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Five short stories: Schoolteacher Jessica Thomas flees heartache and her home in Baltimore to spend a summer in Rome, Italy, in "Italian Summer". In Savannah, Georgia, Mandy, a young heir to the city’s largest candy manufacturer falls hard for Skylar in "Sweet Girl". Plus three more....

Dolores is a grade school teacher married to Lawrence, a handsome, high school music teacher. She settled into the role of wife and mother, creating the picture perfect life in a small, Southern California town where everyone knows everyone else. Her world is shattered when Lawrence is accused of molesting his students. Dolores and her children become collateral damage as he is tried as a sex offender. In order to assure a fair trial, the judge orders that she not talk to anyone about the trial.

What happens to all of the letters that kids send to Santa Claus through the US mail? In Detroit, Michigan, many of them end up in the hands of Chris Archer, a postal worker who spends his free time designing computer games and uses the children’s wish lists to help detect trends in the toy market. No harm done until Chris’ brother, Nick Archer, the religiously obsessed, dishonorably discharged fighter pilot and victim of childhood abuse, discovers them and finds out who’s really been naughty and who’s been nice.

The Italian Soul offers practical guidance into how we can transport a taste of the Italian “good life” into our own homes. Additionally, it explores the contemplative practices and attitudes that seem to come naturally to a people who have made an art of living and working joyfully. A cross between a travel dispatch and a spirituality guide for seekers who eschew traditional religious practices but are yearning for ways to bring more balance, sanity, and a greater sense of the transcendent into their daily lives.

This audiobook includes books one and two of the Rock & Roll Forever series and includes Almost Paradise, featuring Jax and Skye's story and Almost Blue, featuring Beck and Sawyer's story. Both are stand-alone stories. For optimal enjoyment, it is suggested that the listener start at the beginning of the series with book one.

Originally written in the 1990s, this book remains a key resource for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality. Celebrating twenty-five years since first publication, this book shares the author's personal story, as well as the descriptive experience of others, to provide validation and empowerment to multitudes of women in their search for their true identities. The author gives women ways in which to structure and restructure their lives and their families after they realize their same-gender sexuality.

Dr. Ana Maria Ross Gutierrez runs a clinic near the Texas-Mexico border, taking care of those who've crossed into the United States illegally. Ana was once married to Peter Ross, but his decision to join the border patrol drove her to divorce him—despite Peter's continuing feelings for her and his conviction that he's protecting the desperate immigrants in his own way. Now, as hostility and hatred heat up in El Paso, Ana, Peter, and a young mother are entangled in danger and violence that threaten them all.

Evelyn is a real estate agent in Baneford, Massachusetts, accustomed to old houses, strange quirks, and stubborn properties that refuse to sell. But when some of her listings begin to exhibit signs of haunting, she is forced to confront the possibility that something is wrong in a way she can’t explain or dismiss. Her search for answers leads her to Adrian, a spiritual medium burdened by an unwanted ability to hear the dead. Adrian has spent his life trying to keep his gift under control, but the disturbances surrounding Evelyn’s properties suggest a deeper, more deliberate presence at work.

From rock star to pretend husband, his life is a mess. But he isn’t ready to give up on the woman he loves. Whoever said nice guys finish last, never met Beck Kramer. When Beck Kramer’s band Razor’s Edge broke up, his brief rush of fame and fortune left a bad taste in his mouth. Five years later, he’s left the music behind and found success working for his family’s construction business. Life is good. Until he meets the woman who makes him take and second look, and a third - beautiful and fiercely independent Sawyer Hale.

With Cal and Darby O'Hara's marriage stronger than it's ever been, they only need one more thing to make their family complete. But will Darby get the one thing she's always dreamed of - or something she never bargained for? And if the unimaginable happens, will she lose Cal after all?

There's no power on earth greater than fate. Nova DeLuca has devoted her entire life to fate. Born with the gift of foresight, she's a Seer who uses her powers to help guide her pack and her family in the right direction. It was her vision after all that set Maddox Clary's plan in motion all...

Do you hate your body? Are you deeply dissatisfied with your appearance, shape, or weight—so much so that you avoid looking at yourself in the mirror, avoid certain social situations, or dread having your photo taken? If so, you are not alone. Body dissatisfaction and even body hatred have reached epidemic levels in our culture—particularly for women and girls. But you don't have to live your life consumed by feelings of shame and self-hatred. This workbook offers a way out of the darkness.

Maggie thought she knew the life she was building, until one devastating discovery turned it all upside down. Reeling from betrayal and heartbreak, she knows she can’t stay where everything reminds her of the past. Searching for a fresh start, Maggie packs up the pieces of her life and moves...

When plans emerge to redevelop the abandoned Dyeworks factory, Baneford’s fragile calm begins to fracture. Evelyn and Adrian soon realize that the site is more than a decaying industrial relic. It is a focal point for rituals, hidden alliances, and forces determined to shape the town’s future at any cost. As disturbing events unfold, the pair are drawn deeper into a network of power brokers, occult practices, and long-standing bargains made in secret. A charismatic developer with her own agenda pushes the project forward, unaware or unconcerned with what lies beneath the factory’s foundations.

Perfect house. Perfect family. But looks can be deceiving. 392 Chapman Drive is not the house Tristan and Allison had hoped for. It was supposed to be the idyllic place to raise their daughter away from the bustle of the city, but all too soon the house shows a sinister side, twisting Tristan’s world into a waking nightmare.

With Christmas on the horizon, they call OSBI agents Carrie Border and Lainey Tate to a case in Southeastern Oklahoma. The area is home to the legendary Robber's Cave in the center of dense forest, cliffs, and mountains. Local law enforcement have found three burned bodies and turn to the OSBI for help in finding the killer. Carrie and Lainey fall into false leads and backwoods locals who do not want their nefarious crimes revealed.

Ryder Hart came up the hard way. From his childhood, to scratching his way to the top of the charts. Every moment was a struggle. Now that he's at the top, nothing will take him down. Not even a secret so dark it invades his dreams and haunts his waking hours. Quinn Abernathy's hunger for success is no less than Ryder's. If she wants to succeed in the highly competitive world of photography, she can't let anything, or anyone, get in her way. Until Ryder. He makes her long for more than she ever thought possible.

Jasmine Marcks was a teenager when she discovered her father was a killer. First, there was the strip of bloody duct tape; then, the bloodstain on his shirt; and finally, the long nights away from home that always coincided with gruesome deaths. Roscoe Lee Marcks killed 14 people before he was finally put behind bars - but, as renowned FBI agent Karen Vail soon learns, Marcks's reign of terror isn't over yet.

Maggie Dahl returns in Open Secrets. It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then, one morning, a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

Heartbroken, carrying a bag of antique coins and the heavy burden of her aunt's untimely death, Emily leaves the world of time travel and her beloved husband, Dell, behind. It doesn't take long for her youth, beauty, and valuable coins to assist her in finding a new life in the Italian nightclub scene of the 1980s. Regardless of which time she is occupying, however, Emily cannot escape her past or forgive herself for the lives she ruined. So when that past finds her, Emily must choose between her new life and an uncertain future with the loved ones she abandoned.