All Rachel wants is to pass Professor Thane's class and keep her scholarship. When the handsome head of the History Department calls her to his office long after everyone else has gone home, she fears the worst, but what Thane has in store is a surprise beyond her wildest fantasies and darkest nightmares.Thane knows his history because he's lived through most of it. He's an ancient vampire, an immortal blood drinker whose supernature allure has drawn Rachel like a moth to the flame...

Journalism student Danielle Archer didn't come to steamy Baton Rouge to find romance or adventure, but both are about to find her.Tall and handsome with haunting dark eyes, Mander Deslauriers captures Danielle's attention with an invitation to Beta House fraternity's famous Equinox Ball. It should be the beginning of a fairytale romance. There's only one problem - Beta House is full of vampires.Posing as fun-loving frat boys, they've hidden in plai...

Hector and Hannah Crowe are no strangers to the bizarre and supernatural. Ghosts, ghouls, mad scientists and revenants come with the territory when you are the children of the world's foremost paranormal investigators. The Crowes live in Strange Manor, the most haunted house in the most haunted little town in America, in the middle of a deep dark wood filled with mysterious beasts. This lifestyle is anything but strange for the Crowe children. But on this night – the first night of summer ...

Crow, Pirate, Fly is a glitching manifesto of pain, pleasure, domination and submission. A power play of identities, authors, lovers and mothers, Hannah Silva's long-awaited second collection is subversive and compelling, intimate and estranging, animal and alien. Ten years in gestation, this genre-queering text began as a cut up of Kathy Acker's literary terrorism with Fifty Shades of Grey, and now emerges as its own thing — dark, wild, innovative and pregnant with desir...

Death was just the beginning.I have suddenly found myself in a strange new realm. A realm in which all I know is death. Where the life I led before is nothing but a shadow haunting the peripheries of my mind.It calls to me, begs me to remember what happened . . . but the more I try to recall, the less I seem to remember, and the more terrifying this cruel new world becomes.I am an enigma, not only to myself, but everyone around me.A...

Life was far from perfect after my mother's sudden death, but it was one I'd grown to love. And now, it's a life I'll never know again. Not after she and her two cruel sons entered our lives.My father swore he'd never love again, but just as suddenly as Merelda arrived, she became the very center of his world . . . and just as quickly, I was all but forgotten.Still, I did not complain . . . if only for my father's sake. Not even when cruel words turned into even cr...

Death was once what I feared most. Now, it is a world without him.I thought I knew what pain was . . . until Death gave up eternity for me.I was played for a fool by Hades and the Fates, when it was Death they always wanted. I am nothing more than mortal pawn in a game of gods and monsters. Now, they have taken everyone from me.They expect me to be broken, to be compliant. To be woven into their plans. But I refuse to let Death's s...

Death was all he deserved . . . until it wasn't.No sooner than I step out of sight of Death, and what our deal has wrought, do I regret the words I've spoken.My heart aches from the harshness of my tongue, and I wonder if I have made a grave mistake.And yet, I do not turn back. No. Instead, I harden my heart against these thoughts. Against my feelings.Sealing my fate with yet another mistake borne of disobedience . . . not only to m...

Trade Grumbling for Gratitude—Experience God like Never BeforeThe apostle Paul instructed the Philippians to be anxious in nothing and thankful in everything. And when he said everything—he meant everything. We can all agree that this is easier said than done. Disappointments and discontent may cause you to slip into dissatisfaction, and grumbling becomes a state of mind—gratitude seems impossible to find. However, what if this is the precise reason you lack the jo...

A thrilling, funny, heartwarming story from the amazing Helen Peters. THE GREAT FARM RESCUE is the third brilliant story about the resourceful Hannah and her eccentric siblings and friends.Hannah's family farm is in trouble again as their landlord threatens to evict them all. As homelessness looms, Hannah resolves to raise the money to buy the farm and secure the family's future once and for all. But how are a bunch of schoolkids going to raise two million pounds i...

Is the world ready for The Velveteens? An all-girl punk band try to make it to the topGet your crimper out, your mohawk ready and your best punk pout on - the Queens of Noise have arrived! Set in 1980s London, this modern music drama charts the rise of a girl punk band. Packed with classic hits as well as the girls very own songs, this is a drama with punk power for any music lover. Writers and music industry veterans Louise Wener (ex-singer of Sleeper) and Roy Bou...

Helen Peters' sequel to The Secret Hen House Theatre has all the same hallmarks: great writing and an emotionally engaging, entertaining story. It's good to be back with Hannah and the other characters – they've been much missed! The novel finds Hannah's farm facing a new threat – a water company wants to flood the land to make a reservoir. How can Hannah stand by and watch as her home, the land her family has farmed for generations, the wildlife, the ancient trees all disappear under a de...