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A romantic evening of wine and roses ends in an apparent murder suicide, but the gruesome slaying wasn’t a crime of passion. Missing Persons Detective London McKenna links the killings to a fifteen-year-old kidnapping and uncovers a sinister conspiracy to murder those who would reveal the horrifying truth. Runaway girls are being kidnapped and trafficked as child brides. London races to save the young girls, but her investigation traps her inside a twisted world of perverted religion, bloody revenge, and the nightmares of her own captivity. With time running out and the captors desperate for their next bride, London must risk her own life to save the children and prevent the heinous weddings from becoming a mass funeral.

The story of a young woman shipwrecked in a storm off the coast of California. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

This collection contains Beatrix Potter's most beloved tales of Peter Rabbit and his friends. The stories are arranged in order of original publication, and although each story stands on its own, several are interconnected.

There was no reason for Lauren to be in a coma. Her physical injuries had healed, but she had been non-responsive for so long that her doctors told her family and Max to move on. She awoke to find her life in a shambles; the man she loved was gone, her friends had moved on with their lives, and her family was ripped apart by her accident.

Lauren is visited in her dreams for years by a stranger claiming to be her destiny. Destiny becomes reality when paths cross during a failed robbery attempt. Lauren and the stranger experience chemistry like no other and now her doubt over her long-time relationship with her high school sweetheart is not her only secret…someone else knows about her keen intuition and sixth sense.

In love with Vincent and trying to move on with her life, Sydney Hart is visited by an old friend. When this friend suddenly goes missing, Sydney finds herself in a desperate race against time, not only to save her friend's life, but also her relationship with Vincent. With Michael wanting to spend more time with her in order to rekindle their relationship, Sydney's life and emotions become ever more complex.

A Southern single mother cares for her family and considers new relationships. McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco.

Haley Cavanaugh's heart is broken - shattered into a million pieces, and that's just how she'd like it to stay. She doesn't believe she deserves happiness. She doesn't understand how to move on while her life is falling apart, and her reality is destroyed. Enter Eli Park. Eli is someone Haley thought she knew but who turned out to be so much more than she remembered. He sees through her pain and refuses to be pushed away, even when she lashes out. Eli's patience is both frustrating and surprising.

My name is Rylynn Sinclair, and I have survived the Admiral's Challenge and my first month at the Legion Fleet Academy. I was even made a crewman along with my friends, stationed on the Hail Mary. I was moving up in life, and my focus was on the future.

In the final installment of the Destiny Series, Lauren and Max still yearn for their normal life together. Although finally united, they're unable to enjoy their bliss when they learn nine people have been viciously murdered. Lauren and Max are consumed by guilt when they realize the murderer is a young man who saved Max's life months earlier. Lauren and Max must decide how much they're willing to risk to help the young man and destroy the evil that resides within him.

A look at the creation of the Asteroid Belt, and it all begins with a simple game of marbles.

Two black jaguars become the symbol of hope for a race facing extinction when they accompany a dying traveler back to her home planet. Jaguar Hope a novelette, tells of the ill-fated journey to Earth's Age of Crystal in this action-packed prequel to the award-winning historical fantasy novel, Zero Time.

In one moment the lives of 23 teenagers are forever changed, and it's not just because they all happen to die. "ReMade" in a world they barely recognize - one with robots, space elevators, and unchecked jungle - they must work together to survive. They came from different places, backgrounds, and families, and now they might be the last people on Earth. Lost meets The Maze Runner in this exciting adventure from Serial Box Publishing.

Millions know Carlos Castaneda as the bestselling author of nonfiction chronicles of his peyote-fueled journeys through the deserts of Mexico with the byronic shaman Don Juan Matus. An investigation into his life as a new-age cult leader, however, shows that his books, philosophy, and even his personal life would be much better described as several thousand pages of really good fiction.

Destiny and Prophecy (Out-of-Body Travel): The Mystic Knowledge Series is a group of compilations of the mystic and out-of-body travel works of Marilynn Hughes on various subjects of scholarship so you may have at your fingertips all the out-of-body travel Instructions on a particular area of study. We hope this series helps those who are interested in a special area of study to read all the recorded mystical and out-of-body travel experiences that the author had on each subject.

For whom is this book? This book is for anybody feeling the need of some ideas to start him/her writing a story. It can serve both a practicing writers with large experience, needing a quick idea, and somebody who is just starting as a would-be writer. As well as those who want a writing practice - a task, an exercise, which they would try to accomplish as good as possible. This book is a collection of 30 different Heroine Profiles, plus some information about the Hero (the Heroine's partner) and a sketch of the plot.

Alex and Maddie must find a way to move past their pain—shared, yet separate. Thrown together in an untenable arrangement, they fight through a frozen landscape of sorrow and redemption while redefining love, forgiveness, and family.