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The pretentious call from my future employer puts a crimp in my plans. I can be frugal, but waiting seven weeks for my first payday is a lot to ask of a girl. I can't help wondering about Granny's preposterous manifestation beliefs. I know they're hogwash. Too bad. I could use a magical cash bonus to pay my rent.

Martin, my best friend, is frantic when his girlfriend Penny doesn't answer his texts. She isn't ghosting him...Someone murdered her. Martin is shattered. Before I can help him deal with his agonizing loss, the police handcuff and whisk him off to jail. It's up to me to exonerate Martin.

Being psychic isn't cool. It's not my fault Susan's fiancé is a loathsome money-grubbing sociopath. She picked him. A devoted friend would end his devious plan by stopping the doomed wedding and saving her friend from becoming a possible murder victim. I want to be the daring friend who rescues Susan from her lunatic lover. It's just I have no evidence, only an illusive dream. Plus, I'm not keen on becoming a social outcast.

I’ve stayed away from Guntersville, Alabama, since leaving for college. Not because I stopped loving my family or my small-town friends. I never did. I left because something about this place sharpens the voices in my head and the shadows that slip into my peripheral vision. Here, the boundary between the living and the dead feels thin. Fragile. Too easy to cross. Coming home means facing a nightmare I never expected: the murder of my high school best friend. Her death forces me to confront the cost of my ambition.

Lindy Johnson, private investigator, has always had the insatiable desire to solve puzzles. But while she's quick to learn everyone else's secrets, she's careful to keep her own private life guarded. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis five years ago, she does her best to keep that side of her life concealed, unwilling to let others see her internal weaknesses. It makes for a lonely life, but isolation has never been something that bothered her—at least it didn't used to.

Home is dangerous. I could deal with the implosion of my law career if it weren't for the frightening growth of my paranormal "gifts". Moving back in with my folks has its perks, and working with my uncle at his law firm in our sleepy Southern town is excellent for honing my litigation skills. I'm grateful for the summer to form April's life plan 2.0. It would be an idyllic mini vacation visiting with the people I love most if it weren't for the return of the voices. The spirits are always more assertive at home.

Evan Scruggs made his millions pretending to be someone he's not: A sweet grandma with an affinity for writing America's favorite cookbooks. While executives love his food, it was very clear from the beginning that his prickly personality and people skills were not going to sell anything to the public.

Becoming a superhero isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Let’s be realistic, people don’t have superpowers. But if you have enough determination to make it through training, you have a chance to be the modern-day superhero, stopping one criminal at a time…or doing everyone else’s job and getting none of the credit. After Tanser Girl comes to terms with her non-celebrity level status in the superhero world, someone else from Level D decides it’s their moment to shine, shaking up the entire system, while leaving her to pick up the pieces.

Nicole is at her emotional breaking point after a fatal car crash takes her boyfriend. Thoughts of ending everything plague her dreams. Phobetor is asked to heal her of the emotional distress. Reluctantly, the god of nightmares agrees, and finds her sorrow more profound than her family knew.

Kara’s return to the world of the living is short-lived when she gets an unexpected surprise and finds herself back in Horizon—the Legion has given her a second chance. Kara and her friends face a new enemy: a Dark warlock, an ancient and evil adversary of the Legion. But when Kara finds out that their GA weapons have no effect on Dark magic, can she defeat the warlock and save the mortal world from Darkness? What’s worse, the Legion orders Kara to carry out her new mission undercover, as someone she never expected…

An alien and a human must unite to save Earth. Nathan Bradley’s life is unraveling. The nightmares that haunt him aren’t just dreams—they’re prophecies of Earth’s destruction. When a mysterious woman named Isha appears, claiming to have the answers, Nathan is thrust into a battle for the future of the planet. She says he’s not just another lost soul—he’s the key to thwarting a sinister plot to destroy Earth. But Nathan isn’t a hero. He’s barely keeping his own life together.

Kara has lost her elemental power, and with her guardian angel days behind her, all is back to normal...or so she thought. But when she's injected with a mysterious substance by a shadowy man, she begins to change...but into what? As Kara deals with the change that brews inside her, a new menace threatens the angels and the mortal world: Reapers. And now back in Horizon, it's up to Kara and her friends to figure out who is powerful enough to control the Reapers and how to stop them.

Autumn in Michigan has always been Addie’s favorite time of year, but this fall is different in every way imaginable. After fighting to return to her family, she and her friends still find themselves on their own. Their town is void of everything that made it home. As the leaves turn colors and the temperature drops, the group prepares to survive the winter. And still, danger, both dead and alive, threatens them at every turn.

The Elemental Project is a modern young adult sci-fi inspired by alchemical history. The story follows Guardian Lucas Sawyer and four angelic elementals on their quest to create the philosopher’s stone.

Emilia Davenport is ready to die. She always knew her time would come sooner rather than later, and now, as she stands over the edge of the cliff on the impending one-year anniversary of her twin daughters’ disappearance, she’s finally ready to bring this idea to fruition. After a night of celebration quickly turned tragic at her family’s vineyard last summer, Emilia’s worst nightmare came true when her sixteen-year-old daughters didn’t come home. The only thing more grim was watching it destroy her husband and five-year-old son in equal measure.

When the biggest New Orleans real estate developer strolls into Marina Cormier’s newly inherited antique shop with a lost phone looking for its owner, Marina's heart is knocked clear into a past she’s been trying to forget. She should have locked the front door, flipped the sign to CLOSED, and turned out the lights when she spotted him on the sidewalk! Instead, Marina scrambles for cover behind one of her massive grandfather clocks.

Caitey Belgrave fears she’s taken on way too much when she agrees to create the perfect Mansion Mountain Wedding for her cousin and bestie, Jenna. When she drives into the luxurious Hearst Estate, the word “overwhelm” doesn’t do justice to the sudden panic attack. When she spies a gorgeous man materializing out of the woods like a ghost and watching her like a stalker, sheer terror turns her blood to ice.Wait a minute—a stalker in a $3,000 Armani suit? And yet, Jack the Ripper was handsome and charming . . . is she living in a Rom-Com or a murder mystery?

The laws of The Greek Pantheon are meant to keep deities and mortals safe. Morpheus disregards those laws by falling in love with a mortal named Kallisto Nalani. Unfortunately for Morpheus and Kallisto, their forbidden love causes two realms to merge, igniting old wounds and threatening the existence of both the gods and mortals. Can forbidden love win, or will The Fates doom Morpheus to Hades and Kallisto to insanity?

Kara learns that the evil Seirs are slaughtering Sensitives that refuse to swear an allegiance to Lilith—the Netherworld’s princess and her diabolical half-sister. While on assignment, Kara discovers that Lilith is searching for an ancient weapon that can destroy mankind.

A pair of South Texas teens fascinated with survival television are put to the test when a mysterious disease tears across the country. They must do what it takes to survive on their own, and above all else, they must hide.