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Julienne has her ideal job as an event planner at a prestigious resort. During a luncheon event she coordinated, a renowned celebrity pastor is killed next to the buffet. All eyes turn to her as the suspect. If she wants to stay out of jail or even keep her job, Julienne needs all the help she can get to solve the crime. She has her work cut out for her with a vengeful high school rival (now reporter), the public demanding she be fired, plus family who knows what's best for her, and a boyfriend who doesn't understand her.

Polio disabled Cotton Lee's leg, but not her sexuality, not her mind, and not her ability to connect the murder of her friend Little Mary in 1972 to that of Bead Baker in 1932. Gone on Sunday follows the lives of the Baker family, their black servants, and the townspeople they knew in Homeville, Virginia. Alternating between 1972 and 1932, Cotton Lee's investigation into the murder of Bead Baker brings out secrets kept for decades. Cotton Lee needs to find the solution to the first murder in order to know the history of the second.

While migrating south for the winter, Emmett the eagle becomes the target of an evil hunter and meets a special little boy named Kevin. They form a friendship that will last a lifetime!

My name is Casi Clarity. I was 26 years old when I died in 1969. Then I woke up in the 21st century - whole, sane, and unblemished. And at the same age I was when I died. What's more, when I came back, I brought a friend with me. His name is Coheed. He's a corporeal spirit, and he is also my protector. Against what, you ask? Well, it seems that ever since my return, I've been chased by ghosts. Demons. Ancient evil. Monsters. You name it.

When Callie Williams signed up to the "bride bidder" app she was in a desperate situation. On the brink of losing her home, she needed money and she needed it fast. Allowing herself to be sold as a bride to a wealthy man was supposed to be a last resort for Callie, but she soon realized it was her only option. When billionaire Thomas Dearborn signed up to the "bride bidder" app he was not totally interested in finding a traditional wife.

Private investigator M's quiet, seaside home in Dungeness Bay, Oregon, is rocked by a series of murders. The only clue is written on a wall in Japanese, traced in blood - M's blood. She doesn't have to go far to find the killer...because he is coming after her.

This short story is about a very strong and vicious grandmother who murders others just for fun and to potentially eat their brain. She goes on the hunt in this story, but her family attempts to stop her.

This is about a haunted cell phone. It's haunted with the spirits of Adolph Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein and Jack the Ripper.

The Unicorn Princess is setting up for her birthday party and realizes that she has forgotten the cake. She grabs her mother's recipe card to make her favorite cake and all the necessary ingredients, except she finds she doesn't have her favorite berries and heads to town to buy her favorite berries by way of the scary Zorak forest. The Unicorn Princess isn't scared or alone for long because she meets some new friends along the way who help her reach the town to buy the berries for her cake. Grateful for her newfound friends, she invites them to her birthday party.

Dominica Moore lives in a war zone—both at home and at her new school—in that she endures cruelty by the hands of her father and also by the hands of her peers at school. She doesn't meet what they consider to be the standard norms of society-their codes of ethics. Instead, Dominica Moore goes against the standard norms of society. Through her endless struggle to be accepted for who and what she is inside, Dominica looks to the Lord for friendship and strength.

One chilly October day in 1873, three lonely people with very different pasts leave the desolation of fire-ravaged Chicago and board a Great Lakes steamship hoping for a better life. Maribeth Eaton escaped the suffocating expectations of her wealthy British family to make her own path and find purpose in America, and though things haven’t worked out as planned, one last chance for success awaits at the end of this voyage.

In the remote mountains of Arizona, Native American history is being torn apart by corporate greed and corruption. Nora Abbott is caught in the middle, struggling to keep her small business alive. But when Nora’s womanizing husband is murdered in cold blood, local law enforcement suspect that she killed him. As allies become enemies and friends become suspects, Nora takes it upon herself to find who killed her husband - and why. But in this unforgiving terrain, the price of truth may be too steep.

After a nomadic childhood with her mother, Melissa Witcher is ready to put down roots, despite the ghosts that haunt not only her new home but her family history as well. Michael Kemper never saw her coming, and from the moment he meets Melissa Witcher, he finds himself ready to do whatever it takes to stay by her side.

A breath of fresh air, Science and Spirituality takes a down-to-earth journey with infinite mind. It accounts for practical discoveries of scientific and spiritual mind power. The ideas are not new or old, but freely open to the restorative workability of reason and inspiration. Consciousness expands healthily. Viewpoints connect or reconnect in ways that naturally reveal our true essence and environment.

It’s been six years since the Alien War, when the Gwa showed up to save Earth from the attacking Vokko. When the humans eventually came out of hiding, the Gwa remained, and the Vokko were nowhere to be seen…or so they thought. But just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there, watching, waiting.

Lucy Peckham has one big problem--Christmas! Every December 25th brings Lucy the gift of pain, illness, or embarrassment of one sort or another. Steve Andrews was there to bear witness to Lucy's first humiliating Christmas back when they were both children together. Now that they're adults, will the tides finally turn for Lucy, or will this be her worst Christmas ever?

Quirky Private Investigator Annie Hudson and her partner FBI Agent Ethan Becket are called to Sunray, Virginia where they must solve a murder that occurred in a corner store that sits on the edge of a farm with a unique history. Only a limited number of suspects had access to the corner store. Who could have killed the victim, and why?

From a stranded alien comedian to the darkest depths of the human psyche; from a mind-blowing galactic adventure to clandestine extraterrestrial behavior on Earth. They're all here and more in this spell-binding collection of 17 short stories to keep you guessing at every turn.

I'm sure l'm not alone in thinking I have spent way too much time wondering about my place in this world. I have carried the weight of many titles throughout my life, but none as significant as Christian Woman. In a world continuing to change the expectation's of what a woman could or should be, I found myself perpetually stuck inside the many bright pink Barbie Boxes I placed myself in at every stage of my life.

Hildi's life so far has been a struggle against illness and to free herself from her wheelchair. The lone bright spot is her lifelong friend. So when he mysteriously disappears, she'll do anything to find him. When clues lead her to a mysterious military academy in the wilds of Alaska, Hildi signs up as a student to discover the truth. She finds a brutal training regime that pits classmates against one another, competing for basics like food and warmth. Behind the scenes, the pupils band together, and Hildi is surprised at the unexpected bonds she develops.