It has been nearly a year since Ellis Porter lost his wife and the love of his life. He has spent that time lost to depression. With the holidays around the corner his mission is to isolate himself from the world and somehow make it through the now empty season with only his sassy cat Strawberry and his faithful dog Rhubarb for company. But as pet-owners know, animals have their own agendas. Saddened by Ellis’s emotional state, Strawberry and Rhubarb decide to take him on an unusual journe...

It has been nearly a year since Ellis Porter lost his wife and the love of his life. He has spent that time lost to depression. With the holidays around the corner his mission is to isolate himself from the world andsomehow make it through the now empty season with only his sassy cat Strawberry and his faithful dog Rhubarb for company.But as pet-owners know, animals have their own agendas. Saddened by Ellis’s emotional state, Strawberry and Rhubarb decide to take him on an ...

A reality TV showA dead contestantAn enraged father bent on vengeanceAnd two Hollywoods stars fighting for their lives!Beautiful Brooke Winthrop, and brash Becca Dodge are the host and producer of I Do or I Don’t, the number-one-rated reality television show in the country. It is a whirlwind courtship show that ends every episode at the altar where two people must decide, on live TV, whether they will say the two words that will change...

Judith Higgins is a single mother. Her son Noah is autistic and is about to be expelled from school because of his violent meltdowns. She reluctantly accepts an invitation from a nearby university to enroll her son in an experimental program in which special needs children are cared for by select inmates from a correctional facility. This is where Delton Hayes enters the picture and everything changes.When circumstances take a bad turn, the three individuals try to put their broken ...

Settle into the season with three heartwarming holiday sagas!◆The Friendship Effect: A Thanksgiving NovellaA school bully is required by the principal to become his disabled victim's bodyguard, creating an unexpected friendship.As adults they both discover how a past Thanksgiving Day event influenced the entire course of their lives, as well as the lives of people they've never even met.◆Seven Tai...

A grifter's greatest con is becoming a hero. At the Justice Academy, a college for superheroes from across the galaxy, identity is everything. For Grey, a teenage grifter impersonating Mirabor Gravane, it's a dangerous game.Drifting aimlessly through space stations, Grey finds unexpected friendship and a place to belong at the Academy—if his lie doesn't shatter it all. When Gravane's mother sends her "son" on a mission to a crime-ridden world, Grey must embrace his...

Return to the Justice Academy, the galaxy's premier college for superheroes!Back for his second year, Grey wants nothing more than to spend time with his friends and maybe take a class or two. A normal student life. Instead, Grey's friends are all distracted by their own problems and somebody is trying to break his nemesis out of jail.When tragedy strikes the Academy, Grey finds himself stuck between the roles of investigator and prime suspect. Chased across the galaxy and ba...

By all appearances Ken Pritchard has achieved it all - loving wife, beautiful children, and a successful career where he has become the first disabled CEO of a bank.When he receives a call about the decline of Bobby Booker, a childhood friend, the news sends him on a visit that dredges up old wounds and fond memories of his youth.The story takes us back to their elementary school days when Bobby was a bully to Ken until an odd demand from the school principal changed the co...

Sometimes losing everything is the best way to find yourself.North Cooper's perfect life collapses after she learns of her husband's secret affair. She escapes to the comforting shores of Lake Michigan, drawn back to South Haven, the small town where she spent her early childhood. North is desperately searching for anything that will help her regain her footing and somehow find a path forward. Perhaps she can discover it in the familiar waves and sand of the quaint...

Three full-cast dramas by popular crime writer Peter Lovesey, plus a selection of short stories recorded for radioPeter Lovesey is well known for his murder mysteries featuring Victorian policeman Sergeant Cribb, Bath detective Peter Diamond and Bertie, Prince of Wales. He has won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Silver Dagger, Gold Dagger and Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. Collected here are adaptations of three of his historical...

I have been wishing aloud for years that professional psychologists would take a look at Edwards, helping us think about his lifeand what can be learned about it todayfrom a mental health perspective. Dr. Hedberg has done just that. Of course Edwards is now in heaven, so conjectures about his psyche ought to be made with great care. Still, cautious, humble hypothesis about his inner life and the lessons it affords for people seeking better health can lead to useful conversations that bring...

Think you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head.Gracie sees a chance of fitting in at her South Carolina private school, until a “white trash”–themed Halloween party has her steering clear of the rich kids. Samuel’s Tejano family has both stood up to oppression and been a source of it, but now he’s ready to own his true sexual identity. A Puerto Rican t...