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He’s willing to trade his daughter. Good. She’s exactly what I want in my life. The bastard shouldn’t have stolen from me. It’s not an unreasonable request, but at this point, I’m glad he did. I come from old money and lots of it. And my business is in need of some numbers help. The thief’s beautiful daughter fits the bill beautifully. But the innocent girl does far more than help me get the business in line. She wakes me up at night and drowns me in the desire to focus on so much more than work. Whether I want her to or not, she’s causing my blood to burn.

Mt. Hermon, Utah, is the ideal small town—until forces of darkness from deep beneath the mountain lead its people astray. Sara is the new kid in town—moved with her divorced mother from a wealthy Long Island suburb, her Jewish roots are no help when a relentless angel comes calling.

When detective Jack Ryder is going skiing with his family in the mountains of North Carolina, he hopes for a week of fun in the snow with the ones he loves. But then the body of a teenage boy turns up in the cold waters of the creek behind the cabin they have rented.

The pandemic was rough on everyone, especially since school went from being a fun place where you could hang out with your friends to a bunch of heads in small rectangles all trying to talk at once. For Bradley, Edelle, Hunter, Jasper, and Keiko, that’s about to change. A mysterious box arrives at each of their houses, and they’re invited to attend a virtual school. More than just being online, they’ll be able to create an avatar of themselves and interact with their friends and other classmates in real time using VR headsets.

What does it mean to live a life full of faith? Todd Anderson’s stories of his personal journey show what it means to trust what you can’t see and take small steps forward, rather than waiting for one giant leap. His stories reveal the truth that the journey is difficult at times, but his faith and experience show that God never leaves his children alone, and like the prodigal son, they will eventually find their way back home again.

They called him the Monday Morning Killer. That was 40 years ago, but now, it is happening again. A mother and her daughter are brutally murdered in their house on a peaceful Monday morning in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Detective Jack Ryder has enough on his plate, being home alone with six kids and his wife—country superstar Shannon King—on tour. This case takes his anxiety to a new level when he realizes the crime scene matches unsolved murders from four decades prior. He worries that a deranged serial killer has returned to Cocoa Beach.

Ella Maria Chauncey walks home after a night out with her friends, hurrying to get back before her parents realize she's been out with the boy they don't want her to date. Living in the gated community of Lyford Cay, in one of the world's wealthiest neighborhoods, she believes it is safe. Ella Maria never makes it home. She is found the next day floating in her family's pool, her tongue cut out. Seven months later, Jack Ryder is visiting the Bahamas with his adopted daughter Emily. They're trying to find Emily's relatives, but it turns out to be easier said than done.

In Savannah lies a house about which is said that all who have ever lived there have gone insane. When Kimberly and Joseph inherit the house from an unknown aunt, they don’t know the house’s murderous history. They move in, and soon, a series of strange events occur. It’s like the house doesn’t want them there. Little by little, Joseph starts to change, and soon, Kimberly begins to wonder: Is the house haunted, or is her husband just going mad?

Ben lost his father some months back and is doing his best at being a boy amidst the new tragedies in town when he is confronted by an unseen threat. With nowhere to hide, no one to help, and his mother worried that she is losing him to mental illness, Ben teams up with an unlikely ally who has a horrible secret. Dan Leeds takes the boy under his wing. Each having their own demons to battle, they are confronted by an ageless power unlike anything they could have imagined. Prophecy, the past, and a boy's need become entwined with Leeds, his secret, and saving the world.

Sticky Stories: Barefoot Buddies Make a New Friend is a story about kindness, trust, loyalty, and the commitment of friendship.

The dabbawallas of Mumbai deliver box lunches all across this vast city. Their rate of error is one in 6,000,000. The Tiffin is the story of that one error, which costs a boy his family. Years later, using the same tiffin service, he understands the true meaning of family.

Zac Mulligan is a former marine now providing personal security for the infamous rock band, Black Ice. Seeing all the guys around him in committed relationships reminds him of his childhood best friend...the only person Zac has never managed to get out of his head or his heart. Ben Holland is an artist. Falling deeply in love with his best friend in his teens, Ben is left alone when Zac leaves him for the military. Throughout all the years that pass, Ben never forgets his childhood friend, Zac, or the feelings they once shared.

Inspired by HP Lovecraft's mind-bending Cthulhu Mythos, a group of lifelong and new teenaged friends gamble their lives by infiltrating a long-abandoned psychiatric center, with its own fair share of haunted history. When they unsuspectingly come across an overwhelmingly gruesome ritual scene, some of them soon realize that it strangely connects with them more than the others know, and now no one can be trusted. Their journey quickly takes an unexpected turn as they are now being followed by a toying and malevolent force with its own ancient and unsuspected history.

Nate and Zelda Malone have come into a sudden windfall which allows them to leave the big city and purchase a large farm adjacent to the vast Hoosier National Forest in central Indiana. But the nightmare they discover haunting the wilds of their land threatens to tear them apart - literally. Together, they become the only hope to overcome an ancient plot so fiendish it promises to destroy not only themselves but mankind itself. Will they be able to stop a horror as old as time? What will they be forced to sacrifice if they are to survive an ordeal beyond imagination?

Three stand-alone dark mafia romances in the best-selling Polizzi Crime Family series.

Sir Lanka does not want to be born. It just seems like so much stress. Go to school. Get good grades. Find a job. Too much stress. So he decides to stay in the womb. And stays in there for 32 years. Until his mom eventually has enough of him. She gets an abortion. But he survives. Or not - I don't want to spoil too much. But he wakes up in the dumpster behind the clinic and has no idea what to do.

When 10-year-old Hollis Whittaker picks up a strange medallion he stumbled upon at the edge of a stream, he suddenly begins exhibiting signs of brilliance, even discovering the solar system's Planet X and astounding the astronomical community. The awkward, overweight fifth-grader with heart problems is an instant media sensation, but all is not well. The genius-making medallion bonds to only one person for life, and the US government has been searching for it since World War II, which means they're prepared to kill Hollis to acquire it so they can exploit the medallion's immense power.

Little Men endearing book is a lighthearted look at the lives of the children of Little Women’s favorite characters. The story follows a six-month span in the lives of students and teachers at Plumfield, a school run by Little Women’s Jo March and her husband. When the book’s narrator - Nat Blake, a new student - arrives at Plumfield school, he finds out that the school is rather unconventional.

I don’t trust men. My own stepbrother treated me like property. I had no choice but to run away from home. And then I meet him. A rich bad boy without a care in the world. My brain tells me to keep running. He could be nothing but trouble. But my heart tells me to stay. Zayn is my soul mate. The father of my unborn child. Our future is uncertain until my stepbrother is on the loose. Can Zayn put an end to this danger and save our family?

From very different worlds, 16-year-old Cedric of Flanders and 22-year-old Pierce of England have no reason to cross paths - until one fateful day, a powerful countess commands Cedric to escort her to England in search of Pierce. Unbeknownst to the boy, the countess is a scheming vampire, and Pierce is prophesied to be the next master of her clan. She stands to gain untold influence and power were she to make Pierce a vampire and control him. But turning him may prove easier than controlling him.