Kate Rudd

The alarm on Hallie's biological clock is buzzing. She's about to turn 30 and there's no prospects of marriage in sight. Hallie, an organized, goal-setting kind of person, decides to give herself a year to meet Mr. Right. But all her dates are disasters. Too bad she can't fall for her good-looking neighbor Steve. But he's busy trying to win back his ex-wife who's about to marry someone else. Life would be simpler if he could fall for someone else--like...

Casey Cox is still on the run after being indicted for murder. The hunt that began with her bloody footprints escalates, and she's running out of places to hide. Her face is all over the news, and her disguises are no longer enough. It's only a matter of time before someone recognizes her. Dylan Roberts, the investigator who once hunted her, is now her only hope. Terrifying attempts on Dylan's life could force Casey out of hiding. The clock is ticking...

When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.

Julia Gooden remembers nothing about the worst night of her life. Thirty years ago, her nine-year-old brother Ben-the person who promised he would always protect her-was abducted from the room they shared. Try as she might to recall any clue or detail, there is a black hole where Julia's memories of that terrible event should be. Now a crime reporter at a Detroit newspaper, Julia tries to give others the closure she's never found. But guilt and grief...

"Emily Price, art restorer and would-be artist, finds herself in Atlanta, restoring objects recovered from a house fire. As she strives to make all the pieces of her life fit, secure a gallery opening for her own art, and care for her sister and mother, she finds herself enthralled by Chef Benito Hillam, who is in town from Italy visiting his brother Joseph, Emily's boss. Ben spends all his time cooking and repeatedly proposing marriage to Emily....

Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.

Why are so many conscientious women needlessly hard on themselves for things they readily forgive in others? Why do so many competent women shy away from risks and opportunities, or fear speaking up in the workplace? And why do so many ambitious women feel like a fraud despite the success and achievements they have rightfully earned? For fans of Brene Brown and lovers of inspiring self-help titles, “Goodbye, Perfect” is a must-read leadership...

Jade Westmore is content in her life as a newlywed to architect Wells Westmore, but after a dire warning from Wells' first wife Sylvie--silent since her accident three years ago--Jade is unsure of what to do and whom to trust.

Originally entitled Children's and household tales, Grimm's fairy tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early nineteenth century. This selection contains 80 stories. Also included are more than 45 of Arthur Rackham's marvelous illustrations which inject new life into these timeless tales.