The question of tonality's origins in music's pitch content has long vexed many scholars of music theory. However, tonality is not ultimately defined by pitch alone, but rather by pitch's interaction with elements like rhythm, meter, phrase structure, and form. Hearing Homophony investigates the elusive early history of tonality by examining a constellation of late-Renaissance popular songs which flourished throughout Western Europe at the turn of the seventeenth century. Megan Ka...

Zara, lawyerly and just a little cynical, teams up with her older—by 11 ½ months—sister Lilly, when a possible Caravaggio sketch and its curator both go missing from a museum. Lilly’s never met a man, or a scam, she didn’t at least wink at, so when the major museum donor who was dating the missing curator turns out to be a handsome, wealthy criminal, Lilly is all in to join the chase. Threaded through this modern-day mystery are flashbacks to a journal kept during World War II by the fathe...

Ninety days sober and out of options, Mark Halvorsen takes the only job left to him: winter caretaker of a house at the end of a mountain road, in a town that will rent him a room but will not discuss the address.He brings his wife, Elaine, who has been keeping a private tally in pencil on the back of a pantry door, and their daughter, Anne, who has always been able to tell when a room is listening.The house is warm. The pantry is stocked for far more than three people. The...

The vampire wants a wife…Shelley Linley is sick of weirdos. Yet another prankster has applied to her dating agency. This one says he’s a vampire and he wants Shelley to help him find a wife.Meeting him for a second interview against all her better judgement, Shelley discovers that he has no clue about women. A shame because he’s super-hot, amusing, and has a lot of single friends he could recommend her struggling business to, even if he does say they’re wer...

A paranormal fairy tale re-telling… of vampires, captivity, and love.They said that Once Upon a Time, Cinderella resided with her monstrous stepmother, ugly stepsisters, and led a life of cruel drudgery, until one day, a fairy godmother helped her attend a ball, where she met a charming prince and lived happily ever after.But what if he was a dark prince? A vampire? And Ella the daughter of his maid? What if he wanted Ella to birth his children? Could not w...

When an orbital-mechanics specialist discovers a hidden reservoir of energy threaded through the satellites of low Earth orbit, a billionaire offers him a fortune to drain it — knowing that draining it will bring a precise number of those satellites down.Every path through the equations carries a different cost, measured not in dollars but in the unseen people at the far end of every severed signal.As the launch window narrows, Mark Calloway must decide what kind of man he ...

In 1277 England, the discovery of a Roman hoard sparks a deadly shadow war between English and French spies. On the streets of Paris, French agents seize an English agent, Lady Clemence d'Lisle, and she disappears. Thieves brazenly steal the king's gold en route to Westminster, and the King's Man, Simon Lowys, untangles a complex web of murder, Welsh rebels, deception, and elusive assassins. Simon questions his calling as a man of law when he sees justice obscured by duplicity and lies.

Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction brings together a broad array of case studies from the United States and Canada that offers fresh perspectives on how early populations utilized the land and its resources, how and when they settled in particular locations, and how ...

Some people spend their lives trying to outrun the past. Others learn how to live with it.In Now Go Make Lemonade, Nicholas Crosson shares the story of growing up in a home shaped by alcoholism, finding freedom through music and skating, navigating love and loss, and learning what it means to become a father, a friend, and a man who no longer wants to be defined only by what he can carry.Told through memory, reflection, and ordinary moments that became important ov...

What if the most dangerous thing in a movie theater wasn't what appeared on the screen, but who might be watching from beyond it? In Preview, Frank Belknap Long blends sharp wit, eerie suspense, and a deliciously twisted sense of wonder into a compact science-fiction nightmare. When a theatrical impresario insists on a special screening, he promises his guests an experience unlike any other—a vision of reality so vivid, so immersive, it will change the way they see the world forever. But a...

Their story began in the Epilogue of THE LEGEND OF LYON REDMOND...In Pennyroyal Green, the past is very much alive...but the present has a power—and a magic—all its own.Isabel Redmond never anticipated that the echoes of a legendary love will reverberate through her own life. Or that answers she's long sought might be between the pages of Olivia Eversea's diary.Until she goes in search of her roots...and meets her tall, dark destiny under a famous pair of entwined t...