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Mansfield House Hotel has been a refuge for Emily ever since she was orphaned at the age of 16. Not only did they give her employment as a chambermaid, but it’s also where she met her fiancé, Tom. When theatre agent Roland stays at the hotel and hears Emily singing, he is determined to take her away to Bristol and make her a star. But knowing she'd never leave her fiancé, he hatches a plan to get Emily away from Tom.

Harold and Chloe Reynolds have always dreamed of starting a family. After a tumultuous period of failure, the couple is thrilled when a pregnancy finally takes hold. But, their dream of a child of their own is cut short when fatal complications arise during Chloe’s pregnancy. Heartbroken at the loss of their stillborn child, Chloe spirals into depression. Desperate to spare his wife pain, Harold learns one of his contractors is searching for a nanny to help raise his two young children.

In the 1970s, something horrible happened within the Manson House’s walls. Fifty years later and no one has stepped foot inside. Harold Roberts, an accountant-turn-robber, just took his family out of Portland as well as two million dollars in untraceable stolen cash. The decrepit, three-story Manson House seems like the perfect hideaway until the heat passes...Nothing could be further from the truth. Strange occurrences plight his nine-year-old twins, his wife declines into madness, and a vengeful adversary has his scent.

Can a woman with no faith in men learn to trust the half-Cheyenne trail guide determined to protect her? Young Irish widow Bry Brennan doesn’t want another husband to break her spirit. When she and her brother Con join a wagon train headed to Montana Territory, Bry ignores her fascination with Nick Laramie, the handsome trail guide.

Monstrous conspiracies threaten to destroy the world, and five unlikely allies must unite to save the planet. Using their ill-gotten superpowers, they must unravel cryptic questions, discovering answers you might not expect. If they fail, the creatures stalking them will finally win their hidden war.

Mystery and horror surround a long-abandoned estate, seemingly forgotten by the town.

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher.

Every move counts, and every choice matters. If she missteps, then a child might not come home. But today was different. She got a call about a missing child. And then another, and another, and another....

At age 16, most high schoolers are trying to navigate college applications, Friday night football games, and SAT scores. But for Jess Kimball, age 16 meant graduating high school and moving abroad, alone. Her decision to focus on running a business instead of going to college is one that she had no regrets about - except for her curiosity about college life. At age 19, Jess decided to audit classes at Dartmouth College; an experience that would change her life. What resulted was the social experience of college, minus the debt and anxiety - a pseudo-college experience.

The Accident captures the sweet, playful, and giggly personality of Gayle as a near three-year-old. She's off with her mom to a grown-up tea party. Her life is suddenly changed by the physical and emotional scars left after a terrible accident.

Two extraordinary women in 1865 establish a trading post in a southern jungle that grows to be a safe haven for cast-off women and the dispossessed. When a murderous forger sets up shop and the mayor on the right-side-of-the-tracks becomes intent on their destruction, the village fights for survival in its own special way. Told in evocative magical realism, Jaguar Paloma and the Caketown Bar is a tale of wronged women who stand up to be counted.

Three months after detectives Jim North and Kerry Martin failed to recover a missing child, they struggle to come to terms with the child’s death. Since then, 12 more children have been abducted, and the man responsible is still at large. With the abductor taunting the detectives with mysterious texts, they have pushed themselves to the brink, and their obsession of bringing the kidnapper to justice could cost them everything.

This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each page of this volume speaks forcefully for self-determination and community.

As a new detective for the local police force, Carolina takes on a case for a young girl who mysteriously vanished. Though the kidnapping should be open and shut, Carolina struggles to find those responsible. Soon, she traces the culprit to a dangerous poker ring, run by men who don’t play by the rules. Carolina gambles with her own life to solve the case.

Cressa Ravensdale deserved a break. After raising an army of the dead to protect those she loved, Cressa had hoped she could spend a little time away from the scrutiny of being a Magic User and steal a few moments alone with her phoenix, Noah. But The Imperium has other plans, and soon the two find themselves back in the city surrounded by curious humans, suspicious new leaders, and hidden enemies. Losing her mother had been hard enough, but now her brother keeps casting doubts on Noah’s true intentions and why their mother had left them.

Jacqueline Frye needs a break from her job, but her vacation is sorely interrupted when two American teenagers embark on a cross-continent killing spree. When the FBI asks Jack for help, she jumps at the chance to work with the best agents in the business.

Two decades ago, when a magical war nearly destroyed all societies, those with supernatural gifts emerged from the shadows to help save the humans. Yet, despite their contributions, the magic users are still treated like second-class citizens, being forced to register like criminals and monitored by traitors to their own kind.

Jacqueline Frye needs a break from her job, but her vacation is sorely interrupted when two American teenagers embark on a cross-continent killing spree. When the FBI asks Jack for help, she jumps at the chance to work with the best agents in the business.

An unpausable EMP thriller bundle with a brilliant twist! Includes Protecting Our Home and Powerless. Protecting Our Home: A father and his family find sanctuary in their old family homestead, hidden deep in the forest during an EMP crisis. Powerless: After an EMP devastates the US power grid, two scientists are forced to protect their families while struggling to understand the event. As forces gather amid an almost total information blackout, the pair must race against time to save their loved ones.

If I don't act soon, then Oscar is going to pay the price that should be mine. The more time passes, the more certain I am that the City of Blood has to fall. And I'm going to be the one to make it happen. But I can't do it alone. Before I can begin, I have to pull off the most daring rescue mission ever. Only then can I start planning how to make the mayor pay.