Suddenly, a low, hoarse male voice came from behind her. "You're leaving after you slept with me?""I'm sorry! I... I don't know!"Jiang Yunxi panicked and didn't know what to do. The only thing in her mind was to leave as soon as possible. She apologized subconsciously, ignored everything else, and charged forward recklessly.

After her about-to-be-married brother dies in plane crash while in Europe, affluent Lisa and her husband take a year off in Israel reconnecting to self and, inadvertently, her estranged mother, and probing the secrets of her brother's final quest and her unknown father's identity.

“A journey of love and festive cheer.”—Woman's World on The Christmas Escape “Morgan’s latest Christmas tale will delight readers and give them the perfect excuse to snuggle up for a few hours with a cup of hot cocoa.”—Booklist on The Christmas Escape An uplifting novel of friendship, the festive season, and risking everything for the biggest gift of all... It was supposed to be Christy Sullivan’s perfect Christmas escape – a dream trip to Lapland with her family and best friend, Alix. But facing a make-or-break marriage crisis, Christy desperately needs time alone with her husband, Seb. Her solution? Alix, along with Seb’s oldest friend, Zac, can take Christy’s daughter on the planned Lapland trip, and they will all reunite there for Christmas Day. After all, what are friends for? There’s nothing Alix won’t do for Christy, but Christy’s plan to save Christmas is testing their friendship. Especially as Alix and Zac have a difficult history of their own. As long-held secrets unravel, and unexpected romance shines under the Northern Lights, can Christy and Alix find the courage to fight for the relationships they really want? And could this Christmas escape save the precious gift of each other’s friendship? A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape in The Island Villa, the next heartwarming novel by USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan!

Escape Into Life by Pheather Johnson An episode of domestic violence motivates victim of verbal abuse and dominance to escape to an independent life, enabled by interaction with five special women. Characters and the men in their lives: Beth, age 30, has endured escalating domestic abuse during her marriage. Husband: Frank, postal service employee. Norma, age 50, Beth's next-door neighbor Widowed three times. Current friends: Stanley, Jim Alice, age 40, mother of 16-year-old Ernie. Beth's sister-in-law George Schroeder, truck driver husband Theresa, age 65, mother of Frank and Alice. Beth's mother-in-law Eddie, works his Mom/Pop grocery store with his wife Miss Stellar, age 40, successful realtor, Beth's employer Bryan McCaughley, real estate entrepreneur Marsha Collins, age 50, lives in the Stony Creek house. Beth's landlady Lawrence Landers, international traveler

After rescuing abused siblings on a dark Wisconsin highway, the Cossibye clan is catapulted headlong into a search for the orphans' relatives and face off with a madman whose killing spree is claiming lives almost daily. Jefferson, Reeny, Sebby and Sherry must rely on cunning and all of their special powers to preserve the children's safety and return peace to the plush countryside where they are commissioned to build a New Order, a species of shape-shifting humans who can walk on two legs or four and live comfortably in modern society.

"An eleven-year-old girl and boy live in an isolated village with 258 other citizens. Nobody has a name, and everything is calculated to break their spirits so that they surrender to an existence of gray routine. "But they have each other. They each have a passion: music and art. And a mysterious force is guiding them and protecting them. "When the savagery of those in control finally transforms the girl, the boy must help her find herself again. The path is an amazing journey through which they discover the depths of their humanity and a startling method to shake the village at its roots. Perhaps they can shift the world toward happiness. "Escape from the Village is an homage to true friendship which can sustain the human spirit even against physical and spiritual torture. It is a touching love story like no other." --Wendy McElroy She draws the pictures. He makes the music. They both share a big secret. There is no music or art in the village where a pre-adolescent boy and girl. They go to a mysterious house where they make music and art, while other citizens can not go there. Their creativity separates them from their peers in many ways. They will soon discover that there is much more being kept from them. Take the grim dystopia of the Hunger Games and combine it with the charm of Moonrise Kingdom--the result is Escape from the Village.

Isaac Steinhouse is born and educated in Austria. He meets Bertha and marries her, and they go to live in Germany. He is taken prisoner and sent to a forced labor camp, from which he manages to escape and makes his way to Britain. With assistance from the Red Cross and the Jewish Federation he travels with his wife and son to America, and they participate in the war effort. He joins the American forces and is sent to the war zone. His family grows up and goes to work. Their son, Davi, marries a Catholic girl, so Isaac disowns him. Davi excels in the tile industry - manufacture and sales. He accepts an invitation to open a branch of the American tile factory in Brazil. He takes his wife and his brother to Brazil and helps Joseph establish his own bakery there.

Ellie Homans, artist and wife of a prominent surgeon, lives in sumptuous luxury in a Boston suburb. Senator Alexander Lindsay, of Bostonian aristocracy, is vital, handsome, and politically powerful. But privilege has shielded neither from loveless marriages. Together they find a passionate commitment that submerges their mutual devotion to fidelity and personal integrity. The discovery of their affair leads Ellie¿s husband to devise a life-threatening method to imprison his wife in her unwanted marriage. He unwittingly passes his vendetta to his daughter, whose fury brings mother and daughter to the brink of disaster. Ellie¿s escape from innocence to costly awareness leads her to the realization that love, no matter how mature, can have a dreadful price. A woman finally discovers what she wants¿and what it costs. Ellie Homans keeps a running tally of "shoulds" in her mind, a list of her failures as the wife of an eminent surgeon from one of Boston's first families and mother to a son following in his father's footsteps and a daughter who hates her. The list is a catalog of battles she's lost over the years, from the decoration of the house to where her daughter Annie should go to college. Curtis (Song for a Lifetime, 1999) unfolds this romantic drama set among the New England aristocracy with an assured hand. Rich, engaging characters demonstrate that love often comes at a high price. -Kirkus Discoveries