Before Dan opened his door to find a wounded woman who had escaped from the tormentors in the mountain, his life had become rather quiet. He and the eight other people in the mostly abandoned town had become friends. They spent peaceful evenings around the campfire and even made vague plans to journey east one day and leave the ominous mountain behind.
But the woman's arrival changes everything.
Who is she? How does she know so much about Dan's brother, who is still held captive in the mountain? Why are long-forgotten memories rising to the surface? And why does Dan feel so compelled to keep her presence in his house a secret?
Visionary writer Shawn Smucker is back with an unsettling story that invites us to consider two challenging questions: To what lengths will we go to assuage our own guilt? and Is there a limit to the things we will do for the people we love?
Ever since she and her friends opened a market stall for employment, Amish maid Claire Shoneberger has finally stopped worrying about finding a husband. After all, there are no eligible bachelors left in her community. Now Claire is starting a new job at an English bed-and-breakfast—where the owner's son has a flirty reputation with women. Only, Englisher Donovan Billings isn't quite the worldly scoundrel Claire expects.
An attraction to Donovan could be dangerous, yet Claire finds herself warming to him. Any man can have a change of heart. But can Claire trust Donovan with hers... knowing it could mean leaving her Amish life behind?
When humans became human beings, they never suspected evil existed. Then its web of lies closed, and their murder began.
Yawri is an adventurous being who travels the universe discovering new realities. He comes to Earth, exalts in its glorious creation, and joins with its ever-expanding life. Shahten finds Earth too … but he comes for something else.
Believing in his righteous Way, Shahten skillfully mixes lies with truth and sets an insidious plan in motion.
Both Shahten and Yawri want humans and beings to join together as human beings, but for very different reasons. Now, with the battle of ages at its peak, the fate of Earth, the solar system, and beyond depends on the choices made by human beings struggling to remember who they are.
The novel takes readers into the minds of Yawri and other celestial beings who have no knowledge of evil or even the possibility of deceit. Vivid storytelling conveys the challenges they face to stop something they can’t comprehend. Choosing courage over fear, they must learn how to stop murder without becoming heartless murderers themselves. All the while, Shahten’s prophecy drones, “You will all join me in the end.”
Justice comes easy for these two. But forgiveness? That's another matter altogether. Investigative reporter Rae Burke will do anything to find her missing sister-in-law, even if it means facing Liam McKade, a man who almost lost his life saving hers. A former DEA agent, Liam thought he could find peace at his Wyoming ranch, but he doesn't feel at home anywhere anymore. When the reporter who blew his cover on an important investigation inserts herself back into his life, he's less than thrilled. But Rae's keen investigative skills have led her down the right path-and directly into the dragon's mouth-leaving Liam no choice but to protect her. As the danger increases, the past they both tried to flee catches up to them, along with the feelings they once had for each other ...
Discover what happens when one intrepid young woman steps away from the past into a beautiful, wideopen future In 1933 Louisville, Kentucky, even the ongoing economic depression cannot keep Piper Danson's parents from insisting on a debut party. After all, their fortune came through the market crash intact, and they've picked out the perfect suitor for their daughter. Braxton Crandall can give her the kind of life she's used to. The only problem? This is not the man--or the life--she really wants. When Piper gets the opportunity to volunteer as a horseback Frontier Nursing courier in the Appalachian Mountains for the summer, she jumps at the chance to be something other than a dutiful daughter or a kept wife in a loveless marriage. The work is taxing, the scenery jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and the people she meets along the way open up a whole new world to her. The longer she stays, the more an advantageous marriage slips from her grasp. But something much more precious--true love--is drawing ever closer. Bestselling author Ann H. Gabhart invites you into the storied hills of Eastern Kentucky to discover what happens when one intrepid young woman steps away from the restrictive past into a beautiful, wide-open future.
Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime.
Pastor to miners in the mountains, Abe Merivale discovers an abandoned baby during a routine visit to Victoria and joins efforts with Zoe, one of the newly arrived bride-ship women, to care for the infant. While there, he's devastated by the news from his fiancee in England that she's marrying another man.
With mounting pressure to find the baby a home, Zoe accepts a proposal from a miner of questionable character after he promises to help her locate her brother. Intent on protecting Zoe and frustrated by his failed engagement, Abe offers his own hand as groom. After a hasty wedding, they soon realize their marriage of convenience is not so convenient after all.
These two may have met their match-in each other. In the fine tradition established by her Southern grandmama, Aurora Daughtry has recently orchestrated the marriage of her eldest sister and facilitated her middle sister's engagement. Just when it seems there is nothing left to absorb her considerable talent for managing people, in walks federal deputy marshal Zane Sager. But Zane is not at Daughtry House for a vacation. He's tracking a killer and collecting two key witnesses to a federal judge's murder. Aurora takes it upon herself to disabuse the cynical lawman of his conviction that the world is out to get him. But just as she's on the verge of cracking Zane's defenses, the man he is after reminds him that no one he loves is safe. Ever.
They know the power and peril of the ocean. But as they get closer to the deadly truth ... An even greater danger lurks just beneath the surface. When an accident claims the life of an oil-rig worker, Coast Guard Investigators Rissi Dawson and Mason Rogers are flown to the scene thirty-eight miles from shore. Tensions aboard the rig are high, and the death has everyone on edge. Environmental activists just off the rig's starboard side are threatening to do whatever it takes to stop the "plague on the environment" from continuing its work. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating on board about an ancient curse lurking in the depths below. Mounting evidence shows the death might not have been an accident. Was the man killed by one of the activists or, more frighteningly, a member of his own crew? Rissi and Mason have to sort through not only numerous suspects, but also their own haunted pasts and their attraction to each other. Just as the case seems about to break open, worse news arrives: a tropical storm has turned their way. Now they're cut off from any rescue-right where the killer wants them.
Can her dreams of independence withstand a dash of love? Since she was young, Alice McNeil has seen a career as a telegrapher as the best use for her keen and curious mind. Years later, she doesn't regret her freedom in foregoing marriage, especially when she acquires a coveted position at an important trading firm. But when the company's ambitious junior director returns to London, things begin to change in ways Alice could never have imagined. For Douglas Shaw, years of hard work and ingenuity enabled him to escape a life of grinding poverty. He's now determined to marry into high society-a step that will ensure he never returns to the conditions of his past. He immediately earns Alice's respect by judging her based on her skills and not her gender, and a fast camaraderie forms. However, when Alice accidentally angers a jealous coworker and his revenge threatens both their reputations, Alice and Douglas are forced to confront what is truly important in their lives. Will their growing bond give them the courage to see the future in a different light?
Lucy Clairmont's family treasured the magic of the past, and her childhood fascination with stories of the high seas led her to become a marine archaeologist. But when tragedy strikes, it's Dashel, an American forensic astronomer, and his knowledge of the stars that may help her unearth the truth behind the puzzle she's discovered in her family home. Two hundred years earlier, the seeds of love are sown between a boy and a girl who spend their days playing in a secret sea cave, while the privileged young son of the estate looks on, wishing to join. As the children grow and war leads to unthinkable heartbreak, a story of love, betrayal, sacrifice, and redemption unfolds, held secret by the passage of time. As Lucy and Dash journey to a mysterious old estate on the East Sussex coast, their search leads them to a community of souls and a long-hidden tale that may hold the answers-and the healing-they so desperately seek.
The Servant King audiobook tells the legendary story about the Persian prince Zargon, and his humble servant Mustafa. They set out on an arduous quest from their homeland in the east, in search for the coming king to be born in Bethlehem in Judea, just as the stars had heralded and the old prophecies foretold. Zargon's wise friends had traveled before him, as he chose to stay behind a bit in Persia, to receive his firstborn son. They brought their magnificent gifts and valuable treasures to bestow upon the newborn king, and prepared for a majestic encounter as they set out through the desert.
As Zargon and Mustafa soon realized, the journey would not be easy. Upon finally arriving to Bethlehem, neither their three friends nor the newborn Jewish king were anywhere to be found. In stead they stumbled upon dangers and sickness and needs, and opportunities to give, that would change their lives forever. And ultimately, as they had lost all treasures and gifts for the king, they also discovered that true wealth and value, was found through having empty hands, but an abundant and sharing heart.
Now that Gretel Koch is consulting for the FBI, she has turned away from her life of crime. Or has she?
Find out now in this unputdownable USA Today Bestselling series.
For your convenience the Prequel, Book 1 and Book 2 are bundled together.
(Prequel) Breakout: Gretel never dreamed she'd be caught, let alone thrown into prison with common criminals.
Thanks to her jewelry heists, Gretel Koch had lived the high life.Letting her guard down and trusting a man had led to her capture. She planned to escape, find him, and take back the diamonds he stole from her.
But could Gretel get past the bars, the thirty-foot prison walls, the psychotic inmates, not to mention the heavily armed guards?
Book 1 Shiny Things: Gretel had to profess to be a changed woman. She wasn't going to turn her back on the deal she'd been offered, but before long, temptation reared its ugly head.
Can Gretel quench her thirst for diamonds long enough to pass up the perfect crime? Could her new role for law enforcement be the ultimate cover?
Book 2 Controlled: Gretel Koch is doing her best to curb her stealing ways, but when the Purple Promise, a rare 22 carat purple diamond, is on display offered for sale to the highest bidder, the temptation is almost greater than she can bear.
What will she do when her old life collides with her new?
(These are clean suspense books—no swearing, no gore, no racy scenes).
