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During a walk on a country road with her collies, Jennet meets a girl playing ball with her dog in front of a pink Victorian house. A few days later, a ruin stands where she saw the house, and there is no sign of the girl or the dog. Is this strange transformation a supernatural manifestation or something more sinister?The house was beautiful... a vintage pink Victorian in a picturesque but lonely country setting, and the girl playing ball with her dog in the yard was friendly, suggesting that she and Jennet walk their dogs together some time.Jennet thinks she has made a new friend, until she returns to the house and finds a tumbling down ruin where the Victorian once stood and no sign that the girl and dog had ever been there.
Conservator Flora Garibaldi discovers that several paintings in Florence's Uffizi Gallery have been replaced by clever forgeries. Where are the original artworks, and who's in charge of the smuggling operation? Flora's efforts to help the police make her the target of a criminal mastermind and murderer.
Over twenty years since making her bargain with the blood mage, Trenna had begun to hope Dyngannon had forgotten them. But when their exile is interrupted by assassins, she knows the time has come for Kaden to make his choice, a choice that will have consequences for all of Dyngannon.
Wilma Lawson works in the town's only mercantile and lives in the apartment above the store. Her job gives her a chance to get to know all the town's residents as well as to see her three best friends, who have all married: Amelia to a half-breed rancher, Grace to the sheriff, and Nelda to a retired Army major who now owns the mercantile. Would Wilma ever meet a man and establish a home of her own instead of envying her friends? After a severe beating from his father, Clay Hunter left town before his 13th birthday. After falling in with the wrong crowd, he ended up in prison. The government offered him a pardon if he'd secretly work for them. He was in his mid-twenties when they released him, and he decided to return to his hometown. Though he planned to keep a low profile in town, he came upon a wagon load of orphans and their murdered guardian. He soon found himself not only the man who rescued them, but the man they looked to as their new guardian. Would he ever be able to lead a normal life and pursue a relationship with Wilma, or would he always be Mr. Clay, the children's provider?
Chance Bonner is an American boy with an existential secret he is about to discover: he is living his life backwards. He is in his first incarnation, and has already found the correct practice, the Buddhism of the Sun. His mother taught him about this philosophy and its daily recitation of sections of the sacred sutra. As these facts of his early life demonstrate, Chance is very, very lucky. It's karma, actually, and his is extremely good. But is it good enough to enable him to stand alone, combat, and defeat the various negative forces of the Universe which arise to confront him? To confound his every effort to develop into an upstanding human being? To even kill him if they cannot destroy his spirit-his luck? He must first determine what these forces are and where they originate. Without this knowledge, all of his efforts will be futile.
Zelda has to care for her bedridden stepmother and her two children. She doesn't know her stepmother has made a secret deal that will force Zelda to marry an unscrupulous man.Wiley Hendrix shows up and finds Zelda trying to save a failing ranch with no help. He decides to help her save the place as well as saving herself.
Doctor Quentin Trimble's inveterate hypochondria renders his temporary suspension from work-and relegation to "gardening duty"-all but inevitable. As he struggles to adjust to his new routine, the fairy Fion appears in Quentin's toolshed, ushering him into a world of life-changing possibilities, and making him the catalyst for a series of adventures involving his family, his colleagues and a motley crew of strangers, which unfold against the backdrop of a pandemic of global magnitude. Underpinning the story's entire fabric is a quirky take on romance, whose tongue-in-cheek tone belies a serious appreciation of the redeeming power of love.
Detective Mark Forbes and his wife, Sarah, find themselves immersed in the hunt for an interstate serial killer. Mark's assigned to the first victim's investigation. Sarah is interested in the skeletal remains of a young female found on the second victim's property. The bones are 1000 years old and likely the result of human sacrifice. Two additional murders take place in a bridal shop and the hunt for the killer intensifies. When Sarah discovers the link between the long-dead sacrifice and the crimes, she knows she could be the next victim.
The city of El Paso, Texas is under siege. A Quiet Street in El Paso may be a fiction thriller but reads like today's headlines. We read every day about the immigration problems, the wall, and about families being separated. Not to mention the endless stream of illegal drugs crossing the border from Juarez, Mexico.
Unwed at thirty-five, Kate has settled for a life of service to her family. They loved and appreciated her, didn't they? Of course, they did. She was sensible and knew that no one had everything she wanted. Perhaps marriage wasn't that great. After all, her brother's ten-year marriage had ended in divorce. Henry came home to live, and after their father's death managed the family's import/export business. They never involved Kate in business matters. Even when her mother was alive, Kate managed the domestic chores. When Henry was murdered, Kate's world exploded. It destroyed her past and put her future in doubt.
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