She trusts the universe. He trusts his spreadsheets. For a decade, Ava Madison and Lucas Dawson have been the perfect platonic pair, their opposing worldviews in comfortable harmony. But when a canceled flight to a wedding in Florida forces them on a chaotic cross-country road trip, their carefully balanced world is turned upside down.In The Detour to Us, what starts as a fun adventure devolves into a comedy of errors—a breakdown in a bizarre, alien-obsessed town, ...

He built a digital empire on secrets and lies. Now, one of those secrets is a gun to his head.Lucas Walker, the disgraced CEO of Cygnus Technologies, is the most hated man in the world. Implicated in the release of the Obsidian nanites, he's a prisoner in his own company, forced by the government to find a kill switch for the global catastrophe he helped create. But as he works to save his legacy, a ghost from his past emerges with a chilling ultimatum: a secret vi...

A former Special Forces operative, living a quiet civilian life, discovers a stranger has secretly entered her home and vanished without a trace. Now, she must use her lethal skills to hunt a ghost who knows her every move and threatens to dismantle her life from the inside out.Maya Ashwood is done with her past. After a decorated and dangerous career in Special Forces, she has built a fortress of solitude—a sleek, modern, and entirely secure home nestled in the remote woods of the...

Her superpower is a recipe for disaster. His plan for life didn't include marshmallows.Maisie Holloway has a secret, and it's not a glamorous one. When her emotions run high, she turns things into marshmallows—a spectacularly useless superpower that creates sticky situations. Her chaotic life screeches to a halt when she accidentally transforms a handsome stranger's prized architectural model into a wobbly, sugary blob, threatening his entire career.That stranger is Hunter ...

In a world where magic is a myth and dragons are just dusty legends, thirteen-year-old Kael, an orphan with a restless heart, finds solace in the wild woods. But his solitary life is shattered when he discovers something no one believes in anymore: a glowing, emerald-and-obsidian dragon egg.Dragons are extinct. Or so the world has been told.When the egg hatches, Kael forms an instant and unbreakable bond with the last dragon, Veridian. Their connection is m...

Asher Kane, a solitary and brilliant master thief known as "The Ghost" for his ability to leave no trace, operates outside the law to impose a unique form of justice. Driven by crippling guilt over the "Lisbon Job" – a past betrayal that led to the brutal imprisonment of his beloved mentor, Atticus Grey – Asher exclusively targets individuals who amassed their fortunes through immense harm and injustice, stealing their most cherished possessions as a symbolic reckoning. His latest target, ...

A warrior of ash. A scholar of ink. A dying world.In the parched lands of the Ash-born, the warrior Lyra trusts only her instincts and the blade at her hip. In the hallowed halls of Veritas, the scholar Kael believes all answers can be found in the ink of his books. They are enemies by birth, separated by a canyon of mistrust. But when a magical artifact that sustains both their homes is stolen, their worlds begin to crumble.Forced together by an ancient pr...

A practical, empowering guide for middle schoolers to navigate bullies, "frenemies," and the fear of being alone.Middle school can feel like a new game level with no instructions. It's confusing, the rules are different, and not all the players are fair. For quiet, kind, and creative kids, this new world can feel especially overwhelming.The Unstoppable You: A Middle Schooler's Guide to Navigating Bullies is the instruction manual you've been waiting for. Written in easy-to-...

She thinks he's a disaster. He's just trying not to blow his cover.Clara's bakery, The Sweet Escape, is her pride and joy. Captain Comet, the city's celebrated superhero, is her sworn enemy. He may save the day, but his "rescues" always seem to end with a monorail through her front window or a city-wide power outage that ruins a perfect batch of brioche. Her viral rants about his incompetence are legendary. If she never saw the caped calamity again, it would be too...

Have you ever dreamed of writing a novel, but had no idea where to start?The blank page can be intimidating. The worlds and characters living in your imagination can feel impossibly far from being real on the page. It's easy to get lost in self-doubt, creative slumps, and the sheer scale of the project. But what if you had a friendly, experienced guide to walk you through every step of the journey?In From Spark to Story, author Pamela Beach pulls back the curtain on the art...

A 500-year-old masterpiece. A secret worth killing for. And a forger who is the only man who can see the truth.Art curator Camila Reyes lives a quiet life surrounded by the ghosts of history. Her world is one of order, beauty, and provenance. But when a priceless Renaissance painting with a forged history is acquired by her museum, she discovers an anomaly that should be impossible: a cryptic message hidden in plain sight, a secret cipher embedded in the ancient frame.Her d...

The conspiracy has a final secret. And she's been running from it her whole life.Charlie Shaw is a dinosaur, a private investigator in a world that has forgotten his breed. He's an analog man of shoe leather and whiskey, and he's just taken a case that's as cold as it is dangerous: find Isabella Sterling, a beautiful, terrified heiress who vanished ten years ago.His hunt for the missing woman leads him to a quiet, forgotten town where she's hiding in plain sight. But he's n...