THE WORK IS NO LONGER THE PROOF. For generations, schools treated completed work as evidence of learning. The essay proved the student could write. The homework proved the student understood the lesson. The research paper proved the student could investigate, reason, and synthesize. Artificial intelligence has broken that assumption. A student can now produce a polished artifact without possessing the capability it appears to represent. Yet a student may also use AI extensively while devel...

"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...

SOMETIMES ORDER BECOMES CHAOSLeopold Lane—after being “collected” for the Office of the Lost by Crispin Eladrin Moss’caladin—is tucked away cozily with his beloved office fae in their treehouse. Happily ever after, right? Not so fast.Before Leo can even get settled, Crispin’s mother disappears, leaving Crispin in charge and his brother Aspin in a panic. As Queen of the Fae, she has also left them a little surprise: a bit of oxymoronic magic that turns their world upside dow...

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...

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...

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...

Sometimes being the good girl means everyone loses.When my parents sentenced me to geriatric exile in a sleepy beach town for the summer with my grandparents, I tried everything to stop it. I’m the good girl. The straight-A student and the newly elected co-captain of my high school track team. Only my sister Grace ruined everything. Grace, a rebel with a party girl reputation, insisted I join her at a party on her graduation night. All to be her designated driver. ...

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...

What happens when city dwellers head to a Christmas-obsessed, rural small town?Welcome to Crystal Cove where winter holidays come alive—great if you’re into that sort of thing. For Megan and Marlowe, they are not. But the guys they meet in Crystal Cove happen to be VIC: Very Into Christmas.Find two opposites attract, small-town romances in this duology collection which includes:OMG Christmas TreeMiss Humbug