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Abandoned by her mother ten years earlier, Stella Ingman returns to her childhood home to help her father clean up after a flood. But she’s horrified when repairs to the backyard swimming pool reveal her missing parent’s hidden corpse. Plunged into the depths of guilt and refusing to see her father as the number one suspect, Stella focuses on solving the gruesome crime.

One more day. One more chance to tell family you love them, feel the grass beneath your feet, or finally speak your mind. So This Is The End follows Nora Hamilton as she navigates her last 24 hours before death, and she is determined to do something meaningful with her last moments. While looking for unique bucket list ideas, a friend suggests going on one last first date. What happens next is like a love story. Of course Nora would fall in love in her last 24 hours before death.

Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set—a failed debutante's new job as assistant to society photographer Slim Aarons takes her into Palm Beach’s inner circle, and into a beguiling friendship with the star at its center, fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer “This glittering novel shines as...

When Laura Farnsworth discovers the blood-stained body of a man wearing the distinctive red coat of the British army, her first instinct is to let dead dogs lie. But then the man proves himself to be very much alive by grabbing her ankle and mumbling incoherently. After twenty-five years in His Majesty's service, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Langston never expected to wake up in heaven, much less being tended an angel. An angel who happens to be an American. As the long-widowed Laura nurses him back to health, the attraction between them heats from a simmer to a boil.

Queen Morgan is the matriarch of her magically-gifted family, the primary caretaker of Chemerie, and the most powerful wielder her country has seen for many centuries. Because of her devoted service, Chemerie now stands strong with a massive fleet of mighty dragons, a skilled knight’s guard, and four caretakers wielding pure magic ready to heal, empower, and fight at their side.

Melisende Dulac is a fish out of water after relocating from the East Coast to a small community in the Oregon high desert. But just as she's beginning to think of Barlow County as home, her life takes an ominous turn when she comes upon a grisly multiple-car wreck and three shattered bodies on an isolated road outside of town. Near the scene, Melisende trips over a fourth body, that of a newborn girl lying a physics-defying distance from the wreckage. There is no one to claim the infant, nor a clear indication she was even part of the accident.

Morgan is now queen and caretaker of Chemerie, mother to powerful twin children, and charged with many daunting tasks. Her most significant challenges are to ensure the survival of her fast-maturing children, restore the precious connection once felt between her human and dragon brethren, rebuild a lost portal, and teach those ignorant of their magic to wield it responsibly. Any one of these could prove fatal were she to face it alone. Her brother has found his mate at last. However, the woman’s uncontrolled magic puts both of their lives at risk.

After her father’s accident, Corrie Lancaster moves back to the family farm just in time to help with the harvest. With a bumper crop of wheat waiting, the farm’s only hired hand quits, leaving Corrie with no choice but to accept the help of her old boyfriend’s older brother, Aaron Tuttle. It seems like the perfect plan until Corrie realizes ex-flame Luke isn’t over her. But even with Luke’s apologies and attempts to rekindle their romance, Corrie can’t forget his past betrayal.

Katie’s friends, family, and loving boyfriend have kept her from drowning in a sea of crippling anxiety. Now, a handful of medications help her through the stressful college life. Until Matthew. Katie becomes inexplicably and unnaturally drawn to him. Her decisions no longer feel like her own. Thrust into his world of secrets, manipulations, and betrayals, she is swept up in a torrent of emotions she can’t control.

Want to make the most of your time in school? Whether you’re just starting out your high school career or about to finish, you owe it to yourself to have more fun and stress less. How do you do that? One of the most important and easy to overlook methods is this: Communicate better with your teachers. This book can help you with that.

Haunted by dreams of a stranger with jade-green eyes for most of her life, 18-year-old Lizzy is shocked to find out that he's not just a figment of her imagination. Despite an immediate attraction, however, she's not here for romance. She has more important things to do, having come to the Victorian age in order to search for word of a mysterious and distant relative who will soon be hanged for murder.

As a certified professional organizer, everything in Paige Parker's world is as it should be. And now, she has the perfect vacation planned to honor Singles Day. After all, what's better than celebrating her pride in being single? Who needs a man anyway? They have zero taste in quality television, leave the toilet seat up, and sleep with your best friend. No thanks. Her life is fine just the way it is.

"Fast-paced, explosive thriller. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough." -Carrie Stuart Parks, award-winning, bestselling author of Relative Silence It’s up to a K-9 handler and her canine partner to stop a bomber before it’s too late. Someone’s planting explosives on dams in the Twin...

Teri Stokes arrives in Crow Hill, Texas, to help her parents pack up in advance of an approaching wildfire, only to find the one person she never wanted to see again, Navy SEAL Shane Gregor, in charge of the firefighting volunteers.

Dating coach Savannah Gamble is used to helping women find their perfect Mr. Right. Through her 12-step program, anyone can find happiness. Too bad she has so much trouble following her own rules. Specifically rule number two: Believe Mr. Right is out there. That's her own dirty little secret, though. After Lincoln Wells - the original "one who got away" - reenters her life, Savannah knows she has to stick to the rules and stay away from Linc if she ever wants her own happily-ever-after. 

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost. “A gripping, fascinating read.” —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of...

Seeking a high profile case to jet-fuel her career and striving to strike a blow for justice, attorney Laura Tobias sets out to clear a man she believes was wrongfully imprisoned for murder, ten years before. The young lawyer, a rising star with the Council Against Wrongful Convictions, is the last hope for inmate Eddie Nash, serving life without parole at the infamous Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

A family drama with a speculative twist about three siblings and one beastly surprise, from the New York Times bestselling author “Weird, witty, and totally delightful, with echoes of Schitt’s Creek but with more teeth! I loved it.” —Annie Hartnett, author of Unlikely Animals and The...

With her fifteen years of experience in young-adult-focused therapy and coaching, Jesse Giunta Rafeh now reaches out to a wider audience with this accessible, practical guide to creating an extraordinary adulthood. In Life Launch, Jesse transforms intuition into practice, giving you a map to the questions you should be asking yourself. Unlike other books, she doesn’t tell you what to do—instead, you’ll build the roots of your perspective to unlock the insight you already possess.

Screw the expectations. You can live a life that is bigger than the little boxes others have tried to put you in. In a world that tells you no, Whatever the Hell You Want is telling you yes. Through personal stories and insights from their international podcast series, The Breakout, Keri Ohlrich, PhD, and Kelly Guenther bring their twenty-plus years of coaching and corporate-change expertise to help you redefine what you want in your life—outside the expectations that have been placed on you by your parents, partners, society, and even yourself.