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Buried Truths Chapter Nine: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Marishka I am going to call the Captain, we’re going to have to send someone out here and do this by the book.”..
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Buried Truths Chapter Seven: A Mairhshka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book Three by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Are you thinking your Dad might have something to do with this?” Jacob asked. ..
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Buried Truths Chapter Twenty Five: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“I know we are going to be okay, but I really wish this would end.” “I do to sweetie, but I don’t think it’s going to end until your parents are put behind bars with the keys thrown away.” ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Eight: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I looked at Vania who was sitting next to me, and saw the women she was becoming not the little girl with the big brown scared eyes. Vania had a hard life when she was a baby but now she was becoming a young woman, no longer that little girl. Vania had always seemed older than her age, but we had fo..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Eleven: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Captain send me in, they are going to be less intimidated by an officer in a chair.” ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Fifteen ( A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3) by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
"It's her Sophia, I am sure it's her..."..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Five A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Marishka we got to stop pointing the finger and start doing something. If you are right, we need to see who did this and make sure they never get to hurt another child. If they did this to Ana, who knows what they might try to do to another child.”..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Fourteen: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I got a weak smile in return, but even that small gesture was a gift.....
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Buried Truths: Chapter Nineteen A Mariska Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Yeah, I am just having trouble soaking it all in, it’s her Jacob, it is really her. Anna has come back from the dead, that is the way it feels like it.” br..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Seventeen: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Those secrets have destroyed all of us.” Sophia said, as we read through the journals. “The secrets showed us that our parents really did not love us, instead they wanted to use us as pawns in some sick game they have been playing since before we were born.”..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Six: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I held Jasmine thankful for the sweet little girl that had become part of our family. Jasmine and Vania taught me so much about love and life, all our children did, but thankfully Ana and Ahab not been through the rough times that Vania and Jasmine had. ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Sixteen ( A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3) by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
"Mother it's more than that. I am not three anymore. Are you going to talk to me?"..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Thirteen: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“M.O.M” Even that was a struggle, but I was glad to see that she was trying. Ana was a fighter like everyone in my family, and that was what pulled her through this far. I knew that. ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Thirty Four A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I look at the lights of the city, the city that was made even more famous by Elvis and Rock and Roll and I found myself feeling grateful, not because I am in this famous city, but because I am closer to getting my niece the help she needs. Closer to being able to help my sister the way she had jus..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Thirty Three: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“I’ve been feeling okay, but I felt sick when Jasmine was missing, felt weak, tired and helpless.” “Honey we all did then.” “I know.” ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Thirty Two: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“I am sorry, I feel bad that I am not able to spend more times with you guys, but I am hurting right now. I want to be there for you, but I feel like I am abandoning you guys, and I am sorry.”..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Thirty: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Vania it’s not going to come to that.” I said, hoping my words didn’t turn out to be lies...
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twelve A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Suicide by cop, taken to the extreme. ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Jasmine made sure she had her favorite dolls. I was happy that my family was together and happy, and I could only pray that our Father would not somehow find us, and ruin our lives, or litterally kill us. Right now though I was going to remain positve, and make something good come out of something ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty Eight A Marishka Tanya Alexei Myster Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Vania was perspective, and I could not lie to her. I just really did not feel this was the time to get into this. Right now Vania and I were tired and hungry. I needed to stop looking at the shadows of trouble, and start focusing on my life. I needed to stop letting my Father control my moves l..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty Four A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“We’re in trouble either way.” Sophia reminded us. “We either pull over and walk right into the hands of the killer, or we risk being blown up.” Sophia said. ..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty Nine: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Myster Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“I’ll do that.” Sophia said holding tight to Jelena, knowing that it could have easily been her. She had been asleep on the bed with Jasmine until we pulled into the parking lot of the Super Wal Mart...
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty One A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Ahab is something bothering you?” I asked, gently getting his attention outside of the Motorhome after Jacob and everyone else had left. I wanted to talk to Ahab alone and I was sure that the others understood that, or they were just in an extreme hurry to make sure we had the groceries for the eve..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty Seven: A mArishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I liked traveling, but not when we were being tailed like we were. It was hard not knowing where to stop because we feared that something might happen that it might make us an easier target. The threatening emails had not stopped just because we were monitoring now, if anything it seemed like they w..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty Six: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“I know Mom, I did a lot of thinking when I was in the hospital, even when I couldn’t speak I would do a lot of thinking. I wondered why this happened and why the Lord kept putting us through things like this, and I wondered why someone didn’t see that someone had done this to me. It wasn’t a stroke..
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Buried Truths: Chapter Twenty Three: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“You are Vania, you just don’t want to admit it. You’re humble and that is a good thing, but I certainly don’t think the Lord wants you to hide your gift.”..
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Buried Truths; Chapter Ten: A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mysytery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
“Captain how long ago did we get the call?”..
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Buried Truts: Chapter Twenty Two A Marishka Tanya Alexei Mystery Book 3 by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
I read a poem that Vania had found on the internet and had printed out for me when she was ten, and we were facing Dustin’s kidnapping, we did not know the author of the poem but found comfort in the words...
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Candy Apple Red Corvette by Patrice Lauren
Getting revenge on an old boyfriend is the best. . . ..
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Car Jack by Richard Kallao
original..
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Career Moves by Debra Purdy Kong
This story's inspired by one of my volunteer experiences inside a BC medium-security, men's prison. The piece first appeared in Shred of Evidence in August 2003...
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Cassandra and Dominck Hopkins from The Body Hunters by Raven Newcastle
Here's a backstory of Cassandra and Dominick Hopkins, supporting character's from The Body Hunters...
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Chapter 3 of A Trial of One, the third in The Osgoode Trilogy by Mary Martin
So now you've met Dr. Robert Hawke,who gives the title "A Trial of One" a new and sinister meaning. Back to Harry Jenkins as he leaves the Mercer after seeing Norma Dinnick. He is consumed with thoughts of Natasha, the love of his life. But what's with her? She combines warmth and intimacy but there..
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Chapter One by Bob Liter
A mystery novel with a lot of sexy stuff...
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Chicago Dawn by Linda Mickey
Things are rarely the way we assume they are. All Heather's solid beliefs about who killed her husband are wrong, as she tragically discovers...
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Chicken Legs at the Dollar Tree!!! by Beverly Mahone
I got more than I bargained for at the discount store. ..
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Childhood Shadows by Diane Hundertmark
This is the fictional account of an actual incident I witnessed as a child. Some names have been omitted and others changed. Oh, and I have embellished a bit. This is my first attempt at suspense in Lord knows how many years. Childhood Shadows By Diane C. Hundertmark Her fi..
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Chinese Checkers by Richard Kallao
original..
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Chinese Checkers 4-The Key by Richard Kallao
original..
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Chinese Checkers ll: Spotted Checkers by Richard Kallao
original..
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Chinese Checkers,part lll by Richard Kallao
original..
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Chopped Wood Clean Stove by Evelyn Schulle
True as told by grandparents..
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Claire's French Recipe by . ShyPoet1
As her majestic ship reached a crowded New Orleans dock, a sacred peace awakened her long suffering senses.  The fragrance of post-Civil War New Orleans was unbelievably spicy and the spirit of the city was incredible.  Claire knew she had found her new home.  For so very long, Claire had ..
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Christmas in Killarney by Susan Furlong-Bolliger
Maureen is facing the prospect of a depressing Christmas after her husband Bob loses his job and she's forced to clean hotel rooms. When Bob's former boss is murdered, she thinks there's a chance that the couple's luck has changed. Unfortunately, for Maureen, her luck just got a lot worse..
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Clairvoyance by Franz Kessler
Some call it superstitions, others call it reality... 12 July 2004. It was the overwhelming theme of the day. It haunted the local press on the island for several days. A helicopter, on a commercial flight over remote jungle areas of the island of Borneo, disappeared from the radar screen d..
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Comeuppance by Linda Posey
Published 2005 in the "TechnoNoir" anthology. ..
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Compute This by Alan Cook
Return with us now to those days of big computers in icy rooms with raised floors. But wait--something is terribly wrong.....
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Corrine's Courage Chapter Eleven by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Lord why does he want to do this to me? Why is this man so full of hate? I don’t understand any of this Lord, none of it...
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Corrines Courage Chapter Sixteen by Michelle Kidwell Power In The Pen
Lord get me through this, help me get out of here, I need protection, I need to get out of here safe, and be back with my best friend. Thank you Lord for hearing my prayer. ..
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Corruption Barks by Paul Buroran
Nothing is real and monsters do exist...
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