Madly in love with her husband Mark, Katia thinks life is perfect. Then her precious daughter Charlotte is born, and Katia's idyllic life begins to change dramatically. Verbal abuse from her husband quickly progresses into physical violence, and before Katia has time to comprehend what's happening, she realises she needs to leave the marriage, but feels stuck. Being called a "dead horse" by Mark doesn't help her self-confidence either. Her only salvation comes in joining a gym, where she meets Marcia. Initially, Katia feels envious of Marcia, because Marcia's husband Paul seems to worship his wife and son. As their friendship grows stronger, Katia comes to wish that she too could have everything in life that her friend has. Inevitably, Marcia notices the effects of her friend's abuse. She can't understand why Katia can't go out without worrying about what her husband will do if she's late coming home and there's no dinner on the table. Following a particularly bad beating, Katia finally opens up and tells her friend the extent of her suffering. And after witnessing the bruises on Katia's body, Marcia talks it over with Paul and they invite Katia and her daughter to stay with them until Katia can decide what to do next. Katia takes the first step in changing her life by leaving her husband. This abused woman learns to overcome her fears and take a chance, so she can change her life for the better. About the Author Born in Turin, Italy, Grazia Schiavino has lived in London for nearly thirty years. Writing a book was one of her childhood dreams. Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/GraziaSchiavino

An early morning riding lesson turns to terror as small-town cub reporter Ed Riley discovers his friend Mark Torrence dead of a stab wound in his own riding stable. The police seemingly indifferent, Ed conducts his own investigation and is confronted with an intriguing cast of suspects: Marlena, Marks unstable, alcoholic wife: Ben, the business partner who knows all his secrets and the lovely but tight-lipped Annie. Complications arise when Joey Lorenzo, the local drug dealer, is also found deadstabbed with the same knife used to kill Mark. What is the connection? As Ed is swept deeper into the case, he will risk his life to discover that things arent always what they seemneither his friends mysterious past, nor the dark secret that lies beneath the sleepy exterior of a typical small town.

When Elijah Blanco said his last words, he didn't realize he was about to be thrown into a competition to become one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. But now the game is on, and Elijah and thousands of other dead riders soon learn there's much more to dying than any preacher could have guessed. Heaven has released a herd of unearthly ponies into the world of the living and beyond, and it's up to the dead riders to capture them if they want to save their souls from Hell. As the game heats up, Elijah and his horse Delilah find themselves joined by a futuristic woman with a computer-powered horse; an easy-going English biker in black leather; and a Roman soldier as bred for war as the horse he rides. Together they uncover a Divine conspiracy that puts the riders' immortal souls in greater danger than ever before. And when the dead start dying, Elijah begins to think the Apocalypse should be brought to Heaven instead.

NO ESCAPE is both a tragedy and a story of courage and redemption. Mistakes made must suffer consequences. Mattie summed it up when talking to Jed, her former employee and now captain of the handcart company with whom she and her twins are hiding to escape the vengeance of her former escaped from prison husband, Benjamin Farkle. “Jed, I have done so many things wrong in my life. Do you think I can ever be forgiven? Do you think God ever thinks twice about me?” Mattie finds answers to her question as she and Jack Sisson leave the handcart company to search for Dolly, her eight-year-old twin daughter, lost in a horrific hailstorm, and presumed dead, while along the Sweetwater River in Wyoming. Ten years later Farkle, who has embraced the dark side, finds Mattie in Weaver, Wyoming. After a tragic confrontation with the evil Farkle, Butch Weaver, moans to Jack Sisson, “Can anything be worse?” After Jack’s answer Butch continues. “Hatch is dead. Your house burned to the ground. Half the family is ailing. I can’t be very cheerful.” “Houses can be rebuilt. People mend. We can’t help Hatch, but we will never forget him, either. It’s time to lick our wounds and heal.” “Words are easy, Jack.” Interspersed with humor, church history, and romance, the excitement Never ends. OTHER BOOKS BY DELLA MAY OLSON LENA’S RAINBOW TERROR ON LOCO RIDGE GROWING UP BRONSON CRAB APPLE PIE NO ESCAPE THE TANGLED ROSE TANGLE CREEK DRIVEN www.dellamayolson.com

Get ready for a wild run in bestselling author Kathryn Lasky's brand-new middle grade animal fantasy series. The horses are in danger. They were rounded up by the two-legs and forced onto a boat to cross the wide ocean. The journey went badly and the boat was deemed too heavy, so the two-legs forced the horses into the sea and sailed away, leaving the herd to die in the deep.By a miracle, the horses survived and made it to land. All but one -- the ghost horse, the leader of the pack. Now it's up to her daughter, only a filly, to take charge of the terrified herd. Stranded in a new land, surrounded by two-legs, will the horses find a way to live safe and free?

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