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Brunschweiger posits women have the right to be happy and, if they choose to, feel comfortable rejecting the societal conventional pressure of having children. Our author suggests that women and their partners will have more freedom and enjoyment if they are childfree. Brunschweiger doesn’t want humanity to go extinct as some may suggest; rather, she wants the Earth and its inhabitants to have an enjoyable and sustainable future.

Anabelle Fleming is starting her first day of high school, but for her it’s a different first day. She’s moved to the small town of Pinewood, Colorado, because her mother, famous writer of thrillers, divorced her father, the front man for a monstrously successful rock band.

Hey Mama, You’re Killin’ It! includes 30 days of why moms are remarkable. Each daily encouragement reminds moms that our compassion, strength, courage, passion, and much more are changing the world, one decision to love at a time.

Hate is definite, solid. It is planted. It grows, not only aboveground where it can be seen and flaunted as a shield of identity, but also below the surface, its roots reaching and penetrating into unexpected places without permission. A child can pick it up easily, too easily, especially when everything else around her seems indefinite.

Mariatu refused to let traumatic and life-altering experiences define her. Instead, she persisted in reinventing her life by hustling to become a successful businesswoman and an educator. As a visionary, Mariatu was determined to make her dreams a reality. Along the way, tested were her strength, faith, and dedication. Her sacrifices and struggles were exhausting.

Moving abroad for work, whether it is permanent or for a short term assignment, is something that many people do each year. Taking the family pet, however, is something that often throws a new set of challenges into the mix.

The Musician They were the perfect couple—or so she thought. Harper had it all: a husband who adored her, a beautiful daughter named Peyton, and a life filled with Sunday mornings at church and cozy family dinners. Dorian, her high school sweetheart, had turned his musical dreams into a thriving recording studio. Harper gave up her nursing career to raise their child and support him. Love was supposed to be enough. But love turned into something unrecognizable. Dorian changed—first slowly, then violently. The late nights, the distant eyes, the explosive temper.

In Point, people smile, wave, and mind their business. But when the first body is discovered, the illusion shatters—because the victim isn’t alone. A handcrafted doll sits beside the body. Carefully made. Deliberate. A perfect reflection of how they died. As more victims are found, the pattern becomes impossible to ignore. The dolls aren’t trophies. They’re messages. Detectives Loretta and David Smitty are pulled into a case where murder is treated like ritual and silence protects more than the killer. Every crime scene is staged. Every doll is intentional.

Quinlan, Texas is the kind of town that prides itself on church suppers, fishing tournaments, and minding its own business. But when a fisherman pulls a bloated body from the lake—its chest carved with a single teardrop—the illusion of safety shatters.

Just before Christmas, Jane Sperling is headed from Montana to Texas, to the hometown she once abandoned, in a car she doesn’t fully trust, for a job that’s a leap of faith and the only line she has on a better life for herself and her eleven-year-old daughter, Claire. In Texas, Jane puts a long-dormant teaching credential to use at the middle school she once attended. She navigates a fraught relationship with her widower father and the growing pains of her daughter.

After Rose takes something deeply important to Hanna, the Seer is determined to hunt the tricky magic user down, no matter what. Hanna pools all her resources together, tugging on any string she can think of, including going to the necromancers and employing the help of a surly ghost named Frank. When Hanna discovers the necros are also hunting Rose and if they kill her all the enslaved spirits will be trapped forever, she must find the witch first or else risk losing everything that means anything.

Billie Campbell, a Massachusetts adoption specialist grappling with fertility issues, dreams of adopting a baby, but not just any baby—her pregnant client’s baby. While her longing threatens to send her down a dark path, her husband, Tyler, is keeping secrets: he’s full of doubts about becoming a father, and he’s also trying to figure out who is sending him upsetting anonymous texts and photos. On the other side of town, Anne, a woman scarred by childhood abuse, obsesses with a second chance at becoming a family with the two people she regrets ever having let go of.

After Halloween night reveals a death close to Hanna, she has to use her ghost powers to rescue some kids from school. While there, she runs into a tall stranger who she later finds out is Mr. Tyler’s nephew, Gryphin. Mr. Tyler and Gryphin enlist Hanna’s help to find a dead werewolf from their pack. It is one thing for Hanna to talk to ghosts when she meets them, it’s quite another for her to go hunting for a specific ghost.

Trina and her mom, Michelle, go on a ghost-finding mission, visiting all the spirit’s favorite places in hopes of finding her haunt. In the meantime, they’ve made a deal with the necromancers and are trying to complete the tasks the order wants from them, which start with contacting a familiar face.