"The tense, chilling story of four women haunted by a childhood trauma. When they were children, Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko were tricked into separating from their friend Emili by a mysterious stranger. Then the unthinkable occurs: Emili is found murdered hours later. Sae, Maki, Akiko and Yuko weren't able to accurately describe the stranger's appearance to the police after the Emili's body was discovered. Asako, Emili's mother, curses the surviving...

Devout Trilogy book 3, MMM, political romance, secret workplace romance, old loves reunited, piningMy life has been a series of bad mistakes I've let my father make for me-my degree, my career, and my sham marriage.I walked away from the only person who ever brought love and happiness into my life.Liam married a great guy, while I'm living a bunch of lies.When I walked into that Senate chamber and saw Liam, it all came back. Everything.My promise...

Uriel has awoken into a nightmare, unable to remember who or what she is. She and eight other women are captives of human traffickers, to be prettied-up and sold to the highest bidder. Besides the guards, there's a woman, a demon, who is supposed to make each of them gorgeous, and provide a sexually charged atmosphere at the auction.They've got five days to escape. Five days for Uriel to save these women-and five days for her to save the demon she's...

"Penance" is a book of meditations in poetic form that was inspired by a quote from the Desert Fathers of the 4th century. "There is a huge silence and a great quiet there." For years the author made it a point to stop at the Trappist Monastery in Huntsville, Utah to absorb its silence and ask for peace. Today hundreds of self-styled pilgrims travel the circuit of abbeys and shrines to retreat from the world and find solace in their hearts. Peterson's...

The world is changing. Faster than anyone could have possibly imagined. One man and his family, living in the rural countryside are caught up in the cataclysmic events. Without many choices available to them, they flee in the hope of finding help and safety in the cities beyond the mountains. Their journey there is arduous and filled with frightening and life-threatening dangers. On the way, a child is born who will become the last hope of all humankind....

Penance Copper won't be a tool for evil any longer! For as long as Penance can remember, Acid has owned her. Day after day, year after year, he has exploited her electromagnetic superpower for his own gain, while she lives on the streets and scrounges for food and clothing. She copies RFIDs and credit cards, opens electronic locks, causes explosions and havoc, but at least she's never had to kill anybody. Until now. The superhero Justice...

A spin-off from the Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. After the harrowing trials of Emergence, Jed Welch finds himself alone in the ruins of New York City. Having abandoned Meg Pratt, the firefighter who saved his life, and believing her dead, Jed is left with nothing and no one but the Variant hordes to keep him company. Or is he alone...?Jed will team up with USMC Staff Sergeant Alexandra Gallegos and the two surviving members...

Fifteen years since the murder of her daughter, Asako is still overtaken with grief and resentment. One day she receives a vital new clue as to the identity of Emili's killer and sets out to find him. As she closes in on the truth, Asako finds herself in an unexpected location from her past.

Maki is now a teacher at a strict elementary school and trains in self-defense techniques to combat her feelings of helplessness. When an attacker arrives at her school, Maki jumps into action to confront him, triggering a chain of unforeseen repercussions.

Akiko has withdrawn from society and lives a reclusive life at home. But things change when her brother Koji moves back home from Tokyo with his wife and step-daughter, Wakaba. As Akiko forges a close bond with her young niece, she begins to notice signs of a strange relationship between the girl and Koji.