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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.
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”...
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.
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.
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...
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?
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.
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.
Aaron Jarvis is commissioned to write a travel piece about the perennial appeal of desert islands and visits the San Blas archipelago off the north coast of Panama. The indigenous Guna Yala are swamped by rising sea levels and tourism and nothing is what it seems. After a huge storm a body is found.
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
A Seer with a recipe for quince jam convinces food-loving Queen Catherine of France to protect a gastronomic society from the church who seeks to destroy the hidden library of the Guild of Ultra Tasters. But the Court of France becomes suspicious when the Seer predicts the death of a royal.
Mother's Beads tries to capture how traditions, politics and love influenced the lives of the women in the story both in positive and negative ways. How the struggle of one woman, continued to impact the lives of the successive generations.
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...
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.
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.
Tyler, a disenfranchised American expat, is trying to survive his first-year teaching in the Korean Hagwon system. As his self-isolating, culture-shock induced depression gets worse, however, he will need to draw on new resources to manage his deteriorating mental condition.
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.
Eight years ago, four girls are driven off the road and plunge into a river. Only three come out. But that isn’t what they tell the police.
Finlay’s ex hires him to follow her abusive husband, but then the husband disappears with one of the kids, and Finlay learns the child could be his.
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...
