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The ability to read minds can get you tied to a bonfire with the match lit. When quiet, introverted Anna is convinced by her mind-reading community to become a colonist settling a distant planet because her people believe in helping mankind, she reluctantly agrees. After all, she’s been taught all she needs to know to stay safe and be helpful. Except nothing taught her what to do when the minds she’s reading aren’t human. She figures the years-long trip to the distant planet will give her time to make friends and fall in love. But half-way through the journey a rogue meteor punches ...

Why would the ghost of a colonial witch contact her modern-day heirs? Dare they find out? Lora is the historian helping her friend untangle the twisted strands of magic and mystery that are making her sick but Lora’s search is mostly intellectual. Jason’s is simple curiosity. Julie’s is a matter of life or death. None expect what happens. Only one can follow the directions and create magic and there are no guarantees. Is it worth the risk? Will they survive? If you like ghost stories, American history, New England’s incomparable countryside, and friends and family going back many ...

Jane, who dislikes wolves because they kill her livestock, takes Buck Portman, wolf researcher and wildlife professor at a nearby college she attends, to an island to seek out the huge wolves of legend … the dire wolves of prehistoric times … that local fishermen say they’ve seen there. She’s skeptical until a huge wolf runs through their camp and mentally connects with Jane and invites her to visit so they can sort out this strange mental phenomenon that neither of them expected. Jane follows the wolf and Buck follows her into another world, another dimension, one populated by ...

Go to small town. Sell inherited house. Use proceeds to continue with life plan. Except the house, a Victorian mansion in the Christmas-themed town of Gideons Park is falling apart and unsellable, so when the tenant in the apartment above the garage who happens to restore old houses offers to fix everything that’s wrong, it’s too good a deal to pass up. Leah gets a job at the Christmas Store to fund the restoration and soon finds herself questioning her well-thought-out plan for her future while struggling not to fall in love with the hunky man turning her inheritance into a Victorian ...

How long can a toddler lost in the wilderness survive once the temperature drops below freezing? How can a normally sedentary woman convince searchers that she—and she alone—can find the child before it’s too late? Anna Reilly grew up in the wilderness and knows it like the back of her hand. Just because she’s not a macho tomboy doesn’t mean she can’t make her way in the forest but she’s away when three-year-old Bobby Deal goes missing and search parties are formed. When she returns, she’s relegated to pouring coffee and handing out donuts. But she knows how to find the ...

Two days. Longer and they’ll run out of food – and starve. If they leave, the blizzard may take them quicker. What to do? How to survive? Two people are stranded in the wilderness in a blizzard. They must make a decision while there’s still time. Jase’s bad leg complicates everything but Laurie’s secret knowledge may save them. If it’s for real. Once they decide on a course of action and carry it out, what will happen? If they survive, what about the future? Read this story and fall in love the north woods in winter with all its beauty and danger, to pray for two people dealing ...

He saved her life. Now someone wants them both dead. Zoe survives a rogue wind – a multi-colored, horrific, vortex – only because a total stranger, a guy named Tate with a honed ability to act in a crisis, saves both their lives. But the wind was more than just a wind. It was a chemical reaction that changed them. They now can read each other’s minds, plus Zoe is newly aware of Tate at a level so deep and personal she doesn’t know where she ends and he begins. And it’s the same with Tate. They are intertwined. As they struggle to deal with this incredibly intimate relationship, ...

Recently jilted, Chloe Brown is back home in Johns Falls, Minnesota, working for her aunt selling furniture and other garden paraphernalia until she can recover emotionally, after which she’ll leave. When she discovers a family of Mallard ducks in one of the huge vases in the outdoor portion of the store, her aunt agrees to let them stay because protecting the ducks is taking her niece out of her severe depression. Soon Chloe meets Ryan, short-term, interim manager of the Johns Falls newspaper. The two agree to support each other during this temporary, small-town stage of their lives, ...

Beyond reality lies a different world where survival hangs by a thread. Be brave and enter that illusive, unknowable place. Travel with me through the worlds of androids hiding from their owners -- cave-dwelling albinos afraid of the world -- security robots with itchy trigger fingers -- aliens in disguise and on the run -- asteroid miners alone and injured -- and ghostly women who may or may not be real. You'll be glad you took the trip. Six stories, six unique and totally different trips to the other side of reality: DELIVERING DEATH THE GUY IN THE CABIN NEXT TO MINE THE NEW KIDS ON THE ...

Charlie, forester, guides her boss and the owner of Macallister Outdoors to a tiny lake in the middle of a wilderness tract he recently purchased so he can see with his own eyes the spirit that legend says lives there and uncover the truth about it. Suddenly, a rogue storm destroys the dam that created the lake, the surrounding forest, and much of their equipment. They are stranded. Then they see the spirit and hear it sing. It’s real, it’s beautiful, and it will die when the lake drains dry. They resolve to patch the dam and save the lake and the spirit. As they work, they learn about ...

How can you lose ten years? Jo doesn’t think it can happen. Gil knows it can. When Jo finishes a swim in a tiny pond in the forest, she’s exhausted, confused and missing her car keys. All she wants is to find them and go home but she no longer has a home to go to except the one Gil offers to share. Can she trust him? After all he must be insane because he thinks time travel is possible. Obviously, it’s not. But something happened. Something altered her life forever. What do you do when your world is turned upside down and everything you knew is gone including years of your life and ...

Who stole spring? When bumbling Guardian Angel Maude is sent to Earth for an April assignment, she expects green grass and flowers instead of the sea of mud that’s Minnesota in spring but with the help of a mangy, multi-colored dog she’ll do her best to get two people together who have absolutely nothing in common. But how can she complete her assignment when she’s cold, shivering, covered in mud and telling everyone she’s an artist when she can’t paint a decent picture? Can she possibly succeed? Or will she mess things up beyond repair? If you like small towns, guardian angels, ...

Welcome to Johns Falls, Minnesota, where everyone knows everything about everybody, often before they know it themselves. So it’s not surprising that two people who are falling in love are the last to know, even though everyone’s talking about their romance and asking them personally for the lurid, juicy details. (Of which there aren’t any because this is a clean, fun romance.) But for the lovers to deny there’s a romance even after being told straight out that they are in love? That’s beyond belief. Meet Becky, dedicated small-town career girl following her pre-determined course ...

He has one job. Keep her safe. After leaving the military, Jace isn’t looking for another job that can get him killed. Problem is, he helped a man in trouble and as a result found himself in the middle of a pharmaceutical war. He should walk away. Once he meets the man’s daughter, however, his heart tells him to stay and when she becomes a pawn in that war he’s hired to protect her. The job should be just what he wants – a way to get close to her -- except he knows how the protection business works. No fraternization with the client. But for this particular job, fraternization is ...

Elle Olmstead isn’t your normal, every-day botanist. She’s different. As a descendant of Ceres, goddess of the harvest and fertility, she, like others of her family, has a magic touch with plants. Real, honest-to-goodness magic. Which is why she unwillingly stows away on the Destiny, a space ship filled with ten thousand colonists heading for a distant planet. Because she knows that her abilities are essential to keep the plants alive that keep the colonists alive and that will be the basis for their survival when they reach their destination. She's caught and thrown in prison, where ...

In a blizzard and freezing to death, Elena crawls into a flying saucer that shouldn’t exist but does. She convinces the pilot to let her stay and ends up at a super-secret, remotely hidden facility where she learns about the Atlas Project and the unknown men and women who are the guardians of the solar system. She joins this elite squad and soon goes on patrol with the very man who didn’t want her in his craft. The man she’s foolishly in love with. Is she a fool to risk her life fulfilling a dream that didn’t exist until that fateful day? In the vast reaches of space where danger is...

Can the wilderness heal? Can the peace of the deep, cathedral-like forest help a disturbed child? Rae Brown returns to her forest home after losing her job, unaware that a traumatized child has come along as a stowaway. When Rae discovers Sheila, she is distraught. She has enough problems. But Rae knows the power of the elemental forest and accepts the challenge of helping this hurting child. What she doesn’t count on is having the precocious girl play matchmaker, wanting to turn Rae and the man across the road into her real life parents. And what about that hunky neighbor, anyway? If you...

What if you went for a walk and brought home a man from another era? Impossible, you say! Sometimes the impossible happens. When Carey finds an unconscious man among the wildflowers on her farm, he awakens knowing only his name and what her farm was like a hundred years ago. He’s clearly suffering from amnesia and ‘something else’ that the doctor doesn’t understand, but when the doctor tells Carey he’ll recover his memory faster in familiar surroundings—and the farm is familiar-- she offers him a place in her home to avoid sending him to an institution, not dreaming how ...

Ani sees ghosts. She talks to them. Then she puts them to work. Problem is, they want something in return. Ani had better do as they say or her aunt’s stolen jewelry will never be recovered. But how can she give them what they want when she can’t even recover a missing dog? And since when did finding a wife for an orphan’s uncle become a case for a private investigator even if she is licensed and everything? And what mysteriously changes her ‘Ani Leland Investigations’ sign to ‘After Life Investigations?’ Yep, it’s the ghosts and be careful what you ask for because you just ...

She knew the risk. She went anyway. Hidden in a crevice of Emma's newly inherited ranch lies a portal to other worlds. Brimming with curiosity and accompanied by her tough, good-looking, ex-military neighbor, Emma enters the unknown worlds her late uncle had so meticulously tried to hide. Problem is, exploring is one thing. Returning alive is another thing entirely that requires unraveling the mystery of the portal that binds these worlds together. But how can you do that when you’re fighting for your life? The knowledge and wealth of a thousand worlds is the reward for braving the ...