Violet Jackson believed she no longer had to live in fear. Years have passed since her childhood stalker terrorized her and her anxiety attacks were nothing more than a bad memory. Until her friend is murdered in Violet's apartment. Now the panic is back and her glamorous NYC life crumbles around her. Seeking solace in the one place she always felt safe, Violet returns to the small Amish community of Hunters Ridge, to the solitude and security of her family's country estate. But nowhere is completely safe, and Violet must realize danger lurks in small towns too...Bad boy Theo Cooper is back in Hunters Ridge. He got the discipline he needed in the army and a dose of reality when his dad became sick. Now Theo is home to try and salvage the family lumberyard business-in addition to being a father to a young son. He never expected that Violet would offer to help figure out the accounting problems caused by his father's sudden absence. And he certainly never expected she'd forgive how badly their young love had gone on Prom night. But something is different about Violet...she's changed since high school, she's more reserved, quiet. Scared. But of what-or of who?As weeks pass, it becomes clear Violet's accidents aren't so accidental. Someone is out to hurt the woman he's growing to love, and Theo will risk everything, including his closely guarded heart, to protect her. But will he be in time to save her?

A debut novel that's as sharp as a knife's point. Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver's daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden charms are so fine that some even call her "witch-blade" -- a dangerous nickname in a town where witches are hunted and burned in the square.

Eric Dodson-Robinson’s Revenge, Agency, and Identity from European Drama to Asian Film challenges critical readings of drama, film, and literature that downplay agency. From Attic tragedy, through Seneca and Shakespeare, and into Japanese and Korean film, the book pursues the agent of vengeance in her fury to reconstruct an identity shattered by trauma. Tragic revenge is an imaginary theater only partly encompassed by disciplines, institutions, and discourses. In this theater, violence becomes contagious and potentially transformative as performance gives birth to the agent of vengeance: a complex, emergent agent who is more than the sum of the actors, auteur, tradition, and audience, all of whom infiltrate, and strive to control, her will. The agent of vengeance, determined to outdo past exemplars, exacts traumatic excess, not equivalence.

When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers -- and justice. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate's quest for revenge may prove fatal.

Pull the reins tight and cinch down your Stetson. This one will take your silver-belly Stetson for a whirlwind ride. Brace up for some multiplot fast-paced intrigue. It’s not often, but what fun it is when the sequel surpasses the authentic composition. You’ll enjoy that rarefied air of continued company with some of the unique diverse cast you grew close to in the first novel. You’ll be drawn in to some new characters as they battle the legions of new and old en