Death is an awkward matchmaker…

When my brother suddenly passes away, shattering my family, I’m left to pick up the pieces.

Then Vince Mancini knocks on my door. My brother’s best friend from high school—and the boy I loved—is a funeral director, and he promises to answer whenever I call.

With his steadfast nature and warm smile, he becomes the anchor in the storm, willing to hold me up as everything falls at my feet. He sees through all my bluster, and it’s easy to remember why I’d hung on his every word when I was younger.

Maribeth thought she’d found a safe haven, but evil has other plans. Living alone in a cabin in the woods, Maribeth hopes to heal from the loss of her family to a serial killer the hunted as a detective. Haunted by her memories, she lives broken and scarred, trying to find a peace in the darkness.
When she finds a murdered woman left for her in the woods, she knows her simple life has changed forever. The woman looks like her dead daughter right down to the mark carved in her chest. The killer has returned.
Maribeth must either fight for her life or give up and join her family in the grave. Except her family’s murderer has been dead for two years. Who, or what, hunts her now?

Mayor Tanner Duncan’s idyllic life in rural Georgia turns mysterious and suspenseful when his fiancée disappears an hour before their engagement party. While his friends and the police brush the no-show off as cold feet, Tanner knows deep down that something is terribly wrong.

Determined to find her, Tanner’s search uncovers more than he bargained for—a trail leading to a mysterious government project with secrets that has global ramifications. Despite warnings from two U.S. Marshals to back off, Tanner refuses to give up on the woman he loves.

In a town where everyone seems to have something to hide, Tanner is prepared to do whatever it takes to bring his fiancée home and protect his town.

Power. The ambitious thirst for it.

But when a power-hungry wizard lord seeks to expand his rule, he triggers events unforeseen. The balance of magic is altered, races of old return, and beasts of legend stalk the land.

Unlikely heroes armed with magical relics are drawn into the conflict:
* Jerrell “Jace” – A clever thief and master of disguise who exhibits a flair for outrageous exploits.
* Narine – A bold wizardess caught between her mad wizard lord father and jealous brother.
* Rhoa – A determined acrobat, armed with enchanted blades and a thirst for revenge.
* Rawk – An exiled dwarf who possesses unique magic abilities.
* Brogan – A grizzled warrior who labors beneath the weight of his regrets.

Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958

For eighteen year old Lena O’Sullivan, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not to expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different.

Malachy Berger was different, for him, the world is at his feet. An only child of a wealthy, if peculiar German father, a large inheritance, a beautiful house and a fine education are his due. Malachy’s family history is shrouded in mystery but in the decades after the war, the arrival to Kilteegan Bridge of an autocratic German and his manservant, was the cause of much speculation.

Take the fuss out of dinner with this hearty collection of satisfying, seasonal one-pot meals for every day of the year.

Whether it’s slow-cooked short ribs, a hearty casserole, or a healthy stir-fry bursting with seasonal vegetables, the main course recipes found in this book will provide inspiration throughout the year. Fresh spring vegetables, like sugar snap peas, leeks, and tender asparagus bring new life to baked pastas, creamy risottos, and fluffy frittatas. In summer, the garden bounty stars in lighter fare like braised meat dishes with diverse flavors, roasted and stir-fried seafood, stratas, and enchiladas. In autumn, root vegetables take a leading role in pot roasts, gratins, and rustic tarts while classic comfort foods, such as meat loaf and baked ziti with sausage, are back-to-school favorites. Rich, savory dishes like meat pies, fall-off-the-bone lamb tagines, spicy curries, herbed cassoulets, and warming stews feed a crowd and keep winter’s chill away.

A fascinating chronicle of mankind’s efforts to move food throughout history”.

Today the average meal has traveled thousands of miles before reaching the dinner table. How on earth did this happen? Through delightful anecdotes and astonishing facts, Moveable Feasts tells the stories.

Combining history, science, and politics, Financial Times writer Sarah Murray provides a fascinating glimpse into the extraordinary odysseys of food from farm to fork. She encounters everything from American grain falling from United Nations planes in Sudan to Mumbai’s tiffin men who, using only bicycles, carts, and their feet, deliver more than 170,000 lunches a day.

In 2004, the world was first introduced to The Filthy Thirteen, a book describing the most notorious squad of fighting men in the 101st Airborne Division—and the inspiration for the movie The Dirty Dozen. Now, Jack Womer—one of the squad’s integral members and probably its best soldier—delivers his long-awaited memoir.

Originally a member of the 29th Rangers, which was suddenly dissolved, Womer asked for transfer to another elite unit, the Screaming Eagles, where room was found for him among the division’s most miscreant squad of brawlers, drunkards, and goof-offs.

Beginning on June 6, 1944, however, the Filthy Thirteen began proving themselves more a menace to the German Army than they had been to their own officers and the good people of England, embarking on a year of ferocious combat at the very tip of the Allied advance in Europe.

In historic Maine, three women find that loving a man is not as easy as the heart would lead them to believe. In the Prisoner’s Wife, Lucy Hamblin obeyed her father and gave up Jack Hunter years ago. But when Jack is scheduled to hang in the morning, Lucy can’t deny his last request–to marry him at the jail. Can they hope for a miracle of preservation, along with the restoration of lost love? In The Castaway’s Bride, Deborah Bowman’s sister gave up on her beau when he was presumed dead at sea. When Edward Hunter suddenly returns, he finds his fiancée has moved on. Can he see her younger sister Deborah for the woman she has become, or will he always see her as a rowdy young girl and cling to the dream of what might have been?