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Violet Dawn

Brandilyn Collins · 336 pages

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Shadows of the Past

Patricia Bradley · 352 pages

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A Lasting Impression

Tamera Alexander · 430 pages

After an unwanted past, Claire strives to create something that will last as an artist among Nashville's elite society in the 1860s.

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Chasing Justice

Danielle Stewart · 282 pages

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Word of Honor

Terri Blackstock · 364 pages

What will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing? The answer comes in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of the hotel room where Jill Clark is staying. With a rifle barrel pointed at he

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When Crickets Cry

Charles Martin · 376 pages

"It begins on the shaded town square in a sleepy Southern town. A spirited seven-year-old has a brisk business at her lemonade stand. Her latest customer, a bearded stranger, drains his cup and heads for his car, his mind on a boat he's restoring at a nearby lake. But the little girl's pretty yellow dress can't quite hide the ugly scar on her chest. The stranger understands more about it than he w

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The Quiet Game

Greg Iles · 564 pages

Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.

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Home to Holly Springs

Jan Karon · 355 pages

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Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

Ann B. Ross · 280 pages

Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in the center of an unseemly scandal-and the guardian of

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Leaving Carolina

Tamara Leigh · 362 pages

Piper Wick left her hometown of Pickwick, North Carolina, twelve years ago, shook the dust off her feet, ditched her drawl and her family name, and made a new life for herself as a high-powered public relations consultant in LA. She's even "engaged to be engaged" to the picture-perfect U.S. Congressman Grant Spangler.Now all of Piper's hard-won happiness is threatened by a reclusive uncle's bout o

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Welcome to Last Chance

Cathleen Armstrong · 286 pages

The red warning light on her car dashboard drove Lainie Davis to seek help in the tiny town of Last Chance, New Mexico. But as she encounters the people who make Last Chance their home, it's her heart that is flashing bright red warning lights. These people are entirely too nice, too accommodating, and too interested in her personal life for Lainie's comfort--especially since she's on the run and

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Center Stage

Denise Grover Swank · 396 pages

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Dangerous Passage

Lisa Harris · 347 pages

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A Rush of Wings

Kristen Heitzmann · 380 pages

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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

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The Trouble with Goodbye

Sarra Cannon · 346 pages

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Life Support

Robert Whitlow · 392 pages

A tragic accident in the Carolina mountains leaves a young man paralyzed and in a coma. Soon a fierce legal battle erupts between the man's wife who wants to terminate life support and the young man's father who wants to keep his son alive at all costs. Caught up in the turmoil is a young female attorney who takes the case and finds out that her client's husband isn't the only person in need of li

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The Scent of Lilacs

Ann H. Gabhart

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Breach of Trust

DiAnn Mills · 302 pages

Paige Rogers is a former CIA agent who lost all she treasured seven years ago when her entire team was killed in a covert mission. She blames their leader--Daniel Keary--whom Paige believes betrayed them. Disillusioned and afraid for her life, she disappeared and started a new life as a small-town librarian. But when Keary announces his candidacy for governor of her state, he comes after Paige to

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Flock

Kate Stewart · 354 pages

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Talk of the Town

Lisa Wingate · 368 pages

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The Other Girl

Erica Spindler · 243 pages

Officer Miranda Rader of the Harmony, Louisiana PD is known for her honesty, integrity, and steady hand in a crisis - but that wasn't always so. Miranda comes from the town of Jasper, a place about the size of a good spit on a hot day, and her side of the tracks was the wrong one. She's worked hard to earn the respect of her coworkers and the community. When Miranda and her partner are called to i

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Code Blue

Richard L. Mabry

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Daisy Chain

Mary E. DeMuth

The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control---Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter's demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is plagued by headaches while pierced by the shattered pieces of a family in crisis. In this first book in the Defiance, Texa

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