What’s love when the world is at your fingertips? Crosse Point, Virginia’s most notorious residents come together in a race for love, money, and lust while doing every dirty trick in the book to win at all costs. The allure of power and respect turns personal and professional relationships into bartering tools for the next big score. Erin Powell, slick talking sales guru. Devyn McAllister, the vivacious and vilified vixen, and transitioning basketball star Nikki Brown throw caution to the wind to satisfy the needs they lack in Everything I Miss At Home, the sexy and thrilling debut novel from the author Dawn. This page turning sexy corporate thriller in a soap opera on the steroids that somehow feels like real life. As the players succeed in making their wildest dreams come true, reality returns with a vengeance in a karmatic tornado that simultaneously spares and destroys. C’est La Vie.

Today begins the last day of Rocquelle Rocqui Johnsons fairy-tale life when she abruptly receives a disturbing phone call from her mother that prompts her immediate return to her imperfect past. Fayetteville NC, where she grew up was only three hundreds miles away from Richmond VA, where she now lives. Yet, it was worlds apart from her successful business and her loving fianc Zoric. Rocqui knew that coming home would mean the start of revisiting her childhood bittersweet memories. But nothing prepared her for an encounter with a handsome stranger that may potentially destroy her plans to live happily ever after.

Her aunt was a nun who popped pills and did time in Narcotics Anonymous. Her father grew up during the Depression, believed he'd be the next Frank Sinatra, and ended up working in the mills. His daughter, Lori Jakiela, spent her suburban Pittsburgh childhood watching Marlo Thomas in That Girl and dreaming of New York City.Instead, she got bad talent shows, a Junior Miss contest, and college in Erie, PA, where the big attraction was chicken wings. But years later, her Big Apple dreams were still going strong. With her twenties becoming a distant memory, Jakiela answered an airline ad promising a NYC home base, high-flying glamour, and three-day layovers in Paris. The reality was a roach-filled apartment in Queens, a polyester uniform cut like a sack, and a life that wasn't quite what she imagined.

Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left brings one of the most important days in our recent history--September 11th--to life, showing that love and hope will always triumph. Now: Sixteen-year-old Jesse is used to living with the echoes of the past. Her older brother died in the September 11th attacks, and her dad since has filled their home with anger and grief. When Jesse gets caught up with the wrong crowd, one momentary hate-fueled decision turns her life upside down. The only way to make amends is to face the past, starting Jesse on a journey that will reveal the truth about how her brother died. Then: In 2001, sixteen-year-old Alia is proud to be Muslim . . . it's being a teenager that she finds difficult. After being grounded for a stupid mistake, Alia decides to confront her father at his Manhattan office, putting her in danger she never could have imagined. When the planes collide into the Twin Towers, Alia is trapped inside one of the buildings. In the final hours, she meets a boy who will change everything for her as the flames rage around them . . . A Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2016 selection

Bereft and penniless after the death of their father, the local Vicar and Private Chaplain to the Earl of Chadwood, the beautiful Olivia Lambrick, her younger brother Tony and her five-year-old sister Wendy are desperate for the new Earl to arrive at Chad Hall.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Having inherited the title after his two cousins drowned in a sailing accident, it has taken the Earl a year to travel home from India.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ And meanwhile, with no one to pay the estateÕs workers and pensioners, the entire village is almost starving.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Olivia hopes that the Earl will honour the allowance her mother received as the late EarlÕs cousin, but to her chagrin, he is a handsome but hard and unsympathetic man.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ Refusing OliviaÕs pleas and those of his half-brother, Gerald, who faces the debtorsÕ prison because of his high living in London, the Earl has a very unpleasant solution Ð he will pay GeraldÕs debts only if he marries Olivia!ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ But Fate intervenes unexpectedly when the Earl is attacked by a vicious mob of youths from the village and, almost fatally injured by a knife thrust, is then carried to OliviaÕs home.ÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊÊ While Gerald uses a Power of Attorney to save the village, pay off his debts and look after the pensioners, Olivia saves the life of the man she hates and prays with all her heart that somehow love will save the day.Ê

Its the week before Christmas, and Bertram, the angel in charge of spreading Christmas spirit, is back on earth in the guise of Santa Claus. His mission is to help Richard Garrison through his crisis of turning fifty by getting him to mentor Bobby, a young boy whose father is away, serving in the military. Will his plan come together by Christmas morning? Not if Richard keeps forgetting to deliver the present he needs to give to Bobby. From the author of A Christmas Miracle Comes to Holy Nativity comes another uplifting tale filled with laughter, warmth, and all the magical elements of the Christmas season.