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Raymond O’Connell was the love of Iris’s life - from the day she met him, to the day a year later when she married him, to the tragic night before she never saw him again. Some would say they had the perfect all-American life. Now, 18 years later, questions arise about the night her husband disappeared, leaving a bloody knife and a letter addressed to her, in which he said goodbye and told her not to look for him, with not even a second thought for her and their six children.

Linda Wagner-Martin brings a wealth of new information to this detailed portrait of Hemingway and his world, concentrating particularly on his friendships with women and the history of his four marriages.

Chastity Lilly is no flapper. In 1920s New York, she's determined to find a career as a teacher so she can support her family upstate. But one thing leads to another, and the company she keeps in the big city leads her down a very different path than the one she sought. When she helps a handsome rancher in town looking for his own errant sister, can she turn her act around? Will she take his offer of a teaching position in Wedlock, Montana, and make a brand-new start? And if she does, can she - and the rancher - leave the past behind to forge a new future together?

Ayasha is part Chippewa-Cree Indian and part White. Protected by her powerful father, the town of Waverly let her be. Now that he has passed, the town lets Ayasha know exactly how they feel about her. She has no family and no money. What can she do? In desperation, she answers an advert from an injured man looking for a bride. Farmer Joe Warner was injured in a plowing accident. His younger sister has been caring for him, but Joe knows that she is putting her own life on hold.

When Garth lost his arm, he didn’t expect to lose his love. Will he find a new start with a mail order bride? Miner Garth Warrington was all set to marry his sweetheart, Caroline, when a devastating accident leaves him with just one arm. Soon after, the pretty, and spoiled Caroline abandons him as well. Desperate and dejected Garth places an advert looking for a bride. Recent widow Amy Moorland is desperate. At a young age, she was forced to marry a cruel and abusive man but now her husband is dead. Amy cannot support herself and knows her only hope is to become a mail order bride.

Talking and walking faith is easy when life is going well, but how do you rely on God in the midst of an assailant’s attention? Addison Parker, a resident of small-town Massey, Georgia, works to serve and protect as a homicide detective in the city of Atlanta. Facing burn-out from constant exposure to society’s dark side, Addison vows to locate the newly emerged murderer Jackdaw. This killer, hunting women who serve their community on the Southside of Atlanta, has targeted Addison Parker as his next quarry in this deadly scheme.

Rachel C. Brady has faced many things during her life. In In Search of Love’s Treasure, she shares her testimony and her inspiring life story. Her narrative begins in her early childhood where she was raised with a mixed identity. She recalls difficult times with her family, and journeys through adulthood, revealing both the challenges she faced and blessings she received. Brady discusses the perils of sin and her experience in finding Christ, as well as an array of adventures....

When Phoebe Ross's employer dies, leaving her with a wedding gown, Phoebe feels she has no choice but to answer the call for mail order brides to Angel Vale, Wyoming. When she arrives, her groom-to-be is nowhere in sight. With the other brides claimed, she sets off to find her groom. He is nothing what she expected.

When Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) published Three Stories and 10 Poems in 1923, he was 24, a wounded veteran of the Great War, and still three years away from publishing his debut novel (The Sun Also Rises). So the "Three Stories" give us a unique look into Hemingway's developing writing skills and his very particular areas of creative interest.

On the morning of May 18, 1924, households across America opened their newspapers to the headline: "Derby Winner Property of Indian Woman." The woman in question was Rosa Magnet Hoots, a member of the Oklahoma Osage Nation. The horse, draped in the iconic red roses signifying his victory in the fiftieth running of the Kentucky Derby, was Black Gold. Named for the oil that had been discovered in large quantities in Oklahoma at the time of his birth, Black Gold was born in 1921 to a mare named Useeit.

After closing the memorable cases of 1947, private investigator Molly Evers finds that the end of one year and the beginning of the next doesn’t mean a break in the line of desperate clients looking for her help. This year she finds it’s her personal friends, some rolling in dough and others not knowing where their next meal is coming from, who need her skills. The year 1948 brings travel, murder, and mobsters as Molly solves cases from Vegas to Detroit to Hollywood and back again.

Intrigue. Danger. Drama. All in a day’s work for Detroit detective Molly Evers and her partner Jake Kent. Follow their case files of 1949, from one that breaks Molly's heart and sets her on a path of revenge, to the last that draws her back to Hollywood and the biggest leading man in town.