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Moving to Laurel Springs and joining the LSERT was the best spur-of-the-moment decision I ever made. Here, out from under the expectations of my police chief father, I’m thriving. I’ve found a boldness and confidence I never had in Paradise Lost. And a woman who I can’t stop thinking about, dreaming about, and can’t seem to stay away from. When there’s a physical threat to her well-being, I won’t stop at anything to protect her, even if it means losing a piece of myself in the process.

Hurricane Tatum, a category five storm hell-bent on making landfall along the Alabama coast, is my opportunity, to show my friends and family the kind of man I've become. The kid who lost his scholarship and the love is life is ready for a change. A change I'm equal parts scared will and won't come. An EMT wasn't my first choice of careers, but it's become my calling. When the winds die down, the skies clear, and the rain stops, we're left with devastation the likes of which I've never seen.

Karsyn Fallaway: Tucker didn’t stop my car as it drove away from his house that summer night, and the sting of rejection hasn't gone away. More than a year has gone by, and I find myself looking for him in all the places he’d been before. It doesn’t help, he’s still an enigma I have yet to figure out. My friends are the only thing holding me together. Work is the one thing keeping my mind busy. Until my life threatens to tear completely apart.

Robert E. Lee’s most trusted senior commander, General James Longstreet, takes two Virginia divisions west to unite with General Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee. Longstreet arrives just in time to join in the Confederate attack on the Union army at the battle of Chickamauga. As the fate of the Confederacy is decided, this epic saga plays out against the backdrop of the love stories of Mexican war veteran Sergeant Sam Davis and the recently widowed Sally O’Grady, and of the young, poor and naïve Private Harry Kolb and Rachel Shaw, the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner.

They say imitation is the best form of flattery, but Elizabeth Adams finds that hard to believe when a copycat artist arrives in her small town and begins to create real-life versions of her paintings. The problem is, Elizabeth is a dark artist, creating paintings that depict women in various causes of death. Not only that but she’s also plagued by nightmares which indicate that this is not the first time it has happened in her life. Will Elizabeth find the killer artist and clear her name, or will she be the murderer’s final muse?

When Kevin volunteered to travel to a war-ravaged country in Africa to help out his childhood buddy Bill, now a physician with Doctors Without Borders, he knew he might face danger. But he could not have envisioned the brief, nightmarish encounter that would rob him of his friend, his principles, and quite possibly his sanity.

Ruth lived a quiet life until a car accident changed everything, and demonic forces began following her. When she gets spirited away, Ruth must find the reasons the monsters chose her and unlock a way back into her world.

Evelyn is a "Shifty" - identified as a child in an AI orphanage, and later selected for specialist highly immersive field training by a secretive organization. The purpose: a five-year secondment in time! As her deployment draws near, she suspects the motivations of "the organization" are not exactly as they claim and her own post-shift prospects may not be, either!

PI Zooey Krause has no idea what she is walking into when she accepts a bread and butter assignment to investigate the car-crash death of an experimental nuclear power plant worker. Soon enough, however, she finds herself doing battle with the tentacles of a powerful and angry octopus out to destroy the framework of Democracy. Its weapons are fear, deceit, street violence, and terrorism. Its mission is to strangle the soul of America....

The Vector have been destroyed. The planet torched. Alone in her escape pod, Sam Curtis drifts towards the Nova in search of sanctuary after her ordeal. Those aboard need to know the truth and the horrors she endured to survive. But when she reaches the mothership, Sam finds that not all is what it seems. Devoid of a crew, evidence of slaughter, she meets navigation officer, Henry Lincoln, who believes something from the planet below is responsible for his ship’s misfortune...and he’s not altogether convinced it isn’t Sam herself.

Bestselling author Lucy Gold may write fairy tales for a living, but her own happily ever after is looking bleak. Seeking a fresh start after a sudden divorce on the eve of her thirtieth birthday, she decides to make a new life for herself and her service dog in Los Angeles. But when her living arrangements fall through just before takeoff, a handsome stranger offers to let her stay with him and his motley crew of musicians in Malibu. Her gallant hero? None other than Henry Turner, the award-winning composer whose music has held Lucy together while her life's been crumbling apart.

When Donald (Mac) MacGregor learns that brain cancer is killing him, he sets out in an RV on one last adventure. Along the way he meets Kate Graham, a nurse in an assisted living facility who is looking for an escape from a dead end life.

Blinded at a young age, Gage Aymeris begs the cursed nomads of the south to help him regain his sight. In exchange for granting his wish, his soul is bound to a young woman, allowing her the chance to enter his land. Eager to prove himself worthy of her gift, Gage vows to protect Whitetail's life by any means necessary.