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Following a convention in the Scottish Highlands, eight social media influencers vanish without a trace, leaving their followers–and families–in a state of shock, and the police clueless as to their whereabouts. And then, the livestreams begin. Broadcast live from their squalid underground cells, the young influencers are forced into a sadistic battle for survival. With each livestream, their captor pits them against each other in a twisted competition for likes. The influencer with the fewest positive reactions faces a gruesome end–live on camera.

The wife of a prominent local judge is shot and killed on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's turf. But as Joe investigates, all signs point to the shot having been taken from an impossibly long distance. Joe has seen a lot in his time as warden, but he's never seen a killing like this. How could...

Teresa McLaughlin flees to Los Angeles with her two children, trying to escape a messy divorce. But in LA, she is hunted down by ruthless men and beaten. When she wakes, barely conscious, her children are gone. Detective Peter Decker and his wife Rina are pulled into the situation when their foster son, Gabe, asks them to help. Teresa is his biological mother, and he knows she is in grave danger. Now the hunt is on to find the kidnappers before things end tragically. It will end in an explosive confrontation from which no one will emerge unscathed.

For more than fifty years, Wendell Berry has been telling us stories about Port William, a mythical town on the banks of the Kentucky River, populated over the years by a cast of unforgettable characters living in a single place over a long time. In A Place in Time, the stories dates range from 1864, when Rebecca Dawe finds herself in her own reflection at the end of the Civil War, to one from 1991 when Grover Gibbs's widow, Beulah, attends the auction as her home place is offered for sale.

Isabel hates Christmas. She’s got a Christmas disaster for each of her 25 years. When her boss sends her from the sun-kissed beaches of Australia to snowy small-town Wyoming, it’s just another thing to add to her "do not like" list. Snow sucks. Christmas sucks. And cowboys suck most of all. Except, maybe, for one.

This collection contains 25 stories. Some are flash fiction, while others are short stories. Several different fictional genres are included in this volume. From inspirational and lessons learned to thriller and horror, there is something for any listener to find. From a seal that watches the beginning of the continental shift, winged people trying to flee from the cooking pots of a self-centered woman, sorcerers that live in little Western towns, lost souls finding one another, and so much more....

On a quiet suburban street in upstate New York, a body is discovered. Twenty-six-year-old Brady Neil lived a simple life - his murder seems senseless. But then Detective Peter Decker discovers Brady’s father was convicted of murder many years ago. Decker begins to suspect Brady’s death may be connected to his father’s crimes. Then one of Brady’s closest friends vanishes, a pool of blood the only clue to his fate.

When Bertram Lanz, a developmentally disabled man, goes missing from a local diner, Detective Peter Decker is put on the case. Very quickly, he realises there is more to the disappearance than meets the eye when he discovers Lanz’s nurse is missing too and blood is found in her house. Then, while combing the woods, searchers discover the remains of a young man who vanished during a camping trip years ago.

An island-wide power failure has thrust Gansett into darkness. We’ll take this opportunity to catch up with each of the couples we’ve come to know and love, and meet a few new characters who’ll appear in upcoming books. It’s the heart of summer, the power’s out, and things are getting hot on Gansett Island! 

Rescue After Dark is the next heart-stopping novel in Marie’s Gansett Island series, featuring Gansett Island Fire Chief Mason Johns and Jordan Stokes. They’ve both been unlucky in love. Is their luck about to change? Reality TV star Jordan Stokes is taking time to figure out her next move - tucked away from prying eyes in her grandmother’s home on Gansett Island with her identical twin sister, Nikki. Eastward Look is the perfect place to heal and regroup.

Finn McCarthy is at a crossroads. As the lease on his Gansett Island rental comes to an end, he's making plans to return to his “real” life on the mainland. He’s enjoyed the nearly two years on Gansett with his boisterous fun-loving family, but it’s time to get back to the life he put on hold. With renovations to the Wayfarer, the family’s latest business endeavor, all but completed and the grand opening slated for Memorial Day weekend, the time is right to make a move. That is, until he stops by the local salon for a quick trim that turns his life plan upside down.

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a seaside mansion, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn't seem to convince to leave, and a new family she'd never be able to live without.

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal. What she ended up with was, an inn she never knew she wanted, a cat she couldn't seem to convince to leave, and a new family she'd never be able to live without.

Sara Friessen, the youngest daughter of Laura and Andy, believes she’ll never find the man who can make her soul sing, especially because after just one meeting with her father, every young man who has ever knocked on her door has come to the quick conclusion that she isn’t worth the trouble. Fearing the promised wrath (as Andy so aptly puts it) that could befall them if they mess with his daughter, they always run the other way.

Frederike Willert kann weder den Herbst noch den Winter leiden, und passend zum Beginn dieser Jahreszeit endet ein Date von ihr mal wieder in einer Katastrophe. Ihre Freundinnen sind der Meinung, Frederike würde schlichtweg immer mit den falschen Männern ausgehen. Daraufhin lässt sie sich auf eine Wette ein, bei der ihre Freundinnen einen Mann für sie aussuchen, mit dem sie auf 21 Dates gehen muss. Die Wahl fällt auf ihren Nachbarn Mats, einen Handwerker mit verdreckten Arbeitsstiefeln, der in seiner Wohnung ständig herumlärt und mit seinem Lieferwagen den Gehweg versperrt!

Renate Bergmann hat in ihrer neuen Heimat Spreeweide alle Hände voll zu tun. Die Rentnerin hat nicht nur einen Sitz im Gemeinderat, auch an anderer Stelle ist sie gefragt. Rebecca, die Tochter von Bürgermeister Brummer, möchte ihr Café vergrößern. Sie hat aber zu wenig Platz. Brummers Cousin wiederum, der den Dorfkrug betreibt, hat zu wenige Gäste. Das und Renates Erinnerungen an ihre eigene Zeit in der Bräuteschule bringen sie auf eine Idee.

Hauptkommissar Scharrmann muss sich verstecken – vor der Polizei! Denn jemand im Kommissariat will ihm einen Mord anhängen. Auf seiner Flucht bleibt ihm nur eine Verbündete: Sarah Teufel glaubt keine Sekunde an Scharrmanns Schuld und bietet ihm Unterschlupf in einer Autowerkstatt. Doch dadurch gerät sie selbst ins Visier der Polizei.

All Rosalie Carson wants for Christmas is to get back on her feet. After losing her apartment and her job, Roe is on the verge of being ho-ho-homeless. Out of desperation, she accepts a friend’s offer to stay at her family’s cabin in the woods outside Good Hope. Roe is looking forward to a quiet Christmas alone.

Anthony grew up without any knowledge of his father. Only when his mother dies does he unlock the secrets she kept for 20 years. Each discovery leads him closer to the people who knew his father best. Including the man who killed him.

Mitten in einem Schneesturm kommen Petra und ihre elfjährige Nichte Charlie in Nyponviken an, einem kleinen Dorf im südschwedischen Schonen. Ihr Leben in Stockholm haben sie hinter sich gelassen. Nach dem Tod von Petras Schwester, Charlies Mutter, und der Insolvenz ihres Friseurgeschäfts...