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Ellen has tired of being a saloon girl, she's been abused and has no hope for the future. Seeking answers, she finds a new life in Christ and lets her newfound hope lead her. She soon finds herself at a ranch with other women in her situation, some of whom are with child.
Some of the women look at Ellen side-eyed as they knew her in their previous life. But Ellen is determined to change especially when she meets a visiting sheriff to the ranch. The...
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"She was the coldest, most calculating woman I've ever met." (Judge presiding over Abraham Shakespeare's murder trial)
Abraham Shakespeare was working as a delivery man for eight dollars an hour when he bought the winning lottery ticket. He would receive over $17 million in winnings and become the toast of his small town. All would not be rosy, as he would be pestered by friends and family for money over the next few months until he finally got fed...
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A collection of Amish short stories to warm the heart...Sarah has left the Englisch world and has found solace in an Amish community. But it takes her awhile to gain the trust of the townsfolk and get used to their way of life and beliefs. Raised as a Christian, she relies on prayer and daily walks with God in order to escape her troubled past and acclimate herself to the new surroundings. Because of past hurts, she has all but given up hope on finding...
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Annie was hungry for knowledge and she was determined to change the medical community with scientific breakthroughs. Although her passion was primarily medical, she was an academic writer as well. In the February of 2009 she published an article in Yale Medical School's Magazine. The ironic title of this article was "Crime and Safety in New Haven". This article was based on campus safety and it looked at the amount of robberies in New Haven, compared...
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Of the many, many criminals who end up on death row, Michael Ross's situation is one of the most complex. Some reluctant guests of the row are vicious and wicked, men and women filled with pure evil. Others are innocent. These are victims of a system which is far from fool proof and frequently driven by political expediency as much as a search for justice.
And some people are killers despite themselves, criminals in need of help as well as punishment....
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Emboldened by the last remaining days of high school, Hailey writes a love letter to her neighbor. But when she runs into him at school draped around his then girlfriend, she chickens out and never tells him how she feels. Fast forward ten years, she returns home to celebrate her father's fiftieth birthday. She meets him again in town and the old feelings resurface as she finds out he's single. Will she finally give him the letter she wrote all those...
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Jacqueline has already had enough tragedy to last a lifetime. She lost her best friend in a tragic accident which her boyfriend Rex blamed himself for. As an atonement, he separated himself from both her and everyone in the town. Distraught with no romantic prospects on the horizon, Jacqueline turns to becoming a mail order bride. She accepts a proposal from Clifton, a handsome cowboy who woos and wins her heart. But Clifton has a secret past. On...
10) Granny Killer
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John Wayne Glover-also known as the "Granny Killer"-was a serial killer who was active in Sydney, Australia, between 1989 and 1990 who murdered at least six-and as many as 13-elderly females after hitting them with a claw hammer and then ritually strangling them with their own pantyhose. It was widely believed that Glover's victims represented his mother and mother-in-law who he blamed for his misdeeds. He was ultimately sentenced to six life sentences...
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Life turned tragic for Tilda at a young age. Her parents die within weeks of one another after a pneumonia outbreak. Then she's sent to an orphanage where she's treated like slave labor. Once she's of age, she seeks an escape. The path of least resistance seems to be becoming a mail order bride. But her husband to be only wants her as labor. He's lonely and needs help around the ranch. Tilda starts to win him over, however, and he sees the need for...
12) Hear My Love
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Sweet Christian Romances make up this collection of stories sure to warm the heart and give one pause...HEAR MY LOVEViolet is slowly losing her hearing. She worries about both her hearing loss and a budding romance with Brian, with whom she feels a kindred spirit. She begins to push him away but Brian has other ideas, coming up with a novel way in which he can communicate how he feels for her without words...AN ANGEL TO WATCH OVER MEWillow is faced...
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A series of Christian life and romance storiesThe pulsing rhythm of the music vibrated against the walls and the stale smoked filled air of the club was something Willow had become accustomed to since her slippery slide into rebellion. Other than by association one would never have thought she was the minister's daughter. But that is exactly what brought her here. For years she pretended to be the prim and proper Willow Leandra Dawson, playing the...
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Will mankind ever understand its own mind? Only if it one day learns to do so will the crimes of Edmund Emil Kemper III begin to make any sort of sense. Perhaps the splendour of his name gives a clue to the ambitions his mother had for the new born baby, who emerged into the world just a week before Christmas in 1948. Perhaps the hint in that name of a sort of Hollywood-esque cum Hammer House of Horror quality, just the wrong side of the furthest...
15) To Love Again
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A year after Alec Bernhard had to make the call to take his wife off life support, after a horrific accident he had lost all hope to ever be happy again. All he had left as a reminder of his wife was her cat Storm, but when Storm goes missing Alec goes on a mission to find her. He meets Laura Mason who works at the local pet shelter, and she selflessly offers to help him find his cat. He soon realizes that there is more to life than death, and when...
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Carolyn's rich husband has unexpectedly fallen ill and dies...she then flees the family estate when her controlling mother-in-law wants to force her to marry her husband's creepy older brother. Carolyn wants to marry again but only to a man that comes from a stable family. David believes he's dying...he's been sick since birth and has ruled out any hope for romance. When Carolyn's caravan breaks down near his ranch, he does the neighborly thing and...
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Two of the sickest female murderers in modern history are profiled. Tiffany Cole engineered a plan to kidnap and kill an elderly couple to steal their money, and dug a grave for them two days before knocking on their door and asking to use the phone. Rosie Alfaro stabbed nine-year-old Autumn Wallace more than 50 times during a burglary to get money for drugs.
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A year had passed since Evangeline had met the owner of the biggest ranch in Westminster, Rex Colve, and she was convinced that he was the man for her. Rex's ranch was the envy of other ranches in the town. He had loyal wranglers who were willing to do anything for the progress of the ranch. They loved their master because he was a good man and treated all the cowboys very well.It was his kindness that had saved her that night when she had been stranded...
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Marianne meets her old flame near a gold mining town. Is this an act of God or simply a bizarre coincidence?
She is working as a missionary in the new town while he is involved in a ministry only a short ride away. Will this chance reunion spark old flames or bury them further into disappointment? When Marianne rides into the gold-mining town, her only goal is to connect help out her brother's family. Meeting up with her old flame is the furthest...and...
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When Abigail is down on her luck. Faced with meager prospects, she takes the advice of a friend and looks into the prospect of becoming a mail order bride. She accepts a proposal from Joseph to live in Wyoming. Happy to be free from her circumstances, she soon realizes that the West poses a challenge all its own, not to mention the fact that they're wedding itself gets off to a rocky start. Her new husband Joseph is a farmer and he failed to mention...
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