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How we fight predicts the future of our relationships. Most of us blunder into conflict without knowing what we are really fighting about and then quickly become overwhelmed by physiological responses we can’t control and emotions we don’t anticipate. The truth is the happiest and most successful couples fight—all the time. Conflict is human, and necessary.

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.

When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading “Go to Paris.” Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has kept her confined to the strict routines of her comfort zone. But when her boss encourages her to take time off, Stella resigns herself to honoring her mother’s last wishes.

What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world’s leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They’ve gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love.

At forty years old, she has an enviable life: a successful career, stunning looks, a beautiful house in the suburbs, two healthy children, and most importantly, an ideal husband, whose wealthy background allows her to transcend her own social class. After fifteen years together, she is still besotted with him. But she’s never quite sure that her passion is reciprocated.

What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society’s cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from public view? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City's Rikers Island prison complex—from incarcerated people and their relatives, to officers, lawyers, and commissioners, with stories spanning the 1970s to the present day. The portrait that emerges calls into question the very nature of justice in America.

When Josephine arrives at the Salpêtrière asylum, she is covered in blood, badly bruised, and suffering from amnesia. She is quickly diagnosed with what the Paris papers are calling “the epidemic of the age”: hysteria, a disease is so baffling and widespread that Doctor Jean-Martin Charcot, the asylum’s famous director, devotes many of his popular public lectures to the malady. Charcot often uses hypnosis to prompt his patients to reproduce their hysterical symptoms, and to his delight, Josephine proves extraordinarily susceptible to this unconscious manipulation.

As Kaia sought to learn how her Estonian family survived during World War II, she discovered the compelling story of one man's brave defiance as he resisted the Soviet occupation of Estonia. During the second World War, the residents of the Baltic states fought to preserve their independence while they were brutally occupied by both the Soviet and the German armies. Many like Kaia’s family escaped at the end of the war.

Welcome to Rule 23: It’s the real-life tool that an elite coterie of trial lawyers has repurposed into a personal piggy bank for its members. With little cost and less risk, Rule 23 enables its acolytes to leverage a single client’s claim into hundreds, thousands, or even millions of similar claims and to reap the resulting profits. Exploiting the common folk hasn’t yielded such royal returns since they were serfs!

When an elderly man is found dead on a bench overlooking Eagle Lake in Maine, the authorities eventually identify 74-year-old Nathanial Johns. But what they discover leaves more questions than answers. Having been laid to rest hundreds of miles away, the authorities are stunned to find a fresh corpse in his reburied coffin. Soon more bodies show up, each replaced with a fresh victim. But if Sam and the team think this is just a serial killer with a twisted sense of humor, they are about to discover a shocking truth that leads right back to the heart of their own organization.

Sam always knew she was different. Her morbid fascination with death has kept her isolated from the world, shut away by a father aware of the monster inside her. A direct descendent of one of the most notorious serial killers of the century, Sam harbors the kind of fury that craves blood.

When multiple inmates start turning up dead at a Californian Correctional Facility, John Milton steps in and Sam and Tim are assigned to find the culprit. With the team split on either side of the fence, both race against time to discover the true identity of the killer.

When a body turns up at a Texas Uni Campus, police initially believe it's the result of an initiation gone wrong, the victim covered in graffiti while suspended above a fire pit. As more bodies are found, each the result of a sadistic game played by a vicious killer, it soon becomes clear that a new evil has risen. With the death toll mounting and the police left clueless, Sam is quickly dispatched to help locate the monster. But things take a turn when a student makes a confession so shocking, it leaves many questioning the very force meant to protect them.

A female killer calling herself "Black Death" is murdering men around Chicago's less-than-respectable establishments. Each body is found with a black rose, together with the same cryptic calling card, leaving authorities baffled as to her identity. When the latest victim turns out to be a well-respected police officer, the city's mayor reaches out for help.

After I purposely botch my leader’s attack on Jolie, I find myself returned to my old life, a life I thought I’d wanted. But the adage, “be careful what you wish for, because you might get it” will take on new meaning once I find myself playing hostage to my own people.

I'm not sure where my loyalties lie. Of one thing I'm certain: my fraternal twin sister, Jolie, who also happens to be the Queen of the Underworld, should be my sworn enemy. But after spending months with Jolie, I can’t deny the fact that I genuinely care for my sister, even though I shouldn’t. If it weren’t maddening enough that my relationship with Jolie is anything but black and white, then there’s Sinjin.

I’m still stuck playing the part of prisoner to my sister. But that’s not the worst of it. That title is reserved for my keeper…Sinjin Sinclair.

Master Vampire Sinjin Sinclair is the bane of my existence.... Abandoned on the battlefield by my own people, I must now face the fact that I'm playing prisoner to the Underworld Queen, who also happens to be my sister. As the days and months go by with no word from my people, I'm pretty sure life couldn’t get much worse. But it's about to get a whole lot worse—and Master Vampire, Sinjin Sinclair, is the reason why. Once I'm placed in Sinjin’s care, I find myself battling the undeniable magnetism of the vampire, the one creature I despise above all others.

With her world thrown into chaos, Sam relinquishes all connections with Pogrom when she starts hunting a ruthless killer who’s made it personal. This is no ordinary hunt, as each seeks retribution for spilled blood. With a cat-and-mouse chase involving two predators seeking vengeance, Sam will have to rely on all her skills and cunning to end up the victor. If you like Jack Reacher action and Hannibal Lecter darkness, then you will love Sam Rader. Buy Blood Moon today and get set for an explosive ride into a serial killer’s worst nightmare.