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Wade Hamilton is an ex-Army Ranger and an accomplished tattoo artist. As a Guardian, he has learned the ancient craft of infusing his art with a bit of magic in rare instances. When Tori and her two college roommates, walk into his studio he senses there’s something unique about the pretty, shy, young woman. While working on her tat, Wade adds a touch of magic. After receiving a call from an old army buddy whose baby sister is critically injured in a hit and run, Wade wastes no time heading to Savannah, Georgia to lend his support.

Danielle Edwards, heir to the impassioned family business Edwards Auto in Manheim, Pennsylvania - a comprehensive auto facility that does it all and one of the largest auto wholesalers in the US - moves away to South Texas to sort out her life after the deaths of her father, mother, and grandmother in a mysterious plane wreck. Grandpa Edwards has no clue that Edwards Auto has become entangled in money laundering and smuggling schemes with Mexican cartels.

Covey Jencks grew up in Odessa, Texas. After college, he joined the Army, attended law school, clerked on the Fifth Circuit, and suffered a stint at a DC law firm. He quits a life of white privilege to return home to solve the mysterious 1979 murder of Freddie Johnson, a black employee at Covey’s family business. Her life matters to Covey. For cover, Covey opens a small firm filled with big characters. Eventually another black woman reenters his life to become Covey’s crime-solving partner.

For Melissa May, happily married to Gavin for the best part of 30 years, life couldn’t get much better. Her world is ripped apart when she discovers Gavin is HIV positive. The shock of his duplicity and irresponsible behavior reawakens a psychiatric condition Melissa has battled since childhood. Fueled by rage and a heightened sense of right and wrong, Melissa takes matters into her own hands.

Samuel and Charity's relationship is beginning to blossom, just as Charity is solidifying her role in the community as the midwife. But with the peace of her newfound home comes questions about the future that Charity is not sure she can answer. Samuel's mother casts doubts on her ability to join the family. Similarly, Martha, Samuel's eldest daughter, struggles with the thought of Charity marrying her father, hating the idea of her deceased mother being replaced. Can Charity find strength in God and work together with Samuel to finally make her way to the altar?

Dexter meets Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce in this snarky black comedy that follows Eris as she toys with people's lives. When 25-year-old Eris gets fired from her minimum-wage job, she stumbles on her friend's startup which outsources bad news to people. But will she manage to keep her friendships intact when she finds out she's very good at delivering breakups, when demand is really picking up, and when the recipients don't take to the news too kindly?

Captain Aricka Badu left Taarken Prime 12 years ago for very good reasons, and she seldom goes back. It was supposed to be a short run, but, between the pirates, a brewing civil war, and her ex, she may never get to leave. Caden Carnes hadn't seen Ari in 12 years, but he'd never stopped thinking about her. Given their past, it wasn't exactly surprising she stayed away. What was surprising was seeing her back on Taarken, the mining planet she'd abandoned along with her lover and her family, ever.

When Cash is asked to complete the research of a renowned historian - a man famous for his search for the Holy Grail - she can't agree quickly enough. After all, life at her new home in Berkeley, California, has quickly become dull: too dull for a best-selling adventurer who's equally famous for her hands-on research...and for landing in hot water.

Stand out and get the offer when you sell yourself for the job. Some job seekers think that "selling yourself" means you have to change their personality or act like a super-aggressive sales rep. You don't have to do either one. But you do have to understand what it means to "sell yourself", because the job search is a sales process, and you're the product. In this report, I give you the secret to successfully "selling yourself" for the job.

Seal the deal and get the job with a smart, professional interview follow up plan. The game isn't over when you leave the interview. You're still in a conversation about this job, and you can win it or lose it with what you do after the interview. In this report, I show you the very best follow up strategies that go way beyond a generic thank you note.

Audrey Lamour is a successful artist and devoted mother, forever indebted to the heroic fireman who pulled her from a deadly blaze 25 years ago on Christmas Day. She honored him by painting his portrait - never dreaming her picture would become a lifeline to love.... Conrad Pearson was driven to meet the woman whose emotional painting of his father seared his soul, even if it meant returning home to the Pacific Northwest, and painful memories he had sought to escape from.

Millionaire professor, Adam Brant is hiding from life. When his broken engagement is plastered all over the papers and tabloids, he retreats to the only place he's ever felt he belonged - his late grandmother's lighthouse in Briny Cove, Florida. He vows to live in seclusion away from nosy reporters, money-hungry women and people who can't accept him for who he is. Ambitious wanna-be journalist, Megan O'Conner is stuck in Briny Cove, living with her family, struggling to finish her degree and working odd jobs. When she finds out the new tenant in the old lighthouse is Adam Brant, Megan believes she's found her ticket out.

In this audiobook, Kathy draws on personal experience, extensive research, concerns she hears daily from moms across the nation, and her longtime empathy for families to offer genuine hope and powerful, practical answers.

Everyone feels stuck now and then, right? At least, that's what Kristen tells herself. The problem is that all her usual tricks for getting out of a funk aren't working. What she needs is a really big change, and as a single woman with a remote career, her options are wide open. So she decides to spend a year in the small town of Riverton where her dad recently relocated. The people in Riverton are warm and welcoming, and Kristen quickly finds herself a part of her new community in ways that she didn't expect.

We are stronger, wiser and more creative than we realize and yet people are often wanting to tell us how to fix what's happening in our lives. If your goal is to be the coach or leader who gets better results by spending more time listening and less time fixing, then this book is for you! Becoming a high impact coach begins with you and your own transformation.

Untouched by time and bonded with the witch, Rowan, the ancient tree of knowledge hides on a mysterious island off the coast of Maine. As Rowan’s powers wane, the tree sends out tendrils of energy to search for its new guardian. Willow escapes the confines of the commune where she grew up, and searches for a place to belong. Not understanding the mystical force guiding her, she travels until she discovers Woodlight, a settlement hidden in the forests north of Camden.

The complete adventures of the Curran siblings. Recommended to fans of witchcraft, epic fantasy, or something a little different. No Artificial Intelligence technologies were utilized in the creating of this work.

When the charismatic pastor of Kentucky’s biggest and most popular megachurch collapses on stage in front of thousands, a frenzy of speculation erupts. Is he sick? Washed up? Or is it that woman? Mysterious and strikingly beautiful, could “Meadow from small-town Louisiana” be responsible for the revered Timothy’s downfall? Desperate to escape scrutiny, Timothy inflames rumors even more when he takes a sabbatical with the lovely Meadow—to Shady Gully, Louisiana.

Kathy Thorson Gruhn grew up in the small town of Blooming Prairie in southern Minnesota. She moved to the South with her husband in the late '70s and currently lives on a horse farm in Tryon, North Carolina. She has two grown daughters and two grandchildren. Before becoming a writer, she was a speech pathologist for 35 years, working primarily with children ages birth to seven, which prompted her to create the My Baby Compass program.

In a world where family ties are tested by deceit and hidden truths, our tale unfolds like a quest of epic proportions, a dark odyssey that splits the once-united Clark family. Sisters Aubrey and Taylor, raised beneath the same roof yet strangers to each other, are thrust onto opposing paths in a shadowy vendetta.