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Between working at the bakery and taking care of her grandmother, local good Samaritan Allison McCory has no time for herself. And being known as the woman willing to help anyone has bitten her on the ass more than once. Celebrity chef Lorenzo Morrati is about to lose it all. Not only is his wife pregnant with another man's child and divorcing him, but if anyone believes the false allegations she's making, the network will drop his long-running cooking show. Escaping London and the tabloids for a tiny ocean side Irish town seems like the perfect way to ride out this storm.

On June 12, 2017, Micah Dillon’s world completely flipped. With no prior warning, Micah woke up to find her husband of 13 years, Ben, dead on the floor of their shower. In a matter of moments, everything she’d used to build a steady foundation in life—her marriage, her career, her music—crumbled beneath her feet.

In order to protect his con artist girlfriend from the F.B.I., Noah goes to grievance therapy to keep up the ruse of her death.

I don’t have a diary, I have a pen pal: a Parisian girl named Noel who knows my deepest, darkest secrets. And now that I've finally graduated, it’s time to go meet her. Paris, here I come! Except… something isn’t quite right in the City of Love. Because my first thought when I see Noel? That’s not a girl. Nope, apparently Noel is a guy. That’s right: a guy. An attractive guy, with tattoos and green eyes that seem to see right through me. Who is this, and what on earth is going on?

Before he can be reborn, Zan has spent 499 years bound in a 500-year curse to process souls for the monstrous Ferryman—and if he fails, he dies. In Portland, Bastian is grieving. He survived a car accident that took his mother and impulse-purchased a crumbling bookstore with the life insurance money. But in sleep, death’s mark keeps dragging Bastian into Zan’s office. It shouldn’t be a problem to log his soul and forget he ever existed. But when Zan follows Bastian through his memories of grief and hope, Zan realizes that he is not ready for Bastian to die.

Though assured several times by family members that the man who had her heart for so many years would not be home, Rosie runs into him the first day she arrives. Immediately, she’s left wondering how she could ever walk away from him again. With the wedding, the holidays, their families being so close-knit, and the fact that they’re neighbors, it’s looking more and more like there’s no way for them to avoid falling back in love with one another. Can they manage to forgive each other and themselves and put the past behind them, or will it catch up and run their new relationship into the ground?

Rosa is a little red ant who is filling her belly with delicious food when she and the other members of her colony suddenly realize the ground is shaking and quickly crawl away. Moments later, a herd of elephants tramples her beautiful ant home.

London, 1820: Isambard is just like any other 16-year-old engineering genius, until he stumbles across a radical plot to kill the Prime Minister. Things get complicated when he discovers that the conspiracy is being led a French revolutionary supposedly executed 25 years earlier.

The daughter of Irish immigrants and the son of an African slave forge their own destiny in Boston, in this compelling sequel to Shanty Gold.