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Kayla Grey travels from Boston to Montana to find Cal Bartlett, the brother of the man who'd wanted to marry her. Liam Bartlett had been a reporter and Kayla was told that he was killed in war-torn San Salustiano. When a stranger tells Kayla that Liam is still alive and in a San Salustiano prison, she is determined to look for him. Kayla asks Cal to join her in the search and along the way Cal finds himself irresistibly drawn to the man his brother...

Divorced parents Brandon and Sherry O'Toole must join forces to save their son, lost and alone in the frozen wilderness after his plane crashes in the Utah mountains.

When a stalker targets his family, journalist Jack Crittendon sets out to protect the ones he loves. It leads into a world of secrets and faith gone awry, as does his story on a pastor whose suicide is more than it appears.

Jack Veeder is dying. Soon. And that impending event brings his son Jimmy back to the Imperial Valley of southern California just north of the Calexico/Mexicali border. Jimmy hopes he can spend what time his father has left laughing and reminiscing. But Jack's got one dying request. He needs Jimmy to find a Mexican prostitute named Yolanda. Enlisting the help of his boyhood friend Bobby Maves, the pair stumbles through the violent, the exploited,...

As their sail aboard the Disney Dream's continues, the Kingdom Keepers face a dark journey that will challenge the bonds of friendship and trust. Events on and off the ship endanger not only the celebrated Disney Hosts but the passengers and crew as well. The Kingdom Keepers are pushed deeper into an ever-darkening reality toward a destructive force, dormant for decades, that may yet rise to power once more and one of the five is tobe the first victim....

"Alibi Island is the one place on earth where the rich and famous are kings. Back in America they're just rich. They're surrounded by the cult of celebrity their wealth brings, but they can never be themselves. They can never indulge in their darkest desires and let the beast that is their true nature out. The place is legendary. Few ever get the black and gold card inviting them to indulge, and fewer still can afford the stay. But there is a dark...

"Two sisters, strangers since birth yet bound by family secrets, are caught up in a century-old mystery on an isolated island. After arriving on Block Island to find her birth mother, Blake Bronson becomes convinced she's the heroine of a gothic novel-the kind that allowed her intermittent escape from a traumatic childhood. How else to explain the torrential rain, the salt-worn mansion known as White Hall, and the restless ghost purported to haunt...

"Two women are watching each other... Phoebe Miller isn't sure when the rusty car started showing up in the cul-de-sac she calls home, or why its driver would be spying on her. What could be interesting about an unhappy housewife who drowns her sorrows in ice cream and wine and barely leaves her house? When a new family moves in across the street--the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the gossipy best friend Phoebe's always wanted, and her handsome...

2023. Rory Ann Miller is on the run with her best friend Feliza Lopez because they are accused of bombing their posh Californian high school during an American Virtue Ball. Rory's mom, a social activist and lawyer, has been arrested and implicated in her daughter's "crimes" whereas her dad is cooperating with the authorities. Rory is cynical and scared, furious and scathing, betrayed and looking for something or someone to trust. As she blogs their...

Ophelia Jensen's good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities -- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian's best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant. Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn't safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting...