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As I walk into the pine-scented air of my seaside childhood home, gripping my husband Neil’s hand tight, I have a brief moment of hope. Maybe this Christmas will be different — for once my family might get on fueled by mulled wine and festive cheer. But the sound of happy carols are replaced by my older sister Christy’s over-loud laugh and slurred words. Rebecca, my younger sister, stalks out of the room as soon as I enter, as though I’m the Grinch here to steal Christmas. And their husbands, brash and arrogant, slap Neil’s back in a way that promises torment rather than welcome.

Evolved Publishing presents a personal memoir of one courageous woman's battle with cancer, recounting her determination to make the most of whatever time she has left, including her powerful mission to help others facing a similar battle.

Gone to Texas uncovers a deception that drives 17 souls to hard choices. Either stay on the land they thought they’d bought or heed the lure of free land in the faraway wilderness of a new republic. Rife with peril and hardship, three families knit together by blood and friendship head out with a widowed man, daughter, and his slave, gambling everything they own on the prospect of land ownership and working it together.

Fifteen-year old Morganna runs away from an abusive home to search for her blood father, a man she’s never met. Fearful she’ll be recognized by locals, she disguises herself as a boy. Hitching a ride from a fisherman, Morganna crosses the Bristol Channel to Goldcliff, Wales, where she hopes to find her father. She is astounded when the fisherman divulges her father is a famous Welsh privateer, the fearsome Captain Henry Blackwell.

Jessica died aged 90. Yet in the 2200s, this isn’t the end. When she enters a digital existence called Second Phase, where she lives on as a sentient being, who can feel the same sensations as though she was in the real world. Jessica has always been passionate about music. With the help of her guide Emily, she discovers a karaoke bar in one of the digital worlds of Second-Phases. She befriends Dave and enters a musical journey which she never got to experience in life.

What happens when a guarded cop with a haunted past collides with a headstrong nurse who refuses to let him hide? After a high-speed crash lands Officer Danny Cooper in the ER, Nurse Lena Harris expects the usual — stubbornness, sarcasm, and emotional walls. What she doesn’t expect is to care. Not just for his injuries, but for him. Danny's used to keeping people at a distance, but Lena’s quiet strength, and the tiny, scene-stealing chihuahua named Sparky, start to crack through his armor. As Lena and Danny’s connection deepens, so do the risks of getting too close.