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She thought they were her siblings. By the time she realized they weren't, one of them was dead. Doctor Emma Kerr had no right counseling them. Adopted and her birth records lost, she believed she was born a McKinney. Her face, intelligence, and depression resembled theirs. For years people mistook her for their sister. So she devised a plan.What begins as a scheme to counsel the McKinney family and determine if they are blood relatives, quickly causes Emma to wonder if she had truly done the manipulating. Is someone following her? Now Emma clamors to escape the McKinney world of domination and deception. Is she Mathew McKinney's sister? She can't be. Is he in love with her? He can't be. Then how do he and his sisters know more about her than she knows herself? This is a game to them. Is the game Suicide? Or Murder?

Project Dream laces a trace of the paranormal into the lives of teenagers taken from their families in this prequel to CJ Zahner's Gripping thriller, Dream Wide Awake. What happened to the kids in the desert? In 2002, the CIA forced several teenagers out of detention centers and into a National Security Test Program called Project Dream. Teens selected had two characteristics: physical superiority and a sixth sense.When the awkward, unpopular, and destitute Izzy Jimenez is caught stealing clothes, authorities enroll her in the program for two reasons: Izzy swims like a fish-and she sees angels.There, she studies and works hard to perfect her clairvoyance hoping authorities will allow her to go home. But when she and the other students master remote viewing and produce results that stun White House officials, additional children-good kids from normal American families-are recruited. Izzy's hope of going home dwindles.Not until the striking, charismatic Rachel Callahan arrives and befriends Izzy does her life become bearable.Project Dream is a coming-of-age story of teenagers thrown into the most unusual circumstances. Each struggle to survive their time in the desert with the goal of getting out and going home, but-can any of them really go home?

Nikki Grey's idea of living dangerously is not wearing a seatbelt, yet calamity always seems to find her.Friends Who Move Couches is a laugh-out-loud yet insightful story about life, friendship, quieting your inner critic, and surviving rejection.Married to a workaholic, mothering three rebellious kids, and feuding with neighborhood friends, Nikki Grey forgets her problems one afternoon by smoking marijuana. That blunder ignites a lifelong yet dormant medical condition, and she loses her driver's license. Suddenly stranded in her home, she's forced to stare out the window at women who have ostracized her.Her true friends encourage her to concentrate on her health, but Nikki is her own nemesis. She embarks on a scheme to win back neighborhood friends and plunges into efforts that only end in mudding her reputation. She becomes the butt of neighborhood jokes.Foolishly, her ache to mend her broken relationships escalates.Not until her two-timing husband asks her a question that catapults her frivolous suburban life into a tailspin, is she forced to stop reaching for others and stand on her own.If you like novels like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman and Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty, you'll love following Nikki Grey's hilarious journey in Friends Who Move Couches as she figures out...Who should she keep in her life and who should she kick to the curb?

The extraordinarily ordinary Nikki Stone just wanted to be noticed. Divorced and juggling a job just a hair more exciting than an envelope stuffer with an after-five life as her kids' maid, Nikki's luck suddenly changes when a popular golf pro, Blake Andersen, falls in love with her. Her boss offers her a CFO position, her kids release the death-like grip they have on her, and she spends weekends happily traveling the US golf circuit with her new guy.But when female problems surface in her forty-seven-year-old body, she's certain illness will dash her future. Then she gets the news. She's not dying-she's pregnant.Dumbfounded, demoralized, and determined not to force Blake into marriage, she vows to keep her pregnancy secret until he proposes. Her bungling efforts catapult her into an online sensation-careful what you wish for.