The day Danielle Harding takes her eleven-year-old son, Simon, and flees from her abusive husband is the same day Kurt Harding dies. A relieved Dani believes that she and her son are finally safe, but in reality, things are just heating up. When Kurt was alive, he took something important to a mysterious person. That person wants the item back and believes that Dani now has it. As she and her son run for their lives, they have nowhere to turn—until she hires Adam Buchanan of Operation Refu...

Seeking to fulfill the promise she made to her dying father, eighteen-year-old Jesselynn Highwood determines to take her little brother and the family's remaining Thoroughbreds from the Twin Oaks plantation in Kentucky to her uncle's farm in Missouri, where they will be safe for the remainder of the Civil War.Dodging Confederate and Union troops, they ride at night and hide during the day. Finally, after encountering hunger, sickness, and the devastation of war, they arrive in Miss...

In small town Laurel Ridge, not everything is as simple as it appearsAfter a terrible betrayal, Allison Standish flees Philadelphia for the small Amish village of Laurel Ridge to claim an unexpected inheritance. Allison intends to sell the mansion housing various shops on Main Street-until she meets Nick Whiting, a single father and tenant of Blackburn House, who challenges everything she believes about her estranged grandmother and the Amish community.Strange stipulations ...

A Texas lawman comes face to face with his past and meets the future: his son…First, someone tries to kill him. Then an achingly familiar beauty from his past drops the bombshell of a lifetime: he has a son. Two years ago, Sheriff Jericho Crockett’s attraction to Laurel Tate became a brief but intense affair–until an unsolved murder made them enemies. Now, with their son's life hanging in the balance, the Texas lawman must put aside the pain of Laurel’s long-held s...

A Texas lawman comes face to face with his past and meets the future: his son…First, someone tries to kill him. Then an achingly familiar beauty from his past drops the bombshell of a lifetime: he has a son. Two years ago, Sheriff Jericho Crockett’s attraction to Laurel Tate became a brief but intense affair--until an unsolved murder made them enemies. Now, with their son's life hanging in the balance, the Texas lawman must put aside the pain of Laurel’s long-held ...

Stop saying "If only . . ." and get yourself on track to health, happiness, and that youthful glow you thought you lost forever. Jackie Warner—New York Times bestselling author and personal trainer to the stars—has the answer to the energy crisis in your life, and it's not in the next cup of coffee you're reaching for. It's getting rid of your energy-sapping lifestyle.This Is Why You're Sick and Tired goes to the root of your energy problem to give you the tools y...

Part memoir, part cultural exploration, this book covers the author’s journey as she grows up in an evangelical Christian home, leaves religion behind as a young adult, and goes on to raise children in a family outside of religious belief. Maria Polonchek weaves a personal story with up-to-date studies and philosophic exploration of what it means to raise secular children in an otherwise religious world. Offering careful and respectful advice for other parents who are raising their childre...

Semiretired bookseller and former single parent to a challenging teen, the not-so-newly remarried Claire Malloy finds herself entangled in yet another case of felonious doings in this latest cozy.Claire Malloy, for as long as she can remember, has been the local bookseller and owner of the Book Depot and the widowed mother of teenage Caron, who frequently speaks in "all caps." But her life has changed dramatically in recent years. Claire has married her longtime beau, Deputy Police...

The Crozats feared that past murders at Crozat Plantation B&B might spell the death of their beloved estate, but they’ve managed to survive the scandal. Now there’s a très bigger story in Pelican, Louisiana: the upcoming nuptials between Police Chief Rufus Durand and Vanessa Fleer.Maggie Crozat, inexplicably tasked with being Vanessa’s maid of honor, quickly discovers why everyone else refused the assignment when the bridezilla hands her a long list of duties—the most important of ...

What if your LONG-LOST SISTER holds the key to a family secret?From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of BIG LIES IN A SMALL TOWN, a truly gripping novel of two sisters and a heartwrenching secret.Claire leads a busy, fulfilled and happy life, a life she wouldn't trade for anything . . . but that is about to change for ever.When Claire fails to prevent a young woman's suicide, the incident seems to trigger somethi...

A Texas Ranger must protect the daughter of a serial killer from becoming his next victim…Breaking into the home of the woman who shared his bed three months ago isn't Weston Cade's usual MO. But the Texas Ranger is on a personal vendetta to catch a killer, and Addie Crockett is the man's biological daughter. The beautiful rancher also happens to be carrying Wes's child…Addie can't remember her birth father, but she'll never forget the lover who took her to bed-and then disap...

June, 1998. Paris' sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private investigator Aim├®e Leduc has been trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle, take on only computer security assignments, and maybe try to learn how to cook (quelle catastrophe!). She's vowed not to let herself get involved in any more dangerous shenanigans—she's five months pregnant and has the baby's well-being to think about now, too.