Best friends with SECRET CRUSHES - on each other!Connor and Maya have volunteered at the neighborhood library together since middle school, but when a grant makes a paid summer position available, their relationship crumbles as they compete to prove which of them is more worthy of the job.

*contains sexual situations, strong language, violence, and depictions of abuseThis has all the hallmarks of CLASSIC AMERICANA*: rural small town life, poverty, dark family problems, love, and friendship.* author Paul Russell Parker IIIAn EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER*.* author Nikki LandisLocklyn Gaines isn’t her mother, but the residents of her small southeastern Kentucky town don’t...

*sequel to A Harvest of StarsA strange man has been watching Lanie as she leaves high school with her friends every day, but she is reluctant to tell her parents about this unnerving development. An only child, she is close to both of her parents, but her mother's unexplained distrust of others makes Lanie worry about sharing anything distressing with them.When the stranger ventures closer to home, his intent is revealed, and her parents' carefully concealed past is brought...

When a handsome stranger brings unexpected romance to her charmed life, will a sheltered Christian girl fight the odds for a chance at true love?Blessed from the moment of her birth, Faith Davenport is adored by everyone and has led a life guided by her charitable, Christian parents. At ease with her family's expectations and her own strength of belief, she finds joy in exploring the creative aspects of her Uncle Will's architecture business as his assistant.

2019 In the Margins National Book Award Recommended FictionSome students will do anything to win, but others may pay the price.For Mary Sofia, The Penultimate writing competition is more than a chance at a free college education; she wants to show her younger siblings that they can all rise above their violent family history. For Raiden, the pressure to succeed comes from within, although he knows that family traditions play a part in his determina...

Is her role as the "good girl" leading Mia down a destructive path . . . following in her beloved sister's tragic footsteps?Once upon a time, Mia had the perfect older sister. She's been an only child for over four years now, and life without her sister's guidance has grown painfully difficult. Her parents, ashamed of how her sister died, act like she never existed at all, but Mia needs her now more than ever.Her first year of high school, her first boyfrie...

*contains sexual situations, strong language, violence, and depictions of abuseIf you enjoy Jodi Picoult, you'll love this book . . . definitely worth the read! Amazon reviewerThis has all the hallmarks of CLASSIC AMERICANA: rural small town life, poverty, dark family problems, love, and friendship. author Paul Russell Parker IIIImaginative and emotive. - author Christina BoydThis is a WELL-WRITTEN, exciting, though often DARK STORY...

Lanie's quiet small town life is rattled when a mysterious stranger suddenly appears, upending her family along with the past.A strange man has been watching Lanie as she leaves high school with her friends every day, but she is reluctant to tell her parents about this unnerving development. An only child, she is close to both of her parents, but her mother's unexplained distrust of others makes Lanie worry about sharing anything distressing with them.When ...

A mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent for lyrical, powerfully emotional storytelling. A Land More Kind than Home is a modern masterwork of Southern fiction, reminiscent of the writings of John Hart (Down River), Tom Franklin (Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter), Ron Rash (Serena), and Pete Dexter (Paris Trout)—on...

Jack needs a cover to solve a decades-old mystery. And Josey offers him the perfect one – she’ll pose as his wife for a week. The redhead’s on the run from a killer, and Jack protects what’s his, pretend marriage or not. Yet it soon becomes clear that the sparks flying between them are anything but fake, and the danger they face is all too real…

A small town in Oklahoma is haunted by a mystery that has held its residents in its grip for years in this mystery from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Where the Heart Is.In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby, Nicky Jack. When the child's pajama bottoms were discovered on the banks of Willow Creek, everyone feared that he, too, had been kille...

Updated director's cut! FIRST in a new paranormal mystery series!For Jack Shepherd, tiger shape-shifter and former soldier, life is heading for a dead end. Dead End, Florida, to be exact. When he learns that he inherited a combination pawn shop/private investigation agency from his favorite uncle, Jack’s first job is to solve his uncle’s murder. Because sometimes it takes a tiger’s eye to see the truth.This novel is a paranormal mystery with magic, shape sh...