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After the devastating loss of her daughter in a car accident, grief consumes Joan Bradshaw. Her home becomes a hollow shell of what it once was as family and friends drift away, leaving her alone in the darkness. Just as she begins to claw her way toward recovery, tragedy strikes again—her middle son, Caleb, commits two murders before taking his...

Devastated upon learning of her daughter’s murder, Barbara O’Shea rushes to her ex-husband’s home to share her grief and plan the funeral. Besides the grief of losing her daughter so young, she also grapples with the sorrow of never being able to reconnect with her. Barbara had abandoned her family when Andrea was only three years old. There had...

Audrey Taylor refuses to believe her daughter is dead when the police arrive with the news. Her God, the one she had served faithfully since childhood, would not let that happen. When she realizes it’s true, her faith shatters, and she seeks to understand why He didn’t save her daughter from a murderer. Surely, someone in the family has sinned...

Thelma Graham is the most despised woman in Crawford. She bites first, learns your secrets, and uses them against you. She hasn’t got a kind bone in her body.
Then, in one moment, she finds herself at the end of a physical altercation with her latest victim. Someone she despised, someone she felt superior to. When her husband rescues her, she is...

Sisters, Naomi and Adrian, were close growing up. Then Naomi l got pregnant and was shipped away to a home for unwed mothers. No one would tell Adrian where she was. She waited for a letter that never came.

Naomi, facing daily abuse and pressure to give up her child for adoption, wrote letters to her sister, telling her what was going on. She...

What would you do if you won a prize for an all-expenses-paid writing retreat? Airfare, taxis, hotels, everything you needed to get there and write? Would you accept?
How amazing would it be to spend a month among like-minded people, never having to worry about the cost? All you need is your imagination and a lot of paper and pens.
Martie...