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Criminal Investigator Braylon Wexler has arrived in Hilton Head Island to dutifully serve his country on Paris Island Military base. As soon as he arrives the calm he's been longing for is pleasantly shattered by the tantalizing stormy presence of Sandella Summers. She is an unexpected surprise that stirs a hot longing in him, like a hot poker through blazing coals.

Eight different psychologists, four police officers, two doctors, and my mother are all convinced that I now belong in the category of a survivor. Although I strongly believe the definition is sorely lacking, it's more of a stereotype for people who were lucky enough to live through unfortunate events or circumstances. The word survivor doesn't seem sufficient. It's too simple, also insipid.

William Warfield is a lucky man - he is heir to a multibillion-dollar shipping empire, and with his heart-stopping good looks and Southern charm, he has all the perks, freedom, and erotic pleasures the sultry city of New Orleans has to offer. Allie is the daughter of his father's long-ago love interest, who William ends up "babysitting" for the long, hot summer. She's a just-out-of-college, wide-eyed, and not-so-worldly California girl who William has absolutely no interest in...until he does.

Bethany Colburn finally turns 18, and Everett Foster is about to confess his love for her. When a new man arrives in the village of Good Springs, he brings charm Bethany has never encountered and illness the Land has never known. While the medicinal power of the gray leaf tree is put to the test and the Colburn family's strength is stretched thin, Bethany must learn to protect her true inheritance.

Just in time for Halloween here is a story of a Cajun women who is not in touch with reality but with her Deity Majamba, who she calls upon to kill all those who have harmed her and are not having her committed to the local state hospital. Or is it, as it may all be a dream. This is a story for those who like a twist at the end. It is safe for those above 16, though there are themes of non-graphic violence, the operation of a hospital and state mental health facility, and delusions of being in contact with a Deity.

Unemployment has ravaged the U.S. economy. People struggle everywhere, exhausted by the collapse that destroyed their lives. Benjamin Cade is an expert in cognition, and before the flatlined economy caught up to him, he earned his living as a university instructor. Now, without income, he joins the millions defaulting on their loans - in his case, the money he borrowed to finance his degrees. But there are consequences. Using advances in cognitive science and chemical therapy, Ben’s debtors can reclaim their property - his education

This is the story of a lawyer on his way to lunch who gets hit by a drunk angry driver and driven into the restaurant and pinned under the car suffering major burns. It describes the treatment applied, his emotions and feelings, his eventual recovery; and in a courtroom how he gets to face the person who hurt him. This story is based on actual treatment protocols for burn victims, and courtroom testimony.

This is the story of a small-town nice guy - well liked, well respected - who one Friday afternoon sees his whole world crumble and as his friends try to help, they just make the situation all that worse, and he winds up terrorizing the town. This is meant for mature audiences only, as it contains sexual situations along with graphic gun violence.

This is a story about a major metropolitan hospital on July 1, where mass confusion reigns with all the outpatients needing to be re-registered; new interns, residents, and volunteers start, and while a comedy it is meant for mature audiences only.

This is a story of a ground executive officer in a B-17 bomber squadron in England during the early days of the US entry to the war. It is adult in nature (sexual situations, rape, suicide), and is meant for those 18 or older.

In this edition, Abraham reveals on his possible deathbed a secret that will shock and possibly destroy what little family ties are left. Alfred gets shocked and Roberta is as crazy as ever.

This is a story about one family's fight with a mentally ill mother and how as she gets further and further away from reality; how the family falls apart.

After losing his wife in a vigilante attack, Jackson Wolfe ran from his grief and his guilt, leaving behind his baby daughter to be raised by strangers. Twelve years later, he knows it's time to quit running. He's learned everything there is to know about vengeance in his travels around the world, but now it's time to settle down and take up a new mantle: father to Dawn Twilight. He knows that if he finds her, he'll be the best father a little girl ever had. But when he arrives in Thief River to be the new sheriff and claim his daughter, her adoptive mother has other plans.

Susannah Walker has fled to Angel's Valley with her three-year-old son, seeking safety and a place to anonymously restart her life. What she didn't count on was bounty hunter Nathan Wolfe being hired to find her and take her home to stand trial for her crimes. Carrying his own wounded past in his heart, Nathan is committed to fulfilling the job, until he gets to know Susannah and begins to wonder if she's truly the criminal he's been told she is. But in order to get to the bottom of the mystery he'll have to gain her trust, and trust is one thing Susannah does not give easily.

Desperate to escape a dark past, Dinah Odell will do anything, even risk her freedom by posing as a nurse and accepting a job to care for Tristan Fletcher's mentally fragile sister. She thinks she's prepared for anything, except the sensitive, generous, and mysterious man behind the facade that Tristan Fletcher presents to the world. With a dark past of his own, Tristan survived the barbs of childhood by closing his heart off from the rest of the world. He sees something similar in Dinah, a desire to flee, and it sparks his desire to protect her. To marry her, even.

Living as a spinster and caring for her sister's illegitimate child, Julia Larson has never known passion. So she's surprised by the feelings that are stirred up when a secretive new ranchhand shows up to work on the Larson ranch. He's not a man she can trust, but as a violent fight for her land's water rights heats up, he may be the man she needs. Wolf McCloud charms the ladies, but never sticks around long. Having traced the mother who abandoned him to Northern California, he never expects to be drawn to Julia Larson as more than a means to an end.

Despite a thoroughly comprehensive list of potential cherry poppers, er…suitors, and careful plotting, Charlie is three weeks into her devirginization campaign, still untouched, and getting desperate. In the movie of her life, this aspiring screenwriter is giving herself a PG, for please, get some. Her project goes into freeze frame when her mom checks herself into rehab and packs Charlie off to live with her estranged, or just plain strange, grandfather, Monty.

Adrianna Boyce has come to accept the love of her life, Ian Groves, is a wolf shapeshifter and is willing to follow the rules and customs that the pack require to be with him - including a ritual that they call "the Claiming." But not everyone is pleased with the young lovers' union. In addition, the process of "the Claiming" will make her discover things about herself she never realized and put her and Ian's love to the test.

Bernadette Kane never believed that her sister committed suicide. And what she heard about her sister's mysterious - and sadistic - lover, Wesley Edwards, made her suspect the worst. With his good looks, private jet, and successful career, he could turn a girl's head. And get away with murder. Bernadette's plan: Use her body to seduce Wesley, use her wits to gain his confidence, and use the evidence she finds to bring him down. First, Bernadette will have to submit to whatever Wesley wants and become a willing pawn in his twisted games.

Living under the shadow of two gifted parents, Astrid Nordling feels trapped everywhere but at the piano, finding solace in Schubert and Debussy. Her piano teacher is convinced that she is a prodigy; her mother is not so sure. Set in 1960s Chicago, this excerpt from Lisa Heiserman Perkins' upcoming novel shows that there can be such a thing as too much talent in a single family. As Astrid competes with her dramatic, high-strung mother for the spotlight, their tug-of-war threatens to pull the family apart.