Buying a winning lottery ticket, this single mother, Jessi Rae, her two daughters, and her two closest friends, dreams come true. For Jessi it was a Bed & Breakfast, in the country, along Lake Michigan. Her two closest friends, a boutique and coffee shop. Finding the perfect spot they combined their dream, but soon after getting settled in Jessis world took a major twist, when dreaming of a man getting murdered in a farmhouse. One night, coming home from her parents place, she and two her daughters got caught in a bad storm. Forced to take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse, she meets Craig, the troubled spirit of the man having been mistaken for his best friend. Now back to settle the score with the man who killed him, Craig needs Jessis help. One problem though, they had never planned on falling in love.

This is a story about a dad and husband who, after making some mistakes and poor decisions, was given a second chance to correct them after nearly losing his life to some health issues caused from cancer. In this book you will learn how an ordinary, working dad and husband allowed family issues to allow him to make poor decisions. He then surrendered himself to God which ended up saving his life as he saw some very important people in his life. Follow along as the author describes some of the things he has done since changing his life. This book is to let people know that Jesus does exist, and to show some examples of how He has proven that He is real.

Drug dealer Vince Delgado has a vendetta against the Crawfordsfield County Police Departmentspecifically against Detective Jarred Stanton and his uncle and partner, Detective Alex Storm, the two men who put him behind bars. Delgado has already managed to put a bullet in Jarreds chest. Now the drug dealer is hiding out, and the detectives need to find himbefore he strikes again. As Jarred is recovering at home, he meets Jodi Tate, a local antique shop owner who takes shelter inside his house during a violent storm. The attraction between the two is immediate and strangely familiar. It is not long before Jodi realizes that she does know the detective from a past encounter, and the disturbing dreams she has been having about a man being shot could be a past premonition about Jarred. But as the search for Delgado continues, Jodi is suddenly attacked in her shop. There is only one man who could have done it. With Jodis life now in danger and Delgados threat of killing his partner next, Jarred has no choice but to make finding Delgado his only mission. In this suspenseful tale, a determined detective soon realizes that the clues to solving a mystery lie within the dreams of the woman he loves.

In October 2003, I became a victim of traumatic brain injury. Thats when I was hit and dragged by a pickup truck while riding a Big Wheel trike at a friends party. Emergency brain surgery saved my life, but I lost a portion of the back part of my brain. At the age of ten, I had to learn how to breathe, swallow, talk, eat, stand, sit, walkeverything all over again. Traumatic brain injury is one of the leading causes of disability among children, yet, because of the complexity of the brain, experts still have much to learn about how to treat TBI. In When the Lights Go Out, I describe my therapieswhats worked, what hasnt, and whyand share how I learned to cope with the emotional and psychological challenges. In the process, I have discovered the critical roles that faith in God, love of family, the healing power of friends, and the inherent goodness of people all played in my ability to triumph over overwhelming odds. I have also learned that a horrific accident has given me an amazing gift. When the Lights Go Out is an expression of that gift.

A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, Jason Hardy became a parole officer in New Orleans at the worst possible moment. Louisiana’s incarceration rates were the highest in the US and his department’s caseload had just been increased to 220 “offenders” per parole officer, whereas the national average is around 100. Almost immediately, he discovered that the biggest problem with our prison system is what we do—and don’t do—when people get out of prison. Deprived of social support and jobs, these former convicts are often worse off than when they first entered prison and Hardy dramatizes their dilemmas with empathy and grace. He’s given unique access to their lives and a growing recognition of their struggles and takes on his job with the hope that he can change people’s fates—but he quickly learns otherwise. The best Hardy and his colleagues can do is watch out for impending disaster and help clean up the mess left behind. But he finds that some of his charges can muster the miraculous power to save themselves. By following these heroes, he both stokes our hope and fuels our outrage by showing us how most offenders, even those with the best intentions, end up back in prison—or dead—because the system systematically fails them. Our focus should be, he argues, to give offenders the tools they need to re-enter society which is not only humane but also vastly cheaper for taxpayers. As immersive and dramatic as Evicted and as revelatory as The New Jim Crow, The Second Chance Club shows us how to solve the cruelest problems prisons create for offenders and society at large.

When Maggie's owners leave her behind, she is taken to an animal shelter.