Lifeguard Kelly Jacobs knew time was running out for her rescue from the sea. Navy SEAL Lt. Joe "Bear" Baker plucked Kelly from the raging sea when she had nearly given up hope. He was her best friend. The man who killed Kelly's husband is back and closer than Kelly and Joe realize. They're about to discover that God is a refuge.

No one writes about the South like Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg (All Over But the Shoutin). Once again, he lends his voice to the working people of the deep South, and tells the story of a memorable figure in a singular time-a man on a lost stretch of dirt road along the Alabama-Georgia border. The Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and author of All Over But the Shoutin' continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his...

"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...

Warren Spooner was born on the first of December 1956, in Milledgeville, Georgia, after a prolonged labor in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office. His dad died shortly afterward, long before Spooner could have even a memory of his face. Eventually, his father was replaced by Calmer Ottosson, a once-brilliant young naval officer recently court-martialed out of the service. This is the story of the lifelong tie between the two men, poles apart....

A case of adultery spirals into racial violence in 1870s Oklahoma Territory. The story begins when a white man seeks justice because a halfbreed is sleeping with his wife. There is a shootout, the races take side and blood flows.

When a school shooting rips through her community, Rachel O'Malley must find the child who saw the shooting ... and locate the missing gun. Summary For years Rachel OUMalley has touched grief as she helps others through it, but now grief is something very personal: she is losing her own sister to cancer. Helping the other OUMalleys through the crisis is taking everything Rachel has to give. When a school shooting rips through her community, she must...

Welcome to Justice, and good luck leaving alive. Sheriff Nathan Justice loves the town he serves. Founded by his family generations before, Justice, Illinois, is mostly a peaceful place. But the tranquility has just been shattered. Women visiting Justice are being murdered. Tourists in nice hotels, money still in their billfolds, jewelry still on the dresser. Quiet kills{7f2014}they go to sleep and never awaken. Rae Gabriella left the FBI after an...

Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times,...

In the summer of 1992, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee senator Albert Gore begin their long-shot campaign to win the White House. On a sweltering hillside in Knoxville, Dr. Bill Brockton, the bright, ambitious young head of the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Department, launches an unusual -- some would call it macabre -- research facility, unlike any other in existence. Brockton is determined to revolutionize the study of forensics...

Chadwick's life was balanced on a knife's edge -- his career, his marriage, his relationship with his dangerously troubled daughter. And then one autumn night, the worst possible thing happened ... Now, a decade later, Chadwick's heart is on the mend. Working for an old military buddy, he saves kids for a living, escorting troubled teens to a Texas wilderness school that specializes in the toughest brand of love. Until he gets a phone call that threatens...