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You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs.

Three stories concern the same woman - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these and other stories Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.

Before she was a legend… she was running for her life. In the shadows of a divided cult, a prophecy whispers of salvation. The White Raven—chosen by the Goddess of Death—is destined to lead her people into prosperity. But when doubt creeps into the ranks, faith turns to suspicion… and...

𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙍𝙪𝙣𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙚 She ran from him once. He won’t let her do it again. Vera Reynolds thought she had escaped the storm named Boris Pavlov. One impulsive Vegas wedding. One mistake she swore she’d undo. One dangerously possessive Russian who refuses to let her go. After waking up married to the infuriatingly sexy, sinfully rich, and utterly ruthless Boris, Vera did what any self-respecting woman with a survival instinct would do— She ran. Straight out of his penthouse. Straight out of his world. ...

I intended to keep my promises to you. I swear. I loved you, Matthew Caldwell—with my whole heart. I think a piece of me will always love you. But it all came crashing down when I realized you didn’t keep your promises to me. I refuse to take any of my days for granted. I learned that the hard way. So I’m sorry. But I can’t keep my promises to someone who didn’t keep theirs. XOXO, Brooklyn Sanders 

The alpha king rejected me, and chose another luna. Then I found out I was pregnant with his baby. When Alpha Case rejected me, I couldn't take the pain, so I ran far away. Since then, I’ve lived as a rogue. I’ve killed, and I’ve stared death in the face. But fate had the last word. Because now I'm pregnant. And I'm raising our pup alone, far from the mate who tossed me away. Now, I’m no longer the weak omega he discarded—I’m a queen in my own right, leading a pack that bows to no one. Now, he’s back, demanding a second chance. He says he’ll grovel, he’ll fight, he’ll ...

This diary of a runaway girl and her search for a home celebrates hope, resilience, and happy endings as only Wendelin Van Draanen, the author of Flipped and other acclaimed novels, can. Holly has run away before, but this time she actually gets away—and what at first felt like an escape...

Coming to terms with her father’s death and her own implication in his murder has sent Riley reeling, so she does what she does best. She runs. Not only from her home but from herself, ending up in a small town in Montana. Matteo Rossi lives a modest life, doing construction, making silver jewelry, and renting out the cabin he inherited from his uncle. He’s happy and has no wish for anything else, until a beautiful renter from the east comes hurtling into his life.

Upon His Royal Highness of California becoming His Royal Majesty of New York, Cassandra Ferran descends into a living nightmare. Thanks to a mass exodus of aides, it falls on her shoulders to rein in the new heir’s life while navigating through a royal mess of a transition.

I fell in love with the Alpha. Now I'm running from him. Cooking for a pack of wolves was just a job. A way to pay the bills and keep my head down in a world where I didn’t belong. I was human. They were not. And that was fine — until the night I saw him. Jared. Alpha of the Nightwood Pack. Powerful. Ruthless. Utterly forbidden. And heartbreakingly shattered. I wasn’t supposed to witness it — the moment his mate rejected him. The moment his world caved in. I should have turned away, pretended I never saw the way his golden eyes dimmed, the way his hands curled into fists as she ...

In Runaway, Emerson Watts continues her fight against the twisted Stark Enterprises while her brain remains trapped inside the body of super model Nikki Howard. Whisked away to Brandon Stark’s secluded love nest, Em has alienated her true love Christopher and her parents, while hoping to learn the terrifying secret Nikki—in her own new body—harbors.

Katherine wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove. Okay, yes, she worked too much and had fallen out of touch with all her friends, but that happened to everyone, right? And sure, she was feeling a little creaky in the mornings and couldn’t drink coffee after noon, but that was just life in middle age.

When a woman needs to flee a bad marriage, it doesn’t matter that she’s the wife of the former Vice President, it only matters that she escapes... Sunday Bond longs for a life far from Washington D.C., and far from the husband who has kept her in a gilded cage for too long, locked up there with only his dark secrets to keep her company. When Sunday’s best friend, the former First Lady, moves south to Shipwreck Key, Sunday goes for a visit and decides to stay. The remote island off the coast of Florida is the perfect place to avoid the world’s prying eyes and to forget about her ...

I thought he was nothing more than a rebellious fling. But now I’m his…with no way out. Ibiza was meant to be an escape. With my father dead, my brother sent away, and my mother frantically trying to marry me off to anyone who will have me, all I want is to forget all of this is happening. So when my friends give me the opportunity to sneak away with them to the mecca of yachts, parties, extravagance and sin–I take my chance and go. I have every intention of leaving my worries behind me in Chicago, and my virginity in Ibiza–and David is everything I want. Handsome, charming, and ...

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny didn't think the old trunk in their house held anything interesting. But an unusual statue they find inside leads them to the Reddimus Society, a secret guild dedicated to returning lost treasures to where they belong. Now the Aldens must help their new friends by traveling across the country with the statue and six mysterious boxes! Can the Boxcar Children keep these seven treasures out of the wrong hands?

Londyn McCormack didn’t have a typical childhood. She ran away at sixteen and spent her youth searching for a place to call home. She’s built a good life for herself through hard work and a little luck, but after a devastating divorce, she’s running away again. Her life collides with Brooks Cohen, a small-town mechanic who gives her a reason to stop driving on that runaway road.

I got pregnant by the billionaire Lycan King who stalked me after one interview, claimed me as his mate, then brutally rejected me... so I ran pregnant with his secret heir. Carly I’m just a journalist assigned to interview Noah Hearth. The youngest Lycan King in history. A ruthless tech billionaire who commands empires with brutal precision. But the moment our eyes lock, he goes feral. His pupils blow wide, nostrils flaring, and the bond snaps into place. Then he starts to stalk me. My door hanging open. And him in my apartment at night. He corners me, growls that I’m his fated mate. ...

Annie Andrews has her heart set on marrying a certain man. Now that her guardian and sister, Lily, is off on her wedding trip on the continent, Annie is about to make one last attempt to marry Arthur before her sister can stop her. But Annie doesn't count on the best friend of her new brother-in-law, Jordan Holloway, Earl of Ashbourne, fouling up her plans. Jordan has vowed to keep an eye on the mischievous Miss Andrews. He has two weeks to keep her out of trouble and to keep her from running away again.

"Petrie has a preternatural talent for ratcheting up suspense."—New York Times Book Review When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she’s in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine in the powerful new thriller in this bestselling and award-winning series. War veteran Peter Ash...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In “Grisham’s most addictive courtroom thriller” (The Seattle Times), justice is fighting for its life—and the jury is caught in the crossfire of greed and corruption. They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women...