Can two hearts wounded by the past find the courage to love again?Beth Stanton has never been one to sit quietly on the sidelines. Warm-hearted, with a mind very much her own, she has returned to England for Christmas, only to find herself at odds with the infuriating Edwin Morton.Both have their sights set on the same property: Beth to further her charitable ambitions; Edwin to build a factory. However, the stern widower soon discovers that Beth Stanton is...

For generations, women have been told to smile, forgive, stay quiet, or make themselves smaller. Rage, Well Spoken refuses every one of those demands.Across thirty-six stories, essays, and works of creative nonfiction, women transform their anger into testimony, resistance, and undeniable truth. They confront sexism, sexual harassment, discrimination, violence, unequal systems, and the countless everyday indignities that patriarchy asks us to accept as normal. They are a c...

What if we unknowingly support evil? What if we become part of something we would never choose?Jim Dobson, head concierge of The Hewitt – London's largest skyscraper in Canary Wharf, is a loving father, a devoted husband and an everyday man who takes pride in the job he's done for years.But lately, something is wrong. Jim begins drifting off during his shifts – moments he can't explain, gaps he can't remember. And as seconds turn into minutes, and minutes into days, he unkn...

The fight for survival has begun.The Dalinda are no longer whispers of legend. They are real, and the church will do anything to erase them. With only a handful aware of the truth, the First Elder knows his grip on power depends on silencing the Dalinda forever.To endure, the Dalinda Council must gather for the first time in a century. But reaching their ancestral home means braving enemies on every road, betrayal at every turn, and the relentless pursuit o...

On 9 August 1969, news trickled in that the pregnant movie star Sharon Tate and her friends had been brutally murdered in Los Angeles. Seen as a turning point in the cultural history of America, the Manson murders shocked the world and fanned the flames of a backlash against 1960s youth culture. But as the nation’s journalists circled Cielo Drive, all were wondering who would take home the ultimate blood prize – the chance to write the definitive book on the Manson trial.In A D...

Voting may seem like a simple act: choosing a name, marking a ballot, and waiting for the results. Yet behind that choice lies a far greater responsibility.We the Voters calls on readers to renew their sense of civic responsibility and recognize that democracy neither begins nor ends on Election Day. Through clear, accessible, and nonpartisan reflections, the book explores the consequences of voting on emotion, making uninformed choices, and withdrawing from civic life once an elec...

On the eve of Mexico's Day of the Dead, two bodies are found floating in a luxury villa pool…The wealthy Milton family have gathered to celebrate a lavish wedding anniversary during the weekend of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). But behind the champagne and diamonds lies a ruthless hunger for money and power – and people willing to do anything to get their hands on both.Among the guests is Lily, a struggling actress secretly working a...

Why didn't you just leave?It's the question every survivor of domestic abuse hears―as if leaving were simple. As if love and manipulation didn't become impossibly tangled. As if breaking free from an abusive husband didn't also mean losing the family you'd built your entire life around.Neely Ellison escaped her emotionally distant mother by marrying into Jeffrey McMahan's loving Southern family. But Jeffrey's devotion slowly transforms into control, and his mother'...

Every implant is humanity lost to corporate greed...The tech company Rebutia has taken over the city of Los Santos. The slums are a smudge on the glittering city, where people who can't afford implants are left to be forgotten. People like Myles Walker, a Surge dealer in a street gang.A deal gone wrong leaves their biggest customer dead. Myles gets benched from dealing and winds up chaperoning a board member's son sent from their private academy-Aiden Turne...

“On the night of February 15, 1942, the second most stunning event of the Second World War took place; an event that was second only to the Pearl Harbour bombing for its shock effect.Singapore fell to the Japanese.”Captured after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Capt. M.M. "Mark" Pillai, a decorated officer of the Bombay Sappers, confronted a truth few could endure: the greatest danger of captivity was not barbed wire or starvation, but the slow erosion of h...

She has loved him for thirty years. Now he needs one small favor.In drought-stricken Durango, Colorado, Olivia Hahn is running out of time for the life she wanted: James, a family, the baby she keeps putting off. So when James asks her for access to the city's banking portal, for the water pipeline project he's working on with the magnetic Kate Nichols, Olivia tells herself it's for the town. For them.Then Kate hands her a pair of leather gloves.Val...

Nightcap tea = re-dose. If I go quiet, I didn't choose it.William sent that text at 2:47 a.m. from inside Ascension Grove, an elite psilocybin retreat in Portland's West Hills that promises transformation to anyone who can afford it.Dr. Leslie Schoen has spent years rebuilding what addiction nearly destroyed: her psychiatric career, her sobriety, her marriage to Izzy. With their first baby on the way, she believes the hardest part is behind her.Then...