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English
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Suspicion colors a man’s search for his long-vanished wife in this suspense-filled tale from national bestselling author Marcia Muller.
Fourteen years after his wife's disappearance branded him a murderer and ruined his life. Matthew Lindstrom receives an anonymous phone call revealing that Gwen is alive...and well aware of the wreckage she left behind. Seeking answers and revenge, he comes to the isolated town of Cyanide Wells....
Fourteen years after his wife's disappearance branded him a murderer and ruined his life. Matthew Lindstrom receives an anonymous phone call revealing that Gwen is alive...and well aware of the wreckage she left behind. Seeking answers and revenge, he comes to the isolated town of Cyanide Wells....
2) Angels
Author
Series
Walsh family volume 3
Language
English
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Description
After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring — and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish out of water. Yet, overnight, she's mixing
...3) Sanctuary
Author
Series
Amish country crossroads volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
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Description
She prayed the day would never come, but when her past comes calling, Melissa James has no choice but to flee. Pursued and living on the run, she finds longed-for sanctuary in Amish country. Part thriller, art romance, Sanctuary is a compelling story of revenge, the price of freedom, and the solace found in friendship.
4) Rose Madder
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Language
English
Description
This is the story of Rose Daniels, "the most richly portrayed female King's ever created" (Detroit Free Press). Escape from her macabre marriage is not as easy as fleeing to a new city, picking a new name, finding a new job, and lucking out with a new man. Not with a husband like Norman...
5) Turncoat
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Language
English
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Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he ever wanted: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything is about to change. It starts with the appearance of an old man at his door, ranting madly about money, death, and forgiveness. The man is a stranger to Pete-but not to his wife, Lily. Only later does the truth come...
6) Almost
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Forty-something narrator Sophy Chase has just begun a lighthearted, romantically adventurous life in New York City when she learns that her almost ex-husband has been found dead on the New England resort island where she left him just months before. Lured back to the island by feelings she thought she had left behind, Sophy must navigate treacherous emotional terrain involving her grown stepdaughters, a former lover who is now a celebrity lawyer,...
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Series
Language
English
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Based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, this story follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption. James MacLaren is searching for the wife that deserted him and their children, who later die of smallpox. Lucy is a remarried widow and mother, reluctantly heading west
8) Mislaid
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Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her husband and nine-year-old son, Peggy takes her three-year-old daughter, Karen, and hides out in a housing project where she creates new identities for herself and Karen as African Americans.
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Series
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English
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New York Times Bestseller
Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan—first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues—must track down a missing wife and unravel the secrets in her marriage that led her to flee.
"A hair raising ride."—Boston Globe
Mark Rubin's family is missing—and the police won't get involved because
...11) Peril
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A mobster sends his bagman to track down his runaway daughter-in-law in this novel by "one of the most accomplished writers in the crime/thriller genre" (Financial Times).
Sara Labriola is certain that if she stays in her marriage, someone is going to wind up dead-and it'll probably be her. So she flees her coastal Long Island home for New York City, where she changes her identity and finds work singing at a bar.
Her husband is upset, of course....
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go.
Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only, and incorrectly, Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion...
Author
Series
Cape Charade volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Kellen Adams suffers from a yearlong gap in her memory. A bullet to the brain will cause that. But she's discovering the truth, and what she learns changes her life, her confidence, her very self. She finds herself in the wilderness, on the run, unprepared, her enemies unknown--and she is carrying a priceless burden she must protect at all costs. The consequences of failure would break her. And Kellen Adams does not break."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"Erma Lee is a wonderful character ...It is hard to believe that Wiregrass is a first novel." - --Anne Rivers Siddons, author of Nora, Nora
"...truly inspiring and uplifting without ever being preachy or didactic. A real page turner with very strong characters."- - --Le Smith, author of The Last Girls
18) One last breath
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Series
Language
English
Description
Rory Abernathy's wedding to Liam Bastian turned into a bloodbath. She fled after stabbing a masked intruder, just before a gunman opened fire on the wedding party. Five years on, Rory still has no idea who was behind the attacks. Fearful she and her daughter remain targets, she's made a new life far from Liam and the wealthy, powerful Bastians. But even in remote Point Roberts, Washington, she can't hide from the past. Liam tracks Rory down, stunned...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After a convalescence, Charlotte Heath leaves her husband's family mansion to find him kissing another woman. Shocked, she leaves for the city and goes to her friend, former cook for the family, who works at the Beechmont. She discovers that the Beechmont is a male brothel where she masters her illness, becomes comfortable with her desires, and learns to deal with her patronizing husband
20) Dear wife
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Language
English
Description
"For nearly a year, Beth has been planning for this day. A day some people might call any other Wednesday, but Beth prefers to see it as her new beginning, one with a new look, new name, and a new city. Beth has given her plan significant thought, because one small slip and her violent husband will find her. A couple hundred miles away, Jeffrey returns home from a work trip to find his wife, Sabine, is missing. Wherever she is, she's taken almost...
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