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Dinah Hyland comes from the perfect family. She has always looked forward to the day she has her own home. Her distress over her lost dream runs deep when she is medically unable to have children.

Connor Marshall’s family was less than stellar. He plans to remain a bachelor and teach in China only to lose his dream when he becomes guardian to his late sister’s four small children.

Both struggle with God as it seems He has taken what matters most to them.

When Connor’s new family attends Hobby Horse House, Dinah’s day care, tension between the two grows as she observes how inept he is in caring for the kids and he sees how good she is. While they work to find harmony—and more—they must save the children from a kidnapper and find peace with their disappointment in God.

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The bodies of high school and middle school kids are found dead from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl. The drug trade along the I-94 and I-43 corridors and the Milwaukee Metro area is controlled by MS-13, a violent gang originating from El Salvador. Ricardo Fuentes is sent from Chicago to Waukesha to find out who is cutting in on their business, shut it down and teach them a lesson. But he has an ulterior motive: find and kill a fifteen-year-old boy, George Tokay, who had killed his cousin the previous summer.

Detectives Jamie Graff, Pat O’Connor and Paul Eiselmann race to find the source of the drugs, shut down the ring, and find Fuentes before he kills anyone else, especially George or members of his family. The three detectives discover the ring has its roots in a high school among the students and staff.

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Clare Dupres, ambitious young Huguenot midwife living in turbulent 17th century France, struggles to save her family and career from the terrors of tyrannical King Louis XIV.

On the brink of womanhood, she records in her journal the grand plan for her perfect life–marriage to the man she loves, renovation of mysterious Maison Dupres as her home, and a rewarding profession. The key to her plan lies in “the magic elixir,” her ancestors’ secret formula for pain-free childbirth, which she offers solely to wealthy aristocratic women.

But King Louis’ increasing pressure on Huguenots to convert to Catholicism shatters Clare’s dreams. Her lover forced to flee France, she is compelled to marry his boring brother. Then she is banned from practicing midwifery. Yearning to continue her profession coupled with fear that her children will be kidnapped by Papists, Clare tries to convince her stubborn husband to move to England, but he is blind to the growing menace. When danger lurks in the form of the King’s dreaded Dragonnade soldiers, she must summon all her strength and determination to save her family.

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These stories help define the world of the Texas-Mexico Frontier–an explosive world where lives break, loves shatter, and healing happens. Kathryn Lane, a native of Mexico, explores this world, leading readers on a journey through time and geography with the promise of magic and transformation.

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Steven Thorn and Caitlin Chance are meant to be together. At least, when they first fell in love it seemed inevitable. But love is sometimes not enough. It makes them act irrationally, it tests family loyalties, breaks and makes friendships, and causes physical and mental pain.

Yet, without love, Steven and Caitlin are lost.

As they return to the community and discover the possibilities open to them, all is not what they hoped. Steven has impacted the lives of many since he was discovered, and the choices he made have led to events beyond anyone’s control.

Love brought Steven and Caitlin together and fate is playing with their emotions, constantly undermining their willpower and determination. In the game of love, destiny is always the winner.

As continued from COMPLICATIONS, Vanessa Wester takes you back to the Amazon as Steven and Caitlin return to the community and try to figure out their future. Finally, you will discover the next steps for the community, its inhabitants, and humanity.

Uncompromising, New York Vice Narcotics detective, Jagger Scott is all about the day to day grind.

Detached from the usual niceties in life, after the tragic death of his wife, he’s fallen into a calloused existence of unforgiveness when it comes to putting the criminal behind bars.

Living without reward; his days are monotonous, and the only reason to end a day is so that the next one can pass without notice.

When his sister, who he’s raised since orphaned by parents in a car accident, is drugged and put into a coma, he rushes to her side to find that she is a victim to an active serial killer and he must work with FBI agent, Peyton Morgan.

Having become an FBI agent to solve the murder of her newlywed husband, Peyton Morgan is rising in the ranks of her profession. Assigned to a serial killer she must follow the trail of victims and must find a way to work with the hot-headed detective from New York, the latest victim’s brother.

As the investigation develops, so does a reluctant understanding that neither one will back down. The priority, solve the complicated serial murders with a devolving suspect. Could these two lone wolves find something more than commitment to the job. Is there a possibility, they may find commitment to each other…something like love?

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On the run from her abusive ex, Riley Smith lives life in the shadows. Keep moving. Pack light. Don’t make connections.
Until she encounters FBI agent Derek Bronson.

When a convenience store photo identifies her as the prime suspect in his father’s murder, Riley’s ability to keep her sordid past a secret comes crashing down around her. Now it’s a matter of keeping them both alive.

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