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For one woman, a new season of life begins just as a nuclear winter descends. An explosive survival thriller from the author of The Journal series. Adele Michaels is an artist well known for her unusual style of painting, but after her fairytale wedding to multimillionaire Kyle Polez, she stops working on her art. No one knows why. It turns out that broken bones and paintbrushes don't mix well. After divorcing her abusive new husband, Adele is still...

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary McNear takes us home to Butternut Lake, where the townspeople are sure to look after anyone they consider their own. . ..Mila Jones has fled the big city seeking a safe haven on the serene shores of Butternut Lake. Her position looking after Reid Ford is more than a job. It's a chance at a fresh start. And although her sullen patient does everything he can to make her quit, Mila refuses to give...

"Beautiful, charming, and respected as the wife of an ambitious senator, Helena Cabot Barnes is the leading lady of Saratoga Springs. But beneath the facade lies a terrible deception."--Back cover

"A wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who've all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him... Divorces are often messy, and Imogen's is no exception. Phillip Rochester is controlling, abusive, and determined to make things as difficult as possible. When he shows up without warning demanding that Imogen move out of their house by the end of the month or he'll...

"After years of living in fear of her husband, Amanda Banning has left him and moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon, for a fresh start. But she is having a tough time providing for herself and her daughter. Writing her secret yearnings on slips of paper and sending them into the wind helps her cling to the hope that things will get better and that she can find happiness again. Jeb Sterling has no idea that the handwritten messages he finds scattered across...

"Do you have the courage to escape? Be careful what you wish for... When Meagan was five years old her mother was viciously attacked and murdered. Now an adult, she herself is the victim of an abusive relationship. Meagan is desperate to escape but doesn't have the courage to leave. So, when Meagan meets Oliver, a decent guy who is on the rebound after a failed relationship, the two strike up a connection. But when Meagan confesses that her husband...

To heal from the wounds of her abusive marriage, Veronica James returns to her grandmother's bookshop in small-town Butterscotch Ridge. The first thing she does is transform the dusty old shop into a cozy bakery/café. The second? Steel her heart against the charms of her first love, sexy rancher Mark Stirling. He's never stopped longing for a second chance with the girl who got away--and he's willing to accept whatever Roni is willing to give. But...

Fearing for her life, Katie flees from her abusive husband. With the help of people she meets along the way, she makes her way to the Florida Keys where she begins a new life. When Katie falls in love, she knows she will eventually have to face the life she left behind, but as she looks into it, she finds that her husband is not the only one trying to track her down and she now faces threats she never could have imagined. Seamlessly blending a story...

Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the...

"This chilling psychological suspense novel--think Strangers on a Train for the modern age--explores the dark side of love and the unbreakable ties that bind two sisters together. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: young and in love, a financier and a beautiful up-and-coming starlet. But behind their flawless facade, not everything is as it seems. Callie, Tilda's unassuming twin, has watched her sister visibly shrink under Felix's domineering...