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A young Amish man named Jacob gives his grandmother a ride on his buggy so she can visit Mary , an elderly neighbor who is not feeling well. Mary asks Jacob to fix a minor repair in her house, which he does. She is planning a trip to visit a nearby pond, and relive memories of her long-dead husband on their anniversary. In poor health, Mary is determined, but may need Jacob to give her a lift. This would mean he had to give up a long awaited first date with Amy, since Mary's anniversary is the same day, and she knows she probably won't live to see another one...

Elizabeth gulped back the lump of nervousness in her throat. Before her mother had passed away so unexpectedly, it had been her intention to bring the three youngest with her to Wyoming where her betrothed waited patiently for her arrival.For over a year, Elizabeth had been writing Stephan Carey, a rancher whose letters filled her with warmth and promise. He was more than she had ever expected to find in the pages of a matrimonial column and yet he seemed to display everything she had ever wanted. Elizabeth's mother had lived a long, hard life, particularly after the death of the children's father, one year after Franklin was born. Priscilla Danvers had worked very hard as a chambermaid at a hotel to provide for her nine children but it had never been easy. Elizabeth had proposed to her mother that when she married, she would take with her Franklin, Ivy and Anne to give Priscilla some reprieve. Stephan had agreed to the arrangement, being raised in a home for boys. He had never known the benefit of having siblings and he was eager to start a family of his own. But do they both know what they're getting into?

Lizzy is part of an Amish family whose grandfather receives notice that a distant relative has left him some a considerable amount of money. The members of their family soon allow the dollar signs to cloud their Christian values. Even the conservative grandfather allows himself to be seduce by the thought of distributing the money as he sees fit, which includes fixing various things around the town such as the church and school. Will they allow the thought of extreme wealth to poison their values? Will Lizzy let the money get in the way of her new romance?

Mary asks her grandfather about her the history of her family and he tells a tale that touches her in a way that is both surprising and hurtful for them both as he remembers the past. The more research Mary does, the better she understands both her Amish culture and what it takes to sustain a marriage for as many decades as her grandparents did.

Phoebe is content to live in her quiet town of Salem and enjoy her family...until a tragedy shatters her dreams...When two college woman are murdered in her town, Phoebe begins to realize who the number one suspect could be...her own husband...she discovers so much about him that she never knew and begins to fear for the life of her younger sister as well as her own...

Gable was a germaphobe who spent her days obsessing about her home and the environment. She would move out of her marital home for two years after the death of her mother only to return to find her husband with another woman. Now kicked out of her home, Michelle would begin a stalking campaign to rival Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction", ultimately leading to her breaking into the house with two high-caliber pistols.

The name "Vanishing Triangle" refers to the triangular shape of the location in the eastern part of the island, all within the boundaries of the Leinster Province. The unofficial list for the missing women in the Vanishing Triangle consists of six women, but a total of eight women have been reported missing within the same time frame and location of the others. Some speculate that, because of the similarities and oddities of the eight women's disappearances, they all became victims to a serial killer who frequented the Leinster Province during that period.

Penelope's father had been her world. Someone to look up to, to idolise. If he hadn't been at the saloon that day he might still be alive - and if the Sheriff had listened to her when she told him there was a fight at the saloon, if he had just taken her seriously and responded when she had ran to him crying, perhaps both of her parents would have made it out alive.Now the Sheriff was in her care. She finds herself feeling remorseful for how cold she had been to him for all these years and begins feeling attraction. He looked so handsome, so beautiful, when he smiled.Penelope fought back a cough and turned away. If only banishing those thoughts was so easy. To occupy herself she knelt in the soft grass, on the edge of a flower bed. Vibrant marigolds bloomed, though they were being overtaken by weeds. No matter how often she plucked the soil clean, they returned.The earth shifted as the Sheriff knelt beside her. He sat close, though not close enough to touch her. Even so it felt too close, both exhilarating and terrifying...

A young Amish woman named Mary agrees to marry a gravely wounded Civil War soldier calling himself Abraham Miller. They have a wedding before he dies, thereby giving Mary the rights to his land and giving Abraham the peace of knowing someone will care for his younger brother after he's gone--a convenience for both of them.After the war, Mary fulfills her side of the bargain--until the real Abraham Miller shows up, injured but definitely alive, and he wastes no time in challenging Mary's story.

Dinah is broke and alone. Left alone with a young son, she grows tired of everyone looking down on her. Things only get worse when her son becomes gravely ill. Unable to afford to go to a doctor, Dinah takes fate into her own hands. She kidnaps the handsome Dr. Tucker and forces him to aid her son. Dr. Tucker was a busy man. Looking for a mail order bride, he soon finds himself looking down the barrel of a gun held by one of the most beautiful women he's ever seen. But will Dinah be too unstable for him to assist and will she forgive him if her son does not turn out well?

The charges pursued against Adele Craven turned into, at the time, one of the longest running and most expensive criminal cases in Cincinnati history. It is still a crime surrounded by uncertainty, despite confessions from three people. Adele's involvement is held in doubt in many quarters.Imagine she was not involved - the horror, the insanity of going through firstly the death of a spouse, followed by years of stress and tension. Ultimately facing the prospect of life in prison, or worse, the possibility of parole deep on the horizon while the most important people in your life, your children, grow up apart from you.But if she was responsible for murder, and that is what the courts decided in the end, then how callous to take a father away from those children, to risk their upbringing, their security because of passion and dollars. In this case, the love of money really would be the route of all evil.

Three decades after a murder that shook the city of San Diego to its core, residents and visitors are still reminded of the tragic slaying each time they drive down Interstate 15. Near Mercy Road, where 20 year old San Diego State junior Cara Knott was killed in 1986, hangs a sign that reads "Knott Memorial Bridge." The killing was difficult enough for the community to swallow - a young, beautiful woman, full of potential, never even lives to see her college graduation. But what made the murder even more horrifying was the arrest that soon followed. California Highway Patrol officer Craig Peyer, who had pulled the student over as she'd been driving home, was charged with killing Cara Knott.

Alexandria is a young Amish woman that has been stricken with a disease which devastates both her and her boyfriend. Searching for answers, her boyfriend seeks out a doctor that can help with the affliction even if it means enlisting the aid of a former childhood enemy. Alexandria then struggles with both a future of possible paralysis and whether or not she can remain a viable marriage option for the man she loves so much. Will he be able to love her beyond his own convenience?

Gwen is freshly widowed after marrying a rich man who has left all of his wealth to her. Upon his death, she finds herself besieged by men of all ages, all wanting a piece of her money. Lonely and without legitimate company, she decides to answer a mail order bride advertisement and move to the wild west. Her new husband is a hard working farmer who soon finds himself in dire straits financially. Gwen wants to help but she doesn't want to reveal to her new husband how wealthy she really is as she lied about being a rich widow. What will she do when the bills come due and her poor husband is at his wit's end?

The disappearance of Lauren Spierer headlines this True Crime anthology of strange disappearances. Lauren was a twenty-year old college student when she disappearanced in June of 2011. The case has become one of the most mysterious unsolved crimes in modern U.S. history as authorites and amateur sleuths alike struggle to find out what happened that night she walked out of a bar only to be never seen or heard from again.

From the side angle of his most recent mugshot, Harvey the Hammer still looks like the murderer he is. Flat of nose, shaven headed, protruding chin on his jowly, hanging face, this now old man still retains the features of a childhood nightmare.But from front on, we see his eyes. They are overhung by flabby eyebrows, and sitting deep inside their sockets, seem dark and broody. There is a half-smile on his face. Not a smirk, not a smile of smugness, but a smile of acquiescence. The face lacks symmetry. One eye sits higher than the other, the nose is twisted to one side, no doubt the result of one or more of the many fracas that have littered his life. The lines dripping from his nose are of different lengths, the wobbling flesh they hold back a dull, dusky pink.But it is the eyes which call you. Another of the monikers attached to this vicious rapist and killer is the 'Want Ad Murderer', because he would sometimes find his victims through ads placed in the local press. They are eyes full of want. Not desire, note, but need. From this front on view Harvey Carignan changes. He is the cuddly great grandfather who would envelope our kids in hugs and slobbery kisses. He is the man who knows he has little time left and is scared by that thought. Maybe even a man with regrets. We might feel for him. Almost...Until you find out what he did...

Edward is a self-made tech billionaire living in California. He has everything that money brings; real estate, vacations, cars, women but is missing one thing : love. He begins to feel an emptiness in his soul and begins to attend church, seeking to feel the void with something spiritual. He begins to change and lose a lot of friends that never really were...but at church he meets a southern girl, Daphne...Daphne is down to earth and sweet, unlike any woman he's ever met...Edward begins to fall for her until she herself starts to change when she experiences the luxurious California lifestyle he can provide. Can the two find God and experience a love for one another that they both want so bad? Or will keeping up with the Joneses be their ultimate fate forever?

Patrick Mackay had killed at least eleven people in his short life, including a four year old child, a nanny, an elderly priest and an 89 year old woman. Today, the killer has been in prison for forty four years. That makes him the longest serving inmate currently serving time in a British jail. He is slightly ahead of the notorious Michael Peters. While, that is not a name which may be familiar to all true crime aficionados, his alternative identity - Charles Bronson - will. (Peters even spent a spell known as Charles Salvador in recognition of the artist, Salvador Dali, whose work he admired). Other long servers include, until he died recently, Moors murderer Ian Brady, and Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.But given that Mackay killed many more people than either Brady or Bronson - in fact he is one of Britain's most prolific serial killers - how it is possible that he is not better known?

Reynolds is a down on his luck private detective who spends his days touring dive bars. His life is as tepid as the old drunks sitting next to him until Lucille walks in to the bar. Someone is stalking her and it isn't just an ordinary person. It is a vampire with a grudge...something that Reynolds knows all too well.

To commit murder is an act beyond the comprehension of most people. But to do so, and then obliterate the memory of the victim seems a step further down in the basement of human activity. This is what happened to Holly Maddux, a pretty, popular thirty year old from Tyler,Texas. Although it soon became apparent who her killer was, it would be twenty four years before he was finally brought to justice, and made to pay penance for his crime.In that time his actions laughed in the faces of the forces of justice, and in doing so, mocked the memory of his victim.

Law enforcement do not often look to older women when they are seeking out suspects. For two decades, this fact kept Tamara Samsonova off the radar of police investigators. In photographs, she's a thin, frail woman with a mess of blond-brown hair and watery brown eyes. The wrinkles on her face and hands and reminiscent of any innocent old woman off the street. Tamara Samsonova looks as benign as the old woman next door who used to let you play in her yard when you were a child. The shocking reality of Tamara Samsonova, however, is much darker and more twisted than investigators and the general public could possibly imagine. The media took to calling her "The Granny Ripper", and the nickname is not unwarranted.

An Englisch doctor comes to an Amish town to help out during a flu outbreak...Not looking to find romance, he can't help but see a kindred spirit in the beautiful Caitlyn and he becomes drawn to her religious beliefs as much as her pretty face.But despite being rich and successful, the good doctor doesn't think he's good enough for Caitlyn. And some of his fellow suitors agree. Meanwhile, Caitlyn is being forced to choose between a few men that her mother has chosen for her while secretly pining for the freedom in the Englisch world that the doctor represents. Will they overcome the obstacles and follow their hearts?

There can be many reasons why someone will commit murder. Many do it for money, for revenge, or simply because they are evil people. Some people commit murder for love, but it is a rare case when someone commits murder out of fear. Such was the case in Pinelias County, Florida when the life of a young woman is turned around all because of a man who is not what he seems. And the consequence of this relationship is the death of someone she'd never even met before.

Michael is now a Sheriff and he returns to the Amish town of his birth to search for an escaped felon. Once there, he once again meets the acquaintance of his childhood sweetheart, Lovina. They had vowed to be best friends forever until circumstances split them apart. Now they are reunited but can their young love be rekindled after life has hit them with so many slings and arrows?

The sister of a missing teen crowd funds a web series that will help her investigate the disappearance of her sister. Her videos go viral but after each episode a mysterious e-mailer sends her a different clue...clues that only a killer would know...as she chronicles her investigation and makes increasingly disturbing discoveries, she begins to realize that she's going down a path that may lead to her own death.

When you take a closer look at the list of the bloodiest and most violent murders throughout the history, the chances are you will mostly encounter male names. Female serial killers are incredibly rare in our society. Women are unlikely to go out on a random killing spree and injure more than one person in a cruel way. When women do kill, they prefer using poison and their motives are very personal and driven by passion. Of course, there are always exceptions to the rule like Aileen Wuornos who became the most famous female serial killer. She shot and killed seven men in Florida over the course of several years. You can only imagine the shock that spread through Peterborough, a small town in the eastern part of England when bodies started showing up in ditches over the course of several days. The investigators discovered that three grisly murders were committed by Joanna Dennehy. She was troubled but her life to that point only involved drugs and alcohol, at least to those who didn't know her well. Something happened and she simply snapped, going on a killing spree that frightened the entire Cambridgeshire, as well as the rest of the Great Britain. Her erratic behavior that escalated during those two weeks while she was on a prowl continues to puzzle experts and the law enforcement to this day.

Gigi is a young woman who wants desperately to leave her small town...But everyone is forbidden to do so by the preacher who seemingly has everyone under his control. Her older brother escaped buthas now gone missing in the outside world. His girlfriend comes to the town, determined to findsome answers...she joins forces with Gigi and they discover things about the preacher that he'd neverthought anyone would discover...and they now find themselves wanting to escape their town morethan ever...but can they?

Emily is a woman in her thirties who had left the Amish community years ago because of a pregnancy outside of marriage. Now divorced, she seeks to once again enter the community that has shunned her in the past and make peace with James, the man that she once betrayed.

Mary is an Amish young woman who has her entire life planned out: she was going to marry Mark and they were going to be happily ever after. But then life throws her a curve ball, Mark decides to marry someone else. Mary is more than just heart broken, she feels as if she should give up on romance altogether. It is only a short time, however, when she starts to receive attention from Luke, a new arrival in the community. He's handsome and polite...but will he be just another man like Mark?

After six years of living as an Englischer, David Schmidt finally returned home to Bird-in-Hand, hoping to reconcile with his estranged family. He had made some pretty bad choices in life, and one of them had been Kate. He knew all too well he would not be welcomed with open arms, but he was willing to do what needed to be done to find forgiveness.And it was Mary Weber, the Bishop's daughter who made the biggest difference of all. She stood up for him when no one else was willing and she showed him that there is redemption to be found. With a few weeks to Christmas, their relationship started to grow stronger, but he was still not sure how he truly felt about her. Was this a friendship, or was it something more, and then Kate shows up a day before Christmas...