Diamond Pearl Hope is a biracial news reporter. She experiences a hard childhood. Diamond is only ten years old when her black mother dies. She goes to live with relatives who discriminate against her because she is mixed race. Diamond is rescued from abusive family members through adoption. While growing up, she is kept in the dark about her white father. After graduating from college she meets and marries an older abusive man. Diamond gets arrested for assaulting her husband; and comes f...

Honestly, this journey caught me by surprise. I spent the entire time my dad was sick preparing for his death. What I wasn’t prepared for was his absence and everything that came with it. While I’ve had time to adjust, it still never feels complete. That’s the thing about grief- it never ends. You just have to learn to live with it. The journey is one which leaves no one unchanged. But it can teach you things you never knew about how to live and love. It has taught me to love as fiercely a...

Ilse Salberg's story reflects a keen drive to learn, impressive financial and personal resources and a photo eye that ventured up close with the male nude, into the dark eyes of inhuman beings and to a seat at a sensory banquet. Salberg developed as a photographer during the troubled Nazi era. She fled from Cologne, to Paris, to Sanary sur Mer, was interned at Gurs and finally fled to Switzerland on foot. She died of cancer in Bern when she was 46-years-old.

An undercover agent must track down a Texas Ranger before he blows her cover in this romantic suspense from a USA Today–bestselling author.The fate of the city rests in their hands. When FBI operative Therese Ortis and Texas Ranger Wade Hamilton agree to team up, they have one goal in mind: find and stop an algorithm that could destroy Dallas—or worse. But going undercover in order to bring down a criminal organization comes with its own form of danger. If ...

New York Times bestseller Angie Fox celebrates 5 years of the Southern Ghost Hunter series with a limited edition boxed set of the first three stories in the series, along with never-before-seen additional content, including deleted scenes, original art, an inside look at the characters, and a behind-the-scenes peek at how the series came together.Southern SpiritsWhen out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a g...

The kidnapping of his kids puts a Texas Ranger on a collision course with danger—and desire—in this twist-filled thriller from the author of Gunslinger.The twins were all Josh Parker had in this world. So when they are kidnapped, he can't rely on his Texas Rangers star to get them back safely. Or involve Tracey Cassidy, the only person he trusts to care for his children.A family of criminals is asking him to break the law if he ever wants to see his ...

Verity’s family tree has deep roots…and deadly secrets.Some families pass down antiques or china. Verity’s family? They can’t seem to pass up a good mystery. So when Verity’s dearly departed grandmother drops by unexpectedly, Verity is overjoyed—until she learns Grandma Didi is back with a chilling request tied to a cherished family heirloom.With the help of her ghostly sidekick Frankie—who is too busy declaring her grandmother his ultimate nemesis—Verity t...

Enter the world of Septimus Heap, Wizard Apprentice. Magyk is his destiny.The evil necromancer DomDaniel has been disposed of, but something Darke is stirring. A Shadow pursues ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia Overstrand around, following her every move, growing stronger every day. Septimus senses something sinister is afoot, but before he can act, Jenna is snatched - taken by the most unlikely kidnapper. Septimus must rescue his sister but does not, at first, realise t...

Raw. Riveting. Real. Convinced that loneliness would be her lifelong companion, Angie Counios was struggling to find a way forward. Then she made a decision that changed her life: she vowed to undertake 101 challenges over the next year. Completing those challenges—ranging from frivolous to fulfilling to downright formidable—led Angie to the life-altering discovery that the Universe has far more to share than she ever could have imagined.

Join travel writer Angie Orth on a journey of self-discovery as she empowers readers to buck expectations, take leaps of faith, and trust that God’s plan is better than anything we think we want for our lives.Angie Orth should have had at least 2.5 kids by now—everyone else back home did. Despite a successful PR career in New York, Angie was failing at the roles she was born to play—those of submissive wife and grandchild incubator. Without a potential husband in s...

Three legendary origins of power. Two royal bloodlines. One deadly curse.The kingdom of Stelauris is slowly dying. A season of poison infects the air, earth, and water with increasing deadliness each year, and a deep love of gold and power infects the failing mind of the king. His only daughter and first in line to the throne, Princess Seren, lives in tightly controlled isolation. When she is suddenly thrust into royal society, she struggles to hide the strain of u...

Cody Simpson’s mother and sister, Angie and Alli, spin a touching, luminously illustrated tale inspired by the singer’s lullaby about the treasured memories of growing up in the tradition of The Wonderful Things You Will Be.As she walks along a quiet beach, a mother looks to the sky and sees memories of her young daughter’s life forming in the clouds—from first steps to riding a bike to finding her own voice and path. Each remembrance brought to life is sw...