An orphan bent on revenge. A monster searching for freedom. A forbidden pact that binds their fates.Lyss has heard her father's screams, smelled the iron-tang of his blood. She witnessed his execution.And plotted her revenge.Then, a violent encounter traps Lyss in a blood-pact with a rarkyn from the otherworld, imbuing her with the monster's forbidden magic-a magic that will erode her sanity.To break the pact, she and the rarkyn must journey to the heart of ...

When Shelby Arnold slipped into the airplane bathroom to argue with her husband, she never would have thought it would save her life. But it did.While she bickers with him over video chat, an unexplained phenomenon strikes the earth with devastating force, and the world is plunged into darkness and silence.In an instant, ninety percent of the population loses both their sight and their hearing.Shelby is not one of them. She and a few others on fligh...

Four generations ago a generation ship crashed into the sands of Savene. Since then, its survivors have eked out an existence in the planet’s hostile desert. Yet, the tech is failing, the sands are encroaching, and people are dying.Rescue is still generations away—if it comes at all.But Marsa is a survivor.And an outcast.Infected with the Chrysalis—a disease that grants its carriers uncanny abilities—she keeps her distance from her dwindling community.Unt...

They survived mancers. They survived monsters. They survived the Storm.With the mountains behind them and Illredus on the horizon, they thought the hardest part of the journey over.They were wrong.Outlawed and on the run, Lyss struggles to control her new and volatile magic. A magic that will destroy her.Her only hope: Find the last remaining witch to tame it.Her only clue: Buried in Illredus. City of mancers. Capital of the Empire.Together, ...

A fast-paced, clean mystery for kids 8-12. Join Seth and Julia as they solve mysteries at one of America's oldest amusement parks!In the summer, Waldameer is like Seth and Julia's second home. The amusement park provides an unexpected thrill when new construction unearths an old locket near the carousel. Armed with only the locket's faded black-and-white photo of a young girl, Seth and Julia must track down its owner. Their investigation leads to new friends and new enemies. Like th...

“You got a better bad idea?”Save the Dog. Save the Earth. Save the Future.Min and Max broke physics to resurrect a dog. Now the Earth is doomed. Middle management lays the blame on their shoulders, and those passive-aggressive emails are escalating to active-aggressive weapons.They'll rescue the Earth if they can. Secure the future of humanity if there's time.Saving the dog? Non-negotiable!“Bad bad idea it is. Let’s roll.”

You feel the tension in your chest and the lies in the air. But when you try to bring it up, you are called "crazy" and gaslit into feeling like the bad guy.If you can relate to this, you may have been born into a dysfunctional family. This most likely suggests that you are no stranger to toxic behaviors like one-sided affection, micromanaging, and perfectionism. No family is flawless, but this doesn't mean you should simply ignore your gut feelings or write off the people you care...

STRONG, SMART, AND FAST AND TOO SMART. That's how they described tomboy Hattie Dumond, born in bilingual New Orleans in 1914. No one, including Hattie, thought that would save her life two decades later. She struggled against the restrictions women faced in those early 20th century years. Yes, she's a tomboy, but can slip into the role of debutante, and trains her intellect to straddle both.In Paris, she studies medicine at the Sor...

Reyanne Harper is an elementary school teacher in a not-so-normal world. Destructive hail storms and earthquakes, food shortages, and significantly rising sea levels are becoming the new norm.But there is a plan to save the human race. A plan Reyanne unknowingly helped to formulate.Without warning, she is whisked off on a mission to travel through a wormhole in space to a planet scientists hope will sustain human life. The mission seems simple enough but there are more unkn...

Their trip through the Androski wormhole didn't take them on the journey they expected, and now Reyanne and the team face a new challenge: stay or go? Stay on this new Earth and make a fresh start, or risk going back through the wormhole, not knowing where they will end up. Neither is ideal, and both have unpredictable consequences.There are still too many unanswered questions about what happened on Earth, and the more the team search for signs, the more they realize how little the...

Commander Finch believes he has finally, and safely, returned his crew home.But a jump through the Androski wormhole takes the Omni and her crew to 1993. Fifty years before their original mission.Now Finch and the crew must navigate a past that is still behind in technology until they can safely jump again. They must do so without interfering with the past . . . and without getting caught.Time is running out and the Androski will soon close. They face not only a lea...

Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the twentieth century, three highly ambitious women found their way to the West Coast, where each was destined to collide with J. Robert Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist whose work in creating the atomic bomb would forever impact modern history. His first and most intense love was for ...