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It's 1938, and Betty Morelli is on the run from her abusive husband. When she reaches out to her old flame Harvey Cooper for help, she has no idea what dangers await them on the road. Undeterred by obstacles, she is determined to get out of harm's way and bring her husband to justice. But she may realize too late that trying to escape a man with underworld ties could be a grave mistake.

Children of Iverbourne is a prequel novella taking place 236 years before The Eternal Machine, following the original heroes of the war-torn lands and the difficult choices they must make, all to ensure a better future. A terrified slave, lacking bravery or free will, sent on an impossible journey. A hardened commander of the Eternal prison, taking in his newest inmate. An hours-old baby. A half-crazed Fae, former hero of Borealis, Court of the Humans. Two parents on a journey to deliver their child to Iverbourne, to freedom, no matter the cost.

The Grinch tried to steal Lilly’s Christmas spirit, but he ended up stealing her heart. After graduation, Lilly returns to her grandmother’s shop, ready for another Christmas filled with her loving grandmother. Heart and memories dance around her until a handsome stranger threatens to take it away. Calvin hates Christmas but loves business.

Strong, independent, and successful in her professional life, in her personal life, Emma prefers to submit. When she’s diagnosed with breast cancer, the same disease that took her grandmother at a young age, her world crumbles. Through her submission, she learns to lean on those around her and realizes that maybe she really can have it all. A longtime member and Dominant at Club Equinox, Griffin knows exactly what he wants. What he wants is Emma. When her world is turned upside down and she needs someone the most, he won't let anyone else be the one to hold her.

Jane McGregor will never fall in love again. Her previous relationships all failed, the last one ending miserably. Besides, as an ambitious young microbiologist working in a prestigious lab in Boston, she has other aspirations. Nevertheless, the mysterious freelance photographer, Sam Swift, who just moved in next door, keeps distracting her from her work. To make matters worse, Jane’s boss reassigns her from her current project to a top-secret lab to study a new strain of bacteria. There her orderly life spins out of control when she makes a devastating discovery.

It is possible to be blinded by the light of another human being. Especially one you love. The seemingly happiest people are often hiding the darkest secrets. Smiling through pain many of us could not even fathom, let alone survive. All the while continuing to bring joy to the people around them, blissfully oblivious to the suffering of their loved one.

As a newly minted Queen of Hearts and a high school senior, Aggie has her hands full. Being a demigoddess. Managing her OCD. Prepping for the SATs. And most of all searching for her mom, who has been brainwashed and remade into a bad luck goddess, the Queen of Spades. Aggie needs help from her suit of luck gods to get her mom back. But when a prominent Heart is murdered, the Valentines split into factions and question her leadership—because Aggie is one of the suspects. To prove her innocence and regain her suit’s loyalty, Aggie must solve the murder. Her partner on the case?

Allison Drew is a smart and ambitious government agent whose career is stagnating. Then she is surprisingly assigned a high-profile case that could get her attention. But she isn’t prepared for the web of intrigue and corruption that confronts her when she tries to disentangle a widespread string of crimes involving too much murder and more than a little blood.

High school senior Aggie is ready to concentrate on important things like college essays, science projects, and her secret older boyfriend. There’s one major distraction, however: she’s a demigoddess with the power to control luck. Her mom is one, too—the deadly Queen of Spades. When Aggie discovers how wicked her mother has become, she knows she has to win her back from the evil forces controlling her before it’s too late.

Set in a future where the United States has fallen, Sofia is ripped from her home as a child and forced to endure the harshness around her or else surrender to the dust of bones she treads on. Her life becomes simple: kill or be killed. What she didn’t count on was the heavy cost this world would drain from her soul. When she crosses paths with a curious stranger who offers to show her a place without a map, they head across the crumbling land in search of the fabled Sanctuary.

Only one thing can make veterinarian Noah Cuthbert return to Magnolia Harbor—his mother's failing health. He'll do anything to help his family, including taking a short-term gig at the local animal clinic. What he doesn't count on is getting up-close-and-personal with the clinic's new manager, a woman whose love and compassion for every stray that crosses her path has him rethinking his plans to head back to his big-city life...

Gifted biologist Mary Clare Ryan's car has plunged into the Potomac River. Nicole Ryan suspects that her sister's death was no accident, but when she tries to find out what research Mary was pursuing, Mary's colleagues are evasive, even hostile. Nicole is left with nothing except Mary's plane ticket to Los Angeles and a notebook she'd given Nicole...in case anything happened to her.

I’ve never stepped out of line. I’ve never done things I shouldn’t. Until the day I snapped, executing half my family and reluctantly sentencing my youngest brother to prison. Little did I know a certain Keeper of Death would bring him home, changing everything.

Morgan Travers was little more than a favored intern at a top medical research facility with a bright future ahead of her. She laughed, she worked, she lived, and she’d at last earned the coveted favor of her mentor, Dr. Xi. Morgan was a nobody, but she was going places. Until one choice destroyed everything: her career, her life, her nation. In one horror-filled moment, Morgan Travers became an infamous curse on everyone’s lips.

Under a symphony of explosions and allegiance sung in minor key, a mysterious assassin called Ares rises from the ashes to challenge both leaders and citizens alike. Fear and false comforts hold society in its prison and after so many years of obedience will they be able to open their eyes and grasp onto the change Ares offers them? Ares has plotted patiently and remains steadfast on her path, moving her pawns across the board biding her time for rebellion to ignite. When the clock chimes at last the people will stand behind her or condemn her to face her fate alone.

Sean Mattea was once a preeminent rock singer. From 1993 to 2005, his band, Black Swan, sold millions of records, garnered significant radio airplay and performed sold out shows all over the world. While the stars aligned perfectly to their ascent into rock n' roll immortality, young Sean suffered through the most human of maturations. Personal failures and unspeakable tragedy would accompany him as he struggled to maintain his career.

Stories of the wealthy and magnanimous Rochester Alliance have carried Maddy thousands of miles to reach its gates while hoping it might be the one place that can keep her ghosts out. Except what if the fate she thought long left behind is simply biding its time?

Jenna Deveraux will have to die to learn how to live and have a fighting chance at forging her own destiny. One carved out in blood and shrouded in death. Tonight, she will attend the ball, knowing the man of her dreams plans to ask for permission to call on her. She would be married to Trent Rathborne, the most attractive man she has ever seen and the son of a Lord. The first night of her new life.

Lucas Wolfe has spent his life trying and failing to live up to his father's impossible standards. When an opportunity arises to finally get out from under the old man's thumb, Luke jumps at the chance to land the account of a lifetime. There's just one problem. The potential client's wife has taken a liking to Luke and won't take no for an answer.

Magic always comes with a price. This is the lesson Alex Hendricks, a young practitioner, learns when she is forced to confront a terrifying entity set on claiming her soul for his own. Secrets from her past are revealed, and she must decide whether to meet the entity's demands or sacrifice herself, allowing him to end her life and condemn her to eternal torment. This short tale follows Alex on her journey over the course of two days time as she battles supernatural forces and comes into her own power. But, will it be enough to save her life and retain command of her own soul?