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As a detective in Lake Ridge, Virginia, Bobby Chambers deals with crime on a daily basis. But as more and more of the criminal activity of nearby Washington, DC, spills over into Northern Virginia, he finds he is seeing more and more crime in his suburban community. And after his niece moves to Wyoming, he becomes more aware of how often criminal activity around the country is connected.

The enemy cannot stop destiny. As a young girl in Meggett, South Carolina (twenty miles south of Charleston), Sandra Magwood grew up very poor in a quaint, little four-room home with nine other children; she did not know they were poor. Although she was taught about Jesus, she was ashamed to say his name. She had no idea how significant her reliance was upon him as sovereign would save her life and guide her into her destiny, which far exceeded anything she ever imagined.

There are only two rules to becoming part of the Hemlock crew: You have to be single. You have to be invited. Karissa is definitely single, and now that she caught the eye of Jasper, she just might get the invite. Nothing about him is her type, except for the fact that he's drop-dead gorgeous and every sophomore girl’s dream boyfriend. Add in his killer personality and piercing blue eyes along with his blonde hair and a skateboard hanging from his bag and she just might reconsider—but dating him is a slippery slope that she's not sure she wants to walk. 

Being crowned homecoming queen fast-tracked me to an identity crisis that catalyzed my disclosure of ten years of sexual abuse at the hands of my stepfather. I dropped out of high school for the first half of my senior year while the disclosure was incinerated in my notorious stepfather's career-climbing kiln. I am recovering my authentic self from the rubble of losses amassed over years of enduring entirely narcissistic parents.

Abby Gates spent the first part of her life protected from the world because of her condition. Only adventures she knew were taught by being homeschooled and through reading books from her personal library. In Abby's world, everyone lived happily ever after, until her mother died, and she was forced to be part of a community she was a stranger in. While Mr. Frank and Billy Daniels did their best to protect her, Adam Davis came to town with a secret no one knew except his assistant, Tashia. Abby quickly found that although dreams can come true, real life wasn't so happy all the time.

It's been a quiet few months except on Pine Street, where Helen Baxter, the town scrooge, has been raking in constant noise complaints. What no one knows is she has a dark secret she's been keeping for ten long years. Hidden Away takes place in the small, tight-knit community of Havensworth, where Nurse Helen works and lives. Her world begins to spin out of control as the accusations against her become more heinous. She slowly unravels and holds close to her the flickering light in her basement.

The Footprints of Her Soul is a story of a little girl who was lost among the people she loves most, her beloved family. She experienced extreme distress and sorrow through the long road of childhood poverty, war, and into adulthood. She had made hard decisions throughout her life journey, causing heartaches and pain. But she survived it all with conviction.

She’s the gun slinging, ATV riding, lasso wielding sheriff of Arrowhead Nation’s rough and tumble state of Sierra West. For Gabby Oaks, being a hard charging law enforcement officer comes with constant threats to her life. None bigger than the threat posed by the notorious desperados that make up The Rustlers gang.

When a ruthless warlock and his formidable army break free from prison, the warlock unleashes his warriors with orders to destroy the world of Skoldrun as revenge for his imprisonment. Zoë Wind and her fellow chieftains are reeling from heavy losses during a recent civil war between the clans. With cold-blooded invaders knocking at their door, the clans must band together if they wish to put up a fighting chance.

Zoë Wind is riding high following her takedown of Master Drocker Rex Timber in a dramatic duel in front of her clan. Timber’s death ended his quest to steal Skoldrun’s four runestaves. With her clan’s runestave securely in her possession, Zoë turns her attention to a budding romance with the chieftain of Tiflburg. That is, until Jaxon Pike, an emerging rival out of Razorton, pursues Zoë’s runestave with the hope of bringing his clan’s legendary cougars back and proclaiming himself as the ultimate leader of Skoldrun.

When the young chieftain Zoë Wind discovers the notorious Rex Timber is out of hiding, she goes into overdrive to track him down to the ends of Skoldrun to avenge her father’s murder at the hands of Timber five years earlier. Little does she know, Timber is on a quest to collect the runestaves worn around the necks of Skoldrun’s four chieftains with a plan that could spell the end of the clans.