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When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart thirty-five years before, and nearly lose her own life in a near-fatal accident.

Freddy wants desperately to not be noticed. She doesn't want to be seen as different or unusual, but her step-brother Roland gets attention because he's deaf, and her little sister Mel thinks she's a private detective. All Freddy wants to do is navigate high school with as little trouble as possible. Then someone moves into the house on Grosvenor Street. Two extremely odd someones.

Meg and Kenneth Sorenson are in their fifties and near early retirement, their hearts set on traveling abroad and spending limitless hours in the garden. But when they learn their son has gone MIA on a military assignment, they try to hold the family, and even their plans, together.

Tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about.But after a series of encounters with witches, wolves, goblins, and trolls alike, getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.

The Land of Stories is no longer the joyful world Alex and Conner Bailey remember from their Wishing Spell adventure: The evil Enchantress, who cursed Sleeping Beauty, is back with a vengeance, and the fairy-tale world lives in fear. When the Enchantress' evil reach extends even to Alex and Conner's world--and their mother is kidnapped!--they must defy their grandmother's orders and find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue her.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate that her daughter, who is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette, become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. Little do they know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn a different kind of finishing.

Perfectly poised to exploit the criminal justice system she knows so well, single mom Kristy Tucker sets out to permanently rid herself of Lance, the abusive monster she's become shackled to.

Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything … and anyone. On Waller's trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth. Shaw's one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence: Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate, and she has an agenda of her own.

Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to set off on her honeymoon, when a string of murders terrorizes local residents. None of the victims had enemies, and no one knows why they were singled out. As fear of the Taunus Sniper grows, pressure mounts on Detective Kirchhoff to catch the killer.

Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now we approach our destination--a new home: Aurora. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.