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From award-winning storyteller Kay Jennings comes the ninth installment of A Port Stirling Mystery. The shocking murder of a city councilor has stunned Port Stirling, Oregon, and Police Chief Matt Horning is running hard to find the killer and soothe a nervous town. Port Stirling is torn apart by a controversial new luxury resort planned in a pristine setting near the Pacific Ocean beach. As the city council prepares to vote on the Wave’s End proposal, Freida Ogelthorpe – thought to be the swing vote – is found with a knife in her back. Was her murder related to the resort development...

Rafe Conti is a man of violence—cold, relentless, and unrepentant. As the brutal enforcer of the Conti family, he’s spent his life protecting what belongs to them. But when tensions with the O’Sullivans reach a breaking point, he takes the one thing they can’t afford to lose: Grace. The daughter of his enemy. The quiet storm he never saw coming. Grace O’Sullivan has spent her life on the sidelines of her father’s empire—ignored, underestimated, and used. But when Rafe takes her, everything changes. He doesn’t want her compliance. He wants her surrender. He doesn’t use ...

Six months after Paola Santiago confronted the legendary La Llorona, life is nothing like she'd expected it to be. She is barely speaking to her best friends, Dante and Emma, and what's worse, her mom has a totally annoying boyfriend. Even with her chupacabra puppy, Bruto, around, Pao can't escape the feeling that she's all alone in the world. Pao has no one to tell that she's having nightmares again, this time set in a terrifying forest.

Trouble starts too early on a Monday morning in Waikiki when three 'floaters' are found at a popular beach. Before police detective Caitlyn Nakamura can even begin investigating the triple murder, she gets a call about a child missing from a school field trip at the zoo. While she waits for positive ID on the three stiffs at the beach, the news hits close to home when she learns the missing kid is a family friend. The race is on to find the girl, and Caitlyn quickly assembles a team of trusted colleagues to help with the search. A lifelong friendship is tested, and a kid's life is at stake....

He left to protect her. Now he’s back to save her—even if it destroys them both. Luca Conti is a man with fierce loyalty and relentless will. Years ago, he walked away from the only woman he’s ever loved, convinced it was the only way to keep her safe. Now Arielle Dupont is the perfect political daughter, the flawless fiancée to banking heir Sebastian Dupree… and the prisoner of a man whose charm hides a monstrous cruelty. Behind her poised smile lies a desperate truth she can’t risk revealing—until Luca returns to Luxembourg and sees the signs for himself. Their reunion is a ...

Security specialist Gavin Garrison becomes concerned when his sister Cate joins an exclusive college sorority with suspicious recruitment tactics and cryptic rituals. While investigating, he discovers a strange symbol that links the organization to another case—the five-year-old disappearance of a businessman in northeastern Pennsylvania.

HOW THE DEVIL IS COLLECTING SOULS

NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S PICK Two best friends. One huge crush. A year that could change everything... A warmhearted, hilarious queer rom-com about what happens when a group of friends are actually brave enough to live the dream and give up their dreary city apartments to buy a house in the...

After spending my three-week winter break under magical house arrest, I'm looking forward to returning to school. But when I get there, everything has changed. OSA has tightened its hold on every academy and Ravencrest's new director takes the restrictions a step further, leaving me without my two closest friends. Worse, the boy who left me behind is back on campus with an even bigger surprise in tow . . . one that involves a ring. And all that is the least of my worries.

On the eve of her twentieth birthday, Sol is kidnapped by a barbarian. He wants her to use the magic she doesn't have to heal someone. She wants to avenge her mother by killing his chieftain. Desperate to get close to their leader, she marries one of their warriors. Her husband vows to never bed her. She vows to win his favor. When she's plunged into his city, she realizes the depth of his people's prejudices. They will never accept her if she doesn't become like them. Even then, it may not be enough to obtain the vengeance she craves.

This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.

Jewel Mantelle has never lived in the South, much less on the coast, so moving from Chicagoland to the historic North Florida coastal town of Sophia Island seems like just the adventure to fix her marriage. However, when she arrives, she finds that it’s awfully hot and humid there and that these Southern folks really like to hug. Her husband’s past on the island includes a creaky old house in the historic district and lots of nosy relatives he’d forgotten to mention.

After asking the wrong people the wrong questions, Shannon Brown barely escapes with her life - and crosses paths with a handsome outlaw who cannot resist a lady in distress. Moved by the troubled stranger, Derek Ross agrees to help Shannon elude her pursuers. But the ferocity of his desire for Shannon stuns him and mystifies her. She's known so much hurt in matters of the heart - how can Derek be any different? Drawn into a shadowy world of danger and deception, Shannon is reborn in the arms of a man who lives by no one's rules. Derek's voice calms her fears and lowers her guard, making Shannon long to hear another heartbeat beside her own.

In The Ultimate Board Members Audible Book, Kay shares her insights, observations and conclusions in her own words and in her own voice. The most enviable boards of directors – those that govern well AND accept the responsibility for raising money – share one thing in common: they’ve absorbed the ideas and practices Kay summarizes in her best-selling The Ultimate Board Member’s Book. For these board members, there’s zero guesswork about their roles and responsibilities. It’s all very clear.

When people see Zachary Williams they see a billionaire entrepreneur who changed the face of an entire industry, but without love and family it's worthless to him. Lonely and frustrated with the dating scene, he remembers an agreement he made with his best friend when they were in their teens. Zach searches out Addison and offers her the deal of a lifetime. When Addison hears from her childhood friend and he invokes a pact they made as teenagers, she thinks he’s joking.

When Robin Stuart is pulled from the stormy seas, she can only cling desperately to the arms that surround her. Robin has been too close to danger not to recognize it again: in the eyes of the rugged, fearless man. Michael Siran is an expert at playing dangerous games. But from the moment the terrified beauty with the piercing gaze sets foot on his ship, he's touched by a true sense of purpose. Robin insists on remaining by his side - even though she is asking the world of a man who trusts no one. Michael is determined to give her everything.

Becoming the depraved king's consort was never the plan - neither was being tossed in the turbulent waters of the Crown's court - but Tempest was trained to roll with the punches. Even if it means getting her hands dirty and betraying what her heart wants the most. But being the king's betrothed is no protection. One wrong move and she finds herself in more danger than she ever imagined. Surrounded by too many corrupt enemies and not sure whom to trust, Tempest turns to the only person who is more devious than Destin - the Jester.

Blast off into bedtime with a fun-filled adventure across the stars! Join Kay Hale’s playful rocket ride where dreams take flight and sleepyheads land softly in Dreamland.

Sage knew destroying the Warlord wouldn't be easy, but she never anticipated the toll it would take on her kingdom and her soul. Everywhere she turned, the world dripped with blood, heartache, and betrayal. Sanee was under siege. Jasmine was missing. Scythia gained ground each day. Lilja and Garreth were dead.

From Rona Jaffe Writer's Award-winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg comes a heart-stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people.