What if no one really sees you?What if you don’t want them to?Ryder Jones typically spends her days and nights busting down doors to rescue innocent victims from a dangerous world most can't fathom. But when an injury puts her out of commission, her boss gives her a new and anxiety-provoking assignment: twenty-four-hour protection detail for a charming athlete with a target on his back.Cole Matthews's sole focus is winning football games. That is, ...

Sacrifice . . . is there any too great? How far would you go to protect the innocent?Maggie is living from one day to the next and making things up as she goes. Her life is four kids and a whole lot of chaos, but the best kind. Two years ago, she gave up her dreams, and after a devastating loss, she may have to give up one more. With four kids depending on her and not a chance she'll let them down, she's about to learn just exactly how far she'll go to keep them sa...

What if you give your whole heart away? Do you ever really get it back?Lex has just been going through the motions for years, trying to let go of the one man she can't seem to forget. When she finds herself getting ready to take on a life she's never wanted, she realizes she's stuck in the same place she was at sixteen—heart stolen and fully belonging to another. Now, Lex is determined to move forward and finally face reality—life without him.But w...

What if you're lost? What will it take to find your way back?Andie has been hiding, wanting to stay in the past rather than face the uncertainty of the future. When the force of a lie pulls her out of the darkness and into the light—the spotlight she's avoided—she has to decide if she'll stand and fight or run for cover.With each step, she has a choice to make. She can continue to watch life go on around her, or see what might be waiting on the oth...

What if you've been through hell?How difficult can it be to start over?Sarah Atwater is seeking a fresh start. When an opportunity arises that she can't refuse, the single mom is ready to leave her painful past behind—and perhaps her old self along with it. But sometimes, new beginnings are like learning to walk again, struggling to put one foot in front of the other.Slade Bennett enjoys his quiet, simple life. The blunt grump is pe...

Witty, endearing, and wildly entertaining, this Southern cozy mystery is a little bit Gilmore Girls, a little bit Finlay Donovan, with a big helping of Only Murders in the Building.Lila Shaw stopped trusting anyone the minute her husband went to jail for white-collar crime, taking their country club lifestyle with him. Now Lila is broke, friendless, and losing her house—and to make things worse, her true-crime-obsessed daughter, Bea, was just expe...

For William Allen White, the ideal Midwestern community was a utopian vision of what America could be: a prosperous, happy community built on equality, opportunity, and neighborly generosity. This anthology collects White’s famous and obscure writings and presents him as the iconic voice of the Midwestern small town.William Allen White, the editor of the Emporia, Kansas Gazette, was an American institution. When he died in 1944, President Franklin Delano R...

Women of the Waiting Room, Volume 3: Survivor's Remorse — The Cost of Becoming is more than a book… it's a mirror, a release, and a call to rise.Curated by Dr. Jacquiline Cox, this powerful anthology brings together a collective of bold, faith-driven women who have faced life's hardest transitions—and lived to tell the truth about what it really costs to become.Because becoming isn't just elevation…It's grief.It's separation.It's outgro...

Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this volume explore our authors’ who have each had close personal encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field, these lived experiences with crime an...

Full of Southern charm, with a cast of delightful eccentrics and canny pair of mother-daughter sleuths, the Primrose is Richmond, Virginia’s very own Only Murders in the Building.After solving an infamous murder and nearly getting herself killed, single mom Lila Shaw wants nothing more than to settle into a quiet life in the splendid Primrose apartments with her daughter, Bea. She’s focused on launching a successful private investigation agency, tolerating...

Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture. Biblical narratives, news medi...

Head over heelsA New York Kind of Love by Synithia WilliamsWinning an all-expenses-paid weekend in New York with Hollywood heartthrob Irvin Freeman makes Faith Logan the envy of women everywhere. Except this small-town nurse has too many responsibilities to be interested in fame or status. But Faith starts to fall for the genuine man behind the slick media image. When one impulsive kiss turns their private flirtation into public news, will ...