Her family owes a debt they can never repay.Lord Aldric offers Merryn another way.Become his wife. Give him an heir. Obey the rules of his house.In return, her parents keep their land, their debts disappear, and they will never fear his collectors again.At nineteen, Merryn knows it is not much of a choice. She leaves the only home she has ever known and enters a cold stone keep as the wife of a powerful man who views marriage much like he views land: somethi...

Stop living defeated when God has called you to walk in authority.Fear. Discouragement. Spiritual warfare. Family struggles. Loss. Self-doubt. These battles can leave even committed Christians feeling powerless and wondering where their victory has gone.In Walking in Your God-Given Authority!, Ron Dean Birmingham challenges believers to recognize the spiritual authority available to them through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.

William Dean Howells's warm, intimate portrait of Mark Twain begins with their first meeting in Boston and grows into a lifelong friendship marked by laughter, admiration, and repeated visits in Hartford and New York. Twain emerges as a dazzling presence: theatrically dressed, mischievous, endlessly talkative, and yet rooted in a boyish originality that made his humor feel inseparable from deeper wisdom. Howells moves through literary gatherings with Fields, Aldrich, Bret Harte, and Ralph ...

Legendary alpinist Barry Blanchard returns to the thin places where weather, will, and luck decide everything—and the consequences echo for years.Vicariously thrilling for armchair—and actual—alpinists. –Kirkus ReviewsBlanchard, in his inimitable, heart-pounding, and brutally honest style, continues reminiscing about the life he introduced readers to inThe Calling (Patagonia, 2017).In these years, he travels from A...

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Kimberly Hart was never supposed to be the bride.When her older sister disappears days before a marriage meant to save their family's failing company, Kimberly is pushed into taking her place. She expects one ceremony, one signature, and a quiet annulment once the real bride returns.Adam Langford has other plans.Wealthy, commanding, and accustomed to obedience, Adam accepts the substitute standing at the altar—but he refuses to treat Kimberly like a temporary replac...

Jason Sloan, hockey star and entrepreneur, is used to getting what he wants, but speed and a bullseye slapshot don't mean success in the business world. Jason needs to soften his approach if he wants to succeed. He needs Sienna Blakely, a business communications expert who’s reluctantly working as an escort until she can find a job in her field.Sienna is hesitant when the bold and brash defenseman hires her to accompany him to a business dinner as his date. Luxxor Escort Services i...

It’s just pretend…but nobody wants to stop.Maxie’s quiet, predictable routine is shattered when she steps outside her flower shop and almost runs into two women. It’s not the near collision that’s startling. It’s the strangers’ faces. It’s like looking in a mirror times two, and it sends her into a dead faint.Sheriff Zac Ford sees three identical copies of the shy woman who’s caused him more sleepless nights than he can count, and it stops him in his tracks. Maxie’...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving cold cases.Retired Detective Bayard Lott hosts the weekly poker games at his home. The group calls themselves the Cold Poker Gang. And they succeed at closing old cases.Lott’s very first homicide case as a brand-new detective had gone cold more than twenty years earlier. But r...

It’s cookie time with Pete and his friends in this zany picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling classic series Pete the Cat!Pete the Cat is baking cookies. And when he sees his friends playing outside, Pete wishes the baking would just hurry up. So, he builds an invention…BEHOLD! The Cookie-O-Matic! It’s cool, it’s groovy, it’s fantastic!The machine bakes a lot of cookies—and fast. But what happens when the cookies spin...

East Texas is quiet country. Long stretches of pine woods. Dirt roads that run for miles without a porch light. And a whole lot of dark once the sun goes down.People out here tell stories about what lives in that dark — things that watch from the tree line and wait to see what you'll do.East Texas Chills collects ten brand-new tales of backwoods terror, each one built on the kind of story East Texans have been telling each other at deer camps and gas stations and front porc...

You matter.Your teenage years don’t have to be filled with fear and questions about who you are meant to be. What if you could start every day knowing that you were created with intention?Hope 365 is a teen’s guide to embracing the incredible truth that every life has a divine purpose. Join Dean Sikes on a yearlong journey to build confidence in your identity and launch into your destiny. With powerful Scripture, relatable stories, and practical ad...