"The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How...

Perdita, the widowed Duchess of Ormonde, keeps a dangerous secret-the truth of how her brutish husband died. But a mysterious avenger seems to know it, too, and when anonymous threats turn into public attacks, there's only one friend she can turn to for help: her husband's former secretary, Lord Archer Lisle. The man who witnessed her every heartache. The kind of man whose love she can only dream of . . .The youngest of the Duke of Pemberton's five...

"Set in modern India, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. ...Soon the newlywed experiences extreme violence at her husband's hands and finds herself socially isolated. Intellectual and physical cruelty is explored. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance" --

"After artist Claire Beaudry Chase is attacked and left for dead in her home on the Connecticut coast, she doesn't know who she can trust. But her well-connected husband, Griffin--who is running for governor--is her prime suspect. Just before the attack, Claire was preparing for an exhibit of her shadow boxes, one of which clearly accuses Griffin of a violent crime committed twenty-five years ago. If the public were to find out who her husband is,...

"ALICE gets off a bus in the middle of a snowstorm in Delphi, NY. She is fleeing an abusive relationship and desperate to protect.. OREN, ten years old, a major Star Wars fan and wise beyond his years. Though Alice is wary, Oren bonds nearly instantly with.. MATTIE, a social worker in her fifties who lives in an enormous run-down house in the middle of the woods. Mattie lives alone and is always available, and so she is the person the hotline always...

"A quiet, plain child, Della Paige grew up almost unnoticed by the world around her. Swept off her feet by a local star athlete, she found herself married soon after graduating from high school. Then began a decade long nightmare of unspeakable abuse. This is Della's courageous story of survival and rebirth. "--back cover

"When home is supposed to be a sanctuary, for Melissa, home is instead a field of battle. Before Raymond married Melissa, he promised as a husband to love, honor, and cherish his soon-to-be wife. But soon after they are married, Melissa discovers he's not the man she thought he was. Melissa realizes she entered a life of deception, abuse, and madness. When circumstances heat up, things begin to unravel in their marriage and family life. As a Christian...