Josie knew her life would change when she left California for Alaska to study whales. But little did she know just how much.

In this Pushcart nominated story, Jubie Lee Franklin watches as hundreds of Japanese Americans get off the train in her small town in Arkansas. She's never seen people who look like they do, and she's surprised when the white folk start calling them names. After all, she figured only Negroes were called ugly names. But though their skin colors are different, Jubie befriends Sachiko Kimura, and they learn they have plenty in common.

In 1941, racial tensions are rising in the California community where nine-year-old Sachiko Kimura and her seventeen-year-old brother, Nobu, live. Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, people are angry, and one night, Sachiko and Nobu witness three teenage boys taunting and beating their father in the park. Sachiko especially remembers Terrence Harris, the boy with dark skin and hazel eyes, and Nobu cannot believe the boys capable of such violence toward his father are actually his friends. Wha...

In 1941, racial tensions are rising in the California community where nineyear-old Sachiko Kimura and her seventeen-year-old brother, Nobu, live. Japan has attacked Pearl Harbor, people are angry, and one night, Sachiko and Nobu witness three teenage boys taunting and beating their father in the park. Sachiko especially remembers Terrence Harris, the boy with dark skin and hazel eyes, and Nobu cannot believe the boys capable of such violence toward his father are actually his friends. What...

Thrills. Chills. Shadows and superstitions. Things that go bump in the night. Macabre Sanctuary boasts suspenseful fiction designed to elicit goosebumps and raise heartrates.Learn the lore of a haunted island.Grapple with the undead while robbing graves Halloween night.Endure a hazing ritual unlike any other.Deal with a demon at an All Souls' Day celebration.See what happens when you court death in the wild.Battle zombies and canniba...

An anthology of traditional and contemporary western short stories where the characters are lain bare.Feel the pain of a young Japanese girl who comes home from an internment camp after World War II and learns it’s easier to go with the flow than to fight the current.Struggle with an expectant mother on the cold winter prairie while she waits for her husband to come home from a hunting trip.Journey with a young woman to the Four Corners as she tries to connect with ...

Dive into the heart-stopping trilogy that follows Ford Atticus Ford, a once-celebrated ghost hunter whose career took a disastrous turn, leading him down a path of redemption fraught with supernatural dangers and dark entities. This collected edition includes "The Dark Man," "The White Night," and "The Belly of the Beast," offering readers an unforgettable adventure through the shadows of the paranormal world.In The Dark Man, we meet Ford Atticus Ford, gra...

Love, family, secrets, and danger collide in The Outsider Series: The Complete Collection, a powerful saga of the Friessen family and the people drawn into their complicated, deeply emotional world. From heartbreaking betrayals and second chances to weddings, family battles, buried secrets, and life-changing suspense, each novel delivers the unforgettable emotional intensity Lorhainne Eckhart is known for. Featuring The Forgotten Child, A Baby and a Wedding, Fallen...

Hugs, Kisses and Mistletoe Wishes...a best-selling Sweet Christmas Romance Collection. Celebrate the magical holiday season with this special gift straight from our hearts, eight enchanting love stories to cherish all year long. Rekindle your love of the holidays with these heartwarming romances.Only available for a limited time. Get your copy today.Check out the titles below:Roxy Boroughs: THE SPRITE BEFORE CHRISTMASA wisecracking Christmas sprite takes a h...

Sold to the lumberjacks…When her father makes one bad deal to get out of another, the end result is giving his daughter to a lumberjack to have his baby. But twenty-one-year-old Saffron Sinclair feels she has no choice but to take the place of her beautiful and timid sister and present herself to the lumberjack instead. Her hope is that he'll find her undesirable on sight – with her tattoos and the red streaks in her black hair – and send her back home. She'd cite ...

Join Ylva in her quest to become a valkyrie...Between learning the best way to get to the afterlife, and how to care for her new dusk wolf, Ylva already has her hands full. But when she discovers she's a rare Shadow Walker, she finds herself in more danger than she could ever imagine.How can she know who to trust when people want to steal her magic?Quest Of The Valkyrie includes books 1-4 of Afterlife Academy: Valkyrie, an urban fantasy academy series with a slow burn ...

Be careful what you wish for...it just might come true...Join the authors of Wicked Wishes as they explore all the ways a simple wish can go horribly wrong! Will these characters be able to set things right again? Or is that just wishful thinking?100% of proceeds from this anthology will benefit The World Literacy Foundation, a global not-for-profit that works to lift young people out of poverty through literacy. Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2003,...