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In the summer of ’69, a flash flood delivers Dottie, a restless young student of botany and her friends into the hands of an isolated Appalachian flock, ruled by scripture and tradition. Among them waits Solomon, the healer, who sees in Dottie as a sign. A lamb sent by Providence. And once he lays claim, no prayer, plea, or protest will part what he believes God has joined.
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You shall submit, as it is commanded," he growled near her ear, his breath hot and close. "You fight, but it is written. A woman shall obey her husband in all things."
"You aren't my husband" she gasped, twisting violently, her hands clawing at his shoulders.
His fingers dug deeper into her side, forcing her still. "Yet" he hissed, his mouth so close to her temple she could feel the word burn into her skin.
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Holdine, a secretary working for the Nazis, becomes aware of her own complicity in the war, along with the crimes committed by the two men she can't seem to stay away from.
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Alaina Mills left her small ranching town in Wyoming behind for an exciting new adventure, but the big city is less kind than she had anticipated. She's only too pleased when a chance encounter on the street leads her to a friendship with a kind, handsome stranger. And this kind, handsome stranger will teach her an invaluable lesson. Some things are just too good to be true.
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03 May 2026
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With her work in the Major Investigations Team, Erin Hyde has spent her career studying monsters.
She never expected to belong to one.
Taken by the very murderer she’s been hunting, Erin knows exactly how this ends. She’s seen the pattern. After two weeks, he kills his victims. No exceptions.
But from the moment he chooses her, something is different. He doesn’t treat her like the others.
He is her captor. The man who will end her life. So why does part of her want to understand him before he destroys her? And what if the only way to live is to let him in?
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“I hate and I love. Why do I do this, perhaps you ask.
I don’t know, but I feel it happening, and I’m tortured.”Coming of age during the Great Depression, Catarina has tried to be good girl her whole life. A good daughter, a good Catholic, a good friend, all while she dreams of beautiful things that she should not want.
When a certain stranger offers her all the pleasures of a wordly life in exchange for one thing in return, she learns that rules exist for good reason, and there lies an underbelly in her city that she never could have imagined.
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18 Apr 2026