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In the third book of Aurelia's Diaries, our girl is on her own, living with her best friend and enjoying the freedoms of being an "adult". She experiences joy and heartache, silliness and seriousness, heartbreak and happiness, inspiration and despair, romance...and terror. Cheer her on as she heads straight into her long awaited mission for the church.

Sammie Flowers was a typical 15-year-old who preferred to keep to herself, and for good reason. Starting her fifth school in two years’ time was rough, though understandable. Occurrences forced her parents to uproot from another city and move to places where they were unknown. Ocean High in Santa Barbara was supposed to be another new start for her; however, Sammie makes friends with another who is just like her, named Becca, with the belief the two will be lifelong friends - only to learn Becca had other ideas.

Mira would rather climb mountains alone than hide in the confining village, despite warnings of griffins. She met a griffin, and he didn't harm her; in fact, he saved her life. But his friendship isn’t enough to protect her or her village.

In this part of the series, Aurelia faces new challenges as she adjusts to a new city, new school, new family, and new friends. She faces whole new challenges as her dating life becomes more complicated. And why is she afraid that one of her best friends may become related to her? What does she realize about the romance she had in the first part?

Dive into the diary of a teenage girl, raised by a widowed father, as she navigates school, work, friends, and a dating life. See her grow into an intelligent and beautiful young woman, who is starting to figure out what she wants from life. Based on the fact that the author always wanted to have a daughter with his wife, this is a speculation as to what that daughter might have been like.

It is 1975 and fifteen-year-old Julie Ann Wilson is living the good life. Her future is bright. It has to be. She is a good girl, a smart girl, a fortunate girl. Nothing can stop her—except death. So begins Julie's journey with death in the cemetery where she resides with The Discontents—those like her who cannot move on to their next place. She is persuaded to return to her life, learn her story, and hopes to be released. She awakens to her Forever Summer at the family's lake house.

Minister's daughter Frankie Lou McMasters has come back to Ruby Springs, Texas with her daughter, Betsy, eleven years after running off to marry the town bad boy. Her mild notoriety as a bad girl is prime gossip for her childhood enemy, Poppy Fremont, now choir director of Faith Community Church—where Frankie Lou's daddy, now retired to Florida, was the preacher.

After their dramatic escape from Grid City, Jane and her friends flee to United West, desperate to reach their last batchmate before she’s decommissioned. With the agency hot on their heels, their mission won’t be easy. But help arrives from an unexpected source.

When her life crashes and burns in a flurry of secrets and redacted information, Addie Atwater-Elwyn hightails it home to the tiny mountain town of Adelaide Springs, Colorado—back to living with her dad, back to working a low-paying job, back to a life of disappointments. Growing up, nobody expected their local girl to become a high-ranking CIA analyst, married to a gorgeous CIA operative. But that was Addie's life until she lost . . . well, everything.

Kallie Brooks thought her worst problem was running out of limes during Happy Hour. That is, until she left The Lazy Gecko one night and found a young woman’s lifeless body in the back seat of her car. In a town as small as Owhiro, Florida, news travels fast—and so does suspicion. But with the assigned detective miles away in St. Petersburg, she soon fears the tragic case is slipping through the cracks. With her best friend Tess and her ever-resourceful dad by her side, Kallie dives into the mystery, uncovering shady characters and buried secrets.

When Willow’s boyfriend of seven years dumps her on the eve of a romantic getaway, she decides to take the two-week train trip on The Christmas Express alone. Hurt as she feels, she can’t anticipate how the hilarious rebound ride with conductor Oliver, elf Ian, and aging world adventurer Clarence will heal her heart---and renew her sense of worth.

Kacey adores the metropolitan life, but when she gets away to help her sister during a family crisis and run her bakery, she falls in love with former classmate Drew. The problem: he’s a small-town man, and she’s a big-city woman. Is their love big enough to overcome such a major difference?

Darby is working hard to be a better person, but has she eaten enough humble pie to make amends?

After narrowly escaping the clutches of the conniving and dangerous Shi family, Aranya and Kai find it more difficult than ever to work together amid the pressures of their secret mission, and the constant danger of the monster-ridden wilderness they travel. An unexpected kiss only serves to complicate things further. Can Aranya learn to trust Kai? Or will the slow unraveling of his secrets doom the chance of them becoming anything more than enemies?

Lost and guarded after getting out of a toxic relationship, Noli Kasper follows her older sisters to idyllic Cashmere Cove to get her life back on track. But when she's pulled over on the way into town by a police officer who turns out to be her insufferable new boss, her dreams of an uncomplicated fresh start feel dead on arrival.

"Daizzle's World" is the second story in the "Tales of Faerie" fantasy series, written mostly for upper middle-grade listeners. Daizzle is such a fun and happy character, Vee decided to give her her own book! In "Daizzle's World" you meet her fairy podsisters and learn that the Mother will soon bestow a great gift on the denizens of Faerie. But dark forces are afoot as Arachnia, the spider-witch, schemes to steal the Mother's Gift for herself.

A year after high-risk missions to stop terrorists, arms dealers, and criminals, CIA officer Olivia Markham no longer operates in the field. Instead, she runs a clinic for immigrants in a backwater Balkans capital. Olivia has also found a modicum of peace—and someone to love. Her career trajectory? A safe desk job at Langley. Until the day terrorists attack the clinic, upending Olivia’s world and sending her back into active fieldwork.

Arri's days had always been built around predictability, until one day, when a delivery of a dozen red roses arrived for her with an unsigned ominous message… Despite all efforts to avoid the inevitable, her seemingly normal parents reckon with the one truth they had tried to avoid... Nicholas is coming, and he wants their daughter. In an attempt to escape her fate, Arri finds herself being pushed even closer to it. As everything changes her journey begins.

Jane’s investigation into the origins of her clone batch stall when her best source, the enigmatic Dean, disappears. Unable to continue her search, she heads to college and tries to settle into a normal life. But on her first day at Harbortown University, Jane meets a girl who looks just like her.

Emmy Jenkins knows what it feels like to have a serial killer come after her. She escaped him twice. Emmy and Brian must start over in a new town, away from the tragic events and the killer’s family. Unfortunately, he escapes custody. The authorities think the killer committed suicide by drowning himself in the river. They do not locate his body, but they do find a girl drowned in Elk Lake. Her death is ruled an accidental drowning, but Emmy knows he is still alive. And he is coming for her.