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Avery Dufresne had the perfect life: a rock-star boyfriend, a high-profile career in the anchor chair on a national news program...until a serious threat brings her perfect world to a shattering stop. When Avery emerges from the darkness, she finds she has a new ability - a supernatural one. Avery returns to Belle Fontaine, Alabama, to claim an inheritance: an old plantation called Sugar Hill. Little does she know that the danger has just begun.

It's 1909. Seventeen-year-old Ruth survived the Russian Revolution and is now finally reunited with her lost love in the New World. All she wants is peace and a new life with her family in New York. But when an uprising of 20,000 women vows to take down a greedy factory owner, can Ruth possibly stay away? Who will survive? And will they ever be the same again?

Jodie is a recent college grad who’s finally lined up an interview for a job in her field, not knowing that she’s never going to make it there. While riding the subway to get downtown, a mysterious blue substance falls from the sky, encasing the train car and trapping everyone inside. As if this wasn’t bad enough, it doesn’t take long for the passengers to realize that amongst them is a killer.

Michelle's mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 12 years old, and ever since then, she has had delusions of angels and demons battling over her only child. Michelle accepts her mother's delusions as schizophrenic ramblings, until a handsome new boy finds her at school. Little by little, Michelle's world is turned upside down. The new boy claims to be the Archangel Gabriel cast from heaven, her best friend falls for the Antichrist, and, come to find out, Michelle's mother has seen it coming all along.

Bethany Colburn finally turns 18, and Everett Foster is about to confess his love for her. When a new man arrives in the village of Good Springs, he brings charm Bethany has never encountered and illness the Land has never known. While the medicinal power of the gray leaf tree is put to the test and the Colburn family's strength is stretched thin, Bethany must learn to protect her true inheritance.

Russia, 1905: Thirteen-year-old Ruth dreams of growing up to marry the boy next door and living peacefully ever after. But when he and her father are forced to flee to America after the Bloody Sunday Massacre, Ruth and the other female members of the family are left behind amid the violence and chaos of revolutionary Russia.

Sophie has always preferred champagne and bonbons to village life. When her dearest friend Henri proposes and insists that life as a baker's wife will be enough, she admits her desire for more. Looking for an adventure, she stumbles upon a fortune teller who predicts her death and reveals the truth about her origins. Desperate for answers, Sophie flees the village.

In this ground-breaking book, Marti Murphy takes us on a deep dive into our emotional landscape. We come installed with a full palette of emotions, but our culture teaches us that some and bad and should not be felt. Marti calls them forbidden emotions. Emotions we tell ourselves it is not okay to fell because we learned to reject them. Hatred. Rage. Despair. Even joy. The list goes on. What happens when you slowly feel deeper? It frees your physical body from all your suppressed emotions. You heal emotionally, spiritually, even physically.

A gruesome puzzle. A twisted killer. A determined detective. Who will win the game? Frank, fierce and fearless, Detective Sydney Valentine has never been afraid to ask difficult questions. But when a social worker is found brutally murdered with three Scrabble tiles stuffed in her mouth, she knows the answers will be far from easy to find. Sydney’s investigation leads her to a disturbing blast from her past: a date-rape predator who attacked her friend Allison at college. Could he be the killer? He got away once before. Maybe now she’ll be able to bring him to justice.

Marianna Edgewater finds a knife in the furnace room of an abandoned Georgia school building she bought to use as a studio for her interior design business. The knife terrifies her. Apparently, through the knife, she hears the voice of a girl murdered on the school grounds, over 30 years ago. The voice insists her killer is still at large, but still isn’t sure who it was, only that it wasn’t the man who was convicted.

The United States in 1865 was a dramatically different country from the one that went to the polls in 1860. It and the world were transformed by the Civil War - a political struggle between sections of the country for a Union without slavery or slavery without a Union. Let We Are All Americans take you back 150 years to experience this dramatic and profound transformation as it happened.