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After a frightening, confusing confrontation in Napa, the Roadside Paradise troupe continues on their circuit. As they travel, Athena learns more about V, the leader of the troupe and his remarkable powers. But even though they were able to escape Napa, the danger has not passed. In the middle of the night, a young girl enters the grounds of Roadside Paradise with unexplained powers. She is an escapee from the Guild of the Red Dragon - the organization that collects powerful children and trains them to be weapons.

Athena Alexander never thought her savior would come in the form of a traveling circus, let alone one that she suspected to harbor illegal activities. While trying to fix the mess of her life, Athena ends up hitching a ride with the Roadside Paradise troupe. However, it is no ordinary traveling circus. Along with the normal circuit, the troupe performs privately for anyone with enough money to pay their fees.

A murderer returns to Africa, seeking atonement for killing an innocent. Now that Carlos has emptied out his life, his past torments him. He can't go forward until he goes back - to Ghana - to own up to crimes he committed as a young man. A woman escapes poverty in Africa, but is trapped in a life supporting those she left behind. Liz left Ghana and is now a successful career woman in the USA. Freed from the daily oppression of scarcity, she remains under the vice-grip power of her hoarding mother and needy siblings. Their lives cross...

Discovering his true-identity may cost Darion everything, as he is suddenly confronted with a war-ravaged Realm and the answers he has always sought. Rav’Arians wreak havoc at the command of a sadistic usurper who led a grisly coup against the Marked Royals. Unicorn, Centaur, Nymph, and man have joined forces to face the oncoming threat of evil, yet their forces are slipping, and hope seems lost. Three generations interwoven throughout Nav’Arian history will reach as far as rural Oregon, to see the kingdom unified once more.

Her husband lost in the war, Nicolina Callison spent a year grieving for the love of her life. Grief that gripped her until the day her husband walked in front of her on a London street...One abandoned wife. One rogue soldier. And the twist of fate that can bring them back together, if they dare to allow it.

War ripped them apart. Fate will bring them back together. After losing track of Bridget during the war on the continent, Hunter Crawford has spent two years scouring England to find the only woman he’s ever loved. His search futile, he finally, bitterly, gives up hope, and ceases his search for her. One rule. Don’t fall in love with a soldier. Going into war to help her surgeon father on the edges of the Napoleonic battlefields was an easy decision for Bridget Morton. Her father’s only rule? Do not fall in love with a soldier.

It’s Seattle, the 1970s. Vincent is a white student from the neighborhood, while Troy is one of a few African American students bussed in as part of a desegregation program. Vincent quickly admires Troy and befriends him. They share childhood moments such as kickball games, discussions of first crushes, and after-school fishing trips - before their racist environment separates them.

In this dazzling, hilarious, and heartbreaking debut, Joel Higgins grapples with the aftermath of a tragic loss as he tries to make sense of the problems he's sees all around him with the help of banned books, Winnie-the-Pooh, a field of asparagus, and many pairs of socks.

His dark silver eyes are haunted, and for good reason. Logan Lipinstein lost his wife years ago in the war and has been a living shell of a man ever since, attempting to atone for past sins. Until one fateful day, when she walks past him carrying a basket of bread. Sienna Ponstance lives in the comfort of her grandmother's estate, having long ago put herself on the shelf as a spinster. She has her charcoals, the village that she loves, and peaceful days - even if something has always been missing from her life. Until the day her tranquility is shattered when a strange man accosts her.

Irving can't function socially, so he spies on people and posts the results on the Internet, where he has a cult-like following. Normally careful to preserve his anonymity, he breaks his own rules when he falls in love with pretty plus-sized Veronica, a naughty-bingo caller. Then she disappears. Should Irving pursue, even as Veronica delves deeper into international drug couriering? When it turns out she's packing something different than dope in her suitcase, and needs Irving's help to close the deal, he's drawn to play an active role in her underworld.

Inheriting an English title was not something American Rorrick Trowlson wanted in life, nor was the mess that came with the estate. His brother’s mess. A mess he now has to clean up. But to do so, he needs a tract of land his brother flippantly lost in a stupid bet at the Revelry’s Tempest gaming hall. After he mistakes her for a madam of a brothel, Cass wants nothing to do with the brash American - until she realizes he may be just the key to righting her deepest regret. She strikes a bargain with Rorrick - take her to America and she will sign the land back to him.

A collection of short stories inspired by real life. Most represent a mundane side from science-fiction and fantasy writer Katrina Joyner that people don't get to see often.

It's Termination Day; the day medical staff decide whether to turn off the life-support system linked to coma patient Gabriel Radford. They are unaware he is suffering from "Locked-In" syndrome and is conscious but unable to respond.

Audrey (she prefers "Odd") has always had one thought in her head: "I want to go on my own adventure." It appears that Odd's wish finally comes true as a flying island appears over the town and whisks Audrey and her only friend, Kite, away to a far-off place, into a forest of the magical Nightlands where mystic creatures and magical folk roam. It’s up to Audrey and Kite to learn how to master the strange workings of this new world in order to find their way home.

How would you feel coming home to find a family living in your house who call you Sarah, tell you your brother's name is Andy, and insist that you should be ashamed of calling the police for help? My name is Rowena Shaw and I've never seen any of them before. They are total strangers. It's Thursday and it's just the beginning.

Top Company scientist Chen Jelinek has committed suicide. Vatic, a half-alive empath with no memory of who or what he is, will die in six hours if he can't find out why - or so the Company tells him - an "added incentive to get the job done". Our hero soon discovers he is one of the Skilled, a genetically enhanced human revered and despised in equal measure - a bloodhound with a terrifying past who'll stop at nothing in his pursuit of truth.

We are all so busy nowadays, and tackling all those to-do lists can leave us drained, worn down, and lacking energy. When you take a deeper look inside, you will also discover patterns, old habits, and past events blocking self-growth. Life coach extraordinaire, KJ Landis, helps identify how, why, and where we got stuck in the first place, and how we can utilize past trauma and drama as a springboard to becoming our most authentic, vibrant selves.

Reminiscent of God in a Cup and The Devil's Cup, this is an inside look into the modern business of making coffee. But rather than a general history, Coffee for One focuses on the revolution that made single serve the most popular way to consume coffee worldwide, and the competition and conflict that got us here.

In the final story in The Chronicles Of Terror series we find Marie Jenson trying to make sense of the path she has chosen while facing what appear to be insurmountable odds at stopping the ISIS terror cell's latest attempts at destruction. Compelled by a deep desire for redemption, she will stop at nothing to stop the evil that lies in her wake. Just when she thinks she has nothing left to give, a handsome suitor is sent to join forces with her.

Marie Jenson's life changed forever - three times.The first time was in her freshman year of college. She was a young, idealistic, and carefree student with visions of making the world a better place. That was until her idealism was shattered when she lost someone she dearly loved in one of the world's most deadly acts of terrorism.