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  The Chimes

  CHARLES DICKENS

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  Book #2 in Dickens' Christmas Books series.
  The Chimes is Charles Dickens 1844 novella that concerns the disillusionment of Toby "Trotty" Veck, a poor working-class man. When Trotty has lost his faith in Humanity and believes that his poverty is the result of his unworthiness he is visited on New Year's Eve by spirits who collectively help restore his faith and show him that nobody is born evil, but rather that crime and poverty are man-made creations.

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  Songs for the Shadows

  Cheryl S. Ntumy

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  Your feelings are of no consequence. 
  Shad-Dari has escaped her past, her dreams now in reach. An excavator of the valuable old sounds of Órino-Rin, she steals tiny, unheard fragments of the sacred songs to erase the painful echo of her home planet, Ekwukwe. In one rebellion too far, she sets off a chain of events that severs her from time itself, forcing her, without another way forward, to face her past. 
  “Set in the Sauúti universe and tightly packed with rich worldbuilding, Songs for the Shadows is crafted in beautiful prose and depth, meditating on silence and sound and song as powerful cultural entities—a magic system of sound excavation and the folding and manipulation of time that blew me away!”–Tlotlo Tsamaase, Caine Prize Finalist and author of Womb City 
  “In Songs for the Shadows, Ntumy continues the work of the Sauúti Collective, in immersing the reader into an expansive and complex world in which the magic and power of the oral—prayers, wails, chants, songs, words, and therefore stories—have been elevated to the most valued cultural artifacts. I was mesmerized by this world and by the rule-breaking, self-inventing Shad-Dari who, in seeking to drown out the echoes of her past loses everything she thought she needed.” –Gothataone Moeng, 2024 Whiting Award winner for Call and Response: Stories 
  “Cheryl’s writing is magical, lyrical and breath-taking. Imagine a world created by and out of sound – and that sound is linked to our very beings. Plus the beautiful evocations on the non-linearity of time and how we deal with the voices from the past. Bravo!” –Joyce Chng, author of Fire Heart

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  Conflicted Heart

  Kay Shanee

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  Siyanna Cassidy was overjoyed to find that she was pregnant only one month behind her twin sister, Summer. The two had done life together on so many levels, including marrying twin brothers. However, in a brutal twist of tragic events, Siyanna is forced into early labor on the heels of the shocking loss of her sister. As if she hadn't been heartbroken enough, the shooting death of her husband follows swiftly. Suddenly a single mother and widow, she partners with her brother-in-law to raise their children. 
   
   
   
  Drue Hendrix is a Black romance author. His stories of love and strength had his own life as added fuel now that his beautiful wife was having their first child. But when she dies in childbirth his world is flipped upside down. The pain is enough to bring him to his knees. Add in the news of losing his twin brother and life is hardly worth living. Still, for the sake of his newborn, and his brother's grieving household, he is determined to raise his family. 
   
   
   
  Mirroring each other's grief turns into soothing each other's hearts for Siyanna and Drue. Yet will the nature of their bond ruin their chances at love? Or will they become one another's saving grace? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Loxley Belle

  M.L. Bullock

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  Jerica and Jesse settle into Summerleigh and count themselves lucky to start their family in the beautiful old home. With the renovations nearly complete, Jerica uncovers Loxley Belle's name carved in a wooden desk in a forgotten shack near the old home. Along with the discovery comes the feeling that the last Belle girl needs her help. Jerica and Jesse do their best to piece together the past and find that the youngest Belle had secrets of her own. Small-town drama and a rich southern background add to the tension of this riveting, ghost-filled mystery.

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  Riding with a Rake

  Cara Maxwell

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  A brazen young woman with her heart on her sleeve and nothing to lose 
   
   
   
  She knows her fiancé is out there. Her almost fiancé, that is. But she has not heard from him in months, and although she's kept up a brave face with her family, even Ursula is starting to worry. 
   
   
   
  Meets a young man looking to get from here to there with as little fuss as possible . . . 
   
   
   
  Ford accepted a seemingly simple errand for his cousin, Viscount Warrington: bring a racehorse from Epsom to Doncaster in time for the match race of the decade. What he did not count on? A bossy, buxom siren distracting him at every turn. 
   
   
   
  Shenanigans ensue. And just maybe . . . a love story.

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  From Blue to Black

  Joel Lane

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  'Lane's prose delivers a vicious blow to our soft, nostalgic places; like finding a discarded gig flyer from years gone by, ripe and brimming with memory. Divine, acerbic and essential.'
  – Matt Wesolowski, author of Demon
  'A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant.'
  – Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
  Birmingham, early 1990s. Triangle are a cult act on the post-punk scene, led by brilliant and troubled vocalist Karl – a man haunted by past violence and present danger, torn between fame and oblivion, men and women, music and silence.
  Triangle's bass player, David, is struggling to make sense of Karl's reality as the band start to make waves in the music scene and Karl starts to come apart in a blur of sex and drinking.
  First published in 2000, Joel Lane's debut novel From Blue to Black is a story of passion, blood and alcohol, broken strings and broken lives – a piercing voyage through our musical and political past that cuts to the bone.
  WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KERRY HADLEY-PRYCE

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