Runaway Life

When a woman needs to flee a bad marriage, it doesn’t matter that she’s the wife of the former Vice President, it only matters that she escapes... Sunday Bond longs for a life far from Washington D.C., and far from the husband who has kept her in a gilded cage for too long, locked up there with only his dark secrets to keep her company. When Sunday’s best friend, the former First Lady, moves south to Shipwreck Key, Sunday goes for a visit and decides to stay. The remote island off the coast of Florida is the perfect place to avoid the world’s prying eyes and to forget about her ...

I was four months pregnant when I caught my fiancé with his secretary... Not in a hotel... Not in our bed... On his desk. Twenty-four hours later, I boarded a plane with one suitcase, a broken heart, and a baby growing inside me. I traded Manhattan penthouses for a falling-down house in Montana. I thought I was running away. I wasn't expecting the cowboy next door. Cole Hargrove barely speaks. He wears worn boots, a battered hat, and looks at me like he sees every secret I'm trying to hide. He brought me firewood before a storm. Opened his home when mine wasn't safe. And never once asked ...

On her fiftieth birthday, Princess Alexandra walks out of the palace… and into the life she was never allowed to choose. For thirty years, Alexandra has smiled for the cameras, stood beside a prince, followed the rules, and let the Crown decide who she was supposed to be. But when duty finally costs too much, she does the one thing no one expects. She disappears. By morning, London is in chaos. The tabloids are circling. The palace is panicking. And everyone wants to know why a woman who seemed to have everything would leave it all behind. But Alexandra isn’t chasing scandal. She’s ...

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny didn't think the old trunk in their house held anything interesting. But an unusual statue they find inside leads them to the Reddimus Society, a secret guild dedicated to returning lost treasures to where they belong. Now the Aldens must help their new friends by traveling across the country with the statue and six mysterious boxes! Can the Boxcar Children keep these seven treasures out of the wrong hands?

Just hours before I am supposed to walk down the aisle, I find my “groom” in the most compromising situation. Heartbroken and devastated, I'm on a one way flight out of town to escape the embarrassment and salvage my dignity. Hawaii was supposed to be my escape—a solo honeymoon to heal a shattered heart. But fate had other plans in the form of Michael Thorne; A billionaire hotelier and former Navy SEAL. He's 6’3”, Salt and pepper haired, with blue eyes and a rock hard body...and he’s the answer to all of my questions. The problem for me:He’s my Best Friend's Dad, and an ...

Erik Carlson's life is going great. He's just passed his Hunter Safety Course and is scheduled to make his first hunting trip with his best friend, Patrick, that very weekend. His plans are shattered by the news that his parents, who are Army Reservists, have been unexpectedly called for duty in Iraq. With almost no warning, Erik is shipped off to North Dakota to stay with grandparents he barely knows. Though his grandmother is warm and welcoming, his grandfather, Big Darrell, is cold, gruff, and distant.

This program is read by the author, Golden Globe–winning actor Eric Roberts. In this brutally candid memoir, Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Eric Roberts pulls no punches about the ups and downs of his career and his sometimes stormy relationship with his famous sister, Julia. Eric...

She left him at the altar. Now she’s back — and the past won’t stay buried. Five years ago, Ruth Lapp fled her Amish wedding, abandoning Matthew Byler and shattering both their hearts. Now she’s returned for her sister’s wedding, hoping for forgiveness and a fresh start. But Matthew has never moved on. The quiet, steadfast man she left behind still carries the pain — and the undeniable spark — of their broken love. When vicious rumors explode through the community claiming Ruth ran for scandalous reasons, her family’s reputation and her sister’s wedding are suddenly at ...

Princess Alexandra has spent decades being everything the world expected of her—graceful, loyal, polished, and silent. But on the night of her fiftieth birthday, she does the unthinkable: she walks away. She leaves behind the palace, her failing marriage, and the life that has been suffocating her for years, escaping to Briarbridge Island—a windswept seaside haven off the coast of New England—where she hopes to finally remember who she is beyond the crown. But freedom comes at a price... Back in London, Prince Arthur is furious, the palace is closing ranks, and the press is watching ...

The most authentic novel of gangster family life ever written, from the No. 1 bestselling author. The Bailey brothers are gangsters determined to make their mark in the world. Peter and Daniel are chalk and cheese in many ways - Peter's calm exterior belies his ruthless nature, while Daniel's...

In The Skin I'm In, listeners saw into the life of Maleeka Madison, a teen who suffered from the ridicule she received because of her dark skin color. For decades fans have wanted to know the fate of the bully who made Maleeka's life miserable, Char. Now in Sharon Flake's latest and unflinching novel, The Life I'm In, we follow Charlese Jones, who, with her raw, blistering voice speaks the truths many girls face, offering insight to some of the causes and conditions that make a bully.

The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home. Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find...

Anastasia Krupnik's little brother, Sam, wants fangs more than anything in the world. But there is one big problem. Sam's mother, Mrs. Krupnik, has fangphobia and forbids Sam even to touch his plastic vampire fangs in the house. How can she not see how cool fangs really are? Sure, they make it hard to eat hot dogs, but they make him look disgusting - and Sam loves to took disgusting.

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I wasn't supposed to stop running. I walked out of my own wedding, drove until my car died on the shoulder of a highway outside a town I'd never heard of, and stood there in a dirty wedding dress, laughing at the sky like a woman who'd finally lost everything — and liked it. Then a motorcycle slowed beside me. The rider didn't speak. He just handed me a helmet. Gideon doesn't talk. Not about where he comes from. Not about the guilt that carved the silence into him. He watches, he protects, and he disappears before anyone gets close enough to ask why. But I'm not the kind of woman who lets...

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the fiery conclusion to her blazingly sexy Hell’s Belles series.The world knows her as the Duchess of Trevescan, the brightest star in London, the clever, beautiful wife of a hermit husband. What they do not know is that Duchess is...

Three stories concern the same woman - in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls' school into a wild love affair; in the second, she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her vanished child turns up caught in the grip of a religious cult. In these and other stories Alice Munro's understanding of the people about whom she writes makes their lives as real as our own.

TWO STRANGERS MEET A runaway bride. An Army Ranger. Sunset on a secluded Biloxi beach. She was heading west for freedom. He was heading east on a mission. It was just an enchanting moment in time... Until their chemistry made it a one-night stand they'd never forget. -Eight Years Later- Private Investigator, Ember Devereaux, was on the run again. And at 29 she was gorgeous, tough, strong-willed, very, very rich, and blessed with a healthy wild streak. One that burned with memories of a tattooed Ranger and a secret he didn't know. Two secrets actually. Twins born from their night in Biloxi. ...

I did it. I ran. Ran from one groom and straight into the arms of another man’s worst memory. One minute, I was Natalie—the country music star in a wedding dress, escaping the biggest mistake of my life. The next, I was hiding out at Heartbreak Ranch, a breathtaking wedding venue owned by Bo Somerset, the kind of guarded billionaire cowboy who looked at me like I was trouble wrapped in lace. He was not wrong. Bo knew exactly what it felt like to be humiliated at the altar. Years ago, he was the one left standing there with a broken heart and a crowd full of witnesses. So when I showed ...

Carl Weber takes readers back to church in his latest drama-filled novel, the much-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller, The Choir Director. It's been three years since Aaron Mackie succeeded in helping his friend and mentor, Bishop T.K. Wilson, dig his ministry out of financial...