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Jen Nilsson has an MBA, a nice condo, and a fast-track job at a tech start-up in Silicon Valley. If her big product launch goes well next month, she may finally land the marketing director job she's been gunning for. But then, her younger sister, Katie, just out of college and estranged from their newly devout parents, blows through the front door, dumping cardboard boxes and a lifetime of personal drama onto Jen's just-swept floor.

When novelist Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather’s old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a plan. The problem? An inflammatory letter from A Very Disappointed Reader. The plan? To confront Tyler, her childhood best friend’s brother—and the man who inspired the antagonist in her first book. If she can prove that she told the truth about what happened during those long-ago summers, perhaps she can put the letter’s claims to rest and meet the swiftly approaching deadline for her next book.

When the mayor’s son is boldly abducted while leaving the gym, the mayor demands results. Special Agent Dakarai Lakes and his team quickly learn that the abduction isn’t an isolated incident as more people are taken.

Professional success. Personal failure. As a respected cancer specialist, Paul Webster knows what he's doing. At least, he does at work. His home life's another story. Now he's been thrown into a spin by a patient's death and her unshakeable confidence in life beyond the grave. He's always dismissed Christians as simplistic fools but this woman didn't fit his stereotype. What if there is truth beyond what he can learn with lab tests and logic? And what will checking out that truth cost him?

Carli Morris is looking forward to a quiet retirement. With more money than she can imagine earned from the sale of her Madison Avenue ad agency, she dreams of spending her golden years painting and giving back to society. But the heartbreaking discovery of a homeless woman poisoned to death in Carli’s neighborhood not only opens her eyes to others but reopens the wounds of Carli’s own tragic loss.

Bestselling author Robin Lee Hatcher delivers an emotional story of healing, second chances, and unexpected love in Love Without End. Set against the backdrop of an Idaho ranching town, this heartwarming contemporary romance features two widowed single parents, family struggles, and a close-knit...

The Romeo Family Romance series continues with Lexi Romeo’s story. This one is a crossover with the popular O'Brien Family Romance series. One country music singer desperate to make it big. Twenty contestants vying for the affection of one bachelor. No one actually falls in love on a TV reality show...do they? It's not easy being a cousin to the illustrious Romeos and having to walk in their shadows. However, Lexi Romeo is holding her own. She's determined to make it as a singer and songwriter.

Therapist Dana Jordan basks in the reconciliation of her family. She cherishes each milestone of the new relationship with her adult daughter. All the wounds of the past are healed, except the oldest and deepest - finding the mother who walked away when Dana herself was a child. When she is found hiding in plain sight, the decades of grief and anger are at war with forgiveness and belonging. Can love and family be restored after a lifetime of betrayal? 

Stanley cannot find meaning in his life. Work is an endless drudgery serving only to pay bills. After being unemployed for six months, he can’t even do that. Religion doesn’t make sense. His family is the only thing that has any meaning in his life, but even that gets turned upside down when he is offered a two-month contract on the other side of the country, and he has to leave his family behind. His cross-country road trip gets strange right away as he reluctantly picks up an enigmatic hitchhiker who takes him on a difficult but soul-fulfilling road trip of self-discovery.

Laura’s Amish faith requires her to forgive, but she can only think of revenge. Laura Stutzman leaves her Kentucky community for Middlefield, Ohio, with one purpose: to find Mark King, the man who pledged his love to her, then left. She can’t move on with her life until he explains why...

Everything changed between them the first time he called her Katie. Katherine Yoder has loved Johnny Mullet since the two were children, but he’s never returned her affections. Now Johnny is trying to forge a new life for himself by purchasing a farm and building a business of his own. But...

When high school teacher Myles Bradford wins the Powerball lottery, he decides to do something truly unexpected: run for president of the United States. Bradford is eager about the opportunity, but his family clearly is not. With little time to sway them to his side, he's thrust into running a quarter-billion-dollar nationwide campaign, complete with cross-country flights and road trips, expert staff, and armed security. But like most dreams, Bradford soon finds that what he imagined is completely different from what is real. 

“A feast of small-town charm and characters who feel like dear friends.” —Liz Johnson, bestselling author of The Red Door Inn From USA TODAY bestselling author Kathryn Springer comes a tale of starting over when life takes an unexpected turn. Winsome Lake, Wisconsin, is postcard-pretty...

An injured ex-soldier struggling with being a bodyguard. A country music darling with an eerie stalker. Can he resist her allure to get the job done? All Jake has ever wanted was to serve his country, get married, and raise a family. When a mission goes wrong, leaving him with a prosthetic leg and raging nightmares, his plans for the future lie shattered like his career. He joins his brothers-in-arms at Stryker Security Force to help protect others, determined to find contentment in his job as a bodyguard - until protecting Chloe Rose makes him long for more.

Danger swirls in the mists of the Puget Sound. People are disappearing, the most recent being a young child. Nothing links the victims, except the kidnapper. FBI special agent Dakarai Lakes suspects the victim count will only increase...unless he and his team can stop the criminal.

Jake Holden has it all. Or, so he thinks. He is married to a beautiful and talented woman, has two cute kids that love and adore him, drives a nice car and, for the last five years he has been his own man: Running his own business. Life is good, for the most part, and he lives by the twin truths of work hard and do the right thing. So far, they’ve pretty much gotten him everything he wants. When an old friend calls to invite Jake on a fishing trip with a bunch of Christian guys, he is tentative since he is not religious, and he finds most Christians fake and boring.

It's election season - America's most lucrative sport - and there are no rules. When climate scientist Dr. Helen Gardner accidentally reads an email from the International Task Force on Climate Change which proves that global warming is a lucrative scam, she's shocked and horrified. But that's nothing compared to how she feels the next day when her boss (the head of the Task Force) tries to have her killed. Helen goes into hiding with the help of her neighbor, a "fundy" Bible college professor named Cody, and an anti-eco-activist lumberjack-writer.

"Seine Worte stachen mir ins Herz. Ich spürte, dass er recht hatte. Ein Penner weniger machte für diese Welt keinen Unterschied. Aber für ihn machte es einen Unterschied, wie sich die Welt zu ihm verhielt. Und die Welt, das wurde mir unbequem klar, war in diesem Augenblick ich."

Ninety-plus-year-old Rubin James awakes in the hospital discovering not only has he suffered a stroke, but an inoperable brain aneurysm is bringing him to certain death. Ten-year-old Jonathan Baines has a rare form of brain cancer. Despite all the efforts of his talented doctor father, the cancer's relentless spread has not been stopped, and death appears to be just days away.

Olivia Vandenberg is ‘’O”, a 20-something PK, or "pastor’s kid". She’s also an atheist and hardcore addict. She has run out of people to take advantage of, and now, the doctor says she may be running out of time, as well. Can one rough-looking angel, one smooth-talking demon, and true love guide her back to her faith?