"A sweet and engaging story that’s hard to stop reading, with truly good characters and a well-written and believable plot." - YA Books CentralSometimes life doesn’t go according to plan.My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought.It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil.No way...

Some stories are epic.The Earth is in a state of collapse, with wars breaking out over resources and an environment pushed to the edge by human greed.Three living generation ships have been built with a combination of genetic mastery, artificial intelligence, technology, and raw materials harvested from the asteroid belt. This is the story of one of them—43 Ariadne, or Forever, as her inhabitants call her—a living world that carries the remaining hopes of humanity, and the ...

One country guy. One city girl. One big tree.Megan:Three nights before Christmas, and all I need to do is to pick up a Christmas tree.Never mind I’m a city girl who’s never bought a real live tree. The biggest and best tree in the lot will impress my mom and her new husband, helping them forget how I’ve neglected to visit their tiny town of Crystal Cove.Nick:Three nights before Christmas, and all I n...

Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way to the Moon’s core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld.Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. After training for two and a half years, four of them—Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien—are bound for Martinez Base, just outside the Old Earth c...

Love & Limitations is Scott's fourth short story collection and first one featuring contemporary MM and LGBTQ+ stories:I Only Want to Be With You: Derrek likes Ryan. Ryan likes Alex. Alex treats Ryan like trash. So why can't he see who really loves him?The Boy in the Band: It's hard for a trans kid in high school, just like it was for a gay kid two decades before. Can Ryan and Justin find common ground in time?Translation:

When Perfection Collides With Chaos, Sparks FlyCrispin Eladrin, desk fae at the Office of the Lost, could find a needle in ten haystacks. His desk is so neat it would make an accountant blush, and he's never failed to complete a recovery mission. He has no idea how adorable he is, especially when he's at his most annoyingly officious.Enter utterly chaotic Leopold Lane. His life is a masterclass in disastrous events--and it's about to get worse. He's the latest thing that Cr...

A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner; Matteo and Diego, the couple who run the restaurant; recently-widowed Carmelina; Marcos, a web designer getting too old for hook-ups; Ben, a trans author writing the Great American Novel; teenager Marissa, kicked out for being bi; an...

Oberon is unique among the Common Worlds - a half-world with a strange past and an uncertain future.Jameson Havercamp and Xander Kinnson are thrust into the middle of a world-ending event and have to scramble to save the world - and themselves.Along the way, they peel back the layers of the onion to discover secrets wrapped in secrets that will eventually take them to where it all started - and may provide the key to saving Oberon and everyone on it.SKYTHANE...

Loving the Idea is for the moment you realize you're not in love with a person—you're in love with a narrative. We attach to potential because it feels clean. The imagined version doesn't interrupt us. The real person does. And when reality begins to resist the script, many of us don't read the evidence—we negotiate with it. We translate, explain, soften, and wait. We keep the "best version" alive in our minds and call it love. This book is not advice. It is recognition. Lisa J. Scott name...

He’s an expansion hockey team owner taking over for his father. She’s a former sports agent who lost her job because of him. When their lives collide, can they give each other a second chance?After a terrible day at her awful job, the last thing Mia Hammond expects is to see her ex at happy hour. On the floor. Unconscious, after falling over at the sight of her.They always did make a disastrous pairing.Aaron Stanek is humiliated to discover not only...

“Unsettling, absolutely riveting, and—for better or worse—necessary reading.” —Brian Christian, author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment ProblemAn entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking—and why we all need to understand it.It’s a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, a...

These three tales tell the story of Tharassas before the Tharassas Cycle, including the origin of the hencha queens, the ce’faine, and the colonization of the Highlands, essential companions for the four novels that make up the cycle:The Fallen AngelCharlie Fah, Cha’Fah to most of the world, has never fit in with the other citizens of Gully Town, thanks to his darker skin that sets him apart. But one day, an Angel arrives on a supply run from Earth, and wha...