Retired pro basketball player Jelly Howard was in love until he walked in on his woman doing what no man wanted to lay eyes upon. At that moment, life for him came to an end, and the man he was, was no more. He became overly serious and reclusive. However, that was until the woman that stepped on his heart turned up in his hometown as a caterer to the wealthy and elite families he socialized with and became a close friend to his sister. His mission then was to run her out of his town by any means necessary.Jorja Strand was tired of running. So, she found a small town in New Jersey and started the business of her heart. However, never in a million years did she think she'd see him again the man that she thought the sun rose and set on. The same man that had besmirched her and broke her heart, Jelly Howard. Now, Jorja had to put on her big girl panties and made some quick decisions. Would she let Jelly in on a secret she had been harboring for years or let him run her out of town without a solitary thought.
Alice has met the man of her dreams and heads west to start her new life with him. Within moments of getting off the train, tragedy strikes, though, and she is left alone and on the run.Matthew is a workaholic doctor with a law-breaking sister and has no time for love. When Alice shows up at his clinic with his sister Kitty and a gunshot wound, he has no choice but to save her.Alice and Matthew will be forced to work together if they are going to save Kitty and her unborn baby. In the process, they may just save each other and find love.
From routes to scale, a young child and her dad explore the world of maps in a charming story encouraging readers to chart their own neighborhoods. One day, Anna's friend Zane sends her an invitation to come over to play, and inside the envelope is a map. But Anna is convinced the map can't be right--why has Zane put his house in the middle and hers on the edge? So Anna decides to draw a map of her own, and Dad joins in as well. With an inviting narrative, child-friendly illustrations, and running commentary about various aspects of maps, aspiring cartographers are introduced to everything from symbols to point of view, road maps to family trees--and even a special "cat map" of Anna's pet's favorite spots. A final spread spurs readers to try their own hand at mapmaking.
What would you do if you came home from school alone and heard noises in the basement?Five kids, twelve and thirteen years old and on their own before and after school, each faces their own struggle. A broken home, illness, crushes, bullying, depression, absent parents, suicidal thoughts, broken friendships, and fears of being only a kid and home alone.There is also the strange noises houses make when they are quiet and you are alone, particularly the noises in the basement. Something is down there.Madison, Andrew, Kylie, Anna, and Dylan are brought together by circumstances that feel overwhelmingly out of their control. The temptation of exploring an old abandoned brick building, loneliness, and fleeing an attempted abduction, each is drawn to the old abandoned building for different reasons.There, they will fight for their lives, where the monsters in the basement nest.
In this world, there are many people who love others, though they aren't required to do so. At some point, perhaps everyone misses a chance to appreciate this kind of ordinary and constant love. Perhaps it's your parents, your friends, or somebody who loves you even though you don't love them in return. They may even be strangers. Love and caring take some effort. All the more reason to be grateful when people nurture kind thoughts and give selflessly, so that their every thought and action benefits us.
Amazon Charts bestselling author Vivian Barz pits Susan Marlan and Eric Evans against a new menacing adversary in this suspenseful sequel to her acclaimed debut, Forgotten Bones.Two months have passed, and the horrors of Death Farm still torment police officer Susan Marlan and college professor Eric Evans. Susan struggles to regain her zeal for fighting crime, while Eric is slowly coming to terms with his newfound “gift” of seeing the dead.Seeking much-needed rest, Susan and Eric follow their musician friend Jake and his band to Washington State. But once they reach the cheerless town of Clancy, Eric’s murderous visions start again. Something seems wrong about the town and its aloof citizens—and suspicions turn to dread when members of Jake’s band go missing.Eric, Susan, and Jake search deep in the dark forest of the Olympic Peninsula, where many have disappeared. But the harder they search, the less cooperative the locals become. As the case begins looking more like a murder investigation, the trio must work together to locate the lost and uncover chilling town secrets buried in the darkest of places.
Amazon Charts bestselling author Vivian Barz reunites Special Agent Susan Marlan with Professor Eric Evans in a riveting installment in the Dead Remaining series.It’s been a year since Special Agent Susan Marlan and Professor Eric Evans worked a taxing missing persons case together on the Olympic Peninsula. Though the couple have since separated, Eric must reluctantly turn to Susan for advice when a student accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend comes to Eric for help proving his innocence. Susan—busy tracking down two missing employees of San Francisco’s Gruben Dam—warns Eric to be cautious, as the young man has connections to Defenders of the Earth (DOTE), an ecoterror group operating out of San Francisco.After the suspected student dies of an apparent suicide, Eric starts having visions that point to a more disturbing truth. Determined to figure out what really happened, Eric works with his old friend Jake Bergman to infiltrate DOTE.As Eric continues to grapple with his newly discovered ability to see the dead, Susan’s missing persons case leads her to a startling connection between the campus suicide, her case, and the ecoterrorists. To put the pieces together and prevent further disaster, the trio must join forces once again.
An Amazon Charts bestseller.An unlikely pair teams up to investigate a brutal murder in a haunting thriller that walks the line between reality and impossibility.When small-town police officers discover the grave of a young boy, they’re quick to pin the crime on a convicted criminal who lives nearby. But when it comes to murder, Officer Susan Marlan never trusts a simple explanation, so she’s just getting started.Meanwhile, college professor Eric Evans hallucinates a young boy in overalls: a symptom of his schizophrenia—or so he thinks. But when more bodies turn up, Eric has more visions, and they mirror details of the murder case. As the investigation continues, the police stick with their original conclusion, but Susan’s instincts tell her something is off. The higher-ups keep stonewalling her, and the FBI’s closing in.Desperate for answers, Susan goes rogue and turns to Eric for help. Together they take an unorthodox approach to the case as the evidence keeps getting stranger. With Eric’s hallucinations intensifying and the body count rising, can the pair separate truth from illusion long enough to catch a monster?
