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Product: Suffering Is Never for Nothing
Description: Hard times come for all in life, with no real explanation. When we walk through suffering, it has the potential to devastate and destroy, or to be the gateway to gratitude and joy.
Elisabeth Elliot was no stranger to suffering. Her first husband, Jim, was murdered by the Waoroni people in Ecuador moments after he arrived in hopes of sharing the gospel. Her second husband was lost to cancer. Yet, it was in her deepest suffering that she learned the deepest lessons about God.
Why doesn’t God do something about suffering? He has, He did, He is, and He will.
Suffering and love are inexplicably linked, as God’s love for His people is evidenced in His sending Jesus to carry our sins, griefs, and sufferings on the cross, sacrificially taking what was not His on Himself so that we would not be required to carry it. He has walked the ultimate path of suffering, and He has won victory on our behalf.
This truth led Elisabeth to say, “Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.”
Because suffering is never for nothing.
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Product: His Unwilling Slave: An Interracial Dark Bully Romance
Description: Rowan stood on the low stage in the bustling market, squinting in the sunlight at the men who scrutinized the group of women in which she stood. Her jeans and top had been taken away, replaced by a plain white shift.
Marcus’ eyes skimmed the women as his father looked at each one by one. They were all white. It shouldn't surprise him, really. The white community was over-represented in criminal statistics, although they had a much larger population. Marcus didn’t understand it. Why was it that the black community who made up only 20% of the population here, were able to organize and educate themselves, and generally thrive in life? His father was a perfect example. And yet, the massive white community was basically dysfunctional, living in poverty and prisons.
His eyes landed on one girl in particular- the youngest in the group. She looked about the same age as him- about eighteen. She had probably spent most of her childhood and teen years in youth justice, and yet, despite all the funding and intervention, had entered the criminal justice system at the first chance. It showed a lack of willpower.
He realized with a jolt that she was watching him back. She blushed and dropped her gaze, almost as if she was embarrassed to be in her predicament. Well, she shouldn't have committed criminal offences, then. He wondered what she had done. As he continued to stare, he became aware that she was beautiful. She had a mass of blonde curls, and large brown eyes. Her skin was like porcelain. She was small but lean and in great shape. His eyes lingered on her and she looked back up, startled to find that he was still gazing at her with growing admiration in his eyes.
He tore his gaze away and realized that his father appeared to have made a selection- a stocky, older woman. A good selection for the kind of menial work they needed done- laundry and general cleaning.
Normally, Marcus showed no interest in household decisions, leaving it all to his father and occasionally Jason who was the more outspoken brother of the two, but today something made him speak up.
“Dad… take that one,” he said casually, nodding at the girl with his chin.
Behind him, Jason looked up with interest. He had been on his phone, already over their trip to the market.
His father hesitated. “She doesn’t look to be as strong…” he replied doubtfully.
“I just thought…”
“I agree with him,” Jason jumped in. “She looks wiry, I’m sure she’ll be able to handle whatever we give her.” There was a gleam in his eye that Marcus didn’t like. But he had jumped in on his defense, after all- he should be grateful. He waited for his father’s verdict.
His father looked at them both for a moment before shrugging. “Well, if you both agree, it doesn’t matter to me. We’ll take that one.”
Marcus looked at the girl excitedly- he had gotten his way! They would take her home- they would own her. She gave him a shaky smile, which absurdly made his heart jump.
He would look after her, he resolved to himself seriously.

Rowan steals to survive. But when she is caught, she finds herself under the new 'criminal enslavement program', and is sold to pay off her crimes. Will Rowan cope with the conflict that ensues when two very different brothers each desire her... and when each will do anything to make her their own? Grab your copy to find out!

His Unwilling Slave is an erotic dark bully romance with BDSM content. It's a steamy must-read for fans of these themes!
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Product: Jack's Timeless Journey : Reliving the Life of Jim Elliot
Description: Join Jack on his adventure as he goes back in time to relive the life of Jim Elliot and see how God can use anyone, big or small, to do something great for him.
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Product: The Silence (Columbia River Book 2)
Description: A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

A dead conspiracy theorist. A mass murderer. Two cases collide for Callahan and McLane in a pulse-pounding thriller by Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author Kendra Elliot.

A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist. In his home, investigators find pages of diatribes against law enforcement as well as ties to Mason’s fiancée, FBI special agent Ava McLane. The victim was her informant—and had strong reasons to be paranoid.

To Ava, Braswell’s rants were those of a wearying and harmless man…until they collide with her investigation into the murders of police officers and finding the connection becomes urgent. Meanwhile, Braswell’s brother and Ava’s twin sister both disappear, and disturbing acts of sabotage target Ava’s personal life.

For Mason and Ava, the brutal crimes and escalating mysteries create a perfect storm for a terrorist conspiracy that becomes dangerously personal—one that has yet to claim its last victim.
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Product: Proof of Murder (A Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery Book 4)
Description: Bookshop owner Addie Greyborne must solve a locked-room murder in a supposedly haunted mansion to recover a priceless Sherlock Holmes original . . .

The seaside New England town of Greyborne Harbor is home to many grand estates, including the Queen Anne Victorian Addie inherited from her great aunt. Now one of those mansions is holding an estate sale, which is just what the bookshop owner needs to replenish her supply of rare editions—even if the house is rumored to be haunted. Assisting an overwhelmed insurance appraiser with the inventory, Addie discovers an 1887 magazine containing Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, which she estimates to be worth over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

But when Addie later finds the appraiser dead in the estate's private library, with the door bolted from the inside, and the priceless edition missing, it's a mystery worthy of the Great Detective himself. She's certain the death and the robbery are connected—but who, other than a ghost who can walk through walls, could have gotten in to do the deed? It's up to Addie to find the key to the crime—before she's the next one cornered by a killer . . .

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Product: My Twisted Stepbrother: A Dark Romance and Explicit Taboo Story of a Hot Dominant Stepbrother
Description: Everything clicked into place. His phone was the control. He was pushing my limits in a whole new way. Turning me on right before a family dinner was one thing, but during it was a whole new ball game...

It was to be a nice family dinner. A time to come together and farewell Dan, Hayley's step-brother, before he left on his overseas adventure. A normal family. But Dan had other plans for his final evening- to push Hayley further than he had ever pushed her- to prove his dominance... and to make her submit.

MY TWISTED STEPBROTHER is a dark romance taboo tale of a hot alpha male stepbrother. It's an explicit and steamy story of a forceful stepbrother's domination and the tangled predicament his stepsister finds herself in when she crosses lines that shouldn't be crossed.

This is an explicit dark romance taboo story with elements of BDSM, shared sex, and bully romance.
This book is for mature readers.
It is a steamy MUST-READ for fans of these themes!
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Product: The Last Sister (Columbia River Book 1)
Description: An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Three sisters’ secrets collide in a shocking novel of suspense by the bestselling author of the Mercy Kilpatrick series.

Twenty years ago Emily Mills’s father was murdered, and she found his body hanging in the backyard. Her younger sister, Madison, claims she was asleep in her room. Her older sister, Tara, claims she was out with friends. The tragedy drove their mother to suicide and Tara to leave town forever. The killer was caught. The case closed.

Ever since, Emily and Madison have tried to forget what happened that night—until an eerily similar murder brings it all back. It also brings FBI special agent Zander Wells to the Oregon logging town. As eager as he is to solve the brutal double slaying, he is just as intrigued with the mystery of Emily’s and her sisters’ past.

When more blood is shed, Zander suspects there’s a secret buried in this town no one wants unearthed. Is it something Emily and Madison don’t know? Or aren’t telling? And Tara? Maybe Emily can’t bear to find her. Because when Tara disappeared, she took a secret of her own with her.
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Product: Below the Bones (Widow's Island Novella Book 5)
Description: A Wall Street Journal bestseller.

A former FBI special agent must come out of retirement to solve a murder in the fifth novella in the Widow’s Island series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.

Former FBI special agent Cate Wilde is a new bakery and bookstore owner—and retirement is now complete with a doctor boyfriend. Although she struggles with PTSD, the sweet life she’s living is a far cry from the gruesome work she left behind six months ago.

But when skeletal remains turn up on Widow’s Island—and the MO of the killer is too familiar to Cate—the dream comes to an abrupt end. What if the case she solved eight years ago isn’t as closed as she thought? Her hometown needs her, and despite her mental health and her boyfriend’s protests, she has no choice but to return to her dangerous past life.

Soon Cate is in a desperate race to stop a cold-blooded murderer from killing again, once and for all…only this time, she’ll have so much more to lose.
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Product: A Merciful Fate (Mercy Kilpatrick Book 5)
Description: In this Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestseller, there are no such things as little secrets?

Raised by preppers, survivalist and FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick has a deep-rooted need for a safe place. Her getaway in the Cascade Foothills is her secret. But when skeletal remains are unearthed—those of a murdered man linked to a notorious heist—Mercy realizes she isn’t the only one with something to hide.

Thirty years ago, an armored-car robbery turned deadly. The mastermind was captured. Four conspirators vanished with a fortune. One of them, it appears, never made it out of the woods alive. For Mercy and her fiancé Police Chief Truman Daly, their investigation opens old wounds in Eagle’s Nest that cut deeper than they imagined. Especially when a reckless tabloid reporter draws fresh blood. It’s clear to Mercy that somebody in this close-knit community is not who they seem to be.

Some are still shattered by the heist. Some still have reason to be afraid. But which one will kill again and again to hide three decades of secrets? To land this case, it’s up to Mercy to unmask a familiar stranger before someone else dies.
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Product: A Merciful Silence (Mercy Kilpatrick Book 4)
Description: In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick must unlock the mystery of a mass murder, and the secrets of its silent witness...

For Mercy Kilpatrick, returning to rural Oregon has meant coming to terms with her roots. Raised as a prepper, Mercy is now relying on her survivalist instincts to defend her town from the people the law can’t reach. But this time, an investigation calling up a dark past for her and police chief Truman Daly may be hitting too close to home.

A rainstorm has uncovered the remains of five people—a reprise of the distinctive slaughter of two families twenty years ago. Except the convicted killer is in prison. Is this the case of a sick copycat, or is the wrong man behind bars? One person might have the answer. The lone survivor of the decades-old crimes has returned to town still claiming that she can’t remember a thing about the night she was left for dead. As the search for the truth becomes more dangerous, Mercy fears that the traumatized woman may not have buried her memories at all. She might be keeping them a secret. And there’s a price to be paid for revealing them.
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Product: A Merciful Secret (Mercy Kilpatrick Book 3)
Description: In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, a pair of ritual murders could expose Mercy Kilpatrick to something terrifying: her own past…

Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They’re in her blood. They’re her secrets—as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills.

In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds. Hundreds of miles away, a body is discovered slashed to death in a similar way. The victims—a city judge and an old woman living in the woods—couldn’t be more different. With the help of police chief Truman Daly, Mercy must find the killer before the body count rises. Mercy knows that the past has an edge on her. So does her family. How can she keep her secrets now…when they’re the only things that can save her?
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Product: A Merciful Truth (Mercy Kilpatrick Book 2)
Description: An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Raised by a family of survivalists, FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick can take on any challenge—even the hostile reception to her homecoming. But she's not the only one causing chaos in the rural community of Eagle's Nest, Oregon. At first believed to be teenage pranks, a series of fires takes a deadly turn with the murder of two sheriff's deputies. Now, along with Police Chief Truman Daly, Mercy is on the hunt for an arsonist turned killer.

Still shunned by her family and members of the community, Mercy must keep her ear close to the ground to pick up any leads. And it's not long before she hears rumors of the area's growing antigovernment militia movement. If the arsonist is among their ranks, Mercy is determined to smoke the culprit out. But when her investigation uncovers a shocking secret, will this hunt for a madman turn into her own trial by fire?
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Product: Vanished (Callahan & McLane Book 1)
Description: From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.

When an eleven-year-old is abducted on her way to school, the FBI doesn’t waste a moment, sending agents to scour the area and embedding Special Agent Ava McLane with the distraught family. In the eye of the storm is local detective Mason Callahan, whose life is crumbling to pieces—he’s related to the victim, and his longtime confidential informant has just been murdered.

Both he and Agent McLane hole up in the victim’s family home. Every second counts in a kidnapping case, and the stakes keep rising the longer the girl is missing. As Ava and Mason struggle to hold the family together in their darkest hour, the two investigators find themselves drawn to each other.

2015 Overall Daphne du Maurier Award Winner
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Product: Buried (A Bone Secrets Novel Book 3)
Description: A Daphne du Maurier Award Winner

Buried is the third book in Bone Secrets, the multimillion-copy bestselling series.

Reporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that’s eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered—and Daniel’s aren’t among them—a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence.

Constant fear of being found by his kidnapper has driven Chris into hiding. The only lead Michael has is Chris’s sister, Jamie. Strong and impenetrable, she’s capable of burrowing deep into Michael’s heart. As they race to find Chris, Michael and Jamie somehow find each other among the decades of wreckage. But locating Chris may not be so easy. Now grown, his scars go far deeper than skin.

In Buried, the next thrilling Bone Secrets novel from bestselling author Kendra Elliot, a damaged hero digs deep into his terrifying past…and unearths a chance at love for the future.
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Product: Chilled (A Bone Secrets Novel Book 2)
Description: Chilled is the second book in Bone Secrets, the multimillion-copy bestselling series.

As a forensic nurse on a search and rescue team, Brynn Nealey braves a dangerous blizzard to find the survivors of a plane crash in the Cascade Mountains. Joining her is Alex Kinton, a former US Marshal with self-destructive tendencies. Alex lies his way onto Brynn’s team to find the man who killed his brother—and then return the favor. But once the team members reach the plane’s wreckage, they discover everyone aboard has perished…except for the man Alex is hunting. Alex will do whatever it takes to track his target through the vast, snowy wilderness.

As the temperatures drop, however, so do Alex’s defenses. His contact with the sharp, kindhearted Brynn makes his lust for vengeance difficult to reconcile with his growing feelings for a woman who risks her life to help others. What will happen to Alex’s savage instincts when he finally has the opportunity to confront his brother’s killer?

In Chilled, the next thrilling tale in the Bone Secrets saga, Golden Heart finalist Kendra Elliot weaves an icy tale of cold nights, cold hearts, and cold-blooded killers.
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Product: A Merciful Promise (Mercy Kilpatrick Book 6)
Description: The Wall Street Journal bestselling series continues as Mercy Kilpatrick becomes embedded in the nightmare of a terrorist conspiracy.

The job: infiltrate a militia amassing illegal firearms in an isolated forest community. FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick is the ideal candidate. She knows Oregon. She’s near the compound. And having been raised among survivalists, Mercy understands the mind-set of fanatics. Lay low, follow rules, do nothing to sound an alarm, and relinquish all contact with the outside world. She’s ready to blend in.

As Mercy disappears into the winter hills, something just as foreboding emerges. Mercy’s fiancé Eagle’s Nest police chief Truman Daly, is faced with a puzzling series of murders—three men dumped in random locations after execution-style shootings.

Now, for Mercy, trapped in a culture where suspicion is second nature, and betrayal is punishable to the extreme, there is no way out. No way to call for help. And as plans for a catastrophic terrorist event escalate, there may be no way to stop them. Even if Mercy dies trying.
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