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Rick and Abby grew up together, became best friends, and ultimately fell in love. Circumstance tore them apart in their early teens, though, and they went on to lives less idyllic than they dreamed about in those early days. Rick has had a very successful career, but his marriage flat-lined. Abby has a magical daughter, Paige, but Paige's father nearly destroyed Abby's spirit.

They say it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Finn McGraw disagrees. He was just 17 when he had a torrid summer affair with the girl who stole his heart - and then turned on him. Now, 10 years later, he's got more than his lost love to worry about. A horrific accident turns his life upside down, resurrecting the ghosts of his long-dead family and taking the lives of the few people he has left. Finn always believed his estranged brother was responsible for the fire that killed their family - but an unexpected inheritance throws everything he knows into doubt.

What is it like to work inside a state hospital or to be a patient in such a hospital? What is it like to live inside the mind of such a patient? This tragi-comedic novel takes the listener inside the asylum, inside the worlds of three central characters: a narrator who has taken refuge from his fears of the world, a psychiatrist whose own life has been damaged by his father's depression, and a catatonic schizophrenic whose world is trapped inside a crack in the wall opposite her bed.

Ever wish you could peer into the brain of a published author and learn what tips he's absorbed over the years? How often does he blog? And why? And what about those live chats. Do they really sell books? Maybe you'd like to delve into the psychology of writing, and learn how to deal with rejection or how to write effective love scenes. In volume 2 of Write Like the Wind, Lazar offers advice on writing the "dreaded synopsis", "writing on the road", and recording messages to your readers.

Everything in her life is taken for granted. The simplest smile, action and even goodbye. Until the day her 12-year-old son walks out the door and never returns. His brutal murder sends Jordan Wyatt into a self-sheltering world for which she wants no escape. Her life exists only for a daughter that she not only hides from the world, but hides from life. Fear keeps her from living and from allowing her daughter to live a normal existence.

General Trusten Polk's F-16 explodes on takeoff in Denver. Within hours he's exposed as an impostor, a war hero politician controlled by others.

As Captain Boyd Chailland, the pilot member of the accident board uncovers Polk's lonely private life he finds another pilot from Polk's past knows all his secrets and is leaking them to the press. Congressman Roscoe Kelly is tied to bank fraud and other politicians with ties to Polk duck and weave.

An expensive real estate development is halted when contractors find an ancient relic. The state of Maryland insists that archaeologists must determine the historical value of the site before construction proceeds. Frank Light, a famous archaeologist, is sent by his university to study the site - a mudflat on an old farm. The relic appears to be part of an old ship, but a local black pastor insists the site covers a graveyard for slaves.

Psychologist Gary Schaade started receiving tapes and letters from potential killers soon after releasing his best-selling book, Psyche of a Serial Killer. When Gary received a tape at his office, he was sure it is another entertaining attempt to scare him and his wife. This tape was different: a confession to prove his theory.

Fight or Flight, book nine of Zombies on the Block, picks up where the adrenaline of Better Off Dead left off. The cliff-hangers get answered. But who will survive the day? Will they stay together, will they flee on their own? Will zombies be the only thing that they need to fear? This apocalypse is not shaping up to be friendly, and there are no signs of help ahead.

Walter Eloy Goe, crime fighter and vigilante for justice, takes on a Palatini project aimed at eliminating the Mafias sex trafficking of underage girls along the New York and Canadian border. The operation morphs into an all-out war when the Palatini's lead asset for the project, Anna Sasins, goes missing and is presumed murdered by the Abbandanza crime family. Walter splits with the Palatini Knighthood when he's ordered by Society Palatini Grand Master Maximillian Karnage to abandon Anna and to tie off the operation.

A frightened woman contacts Sherlock Holmes believing her husband is plotting to murder her. Holmes entraps the devious spouse and turns him over to the police. Several days later, the woman is found hanged in her home. Now Holmes and Watson find themselves immersed in a far greater mystery, one with connections to high-ranking government officials and treacherous foreign affairs.

The Greer Agency tells the story of Mike Greer, private eye, in 15 connected stories. Greer, the only PI in the Altoona phone book, scratches out a living in the decaying railroad town. With the help of an anonymous benefactor, Greer gets interesting cases that he solves with pluck and determination. All the while, his romance with Susan grows increasingly more intimate.

After assisting in taking down a Mafia operated porn and sex ring using underage girls in Toronto, Palatini Knight, Walter Eloy Goe, needs to kick back and wind down. How better than with a little more than friend, Joyce Farmer, in sleepy little Shell Knob, Missouri, where headlines of the weekly paper are comprised of simple news like birthdays, vegetable gardens, and too much or too little rain. Shortly after checking into Miss Farmer's Lakeside Resort a disturbing 911 call comes into the local sheriff, "I've's got me a body layin' out here, and she's a-lookin' deader n' hell."

When tragedy strikes and as the world begins to crumble around him, Mark SleepingBear decides that it's high time to renovate his grandfather's Cold War era fallout shelter. As conditions deteriorate, Mark struggles with the decision to share his bunker, should the need arise, with his neighbors. For years, Mark has isolated himself from these people. After he shares his secret, his neighbors decide to build their own bunker, a massive shelter, constructed with comfort as the number one priority.

Lieutenant Peter Santiago, a young submarine officer assigned to the Pentagon, has just opened pandora's box. He stumbles onto a conspiracy to hijack one of the Navy's top-secret Trident nuclear missile submarines. But the Navy dismisses his far-fetched scenario. Peter has only one hope to halt the hijack: His father, a retired CIA operative with a checkered past - whom Peter blames for his mother's violent death - and whom he hasn't seen for 17 years.

Damien Rhyes has walked the earth for three hundred years. No one has dared to end his reign. He is a vampire who doesn't feast on blood. Instead, he drains the souls and life-force from his victims, feeding on their fears. Samantha Evans has no idea what Damien is when she first meets and falls in love with him. She finally discovers the truth the day she gives birth to his son. That same day, Damien rips the child from her and vanishes.

In volume three of Write Like the Wind, Lazar offers examples and advice on dialog tags, including how to replace them with "beats". You'll learn what a preface is, and when to write it. These practical skills are complemented by marketing tips, such as real life feedback on how freebies can actually help you sell more books. Join award-winning mystery author Aaron Paul Lazar as he shares the cream of the crop from seven years of writing blogs in this fresh and unique offering of advice for fellow scribes.

World War Z meets Independence Day in this apocalyptic, extraterrestrial, genre-blending mashup adventure! Can Seth and his family survive all while trying to keep Earl from starting an interplanetary war? Will there be another day, or will everyone perish? The Williams will have to fight to survive, to elude ravished zombies and aliens who seem to only want one thing...to conquer Earth.

If masculinity is toxic, then Jack Ruger is the cultural equivalent of a raging bull on steroids. Born and raised in the cold and frozen northern paradise of Michigan’s upper peninsula, Chief of Police Jack Ruger is sworn to protect and defend the citizens of Jackpine. So when escaped killer Bobby Lee Harper descends on the town, threatening to kill him and all he holds dear, it’s a formal declaration of war, and only one man will survive.

Imagine you are stranded on a strange planet which is eternally light on one side and dark on the other. Professor Edmunds, a disgruntled, underappreciated genius existing in the dingy basements of UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department, experiences this very fate. Professor Edmunds, on that historic night, not only discovered the Dark Planet - he discovered something much, much more. His discovery confirms his long-held, and largely-ridiculed, scientific speculation: that every soul on earth shares, somewhere in the universe, an exact replica - a biological duplicate - an Other.