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Her dream of becoming a fashion model shattered by a car accident, Kaylee Benton has a successful career running a top Texas modeling agency. But the scars run deep. She longs for two things she believes she can never have: a husband and a child. When she is swept off her feet by D.A. Cutler McFarland, she tries to catch her breath long enough to fathom: why her, why now. Cutler McFarland can't deny his attraction to Kaylee, but marrying her is blackmail,...

In the first volume of her autobiography, The Sun in the Morning, M.M. Kaye detailed the first eighteen years of her life in India and England and introduced readers to her love affair with India. She brought to life its people, scents, vibrant colors, and breathtaking landscapes. In the second volume, Golden Afternoon, she happily returned to her beloved India after years in a British boarding school. New to the glories of the Delhi social season,...

A disbarred lawyer and an ex-arsonist cross paths and find themselves organizing an elaborate real-estate scam to bilk a shady rich speculator out of twenty million dollars. The sting is personal for ex-arsonist Stan and for a woman named Vee, who plays an essential role in the caper. Glen, the narrator and former lawyer, finds himself at first just along for the money. Eventually, as bonds deepen among the conspirators, Glen too discovers he has...

Even Now is a book about faith and holding onto hope that things all work out for good. The road of faith is indeed a tough road to walk, and some people have no faith at all. Others have it but somehow lose it along the way. This book encourages those who feel all hope is lost, giving them a fresh new start on life and all of its possibilities through the power of believing it can be done. The author knows there is someone who simply thirsts for...

The poems in Christine Gosnay's first book, Even Years, speak with a voice that animates and astonishes us as they delineate and explore, trace and explode, the 'order of shapes in the light'-the order of words, of moments in a life, of shifts in perspective between the 'cleave and / Cleave' of language. In these piercing and evocative poems, we see, as in the poems of Stevens and Dickinson.

One man against an unknown number of terrorists. When a digital interface containing sensitive government documents and classified information is stolen from the Anti-terrorist Operation by the terrorist group ASAD, Wynn Garrett is called into action. His assignment initially is to only retrieve the interface but soon turns into more after ASAD attempts to kill him. Ignoring his original mission of finding the interface, in favor of eliminating the...

She needs a lucky break if she's making ends meet. He's stuck running one of the family's smaller hotel casinos. Could pretending to be engaged be a gamble that pays off for both of them?DONNAFleeing San Francisco for Coogan's Break was so much easier than dealing with things that went bump in the middle of the night. Usually Bryan-my ex-drunk and attempting to break in.Three months later and I'm in a dead-end job for a guy who pays below minimum...

This is a book about a simple housewife, mother, and grandmother who suffered through tragedy and unexpected events, but never gave up her faith or the hope of someday having a life without the threat of losing her life at the hands of the person she spent thirty-eight years caring for and loving. I plan to write another book soon because I have many events with laughter and humor as well as many other chapters I was not able to include in this book....

After the love of her life left her when she needed him most, Leah Stewart has rebuilt herself, piece by piece. Owner of the Fur-Ever Friends Animal Shelter, she splits all her love and attention between her abandoned pets and her widower father, a man obsessed with his wife's death. Now, Wyatt is back in town, a rich and famous musician, ready to start over with Leah. But Leah, not quite so forgiving, concocts a fake fiancé to keep Wyatt away from...

Alex Feldon is the proposed inheritor of his family's company and has plans to modernise the business, much against the wishes of his father, Peter, who is both founder and chairman. Father and son have been at loggerheads ever since the terrible accident two years ago in which Alex's mother was killed and Peter left in a wheelchair. A mysterious, dark stranger suddenly appears on the scene, thrusting Alex into a deadly struggle for ultimate control...