Caroline Lucy (formerly known as Grace Atkins), overly cautious and private, is forced into a world—not her choosing. She finds herself warped into a world of dreamscapes from which she struggles to separate fact from fiction—a dream from reality. A former victim of a home invasion, her sense of security remains shattered. Will changing her name and her location be enough? Caroline learns that her past is every part of her present world, but it takes a journey of risk, research, and a move...

"Expect to be immersed" in this mystery from the New York Times– bestselling author of Swimsuit Body , featuring an amateur sleuth who attracts a kinky killer (Sandra Brown, New York Times –bestselling author).After wrecking her real estate career in a booze-fueled blowout, Cypress Bay property manager and recovering alcoholic Tish Bal...

In this "brilliant social satire of life among the 1 percent of the 1 percent" ( The Washington Post), Sophie McManus presents a contemporary American tragedy of breathtaking scope. The Unfortunates is the story of a wealthy family coming to terms with how their privilege and entitlement means nothing in the face of an uncaring universe.A larger-than-life heiress to a rubber baron's fortune, once known for her cruel wit as much as for her tremendo...

Artis is a teenager whose inquisitive nature often gets him into trouble with the Adults. When he is caught looking out of forbidden windows in his school, he starts a chain of events that ultimately lead him to the answers he's always sought. Why are all the children trapped in this school? Who put them in there? And how can they escape?

He’d give all the money in the world to win her heart . . .Tired of playing the corporate game and acting like someone he isn’t, Tanner relishes the day Livvy shows up in his life. Around her, he doesn’t have to pretend. She’s exactly what he needs.So when she slips away without a goodbye, he’s heartbroken.Livvy thinks Tanner is the perfect except for one thing. He’s a billionaire. That’s a deal breaker. Even though she’s homeless, she won’t be a ch...

By now, it's hard to tell how human my father still is. But we're still family. What that means...is another question.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

**This is the bonus book final story of Wick and Ned from Pulp Friction '13 Wicked's Way series. It also serves as Pulp Friction '14 Whispering Winds bk 3.5**Wick Templeton and Ned Harris have grown quite comfortable in the life they've built together. So comfortable—in fact—that when Ned decided to go cross country to check on an old friend of his, Wick can't bear to be apart from him and tags along.Yeah, that's the story Wick gives. In reality, Wick doesn't share and he j...

"A crystalline satire of a preening media elite too exhausted with pillaging the minds of consumers to notice the collapsing world around them" ( Kirkus).What is the next trend—the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow, Ltd., in the volcano-shadowed metropolis of Middle City...

A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter."Officers Weep" is a story from Daniel Orozco's critically acclaimed collection Orientation, which leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occ...

Blooming Hearts is a prequel to Mangled Hearts. You’ll read journal entries from Francesca and Cade during their high school days, following them from the day they met to the day it all fell apart. Mangled Hearts is where they meet ten years later, both still longing for the other. Though this particular story doesn’t end in happiness, the two do get their happily ever after in Entangled Souls.Continue reading for their journal entries from high school days and drama, first loves a...

Celebrated by the Boston Globe as “a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs,” the deliciously weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the secret lives of the polished Connecticut haven that got us all hooked on NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, and jolts us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide“Acampora’s prose has a seductive, pearlescent allure.”—TIME MagazineFormerly a model and photographer ...

I have loved "Man's Best Friend" all my life and have compensated for the lack of children with 8 of them.When I took my first Irish Setter, Mickey, to Obedience Training classes, the instructor started out the session by saying, "In order to successfully train a dog, you must be smarter than the dog." I always end this story by saying "And then half the class got up and left!" That was a slight exaggeration, but in the end, the class agreed with the instructor.I have train...