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Madeline "Maddie" Benit�s is a skeptic who is unaffected by the power of destiny. A realist, she's fed up with the sometime man in her life, Jake Keene. On a road trip, she meets Wyatt McLain, a glaringly honest man, whose compelling past is part of his charm. A true believer in fate, Wyatt is convinced he and Maddie have been united for a preordained purpose. The future is thrown into chaos when Maddie uncovers a secret that will affect the course of her life. Facing disaster head-on, Maddie must decide whether to allow fate or free will to determine the outcome.
Unassuming Crescent County, California, is infested with murder, incest, mayhem, greed and self-serving political factions, artfully concealed by virtue of its charming facade. It is an isolated realm of superficial religious conservatism, where murky characters exploit the law, and manipulate truth in the local media, stubbornly embracing the Good Ol' Boy mentality in one of the most progressive regions of the United States. Fish Stories Live From Saraville is the fourth novel from author and California native Karen Kennedy Samoranos, and encompasses the darker, fatal side of author Samoranos' Saraville Series. From an abusive manipulator; a judge on the take; a homicidal police-chief, and the rebirth of white supremacy; to a failed high school shooting with a lethal twist, Fish Stories travels down the murky backroads of humanity. With its stark narrative of unrequited lust, avarice, political favor and damaged psyches, Fish Stories endures as an evocative and candid examination of the malignant architecture of human behavior, in this fictional recount of life in northeastern California.
Paul and Kate Sumner are the embodiment of virtue in their conservative rural community, and their children follow the tradition of excellence. When fifteen-year-old Kristina Sumner is forced to kill a classmate to prevent a school shooting, the brutal act triggers a mix of shock and outrage. Public scandal escalates as upstanding members of the community, faced with their own moral dilemma, find themselves pinned beneath the critial small-town microscope, as powerless to control the same type of harsh condemnation that has dogged the Sumners, and just as determined to silence it.
This book offers a comprehensive yet compact history of this surprisingly little-known but fascinating country, from pre-history to the present.
Says the author: Art, Passion, Poetry was inspired largely by the fact that with teaching, research, writing, and painting, I have had less time for playing the piano, which I dearly love, and have played since age five. I have transmuted the musical urge into a different kind of music: poetry, where I think my musical instincts are more developed than at the keyboard. However, the words of poems are as notes to me, and each line a chord or arpeggio or trill that, when the poem ends, has given me a distinct piece of music, with reflections of lived experience, memory, creativity, analysis, passion. My poems are musical pieces. When I finished selecting the right poems for my title, I realize...
Elizabeth Clark, a patristic scholar and founder of the Department of Religion at Mary Washington College, has drawn upon her depth of scholarship and linguistic ability to make available to an educated but nonspecialized readership an intriguing mosaic of opinions." - America
A mother’s dark past is revealed when her daughter falls for a man who knows her secrets in this romantic thriller from a New York Times bestseller. Only one man can uncover the sins and secrets of three generations of Pierron women Lily Pierron: In sultry New Orleans any sin can be had for a price. For Lily, a legendary madam, that price is her daughter, Hope. Hope Pierron St. Germaine: By day, the elegant and pious wife of a wealthy hotelier, and devoted mother to Glory. By night, she succumbs to the unholy passions that threaten to destroy her. Glory St. Germaine: Unaware of her family’s shameful secrets, Glory suffers the consequences of a darkness she doesn’t even know exists. Headstrong and reckless, Glory finds forbidden love—with the one man who knows everything about the Pierron women. “A high adventure of love’s triumph over twisted obsession.” —Publishers Weekly “Outstanding! A first-rate romantic thriller.” —Rendezvous
The Greatest War of All Between the power of light, life, love, goodness and truth, which is in Christ, with the powers of darkness, hate, evil and lies, which is Satan. We may not understand why troubles in all its shapes and forms comes upon us. In the pages of this little book the author has, by his personal experiences and encounters with the powers of light, and the powers or darkness, has thrown important light upon the subject. If our eyes and ears could/would be opened, we would see two opposing powers, Christ and Satan at war over your soul. The titanic struggle is beyond the careless mind to comprehend. But as the second coming draws nearer, this war will only intensify. As you rea...