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One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.
In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee sheriff Spencer Arrowood is determined to reveal the truth behind this unanswered question. A spellbinding...
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Nick Vanko's bosses at the FBI consider the members of his squad a bunch of freaks with disciplinary problems. But, even as they're being investigated by Internal Affairs, they are able to do real detective work against their prime target, local mobster, Mike Parisi, who has problems of his own. Just as Vanko diverts his squad's efforts to help find a serial killer, Parisi draws them into a whopper of a scam.
3) Imprints
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Sometimes what you can't see means everything.
A young woman is missing. In desperation, her parents turn to Autumn Rain for help. Autumn reads imprints-emotions mysteriously left behind on certain treasured objects. But will this ability enrich her life or destroy it?
Autumn isn't sure-her life has become far from normal-but for people whose loved ones are missing, her talent might mean the difference between life and death. Even...
4) Line of Fire
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Autumn Rain is back to work, along with handsome Detective Shannon Martin, but this time her investigation is personal. She must prove whether or not Cody Beckett is responsible for the disappearance of a young girl. His record makes him the main suspect, even if there's not enough evidence to arrest him, and Autumn's unique ability to read imprints may be the only way she can uncover the truth.
What Autumn discovers, however, is far bigger than...
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Un marido, una familia, una vida hogareña: todo ello aterra a Theodora Lestrange
Theodora deja atrás Edimburgo, y a un pretendiente desilusionado, con una pequeña herencia y sus tres únicos vestidos. Pone rumbo a Rumanía, un lugar donde aún se cuentan entre susurros historias de vampiros, para visitar a una vieja amiga y escribir el libro con el que va a lograr ser una mujer independiente de verdad.
El castillo situado en los Cárpatos al que...
7) Wanted: Wife
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If you love the humor and romance of Rachel Gibson and Susan Elizabeth Phillips, don't miss the fabulous debut of Gwen Jones!
Landed, financially secure 40-yr-old male
* Handsome, but with old-school communication skills and a secret past *
Seeks healthy, athletic female
* Preferably a pretty reporter with a messy love life who has never spent a day in the woods *
For marriage and family
* What could possibly go wrong? *
8) The Alliance
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To overthrow a brutal dictator and free her country, a brave young woman will risk her life and liberty to spark a revolution in this explosive final installment in Shannon Stoker's electrifying Registry trilogy.
Mia Morrissey fled to Mexico to escape the government marrying her to someone she did not love. Now, she's going risk everything so that the rest of America can be free.
Going undercover as part of a diplomatic mission, Mia returns to America....
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How far would you go to control your own destiny?
Mia Morrissey has escaped: from America, from the Registry, from the role she was raised to play-a perfect bride auctioned to the highest bidder. She's enemy number one to the world's largest power, and there's no turning back now.
From the moment she and her friends Andrew and Carter cross the border into Mexico, it's clear their troubles are only beginning. Mexico may have laws to protect runaway...
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With eight days to go before Christmas can Christina Roberts heal the wounds that she infected upon her family fifteen years ago, while keeping alive the chances for the man that she loves, Jack Spencer, to land his dream job as host of the Holiday Networks most popular TV series as well as her hope of hearing those three little words from Jack on Christmas morning. Eight Days Until Christmas is a heart warming holiday tale about love, family and...
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Minor-but-nagging setbacks continue to sour Grant and Audrey Whitman's initiation into the world of inn-keeping, but larger challenges brew when an innocent flirtation leads to big trouble for the Whitmans' son-in-law, Jesse. Jesse Pennington's friendly, outgoing personality has always served him well, especially in a career that has earned him and his wife Corinne a very comfortable lifestyle. But Corinne and Jesse are both restless-and for...
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This is little book 4 in the series. It is about your characters.
It is about the importance of characters in your story. It is about creating characters and getting to know them well. It is not about any other aspect of writing, and for that reason I hope beginners will take the small amount of time needed to read this book.
Your characters will benefit. Characters make your story. Your story, your plot, is moved along by its characters. You must...
14) The Outline
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Why bother to write an outline?
Many beginners don't see the need for an outline. So, they write Chapter 1 at the top and start. Most don't get far then, or they do a very 'beginner's' job of what they do write.
The great majority of established authors still write an outline for every new book they attempt. The more books they've written, the more they understand the importance of outlining first.
Outlining creates a tool. It is a very valuable...
15) Tras la colina
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Bienvenido de nuevo a Grace Valley, en California. El lugar en el que las mejores cosas de la vida nunca cambian...
En este pueblo tranquilo, los vecinos cuidan unos de otros como si se tratara de una gran familia. En una comunidad así es difícil guardar un secreto. Sin embargo, la doctora June Hudson ha conseguido algo portentoso...
Aunque las visitas de su amante secreto, el agente de la Agencia Antidrogas Jim Post, eran tan clandestinas como...
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Fate Plays Dangerous Games England 1815. After escaping the days of terror in France, Cherie Beaumont has spent eight years hiding in China before she arrives in England, looking for a peaceful and quiet life. She does not need a man in her life that can turn her head, as she can fight as well as any man with a rapier. But when she finds herself the house guest of the Duke of Mornington and the strong emotional attraction...
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Maryanne's Interrupted Bridal Journey Part 1Maryanne had been raised by her aunt, somewhat reclusively. Without any male suitors even knowing about her, let alone showing any interest, she decides to offer herself as a mail-order bride.Thomas is a successful businessman on the other side of the country, who up to now has had no inclination to get married. He now feels the need, however, and contacts a mail-order bridal agency. Upon receiving details...
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In this exciting graphic novel based on the Netflix series starring Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez, Carmen Sandiego's globe-trotting capers introduce kids to the geography, culture, and history that is baked into every adventure!
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Headed to the island nation of Indonesia for her next caper! But just what is the mysterious lady in red after this time? Adventure awaits in this action-packed graphic novel starring...
19) Death Calls
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Darkness Calls to humans as well as vampires. . .When FBI Agent Diana Reyes fell in love with Ryder Latimer, she knew that her life would never be the same. But her vampire lover brings passion into her life and Diana thought that and his love would be enough. Now she has her doubts if she can stay in his world. His darkness connects with something deep inside her, something that scares as much as it restores her life. But at times, she finds herself...
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Laurence Rutherford, the Marquess of Westcott has always enjoyed music as his mistress, hoping for his life to be quiet, ordered and filled with the rhythmic sounds, but growing up with the Blackenhawke brothers has not always allowed that to be the case. So when his close friend Nicholas Blackenhawke asks him to take his wife's sister, an escaped slave from America into hiding at his quiet manor house in the country, he jumps at the chance to spend...
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