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"Cassie Kendrick is on the run. Her abusive father arranged her marriage to a despicable man, but she’s discovered an escape. Disguised as a man, Cassie enlists in the Union army, taking the name Thomas Turner. On the battlefields of the Civil War, keeping her identity a secret is only the beginning of her problems, especially after she meets Gabriel Avery, a handsome young photographer. Anxious to make his mark on the world and to erase the darkness...
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Mystic Creek novel volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Swearing off men, Sissy Sue Bentley, the new owner of the local café, struggles with her growing feelings for cowboy Ben Sterling who keeps showing up whenever she needs help, especially when her past comes back with a vengeance.
83) A quiet fear
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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Working hard at life, Lilly thinks of herself as a committed teacher, wife, and mother. She is, at last, content. Then unexpectedly, she experiences horrifying flashbacks while caring for her toddler son. Panic takes over, stripping her of confidence and leaving her insecure in all that she does. Desperately, she tries to bring back a sense of normalcy, failing with each attempt. Terror has her imprisoned as her past and present worlds collide.
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Woodbridge Trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
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Anne Yancy is a young vagrant who, despite suffering abuse all of her life, has grown strong and determined even as she secretly harbors a deep longing to belong. Nathan Woodbridge is a rich, Harvard-educated Puritan. Set in the year after the Salem Witchcraft Trials, Blood, Flesh, And Flame is the story of a Puritan town under attack. Anne knows the source. Nathan has no patience for superstition or anything smacking of the paranormal yet is assigned...
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2022.
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A mysterious plague that causes random bouts of violence is sweeping the nation. Now three generations of women must navigate their chilling new reality in this moving exploration of identity, cycles of abuse, and hope. Chelsea Martin appears to be the perfect housewife: married to her high school sweetheart, the mother of two daughters, keeper of an immaculate home. But Chelsea's husband has turned their house into a prison; he has been abusing her...
87) Sheltered
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[2018]
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Blair Rosewood is preparing for her first day at her new job. She left her trailer park town to go to college and make something of herself. Now sheś in Charleston, South Carolina surrounded by people with money and sheś going to have to keep up. She hasnt́ exactly ended up where she wanted, but sheś going to make the best of it. But one night everything changes. Suddenly sheś taken from all that she knows and is being held captive by a man who...
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It's Christmas Eve in Santa Fe. But among the revelers on Canyon Road, a decidedly unholy scene is taking place. A desperate man, dressed all in black, feverishly seeks refuge for himself and the squirming bundle he holds tightly against his breast. Agent Paul Kaganâs bundle is a baby who has the power to change the course of global events. His pursuers are his former colleagues-members of the Russian mafia who will stop at nothing to accomplish...
89) The letter
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Pub. Date
2015
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Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way ... Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens...
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2002, c2001
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When Martin Trent calls home to announce his return from an assignment as a tour guide in Venice, his mother, Susan, is filled with fear-a fear based on what has happened before, and her dread of further violence. She meets Martin, as instructed, at Rotherston station, but on the way to their house in Bishop St. Leon, Martin demands to be dropped at the local pub. Leaving after closing time, he is furious to discover that Susan is not outside, waiting...
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2024.
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"Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female 'volunteers' of childbearing age-orphans, prisoners, and mental patients-to be shipped to New Orleans. Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year...
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2017.
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"For fans of The Girl on the Train, The Walls is the most twisted thriller you will read this year. What if you could get away with murder? Single mom Kristy Tucker works as a press agent for the Texas Department of Corrections -- handling everything on death row from inmate interviews to chronicling the last moments during an execution. Her job exposes Kristy to the worst of humanity, and it's one that's beginning to take its toll. So when Kristy...
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[2019]
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"Life is great for thick-boned Keisha Jackson. With a good education, well-paying job, and a promising future, she has everything a young woman could ask for, including high self-esteem. But after a chance meeting with Rico, the neighborhood "bad boy," her fairy tale life is quickly dismantled. Blinded by emotion, she gives in to all his cruel intentions. Under the false claim of love, Rico vindictively tears down all that good-girl Keisha has built....
94) Stolen
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Prairie Heritage volume 5
Pub. Date
[2014], ©2014
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"Stolen returns to Denver and Palmer House—a most extraordinary refuge for young women rescued from prostitution—and to the lives of Rose Thoresen, Joy Thoresen Michaels, and their unorthodox “family.” Taking up where The Captive Within leaves off, Stolen finds Mei-Xing safe, but after six harrowing months of captivity, Mei-Xing stuns those who love her when she returns to Palmer House with child. If Su-Chong’s mother, Fang-Hua Chen, discovers...
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Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but she arrives back home in Sweetwater Crossing to discover her father has died under mysterious circumstances. Then the house where the new schoolteacher and his son are supposed to board burns, leaving them homeless. When Emily proposes turning the family home into a boardinghouse, her sister is so incensed that she leaves town. Her family name sullied by controversy,...
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Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her...
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Broken volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
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"Layton Morris and his brother Mike grew up not knowing what it would be like to live in a normal home. When a tragic accident takes Mike away from Layton, and the only other person that he ever let into his heart walked away from him, leaving his heart shattered, Layton focuses all of his time and energy into the ranch he and his brother dreamed of. He makes a vow to himself to never let love in again. Whitley Reynolds grew up in a privileged home...
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2018.
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"A wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who've all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him... Divorces are often messy, and Imogen's is no exception. Phillip Rochester is controlling, abusive, and determined to make things as difficult as possible. When he shows up without warning demanding that Imogen move out of their house by the end of the month or he'll...
100) From here to you
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Pub. Date
2018.
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Discover a new series from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Disaster: a "heartbreaking and hopeful, raw and sexy" tale about a woman on the run who encounters a stranger with a secret (Lauren Blakely, author of Part-Time Lover). As Darby Dixon sits in a tiny Texas church bathroom on her wedding day holding a positive pregnancy test, she realizes that marrying her fianc w̌ould be the worst decision of her life. She's never...