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Crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape from her hypercritical mother--a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Life on Aunt Jean's goat farm is both more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined.

In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...

A novel that takes place in the world of competitive horse show jumping offers a tale of murder and suspense involving a former NYPD detective, his grown daughter, and his missing ex-wife, who is either an innocent victim or a suspect.

"Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious boyfriend, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle's farm in a small Missouri hamlet. She'll spend the summer there, picking up the pieces of her shattered present so she can plan a better future. But what awaits her at the ancestral farm is a past she barely knows. Among her late grandmother's belongings, Nikki finds an old notebook filled with handwritten...

A commercial jetliner crashes into the Pacific Ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent--Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife--who must work together with...

Ranch foreman Travis Taylor doesn't have time for opera singers on vacation. Especially bubbly beautiful ones like Lizzy Dalton. His heart was once broken by a country music diva--ignoring the warning signs this time around is a no-go. And the baby with special needs Lizzy is fostering only evokes the lingering trauma of losing Travis's own baby brother. But Lizzy's kisses, and the infant's sweet smile, make him dream of a family and happily-ever-after....

Dr. Grace Hollister has her hands full running a busy practice and single-parenting her young son. Veterinarian Mack Barlow is swamped with four-legged patients, running a ranch and being the sole provider to his little daughter. But when these exes meet, old sparks reignite in new ways. Overworked, overwhelmed and head over heels--they're overdue for a second chance at love. But only if Grace can trust Mack with her heart again.

For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows--her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close-knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable ... --

Indigo and her mother, once-famous artist Zoe Serra, have barely been scraping by since her mom's breakdown. When a gallery offers Zoe a revival show for her unfinished blockbuster series, Wolfwood-- a chance for financial stability-- Zoe refuses. Desperate, Indigo secretly takes up the brush herself. Painting submerges Indigo into Wolfwood itself: a dangerous jungle where an army of grotesque, monstrous flora are in a violent battle with a band of...

Single dad and Thunder Point's deputy sheriff Mac McCain has worked hard to keep everyone safe and happy. Now he has found his own happiness with Gina James. The longtime friends have always shared the challenges and rewards of raising their adolescent daughters. With an unexpected romance growing between them, they are feeling like teenagers themselves; suddenly they cannot get enough of one another. And just when things are really taking off, their...