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From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has felt a stronger connection with the dying than she has with the living. After the beloved grandfather who raised her dies alone while she is traveling, Clover becomes a death doula in New York City, dedicating her life to ushering people peacefully through their end-of-life process. Clover spends so much time with the dying that she has no life of her own, until the final wishes of a feisty old woman send Clover on a trip across the country to uncover a forgotten love story.

Against a backdrop of peach orchards and languid summer afternoons, Dori Sanders spins a wise, sweet tale of crossing racial barriers in the South Carolina countryside. It was unthinkable that Gaten Hill, a successful black man, would marry Sara Kate, an uppercrust white woman. It was unbelievable that hours after his wedding, he would be killed in a devastating accident.

It looks like the music has ended for Darling's favorite barbershop quartet, the Lucky Four Clovers, just days before the Dixie Regional Barbershop Competition. Another unlucky break comes when there's a serious foul-up in Darling's telephone system - and not a penny for repairs. And while liquor is legal again, moonshine isn't. Sheriff Buddy Norris needs a little luck when he goes into Briar Swamp to confront Cypress County's most notorious bootlegger - and what he finds upends his sense of justice.

Vengeful elf Alyndra has hunted human slavers nearly to extinction and begun to prey on goblins. But the goblins are not so easily thwarted! She is caught in their trap and converted to be their loyal servant. Her new duty is to expand goblin chief Gavak's collection of elves and other fantasy beauties to serve as pleasure slaves. The latest standalone book in the Library of Forbidden Pleasures follows the hunts of Alyndra as she pursues beauties and trains them for her goblin masters. You will find more than a few familiar elves in this book, including favorites like Mishanna, Nellie, and ...

Armed with memories of her impending past, Ash bids farewell to Lotus Lake and sets her sights on conquering the crows of Clover City. However, her knowledge and newfound lease on life comes with a twist—each decision she makes sets off a chain reaction of consequences, revealing that there's far more to her future than even she expected.

In order to get her life back and undo the evil spell, Clover must travel to Ireland to seek the only creature who may be able to help: the Seelie Queen. With her intriguing leprechaun in tow, Clover crosses into the Faerie Realm, where fairies and mythical creatures abound and where finding her luck may ultimately lead to finding her love.

Clove Winchester is feeling lucky at life, and that's before a mysterious stranger drops into her magic store and gifts her with a special coin. Suddenly things can't go wrong for Clove, and she's the center of attention in the Winchesters' world - especially because Aunt Tillie wants that coin.

No matter what your situation is, Kristi Clover's home organization systems will work for you. Her foundational rules are highly adaptable and will help you make your home more efficient no matter where you live or how many kids you have (and how messy they are). She helps you prioritize, break down big jobs, declutter, develop age-appropriate chores for your kids, tackle the endless piles of laundry, and so much more. If you long to have a functional and fabulous home for your family and you're tired of feeling overwhelmed by all the work, this life-changing book is for you!

At 19, Devin Sutton lost his first love, his freedom, and his hope. Years later, the only thing he has on his mind this holiday season is finally settling the score back in Clover, North Carolina. That is, until the girl he thought he'd lost forever crosses his path. Rebecca Farrus is supposed to be off living the life of her dreams, not tending bar in some dive. When faced with the choice, will Devin decide to celebrate what he's finally found or keep seeking retribution for everything he lost?

Warning!!! Graphic Violence, Profanity, Guns, Alex Jones References... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!! Henry and his Tribe are managing to keep some semblance of Order and Peace. Sadly, facts are facts and due to the recent natural disaster, that has occurred, all supply line are down, the world is in chaos. Herny has only one goal, to get his family through this alive and if he's lucky... maybe he can keep what's left of his sanity and his soul.

It started with a dead lady.... That chance discovery, on a dingy river bank in New Jersey, changed the life of 8-year-old Robert Galen forever. It propelled him into a lifelong study of medicine, beginning under the sage counsel of his mentor, Dr. Agnelli. In turn, his medical career led him to two ill-fated marriages and one would-be recaptured romance. Then, alone and in near despair, Galen found a new reason for being, in his old friend Bob Edison, along with his patient wife, Nancy, and in the three, orphaned Hidalgo children.

From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-revenge films. Although such movies have been traditionally understood as offering only sadistic pleasures to their mostly male audiences, Clover demonstrates that they align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the females tormented.

Elizabeth, Veronica, Rachel and Emily met at Camp Birchwood as girls in 1985, where over four summers they were the Clover Girls—inseparable for those magical few weeks of freedom—until the last summer that pulled them apart. Now approaching middle age, the women are facing challenges they never imagined as teens, struggles with their marriages, their children, their careers, and wondering who it is they see when they look in the mirror. Then Liz, V and Rachel each receive a letter from Emily with devastating news. She implores the girls to reunite at Camp Birchwood one last time.

WARNING: Strong language and violence. Henry is a family man and life-long prepper, who lives in a historic neighborhood in a small Appalachian town. One evening he receives the call that he had always hoped would never come. Now he has less than 20 hours before the world comes to a stand-still and society begins to break down. But, getting the supplies and gathering his friends will be the easy part, once the world stops, the difficulties actually began. Henry must walk the line of protecting his family and friends, while not drawing unwanted attention from his neighbors and what remains ...

After years of living under her father's thumb, Emmeline is ready to break free. She's abandoned her life as a New York socialite to follow her dream of becoming a kindergarten teacher in a small, wholesome town. Seeing the man that nearly broke her was absolutely not what she had hoped to find in Prescott, Montana. Nick hasn't seen his Emmy in nine years, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten a thing about the woman he loves. After just one blissful night as man and wife, he gave her up, sacrificing his own happiness to keep her safe.

Mabel doesn't know a stinkin' thing about garlic farming. She knows how to develop an app and how to code. But when her aunt, Peggy Skinner, dies suddenly, Mabel inherits her Stinkin' Stuff Farm in Western Massachusetts. She arrives during peak harvest time - with three days to bring in the entire crop before rain can destroy it. But Mabel has an even bigger problem: She suspects her aunt's "accidental death" was murder.

Ella's secret desire to be ravished by goblins became an obsession that drove her to the goblin inhabited island of Kurandan. As the young witch soon learned, there were many goblins on the island interested in a beautiful human. The time has come for Ella to leave her apprenticeship with the wizard Severinn. She tells him she's going off to learn more magic in the world, but she sets her sights instead on the goblin-inhabited island far to the north. She has long harbored a fantasy of being captured and taken by goblins. A fantasy that has grown to overshadow all her other desires and ...

Suburban Sex Kitten Melody Applebottom is back in action! Her adventures continue as she separates from her sweet boyfriend Brandon to fly to Vegas and reunite with her bad boy master. But is she about to get in bed with the mob? Womens Studies professor Angela warns Melody that Hank is more than just a custodian at Sandy State. No wonder he's wearing a pinstripe suit and waving around expensive gold rings in his Las Vegas hotel suite. But why did he seemingly abandon Melody for this sudden trip? She flies out to Vegas to meet up with her domineering lover, leaving behind her boyfriend and ...

England 1921. Lady Elizabeth Gaskins is throwing a big party to celebrate her birthday. But when an odious guest gets killed and steals her thunder, her father, the Earl of Buxley, becomes a suspect. After all, he came to blows with the dead man in front of several witnesses. Determined to find out who murdered his childhood friend, Lord Buxley summons a detective from Scotland Yard. Not to be outdone, Lady Bess and her spunky cohorts, the oldest Dowager Countess and great aunts, embark on a hunt for the killer.

“Chappell leaves readers begging for another mystery.” –Los Angeles Post-ExaminerHistorian Wrenn Grayson’s decision to sell her grandmother’s farmhouse brings unimagined consequences. It leads to the meeting of Foster Spears and Nate Edwards, uncanny lookalikes. Nate hires Wrenn to investigate. His question is: Are Foster and he family? Her first clue leads to derelict Langford Hospital, sitting on the edge of town, forgotten. The private women’s hospital opened in 1940, but when it closed thirty years later, one enormously dark secret remained locked within the walls. Selling ...