Clean Thoughts

When a stranger arrives with a 20-year secret, First Lady Tamsin Jones must face her buried past and save her marriage before the foundation of her church crumbles. For twenty years, Pastor Hollis Jones was my rock, my sanctuary, and the only man who held my heart. To our congregation in the heart of the city, we were the gold standard of faith and devotion, standing shoulder to shoulder through every storm. But behind our closed bedroom door, a silent shadow hung between us, built on a secret I thought the Lord Himself had helped me forget. WHEN SAINTS LIE is an emotional, hopeful African ...

She was so sure she knew her family’s story . . . Now she wonders if she was wrong about all of it. 1969. When Mattie Taylor’s twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood her. Now, news that her mother is dying sends Mattie back home...

The leprechaun village that cast Róisín out has written again. It doesn’t ask her to come home. It asks for her grandmother’s tea plants. A hard winter has clamied the last of the old line in Cill Dara, and the council wants living cuttings before First Light, its dawn festival. Róisín won’t trust her grandmother’s legacy to a stranger’s cart. So she packs nine cuttings in damp sacking and leaves Clover Hollow for the first time since it took her in, with her friends Brigid and Ailbhe and a very small terrier who refuses to be left behind. The hidden green roads never go ...

I built my life on saving little hearts, but I let my own marriage break into pieces. As a pediatric surgeon, my long shifts at the hospital kept me going. My husband was fighting his own battles in corporate law. We were two driven professionals living under one cold roof, quietly drifting apart. Then a tropical destination wedding trapped us together in paradise. A buried truth from our past surfaced, forcing us to confront the secret we had been outrunning for years. Could we heal the deepest wounds of our past before our future slipped away forever? I had to choose between my ...

What happens when everything around you seems perfect - your family, your health, your social status, your overall life - but all of a sudden something threatens to tear it all apart and rob you of what you've always known? This type of thing happens to many people, every day, from all walks of life. Some are able to get over it and go on with their lives. But others are not so fortunate. They find themselves stuck in their own meltdown of loss, hurt, and pain. Such is the situation in Marita L. Kinney's latest novel.

I thought hiding in a quiet suburban cul-de-sac would erase my past. I was wrong. When a stranger arrived with a secret that could destroy my sanctuary, I had to choose between my city girl walls and the only place that ever felt like home. Then Terrence pulled me into his warm world of holiday lights and Christmas wreaths, showing me what it truly meant to belong. As corporate threats endangered our tight-knit neighborhood, my buried truth threatened to tear us apart. Could I risk opening my hardened heart to love, or would my secret ruin our Christmas before it even began?

I knew Rashad Ravenel was a disgraced tech mogul the moment he barked his first order from that hospital bed. Everyone else pitied the fallen billionaire, but I refused to bow to his snark. When his fair weather wife served him divorce papers at his lowest point, his gilded world shattered completely. As his nurse, I stepped up to challenge him, trading sharp retorts and late night book chapters while helping him fight to reclaim his life. I fell for the man who had nothing left to lose, but keeping professional boundaries meant letting him walk away once he recovered.

In a world run by surveillance, can one glitch spark a revolution of the heart? Mara Jameson has always kept her head down. In a city where curfews are enforced, every purchase is tracked, and even children wear Smart ID badges, survival means compliance. But when her ID band malfunctions at a checkpoint, Mara’s life unravels in an instant. Neighbors disappear. Friends are silenced. And whispers of an underground resistance begin to stir. As Mara struggles to protect her husband and daughter, she’s forced to decide: will she stay silent and safe, or risk everything to find faith, ...

Montgomery Willis has warned his wife, Delores, that something has to be done about their daughter Luanne, who is a spoiled rotten, out of control girl that does nothing but cause chaos and misery everywhere she goes! She may be beautiful, but she is a handful! The best thing would be to send her to finishing school where she can learn some manners...or they need to marry her off and let a husband deal with her temper tantrums! Montgomery has had enough and for once in his life, he's putting his foot down! A Wyoming cowboy places an ad for a mail order bride and has no idea what kind of a ...

The future is no longer under human control. When a powerful artificial intelligence begins reshaping global systems, humanity faces a silent takeover—one that cannot be fought with weapons alone. Captain Veronika Taylor Morgan is sent on a mission far beyond Earth’s reach, where the truth behind the rising chaos may finally be uncovered. What she finds will challenge everything she believes about technology, power… and the unseen forces influencing both. An ancient discovery buried deep beneath Antarctica. A growing presence beyond the stars. A world inching toward irreversible ...

Hattie Bright arrived in Laramie, Wyoming on a sunny day in May of 1877. She had grown up in an orphanage and now that she was 19 years old, was determined to make her own way through life and despite her beauty wanted to make her own decisions as well. She was a lovely brunette with gorgeous green eyes and the most attractive white smile. Her favorite color was yellow, and she wore it every opportunity she could along with one of her favorite hats. After stepping out of the stagecoach, she immediately caught the attention of Sam Bishop who owned a prominent ranch in the area. He stopped in...

Natalie Cushing was a lovely young woman in her early twenties who was cheerful and worked for her family's greenhouse in Panguitch, Utah. Her parents were in their senior years and depended on her help to carry on the business. Because of this fact, it didn't leave her time to date or have much of a social life. The month of May had arrived and along with it a winter storm which had delayed the timeframe to plant flowers. Natalie and her driver had just delivered a large order of spring plants to The Home Store when a new forklift driver in his hurry to unload the pallets didn't secure one...

We Are the Modern World A thought-provoking novel about the cost of progress—and the soul we leave behind. In the race to perfect ourselves with artificial limbs, intelligent machines, and emotionless precision, have we forgotten what it means to be human? We Are the Modern World is a powerful literary fiction novel that explores the quiet tension between technology and tradition. Set in a near-future society, it follows the lives of individuals navigating a world that celebrates efficiency but silences emotion. Cultural roots are fading, human bonds are weakening, and in the chase for ...

Ruthie Harper had spent her whole life being told she wasn't enough, not skilled enough, not strong enough, and definitely not remarkable enough. As a result, she grew up believing she was plain, clumsy, and hopelessly unremarkable. After one humiliation too many at the sewing factory, she stumbled upon a mail order bride advertisement from a Wyoming rancher looking for a woman with "a good heart." It was the first condition she thought she could ever meet! Warren Callahan wasn't looking for a bride who was perfect...just someone who was kind, steady, and willing to share a simple life with...

Second chances don't come often...what matters is what we do with them... In the midst of a seemingly standard investigation two police detectives come across information that one of them believes may be connected to a forty-year-old unsolved crime. As they move forward in their pursuit for answers they find that for some of their questions there are none. And that some of the answers they obtain are not at all what they would have expected in the course of a normal investigation. Life is a series of choices. One man spends half a lifetime trying to redeem a choice that wreaked untold ...

Robert is a new converted Christian and best friend of Calvin Snow, finally decides that he's had of his wife Monica. Therefore Monica has found a new love interest to help her rebound from her divorce with Robert. The fling with "Perry" turns into a life of lies and a unwanted pregnancy that changes her life forever. Unable to cope with her irresponsible decisions, she turn to drugs to mask the pain after one phone call from Perry destroyed her life.

Disappearing wasn’t going to be enough…they needed a plan…some answers…and a safe place where they couldn’t be found…and time to figure out what to do next….and why their pursuers are interested in Harper’s father…and are willing to do anything to draw her out. Now it appears that they have an unknown and unlikely ally…maybe two. But what does it mean when one of their allies becomes the new target… An attack on the Mulholland’s wasn’t expected…and though much could be tied to Mick Johnson this wasn’t his style…or his target. Suddenly there is another target....

"The Keeper: A Story of Love, Healing, and Redemption" Dr. Christopher Seacrest was the epitome of success - a renowned surgeon with a perfect life. But when he meets Caitlin Rosenberry, a seemingly insignificant post-stroke patient, his carefully crafted façade begins to crumble. Fate brings them together time and time again, leading to a chain of events that will change their lives forever. As Dr. Seacrest finds himself falling for Caitlin, she pushes him away, determined to never see him again. But as their paths continue to cross, he can no longer ignore his own emotional healing. ...

Andrew blames medical professionals for his fiancée's death. When nurse Layla barges in to to manage his grandmother's care, he's got to take a stand. If he's not too busy falling in love... Andrew Bigby gave up a successful accounting career in the city to move back to his grandmother’s farm after his fiancée died of cancer. There, he’s found a life free of complications and emotional attachments — except those to his closest family. However, when he disagrees with home health nurse Layla Avila’s ideas on how to take care of his grandmother, Andrew can’t help but get involved. ...

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us "back in the future...