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By the author of THE TRUNK KEY, RAISING ABEL, and LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH, a new romantic adventure, PHOENIX HEART. After surviving a brutal childhood, it's hard work that has brought Melanie Brennan the good things in life: college and being accepted into a prestigious graduate school. Even so, she clings to the belief that it will be magic that will bring her true love. But it's not magic that pulls her into a life or death struggle alongside her too-handsome professor, Andrew Richards, to find evidence to clear him of charges that he blew up his lab to cover fraud. As they fly to San...

On her way to work, for one terrifying instant Jennifer Canfield sees a tiny hand in the trunk of a car that barely misses slamming into her van. A doll? A child? With no time to think she must act and so begins a non-stop, breathlessly suspenseful journey to find the truth and possibly save a life. Stephen Baron, a road construction worker, joins her in her pursuit of a possible kidnapper through the hills of California. And where the chase ends reveals exactly how courage and love can show up when we least expect them and change everything. Novella. Paperback edition of the Kindle Single...

To impress her boss, Linda Rogers eagerly volunteers to take in a foster child for the holiday season. She's well-organized in and outside the office; the addition of a child? A simple matter of blocking out the hours in her day planner and laying in a few supplies. Never mind that she's single. Never mind that she's never cared to have a lasting relationship or build a family. Housing seven-year-old Lucy Green for Christmas is simply to boost Linda up the next career step, nothing more. At least, that was the plan. But when Lucy's presence triggers long-hidden memories that challenge the...

KIRKUS REVIEW RAISING ABEL A woman of remarkable resourcefulness single-handedly raises a troubled child all the way to manhood in this intimate and inspiring blog-to-book memoir. At 38, Carolyn Nash had a good job, no apparent struggles and few conscious regrets-save, perhaps, her weight and her childlessness. She remedies the latter by fostering and then adopting 3-year-old Abel, a victim of unspeakable parental abuse, most of it sexual. The consequences are predictable and agonizing. Abel is charmingly innocent yet uncontrollably violent, and as he grows, so do his PTSD symptoms. He...

History of South Callaway, Missouri, originally published in the Mokane Herald-Post in 1903, detailed stories of hundreds of Callaway County pioneers includes genealogy tracing three or four generations. Family histories are brought to life by by a 73 year-old native Callawegian who grew up with the new county and knew everyone for miles around. A partial list of the families included: Allen, Bagby, Baker, Bartley, Bennett, Benson, Billingsly, Blackburn, Brite, Brooks, Brown, Bryan, Caldwell, Chappell, Cleveland, Coats, Coblenz, Coats, Collier, Conger, Daugherty, Davis, Dickinson, Dollar,...