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A famous but fading comedienne elects to go on a PBS television program that traces the ancestry of celebrities in order to "find their roots.” Although her goal was simply to increase her exposure for an upcoming comedy coming tour, Fiona—adopted as a young girl—inexplicably finds herself fascinated by the story of her previously unknown family heritage as it takes a number of unanticipated twists and turns throughout time, starting with a 16 year-old Molly O’Hara immigrating to America from Ireland in 1898. Over the following decades, her life is revealed—with both incredible ...

A blind heroine, a man tormented by guilt, and a relentless killer with a vendetta—Echoes of Mercy blends pulse-pounding suspense, deep romance, and unwavering faith into a breathtaking Christian thriller. Julianna Luna, blind but fiercely independent, must outwit a murderer in total darkness, relying on her heightened senses to survive. Carey Kittridge, burdened by a life-altering secret, risks everything to protect the woman he loves. Their desperate escape leads them through high-stakes chases, near-abductions, and a deadly miscalculation at sea—where a single mistake turns their ...

Queen of Camellia Court is a Southern gothic noir steeped in heat, guilt, and long-buried sins.Camellia Court is a fading roadside motel on the edge of nowhere, a place people come to disappear—or to be reborn under a different name. Its bungalows bake beneath the southern sun, its neon flickers at night, and its walls remember everything. Especially Room Six. Mavis LaRue rules this crumbling kingdom with a steady hand and a watchful eye, presiding over a transient population of drifters, dreamers, war-haunted men, and women running from their pasts. But when a troubled stranger arrives ...

When shy, feebish Arthur Dingle—the butt of every joke at McDuff Manufacturing—is sent to a “Productivity Seminar,” his future looks bleak…until he is accidentally mistaken for Matt Golden at a high school reunion taking place at the same hotel. Matt—the Golden Boy—was the undisputed BMOC and star quarterback and Arthur makes a fateful decision to simply assume his persona and live the life he had always dreamed of. That is until his worlds begin to collide. When reality starts to set in and the real Matt comes barreling in his direction, Arthur has to figure out how to keep ...

Val was just like any suburban housewife in 1947—counting the minutes until her loving and devoted husband finished his shift. She fills her time by cleaning, playing records, listening to radio dramas—exhausted but satisfied, and most definitely in love. Making fresh coffee to fortify herself through this long evening, however, she is unaware that not all dangers announce themselves or just walk through the front door. The House Guest is a classic-styled psychological thriller that revives the elegant menace of mid-century suspense for a contemporary audience—where obsession enters ...

In The Quisling, Jerry Jamison delivers a gripping tale of sacrifice, betrayal, and redemption set against the harrowing backdrop of the Vietnam War. Captain Gordon Edward Lowell, Jr., a decorated officer from a proud military family, finds himself accused of the ultimate crime—treason. Branded a “quisling” for allegedly collaborating with the enemy during his time as a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, Lowell faces a court-martial that will determine his fate. Through vivid storytelling, Jamison explores the psychological torment and unimaginable conditions endured by ...

On a very ordinary day in a very ordinary year, Aaron Matheson, successful Chicago ad-man, unearthed a journal from a dusty box that he had written in 1967 at the end of his high school era. During evenings it offered an interesting diversion as he followed the same dates—exactly 50 years apart—until his two worlds inexplicably began to merge. Simultaneously thrilling and terrifying, Aaron enjoys dipping his toe back into memories of growing up in a carefree beach town during the fascinating sixties, but soon realizes the dangers of time travel for each trip back takes a piece of his ...

When a self-absorbed executive gets stranded in the snow in the Rocky Mountains during a blizzard, he hikes to a nearby cabin in order to survive. There he is greeted by an old man who invites him to wait out the storm and to join him and his other friends for what they call their Game Night. All of the men turn out to be retired legal minds—judge, defense attorney, bailiff, investigator, and prosecutor. In the cold, winter evenings, they stage mock trials and argue both sides. What this stranger does not know is that the men have put the stranger on trial for a crime demanding the death ...

Portland, 1954. By day, Francine Avery is the picture of poise, penning etiquette columns for Charm magazine. By night, she is a hunter stalking a ghost in the rain. Three months ago, Francine’s world was shattered when a Green Jaguar struck her six-year-old son, Mikey, and sped away, leaving him in the street. Now, as the police file the case away as an unsolved tragedy, Francine’s grief has hardened into a cold, jagged resolve. The sympathy cards are ignored and the prayers are discarded. In the silence of her empty home, she isn’t writing about spring place settings anymore. Armed ...

For most of the early 1960s, Dusty Springfield was the most popular and best-selling female recording artist in Britain, becoming the first bonafide British star to follow the Beatles. But behind all of this, Dusty was struggling with severe mental illness, erratic public behavior, violent mood swings, multiple personalities, drug addiction, and the terror of being exposed as a lesbian. However, even in her darkest moments, Dusty's star shined bright, remaining a force of charisma and humor.

On a fog-swept night on the ledge of the Golden Gate Bridge, a despondent man—about to be indicted for embezzlement and ready to end it all—is stopped by a mysterious woman in a silk scarf and evening gloves. She is Celeste Ainsley, the glamorous wife of a wealthy and powerful financier. Struck by his despair and intrigued by his calm resignation, she persuades him to come home with her instead of jumping. At her palatial Marin estate, the man—Miles Redding is offered a second chance: a bailout from his money troubles by her philanthropist husband who believes in second chances. But ...

This is the untold story of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s “Lost Weekend.” In September 1959, in the midst of filming the latest in a long line of movies, the brightest star in the celebrity universe disappears. Simply vanishes. The police say kidnapping. The movie-mags think secret tryst. Friends fear a mental breakdown. All the while, his agents and handlers are furiously attempting to keep the entire saga under wraps and hidden from millions of adoring fans. But behind it all, there is a mysterious but beautiful story of love and promise set in rural Mississippi. Hilarious in ...

Henry Allen Carruthers had just celebrated his sixth birthday eleven days after he started first grade in 1955, and for him life was simply grand. But his idyllic existence would inexplicably grow dark with an unexpected life turn and the impact would slowly begin to change this sweet and lovable child.

Vacationing in a five-star resort in the Rocky Mountains, film mogul Kenneth Edward Westland and his new, young wife, Delilah, find themselves trapped in the hotel after he becomes ill during a raging snowstorm. The resort, now abandoned for the winter, proves to be the last piece of the puzzle in a plot for Delilah to murder her husband and gain his fortune.

When Grace Kirkman’s husband disappears under suspicious circumstances, she plays the grieving wife with convincing ease—but behind her perfect smile lies a calculating mind. As the investigation unfolds, Lieutenant Peroski begins to suspect the crime scene was staged, the body moved, and the truth artfully concealed. Grace, a poised 1950s housewife with a dark streak, knows just how to deflect suspicion while maintaining her grip on control—and her secrets. With the case growing colder and Peroski’s gut telling him something’s off, a deadly game of cat and mouse emerges. Is Grace...

Twin brothers—polar opposites—are on a collision course and only one of them will survive. As Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans, older brother Mickey—of the cover band "Mickey Finn and the Fireballs”—is drinking his way from gig to gig while younger brother Elliott has become a millionaire through the family business. But then it dawns on Mickey that he could easily assume his brother’s life if only…

Junie and Ethyl had been best friends since they could remember and after one last lingering Kansas blizzard and their graduation from high school, they left the midwest behind to enjoy the sunshine-drenched shores of Southern California.

The world’s most famous murder mystery writer has come up with an idea for his latest masterpiece, and it has his heart pounding. Creating a plot outline, he decides to live the story out himself to experience the pure emotions and unfiltered reactions he is craving…and to strike revenge on an old classmate for a perceived past hurt.

Della Adderly was a 20-something aspiring art director who was anxious to make her mark in the advertising world of the late 1960s. Tired of laboring behind men who took the credit for her work, she took a risk and strode into the office of Miss Veronica Landon—a sharp, no-nonsense creative director for one of the fastest-rising agencies in Manhattan—and demanded an interview.

A terrific train accident momentarily confuses the identities of some of the victims as they are scattered throughout local hospitals. Piecing together bits of information that survived, the nurses determine Birdie Barrington to have lost her newlywed husband in the crash. But is the surviving Bride really his wife or is it an opportunistic woman assuming her identity to inherit the riches and the lifestyle belonging to him.