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A captivating story of a young girl who must assume responsibility for raising her younger siblings. As the challenges intensify, she is determined in her faith to raise them as her mother would have wanted.

Abducted at the age of sixteen and coerced into assisting the Jacoby crime family, Shannon Bliss has finally found a way out. She desperately wants to resume some semblance of normal life, but she also knows she has some unfinished business to attend to. She might have enough evidence to put her captors behind bars for a very long time. When Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane, a former cop, to help her navigate her reentry into society,...

After seven years as a Chicago homicide detective, Lisa Grant has hit a wall. Ready for a kinder, gentler life, she takes a job as a small-town police chief. But the discovery of a human skeleton by a construction crew at the edge of town taxes the resources of her department. A call for assistance brings detective Mac McGregor, an ex-Navy SEAL, to her doorstep. As they work to solve the mystery behind the unmarked grave, danger begins to shadow them....

Leaving their beautiful home in Kansas City to live in the little town of Beloit Kansas was not Miriam Jensen's idea. "I'm not going to be stuck in this little humdrum town for a whol school year; I'll run away if Father doesn't let me go back to Kansas City. " She announced. "You may be in for some surprises," her mother had told her. Once she met Melody Cramton, life was full of surprises, many of which put Miriam into a dilemma. From tornado s,...

In the Adventures of Hazel Weston series the early 1920's in Oregon's Hood River Valley come alive in this touching story about rural Americans, their triumphs and tragedies, as seen through the eyes of a young girl, Hazel Weston who grew up in the wilds of Eastern Oregon during the early years of this century, where covered wagons were the main means of transportation. Prohibition, politics, and storming evangelists all bring history to life but...