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In a fashionable Las Vegas hotel, with hundreds of witnesses and countless video surveillance cameras watching, a young girl is brutally murdered in an audacious crime that shocks the entire city. It looks like a relatively simple investigation for Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt, but it soon proves to be anything of the sort, as the one vital piece of the jigsaw is missing; the killer.

Architect Carter Grady is constructing his most prized design - a family. Two years after marrying his deceased best friend’s wife, Tori, he’s ready to officially adopt her two sons, independent Daniel, 12, and the sweet five-year-old Nathan. All he needs to do is sign the legal paperwork. But a phone call changes everything. A one-night stand from over a decade ago died in a freak accident and Carter now learns two things: the random stranger’s name...and that they share a 10-year-old son, Frances.

It takes a survivor to know a madman. When the police need to crawl inside the mind of a monster, they call Caroline. As a child, Caroline was abducted along with her twin sister. Caroline escaped. Her sister didn’t...But there’s something different about her latest case. Something familiar. Teenage girls are being murdered, their organs removed. As the scope of horror widens, Caroline begins to experience blackouts of lost time and disturbing hallucinations that are leading her to one terrible, impossible conclusion.

The City of Lights above, the darkness of evil below… “Dark, gripping, and impossible to put down” —Los Angeles Book Review In 1985, Kelly Burke has spent the past year working as an au pair in Paris after finally summoning the courage to take the first step toward her dream of becoming a French teacher. No more grinding away at two jobs back in the United States to support her freeloading mother and brother. No more living with the ghost of her murdered best friend. But when her classmate and fellow au pair, Erin, goes missing, Kelly worries history is repeating itself.

Julienne has her ideal job as an event planner at a prestigious resort. During a luncheon event she coordinated, a renowned celebrity pastor is killed next to the buffet. All eyes turn to her as the suspect. If she wants to stay out of jail or even keep her job, Julienne needs all the help she can get to solve the crime. She has her work cut out for her with a vengeful high school rival (now reporter), the public demanding she be fired, plus family who knows what's best for her, and a boyfriend who doesn't understand her.

When Leah’s daughter, Nyla, unexpectedly appears at her cabin in the Appalachian Mountains, it’s a dream come true. For five years, Leah hasn’t seen or heard from her daughter—ever since Nyla stormed out of the house, determined to go live with her idealized father.

What if curiosity, not confidence, was the real secret to unforgettable conversations? And what if your everyday life already contained more stories than you realize? How to Be Interesting: Daily Habits of Curiosity and Connection That Make You Unforgettable is Sage Monroe’s practical, psychology-backed guide for anyone who has ever said, “I’m not that interesting,” and believed it. This book flips that belief on its head by showing you how magnetic people think, listen, question, and notice the world, not how they perform for it.

She writes about killers. She never meant to become one. Lola Dahl is a bestselling thriller author whose career is quietly unraveling. Her last book flopped. Her publisher is losing patience. And the words—the good ones—have stopped coming. Then Lola kills someone. It isn't planned. It isn't justified. But something terrifying happens in the aftermath: her creativity roars back to life. The story pours out of her. The pages fly. For the first time in years, she feels unstoppable.

After her beloved grandfather’s unexpected death, twenty-one-year-old Nell—along with her mom and little brother Tyler—move back to Tennessee to live in her mother’s childhood home. They’ll have a house that’s paid for, friends nearby, and Nell will finally be able to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps in attending the police academy. But while they’re unpacking, six-year-old Tyler disappears without a trace. Nell is sure the old station wagon that she saw in her neighborhood is somehow related to his disappearance. But how?

From the trenches of World War I to the battlefields of modern Ukraine, discover the untold stories of courage that changed the face of warfare forever. Throughout history, women have answered the call to defend freedom, often in the shadows of official recognition. "Women at War" brings these extraordinary stories to light, revealing how female warriors, medics, spies, and leaders have shaped military history across more than a century of conflict.

Lane swore never to be like her late mother. But now she too is a serial killer. One difference remains, she only stalks and punishes the guilty. There’s a new killer in town, or is there? As Lane pieces together the recent suicides, the trail leads back to a retirement home. Therein lies the one person linked to all her secrets and the key to unlocking her past. But will the truth bring redemption or doom?

Twenty years ago, Jolie Royale was critically wounded during a shooting that left her mother, her aunt, and her aunt's suspected lover dead. The case was ruled a double homicide and suicide and quickly closed, though rumors abounded as to the murderer's real identity . . . Jolie would never forget that day—but she could never recall the killer's face. And now she is coming home to Mississippi for her father's funeral. Her mixed feelings turn into dread when the investigation into the triple murder is reopened—and it becomes clear as day that a killer is still on the loose . . .

Are you ready to reclaim your health and vitality? In Leaky Gut: The Complete Guide to Fixing Leaky Gut and Supporting Women’s Health, Dr. Amelia Grace Harper takes you on a transformative journey to understand and heal your gut, with a focus on the unique challenges faced by women. This audiobook is your ultimate resource for identifying the root causes of leaky gut, understanding its connection to hormones and women’s health, and taking actionable steps toward long-lasting wellness.

Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers to sex criminals. At the end of every day, when she walked out the prison gate, she had to try to shed the horrors she witnessed. But the darkness invaded every part of her life, no matter how much she tried to immerse herself in a liquor bottle. She couldn't hide from the things that hurt her, the things that made her bleed, and the things that still rise up in the dark and choke her. With a magnetic, raw voice that you won't soon forget, Sweet Hell on Fire grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.

Everyone has a dark side. Lane swore she would never become like her late mother. But now she, too, is a serial killer. One difference remains—she only stalks and punishes the guilty. While tracking a murderer of teenage girls known as The Strangler, Lane makes a catastrophic miscalculation and kills the wrong man. Now the family of the man she accidentally murdered is hunting The Strangler—and Lane is forced to cover her tracks by befriending them. Because everyone knows you keep your enemies close. But are they really enemies? Lane isn’t so sure.

Even though her husband was a TV evangelist, Nora never prayed unless she knew the cameras were focused on her. But she prayed tonight that they’d make this stupid baby he wanted. Meet Nora: Flawless. Enigmatic. Conniving. Ruthless. At 17, she escaped the grip of her cold and abusive mama after catching the eye of charismatic Merrell Hodges. His riches and fame became hers. In exchange, she could play the role of doting wife.

Everyone has a dark side. Lane swore she would never become like her late mother. But she hunts killers—and makes sure they never strike again. It’s the one rule that keeps her human. Until she breaks it. While tracking a murderer dubbed The Strangler, Lane makes a catastrophic mistake and kills the wrong man. Forced to hide in plain sight, she infiltrates the victim’s family as the hunt for the real killer intensifies—only to find herself drawn dangerously close to people who could expose everything she’s buried.

When Charity Deacon witnesses a car crash, she can’t believe the police push her aside. Sure, she made some enemies on the force, but what happened to forgive and forget? Deep inside, something keeps pushing her to help, and it speaks louder than everyone she loves. For her first case as a PI, Charity searches for justice in the dark streets of Vancouver where missing prostitutes stay gone unless someone cares enough to risk their life to find them. From Vancouver to the south of France, Charity digs into secrets everyone wants to keep hidden.

In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches.

When a shriveled body turns up in an old silver mine, failed detective Syl Dixon gets pulled into the investigation. But the strange case is even more sinister than she imagined. And the dying town of Pate, Idaho is full of secrets that don't want to be uncovered. People go missing all the time. Strange howls echo from the woods. Eerie portraits hang like shrines outside homes. But nobody-including the local sheriff-seems to care.