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From the winner of the CWA?s Debut Dagger Award.Two victims. Twenty years apart. One elusive killer.Crescent Bluff, West Texas. Everybody knows everybody. And everybody has a secret.When a boy is found dead with the skin of a hare?s head in his hand, everyone knows who killed him?Willis Newland, just released from prison after serving twenty years for an identical murder.But what if everyone?s wrong?Detective Colly Newland reluctantly agrees to investigate a case that seems to involve the whole town, including her dead husband?s extended family. But the deeper she digs, the more secrets she unearths. And as threats against her escalate, Colly realizes someone is willing to kill to keep theirs?

A costume designer?s past casts a long shadow over her well-constructed lies in this intriguing story about stolen identities, friendship, and betrayal from the author of A Splendid Ruin and A Dangerous Education.Hollywood, 1955. As head costume designer for Lux Pictures, Lena Taylor hears startling confessions from the biggest movie stars. She knows how to keep their secrets?after all, none of their scandals can match her own.Lena was once Elsie Gruner, the daughter of an Ohio dressmaker. Her gift for fashion design helped her win a coveted spot at an art academy in Rome. While in Italy, she became enthralled by the charismatic Julia, who drew her into a shadowy world of jazz clubs, code words, and mysterious deliveries. When one of Julia?s intrigues ended in murder, Elsie found herself in the middle of a bewildering sinister international plot. So she ran.After fleeing to LA, Elsie became Lena?but she?s never stopped looking over her shoulder. Now, as her engagement to a screenwriter throws her into the spotlight, she?s terrified her façade won?t hold up. Will she figure out the truth about her past before everything falls apart?

In this foreboding journey into the depths of friendship, three women spend a trip together covering up the secrets between them?but when one lie unravels, there?s no going back.Jocelyn is ready to get married?and more ready to have fun. She plans a bachelorette trip to North Wales, where she can forget about her strained relationship and focus on the tension among friends instead. It?s a welcome distraction.Her friend Rowan used to be the wild child. But after having a kid of her own and losing the father in a tragic accident, she?s now the ever-responsible single mother, cautious in every way. Except one.Cadence doesn?t want to be there. For as long as she?s known her friends, she?s always felt disparate. Maybe it?s because those two share a special bond: Jocelyn?s brother was Rowan?s boyfriend, and they still feel his loss. Or maybe it?s because Cadence has secrets they can never know.As the trip goes on, their friendship begins to crack under the pressure of all the things they leave unsaid?but those might be the only things that can save them.

From Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabtree comes an epic and inspiring novel?based on true events?about love, heroism, and resilience during the darkest chapters of World War II.Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white?for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy?s mission is clear: sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II.Anchored in an extraordinary true story and breathlessly re-created, Hold Strong is a one-of-a-kind novel that explores faith, courage, survival, and coming home against insurmountable odds.

All aboard. It?s murder on the Valentine Train in a heart-racing mystery from Amazon Charts bestselling and Edgar Award?nominated author Jess Lourey.Mira James is heading to Oregon by rail with two of her best friends to attend a PI conference. Even better, she?ll see Johnny, the love of her life, who?s in Portland for an internship. It?ll be scenic, swift, and safe. Until it isn?t.When a winter storm brings the train to a dead stop in the Rockies, Mira discovers that a woman in the next cabin has been murdered, and her husband and child have vanished. Rumors of an escaped convict do nothing to ease the passengers? frazzled nerves. To Mira, every one of them is a suspect.Trapped in a snowbound train with only two people she can trust, Mira has to solve a baffling disappearance and track down a killer?if she isn?t derailed herself. Permanently.Revised edition: This edition of February Fever includes editorial revisions.

Fate connects two people in life-changing ways in a deeply romantic and emotional novel about hope and second chances by the author of Would You Rather and The Roommate Pact.Uncertain of what tomorrow brings, Elliott Holland decides to live it up?on the eve of a stem cell transplant to treat her leukemia. It?s destiny when she crosses paths with handsome and charming Jamie Sullivan. The chemistry is magic. So is a beautiful evening that ends with a bittersweet kiss goodbye and no expectations of ever seeing each other again.One year later, Elliott?s future looks good. Her cancer is in remission. Her career in graphic design is taking off. And she?s finally met Carly, the young woman whose stem cell donation gave Elliott a second chance at life. Then, in a twist of fate both blissful and unfair, she meets Carly?s boyfriend. It?s Jamie, the man Elliott kissed like it was her last day on earth. Neither of them has ever forgotten it.Now, the most difficult decisions of all lie ahead. Whatever risks there are to the heart, one need wins out: to grab hold of everything that can make someone feel alive again.

?The Twelve Days of Christmas? is sung in churches, houses, and concert halls throughout the Christmas season. It would be hard to imagine a Christmas celebration without it. From the partridge in the pear tree to the five golden rings to the twelve drummers drumming, carolers enjoy taking turns singing different verses.Gennady Spirin?s sumptuous paintings bring new life and spectacular beauty to this classic song, making it a gift to be treasured at Christmastime. An Illustrator?s Note is included which addresses the song?s origin and history.

From Robert Dugoni, Jeff Langholz, and Chris Crabtree comes an epic and inspiring novel?based on true events?about love, heroism, and resilience during the darkest chapters of World War II.Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white?for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.Determined to use her math skills on the home front, Sarah is recruited to Washington, DC, into the covert field of code breaking. When Sarah intercepts a message about a Japanese convoy, the US Navy?s mission is clear: sink the Arisan Maru and send it to the bottom of the South China Sea. Now, the lives of the two young lovers are about to inadvertently collide in one of the most shocking acts of World War II.Anchored in an extraordinary true story and breathlessly re-created, Hold Strong is a one-of-a-kind novel that explores faith, courage, survival, and coming home against insurmountable odds.

A dead man?s riddles?and secrets?thrust an FBI codebreaker into a deadly cross-country race for justice in a propulsive thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Cipher.During a recent undercover sting gone bad, hit man Gustavo Toro died in the arms of FBI Special Agent Daniela ?Dani? Vega. But Toro had secrets he refused to take to the grave.In the event of his death, Toro left behind a video that promises to expose a mysterious mastermind who has been operating with impunity for decades. But there?s a catch. Dani?s team must follow Toro?s cryptic clues on a cross-country hunt for justice, and piecing together his past is more twisted than Dani could have imagined.But as Dani and her team race to gather the evidence, it?s clear this powerful adversary will stop at nothing to keep their secrets?including eliminating those who threaten to reveal them.

A medieval torture device. An archaeological dig. Can DS Karen Hart unearth the truth?In the dead of night, four teenagers taking a shortcut through an archaeological dig site find a woman?s lifeless body in a muddy trench, her hands and neck locked in a medieval device known as a Shrew?s Fiddle. It doesn?t take long to see that these are no ancient remains: the woman was killed just hours earlier.Called in to unearth the truth, DS Karen Hart learns that the victim, local woman Alison Poulson, was unpopular with the archaeologists and the TV crew filming the excavation. Digging further, she finds bitter colleagues, an angry farmer and an oddly unmoved husband. Then there?s the teenage girl who found the body, who seems to know more than she?s letting on?After a second murder rocks the investigation, it seems the killer will stop at nothing to cover their tracks. Can Karen unravel the mystery before another life is lost?

When a romance author meets a mysterious stranger, love is the last thing she expects to find in a funny and heartfelt novel about second chances by a New York Times bestselling author.A city girl leaves her life behind in LA to start over in a small town?It?s a cliché, but it?s also Amelia Taylor?s life. And her new life as a romance novelist and motelier is going great?until Nathan Hart checks in.Of course he?s disastrously handsome, thoroughly disagreeable, and seems to be set against Amelia on sight. Of course there?s smoldering tension between them that can?t be ignored. They?d make the perfect enemies to lovers story. It?s one of Amelia?s favorite tropes.But the man in room 32 seems genuinely broken, and it?s going to take more than romance tropes and wishful thinking to get past his wounds. As a tentative friendship grows into a deeper connection, Amelia and Nathan both realize that facing each other?s painful secrets takes courage. Do they dare take the risk and hope it ends happily after all?

For Sheriff Bree Taggert, a gruesome double murder exposes the secrets of the dead in a shocking novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.A teenager returns home from work and finds her parents shot to death in their bed. Responding to the call, Sheriff Bree Taggert realizes the crime wasn?t a burglary gone wrong. The couple was executed. The sole survivor: their traumatized teenage daughter, Claire Mason.Bree teams up with investigator Matt Flynn to work the case, but together they uncover more questions than answers. When Claire is stalked at the park, it?s clear the killer isn?t finished?and she?s the next target.As Bree and Matt sift through the past?suspect by suspect?a tangled web of deception emerges, and the truth becomes harder to see. Because the victims? entire lives were a lie. And the only way to protect the vulnerable girl is to unravel her parents? secrets.

A fearless woman, raised in the forest, fights against a group of powerful men in a novel about good versus evil, the enduring nature of myth, and the power of love by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortuneteller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn?t cast such a dark shadow.It?s where José Nochelobo, the love of Vida?s life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That?s the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it. The truth can?t be contained for long. Nor can the hungry men of power in Kettleton who want something too: that Vida, like José, disappear forever. One by one they come for her, prepared to do anything to see their plans through to their evil end. Vida is no less prepared for them.Vida, the forest, and its formidable wonders are waiting. She will not rest until goodness and order have been restored.

When her estranged daughter asks to hear the one story she doesn?t want to tell, a woman spins lie after lie to protect her perfect life in this gripping novel.Amy Linden has a loving husband, an adorable son, and a glamorous career as the hotelier of a grand mountain lodge. Then Ramona Crawford, the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years earlier, pays her a surprise visit. Ramona wants to know the identity of her biological father?and Amy completely understands. There?s just one problem: the truth would destroy Amy?s carefully curated life.Amy shares a sad tale about a teenage romance with a boy named Freddy and the painful decision to give Ramona a better future than they could provide. At first, the pieces fit together and give Ramona both closure and a chance to get to know her odd but charming mother. But then Ramona gets a different story from Freddy, and Amy?s memories seem to change?and change again.Will Amy ever reveal the full story of that fateful summer at the lodge? And if so, can Ramona live with the truth?

An innocent man framed. A case closed. A serial killer free to kill again.It is 1985. Detective Inspector Mungo ?Bob? Willis is being forced out of Avon and Somerset Police on medical grounds. His career is in tatters, his body broken, his mind shattered, and his partner?DS Lizzie Harper?dead in a sting operation gone wrong.Their last case is closed, but Bob is convinced an innocent man has been framed, leaving a serial killer cruising the A303 with impunity, free to target lone women who have broken down by the roadside late at night.The killer knows the police aren?t looking for anyone else in connection with the murders. What they don?t know is what Bob will do next.And when another woman is killed in horrifyingly similar circumstances, Bob launches his own?unofficial?investigation. Can he stop a sadistic killer before they kill again? And again?

In this haunting story that spans three decades, a young gymnast escapes a kidnapping. Years later, she?s forced to face the past when her own daughter disappears.Cora Valentine has her whole life?and a shot at the Olympics?ahead of her. But when she?s kidnapped on Halloween, her name is splashed across headlines not as an athlete but as a victim. Not even her safe return changes that, especially since no one is caught for the crime.Hounded by the public, Cora?s time as a missing girl and member of the Magnificent Eight has its consequences. Years later, when Cora has her own daughter, she?s determined to leave the past behind for a better life. Her daughter will never face those fears. And Cora will never face them again.But four years later, on Halloween, the past comes knocking.Now, Cora?s daughter is gone, and to get her back, Cora must take someone else?s child.Clearly, whoever took her all those years ago isn?t done with her yet?but as long as they have her daughter, Cora?s not done with them either.