The Kinfolk

As enigmatic as a carnival shell game. And the game is rigged. After a lifetime spent trying to put the place behind her, the kinfolk have come calling, and 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 than ever.

Along the banks of the neches river, surrounded by the dense piney woods of east Texas, there’s a pack of liars, thieves, where the humidity makes even the mosquitos go a little soft in the head, and fools that Mimosa Mabry reluctantly calls family. Because in deep east Texas, at the mercy of your kin, truth is relative.

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The Grave Tender

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. People said her mother, winnie, was never quite right, irreparable act, but with one single, life as Hadley knew it was shattered. 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. 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.


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The Unremembered Girl: A Novel

When henry forges an unexpected bond with Eve, he believes he might be able to save her. He doesn’t know how wrong he is. Eve is about to take charge of her own destiny—and that of Henry’s family. 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.

In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor. 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. 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. Where henry’s mother sees a poor girl in need, his father sees only wickedness. An amazon Charts bestseller. Soon she can’t resist the temptation to get close.

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The Widow's Watcher

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. 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.

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. 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. In jenna, lars recognizes his last chance for redemption. Can they afford the heartbreaking price of forgiveness? .


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Desert Flowers

Rose and elmer have created an idyllic sanctuary for themselves and their five daughters in Mexico’s Baja California desert. It’s just for the night, he says—but long enough for Rose and Elmer to fear they’ve made a horrible mistake. What they don’t know is that Rick has a secret, too. As the stranger grows more intrusive and more suspicious, the couple know they must do what they can to protect themselves.

And even with so many places to run, there’s still no escape from the past that binds them. Soon, home and family will prove to be as cold and dark as the desert nights. Out there in the middle of nowhere, blissfully cut off from the burdens of modern society, they’re free to raise their beautiful family…and preserve its secret.

And they’re never giving it up. Then a young hiker named Rick comes looking for a place to stay.


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Sweet Hollow Women

From rhonda's secret broken heart to Great-Great-Grandpa Jimbo's eccentric failed dreams, Carasine and her family are used to disappointment. It's not until carasine gets a second chance with an unlikely pair of long-lost relatives that she realizes her path in life might be up to her to navigate. An enthralling multi-generational saga for fans of Barbara Kingsolver, Rebecca Wells, and Fanny Flagg.

As part of a family where life happens to you, fifteen-year-old Carasine Busey is devastated but not surprised when her family drops everything in Sweet Hollow, Louisiana to follow her dad's shaky career as a welder. Being their flesh and blood convinces her that there may be some hope for her after all.

It's not especially shocking, either, when he abandons them all shortly after they settle into their new home in the city. Carasine, her mom rhonda, and the rest of the Busey clan have adapted to roll with the punches.


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The Secret Mother: A gripping psychological thriller that will have you hooked

Not anymore. She doesn’t know who the little boy is or how he got there. I've read some fantastic psychological thrillers lately, but The Secret Mother blew them all out of the water. Because someone is lying. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own…Tessa isn’t sure what to believe or who to trust.

Didn’t want it to finish. Nicki’s book blog, 5 stars‘utterly gripping to the last page and full of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing. I totally recommend. Her whole life is turned upside down. Absolutely addictive and brilliant with an end I didn't see coming. But tessa doesn’t have any children.

But is the truth more dangerous than Tessa realises? An absolutely unputdownable psychological thriller with a twist that will make you wonder if you can ever trust anyone again. One of the best psychological thrillers I have read!’ Renita D’Silva, 5 stars. To find out who, she must confront her painful past.

If you loved gone girl, the girl on the Train and The Sister this book will have you hooked. What readers are saying about the secret mother:‘wow, yes, wow, 5 stars‘oh yes, yes this was my kind of read, it’s a screaming from the rooftops fantastic read, this is it, it doesn’t let up throughout the book and keeps you gripped until the very end!’ Stardust Book Reviews, I really have taken this and added it to my top 10 this year, if you love a good thriller… if you love to stay up all night reading because you simply can't switch your mind off from a book, you found it, yes, wow! What a fantastic book! The book starts with a bang… from page one and believe me, don't look any further… so fast paced it leaves your breathless.

This is one of those books!


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Mustard Seed

For jordan and Mattie, it’s time for liberation. As the johnsons and freedmans confront the injustice that binds them, as well as the bitterness and violence that seethes at its heart, the women must find the courage to free their families—and themselves—from the past. The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.

Oberlin, ohio, 1868. There she must face the Confederate family she betrayed by marrying an abolitionist. Jordan and mattie return to Fair Oaks, to save the family they left behind, too, who still toil in oppression. Jordan freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth’s beloved nurse. Three years after the civil war, an aspiring suffragette, Lisbeth and Mattie are tending their homes and families while Jordan, teaches at an integrated school.

When lisbeth discovers that her father is dying, she’s summoned back to the Virginia plantation where she grew up. Lisbeth johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. For lisbeth, it’s a time for reconciliation. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than friendship.


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I'm Frankie: An Appalachian Legend

Can’t nobody tell afore hand what’s inside a corn shuck. You’d look exactly like a skinny boy if it wasn’t for your long hair. We’re here to buy chickens and a milk cow, ” I was insulted by his remark and tried my best to sound superior to him. His dark eyes boldly looked me over as if he knew I would find him somewhat appealing.

I’m frances Stuard. I was old enough to take a good look at the oldest boy, Charles. He held me in a powerful grip. I turned my head to see who it was as I heard Ma suck in a gasp of air. Why has frankie’s story been remembered when so many others have fallen by the wayside and forgotten? could it be Frankie has never been allowed the forgiveness she so richly deserves? Was she done an injustice that still rings out loud and clear? Will the many ‘tellings’ of Frankie’s story ever allow her to pass on over into the peace she so richly deserves?From Chapter Two:Even though I was only twelve years old, I thought of myself as being on the brink of becoming a woman.

Charlie found a red ear fair and square. 309 pages print edition, 95, frankie silver biographical novel, during, 700 words, Why would a little mountain woman kill her husband and dispose of his body? The first woman hanged in Northwestern North Carolina recounts what happened before, Mountain family life, Appalachian cultural heritage, Appalachian cultural heritage, Historical literary fiction, and thereafter.

From the prologue:frankie and Johnny were loversOh Lordy, how they could love. Those are the first two lines in an old love ballad that has been sung thorough out many years of oral story telling. Different versions of the ballad have been written and sung about a love that ended in tragedy.


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The Last Thing She Ever Did

They appear to have it all—security, happiness, and a beautiful young son, Charlie. Then charlie vanishes without a trace, and all that seemed safe is shattered by a tragedy that is incomprehensible—except to Liz. It took one fleeting moment for her to change the lives of everyone she loves—a heartrending accident that can’t be undone.

From the #1 new york times bestselling author comes a psychological thriller exploring the things we dare to do when no one is looking. As two marriages crack and buckle in grief and fear, Liz retreats into her own dark place of guilt, escalating paranoia—and betrayals even she can’t imagine. Because there’s another good neighbor who has his own secrets, his own pain, and his own reasons for watching Liz’s every move.

Neither can the second-worst mistake of her life: concealing it. For years, up-and-comers Liz and Owen have admired their good friends and neighbors, Carole and David. And only he knows that the mystery of the missing boy on the Deschutes River is far from over. The community along Oregon’s Deschutes River is one of successful careers and perfect families.

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The Light of the Fireflies

Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone’s been acting very strangely. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. His grandma said, there’s no creature more amazing than one that can make its own light.

The boy begins to wonder why they never say who the father is, about what happened before his own birth, about why they’re shut away. A few days ago, some fireflies arrived in the basement. And he doesn’t know how to get out…. That light makes the boy want to escape, to know the outside world. Problem is, all the doors are locked.

From bestselling spanish author Paul Pen comes a haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, in a basement with his parents, sister, grandmother, the boy has lived underground, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire.


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