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In When We Were Brave, we find a conflicted SS officer, Wilhelm Falk, who risks everything to escape the Wehrmacht and get out the message about the death camps. Izaak is a young Jewish boy whose positive outlook is challenged daily as each new perilous situation comes along. American citizens, Herbert Müller, and his family, are sent back to the hellish landscape of Germany because of the DNA coursing through their veins. In the panorama of World War II, these are the high-stakes plots and endearing characters whose braided fates we pray will work out in the end.

This is a powerful tale of family, a celebration of decency, and the heartbreak of society’s injustices then that rings true today. ★★★★★ Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, where horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden. It's Georgia 1921. Mute since birth, fifteen-year-old Willow Stewart has one task to complete—to leave her Appalachian homestead and find a traveling preacher and her brother, Briar. When a peddler kidnaps her, she escapes only to face an unjust arrest and penal servitude. ...

A new job in rural Pennsylvania. How hard can five patients be? In this cozy mystery set in rural Pennsylvania, a young woman from San Francisco searches for her birth parents while beginning her first job as a home-health speech pathologist. She soon learns how hard one job can be as she navigates the backwoods of Tungston, ("Tungs") trying to comply with the needs of her quirky patients, all the while being stalked by a violent fugitive, and finding herself unexpectedly falling for the charms of a small-town, including one hot fireman. Through no fault of her own, she exposes a criminal ...

When justice becomes personal, how far will one man go to stop the cycle of abuse? Wyatt Dardin is an artist, a junkyard king, and a man finally living in peace—until a bruised and broken child appears at his door, whispering the same horrors Wyatt barely escaped as a boy. What begins as a confrontation with the boy’s abusive father ends in blood—and Wyatt covering up a body on his own land. Haunted by the violence that shaped him, Wyatt embarks on a dangerous journey to track down the mother who vanished during his darkest days. But as he travels west, stories of abuse seem to follow...

Marleigh continues her summer contract as a speech therapist in rural Pennsylvania. Despite two near-death experiences, she pushes ahead to help her home-health patients while circling closer to answers about where her birth parents might have gone after leaving the witness protection program. Her romance with the local fireman deepens as do her worries. Should she get involved with why dead birds are turning up near her patient’s home or leave it to the locals? Or at summer’s end, if she doesn’t have answers about her past or definite ideas about her future, what should she do?

Book 2 of the Speaking in Tungs Cozy Mystery series Marleigh Benning is positive she’s mastered being a home speech therapist in the most remote region of Pennsylvania… and that the steep learning curve is behind her. But further surprises await around the next bend, as her six unpredictable clients keep her off balance; her relationship with a local fireman heats up to alarm-level arson; and she discovers why her birth parents were placed in witness protection. The biggest danger Marleigh faces as she traverses the rolling terrain, going house by house is her inadvertent entanglement ...