A timely edge-of-your-seat thriller from a debut writer to watch. Caroline is only three months from her great escape — leaving behind her rigid prep school and the parents who think they can convert her to being straight — when her best friend, Madison, goes missing. There’s no question that Caroline will get involved in the investigation. After all, she has her own reasons for not trusting the police, and she owes Madison big time. But Caroline uncovers a wider mystery as she follows the clues, with other missing girls and no one on the case. Why isn’t anyone looking for these girls? And what’s the connection between them and Madison? Could it be . . . Caroline herself?

When your teen years are so messed up, how do you grow up happy? Andy Burton knows a thing or two about survival. Since she was removed from her mother’s home and placed in foster care when she was nine, she’s had to deal with abuse, hunger, and homelessness. But now that she’s eighteen, she’s about to leave Haywood House, the group home for girls where she’s lived for the past four years, and the closest thing to a real home she’s ever known. Will Andy be able to carve out a better life for herself and find the happiness she is searching for?

Sometimes life gives you a second chance when you least expect it. Jessie Jones has been under pimp Spence's thumb for fourteen years when undercover cop Gabe walks into her life and offers her something she's never had before: love, a future, and a home. But even if Jessie could walk away from Spence, there are darker forces of evil who won't let her go that easily. In this romantic suspense, author Heather Huffman delivers an adventure from the vibrant streets of St. Louis to the caves of the Ozarks as Jessie discovers whether she can love another, whether she can love herself, and whether any of it is enough. Throwaway is the first installment in the surprisingly warm and funny series The Throwaways, twelve novels that don’t shy away from the dark corners of this world but always shine the light of hope. At the core of the series is a group of strong but often unlikely heroes and heroines coming from all walks of life whose lives intertwine as they fight for justice, for love, and to leave their indelible mark on this world. Immerse yourself in a world of suspense, laughter, and love with The Throwaways.

A Canadian teenager travels to China to explore her ancestry and search for her birth mother in a dramatic and moving YA novel. Throwaway Daughter tells the story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, whose biggest concern is how to distill her adoption from China into the neat blanks of her personal history assignment. Aside from the unwelcome reminders of difference, Grace loves passing for the typical Canadian teen — until the day she witnesses the Tiananmen massacre on the news. Horrified, she sets out to explore her Chinese ancestry, only to discover that she was one of the thousands of infant girls abandoned in China since the introduction of the one-child policy, strictly enforced by the Communist government. But Grace was one of the lucky ones, adopted as a baby by a loving Canadian couple. With the encouragement of her adoptive parents, she studies Chinese and travels back to China in search of her birth mother. She manages to locate the village where she was born, but at first no one is willing to help her. However, Grace never gives up and, finally, she is reunited with her birth mother, discovering through this emotional bond the truth of what happened to her almost twenty years before.

Born in a small college town in Ohio to an alcoholic father and young mother, this middle child would live through a childhood of extreme poverty with no hope for a future. She somehow found in herself, dignity, self-respect, and incredible moxie that would help her reach her lifelong goals. She finally met the man of her dreams, or so she thought, in her second marriage, all to be thrown away in one tragic night of drinking. Although, not a lavish life, Kimberly has worked endless hours to achieve her dream of owning her own business, all the while raising two children on her own. Plagued by debilitating depression, she dug herself out from the lowest depths of hopelessness, when there was no hope. The true story of a woman's life of struggle, undeniable obstacles, misfortune and the fortitude that would lead her out of the darkest holes of hell.

Since she was thirteen years old, Andy Burton has learned about survival at Haywood House, a group home for girls. Now almost eighteen, Andy must find a new home. Can she build a life for herself and find happiness?

INFIDELITY, SEX, LUST, ENVY, ADOPTION, ABORTION, LIES. While investigating the murder of a popular, small town family man, many secrets are unearthed about William Valentino's past that could have led to his death. As Detectives Scott and Miller, of Morris Hills Police Department, begin piecing together stories of his past, they learn that every suspect they have, including his own family, have a reason to want him dead. The detectives are quickly in over their heads when several more murders take place, including orphans at an adoption event and a police officer in the otherwise quiet town. This suspense thriller will keep you on your toes and have you wondering, are these murders connected? Who was William Valentino, really? And what on earth did he "throwaway?"