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Talking Plants, Explosions, Gunfire, Mayhem, Magic and a Hint of LGBT Romance.Lacey & Alex, roommates in San Francisco, are a barista and a cook by day.By night though, Lacey is a part-time private investigator and Alex talks to plants. And they talk back.The pair get dragged into hunting for a lost dagger. Of course, it winds up being so much more than simply a lost dagger as the search widens from San Francisco to Hollywood and Las Vegas.They meet up with ...

When you know your life has a deadline, why play it safe?Grav-walker Jasper Pine ekes out a risky livelihood as a scavenger in a city full of treacherous and unpredictable gravity zones. But she has a secret, an alien infection that will soon shatter gravity again. This time it could endanger the whole planet.Without a workable cure, Jasper's only plan is to die before her infection matures. She lives her life fast, wild, and reckless, with no hope for her future. ...

A bond that was severed. A love that persisted. A marriage that ended before it even began.For twenty years, I've watched Isabella from the shadows—loving her from a distance, protecting her without her knowing. She was always mine, even when she didn't want to be.Our wedding was meant to bring peace, but it only brought destruction. What should have been the start of our forever ended in a single night, leaving nothing but resentment in its wake. She walke...

Violet Chase has always been off-limits. The girl I wanted... but could never have.In my teens, her father warned me to keep my hands to myself. Boys like me don't get girls like her. His family saved me, and I owed them. Her brothers, my best friends, made it clear where I stood: below them.We had one stolen moment of passion, then I ran. That was fourteen years ago, and I've regretted it ever since. Now, she's back in London, but life for both of us is ve...

All I had to do was give him a baby and move on.Being their surrogate was meant to be a simple answer to my mounting problems. With no family, ever-increasing debt, and pressures to stay afloat, I needed a solution. This was supposed to be it.Then it happened. Everything changed.I fell in love with a widower while he mourned his wife. I fell in love with the baby in my belly. For the first time in my life, I knew what I wanted beyond a career as a l...

Obnoxious. Unwanted. Unhinged. And obsessed with my brother's girlfriend.Love was something I never trusted myself to have... until I met her: trouble waiting to happen.Samantha Coleman rocketed into my life and knocked me sideways. I watched her from the shadows as my obsession grew.I used my influence to aid her career. I wanted her to have the life she desired as long as I had control of it.When danger reared its head, my instinct was to ...

Power, love, or betrayal. Choose your poison.Inheriting power comes with the chains of control. Ruthless bloodlines, whispered deals, and a family empire built on fear. I never had a choice in the life mapped out for me.Then I met her.Nicky wasn't supposed to be part of my world. She had a record, a broken past, and the kind of fire that made her impossible to ignore. She didn't care about the Parker name. She cared about the man underneath it....

A revelatory new collection of work by V. R. "Bunny" Lang, an eccentric, thrilling American poet revived from oblivion. The collection includes work from across Lang's inimitable career, including many never-before-published poems.V. R. "Bunny" Lang was the best friend of Frank O'Hara and a central figure in the lively Harvard literary scene of the early 1950s, out of which such very different writers as John Ashbery, Alison Lurie, Edward Gorey, and Robert Creeley ...

A deeply emotional journey through love, loneliness, overthinking, dreams, heartbreak, and the silent battles we fight within ourselves. This book is for the people who smile outside while carrying storms inside — the overthinkers, quiet lovers, and emotionally tired souls trying to survive life one day at a time. If you have ever felt lost, broken, unseen, or simply wanted someone to understand your heart… these pages may feel like home.

The Fermi paradox isn't a paradox... It's an answer!Repelled by humanity, not least the state of their post-1940s architecture, the rest of the cosmos decides to keep the little perishers at arm's length, blackballing Earth from the intergalactic community. Only when a string of bizarre and unexplained deaths occur are two representatives of that reluctant universe forced back to investigate.

The Brethren are in the middle of a war, but that isn't going to stop the explosion between them.AvaPrincess of the Brethren.My Dad adopted Damon when I was only five. We've always fought like brother and sister. My family is under attack and the one person I am supposed to be able to count on is Damon, my adopted brother. We can't seem to stop fighting either. We used to be close.As a kid, I used to tell him I was going to marry him. I always get what I want.

Two years ago, Mara's sister fell from Hollowmere's clock tower. Now Mara is back, looking for the boy whose initials were written beside her sister's last secret. Julian Hale is dangerous, guilty, and impossible to resist. But some truths cost more than love can pay. A dark college romance with secrets, a twist, and an ending that will break your heart. Tragic ending, no HEA.