Caleb Samuels. Smug. Irritating. Pain in the…After high school, I was content with the idea of never seeing him again. But as his sister Merilyn’s best friend, it was bound to happen eventually. I just didn’t expect it to be at her wake, where, following a foolish, naive, and completely ridiculous incident, I’m prepared to return to my perfectly routine life and wash my hands of him forever. Again.Unfortunately, Merilyn had other plans. Even though she traveled the world, her...

Gia Keats works both sides of love’s dirty business. Some days are spent at Silhouette Bridal Boutique, helping brides prepare for their delusional walk to happily ever after. Other days she clocks hours for Duplicity, spying on cheaters and crushing their plans for future trysts. The two jobs are a solid reminder to ignore the dead thing inside her chest and to stay out of love’s sight. She never expected to get caught.Love is also pretty far down on Mark Foster’s priority list. T...

For the Lovely, there are two defining days in life, three if they’re fortunate. The first is at birth, when the one with whom they shared a womb forever joins the dead. The second is in their sixth year, when they touch their first stone and connect with the Realm.Olean knows this all too well, having accessed the Realm for years, reading people, seeing and feeling their thoughts and actions as if they were her own. Now that she’s of age and possesses a higher stone ability, her t...

Nineteen years ago, on the island kingdom of Garlin, a girl was born. With charred skin as rough as rock, Vala was instantly feared. For how could one be scorched by magic when it had perished ages before?Recognizing an asset, the royal family welcomed her on their Guard. Her detail: the prince.To watch. To protect. She has grown with him, lives her life for him.When the high kingdom’s princess comes to assess the prince, assassins of rival courtiers come to claim his ...

In the wake of death and betrayal, Vala flees the island of Garlin with Xavyn in search of the truth about her identity.To find the answers they seek, they must first cross The Divide - a mass of cloud and fog that has separated human lands from the rest of the world for hundreds of years. As they pass through what is meant to kill all who draw near, a surge of magic emerges, bringing death to some and more power to others. In turn, The Divide is weakened, the fog dissolving enough ...

Time has become a loathsome enemy.After the harrowing battle against Herja, Vala and Xavyn find themselves in a new battle against time. The war between lands quickly approaches should The Divide fall, but even that concern must wait while they engage in a more dire conflict with Verdandi. She must be stopped before finding the final piece needed to end the world. To stand any chance at defeating her, Vala and the others will have to add numbers to their charge, which includes negot...

The Vein has awakened — and it will not return to silence.In the aftermath of the first convergence, the world no longer pretends to be whole. Ancient boundaries have thinned, marks have begun to burn, and forces long content to watch now move openly. What was once prophecy has become momentum.Alex stands at the center of it, bound by breath, memory, and a destiny that refuses to be singular. Serenya walks the narrowing path between balance and truth, carrying knowledge tha...

Alex never wanted to be chosen.He was just trying to survive the city — the nights between dusk and dawn, the quiet spaces where the world felt thin and watchful. Then a mark appears over his heart. A woman steps from the trees. And something ancient begins to breathe his name.Drawn into a hidden world threaded through reality itself, Alex becomes entangled with two powerful figures bound by prophecy, memory, and flame. Serenya walks the line between order and knowing, guar...

If life does not look the way we want it to, we can change it the moment we decide to Wake Up & Live!In Wake Up & Live, author and personal success expert Jermain Miller offers you powerful methods for overcoming self-doubt, low self-esteem and self-imposed limitations by offering an inspirational and time-tested self-improvement plan that will work for anybody, regardless of past life struggles.In this valuable personal development guide,...

In the United States in 1993 the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 1,300,000 new cases of invasive cancer diagnosed. At the time of presentation about 70% of those patients represented limited local regional disease without evidences of distant dissemination. About 30% of the patients had demonstrated metastatic disease at the time of initial diagnosis or about 390,000 patients. Of those patients with local regional disease about 56% would be cured by the best treatme...