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2) Black sands
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Annie Tagama has always been content to bask in the glow of her more flamboyant brother and sister and to quietly assist her father in his volcano research. Annie does, however, have a secret crush on Mano Ohana, though he's never noticed her. Her devotion turns to disdain after a mistake by Mano kills her beloved brother. But when her younger, more beautiful sister goes missing, she's forced to turn to her former love-now her sworn enemy-for help....
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It seems like paradise, but dark secrets lurk just below the surface. When a tragic accident downs a tourist boat off the coast of Hawaii, dolphin researcher Kala Oana is one of the first in the water, risking her own life to try and save others. She's enlisted to help the U.S. Navy find out what really happened--utilizing her speciality trained dolphins to help. Kala and Lieutenant Commander Jesse Matthews team up in the investigation--but as they...
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Leia ditched a promising medical career to settle on a secluded island of Hawaii. She ditched Bane, too, and he's come to the island to find out why. He's also in search of a fortune rumored to lie offshore. But an act of sabotage that pushes Bane closer to Leia plunges them both into a tangle of emotion -- just as a series of threatening events grip the island. Theft, a friend's death, a bizarre intruder, hints of a second treasure ... and even murder...
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"It's London, 1857, and everything is at stake for Serafina Trent. A woman of means ... but not the typical Victorian lady who feels her place is to be seen and not heard. When her brother's most recent female dalliance, a beautiful actress, is found murdered, all evidence points to him. Especially since the actress had just rejected him in a most public manner. Now everyone believes Clive is headed for the gallows. Everyone, that is, but Serafina....
6) Deeper water
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In the murky waters of Savannah's shoreline, a young law student is under fire as she tries her first case at a prominent and established law firm. A complex mix of betrayal and deception quickly weaves its way through the case and her life, as she uncovers dark and confusing secrets about the man she's defending--and the senior partners of the firm. How deep will the conspiracy run? Will she have to abandon her true self to fulfill a higher calling?...
7) Blood bayou
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Seven years ago, tragedy ended the troubled marriage of Camille and Jack Vermillion. Now, as head of the Truth Project, her life safe and orderly, she focuses her lawyerly skills on freeing wrongly incarcerated individuals on death row. Jack paid a bitter price for his mistakes. No longer a corporate attorney, he's pastor of a small church in Blood Bayou. Then tragedy strikes again. Jack's sister is murdered, apparently by a prisoner Camille has set...
8) Higher hope
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Tami Taylor faces impossible challenges in life, law, and love--until she discovers a higher hope. In historic Savannah, Georgia, a law firm assigns law clerk Tami Taylor to a libel case against a humble street preacher whose disciples claim she has uncanny prophetic abilities. Taylor's strict religious upbringing proves to be the firm's ace-in-the-hole as the case grows increasingly complex.
9) Water's edge
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Sometimes the smallest towns hold the biggest secrets. Tom Crane is about to become a partner in a big-city law firm. One final matter has to be cleared from his docket--the closing of his deceased father's law practice in the small town of Bethel. Killed in a tragic boating accident, John Crane didn't leave his son anything except the hassle of a bankrupt estate. Then, within twenty-four hours, Tom loses his job, his girlfriend, and his cat. Returning...
10) Not in the heart
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Truman Wiley used to report news from around the world, but now the troubling headlines are his own. He's out of work, out of touch with his family, out of his home, and his son's heart is failing. The situation seems hopeless, until he's given the chance to write the story of a death row inmate who wants to donate his heart to Truman's son. But as the execution clock ticks down, Truman uncovers evidence that may point to the man's innocence.
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For math prodigy Leonhard Euler, the Bernoulli family has been more than just friends. But his mentor, Master Johann, and his sons are engaged in a ruthless competition for prestige among Europe's mathematical elites. And now, their aspirations may have turned deadly. Lured into an investigation of the suspicious death of Jacob Bernoulli, his master's brother, twenty years ago, Leonhard soon discovers he's facing an elusive puzzle as complicated as...
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"A secret from a grim page of American history threatens to destroy thousands of lives.Gwen Marcey was tops in her forensic field. Then cancer struck, her husband left, and her teenage daughter engaged in active rebellion. Gwen's best chance to start a new life was a temporary job in Utah reconstructing faces from an 1857 massacre site.The Mountain Meadows Interpretative Center asked Gwen to reconstruct the faces of three intact bodies that were discovered...
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Gwen Marcey has done a good job keeping the pain of her past boxed up. But as she investigates the case of a missing child in Lapwai, Idaho, details keep surfacing that are eerily similar to her childhood traumas. She doesn't believe in coincidences. So what's going on here? No one knows more about the impact of the past than the Nez Perce people of Lapwai. Gwen finds herself an unwelcome visitor to some, making her investigation even more difficult....
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"Left at an orphanage, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. In 1908, the search takes her to an asylum in Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin. Using her experience as a post-mortem photographer, Thea gains access and, with groundskeeper Simeion Coyle, photographs the patients and uncovers the secrets within. Her quest reawakens the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman whose appearance portends death. A century later, Heidi Lane's mother, who is...
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"After Aggie Dunkirk's career is unceremoniously ended by her own mistakes, she finds herself traveling to Wisconsin, where her grandmother, Mumsie, lives alone in her rambling old home. She didn't plan for how eccentric Mumsie has become, obsessing over an old, unsolved crime scene--even going so far as to re-create it in the dollhouse. Mystery seems to follow her when she finds work as a secretary helping to restore the flooded historical part of...
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"Famous author Josephine Bourdillon is in a coma, jumping across memory as her body fights to survive. But those around her are fighting their own battles: Henry Hughes, who agreed to kill her for hire out of desperation, is uncertain how to finish the job now, and her teenage daughter Paige is overwhelmed by fear. Can grace bring them all into the light?"--
There is one story that novelist Josephine Bourdillon shirked from writing. And now she may...
17) Silent shadows
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Pecca Gallegos moved to the tiny town of Walton, Georgia, to protect her son and escape the dangerous lifestyle that once defined her. When a series of strange circumstances evolve into threats, Pecca finds herself confiding in an unlikely ally--her stubborn patient. Army veteran Colton Crawford is desperate to recover from the undiagnosed disorder that is ruining his life, and his instincts are on high alert when threats against his nurse and her...
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