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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.

My "normal" life is gone. The spirits who haunt me have returned. A favor for my brother went horribly wrong. Now, my paranormal powers, once dormant, surge. This time, I must embrace my supernatural gifts. My friend's young son is missing and assumed dead. I am his only hope.

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.

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.

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?

Ari Barlow has long survived on instinct. It’s crucial for living in the crime capital of the Meridian System. Established for space travel and trade by Illyarium, a world of gods amongst men, the Port of Acheron is now a far cry from the holy image it was spawned from. Just how she likes it. Together, with her level-headed partner, Ari takes any job that brings in the credits.

Maggie Bliss is the youngest of six children living in an idyllic, close-knit Denver neighborhood called the Valley. Maggie's siblings are all successful by society's standards while Maggie is a college-educated dog walker/house sitter with a side hustle delivering food on weekends.

Starting as a way to cope through the struggles of working in an underfunded system and the second hand trauma from her students, Katie Doehrmann shares her poetry in a raw and open memoir about her time working for a residential mental health facility.

For quiet, reserved, and focused 15-year-old Annie Mackey, school was a sanctuary. But when her bubbly and beautiful neighborhood best friend joins her at Willow Point High for freshmen year, her world is turned upside down.

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.

Kara has survived the threat of the Reapers, but at an unspeakable cost—the Archfiends have escaped their eternal prison. Now, with the mortal world on the brink of the apocalypse, with the threat of evil beings as powerful as gods, she must break the rules and travel across the mortal world on an unauthorized mission. Along the way she must face her darkest truth . . . a truth about the change inside her, a truth that she cannot stop.

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.

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.

Annie’s life was perfect. Her best friend became her step-sister. She was on track to head to her dream school after graduation. And she got to do her favorite thing: collaborate musically with her dreamy boyfriend. So how did things go so, so wrong?