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Five years have passed since Essie, Sharon, and Hannah visited their mother’s cottage on the Florida beach. Their children are growing and involved in activities, leaving no time for the sisters to get away to the cottage. Even Sharon’s frightening dream about one of the dying isn’t enough to pull them together. Time apart drives old wedges between them. Essie still has her turn to call back their mother but is in no hurry to do so. Seeing her again would mean for the last time, and she’s not ready for that.

The cottage of Francis Time is guarded by two pirate ghosts, but the ghostly guards are attracting too much attention. The neighbors complain about eerie sounds coming from the cottage and lights that blink on and off all night. Essie Bunny, Sharon Claus, and Hannah Horseman travel back to Florida after the sheriff calls them to come see about the strange happenings in their mother’s cottage. To their surprise, they find unwanted guests have moved in and refuse to leave. The only way to evict the squatters is to find a lady ghost who has been missing for almost 200 years.

Essie Bunny, Sharon Claus, and Hannah Horseman are ordinary sisters with extraordinary families. They have not spoken to each other since a big blow-up at a family event fifteen years ago. When their mother dies, she leaves them a cryptic message, telling them to search for her last wishes on a videotape in their childhood home. She also tells them to set the old grandfather clock to five o’clock and wait for the magic to happen.

Pregnant. Divorced. Alone. Lily witnesses an argument turned to murder. Linked to the crime scene in the eyes of both the police and the killer, Lily’s life is now at risk. As the attempts on her life escalate, Lily seeks companionship in a newly formed Bible study. Through these friendships and a new man in her life she learns she is worthy of love. Will these relationships keep her safe? Or will they provide opportunities for the killer? Lily, Return to Happiness, is the first novella in a new Christian Suspense series by Anna K. Payne.

Growing up, Elli Eversol spent nearly every summer in Sand Dollar Cove at her grandparents’ beach house, working at their shops on the old fishing pier. After a hurricane and Nor’easter damage the pier and the shops nearly beyond repair, Elli returns to town to help rebuild. She even launches the Buy-A-Board campaign to raise funds for the plight. Holden Moore is back in Sand Dollar Cove, too. He broke Elli’s heart years ago, but he’s pulling every Romeo trick in the book to win her back now. Yet there’s more to Holden’s agenda, and it doesn’t include saving the pier.

From USA Today bestselling author Nancy Naigle, Dear Santa is a heartwarming Christmas story about finding your passion for life and love. Angela Carson wants nothing more than to be the third-generation to run her family’s holiday store, Heart of Christmas, successfully. They’ve weathered over sixty tourist seasons, major hurricanes, and urban sprawl, in their old decommissioned lighthouse. But the national chain that set up shop in their small North Carolina town of Pleasant Sands may be more than Heart of Christmas can survive.