This literary coming-of-age memoir, set in '60s–'70s Los Angeles, traces a daughter's experience of her mother's schizophrenia and its lasting fallout before an extraordinary sign teaches her that love endures beyond loss. Living in the Long Shadow is a poignant memoir told in dual timelines: the formative years of Suzanne's childhood and the two weeks following her mother's suicide when Suzanne is eighteen. With honesty and grace, Suzanne traces what it means to grow up in the shadow of m...

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, ...

Just when Kit Wilder thought she had small-town life figured out, Westdale goes and serves up another body.The victim: Jasmine Tilton—former professional cheerleader, full-time trophy wife, and stepmother to Kit's sweet study buddy Charlotte.The suspect: Charlotte's older sister.The problem: Kit is pretty sure they've got the wrong person.With her college routine officially derailed, Kit finds herself pulled back into the messy, complicated world of Westdale...

At twenty-three, former TV star Kit Wilder has officially hit rock bottom. Blacklisted from Hollywood and desperate for a fresh start, she retreats to the picture-perfect town of Westdale—all manicured lawns, old money, and Mayflower pedigrees—to quietly finish her degree and renovate a charming fixer-upper.Simple enough, right?Wrong.Before she can unpack a single box, Kit stumbles upon a skeleton hidden in her new home—and suddenly her quiet new life is anything bu...

“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.”

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...

At twenty-three, former TV star Kit Wilder has officially hit rock bottom. Blacklisted from Hollywood and desperate for a fresh start, she retreats to the picture-perfect town of Westdale — all manicured lawns, old money, and Mayflower pedigrees — to quietly finish her degree and renovate a charming fixer-upper. Simple enough, right?Wrong. Before she can unpack a single box, Kit stumbles upon a skeleton hidden in her new home — and suddenly her quiet new life is anything but.

Welcome to Westdale — where the lawns are manicured, the bloodlines run deep, and the body count is rising.A Dead End — Former TV star Kit Wilder arrives in the affluent, Mayflower-pedigreed town of Westdale hoping for a quiet fresh start. What she finds instead is a skeleton in her house, a murder investigation, and a dangerously charming detective named Romeo Moretti. Armed with instincts borrowed from her old TV role as hotshot detective Ellie Gold, Kit...

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...