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After a nomadic childhood with her mother, Melissa Witcher is ready to put down roots, despite the ghosts that haunt not only her new home but her family history as well. Michael Kemper never saw her coming, and from the moment he meets Melissa Witcher, he finds himself ready to do whatever it takes to stay by her side.

FBI Special Agent Taylor Sage has crossed the country and transferred to her dream job with the BAU at Quantico. With a new job, a new house, and her husband by her side, Taylor is ready to put the darkness of her past behind her: a sister who vanished when she was a teenager.

Despite being a rising star in the BAU unit, FBI Special Agent Hailey Rock still lives in the shadow of her older sister, who remained in their small Midwestern town to become a police sheriff, and is the favorite in their parents’ eyes. Hailey has not thought of her estranged family in ages, but when a killer strikes in their home county, eerily mimicking the case of their missing sister, Hailey has no choice but to return home, face her past, catch a killer, and re-open the case of her missing sister.

After serial killer Randall Burton is diagnosed with a terminal disease, he decides to jump bail and go out in a blaze of glory. One woman stands in his way. Her name is Counsel Fungo, and she’s an exceptionally talented bounty hunter, if a little eccentric. Officially, her two canine companions are therapy dogs. But she considers them partners. Counsel will do anything to stop criminals from preying on the vulnerable, and she’s intent on stopping Randall Burton. Randall’s trail leads to sleepy Rancor, Pennsylvania.

Left with scraps from several broken relationships, carpenter Avery Greene builds herself a safe and steady life in upstate New York. No love. No loss. No problem. But when she makes a jarring discovery in her grandmother's attic, it cracks her stable life at its vulnerable foundation. In search of a permanent fix, Avery finds herself at the Sea Springs Inn, a bed and breakfast in the Outer Banks - where rip currents roll, sand dunes shift, and her strikingly gorgeous hostess throws her plans completely off course.

When Callie Williams signed up to the "bride bidder" app she was in a desperate situation. On the brink of losing her home, she needed money and she needed it fast. Allowing herself to be sold as a bride to a wealthy man was supposed to be a last resort for Callie, but she soon realized it was her only option. When billionaire Thomas Dearborn signed up to the "bride bidder" app he was not totally interested in finding a traditional wife.

Despite being a rising star in the BAU unit, FBI Special Agent Hailey Rock still lives in the shadow of her older sister, who remained in their small Midwestern town to become a police sheriff, and who remains the favorite in their parents’ eyes. Hailey has not thought of her estranged family in ages, but when bodies are discovered in abandoned storm shelters, the work of a new serial killer, Hailey is assigned the case in her sister’s territory—forcing her to open old wounds while trying to hunt a killer.

When a car accident puts Mia’s twin in a coma, the disfavored teenager adopts her sister’s participation in athletics to earn her parents’ praise. Having never won them over, she competes in professional sports and follows in their footsteps by becoming a scientist. After securing funding for a human advancement serum and showcasing its partial success, a competing company threatens to steal it. Afraid of losing her backers, Mia uses the experimental drug and gains ultrahuman strength and healing.

Lucy Peckham has one big problem--Christmas! Every December 25th brings Lucy the gift of pain, illness, or embarrassment of one sort or another. Steve Andrews was there to bear witness to Lucy's first humiliating Christmas back when they were both children together. Now that they're adults, will the tides finally turn for Lucy, or will this be her worst Christmas ever?

When a shriveled body turns up in an old silver mine, failed detective Syl Dixon gets pulled into the investigation. But the strange case is even more sinister than she imagined. And the dying town of Pate, Idaho is full of secrets that don't want to be uncovered. People go missing all the time. Strange howls echo from the woods. Eerie portraits hang like shrines outside homes. But nobody-including the local sheriff-seems to care.

The title of this book came from a conversation between a first grader and his mother. He must have felt that his teacher was pining away every evening, every weekend, and every summer, just waiting to be with the class again. Actually, most teachers fill their off-hours very well with other children and their own children in Sunday School, Y camps, or other community programs.

This action-packed suspense thriller explores the manipulative nature of a murderer who will stop at nothing to put his victims in the ground. The investigative tenacity of the detectives is tested as they work tirelessly to unravel his daunting web of smoke and mirrors in a persistent pursuit of truth and the dispensing of justice.

One of the oldest trees on the Outer Banks is an ancient live oak known as the Cora Tree. According to legend, in the early 1700s the townspeople of Frisco, North Carolina accused a strange woman of witchcraft, tied her to the tree and attempted to burn her. Before they could light the fire, lightning struck the tree, leaving a heart-shaped hole and the name CORA burned into the bark. On a training run, Detective Angie Stallone sees a strange woman leaning on the Cora Tree and staring into the heart-shaped hole.

Have you ever considered all the different names for Jesus found throughout Scripture? Amazing Appellations: Discovering the Names of Jesus explores 90 of Jesus' names in an easy-to-digest devotional format broken down into five categories: Gospel Introductions, Prophesied Titles, Names Jesus Gave Himself, Names The Disciples Gave Jesus, and Revelatory Titles. Each name reveals an aspect of Jesus' character that will grow your knowledge and relationship with Him.

I don’t like "jocks" or playboys. In fact, I teach women how to kick their asses. I do this so no one has to be a victim like I was. Never again would I depend on a man. They either leave or hurt you. Like a phoenix, I rose from my circumstances. I made myself strong. Secure. I pushed childish things aside and focused on my stable future. But when he walked into my life, he ruined everything. He tricked me. He made me want to love. Lust. Trust. He was used to flaunting his money, but it was his body I wanted. And he wanted mine…or so I thought.

Taylor, in the midst of the case of her life, must also battle demons from her past: Dark secrets from Taylor’s past are threatening to bubble up—and possibly to end her marriage. Can she hold it together long enough to crack the case? Or might she be the next victim?

In The Pretend Christian, author Deirdre Reilly takes the listener on her personal journey to find authentic Christian faith, winding through common questions, doubts, and both negative and positive experiences that all lead to the stunning, life-changing reality of Christ's presence. Filled with raw honesty, sincere doubts, genuine searching, and moving, often-humorous insights, The Pretend Christian is a candid and bracing modern-day search for the one true God.

When anesthetist Dr. Darren Westfield first met the cool and reserved new head of Theatre Four, Sister Joyce Kennedy, he was left breathless. He soon learned that the tall, golden-eyed beauty was not to be trifled with and her cold prickly reserve was no act, as her cool glances chilled him to the bone. But then again, luck was on his side when he quickly discovered her amazing side line, and she eventually asked him to help her. The year is 1969. The place is Vietnam, aboard the hospital ship USS Sanctuary sitting in the middle of the South China Sea.

Ghouls, curses, and murderers meet cosmic and sci-fi horror in these gruesome and intriguing tales told by one of NoSleep’s favorite authors. The demon in the attic patiently awaits to make you lose your mind and question reality itself...and she won’t leave you alone until you do!

For more than 20 years, Detective Stella Carrigan has managed to bury the nightmare of being kidnapped from her foster family. Her traumatic childhood motivated her to stand up for others and climb the Chicago Police Department ladder by storm. But when Stella is called to a series of murders of women in the sleepy small town of Vandalia, the past abruptly catches up with her - and brings her to the edge of the abyss.