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A girl takes on a series of identities to survive, shrouding herself in layers of secrets, until years later when she is forced to reckon with her past. On an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her two sons, when her husband drops a letter on the counter and asks a devastating question: Who is Sunny?

Abramm Kalladorne has returned to Kiriath to claim the crown he thought he would never wear and to prepare his people for the inevitable attack of the armies of the Black Moon. Though fiercely opposed by his own kin and reluctant to thrust his country into civil war at the worst possible time, he nevertheless believes this course of action is Kiriath's only hope of salvation.

Determined to fulfill her late husband's dream, Rachel Boyd struggles to keep her ranch afloat with the help of her two young sons. But some days it feels as though her every effort is sabotaged. When faced with a loss she cannot afford, she's forced to trust Rand Brookston, the one man in Timber Ridge she wishes to avoid. And with good reason. He's a physician, just like her father, which tells her everything she needs to know about him.

Three unique stories—all with a common theme Within brings together the plight of three women, all broken, but strong. Each story shows a unique situation they are up against, and how they can cope with the terror they are faced with.

1891. Spindrift House, Cornwall. Talented painter, Edith Fairchild, is poised to begin a life of newlywed bliss, and artistic creation, with her charming husband Benedict. He recently inherited Spindrift House near Port Isaac, and Edith is inspired by the glorious Cornish light and the wonderful setting overlooking the sea. But then happiness turns to heartbreak. In great distress, Edith turns to an artist friend for comfort, and after a bitterly-regretted moment of madness, she finds herself pregnant with his child. Too ashamed to reveal her secret, Edith devotes herself to her art.

When Holly Davidson, an up-and-coming city journalist, gets whiff of a cult in the mountains near Eastbrooke, she puts her life in jeopardy to investigate it. Donning old-fashioned gear to blend in, she soon discovers her hunch was right—it’s not the innocent group the members are portraying to the locals of the sleepy, picturesque town and something sinister is going on.

After forty-two years away, Léa returns to her grandmother's house in Sainte-Flavie. Within the walls that once held her only happy summers, she finds the scent of strawberry jam, the creaking stairs, and the unsent letters from Simone, who waited for her until her final breath. As the tides mark the rhythm of her days, Léa confronts her ghosts: a violent mother, a stolen childhood, and years spent running. With Gabriel—the village carpenter who never forgot her—she slowly learns to trust again, to receive love, to plant roots.

In the year 1960, private eye John Nyquist arrives in Delirium, a city of a million borders, to pursue his strangest case yet: tracking down Oberon, the stolen, sentient image of faded film star Vince Craven. As Nyquist tracks Oberon through a series of ever-stranger and more surreal borders, he hears tantalising stories of the Yeald, a First Wall hidden at Delirium's heart. But to get the help he needs to find it, he'll have to journey into the fractured minds of the city's residents, and even into his own.

Charity Fellner thought she had found the man of her dreams. After getting away from a would-be assailant her freshman year of college, she thought no one would be able to break down the mile-high walls she had built around herself. Charity put all of her insecurities behind her and fully focused on her new life, her new husband. Without even realizing it, years flew by, and Charity had become some sort of recluse.

When a 16-year-old boy is suddenly caught up in a series of miraculous encounters, it heralds an adventure that will transform his life, rock his town, and trigger events that will ultimately change the world!

When bestselling author Allen Bennett’s wife, Cheyenne, dies in a tragic accident, his world crumbles. As he navigates grief, betrayal, and anger, he finds himself grappling with devastating secrets that shake his very foundation. Set against a backdrop of heartache and mystery, The Darkness Within explores the thin line between love and hate, truth and deception. What happens when the person you trusted most turns out to have a secret life? Will Allen find peace in the answers he uncovers, or will the truth destroy him?

This is the story of Francis Andrews, a young man whose betrayal of his fellow smugglers has left a man dead. Fearing vengeance, he flees and takes refuge in the house of a young, isolated woman who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court. But neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority, treachery is as great a crime as smuggling.

Feya Broon, a Scottish half Gypsy, knows what it is to go hungry. Trapped in the Edinburgh tenements with a father lost to his past and only the faded memory of her mother's faith, Feya is desperate to provide for her siblings. When an ill-conceived plan leads to thievery, she finds herself in the last place she'd ever want to be - captured by a palace guard. But there's something about this man that tears at every preconceived notion she's ever had about the haughty English.

Jackson Stafford has finished his commitment to the government he pledged to protect from all enemies both foreign and domestic. Once within the Project, Jackson has become the pawn of the directors, the investors from all over the world. He wasn’t aware why he was brought to the facility, all he knows is that his government has provided him as an anonymous lab rat to be used for furthering the lifespan of the human race.

February, 1964: Two men die in a squalid alley in a bad neighborhood. New York homicide detective Seamus O'Reilly receives the shock of his life when he looks at the men's identification: J. Edgar Hoover, the famous, tyrannical director of the FBI, and his number-one assistant, Clyde Tolson. O'Reilly teams up with FBI agent Frank Bryce to solve the second high-level assassination in only three months. In November of the previous year, someone had assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

Embodied in a fictional world of magic, mystics, and flying bears, The World Within addresses human philosophical questions: Why are we here? What happens when we go to sleep? It looks at the impact of good versus evil and the negative effects of power-hungry leaders in politics. In The World Within, an alien perspective sheds light on the importance of transpersonal psychology, spirituality and consciousness as necessary tools for inner peace and development.

Late 2012, Tosh had received a call from her ex-husband, Dallas: “I have been diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. The doctor said I have about six months to live. Do you mind seeing me through this?” he asked. When her cherished friend had become incapacitated and bedridden, Dallas had asked Tosh to tell him a story and she recalled his exact words, as he asked, with a childlike desire: “Tosh, make up a story and tell it to me - something like a Criminal Minds sort of thing. I just want to hear you talk.” There and then, Tosh began writing her very first novel.

In 2036, America's favorite newsman, Marcus Braden, becomes realistic with the American people about the never-ending poor state of the American economy. Marcus's bosses aren't pleased with his decision. Eventually, his warnings come to fruition. A government-created corporation, the Central Management Authority, takes over every major industry, including the Worldwide News Link, Marcus's employer. He is quickly recruited to join the opposition against the hijacking of the country. The country immediately spirals out of control into a violent, riotous firestorm.

This multi-generational novel presents three women whose paths cross at the Lindell Retirement Home. Constance Maynard, fierce, independent, and proud, reflects on her long life promoting women's rights through her career as a professor of history. Eunice Fitch, the perfect caregiver, is often unlucky in love, yet even in middle age refuses to give up searching for the perfect man. Sam Clark is a young aide with a passion for poetry and small beautiful things, but at war with her own large, ungainly physique.

The world has recovered from a plague that decimated the global population thanks to the efforts of the United Global Coalition (UGC). Now acting as the government, the UGC has set up isolated metros around the world. One of the largest metros is Capital Metro. It is the center of the North American Region. Brett Hardin is a citizen of that metro. He lives his life dedicated to two ideals, supporting the UGC and protecting his family. When those ideals collide, what path will he choose?