Anne Tyler

Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations,...

“BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION.” The headlines are all the same: Beloved mother and wife Delia Grinstead was last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing only a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To the best of her family’s knowledge, she has disappeared without a trace. But Delia didn’t disappear. She ran. Exhausted with her routine and everyone else’s plans for her,...

A chance airport encounter between two families--the Donaldsons, and the Iranian-born Yasdans--as both couples await the arrival of an adopted daughter from Korea, prompts an examination about what it means to be an American.

He's a lawman. She's a criminal's daughter. But they have two things in common—a child, and a desire for justice . . .
Bound to protect and serve, sheriff Billy Reed has tried to let his career be enough. But he could never forget Mara Copeland, the woman who left their Alabama town without a goodbye and hurt him without warning. Now she's back with criminals on her trail and a child in her arms. His child . . .
Mara didn't...

Fatherhood was never in the cards—until an innocent family in danger wrapped themselves around his heart . . .
Mark Tranton thought his bodyguard career ended the day he watched a client die. Now Kelli Crane—the widow—needs Mark to keep her and her little girl safe. Mark swears he's not the man for the job, but when the vulnerable beauty is attacked, there's no way he can deny the woman he failed two years before.
Being around...

She once accused him of murder—but now they've teamed up to find the real killer . . . "Mature, smart, well-developed characters [and] a jolting conclusion." —Books & Spoons
She knows who killed his wife . . . if she could only remember . . .
A woman screaming into a phone sends Riker County detective Matt Walker racing to the rescue of his onetime nemesis, Maggie Carson. Four years ago, the green-eyed...

Guarded hearts. Unspeakable danger. Detective Caleb Nash's childhood kidnapper has never been caught, and not even reuniting with his family has healed the scars. Then he meets guarded, beautiful Nina Drake. Damaged by her own past and living in self-imposed isolation, Nina tries to keep her distance from the cowboy lawman. But when she's the target of mysterious attacks, only Caleb can keep her safe. Will his vow to protect resurrect his own childhood...

Do or die for the lawman
Last Stand Sheriff
Haunted by an unsolved case involving his family, Sheriff Declan Nash had hoped his recent vacation would help clear his head. And it worked. But just as his family's abductor steps out of the shadows, Remi Hudson, a woman from his past, reveals he's going to be a dad. Now, as Remi becomes the target of repeated attacks, Declan will do anything to keep her and their unborn baby safe.
Small-Town...

As a bodyguard, it was his duty to protect her—not fall for her all over again . . . An action-filled novel of mystery and romance plus a bonus short story!
Orion Security Group's mission is to protect those in serious danger. So when Oliver Quinn's latest assignment unexpectedly brings him back into Darling Smith's life, he knows it's going to be his most challenging case yet. And from the moment he comes face-to-face with the beauty...

Dodging bullets isn't the homecoming he expected.
When Detective Foster Lovett's pretty next door neighbor, Millie Dean, begs him to help her find her missing brother, the other deputies warn him not to investigate the case. But Foster's gut says something is off, particularly once Millie becomes a target. Foster will do whatever it takes to keep her safe, but can he solve the most dangerous case of his career?
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