Kate Silver wants nothing more than to stretch across this boulder. To soak in the last, warm rays of the sun. The golden specks glittering in the air. This quiet glade, a soothing balm on her aching...

The words "someone" and "pregnant" spread through the gymnasium like a Southern California wildfire. Julie finds herself surrounded by the gossip, the tightly pressed bodies of her classmates.Everyone...

High school softball: high-stakes, high-competition, only a handful of college scholarships available. In this world of lightning-fast pitches and soaring home runs, friendship and family means everything....

For many young women, high school softball opens doors to a greater future. College, scholarships, professional sports.The dream for so many...But not for all.From overbearing fathers to the big college...

Life on the softball circuit means games and practices and tournaments, with just enough time to eat and sleep.But Alice wants more. A real life involving real friends and boys and God forbid...Going...

A descendant from a long lost race of elves, Kate Silver knows all about being different. Just not so much about the magic part. Or her powers. Or... controlling it.No choice, but to learn—Before the...

Kate Silver hates being different. Her reflexes, a little too good. Her hearing, a little too sharp. Her ears, a little too pointed.She knows nothing about her mysterious heritage.Until now.The first...

Kate, her hands cold and numb, wished for the press of books and the whispers of classmates. Anything but pine trees drenched in mist. Seeping from trunks and branches. Needles so dark they appeared black.No...

When Cat, a former prostitute, steps off the train in Butte, Montana, she walks right into hell. The dark smoke-filled air reeks of menace. And the stares—scorning her blue jeans, cowboy hat, and empty...

The softball world considers Elizabeth as royalty. Her dad, a professional baseball player, and her adopted mom, a softball legend. For Elizabeth, and college, nothing but stars in her future.If, she...

In high school softball, competition remains fierce and cutthroat and never-ending. Every year girls across the country swing harder, pitch faster. All competing for only a handful of college scholarships.Few...

Aisha Faye leans against the hot, chain-link fence of the cage, one of many in her waystation for unwanted, magical creatures. She watches, helplessly, as a tiger once overflowing with magic now lays...

Hard-working video game designer, Trish, watches as the conference room fills. Her male colleagues with their collars yanked high and hair slicked back. The few women with stars and dreams in their eyes,...

In the world of girls softball, fun no longer matters. Colleges. Scholarships. Where every game, every pitch, holds their future.Laurie Stevens fought this her whole life. A former college star who walked...

Cassiel Clarke, reluctant psychic and all-around ghost-magnet, knew better than to trust Gran—certainly with her love life. So when the chills, tingles, and bubbling panic rush through her while she waits...

Kate Silver never fit in as a 'normal' teenager. Not with her slightly pointed ears and crazy-good hearing. Now with an elven soul parked alongside hers? An elven soul with memories—and magic—all her...

Video game companies play games. Reading books, and a romance no less? Never going to happen.Karen loves books, especially romances.Ryan hates books, especially romances.All that changes when they learn...

Kate Silver, elf-descendant-in-training, knows little about her heritage. Slightly pointed ears? Check. Walk in silence on the crunchy, dried-up pine needles? Check.Somehow find her elven shadow before...

Sally huffs up the narrow, dusty stairs leading to an even dustier church choir. No time for this. No time to find one stupid boy and get this wedding started.Missing her first big softball game? Missing...

Nicole, a video game producer, shifts in the stiff-baked leather chair as her world crashes all around her. Her game, a sure bet, a money-maker, her chance for a greater and brighter future...Cancelled.And...

Christmas, a time of joy and giving, of cuddling up with loved ones, and decorating school lockers in brilliant, shimmering wrapping paper.Mandy wants nothing to do with Christmas. Just dumped by her...

To the outside world, bestselling writer Rachel Clare leads the perfect life: money, fame, her name beloved to readers across the world. On the inside: loneliness, a failed marriage, a brother who spends...

Kate Silver knows stubborn. Really. Even if Grandma throws another sausage onto that pan. Sizzling and perfect. Her traitorous stomach, growling—Nope. Not saying a word.Of course when Kate demands the...

For the girls on the Sunny View softball team, senior year means one thing: college scholarships. And with competition so fierce and cutthroat, not all will succeed.But success means something different...

Kate Silver slams the truck door closed. Her tennis shoes grinding into the loose gravel. Ready to run, to leave and never look back.Tired of being lied to. Of her grandmother and this tiny town, where...

When Cheryl, a quirky and fun video game artist, answers a summons from her boss she expects a pink slip. The intern and the exploding toilet, the stapler incident with fellow artist, Eric. Most of the...

Jenny, like any good pitcher, knows when to throw at a batter. When to throw a fastball. And when to drop and cover.Like now.Especially as big, meaty Lacey glares at her. Hands the size of bear paws,...

Kate Silver made a mistake. A small one, involving just a small, teensy bit of magic.Lost elven magic, to be exact.Now every elf-descendant holed-up in Montana knows about her. Not to mention the magi,...

Jess catches the softball. A puff of dirt, sweat, unwashed leather spraying her face. The spikes of her cleats digging into the hard-packed field. A field that, once upon a time, meant everything.No longer.Anger...

No point unpacking. No point hanging posters or butt-ugly curtains. No point when every six months Jenny Taylor moves to a new city. New school. New softball team.All thanks to her famous dad, the newest...