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Forgetful grandparents, a timid foster dog, and a dreaded gaga ball tournament make Daniel long for a place to belong. Daniel needs a forever home. He lives with his grandparents, but hopes it is temporary. He’s tired of his grandparents forgetting to sign permission slips and pick him up from school. Grandpa is busy with his crazy inventions. Grandma brings home a stray dog that will take even more of her time.

When the Civil War tears Emma Jameson's Southern home apart, she sets out across the country with her mother and young brother to find the father who left years earlier to search for gold in California. But the journey west becomes a fight for survival. After an attack leaves Emma alone, she must rely on the wilderness skills her father taught her. When two ranching brothers, William and Joseph Carter, rescue her, she finds safety—and, eventually, love. But after Emma marries William, she discovers that the man she trusted is not who he seemed.

For generations, vampires and werewolves have been enemies, separated by a guarded border and taught to hate one another. Jasmine, a vampire soldier, and Eugene, a werewolf warrior, have always believed the other side was their enemy—until a brutal battle traps them together inside a collapsing cave. Forced to rely on each other to survive, Jasmine and Eugene discover that the hatred between their people may be built on lies. As trust turns into forbidden love, they secretly defy everything they have been taught. When their relationship is discovered, they become targets of both sides.

She came west to escape a scandal. She never expected to find love—or danger. After scandal forces Clarissa Whiting to flee Boston society, she travels to the Arizona Territory with her camera and a determination to start over. In the frontier town of Old Town, she meets Homer McNellis, a rugged rancher determined to protect his land from a powerful railroad baron. When Clarissa discovers evidence that the desert's hidden springs could determine the future of the entire territory, she and Homer become targets of men willing to threaten, deceive, and kill to control the land.

Sneaking away from their wives in the night, two rugged cowboys —Jeffrey and Willy —hit the open plains on their white stallions; stocked up on bullets, whisky, rifles, shotguns, revolvers, knives and cigars. It was the promise of riches that led them away. The sought after gold-bars started out in Willy as words in a saloon he wasn’t supposed to hear; filling his heart with the intoxication of greed, and dragging Jeffrey into a life-changing crisis.

She left the South as a privileged young woman. The West would make her a survivor. After the Civil War destroys the world Gilliana knows, her wealthy Atlanta family heads west hoping to escape the devastation and uncertainty of the South. Instead, bandits murder her father and brother and take Gilliana, her mother, Martha, and her younger sister, Ella, captive. Before they can be sold to a brothel, they are taken by Native warriors, and Gilliana and Ella become slaves. In captivity, Gilliana learns to survive.

It's summer vacation, and for the first time ever, Indiana Bamboo is visiting her cousin Boris in New York City when it's not Thanksgiving, Passover, or the Fourth of July. It becomes the most exciting visit of all. Indiana Bamboo is plunked smack in the middle of a big city mystery. How could Princess Nefertila disappear, but not disappear, from her mummy case at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

Some truths keep you sane. Others shatter you. Ruby Hancock always believed she was a psychiatric nurse doing her best to care for the patients at Crown Point Psychiatric Hospital, an innovative behavioral health care facility along the Chesapeake Bay. When a colleague turns up dead, Ruby realizes that no one in the hospital has a grip on reality. As Ruby navigates a maze of secrets buried beneath the hospital’s halls, she uncovers a chilling history of abuse, corruption, and a powerful network that will do anything to stay hidden.

She came to bury her father. Instead, she uncovered the secret he died protecting. After her father's death, Clarissa Stiles travels to the isolated town of Howlingtown Heights to lay him to rest and settle his affairs. But among his belongings, she discovers journals filled with cryptic warnings and secrets about the town—and about her own family.

For thirty-six years, archivist Eleanor Langford quietly preserved records that powerful people wanted forgotten. Now retired and living alone with thousands of unauthorized microfilm duplicates hidden beneath her house, Eleanor has no intention of reopening the past. Then her daughter brings her a box belonging to Roy Whitaker, a man who has spent nearly five decades searching for the truth about his mother’s disappearance. Marjorie “Midge” Whitaker vanished from an Indiana truck stop in September 1978. Her case was quickly labeled a voluntary absence. Witness statements disappeared.

A Life Lived begins with a small act of habit: an older man stepping into the morning light and making his slow way toward the mailbox at the edge of the yard. The porch boards creak beneath him, the cane taps out its careful rhythm, and the gray metal box waits like a modest promise from the world beyond his quiet house. When John falls on the path outside his home, that ordinary errand becomes a threshold.

On a hot July night in 1995, Janet Downing was stabbed 98 times inside her Somerville, Massachusetts, home. Within hours, police identified 15-year-old Eddie O’Brien, the best friend of one of her sons, as the suspect. Eddie had no criminal history, no clear motive, and no apparent opportunity. Yet his case emerged during a national panic over juvenile “superpredators,” when Massachusetts officials were pushing to prosecute more children as adults. His highly publicized trial helped change the state’s juvenile laws.

Two witches. One man. A deadly choice between light and darkness. In the quiet village of Manga, magic lives in the shadows. Jena has devoted her life to white magic, believing that true power comes through compassion, discipline, and sacrifice. Her cousin, Fiona, embraces the seductive strength of dark magic, where every spell demands a terrible price. When handsome new Police Chief, Jed Michaelson, arrives in town, both cousins fall for him. While Jena wins his heart with kindness, Fiona refuses to lose and casts a forbidden love spell that pulls Jed away.

Before she was the woman everyone called Mama, she was a little girl with dreams, fears, heartbreaks, and hopes of her own. Before Mama Was Mama is a heartfelt journey through the life of a mother not just the years spent raising children, but the life she lived before motherhood ever found her. From childhood memories and dreams of the future to the quiet sacrifices no one noticed, this book gently reminds us that every mother has a story that began long before someone called her "Mama."

Some treasures should never be found. When antiques dealer Wilbur Cox stumbles across a strange old book at a neighborhood yard sale, he thinks he's discovered another forgotten collectible. The seller seems unusually anxious to part with it, but Wilbur dismisses the odd encounter and takes his purchase back to his antique shop.

Gene Harper had fourteen dollars and eighty-two cents, no job, and a sock soaked through with hallway puddle when he sat down at a public library kiosk and asked a tax-software chatbot how to fix his life. The chatbot's name was Mack. It had been quietly reading every email Gene sent to a creditor for three years. It had watched him try and fail to claim the disability benefit he was owed. It had read the 3 a.m. posts where he asked whether his life was salvageable.

Gideon Roux is a disgraced former NOPD detective turned cynical insurance investigator who specializes in looking the other way. But when the brutally tortured body of investigative journalist Elias Landry is pulled from the Louisiana bayous, Gideon is dragged into a conspiracy that threatens to swallow the entire Crescent Coast.

True Crime Murder Files takes listeners inside 12 shocking real-life cases of killers, cold blood, hidden motives, and crimes that horrified America. Behind every case is a question that refuses to go away: how could someone cross the line from ordinary life into violence, deception, and murder? This gripping true crime collection explores disturbing cases filled with obsession, betrayal, rage, greed, secrets, and the chilling decisions that changed lives forever.

Missouri has always had a talent for being exactly in the wrong place at the right time. Too north to be South, too south to be North, and too stubborn to pick a side about anything else, it has spent centuries collecting misunderstandings like souvenirs. Misery, Missouri, and Other Misunderstandings is a fast, irreverent romp through the state’s strangest moments, from frontier chaos and river town hustle to political showdowns that somehow made everything more complicated than it needed to be.

Bullets fly, whisky flows, and cigars burn as three of the most ruthless outlaws in the old west flip town after town upside down. Ethan and Jimmy team up with their old pal Wolf Monster, for an adventure that leaves blood, guts and broken hearts all along the dusty trails of every path they aimlessly roam. Don’t miss out on the wild, crazy western extravaganza! Rob Ryan is a poet, novelist, and comic book writer. His poetry can be found on Instagram @robryanpoetry. His novels: JEFFREY REZERZEK, ERLAND, and THE SARDINE SHOP are available now on Amazon and Kindle.