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Yulia Bituskaya knows that in New Russia, disloyalty is punishable by death. It’s the reason she always says yes. Yes, to every assignment the government gives her. Yes, to an arranged engagement with Dimitri for political power. Yes, to her unfeeling father, the nation’s supreme sovereign. But when she uncovers the government’s involvement with organized crime, she must choose: Stay silent and safe, or say yes to her growing treason and destroy the very people that have kept her protected.

Elliott Greene is just a 15-year-old kid from northern Texas asking for someone to care. Living in a family that often reminds him he's an outcast, bullied by the jocks at school who use him as a punching bag, and alone in a world of friends who don't seem to put in the effort. While enduring the verbal and physical lashings of those around him, he finally crumbles and decides that being dead is better than the life he was given. This is the story of what could have happened had one person...just one person, reached out to him that day.

Sometimes dreams are more appealing than reality, but what happens when you live there too long? Heidi Langdon feels fulfilled as a baker and barista at the local Colorado ski resort cafe. Her coworkers disagree, feeling a life of living alone with an antisocial feline and eating junk food, is a recipe for disaster. After an evening of investigating online dating sites, Heidi drifts off into her very own Winter Wonderland where she meets the love of her life.

Rancher Roby Bradford isn’t looking for a wife, but he changes his mind when he receives letters from a charming widow in Boston. Valerie Hartmann must escape the trap her powerful brother-in-law, Edward Hartmann, has set for her - marry him or lose her five-year-old son, Joshua. Her only hope is to flee with Joshua and marry Roby in Planters Point, Nebraska. But Edward discovers where Valerie has fled. He boards a train west, and upon arrival, begins hunting her down.

The revolt against New Russia is inevitable, but revolution comes at a high price. Yulia must choose it over everything she holds dear—her undying love for Dima, the safety of her beloved citizens, and even her very identity. With an army to recruit, high-tech weapons to secure, and government surveillance to evade, Yulia must prove she is the leader they desperately need, even if she’s not the leader they want. Can she find her place in a complex rebellion and take down the government and the Organizatsaya before they destroy everyone and everything she places in their path?

Recently divorced, Kelly finds herself back in her hometown. Deciding that starting over is key, she and her son take to living a new life. When a second chance with Mason, an old flame, ignites, Kelly is excited to feel love again. But something is wrong. Someone is watching them, waiting to strike. Someone that knows them. Someone...close.