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They’ll have to go through him to get to her. Jack, a total stranger, saves Summer from kidnappers and promises to get her home safely, explaining that his military skills will make eluding her pursuers easy. As they travel, camping, hiding and sharing cramped spaces, they fall in love and plan a future together. The people after Summer know every road they take, every move they make, though Jack still insists he can get Summer home safely and that they will become husband and wife. But her kidnappers are closing in. Home is far away. They won’t make it. So Jack makes a side trip for ...

Charlie, forester, guides her boss and the owner of Macallister Outdoors to a tiny lake in the middle of a wilderness tract he recently purchased so he can see with his own eyes the spirit that legend says lives there and uncover the truth about it. Suddenly, a rogue storm destroys the dam that created the lake, the surrounding forest, and much of their equipment. They are stranded. Then they see the spirit and hear it sing. It’s real, it’s beautiful, and it will die when the lake drains dry. They resolve to patch the dam and save the lake and the spirit. As they work, they learn about ...

Jane, who dislikes wolves because they kill her livestock, takes Buck Portman, wolf researcher and wildlife professor at a nearby college she attends, to an island to seek out the huge wolves of legend … the dire wolves of prehistoric times … that local fishermen say they’ve seen there. She’s skeptical until a huge wolf runs through their camp and mentally connects with Jane and invites her to visit so they can sort out this strange mental phenomenon that neither of them expected. Jane follows the wolf and Buck follows her into another world, another dimension, one populated by ...

Go to small town. Sell inherited house. Use proceeds to continue with life plan. Except the house, a Victorian mansion in the Christmas-themed town of Gideons Park is falling apart and unsellable, so when the tenant in the apartment above the garage who happens to restore old houses offers to fix everything that’s wrong, it’s too good a deal to pass up. Leah gets a job at the Christmas Store to fund the restoration and soon finds herself questioning her well-thought-out plan for her future while struggling not to fall in love with the hunky man turning her inheritance into a Victorian ...

She wanted to travel. She didn’t expect a spaceship. Chloe’s new neighbor, ripped ex-soldier Mac, is as interested in her as she is in him and they both enjoy counting shooting stars on warm summer nights. But one shooting star isn’t a natural phenomenon. It’s a starship with a badly injured alien inside who’s on a galactic mission of mercy. Former military pilot Mac agrees to help complete the mission. He tells Chloe she can’t come. He doesn’t tell her why. But Chloe has seldom traveled so on impulse she stows away, unaware she was left behind because the trip will be ...

In a blizzard and freezing to death, Elena crawls into a flying saucer that shouldn’t exist but does. She convinces the pilot to let her stay and ends up at a super-secret, remotely hidden facility where she learns about the Atlas Project and the unknown men and women who are the guardians of the solar system. She joins this elite squad and soon goes on patrol with the very man who didn’t want her in his craft. The man she’s foolishly in love with. Is she a fool to risk her life fulfilling a dream that didn’t exist until that fateful day? In the vast reaches of space where danger is...

How can you lose ten years? Jo doesn’t think it can happen. Gil knows it can. When Jo finishes a swim in a tiny pond in the forest, she’s exhausted, confused and missing her car keys. All she wants is to find them and go home but she no longer has a home to go to except the one Gil offers to share. Can she trust him? After all he must be insane because he thinks time travel is possible. Obviously, it’s not. But something happened. Something altered her life forever. What do you do when your world is turned upside down and everything you knew is gone including years of your life and ...

Elle Olmstead isn’t your normal, every-day botanist. She’s different. As a descendant of Ceres, goddess of the harvest and fertility, she, like others of her family, has a magic touch with plants. Real, honest-to-goodness magic. Which is why she unwillingly stows away on the Destiny, a space ship filled with ten thousand colonists heading for a distant planet. Because she knows that her abilities are essential to keep the plants alive that keep the colonists alive and that will be the basis for their survival when they reach their destination. She's caught and thrown in prison, where ...

More than anything, Abby Carr wants to own the house in the forest where she spent many happy, childhood summers and she can have it if she follows the rules her grandmother laid out for owning it. Having quit her job and moved to the north woods of Minnesota to live there and eventually own the house in the forest, she moves in -- and realizes her grandmother wasn’t specific about the requirements. Exactly what does ‘living the old way’ mean? And how can she ‘make a living and become a permanent resident’ when she can’t find a job? But she’ll do her best. Until, on her very ...

He has one job. Keep her safe. After leaving the military, Jace isn’t looking for another job that can get him killed. Problem is, he helped a man in trouble and as a result found himself in the middle of a pharmaceutical war. He should walk away. Once he meets the man’s daughter, however, his heart tells him to stay and when she becomes a pawn in that war he’s hired to protect her. The job should be just what he wants – a way to get close to her -- except he knows how the protection business works. No fraternization with the client. But for this particular job, fraternization is ...

She knew the risk. She went anyway. Hidden in a crevice of Emma's newly inherited ranch lies a portal to other worlds. Brimming with curiosity and accompanied by her tough, good-looking, ex-military neighbor, Emma enters the unknown worlds her late uncle had so meticulously tried to hide. Problem is, exploring is one thing. Returning alive is another thing entirely that requires unraveling the mystery of the portal that binds these worlds together. But how can you do that when you’re fighting for your life? The knowledge and wealth of a thousand worlds is the reward for braving the ...

Recently jilted, Chloe Brown is back home in Johns Falls, Minnesota, working for her aunt selling furniture and other garden paraphernalia until she can recover emotionally, after which she’ll leave. When she discovers a family of Mallard ducks in one of the huge vases in the outdoor portion of the store, her aunt agrees to let them stay because protecting the ducks is taking her niece out of her severe depression. Soon Chloe meets Ryan, short-term, interim manager of the Johns Falls newspaper. The two agree to support each other during this temporary, small-town stage of their lives, ...

An unspeakable evil whispers in the night. Lexi’s small business in the laid-back town she moved to is promising and the ripped ex-soldier, Zack who’s renovating the house next door is falling for her as hard as she’s already fallen for him. But she’s dying inside. A demon from Hell whispers nightly of its plan to steal her life and her very soul. Unless Zack can save her. In the military Zack had a well-earned reputation. He’s unbeatable. But normal war-fighting techniques won’t defeat Hell’s demon so, with help from some very special townspeople, he sets out to learn new ...

Welcome to an anthology of clean, contemporary women’s stories. They all take place in fly-over country. You know where I mean. That place in the middle of the USA that people from the coasts fly over when going from one coast to the other. The part of our country they don’t notice because they are napping or reading or talking with their seatmates. Do they even know we exist? We do and we love our prairies and cities and small towns and wilderness. Our lakes and rivers and farms and a pace of life that varies from slow-as-a-Missouri-mule to frantic. The women in these stories – the ...

Can the wilderness heal? Can the peace of the deep, cathedral-like forest help a disturbed child? Rae Brown returns to her forest home after losing her job, unaware that a traumatized child has come along as a stowaway. When Rae discovers Sheila, she is distraught. She has enough problems. But Rae knows the power of the elemental forest and accepts the challenge of helping this hurting child. What she doesn’t count on is having the precocious girl play matchmaker, wanting to turn Rae and the man across the road into her real life parents. And what about that hunky neighbor, anyway? If you...

How long can a toddler lost in the wilderness survive once the temperature drops below freezing? How can a normally sedentary woman convince searchers that she—and she alone—can find the child before it’s too late? Anna Reilly grew up in the wilderness and knows it like the back of her hand. Just because she’s not a macho tomboy doesn’t mean she can’t make her way in the forest but she’s away when three-year-old Bobby Deal goes missing and search parties are formed. When she returns, she’s relegated to pouring coffee and handing out donuts. But she knows how to find the ...

What if you went for a walk and brought home a man from another era? Impossible, you say! Sometimes the impossible happens. When Carey finds an unconscious man among the wildflowers on her farm, he awakens knowing only his name and what her farm was like a hundred years ago. He’s clearly suffering from amnesia and ‘something else’ that the doctor doesn’t understand, but when the doctor tells Carey he’ll recover his memory faster in familiar surroundings—and the farm is familiar-- she offers him a place in her home to avoid sending him to an institution, not dreaming how ...

The ability to read minds can get you tied to a bonfire with the match lit. When quiet, introverted Anna is convinced by her mind-reading community to become a colonist settling a distant planet because her people believe in helping mankind, she reluctantly agrees. After all, she’s been taught all she needs to know to stay safe and be helpful. Except nothing taught her what to do when the minds she’s reading aren’t human. She figures the years-long trip to the distant planet will give her time to make friends and fall in love. But half-way through the journey a rogue meteor punches ...

Nature is out to kill her. So is the mafia. Susanna rents a cottage in a tiny town beside a trout stream where she can lick her wounds after quitting a dead-end job. Royce, a small-town businessman who schedules work around when the fish are biting, helps the pretty newcomer learn how small towns operate. Then strangers in black cars with tinted windows show up looking for Susanna. She doesn’t know why they are interested in her but Royce doesn’t like the vibes they give off and vows to protect her. He soon finds himself up against men in black hoodies with murder on their minds as ...

Why would the ghost of a colonial witch contact her modern-day heirs? Dare they find out? Lora is the historian helping her friend untangle the twisted strands of magic and mystery that are making her sick but Lora’s search is mostly intellectual. Jason’s is simple curiosity. Julie’s is a matter of life or death. None expect what happens. Only one can follow the directions and create magic and there are no guarantees. Is it worth the risk? Will they survive? If you like ghost stories, American history, New England’s incomparable countryside, and friends and family going back many ...