Even the afterlife gets decided in a committee.The afterlife is more like a large retirement community than a fiery pit where even collecting souls has been automated. Death has nothing on his to-do list until his co-worker, the Devil, tells him she’s retiring. For years he’s relied on her to keep the ever-growing population of Patala running smoothly. After five hundred years he needs to replace the most important woman in his life.To avoid mutiny from the...

Life can be challenging at times We all need activities which provide outlets for those frustrations and fears. This is a story about a small group of women who find both comfort and stimulation by swimming in the coastal waters of Hastings in East Sussex. Friendships are formed as they share the activity, even as the seasons change and challenge.

Underneath the library, something waits. It takes. It never lets go.Jessica Martin has spent her life watching her town swallow women whole. It starts small—dreams dismissed, voices ignored, power quietly drained away. But when the local librarian vanishes without a trace, Jessica refuses to let her name be whispered away like all the others.The deeper she digs, the worse it gets. No one who has ever worked in that library has been seen again. Every attempt...

Jemma Jackson had moved to Norfolk to start a new life away from her estranged and abusive ex-husband. Unfortunately, memories were part of her luggage. A story of courage and romance, where your enemy is often yourself.

One week in New Orleans changed everything for Sabine.On the brink of forced retirement, the Fire Elemental finally learned how to control her magic. Now she’s back in New Orleans for the summer, determined to figure out what comes next. A job at a magical library helps, as does living with her sisters and cousins while they begin to explore the supernatural world they’re tied to.Carly is desperate for things to stay normal. She believes her boyfriend Andy has his life back...

Claire Lucas was single again in her late thirties. Divorce had come as a shock, despite the fact that she had instigated the action. Now she needed a new challenge with a change of scene. A camper van would supply her needs as she embarked on the adventure to find herself again.

Time is running out for Sabine, Carly, and Andy.After Maia’s brutal attack on her cousins, Sabine flees New Orleans with her family and returns to Miami. They have less than a month to save Andy, stop Maia, and survive what’s coming next. After that, Sabine will be forced into retirement from the Elementals. No more hunting monsters. No more patrols. No more fighting to protect the people she loves.Assuming she lives long enough to retire.In New Orl...

Roman Spain, 42 A.D.Marius is the proud son of a prosperous olive-growing family and a restless soul who craves more than harvests and household honour. A supporter of the Whites chariot faction, he thrives on rivalry and risk, fighting in the streets as passionately as he cheers in the arena.When his childhood friend Aius – now enslaved to the ambitious patrician, Kaius – secures him a prestigious contract to supply oil for a grand bathhouse destined to rival Rome itself, ...

In the spring of 2012, an unlikely transformational figure inadvertently breaches the perimeter of U.S politics. Unencumbered by political ambition and devoid of greed or lust for power, Jonathon Braxton reluctantly enters the arena. Fueled solely by a desire to advocate for more medical research funding to find a cure for Type 1 diabetes afflicting his son, Braxton agrees to speak at the 2012 Republican National Convention courtesy of two influential power brokers who see 'JB' as the futu...

Of course they're not like other girls, but that doesn't mean they know what they're going to do with the rest of their lives.Sabine is months away from her forced retirement at twenty years old. Her job as an Elemental, to protect humanity from vampires and other aspects of the magical world, will come to an end. She’s never been that great at her job, never able to call or command the fire she should be using. She’s never considered what she’ll do once she retires and has no idea...

In Shades, R. Mark Beal gathers moments of stillness, sorrow, faith, memory, and human longing into a deeply reflective collection of poetry. These poems move through quiet mornings, darkened paths, forgotten streets, childhood memories, aging, love, fear, regret, and the fragile hope that survives even in life's heaviest shadows.With a voice that is honest, observant, and often haunting, Beal writes about the beauty and pain hidden in ordinary places: a lamplit road, a wooden swin...

The horrors women face aren’t confined to ghost stories.A music festival should be an escape, but in #RescueMe, one woman learns that some nightmares refuse to end.In Red Eyes, two lovers on the verge of breaking up realize the world isn’t just cruel—it’s hungry.A daughter uncovers the devastating cost of survival in The Hoard, where trauma doesn’t just linger—it spreads.He promised her everything, but in Does This Bring You Joy, when his lies are exposed, s...