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Kodi Gander can't stop wondering what might have been. Losing a softball scholarship to an ACL tear, the now twenty-four-year-old makes do with working for a grump of a doctor and plotting to win the local cornhole league. But when she seeks the services of the town's dreamy new chiropractor, she's shocked when his healing hands send unexpected thrills up and down her body.

Lizzie Fox is the story about a courageous and determined young woman, who grew up in foster care. She has suffered terrible injustice in her life and so hates it when she encounters it. In the small South Texas town of Seclusion, that injustice takes the form of racial and economic injustice violently controlled and policed by the county’s rich and powerful, including the local sheriff, the wealthy oil barons and the hierarchy within the church.

University senior Tessa Givens shuffles through the day to day grind of existence as if it’s an obligation rather than her chance to live her best life. While her fellow students embrace their freedom and youth, Tessa feels nothing but crushing guilt for the mistake that led to a tragedy she can’t bring herself to speak of.

Weary of the ravages of World War II, seventeen-year-old Nada is no stranger to loss. Her father was killed by the Ustaše – a fascist, Croatian regime working to cleanse Yugoslavia of Serbs – and the boy she secretly loves, Henrik, abandoned her to join the Partizan resistance. It’s why Nada holds tighter to those she cares about. So when she discovers her mother and sisters were ripped from their home by the Ustaše, Nada has to do something.

But not within Margot Lewis’s perfect family. Her doting husband provides her with everything she could ever want—lavish gifts, surprise vacations, staff to help around the large house—making her love life the envy of all her friends. It doesn’t matter that his violent outbursts are becoming more frequent. And certainly the bruises don’t matter, because they were all accidents…right?