Small States

You don't want to be around when the real owners of the museum come to life. ★★★★★ "You may never look at another art museum the same again." - Goodreads reviewer. In the heart of an unfamiliar city, Vincent seeks refuge from his troubled past. Employed as a night guard at a peculiar museum, he believes he has found stability. But when the clock strikes three in the morning; it's the Devil's hour for a reason. The museum awakens in a macabre spectacle. Statues begin to move and paintings come to life, crawling out of the canvas. He knows better than to leave his job. Anything is ...

Big-city ambition meets small-town heart. Sparks fly amid cinnamon-scented streets. Acquisitions ace Sloane Avery has one goal: close the deal on the historic Hollow Inn in Bluff City, Nevada, and be back in the boardroom by Monday. But the town’s 43rd Annual Cinnamon Festival—and its most stubborn craftsman—are about to derail her plans. Dean Maddox is Bluff City’s master carpenter and unofficial guardian of the inn’s original charm. When Mayor Holloway insists Sloane and Dean pose as a couple to win the town’s approval, their staged courtship ignites real chemistry neither ...

Mi mamá me dijo algo. Todos los niños deberían saberlo. Es acerca del diablo. Y he aprendido a odiarlo así. Sarah tiene 15 años, con un corazón amable y una disposición únicamente dulce, y se las arregla con una facilidad natural para ser la "hija perfecta" con la que todos los otros padres comparan en secreto a sus propios hijos. Sarah es definitivamente un producto de la educación que recibió, al ser criada en un hogar amoroso cuyos miembros tienen su vida centrada en adorar al Señor y la vida de la iglesia en general. Como resultado de eso, Sarah ha vivido una vida idílica, ...

Is it so much to ask to be allowed to die in peace?" Berthie's plea echoes through the quiet room as she lies on her deathbed, eating cold beans and wishing her life was already over. She can't help but think of Mick, the love of her life, and their twisting story. She's loved him since childhood when she dreamed of how they would make their life together in Cedar Hollow. Little did she know that while she was planning their future, he was planning to run off and join the army at the start of World War I. Despite knowing it was wrong, Berthie remained determined to rekindle their love, even...

With his heart blown to bits by a staggering loss, Sheriff Zeb Hanks falls into an abyss of drunkenness, hatred, and rage. With the help of Deputy Kate Steele, former sheriff Jake Dablo, medicine man Jimmy Song Bird, and close friend Josh Diamond, Zeb pulls himself back from the edge and turns his rage on the cause of his torment: a Mexican drug and human trafficking cartel.

What reviewers are saying... " I would give this book many more than 5 stars if I could. There were so many twists and turns and unexpected events. This was truly a book I could not put down." Amazon reviewer " I love the fact that Sharon Srock did not just have her characters pray and the problems just go away." Amazon reviewer When dreams and reality clash. Piper Goodson is looking forward to all the firsts of being a mother. The first cry, the first glance, the first time holding the tiny life created by her and Evan’s love. But after an emergency c-section, sick from fear, and haunted...

John Henry Cole is an operative of Ike Kelly's Detective Agency, based out of Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. Returning to Cheyenne from what had been a deadly assignment in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, Cole has decided that he has no alternative but to resign from the agency and pursue a different line of work. However, in Cheyenne, Cole learns that Ike Kelly has been murdered and his body burned in a fire that destroyed both the agency office and the shop next door.

Mac Star is a private person with a secret she hasn’t even told her best friends. The only person who knows is Grandma Starla, who has somehow adopted Mac as her own. When that secret, and her slightly nosy behavior, gets her in trouble, the person she has to depend on is the one person in the world she’d rather strangle than spend time with. Tennessee Jones. Tennessee Jones has spent two years trying to avoid Mac while also getting just close enough to smell the sweet perfume she wears. He pulled a typical move on her before any of their friends met, and it came back to bite him in the...

From the best-selling novelist of the American West, comes a novel of romance, danger, and life along the trail.

A new town. A new beginning. A Christmas he’ll never forget. Quentin Blackwood has come to Pelican Pointe to replace Jack Prescott as the town’s one and only doctor. But he’s in for a tough time, especially since nurse Sydney Reed doesn’t quite trust him. But that’s just one of the many problems Quentin must face as he tries to help a teenage boy and his grandmother going through hard times.It’s all happening with Christmas approaching—a holiday that should mean hearth, home, and plenty of family. But with Quentin, it only brings up haunting memories of a past he’s tried to ...

What readers are saying... "As always, Sharon Srock delivers a suspenseful, loving, and beautiful story of real life in God’s hands. This series shows the love of God in the everyday life and trials of people doing their best to stay strong in their faith. How blessed we are, Ms Srock shares her tremendous talent with us!" Amazon reviewer SHE FINALLY HAS HER DREAM IN SIGHT. Maggie Hart hasn’t always made the best choices. When the life she was trying to build for her kids is derailed by charges of neglect, she found promise instead of despair. The promise of getting her kids back home ...

Get ready to hold your breath and cling to the edge of your seat as Giselle makes the ultimate sacrifice to make things right. With Ignacio by her side, they embark on a dangerous journey to Kansas, where Giselle hopes to make amends with the Abbot family and clear her name once and for all. But Santiago is skeptical of Ignacio's motives and struggles to come to terms with his own feelings for Giselle. Desperate to move on, he urges her to reject his friend's advances and focus on building a new life without him. Just when things seem to be looking up, James captures Santiago and demands to...

As Jack Lee investigates a series of deadly cases, he encounters murderers, international criminals, and a robber. At the same time, his niece Jenn, an underwater archaeologist studying mermaids, arrives on the island, coinciding with a sudden crime wave. From bank robberies to vandalism to searching a lake with hidden secrets, Jack is determined to solve every case and protect the public. However, when tragedy hits the high school swim team, and someone close to Jack is kidnapped, Jack must find help to close the cases, including assistance from someone with fins, scales, and a long tail. ...

A stand-alone contemporary romance: The Telescope Set in a Washington State small coastal town. Come along for the adventure as two unlikely strangers conquer the meaning of loneliness, rejection, abandonment, and expanding their boundaries for what might be...if it's in the stars. When angry landowner, Derrick Fern discovers a squatter on his property one night, he's ready to call the police. But the light from the cabin reveals a young woman, Andrea Willow, who pleads with him to hear her story. "I was trespassing, but no one’s ever here, and I promise I didn’t go near the house. ...

What readers are saying... "An excellent story - one showing exactly what God can do, if we only listen and get out of our own way. I absolutely loved this book. Thank you for making me laugh and cry, for helping me see things from a different perspectives and showing Gods amazing grace so clearly!" Amazon reviewer Sage Hoffman wants what her sister has. A normal life. A husband. The works. But moving on from the trauma she survived during her late teens proves more than she can bear—especially when she’s haunted by the sound of a tiny heartbeat she never knew existed. Because of the ...

In Chia-Chia Lin’s debut, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, hardworking but beaten down, is employed as a plumber and repairman while the mother, a loving, strong-willed, and unpredictably emotional matriarch, holds the house together. When 10-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school, he falls into a deep, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected, too. She did not survive.

Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. It’s part of what freelance editor Jess Reid loves about her hometown—and part of what keeps her from ever leaving, no matter how much she might want to. That, and her relationship with her father, a car mechanic who raised her on his own after her mom left town. Jess is resigned to a safe, unremarkable existence...until Jasper Wilhelm, the town’s eccentric benefactor, dies suddenly. At his funeral, it’s revealed that he’s left his entire fortune to the people of Redford—but they’ll have to compete for it.

"Up in the Air" is the twenty-first book in the Chloe Boston Cozy Mystery Series. Hope Falls is hosting its first Kite Festival to raise funds for the animal shelter. The festival will bring in funds, tourists and a pair of feuding kite makers, one of whom ends up dead. A little investigation proves that the late Gerhardt Brandt was not a good man and had an impressive list of enemies. Can Chloe find the killer before everyone packs up their kites and heads home?

What readers are saying... "Sharon Srock has the ability to draw us in and and not let go until the last word." Amazon reviewer "I fell into this story quickly. The characters are so real I thought I should look for their Facebook profiles and friend them." Amazon reviewer YOUNG LOVE FOUND. In 1970, seventeen-year-old Ruthie Arnold found the love of her life. Six months later, she lost him to the horror and confusion of war. With Elliott missing and presumed dead, Ruthie had no choice but to go on—carrying regrets and secrets she never dared tell another soul. Even though she eventually ...

Ever since she was a teenager, Carmen Douglas couldn't wait to finally say goodbye to Pronghorn, a small town that catered to tourists along a remote stretch of the Colorado river. When she receives word of her father's death, she returns to Pronghorn with the idea that it will be her last trip. Yet while she settles her father's affairs, she is confronted by events of her own past. Tim was never interested in leaving his hometown and happy working for Carmen's father taking guide trips up the river. And although Carmen ran off to Seattle to get far away from him and Pronghorn,Tim has never...