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Jesse James has learned never to rely on the men in her life. When the going gets tough, they're sure to leave. Just like the grandfather she never knew. But now her grandfather is back--if the man who knocked on her door is who he claims to be. He's a down-and-out conman, a liar, and a thief, but he needs Jesse's help. "Gramps" has swindled a dangerous man and is in hiding for his life. Against her better judgment, Jesse allows herself to get involved.

In the shadowy world of covert operations, Carly Fletcher and Bo Harris were presumed dead, a convenient fiction crafted by the CIA. But the truth was far more complex. Relocated to Europe under the guise of witness protection, they believed themselves safe, ready to carve out a new life. Fresh revelations emerge, crushing the hopes of a new start. Before long, they come to the grim realization that the individual who inflicted so much pain, is once again pursuing them.

It's springtime in upstate New York, where the lilacs are in bloom and love is all around—even for Jessica James, full-time investigative reporter and part-time fool. Well, why shouldn't she be? Everyone else is in love: her mother, still honeymooning with the mischievous Charlie Browne; and her sometime lover, mobster Marcus Andrelli, who seems to have forgotten Jesse and taken up with another woman. For Jesse, though, love is literally in the air, with a handsome pilot named Mac Devlin.

Celia (Garcia) Lundy was fifteen in the fall of 1998 when Abby Powell, one of her five friends who called themselves the Cricket Hunters, disappeared without a trace. Cops scoured the central Texas town of Oak Mott searching for Abby. Interviewed everyone. Brought in the Texas Rangers to assist. Three key suspects emerged and were focused on, but no evidence was found. Eventually, the case went cold, and the passage of time buried the truth of Abby Powell’s fate.

It’s funny how things have a way of working themselves out. Sooner or later, lost things are found, complicated situations are resolved and wrongs are righted. Set in rural England during the early to mid-twentieth century, this story weaves together the changing lives of landed gentry, animal lovers and ordinary people who share a purpose.

She Watches blends mystery, wit, and suspense in two interconnected tales about a house that sees everything and remembers more than it should.

The bright daylight and the shrill crow of Rusty the rooster joined her in welcoming another day, but her night time memory would not be denied as evident by the boot prints in the yard. But what Vicki witnessed on that warm southern night in the small town of Piney, Georgia would propel her into an unspeakable betrayal that would follow her into adulthood and send her on a journey of redemption.

No-nonsense octogenarian Ida Mae Turnbull is the head judge of Happy Hollow's annual charity baking competition. The prestigious event has been the town's pride and joy for more than a hundred years—until his year. This year, something dark, something evil, something hungry, lurks in the cherry pie. Ida Mae will face a terror unlike any humanity has ever seen. Because sometimes, pure evil is baked with love. Because sometimes, good grannies go bad, and some bakers will do anything to win.

Jessica James has a nose for a good story, but she isn’t sure how much she likes the story she’s getting from her mother’s charming, handsome new beau with the improbable name of Charlie Browne. Especially since the tale is attached to the Hare—a stolen painting that is now hidden under Jesse’s own bed. Jesse’s investigation into Charlie's background turns up a hole big enough to smuggle the Mona Lisa through, which has her worried about her romantic, not-altogether-practical mom.

Suddenly Brooke Hayes's life is turned upside down. Again. For the past months she has fought to get it back together by overcoming her addictions, revitalizing her neglected stage career, and putting behind her the devastation left by her bitter divorce. She has also been a mother again to her nine-year-old daughter, Charly, whose upcoming visit has meant the world. Everything was fine.

In a future where the U.S. has splintered into new nations, the Atlantic Coalition and Pacific Federation strive for equity and sustainability, while the original U.S. grapples with the consequences of traditionalism and deregulation. From the ashes of environmental and economic collapse, can a new form of democracy rise? Follow the intertwined destinies of Gov. Robert Callahan, Justice Marisol Reyes and Sen. Charlie McBride as they navigate this splintering and what follows.

Fifteen-year-old Mary Lou Peters lives in the historic Southern Hotel in fictional Asheville, Maryland. Her life-long dream is to take over the hotel that her parents kept the same for so long. She discovers that she has an amazing gift that throughout these eight stories helps her solve previously unsolved mysteries, many having to do with the hotel’s eventful past. In the beginning, she has no friends besides friends of her parents. She meets all kinds of interesting people—her best friend Robby, energetic Julie, and even a few ghosts.

For psychic Mira Morales, it begins when a crazed woman accosts a jogger and demands to know where she can find Mira. In a confrontation, the lunatic is killed by the jogger and turns to stone before she hits the ground. Mira reads the body and makes a startling discovery. The stone woman is from 2144, where the descendants of climate change survivors—Normals and White Crows—live in a giant dome. Crows represent nature’s rapid evolutionary leap to save humanity by endowing people with extraordinary abilities.