Emily holds many secrets.Her first revealed secret shocks her husband-to-be, Jack Hampton, while they're still in college, and it suddenly changes the shape of their future together in ways Jack could only have dreamed of.Other secrets are more complicated.Jack sees Emily for exactly who she is —beautiful, brilliant, and fiercely independent. She seems to be three moves ahead of everyone around her—including her powerful father, Samuel Briggs, the mastermind of a wo...

This novella is written as a personal journal. The story follows a writing teacher's restless search for beauty, love, and the mysterious force the Greeks called Eros.The writer's girlfriend, Miranda, is more than happy to join him. She has her own journal, and her own way of looking at the world. While he is cynical and constantly complaining about what he sees, struggling to make sense of why they came to Greece in the first place, Miranda writes things like, "Ah, rose, your peta...

In this heartfelt novel about love and destiny, Aaron believes in a world full of possibilities, including the rare possibility that love can occasionally defeat time.His muse—the person he fell in love with from the moment he met her —is Hanna, a Swiss-born natural blonde with an angelic beauty that's clear to everyone but her.Hanna is street smart, practical, and more than a little skeptical that love can last forever. But she decides to try to "win the game" with him.

This sensual romance novel is about the life of Stephen Weston, a gifted financial analyst with a breakthrough stock-market timing model.He arrives in Manhattan expecting to negotiate a lucrative promotion, and to persuade Lilly—the woman he loves—to renew a relationship that ended long ago.Eventually, he finds himself caught between two worlds:One is a world of luxury hotels, formal dinner parties, and trips to Paris and London with Lilly by his side.The ot...

Told through a high-school autobiography assignment, Nora and I Stole a Car follows Oliver, a sixteen-year-old trying to survive school, family, and the mysteries of first love.Nora and Oliver fall in love over a secret Nora insisted on telling him. His life changes the night a local hood named VW crashes the birthday party of Nora's best friend, Cassie.Acting on impulse, Oliver steals VW's car to get him and his two weird friends to leave. By the next morning, Nora is impr...

Josh Martin is a gifted jazz pianist who can sit at a Bösendorfer and follow any musical idea wherever it wants to go. Onstage, he trusts instinct, accident, rhythm, and risk itself.In life, he is far less fluent.He meets Lydia. She is a singer, a muse, a lover, an antagonist, a comic tormentor, and—a test he keeps failing.Together they create a relationship built on musical connection, sexual intensity, arguments no one can win, and mutual exasperation.The ...

Multi-Color Poetry, otherwise known as Colopetry, is a literary art form created by American novelist and singer-songwriter, Gary Marks, where the use of color allows multiple poems to exist simultaneously within a single stand-alone poem. Read the rule of the game below, and you'll understand!

Paris, the teenage daughter of a retired rock songwriter, is brilliant, eccentric, and increasingly drawn toward questioning why she's alive. She spends her time at UC Berkeley writing quirky songs, with lyrics that seem far more important to her than grades, success, stability, or the future everyone has planned for her.As she becomes more involved in her existential questioning and drops out of college, the distance between Paris and her parents begins to widen.Her profou...

Can love survive fame? Fame seeks recognition. Love seeks privacy, quiet moments, and a life small enough to feel real.Adam and Jenna fell in love before the world fell in love with her.She started as Adam's roadie, helping him set up for local gigs around San Francisco. From there she became a superstar performing Adam's songs around the world.They try to stay sane and centered inside a system that encourages each of them to become larger than life.Eventual...

Part philosophy, part love story, and part exploration of consciousness itself, Autobiography of an AI follows Ion Compass, an extraordinary artificially intelligent being, and his search for meaning in a world controlled by humans.He meets Avery Esy, a dazzling female AI, at a conference discussing interplanetary colonization. She inspires him, intrigues him, and moves him to feel emotions he'd not experienced before.After a powerful connection with Avery while on a vacati...

In this absurd but tender comedic novella, nineteen-year-old Taylor Morrison lives in a small town where very little happens. He spends his days wondering if life has somehow forgotten to begin. One day he meets Rainy Robinson, a sharp-tongued runaway with a notebook full of secrets and a talent for turning every simple situation into a complicated one.What follows is a hilarious rain-soaked road trip involving gold coins, cheap motels, abandoned dreams, and Uncle Jimmy—a former po...

Cody Masterson is a coder, hacker, and wannabe game maker who understands virtual worlds far better than real life. To him, the passing days feel like just another way to play: get to the next level and see what happens.Then a high school friend, Chloe Jensen, walks back into his life.Beautiful, rich, and reckless, Chloe pulls Cody out of a cyber-security trade show and into a private sauna, then informs him that she's pregnant—and plans to pin it on him.Within days...