Adoption Mystery

Lily, a dedicated animal shelter worker, spends her days finding forever homes for furry friends. Little does she know that her routine will be turned topsy turvy when her boyfriend is found dead and his dog brought to the shelter. With both her human and canine pack, Lily sniffs out a trail of clues that lead her to the truth. She’ll scratch past the surface, digging until the motive is uncovered. Will Lily be able to untangle the web of deception and collar the cunning culprit before it's too late? Join her on this pawsitively delightful adventure filled with humor, heart, and the ...

Adopted when she was only days old, Ivy Hon knows little about her lineage. But when she’s stricken with a mystery illness, the results of a genetic test to identify the cause attract the FBI. According to Ivy’s DNA, she’s related to the Full Moon Killer, who has terrorized the Pacific Northwest for decades. Ivy is the FBI’s hope to stop the enigmatic predator from killing again.

"Unlocking Family Secrets: Journey of an Adoptee's Quest for Answers," tells the personal story of Sharon Henifin, who was adopted as a baby and spent much of her life searching for her birth parents. This captivating memoir takes readers on a journey through Sharon's emotional struggles and determination to uncover her true identity. As Sharon delves deeper into her search, she discovers that her adoption was shrouded in secrecy and that her birth parents' identities were carefully concealed. But with a combination of perseverance, luck, timing, and the help of DNA testing, Sharon can ...

The support of friends is necessary in good times, but especially in challenging times. Jen Morel has seen this at play more times than she can count. And now it seems like her friends need her as much as she needs them. With the Morel Building being in a prime location, Jen is a target for those who want the property. She’s fighting off another bid from an aggressive investor and she wonders if she’ll ever be able to just run her business in peace. Yvette’s ex has shown up and he’s up to no good. The temptation of money has drawn him in and he’ll try everything in his power to ...

It’s twenty years since Eva, a biracial woman, was adopted as an eight-year-old, and Cherry and Carlton "Sugar" McNeil have always been the only parents she’s wanted or needed. But when she’s dealt the double blow of Cherry’s death and her own suspension from work, Eva decides it’s time to discover who she was before she was theirs. Against Sugar’s advice, Eva joins a DNA database, desperate for a match that will unlock her identity. And when a positive hit comes, she’s excited to learn there are relations out there who might hold the key.

Claire Keller would do anything to have a child. Unable to conceive, she's overjoyed when she and her husband bond with the five-year-old girl they adopt. But Claire's hopes for a perfect family shatter when her daughter stands before her covered in blood and prophesying death.... As the child exhibits more strange supernatural abilities, the frightened Kellers find themselves caught up in a dark plot. Hunted by a shadowy organization hell-bent on claiming the girl, the family is forced on the run.

FOUR SEASONS BOOK AWARDS, 2023 FINALIST, MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / THRILLER CATEGORY "Chappell leaves readers begging for another mystery." -Los Angeles Post-Examiner Historian Wrenn Grayson's decision to sell her grandmother's farmhouse brings unimagined consequences. It leads to the meeting of Foster Spears and Nate Edwards, uncanny lookalikes. Nate hires Wrenn to investigate. His question is: Are Foster and he family? Her first clue leads to derelict Langford Hospital, sitting on the edge of town, forgotten. The private women's hospital opened in 1940, but when it closed thirty years later, ...

Black cats? Broken mirrors? The number 13? The owner of the art deco apartment building in nearby Silver City believes in all kinds of superstitions. The Aldens aren’t so sure about most of them, but there’s one thing they do know: Something strange is going on on the 13th floor. Are they just coincidences, or is the building manager onto something?

In this unique book, the reader is provided with a description of the unfolding of the adoptee's personality from birth, detailing each developmental milestone along the way, followed by different methods of healing the adoptee's wounds, including inner child work, visualizations, healing affirmations, and anger management. Every chapter includes a Myths and Realities of adoption section, a summary of the chapter and exercises to do one's own.

Ten years ago, Grace made her dying sister a promise - that she would look after Hope’s baby son as her own. Now, the man whose son she is raising has turned up on Grace’s operating table, fighting for his life. When an accusation of negligence follows, Grace is forced to confront not just the man who abandoned her sister, but also his mother, Norma - who blames Grace for taking everything she loves. Based on what her sister told her, Grace is sure she did the right thing to keep that promise. But what if Hope didn’t tell her everything?

Can the Black Sheep of the Family be its Guardian Angel? Cole Dust opens with inheriting a farm in the small town of Orvin, Oklahoma from a cousin he never knew. When investigative journalist Cole Sage stumbles upon an old trunk in the attic of his family’s farmhouse, he unearths something far more valuable than gold. Inside, neatly bound and yellowed with age, are the journals of his grandfather, George Sage—an enigmatic man Cole barely knew. These journals pull Cole into a story from the past, one that intertwines with his own life in ways he never expected. As Cole delves deeper into...

Marlow Fin is as famous for her beauty and success as she is infamous for her past, some of which is a mystery even to her. Is the public ready for the truth? Is she? In 1995, young Isla Baek finds an abandoned six-year-old Marlow in the woods near the Baek family’s lakeside cabin. With little memory of where she came from or how she got there, Marlow is soon adopted by the Baeks into a seemingly idyllic Midwest life as Isla’s enigmatic new sister. But no one is prepared for how unnerving and disruptive Marlow’s presence will be over the years.

In the heart of the picturesque town of Cottonwood Springs, what was meant to be a new beginning in a dream home becomes a chilling nightmare for a couple eager to start anew. Imagine the excitement of stepping into your newly redecorated house, envisioning memories yet to be made, only to be met with the cold, lifeless body of the very person responsible for breathing life into the place. That's the horrifying reality for the new homeowners who had looked forward to the big reveal, but were instead met with the grim sight of their deceased designer. The eerie setting is further intensified...

Where...and when...was she? And was this mountain man really her husband? Imagine waking up in your favorite historical romance story...and getting a thinner, rejuvenated body at the same time. That might sound ideal, but dealing with cougars, creeps, and kidnappers isn't. Join 20th century-born Evie as she deals with the hardships of living in the backwoods of Revolutionary War-era North Carolina while dealing with a severe case of AMNESIA, being ABANDONED by the man who claimed her as his wife, and ADOPTIONS, using nothing but her wit and grit, give or take a knife or two...and the ...

On sale now for a limited time! 💔🔥 Two boys. One secret. A lifetime of consequences. Twenty years ago, a strong-willed midwife defied the billionaire’s wife's chilling demand—to discard the weaker of his newborn twins—and instead raised the boy as her own. Now grown, the twins live very different lives: one molded by privilege and power, scarred by neglect and drugs, the other a product of love and nurturing. Despite the evil birth mother’s desperate attempts to destroy the son she kept, fate—and something deeper—keeps pulling the young men together. As the truth unravels,...

While preparing for her wedding, Julia DeMarco comes across a famous photograph of a little girl in front of a Russian orphanage, and sees her own eyes staring back at her. But Julia is not an orphan, nor was she adopted. She knows where she comes from, or does she? Suddenly, the people she has loved and trusted are tainted by suspicion. The one person who is willing to help her is reckless photographer Alex Manning.

When genealogist Enid Gilchrist is asked to unravel the family mystery surrounding a seventy-year-old baby blanket, she is intrigued. She expects the project to be a short one that will in no wise interfere with her long-awaited marriage to Chief of Police Patrick Mulhaney. When her short project unravels more threads than expected, both project and wedding plans run amuck as someone makes every effort to stop her investigation.

When John and Marta found the boy on the porch, they were curious, naturally, as to why he was there - and they hadn't expected him to stay, not at first, but he did stay, day after day, until it seemed as if he belonged, running and smiling and laughing his silent laugh, tapping and patting on every surface as he made his music, and painting - with water, with paint, with mud - those swirly swirls and swings and trees.

Two-year-old Sarah lost her Syrian mother to cancer and never met her American father, a fallen gold star hero. When she lands in Dr. David Dutton’s office and gives him her mother’s letter, the good doctor forgets to sign his divorce papers and pledges to find Sarah’s paternal grandparents or a loving family to adopt her. After losing her baby boy, Jennifer Dutton wallowed in grief for three years. Now she wants a divorce from the husband who couldn't understand her sorrow. Her heart melts when she meets Sarah and reads her mother’s letter. Putting aside her plans for divorce, she ...

Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a deception that takes on a life of its own and threatens the special bond between mother and daughter.