**Chapter 1: The Forgotten Letter**In the small, sleepy town of Willowbrook, nestled between rolling hills and dense forests, life moved at a leisurely pace. The townsfolk knew each other by name, and secrets were as rare as a snowflake in summer. But all of that was about to change.One crisp autumn morning, Emma Carter, a young woman in her late twenties, stumbled upon an old, dusty letter tucked inside a book she had borrowed from the town's library. The letter was addres...

An Embroidery Book is a comprehensive and richly detailed guide to the art of embroidery, originally published in the early 20th century. This classic volume offers both beginners and experienced needleworkers a wealth of practical instruction, inspiration, and historical context. The book covers a wide array of embroidery techniques, including satin stitch, chain stitch, cross-stitch, and more, with clear explanations and step-by-step guidance. It features numerous illustrations and diagr...

You can’t run from the past forever…Lizzie Grace has finally returned to Canberra, the city where she grew up and a place that holds so many bad memories. Not only does she have to testify at her father’s trial, but also deal with her ex’s will and relatives unhappy that she’s inherited a good chunk of his assets.Yet Canberra holds more than just memories of an unwanted marriage. It’s where her sister was murdered, and the man responsible was never...

Christmas is fast approaching, and Lizzie Grace and her witch familiar, Belle Kent, are hoping it’s going to be a quiet one.But those hopes are dashed when, on a quest to find a customer’s errant husband, Lizzie comes across the body of a witch and a dark circle of power neither she nor Ashworth can break.Then werewolves begin to turn up dead—skinned.As the body count rises, and the hunters become the hunted, it’s evident there’s a new evil in town.One that ...

'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesSummoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, Memoirs of a Geisha uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as a servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha hou...

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadSpeaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a...

The winds of change are finally whispering through the Faelan Werewolf Reservation…Lizzie Grace is doing her utmost to ignore the portents of doom, wanting nothing more than enjoy her life and her time with Aiden O’Connor while she still can. But the song of the once unprotected and very powerful wellspring still washes across the distant shores of darkness, and it continues to draw evil to the reservation.The one that arrives this time is differen...

They say breaking up is hard to do. They’re wrong. Living with the consequences is so much harder, especially when sorrow is a powerful draw to evil …Lizzie Grace is trying to get on with her life now that she and Aiden have gone their separate ways, but it’s a difficult thing to do when just about everything reminds her of the damn man.The situation is made worse when a body is found, and her job as Deputy Reservation Witch means she has no choice...

Never mess with the relics of the old gods… or the pixies who once guarded them.After her mom’s disappearance six months ago, Bethany Aodhán has been running their tavern in old Deva—something her family had been doing ever since a light-fingered pixie lost them the job of guarding the treasures of the old gods eons ago.Then her brother, Lugh, is attacked, his best friend murdered, and the tavern firebombed. A confrontation with a former lover lead...

Evil comes in all forms … and sometimes it wears a human mask.When the body of a newlywed is discovered on the reservation, Lizzie Grace throws herself into the investigation, needing a distraction from what she fears is coming not only for her but also Belle—her best friend and witch familiar.But as the body count grows and a desperate race begins to track down a supernatural entity capable of powerful magic, it becomes evident another deadly game...

In a world where magic and science sit side by side, and powerful witches are considered necessary aides for all governments, Lizzie Grace is something of an outlier. Though born into one the most powerful blue blood witch families, she wants nothing to do with either her past or her magic.But when she and Belle, her human familiar and best friend, open a small cafe in the Faelan werewolf reservation, she quickly finds herself enmeshed in the hunt for a vampire intent on wreaking b...

In a reservation where magic has been unrestrained for entirely too long, there is no rest from the wicked…After dealing with the fallout of a shape-shifting, fire-throwing demon, Lizzie, Belle, and Aiden are hoping the reservation will finally catch a break from the constant influx of evil. Those hopes are quickly dashed when Lizzie comes across the scent of evil and tracks it back to the clean-picked bones of a man.As it quickly becomes obvious that this is not a one-off ...