Contrast Mallory Eton's fairytale existence, envied by many, with Jane Somersby's life, pathetic and to be avoided: Mallory, a teen-aged movie star born into a wealthy family and Jane, a plain drugstore clerk born into a single-parent impoverished home. After seeing a movie in the local movie theater, Jane became fascinated by the similarity in looks of she and Mallory. Determined to meet her doppelganger, Jane's clandestine investigation exposed secrets harbored by both families and unlocked a chasm of secrets thought hidden forever. Horrifying details sent two families plunging into an abyss of murder, deception and wickedness. Life became an explosion sliced deeply by the shrapnel of truth.

Amber has a 6-year-old girl and has been a single mom the last 4 years because her husband left her and their kid. However, they aren't divorced because he told her he was leaving her and never contacted her again. When she decides to start dating Nick she does not tell him she is still married or that she has a kid.

Where there's a will, there's a secret... When Hannah Armstrong opens the door to find a cowboy on her porch, her jaw drops--and not just because he's beyond handsome. Apparently she's heir to the Lassiter fortune. If Logan Whittaker, cowboy-turned-attorney, can help her uncover the truth about her biological father, why say no--at least for her daughter Cassie's sake? With Hannah tucked away at his ranch house, Logan longs to turn their business affairs into something more personal. Except Hannah has enough dark family secrets to cope with--and Logan's own past could spell trouble just as things are really heating up....

What’s your life like when your stepfather is Anthony Frank “Legs” Legato, a known jewel thief, girl-runner, who murdered when crossed, associated with The Chicago Outfit, and your birth father, John Delaney, is a law enforcement officer in St. Paul/Minneapolis? A nightmarish hell. Debbie Delaney lived a turbulent life. Abandoned by her mother when only a few months old, she had her granny while her daddy worked long hours. That is, until her mother re-entered her life and a new baby came. After divorce, her mother married a gangster and created a tug-of-war with Debbie in the middle. The new arrangement led to everyday turbulence, middle-of-the-night FBI raids, sudden move to a new city, with her mother on the fly. Jealousy, abuse, secrecy, family estrangement, shame, and humility and then “the corpse.” The report filed by the Cook County coroner identified the decomposed body as Anthony Frank Legato, but was it? Was it a murder or the cover for a mysterious disappearance?

Skip Wentworth, using primitive instinct and tortuous CIA training, circles the planet in a heart-pounding search for ruthless terrorists plotting to destroy America and Israel on the date the Maya predict the world will end, December 21, 2012. Their plan is to use equipment designed by the US and skimmed from the manufacturer's assembly line. Adding to his torment, his new bride is taken hostage by the mad enemy determined to avenge their God, Allah. The accomplished bloodhound tracks them in a frantic race to beat the countdown to annihilation, saving his wife, the nation and possibly the world from the maniacal conspiracy to initiate Armageddon.

Skip Wentworth, former CIA agent, unexpectedly pressed into action, used agonizing, exhaustive, and comprehensive training to decipher actions in the Middle East and unravel the puzzle of states aligned against Israel. The cunning sleuth, silent and deadly, operated under the noses of the crazed enemy to uncover hidden plots. Palestine's membership in the United Nations as a sovereign state, and the threat to appropriate land once belonging to Israel, guaranteed the advent of World War III. United States President Jana Elaine White when forced to choose a side, either side, would initiate the countdown.

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