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Ace Glover loves to laugh, and everywhere he goes luck seems to follow. When Holly Ann Broadbent, the woman he's been dating for a while, tries to break-up with him because she's just been named the chairperson for the Christmas festival in Three Rivers, he decides: nope.

Cactus Glover has been living in a cabin on the edge of Shiloh Ridge Ranch for ten years. He's suffered tremendous losses, and it's taken him a long time to heal his heart, body, and mind. Recently, he's seen his brothers and cousins find the women of their dreams, and he wants to try again too.

Bear Glover can be a grizzly or a teddy, and he's always thought he'd be just fine working his generational family ranch and going back to the homestead alone. But he's had a crush on Samantha Benton for a while now, and he's decided it's time to do something about it. But his first date with Sammy is a spectacular disaster. He's embarrassed and doesn't call her back, but when three tornadoes hit Three Rivers, his first thought is of the beautiful woman he'd really like a second chance with.

Ranger Glover has worked at Shiloh Ridge Ranch his entire life. In his spare time, he's secretly developed an app for the cowboys around Three Rivers to share their experiences with everything from restaurants to events so they can all impress the women they like with their dating abilities. Too bad he hasn't been able to truly benefit from Two Cents in his own love life.

You'll get to meet the Glovers in the first four books of the Shiloh Ridge Ranch in Three Rivers series, which are all packed with holiday cheer, cowboy billionaires, family relationships, and heartwarming stories that will make you laugh and cry, sigh and swoon, and cheer for every member in the family.

She's been going ranch-to-ranch looking for work. He's just finished most of the construction at Shiloh Ridge. Bishop hires Montana anyway, because she's the beautiful blonde he's attracted to, and she's worked with the best woodworker in the state for years. Can they navigate the construction around the ranch and inside their own lives to find their happily-ever-after for the holidays?

Melissa Braun is a broken woman. Only wanting what’s best for her family, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to mend her fractured relationship with her abusive boyfriend. In a last ditch effort, she hopes the sun and sand of a much-needed Florida vacation will bring them and her son closer together. Patrick Braun is a demoralized kid. Quiet and sullen, he only wants his mother to see her boyfriend’s torment as it cripples everything he loves. After years of silence, he refuses to stand by and let the abuse continue to tear them apart. Hoyt Rainey is a vile man.

In the two years since the Great Affliction, the Happiness Program has transformed a civilization on the brink of extinction into an organized, beautiful, and happy society. However, for the Unchipped—those whose chips can't connect to the system—living a comfortable life remains out of reach. Kaarina, one of the Unchipped, would give anything to live inside the walls of the city again. But when her horse's illness drives her into the city to find medicine, she becomes acquainted with a Chipped man who makes her question everything.

It's 2085, the time of the Great Affliction. Continents are burning, land is disappearing, and humanity is destroying itself as mass shootings and suicides wipe out the population. To Marjaana Salonen, the solution is found in high technology. By integrating the human brain with a sophisticated computer chip, she believes she can bring new hope to society. Her invention was supposed to fix it all, but Salonen's daughter has her own ideas. To Laura, her mother's invention is an opportunity to impose her own vision on the world—the promise of a new reality that is far more sinister.

Luna lives in a run-down old farmhouse outside City of Serbia, her only companions the alcoholic Reverend Marić and a constantly growing pack of half-feral dogs. As one of the last Unchipped still alive in the area, she lives by her wits as a hacker and thief. When a spy from the City exposes her presence there, Luna is offered a choice: see her life destroyed or find the rebels who have been giving the Chipped so much trouble.

Safely hidden behind a high fence that shields it from the rest of the world, Kinship Care provides a safe haven for children from City of England. Kinship Care is supported by the Happiness-Program...but there's a catch. To keep the food shipments coming, program director Enyd must provide fraudulent "proof" of the plague ravaging the city—photos of children suffering—to deter those tempted to leave the program.

Bill is one of the lucky few. While the other Unchipped near the City of California scavenge for food amid the constant threat of gunfire, Bill's spent the last two years at the Mansion—a haven for the select few who design products to be sold in the green city. He's safe for now...unlike his friend Kaarina, who is leading a revolution on the other side of the world. Bill is the Mansion's CEO, but he's haunted by the act of violence that got him the job. Danger lies beyond the protective gates of this repressive sanctuary.

In 1951, Lillie Mae Parker works for a department store in Atlanta, Georgia. She's an aspiring, young seamstress who is enchanted by a charming new suitor. His worldly ways and grandeur captivate her - until secrets, lies, and unsavory behaviors bring her harm. Uncovering more than she ever imagined, Lillie is pushed to make decisions that she never expected.

The rebels against the Happiness-Program have finally found a place to hide: an abandoned resort in Iceland, complete with a luxury hotel. Everything would be perfect here, if not for their memories haunting them each in different ways.

For Dr. Laura Solomon, dying was nothing more than an inconvenience. With her body gone, her mind is more powerful than ever before. She roams the computer systems of the world at will, helping the Unchipped rebels she has chosen to protect—and occasionally dealing with Luna, her demanding new assistant.

Dennis Jenkins is a playboy. The new leader of the Happiness Program, he spends his free time looking for love in virtual reality. It’s an empty existence, haunted by the memory of the family he lost...and by his obsession with Maria, the lethal Unchipped woman who used to work for him. Now Maria has returned, and she has a message. Someone else in the Happiness Program wants him dead, and they’re sending an assassin so deadly that only one person can protect him–Maria herself, the one woman he wants but can never have.

Jovan has been helping the Unchipped rebels by recruiting soldiers to join their cause. His girlfriend Luna is a rebel herself, but she doesn’t trust him enough to share her secrets. He’s Chipped and she isn’t, and that’s all there is to it.

Margaret Lewis is an expert programmer, the hacker who betrayed the Happiness Program to help the Unchipped rebels. A hunted fugitive, she slips from one city to another recruiting people for a new society, a place where Chipped and Unchipped can live together as equals. Targeted by a vicious attack, Margaret disappears into a liquor bottle. She’s content to be lost…until she finds out that the Happiness Program has kidnapped her daughter.

As the unquestioned leader of the Happiness-Program, Laura is effectively the ruler of the entire world. The Unchipped rebels have been defeated, and all that’s left for her to do is to perfect the Chipping process so they can all be integrated into the new society.

In Consuming Katrina: Public Disaster and Personal Narrative, author Kate Parker Horigan shows how the public understands and remembers large-scale disasters like Hurricane Katrina, outlining which stories are remembered and why, as well as the impact on public memory and the survivors themselves. This project is rooted in Horigan's experiences living in New Orleans before and after Katrina, but it is also a case study illustrating that survivors' stories should be shared in a way that includes their own engagement with narrative production, circulation, and reception.