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1945: Two sisters give birth to two little girls on the same night, huddled under blankets, deep in the black woods that surround their village. They hold their babies close as footsteps approach. If they make even the slightest sound, the German soldiers will find them....

There's no power on earth greater than fate. Nova DeLuca has devoted her entire life to fate. Born with the gift of foresight, she's a Seer who uses her powers to help guide her pack and her family in the right direction. It was her vision after all that set Maddox Clary's plan in motion all those years ago, and her life changed forever. Still, she's never wavered in her belief that fate always ensures everything works out the way it's supposed to . . . until now.

When Jane and TJ agree to attend their high school reunion they never expect to come face-to-face with classmate-turned-stalker Lincoln the moment they return home. Unspoken words fester between them of the incident in the local woods 20 years ago when Evie vanished in a flash of amber light. They were the last three people to see her alive. But the trees have been whispering to Lincoln ever since, and as Jane and TJ arrive back in town, the voices call to him again, hissing three solitary words: she is here.

Briana turned her back on her Zyne witch heritage to chase her dream career abroad. But when a tragic accident calls her back to her small town island roots, a spell cast in her grandmother's dying moments opens her to Oracle powers she's spent her whole life avoiding. Now, an enemy of old has surfaced, hungry for vengeance...and Bri's soul. Unprepared and untrained, she must harness the magic buried deep within her to defeat the demon of her past and save the man she loves.

Maggie Dahl returns in Open Secrets. It’s been six months since the media circus surrounding the last murder Maggie solved and a year since her beloved husband David died. The dust seems to have finally settled. Then, one morning, a customer walks in and asks Maggie to do her a favor.

Longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise—to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images, or access intense emotions—and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals.

Adam Potter never thought going home for his birthday would be so stressful. Adam’s father (who he calls mom) guilts him into return home for a birthday dinner. He brings Patrick and Justin to meet everyone. While giving them a tour of the town, Patrick discovers a disturbing site. A troublesome neighbor is discovered dead in the town his family owns and Adam's mom becomes a suspect. Dark secrets surface that everyone wished would stay buried. Adam has to find who is framing his mother before he’s charged with murder.

In Eden Valley, not all the monsters hide in the dark. Genevieve Kane is happy in Seattle and is in no way concerned about the demon brand that appeared last year nor the painful—and painfully accurate—premonitions that have plagued her ever since. And she definitely isn’t longing for Sam, the sexy demon with whom she’d had a fling on her last trip. Viv knows the only way to keep herself safe and sane is to distance herself from her past and the family who’d betrayed her, even if that means losing the best friends she’d ever had and another chance with Sam.

It’s been fifteen years since Vivian Delacroix unleashed her followers on the town of Cardinal Falls. The cult members killed anyone Vivian told them was a threat to their beliefs. Now, another killer takes young girls of nine or ten, all related to Vivian’s original victims. He drugs them, suffocates them, and painstakingly arranges them in ritualistic poses. The bodies give up no evidence to the killer’s identity.

Our claims to a desire for spiritual advancement do not align with the intensity of the current global chaos. With The Irreducible Primary, Rob Taylor unapologetically examines the stagnating relationship between spirituality, nature, and human conduct and the overall impact on human interactions.

Kane Harrison was born to play the part of the ultimate bad boy rock star. Trouble was, the life he lived wasn’t a game. Abused and discarded as a child, he used alcohol, drugs, and sex as weapons to combat the memories. More than his salvation, playing music with his band Razor’s Edge was his only lifeline. Then, he met Joplin Ashford, and for the first time in his life, he understood the meaning of love. She was the light to his dark, and his hardened heart began to soften.

Claire Calhoun wants nothing more than to continue her happy relationship with Deputy Peshenka but as he begins to press her for information about who she really is, she knows it can never work out. When he finally proposes, her heart says yes but her past speaks louder. Before she has the chance to make things right with Pesh, he's wounded in the line of duty. Can some help from Carson Hill's own posse bring him back to her safely in time for her to make it up to him?

Novelist Gabriella West is refreshingly candid about her journey toward a diagnosis of ADHD, which started a few years ago when she encouraged her female partner to get a diagnosis. In Connecting the Dots, she highlights common symptoms that women with inattentive-type ADHD experience and reveals that although getting a diagnosis is not necessarily easy, the relief of finding an explanation for things that previously just seemed "wrong" is enormous and healing.

Jasmine Marcks was a teenager when she discovered her father was a killer. First, there was the strip of bloody duct tape; then, the bloodstain on his shirt; and finally, the long nights away from home that always coincided with gruesome deaths. Roscoe Lee Marcks killed 14 people before he was finally put behind bars - but, as renowned FBI agent Karen Vail soon learns, Marcks's reign of terror isn't over yet.

Virginia, 1979. Growing up among the sprawling valleys and forests of Blyth, beautiful young Dell has always had a natural intuition for how to fix other people’s hurts, if not her own. She hopes for a better future, although thanks to her alcoholic father and narcissistic mother, happiness seems far out of her reach. She certainly could never have predicted holding her baby girl for the first time and the life-changing, powerful love she would feel when she did.

Finding love at Christmas was the last thing on Elizabeth's mind, but that changed the moment she met Joseph, a newcomer to her Amish community. Her feelings for Joseph reinforced her decision to continue to live with her Amish foster parents after she turned 18. Just when Elizabeth is daydreaming of getting married and having babies, a chance encounter with a stranger in a coffee shop turns her life upside down. From the stranger, she learns that everything she knew about her late parents was a lie. When she finds out the secret her parents kept from her, will she ever feel the same?

While excavating Viking Ruins on the Isle of Man, Sean Murphy and Cleo Foster discover a ghostly presence that draws them into a labyrinth of hidden sea caves with impossible Egyptian hieroglyphics and a floating sphere of water. They get more than they bargained for as an ancient pharaoh rises from the Egyptian sarcophagus, gives them a cryptic message, and jumps through the sphere of water.

It's a warm, cloudless morning on the day the envelope arrives for Daisy. Soft sunlight streams into the apartment she shares with her partner, Anderson, who is sleeping peacefully. Daisy's fought hard for this happiness, worked her way up from being a vulnerable teenage runaway to a woman with a stable job and a loving boyfriend.

With little work during the pandemic, Chicago PI Georgia Davis agrees to help the best friend of fellow sleuth Ellie Foreman. Susan Siler’s aunt died suddenly, following her COVID booster, and Susan’s distraught mother wants the death investigated. However, Georgia’s investigation is interrupted by a family trip to Nauvoo, Illinois, the onetime Mormon heartland. It’s there that her life unexpectedly intersects with the runaway spouse of a Mormon fundamentalist.

When her husband, Dell, is seriously injured in an accident meant to free her from her past, Emily is left to await his recovery alone. Traversing time without the man of her dreams becomes a nightmare with no apparent end, until her husband's younger self, Shane, arrives - handsome, arrogant, and ready to challenge Emily's feelings for a husband who might not survive his injuries. Inspired by the memory of Maude, her beloved great-great-aunt, Emily tries to escape her new life, only to discover that she may have just risked everything for the love of Maude.