Babkin is a prisoner of war. He is calm, disciplined and utterly unreadable — but the cockroaches in his cell talk to him at night.Dr Jevan is the prison psychologist assigned to assess him. He is certain the hallucinations are a symptom of PTSD. He is certain Babkin poses no threat. He is certain of a great many things that are about to be proven wrong.In a maximum security facility built to hold four thousand enemy soldiers, something has found a way in. It is patient, in...

Finley has everything a man could want. A wife he loves, children he'd die for, and a job that puts his particular set of skills to use without the bureaucratic misery of the military he left behind. By every measure, his life is exactly as it should be.So why can't he shake the feeling that something is missing?His therapist has a word for it. Unsatisfied. Finley hates that she's right.But when a quiet morning at his children's school turns into something no amount...

Rick is a good soldier. The best kind — the kind who brings his men home alive by becoming something his wife can barely recognise and his son will never understand.The war is nearly over. Just a few more months of being the monster, a few more weeks of the violence and the savagery that has kept his platoon breathing while others fill the ground around them. Then he can come home. Put the monster away. Be a husband and a father again.But monsters don't simply disappear whe...

James Carmichael is six weeks into his new life in London. He has mostly mastered the tube, partially decoded the accent, and completely failed to understand why nobody here will make eye contact.This morning he is stuck in a lift with a stranger who already knows his name.Ugbana is enormous, friendly, and impossible to read — switching between warm extroversion and blank introversion with no warning. He says they have met before. He says James would remember if he thought ...

Frances Thomas is playing the role of a lifetime: the contented city housewife. But beneath the polished surfaces of her domestic peace lies a restlessness that won't be silenced--and a hidden box of files from a life she tried to leave behind. When the echoes of a five-year-old cold case become too loud to ignore, Frances abandons her safe routine to return to the small town that broke her. She isn't just looking for who killed a girl named Cordi; she's looking for the truth about a syste...

Megan Kimble has finally freed herself from years of abuse at the hands of her ex. Now she can finally start a new life and figure out just who she really is. When her brother Matt dies suddenly, she takes a big risk and moves cross country to live in his house and take over his new business. This could be the chance she’s needed. There’s only one problem now. She can’t seem to escape the irresistible charm of her departed brother’s best friend.Todd Jordan ...

Head back to Pride Oregon to find out what some of your favorite Jill Sanders’ characters are up to.Sara Jordan has finally been given the chance to run the Golden Oar, a restaurant that’s been in her family for generations. But the sexy know-it-all carpenter that her uncle hired to make some changes keeps getting in her way. She’ll have to use all her skills just to prove that she’s up to the task.Parker Clark was hired to bring new life to the old building, but he hadn’t ...

In a clash of two worlds, Sarah finds herself caught between her carefree, hippie upbringing and the responsibilities of the real world. After losing her beloved father, she's left with a reputation as the girl with the eccentric mom—a reputation that threatens her dream promotion at a nearby resort. Enter Ben, an attractive and sophisticated businessman whose arrival seems to jeopardize Sarah's chances even further. However, as an undeniable attraction and closeness develop between them, ...

As a CEO who serves at the helm of multi-million-dollar organizations, lives the life of a serial entrepreneur, and navigates the dynamics of multigenerational family businesses, Ray Sanders takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey through the tensions, challenges, and opportunities unique to family-owned enterprises.In Farming the Future, real-to-life conflicts, communication struggles, and sibling rivalries unfold as sparks fly, tempers flare, and the family patriarch does hi...

You finally have an answer after years of fatigue, anemia, bloating, or infertility dismissed as stress or hormones. The relief is real, and so is the wall of information that arrives with 4 words. Stop eating gluten. For women the stakes are higher because the same intestinal damage that blocks nutrients also disrupts periods, fertility, bone density, and pregnancy, and generic books skim what matters most.This is not a generic gluten free book. It speaks to how celiac touches hor...

Every fan knows a name that is not on the birth certificate. He is not Messi on the teamsheet, he is La Pulga. He is not Ronaldo, he is CR7. He is not Pelé, he is O Rei. A great nickname is the crowd's way of saying you are ours, and football has turned that habit into an art form no other sport can match. This book is not a dry list of 90 entries and it is not a stat sheet you can google in 2 minutes. It is 90 human stories about how a playground joke, a physical trait, a shirt number, or...

You are standing in aisle 7 holding a box that looks innocent and realizing you have no idea whether it will make you sick. The pamphlet said avoid gluten and sent you home. From broth to soy sauce to the crumbs in a shared toaster, gluten hides where you least expect it, and a crumb smaller than you can see can trigger an immune attack that flattens the villi lining your small intestine.This book is not a medical textbook and it is not a cookbook of recipes you will never make. It...