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When Jericho Jaxon is offered an internship with The Optimal Mind Institute doing mind expansion research, she doesn't realize they're producing psychic spies for the military. And they want her to be one. Jericho is teamed with Falcon, a super soldier who is bigger and stronger than the average warrior. He's supposed to be without empathy or the need for human connection. Their mission is to track and kill aliens who live among us. But when the training ends, their psychic bond doesn't. When Falcon discovers that Jericho is an alien hybrid, he knows she'll end upon the military's kill list if they find out, and the hunter will become the hunted.

When Max Elliot invites Izzy Grant to a fancy Ivy League alumni reception at the Tawnee Mountain Resort, the ghost hunters anticipate a romantic weekend getaway at the premier ski and golf destination. But when wealthy hotelier Leona Hutton is murdered, and her ghost asks Izzy to find her killer, she and Max decide to investigate. Will Izzy and Max solve the case before more alumni end up dead, or the killer turns the tables and decides to hunt the ghost hunters? Leona's Last Resort is a part of the Tawnee Mountain Mysteries series, a collection of seven brand new mysteries, from seven award-winning and bestselling authors, taking place at the same final destination, the Tawnee Mountain Resort.

She’s not a police detective, but she played one on TV. For two decades Kate Parks played a detective on the hit television series Murder is My Beat. But when her show gets canceled, and her sister dies unexpectedly, Kate reluctantly agrees to go back to Florida even though she vowed that she would never set foot in the Sunshine State again. But Kate is too stubborn to let sleeping alligators lie. And when she stirs up trouble looking for her sister’s killer, she finds herself caught between the Irish mafia and the city’s corrupt police department, with both sides willing to do whatever it takes to keep her quiet.

Recent college graduate Cassie Sullivan thought she had scored a dream job working at a trendy art gallery. But it turns into a nightmare the day masked gunmen enter the gallery and kill everyone but her.

She promises one of the gunmen she will do anything if he spares her life. Three days later he comes back to collect on that promise.

Cassie knows she’ll be killed if she goes to the police, so she decides to find an alternative method of justice. Aiden Donovan will help Cassie find a permanent solution to her problem for price.

It isn’t cash that Aiden wants. He wants Cassie to fall in love with him.

He was supposed to kill her. He wasn’t supposed to fall in love with her. Haydn Donovan only has to make one more kill and he’ll be able to retire. This time a young piano teacher is the target and the price on her head is one million dollars.

Haydn has a reputation for being the best in the business: a coldhearted and merciless killer. But when he lays eyes on Rainey Russo, everything changes. He breaks all his rules. Don’t get close to the targets. Don’t humanize them. And never fall in love. When the other hired guns arrive to kill Rainey for the cash, Haydn is the only one who can save her.

How far would you go to be with the woman you love? Would you kill your father to be with his mistress? What if it was the only way to save her life? Foster Brady has finally met the woman of his dreams. The only problem is that Journey Rivera is his father Mick's young mistress. As things heat up between Foster and Journey, Mick begins to become suspicious. He threatens to kill anyone who touches Journey, and he tells Journey he'll kill her too if he ever finds out she's cheating on him. Foster has no reason to doubt his father's word. He's always suspected that his mother never really killed herself, and that his father was responsible for her death. But who would ever suspect a police detective of foul play? As his father's violence towards Journey intensifies, Foster vows to do whatever it takes to keep Journey safe. Even if it means killing his father to protect her.

THE CLUB facilitates arrangements for wealthy men, who want all of the benefits of having a mistress without any of the hassles of an actual relationship. Falling in love is never part of the deal. Rose Collins is a recent art school graduate with overwhelming student loan debt and no way to pay it. Jae Rothko is a wealthy and renowned artist who doesn't have the time or patience for a relationship. Jae joins The Club so he can have one woman when he wants and how he wants with no attachments and no expectations. He selects Rose to be that woman.

Dr. Mary Pine never imagined that she would be starting her fifth year as a faculty member in the Medieval Studies department as a thirty-two-year-old widow. Mary doesn't want to lose her house and all the money she invested in it, so she makes an arrangement through The Club to get out the financial ruins her dead husband left her in. All Mary has to do for the money is date a wealthy man, who wants all of the benefits of having a mistress, without any of the hassles of an actual relationship.
When Dante McNally chooses Mary for an arrangement, there is just one catch. He's one of her department's new graduate students, and the recipient of a prestigious research fellowship funded by his billionaire father. And this is the year Mary is supposed to be applying for tenure.

When world renowned artist Felicity D accepts a guest lectureship at a prestigious art school in Chicago she hopes it will be an opportunity to resume a relationship with Jae Rothko, the only man she's ever truly loved. Felicity quickly discovers that Jae is madly in love with someone else, but he suggests that Felicity become a member of The Club, an exclusive dating service for the wealthy and famous. The Club turns out to be a little more than Felicity bargained for. In exchange for a hefty membership fee she's assigned a ruggedly handsome male companion, Cole Tuala, who will do anything to please her. But what happens when Felicity starts to have feelings for the man she's paying to be with?

After being dumped by her boyfriend of six years, Lyric Johnson has no way to pay her bills. She's been trying to find a job for months, but no one seems interested in hiring a recent graduate of a creative writing program. When Lyric's neighbor tells her about The Club, dating a wealthy man for money seems to be her only option. Seven years ago recording artist, Maverick, had one of the biggest-selling singles of all time. When his second album failed to gain any traction and his personal life fell apart he disappeared into obscurity. Now on the advice of his manager Maverick has joined The Club, so he can have one woman when he wants and how he wants with no attachments and no expectations. Falling in love is never part of the deal. Until Maverick meets Lyric.

What's a girl supposed to do when she gets pregnant and the father of the child doesn't want anything to do with the baby? How about seducing the nerdy next door neighbor and making him believe the baby is his? Cecilia Moreaux's job isn't exactly legal. She works for her aunt, Claudia, who owns The Club. They facilitate arrangements for wealthy men who want all of the benefits of having a mistress without any of the hassles of an actual relationship. When Cecilia becomes pregnant, and the much older baby daddy wants nothing to do with their child, she doesn't know what to do. She won't be able to work at The Club once her aunt discovers she's expecting, and the only other job she's ever held was modeling in her teens and early twenties. So Cecilia devises a plan to seduce her nerdy next door neighbor with the intention of making him believe the baby is his. What Cecilia doesn't know is that her neighbor has a secret that could cost her and Claudia their freedom.

“Don’t be someone who defines her life by someone else’s death.” Dee Dee DeMarco’s brother, Alex, was funny, free-spirited and creative. He was also gay. Tormented by bullies, Alex killed himself on his 15th birthday. Two years later, and now in college, Dee Dee believes getting a summer job working with a college-prep program for disadvantaged high school students is a stroke of luck, until she discovers that the guy assigned to co-lead her group is Cameron Connelly, a star basketball player and one of the bullies who tormented her brother to death. How can Dee Dee possibly spend the entire summer working so closely with one of the boys she blames for her brother’s death?

Awkward screenwriter Nellie Berg is great with words, as long as she can write them down. She's written over thirty action scripts, but has been unable to sell a single one to Hollywood. Instead of working the room, every time Nellie tries to pitch her scripts to producers she becomes overcome with anxiety and completely blanks out. When Nellie meets another aspiring screenwriter, Roscoe Rhodes, at Pitchfestapalooza they form an unlikely friendship. Roscoe is everything Nellie is not: outgoing, witty, charming...and good in a room. Roscoe suggests that Nellie hire his cousin, Chris, an unemployed actor to pitch her scripts to producers. Things get complicated when Nellie falls for Chris and she seeks Roscoe's help to seal the deal. Roscoe realizes he actually has feelings for Nellie. And Hollywood falls in love with the hot the new pretend screenwriter, who has never even read an entire script let alone written one.

What happens after your 15-minutes of fame are over? Maddie Malone is the nanny who made national headlines. She's the temptress who broke up the marriage of two of Hollywood's most beloved movie stars. She's the girl everyone in America loves to hate. Now two months after the Nannygate sex scandal Maddie is desperate to rebuild her life.
She accepts a position as a personal assistant to the reclusive writer, Jackson Drake. He's fired every one of the assistants his manager has sent him within the first few days of employment, but Maddie is determined to do whatever is takes to make her new job work. Maddie is able to follow every one of Jackson's eccentric rules to the letter. That is until Emerson Drake shows up for Spring Break. He's Jackson's son from an affair he had with Bahamian creative writing student when he taught at UCLA. He's the son who Jackson has somehow managed to keep hidden from his fans for all these years. Maddie finds Emerson incredibly attractive...and Jackson has forbidden Maddie to date him.

Chris Rhodes is a struggling actor on the verge of breaking into the business.
Abby Sullivan works at her aunt and uncle's nursery. When Chris sees Abby watering plants in the front of the store it's love at first sight. Actually meeting Abby, however, proves to be much harder than Chris imagines. He spends nearly all of his money purchasing houseplants until he finally gets the opportunity to see Abby again. Sparks fly between them, but Abby is extremely hesitant to accept a date with Chris. Abby has a secret she's desperate to keep, but Chris is just as eager to find out what it is.

After serving seven years as a police officer in a small beach community is Southern California, Maya Navarro feels like she's finally been accepted by her peers. Now as a newly appointed Field Training Officer she can finally make her mark. Returning to California after serving two tours of duty in Iraq, Cody Jackson makes the decision to become a police officer. Cody reports for his first day of field training and discovers that his supervisor is the same woman he just had a one night stand with. Maya would rather die than admit to her sergeant the reason she can't oversee Cody's training. So she's stuck with him for ten weeks of very close and personal contact on a daily basis. As things heat up between them they need to remain strictly professional, or risk ruining their careers.

Izzy Grant is supposed to be dead, suicide by hanging. But when she regains consciousness she's still alive and still the crazy girl everyone in Old Town loves to hate. But one thing had changed. He saved her life, a shadowy figure wearing all black and riding a motorcycle. Now he's following Izzy. She doesn't know why, but she's eager to find out. When charming ghost hunter, Max Elliot, barges into Izzy's life she isn't looking for love...except in the biker romance novels she's obsessed with. But when Rye's behavior takes on new and violent dimensions, Izzy and Max struggle to find a way to stop him before his violence against Izzy escalates. Maybe the only solution is for Rye to die.

Recent college graduate, Harper Leigh, can barely make ends meet working as the books editor for a new online entertainment magazine, Chatter. With $85,000 of student loan debt about to go into repayment, she has no idea how she'll get by. Just when she thinks things couldn't get worse, Harper's boss decides to embed her in the North American tour for the hot rock band, Always Rayne. Ten days on the road with the band for her to get an exclusive story. But Harper's a homebody and the last thing she wants to do is go on the road with a rock band. And she definitely doesn't want to spend ten days with the notorious bad boy and band front man, Nic Rayne. When Nic proves to be too much for Harper to handle and she threatens to quit the assignment, Nic decides to sweeten the pot. If she stays with the tour for all ten days, he'll pay off all of her student loan debt....but there's one small catch Harper also has to sleep in his bed every night.

Getting out of rehab is supposed to be a new beginning, but for Brooke Rhodes it's more about endings. After her dad fires her from the only job she's ever had managing his smoothie shop, Brooke finds her college degree in American Studies isn't useful in gaining any serious prospects for employment. When she's forced to give up her apartment and her parents refuse to take her in Brooke has only one place to go. She moves to Scottsdale, Arizona to live with her best friend, Harper Leigh, and Harper's rock star boyfriend and his bandmates. Living with a rock band isn't exactly what the doctor ordered for staying clean and sober. And it doesn't help that the band's guitar player, Leo Donovan, wants a repeat performance of the one-night stand they had months ago. But staying straight will mean staying as far away from the band as possible and keeping Leo out of her life.

Her dream vacation becomes a nightmare when her roommate goes missing.

Brooklyn Winters just received the offer of a lifetime. If she accompanies her roommate, Addie, on a Spring Break trip to a tropical island paradise, all her expenses will be paid for by her roommate’s parents. There’s only one problem: Brooklyn promised her dad she would spend Spring Break working with him at the Seven Brothers Security Services office. That’s what she has done for every vacation for as long as she can remember. When her overprotective father reluctantly agrees to the island getaway, Brooklyn assures him that she and Addie will be perfectly safe and that he has nothing to worry about. If only she was right. On their first day on the island, Addie goes missing. The last thing Brooklyn wants to do is admit to her father that she was wrong, and ask for his help. So, she searches for Addie on her own.

As Brooklyn follows the leads to find Addie, she realizes she is being trailed by the nerdy tourist staying in the room next door. Is he just trying to score a date with Brooklyn, or are his intentions much more sinister?

Neuroscience student Sedona Miller is perfectly imperfect. She's slightly nerdy and slightly eccentric, but completely brilliant. When an unfortunate accident leaves Sedona with an injured arm and she's fired from her part-time job shelving books at the university library she has to find a new gig fast. The only job available mid-semester is working as a tutor for the athletic academic center. And the notorious bad boy of the university's basketball team, Jesse Walker, is the one and only guy on the new tutor's roster. But when Sedona discovers a secret that could ruin the school's winning basketball team doing the right thing could mean destroying the only guy she's ever loved.

When two best friends return to their teaching jobs after summer break, they discover they’ve both fallen madly in love with the same man and he’s their highs school’s new principal. Marc Brooks has had a crush on Harlow Lane since they were in college. Now at their twenty-fifth college reunion, Marc finally has a chance with Harlow. After they hook-up, neither one of them expects Marc to land a job as her new boss, after the principal of the high school where she teaches is fired.

Or for Harlow’s best friend and fellow teacher, Parker, to be crazy for Marc after they dated over the summer.

Tenured English professor Bly Daniels believes the short walk from her campus office to the university library is too much exposure to the harsh elements of the outdoors. She would prefer to spend her days (and nights) comfortably seated indoors reading classic literature. When Bly is arrested for reading one of the great books while driving home, a judge sentences her to thirty days of community service with The Wild Way, a therapeutic wilderness program for troubled teens. There she meets Turner Wild, the owner and operate of the wilderness program. Turner is everything Bly despises: rugged, unrefined and outdoorsy. For Bly a trip to hell sounds more desirable than spending an entire month with Turner and his band of hooligans as they traverse the woods of rural northwest New Jersey communing with nature. Bly certainly never expects to form a bond with the troubled teens she's been assigned to mentor and forge an unlikely relationship with their fearless leader, Turner Wild.

Mia Corrado can't remember that last time she had sex with her husband, Nicky. He's been preoccupied with his job as the head of New Jersey's most powerful crime family and all of the wild oats he sews on the side. When Nicky tells Mia he's too busy to attend her college reunion, and wants to send one of his underlings to accompany her, Mia is completely fed up. Until she discovers it is Luka Russo who will be escorting her. He's handsome, charming and sensitive, definitely not the typical mobster. Mia is completely captivated by him. And Luka is just as smitten with Mia. But if they act on their feelings for each other Luka may end up sleeping with the fishes.

Alexander Hart's gorgeous young wife, Stephanie, loves his platinum credit cards more than she loves Alex. She loves his credit cards so much she's already maxed most of them out.It doesn't take Alex long to realize he made a big mistake when he dumped Amelia, his wife of twenty years, for a much younger woman. When he leaves Stephanie after less than a year of marriage, Alex vows to do whatever it takes to win Amelia back. But earning a second chance with Amelia won't be that easy. She's moved across the country to start a new life, which now includes a relationship with a sexy young athlete. And there's Amelia's utter hatred of Alex, and the fact that she's vowed never speak to him again. Even if he was the last man on the planet.It's going to take a lot more than Alex's good looks and irresistible charm to heal Amelia's broken heart.

A Girl, a Guy, a Tournament and a Challenge. The Girl: At a time when most girls obsess about homecoming and high school prom, Rainy Dey spent her senior year caring for her dying mother. So when her father drops her off at college to start her freshman year, his words of advice to his bookish daughter are to start acting like a young person and finally have some fun. The Guy: College senior, Aaron Donavan, aka Mr. Hot-and-Knows-It, is President of the Clubhouse, a social club for the college’s most wealthy and popular guys. Aaron can have any girl on campus except the one who challenges and excites him the most—Rainy Dey. The Tournament: Every year, the senior members of The Clubhouse engage in a golf-inspired tournament to see who can sleep with the most freshman girls. When Rainy finds out about the tournament, she believes Aaron’s only interest in her is to score points by taking her V-Card. The Challenge: Can Aaron convince Rainy that his feelings for her are true and that she won’t be just another notch on his tournament scorecard?

Bad girls need love, too… Keira Whitley is used to getting what she wants and what she wants is the sexy-and-smart, Aaron Donovan. They’re both from extremely wealthy and prominent families and their parents have talked about getting the two of them together since they were kids. The only problem is that Aaron recently got engaged to the girl of his dreams, Rainy Dey. But Keira knows she and Aaron are supposed to be together and she’s not about to let a little thing like Aaron’s declaration of true love for Rainy get in her way. But is all really fair in love and war?

Straight-laced newbie engineer Lucas Young wasn’t looking for love when he attended his friend, Rainy Dey’s wedding reception. But what he did want was one of the delicious looking deviled eggs that were prominently displayed on the hors d'oeuvres table. Unfortunately, the delectable treat was practically stolen out of his hand by… Ella Warner, groomsman Evan Warner’s “crazy” younger sister and the black sheep of their well-to-do family. Ella does everything on her own terms, including snatching a yummy deviled egg from Lucas’s rather hungry clutches. But it’s going to take a lot more than the perfect deviled egg to keep this completely mismatched couple from going completely off the rails as they negotiate an increasingly complicated relationship. Opposites may attract but can they actually find true love with each other?

After finding her sister in bed with her fiancé, 25-year old Lexie Wilkins decides to relocate to southwest Florida to start a new life and escape relationships all together. What she doesn’t expect to find are two attractive kite surfers, who both want her. So much for Lexie’s vow for her fresh start in Florida: a no wake zone. Having two guys in her life is sure to make waves. Eddie is the captivating bad boy, who lives next door. Daniel is Lexie’s sweet and ruggedly handsome co-worker. The differences between the two men are just as extreme as their sport… Who will she choose?

“You always think a guy is going to be different until he’s not.” Firestorm Center Kian Kavanagh dominates the ice like a rock star dominates the stage. He’s the hottest new player to be recruited for the Firestorm, a newly established professional hockey team in Northern Arizona. After Taylor Thompson’s heart was completely shattered by her high school’s most popular jock, she vowed never to date another athlete. And she keeps that promise through her first three years of college by putting up impenetrable walls to protect her from heartbreak. But after a chance meeting with the charming and irresistible Kian Kavanagh, Taylor’s carefully constructed walls are in serious danger of being burned down by Mr. Fire on Ice.

Kian Kavanagh, Mr. Fire on Ice, has just been called up to play hockey for the NHL’s new expansion team in Seattle. Finally playing in the NHL is a dream come true…except for one thing. Kian has to leave Northern Arizona and the love of his life, Taylor Thompson, to pursue his dream. Taylor Thompson thinks she’s got life figured out. She’ll finish her final semester of college then move to Seattle to attend graduate school and be with her man. Until one fateful night when Taylor’s world is complete shattered and everything she’s ever wanted—everything she’s ever hoped for—is called into question. Will Kian’s love be enough to help put Taylor’s shattered world back together again or will tragedy tear them apart?

It all started with a Girls Getaway Weekend in Sedona, Arizona… It’s been a year since Jennifer Ellis’s ex-husband left her for a much younger woman and Jennifer still hasn’t dated. Now turning 40, Jennifer wonders if she’ll ever find love again. So Jennifer’s best-friend, Melanie Malone, books them on a Girl’s Getaway in picturesque Sedona, Arizona in hopes of inspiring Jennifer to have a vacation fling. Jennifer gets more than she bargained for when she meets the ruggedly handsome 29-year old tour Jeep guide, Cody Miller, and the two begin a passionate romance. What Jennifer doesn’t know is that Cody has a secret past that not only threatens to destroy their new love but also expose a tragic event from Jennifer’s past that she has tried desperately to forget.

As Maggie Mitchell enters her final semester of college, the last thing she wants is a guy in her life, let alone two of them. Her new lab partner, Sawyer Reed, is still the overconfident and sexy jock that made fun of her in high school. The only thing that has changed is that he now uses a wheelchair, the result of a skiing accident. Jude Marino is a hot actor, who all the girls want and would do anything to get. He works at a local theater where Maggie has been assigned to complete community services hours after rear-ending a police car. Both Sawyer and Jude want Maggie but only one of them will be able to capture her heart.

Cooper Wilde spent his entire adolescence counting the days until he could escape rural northwest New Jersey. Now at 26, he can't believe he's coming back. But his late father's bar, Haymakers, is in financial trouble and his older brother, Jake, has asked for Cooper's help. Riley Smith, 25, is fresh out of her Ivy League MBA program and wants to make an impression on her employer, H & C Bank. Her first solo assignment is a fraud investigation on a business loan they made to Haymakers. Even though Old Town is less than 90 minutes from New York City, Riley feels like she's stepped into another world in this remote, one-bar town. Riley can't wait to do her business and get back to the city as quickly as her sports car will take her...until she meets Cooper Wilde. He's not like the other guys in this rural town and Riley feels inexplicably attracted to him.

Tucker Wilde joined the United States Army right out of high school and was injured in Iraq. But more than just his leg was shattered in the Middle East. The war also crushed his spirit and damaged his soul. When a strange couple arrives at his family’s bar, Haymakers, Tucker can see signs of mental and emotional abuse and is immediately drawn to the lovely but fragile girl seated at his bar. Gracie Parker has been a victim of abuse her entire life. When her boyfriend, Dex, beats her in the parking lot of Haymakers and abandons her, it’s almost too much for the nineteen-year-old to bear. That is until Tucker appears like a warrior knight from the darkness to save her. Tucker and Gracie are two broken people who are immediately drawn together. But their relationship and even their very lives are threatened by Dex who will stop at nothing to get Gracie back.

Fresh out of police officer training, newbie cop, Hunter Wilde, takes an off-duty gig working special events at the Tawnee Mountain Resort to earn a little extra cash to supplement his public servant's salary. Katie Lawrence is Hollywood's hottest sweetheart. With her second Oscar win before the age of twenty-five she's all Tinseltown is talking about. When Katie attends a wedding at the Tawnee Mountain Resort with the notorious bad-boy Olympic gold snowboarder, Devon Black, he's more interested in bedding the bridesmaids than he is in being with Katie. So Katie tries to find solace in the personal security guard assigned to her by the resort...the reluctant Hunter Wilde. He's not impressed with Katie's stardom and he definitely doesn't want to get involved with a drama queen...but Katie manages to steal his heart when he least expects it.

In high school, Jake Wilde was the star football player, who led his team to win the state championship. Now ten years later he’s the manger of his family’s bar, Haymakers, but the residents of rural Old Town still talk about his glory days in high school. Harley Davis was always the girl-next-door…literally. Her family was neighbors with the Wilde family and the Wilde boys treated her like the little sister they never had. But Harley spent her adolescence dreaming that she’d one day be Jake Wilde’s girl. She never anticipated that she’d be one of the many girls Jake sleeps with. It breaks Harley’s heart a little bit more every time Jake hooks up with someone other than her, which happens on a regular basis. How much longer will Harley believe that having even a small piece of Jake is better than having no Jake at all?

A freshman, her roommate, a guy, and a list... The freshman: Ana Alves came to college for one reason—to be the first person in her immigrant family to earn a degree. She doesn’t want anything to derail her from her pre-med studies, especially a guy. Her roomate: Nicki Payne is ready to party and she doesn’t waste any time hooking up with a guy in a frat house bathroom. Her motto: College is a time to be young, wild and free. A guy: Christopher Knight is the easy-going English major with a sexy smile and killer body who sits next to Ana in her Shakespeare class. Ana finds Christopher intriguing. She just doesn’t want to admit that she’s falling for him. The Hookup List: A list of freshman girls who are ready for action that’s circulated to the freshman guys via a weekly Listserv. When Nicki Payne is one of the first girls featured on The Hookup List, guys start knocking on her dorm door at all hours of the day and night looking to score... But what happens when one of those guys is Christopher?

After getting completely wasted at a wedding reception, bridesmaid Anna Hart wakes up in a strange bed and can’t remember what she did or who she did it with. The stranger in bed with Anna is Brett Conner, a nerdy guy who she vaguely remembers from college, but only because everyone called him Clown Hair. Only Brett isn’t quite as nerdy as Anna remembers. His clown hair is long gone and Brett is almost cute—and kind of sexy. Over the course of four weddings, in four cities, in one crazy summer, Brett and Anna start a mismatched relationship. But is there a future for the bad-girl and the boy-next-door?

Dorothy Gale Robinson, an aspiring actress, is the daughter of hippie parents with a passion for old movies. When her father is killed suddenly while sipping a non-fat decaf mocha latte at a local coffee shop, Dorothy's life is turned upside down. After an unconventional dispersing of her father's ashes at the Universal Studios Psycho House, Dorothy's mother decides to sell all her worldly possessions and join a New Age cult headquartered in Banff, Canada. Of course, Dorothy's twin brother, Jude, is too busy with his law firm to help Dorothy save their mother from the clutches of the sinister cult, so she seeks the aid of her new boyfriend, Lahrs, and a cult-buster, Mervyn O'Roy, who just happens to look like Mickey Rooney. The motley trio venture from Florida to Banff, in search of Dorothy's mother and a little romance in the Canadian Rockies.

In her sharp and sassy second novel, Karen Mueller Bryson tells the story of a young woman's ascent from the trailer parks of central Florida to become one of Hollywood's hottest celebrities. Where is Wonderland Anyway is an exciting tale inspired by the beloved Alice in Wonderland. Alice Sparrow grew up in the trailer parks of central Florida and lived with an abusive boyfriend in the margins of society. When an accident makes Alice the prime suspect in her boyfriend's murder, she decides to go on the run. The young woman hitches a ride to California with a quirky magician named Lewis, who is on his way to a movie audition, and a tough runaway named Carol, who is searching for the mother who abandoned her. Through a series of unpredictable events, Alice finds herself the star of a major motion picture and one of America's most wanted criminals.

The romantic comedy, Twyla's Last Trip, is first in the Short On Time Books series: fast-paced and fun novels for readers in the go. Twenty eight-year old, Lucinda Starr is an uptight research psychologist, whose deadline to complete her doctoral dissertation is completely derailed by her estranged mother, Twyla Starr's sudden death. Lucinda must take her mother's ashes on a road trip on Route 66, in order to fulfill the requirements of her will and inherit her fortune. To make matters worse, Lucinda finds herself forced to travel across the country with her mother's easygoing country lawyer, T.J. Yates, who drives her crazy, and his drooling bloodhound, Dakota, who Lucinda finds revolting.

This captivating biography reveals the details of sports legend, Cindy McCoy's inspirational life story. Cindy escaped a difficult youth, in which she faced abuse and abandonment, by becoming a professional skater as a teen and traveling on an international roller derby team with The National Skating Derby, Inc. Roller Games. Fans in Australia became like a surrogate family to young Cindy and those fans soon voted her Rookie Queen, an honor that was never repeated in Roller Games history. This moving narrative, about a young woman, who gave everything she had to the sport she loved, will appeal to fans of roller derby as well as readers of all ages just learning about this fascinating sport.

In this collection of interviews with survivors of suicide, individuals talk candidly and intimately about how their lives have been impacted by the suicide of a family member or close friend. Over 50 individuals were willing to share their personal tragedies as a way of helping others who face a similar loss as well as educating the public about the issues survivors of suicide face. Their willingness to share their stories is a testament to their endurance and strength in the face of adversity.