A professor, a housewife, and a mechanic walk into a gym… and walk out as partners in a twist of fate they never saw coming! Katherine wasn’t looking for anything extraordinary in her life. She had a job she loved, a husband she adored, and a home in the beautiful seaside town of Moonstone Cove. Okay yes, she worked too much and had fallen out of touch with all her friends, but that happened to everyone, right? And sure, she was feeling a little creaky in the mornings and couldn’t drink coffee after noon, but that was just life at middle age. Four minutes was all it took for fate to run away with anything that resembled normal. Now Katherine is trying to fit mysterious psychic visions into her previously ordered life. She’s playing referee between a displaced Southern mama and a sarcastic mechanic with a chip on her shoulder. And her quiet life has been upended by a mysterious rash of violent acts by students at her school. Thankfully, her new friends have powers of their own, and together they just might discover who or what has it in for the quiet citizens of Moonstone Cove. Runaway Fate is the first book in the hot new Paranormal Women’s Fiction series, Moonstone Cove, by USA Today best-selling author Elizabeth Hunter. It’s fiction for lovers of magic, mayhem, and a solid afternoon nap (when they can squeeze one in).

A runaway bride walks into a bar…and finds her fated mate! Security Chief Duncan has just about given up on finding love. Almost everyone around him has paired up, but he’s still a lone wolf. Until a woman in a wedding dress appears in the doorway of his favorite watering hole… Elizabeth fought her way out of her old-fashioned pack. About to turn forty, she’s ready for a new start in the shifter town of Greysden. She’s ready to be independent and to finally live life on her own terms. What she’s not ready for? An overprotective wolf who claims she’s his mate the minute she steps paw in her new town. It's getting harder and harder to reject Duncan when he’s around all the time, being the friend she needs. And when danger from her past comes calling, Elizabeth needs to make a decision: accept her fate or run away. “Runaway Wolf” is a steamy midlife paranormal romantic comedy with strong women, cinnamon roll shifter men, and a town full of nosy matchmakers determined to help everyone find their happily ever after. Bite-Sized Shifters”, a series of paranormal romantic comedies you can read in just a few hours. Each book in the series is standalone featuring a mature couple, steamy scenes, a lot of fur and claws, and a guaranteed HEA.

She had her life all planned out; fate had other ideas. Fate Interrupted How did an accomplished Southern businesswoman, wife, and mother end up living on California’s Central Coast, newly divorced, working for a stubborn winemaker and wrestling with sudden psychic powers? Megan Carpenter asks herself that same question nearly every day. She’s working her way back to the business world and starting her own event-planning business, but fate keeps throwing Megan curveballs. Her ex has an unexpected new girlfriend, her telekinetic powers keep short-circuiting, and her self-control—at least when it comes to her boss, Nico Dusi—is slipping. Thank goodness she has the two best friends in the world. With Katherine and Toni at her side, Megan is determined to keep her plans on track even when an unexpected theft at the winery threatens the new business she’s building. When Nico asks Megan, Toni, and Katherine for help finding the thief, life in Moonstone Cove gets even more mind-bending with experimental grape clones, industrial espionage, and bizarre bloodstains. Even for three psychic friends, this mystery may be more than they can handle on their own. Fate Interrupted is the third book in Moonstone Cove, a paranormal women’s fiction series by USA Today best seller Elizabeth Hunter, author of the Glimmer Lake series and the Elemental Legacy.

She’s an empath who’s always prepared, but can she handle a supernatural storm of lies, temptation, and murder? Toni Dusi grew up knowing everyone’s business and everyone knowing hers because in Moonstone Cove, you can’t pass a restaurant, farm, or winery that doesn’t have at least one Dusi involved. Despite her family, Toni has managed to carve out a private niche for herself. She has a car shop she loves, a country cottage all to herself, and has carefully avoided any long-term romantic commitments. Then fate handed Toni a shot of supernatural empathy that threw all that out the window of her prized vintage Mustang. Now she’s feeling the mood swings of everyone from her parts guy to her reluctant crush to her second cousin going through a messy divorce. She’s losing her temper, she’s crying a river, and she’s definitely giving in to temptation. But when the body of a longtime family rival turns up at her cousin’s winery, Toni realizes her inconvenient feelings-magic has turned her into one heck of a lie detector. She and her new friends, Katherine and Megan, might be the only ones who can clear her cousin’s name. When fate throws a final curveball in Toni’s direction, will she drop everything with disastrous consequences? Or can a forty-one-year-old empath learn enough new tricks to keep the life she’s built without sacrificing new happiness? Fate Actually is a paranormal women’s fiction novel and the second book in the Moonstone Cove series by USA Today best-selling author Elizabeth Hunter.

Can a love that spans lifetimes be ignored? ​Two people on seemingly different paths, Emery and Rose come from vastly different backgrounds and places in the world. Emery is a wealthy Englishman feeling pressure from family ties to marry his childhood friend Juliet. The very spiritual Rose lives a comfortable life in small-town America with her more analytical husband, Phillip. But both Emery and Rose are inquisitive, and their search for answers to their unique problems and curiosities about life lead them to the same past-life regression therapist, who helps them see that their past lives are connected. Will their future lives be? As Emery and Rose experience regressions that reveal their conjoined previous lives, they discover even more intersections that are difficult to ignore, disrupting and complicating their present lives in ways they would have never expected. This engaging love story is not without its fascinating moments of darkness—for instance, a murder in a fit of jealousy. Told from Emery’s and then Rose’s point of view, The Persistence of Fate is about tragic loss, forgiveness, enduring love, and the decision between a certain path and an uncertain one. The first in C.R.C.’s compelling series about timeless love, this novel will leave you eagerly awaiting what the hands of fate have in store for Emery, Rose, and everyone in their lives.

This bold and precedent-setting study details numerous slave rebellions against white masters, drawn from planters' records, government petitions, newspapers, and other documents. The reactions of white slave owners are also documented. 15 halftones.