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The first "red flags" of coercive control are so subtle you barely notice them. Eventually, he has driven away your friends and family, is making all the decisions and controlling the finances, and you are trapped. These brave, resilient, brilliant women share the tools that helped them escape and rebuild their lives. They want to encourage and empower you to break the chains of coercive control and create the life you deserve.

As the hotel launches an addition to its overnight amenities on a neighboring property, Delia Sanchez MacBride, the Loring’s principal owner and hospitality manager, is haunted by premonitions of disaster. Delia’s worst fears begin to materialize when the hotel’s most macabre secret is literally unearthed, namely when the bodily remains of The Forgotten Fifty, a group of townspeople who vanished without a trace a century ago, are revealed as being buried in the Loring’s basement.

China Bohannon, 1890s bookkeeper turned sleuth, is branching out…. Although still working with her uncle's detective agency, Doyle & Howe Investigations, she's almost given up on becoming a partner and is turning to providing security services, something her uncle, Montgomery Howe, and his partner, Gratton Doyle, aren't interested in.

Captain Jack Aimes is an ordinary man, living an ordinary life of a charter service pilot in 1937 Belgium. He makes a living transporting packages and passengers from one country to another, enjoying the hand to mouth existence he has chosen to live. His life quickly becomes one of intrigue when he meets a beautiful woman named Bluma, a waitress at the local café. A life, once mundane fast becomes one of car chases, mysterious strangers with guns, mysticism and the acquisition, loss and pursuit of an important book called “The Prose Edda”.

When Kara traded her bustling urban life for "low country" living, she didn't expect to be caught up in a dangerous drama featuring a deliciously smooth talking Southern lawyer with a cause. And she never thought the man she loved would disappear before she had a chance to tell him so. She can't bring herself to start a new chapter. A chance discovery leads her to a risky decision with serious consequences.

A small Long Island town erupts in a panic when a woman and her dog are found savagely murdered on a popular hiking trail. Tasked with finding the sadistic killer, Homicide Detective Cassie Logan and FBI Agent Rick Sanders grow increasingly desperate after another woman is found dead at the same park, her body more gruesome and disturbing than the last. The killer and his unusual, but highly trained best friend are on the hunt. With the body count rising, Cassie and Rick fight to stay a step ahead of him. But how do you catch a predator who evolves with each of his brutal attacks?

If someone were to write a novel about the world of big-box retail, it could very well be a grab bag of horrors and tragedies, detailing the dismal pay and long hours that employees suffer in the name of low prices and just-good-enough merchandise all so the bigwigs and the bean counters can stuff their pockets with trumped up stock options. It could be about that. Thankfully, this book isn't. Instead, it's a lively romantic comedy that begins when Jeff Martin, son of the owner of the third-largest retailer in the United States, shows up at his father's Minnesota corporate office.

Diggett Monroe's gang of outlaws wants to take over the town of Endurance, Idaho. To this end, they ambush Sheriff Pelham Birdsall, leaving him for dead. But Birdsall, thanks to his young wife Delight, doesn't die, and as she strives to get him back on his feet in time for the inevitable showdown, more and more of the sheriff's duties fall on her shoulders. In this, she is assisted by an unlikely deputy and a three-legged dog, but in the end, it takes all of them to vanquish the outlaws.

An old LeMat revolver is the catalyst that sends gunsmith Boothenay Irons back in time to 1877, and sets her down in the middle of the Nez Perce war. She is following her lover, Caleb Deane, after he and an Appaloosa horse named Six Shot disappear into the past.

Your life may be a mess because of panic. In fact, it may have turned into a nightmare. Now all you can do is hope you can get through the day without a panic attack. What you may not realize is that it is possible to have a day without panic. And it can start now. Today is the day to take your life back and to kick panic to the curb. You’re ready to get over panic attacks. You’re waiting for your life to begin again. If that’s what you truly want, get ready. It’s time to put it into motion. I speak from experience because that’s what I did. I found a way to stop the panic. I hope...

So hatte sich Ursula ihren großen Tag nicht vorgestellt! Da wird man jahrelang ausgebildet, um am achtzehnten Geburtstag Köln gegen die Dämonen der Hunnen zu verteidigen, und dann läuft alles anders als erwartet! Nicht genug damit, dass zwei der elf Mitglieder ihres Teams spurlos verschwinden und Ursula notgedrungen Adam, seines Zeichens Exil-Amerikaner und Gelegenheitsstadtführer, in einer Bar auflesen muss; zusätzlich verschwinden plötzlich auch noch mitten im Kampf alle Hunnen - und mit ihnen auch Ursulas Ausbilderin Una.

Fallow Heart is the story of Lorelai Blake, a self-conscious, overweight 17-year-old who discovers that a demon has pierced her heart, sparking an incredible transformation. Sleepwalking, fits of rage, and impossible strength force Lori to accept that part of her is no longer human. It was hard enough fitting in before, and now, the hurtful voice in her head has taken an even more sinister tone. Worse than this, bodies are being discovered.

Ryder wants to be more than a lab rat; he wants to be free. Katie wants him to save the world. Purists want him dead. In a future where humans teeter on the brink of extinction, hope lies in the genetic experiments of Katie Marsh. A brilliant young scientist, Katie is hard at work perfecting a new species of humanoid resistant to the devastating virus afflicting mankind. But not everyone wants Katie to succeed.

Boothenay Irons possesses a mysterious power that allows her to go back in time and experience the history held within an antique gun. This time it's a 1911 Colt .45 Automatic and it has a mysterious power of its own. When Boothenay's fiance, Caleb, picked up the gun he immediately vanished and found himself in the midst of World War I. His only chance to return to the modern world is through Boothenay's extraordinary power. She must go back to 1911, find Caleb and bring him back.

Als ihn das erste Mal jemand umbringen wollte, war es ein Zufall. Das zweite Mal war volle Absicht. Jetzt ist Paul Mulchrone auf der Flucht vor Leuten, die er nicht kennt und von denen er nicht weiß, warum sie ihn töten wollen. Seine einzigen Verbündeten sind eine Krankenpflegerin, die definitiv zu viele Krimis gelesen hat und Paul mit gefährlichem Halbwissen berät, und ein abtrünniger Kommissar mit einem ungesunden Hang zu Alkohol und roher Gewalt.

Agatha Raisin ist fassungslos: Ihr Verlobter James hat sich einfach aus dem Staub gemacht. Doch Agatha wäre nicht Agatha, wenn sie tatenlos zusehen würde, wie ihr Glück den Bach runtergeht. Beherzt packt sie ihre Koffer und reist James hinterher. Doch Agathas Traum von der romantischen Versöhnung unter mediterraner Sonne ist schnell ausgeträumt: Kaum gelandet, muss sie sich mit englischen Urlaubern und einem Mörder rumschlagen, der es auf ebendiese abgesehen hat.

Fueled by tenacity and a will to survive, will this German man stand strong against the Communist evil infiltrating his homeland? Germany, 1945. Joseph Werner’s young life is one of struggle. Lurking among the wreckage of Berlin, the starving war orphan will do anything to fill his belly. But when he’s caught trying to steal from another boy his age, he’s shocked to be met with compassion and adopted into his would-be victim’s Lutheran family. Unable to shed his past, the now twenty-four-year-old struggles to live up to the ideals of his faith while his adoptive sibling attends ...

Formerly with the LAPD, Delia is now the overstressed hospitality manager of the charmingly haunted Loring Boutique Hotel. Seven months pregnant, she receives worrisome news from her obstetrician on the same day her vacationing sisters are arrested for murdering a male stripper. Dropping everything, Delia and her fiancé, Gabe, rush to their rescue, driving up the California coast in his classic Mercedes to Spa Town, a resort on Brimley Bay.

Was Johann Mueller’s death a tragic accident or was he a victim of murder?Mueller, A German born physicist who immigrated to the United States in the 1930s to escape Hitler and the Nazis, was a scientist for the U.S. Department of War. Traveling on the Denver & Rio Grande Western’s famed San Juan Express, Mueller dies under mysterious circumstances.With World War II raging and foreign spies operating in the United States, FBI Special Agent Nelson Paine is assigned the sensitive task of uncovering the truth about Mueller’s death.Forced to retrace Mueller’s last hours of life, Paine ...

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