

FICTION · ROMANCE
Pamela Clare
Natasha Peters is a pesudonym for Elizabeth Jordan, who also wrote as Anastasia Cleaver. Her ideas for her books have taken her to many foreign lands in the East and West, and through the volumes of history and biography. She was also an actress, an artist, a singer, and loved to grow roses.
The young man was stretched out flat in a reclining hospital chair, his bare left arm muscular and brown on the table beside him.
— from The Immortals
Most acclaimed

Dangerous Obsession
Anna had done her best to forget Dan. Since her foster brother so cruelly dashed her hopes of winning his love, she'd tried to eliminate him from her thoughts and from her life. It seemed easy enough--with Dan living in the Bahamas and she studying in England. Only now Dan was back and showed no inclination to keep out of Anna's way. Worse, he made no secret of his attraction to the grown-up Anna. And he had no right to be so jealous of her friend Bryan when his own long-term loyalty lay elsewhere!

Defiant
There would be no Moses, no crossing of the Red Sea, no story of breaking the chains of slavery if it weren’t for the women in the Exodus narrative. Women on both sides of the Nile exhibited a subversive strength resisting Pharaoh and leading an entire people to freedom. Defiant explores how the Exodus women summoned their courage, harnessed their intelligence, and gathered their resources to enact justice in many small ways and overturned an empire. Women find themselves in similar circumstances today. The Women’s March stirred the conscience of a nation and prompted women to organize with and for their neighbors, it is worth reflecting on the resistance literature of Exodus and what it has to offer women. Defiant is about the deep work women do to create conditions for liberation in their church, community, and country. The women of Exodus defied Pharaoh, raised Moses, and plundered Egypt. We are invited to consider what the midwives, mothers of Moses, Miriam, Zipporah and her sisters demonstrate under the oppressive regime of Pharaoh and what it might unlock for us as we imagine our mandate under modern systems of injustice. Kelley Nikondeha presents a fresh paradigm for women, highlighting a biblical mandate to join the liberation work in our world. Women’s work involves more than tending to our own family and home. According to Exodus, it moves us beyond the domestic territory and into relationship with women across the river, confronting injustice and working to liberate our neighborhoods so all mothers and children are free. Nikondeha calls women to continue to be active agents in heralding liberation as we organize and march together for one another’s freedom.

Darkness into Light
Nothing could stop her from loving him! Danny breached the complex security system at the Sutherland estate and sent the new owner into a tailspin. Yet once she got to know the deeply passionate man behind the wall of suspicion, she realized that to Pierce Sutherland, seclusion was more than a haven. It had become a self-imposed prison. "Only a fool takes chances;" Pierce warned. But no matter what forces had shaped him, Danny's heart refused to be ruled by threats. She knew that falling in love held risks. She'd never been fainthearted before--and wasn't about to start now!