Viola, I'm sorry, but I had to leave. I don't expect you to forgive me, but I hope you'll find it in your heart to try. Your mother is alive. Everyone says she is dead, but she's out there. And I have to find her. I can't sit around another minute knowing that she and I can be together. I'll be back someday. I'll be back, and Eclipse will be with me. We'll be a family again. I have made arrangements for you. You'll be living with Regis until I get back. I am giving everything to you. All of my art, all of my money, everything I have. Until I see you. I love you, Love Dad

Apple, Massachusetts is rotten to the core. Every fall, when the orchards ripen and the leaves begin to die, there are murders. We know it, and we accept it. It's the price we pay for living in Apple. Families mourn, but no one is ever caught. Now, there's a body in the woods, and the cycle is starting again. People bruise easily in Apple. Finding a murdered and mutilated girl plunges Jackson Gill into the middle of a decades-old horror. For Jackson, the newest murders become personal. His mentally ill sister knows far more about the murders than anyone restrained in a basement room should know. When one by one, her sick, cryptic predictions prove true, Jackson will have to believe the unthinkable and stop what no one has been able to stop in sixty years. He has no choice. He lives in Bloody Bloody Apple.

South Florida's most powerful drug lord Haitian Black has never been one to give in to paranoia. He fears no man. Even in the dope game, which he dominates. Black is head of the snake to the notorious Haitian Mafia. A deadly, vicious, well-armed and well-manned drug syndicate that is responsible for moving large quantities of weight throughout the state. Like any good underworld Kingpin though Black has enemies. One in particular goes by the name Haitian Polo. A high ranking member of the infamous Zo'pound gang. What Zo'pound lacks in manpower and reach, they make up for with a high level of extreme violence that they reign down upon their most hated enemies. One day when Black and his organization come under attack he instantly suspects Polo. As Black plots a swift response it starts to become clear that Polo isn't the mastermind behind the hits. A new player has arrived on the scene. Will Black be able to shift his focus from Polo in time to defeat this deadly new enemy?

Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still haunted by the tragedy. Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself but also for her two old friends. Her big chance comes when she is discovered and wins a major role in a Broadway play. A promising love affair adds to the excitement of working in the theater; but Katie must face the demons of the past before she can embrace the possibilities of the future. In sixteen previous bestselling novels, Barbara Taylor Bradford has enthralled millions of readers with pade-turning plots and characters that linger in the heart and mind long after the book is closed. The Triumph of Katie Byrne will captivate her devoted fans and win her a whole new audience.

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Previously published as My Mam Shirley. Closer than Blood can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts. This is PART 3 of 3. You can read Part 3 one week ahead of the full-length eBook and paperback.

In finely crafted prose and lush detail, Donna Boyd weaves a spell-binding tapestry of romance and suspense set against richly imagined landscapes of sensuousness. An intense saga of love and betrayal, The Passion is a story of those who walk the fine line between man beast. On the eve of a brutal murder in contemporary Manhattan, Alexander Devoncroix finally reveals to his son and heir a tightly guarded chapter in the family history, which is know to no outsiders. In a world in which a superior race of werewolved holds the positions of power, human and werewolf segregation had become the norm. But for the first time, the leaders of the pack have accepted a human. In dazzling nineteenth century Paris, we meet three pivotal players: the young human Tessa LeGuerre, who falls under the spell of a very powerful, very sensual werewolf; Alexander Devoncroix, the charismatic werewolf who adores humans too well, but whose ultimate loyalty is to the pack; and Elise, the imperial pack leader who lays claim to Alexander. Beloved "pet" of select members of the pack, Tessa naively embraces all things werewolf--an ambition that results in unspeakable tragedy.

Emma Victor is back, and now she finds herself in the middle of a transcendental mystery set in California communeland. Emma is hot on the trail of Lana Flax, her best friend's kid sister, a physics prodigy turned member of the yellow-clad cult of the Vishnu Divine Inspiration Center. As Emma follows Lana into this mysterious commune, she meets up with some colorful and sexy characters, including Nebraska Storm, punk queen turned reformed junkie, and the sultry, six-foot redhead Bu Mper Lee ("Bumper" to her friends). When Lana finally turns up--dead--Emma begins to wonder if cult members turn on with something stronger than yogurt and higher consciousness. And the deeper Emma digs into California's dark side, the closer she gets to her own out-of-body experience--the big one call death--in this wry and chilling mystery of chakras, mantras, and murder.