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She woke up among the shattered glass. Crawling free from the wreckage, Tess could not remember how she got there. Confused by panic and fear, she was surrounded by the darkness of danger. She stared at the man slumped inside the car. With an extreme loss of memory, everything she built disappeared. She lost her childhood and an incredible list of career accomplishments.

Sadie Healey is a professor who followed in the footsteps of her parents. Her family was going through a past painful event that shaped the love of her parents. Sadie felt it was time to be on her own. Upon moving into an apartment, she discovers an abandoned shoe box of old love letters in a cabinet. As she begins to read them, she feels the emotion the young couple go through. Sadie gets caught up in their love written on paper. The Shoe Box will touch your heart as you hear every word from these inspirational letters.

The continued story of Divided Mountain sets the scene with Kate Parker now married to Garrett Carrington. With the past behind her, an unwelcomed visitor surfaces in Kate's life, trying to regain what was broken. Kate later learns her husband's brother, Callen, has emotional injuries from a past motorcycle accident and needs to move back home. Callen tries to have a relationship with his father, who is not used to showing affection. While making life changes, Callen meets Cassie Adams, a history student who has a special friendship that turns to an understanding of his circumstances.

Cara Jo Sanderson was left at a local hospital as an infant. As a child, she loved to visit Lindley Park, a place that inspired her to capture her art on canvas. Stumbling upon a special tree carvings on it, she learns of a dark secret. She discovers a friendship with new beginnings. Cara gets adopted by the Saunders family, where she must meet challenges that test her ability to heal from the losses she has experienced. Now a young woman, Cara has secrets that have been kept from her. Will these secrets affect her life? Will Cara move on from her past and start to love again?

Kate Parker, a native New Yorker, had a difficult time in her teenage years. She was filled with loneliness and despair after her father abandoned her and her mother, Maddy. When she receives an invitation to relocate to Southern California, Kate has self-doubt meeting new people and leaving her home town. When the family is invited to a community party, Kate meets the Carrington family. Getting to know this family, she becomes attached to Callen, the younger brother, and develops a friendship with a self-taught landscaper, Garrett, the older brother.

Brook is an ER doctor at Cambridge Memorial, dedicated and gifted like her father Bill who worked at the same hospital. Almost obsessively, she pushed herself to give more than average care to her patients. Fearing distraction, she avoided most social and romantic relationships. Her goal as a doctor was all about looking forward to saving lives.

After her death, Bailee searched out Jen's apartment, finding a glass vase that sat near her window covering a note from Marie, a woman who lives in Normandy, France. It held a deep significance. Jen made plans to move to France with Marie to escape a dangerous situation. Bailee, determined to meet this woman, must find why her sister was so troubled.

London Taylor was an excellent detective and good at his craft. After years of following cheating spouses and looking at surveillance cameras, he lost his love of investigating. He was in a slump and had no idea where his life was going after his parents were killed in a car accident. It was a life that he couldn't recognize. A man who had everything lived in a lonely apartment to avoid the house his parents left him in their will.