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A tender, classic love story about letting go of the past and finding the courage to embrace love.

It was the night before his wedding, fifteen years ago, that Jay Crawford was locked up for a crime he never committed. Now, he's escaped prison and wants to clear his name and protect his family. To get justice, he'll need the help of his friends. But is he setting himself up for betrayal?

Audrey Rose Wadsworth often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions, and Annie must choose who she is going to become.

In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City when six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery and a teenage girl vanished from the state fair. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through the survivors' lives.

There's nothing Cara wouldn't do for Ryan, even now after his death. But inheriting Ryan's share of his family's ranch in west Texas? Cara doesn't understand what he was thinking. Jeth is certain Cara prevented his brother from spending his last days at home, and he's determined to drive this beautiful outsider away--no matter how intriguing he finds her.

Cassie, self-educated and brown skinned, works in a laundry in rural Mississippi. Judith, illiterate and white, dreams of life as a big-city radio star. These teenage girls are half sisters, and together they set out in an old junker on a risky road trip through the 1950s Jim Crow South.

When a body is discovered near a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies. But while Reiko is hunting the killer, the killer is hunting her.

Now a Challenger, Jessamy is moving up the ranks of the Fives. She leaps at the chance to face more competitors, but then a fatal attack on her traveling party puts her at the center of a war. With a sinister overlord watching her every move, Jes must now become more than a Fives champion.

Gwendolyn Foster is thrown when her boyfriend proposes to her. But she has another dream altogether--to be a writer. Then Hank Ellis comes into her life. He has been drowning in grief since his brother died. But when he sees Gwen, something inside him comes alive again.