The Grave Tender

If hadley stays here, will she be giving her children the family they need, or putting their lives in danger?The hunt for answers takes a determined Hadley deep into the pine forests, in search of sunlight that will break through the canopy of lies long enough to reveal the truth. Revised edition: This edition of The Grave Tender includes editorial revisions.

The aftershocks of that moonlit night left her reeling, but the secrets and lies had started long before. When a widowed and pregnant Hadley returns years later, it’s not the safe harbor she expects. People said her mother, was never quite right, irreparable act, Winnie, but with one single, life as Hadley knew it was shattered.

The mysteries surrounding a local boy’s disappearance remain, and the townspeople still whisper about Hadley’s strange and reclusive Uncle Eli—whispers about a monster in their midst. But hadley’s father and grandmother, the cornerstones of everything safe in her world, avoid her questions. A chilling psychological suspense novel, The Grave Tender explores the dark boundaries people cross to save loved ones, and the limits of family bonds tested by the deepest of betrayals.

Endless questions from a shadow-filled East Texas childhood haunt Hadley Dixon.

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The Kinfolk

She's forgotten that in deep east Texas, at the mercy of your kin, truth is relative. After a lifetime spent trying to put the place behind her, the kinfolk have come calling. And the game is rigged. From bestselling author eliza Maxwell, The Kinfolk is an uneasy journey into the grit and decay of a crumbling south.

Along the banks of the neches river, surrounded by the dense piney woods of east Texas, there lives a pack of liars, thieves, and fools that Mimosa Mabry reluctantly calls family. They want her home. Against her better judgement mo returns, but finds the answer she's searching for--the truth about a child named Lucy--slipping further from her grasp.

As enigmatic as a carnival shell game.


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The Unremembered Girl: A Novel

Soon she can’t resist the temptation to get close. An amazon Charts bestseller. Where henry’s mother sees a poor girl in need, his father sees only wickedness. When henry forges an unexpected bond with Eve, he believes he might be able to save her. But they have no idea they’ve become the obsession of the girl in the woods.

Abandoned and nearly feral, eve has been watching them, seduced by the notion of family—something she’s known only in the most brutal sense. It’s all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing mother and his stepfather—a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric—from ruin. He doesn’t know how wrong he is.

Eve is about to take charge of her own destiny—and that of Henry’s family. As both their worlds spin violently out of control, Henry must make an impossible choice: protect the broken woman who’s claimed a piece of his soul, or put everyone he loves at risk in order to do the right thing. In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor.

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The Widow's Watcher

In jenna, lars recognizes his last chance for redemption. After he pulls her from the brink, however, Jenna finds her desire to give up challenged by their unlikely friendship. When secrets are surrendered and lies are laid bare, Jenna and Lars may find that accepting the past isn’t their greatest challenge.

But when a stranger walks onto the ice of a frozen Minnesota lake, her intentions are brutally clear, and the old man isn’t about to let her follow through. Jenna shaw didn’t ask for Lars’s help, nor does she want it. Can they afford the heartbreaking price of forgiveness? From eliza maxwell, the bestselling author of the unremembered girl, comes a gripping novel about the mysteries that haunt us and the twists of fate that can unravel them…Living in the shadow of a decades-old crime that stole his children from him, reclusive Lars Jorgensen is an unlikely savior.

And in her quest to solve the mysteries of Lars’s past and bring him closure, Jenna may find the way out of her own darkness. But the truth that waits threatens to shatter it all.


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The Retreat

Her husband drowned trying to save their daughter, Lily, in the river near their rural home. A desperate mother. But within days of his arrival, the peace of the retreat is shattered by a series of eerie events. When lucas’s investigation leads him and julia into the woods, or what, they discover a dark secret—a secret that someone will do anything to protect…What really happened that day by the river? Why was Lily never found? And who, is haunting the retreat?From the bestselling author of Follow You Home and The Magpies comes his most terrifying novel yet.

But the little girl’s body was never found—and Julia believes Lily is somehow still alive. Alone and broke, Julia opens her house as a writers’ retreat. And a house full of secrets. Two years ago, Julia lost her family in a tragic accident. One of the first guests is Lucas, a horror novelist, who becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Lily.

. An amazon Charts bestseller. A missing child.


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After Nightfall

But what she remembers happening after nightfall now carries sinister implications: the ugly sniping, the clandestine meetings, the drunken flirtations. The more she investigates, the more she questions everything she thought she knew about her friends, the man she once trusted, and even herself. Bestselling author A.

After an awful night, your friend’s battered, lifeless body is found at the bottom of a rocky cliff. Newly engaged Marissa Parlette is living this nightmare. J. From the bestselling author of The Good Neighbor comes a gripping thriller about an engagement party gone fatally awry. Imagine your closest friend utterly betraying you.

. But seething hostilities rise to the surface, ruining everyone’s evening. Years later, when she seeks forgiveness, you invite her to your engagement party as a gesture of reconciliation. Did she fall? was she pushed? or did she take a purposeful step into darkness? Desperate for answers, Marissa digs deep into the events of the party.

She should be celebrating her upcoming wedding, but she can’t shake the image of her friend lying dead on the beach. Banner keeps readers on a razor-sharp edge in this intricately plotted novel of psychological suspense…in which nothing is as it seems.


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Half a Heart

He’ll do what it takes to evade the rages of his troubled, violent father. Relying on his instincts and the kindness of strangers, the boy manages to touch the lives of everyone he meets. He has no idea where his journey will lead, or that the grandmother he’s been told is dead is desperately searching for him.

Alone with no home of his own, Logan looks for a safe place to hide. Even though he’s only a child, Logan already knows too much—has seen too much. So when the opportunity presents itself, Logan runs. Keep quiet, make the food last, and don’t ever cause trouble. But his innocent heart cannot survive in the adult world without the most basic human need of all: love.

From bestselling author karen McQuestion comes a moving novel about broken hearts…and what it takes to put them back together again. At nine years of age, Logan Weber knows the routine.


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A Dark Lure

The killer was caught, but Sarah lost everything: her marriage, her child, and the life she loved. Struggling with ptsd, sarah changes her name to Olivia West and finds sanctuary working on Broken Bar Ranch. He sets a lure for the murderer, and a fresh body is discovered. But this time, olivia’s determination to shut out her past may destroy more than her chance at love.

It could cost her her life. Now olivia must face the impossible—could the butcher be back, a writer, this time to finish the job?As a frigid winter isolates the ranch, only one person can help Olivia: Cole McDonough, adventurer, and ranch heir who stirs long-dormant feelings in her. Twelve years ago, sarah baker was abducted by the Watt Lake Killer and sexually assaulted for months before managing to escape.

But as her scars finally begin to heal, a cop involved with her horrific case remains convinced the Watt Lake Killer is still out there.


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The Promise Between Us

Despite longing for maisie, Katie honors an agreement with the husband she left behind—to change her name and never return. But when she and maisie accidentally reunite, Katie can’t ignore the familiarity of her child’s compulsive behavior. Over time she’s come to grips with the mental illness that nearly destroyed her, and now funnels her pain into her art.

Worse, maisie worries obsessively about bad things happening to her pregnant stepmom. This is an eye-opening and realistic exploration of mental illness—a topic that greatly deserves to be front and center. Jodi picoult, new york times bestselling author of Small Great ThingsMetal artist Katie Mack is living a lie.

Katie has the power to help, accept the possibility of love, but can she reconnect with the family she abandoned?To protect Maisie, Katie must face the fears that drove her from home, and risk exposing her heart-wrenching secret. Nine years ago she ran away from her family in Raleigh, North Carolina, consumed by the irrational fear that she would harm Maisie, her newborn daughter.

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Carry Her Heart Words of the Heart Book 1

Maybe we live our lives constantly becoming and rebecoming. And having given so much of herself away, she’s not sure if she can give Ned all that he deserves. Each entry marks the passage of time since she became a teen mother and put her baby up for adoption. But one autumn, a new presence appears in its pages and in her life: her neighbor, Edward “Ned” Chesterfield.

As winter thaws to spring, piper and Ned develop a friendship that could be something more…if only Piper would open her heart. Her words flow together, painting a picture of loss, hope, and enduring love for the daughter she’s never forgotten. But the loss of her daughter has irrevocably shaped her life.

But with him at her side, Piper just might learn that a heart’s love is never truly lost. Maybe we’re always in the process of metamorphosing into something new. In her journal, writer Piper George notes the change of seasons.


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Every Single Secret: A Novel

Determined to give their impending marriage the best chance of succeeding, Heath insists that Daphne join him on a seven-day retreat with Dr. Matthew cerny, a psychologist celebrated for getting to the root of repressed memories. A true psychological thriller that will leave you breathless. Wendy walker, bestselling author of all is not Forgotten and Emma in the NightEmotionally guarded Daphne Amos always believed she’d found a kindred spirit in her fiancé, Heath.

Daphne reluctantly agrees—even though the past is the last place she wants to go. The retreat’s isolated and forbidding location increases her unease, as do the doctor’s rules: they must relinquish their keys and phones, they’ll be monitored at all hours by hidden cameras, and they’re never to socialize with the other guests.

One sleepless night, daphne decides to leave her room…and only then does she realize that the institute is not at all what it seems—and that whatever’s crying out from Heath’s past isn’t meant to be heard. It’s meant to be silenced. Both very private people, they’ve kept their pasts hidden from the world, and each other, until Heath’s escalating nightmares begin to put an undeniable strain on their relationship.

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