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Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughtersRegis, Agnes, and Ceciliaat Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent schools beautiful seaside campus, over which Honors sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could have foreseen the day rebellious Regis would come home with the stunning news that she was getting married....

Chelsea Adams, a Christian woman who has visions of murder and malice, contacts forensic artist Annie Kingston in an urgent attempt to stop a killer preying on the people of Redding, California.

Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado-a state-run mental hospital-and is taken hostage by a charismatic "doctor" who is on the run from the Mob. Wollie fears that her beloved brother, a paranoid schizophrenic living...

All words fell away. I pushed myself off the path, noticing for the first time the signs of earlier passage-the matted earth, broken twigs. And I knew. My mouth turned cottony. I licked my lips, took three halting steps. My maddening, visual brain churned out pictures of colorless faces on a cold slab-Debbie Lille, victim number one; Wanda Deminger, number three…He'd been here. Dragged this one right where I now stumbled. I'd entered a crime scene,...

When her husband is arrested for fraud and embezzlement and she faces jail time, Grenadine Scotch Wild moves to central Oregon to await the trial, and finally finds the courage to confront her troubled past.

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In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortress like stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone-or something-they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely...

Discover the enduring beauty of hope and sacrifice in The Last Leaf by O. Henry, narrated by Lauren Maza. Set in the artistic enclave of early 20th-century Greenwich Village, this timeless short story follows the intertwined lives of struggling artists and the extraordinary bond that arises amidst hardship. When illness threatens a young womans life, a single leaf becomes the symbol of her will to surviveand a testament to the power of friendship...

Tattoo artist Raven Smith is blunt and hard, broken and jaded. She's free sexually-- but no one gets to the real Raven beneath the prickly exterior. Jonah Warner is a smooth-talking, highly successful attorney, with a body that should never be hidden by a suit. He never takes no for an answer and always gets what he wants. And what he wants is Raven. He makes her break all her rules-- until a figure from Raven's past shows up at the tattoo parlor....

"Kelly McGregor's life along the Lehigh Canal has nothing in common with the beauty that surrounds her. Forced to help her family survive by driving her father's mules as they pull boatloads of coal to the city, she dreams of saving enough money so that she can escape the drudgery of home and be an artist, sharing the beauty of the world with others. When a shopkeeper along the canal gives Kelly an outlet for her drawings, she wonders if she gets...