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41) Obsession
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When Tiffany, after attempting to kill her abusive husband, meets Quick, a thug looking to make it to the top, the two fall in love and weather the streets together.
43) Breach of honor
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
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Description
"As a police officer in Table Rock, Oregon, Leah Radcliff puts her life on the line to help others every day. But at home, Leah's battling her own personal nightmare: Brad, her abusive husband, a fellow officer, celebrated hero, and beloved son of a powerful prominent family. Brad's violent outbursts and suspicious activities have left Leah physically and emotionally scarred, until one desperate action to put a stop to his abuse results in deadly...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Here and Gone is a gripping, wonderfully tense suspense thriller about a mother's desperate fight to recover her stolen children from corrupt authorities. It begins with a woman fleeing through Arizona with her kids in tow, trying to escape an abusive marriage. When she's pulled over by an unsettling local sheriff, things soon go awry and she is taken into custody. Only when she gets to the station, her kids are gone. And then the cops start saying...
45) The weekenders
Author
Language
English
Description
"Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
46) Helpmeet
Author
Publisher
Undertow Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband home to Buffalo where he grew up. Dr. Edward Wilk is wasting away from an aggressive and debilitating malady. But it's becoming clearer that his condition isn't exactly a disease, but a phase of existence that seeks to transform and ultimately possess him.
Author
Series
Butternut Lake volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing her abusive husband, Mila arrives in Butternut Lake and takes a job as a home health aide to a sullen patient who is haunted by the accident that nearly killed him.
Author
Series
Walkin' trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Jo Fletcher
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rising from the dead to join the ranks of "Walkin'" zombies, a war veteran from a post-apocalyptic world of the distant future seeks to rejoin his faith-driven family while struggling with living people who refuse to accept the undead.
Author
Series
The Lords of Worth volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Calm. Cool. Collected. Gisele Whitby has perfected the art of illusion--her survival, after all, has depended upon it. Years ago, to escape an abusive husband, Gisele "disappeared." Now she must risk revealing her new identity to save another innocent girl from the same fate. But she needs a daring man for her scheme, and the rogue in question shows a remarkable talent...for shattering Gisele's carefully constructed facade and igniting her deepest...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A wickedly dark debut thriller about three women who've all been involved with the same man and realize the one thing they have in common is that they all want revenge against him... Divorces are often messy, and Imogen's is no exception. Phillip Rochester is controlling, abusive, and determined to make things as difficult as possible. When he shows up without warning demanding that Imogen move out of their house by the end of the month or he'll...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"By the bestselling author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing, a haunting thriller about a mother and daughter who need to draw strength from each other when they find themselves trapped in a cabin with a man who wants to either control them--or kill them"--
54) Such a good wife
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When her lover, a local best-selling author, is murdered, Melanie Hale must keep the affair a secret to avoid being implicated in his death, forcing her to play a sinister cat-and-mouse game with a killer as she searches for the truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the husband who abandoned her returns to their Amish community, new mother Rhoda Lambright, since her church forbids divorce and requires forgiveness, lets Caleb back into their home but is unsure if she can ever let him back into her heart.
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The Civil War has ended, but in Katie's Georgia home, conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her unstable husband, she flees north, finding sanctuary as the cook in a north woods lumber camp. Can she keep her past a secret from a man she is slowly growing to love?
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
English
Description
In post-war Montreal, a young enigmatic woman arrives to meet her betrothed only to be turned down by him. She marries his brother instead and their quiet life together is shattered when it becomes apparent she has stolen another's identity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1765. Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before.Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of the lake, looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly rolls over to reveal her face, it's clear this was not his intended victim. 250 years later ... When...
Author
Series
Three Mrs. Greys volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Diamond. Noelle. Vanessa. As Cyrus Grey recovers from a near-fatal shooting, the women who each thought they were his only wife are fighting hard to make new dreams--even if it means going one dangerous step too far . . .On trial for Cyrus's shooting, Diamond is determined to clear her name--and get back the husband she still loves. But uncovering the truth will reveal more secrets than she ever imagined. And unexpected desire is bringing them all...
60) The runaway wife
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Rose Pritchard flees her abusive husband in the middle of the night, there{u2019}s only one place she can think of going. Millthwaite is a remote village deep in the Lake District, hundreds of miles from her unhappy home. It{u2019}s also Rose{u2019}s only link to Frasier McCleod. They met just once, long ago, but his kindness sparked a connection that has sustained her ever since.
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