malicious accusation

"Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other"--Publisher.

In 1924 Denver, private investigator Annalee Spain becomes the suspect in a murder when she offers her lace handkerchief to a distraught woman in a local library, whose husband is later found murdered. Battling a corrupt police force filled with Klu Klux Klan members searching for a way to bring her down, and the disappearance of her boyfriend Jack, a pastor, Annalee must rely on her faith and wits to weed out a growing list of suspects, stay one step ahead of her enemies, and find Jack.

When two Black siblings, Reed and Olivia, are accused of crimes they didn't commit, they must find a way to prove their innocence, in this novel exploring the pain, truths, and hopes that come with growing up as a person of color in America.

"Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other"--Publisher.

Elsa Roth's life at a seaside marine biology facility is about to change. There are new arrivals at Seaside Sanctuary: a group of river otters. But the adorable animals aren't the only newcomers; a new group of volunteers is also starting at the sanctuary. When a new boy named Anson shows up in the group, Elsa is less than thrilled. He's nothing but rude and doesn't seem at all interested in animals. But soon Elsa has bigger problems on her hands. One by one, the otters start disappearing. Can Elsa get to the bottom of things before more animals go missing?.

When globe trotting troublemaker Delilah Dirk and her friend Selim are accused of espionage against the British crown, they must clear their names, even if it means returning to respectability.

When globe trotting troublemaker Delilah Dirk and her friend Selim are accused of espionage against the British crown, they must clear their names, even if it means returning to respectability.

An account of the Duke lacrosse team rape case illuminates the ever-widening gap between America's rich and poor, and demonstrates how far the powerful will go to protect themselves.

Normalcy on Drummond Square disappears after Skunk Cunnigham, a young girl, witnesses her neighbor, Bob Oswald, beat teenager Rick Buckley while Ricky was washing his car in his family's driveway.