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1) Silver Thaw
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
When Jeb Sterling comes to her rescue after a cold snap leaves her and her 6-year-old daughter temporary homeless, Amanda Banning, trying to start a new life after escaping from an abusive marriage, has no idea just how much this kind and compassionate man will change her life.
Author
Series
Butternut Lake volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Fleeing her abusive husband, Mila arrives in Butternut Lake and takes a job as a home health aide to a sullen patient who is haunted by the accident that nearly killed him.
Author
Series
Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Although Danielle Harding thought she and her son were finally safe the day her abusive husband died, the danger has just begun as she is being tracked down by a mysterious man who believes she has something important taken by her deceased husband.
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—hailed by Publishers Weekly as “a storyteller of immeasurable diversity and talent”—presents the first book in her Three Sisters Island trilogy.
When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she’s finally found refuge from her abusive husband—and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months...
When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she’s finally found refuge from her abusive husband—and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months...
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2007
Language
English
Description
Given to her husband by her father in order to settle a debt, London, a breathtakingly beautiful immigrant from Trinidad, is tired of her husband's abuse and, searching for a way out, meets a young thug named Kalil who introduces her to a world she never knew existed.
10) Fractured
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 2
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A superior crime novel.”—The Washington Post
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Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC
Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
11) Someone like me
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A gentle, devoted mother hides the dark and malicious side of her personality until it takes control, triggering devastating consequences.
12) Nettle & Bone
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother and an enigmatic gravewitch and her familiar.
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is abducted by a Buffalo Soldier, a bounty hunter named Max is contracted to go after them and bring her home. Finding out that she fled from an abusive husband, Max is faced with the choice to finish the job or look the other way while ruthless assassins and his longtime rival, Joe, close in.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wrongly arrested after fleeing her abusive husband's home, a mother desperately fights corrupt authorities to recover her stolen children; while a man across the country hears the story on the news and identifies links to similar events in his own past.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Worrying about the psychological consequences of her brother-in-law's domineering personality on her increasingly traumatized twin, an unassuming woman joins an internet support group for victims of abuse and begins to question her own judgment when a new acquaintance is killed and her brother-in-law dies under suspicious circumstances.
17) Monstrous
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A terrifying new horror awaits Laura and her seven-year-old son Cody when they flee her abusive ex-husband and try to settle into a new life in an idyllic and remote lakeside farmhouse. Still traumatized, their physical and mental well-being are pushed to the limit as their fragile existence is threatened.
Author
Language
English
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Description
To escape an abusive marriage, Frankie Saunders flees across the country to Los Angeles with her reckless, profane Aunt Daisy, who will do whatever it takes to settle old scores and resolve the past - no matter what the damage, forcing Frankie to make some hard choices.
19) City of the lost
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Escaping to an off-the-grid domestic violence shelter community with her best friend, whose ex-husband has targeted them both with violence, homicide detective Casey Duncan investigates a first murder in the community and realizes that she may be in greater danger than before.
Author
Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence and is rescued by former love Lars, who helps her seek a cure and outmaneuver corrupt authorities.
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