-a version of the world that is far more peaceful, just, and verdantly sustainable than the one we all live in now.

In this second installment of the Sean McPherson series, a whale-watching cruise goes terribly wrong: two lovers on deck, one sniper on shore, and no way out.

When Bruce Duncan, a surgeon who is part of the “greatest generation,” returns home after WWII, he strives to hide his internal wounds by building a quiet life of running a small-town medical practice and fly-fishing in the area’s treasured waters. But when the idyllic peace of this new existence is shattered, Bruce finds himself fighting again for his life and for a new purpose—a battle that requires him to confront his deepest fears and find a stream to follow.

The Lovely Bones meets the Wild, Wild West in this haunting tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption inspired by the true story of a much-sought-after nineteenth-century prostitute who longs to return to respectable society-but instead endures the ultimate betrayal.

What if you uncovered a cache of buried Nazi documents that revealed your father as a man very different than the one you knew-or thought you knew? In this poignant memoir, Mel Laytner, a former reporter, peels away layers of his father's stories to expose painful truths about surviving the Holocaust and its aftermath.

When a murder shocks her peaceful mountain town, Bijou, a plucky house cat with a Viking spirit, must dive paws-first into solving the mystery before another life is taken-maybe even her own.

A young woman serves as a surrogate mother for a gay couple in hopes of changing her own life for the better-only to discover ten years later that she accidentally gave away her own biological child.

Come back to the Texas Hill Country for the second installment in the Enchanted Rock series, where Sissie Klein meets her destiny-on the other side of tragedy.

In 1862, thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men were hanged in the largest mass execution in US history. This is the story of two young women-one settler, one Dakota-Sioux-connected by the fate of the thirty-ninth man.

Riding High in April takes us across the world as one man risks it all for a final chance to make it big in the tech world. At stake are his reputation, his dwindling bank account, and his fifteen-year relationship with a woman grappling with who she is and what really matters to her.

One of the first Muslim women to graduate from West Point, a Jewish US Army captain, and a Somali migrant nicknamed Charlie Christmas risk everything for a refugee boy on a three-decade odyssey that takes them from Africa and Europe to Texas and Minnesota-and redefines what it means to be American in the twenty-first century.

She thinks he's either a nutcase or an eccentric Oxford professor. He thinks she's the descendant of Henry VIII's last Queen, Katherine Parr. They both harbor deep secrets, but their masks slip as they join forces to investigate the mystery of Queen Katherine's lost baby-endangering their hearts, their carefully constructed walls, and possibly their lives.

In this YA drama that features all of life's most exciting firsts, as well as real-life issues like teen drug use and mental health, studious surfer girl Kendra falls for new bad boy at school Brock, and learns an important life lesson: it takes more than just a game of 21 Questions to really get to know someone-or even more so, yourself.

The last great question of every long marriage-Who will die first?-has been answered for Conrad Burrell. After losing his wife to a violent accident, he discovers that he has one more lesson to learn about love from the women of his past, and the one woman he's certain he can't live without.

In a near future in which overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental degradation have precipitated a radical population control program, people can volunteer to be culled at a young age in exchange for immediate wealth.

Phoebe Katz is back on a new mission to save Olympus-this time to undo the fallout from her last visit, which changed the outcomes of several important myths, including the trials of Hercules and her brother Perseus's quest to slay Medusa. Can Phoebe collect the items she needs to stop Olympus from crumbling?

Murder at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest, but this one isn't imaginary. Authors only kill with words. Or do they?

A spontaneous offer on her house prompts grief-stricken Lark to retreat to her hometown, smack in the middle of the Texas Hill Country Wine Trail-but it will take more than a change of address to heal her broken family.