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I grew up in Normal, Illinois, but had lived in New Jersey for more than thirty years when my father died at the age of eighty-four. I was fifty-four at the time and soon learned that family secrets had been kept from me. Strange deaths, tragedies, indiscretions, and relationships lay in my past, totally hidden. It took me seven years to uncover these secrets from personal interviews, genealogical studies, public records, and cutting-edge scientific work done by worldwide experts. Along the way, I trace my own life path from wanting to be a mechanic to gaining a master's degree at MIT and working at a famous research laboratory. I also tell my own fifty-year love story. The secrets are now known, and I thought it was time at the age of seventy-nine that I should write this memoir to tell you all about my Normal Secrets.

ANNA’S LIFE CHANGES FOREVER ON ONE HORRIFIC NIGHT WHEN SHE IS ASSAULTED AND LEFT FOR DEAD. Anna Marquette has everything to live for with college-aged daughters and a loving husband named Paul.But during a trip to Orlando, a simple shortcut to an evening out ends in a brutal, life-altering assault.Left to piece her life back together, Anna is thrown into a second crisis when she discovers the attack left her pregnant. With her family and her faith put to the ultimate test, she must confront agonizing decisions about the future.As deep emotional trials threaten to shatter her marriage, Anna must find out if their love is strong enough to survive.This emotional, faith-driven novel deeply explores healing and true forgiveness in the wake of an unimaginable tragedy. This novel was originally titled “In the Still of Night.” The text has been expanded and updated from the original edition.

Tarah Scott and Sue-Ellen Welfonder have more in common than friendship. For many years, these bestselling authors have both enjoyed spending their working hours in a world of romance and adventure, bringing handsome Highlanders and their ladies to life. Now they’ve joined pens, deciding that when it comes to happily-ever-afters, two writers can stir up even more danger and desire for the characters they love. Across the four stories, matchmaking, mistaken expectations, arranged marriages, and reluctant attraction gradually turn into genuine love. Book 1: Worth of a Lady No one guessed that an innocent would bring the Devil of Delny to his knees … Spinster Chastity Hamilton is the Duke of Roxburgh's heir. Her father insists she marry. She insists that the man who wins her hand must first find matches for her three younger sisters. Sir Stirling James takes up the challenge, and the sisters are shocked when he announces the engagement of their youngest sister to the Devil of Delny. When Quin Ramsey's surrogate brother Sir Stirling James informs him he is to wed the fourth daughter of a lesser duke, he refuses. But when he waltzes with the lovely innocent, he realizes that he wants no other man to waltz with her. Book 2: The Marriage Wager He lost at cards, but won at love … Buccaneer Frasier Gordon is lucky at cards, and keeps a woman in every port. But the stakes in a card game turn high when his old friend Sir Stirling James wagers the hand of a duke's daughter against the fastest frigate in Scotland. Who knew the turn of one card would change his fortune forever? Book 3: A Lady by Chance He bargained for a lady, but the hoyden stole his heart … Signing a wedding contract for the third daughter of a duke, sight unseen, is the first impulsive thing by-the-book Navy lieutenant Patrick Chalmers has ever done. When he arrives on his wedding day to claim his bride, he never dreams the beautiful woman walking down the aisle is the spitfire he saved from falling out of a tree. Book 4: How to Catch an Heiress It takes cunning to catch an heiress … and a handsome face doesn't hurt. Tomorrow is Sir Stirling James' wedding day. Stirling matched the Duke of Roxburgh's three younger daughters with reputable men. His reward is the duke's eldest daughter, Lady Chastity, the future duchess of Roxburgh. Now if he can only get the lady down the aisle and into his bed. When Lady Chastity bargained with her father to marry the man who could match her sisters with suitable husbands in one month's time, she didn't believe such a man existed. But tomorrow, she is to wed the marriage maker. “Steamy, sensual, and utterly breathtaking.” —Fresh Fiction for a Sue-Ellen Welfonder

Can a lost love be redeemed? Seven years ago, Julia McKenzie rejected the man she loved, wanting to experience more of life. Now, at the age of twenty-four, she regrets that decision. What will Seth think of her when they encounter one another hundreds of miles from home? Will the man she cared for understand the direction her life has taken and love her in spite of her choices? Pastor Seth Russell has never completely forgotten the girl he once courted. When she shows up in his new home of Baker City, all those feelings return. But why is she sneaking around town late at night? Even more important, will she reject him and break his heart again, or can God heal the breach between them? “Ferrell is a talented author who brings readers a sweet love story with surprises throughout. A wonderful addition to the series.” —RT Book Reviews (4 stars) on Dreaming on Daisies

I was twelve years old when the world ended. For eight years I've survived in this shithole once known as Earth, fighting the alien parasite that mutated most of the population into bloodthirsty freaks while the rest of us became the lunch special on their alien menu. Now things are changing, and not for the better. The parasite is evolving, becoming smarter, stronger, and deadlier. They've already stolen everything from me-my home, my family, even the man I loved. It's time for this bullshit to end once and for all. My name is Bixby, and I'm the resistance. “Bryan’s writing is brilliant, eloquent, and, at times, grotesque and downright disgusting—the perfect combination to create a novel about surviving the end of the world.” —Red City Review

In Hunter Murphy's follow-up to Imogene in New Orleans, the indomitable senior sleuth and her outrageously endearing Alabama family find themselves in hot water while on a family vacation at a mermaid convention in sunny Florida. When Imogene and her brood, including Goose the bulldog, encounter a dead body floating in the fresh-water springs beneath their glass-bottom boat, the local police immediately arrest one of the Alabama visitors for the crime. Now the aging amateur crime solver must exonerate her own family, but unearthing a killer among the park's past and present mermaids and employees promises to be no easy task, since so many of them are thrilled that the victim is sleeping with the fishes. And a decades-old curse that has deposited more than one dead body in the Bridal Chamber spring now seems focused on Imogene and her kin, who are wading into dangerous waters indeed. Witty and colorful, The Curse of the Bridal Chamber will keep you enthralled until the final surprising revelation. “An exceptionally well-crafted mystery replete with unexpected plot twists and turns.” —Midwest Book Review

When the chef of Sunset Paradise Retirement Village ends up dead, life for sisters Fern and Zula Hopkins is whipped into a froth. Their zany attempts to track down the killer land them in hot water with Detective Jared Flynn. Should he be concerned about their safety or the criminal's? But there are deadly ingredients none of them expect: drugs, extortion, international cartels, and worst of all, broken hearts-especially when the sisters' niece KC arrives on the scene. Before the sisters make any headway with the case, it becomes crystal clear that the snooping pair share a mysterious secret that takes life from the frying pan and into the line of fire. “A laugh-out-loud mystery with quirky, lovable characters who find themselves in all sorts of trouble…Cohesive and fast-moving.” RT Book Reviews (4 stars)

In war-torn London, American Kate Isaacs grieves her husband, awaits their child's birth, and welcomes her best friend, Addie. But after her miscarriage, another meeting with mysterious Monsieur le Blanc launches her into Britain's Secret Operations Executive, the SOE. In late 1943, Kate parachutes into southern France to aid the Resistance. Domingo, a grieving Basque mountain guide turned saboteur, meets her parachute drop, tends to her injured ankle, and carries her to safety. Reunited a few months later, they discover the injured Monsieur le Blanc who, with his dying breath, reveals a secret that changes Kate's life. In the shadow of the Waffen SS, Domingo's younger brother Gabirel is missing. While Domingo seeks Gabirel, Domingo's parish priest, Père Gaspard, creates a new identity for Kate. As Kate and Domingo subject their mutual attraction to the cause of freedom, can mere human will and moral courage change the war's tide and forge a future for them?

The only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them dies. An early-morning crash forces paramedic Jim Stockbridge into the heart of a devastating rescue. As he battles a roaring inferno to save a trapped family, the fierce flames ultimately drive him back. What remains in the ashes of the explosion will alter his small North Carolina community—and his life—forever. Six years later, Jim is still working the streets while struggling with grief and anger after losing his best friend. Then a call to a shooting leads him to his badly wounded former partner—and masked attackers suddenly turn Jim into their next target. With paramedics and their families being hunted, Jim realizes the violence is part of something much larger. As police struggle to find answers, he begins his own investigation, uncovering dangerous connections and putting his life at even greater risk. To survive, Jim must stay one step ahead of a relentless enemy while continuing to answer calls where every moment could mean life or death. Now, with a family relative out for revenge and two beautiful women on his mind, Jim is about to learn that failure is not an option-especially when lives are on the line.

Becca Meister Fitzpatrick―wife, mother, grandmother, and pillar of the community―is the dutiful steward of her family’s iconic summer tradition . . . until she discovers her recently deceased husband squandered their nest egg. As she struggles to accept that this is likely her last season in Long Harbor, Becca is inspired by her granddaughter’s boldness in the face of impending single-motherhood, and summons the courage to reveal a secret she was forced to bury long the existence of a daughter she gave up fifty years ago. The question now is how her other daughter, Rachel―with whom Becca has always had a strained relationship―will react. Eden is the account of the days leading up to the Fourth of July weekend, as Becca prepares to disclose her secret and her son and brothers conspire to put the estate on the market, interwoven with the century-old history of Becca’s family―her parents’ beginnings and ascent into affluence, and her mother’s own secret struggles in the grand home her father named “Eden.”