Kathy Herman
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Treacherous Mix : A Novel
$18.00Add to cartWhen twenty-four-year-old Hawk Cummings wakes up by Beaver Lake at sunset, all he remembers is a dream about a spider that spewed venom. Then he realizes that Kennedy–the young woman he broke every vow to have an affair with–is gone. He rushes to her house only to find it empty. No furniture. No pictures. No sign that anyone lived there.
Ashamed and confused, Hawk decides not to report anything to the sheriff. Then Hawk realizes that someone else in town knows what happened to his lover. He begins to fear for Kennedy’s life–and his own.
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Only By Death
$20.00Add to cartIs Liam Berne a loving son–or a murderer? The second book in the Ozark Mountain Trilogy, Only by Death is a thought-provoking suspense story of a man who loses everything and learns he must die to find life.
After much agonizing, Liam Berne takes his mother, who has Alzheimer’s, to the Sure Foot River and drowns her. A mercy killing, he tells himself, t o spare her years in a nursing home. And getting his inheritance early isn’t a bad thing either.
Dixie Berne’s body is recovered and the coroner cannot find any sign of foul play, though Liam’s sister isn’t convinced. Then Liam hears rumors that a twelve-year-old boy has witnessed the drowning. Terrified that he will be discovered, Liam sets out to intimidate the boy into silence. Little does Liam know that someone else suspects him–someone who intends to make him pay.
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Relentless Pursuit : A Novel
$19.00Add to cartRich with the Cajun flavors of south Louisiana, this final book in the Secrets of Roux River Bayou Series is a story of what it means to find true peace in an uncertain world.
Sax Landry left home at seventeen to escape his father’s abuse, leaving his mother and sister to fend for themselves. Now, twenty-eight years later, both parents are dead, and guilt compels him to find his sister and make peace. His search leads to Les Barbes, Louisiana, where authorities fear a bio-terrorist has injected cyanide into juice cartons and fresh produce at the grocery store. People are dead. It’s not safe. Sax stays, fearing death less than living another day without peace. A divine appointment is about to change all that forever.
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Right Call : A Novel
$21.00Add to cartWith information that could solve a series of murders but endangers the girl he loves, a college boy grapples with what to do–and whom to trust.Ethan Langley is home for the summer, eager to renew his friendship with Vanessa Jessup and her infant son, Carter. And her parents, Police Chief Brill Jessup and her husband, Kurt, approve: Ethan is thoughtful, kind, hard-working, and ambitious. Before Ethan is even settled, a series of random shootings leaves someone he loves dead. While police are scrambling for suspects, Ethan learns shocking details that could break the case–but it imperils the lives of those he’s come to love. Going to the police with what he knows endangers Vanessa and Carter . . . yet not telling them is just as dangerous. He’s been dealt a risky hand in a game for which he doesn’t know the rules. Will he make the right call?
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Last Word : A Novel
$21.00Add to cartWhen Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she’s pregnant–by one of her professors. Brill is glad Vanessa rejected the father’s abortion ultimatum, but hurt that she ignored her upbringing and angry that the professor has disappeared without a trace. When Vanessa Jessup returns home from her sophomore year of college, her mother, Police Chief Brill Jessup, is stunned to see that she’s pregnant–by one of her professors. Brill is glad Vanessa rejected the father’s abortion ultimatum, but hurt that she ignored her upbringing and angry that the professor has disappeared without a trace.But that’s not all Brill’s got on her plate. One of her detectives has been killed, and the attacker has threatened to come for her next. When a second cop is wounded, public criticism mounts as Brill attempts to stay alive long enough to catch the perp. And she’s trying to find that deadbeat dad as Vanessa struggles to make decisions about her future. The killer seems to be everywhere and nowhere. How can a police chief–and a mother–do her job with her life on the line? In a show of grace under pressure, Brill will manage to have the last word, even if it kills her.Kathy Herman returns to Sophie Trace in this page-turner about God’s power to heal the broken.
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Grand Scheme : A Novel
$18.99Add to cartFast-paced, intriguing, and suspenseful, this book picks up the story from book two, Never Look Back. Rue Kessler has married Ivy and begins to help raise their son, Montana. Rue is the new supervisor for his father-in-law’s construction crew on a big condo project, and he and Ivy are building a home of their own. Could life get any better?
But not everyone is happy for them. For some, memories of Ivy’s wild years are all too vivid. And someone thinks the only reason Rue was made supervisor is because he married the boss’s daughter – never mind his qualifications.
The Kesslers soon fall prey to some vicious attacks. A man on Rue’s crew is found have-dead. Are the episodes related?
Readers will be swept along in a gripping story as they learn alongside Rue and Ivy that the best defense against deadly poison of envy is to discover the rich inheritance we have in Christ.
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Not By Chance
$19.99Add to cartIn Search of Significance
Thirty-year-old Brandon Jones arrives at his parents’ doorstep burned out, jobless, and now fiancee-less. Ellen and Guy can provide a place for him to stay only until he figures out what to do with his life. When he takes a temporary job at a summer camp for disadvantaged kids, Brandon begins a turbulent relationship with a biracial adolescent named Caedmon. Somewhere in the midst of the chaos-caused by Caedmon’s disappearance just before a hurricane is predicted to hit Seaport, and by a group of racists who will not stop at arson or murder-Brandon begins to see that the pieces of his life are not by chance. If he has discovered his life’s purpose, can he live it?
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All Things Hidden
$19.99Add to cartEllen Jones gets a disturbing call from her elderly father’s neighbor and must face the fact that her father’s mind is slipping and he has reached the stage where he’s not safe living alone. Lawrence is having trouble remembering many things, just not the one thing that he’s held against Ellen for nearly forty years!
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Eye Of The Beholder
$19.99Add to cartGuy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky needy friends and misses his victory dinner. Little does she know that Kinsey Abbott, Guy’s pretty legal secretary, is more than happy to keep him company. Communication between the Jones rapidly deteriorates when Ellen’s stubborn loyalty to an Iranian couple lands her in the FBI’s spotlight–and Guy’s bad graces. Guy soon discovers Kinsey’s dark side, which inevitably pulls him into a web of danger and deceit. Her decides not to tell Ellen. But it’s going to cost him.
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Shred Of Evidence
$19.99Add to cartSitting in Gordy’s Crab Shack in Seaport, Ellen Jones is shocked when she overhears two men making disturbing accusations about Ross Hamilton, her friend Sue Ann’s husband. Could it be true? Researching old newspaper articles, she discovers more frightening allegations. Will she become enmeshed in vicious gossip—or will she rise above unsubstantiated rumors and be a catalyst for truth and healing?
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Poor Mrs Rigsby
$19.99Add to cartCNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it’s work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally’s new crowd skews toward the elderly – ninety-year-old Elsie Rigsby, for instance, whose dementia comes and goes with her gold-digging son and grandson’s visits. Elsie’s not going to tell those vultures where she stashed her money. Still, she’s not getting any younger, and someone besides her needs to know. Three deaths later, is anyone watching Sally?
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High Stakes
$19.99Add to cartEighteen-year-old Angie Marks, tattooed and pierced, shows up in the small town of Baxter without a place to stay. When eccentric millionaire Patrick Bailey hires her to be his housekeeper, and then when Angie risks her own safety to help Mr. Bailey get his twin great-grandsons out of a rattlesnake’s strike zone, she finds herself fully at the center of the town’s curiosity. At Monty’s Diner they say she might be involved with Billy Joe Sawyer, using rattlers to intimidate the key witnesses in his upcoming trial. Is she? Or does Angie Marks have her own agenda
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Vital Signs
$19.99Add to cartLife and death hang in the balance in hometown Baxter as officials from the Centers for Disease Control race to contain a deadly virus that threatens all.
Caught in the throes of a fever-induced delirium, young missionaries Blake and Melissa Thomas fight for their lives-and the life of their unborn child-in a hospital isolation chamber while fear and violence incubate outside.
Vital Signs is the riveting story of people hit hard by circumstances that cause them to question the very purposes of God. As they battle against flesh-and-blood realities-and confront an enemy that could prove more lethal than the virus-can their faith prevail in the struggle?
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Day Of Reckoning
$19.99Add to cartOne man’s hatred sets off a community crisis in a chilling, page-turning read that is also startlingly inspirational. Textile magnate G.R. Logan laid off Wayne Purdy’s father just weeks before his untimely death, and Wayne means to make Logan pay. In her second novel in the dramatic Baxter series, Kathy Herman exposes the volatile range from anger to forgiveness in victims’ souls. Sinister messages threaten frightened townspeople, and angels offer comfort in dire times. Not a character in the story hasn’t been wronged, and it’s anyone’s guess how they’ll react to the evil that plagues this once-peaceful town. Can new life spring from these bitter roots?
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Tested By Fire
$19.99Add to cartWhen a bizarre houseboat explosion rocks the close-knit community of Baxter, firefighters, friends, and neighbors stand powerless as the McConnells’ blazing hull sinks to the bottom of Heron Lake. Grief turns to outrage as new evidence proves there was one survivor_and points to murder, something this sheltered community has never faced in its hundred-year history. In a race with the FBI, Jed sets out to track down the sole survivor, coping meanwhile with his own painful marital struggle. Baxter’s mystery and Jed’s dilemma are ones only God can solve in this suspenseful, surprising story of redemption amidst despair in small-town America.
