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Personalities class and relationships explode when Maggie is forced to choose between the man she hoped to marry and her dream of becoming a thoroughbred jockey, and she learns some horsemen will do anything in the pursuit of success, but one man will do anything to win her love.
Syrup Sandwiches is a powerful memoir that celebrates resilience and the crucial impact of positive male role models. It inspires readers not to be defined or defeated by their traumas, but to believe in themselves and their faith, and to never surrender in the face of challenges.
This is the story of a girl who was born in wartime and grew up in postwar Germany, in the aftermath of the Nazi regime; a family on the run, with the added burden of a father lost at the front. Ignored in recorded history is the plight of the victims: the common man, woman, and child.
Spirits, little people, witches and fetishes fill the pages of Five Stories Short, A Supernatural Quintet, where truth and fiction meld and magic happens throughout, with the premise that the mystical world is closer than you think
Jungle Jim takes Fred and his friends camping. They went for walks, learned about mushrooms and berries, tried hang-gliding and white-water rafting. And a cookout. "Having finished all the chores, it's surely time to make S'mors. Marshmallows with chocolate bits taosted by the fire on sticks"
Moira, Deirdre and Nuala are at it again as they help unsettled spirits in their journey on the Otherside.
Moira, Deirdre and Nuala Gallagher, the three-sisters team of Gallagher Investigations, experience more encounters with troubled spirits needing their assistance before they can move on in the Afterlife.
Moira Gallagher has been conversing with ghosts since she was five. Now as an adult, she's finally putting that gift to good use.
Gabriella's world is turned upside down when someone she knows dies tragically while a stalker watches; and Jesse, Gabriella’s best friend’s brother, still grieves the death of his girlfriend Erica, convinced it wasn’t suicide but he won't let anything happen to Gabriella despite a killer targeting...
A fantastic adventure! When art curator Katie Bauer discovers a mysterious painting, her search for its provenance takes her from Texas to New York and Tuscany. As she uncovers its secrets, a reclusive vintner may hold the key to its past. The Lost Canvas celebrates resilience of the human spirit.
From the innocent and prim surroundings of a Norfolk girls’ school to the secret, whip-lashed delights of the Tokyo BDSM scene, Elizabeth Hendrick shares with unflinching honesty the tortuous ordeals she endured at the hands of a Japanese dominatrix before finally coming to terms with her sexuality...
Abandoned as a newborn, Anita’s only clue to her ancestry is a pendant, until, lost in Dancing Valley, she spies a fairy, a creature she'd seen as a child, but was told she'd only imagined, who leads her to Caroline, a guardian of the fae, and together they discover Anita’s heritage and her destiny...
With the wind in her hair and the salt tickling her nose, a Captain heads out for a day on the brine. A story within a story, rhythm, rhyme, and repetition introduces life forms found in the Indian Ocean, while the imaging hints at the cycle of life.
Finding herself under suspicion, Rita, determined to clear her name and expose the real villains, embarks on a perilous hunt for the truth. She swaps Wellington's mean streets for a Cambodian rehab, but the bodies keep piling up.
Roberto and his siblings strive to keep their family afloat as their parents struggle to survive financially in post-war Italy when a family friend, Salvatore helps, but a villain tries to destroy the family and all they’ve worked for, so they must fight for their lives against a deadly predator.
An outbreak of war with the Hittites is imminent. Queen Nefertari of Pharaoh Ramses II resolves to preserve peace with the help of a Hittite and a shaman. It is the story behind the first Peace Treaety between ancient power, a copy of which is displayed in the UN Headquarters in New York City.
Joy, an interior designer, discovers the sudden death of her colleague when she meets her love interest, Edward, but murders close to home lead to prime suspects and her loved ones may be in danger.
It is the story of Vinoda, a young and beautiful girl who dreams of becoming a prominent actress in the Indo-Greek kingdom of Menander. As she gains recognition from the royal family, her conscience is tested. She struggles with a deep secret, torn between love and loyalty.
Cass Taylor’s songwriting career is thriving, but her love life’s is out of tune. When the rock star who broke her heart in 1976 returns, asking for another chance, she must decide if reopening old wounds is worth the risk—or if some songs are better left unfinished.
Jamie struggles with the death of a teenage patient too gravely injured to save before her father is arrested for murdering the girl when she meets her love interest, Angelo, the new detective investigating the gruesome murders, but Jamie is targeted by an unknown stalker resurfacing from her past.
Ellie moves from the city to a small farm where her mother takes a private teaching job for a scientist who's son may be a vampire.
Valeria works hard on the family farm in Italy; torn between family duty and desire for freedom from her strict, domineering father, and finds solace in Dario until Gregorio, obsesses over her, leading to a series of suspicious accidents, but Valeria is determined to keep her loved ones safe.
After a mystical clan saves the life of an 18th-century archaeologist in the Amazon jungle, it sets off a series of events that impact the supernatural world two centuries later, when a contemporary guardian of the fae is approached by the Amazon clan's leader to help fight for their survival.
