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Jeremy Walsh's parents assume he's been abducted by the elderly man he met on a cross-country flight, but it's the other way around. Two unlikely companions meet in midair: thirteen-year-old Jeremy, sent against his will by his father to spend the summer with his bipolar mother, and Harry, one-legged and afflicted with mid-stage Alzheimer's, who escapes the confinement of home. Their journey begins, trailed by Harry's wife and Jeremy's parents, who threaten to cut it short. It's a race against time and circumstance.

Chloe was three years old when she became Chloe Holden, but her adoption didn’t scar her, and she’s had a great life. Now, 14 years later, her loving parents’ marriage has fallen apart, and her mom has moved them to Joyful, Texas. Starting 12th grade as the new kid at school, everything Chloe loved about her life is gone. And feelings of déjà vu from her early childhood start haunting her.

Lacey Jefferson’s search for her missing sister quickly turns into a murder investigation—thrusting Lacey and her search-and-rescue K-9, Scarlett, into a killer’s sights. Now teaming up with her ex-boyfriend, Sheriff Creed Payne, is the only way to discover the murderer’s identity. But can they survive long enough to dig up the truth?

Taylor sets Remy on the trail of a dwarven drug cartel responsible for supplying humans with preternatural drugs. Is this just another way to test if Remy can stay alive? These drugs are deadly to humans. In order to prevent countless human deaths and keep the preternatural world hidden, Remy has to stop the deal from happening and take out the supply chain. This would be just a regular Tuesday except Moswen is closing in and her attacks are getting more targeted.

Between setting up the office and hiring new preternatural staff with some surprising...talents, Taylor tasks Remy with a new case. She assumes he will stick to her instructions, but this is Remy: reformed frat boy. Low compliance. With a desperate need to prove himself.... Of course, he won’t stick to the plan. So when things heat up with the dwarven cartel - and the preternatural world order hangs in the balance - it'll take everything Taylor has to prevent the city of New York from being exposed to all she's managed to keep secret for centuries.

Remy is down to his last $100,000...he's in dire straits. While his rapidly dwindling checking account is a problem, Remy finds out the last company he owns is run by something that goes bump in the night. And she is willing to bump him off if he fails to live up to her expectations. Trying to get sober, Remy needs to work the day shift for Moonlight Detective Agency. Can he learn the ropes before the faeries, werewolves, or his supposed employee kill him off?

Everyone knows geeky girls like me don't get to be rock stars. But when tattooed singer Jared Cross invites me to join his band on a reality TV show competition, how can I refuse? There's just one rule: Don't sleep with anyone in the band. Not a problem. Really. Until I discover there’s more to Jared than his flirty smile, sinful voice, and bad boy reputation. Until one forbidden kiss changes everything.

When an outbreak of H7N2, or as the news calls it, Whitby Fever, begins striking cats and dogs, it is newsworthy but not panic-inducing, until it is confirmed that Whitby Fever has crossed the boundaries, spreading from domestic pets to humans at an astronomical rate. Mills Run, Ohio, is not much different from any other small town. The residents have a bond and kinship. The townspeople brag that Mills Run is isolated, and at times, cut off from the rest of the world. However, not even Mills Run is secluded enough for a global pandemic.

Skylar Rome is supposed to be having the best summer ever before she heads off to college. Little did she know that her whole life was about to change while visiting her cousin. One of the Grand brothers she'd, Mason, saves her life right after meeting her when she nearly drowns at the beach due to unknown forces. Cool, collected, mysterious, and dangerously good looking, Skylar is drawn to him from the start.

It wasn’t easy to free my mind from all the lies the Lux Academy raised me on, but I’m finally coming to terms with who I really am. I’ve only started to accept my new life and what I must do when Val—the only friend I thought I had left from my previous life—kidnaps me and promises to make me pay for Magistrate Magnus’s death. As he drags me away, I know I won’t get a fair trial and must accept my grim fate.

All my life, I’ve trained to kill shifters, and now I’m one of them. My parents were murdered by wild packs, but the Lux Academy saved me and raised me among other orphans like me. They taught me the shifters’ savagery and how to destroy them. But, everything changes when I’m pulled into a life among the packs, my sworn enemies. They think I’m the alpha for their powerful triad - a group of three wild werewolves with iridescent stares and indomitable hearts, one of which thinks I’m his fated mate.

Alyssa D'Yaragen is just an elf trying to make ends meet. Thankfully, working as a freelance thief - a runner by the street name Lysistrata — pays more than she would make in a month selling cell phones to retropunks at her antique shop. Though she's low-tech, she has an advantage over her fellow larcenists. She has magic.

Providence brings together a mismatched family, giving all three a second chance for love. Only love may never have had such a tough job. Lydia Miller is an anomaly among her Amish people - a single woman in her 30s, running her own store, determined to forge a life on her own. But when Joel Yoder comes into town to sell his property, Lydia suddenly finds all of her hopes and dreams crumbling around her and a new opportunity placed in her lap.

Someone has an axe to grind. Literally! Paige Murphy has settled into her new life as a writer and bookshop owner. Business booms when an infamous Hollywood director announces he’s hidden a treasure that could bring fame and fortune to whoever finds it...and his clues lead a bevy of actors and adventurers to Comfort Cove! But when the body of one of those actors is found on the beach, Paige’s detective brother sets his sights on Paige’s hunky new assistant as the killer.

Not all gambles pay off in aces! Now that Paige Murphy has the beachfront book shop she inherited from her aunt back on its feet, she sets her sights on finding a place of her own to live. And the sooner the better after the plumber finds a dead body buried in the book store’s basement. Was sweet Aunt Nora a killer? And just who was the person under the pipes? Paige must roll the dice and bet on herself to uncover the mystery behind this cold case.

It’s her dream come true: Martha’s cousins are about to come for a six-week summer visit. But instead of hustling to meet her parents and head to the airport to pick them up, she finds herself rescuing a pregnant cat from a garage sale free box. Things get messy when her parents find out and, even worse, when the cat runs away before giving birth to the kittens.

Paige Murphy loves her new life in Italy, where she can sip wine, eat pasta, and while the days away working on her romance novel. But all that changes when her beloved aunt falls ill, and she must fly back home to Texas — a place she thought she’d left behind. In a blink, she finds herself with a failing beachside bookstore, jealous cousins out to get her, and pesky suitors who won’t leave her alone. As if that wasn’t enough, buried treasure and hidden secrets could prove to be deadly!

With Moswen still on the loose and the whole preternatural world in mortal danger, Taylor realizes that drastic times call for drastic measures. Meanwhile, Remy and the team - oblivious to the dire situation Taylor is getting into - work to track down Moswen and her goons. A clear plan of what they're going to do if they find her eludes them.... How do they take on the world's oldest, most powerful vampire? Of course, Moswen is tracking their every move and intends to pick them off one by one before they can get close.

Little Star loves the delicious Mooncake that she bakes with her mama. But she's not supposed to eat any yet! What happens when she can't resist a nibble?

Today is the day the exuberant Lucy is going to make a new friend! But she finds it's harder than she had thought - she accidentally ruins the giraffe's breakfast and is much too big for the frogs' pond. Just when she's about to give up, an unexpected friend finds her and loves her just the way she is.