MARK's novel (unpublished) When his daughter dies from an abortion, a gentle Amish farmer comes unhinged and slays her non-Amish lover. He gets away with it when an evil man is wrongly accused. SECRET OF THE AMISH churns in the backdraft of a high school sex scandal in a small town. As it explores the bond between an Amish family and its evangelical Christian neighbor, the story challenges the notion that God-fearing people are immune to spurning their moral authority. First ten pages,

KIM KASH's debut beach read OCEAN CITY LOWDOWN introduces Eastern Shore Maryland reporter JAMIE AUGUST, who has a talent for unearthing more than her editor wants and a weakness for Ravens jerseys and sparkly underwear. She is assigned to cover the grand opening of a big new housing development in Ocean City, Maryland. But instead of writing about wrap-around porches and rattan furnishings, she uncovers kickbacks and payoffs, blackmail and murder.

book for business-to-business publisher THE ONE TO ONE MANAGER, by Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, Ph.D., is a collection of real-world lessons in customer relationship management. The authors went behind the scenes to report on the challenges and solutions discovered by managers leading one-to-one efforts at organizations such as Xerox, General Electric, Oracle, First Union, Hewlett-Packard, USAA, Levi Strauss, and British Airways.