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Each year, the start of summer brings bustle and much-needed tourist dollars to the little town of Albany Beach, Delaware. For Natalie Sullivan, this season is proving more stressful than others. Their two children are thriving, but she’s experiencing pangs of loss at the end of her childbearing years. When sixteen-year-old McKenzie starts gushing about Bella, the new coworker at her summer job, Natalie suddenly finds her past and present in conflict. The more McKenzie talks about Bella, the more Natalie wonders: could Bella be her daughter?

Annie Shaw longs to be taken seriously. At 14, she's fed up of being babied by her big sister Delilah. It's true that Delilah has been the closest thing to a mother that Annie or any of her siblings have ever known, but she's secretive about the past and won't let her little sister out of her sight. When Annie's old friend Clara visits with tales of the good money that can be made at the cotton mill outside Ormskirk, she sees her chance at adventure and runs away. The work is gruelling and Annie is shocked to witness children as young as eight working long days around dangerous machinery.

It is June and our ten-year-old heroine is sad. She knows she will not get to leave her neighbourhood that summer, and the beach is far, far away. And that clouds like the bottom of a donkey's belly will hover all summer over her town, high among the volcanoes of northern Tenerife. But she has a best friend, Isora. And she likes everything about Isora. The colour of her arms and her hair and her eyes. Her handwriting and the way she writes the letter g with a huge tail. The way she calls her Shit because poop is a beautiful thing like the mist round the pines.

Grace Stanton’s life as a rising media star and beloved lifestyle blogger takes a surprising turn when she catches her husband cheating and torpedoes his pricey sports car straight into the family swimming pool. Grace suddenly finds herself locked out of her palatial home, checking account, and even the blog she has worked so hard to develop in her signature style. Moving in with her widowed mother, who owns and lives above a rundown beach bar called The Sandbox, is less than ideal.

Lawyer Gabby Lewis always knew she would die young. Since her mother’s death twenty-five years ago, she’s dreaded her upcoming fortieth birthday, the same age her mother died. When she discovers a connection between her mother and a suspicious mansion house, Ocean Haven, Gabby begins to suspect that her mother’s death wasn’t an accident, it was murder.

Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan - merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados - a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned.

In the summer of 1973, teenage Ruth and her four friends are obsessed with pre-Raphaelite paintings and a little bit obsessed with each other. They spend the scorching summer days in the river by Ruth's grand family home, pretending to be the drowning Ophelia and recreating tableaus of other tragic mythical heroines. But by the end of the summer, real tragedy has found them. Twenty-four years later, Ruth is a wife and mother of three children and moves her family into her still-grand, but now somewhat dilapidated, childhood home following the death of her father.

Only a man with secrets can save her.... Lanora cares nothing for love, marriage, dances or gowns. She cares about people and family. When the rakish Lord William courts her, Lanora sets out to discover what dark secrets motivate him. If she doesn't learn the truth in time, those she loves could suffer a lifetime of hardship.

For 30-year-old Frankie Simon, selling movie memorabilia in the shop she opened with her late mother on Hollywood Boulevard is more than just her livelihood - it’s an enduring connection to the only family she has ever known. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a photograph of her mother and famous movie stars Glory Cartwright and her husband at a coastal film festival the year before Frankie’s birth, her life begins to unravel in ways unimaginable.

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Broke and newly unemployed, Gigi Jenkins is heading home to the horse-and-buggy Mackinac Island that she once couldn't wait to leave behind. She's going to be spending the summer with her mother, and she's not sure what that close proximity will do to their already fraught relationship. Almost immediately, they find themselves in a battle of wills, and they agree to play matchmaker for each other. Both women are certain that the other couldn't possibly understand them, so surely these potential connections will fizzle out before they even begin.

You can’t turn on the news nowadays without getting bombarded by stories about the Rebels. They look so scary on TV - blowing things up, knocking things down, terrorizing the declining city of Corona, and making sure even the rubble doesn’t go unscathed. My father is the reigning Arcane Master of Fire. Since he’s a prominent figure in both politics and magic, it only makes sense that my family is a target. Still, I never expected to encounter a Rebel leader in person. I never imagined I’d be drawn to him, either.

Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is overtaken by wealthy families who hire local young women like Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin to care for their children. Best friends since childhood, Amy and Hayley are eager to secure lucrative summer jobs. Amy wants to finance her upcoming move to Boston. Hayley hopes to earn enough money so that her mom can leave her abusive husband. But the passing weeks bring complications and revelations, altering friendships, testing the bond between mothers and daughters, and proving that the ripples from a single season can last forever...

Samantha Garrett possesses the gift of ESP and with innocent intent, she uses it to invade the mind of her daughter's best friend. While exploring the mind of the young girl, she discovers unspoken desires - desires for other women. Not only is Samantha surprised and aroused by the girl’s sexual fantasies, she is floored to learn she's the object of those some of those desires. What started as an innocent connection quickly becomes an obsession. Can Samantha resist coercing her daughter's young friend into fulfilling her new found desires for another woman?

Desperate times...call for desperate measures. Flat broke, and under a nonnegotiable deadline to escape her past and start a new life, Stacie Redmond has no choice: Somehow, someway she must get to California in just a few days' time. Luckily, her friend Kelly has a solution. But it means riding on the back of a motorcycle behind Kelly’s dad! Seeing no other option, Stacie reluctantly agrees. But her new escort, Frank Miller, has a past of his own.

Flat broke and under a nonnegotiable deadline to escape her past and start a new life, Stacie Redmond has no choice: Somehow, someway, she must get to California in just a few day’s time. Luckily, her friend Kelly has a solution. But it means riding on the back of a motorcycle behind Kelly’s dad! Seeing no other option, Stacie reluctantly agrees. But her new escort, Frank Miller, has a past of his own.

Flat broke and under a nonnegotiable deadline to escape her past and start a new life, Stacie Redmond has no choice: Somehow, someway she must get to California in just a few day’s time. Luckily, her friend, Kelly, has a solution. But it means riding on the back of a motorcycle behind Kelly’s dad! Seeing no other option, Stacie reluctantly agrees. In part two: The couple is now on the run and pursued through the backroads of the Southwest. With the odds stacked against them, Stacie and Frank can only rely on each other.

Flat broke and under a non-negotiable deadline to escape her past and start a new life, Stacie Redmond has no choice: Somehow, someway she must get to California in just a few day’s time. Luckily, her friend, Kelly, has a solution. But it means riding on the back of a motorcycle behind Kelly’s dad! Seeing no other option, Stacie reluctantly agrees. But her new escort, Frank Miller, has a past of his own. The life he walked away from and never looked back on also comes with a legacy that made him famous on the backroads of America.