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In Book 4 of the Dream Keeper Saga, Lily Embarks on a Global Quest to Save the World from Its Nightmares
Lily is excited to reunite with her family after her latest quest in the Somnium Realm, but when she reaches home, she discovers that evil nightmares have invaded the waking world. With the help of her parents, magical friends, and a team of displaced guardians of the Realm, she races to rescue the earth from destruction. Traveling by time machine...
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Even though she's only 12 years old, Lily McKinley already feels the weight of the world's brokenness. She's seen it in her mother's exhaustion, her grandmother's illness, and the cruelty of Adam, the bully at her school. But most tragically, she experienced it two months ago when her father died in a terrible accident.
As an artistic daydreamer, Lily has a brilliant imagination to help her cope, but that imagination often gets her into trouble....
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It's been a month since 12-year-old Lily McKinley was whisked away to the Somnium Realm to rescue her father, and although she's overjoyed to have him home, she can't leave the magical world behind. The glowing stone pendant that transported her is now bringing strange creatures to life against her will, with her paper mâché pterodactyl and even scrambled eggs suddenly moving about on their own. Lily tries to pretend that everything is normal, but...
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The Dream Keeper Saga, an Adventure Series for Middle-Grade Readers, Continues with Book 3
Twelve-year-old dream keeper Lily McKinley is grieving the death of Prince Pax when, in an instant, he appears by his tomb with a message for her: "Whomever you meet, tell them about what you have seen and heard in this valley. Tell them about what I gave for them, and won for them." Though she feels her powers weakening, she must embark on a dangerous journey...
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When doing the right thing goes horribly wrong...
Caroline Blakely is certain of two things: She was happy with her life as a first grade schoolteacher, and she can never, ever return to it.
After discovering a shocking truth about her father, the wealthy businessman at the helm of Blakely Oil, she's on the run, a difficult feat given her father's endless resources and connections.
With the help of friends, Carly is able to secure a new identity,...
6) Long Gone
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Welcome to Lone County, Arkansas, where every corner holds a secret, and the past is never really buried.
Disgraced ex-detective Harper Adams has traded her badge for a desk job at her father's law firm, a move as dull as the small town she's returned to. But things take a turn when a local woman wants to declare her missing husband dead, five years after his mysterious disappearance.
With her father's firm representing the missing man's wife, Harper...
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Be careful where you dig...
“Life in Drum”, Tennessee has been quiet since corruption was uncovered in the sheriff's department three months ago-too quiet. Still, Carly is shocked when she discovers one of her sweetest lunch customers at the tavern has committed murder in cold blood.
Carly is certain the woman was fulfilling an infamous "favor" for the town patriarch, Bart Drummond, but now she has to prove it. She already knew that Drum has...
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It's been a week since Carly Moore's friend Jerry was run off the road and killed, and the sheriff's department has already struck out on leads. She's not about to sit back and let it go, but the last thing she wants is to endanger anyone else. Besides, as she learned long ago, problems come in threes.
A mysterious woman causes a ruckus in the tavern where Carly works and leaves behind a note: We've got some unfinished business, Carly Moore. I'll...
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In the second book of the USA Today best-selling series, Carly looks into a young woman's disappearance while trying to hide her own dark secrets.
Carly Moore is finally feeling settled in Drum, Tennessee. She likes her job waitressing at Max's Tavern and her boyfriend...she should have known both were too good to be true.
The previous waitress Lula unexpectedly returns, threatening Carly's job and stability in Drum. But when Lula disappears,...
10) Shades of Truth
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The penultimate book in the Carly Moore series.
For six months, Carly Moore has been trying to bring down the town patriarch, Bart Drummond. Everyone knows he's behind a "favor" system that has often ended in murder, but no one has ever been able to prove it.
Until now.
Carly has a lead that might crack the case wide open, but her investigation comes to a screeching halt when someone close to her is killed. Now her only goal is to bring the killer...
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The dead can't speak.
After months of living in the Smoky Mountains town of Drum, Tennessee, Carly knows firsthand the financial hardship the citizens face. Still, she can't muster the same excitement as everyone else when town patriarch Bart Drummond breaks ground on his new resort that promises more jobs and money.
But the project comes to a screeching halt when the construction crew unearths a grisly discovery-an unmarked grave. The discovery...
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Carly had every intention of heading to Dallas to bring down her father, but not as Wyatt Drummand's hostage. After Wyatt kidnaps her at gunpoint and threatens to turn her over to her father-the man she's spent the past nine months hiding from, she explains that his plan will get them both killed. But then, he has a surprising revelation she's not sure she should believe.
Marco Roland is devastated when he realizes his girlfriend has been kidnapped,...
13) Bake Off
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Maddie Baker hasn't seen Detective Noah Langley since he ghosted her a month ago, but now she needs his help to find a missing woman. When Maddie Baker offers a self-defense course, a terrified young woman asks her for private lessons to escape a chokehold. Maddie readily agrees to meet Amy the next morning, but when she doesn't show up, Maddie becomes concerned.
She enlists the help of Detective Noah Langley and his partner Lance Forrester....
14) Blind Bake
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When a young woman is at the wrong place at the wrong time, she becomes a person of interest in a murder investigation.
Maddie Baker just wants to make ends meet. She gave up her school librarian career to return to her hometown and take care of her elderly aunt. So, when she starts making Uber runs to supplement her barista job, she never dreamt she'd not only drop a man off to his murder but be labeled a person of interest in his death.
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15) Half Baked
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Sometimes the truth hides where you least expect it. Maddie Baker is about to uncover secrets that could shatter her world, or finally bring her peace.
Two decades of unanswered questions. One woman determined to find the truth.
Maddie Baker has spent nearly twenty years haunted by her mother's murder, a case shrouded in mystery and buried in a grave of police negligence. When Noah Langley, the new detective on the force, claimed to have solved...