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Linda Darby is a seven-year divorcee, living quietly in a small let-the-world-go-by beach town on the coast of Oregon, who day trades for a living. Her only close friend is a widowed elderly woman who manages a small consulting company, and the rumor is that whatever they do is done for the government. One evening, Linda goes for a walk, and nothing for her is ever the same. She is dragged into an alley by two men, but saved by a third. The next day, she finds out the two men in the alley had been killed, the town’s first murders ever.

The President of the United States assigns Ryan Testler a cloak-and-dagger mission to Europe in pursuit of support for his new doctrine dealing with the Middle East. Linda Darby accompanies Ryan to create the look of a couple of tourists. That cover story fails. Meanwhile, back in Washington, D.C., a lone terrorist, after four years as a sleeper, is activated.

An assassination is planned in Syria. An extramarital affair occurs in Washington, DC. The US president decides to run for reelection. A mother and her daughter in Oregon are threatened. Relentlessly, Linda Darby and Ryan Testler are pulled toward these seemingly disparate events until their only way out is to confront what is quickly becoming unavoidable.

Memories are funny things, the way they quietly hang around and linger, waiting for something we see or hear, or an unexpected event to slam them forward into our consciousness to strike us the way headlights assault a dark road. Some memories bring along a smile, others foreshadow danger, and there are those which cry out for resolution. All of this is true for Linda Darby. Linda wonders if she might again be lured into her first lover’s bed. As the pace quickens she does find love, along with friendship, fear, danger, and opportunity.

Clearwater Station is home to Victor Clearwater, inventor of the artificial life technologies that changed the world, and his ward Elsa Witherspoon. When Frederick arrives with the goal of stealing Clearwater's research to pay back his father's debts, he discovers the lovely young Elsa is not what she appears - and Clearwater Station is a house of secrets and lies. What is Victor building in the attic, and what are his plans for Elsa? People want to use her for their own gain, but first Frederick must figure out who and what she truly is in order to save her, and himself.

Love's spell banishes the darkest evil. Six months I've spent hiding - spelled behind a mask. Waiting. Hoping. Watching. In the dungeon, Raven suffers alone. Chained and tortured, his days an endless nightmare. Ealasaid is the only one who can save him, save all of us...save the world. Or...is there another? When all hope fades, a man I thought long dead breaks through my defenses. He knows me. He's seen my true face. Will he expose me? Or will his love finally set me free?

I lived a nightmare for 10 years. Until Raven saved me. Now, I wake each day in my mate's arms. I should be happy. But I can't shake the fear that a storm is coming. Devils joined King Eideard's Guarda. They watch me. Hover outside my shop. The Clan Kendrick, full of men who haunt my dreams, mentioned a mystical artifact to Faolan's spies. Faolan believed my life was once again in danger. Except the clan didn't come after me. Now, I have to destroy them. The prophecy confirmed that I'm the only one who can.

Trying to escape the secret that was exposed when he died, the young author wants no entanglements with anyone who might intrude on her solitude. Maisy Hollis is convinced her sanity is slipping when she "meets" the handsome Wills Raines, a World War II hero whose reflection speaks with her through an antique mirror she brought home from an estate sale. Especially when she finds herself falling in love with the dashing officer who was tragically betrayed so many decades ago.

Thirty-six-year-old Irene Dunphy didn't plan on dying any time soon, but that's exactly what happens when she makes the mistake of getting behind the wheel after a night bar-hopping with friends. She finds herself stranded on Earth as a ghost, where the food has no taste, the alcohol doesn't get you drunk, and the sex...well, let's just say "don't bother". To make matters worse, the only person who can see her - courtesy of a book he found in his school library - is a 14-year-old boy genius obsessed with the afterlife.