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Nearly a year after the sudden death of her 21-year-old daughter, Mary leaves New York City to spend the summer alone on Kilkare Island while her neurosurgeon husband travels to Europe for work. When Mary encounters a young woman the same age as her dead daughter, Mary connects with her, only to discover that the young woman's father is Antonio, Mary's first love. Mary finds herself questioning the sacrifices she made to live a life she tho...

When a student is found dead in a sweat lodge, the college president requests Professor Callan Morrow, a former fraud examiner, to investigate.

When Celeste Kelly, a brilliant but troubled young physicist from Australia, attempts to find the hidden secrets shared within the many worlds theory, the uncertainty principle and string theory, Bob, a being from another dimension, materialises to expand her research, hoping that she will help steer humanity to a new level of consciousness. Inspired by their vision, she takes on the challenge, but in order to help build a brighter future for ...

Love, Death, and Expats in the Heart of London. When Rubicon Baines moved from Illinois to London, she changed her name, her body, and her accent to become an ITV star in the 90s. Years later, now unknown and unemployed, Rubicon meets up with childhood friend Jenn Bellwether and introduces this God-fearing Midwesterner to her inner circle. London doctor Mark Everleigh-a widower through an act of violence-is stuck in a holding pattern of mut...

When fifteen-year-old Judy Adams runs away with Alvin Neelley, she entangles herself in a web of lies and criminality. After committing two murders Judy has two choices: she can remain with her husband, Alvin, and become a serial killer or turn herself in to the police. Seven months later she is sent to death row in the women's prison of Alabama. Judy can't understand how she became a murderer and the victim of Alvin, whose physical and psyc...

Teenager Paige Abernathy awakens after a severe beating to find that she suffers from amnesia, and that everyone seems to hate her. She has only flashes of memory until the night a grieving parent attacks her in her hospital room. Paige then remembers her role as creator of an online group where members talk about ways to commit suicide. After recovering from the beating, Paige embarks on a journey of penance to atone for a disaster born of go...

This book chronicles thirty-eight years of the author's relationship with death-row inmate Judy Neelley

When Roger Carrington, a successful CEO, loses everything after putting his own financial security ahead of his company's survival, he is reduced to living in a cardboard shack under a Seattle freeway. In order to survive, he must adapt quickly to his new reality. His growing friendship and interdependence with a small band of people who share the overpass with him challenges his conservative values and narrow notions of homelessness. He finds...

When Jeff finds himself in the mind of a cocaine producer in the jungles of South America, he wonders if he's being called to stop the drug runners. Or should he stay safe and stay out of it? But while lucid dreaming, he and his girlfriend, Mindi, are continually thrust into the minds of people determined to continue to flood America with highly addictive drugs. And Jeff can't help but wonder how the snippets of information they discover whi...

Who knew a garden could be so smart? Rabbi Plotkin is approaching middle age. His children are self-sufficient teens, and his large congregation is running efficiently and effectively. He should be happy and satisfied at where he is in life, yet he knows something is missing. He used to wake up to anxiety and long to-do lists. Now he wakes up concerned about his zucchinis. The change baffles him until he realizes he has a need to nurture, and ...

The world isn't fair and no one seems to care. When a big silver being with lethal powers falls from the sky, Devon enlists it in her quest to change the world into a better place. They set off to visit the president, and, along the way, collect an army of followers excited by the alien's power. But the president knows they're coming and uses all his powers to try to stop them. Will they overcome the rising tide of obstacles and get to Washing...

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Heartland Insurance, the brainchild of multimillionaire Jared Finch, has a simple business model-buy people's life insurance policies and collect the proceeds when they die. New Orleans homicide detective Jo Crowder and FBI Special Agent Alex Hill suspect there is a sinister relationship between Finch's company and a research laboratory that is testing an experimental serum on animals. Hill and Crowder team up to investigate why so many people...

When Jeff, a computer software professional, repeatedly awakes inside realistic dreams in which he's inside the mind of a young woman, he struggles to find a rational explanation. The woman, he discovers, is real, and he becomes an unwilling time traveler periodically thrust two years into his past, where he experiences her life through her senses. An expert logician, he battles with the limitations of logic in his efforts to uncover the expl...

When Max discovers that Ryker's mother, Isebel, is dying of cancer, she and the rest of the realm travellers hatch a plan to return to the realm. If they can find the South African portal and get his mother through it before it's too late, Max can use her magical healing superpower to save Isebel's life. At least, that's the plan. But Wulf, a merciless savage from The Dark Forest, is stalking Aelianna, the beautiful forest girl Ryker left behi...

Journeys sometimes have unexpected destinations. A twenty-one-year-old man leaves his native Sri Lanka to figure out what to do with his life but loses his way in Paris until a romantic encounter opens his heart, leading to a spontaneous awakening. He then explores Eastern wisdom and moves to Montreal where he practices Buddhist meditation, but his experience of wakefulness in day-to-day life unleashes a Pandora's Box of unresolved emotions ...

After a lifetime mourning the disappearance of her young daughter, Laura Fields forms a support agency to help other grieving parents of lost children and finds herself drawn into the dangerous and entangled world of cults. The lives of five desperate families collide as the CultAssist team battles to break the spell unscrupulous spiritual leaders have over their loved ones. Will they escape the cults before their lives are destroyed and th...

Who stands to gain from a notorious past?When the daughter of a board member of a prominent charity asks Callan Morrow to investigate management issues at the charity, he finds his investigation hampered by lies, secrets, and the mystery of an antique bureau that keeps being bought and then returned.After a suspicious suicide, a murder and an attempted murder make his investigations more urgent, Callan discovers that an extortionist is targeti...

When Grant Samson kidnaps the wrong woman, he swears it's an accident. Melinda Sen knows he's lying, only a monster would ignore her screams for help as he drives her through the freezing Colorado mountains. To make matters worse, a brutal blizzard descends on the remote mountain cabin where Melinda is trapped. But as tension builds and sparks fly, Grant and Melinda discover there's more at stake than limited provisions and dwindling heat....

Not every immigrant sailed willingly to America... Ivy O'Neill's idyllic childhood ends in disaster in 1690 when red-coated soldiers cross the Celtic Sea to invade Ireland. While the O'Neill family struggles to survive on the Irish coast, George Stokely is building a life in the British Colony of Maryland. All he needs to make his Chesapeake tobacco farm thrive is more help. The Indenture of Ivy O'Neill is an immersive story of courage, the me...