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In 1968, Charlotte Vance was one of the few women employed by the National Security Agency in Washington, D.C. She put in long hours and was working when a fire started in her home. Her daughters and husband were killed. For 50 years, she has felt responsible for their deaths. In 2018, when a former colleague from the NSA mentions a top secret government agency that is experimenting with time travel, she decides to apply.

Travel photojournalist Chloe McConnaughey thought she understood her brother Tate - a brilliant programmer willing to compromise anything to get ahead. She just didn’t know that included her. When Tate dies unexpectedly, Chloe copes by taking an assignment in the Caribbean where she meets Jack, a charming Manhattan escapee. Then they're framed for murder and running from killers. Chloe fights a sense of hopelessness, confronting the age-old question: if God does exist - why would He allow bad things to happen to good people?

Pastry Chef Cary Crockett is on the run. Pursued by a loan shark bent on retrieving gambling debts owed him by her deadbeat ex-boyfriend, she finds the perfect hiding place at the remote Circle W Ranch. More at home with city life, cupcakes, and croissants than beef, beans, and bacon, she has to convince ranch owner Micah West she’s up to the job of feeding his hired hands. The overwhelming attraction she feels toward him was nowhere in the job description.

Jenna Zwagil was a young mother of two with a "broke mindset" and a bank account to match. Even with an inner belief that she was meant for more, the obstacles in her life seemed to hold her back from success. So, how did she go from constantly struggling all the way to the top female earner in network marketing? In her absorbing and fast-paced book, Jenna shares how she made the decision to change, committed to focus, study, and relentlessly work on herself, and above all, embrace her willingness to break the rules.

The lights are bright in New York City, but after losing her husband three years ago, all Evie Diaz can see is her mission to keep life rock-steady for her young daughter. This includes holding on to their little Queens apartment, the beloved nanny, and her night manager position at a luxury Manhattan hotel. It isn't easy, and stroke after stroke of bad luck threatens to undo it all.

Eight months after her harrowing experiences in Miami, Chloe McConnaughey leaves the comfort of Atlanta and a burgeoning romantic relationship to reunite with the father who abandoned her 25 years ago. But when she reaches his quaint southern town, she quickly learns that he's still keeping secrets. Unable to face the mounting tide of lies, she resolves to head back home.

This audiobook features eight enthralling, horrific, and unnerving tales that are guaranteed to make you challenge how you see the world as you know it and consider tearing it down. Each short story is a unique perspective on the common thread of morality in a larger interconnected world that will keep you guessing until the very end.

Living on Mt. Rainier, Gus and Zoe are faced with a tough decision: Stay and face starvation, or leave and face the dead that wait lower in elevation. The group will encounter new dangers and struggle to find themselves and each other again. The dead are more ruthless than ever, and the living, more desperate.

Trying to survive in a land ruled by the dead, Zoe finds herself more alone than ever after the death of her lover. Time goes by, and life becomes even more intolerable. Never sure of who she can trust and her ability to sense the dead drastically altered, she is forced to face some major realities as what remains of the group of survivors moves to higher ground.

Caroline Pritchard strives to showcase the most unique artists at the Daulton Gallery, but the elusive glass artist known as F.W. proves to be her most difficult undertaking. Renown for his privacy, Caroline discovers F.W.’s true identity only to find the man behind the art lives a reclusive lifestyle with no wish to display his art in a gallery. Finnegan Walsh dislikes distractions and having people in his workshop. However, since meeting Caroline Pritchard, his space is threatened, and the quiet life he strives so hard to maintain is immediately disrupted.

With their own ship and freedom, life is sweet; until Dace disappears and Jasyn learns the truth about their new copilot. Everyone wants Dace. Commander Lowell wants her in the Patrol. The Targon Syndicate wants her head. But when she's kidnapped, it's by mistake. She isn't the one Luke wanted. If he finds out she isn't Miya Daviessbrowun, he won't hesitate to kill her. It's up to Jasyn to rescue her, even if it means giving in to Lowell's demands.

Pursued by the Targon Crime Syndicate bent on revenge, the Patrol intent on recruitment, and the Sessimoniss who want their god back, the last thing Captain Dace needs is a handsome copilot with romance on his mind. It isn't Dace's fault she leaves chaos everywhere she goes. She didn't know Belliff, the company who hired her to courier sensitive materials, is a front for the Targon Crime Syndicate. Now Targon is after her for stealing their shipment of smuggled goods.

Point of view, the position of the narrator in relation to the story, is at the heart of romance fiction. Aspire to write effective POV, and inspiration for your romance novel will follow. You will succeed with Kathleen Rowland's, "video camera on the head" technique!

This unique, fast-paced, unforgettable fable invites you on a journey of profound truths through the eyes of accidental time-traveler Lindsey Moore as she discovers the transformative power of the laws that govern our existence in a most unexpected way. Get ready to be whisked away to a time long ago to learn the laws. This is the cosmic owner's manual you were never given. Until now.