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Dar Roberts, corporate raider for a multi-national tech company, is cold, practical, and merciless. She does her job with razor-sharp accuracy. Friends are a luxury she cannot allow herself, and love is something she knows she'll never attain. Kerry Stuart left Michigan for Florida in an attempt to get away from her domineering politician father and the constraints of the overly conservative life her family forced upon her. After college she worked her way into supervision at a small tech company, only to have it taken over by Dar Roberts's organization.

Dar and Kerry are redefining themselves and their priorities to build a life and a family together. But with the scheming colleagues and old flames trying to drive them apart and bring them down, the two women must overcome fear, prejudice, and their own pasts to protect the company and each other. Does their relationship have enough trust to survive the storm?

'The queen of atmospheric suspense' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A top tier thriller' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Impossible to put down' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Twenty years ago, Harper's grandmother died suspiciously in her huge Victorian house on Lake Twilight while in her care...

Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn.

Eye of the Storm picks up the story of Dar Roberts and Kerry Stuart a few months after the story Hurricane Watch ends. At first it looks like they are settling into their lives together but, as listeners of this series have learned, life is never simple around Dar and Kerry. Surrounded by endless corporate intrigue, Dar experiences personal discoveries that force her to deal with issues that she had buried long ago and Kerry finally faces the consequences of her own actions.

A Southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In Killers of the Dream, her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and moral cost of the powerful, contradictory rules about sin, sex, and segregation—the intricate system of taboos—that undergirded Southern society.

Egg freezing is rarely about women postponing fertility for the sake of their careers. Rather, the most-educated women are increasingly forced to delay childbearing because they face a mating gap—a lack of eligible, educated, equal partners ready for marriage and parenthood. For these women, egg freezing is a reproductive backstop, a technological attempt to bridge the gap while waiting for the right partner. Their stories reveal the extent to which it is logistically complicated, physically taxing, financially demanding, emotionally draining, and uncertain in its effects.

The publication of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence in 1985 had an unprecedented impact on the lesbian community and mainstream culture. Each nun in these stories describes her individual and searing path in, or out of, the convent to discover and face the truth of herself. Still myth-shattering...

What if you could reach the most innocent part of yourself and treat that essential being with kindness? Author Natasha Levinger teaches how to locate this inner child, get to know them, and parent this most vulnerable part of yourself so that you can self-soothe even when the world around you...

Stunning, stubborn, and independent, Philadelphia Fox lost her best friend because of the fabulously rich and powerful Lightfoot family of Washington state. Now she's got her friend's controlling shares in Lightfoot Industries—an inheritance that brings Nick, the family's prodigal and supremely attractive son, knocking at her door.

Amid a fierce snowstorm sweeping across rural Minnesota, an isolated cabin goes up in flames, leaving a critically injured high school drug dealer and a missing girl in its wake. The disappearance propels Sheriff Red Hammergren into action to find the troubled young girl, Missy Klein, the daughter of Junior Klein—the victim of an unsolved cold case years prior.

A high-stakes chase across the American West. A device that could change the world. Three unlikely allies thrown together by fate. In the not so distant future, six mega corporations and their privatized armies have supplanted the American government. They compete for resources, market position...

Neuroscientist Evelyn Malcolm has built her life on reason: formulas, clean data, the illusion of control. But when the man she secretly loves turns up dead, everything implodes. She finds herself accused of his murder and interrogated alongside her estranged twin Vivian, a volatile mystery writer and wayward addict, whose matching DNA is found at the scene. But which sister committed the crime?

Harriet is floundering. She's in her early forties, her kids have gone to college, her marriage feels empty, her cable TV cooking show has lost its sense of inspiration, and she longs to leave the West Coast for New York. Then one day she meets Lydia, a gorgeous woman in her late twenties. Lydia reminds her so much of herself a decade or so past, and her husband, who hardly likes anything, likes Lydia as well. It slowly dawns on Harriet that Lydia could be the answer to everything that's ailing her. All she needs to do is turn Lydia into "the new me."

I’m too busy. I get too distracted. I don’t know where to start…it’s hard to find a moment to spend time with God...until now. In this refreshing guide for women, author Eline Hoogenboom helps readers transform ordinary moments—school runs, laundry loads, coffee breaks—into moments...

A midlife witch, a talking cat, and a murdered matchmaker famous for her perfect record. Bex Merriweather is happy settling into her newly single life and the job of mastering witchcraft in midlife. While the rest of Willowmere goes starry-eyed over famed matchmaker Valentina Swann—who has...

Pirate loot and deadly feud . . . So much for finding herself after her divorce: Instead, forty-eight-year-old witch-in-training Bex Merriweather has her hands full running a lending library and secretly studying magic under the critical eye of her opinionated familiar, cat Cosmo. All while...

Midlife can be magic—or murder . . . Bex Merriweather craves a new start after the blow-up of her marriage. At forty-eight, coming home to Willowmere doesn't just feel good. It feels right. Even if it's the additional blow of losing her aunt that brought her back to Oregon, and to her...

The race to Mars had ended generations ago, pushing those seeking fame to venture beyond known borders. Major corporations battled to be first in securing resources and the future, vying for ownership of a new galaxy, akin to historical westward settlers. A single blinking red light signaled a seismic shift—a colossal deposit of zosmodious ore that eclipsed all others. The catch? It lay on an uncharted planet, Code Name Viridian. Could this audacious find reshape the course of humanity, transcending even human boundaries?

In 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam decided to open the first winery in Mississippi. Their business was thriving by 1990, with eight national award-winning wines, a beautiful vineyard, and a successful restaurant. But in March of 1990, a series of unforeseen events rocked the operation. After the Rushings discovered one of the tour guides, Ray Russell, selling drugs in the winery parking lot, they fired him. He responded with a terrorizing vengeance that persisted over the next nine months.