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Title: No One Can Know Author: Kate Alice Marshall Narrator: Karissa Vackers Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, General Fiction Format: Audiobook Listening Length: 10 hours and 15 minutes Date of Publication: January 23, 2024 Description:  Three sisters, two murders, and too many secrets to count. Fourteen years ago, the Palmer sisters—Emma, Juliette, and Daphne—left their home in Arden Hills and never returned. But when Emma discovers she’s pregnant and her husband loses his job, she has no option but to return to the house that she and her estranged sisters still own . . . and where their parents were murdered. Emma has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect. But her presence in the house threatens to uncover secrets that have stayed hidden for years, and the sisters are drawn together once again. As they face their memories of the past, rivalries restart, connections are forged, and, for the first time, Emma starts to a...

River Strong Author: B.J. Daniels ISBN: 9781335508140 Publication Date: December 26, 2023 Publisher: Canary Street Press Book Summary: For two rival families, the only thing that matters more than land…is love. There’s a lifetime of tension between the McKenna and Stafford ranching families, and Oakley Stafford has the bullet scar to prove it. Defying the bitter rivalry between their families, Oakley grew up thick as thieves with Duffy McKenna. But now the Staffords and the McKennas are competing to buy a neighboring property. Both need that land desperately—and the reasons are more dangerous than Oakley knows. But there’s another unspoken rivalry, too, between Duffy and Pickett Hanson, the McKenna family’s ranch hand.  Once upon a time, Oakley ignored the way the two handsome cowboys playfully flirted with her, but now she’s untangling complicated feelings that could upend years of friendship. And when a body is found on the contested ranch, their secrets will be forced into the o...