Twenty-four-year-old Hope DeSilva has been released from a three-year stint in a Georgia prison. After returning to her family property in a tiny Georgia town, she decides she's had enough of the poverty, violence, and profound family dysfunction. It's time to get out on her own. She buys a $400 car and heads to find work out west. After the car breaks down in Colorado, she's given a ride into a mountain town called Wynter where she runs into brash,...

During the 1890's, the heyday of Sherlock Holmes, Martin Hewitt ranked among England's most popular fictional detectives. A favorite of readers of The Strand and other magazines, Hewitt returns in this collection of nine of his best cases. Hewitt enters the scene in "The Lenton Croft Robberies," in which he is called upon to solve three successive jewel robberies whose only clues are three half-burnt wooden matches. In "The Case of the Dixon Torpedo,"...

Fond of daydreaming and constantly questioning his life and the universe around him, agent Seven is a field agent working for the Orbital Defense Force: an elite and secretive planetary agency charged with defending planet Earth and its inhabitants from any and all threats, both domestic and extra-terrestrial.When a rouge agent leaks classified documents, Seven, along with his partner Pengo, an odd-looking, odd-talking penguin creature, set off on...

In 2001, a Canadian police constable murders his girlfriend in a fit of jealous rage. When he realizes what he's done, he manages to construct an elaborate cover-up. Only one person knows the truth. Now, more than a decade later, Anne Brown is running her late uncle's detective agency after spending several years as his assistant. One day, the postman delivers a long-lost letter addressed to her uncle from a woman named Carolyn Jollimore. She says...

Chalmys has the power to do nearly anything-except set himself free. After a simple dinner with a god went very, very wrong, fae mage Chalmys was cursed to remain locked in his tiny realm. Until, that is, he could find someone to tell his story. All of his story. Easy enough, on the surface. However, revealing the truth of his origins will put his mother's soul at risk, and he's trapped in his realm alone. To share his story at all, Chalmys is forced...

At 10 years of age, Olivia Rose considered herself to be a "regular kid." She lived near the beach with her family and best friends Phoebe and Nick. However when Nick's parents separate and Nick moves away with his mother and sister, Olivia begins to learn about pain and realizes that life may not be as simple as it seems. By the time Olivia is in High School, she feels she has nothing special to offer. When Nick returns to live with his dad, Olivia...

New Sales Simplified: Discover Profit-Making Strategies and Tactics That Would Skyrocket Your Sales! People think that making profit is as simple as buying something for a dollar then selling it for two. The buying part is relatively simple and easy; but it's the selling part that can actually pose a problem. Many entrepreneurs go out of business because they failed on the "selling" part. Because it's actually not as simple as it seems and you...

What does it mean to be a hero? A magical sword? A prophecy? What does it mean to be a leader? A royal title? A kingdom to lead? Misty is a princess, but does that make her a damsel or a leader? Misty has a prince, but does that make him the hero? Misty, princess of Beldora, is faced with a conundrum. Engaged to the buffoonish--if well-meaning--prince Pete, Misty finds herself suffocated by the expectations of royal life. Soon Misty notices a spy...

"At twenty-one, life in Senegal couldn't be better for Lola. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with possibility. But fate disrupts her world when she falls for Armand, an American Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy. Her mother, a high court judge in Ghana who endeavors to keep her anchored to home, disapproves of her choice. Against her mother's wishes, Lola plans a future...

Soren Green is a good man. An ex-MMA fighter, single father, and a lawyer helping to better the lives of LGBT teens. But his life isn't as simple as it seems. And things get turned a little upside down when he stumbles on a troubled man on the side of the road, making his way through a snowstorm. Soren knows one of his biggest problems is his bleeding heart, but how can he turn away when he was once that man out in the cold? Kane Winters once had...