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A little white lie never hurt anyone. When Clarissa takes a much needed nannying job under slightly false pretenses, she doesn't think it will be such a big deal. She may have told her movie-star boss that she was married, but that shouldn't matter—even though it was a specific job qualification. After all, the man is just worried about love-struck groupies applying for the position, and Clarissa doesn't want anything to do with men for a long, long time. Men have been nothing but trouble. But the love-struck groupies have a point.

Anyone that has been a service manager knows the job is incredibly stressful. I discovered that I could manage my stress level and generate amazing net profit by always keeping a finger on the pulse of the drive-through. You can turn your service lane into a profitable, minimally stressful environment you can be proud of, and "Gold Standard Service Advisors" are the key to it all.

The world is not always a nice place. Sometimes, it can be downright treacherous. That means sometimes you'll have to protect yourself, and other times you'll have to make your own justice. Hoodoo is old North American folk magic, born from the African spiritual traditions brought to the New World by slaves. Over the centuries it incorporated Native American and European influences, using what worked and discarding what did not. What is left is an adaptable, powerful magical system that works.

Katie Porter faces her most challenging, and dangerous, case to date after she writes a newspaper article about a series of local bank heists. Soon she’s confronted by the unusual methods of a team of clever thieves, evil threats to those she loves, a police sergeant determined to ruin her, and a ghost who has returned from the past to haunt Rosegate’s woods.

Maggie, a wife and mother, is disillusioned with her daily routine. Despite her boredom, when her husband David is called on assignment to South Africa, Maggie resents having to rearrange her life all because David has decided they all need to traipse halfway across the globe. While on safari, Maggie is catapulted into a mother’s worst nightmare: Her daughter Hannah has gone missing. Faced with the harsh truth of her abusive marriage, Maggie will have to find the courage to abandon her marriage and confront her self-destructive actions in order to save the life of her daughter.

Julia needed a new start. The unexpected death of her favorite aunt sends Julia to the artist town of Grand Marais. There she starts to weave tattered threads into a new tapestry while rediscovering her love of sketching and running the antique shop, Past Imperfect. Everything is just starting to go right when a mysterious package arrives bearing an antique letter opener arrives.

Neva's goals at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago are simple. Enjoy the spectacle—perhaps the greatest the United States has ever put on. (The world's fair to end all world's fairs!) Perform in the exposition's Algerian Theatre to the best of her abilities. And don't be found out as a witch.

Never a Cloud charts the course of three women, Violet, Ava, and Margot, who find their way into a new understanding of home and family at Otyrburn, an estate in rural Scotland. Violet Grey, a child of the 60s, writes from an island in Maine as the novel travels between Scotland, New York City, and Venice, Italy.

Katie and Jim join Ruth and Robert for a relaxing vacation in the quaint little town of Bounty. Everything is going well until a body is found in the bay followed by the discovery of a second victim. Who would murder two people? A group of women ask for Katie’s help, but she finds that they are hiding a dangerous secret. Can she trust them or will she become the next victim?

Edie Carrigan didn't plan to "get herself" pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie’s closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands what Edie truly wants: to keep and raise the baby. Twenty-five years later, Luce is a successful lawyer, and her daughter Meera now faces the same decision Edie once did.

When her ship is attacked and crew slaughtered by a mysterious creature, Violet "V" Green is rescued by the handsome Dr. Dominic Shade and brought aboard his magnificent luxury class vessel, The Persephone. The opulent halls, fine food, and high-quality hallucinogens are almost enough to convince her that she could recover from the horrific tragedy that brought her here. But from the moment she arrives, something only she can hear torments her endlessly: a woman's scream. Is it trying to tell her something, or is she losing her mind?

A political storm erupts when Claire Deveraux, a deaf employee of the U.S. Embassy in France, is abducted at a conference in Rome. The kidnapper, Franco Lazzari, is a wealthy pharmacist who has been scouring Italy for the perfect wife. Unable to hear, and with time against her, Claire must use all of her wits to escape Lazzari’s remote home in the Italian countryside.

Work. That's all I do. After my best friend betrayed me, that's all I can do. I'm trying to nail a massive contract. One that'll put my company ahead of the rest. But, of course, he's a traditionalist. My assistant says I need a fiancée. Someone that makes me look good in a commitment. Except, I don't date. And I don't intend to start. So a fake fiancée it is. What I didn't expect were her legs. Or her poise. Or her perfection. And now? I can't keep my eyes off her.

Shy and deaf, 23-year-old Claire Deveraux has worked hard to land her dream job as a foreign service officer at the US Embassy in Paris. Yet her idyllic life is shattered when she finds a woman lying on the restroom floor dying from a gunshot wound. The dying woman utters three words to Claire and conceals a thumb drive in Claire’s pocket. The items are keys to the location of proceeds from a bank robbery. The killer, certain Claire now has sole possession of those items, must find her, recover the code words and the drive, then kill her before she can solve the puzzle and recover the money.

When a Fort Worth police detective finds herself caught between a child custody battle and the hunt for a cunning psychotic killer, she must juggle conflicting priorities. Detective Madison Chase must find a way to keep her most prized possession—her young daughter—safe from a killer of sexual predators who leaves rhymes as clues and an ex-husband hell-bent on gaining custody of their daughter.

For many years, Jeffrey Demitrack searched for a meaningful and fulfilling relationship and, most of all, hoped that one day he would find a significant other who understood and unconditionally accepted his struggles with epilepsy. People have their insecurities, and relationships already are hard without throwing seizures into the mix, so his search has been a challenging one.

Midge Pennington is in trouble. She’s been arrested for the murder of her husband that was deemed an accident five years earlier. And who knew she was even married? Add a bloody crime scene, a rumored affair, nosy neighbors, an attractive chemist, and the best lawyer money can buy, and things really get interesting! Katie must use her best analytical skills and deductive reasoning to try and solve this cold case before her Gazette newspaper colleague is put away for life. Will this story be the one that gets the better of her?

What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens, and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What if the ghostly visitations did not begin or end with Scrooge, but the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come visit one misanthropic soul in need of reclamation every Christmas Eve? This modern-day sequel to the Charles Dickens classic assumes all of the above. And this time, the spiritual trio’s attentions have been directed to a not-so-nice woman in Philadelphia.

Miranda Abbott will once again be a star. After a very long dry spell that followed her network hit series Pastor Fran Investigates, Hollywood has come calling and they want Miranda back. This time to be the female lead in an oddly expensive movie of the week, filming right here in Happy Rock! Miranda signs on the dotted line, but her trusty assistant Andrew, a whiz with apps and clouds, thinks this all seems a bit fishy. When Miranda’s co-star makes a grand entrance by crashing through the atrium window at The Duchess Hotel and being very much dead, things go from bad to worse.

Katie Porter must follow several confusing leads in her search for the truth concerning a case that the Fairfield Police Department has been unable to solve. She and her friends follow a trail of sinister notes, multiple suspects, unwanted flirtations, and a story that seems to go nowhere. Add the sudden and mysterious disappearance of the Porter’s elderly postman, and the near abduction of Gran, and the situation has the potential to become deadly. Pressure mounts as the crimes escalate. Can Katie Porter find Devlin Douglas before it’s too late?