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When Rie decided to walk into the sea, she was saved by a mysterious girl named Ryoka. Through her, Rie rediscovered a new purpose in life, and a passionate friendship. But Ryoka had her own dark past, and their friendship may not be able to withstand the secrets between them. Will either girl survive, when they’ve put their faith in each other?

A young Minnesota housewife arrives at the long tunnel leading to Whittier, Alaska, exhausted from a run for her life after witnessing her husband commit a murder. While earthquake-scarred Whittier is the perfect haven due to its geographic isolation, not everyone is as they seem and most harbor secrets of their own.

Kari, a young woman, has returned to the jungle planet of Dora after 10 years in Earth's schools, determined to unravel the mysteries surrounding the harpies, a misunderstood and vilified species. The harpy resemble creatures out of ancient Earth myth; half-bird and half-human, with graceful human bodies and beautiful and valuable feathered wings.

Lexus' world was turned upside down. As she embraces a life she didn't know could exist, can she live under Mr. Andrews' exquisite control, or will failure cost everything she thinks she wants in life?

Where is the line between agony and pleasure? Lexus Davenport bet everything to dive into the deep end of this unknown world. For weeks, she's experienced agony, in many forms, at the hand of Estate. Now, sitting on the edge of it all, will her new contract bring a new perspective? Will she embrace her alternative path to pleasure? Pain may just be her only relief.

She’s a spectral cynic. He’s a time traveler racing the clock. Amelia Peters doesn’t believe in ghosts. After outing her late paranormal investigator parents as con artists, the natural skeptic wants nothing to do with anything even supposedly spooky. But her long-held disbelief in the supernatural crumbles when she inherits a small-town cabin...and keeps bumping into a handsome specter in the night. Shaken by the mysterious hunk’s disturbing ability to vanish into thin air, Amelia is stunned to discover he’s no ghost, but a traveler who has slipped through time...

When you pull at the thread of questions woven into the fabric of institutionalized thinking, you get a collection of short fictional stories called The Hope and Melvin of Humanity and Other Surprising Short Stories. In the title story, the protagonist, Hope, uncovers common denominators between the powers of big business and the powers of big religion. Along the way, Hope is compelled to decide what she believes.

The year 2533 CE. The only thing Clémence Arseneau has left to steal is her freedom. But after one of her rogue heists threatens to expose her employer’s illegal operations, she must prove she’s not a liability with one final job. Traveling to Tudor England to rob Henry VIII, Clémence begins to suspect there is more to this caper than she was told. And when the opportunity to right a terrible wrong arises, she loses sight of the score, focusing instead on vengeance. But fulfilling her vendetta would have devastating consequences....

In a kingdom where spring has not bloomed for ten years, Andromeda, ex-princess and newly awakened witch, follows a mysterious glimmering road toward the peak of a mountain. She is on a quest to find love; more specifically, to find Talen, the female bodyguard who stole her heart two years before. But Andromeda soon learns that Talen has come to the mountain in pursuit of a quest of her own. She has sworn she will kill the dragon who lives on the mountain’s peak, and if she fails, she will pay with her life.

After a mere two weeks, Lexus Davenport experienced a whole new world and with more money than she'd every had in her life. Now that her prayers were answered, would her perfect world be a dream, or was knowing there was something more be her perfect nightmare, and could she pay the price for another taste? Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to An Exquisite Agony, and experience the compelling world of romantic suspense.

Jill Baker's brother and his friends disappear during a haunted Halloween tour in an old warehouse. She's convinced something sinister lurks inside - hiding in the dark, behind the masks and costumes. As her options to find her brother dwindle, Jill must be willing to face her fear and enter the warehouse if she hopes to uncover the truth. A young adult sci-fi horror short.

At every turn, Jacob has pushed me. His words mesmerize me, and his path guides me to opening embrace my hidden desires to be on display. At every turn he brings me pleasure, but now he's asking for my life. Can I trust him enough to step into the abyss? More importantly, if I do - will I survive, or is it all a mind game?

He does something to me. He has cut away the layers of my hiding spot. He found me. From the moment I met him in person, I knew he would. I knew he was probably the only one who could. He opens my mind so much, he pulls some of the darkest desires out.

Georgiana Bennet lost her sense of taste and smell in an accident, which may cost her the ice cream shop she’s built from scratch. Fighting hopelessness, she revisits happier childhood memories at Lake Okoboji, Iowa, and meets Michal, co-owner of a local ice cream bar.

Katelyn Bates' life used to be boring, until she met Jacob White, the world-renowned hypnotherapist who can enthrall her mind and let him into her darkest secrets. In Becoming His Toy, she let him into her mind until he played her body like an instrument. Is she ready for more? Jacob loves the way he can push Katelyn into the darker recesses of her fantasies as she opens surrenders to him.

From venture capitalist Ben Wiener comes a rollicking debut novel that artfully blends business strategy with murder mystery and keeps you guessing to the very end. Addie Morita, a frustrated young crime researcher, finally gets her big career break when a serial killer targets her successful former classmates from an elite San Francisco Bay Area college. Addie must match wits with both the taunting killer and the intimidating special agent assigned to the case, racing to decipher key clues buried in a famous start-up strategy book - before it’s too late.

When the Great War breaks out, Cecilia Carroway lies about her age and enlists as a pilot. She earns her Ace nickname, but she’s shot down behind enemy lines and imprisoned. She meets motley fellow prisoners Quack, Bert, Sam, Tombstone, and Gooper and enlists their help to break out. Escape is hard enough, but Ace won’t go without sabotaging the enemy’s war machine. Add in Minister of Technology Darko Dor’s plan to kidnap Ace, and Ace Carroway’s chances of survival drop to zero.

Not everything in life is what it seems. When battles are your only options, walking through fire may be your only way back home. The conclusion of Reece and Atlas' story.

Katelyn Bates' life was boring, until the night Justine convinced her to go to a special kind of get-together. What harm is there in meeting new people who have a unique perspective on the world? Jacob White is a world-class hypnotherapist and psychologist with a twist. In his personal life, he loves to put women under erotic trances. When he sees Katelyn from across the room, he's hooked. She is responsive to the words he weaves, and he can't get enough of her. Does she dare risk her own mind to find the height of satisfaction?

For Deanne and her correctional facility work crew, the night the stars fell ended everything. The godlike invaders brought death to any who opposed them. Those that served were changed forever. To save her friends and herself, Deanne will have to find the one creature who dares to stand against the invaders.