Coleen Marlo
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Pub. Date
2021
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Amy Webber and her new husband Richard Muir are settling into married life - and a new project. Richard is choreographing a suite based on folk music and tales, while Amy scours the library's resources for background information on the dance's source material. But the mellifluous music comes to a halt when an unknown woman's body turns up in Zelda Shoemaker's backyard gazebo. Chief Deputy Brad Tucker puts Zelda at the top of his suspect list, thanks...
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Kristen Conner volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
While Chicago Detective Kristen Conner can't figure out her own dating life, she gets a crash course on finding true love when she investigates a high-profile murder tied to an online dating service and becomes the object of a killer's affections.
23) Shadow Tag
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"Shadow tag" chronicles the collapse of a family. Irene America is a beautiful, introspective woman of Native American ancestry, struggling to finish her dissertation while raising three children. She is married to Gil, a painter whose reputation is built on a series of now iconic portraits of Irene, but who can't break through to the big time, pigeonholed as a Native American painter. Irene's fallen out of love with Gil and discovers that he's been...
24) Shattered: the true story of a mother's love, a husband's betrayal, and a cold-blooded Texas murder
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[2010]
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"In Creekstone, Texas, a small, quiet suburb of Houston, football was king ... and David Temple was a prince. A former high school and college gridiron star-turned-coach, he had a fairy-tale marriage to bright, vivacious Belinda Lucas, a teacher at the local high school who was so warm and popular her colleagues called her "The Sunshine Girl." The fairy tale ended savagely on January 11, 1999, when Belinda's lifeless body was discovered in a closet....
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Gin Sullivan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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"Twenty years after her sister, Lily, disappeared, Gin Sullivan is living in Chicago, working as a medical examiner when Lily's body is found in the woods outside her small hometown. As Gin examines her sister's remains, she uncovers a shocking truth that could change everything, if it doesn't kill her first"--
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Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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When Lucy Stone arrives at a sprawling French chateau with the whole family, it should be the trip of a lifetime--especially because she's about to watch her oldest daughter, Elizabeth, marry the man of her dreams. But while navigating the vast estate owned by her wealthy in-laws-to-be, the mother of the bride has a creeping feeling that Elizabeth's fairytale nuptials are destined to become a nightmare. Maternal instincts are validated the moment...
29) Escape to You
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"He discovered her during a Montana blizzard, freezing cold, impossibly vulnerable, a little boy by her side. Undercover DEA Agent Beck "Trigger" Cooke is astonished to recognize Ashley Swan- award-winning actress, famous beauty... and missing for over a year. To keep her and the child hidden from a sadistic madman, he secrets the pair away to his isolated home. No longer a prisoner, and protected at Hope Ranch, Ashley recovers and learns the tall,...
30) Love of a cowboy
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"Skye Kennedy has always loved the close-knit community of Sunrise Fellowship--but when she witnesses the commune's new leader commit a terrible crime, she flees...and finds herself in Montana, on the McGrath ranch, and drawn to the stoic yet kind man determined to help her. Declan McGrath has always handled things himself and focused more on work than his love life. With his newlywed brothers distracted by their beautiful wives, Declan has even more...
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"Young Adelia Monteforte begins the summer of 1941 aboard a crowded ship bound for America, utterly alone yet free of Fascist Italy. Whisked away to the seaside by her well-meaning aunt and uncle, she basks in the noisy affection of the boisterous Irish Catholic boys next door. And although she adores all four of the Connally brothers, it's the eldest, Charlie, she pines for. But all hopes for a future together are throttled by the creep of war and...
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Pub. Date
[1997]
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A runaway mother's dilemma. Susanna Miller of Colorado loses custody of her baby daughter because of a stint in a mental home. She absconds with her to Maryland and resumes life under an assumed name. The dilemma comes when she learns of a serial killer's next move. If she goes to the police she risks losing her daughter. By the author of Reflection.
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When she was just seventeen, Marni Lange loved Brian Webster with a consuming passion. Then a tragic accident tore them apart. Brian's broken body mended, but he never forgave himself for the accident that killed Marni's brother. Marni, her world equally shattered, was forced to choose between honoring her powerful, wealthy family . . . and the man she loved. Now, fourteen years later, Marni is a successful businesswoman about to be profiled by a...
34) Tempted by Love
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Montana heat volume 4
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"She was this Montana Man's greatest temptation . . .Alina Cooke--little sister of his two best friends--is the last woman DEA agent Jay Bennett should be waking up next to on the day of her brother's wedding. But their powerful attraction ignited a powder keg of desire, and their once simple friendship has just become impossibly complicated. Alina's always been steady, focused, and lived on the safe side of life. Jay is totally devoted to his dangerous...
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Brenna Spector novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Can a stranger share your memories?
That's the question that haunts Brenna Spector when she first sees footage of missing webcam performer Lula Belle. Naked but hidden in shadow, the "performance artist" shares her deepest, darkest secrets with her unseen male audience . . . secrets that, to Brenna, are chillingly familiar.
Brenna has perfect memory, able to recall in astonishing detail every moment of every day of her adult life. But her childhood-those...
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Seven years ago, orphaned and alone, Em finally arrived at a new home in Iowa after riding the orphan train. But secrets from her past haunt her, and her new life in the Western wilderness is a rough one. When her guardian is shot and killed, Em, now nineteen, finally has the chance to search for her long-lost sister, but she won't be able to do it alone. For Azure Springs Sheriff Caleb Reynolds, securing justice for the waifish and injured Em is...
38) My lost daughter
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Lily Forrester novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Lily is a tough judge in Ventura County, California, who has overcome adversity and heartache to achieve a position of power to help those who cant́ help themselves. Like the current case before her, the sensational murder trial of a woman who tortured and killed her beautiful two-year old son. Lily is determined to see justice done but sheś thrown for a loop when she receives word that her own daughter, Shana, months away from graduating from...
39) At Wolf Ranch
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Montana men novels volume 1
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After years on the rodeo circuit, Gabe Bowden wants nothing more than land of his own and a woman who will claim his heart for more than one night. When he has the chance to buy the enormous Wolf Ranch spread, he snaps up the incredible deal. Everything is set, until Gabe rescues a woman on the deserted, snowy road leading to the property, and the half-frozen beauty changes everything. Ella Wolf rushes to her family's abandoned Montana ranch after...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Has a curse fallen on the small town of Taylorsford, Virginia? Spring has sprung, and the mayor has revived the town's long-defunct May Day celebration to boost tourism. As part of the festivities, library director Amy Webber is helping to organize a research project and presentation by a local folklore expert. All seems well at first, but spring takes on a sudden chill when a university student inexplicably vanishes during a bonfire. The local police...