The Gothic Lady (Love Story) A Novel...Darkness was never meant to save her... until love found her anyway...JoAnna Lynn has always felt out of place... too quiet, too intense, too different for the small-town world that never tried to understand her...After the loss of her mother, she wraps herself in mere shadow, finding comfort in black roses, solitude, and the fragile safety of keeping her heart...

The Mississinewa River and Reservoir with the land and towns surrounding them are filled with the shadows of history and ghosts from the past. All of us grew up hearing those stories and exploring the backroads and cruising the towns, when cruising was a thing. And we all heard the whispers in the deep woods and the haunting songs echoing off the water.From the time the Myaamia—or Miami—people made their home in the region with villages, encampments, council sites and sacred locati...

Scribbler Tales: The Thriller CollectionDeadly Secrets • Desperate Measures • Endgame • Escape from BerlinHidden Lies • Illusion • Pandemic • RevengeWhere every secret is lethal and every choice could be your last.Danger closes in from every direction in this gripping collection of eight high-stakes thriller stories. From government secrets and deadly pathogens to espionage, betrayal, and the razor-thin line between ...

Through a lens of literary urban studies, Ann Tso offers fascinating insight into perceptions of Hong Kong as a city in crisis in contemporary film, novels, and memoir.Through close readings of six pivotal works spanning three decades, Tso reveals how cultural creators encode dissent within the mundane. Divided into two parts, the first explores cannibalism within Hong Kong’s apartment plots through film. Part 2 examines discordant urban sounds in literature through Madeline Thien’...

'How did you get so old?'The morning when Ann Ingle's grandson asked her that question led to musings on ageing and a life well lived.Told with warmth and humour, Ann grapples with how ageing has thrown all sorts her way, from losing eyesight and mobility to growing a beard and becoming invisible. But she also celebrates family, loved ones, staying connected, her life's passions, and the woman she has become as she finds ways to greet each day and treasure precious...

'Imagine you could go into an apothecary and, instead of seeing rows of jars with their cures, there would be a display of all the plants from which they came. You'd be able to point down to a tiny snowdrop or up to a very large horse chestnut tree. There would be an entire herbaceous border, sweet peas and roses, daisies and foxgloves...That is what I imagined while putting together this most unusual apothecary's cabinet of a book. It's a thoroughly modern (and sumptuously illustr...

She wanted a fairy tale Prince. She didn't realize her hero was holding the reins the whole time.Bethany Galloway has always been the dreamer of the family, waiting for a wealthy suitor to sweep her away to a life of ease. She's blind to the fact that Wyatt Ford, the ranch's rugged foreman, has been quietly loving her since they were children. But when a slick city banker starts courting Bethany, Wyatt decides he can no longer watch. Heartbroken, he quits the ranch...

**A woman reunites with her first love to solve the mystery of the strange occurrences plaguing her family’s pear orchard—only to discover the land holds more magic than she thought—in this cozy second chance romance.“A beautiful story of love and loss, curses and choices, healing and happiness!”—Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop**Ali Reid has luck so bad she might actually be cursed. The pear orchard she inherited from h...

From best-selling historical romance author Sian Ann Bessey comes suspense and romance in the heart of eighteenth-century London—a story of redemption and forbidden love.London, 1776It’s been twelve years since Hannah Dennington looked into the gray eyes of Samuel Ross, their depths as bleak as sadness itself. That childhood memory—the day she accused him of hiding a stolen pocket watch and sent him to appear before Sir John Fielding, the renowned ...

"Full of twists and turns with just the right hint of the supernatural...a rollicking ride into the heyday of the New York City punk scene." — Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People and Stay BuriedFrom award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes an edgy, genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to rec...

What it means to intentionally serve Latine students in higher education.Hispanic-Serving Institutions now make up 20% of US colleges and universities, yet enrollment, eligibility, and grant-seeking alone do not guarantee meaningful change for Latine students. The HSI Movement examines what happens when change agents commit to intentionally transforming the institution to truly serve these students as an organizing and foundational principle.Comple...

Laura thought adopting a dog might be the answer to a lonely Christmas. So did Drew. When they both arrive at the I Choose You Animal Shelter, they expect to leave with a new best friend. Instead, they meet Einstein, a lovable golden retriever with a mind of his own. During the shelter's one-of-a-kind choosing session, Einstein is released into a room of hopeful pet parents to choose his forever family. Only he can't seem to make up his mind. After happily greeting Laura, Einstein trots ac...