Alex Hubbard will be going to jail for not paying alimony and his children will be heading for a foster home, unless he can get his sons away from their mentally ill and suicidal mother by taking custody of them. But to do that, he needs a woman! Where can he find a wife and stepmother who can teach his boys proper values? His only choice is someone he heartily dislikes. He really has no choice, so wedding bells ring for Alex and Shaina. She is thrilled with the challenge of making the ill-mannered boys into gentlemen, but how will …

Steeped in rich, Jamaican flavor, spicy patois, and a love that spans two decades and countries, Connie Lawrence whets the appetite with her debut novel, Are Men Really Dogs? Jazzming David’s life has been mapped out for her by her parents. She loves and adores her father, whom she wants to please, so medical school is in her future. But when her mother dies, Jazzming meets Jay and her life is never the same. Jonathan (Jay) Dennison meets beautiful Jazzming just as he is about to begin his second year of law school. The rhythm of his future changes as …

Set in a small farming town in Kansas in the late 1940s, this novel is the touching story of a woman who endures much after her heart is broken. Emma is a young woman who makes several mistakes in her youth. She falls in love with her sister’s boyfriend, but her sister tricks the man into marriage. Emma returns to town years later and tries to come to terms with her sister’s marriage, but uses poor judgment instead. She marries a man she doesn’t know well and doesn’t love. He turns out to be a mean drunk, and she experiences …

Katarine Van Der Kline is an independent young woman with a promising modeling career in her father’s advertising agency. But a fatal accident one Sunday afternoon kills her parents, leaving Katarine alone to mourn for her unexpected loss.Short on money to cover the funeral expenses, Katarine was forced to sell her home. Her inheritance, a trust fund, wouldn’t mature until she was twenty-five or married, and having witnessed too much male manipulation, marriage was not an option for young Katarine.With no visible means of support, the court orders Katarine to live with relatives in Southern Florida. Aunt Lillith and her …

In The Procurers, amateur but lively senior sleuths Biddy and Justin find themselves back on board the Pacific Queen Royale, as agents for the Australian National Veterans Network. They are tasked with uncovering increasing and unexplained passenger disappearances at sea, and also to keep an eye on Professor Witherspoon, who is working with a world consortium to provide free, clean fusion energy via a Tokomak reactor in France. ANVN and Detective Inspector Brien Schultz from Adelaide Crime, also seeks help from celebrated Australian yachtsman, Sir Tim Harvey, to uncover terrorists at sea, whom Biddy suspects of abducting boat people as …

Ebon envisioned being a great warrior like his father, Luc Shattar, the hero of the Battle of Halgrain and the greatest swordsman in the history of Trist. Ebon is young, highly trained in a military academy, and confident as only the young and inexperienced can be … until the fates of war intervene to challenge him both as a warrior and a man. The old enemy, Vutra, has been threatening to take up arms, so the armies of Trist gather to defend their homeland. Ebon and his three closest friends, Caliel, Mendel, and Gabriel, excited about the coming war, feel …

Jackie Longfellow, a middle-aged grandmother skilled in crafts and especially crochet, is working at her church’s Christmas bazaar. She’s visited by an actor participating in Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol," who discovers an unfinished ornament among her wares. At home, she discovers the object to be beautifully crafted and puzzles that it is incomplete. Her daughter, Vicky, struggling in her marriage, brings her three daughters from Atlanta to Jackie’s house in New Jersey for Christmas to get away and sort out her life. When two of Vicky’s girls pull one of Jackie’s crocheted ornaments apart, they find a similarity between one …

, she is urgently compelled to find out why this murder occurred. Claire travels to Wales in the hope of gaining knowledge of her grandmother’s state of mind at the time of this gruesome murder.When strange and supernatural happenings begin to occur, it strains Claire’s mental state to the breaking point, and she must confront a threatening spirit bent on concealing the secrets of the past. Her fears continue to mount as she becomes aware of a sinister dark figure lurking about the premises, stalking her.Claire finds romance as she strives to overcome these pressing obstacles and uncover the secrets …

A gripping tale set in the early African missionary era, Within is the story of Wild, a boy with mysterious powers who was conjured into this world through sorcery. Unfortunately, the powerful magic that gave birth to Wild also leads to the demise of his parents.Orphaned and haunted by spirits, Wild is seen as a bad omen wherever he goes. Eventually he comes to realize that he’s the product of a spirit that fell from heaven to Earth. As he journeys, Wild begins to understand that his purpose is to prevent the rise of the Dark Lord and his evil …

He may have made a few wrong decisions in his life, but the last thing veteran Harry Taylor expects after closing his eyes for the last time is to wake up in a foreign landscape filled with the horrors of his worst nightmare. A place like no other, welcome to Purgatory.Formed at the beginning of time, Purgatory is a place where all the wrongs of the physical world have gathered, and a place filled with terror and controlled by an ancient and ruthless group of warriors called Leviathan. Can Harry survive these warriors hellbent on capturing and enslaving all those …