Publisher: Spines
A coming of age story about a young boy and his close cousins growing up in the rural south. The story follows these youths from childhood to young adulthood. It's a tale that shows young kids serious about business and fun. A story promoting mentorship.
Rare gemstones in a casino is catnip to criminals. Ruby Achera will need Idryll the tiger-woman and Morrigan the archer to suit up and protect the exhibit at Spirits Casino. But who is the mysterious figure leading the criminal enterprise? Can Ruby get back to Oriceran in time to fulfill a prophecy? Being in two places at once will take a team. Diana Sheen, Rath the troll, and the Federal Agents of Magic are back for tech support. Don't look now, but a former foe has also returned and is looking to cause trouble. Will Ruby save Magic City?Show book
A billionaire with more swagger than I'd like to admit, a mansion I absolutely don't belong in, and a fortune that isn't as clean as it seems on the surface... Yeah, I should probably leave that last bit out of his biography. My life's not bad, but it could definitely be better. I'm stuck in the tiniest of bungalows with my two sisters, and I work a job in journalism that barely keeps the lights on. Between work, bills, and hardly any space to breathe, I've been positively yearning for a way out. When I land a gig to write the biography of a certain Dawson Lancaster, one of the richest—and most jaw-clenchingly frustrating—billionaires around, I think that maybe this is the big break I've been waiting for. All I've got to do is move into his sprawling mansion, schedule a couple of interviews, and write the book. Simple, right? Wrong. Dawson is everything I hate—stuck up, controlling, and way too good-looking for his own good. Sure, he's got me feeling things I shouldn't be, but that's beside the point. But here's the real wrench in the gears—Dawson's life is a facade. The deeper I dig, the more skeletons I stumble upon. Gorgeous or not, this man has far more to his past than I could have ever guessed. At this point, I should be packing my suitcase and making a beeline back to my own paltry life... But I just can't turn my back on all this. Not with my biggest payday ever on the line—and, more importantly, not with the flame between us burning as bright as it is. But I just can't pretend Dawson's the innocent man I once thought he was. Am I strong enough to face the truth once I've dug it all up... Or is this billionaire about to ruin more than just my story?Show book
Two Black Bottles by H. P. Lovecraft - Old Dominie Vanderhoof was dead, but he did not rest in his grave, for evil was afoot in the old Dutch church. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was known for pioneering cosmic horror—a genre emphasizing the insignificance of humanity in an indifferent universe. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft was a sickly and reclusive child, heavily influenced by classical literature, science, and the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Lord Dunsany. Despite financial struggles and limited literary success during his lifetime, Lovecraft created the Cthulhu Mythos. His most famous works include The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Shadow over Innsmouth. Though he died in poverty at age 46, his work gained widespread recognition posthumously, shaping modern horror fiction and pop culture.Show book
Arizona Territory, 1871. Valeria Obregón and her ambitious husband, Raúl, arrive in the raw frontier town of Tucson hoping to find prosperity. Changing Woman, an Apache spirit who represents the natural order of the world and its cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, welcomes Nest Feather, a twelve-year-old Apache girl, into womanhood in Aravaipa Canyon. Mexican and Anglo settlers have pushed the Apaches from their lands, and the Apaches carry out raids against them. In turn, the settlers, angered by the failure of the US government and the military to protect them, respond with a murderous raid on an Apache encampment under the protection of the US military at Camp Grant, kidnapping Nest Feather and other Apache children. In Tucson, while Valeria finds fulfillment in her work as a seamstress, Raúl struggles to hide from her his role in the bloody attack, and Nest Feather, adopted by a Mexican couple there, tries to hold on to her Apache heritage in a culture that rejects her very being. Against the backdrop of the massacre trial, Valeria and Nest Feather's lives intersect in the church, as Valeria seeks spiritual guidance for the decision she must make and Nest Feather prepares for a Christian baptism.Show book
Gear up for laughter in the hereafter as Socrates sets out to assassinate every soul who can remember the mortal world “Filled with wordplay to die for, Randal Graham’s latest dizzying, irresistible life-after-death satire tackles perennial existential questions with humor and hunger.” — Foreword Reviews on Afterlife Crisis What do you get when a narcissistic megalomaniac plagued by daddy issues leads a horde of angry zealots, xenophobes, and ornery incels on a crusade to Make the Afterlife Great Again? You get an out-of-this-world adventure in which history’s greatest minds face an apocalypse that could make Armageddon look like a cotillion. You also get Nether Regions, the third installment of Randal Graham’s Beforelife Series. Picking up the threads of Beforelife and Afterlife Crisis, Nether Regions reveals what happens when two of the afterlife’s best-known residents have a baby: the first one born in the hereafter. That baby holds a secret — one that sets off an adventure featuring Socrates, Albert Einstein, Nostradamus, Elizabeth I, Sigmund Freud, Neferneferuaten, and at least 200 Napoleons, all doing their level best to keep the afterlife from turning into hell.Show book
A legend, a ship, a mystery... One man sets out on a sea voyage of his dreams and sails along the boundary between fantasy and reality.Show book
