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Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

Lynn Van Swol still regrets the decision she made 30 years ago to place her daughter up for adoption so she could climb the highest mountains of the world. Frankie Rizzoni is the troubled biological granddaughter Lynn has never known. And Beth Mahoney is a minister's wife with terminal cancer and the only one who knows the relationship between the two. She designs a plan upon her deathbed to bring Lynn and Frankie together, but now, narrating from the afterlife, she must helplessly watch as her legacy threatens to unravel.

A Novel Based on a True Story of Reinvention and Self-Discovery What if you had everything – except the life you wanted? Meet Luna, a successful New York banker approaching thirty, who seems to have it all. But beneath the polished exterior, she’s restless and longing for something more. One bold decision changes everything: she quits her job, leaves the city, and moves to Europe in search of passion, purpose, and creativity. From the bustling streets of Paris to rehearsals and late-night gigs in Milan, Luna forms an unlikely girl band with a multicultural crew of singers, dancers, and ...

Three novels went into a second edition, and to celebrate, each second edition is presented here, at the original cost of one of the single books. Also available free with Kindle Unlimited (KU). In book one, Waiting For Kitto, Rebecca is taking leave from a harrowing case, solved by her, as a member of an unofficial police department that doesn't officially exist. She ends up in Greece, where her housekeeper Paraskevi, joins her in the hunt for proof against the bad guys, and Rebecca ends up in France. In Book two, Kitto's Angels, Amy has been dumped out of a marriage, is financially ...

Luna est à l'aube de ses dix-huit ans, pourtant elle n'a jamais vu à quoi ressemblait la vraie vie. Enfermée dans le dernier appartement de la plus haute tour de la ville, elle vit un enfer. Pour exécuter son plan parfait, Luna doit trouver un moyen de quitter cet endroit pour échapper à sa mère et découvrir le monde extérieur. C'était sans compter sur Egon, assassin de renom, pour l'enlever au moment où elle pensait toucher au but.

This is a tale of adventure on the high seas, piracy, vengeance and action, set in the Caribbean seas from Port Royal to Tortuga. Follow Captain Mary and the crew of the Jenny’s Revenge as they hunt some of the most notorious and violent pirates in history, including Blackbeard himself!

A totally addictive survival thriller with twists and turns you won’t see coming. Perfect for fans of Lucy Foley, Sarah Pearse and Amy McCulloch. ––––––––––––––––––––––––– Twelve strangers. Homesteading the harsh, unforgiving landscape of a...

When Caldean washes ashore, injured and barely alive, he has no idea Fate would soon force him to conceal his true identity. He is a fearsome pirate known in all the Isles of Nauru, with a bounty on his head. When Corrine Beauford finds Caldean, she vows to save him. Even if she is the niece of his enemy - the British. In a case of mistaken identity, Caldean plays the part of Nauruan royalty while falling in love with Corrine. But reality deals them a heavy blow. She is to marry General Oliver Campbell - the man responsible for destroying Caldean's pirate ship in a shipwreck fueled by ...

Balneario de Mondariz, 1920. Candela comienza a trabajar en el Gran Hotel del balneario, donde se codea con la élite más ilustre y poderosa de un país que afronta tiempos convulsos. Pero el lujo y la apariencia ocultan un mundo de engaños, pasiones prohibidas y traiciones. Candela deberá navegar la relación con Ignacio, su primer amor, que ha vuelto a su vida sin previo aviso, y Gabriel, uno de los empleados del hotel, que le ha pedido matrimonio.

No one escapes Dante’s villa. Not alive. From Kenneth R. Overman, award-winning author of A Lion in Spring, comes another gripping standalone thriller of espionage, vengeance, and survival, in which a college professor is the only thing standing between a brutal trafficker and mass murder. While leading a student trip through Spain, Professor Nathan Radcliff stumbles into a nightmare. A terrified Romanian girl begs for help, and Nathan, without knowing it, disrupts one of the largest human trafficking networks in Europe. Mistaken for an undercover agent, he’s abducted and taken to the ...

Lucy Lyman, an assistant trader for a brokerage firm, in her mid-forties, has given up on love. “Nothing ever happens in my life,” she tells her friends. That is until she begins to have the reoccurring dream that haunts her sleep; The dream where someone watches her but never shows their face. Is it a stalker or a suitor? Frustrated Lucy decides that to solve this mystery she must camp out where the dream takes place—at the library. Then maybe she’ll be able to sleep again.

Abandoned by her husband of twenty-two years, not quite destitute, Donna Hendricks finds a little red hardbound in a San Francisco used bookstore for a quarter. Sure that this ancient looking volume is worth a lot, she buys it without looking inside. Later, when she opens it, the book is blank except for the first page that word for word tells of Donna finding a little red hardbound in a used bookstore for a quarter, sure that it is worth a lot and later opening the book. . . The last sentence printed suggests what Donna should do next.

Jane’s future, the desperate dreams she’s locked in her heart for so long, rest on faraway shores, but being ashore comes with its own challenges; ones that force Jane and Bennett to change their identities, yet again. But, in a life of piracy, grudges are often long-held and blood-tainted. Jane couldn’t have known that when pirates crossed long ago set their vengeful gazes upon her. She isn’t the same woman she was when she climbed aboard Sneaky Lass a lifetime ago. Watching her hopes of beginning a new and lawful life deflate like sails on a windless sea is not who she is anymore.

She was his ultimate target—an elite assassin in her own right. His assignment was to seduce her. If that failed, he was to kill her. Neither would be easy. “Holy Cow! Superb book. Spy thriller, drama, romance, and supernatural…”-Amazon Reviewer “…confronts the reader with issues of right and wrong, good and evil…”-Amazon Reviewer “… complex storyline with surprising adventure and twists…”-Amazon Reviewer “…jaw-dropping ending will blow you away…”-Amazon Reviewer “…a ton of action and drives home some important questions of faith, duty, and family”-...

The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound is the third installment in the charming young adult series by Laura Lee Hope, best known as the author of The Bobbsey Twins. First published in 1914, this delightful story continues the adventures of sisters Ruth and Alice DeVere, along with the spirited crew of the Comet Film Company, as they navigate the early days of silent filmmaking. In this volume, the company journeys to a remote lodge in upstate New York to capture picturesque winter scenes for their latest motion picture.

In this twelfth century historical tale, Joan, a young girl, rebels at her father’s insistence that she marry a fat, ugly oaf. Joan had come to know a young priest, Andrew, and when the time was right – and with his encouragement – they flee the town and travel backroads to various monasteries. Joan soon learns how to wrap her body to disguise her gender, and her contralto voice helps her further to fit in as a male in monasteries where she and Andrew find refuge. While Andrew pursues the world of numbers and accounting, Joan becomes an avid student, learning to love reading and ...

The enemy of my people lies broken in my tent. My oath says heal him. My heart says don’t. They found him half-drowned after the bridge collapse, more dead than alive. My elders commanded me to save him. I'd rather let him rot. But I gave an oath, and oaths bind deeper than hatred. So I heal Rourke, the head of the Oathland Guard, the man whose army has hunted my people for generations, who believed we were savages until he woke in my care. He's a terrible patient. Questions every remedy. Fights every treatment. Watches me like I might slit his throat while he sleeps. The feeling is ...

Trauma surgeon Bretta Stein has a deadly passion. Throwing herself off cliffs, floating in space for mere seconds before rushing headfirst back to earth is the only thing keeping her tortured childhood at bay. When her brother Richard renews his unrelenting torments, she clings to her self-forged family. The trio of wingsuit flyers is bound by their passion for soaring like falcons and their desire for Bretta. As Jonathan, Hawk, and Lake vie for Bretta's affection, she struggles to break free of her brother's sociopathic talons, plunging her to the brink of insanity, and forcing her to ...

Annie’s destiny awaits. Smooth sailing or turbulent seas? Reader Views Silver Award Winner 2024 Annie Harrison’s course is set and she is ready to open the next chapter of her destiny with bullfighter Ramone. However, amidst the politically fraught British turnover of Hong Kong to Beijing, a brutal kidnapping forces Ramone to realize his lack of power outside the ring. The island of Mallorca off the coast of Spain offers the perfect refuge from the conflict. In the midst of the King’s Cup Regatta and the Night of the Pilgrims Pilgrimage, a wedding is planned high in the mountains ...

Inspirada en la historia real de la agente del SOE Eileen Nearne, esta novela histórica de doble línea temporal explora el legado de una heroína olvidada. Torquay, 2007 La Dra. Mia Thompson no es ajena al silencio. Pero cuando una nueva clienta, solitaria y enigmática, la invita a una tranquila casa junto al mar, Mia descubre algo extraordinario: un pasado rodeado de secretismo y valentía. Su clienta es Eileen Nearne, antigua operadora de radio del Ejecutivo de Operaciones Especiales de Churchill. Dejada en la Francia ocupada por los nazis, Eileen lo arriesgó todo para apoyar a la ...