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....

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...

The polar ice caps melting. Not her fault. The so-called 'perfect storm' off the coast of Massachusetts in '91. Not her either.Rolling thunder rumbled. Two trolls tossing bowling balls against the side...

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...

Kate Silver knows all about being different. Reflexes, a little too good. Hearing, a little too sharp. Ears, way too pointed. No chance at all of being some normal teenage girl.Especially when the truth...

When the magical world and the Normal one collide, bad things happen. World-ending kinda bad. Mina, a Magical Boundaries Investigator, keeps those bad things from happening.She now faces her biggest challenge...

Kate Silver hates being different. Funny, slightly-pointed ears, reflexes a little too good. Nothing at all like her 'normal' classmates.Not even 'normal' enough for the middle of nowhere-Montana, with...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Camille Rowan, the failed librarian witch in her famous Librarian family, hides behind a tilting tower of books. Peeling leather covers, springy cobwebs stuck to grimoires and tomes, each of them quivering...

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...

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...

Laurie plays softball. Lots of softball. Her weekends, booked solid. Dating, all but impossible.Every reasonable Date Day... also a Game Day... also a Practice Day... also a Pitching-Lesson Day. If Laurie...

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...

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...

Any Normal person thinks magic a myth. Anyone worth knowing, knows differently. Magic wanted and it took. Free pizza delivery, free Wi-Fi, freewill.All of it, fair game.Blessa of the Blessings Bridge...

Cass wakes up seconds before her phone rings. Not her landline but her cell—the one she'd purposefully left in the living room. The one now currently nestled underneath her pillow, happily playing the...

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...

When the man lumbers up to the bar counter with its blinking, colored lights and shiny tinsel, Cass seriously considers dumping her good scotch right down his shirt. All Cass wants: a bit of quiet, a...

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 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...

Ignorant of her mysterious heritage until recently, Kate Silver makes one mistake after another. Determined, persistent, stubborn—she refuses to give up. And somehow, keeps on breathing.Until her grandmother...

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...

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,...

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...