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She lost her mother — and found her fury.

When Anthony sends his weekly “garbage day” text and Viola replies, “every day is garbage day with you, darling,” she knows she can’t endure their suffocating forty-year marriage much longer. After her mother dies, she leaves her unraveling life in California to settle the estate in a Massachusetts beach town in January.

Grief gives way to revelation when Viola learns her mother and Anthony spent their lives upholding a devastating lie. Intent on punishing her husband, she sets out to indulge her worst impulses. After a night of hard drinking with her free-spirited friend from high school days, Viola takes a polar plunge, where a would-be rescuer sparks her dormant desire — then vanishes.

While Viola pursues the mystery man, a winter nor’easter assails the family home perched on stilts beside the relentless Atlantic, eager to swallow her newfound agency. Her fiery arguments with Mom’s ghost, the inexplicable theft of Mom’s ashes, and Anthony’s impending arrival threaten to crush her last chance for a new life and new love.

Some people would kill for coffee…

Olivia Rickard would kill to keep everything just the way it is. She’s got a gorgeous boyfriend who loves her, a supportive sister to lean on, and a dog walking business that’s briskly barking away. But just as she’s getting comfortable her sister suddenly wants to buy an entire brownstone with her and her boyfriend looks like he’s going to pop the question at every opportunity. Changing the status quo has always been disastrous for Olivia and now everything is changing at once…

What Olivia needs is a distraction and she’s found one in stumbling upon Yvette Dunn dead in her coffee foodtruck — drowned in a vat of fresh coffee. Olivia starts out as an unlucky bystander to the crime, but she’s forced to dig in deeper when it looks like her sister could be involved in Yvette’s death.

Olivia is running out of time in regards to the mystery, the mortgage, and the marriage. She’s going to have to solve all three problems — and quick — or face a future most foul.

A gritty Western action series where justice is settled at gunpoint.

A town thirsty for vengeance. A man cheated the noose. And Ryder has a debt to settle the old-fashioned way.

When notorious outlaw Dale Madsen escapes the hangman’s rope, leaving blood and chaos in his wake, the town of Wells Crossing is left reeling. Sheriff Rourke raises a posse, but the law rides slow — and Ryder knows a man like Madsen doesn’t run unless he’s got a plan.

With bullets in the air and death on the wind, Ryder is drawn into a relentless manhunt that leads deep into hostile country, where betrayal rides close and the desert keeps its secrets. The deeper the chase runs, the clearer it becomes that justice in the West is rarely clean — and never simple.

Ryder: Gone to Hell is a fast-paced, brutal Western revenge novel packed with hard men, tough choices, and frontier justice. This is Book One of the Ryder gritty Western series, following a relentless gunfighter who knows the law often fails — and sometimes a gun is the only thing that speaks clearly.

When Silas investigates a case of intellectual property theft, he has too much of everything.
Too many suspects. Too many distractions. Too many feelings.

Circuitry Innovations of Dallas has developed a new type of semiconductor. Sales are pouring in, but when the CEO learns a Chinese tech company in Shanghai has an identical product, he hires Silas, head of operations for Discreet Corporate Security Systems, to investigate. However, it proves to be a daunting task for a number of reasons. Primarily, because there are…
Too many suspects… Silas determines there are several employees at Circuitry Innovations who could be responsible for selling the company’s trade secrets to the Chinese, but it’s also possible the company’s proprietary data was stolen due to a breach in their security system. Then, there’s the businessman who discovered the theft. Could he be the guilty party?

Too many distractions… As Silas begins the investigation, not only does he discover he’s being followed, his college-age daughter, who’s home for Christmas, is giving him advice about his love life, and the energetic puppy he recently adopted is proving more time-consuming than he anticipated.

Too many feelings… In trying to cope with spending his first Christmas without his wife, Silas realizes he’s become emotionally attached to a colleague he’s mentoring. As he tries to sort out his feelings for her, he’s also concerned about his daughter. Is the man she’s fallen in love with good enough for her?

While Silas is sifting through the suspects, handling the distractions, and dealing with his feelings, he suddenly crosses paths with a killer, a man who’ll stop at nothing to achieve his objective. Can Silas trust God when faced with his greatest challenge? Will his prayers for wisdom be answered?

If you’re looking for a cookbook that can help you optimize your brain health, prevent cognitive decline, and enjoy tasty and nutritious meals, “MIND Diet Cookbook for Beginners” by Jerry Carr is the perfect book for you.

This cookbook is designed to make following the MIND diet easy and enjoyable. It includes a wide variety of recipes that are delicious and packed with brain-boosting nutrients.

Moreover, the book provides useful tips and information on how to maintain a healthy diet, including meal planning and preparation, so you can easily incorporate these recipes into your daily routine.

Author Jerry Carr is a recognized expert in the field of brain health, and his professional expertise is evident in this cookbook. You can trust that you’re getting the most accurate and up-to-date information on how to improve your brain health through diet.

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