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The year is 1974, and songwriter Casey Bradley is just eighteen years old when handsome, charismatic singer Danny Fiore crashes into her life and her heart. The first time she hears Danny sing, Casey is ready to toss away her entire future for a man who's almost certain to break her heart. Danny has a white-hot talent and a single blinding ambition: To become a rock star. The songs that Casey writes send an icy blue finger down the center of his cynical spine. But Danny knows exactly where he's going, and he has no intention of taking any woman along.

In a small Florida beach town, Sherri Travis is a bartender with attitude and a woman with an inconveniently murdered husband who turns out to be as much trouble to her dead as he was alive. Sifting through the debris of Jimmy's life, Sherri finds more than a few people who wanted her lying, scheming, scam artist husband gone - but which one actually did the deed?

The women's rights movement grew out of the women's suffrage movement of the mid-1800s and also addressed other women's legal rights issues. The second wave of the movement, which promoted economic, political, and social equality, gained momentum in the 1960s and '70s, when such groups as the National Organization for Women fought for equal pay and laws banning employment discrimination.

Fifty-five year old Jack Callahan has been alone, by choice, for five years. Forty-five year old Erica Thomas has never had a serious relationship and believes that marriage is not God's plan for her. Can a chance meeting in an airport and an impetuous photo change their destinies?

Fiona Williams may have given up on love for herself, but she knows how to plan the perfect wedding for others. But planning one in two weeks would make even the most seasoned of planners shudder. When the handsome bull rider, Cole Patterson, walks in with such a request for his sister, she can’t help but say yes, especially after finding out the groom is a Hollywood A-lister. Cole can stay on a bucking bull for a full eight seconds and has the buckles to prove it, but when it comes to romance, he’s finding himself face down in the dirt.

Cass Adams is crazy, and everyone in Deacon, Kansas, knows it. But when her good-for-nothing husband, Roland, goes missing, no one suspects that Cass buried him in their unfinished koi pond. Too bad he doesn't stay there for long. Cass gets arrested on the banks of the Spring River for dumping his corpse after heavy rain partially unearths it.

This is the story of the journey that I’ve been on with Jesus and his faithfulness in guiding me through many health, family, and career challenges. I hope that as you consider my story, you will begin to look at your own journey. Maybe you will see where you have you picked up unhelpful ideas and consider asking God to renew your mind in those areas. If Jesus hasn’t been with you on your journey so far, my hope is that you will consider asking him to meet you on your path right where you are so he can guide you toward hope and health.

Sloane Fox is a best-selling author with a big problem … inspiration. Her editor’s solution, a writing retreat at Lunar Peaks Resort and Spa in the middle of nowhere, Arkansas. Not just any hotel, but a haunted one. That little fact would be great for a horror author, but Sloane writes gritty murder mysteries set in the city, not the backwoods.

Spies have come to Quail Crossings! At least that’s what Rosie Brewer believes after catching a stranger on Quail Crossings muttering foreign words in the fog. The problem? No one will listen to her! They all think it’s just a figment of her overactive imagination.