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Coretta Turner knows herself to be a successful, formidable, and very family-oriented woman. She is fiercely protective of the loved ones in her life, blood relatives and otherwise. With the massive renovation of her niece's bed-and-breakfast, Inn The Shallows, nearly complete in time for the Christmas season, Coretta's Echo Key Café will be busier than ever.

Now he's hounding her to give back a stupid trophy she doesn't have. To make matters worse, she's having bizarre dreams that urge her to check out the creepy attic in the B&B she's renovating with her best friend, Olivia Crawford. Leave it to Tom the Troglodyte to disturb her waking and sleeping lives by ramping up the stress as she builds a new life in Echo Key. As her ex-husband's behavior becomes increasingly unhinged, Jen is never so glad to have Theo Price, her deputy boyfriend, in her life and the support of the rest of her Fearsome Foursome friends.

Veronica Barker Peyton has come back home. This time, she's the new law in town, instead of an awkward teenager from one of Echo Key's most prominent families. With a few early wins for the sheriff's department under her belt, the promise of her career reboot is about to be fulfilled.

Olivia Crawford had every intention of selling the old Barker place when she returned to Echo Key to see the falling-down old mansion her late husband bought. It was supposed to be where they would spend their sunset years together, fulfilling his dream of becoming an innkeeper. Instead, it's a reminder of the nightmare that stole her beloved, leaving her alone.

Maggie Harper has spent her adult life building a career as a home designer to the stars in California. Working on a new reality TV show seems like just another feather in her cap, especially since it will mean creating something perfect for a certain hunky action star. When it all goes horribly, mortifyingly wrong, there is only one place she can go to dodge the determined producer who engineered her downfall: Echo Key and the loving arms of her older sister, Olivia, and their firecracker of an aunt, Coretta.

The youngest siren sister, Ceto is weary of an existence driven by hunger, no better than a fish. She trades her tail for legs, marries the first man she meets, and bears a daughter—only to find domesticity as suffocating as the sea. Craving more, Ceto flees with her daughter Naia back to the ocean, where she reinvents herself as the star of a mermaid burlesque, performing in a lavish tank carved into the limestone cliffs above the waves.

When Evelyn's missing ex-husband turns up dead, many fingers point to her as the primary suspect. As Evelyn navigates an unfair investigation into her past, she has never needed her close circle of friends more.

When a woman sees a dead body across the way through the window in her Manhattan apartment, she is desperate for others to believe her. Unfortunately no one else can see what she does and it begins to drive her to desperation. In the spirit of old radio dramas of the 1940s, the heart-pounding mystery unravels delightfully until the surprising conclusion is reached. Carole Carson—a fading movie star—slowly loses her mind while surrounded by a colorful cast of unique characters who either are helping to calm her nerves or are consciously driving her insane.

Have you ever wondered what happens to a person’s soul as they lie trapped in a coma? One day, while visiting her mother, a young woman falls unexpectedly into a comatose state. In this deep slumber, the young woman is visited by her guardian angel, who takes her by the hand and whisks her away on an incredible journey through the past and the future. Through life’s blessings and disappointments, she begins to see the hand of God working to make his perfect plan, even when her own plans fell into shambles.

Every day, numerous children in the US enter foster care due to circumstances beyond their control. With the US Department of Health and Human Services allocating over $200 million annually to Child Welfare Services, and an alarming 400,000 children in the system according to the Children's Defense Fund, the need for intervention is clear. Regrettably, these vulnerable children often endure physical abuse and exposure to drugs in their homes.

Raven McKade finds herself struck in the heart by twin brothers. Behind the secure gate of a tight community, she desires the chance at love with the one brother, while the other forcibly taunts her with information that, unbeknownst to her, changes her life.

Before this hour is up, I'm going to kill you, the patient announces to her doctor. It is the last straw for an entitled, socialite, trophy wife who has become enraged with her psychiatrist after she maintains he took advantage of her. He declares it was a mutual, adult relationship. In a story that takes place during the pairs final fifty-minute therapy session, words fly back and forth as the psychiatrist tries to deescalate the situation while his patient becomes increasingly erratic and emotional.

This book is meant to help those in post-rehab or early sobriety to clean up the mess that addiction made of their lives, such as paperwork, finances, legal stuff, etc. It also encourages those folks to better their lives by getting an education, volunteering, practicing good personal hygiene, etc.