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Sarah Cosgrave picked up the guitar at age 16 as a way to escape her life with an alcoholic father. Sweetwater Canyon gave her a career and the best of friends. Now, called to her dying father's bedside, Sarah is forced to leave her band - the one thing that saved her. With her music career on hold and her past threatening to silence her, Sarah must make choices she swore she'd never have to face again. Her faith in her path is true; but can she have faith in Tom Pawlak, the man who once betrayed her, in order to find the peace she desperately needs?

We abandoned privacy and turned databases into something like gods. They listened to our prayers. They met our needs and blessed us with new riches. They watched over us, protected us, and punished the wicked among us. We almost made a paradise.

Each note Rachel Cullen plays on her violin comes straight from the heart. But life isn’t easy. A Scottish immigrant to America, she embraced the Celtic and bluegrass communities. Unfortunately, divorce, rape, and distrust leave her emotionally crippled. Can Noel Karshaw, an English teacher and poet with a young daughter, be the key to help her reconcile who she is, what she wants, and how to get there?

Upon her arrest, Carolle Graean received a choice: Join the Patevian Royal Dance Troupe or suffer the consequences for her crimes. Nine years later, Carolle and her fellow former troublins are opening Elysant on the Glass in the Racinian capital of Trône d'Argent. Luxuries are abundant in the country of Racine, and they're often used to misdirect. High House nobles aim to ascend the rings of Verdict Hill for wealth and power, no matter the consequence to others. Thrust into a high society rife with clandestine agendas, Carolle must decide who she is: the criminal or the spirit.

Balancing a career and a relationship is never easy, and it's even harder when you are on the road and everyone wants a piece of you. As a music major who sacrificed everything to become master of the upright bass, the last thing Michele Scott thought she'd be doing is touring with an Americana and Bluegrass band. But to tell the truth, she loves it. Not so much David Blackstone. Even though he's irresistible, the thought of balancing her career, life on the road, and a long-distance relationship isn't for her. Her music gives her life, yet her heart yearns for something more.

One room. Six People. No way out. And every 13 minutes one of them dies - horribly. Do the math; in 78 minutes they will all be dead - unless they can figure out what their nameless, faceless, and creepily mysterious captor wants from them. One woman holds the key to their survival or deaths. But, only if she faces her own bloody past and the earth-shattering truth of why they are all trapped together. Her final choice to own the truth can bring freedom or oblivion - 13 little minutes will tell the tale - for all of humanity.

At the end of the first practice session for the iconic Indianapolis 500 race, Kate Reilly is stunned to discover she was the fastest driver on the track. She's even more surprised to learn she wasn't the first woman to top the speed charts in the race's 106-year history. That feat was accomplished in 1987 by PJ Rodriguez, who shocked the racing world and the wider one by committing suicide 10 days later. When the press, bloggers, and social media go crazy over the connection between PJ and Kate, Kate begins to lose her identity.

Caine and Gaela's love is a love twisted by fate, but it has somehow endured. Through pain and loss, lies and death, their love has burned brightly through the darkness, leading them into each other's arms once more. But Gaela has a secret, and there are forces beyond Caine's control driving them apart once more. Cursed and star crossed, if Caine and Gaela want a love worth dying for, then they're going to have to fight for it!

Will love elude the Grim Reaper's daughter forever? Zelda had long ago determined she wasn't datable. She'd been 17, dressed in a gorgeous black strapless, and ready to party. But then her dad had waved around his scythe, turned on the glowing red eyes, and her prom date couldn't get away fast enough. She'd been dateless ever since. What eligible, sane guy wants to date the Grim Reaper's daughter?

Jade Michaels has a simple life: home, school, dance studio - and a lot to prove in the shadow of dynamic, talented older sisters. She runs away and risks everything to compete in the first-ever dance reality show in LA in 1992, and meets the perfect guy - until she finds out he's her sister's ex. Four years ago, producer Brandon Forbes rescued Jade's sister Pearl from a mugger - and discovered her as a model. Brandon thought his broken heart was ancient history - until Jade's dazzling audition activates conflicted feelings he can't deny.

Ruby Michaels meets the wrong kind of man on the eve of her departure from St. Thomas for college, when fireworks ensue. "I won't be derailed by anyone - no matter how handsome and interesting," she vowed. ut some promises are made to be broken. Surfer, sailor, handyman Rafe is fleeing grief and his family's opulent lifestyle. In Ruby's passionate innocence he finds a woman he's willing to sail the globe to pursue. "I am a pirate," he tells her. "When I see a treasure I want, I'll do anything to get it."

A man on a mission to obliterate his existence. A woman bent on eternal punishment. Once in love, separated by fate. Can Caius and Wren forget the pain of the past and forge a new future for themselves?

Glenda Goode, matchmaking witch extraordinaire, uses math to predict the future - and brew romance! She's found the perfect match for Hillary, but the wily witch has more up her sleeve than just matchmaking. Lives and love both hang in the balance as Hillary, her grandpa, and his not-quite-imaginary roommate try to solve a seven-year old curse.

The Heart of Annie tells the story of Lilly Roche and Curtis Walker, whose lives have flourished socially and professionally, but who find themselves single through a combination of circumstance, choice, and heartbreak. Lilly's mother passed away when she was a teenager, leaving her to an adolescence spent coping with her father's depression and her brother's ceaseless bullying. The divorce of Curtis' ill-matched parents at age 13, and later his own failed engagement, leaves him on emotional cruise control.

He spotted her in Club Nightshade, a beautiful goddess among the mortals, and from that moment on she was his everything. She tempted him. She intrigued him. He wanted her. Sabrina Donahue knew she was playing with fire from the moment their lips met, but something about Roman Arceneaux made it difficult for her to care. Sensual and darkly intense, Roman is every woman's fantasy come to life.

The whole world can change in 24 hours. When magic falls on the streets of Philadelphia, a young undercover detective must learn to harness her own budding abilities in order to stop a trafficker from taking girls, then selling them on the black market.

It's been several months since an attack on Tarian Xannon started a chain of events that resulted in her mother's murder and her current pregnancy. Her body is an unwieldy mass gestating what feels like an alien. And the intense magical power already emanating from her unborn daughter makes Tarian more uneasy than she'd ever admit.

Book 2 of the Xannon Series introduces Macari, First Daughter of the Benata Daemon Court. Daemons have lived thousands of years sequestered on their own plane, separated from humans by the Between, a barrier thought to be impossible to cross. But nothing stops the Corsairie, a storm of Air magic that holds all of history in its grasp. Macari is the only daemon capable of Walking the Wind, a talent she uses every day to witness history unfold. Her latest report stirs old wounds and forgotten fears in the most powerful daemon of all, her mother.

Former con artist Katherine "KC" Carmichael inherits the Honey House, a Bed and Breakfast located in the tiny town of Juniper Springs, AZ, a hotbed of the paranormal tourism industry. It doesn't take her long to discover that both the town and the House are keeping secrets. The town plays up its over-the-top paranormal reputation with fake werewolf photo safaris and psychic vortexes. It's all in good fun until an investigative journalist is found murdered in KC's backyard.

The epic history of Winyah Bay's wooden boats stretches back to 1526, when Spanish explorers sailed through the inlet and were greeted by Native Americans in dugout canoes. The English settled Georgetown and the bay's shores in 1736 to begin a legacy of rice and indigo plantations, and Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette first landed on American soil at Winyah Bay in 1777.