"A sweet and engaging story that’s hard to stop reading, with truly good characters and a well-written and believable plot." - YA Books CentralSometimes life doesn’t go according to plan.My summer was planned from packing lists to trip itineraries. Or so I’d thought.It’s the night before my trip abroad, and my boyfriend Matt showed up at a party with another girl. The boyfriend I’m supposed to spend seven weeks with in Brazil.No way...

One country guy. One city girl. One big tree.Megan:Three nights before Christmas, and all I need to do is to pick up a Christmas tree.Never mind I’m a city girl who’s never bought a real live tree. The biggest and best tree in the lot will impress my mom and her new husband, helping them forget how I’ve neglected to visit their tiny town of Crystal Cove.Nick:Three nights before Christmas, and all I n...

The Creative OS: Protecting the Signal in an Overstimulated World explores creativity as something deeper than talent, inspiration, or productivity. It is a living operating system shaped by attention, environment, emotional coherence, sensory atmosphere, symbolic thinking, and the ability to protect deep thought from constant fragmentation. Blending philosophy, psychology, systems thinking, AI, and personal reflection, Lisa J. Scott examines how creativity actually forms — through pattern...

Love & Limitations is Scott's fourth short story collection and first one featuring contemporary MM and LGBTQ+ stories:I Only Want to Be With You: Derrek likes Ryan. Ryan likes Alex. Alex treats Ryan like trash. So why can't he see who really loves him?The Boy in the Band: It's hard for a trans kid in high school, just like it was for a gay kid two decades before. Can Ryan and Justin find common ground in time?Translation:

Some stories are epic.The Earth is in a state of collapse, with wars breaking out over resources and an environment pushed to the edge by human greed.Three living generation ships have been built with a combination of genetic mastery, artificial intelligence, technology, and raw materials harvested from the asteroid belt. This is the story of one of them—43 Ariadne, or Forever, as her inhabitants call her—a living world that carries the remaining hopes of humanity, and the ...

Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way to the Moon’s core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld.Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. After training for two and a half years, four of them—Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien—are bound for Martinez Base, just outside the Old Earth c...

He’s an expansion hockey team owner taking over for his father. She’s a former sports agent who lost her job because of him. When their lives collide, can they give each other a second chance?After a terrible day at her awful job, the last thing Mia Hammond expects is to see her ex at happy hour. On the floor. Unconscious, after falling over at the sight of her.They always did make a disastrous pairing.Aaron Stanek is humiliated to discover not only...

Sometimes being the good girl means everyone loses.When my parents sentenced me to geriatric exile in a sleepy beach town for the summer with my grandparents, I tried everything to stop it. I’m the good girl. The straight-A student and the newly elected co-captain of my high school track team. Only my sister Grace ruined everything. Grace, a rebel with a party girl reputation, insisted I join her at a party on her graduation night. All to be her designated driver. ...

A queer Anthology that embraces the romantic life and happy ever afters of drag queens navigating the LGBT landscape. All stories are written by Own Voice gay authors! From small towns to big cities, drag queens are the heart of the gayborhoods they belong to. Stories by Shane K Morton, Blake Allwood, Jole Cannon, Kelvin Young, J. Scott Coatsworth, Kristian Parker, Brent Archer and M.D. Neu.

A group of strangers meets at Ragazzi, an Italian restaurant, for a cooking lesson that will change them all. They quickly become intertwined in each other's lives, and a bit of magic touches each of them.Meet Dave, the consultant who lost his partner; Matteo and Diego, the couple who run the restaurant; recently-widowed Carmelina; Marcos, a web designer getting too old for hook-ups; Ben, a trans author writing the Great American Novel; teenager Marissa, kicked out for being bi; an...

The Aging OS offers a systems-based approach to aging with vitality, freedom, and meaning. Lisa J. Scott reframes aging as something deeper than appearance, wellness trends, or anti-aging performance. Aging is not a beauty problem. It is a structure problem. Through philosophy, practical frameworks, and emotional clarity, The Aging OS explores the hidden architecture of vitality: health, time, money, energy, identity, environment, relationships, cognition, and meaning. It examines why some...

Four girls, four different summers, four books in one series bundle!Welcome to Ginsburg, Michigan where summer might not go as planned, but love finds a way despite the odds.All Last Summer:Lila ditches her study abroad trip with her boyfriend after catching him cheating and lands a job with her ex's arrogant buddy Aidan. Lila and Aidan find common ground, but dating her ex's BFF goes against every plan she's made.