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After surviving a horrific trauma in Nigeria, international aid worker Amanda Doucette returns to Canada to rebuild her life and her shaken ideals.

At fifteen, Jamie Murphy finds herself broken and alone, convinced she doesn't need anyone. Until she does. Bear is the boy behind the fence, the one who was there for her when no one else was.

Cassie's good friend Dawn is part of an organization that's trying to protect a colony of stray cats on the property of a condo community in Chadwick, New Jersey.

Gryphon has twenty-three days to ensure that Zo, Joshua, and Tess are cared for before offering his life as a ransom to Chief Barnabas in exchange for the lives of his best friend and mess brothers

Back home after a mission trip, nurse and EMT Sara Southerland learns that her cousin's death might not have been an accident-and now someone wants her dead.

Lucas Mayfield, the Eighth Earl of Heightford, couldn't be more pleased with the private club that is his brainchild.

Two years ago, Billie Tarrow's husband left her for another woman. Shamed and divorced, Billie retreated to her family home in Port Townsend, far from her old life in New York.

Ryder doesn't know if she can kill Afana and liberate the bunker. One thing she does know is that the Merry Gang will do the impossible to free the hostage- or die trying.

Miss Miranda is not really a Miss, exactly. Nor is her name Miranda, exactly. But to escape her tyrannical Duke of a father, changes were required.

Elizabeth Webster is happy to stay under the radar (and under her bangs) until middle school is dead and gone.

After losing their husbands, Suzanne, Toni, and Petra find independence when they open the Cackleberry Club.

When the creepy ex-prison warden is found dead in someone else's freshly dug grave, the Cackleberry Club must unscramble the clues and find the true culprit.

Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lost their husbands but found independence - and, in each other, a life raft of support, inspiration, fresh baked goods, and their own business.

Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club Café's success, so Suzanne doesn't mind going out to Mike Mullen's dairy farm to pick up

As the only survivor of a horrific car crash, Lila Amberson believes she is on the road to recovery after she is released from the hospital.