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Meeting the in-laws is a daunting task even for those who are outgoing and socially capable. Since I’m neither, the prospect of meeting Slash’s parents has me scared to death. Somehow, he convinced me it would be easier meeting my in-laws for the first time at his brother’s wedding during Christmas in Italy instead of at our own church wedding in the spring. He also suggested bringing my parents along to meet them, too. That way it would reduce the chance of any unnecessary drama at our nuptials. Sounds reasonable, right? Wrong.

Helping desperate clients reach safety is what gives his job meaning. But he now finds himself demoted, signed off sick for stress, and facing redeployment to the firm’s subterranean billing department.

Ashley Hope is an average Southern woman, happily engaged—until dark secrets from her past tear her life apart. Now a member of Tennessee’s State Police’s Violent Crimes Division, Ashley is assigned a frightening new case: victims of a new serial killer are being found deep in rural country, a terrain that Ashley knows all too well—and to which she vowed to never return.

How many times can a person escape death? Shelby Nichols may be one lucky gal, but this time, her luck is about to run out. Working for a mob-boss has danger written all over it, but when an escaped convict with a lust for revenge goes after him, it’s up to Shelby and her mind-reading skills to keep Uncle Joey alive. Not only that, a federal agent from her past has an agenda with her name on it, and he won’t take no for an answer. What’s a mind-reading soccer mom to do? If you’re Shelby Nichols, you jump in with your mind wide open and hope for the best.

Charlie and Drake are working a helicopter job in rural Maine when a man approaches and asks for their help. At first glance, it seems he's just an old man who needs to get to his son's remote cabin in the woods. But the cabin holds more secrets than Fergus McNab will admit, and it isn't until Charlie returns to Albuquerque that she discovers they may have just aided and abetted a criminal who has escaped the law back home. The secrets get twistier, the more she looks into the 10-year-old case where Rory McNab, facing a life in prison, seemed to vanish from the reach of the law.

Detective Jack Love has a hard time following instructions. When his latest bust gets him benched, and shoved in the cold case filing room, the last thing he expects is to be tasked with babysitting the chief's sister. When unqualified and in-need-of-medication Sophie gets the crazy idea to play detective on a case gone cold, there is little he can do to dissuade her from investigating.

When Juno arrives at the breathtaking Greek island of Inios, she has one purpose: to find the father she’s never met. But he isn’t there, and nothing is as she expected. As whispers follow her every step, Juno is convinced something terrible happened all those years ago when her parents fell in love. Desperate for answers, Juno knows she can’t leave the island until her family secret that has been hidden for decades is finally uncovered. Little does she know how far someone will go to keep it buried…

In 1904, the future best-selling writer Edna Ferber, then a 19-year-old fledgling reporter in Wisconsin, teams up with famed escape artist Harry Houdini to solve the baffling murder of a girl who has mysteriously disappeared from a locked room at the local high school.

From best-selling mystery and suspense author Blake Pierce comes book nine in a gripping new series. When a violent and deranged killer escapes a maximum security mental hospital, only FBI Special Agent Valerie Law and her criminally-insane unit has a chance to track him down. But is this killer truly insane? Or is he just smart enough to pretend?

Retta and her FBI-agent boyfriend stop in Green Bay, Wisconsin, for the night. Lars goes out on a mysterious errand and disappears, leaving a text message that says he's dumping Retta for an old flame. The police take the message at face value, but Retta, sure it's a lie, calls in sisters Faye and Barb. As they begin following leads, they meet three sisters who might be future versions of them: Betty, a sweetheart who loves the Green Bay Packers; DeeAnne, a dramatic type who is always in acting mode; and Lydia, a business-like grump.

Odessa Dean has made a home of Brooklyn. She has a fun job waiting tables at Untapped Books & Café and a new friend, Izzy, to explore the city with. When she's invited on a girls' day out escape room adventure, she jumps at the chance. It's all fun and games until the lights come on and they discover one of the girls bludgeoned to death.... The only possible suspects are Odessa and the four other players that were locked in the escape room with the victim.

March 1945. After six bloody, tear-stained years, the war was nearly over. However, for the German prisoners of war incarcerated in Island Farm Camp 198, the end could not arrive soon enough, so they decided to escape. As the German prisoners fled to all points of the compass, one of their members, Kurt Schneider, was left with blood on his fingers and a gun in his hand.

Un asesino excepcional. Su enigmática hija. Una peligrosa obsesión por la muerte. La inspectora Erica Sands mantiene su legado familiar bajo llave. Pocos saben que su padre cumple condena en una prisión de máxima seguridad, marcado para siempre por la sangre de sus numerosas víctimas. Sin embargo, el hallazgo del cadáver de una mujer en una pequeña casa de campo, con una enigmática nota oculta en la escena del crimen, amenaza con arrastrar a la inspectora hacia la oscura órbita de su padre.

Clairvoyant, Sophie Masterson has been cheated on, lied to, and underestimated at every turn since she found out she had gifts. But her luck has finally changed. She has a family that loves her, a best friend that keeps her sane, and the one man who has always believed in her wants to date. When the Pentagram killer strikes her local coven and fresh clues emerge on a case that has haunted her dreams, she'll stop at nothing to slay the demons and put the killer behind bars.

Clairvoyant Sophie Masterson finally got the job of her dreams as head of Dixon Security's Psychic Division. She was sure that being a voice for the dead victims would make solving her cases a piece of cake. When a killer pulls her into his deadly game - looking for revenge against the people she loves most - and the voices in her head go silent, it will take some quick thinking to figure out the killer's identity and take him out before he strikes again.

Unemployed accountant Sophie Masterson never dreams that a trip to Salem on Halloween night will change her life forever. When a birthday gift of a psychic reading is thrust upon her by her best friend, Sophie has no choice but to play along. She wants the winning lottery numbers but, instead, receives something far more ominous - a warning of things to come. Being told her own clairvoyant abilities will soon surface should be enough to send any woman running to hide.

Amber Cantrell has had her fair share of good times along with the bad. Watching her best friend find happily ever after has left her feeling the void in her own life. With a change of career, she's ready to find the right man to make the rest of her dreams come true.