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Mother's Beads tries to capture the struggles of Jenny's tumultuous past that impacted her life in ways both positive and negative and yet, she still manages to look at her yesterday and it no longer can swallow her.
In the Vei’jah Empire, years are the highest form of currency—and the gods-gifted agents of the White Court are both the tellers and the bank. When an agent questions the White Court’s motives and flees seeking answers, she is forced to work alongside rebels who would sooner see her dead.
An overachieving teenager from a devoted family disappeared eight years ago. No one looked for her. Now, Fin has to. Recovering from a personal tragedy, Fin’s in no condition for this, but he owes this family and cannot refuse, even when his investigation pits him against a brutal gangster.
Three young descendants of the Guild of Ultra Tasters navigate their ancient rules in a modern world, resulting in a series of tragedies and triumphs. They learn that their calamitous family history is never too far forgotten to stir the bitter broth of entitlement, power, and legitimacy.
A Seattle psychiatrist seeks redemption for his past actions by conducting a potentially-criminal psychiatric study in which he enrolls a married, successful businessman whose assumed-dead high school sweetheart has just materialized back in his life.
An accidental overdose deposits a conflicted young woman in a surreal afterlife, but with help from an unlikely cast of souls, and eternity’s least qualified therapist, she might just fine more than eternal peace.
Had I remained a woman what course would my life have taken? A question I can never lay to rest. When I allow my mind to light upon Sara Scott, I think: All the unanswered questions that fall like blossoms to the ground. A memoir by a transman who transitioned long before it became an ideology.
Using her ancestors’ magical gun, Tyrfing, fugitive Hervör hopes to secure her freedom and repay a life debt. However, carrying it comes at a price: bloodlust and an unquenchable thirst for power.
A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder x The Cemetery Boys. 16yo Jodi’s falling for the handsome teenage ghost living in a dollhouse in her attic. Every night she’s transported into the dollhouse and watches his murder re-enacted, determined to find his killer. But if successful, she could lose him forever.
Two struggling curators are tasked with tidying up the library of a gastronomical club in South London. They soon realise that there is much more to this quirky little organisation than meets the eye. They embark on a journey to rural Australia, where they must solve a tragic tale of love and loss.
This is the story of a young boy growing up in the family home living with an uncle that molests him. The grandmother knew about the abuse but did nothing to stop it. The uncle eventually goes to prison for the same type of crime. Throughout his childhood, he is told that he apparently has “female”...
A tiny, calculating, knife-wielding waif is rejected by her adoptive father as his heir and she sabotages his plans in retaliation, but can she live with the consequences?
Former Housewives of Wine Country star Iris Griffin finds herself inescapably linked to her killer husband who's on death row. When she meets her biggest fan, prison nurse Pearl, they discover they both need a way out of their oppressive marriages...even if it involves murder.
Merida, a special campervan made in Portugal, is waiting in Heathrow, London. Alfie arrives from San Francisco with his two dads. Unbeknown to them, they hire Merida and set off to Portugal in search of fossils and dinosaur parks. But on Salema beach, they find much more than they bargained for.
When new laws threaten the safety of mages in Luiavera, assassin Alyx Dellavor will do anything to protect her magic-wielding best friend. Even if that means playing wife to a man she framed for murder and assassinating one of the leaders of her country at the year’s most important political event.
Ash, a phoenix, migrates through Earth millions of years ago, unravelling the truth of our fragmented mythology and history. But he discovers a new kind of animal enslaving creatures beneath the ground. Can the phoenixes prevail in a war against the first race of men?
After the Feds unexpectedly knocked on the door looking for my father, my mental health took a dive. After an invasive investigation later, he pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges and was sentenced to a stint in federal prison. Moving away, I stumbled upon an unexpected saving grace in an eclectic...
One British and one American exchange student meet at university, fall in love, then struggle to maintain their relationship against the trials of long-distance and disconnection. Will it survive?
A DCI fighting severe OCD must confront his lifelong fear and dark past to solve five murders in the corrupt underbelly of dog showing, proving he is worthy of promotion.
Cadet Sophie Allard is one flight away from graduating first in her fighter pilot class, winning the Institute Cup, and gaining the attention of her adopted father, which she desperately seeks. When she disobeys an order to save the life of a fellow cadet, she reports to the Commander's office to...
When Mikael discovers a set of letters from his grandmother’s past, he knows this is his chance to finally get something right. But with Ada’s secret stretching across three continents, a war and a hand-written novel, he soon realises that the truth isn’t always so easy to find...
Everything was wrong in Willie's lonely life; her grandparents, high school, and their isolated way of living. Until she found her mother's old guitar in the basement.
Arwen, a frost witch, is persuaded by a letter to quest for a long-forgotten artefact. But her companions have stronger motivations for taking the prize. Will her frigid heart thaw? Or will she slit their throats while they sleep? Who is the mysterious figure pulling the strings behind the scenes?
TV Reporter Tess Anderson and her pop star lover Jason are chased across the Greek islands by rogue spies, desperate to stop her testifying at the trial of the decade. Tess faces a terrifying gang plundering ancient artifacts, and tragic secrets surface as she fights to expose the truth and survive.
A troubled nineteen-year-old girl with psychological issues discovers that her consciousness can visit the mind and body of her past or future self at any point during her lifetime. Is it a gift? Time travel? Or is it all in her head?
Private investigator, Fin, stole Brice's ledger - a catalogue of every heinous crime the gangster had committed. If Brice seeks retaliation, the book goes to the police. But Brice has something on Fin too. It’s a fragile stalemate, and Brice is looking to break it.
While facing terrifying childhood nightmares and her brothers impending death, Tilly looks back to her past, and fights the suspicion that she's carrying a terrible secret. Yet, maybe she has chosen to forget: a child’s eye refusing to see the reality of what really happened and who was responsible...
Thea’s big sister Ronnie always has her back – until she goes to uni. When Ronnie’s health starts to slide, it’s up to Thea to find the truth. But with falling in love with the new girl at school, she must face her own secrets as well as solving her sister's.
When a genetic scientist is kidnapped through time to 1918, her mutated son is the only one who can rescue her before her captives use her science to change history.
A bright, sensitive Latinx, boy feels alienated on Earth after losing his parents begins to dream of exploring the Cosmos. After reading Jack and the Beanstalk he is inspired to construct his very own Tower of Babel, a stairway to the sky, utilizing the endless stacks of books on his family's farm.
A time travel story about survival and coming to terms with losing home, family and everything that matters, and how unexpected and unlikely friendships make life still worth living
All Cara wants is to be happy again. Three years after her brother took his life, though, feeling happy still feels wrong—until she goes to college. But when shadows start moving independently from their owners, she’s the only one that not only sees it—but also understands their warning.
After growing up in the carnival, the great grand daughter of a Canadian legend, nearly dying at 17, building a business from nothing, almost having my world destroyed by a stalker, while defying the odds as a single mother, life suddenly took a turn when I was forced to face a revelation by a man...
A Seer with a recipe for quince jam needs the Queen of France to protect his gastronomic society from inquisitors seeking to rid alchemy, heresy, and the hidden library of the Guild of Ultra Tasters. The Courtiers of Catherine fear a recipe for disaster when the seer predicts the death of a royal.
Since outgrowing her orphanage, Caderina has crafted a strict plan to create the family she never had. So when a dream reveals a parallel world ruled by a Dreamer Lord and in need of a hero, she ignores the call to action. Both earth and the dreamworld, however, have their own plans for the orphan.
When Mary Jane Barber’s mother dies, and her father decides to move them halfway across the country without asking, she discovers why her family is dysfunctional while walking through the past in her dead mother’s shoes.
