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All Greg Linsey wants is for his work to mean something. His job at TRPA gives him the opportunity to fight for the environment he loves and make a difference in his small corner of the world. But with the sophisticated Monica Scott's arrival, his dedication is tested as never before, especially when Monica turns to his unscrupulous nemesis for assistance.

Sybil is an office temp by day and a columnist by night for New York Shock, a chatty rag (her column is called "Abscess", which is a wound that never heals). Her friends include a paper-pusher for a human rights organization, and the lead singer of a local rock band called Glass Half Empty. Full of cultural detail, mid-90s observations, and early adulthood anxieties, it’s ultimately an ironic look at what it means to be a love slave.

Dr. Margo Devaull came to Dominic Zanelli's mountain retreat confident that she could help this Vietnam veteran overcome the torment that kept him apart from the world. But her training as a psychologist had not prepared her for the tragic, explosive contradictions brewing inside him. For here was a sensitive artist who could be gentle - and a man whose eyes flashed with violence and pain when he told her to leave and never come back.

After a night-shift shooting of a drug dealer in The Coffee Cave, twelve strangers each walk out with more than $100,000 in dirty money, a pact never to meet again, and the chance to start over. Until that night, Sasha "Sugar" Kovac spent her days selling coffee to the co-eds at ASU Rio Verde and her nights trying not to join the throngs of girls lusting after her friend, Adam. But why should Sugar give in to the Harley-riding tattoo artist when his longest relationships haven't lasted more than a weekend?

Cassandra Puffin and Sylvie Furst met in high school but cement what they ardently believe will be everlasting friendship on Bennington's idyllic Vermont campus. Graduation sees Sylvie moving to New York City, where, later in their 20s, Cassandra joins her. These early, delirious years are spent decorating their Fort Greene apartment with flea market gems, dating "artists", and trying to figure out what they're doing with their lives.

Skye Larsen loves her peaceful life on Leeza Island in Puget Sound - the tranquility, the friendly neighbors, and especially the safety from big-city dangers. So when cruel pranks start to escalate and changes threaten to overtake the island, Skye is determined to fight for her haven. The presence of a handsome vacationer and the unexpected feelings he awakens can't distract her from her goal. Danny Fraser doesn't realize how desperately he needs a rest until he meets Skye.

Jess Devereaux is a girl with a plan - shake loose from her stalker ex, gain her independence from her over-controlling family and seduce her sexy shooting instructor into the wild, raunchy, no-strings-attached fling she's been dreaming of. Declan Cavanagh is a guy with a plan - do whatever it takes to gain custody of his young half-brother from his violent, drunken stepfather. Then came the gun. The blood. The body on the coffee shop floor.

Alice Fairweather, a lapsed Catholic who lives in upstate New York with her two sons and philandering husband (whom she loves to distraction), has just lost her dream job as a radio talk show hostessUnexpectedly, her husband’s charismatic, Nicaraguan, Harvard roommate, Abelardo - coffee planter, failed seminarian, and scion of an old Nicaraguan family - comes to visit as part of his quest to have his aunt canonized as the first Nicaraguan saint.

Prowling endless miles of concrete on eighteen wheels with a diesel engine roar, a nocturnal predator is at large. He has already claimed the lives of five women, leaving their mutilated remains behind like roadkill. Now, Amanda is his passenger - and he's taking her for a ride into terror.

THE BLONDE WITH HALF A FACE, a neo-noir mystery set in a half-gentrified, still dangerous inner city, traces Candy Dyer's fall and rise and her ultimate revenge. BHF has three acts: 1. How Candy lost her face. 2. How she found her soul. 3. How she tasted revenge. Fast-paced, full of twists and turns, it's a Brooklyn few have seen, and lived to tell about.

It isn't easy being related to a feminist icon, especially when she's celebrating the greatest moment of her career. Just ask the daughters of Lydia Hennessey, who could have it all if only they'd stop self-destructing. Mariana, the eldest, is on the verge of throwing away a distinguished reputation in journalism, along with her marriage. Nina, the middle daughter, has returned from a medical mission overseas as a changed woman but won't discuss it with anyone. And Beata, the youngest, has a hostile teenaged son who discovered the existence of a father who didn't know about him either.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter races to uncover a secret construction project at California's San Quentin tied to a possible mass execution. Reporter Garrett Covington tries to unravel the mysterious "Project Q", while probing the psyche of a serial killer and seeking evidence to free an innocent man on death row. Meanwhile, a sadistic political operative in the governor's office plans a mass execution.

From the Philadelphia skyline to the rural suburbs of New Jersey, Dead Air weaves a suspenseful tale of past misdeeds and present malice as Kaitlyn plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with a mysterious killer who will stop at nothing to get revenge.

The body of a young man has been found in the woods outside Newberg, dead from a close-range shotgun blast. The gun - his own - lies beside the body. Certain things don’t add up for Detective Tia Suarez. Where did the fat envelope of cash in his pocket come from? Who called the police to report the body, then disappeared before the cops arrived? The trail leads Tia to an institution for juvenile incarceration and to the leader of a local mega-church, a political and economic powerhouse in the region. Newberg’s mayor and the medical examiner keep trying to close the case.

When expectant mother Livia Karras spontaneously falls victim to aquagenic urticaria - an allergy where a single drop of water against her skin could be fatal - doctors determine her condition to be purely psychosomatic. Psychologist Elliot Chiles is assigned to her case. He suspects she is subconsciously sabotaging her own pregnancy due to unresolved guilt over a traumatic childhood accident, but Livia believes she knows the real cause - she's being preyed upon by a malevolent supernatural entity out for revenge.

Carol Craig Cowan-Lanyon had an idyllic childhood. Her mother, "Miz Bambo", embodied comfort, filling her world with art and magic. Her father kept her safe and told her she could be anything she wanted to be. But when Carol's father died just before her 15th birthday, the foundations began to crack. Without warning, Bambo became volatile and impossible to please. And at the end of Carol's sophomore year in college, Bambo disrupted all of her plans for the future with a declaration.

Meg and Don, aka the Dauntless Duncans, give up their high-powered legal life in Washington, DC, when they inherit a houseboat in Key West. It’s all renewed romance and conch fritters until Meg saves a little girl from drowning - awakening a maternal longing she never expected to feel.

Gertrude Atherton was a gothic novelist and short story writer. A protégée of Ambrose Bierce, his influence can be seen in many of her stories, which often have overt references to the supernatural. In "Death and the Woman," a woman sits all alone in grief at her dying husband's side, waiting for Death to claim him. In the creepy, desolate surroundings, her imagination begins to get the best of her - but is it only her imagination?

Prickly, buttoned-up racing team owner Abby Ellison isn’t legendary playboy Matteo Di Sione’s type. But Abby has something he needs – a necklace prized by his grandfather – and where his lethal charm doesn’t work, sponsorship of her team does! As they travel from Dubai to Monte Carlo to Brazil, Matteo thrives on the thrill of the racing world, and the surprising allure of innocent Abby. But when he discovers the secret that drives Abby’s ambition, Matteo realises he can’t just take the necklace and walk away…

Greek billionaire Leon Carides has it all: wealth, power, notoriety, even a wife—though he's never touched his convenient, innocent bride. Then an accident rids this damaged, debauched playboy of his memories... Leon remembers nothing, except his wife's sparkling blue eyes. Now the desire he feels for Rose overrides the gaps in his past, making her impossible to resist! But when his sins catch up with him, can Rose forgive the mistakes of the man he once was? Or will Leon lose more than just his memory?