Genres : 150-320 Pages

Mary Louise Cason doesn’t believe in Prince Charming; she just writes about him for a living. But when her meddling mother sets her up on a blind date and an old flame moves in next door, she soon finds herself caught between two very charming men who are scrambling for her attention. That’s when the notes begin to arrive. “Tick Tock. I’m watching you.” As tensions rise and the threat escalates, Mary struggles to separate fact from fiction. Though one...

Some destinies are prisons. Some families are curses. And some witches refuse to be tamed.Sage Brighton was born to serve. As a Queen witch, her life – and her magic – belong to an immortal Lady who demands absolute loyalty. Along the mist-shrouded cliffs of the Pacific Northwest, Sage and her twin sister Wren are trained to be the Lady’s most powerful Hands. But behind the family’s shining legacy, secrets fester and rebellion stirs.When Wren’s recklessness threatens to expose them,...

A Deadly Secret Is About to Bloom in Willowberry. Willowberry's dahlia show and competition should be all ribbons, flowers, and friendly contestants. Instead, unpopular judge Dez Colby turns up dead, and Stella and her curious American Bulldog, Rex, are soon sniffing around another murder. Chief Detective Ben Morgan wants Stella to leave the investigating to him. But anonymous messages keep pointing her toward old betrayals and secrets someone desperately wants uncovered. Dez Colby had plenty of enemies. Growers he'd humiliated....

A magical captive. A mysterious elf.And a daring escape that could kill them all.Trapped with her sister under Korrack, a ruthless Mountain Troll warlord, Kestral Wynn survives by skimming coins, all the while hiding a magical secret that could get her killed.She’s spent years dreaming of escape. But when a new caravan arrives—carrying the captured elf Aelion—it throws her plans into disarray.Trolls and elves rarely mix. And Aelion senses Kest’s secret.Helping him risks exposure... but his homeland would be a...

You were not put on this earth to be excellent at work and emotionally unavailable to your own life.Burnout is what happens when you’ve overdone the same life lane for so long you go numb. You’re exhausted, bored, and running on fumes until something shocks you back into feeling alive. Consider this your shock.If you see yourself in this description, this book is for you. It’s your permission slip—and your exit plan—to break up with burnout without breaking up with...

She thought she'd buried her old life. Then she turned the photograph over.Six months after her divorce, former investigative journalist Julia Mercer comes to Sand Dollar Cove to disappear—to drink her coffee on the sand at dawn, to stop being the woman who couldn't let anything go.The little Cape Cod beach town is exactly what she needs: lighthouse and dune grass, a café that knows your order, and seven women past fifty who pull an eighth chair into their morning...

Bad luck seems to follow Grace Fortune wherever she goes. She was orphaned at a young age, and her musical talent got her accepted to a prestigious school for the arts, where she was caught in the middle of horrific school shooting that nearly takes her life.But then she meets gorgeous loner, Jared Lorn, and falls madly in love. There is only one problem. Jared is not exactly human. He's a Nephilim, an angel/human hybrid, descended from a cursed line...

I came back to Ironridge to bury my father. Not to fall apart. Not to stay.The garage he left me changed the first plan. The man who taught him everything changed the rest.Scar. Forty-four. Silver-templed, battle-scarred, and the most respected wolf in the Iron Fang Reapers. He was my father's closest brother. The man who's been alone so long the club stopped expecting anything different from him.He looks at me like he knows exactly what I am — and exactly...

Francesca Costa fled New York to escape a murder charge she didn't deserve. Now she has to risk it all to help a stranger. Frankie Stone disappeared for good reason. An obsessed detective convinced she's a killer. A powerful father is intent on controlling her life. So she built a new life off the grid — no name, no trail, no past.If she's found, she goes to prison.When she witnesses a desperate, abused wife kill her husband in self-defense, Frankie...

"Bit by Bit: Time to join the Block party and get in on the coin-versation" by Mark Venables is an enlightening and propitious guide to the exhilarating world of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. This comprehensive yet accessible volume is poised to be your essential guide as it navigates the often-confusing sphere of digital currency and blockchain systems. It's a must-read for novices and experts alike who have a keen interest in these rapidly evolving tech spheres. The book takes readers...

In Willowberry, some secrets don’t stay buried…no matter how carefully they’re planted. Café owner Stella Ray is ready to help with the town’s annual Garden Tour. Pastries prepped, tables set, and her bulldog Rex already forming opinions about the guests. But when one of the tour’s most demanding hosts collapses in the middle of a garden demonstration, the perfect weekend takes a very dark turn. It doesn’t take long for Stella to realize just how many people had a reason...

Dr. Isak Corell is a curator of dead things, an archivist of Earth’s lost ecosystems. But when he is exiled to the Pavonis Mons colony on Mars, he finds a world on the brink of asphyxiation. The nitrogen is running out. The terraforming has failed. And Earth, governed by a paralyzed bureaucracy terrified of risk, has cut the supply lines.With 500 days of air remaining, Isak realizes the machines cannot be fixed. The only solution is to fix the operator.Partnering...

A wrong turn. A mysterious train. A trip through time that should have been impossible.Cyrus Grieve has spent his life chasing baseball. A veteran scout with an eye for talent and a love of the game, he's seen just about everything. Then, on a scouting trip through rural Pennsylvania, he boards a train and arrives somewhere he cannot explain.Black Springs, Indiana.Suddenly trapped in another time, Cyrus finds himself living inside a mystery that history insists has already happened. As he...

One voice. One beat. One obsession. Under the shadows of Queens, lyricist MC Malevolent and visionary beat producer DJ Loco rise from grimy recording booths to viral sensation. From underground rap battles to spotlight domination, they attempt to build an empire side by side, bound by loyalty forged in hunger and ambition. Until Portia Fairchild, a talented classical pianist, mysteriously steps into their lives with a composed exterior that both men crave. She was raised in a military family and...

He won her heart, but now he might lose his way Without a home to call their own, young Franko and his father, Ringo, lived their lives venturing across the kingdom of Wyverly as traveling merchants. They moved about from town to town finding work and opportunities whenever they arose. They lived a simple and care-free life, sleeping under the stars and letting tomorrow worry about itself. Just the way Franko liked it. But when they are ambushed by a...

Long live the king, but can he find a way to win his mate?Ranger was now a king. Once he hit the rank of general on his home planet, he had known eventually he would be king. But at that time, he had thought he would be a king at home. That just shows that life can change directions easily. He'd found his fated mate and he had no intention of leaving her behind and he knew at this point...

A heartbreaking loss. A life-changing secret. Will the truth bring three daughters closer together or tear them apart? Morgan, Charlotte, and Abby Weiss are filled with mixed emotions. After their beloved mother took her own life without leaving a note, the siblings go through the motions of a funeral while grappling with grief and anger at their parent’s actions. Leaning into their close connection and taking a break from their lives, their men, and their personal issues, they move into...

Her sourdough is to die for... but someone took that literally.Caroline Baker thought she'd left the cutthroat world of professional baking behind when she transformed her grandmother's café into Milburn's most beloved gathering spot. But when her former boss—celebrity chef and notorious food critic Sophia Montgomery—arrives to judge the town's bicentennial baking competition, old wounds are reopened faster than a warm oven.After a very public argument where Sophia threatens to reveal a secret that could destroy everything Caroline has built,...

Witch, Warlock, Whatever…My name’s Devon Jinx, and, yes, I’m half warlock, half witch. But I couldn't care less about which kind of magic is better. All I want to do is keep my head down and get on with my new job as an investigator at the Hunted Witch Agency.A recent, shall we say, mistake, has put me in place to inherit the leadership of the warlocks. Which means only one thing. I have a choice to make: Leave behind...

Every rule says hands off my curvy little office manager. Until her manuscript lands in my inbox… And I read every filthy fantasy she's ever had. About me. She thinks I called her in to fire her. She has no idea what I really want. Because behind these designer suits and this billion-dollar empire, I'm not the man she wrote. I'm worse. I run this city from the shadows. I give orders that end careers—and lives. I have no business...

Sometimes traditions need to be broken. Even at the risk of losing everything. Akira Hayashi seems to have it all but looks can be deceiving. Although she’s the Lead Darling for the luxury lingerie brand Delcinia, she’s been relentlessly shamed for her career choice and pressured to join her family’s well respected real estate brokerage firm. When she meets Trevor Jones, the drummer for Crimson Shadows at Delcinia’s annual Scholarship Charity Ball, she immediately recognizes her soulmate. She’s certain her...

“I’m done waiting around. You’re mine. No more games or pining over someone else when it’s me you want. You won’t remember his name after I get through with you.” Lily knows exactly what she wants in life. To graduate, land a high-paying job, and forge her own way. Nothing will distract her. Until the ultimate playboy, billionaire Sebastian Dubree, barges in. Not to be overlooked, Lily’s longtime crush, Jackson, decides she’s worth the fight. Reluctant to succumb to either,...

Cassie's soul cries for justice yet seeking revenge blinds her from those who care about her. Taking on the load of chieftain, after her brother's death, and the responsibilities that go along with it, including the care of the younger tree trolls, she longs for adult companionship. The majority of her clan had died in the war with the humans and Cassie is traumatized from watching the king's dragons feast on her friends. Trying to survive and control the fortress...

**THE SANCTUARY PROTOCOL**Petra Voss has spent six years white-knuckling every decision in her life — the company she built, the calendar she runs on, the version of herself that never once says *I don't know what I want.* Her husband Callum books them five days at a resort so exclusive it doesn't have a website that actually explains what it is. Just a name. The Sanctuary. And a promise that for five days, her body isn't hers to manage anymore.But...

A luxury yacht. A violent storm. A forbidden island that should not exist. Mia Kennedy, former ER nurse, never expected her one-month contract on a luxury yacht to strand her in a hidden vampire sanctuary built on danger and blood. Jude, the island’s Watcher and protector, senses danger the moment Mia arrives — and the dangerous pull between them threatens to shatter every rule he enforces. But he wants her. As forbidden desire ignites and buried secrets surface, Mia discovers...

Book 2 of the USA TODAY BESTSELLING Death by Chocolate Series.Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her brownies, and drops dead on the sidewalk in front.Next her almost-ex-husband offers to sign the divorce papers, but only if she'll give him her small, old house and take his big, new house instead.Suddenly everybody wants Lindsay's house. Is there oil under the basement, plans to bring the railroad through, pirate treasure...

War Veteran. Used car dealer. Occasional lover of beautiful women. Wanna be amnesiac. Cramden Cooper is back on the street after serving time for fighting over his own little grid coordinate of the war with more enthusiasm than the Top Brass thought was appropriate. Now that he’s out, he's running a predatory used car lot in the seediest part of Denver to exact revenge on a society that’s turned its back on him. All he has left are a few...

Lemmi and her friends are relaxing as much as anyone can in the falling down farmhouse they call home when something shatters their world. A ghost? A troll? Paws actually being quiet? No, it's their friend Liam and he has big news. There's a town ribbon-cutting competition, and fame and glory are on the line. To make matters worse, Lemmi almost gets in an accident when a murdered ghost cuts across her path. To top it all off, Jasper's grandfather...

My ex cheated on me with my best friend. His father made me forget they both exist. I went to collect my things and leave the past behind. Instead, I crashed my car in a snowstorm and ended up snowed in with a man who made me feel more in one night than my ex did in two years. Then I learned his name. Anton Sokolov. My ex's father. Bratva boss. Twice my age. And not the kind of man...

A hands-on barn and field guide designed for quick and easy use, presenting a thorough examination of animals in the barn and then listing symptoms with many pictures of what the farmer is seeing, possible conclusions, and then giving a concise set of treatments. The treatments are ones that Dr. Karreman has found to work consistently well during 15 years in the trenches working with organic cows. Basic backgrounding in the fundamentals for organic and holistic thinking about livestock is...

This collection of essays reveals a carefully organized and convincing explanation by Albrecht about the interconnection between soil, plants and animals that everything is related to everything else. In these papers Albrecht reveals the importance of the balance equation, that it isn't enough to have nutrient to soil connections, it is the ratio of one element to another that counts. Albrecht's insight further reveals that an ounce of prevention in the form of balanced plant nutrition from fertile soils is...

This valuable collection of essays in volume 6 reveals the insights of a brilliant soil scientist who was ahead of his time in connecting the relationship between soil, plants and animals. Read about Albrecht’s substantiated theory and observation that insufficient soil fertility was responsible for poor crops, weeds and thereby a poor diet for the cow in terms of her food choice and her output.

The chemical-based conventional agriculture industry claims that the synthesized concoctions they sell as pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides are safe when used as directed, but does the scientific evidence truly support their assertions? Organic agriculturist and lecturer André Leu delves into a wealth of respected scientific journals to present the peer-reviewed evidence that proves the claims of chemical companies and pesticide regulators are not all they seem. Leu translates technical jargon into layman's terms to break down the five most repeated...

In these times of ecological peril, looming agricultural production problems, and creeping human health disaster it behooves all farmers and eaters to turn attention systems which are time-tested. And “time-tested” means millennia, not mere decades. The several decades since the advent of chemical farming have thrown challenges to ecologies and humans as not experienced in the thousands of years prior. In this multi-authored work readers will connect the dots between the cause of modern disease in toxic farming fields and...

Composting has long been the backbone of a more nature-friendly, healthy form of gardening and farming. Compost Revolution brings a true revolution of thought to this vital subject. This breakthrough content in this book was long available only as first published in German; it is now available to English-speaking world and is certain to bring a fresh spotlight on the efficacy of vermicomposting. The author brilliantly combines classic and cutting-edge research with real-world experience in gardens and horticultural applications. Farmers...

We don't need to poison the earth in order to grow better food, and what is harmful to the environment when improperly disposed of often can be turned back to the soil in a beneficial way through composting—if you know how. Here's how. Malcolm Beck's Garden-Ville is one of the largest commercial composting operations in the country. He shares his insight into the processes of decay that can transform everything from lawn trimmings to sewer sludge into life-giving earth. Coupled...

The practical side of using rockdusts as fertilizers, compost enrichers, and plant growth enhancers is discussed in this exciting book from Acres U.S.A. Beginning with an explanation of the spiritual, cosmic side of rocks and drawing from his extensive knowledge of biodynamic techniques and dowsing, Lisle explains how to utilize these materials in agriculture. Peppered with in-depth quotations from other writings on the forces within rocks, this is destined to be the definitive work on the subject. Life's tenuous connections...

In today's market, range-rearing of swine can provide the family farm with a key venture for diversification and provide a good cash flow - perhaps no other large animal enterprise offers as fast a turnaround on investment. With the informed consumer expressing concerns about the issues with factory farming and willing to pay a premium to get a healthy, quality alternative - range-produced pork is more and more the right answer. This comprehensive book on raising hogs the natural way...

This book belongs in the hands of anyone who eats and wants to understand what it takes to produce healthy food. Through new ideas and a different perspective, Marty shares a winning formula for success in modern family farming. Written by the co-owner of the Spence Farm featured in the documentary, "Sustainable," this book provides the reader with the necessary steps an owner-operator must take to set up their family farm for long-term success. It's a must read for anyone...

Hunted by a killer. Stalked by the wild. In the heart of Yellowstone, survival is the only rule. Jane thought it would be just another day helping her father with his wolf research. But when she witnesses his brutal murder, her world shatters. With his last breath, he urges her to run-and now, lost and alone in the vast wilderness, Jane must navigate Yellowstone's unforgiving terrain.But the dangers aren't only human. A hungry bear, charging bison, and an unexpected blizzard...

Farmer's daughter Maureen agreed completely with her mother's admonition: Never marry a farmer. Her marriage to a science geek with a good job meant a house on a lake and clean hands-until the farmer hidden inside him started scrabbling to escape. What began as a willingness to put up with his buying a tractor and renting a field becomes an all- encompassing endeavor to learn how to drive, raise, train, and work draft horses, grow and sell their crops, care...

Archie Flynn, heartbroken and restless, flees his homeland in search of adventure, freedom, and a fresh start as a digital nomad. His destination? Cartagena, Colombia. But paradise turns to peril when a chance encounter with a femme fatale leaves him drugged, robbed, and broke in a city where desperation breeds bad decisions. Forced into a dangerous game with the local cartel and corrupt cops, Archie’s dream of escape quickly spirals into a nightmare. Just when all seems lost, the enigmatic...

When your teenage son shuts down, pulls away, or answers every question with “I’m fine,” it can feel like you’re losing the boy you used to know.He may stay in his room, disappear into his phone, avoid conversations, snap over simple questions, or act like your care is an interruption.You want to give him space, but you also wonder if you’re backing off too much. You want to reach him, but every attempt seems to push him further away.The Teen...

The definitive true “Southern Gothic” account of the life, crimes, conviction, and execution of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, the charismatic, brutal, well-liked, remorseless South Carolina serial killer who was dubbed the Charles Manson of the South—written by the prosecutor who brought him to justice. Of the hundreds of murder cases that noted South Carolina attorney Dick Harpootlian has prosecuted, one in particular haunts him. Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins was a serial killer and rapist, a master manipulator who claimed to...

Dating in New Orleans is my nightmare. I've had so many bad dates I’ve lost count. Then I meet a guy who’s gorgeous, charming, and kind of turns me on. He actually knows how to hold a conversation and is as sarcastic as I am. After three great dates and a spectacular night in bed, I catch him drinking someone in a dark alley. Yeah. He's too good to be true. Actually, it's a nightmare. Julian Deveraux is a vampire....

At the edge of sanity lies an extraordinary truth. Discovering it may be the last thing she ever doesHannah thinks she’s losing her mind. After hitting and killing a man with her car, his body and blood vanish without a trace. Desperate to prove she isn’t insane, she searches exhaustively until she finds him—alive and unharmed.Taken under the wing of the handsome stranger, she’s stunned to learn he’s part of an ancient race of immortals. But so is his deranged...

She expected to attend a fairytale ball, not become a character in one…When I wake up locked in a tower, my only companions are a bottle of champagne and a terrifyingly large bed. I came here looking for my missing best friend, but now I’m the one who needs saving.Then he appears on my balcony, a dangerously handsome man with silver hair and eyes that burn like indigo fire. He says he’s here to rescue me, but he’s looking for...

A cozy Irish mystery where ancient magic meets modern murder. American journalist Cassie Evans arrives in the Irish village of Kilshannon expecting rain, stone walls, and answers about the father she never knew. What she gets is a lightning strike at an ancient stone circle, a telepathic Irish wolfhound with a two-hundred-year-old curse, and a murder she never saw coming. When Cassie's great-aunt Moira, the one person in Ireland who welcomed her without question, becomes the prime suspect in the...

Sally doesn’t believe in magic—until one small fall uncovers a world of danger, secrets, and powers she doesn’t understand.Suddenly, her ordinary world flips upside down. Her family is in danger, strangers are hunting her, and the only way to keep everyone safe is to leave them behind and attend a secret school for kids with magical abilities.But school isn’t easy. Some students can’t be trusted, lessons are dangerous, and Sally must learn to control her powers before her enemies find...

A Metaphysical Memoir of Love, Loss, and Lifetimes RememberedWhat if the answers you've been searching for were waiting in another lifetime?Teri Arling appears to have it all: a successful career, intelligence, and a carefully built life. But beneath the surface, a painful divorce and emotional exhaustion have left her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. She turns to meditation and hypnosis in search of healing. Instead, she uncovers vivid memories of lifetimes spanning ancient civilizations, sacred places, and...