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Eighty-three-year old Lilly Bordelon finds herself alone in a hospital battling a dreaded illness. In the midst of lamenting her dire circumstances, something extraordinary happens that shakes her to her core. Suddenly, she is thrown into a whirlwind of scenarios and emotions as she floats precariously between life and death. As Lilly navigates through the situations in which she finds herself, she is forced to re-evaluate many of her past cho...

Jake Williams' life spiraled out of control when a tragedy hit hard. An anonymous act of kindness was the incentive he needed to rebuild his world. Five years later, he returns to seek out and thank the woman who saved his life. Only one problem: he can't find her. Along the way, Jake reconnects with Cassie Blackburn, a local teacher, hoping she will help in his quest. What he discovers miraculously changes his life for the second time.

Gold medals and fame personify the life Angel Meade wants people to see until a pint of blood Ridge Warner donates to keep her alive alters her future and darkens life's luster to a permanent eclipse over her soul. Ridge meets the unexpected in Woodland Park, Colorado, three days before their wedding when he learns more than he cares to know about his fiancée after he agrees to investigate a murder where an IED exploded at the scene. The matte...

King Rupert of Rovatha would not know Del Hobin, the tower clock keeper in Wineriver, if he stumbled over him. Del is one of Rupert's faceless subjects in a village starving because of Rupert's demands to support his war against a rival king. Del and his wife lost a son to the senseless war. Now their daughter, Myla, is joining a rebel band in an effort to overthrow both kings. The forest Elves usually avoids contact with the less advanced hum...

Bucky Lew burst through pro basketball's color barrier to become the first Black player in an otherwise white league-and playing was just a start. He wanted to dominate in every single role in the game-from player to coach to general manager to owner. His dream looked to be deferred when Harry Hough, the league's best player, refused to play against him in a regular season matchup that the press billed as a preview of the championship. Not o...

While looking for the man who shot them six months earlier, two U.S. intelligence officers search islands in the Indian Ocean only to get entangled in a web from which escape is difficult. A body washes ashore on a remote island in the Maldives. Normally the incident would go unnoticed by intelligence organizations, however, this corpse is carrying the passport of Craig (Coop) Cooper, a spy working for the U.S. Agency. Coop, who is very much...

Susan Foret becomes involved in a cold case murder investigation after she comes across an article about the wealthy Haydel family whose history revolves around suspicious deaths during their longtime residency in Allemand Parish. Shortly after Susan's discovery of the article, Danny Marchand, her neighbor and former sheriff of Allemand Parish, is asked to reopen the investigation into the murder of Melanie LeBlanc Lasiter, the great-great-gra...

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Linnea Wilmott has an unusual problem. Having been cast back in time while traveling on the infamous Huron Court and subsequently returned to the present, she wants to go back to the past and change a certain life-altering decision. Also, inadvertently, she abandoned her collie, Autumn, in the past. Mostly because of the dog, Jennet agrees to help her, thereby placing herself and her friends in danger of losing their hold on their present live...

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An epidemic of bad fentanyl is sweeping across Pratt County, Missouri and Sheriff Davis Wells has no clue who's selling the deadly drug. What makes it even worse is that every single victim has a direct, personal connection to him. Not to mention, he has more than enough troubles of his own: his wife is undergoing debilitating cancer treatments, his only son has disappeared, and Davis finds his rapidly growing passion for a beautiful stranger ...

Moe Horwitz is a Mafia hitman in Philadelphia who's tired of the cold, the snow, his lonely life, and killing men for money. Trouble is, he doesn't know how to get out of the life. Then the big boss in Philly sends him to Miami on the last passenger train with orders to a hit for the Miami boss. Moe quickly discovers that this job may well turn out to be far more than he, or anybody else, bargained for. Before he can make the hit, he has to re...

When Greg Logan takes his girlfriend Karen on a late-night walk through Northwood Cemetery, Karen is spooked by the silence, the darkness, and something she sees but can't explain. When, soon after, they meet with two other teenagers in the cemetery, stranger things begin to happen. Who are these two new people? Why do they spend so much time in the cemetery? Why do both of them claim to be searching for someone? And how does an elderly man fr...

Anna, a senior citizen with decades of office manager experience, is forced to retire from her position with a magazine by an inexperienced relative of the former editor. Resentful and determined, she decides to start her own magazine and recruits writers, editors and illustrators, the funny old people' of the title. She develops a business plan, buys equipment, leases a cottage to serve as an office, and the magazine slowly evolves. She stays...

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When Diana marries Clay, it is the event of the year in Garden City. She is marrying a prosperous landowner. She considered Evan, but the only advantage the fervent evangelist had was his golden handsomeness. No, she made the right choice, Clay will continue the rich lifestyle to which she is accustomed. He knows the elegant Diana is not the ideal farmwife, but Clay wants her anyway. When drought and manmade disasters destroy the farmland, rea...

Tranquilla Taylor should have been a pampered Southern belle, and indeed was courted by two suitors who were best friends. But this hard-riding, straight-shooting rebel scandalized Mississippi planter society by learning Latin, mathematics, the classics. She freed her inherited slaves, worked the fields alongside two husbands, both tragically murdered, and held her family together despite war, poverty, and too much death. She lost two infant ...

In the early summer of 2021, two graves are discovered in the woods of beautiful St. Joseph Island, just a kilometer or two from Ontario Provincial Police Detective Andy Blake's home. Forensics and police records fail to identify the elderly woman and younger man. The story begins back in 2007, two years before Andy joined the Sault Ste. Marie OPP. Her partner was brand new then, handling his first case, a prominent widow abducted from her ele...

You'll feel like you're living in this book ..." Sam Milton's normal life is turned upside-down by a chance deathbed revelation: "There's a gold mine out there ... "This sparks a ten-year obsession and Sam's life becomes a solitary struggle of self and purpose. He works in secret, lying, trespassing, and doing whatever it takes to continue his quest, even though he sacrifices love, friendship, and family pursuing his elusive goal. When a solut...

On a dark Alaska winter night, Annabeth Neilson is working late at her brand-new job, an animal rescue organization, when she is confronted by a gunman demanding something. What? She has no idea. Why? She has no idea. Though they never met, Malcolm Cooper steps in to help and it turns out the handsome man isn't just the man who saved her from a fate she cannot bring herself to consider, but is also her new boss. Though grieving multiple losses...