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A traumatized girl wakes in the hospital with no memory of how she got there. Her only thought is to find the one person she remembers - her Uncle Alex. When the authorities contact Alex Mercer, he rushes to the hospital. He's surprised to find it's his cousin Ayla. Shocked to see the condition she's in. Stunned to learn her parents are missing. Alex welcomes her into his home, and the family rallies around her as she tries to recover. But progress is slow, and for every step forward, she backslides. Compounding the problem is the mounting evidence that none of this was an accident.

Alex Mercer and his fiancee Zoey have weathered many storms, but this latest one might be too much for even them. She's hiding a secret she fears will send him running for the hills, and she has to tell him before he finds out on his own. Time is definitely not on her side. But with his busy hours at the police academy, there hardly seems a moment to open up to him.

It started as a day like any other for Alex Mercer. Then he heard the news. Something that only happens in other places is happening in his hometown. Just a few miles away at his daughter's middle school, a shooter is on the loose. Alex does what every other parent in town does - he races to the school to find out if his loved ones are safe. His world falls apart around him, and he can't turn to his best friend because they're both dealing with scathing terror. As the motive behind the shooting comes to light, secrets and betrayals spiral out of control.

When local children begin to vanish, Officer Alex Mercer is positive the cases are tied to recent threats against his family - especially since the first girl to go missing is his best friend's daughter. It all ties back to Alex. He's sure of it. The only solid link to the missing kids is a mysterious woman in a red dress. But that isn't enough to go on, and Alex has orders to focus on another case. As if that will stop him.

On the surface, the Mercers are finally settling into a comfortable routine - Alex's job is going great, he's accepted his unusual family dynamics, and they're even planning a dream vacation. Things couldn't be better. Or could they? Dig a little deeper, and the problems are growing out of control. Someone is threatening to ruin Alex, his wife is harboring a shocking secret, and their daughter is hiding a dangerous new relationship.

Jess McAdams dotes on her four children and gives advice and suggestions to parents all around the world. No one would ever question her love and devotion to her children, let alone suspect her of murdering one. But Alex Mercer does. Alex has plenty of experience investigating crimes involving missing kids. So when he senses something is wrong, he trusts his instincts. The only problem is, he's a newly deputized officer of the law. If he's wrong about Jess, he'll destroy his career before it gets off the ground.

To help save her family’s floundering Colorado bookstore, Starlit Bookshop, newly minted PhD Emma Starrs agrees to plan a mystery-themed dinner party for her wealthy, well-connected high school classmate Tabitha Baxter. It’s a delightful evening of cocktails and conjecture until Tabitha’s husband, Tip - hosting the affair in the guise of Edgar Allan Poe’s detective C. Auguste Dupin - winds up murdered.

Rising up against the beautiful backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Biltmore Estate is a magnificent mansion in Asheville, North Carolina, built as a summer home for George Washington Vanderbilt II - yes, of those Vanderbilts - during the Gilded Age. Nowadays, it's the site of an annual craft fair. Unfortunately, it's also about to become a crime scene....

For more than 75 years, Catwoman has forged her own path in a clear-cut world of stalwart heroes, diabolical villains, and damsels in distress. Her relentless independence across comic books, television, and film set her apart from the rest of the superhero world. When female-led comics were few and far between, Catwoman headlined her own series for over 20 years. But her unique path had its downsides as well.

Long ago, before humans forgot them for all eternity, monsters and immortals retreated below ground to seek shelter. But what do the Greek gods do when they're bored? They bring back the Olympic Games - only a lethal version. The newest contender in these bigger, deadlier games is a young human girl they kidnapped from the streets above. For Kira Lier, it's kill or be killed as she races against beasts she thought were just myths, to cross the finish line and win a chance to earn her freedom.

January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds her friend Lacey's estranged sister Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard - with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest.

Alex Mercer thought his worst days were behind him. Instead, his life is falling apart from the seams. Again. While his marriage is on the brink of divorce, his daughter is once more the target of a potential abductor. Alex will do whatever it takes to keep her safe while working to get to the bottom of the infamous kidnapping ring once and for all. He believes one of his superiors in the police department to be involved with the criminal mastermind, and he will do anything to prove it. But if his suspicions prove wrong, it will end his career.

It's been nearly a full year since there were any local kidnappings, but now girls are going missing left and right. There are few commonalities linking them together, and the only evidence Alex Mercer has are the ransom notes left on each victim's front door. Tensions mount as clues point to the notorious kidnapping ring driven from town twelve months ago—the same ring that's tormented him and his loved ones for years. With so many young lives on the line, Alex is desperate. And he works tirelessly to solve the crimes before anyone dies. But if the ring has returned?

Christmas is coming to the Western New York village of Cascade Springs, and so is the long-awaited wedding of Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly and police chief David Rainwater. Grandma Daisy and Violet's best friend, Sadie, go all out to make the nuptials the event of the season—whether Violet likes it or not. But the reception becomes memorable for all the wrong reasons when a woman's dead body floats by on the frigid Niagara River.

The Tour de Cascade is the brainchild of Charming Books proprietor Violet Waverly's Grandma Daisy. But not everyone in this Niagara Region village supports the race. As if the bike race weren't tiring enough, pesky private investigator Joel Redding is snooping around Charming Books. When Redding perishes in an accident during the race, David discovers that the brake line of the private eye's bike was cut. Worse, Violet tops his list of suspects. As Emerson the tuxedo cat and resident crow Faulkner look on, Charming Books steers Violet to the works of Walt Whitman to solve the crime.

Welcome back to William's Ford, Missouri. The bewitching college town where magick and weirdness seems to happen on any day of the week that ends with the letter "Y." Autumn Bishop, grad student, Seer, and the newest Witch in town, has her hands full in the second installment of the Legacy of Magick series. Her relationship with Duncan is heating up, and she is finally finding some normalcy in her new life.

Blue was ready to start her new life, but unfinished business could be the death of her.... For Blue and Forrest, making it back to Karran was the easy part. They were prepared to learn a new language, new customs and tackle a new kind of relationship. When Blue's reunion with Mo'ata is marred by unfinished business, she has a decision to make: proceed with her original plan and attend classes at the Ministry's Academy, or set herself up as bait for a madman. Phillip is still out there, still using that crystal, still killing.

Every June, the quiet beach town of Ogunquit is overtaken by wealthy families who hire local young women like Amy Latimer and Hayley Franklin to care for their children. Best friends since childhood, Amy and Hayley are eager to secure lucrative summer jobs. Amy wants to finance her upcoming move to Boston. Hayley hopes to earn enough money so that her mom can leave her abusive husband. But the passing weeks bring complications and revelations, altering friendships, testing the bond between mothers and daughters, and proving that the ripples from a single season can last forever...

Sassy book blogger-turned-author, Kim Long, thought her life couldn't get any pinker when she received a two-book publishing deal and a marriage proposal in the same night. If only she could drown out the conflicting opinions of her overzealous bridal party. If only everyone would adore her first book - or she could take Nicholas's advice and stop reading reviews. If only Nicholas's past would remain there rather than threaten their future. The pressure is on and the clock is ticking. Will Kim ever write "The End" on her sophomore novel?

Feisty New Yorker Kimberly Long runs the most popular chick-lit book blog, loves playing house with her sexy lawyer boyfriend, Nicholas, and is finally pursuing her lifelong dream of becoming a published author. At first glance, her life is worthy of five pink champagne flutes. But after hearing the phrase "chick lit is dead" more times than she's read The Devil Wears Prada, Kim is driven to desperate measures, seeking advice from up-and-coming chick-lit author Hannah Marshak, her high school nemesis.