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Lois Washington is at the end of her rope. Struggling as a single mother in an apartment the size of a closet is not the New York City adventure she dreamed of in her starry-eyed youth. When her job goes on the chopping block, she is ready for a major life change. Joining her best friend in Tennessee to become the newest employee at the Green Valley Public Library isn't exactly where she thought life would take her, but she feels up for the challenge. Only this relocation comes with more than she bargained for.

A young Christopher must deal with a very bad egg. For ages four to nine.

Dominic Chambers is the most charming man I’ve ever met—and he’s my new boss. He may cause my heart skip a beat, but the last thing I need is a relationship with the playboy who owns the company. After a disastrous breakup, I’m committed to focusing on my year of self-healing. I’ve kept my emotional distance from him, until an unexpected evening brings us closer. He can’t discover the truth. No matter how much I wish I could tell him.

Caleb Morrison is the most uptight man I’ve ever met—and he’s my new boss. One moment he’s cold, the next he’s unexpectedly sweet. It’s enough to give me whiplash. Despite my attraction to him, I’m convinced we’re too different to be more than friends. But then he flips the script, and I’m left with a decision.

ife gets a little crazy sometimes, especially when you've got two kids, two businesses, and you are two parents who are very hands on. But when Trick's gift doesn't get here in time for Christmas, I have to improvise. They say variety is the spice of life. To keep my man happy, marriage on track, and our sanity, I decide to give him what he craves most in the world. Me. With a bow on top. Patrick Tennyson won't know what hit him. It'll be the surprise of his life, and all he'll have to do is follow the instructions.

It had been a gang rape. As bad as that was, it was not the turning point. Her life turned around when Cindy Smith put it behind her and started over. She got her degree and a good job. She married a great guy. Then she discovered that one of the rapists was a coworker. When Adan Jackson begins harassing her, Cindy tries to protect her secret past by ignoring him. When he escalates, she turns to Private Investigator Nickey Arnold for help. The PI quickly finds herself caught up in unfinished business from the past. When she confronts Adan, things spin out of control.

As a probationary firefighter, I’m doing everything I can to impress the members of my company. Knowing I’m the first in my family to be educated makes me proud, and gives me hope for the future. I hold myself to a higher standard than anyone else, especially with a southern small-town breathing down my neck. One night, on a dark mountain road, I help the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen in my life change a flat tire.

After an eventful Christmas break, Cadence Lewis is shaken to her core, but someone she doesn't expect is there to hold her together. Barrick Carpenter didn't plan on falling in love with the sassy New Yorker, but now he will do anything to protect her from her father. When a second bombshell is dropped on Cadence, she has two options: guard her heart forever or risk letting love in. Will Cadence push Barrick away or fall completely head over boots?

Attempted murders, intrigue, and scandal are all in a day’s work for Eve, one of DC’s most sought-after escorts. Her admirers include corporate executives, DC cops, and other smitten johns who have seen her dance at the Tahiti men’s club. None of them know her secret. She’s April Walsh, a housewife and writer who has gone deep undercover to investigate DC vice from the inside. Her first priority has always been her marriage. Her writing career has had to take a back seat. That changes when April is assigned to write a story about the sex industry.

Robert E. Lee’s most trusted senior commander, General James Longstreet, takes two Virginia divisions west to unite with General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. Longstreet arrives just in time to join in the Confederate attack on the Union army at the battle of Chickamauga. As the fate of the Confederacy is decided, this epic saga plays out against the backdrop of the love stories of Mexican war veteran Sergeant Sam Davis and the recently widowed Sally O’Grady, and of the young, poor and naïve Private Harry Kolb and Rachel Shaw, the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner.

They say imitation is the best form of flattery, but Elizabeth Adams finds that hard to believe when a copycat artist arrives in her small town and begins to create real-life versions of her paintings. The problem is, Elizabeth is a dark artist, creating paintings that depict women in various causes of death. Not only that but she’s also plagued by nightmares which indicate that this is not the first time it has happened in her life. Will Elizabeth find the killer artist and clear her name, or will she be the murderer’s final muse?

When Kevin volunteered to travel to a war-ravaged country in Africa to help out his childhood buddy Bill, now a physician with Doctors Without Borders, he knew he might face danger. But he could not have envisioned the brief, nightmarish encounter that would rob him of his friend, his principles, and quite possibly his sanity.

Ruth lived a quiet life until a car accident changed everything, and demonic forces began following her. When she gets spirited away, Ruth must find the reasons the monsters chose her and unlock a way back into her world.

PI Zooey Krause has no idea what she is walking into when she accepts a bread and butter assignment to investigate the car-crash death of an experimental nuclear power plant worker. Soon enough, however, she finds herself doing battle with the tentacles of a powerful and angry octopus out to destroy the framework of Democracy. Its weapons are fear, deceit, street violence, and terrorism. Its mission is to strangle the soul of America....

The Vector have been destroyed. The planet torched. Alone in her escape pod, Sam Curtis drifts towards the Nova in search of sanctuary after her ordeal. Those aboard need to know the truth and the horrors she endured to survive. But when she reaches the mothership, Sam finds that not all is what it seems. Devoid of a crew, evidence of slaughter, she meets navigation officer, Henry Lincoln, who believes something from the planet below is responsible for his ship’s misfortune...and he’s not altogether convinced it isn’t Sam herself.

Sadie, a woman who thought her life was over, is suddenly transmigrated to a world both familiar and strange. In a land where shapeshifters make up the majority and women can pick men like fruit, Sadie must learn to adapt to their culture, and her new body, without losing herself in the process. With the help of a puma shifter, who rescues her from the cold wilderness, she is escorted to the queendom of Ghostpherein where having mates is not only the best way to stay safe, but also the law.

When Donald (Mac) MacGregor learns that brain cancer is killing him, he sets out in an RV on one last adventure. Along the way he meets Kate Graham, a nurse in an assisted living facility who is looking for an escape from a dead end life.

Blinded at a young age, Gage Aymeris begs the cursed nomads of the south to help him regain his sight. In exchange for granting his wish, his soul is bound to a young woman, allowing her the chance to enter his land. Eager to prove himself worthy of her gift, Gage vows to protect Whitetail's life by any means necessary.