This is a book about monsters.Monsters who love us. Monsters who hate us. The monsters we nurture, and the monsters we become. They may be imperceptibly small or unimaginably vast, completely devoid of thought or filled with incomprehensible rage and hunger, but regardless of scale or motivation, they cannot be ignored.On these pages, you will meet an artist who plays with the geometry of madness, a child who refuses to accept the rules of loss, and a mind unravelled by the...

Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Haven County Georgia is the home of Bellport Poultry, the Walton's Ford Railroad Museum and the annual Apple Blossom Festival.Recently, the Haven County area has been plagued with a series of strange occurrences, and county residents Matt Wilder and Charlie Allen have found themselves with a reputation as the "go to guys" for dealing with such things.Zombies, ghosts, even aliens... No situation is too bizarre to wind up...

'David ran a hand through his mop of brown hair. Dragons. It was certainly different from his last set of lodgings, where all you got were spiders and the occasional mouse. "It's perfect," he said.'When David arrives at Wayward Crescent he has no idea what lurks inside the Pennykettle house. Only when he's given his own special dragon does he begin to unlock their mysterious secrets, and to discover the fire within...

The truth can't stay buried foreverThe McCaffertys: SladeSlade McCafferty was a bachelor through and through-too busy raising hell to settle down. Case in point: fifteen years ago daredevil Slade had taken wild child Jamie Parsons's innocence, and then had broken her heart. But Jamie is back in town, a lawyer, all confidence and polished professionalism. And seeing her again is setting off a tidal wave of emotions Slade thought he'd dammed up ages ago. Bac...

This deeply moving memoir tells the story of Hannah: a child who has been beaten and abused; a girl full of loneliness and rage; a student no one but learning disabilities teacher Mary MacCracken could reach.Mary had reservations about eight-year-old Hannah joining her class. The three emotionally disturbed boys she was currently looking after had been making steady progress, and Hannah, who had a reputation for being a withdrawn and incredibly troubled child, would only be a disru...

An almost twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida’s pot-hauling days gets Hannah Smith’s attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state’s earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah’s friends and neighbors in Sulfur Wells are being pressured to make contributions.The problem is the whole thing is a scam, and when Hannah sets out to uncover who’s behind it, she discovers that things are even worse than she...

Repairing More Than Just A House…Grace Saunders returns to Spruce Lake, Colorado, to oversee the renovation of a house she’s inherited—and to get away from a bad divorce. She’s not planning to run into high school sweetheart Jack O’Malley. She has a secret she’ll give anything to keep, even when it turns out that Jack’s her new contractor.Now Jack and Grace have to work together—and work at keeping their hands off each other. Grace is the same girl Jack use...

Trust No OneTo her sorrow, Erin Wentworth had learned that lesson all too well when her society marriage had proved a sham. Now widowed and pregnant, she wanted only to escape the memories. But fate, in the form of Quinn Yarborough, had followed her to her mountain hideaway to resurrect the past-and offer her a future….A Breed ApartBounty hunter Quinn Yarborough knew he had come face-to-face with a quarry unlike any other, for runaw...

You can't beat this huge box set of SIX complete cozy mystery books--800 pages--in one!"This was one of the best series I've read in a long time. I really loved each character and feel like I'm part of the family. Really can't wait for the next adventure.""What a wonderful series! Bought the first six and couldn't stop reading. Great characters that are like family. Fun mysteries, easy reading.""Love the books. Being a dog lover, really enjoyed...

When Colorado rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon gets a call from Wanda Naranjo, she's panicked. Not only is her sink leaking, which Moon graciously fixes, but her sixteen-year-old daughter, Betty, has gone missing. For how long? Only a few hours, but she's pregnant. So what about the father-to-be? It's a good question and anybody's guess. Betty has kept her lips sealed on the subject.And that's not all. Betty claimed to be going to see a school counselor on what...

Colorado rancher and tribal investigator Charlie Moon is taking a night off to play some poker with his best friend, Scott Parris, Granite Creek's chief of police, when Scott's dispatcher cuts in with an emergency call. It seems a man was on the phone with his wife when their call was interrupted by a bloodcurdling scream and the most gruesome noises he'd ever heard. Would they mind checking it out?Arriving on scene, they discover that the man's wife, one of three daughters of a wea...

When Evelyn tended Prince Luke of Lydia’s battle wounds, she had no idea whose life she was saving. Yet now the handsome warrior is determined to rescue her from King Garren’s fortress.Evelyn may be Garren’s granddaughter and a princess by right, but the vindictive king has forced her to pay off her father’s debts as a servant. A shared faith deepens her bond with Luke, but revealing her true identity could tear them apart and bring war to two kingdoms. Only courage and trust will ...