In a small southern town where everyone normally knows each other’s business, veteran detective Larry Robbins must solve the disappearance of eighty-year-old widower, African-American George Beason.

When evidence arises that Beason may have left town on his own, it would be easy for Robbins to close the case, but his gut instinct tells him more’s at stake. As he uncovers clues about Beason’s deceased wife and his estranged daughter, Robbins must untangle conflicting motives and hidden agendas to bring Beason home alive.

Romance of the sweet, old-fashioned kind woven into a story of loss and love and new life - and an ending that leaves you wondering.

When your brother and your daddy are hung by the neck until dead, and all the cattle you've fought to raise and keep all your life are taken as reparations, then you're bound to have a burr under your saddle…and some things only a gun can resolve. Another fine action adventure from Frank Roderus, America's western tale master. Don't miss this one!

When Vanessa decides to do something, she forges full steam ahead in accomplishing her goals. She’s an independent woman and knows what she wants. When her best friend Gabby introduces her to Jason the ever-handsome realtor, Vanessa begins to let her guard down. Will Vanessa be able to stay focused and find the perfect property for her pet rescue center, or will Jason have other plans for her. This sweet novella shows the wonderful journey of friends as they embark on a wonderful business adventure. Full of twists and turns, The Pet Palace will have you smiling to the very end.

Stunned by the abrupt end to her marriage, Sara Wolesley with her two daughters in tow, abandons her comfortable life in Toronto to take possession of a rundown Quebec cottage on a frozen lake.

But escape isn't that easy. Sara is on the brink of collapse when she finds a child trapped under the ice. Her name is Oralee Pelletier and she's been missing for five months.

Coffee Shop Inspirations provides a fun, coffee shop casual approach for taking your leadership and relationships skills to the next level. In this book, you'll discover how the Bible and psychology team up to provide powerful tools for dynamic life change. Whether you're feeling stuck in your personal growth or searching for innovative ideas to lead and connect well, this book is for you. Instead of waiting for change to happen, take a proactive approach, and discover the five strategies that you can begin practicing right now to become a better leader and relater!

Discover:

• Don't Pick Up the Rope: Tools for arguing less and connecting more.


• Make the Best Bad Choice: Strategies for getting unstuck and building momentum.


• Focus on the Good: Ideas for generating energy and creativity.


• Reframe the Problem: Tactics for breaking through barriers and achieving your goals.


• Take Care of You: A plan for staying healthy and refreshed on your leadership and relationship journey.


 

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HAVING MY BABY by NY Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, THERESA RAGAN

After being left at the altar, Jill Garrison realizes she may never have the wedding or the husband, but nothing is going to stop her from having a baby. With the help of donor sperm, she's finally pregnant. The baby she's carrying is hers and hers alone. Nobody can take that away from her. Or can they?



GETTING LUCKY by Golden Heart® Finalist KATIE GRAYKOWSKI

Will Brody fell in love with Lucky Strickland the moment he saw her. Unfortunately, she married his brother. Now that her husband is out of the picture can Will get Lucky to open her heart to him so he can finally give her the family she's always wanted?



THE MEMORY OF YOU by 2X Golden Heart® Winner LAURIE KELLOGG

POW Matt Foster returns home with no memory. He plans to send a note to his wife, Abby, to wish her well but then learns she's the beautiful woman in his X-rated dreams and he's a daddy! Matt could still walk away from the sexy stranger, but he can never abandon his sons. Can he and Abby reclaim the love the war stole?


JOCKEYS AND JEWELS by BEV PETTERSEN, 3X National Reader's Choice nominee, Golden Heart® Finalist,and NEC-RWA Reader's Choice Winner

An undercover cop investigates the shocking murder of his ex-partner but falls in love with the beautiful jockey he's forced to deceive.


OPERATION: DATE ESCAPE by Lindsey Brookes, Finalist in the American Title III competition and 4X Golden Heart® Finalist

Kelsie Collins' past has taught her there is no such thing as a perfect man, but those beliefs are tested when hunky firefighter Cole Maxwell comes to her rescue, not once but twice, and then sets out to prove he's the perfect man for her!


THE GOOD DAUGHTER by DIANA LAYNE 4½ Stars Top pick RT Book Reviews

Most good daughters would say they owe their fathers everything. Marisa Peruzzo, Mafia princess, would. She owed him for killing her fiancé. She owed him for destroying her mother. She owed him for chaining her to the 'family business'. And she owed him for taking away her lifelong friend. Payback's a bitch.


SEIZED BY DARKNESS Best-selling author AUTUMN JORDON shares a timeless, potent tale fused with tender romance.

When kidnapped victim Nicole Carson and her son escape with secrets, she is marked by a mafia lord offering an epic reward. Desperate for her family's safety, she sides with U.S. Marshal Will Haus and realizes to obtain her heart's desire she must again face death.


MEET YOUR MATE by 2X Golden Heart® Winner JACIE FLOYD

Opposites attract and love trumps professional rivalry when a bad-boy biker and an uptight young widow are fixed-up on a reality TV show. The fireworks they create together are more powerful than the differences that keep them apart.


LOVE & OREOS by ELIZABETH BEMIS

Katherine Mendoza is a curvy PR exec whose passion for Oreos is tempered only by her workaholic lifestyle. When her newest client, fitness-master Quinn Mitchell, offers to help her slim down, is it a sign from the gods, or a recipe for disaster? Love & Oreos is perfect for lovers of small-town romance, wisecracking humor-and, of course, Oreos.


MARRYING MISTER PERFECT by Golden Heart® Winner LIZZIE SHANE

Heart surgeon & single father Jack Doyle may be looking for love on national television, but every lovely Suitorette he meets only makes him miss his best friend and live-in nanny, Louisa. Was the love of his life right in front of him all along? And can he win her heart when the cameras are always rolling?

Quick Silver Ranch is no ordinary dude ranch.

After Becca Dalton finds her fiancé in bed with her boss, she ends the ill-fated engagement on the spot and quits her job. She heads to Quick Silver Ranch, looking to regroup before an interview for the job of her dreams--an executive position at a five-star hotel.

Becca's best-laid plans are ruined when she discovers the exclusive ranch is for consenting couples who spend their days and nights exploring their most wicked sexual fantasies. For Becca to remain at the ranch and take advantage of all the arousing activities, she needs a partner.

Her sexy college lover and part owner of the ranch, Tyler Carson, is willing to break all the rules, partner up with Becca and have her roped and ready for a week of unimaginable pleasure. But is a week enough to satisfy his desire for Becca?

Kacey Green is a curvy woman whose had just about enough of men who think she should worship the ground they walk upon. While she will fight tooth and nail for her patients, the curvy nurse rarely finds the courage to speak her mind when it comes to matters of the heart. At least that's how it has always been. Until a handsome, mesmerizing man contacts her on SassyDate, a shifter-human dating app, and turns her world upside down. Suddenly, Kacey doesn't want to settle anymore. She is hungry for all life has to offer and it better include one hot werebear cowboy!

Warren Sawtooth is a man of simple pleasures. Work has always been enough to keep him busy, but lately, he's been missing something else. Or a someone else. Preferably a sassy, curvy bride. When the Alpha of his former clan gives him an ultimatum that could make Warren leave behind everything he has built, he knows there's no time to waste. He has been given one chance at happiness and he'll be damned if he messes it up!

Jet is a 19-year-old skag, one of the humans still living free on Earth following an invasion of creatures called the Nirreth. Squatting in the ruins of Vancouver, Jet and her family eke out an existence underground, hiding from culler ships and fighting off raiding humans.

No one knows where the alien ships take the people they steal, but they never return. When a culler finds Jet, she may discover the truth the hard way...and end up living among the very creatures that stole her planet and wiped out most of her race.

A Fresh Start . . .
Imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, Kane Stoddard was an angry, bitter man, until the sweet uplifting letters from Melanie Abercrombie painted a picture of a life he longed for. Now that his name has been cleared, he wants to start a new life and meet the woman who gave him hope when his situation seemed hopeless.
Fighting Her Impulses . . .
Mel doesn’t know what to make of the scruffy bearded Kane who rides up on his motorcycle. Her first thought is he escaped from prison and is dangerous. Stunned by their rapid and sizzling attraction, she tries to fight her impulses and hang on to her prim and proper lifestyle. Mel worries that Kane will leave her once he grows tired of a small town life where he is still treated as an outcast.

Jane Parkes had always considered her ability a fine line between a gift and a curse. She calls it The Shadow World, a place where she can see through the eyes of killers and help bring them to justice.

"Just think of it as a bad haircut." Hubert watched the surgeon hold up a sterile bag of circumcision tools. "A week from now you won't feel a thing."

For geeky teenager, Hubert Pubes Rawlings, his new job as a shopping center food court cleaner is one thing, but a picture with the hot cleaning crew exposing him as the only cleaner who's uncut is too much, too fast. When his obscure mother stresses over his nightly dream adventures then catches his father in a single handed affair, she insists Hubert undergo a circumcision. “It’s all about sensitivity, dear. I certainly don’t want you to do like daddy does.”

Meanwhile, because of the picture, Hubert's popularity has soared. His best friend, Will, tries to convince him that it’s a good thing. That may be fine for Will to say, but for Hubert, it's simply not the case.

With the circumcision complete, Hubert struggles with his popularity among the food court hotties. Will's constant encouragement and the cleaning crew's threatening jealousy adds to his problems—not to mention having to keep his secret of being Circumcised at Seventeen.

Shameless #1 - Trey Turner may be topping the country music charts, but his life has been going downhill since his wife left him five years ago. He's desperate to make amends for the mistakes he's made and convince Sierra their love deserves a second chance.

Sierra Brooks is happy for the first time since her divorce. She has a career she loves, and a man who loves her. Unfortunately, the man she intends to marry isn't the only one professing his love for her. He may be able to offer her safety and security, but will she decide to risk everything for another chance with the man who broke her heart?

Fearless #2 - Lexi Brooks overcame adversity to build a successful real estate business that allows her to live life on her terms. She envisions travel, fun, and excitement, not marriage, kids, and commitment. But will Trey's sexy bodyguard, Josh, throw a wrench into her plans?

Being a cop has taught Josh Cooper to take calculated risks, but he's tired of living with the daily threat of danger. He's ready to settle down with someone who wants to be a step-mother to his two teenage sons. Too bad Lexi isn't that woman. She's sexy, smart, head-strong, and they're totally in sync in the bedroom, but she isn't willing to settle into a life of domestic bliss. Or is she?

Ruthless #3 - Marisa Turner has wanted her brother's best friend, Luc, forever. But she also wants a baby and it seems Luc isn't up to the challenge. She has to choose between the man she loves and the family she hopes to have. Fortunately, there's another man waiting in the wings to make her baby fantasy a reality.

Luc Spencer is tired of hearing about marriage and babies. He loves Marisa, but he can't promise her forever. After two years together, she tells him it's over. He's not worried, he believes she'll be back. But what will happen when he finds out there's another man ready and willing to give Marisa everything he can't?

Reckless #4 - As a publicist, Avery Collins knows that mixing business with pleasure is a recipe for disaster so she has one rule. Her bedroom is off limits to clients, no matter how enticing and persistent they may be.

Ty McCall is country music’s newest rising star, but he needs the best team in the business to help him make it to the top. That team includes Avery, who gave him the most unforgettable night of his life only to disappear the next morning.

Avery agrees to work with him, but Ty isn’t willing to settle for a professional relationship with the woman of his dreams. Can this sexy cowboy convince her that rules were made to be broken?

My stepbrother was my protector. My savior. He would have done anything for me.

Then I watched him fall into a life of crime and corruption, and I thought I lost him forever.

Now he's pulling me into his world and he has me exactly where he wants me. I thought two years without a word would free of my feelings but all it takes is one look and I melt, one touch and I'm craving more.

I've been dragged back into his life and pulled back into his arms, and if I want him to save me I'm going to have to save him from himself, no matter what it takes.

I love the man he could be and hate the man he's become. He was my hero, once. Now he could be again.

Garden City, Kansas, 1888.

A small Western town receives an early Christmas present; a new pastor for the church. He’s young, handsome, and single. But to church organist Kristina Heitschmidt, Reverend Cody Williams is nothing but trouble. Especially as his first move is to attempt to take control of the music away from her. But Kristina is not about to give up her life’s work.

With Christmas fast approaching, it appears the two are at a stalemate. That is, until a sudden blizzard traps them together in the church overnight. Forced at last to deal with each other, they realize that the explosive feelings between them are really symptoms of an overwhelming passion that just might, if they can finally be honest, lead to the love of a lifetime.

Romance, suspense and heartbreak, Darian is a brave combatant with the military. And is sent out overseas for a short tour. The short tour didn't end up being very short...a mission goes terribly wrong and Darian finds himself in a horrifying situation were the only thing that keeps him going is the love and desire to see his beautiful family again.

Its a rollercoaster of emotions and events, suspense, action and undeniable love.

A new adult story of Love. Sex. Addiction. Blackmail. And Power...

Some say love can be an addiction. Others say it’s the thing that makes life worth living.
Let me tell you everything I know about love…
Love isn’t patient, love isn’t kind. Love is a game, a chase. A thrill. Love is wild and war-like, and every man and woman must fight for themselves.
At least that’s how it was for me.
A high-priced virgin call girl by the time I started college, I was addicted to love and to sex.
Even though I’ve never had either.
I controlled love, played it, and held the world in the palm of my hands.
Then I fell down from those highs, and I’m being blackmailed for all my mistakes, forced to keep secrets from everyone, except the only guy I don’t regret.
Trey.
****
With all the other women, I knew what they were. They were temporary.
They were pills, they were bottles, they took away all the pain, and
numbed the awful memories that wore away at my ragged, wasted heart.
Until I met Harley.
She’s the only girl I ever missed when she walked away. But now she’s
back in my life, every day, and there are no guarantees for us,
especially since I don’t know how to tell her my secrets. What happened to my family.
All I know is she’s the closest I’ve ever come to something real, and
I want to feel every second of it.
****
How can you love with no regrets when regret is all you know?

THE THRILL OF IT is book one of a two-book series.

The Concealed Kingdoms is a serial to be published every two weeks, and will also be released as complete novels – The King's Ward and The Heir Reluctant are the first of these.

The Concealed Kingdoms are worlds created by the fey, a people apart from humanity, a people with paranormal mental powers. Some fey are so powerful that they can create small worlds of their own design that are connected to our world by hidden gateways.

Byron and Calista have never met, yet they have much in common. Abandoned by their fathers before birth, barely noticed by their own mothers, Byron and Calista have walked through their own lives like ghosts, as they search for answers. Why does no one notice me? Why does no one remember me?

When they meet, their lives are changed forever. Calista and Byron are rapidly drawn into another world, a world which will die if they cannot save it, a world where they are seen, known and remembered.

The elusive short story madman haunting the alternative fiction scene makes his debut. Who is he? No one has been able to pin him down long enough to find out. He has allowed us to republish a few of his works to a wider audience here on KDP. He figures any way which he can spread the madness is a good thing. He has said, "Buy the book, don't buy the book, who cares we all are going to die when the Elder Gods come anyway!" While we do not exactly share David's perspective on the impending demise of humanity; we do feel he has created some work worth reading. We hope you do too. Please borrow this book freely if you have the Kindle Owners Library or if you subscribe to Kindle unlimited. We encourage you to read it free if you can!