Author Jamie Beck returns with an engrossing series about family, friendship, and starting over. In this first Cabot novel, a legacy of secrets tests old friends seeking a second chance at life and love. On the second anniversary of her husband's suicide, Colby Cabot-Baxter is ready to let go of her grief and the mistakes made during her turbulent marriage. Her fresh start comes in the form of A CertainTea, the restaurant she's set to open along Lake Sandy, Oregon, with help from her family. But when her executive chef quits just weeks before the grand opening, Colby is pressured to hire old family friend Alec Morgan. His award-winning reputation could generate buzz, but their friendship has withered since her husband's reckless dare cost Alec's brother his life. Distracted by guilty secrets concerning the tragedy that changed his and Colby's lives, Alec self-destructed and lost his famed restaurant. With his career in tatters, he's determined to use this opportunity to redeem his reputation and to help the woman he's loved from afar find happiness again. But secrets have a way of coming out. When Alec's do, they might destroy the new life he and Colby have rebuilt together.

Stuey Moore is in trouble—again. When he’s not carving his initials on the family piano or stealing his mother’s prized curling gloves for dubious winter “sports,” the somewhat impulsive youngster is likely buying candy at Mr. Beck’s store, or riding his bike up Hospital Hill after watching actual dog fights in the village of Sunderland. Before I Knew: A Village Boyhood on Vancouver Island, is a fictionalized memoir set in the 1960s on the West Coast of British Columbia. This coming of age book is brimming with vignettes and humorous personal anecdotes detailing a bygone era in a coal-mining town whose heydays are dwindling. It’s a time when Vancouver Island’s resource-based industries lured Asian and European immigrants to the small village, creating Stuey’s friendships with boys nicknamed Foo and Norgy. And it’s a place where—hidden from the watchful gaze of their parents—kids ran across log booms floating on lakes, looked for treasures at the town dump, snuck glimpses at “skin” magazines, and somehow returned home largely unscathed, despite their shenanigans. Told through Stuey’s eyes, Before I Knew beautifully blends Canadiana and nostalgia in snapshots that chronicle his life from childhood to his awakening as a young adult.

It all began with a wrong number. When Blakely gets added to the Cage family group chat, chaos ensues. What she doesn’t expect is to have a side chat with the eldest brother. What was supposed to be a simple sign off, turns into a mild flirtation and invitation to lunch. Only Aston Cage has his secrets. And perhaps they should’ve left their conversation on read. Before I Knew is the prequel to the Cage family series. Learn how Blakely and Aston met, before they finally get their happily ever after in The Forever Rule.

An English couple is looking to save a marriage; an American couple are just starting out. A look at love and the darker side of relationships.

Catching a killer is dangerous—especially if he lives next door From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor could lead them both to murder . . . Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she’s found some stability and peace. But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf. The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder—an obsession she doesn’t talk about anymore, but can’t fully shake either. Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college, when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that she ended up hurting a classmate? The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night, when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she realizes that he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may not live to escape. . .

Do you know your letters? Can you count to twenty? Learn all that and more in this all-in-one concept picture book. Perfect for kids heading to kindergarten, this book covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes, colors, and seasons. Award winning author-illustrator Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos of retro toys to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way. Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to basic concepts, while kids will learn, well, everything.

This is a book about hope. Lea has allowed the trials and temptations in her life to be exposed in order to give others a hope. Dreams are not for princes and princesses, but for ordinary people. In the story of Jeremiah God told this young man that His vision for him was formed before He formed him in the womb. Paul too was called out from the womb of his mother to preach to the Gentiles. Perhaps what He calls us to may not impact a nation as these men did; but to those who are willing to carry their cross and follow Him he will glorify because for those who choose Him he calls, and those He calls he justifies. God fixes broken vessels. He raises them out of the ashes and gives them beauty then calls them the apple of His eye. Lea tells her story through poems of psalms and teaches others how to be set free from the bondages of the enemy and how to embrace Jesus Christ through a lasting relationship. Dare to venture into the life of this one soul and allow it to touch yours.

The most gripping marriage thriller since Gone Girl..