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Joan Sanderson's life is stuck. Her older sister, Allie, is starting a family and her younger sister, Tori, has a budding career. Meanwhile, Joan is living at home with Mom and looking after her aging grandmother. Not exactly a recipe for excitement. That is, until a hunky young doctor moves in next door. Suddenly, Joan has a goal - to get a date. But it won't be easy. Pretty Tori flirts relentlessly with him and Joan is sure that she can't compete.

Four years have passed since tragedy broke Grace’s family apart, tarnished the family name, and sent her into hiding at finishing school. Now, with a new last name and a few years between her and the accident, Grace wonders if she will be able to escape the heavy shadow of the past that smothers her with guilt and a desire to escape life. Grace carefully guards her heart from others to prevent them from discovering her past. However, when Mitch, a deputy, comes into her life, he seems bent on destroying Grace’s armor.

Sam and Jake know a battle is coming, but nothing can prepare them for the Evil One. Sam and Jake have spent the last year training to become warriors. Yet Jake has grown distant from Sam and won't tell her why. Giant Lessers attack them and attach a time bomb to Jake's arm. Sam and Jake are blackmailed - capture the magical dragon, Drasine, or Jake dies. Everyone wants Drasine, including the powerful Evil One, who has been hiding for centuries and has sworn to destroy KiraKu. Worse, Drasine is protected by a mysterious being no one has been able to defeat.

Ben, an engineer, was sitting in Our Bar when he heard the horrific news of the train crash. He ran out of the bar, with his best friend Mark following him, and learns that his girlfriend, Christy, is permanently blinded by the explosion from the crash. He vows to take care of her, but Christy doesn't want him to. She sinks into a depression, and ends up taking her life. Earlier that same day, Ben discovered a new surgery to restore eyesight. He rushes home to tell Christy, only to find her dead by overdose of sleeping pills.

Desperate to stay home with her baby, Allie Harrod launches a new career. Sure, she dropped out of Girl Scouts because she was lousy at cookie sales, but makeup is different, right? She'll do anything to make enough money to cover her share of the household bills, but how can she focus on her business when her list of problems is growing? None of her pre-baby clothes fit, her checking account is dwindling, and her mother-in-law has decided to move in! To top it off, her husband's attractive coworker suddenly needs his help every weekend.

Tori Sanderson has the professional opportunity of a lifetime. If she can prove she's executive material, she's in line for a big promotion. But there's only room for one new account executive, and her co-worker has his eye on the job--and on Tori. Her matchmaking sisters have a handsome handyman in mind for her. But how can she consider romance when she couldn't hold on to the one man who was supposed to love her forever--her own father? The time has come for answers, and Tori decides to search out the father who deserted her twelve years ago. While Tori may find the answers she craves, will she ever be able to love again?

Cammarry and Jerome have only explored a small part of the wrecked Colony Ship Conestoga. The section called the needle ship is in orbit around a strange world, but where are the remaining sections? Using the help of Khin, a man born on the needle ship, and the artificial intelligence system Sandie, Jerome and Cammarry try to get parts of the old ship fixed and functional. But things do not go smoothly. What will they discover? What new things await? How will they locate the lost habitats which made planet-fall somewhere on the unknown planet? What dangers will they encounter as are repairing the Conestoga?

In the fourth book of the Colony Ship Conestoga series, the adventurer Jerome seeks to find out what happened to his fellow adventurer Cammarry. She is lost somewhere in the vast Habitat Beta. Jerome has only a few of his Dome 17 high tech gadgets, and has also lost contact with the artificial intelligence system, Sandie. He feels alone. What dangers await? What other things are lurking in the unknown recesses of the derelict and crashed colony ship? Will Jerome be alone for the rest of his days?

Sam Green. Wildlife expert and nature lover, and desperately missing her mom. She also doesn’t think her 16th birthday should be a survival test. But she is about to learn she could die in the next 24 hours. Creepy monsters and a giant called Uncle Biggie do exist. Along with a scary guardian who wants to take over the world and an ancient wise-cracking parrot who wants to stop him. It’s up to Sam to save two worlds. With a supernatural staff named WhipEye - that she has no clue how to use.

A powerful Lesser poisons Sam’s dad and Jake’s mom. To save their parents, Sam must bring WhipEye to Gorgon - the cruel and scheming leader of the Amazon Lessers. Gorgon demands that Sam and Jake bring him the Jewel of Origin, a weapon of great power. If he gets it, nothing will stop him. Sam and Jake must decide - will they save two worlds or save their parents? Their friendship will be tested to its limits. To stop Gorgon, Sam must be willing to risk the lives of her friends in a battle that some will not survive.

This is a 100-percent true account, in my own words, about my life and struggles from childhood trauma to full healing! Enjoy.

This is MY story, told from my own mind and with the help of my loved ones shedding light from their outside perspectives. I hope you all enjoy or above all else, at least understand me a little better. To those who have never met me, if you are struggling with something similar and need a friend, I'm here for you!

When Janice Ingledue, 70, is found dead in the cellar of an old inn with the tips of her shoes and fingers emerging from the cement-like ice, there is only one thing that they can do....

When 18-year-old Brianne James discovers a murdered young girl at Montgomery Park - a 15-year-old who has been left for dead in the icy snow - there is only one thing she can do: search for the killer. Brianne has a nose for sleuthing. She can connect with people; even scary people. She has the smarts to solve even the most underhanded crime, and she can solve it with or without the help of the police or her parents. When it comes to Conner Ryan, however, his unrelenting assistance is quite another story.

When a young woman is found dead at the yearly Halloween Bazaar, Susan's life becomes anything but easy. So, she's a magnet again, attracting death like lint. In the midst of Henry's heart problems and her daughter's great desire to be the next teen detective, Susan is befuddled about the murder weapon. A stiletto heel of all things. Her family wants to help. Well, all except for Oscar. Still, finding the murderer of a college student is about as easy as eating mud pie, or the not too distant - runny egg.

What would you do if you returned home from vacation only to find out that someone you knew had been murdered? Would you plan your life as far away from any and all connections? Would you get a new alarm system for your house? Move to another state? Try to find the killer? Find out what Susan does, whom she meets, and what finally opens her mind to the truth - the whole hard boiled truth. It may be the hardest reality she's ever faced.

A leisurely vacation turns deadly when an old man falls dead at Susan's feet on the cruise ship Aloha. Was she some sort of death magnet? Maybe so. Maybe not. One thing was for sure. Through the lies, secrets, and surprises to be discovered on board and off, Susan will learn at least one important thing, and this thing called "love" will be something she wished had never followed her out to the high seas.

What happens to an unhappy woman who leaves her husband only to discover that she may have just made a terrible mistake? So horrible, her choice threatens to end her very life?

The year is 2037. The Earth is about to be destroyed along with the human race. Fortunately, Aaden’s father is an astronaut. Unfortunately, Aaden’s family is not on the planet’s escape list. With only two weeks before Mercury blasts through the Earth, the Prescott family must travel by foot to the Ophir mountains in Utah where a space plane is waiting. They must hide themselves within the plane’s walls and escape Earth before it’s too late.