Charlie Dillion is a guitar playing busker. He's lived his life (mostly) off the grid. Playing and surviving on the streets. While performing in Duffy Square behind the TKTS booth in NYC, a chance meeting aligns him with a regular gig. He goes viral and everything about his life is challenged.

The Obsidian Covenant is a dark fantasy romance filled with forbidden power, epic battles, and a love that could reshape destiny itself.Elara was never meant to wield magic.Marked by an ancient force older than creation, she becomes the living key to a war that could destroy all realms. Hunted by shadow armies and betrayed from within, she is thrust into a conflict where every choice carries devastating consequences.Kael, a battle-hardened warrior bound by duty and ...

BOOK 1 — SHADOW EMPIRELucien Blackwood rules a global empire built on power, secrecy, and blood.He trusts no one. Loves no one. Needs nothing.Until Isabella Moretti walks into his world.She is innocence in a city of monsters.He is danger in a tailored suit.Their attraction is instant. Forbidden. Explosive.But Lucien's empire is built on enemies, betrayal, and dark secrets that refuse to stay buried. When Isabella becomes a target, ...

What would you do with one more call?The Phone seems to pop innocently into existence for anyone, in what feels like their hour of greatest need. But what is spoken into the receiver changes more in our world than it does in for the dead.Inspired by real events, experienced and debut authors have come together in 2021 to create these epic moments in the lives of rebels, explorers, aliens, killers, orphans, and more.With each story, we're confronted by the question, ...

Everyone in My School Knows a Secret About Me — Except MeEveryone is acting strange.Whispers follow me through the hallways. Conversations die when I walk into a room. Even my closest friends won't look me in the eye.They all know something about me.Something I don't.As buried memories begin to surface, I uncover a truth darker than I ever imagined — a childhood accident, a brother I don't remember, and a secret that refuses to stay ...

Love being the last thing to be forgotten.Allister and Gede's retirement plan: savor their remaining years on the pond behind their home and enjoy the visiting birds and butterflies while drinking tea in Gede's garden. Together they experience their final challenge—Allister's journey into dementia, where the fragments of a life become a masterpiece of love.In the quiet of their Georgia garden, Allister remembers his life—a career teaching literature at Colu...

As the Whispering Pines' school year ends, Bobby Brown, almost 13, has been saving his paper route tips for one special thing, The New InterPolar Radio. Bobby is surprised when one of his customers, Mrs. Andrews, gives him a radio and their garden gnome, as partial payment for lawn care. The Andrews will be gone—long gone—leaving their home for the First Dimension, an alternative universe. And the gnome? He talks.The idyllic hamlet is plagued by tears in the space/time continuum. S...

What would you do with one more call?The Phone seems to pop innocently into existence for anyone, in what feels like their hour of greatest need. But what is spoken into the receiver changes more in our world than it does for the dead.Inspired by real events, experienced and debut authors have come together in 2021 to create these epic moments in the lives of rebels, explorers, aliens, killers, orphans, lovers, and more.With each story, we'...

Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing. The lifecourse perspective suggests that individuals’ experiences at an early age can influence their decisions and behaviour at a later age. This much-needed volume combines insights from diff...

Europe currently is the oldest continent in the world and its population is still ageing. This demographic shift affects society, economy, and welfare states. Scholars from various disciplines and the public noted this development and wonder what effects it may have, but lack adequate information. They call for explanations that are concise and easily accessible. The book at hand fills this lacuna. It introduces readers to the most important developments, theories, concepts, and discussion...

A contemporary look at the spiritual journey of a doctor named Luke that thoughtfully brings the Gospel physician into our 21st-century world.If you have no cause worth dying for, do you have a reason to live?While sorting through family papers following his father’s massive stroke, Dr. Luke Tayspill, Yale Medical School’s top infectious disease specialist, stumbles across a manuscript written decades earlier by his beloved grandfather. The book bears an om...

Duke Donovan's despot and dictator clients pay him handsomely for the information he provides through psychic and tarot card readings. When not helping others to overthrow the world, or walking his golden retriever, Duke picks up stray men off the New York City streets; artists, musicians, writers, and actors, usually, and nudges their careers forward while sharing his bed with them. His latest find, Broadway conductor, Sam Teak, begins mysteriously poisoning Duke's butler, Malcolm. Duke h...