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Zoe Fontaine has spent her life running. After a near-death experience, she found herself on the run again. This time, back to the familiar. When she gets caught up in a case, the evidence points to her sister, Judy Fontaine. Zoe will do anything in her power to help Judy. But her sister has spent most of her adult life fabricating lies.

If she can identify one person, she could bring down an entire crime network. Nurse Mila Casey did not expect to witness a murder in the clinic’s parking lot. Nor did she imagine seeking protection from the at-large killer would land her on a secluded ranch owned by handsome, but standoffish, Roarke Brenneman. Mila finds herself in the center of ever-growing danger as the police are unable to locate the suspect.

Rising to fame with her 1936 novel Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild soon became one of the most popular authors of her day. She was one of the first winners of the Carnegie Medal and was awarded an OBE in 1983. She died in 1986, but her stories continue to captivate children today. Included here are three of her very best - Ballet Shoes, The Growing Summer and When the Siren Wailed.

Escape to the shores of Lake Michigan with three full-length novels from the heartwarming, emotional Hope Springs series. Opposites attract, single dad, enemies to love, found family—you’ll find it all, and more, in Hope Springs…where friends become family, faith heals hearts, and love lasts forever. Find a cozy spot…because once you settle into Hope Springs, you’ll never want to leave!

Escape to Hope Springs…a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan where friends become family, faith heals hearts, and love lasts forever. Join the large and loving group of Hope Springs friends as they discover second chances, new beginnings, and God’s unconditional love. Once you visit, you won’t want to leave!

After securing a major victory, Spenser feels she can finally catch her breath. But when an unexpected case lands on her doorstep, her life takes on a dramatic turn. Now firmly established as the town Sheriff, Spenser and Ryker are in full celebration. But all is not well on the Muckleshoot Reservation. Chief Adaki of the Tribal Police believes the wrong man is sitting in prison. And he wants Spenser’s help to catch the real culprit. After agreeing to assist, she uncovers irregularities buried deep in the case files.

Three semi-autobiographical plays by Victor Pemberton telling the story of one family across the 20th century Novelist and playwright Victor Pemberton was best known for scripting Doctor Who and working on Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock. His many plays for BBC Radio included The Slide, Kill the...

Parents desperately need real, actionable, long-lasting advice that helps them process their emotions in a healthy and productive way. In Parents Have Feelings, Too, psychotherapists Hilary Jacobs Hendel and Juli Fraga provide the tools parents need to understand and effectively work with their own potent feelings, breaking the chain of intergenerational trauma, and passing along this knowledge to their children to create a generation of emotionally mature people.

Election Day is finally here, and Spenser anxiously awaits the results. When a town resident calls in with concerns about their missing neighbors, Spenser performs a routine wellness check. Initially, she sees nothing out of the ordinary. But days pass, and the family is still nowhere to be found. What would make an entire family disappear without a trace? Soon, sinister truths and motives come to light, and Spenser zeroes in on a peculiar clue.

PI Bridget “Birdie” Hartley thought the storm had passed. She found her sister. She survived a shootout. But peace is proving harder to hold than she ever imagined. With Ada finally safe, Birdie’s only goal is to keep her that way. But when a buried cache of secrets surfaces, hinting at a private island summit, a rising force within a dangerous syndicate, and a captive long presumed lost, rest is no longer an option... What begins as a desperate call for help quickly turns into a deadly trap.

After taking a road trip with Noah to track down her sister's last whereabouts, Birdie arrives in the town of Driftwood, Colorado to find strange disappearances at her motel. While the whole town is spooked Birdie believes it to be the key to her own life's mystery. Could this be the final thread to find her sister? Unfortunately for all, the culprit is an expert at covering their tracks, and turning the once quaint place into a hunting ground. Now Birdie and Noah will have to gamble everything to find her sister and save the innocents.

Sitting on the side of the road, Zoe wonders, “Where do I go from here?” While heading home from the newsroom Zoe Fontaine was in a near fatal accident. One that has left her battling anxiety and bouts of paranoia. In need of a refuge to give her a sense of peace and belonging, she rents a place on the edge of Sapphire Valley. But when strange deaths spring up across town, Zoe’s editor assigns her to investigate the gruesome, bizarre cases.

Intense emotions–whether your own or your child's–can make it incredibly difficult to be the parent you want to be. This book is designed to help you become a more emotionally agile parent so you can better navigate whatever emotional storms you inevitably encounter. Emotion-Savvy Parenting is an empowering, science-informed guide for breaking free of the hold that unwanted emotions so often have over parents.

After saving her grandmother and solving the Orchard Grove case, Zoe finally settles into her apartment with her dog Max. But her peace is short-lived. Chaos invades her work life when her editor, Rick, becomes erratic, unpredictable, and begins chasing mysterious leads. Zoe finds herself longing for the rigors of D.C. and her old job at the Washington Express, until Rick suddenly vanishes. The cryptic clues connected to his disappearance lead Zoe out of Sapphire Valley and into Charleston, where she discovers a ransacked hotel room, blood on the floor, and no signs of Rick.

One mistake cost Nate everything. One woman stirs something he never expected to feel again: hope for the future. Nate’s star was rising in the world of Christian music. But all that was erased with a single life-shattering mistake. A mistake that has kept him from seeing his family for seven years. Working for his ruthless father is the last thing he wants to do now. But his dad has made it clear—it’s the only way he’ll be welcomed back into the family. So Nate dutifully heads to the small town of Hope Springs. He plans to keep his head down, put in his time, and leave the moment he can.

When a local girl goes missing and another one turns up dead, Spenser finds clues that connect to a grim reminder of another fatal mistake in her past. Years ago, Spenser was kicked off a task force dedicated to bringing down a notorious human trafficking network. She made a mistake that cost a woman her life. Unexpectedly she finds evidence linking to the network in her area, and she’s forced to confront her past when she calls the woman who’d been her superior on the task force—the woman who’d fired her.

After a series of tragedies turned her world upside down, FBI Agent Spenser Song felt like a woman adrift in a sea of chaos. Her brush with death and the tragic murder of her husband left her questioning everything in her life. And when it became clear that Bureau politics will trump justice, Spenser realized she needed a fresh start.

Five years ago, Spencer offered Sophie forever. But she turned down his proposal and moved away to pursue her career. Sure, he still wishes things had turned out differently, but time and distance have eased the ache. He’s plenty content with his life managing the family cherry orchard in the small town of Hope Springs, where he never has to worry about running into her.

Isabel has three simple rules: Keep moving. No friends. No men. And she’s determined to follow those rules, even if the small town of Hope Springs makes her want to put down roots.

PI Bridget Hartley is obsessed with all things mystery. She even has a reputation for being Serenity’s go-to detective. With the exception of small-town drama and the occasional crime, life in Serenity is serene. Until a call from panicked parents searching for missing teens sets off a chain of events that no one could have foreseen. Could hormones and young love be the reasons for their abrupt disappearance? While searching for the missing lovebirds, Bridget stumbles upon a string of bizarre and unfortunate events. Events with potential connections to other missing teen couples.