Lord, help the mister who comes between Texas sisters . . .   The Holiday Secret Sisterhood has a strict rule: never poach on another sister's boyfriend, past or present. Hallie Holiday has no intentions of ever breaking that rule. After watching her big sisters become love-struck fools, men don't even make the top five of Hallie's wish list . . . until one night when Jace Carson slips onto the barstool next to her with his sexy lopsided smile and devilish smoky-gray eyes. Suddenly, spending the night in the muscled arms of a hot hometown hero becomes more than a wish. It becomes a steamy reality. Before Hallie can finish shoving that night into her bad-bad-sister vault and throwing away the key, Jace waltzes back into town. Soon Hallie will realize there's no way to keep a secret from a sister . . . or from your own heart.   Jace Carson plans to never step foot in Wilder, Texas, again. After an injury ends his professional football career, he has no desire to witness the townsfolk's disappointment. Or watch his cousin live happily ever after with the woman Jace had planned to marry. But desire is a funny thing. It can change at the drop of a hat. Or the drop of a pair of lace panties. Getting involved with his ex-girlfriend's little sister is just plain stupid, especially when Hallie is a tough cowgirl who pulls no punches—literally or figuratively. But there's something about the way she looks at him that makes him feel like less of a failure. Like he could lasso the big ol' harvest moon . . . and make a feisty Texas girl's dreams come true.

Inspired by the real-life mother of forensic science, Frances Glessner Lee, and featuring a whip-smart, intrepid sleuth in post-WWII Vermont, this debut historical mystery will appeal to fans of Victoria Thompson and Rhys Bowen.Maple Bishop is ready to put WWII and the grief of losing her husband, Bill, behind her. But when she discovers that Bill left her penniless, Maple realizes she could lose her Vermont home next and sets out to make money the only way she knows how: by selling her intricately crafted dollhouses. Business is off to a good start—until Maple discovers her first customer dead, his body hanging precariously in his own barn.Something about the supposed suicide rubs Maple the wrong way, but local authorities brush off her concerns. Determined to help them see “what’s big in what’s small,” Maple turns to what she knows best, painstakingly recreating the gruesome scene in miniature: death in a nutshell.With the help of...

Historical fiction saga set in Argentina.Argentina 1800sNo one wants to be a victim of injustice or helplessness, especially when such actions are perpetuated by those elected to serve.Governor Ramon Mendoza and his son Carlos are predators,greedy for money and power.The lives of two victims, Miguel Garcia, and Rosa Caron, become inextricably entwined in their quest for justice.Miguel, heir to a cattle ranching dynasty, is in direct conflict with the Mendoza's. Desperate to stop them, a tragedy drives Miguel to seek revenge; the hunter becomes the hunted!'If you are looking for a great read, you could do no better than to lose yourself in Beverley Young's powerful novel, 'The Long Road into Hell': a passionate and engrossing historical saga set in South America. Read and enjoy!- Gary Crew, Professor Emeritus(Creative Writing) University of the...

The crew of the Black Yonnix is back, ready to pursue the clues in a mysterious book toward a treasure that will shape their destinies. But reaching the treasure isn't so simple. They must first pass a series of trials designed to prove the strength of their character. Does a roving band of pirates have what it takes to claim their prize, especially when a Fae invasion raises the stakes? Scott Colby, author of the " Deviant Magic" series, ventures back to the seas of the shared world of Pileaus, shaping the setting for adventurers to come— and putting everyone' s favorite band of pirates in swashbuckling peril.

Otherworldly Fae kidnapping mortal musicians to satisfy their strange desires. An innocent girl who can read people's secrets. A skyship pilot drawn out to sea by a song only she can hear. A pregnant mother protecting her child with the help of friendly forest spirits. These are the stories of Pileaus, a world of music, magic, and endless mystery.While the Empire expands, the bards scheme, and the ethereal Fae play their immortal games, life goes on in countless ways. What is the essence of a land but its people, as their small parts weave together to form a beautiful symphony?

For younger fans of Witchlings and Eva Evergreen comes a light-hearted and whimsical middle grade fantasy about a young girl who must save her witch aunt from an uncommonly voracious hat.Where dragons take flight, through the dark of the night. Where the fire ignites, you will find the light. Aunt Cauldroneyes is always looking into cauldrons. She's found everything from giggling moons to troll nose rings, but when she looks inside a purple cauldron one stormy night, she finds a girl with blue freckles. The old witch raises the girl and names her Spella. They live in Hungry Snout Forest in a crooked house with doors enchanted to smell like chocolate. In the attic full of floating fabric and biting buttons, Aunt Cauldroneyes teaches Spella how to make magical hats for creatures like unicorns and dragons, giants and goblins. When Spella turns eight, she receives an invitation to Dragon's Knob, a school for wand witchery and wizardry. But on...

READERS LOVE CULT FOLLOWING'The most important memoir of this year''One of the most moving, powerful and profound memoirs I have ever read''A gripping, moving book from a brilliant, brave writer . . . I devoured this book''Truly amazing... couldn't recommend it more''Totally blown away... dare I say it's way better than Educated by Tara Westover'Bexy Cameron was in her late twenties when the dark events of her past finally caught up with her.Bexy was born into the Children of God, one of the world's most notorious cults. She was 9 years old when she experienced her first exorcism, held in a secret commune deep in the British countryside. At 10, she was placed on Silence Restriction, forced to be silent for a whole year. Even from an early age, she knew what was happening was not right. At the age of 15, she escaped, leaving behind her parents and 11 siblings.Haunted by her...

An unputdownable thriller set in the pressure-cooker environment of an Antarctic winter.An isolated research station. A storm approaching.There's nowhere to run. But so much to hide.Keen to flee the wreckage of her marriage, Australian scientist Kit Bitterfeld accepts a coveted winter research position at Macpherson Station in Antarctica. On the way there, Kit and her fellow researchers field a distress call from a nearby ship. By the time they reach the vessel it is on fire and the crew has vanished. A lone survivor is found, but he can't remember who he is or what has happened.They bring the survivor, eventually identified as geophysicist Nick Coltheart, to Macpherson but it's clear that something is wrong. More and more of Kit's colleagues are acting strangely. And she can't shake the suspicion that Nick knows more than he's letting on. With the winter darkness setting in, Kit must figure out the truth before they are completely cut off from...

"A compassionate rendering of acclimation and its many challenges." — BooklistThis bold debut collection of stories follows the lives of those displaced by the Bolshevik Revolution and their descendants, shining a light on the lasting impact of displacement and the resiliency of the human spirit.Norwegian diplomat Fridtjof Nansen created a passport for stateless persons used by refugees as a valid travel document from 1922-1937. The world is all too aware of what has happened to Russia in the century since then—Lenin, Stalin, and now Putin with his iron-fist policies and invasion of Ukraine. But what about the aristocrats whose ancestors governed Russia before Communism? How did they fare in displacement? Civil War, Red Terror, and Bolshevik rule caused over one million to flee Russia. Written by the daughter of one such émigré, The Nansen Factor traces the lives of these refugees and their descendants across a...