**The instant New York Times bestseller!A comforting and informative guide that demystifies our end-of-life journey, from the compassionate expert known as @hospicenursejulie**What if we didn’t consider death the worst possible outcome? What if we discussed it honestly, embraced hospice care, and prepared for the end of our lives with hope and acceptance?In this compassionate and knowledgeable guide, TikTok star Julie McFadden—known online as “Hospice Nurse ...

From USA Today Bestselling Authors K.L. Bone & Erin McFadden*Every night, the wolf wailed his sorrow to the lonely moon.Every sunrise, her heart echoed his mournful call.***Celine treads a worn path through the cursed wood to pray beneath the Hawthorn tree for her sister’s safe return. The trail is dangerous—her nightly pilgrimage is stalked by monsters who dwell in the murky shadows. One moonlit evening, the beasts come for her, yet instead o...

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Nick wakes up in a cold, dark room with a lump on his head and an empty stomach.He doesn't know where he is.He doesn't know who grabbed him.But he knows they're about to regret it.The next twenty-four hours will be a battle of wits, doing everything he can to stay alive. Old enemies crawl out of the woodwork. Old mistakes demand attention. And the woman he loves ends up in the blast zone.They grabbed him, thinking it would lead to an easy payday....

The Second Bucket List is a poignant and uplifting story about the emotional and spiritual journey of a forty-nine year old woman who is diagnosed with ALS. Celeste loves life –- her husband Ross; her college-age children, Darby and Ginger; her black labs and raucous chickens; and her new career as a psychotherapist. She loves the rugged mountains that surround her home in Gardiner, Montana, gateway to Yellowstone National Park. But her diagnosis forces her to face the inevitable loss of e...

This is our third Halloween issue of the month, with ghoulishly fun (and seasonally appropriate) tales from John Shepphird (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman), father-and-daughter writing team Harding McFadden & Eleanor Hawkins, and British master John S. Glasby.We also feature mysteries by N.M. Cedeño (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Ed Teja, plus a vintage 1908 Holmes short-short by Wex Jones that I recently turned up in my pulp research. Our novel is a clas...

Shadows and Reflections is the Roger Zelazny tribute anthology you’ve been waiting for. Here are stories that are not just inspired by Roger Zelazny, but stories set in universes created by Roger Zelazny. Finding Shadows and Reflections is like discovering a new Zelazny collection full of old friends that you thought you’d never see again. You’ll find stories set in many of your favorite universes: Lord of Light, Isle of the Dead, Madwand, Creatures of Light and Darkness, and Jack of Shado...

Award-winning novelist Bernice McFadden's highly anticipated new historical novel set amidst the Harlem Renaissance.— Glorious was a finalist for the 2011 NAACP Image Award for Fiction."McFadden's lively and loving rendering of New York hews closely to the jazz-inflected city of myth. . . . McFadden has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and her entertaining prose equally accommodates humor and pathos." — New York Times Book Review

The Brotherhood of the Guardians has existed for thousands of years to serve a single purpose: the protection of Talents, the mortal descendants of the original nine Muses.Twenty-one year-old Daniel Lyoncourt has trained his entire life to join the Guardians. Daniel is prepared to risk his life in order to keep his Talent safe, but when he's assigned to nineteen year-old Anna Saint-James, he discovers that his life isn't the only thing he could lose. Anna has no idea how special she...

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own…Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before hea...

‘Why the Chimes Rang’ is a beautifully written story based on an old legend. It has wonderful evocative symbolism, the old church with a bell tower soaring into the sky, touching the clouds waiting for a perfect gift for the Christ child, a perfect gift of love.

Experience an emotionally driven memoir of childhood trauma, mother loss, and healing. At nine years of age, as her parents approach divorce, Connie must choose in court which parent she wants to live with--her frightening, abusive father or her loving but physically and emotionally exhausted mother. She chooses her mother, who has spent six years resisting divorce and trying to keep her four children. But her mother cannot go on and turns Connie and her siblings over to their father. Deva...