Silent tears trickle down her cheeks as she curls inside the tiny cave-like space. She lies on her side, darkness all around her, rubbing her fingers over the little wooden doll he’d carved. He told her to be quiet, not to cry or scream. Not to be a baby. Her throat was raw, her eyes swollen shut. She wanted her mommy and daddy. She wanted to go home.When Penny Matthews, a seven-year-old girl with blonde curls and a gap-toothed smile, goes missing in the Appalach...

Two men who couldn’t be more different. One woman caught between them.When Jennifer loses David, the love of her life, her world falls apart. Fleeing to New York for a fresh start and a new chance at life, she meets Jack, rugged and handsome, everything she could hope for. But things are never as they seem and her world is plunged into chaos and violence. An abusive husband, a loveless marriage - and no way out.When David comes barrelling back into her life, Jennifer is tor...

A hallucinatory thriller about a failing demon’s search for a new host in post-dictatorship Santo DomingoAsmodeus, a millennia-old demon, has inhabited Rudy, a once-legendary Dominican rock star, for decades. But in 1992, the demon’s powers begin to fade. What follows is a desperate weeklong odyssey as Asmodeus ricochets through the bodies of the inhabitants of Santo Domingo’s underworld: from Guinea, a young metalhead plotting a warehouse heist, to Mireya, the daughter of a former...

Rita Perwich offers organic gardening principles, showing that sprays of pesticides and fungicides, even organic ones, are not necessary in a home garden.Roses are the most popular flower in the world, yet many people are afraid to grow them, given their reputation as high-maintenance ornamentals that need constant spraying with pesticides and fungicides and frequent fertilization. According to author Rita Perwich, traditional how-to books offer misguided informati...

The Full-Color Illustrated Edition of Pepper, Pumpkin and the Magical Pajamas: Pumpkin is Missing brings the beloved story to life with vibrant, full-color illustrations.This is a funny, fiction and exciting book for early readers.With Pepper's pajamas, anything is possible!Pepper, Pumpkin and the Magical Pajamas is a series about a7-year-old girl, her cat, and a pair of magical pajamas she received as a present from her grandmother....

Mitch Connor had a son, and heir to the Connor Industries. But he'd have never known it if Maria Montoya hadn't gotten word to Niles McFarlane, his best friend and business partner. The bad news was that Maria had died in an accident on a horse. Now Mitch had set himself out to get his son. He'd taken the necessary test to prove his fatherhood, and it truly was his son. He raced to Pecos, Texas to collect him.But Sarah Montoya, his aunt was his guardian and she had no intention of ...

Widowed after only a year of marriage, Kate Marley had a problem getting her crops to market. But that wasn't her only problem. She couldn't mourn her husband who'd been attacked by a Cougar. He'd been so brutal on her wedding night that she refused to have relations with him. She realized after his death that there had been no love in her marriage. She'd married Jim out of loneliness. Her husband had been a great farmer, but love had never been a part of their marriage. After his frightfu...

Born in war-torn Lebanon, Rita El-Mounayer grew up in the shadow of bombings, checkpoints, and a silenced childhood.From the sounds of foreign militias howling in the valley beneath her home to the grief of losing her mother during the Lebanese Civil War, Rita's childhood was shaped by fear, a longing for a better life, and faith. Yet God never gave up on Rita. Through grief, disappointment, and calling, I Choose Hope tells the extraordinary true story of ...

The true story of an ordinary woman living an extraordinary existence all over the world.“Gelman doesn’t just observe the cultures she visits, she participates in them, becoming emotionally involved in the people’s lives. This is an amazing travelogue.” —BooklistAt the age of forty-eight, on the verge of a divorce, Rita Golden Gelman left an elegant life in L.A. to follow her dream of travelling the world, connecting with people in...

Set across the Second World War, Snowflakes in the Wind is a heartwarming story of triumph over adversity by Rita Bradshaw, author of the number one bestselling Dancing in the Moonlight.It's Christmas Eve 1920 when nine-year-old Abby Kirby's family is ripped apart by a terrible tragedy. Leaving everything she's ever known, Abby takes her younger brother and runs away to the tough existence of the Border farming community.Years pass. Abby b...

Bonnie McDaniel had spent the last four years trying to keep her brothers and sister alive. She'd managed somehow to feed, cloth and keep a shelter over their heads.But now, she was lost. There was no money left. She owed a mortgage she couldn't pay. There' wouldn't be enough money for food, and she had to figure out what to do? Her only answer was to find a husband that could help her. She needed someone that would stand beside her and help support her siblings. But who?So ...

Book Two of the McKay Series. Another steamy sweet romance. Letty McKay has moved home to abide by her father's will. She has to live there a year in order to collect. When she meets the handsome horse wrangler, Hank Silver, she's instantly attracted.Hank however is the kind of cowboy who knows the hands off policy her father laid out and respects it. Even though Letty sets him on fire every time she's around, he refuses to give in to his baser wants. He could never support her in ...