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She crossed a mountain to get them to safety. She didn't plan on staying for the winter. Eight years after the country came apart, Mabel Gray has finally reached Kettle Falls—the free county her father helped build, the one place the Regional Authority never managed to put on its books. She told herself she was only delivering a downed pilot and his ten-year-old son to somewhere safe. But the first hard snow seals the pass behind her, and safety, she's learning, is a place with walls that keep people in as surely as they keep the world out.

She wasn’t supposed to bring him back. She did it anyway. Eight years after the collapse, Mabel Gray survives inside Ridgeline Valley, a hidden settlement in Washington’s Cascade Mountains. Its forty residents are held together by strict rules, guarded borders, and the fragile belief that survival depends on keeping the outside world out. Mabel follows the rules. Mostly. Then she finds an unconscious boy beside a mountain road, watched over by a loyal dog who refuses to leave him.

Linda Delaney and Timandra Murdock mysteriously disappear on the same day. Police investigation reveals no commonalities or association between the two women, but detectives don’t believe in coincidence. * ** Like a fish out of water, Courtney March is determined to conquer her anxiety and leave home to begin “adulting.” In hunting for her first apartment, she encounters Linda Delaney, a woman who could be her twin. The small complex at Eleven-eighty-five Lincoln Avenue becomes the setting for unexpected adventure and romance.

Better Than Mom's is a neighborhood diner in a small city in Wisconsin where good food and interesting people come together. Meet Brady, the warm-hearted owner who takes pride in making homemade food for his customers, Fay, the sassy morning waitress who cares for people more than she lets on, Naomi, the welfare mom who cooks like an angel and needs a job, Steve, who sits in the back booth and won't let anyone see what he's writing, and Officer Bates, who comes to investigate a crime but ends up sweeping Fay off her feet.

No good deed goes unpunished in a willfully blind, technocratic society. Gordon Gray, a retired librarian, only wishes to chain smoke, read twentieth-century novels by dead white men, and at the time of his choosing, shuffle off his mortal coil. Everyone from his thanatophobic doctor to his New Age neighbor has an opinion on what Gordon should want and how he should be treated.

In Silverdale, Washington the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse are preparing for the coming winter storms. But just as they’re stocking away the last of the fall harvest, they make a disturbing discovery - someone has pilfered the food supplies!

Despite her success in teaching, and being named Teacher of the Year, Jennifer Donnelly abruptly leaves. Flashbacks are taking her back in time, revealing a horrible secret from her past. Only when she discovers the truth can Jennifer move forward in life.

Gail Logan, a widow in her mid-fifties, has lived her life by what other people think. That has to change. Signing up for a watercolor class and thrifting a new wardrobe with a young classmate makes a good start. Replanting her regimented flower garden is another idea, but at the garden center, Abel Baker dismisses her plan and tells her what to buy. Gail doesn’t appreciate his interference. Widower Abel turns up in Gail’s path again and again, but she buried one bossy man, and she’s not interested in another. Should she give Abel a chance?

Energized by changes in careers and romances, the ladies of Novel Women book club transition from a tumultuous summer into autumn. But they soon discover that this new stage of life doesn’t come with instructions. Sandwiched between their parents and children, they rely on each other to navigate this confusing period.

Jennifer was a successful and talented school teacher living a fulfilled life. But when the night terrors started, her world was turned upside down, blurring her past and present into one. Unable to continue, her teaching life came crashing down by the burden of her dark thoughts. As she searches for answers, she must delve deep into her memories of 16 key moments she has shared with men during the course of her life.

Join Irene and Hilda Jo as they navigate their way through the Leantimes, uncovering clues and trying to solve the mystery before it’s too late. With its unique blend of cozy mystery and post-apocalyptic setting, In the Leantimes will keep you guessing until the very end.

Arranged marriages and parental dominion were deeply established in Grace’s Irish Travelers’ heritage. While betrothed to Collen, Grace accepted her ancestor’s traditions, but hoped her future with him would allow her to be a writer, a voice of encouragement in the world. Then Collen died. As her friendship grew with Collen’s younger brother Zane, everyone expected a new arrangement was in the works. There was . . . Grace and her sister were shocked to overhear their father promise Grace to Zane’s widower father.

In 1986, with only days until summer break, high school freshman Mamie Blackhead finds herself under the path of a small exploding plane while walking to school. Fighting to avoid the raining debris she discovers a neon knapsack with a journal detailing the life of a boy who may have perished in the sky above. As she digs deeper into the journal she uncovers a mystery that will haunt her the rest of her life.

A getaway to a lush vacation rental with her best friend is just what Abby needs after breaking off her engagement to her fiancé. She’s on her way out to enjoy a relaxing day at the beach when she notices a foul smell in the garage. She freezes when she sees the limb of a dead body.

In Silverdale, Washington the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse are preparing for the coming winter storms. But just as they’re stocking away the last of the fall harvest, they make a disturbing discovery—someone has pilfered the food supplies!

A heady tale of a single mom who, after discovering she has a twin that was adopted into a wealthy family, doubles as her twin and is catapulted into danger that neither twin anticipated.

To Hell and Back Again: An Insight Into Addiction is a collection of journal entries that were written by Leona Mae Peters during her six month stay at a drug rehabilitation facility in Orlando, Florida.

Delve into the world of all things feline in this anthology of tales of whimsy, courage, and wonder.

Meg Randallman is just four years old when her six-year-old sister Laura dies and her mother, Norma, kidnaps Meg and her brother, Ray. Meg often wonders how different her personality might have been had she not experienced the brutal shock and grief of Laura's death during her formative years.

McKenna Williams is determined to let nothing mess up her zen, until she gets a request to teach a private yoga class for recent divorcee Piper Patrick, and she’s hit with an instant attraction so intense, she can barely breathe. Everything about falling for Piper is a bad idea. The magnetic pull toward each other is undeniable, and McKenna knows that it can only end in heartbreak.